"Patriarch, let me ask you, have the miners had any accidents since the mines opened? Can there be casualties, can there be missing miners? Now I suspect that the strange illness in your village is related to the two mines in the mountain, whether this is really the case, please answer the truth! ”。 Li Ling asked the Yun clan patriarch solemnly, he even suspected that this old family ** guy knew about it in advance!

"No, these two mines are indeed owned by our Yun clan, but there has been no accident, and the people responsible for opening the mine are all our Yun clan's children, and there are no casualties at all!" The Yun clan patriarch immediately refuted Li Ling's words, and he said with some forced composure.

Li Ling sneered, he didn't believe this old guy's nonsense, now the facts have basically become clear.

Li Ling suspected that the villagers' so-called strange disease was poisoning at all!

It is true that the Yun clan mined and refined silver ore, but the purity of these ores is not too high, and he is likely to shout that there are other semi-raw ores, the most deadly of which is **.

The symptoms of salt poisoning are exactly the same as those of the villagers.

The specific reason may be that when it rains, flash floods wash the ore residue from the mine down the mountain, thus polluting the water source and land.

In particular, the farmland irrigated by the small river in front of the mountain is even more polluted, and the reason why the greens grow larger and tender than the others is not because he grows them well, but because the trace elements in the greens are sufficient.

The greens absorb the river water that contains minerals, and it also absorbs the deadly thing.

On Wednesday, this guy never cooks at home, let alone eats vegetables grown in his fields.

As for the Lei family, it was thanks to the deep well that Lei Zhutou's parents escaped, they used unpolluted water sources, and the food used by the two was bought and brought by their son from outside, so they escaped, and the two showed no signs of poisoning.

As for the widow Wang, their mother and son are only afraid that they have been blessed by the hot spring at home.

The hot springs gushed out directly from the depths of the earth, so naturally they would not be polluted by the mountain springs, and the mother and son did not have any land in the village of the three surnames, so they naturally did not use food containing poisons.

"Patriarch, do you think I can't help you if you don't say it?" Li Ling clearly saw that beads of sweat began to appear on the old fox's face! He turned to the Yun clan and asked, "Fellow villagers, do you still want to hide it for the patriarch now?" If a family member has disappeared, or has not been seen for months or more, they may no longer be alive, and do you still have to cover up for the patriarch? ”。

Li Ling asked sonorously.

The mine in the mountain had been mined for six or seven years, and he simply didn't believe that no one had suffered from the same symptoms during this time.

Inhaling mineral dust directly into the lungs should be more serious!

"Missing, someone you haven't seen in a long time? Second sister-in-law Yun, isn't this the case for your man? ”。

"And my eldest brother, and my fourth uncle are the same!".

"There are indeed several people from the Yun clan in the village who haven't shown up for more than half a year!"

The villagers began to discuss that in the past few years, many people have indeed been sent by the patriarch to go out on business and give their families five dollars of silver every month, and these people have not been back to the village for four or five years at most.

Five coins of silver a month is indeed a lot, the miners do heavy physical work in the mine, only three coins of silver in a month, and you can get two more coins when you go out to do things for the patriarch, so the families of these people do not care too much, and they think that the labor of the family has handed in good luck, so they are favored by the patriarch!

"Patriarch, you said, my man didn't ask you to send the village on business, but died in the mine, didn't he?" A woman in her thirties ran out of the crowd and began to weep in front of the patriarch.

This woman is Yun's second sister-in-law, the man of his family was sent by the patriarch to work elsewhere five years ago, and never came back as soon as he left, she asked the patriarch more than one about her husband's whereabouts, but never received a positive answer.

Every time Yun's second sister-in-law went to inquire, the patriarch rewarded him with two taels of silver. Comforted.

"Patriarch, just give me a happy word, did my man really die in the cave a long time ago?" Yun's second sister-in-law cried loudly, she really couldn't accept this fact, it turned out that the comfortable life she and her son had in the past few years was exchanged for her husband's life!

"Patriarch, what about my eldest brother and fourth uncle! They. They are not too".

The crowd began to make an uproar, and people kept coming to ask about their loved ones.

"Ridiculous, I said no, no, no, do you believe me or believe this outsider!" The patriarch was very upset, and he began to reprimand those who had taken the lead in making trouble, "I have already said it. After mining the silver mine, the Yun family's clan property has increased greatly, I just sent them over to manage the clan property, do you need to make such a fuss? ”。

Although he tried his best to hide it, everyone could still hear his perfunctory and even frightened emotions.

All the Yun family members glared at him, as if they were recalling that there were other people around them who were missing or died suddenly, and whether what happened to these people was caused by this old guy.

