The two were pushed all the way into the heart of the valley. After two turns, there was another shocking sight.

There were ironclad people walking back and forth in all directions, many ragged and yellow-skinned people were busy back and forth, and the mountain in front of them was dug by these people, and there were several smelting furnaces on the other side-

It's a mine! And judging by the color of the newly mined ore piled up in the distance, it must be a gold mine.

Yu Wentai understood that it should be the organization of the Iron Armor who discovered the gold mine, so he recruited people to mine it and secretly refined it himself.

He was furious. The mining right has belonged to the imperial court since ancient times, and this organization secretly mines gold mines, but it is a capital crime to kill the head!

The Ironclad took them to a leader-like Ironclad and said, "Caught outside." ”

The leader looked them up and down, and saw that the two of them were of extraordinary appearance and bearing, not like civilians, and said, "The master is not here today, let the master leave tomorrow." ”

The ironclad man led them to a large row of cages, loosened the ropes that bound them, and pushed them in.

There were a number of people in the cage, all skinny, some of whom were obviously seriously ill and fell asleep on the ground.

Ran Ying asked softly, "What the hell is this place?" ”

Yuwentai was also completely clueless, and shook his head slightly. He comforted her: "Qingshan they will find us, don't be afraid." ”

This was heard by a middle-aged man in the cage next to him, and he sighed heavily, although he said, "When you get here, where can you find it?" No one is alive, no corpse is dead. ”

Yu Wentai hurriedly asked him, "Do you know who they are?" Who are you? ”

The man shook his head: "We are all local people in Qinzhou, and we were tricked by them to come here to mine. We don't know who they are. ”

"Then why are you here to help them mine?" Ran Ying asked.

"Qinzhou has had a severe drought in the past two years, and there is no food. The relief food from the imperial court has been delayed, and we are all going to starve to death. They recruited people from the people, saying that they were building palaces for some nobles, and that one person was given three months' grain. A lot of people just came. But when I came, I realized that this is a palace repair, and this is a head-killing thing! If you come, you can't go back! ”

Yu Wentai was suspicious. In the past two years, there has been a great drought in Guanzhong, especially in Qinzhou, which has been seriously affected, and the imperial court has allocated relief grain early, how can not a single grain reach the victims?

"That'...... Then when your family sees that you don't go back, won't they go to the court? Ran Ying asked again.

The man shook his head: "We all came here to sign a death contract, whether we live or die." People are starving to death, what do they care? Then Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall, how many people died? Human life is not valuable, so I sold this life and gave the whole family three more months to live......"

At this moment, there was a screaming and noise outside, and I saw a young woman being dragged all the way to the open space by an ironclad man, and then several ironclad men rushed up, punching and kicking.

The ironclad man was very heavy, and the woman was lying on the ground screaming all the time, and she didn't know why she was beaten in public like this. Ran Ying estimated that if this continued, the woman would be beaten to death.

She glanced up at Yuwentai. Yuwentai shook his head gently at her.

The woman over there was beaten and screamed repeatedly, but the miners working around seemed to have heard or seen nothing, only buried their heads in their own work, I don't know if they were afraid of being burned, or if they were used to this kind of thing.

It wasn't until the woman was beaten all over her body and was dying that the group of iron armor dragged her to the cage, opened Ran Ying's cage door, and threw her in.

Seeing that those people were far away, Ran Ying and Yu Wentai hurried to the woman's side to check on her injuries.

The woman was covered in her hair and covered in wounds, which was shocking. Her breath was dying, and the dirt on her face was washed away by tears.

"Why did they beat you like that?" Ran Ying asked.

Yu Wentai thought of another question: "Where did all these people come from?" ”

The woman shook her head and said with difficulty, "Everyone who comes here is covered with iron armor...... We've never seen them before. We...... We just heard that you can get food when you come here to work...... But after coming here, many people were beaten to death, or died of exhaustion......"

The woman reached out and pulled Ran Ying's sleeve and said intermittently, "My family...... There are also four children...... I don't want to die......"

"Why did you let you come...... Where's your husband? Ran Ying frowned and grabbed her hand tightly.

The woman smiled bitterly and shook her head slightly: "They want women to cook in the room...... More food than others......"

Yuwentai asked the woman, "Where is your home?" What's your husband's name? ”

The woman opened her eyes and looked at the sky blankly: "His name is Zheng Da, and he lives in Tieniu Village, twenty miles outside Tianshui City. She grabbed Ran Ying's hand and shook it gently, as if she was delirious: "I want to go home...... I'm going to see the kids......"

Yu Wentai wanted to ask something more, but saw that the woman's eyes gradually closed, and finally, her head sank into Ran Ying's arms, and she didn't speak anymore.

Ran Ying hugged the woman's gradually cold body tightly and looked at Yu Wentai in fear: "What should we do?" ”

Yu Wentai remembered the "master" mentioned by the ironclad man just now, and he wanted to know who this person was.

Things are not simple in this private mine. The well-trained ironclad people and Qinzhou's missing disaster relief food all gave him the idea of a cold sweat on his forehead.

At night, the valley fell silent, everyone slept, and only the patrolling ironclads walked back and forth.

Although Yuwentai and Ran Ying were tired, hungry, and exhausted, they couldn't sleep.

Yu Wentai was anxious, he didn't know if Mo Nalou could find here, but he was afraid that Ran Ying wouldn't last long.

Ran Ying leaned on him, and suddenly whispered: "I saw that this gold mine was very large during the day, and according to the situation of the mine, it has been mined for a while. ”

Yu Wentai snorted and said, "Privately mining gold mines, if they hit me, they will be unlucky." ”

"What is even more hateful is the exploitation and mutilation of innocent victims." Ran Ying said softly.

Yu Wentai did not speak. He fought for many years and saw many tragic things. Wherever the flames of war burned, there was a scorched earth. The battlefields covered by corpses are filled with flocks of crows that peck at corpses and refuse to leave, and wild dogs are unusually fat and ferocious because of their abundant food...... What happened to these victims is just a sporadic part of this troubled world.

When you go out, you can't see anything, and the white bones cover the plain.

Ran Ying thought silently, she and Ziqing were both rich in food and clothing, but they were trapped in the love of their children, so they felt that heaven and earth were unkind, and everyone was responsible for me. But looking at this miserable world, some people just want to eat a bowl of rice, and they have to experience such a tragic and inhumane tragedy.

The world is unfair, some people are entangled in the emperor's generals, talented and beautiful women, but some people just want to live, and it is already very difficult.

Ziqing, you are wrong, we are all wrong......

In an instant, Ran Ying felt that there was an evil thought in her body that had been entangled, and it disappeared.