Chapter 8 Iron Ore
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Qinglu Peak is the highest mountain peak in the west of Taibai Mountain, Taibai Mountain belongs to the Qinling Mountains, known for its changeable wind and clouds, Li Bai's "Taibai and I talk, open the sky for me." I am willing to take the cold wind and go straight out of the floating clouds" is talking about the height of the Taibai Mountain and climate change.
Sure enough, when Ding Peng and the others just came out of the mountain gate, it was still sunny, and when they reached the mountainside, it suddenly rained.
After walking for a few miles, when he turned a corner, Ding Peng suddenly saw a figure crawling on the side of the road, and when he approached, he saw that it was a man in rags, with a scruffy beard, lying on his back in the muddy water in embarrassment, but his eyes were wide open to the sky.
There was a sword thrown beside him, the scabbard was rusty, and now it was stained with mud and water, and it looked even more dilapidated.
Seeing such a scene, Ding Peng somehow suddenly recalled the most tragic character in the movie, the blind swordsman, who was the same downcast and desperate.
I really want to go back and see the peach blossoms in my hometown again. It's a pity I can't go back. This is the voice of the blind swordsman.
Does the down-and-out man in front of him also have a hometown he wants to return to?
Ding Peng is not a soft-hearted person, but on this rainy day, he suddenly found himself a little pitiful for this beggar-like man.
He said to the mute, "Give him an umbrella and give him two more loaves of bread." ”
The dumb man looked at Ding Peng in surprise, but he didn't ask more, and he couldn't ask more, so he covered the man with an oil-paper umbrella and put two oil cakes under the umbrella.
The down-and-out swordsman still didn't move, his eyes still staring at the sky, as if there was something he longed for the most.
Ding Peng shook his head, turned around and continued to walk down the mountain with the mute.
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It was another day below the mountain, the sun was great, showing the power of the autumn tiger, and there was no sign of rain at all.
There are two small villages at the foot of the mountain, one is called Liujiazhuang and the other is called Nanyaokou, and the rented fields and tenant farmers of the Lingshan faction are all in Nanyaokou.
The sect elder of Nanyaokou heard that it was the hero of the Lingshan faction on the mountain who came down the mountain and warmly entertained Ding Peng and the others. Ding Peng asked the mute to post a few apprenticeship notices at the entrance of the village, and called all the family members of the tenant farmer's family to come over, and held an on-site apprenticeship meeting in the old man's house.
These farmers have never seen anything in the world in their lives, and their expressions are cringe, but they still trust the Lingshan Sect very much, after all, many of them have been farming with their ancestors for generations, and they have unconsciously formed a dependency relationship.
For the Lingshan faction to accept apprentices, and also reduce the number of apprentices, some farmers were very excited, others were a little hesitant, Ding Peng guessed that it might be that the family labor was insufficient, so he was no longer reluctant, and let them sign up voluntarily.
After a while, some peasant households in the village who were not tenant farmers also heard the news, some directly brought their children, the youngest was five or six years old, and the eldest was thirteen or fourteen.
After half a day's effort, more than a dozen people have signed up, and Ding Peng is not greedy, so he instructed the farmers to take their children up the mountain tomorrow to officially worship the mountain gate, and then return with a dumb man.
Along the way, Ding Peng couldn't hide his excitement, humming a little song while watching the scenery in the mountains.
According to his estimates, even if there are a few accidents among the dozen or so people who have signed up, it is no problem to make up ten people, so that the first task indicator will be completed.
With a happy heart, Ding Peng couldn't help but look at the flowers, and was dazzled by the beautiful scenery in the mountains.
Taibai Mountain is known for the scenery of the beautiful weather for the name, Cangshan Strange Peak, Qingxi Bitan, the mountain peaks are many ancient trees towering to the sky, there are countless rare birds and beasts between the mountains and forests, the more strange Qinglu Peak in the east of the Diantian Peak is actually snow-capped, a world of ice and snow, Ding Peng is relaxed and happy, not only think of a poem: the rock cliff has been wonderful, the ice and snow are wrinkled.
How good it would be if he lived in ancient times for half a year and returned to the modern city for half a year to enjoy it, Ding Peng thought beautifully, not only sighed.
When he passed the place where he had met the down-and-out swordsman, the man was nowhere to be seen, leaving only an oil-paper umbrella and two oil cakes on the dirt floor.
Is it just a homeless man with a brain problem?
Ding Peng thought about it for a while, and then stopped thinking about it, there are many poor people in the world, and he can finish that heart.
Walking to the mountainside, there are two roads, one leads to the Lingshan station on the mountain, and the other leads to the back mountain. Here Ding Peng and the others encountered three ox carts full of goods, and the wheels of the ox carts in front of them accidentally fell into a mud puddle on the side of the road, and several coachmen were struggling to push the wheels out.
Let's take a hand, Ding Peng was in a good mood, and immediately stepped forward to do his work in his arm, and pushed hard, although the internal strength of Lingshan was shallow, but he had not covered it for more than ten years of cultivation, only to hear the grunt of the wheel, and rolled out of the muddy water directly.