As the patriarch, he actually ignored the interests of the family for his own selfishness, no wonder he sent his son to the capital to study a few years ago, and even if he didn't get any fame, he didn't let the young master of the Yun family come back.

It turned out that he had known for a long time that there was going to be a strange outbreak in the village!

"Patriarch Yun, I think you don't have to hold on, you should obediently explain things clearly, so that everyone can further prevent diseases!" At this time, Li Ling had already seized the initiative! He further threatened the Yun clan patriarch: "Don't think that if you don't admit it, I won't be able to produce evidence, did you bury the dead miners in the mine on the spot?" If I find someone to dig up their bodies."

Li Ling's voice was deliberately slow, just to say it to the families of the victims around him!

"Brothers, uncles! My man has not had a voice training for five years. Please help me find it, my son and I are grateful! Sister-in-law Yun began to plead with the clansmen.

It's just that to his disappointment, the neighbors who usually seem to be old-fashioned and warm-hearted have to be silent at this time!

No one answered her!

"Humph!" The patriarch snorted coldly, this second sister-in-law Yun really didn't know whether she was alive or dead, and she dared to go against him blatantly, after this matter was over, she had to clean her up. She didn't want to think about the eerie horror in the mine, who would dare to go there.

This woman doesn't want five dollars a month to make up the post!

"Fellow villagers, I am grateful to you for taking care of our orphans and widows in the past few years, for the sake of everyone of the same clan and clan, help us again, the child's father died unjustly, we have been concealed for five years!" The second sister-in-law of Yun knelt on the ground in a desolate voice and begged everyone.

It's just that there is a danger of death in front and the intimidation of the patriarch in the back, and no one wants to take the risk, not even the families of other missing people.

Lei Zhutou just wanted to stand up but thought of something, his steps took a step back, it didn't matter if he died, but Li Huiyuan couldn't lose anything.

He is a famous person, and he is the benefactor of the villagers, if Li Huiyuan is allowed to go on an adventure, no one in the village with the surname will answer.

He came with Li Huiyuan, and the other party categorically wouldn't let him take the risk on his own.

As long as the precautions are taken properly, there will be no accidents even if you enter the mine, Li Ling decided to go to the mine to have a look.

What he didn't expect was that someone would take the lead before he could open his mouth, and someone would be willing to enter the mine to investigate!

"This sister-in-law, I can go to the mine with you to have a look, don't panic, in fact, I know a way to cure strange diseases!".

When the second sister-in-law Yun was grief-stricken, she suddenly heard a soft voice, and it turned out to be Widow Wang.

She didn't find her son in her yard, so she went outside to take a look, but she found out about the patriarch of the Yun clan, and she was very sympathetic to what happened to Yun's second sister-in-law, so she decided to reveal her secret.

In fact, this disease can be cured, although the family has always used the water from the hot springs, but it is too close to the mine to avoid being affected.

At the beginning of last month, the mother and son felt dizzy, but as long as the two of them drank a little water from the hot spring, and then soaked in it for a while, all the discomfort would disappear.

"Don't be afraid, everyone used to accumulate for a long time when they were sick, but this time, as long as you fast in and out, if you don't stay in the mine for a long time, you will definitely be fine!" The widow began to mobilize everyone.

"Oops, how did I forget that sulfur-containing compounds can neutralize certain heavy metals!". Li Ling's confidence was even more sufficient.

"Hesitant fart, is it a man? It's a big man, isn't it? If so, let's go up, aren't you even as good as a widow? The people who died tragically were all from your Yun family! ”。 Wednesday shouted a few times and stood in front of the widow Wang, indicating that he was also willing to go to the mine and lie down!

Widow Wang and Second Sister-in-law Yun were very surprised, they didn't expect this guy to be so righteous at a critical time.

The two beauties paid attention, and Wednesday was naturally very proud, but in fact, he still had his own little abacus in his heart.

The patriarch of the Yun clan has already spoken to drive him out of the village, if he doesn't bring this old guy down, will he still have a way to live in the village in the future?

"Wednesday this splash is so spirited, what else do we have to be afraid of, I also participated!".

"Let's not be cowardly, count me in!"

Someone kept standing up from the crowd, and at this time, there was only one thought left in everyone's minds, to find out the truth of the matter, and they must not let their future lives live in such a terrifying environment again.

"Thank you, I thank you on behalf of the father of the child!". Second sister-in-law Yun knelt down for everyone in pain again.

Together with Li Ling and Lei Zhutou, there were more than a dozen people who were willing to go into the mine to investigate.

The Yun clan patriarch sneered, since you are willing to seek death, I will not stop you, if it weren't for the worse and worse environment inside and more and more people dying, I would give up these two mines?

(To be continued.) )