Those coachmen walked in the mountains every day, and they still had some eyesight, and hurriedly said: "Thank you for this hero, we have met a living bodhisattva today." ”
Ding Peng was proud and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's just a good job." He casually asked, "What kind of cargo are you carrying, and why are you walking on this mountain path?"
A coachman said respectfully: "The car is full of iron and stone from the iron ore in the back mountain, which is transported to the town under the mountain to smelt crude iron." The little ones also know that the mountain road is not easy to walk, and it is really a mixed meal......"
"What!Iron ore?" Ding Peng was taken aback, and hurriedly asked: "You say, these are all from the back mountain?
"Back to ...... The words of the master are from the mountains behind Qinglu. The coachman replied cautiously, for fear of angering the hero.
Ding Peng frowned and was silent, Qinglu Peak is the industry of the Lingshan faction, and he is trying in every possible way to collect mineral resources, but there is iron ore in the mountains behind his house, and his own head knows nothing, which is really unreasonable.
I asked the coachmen some words again, these coachmen only knew that the Houshan Iron Mine was owned by the king of the town, and it had been mined for several years, the scale was not small, there were hundreds of miners, and everything else was not very clear, Ding Peng didn't ask anymore, thinking that he would go back to the mountain and ask Lantian and Liu Yangu first.
Ding Peng continued to go up the mountain with a dumb man, he no longer had the intention to look at the surrounding scenery, and hurriedly returned to the sect, looking for Liu Yangu but did not find it, so he went to the martial arts training ground and pulled Lantian out, Lantian shouted at your grandmother with dissatisfaction.
"Senior brother, junior brother only delayed you for a moment, I asked the reason, and you will continue to practice. ”
Lantian said in a loud voice: "Say it quickly, say it quickly, I'm practicing to a critical juncture." ”
"Then what's going on with the Houshan Iron Mine?" Ding Peng asked directly: "Why is the mine in my Qinglu Peak area mined by others?"
Qinglu Peak is the property of the Lingshan faction, which has a title deed document and is recognized and protected by the government. Of course, the affairs of the rivers and lakes are more complicated, so Ding Peng needs to ask clearly.
Lan Tian showed a puzzled expression on the second monk's face, and said in surprise: "Why are you asking this? Isn't that iron mine managed by Master's friend Evergreen Sect King?"
"The head of the Evergreen Sect, Wang Tianfu?" Ding Peng searched for his memory and remembered a middle-aged man who was smiling like Maitreya Buddha all day long.
Wang Tianfu's nickname is "Laughing Maitreya", and the old man of the spirit snake is called one of the three Taihang three, he is the head of the Evergreen faction, the martial arts of the Evergreen faction is nothing surprising, the only thing that can be praised is that the disciples are good at management, and many people who do business.
Ding Peng was puzzled: "Why is our territory under the management of the Evergreen Sect, and there is also iron ore in it." ”
Lan Tian had a disdainful expression on his face that you kid didn't know a lot of things: "You don't understand this, this is the master's cleverness." The master and the head of the Wang sect were on good terms, so he thought that the Lingshan faction and the evergreen faction could also maintain friendship for a long time, and it happened that the head of the Wang sect proposed that he wanted to cultivate in the back mountain, so the master assigned him a place. Oh, by the way, of course you kid didn't know, because you hadn't gone up the hill yet. ”
Ding Peng frowned and said, "How did the cultivation of the grass house become an iron ore mine? Master doesn't know that there is an iron mine in the back mountain?"
"Your grandmother's, how could Master not know!" Lan Tian said dissatisfiedly: "This is another master's master's master's brilliance. By chance, Master Wang discovered that there was iron ore in the back mountain, and suggested that the master jointly mine it. What kind of person is Wang Tianfu? He has been drilling for money all day long, and his martial arts practice is a mess, so of course the master will not come with him. The head of the Wang family simply proposed that he send the Evergreen faction to help with mining, and then share the proceeds with our Lingshan. As soon as the master heard it, he agreed, what a good thing, not only do you have to bother and labor, but you can also get a profit for nothing. Now that our Lingshan can have such a lot of wealth, we have a lot of meat to eat, in fact, we should also thank the head of the king. ”
Thank you for your size! Ding Peng despised Lantian and the old man of the Spirit Snake, and he thought that he had taken advantage of it because he had no business mind, so Wang Tianfu estimated that he had already discovered that there was an iron mine in the back mountain, so he pretended to propose the cultivation of the grass house first, and then embezzled the property that belonged to the Lingshan Sect step by step.
As for the money given by the Evergreen faction, he knew it, he used to think that it was the help of the Evergreen faction to the Lingshan faction, but now he understands that it was his family's money, and it was only a drop in the bucket that Wang Tianfu embezzled.
That little money is not enough to plug between the teeth.
"Your grandmother's, there's still no end, delaying Lao Tzu's practice. ”
Lantian was impatient, Ding Peng knew that he couldn't ask a reason, this rough man didn't understand the Tao inside, so he waved his hand and said, "Thank you, senior brother, I know it in my heart." ”
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