The noise shook the glass in the window, and the shirtless men sat under the hot kerosene lamp, carefully tasting a small glass of ale in their hands.

It seems that this is not the cheapest drink, but a red wine that needs to be tasted with the taste buds.

"Damn!

Valk placed the wooden cup on the table heavily, and his eyes were fixed on the golden liquid in the cup like a hungry wolf at the sight of a lamb.

The face twitched, and the scar on Valk's face was like an angry centipede, and he was about to attack the ale in the cup with his teeth and claws.

Tooth baring,

grin

When Valker put the glass back down, the ale in the glass barely decreased.

"The price of the cheapest wine has also risen, and if it continues like this, even the water will not be able to drink. Valk muttered to himself.

With a heavy pat on the shoulder, Wright sat down beside Valk with the ale he ordered, "Don't worry, everything will be fine, Brother Egbot has gone down the mountain again to negotiate with those nobles, I heard that they have agreed to some of our terms, as long as we endure for a while, we can drink ale and eat meat again." ”

After speaking, Wright thought for a while, patted Valker and said, "Also, you drink less, before leaving, Big Brother Egbot told you to take care of the brothers in the mine, don't drink too much and make mistakes." ”

Saying this, Wright felt a little headache, Valker was more impulsive, and he was not a good person in charge, but because of his straightforward personality, he had a lot of prestige in absenteeism, and Egbot had to make Valk responsible for the mountain after he went down the mountain to negotiate.

But last time Wright sent someone to contact Valker. As a result, the contact person was missing, and Eggerbot had to keep an eye on Wright and let Wright stay, not that he didn't believe Valk, but with Wright, he also had a little more to do.

Valker gritted his teeth, picked up his wine glass and touched it with Wright, "Yes, bear with me for a while, I believe in Big Brother Egbot!"

"I'm afraid that those nobles will play tricks!"

Gerald, dressed in clean and tidy clothes, sat down across from Valker. With the tavern full of shirtless. The miners, who had black and gray marks all over their bodies, were out of place, but no one showed the same, as if they had become accustomed to it.

"Three ales!" Gerald waved for three ales, pushing two of them out to Valk and Wright.

Wright smiled wryly. He pushed the wine back again. "Big Brother Gerald. I'm afraid you're going to have to run for nothing today, and you don't have much money left over to buy other things, and the glass of wine I ordered by myself still deducts my own food expenses every day to quench my drinking addiction. ”

"There's no hurry. Don't worry, it was just my side hustle to sell some groceries to you, but today I just came up to see you and invited you to have a drink by the way. Gerald smiled and pushed the wine back again, "What, look down on me as a friend?"

"That's right, Big Brother Gerald is a big deal, and since that's the case, then ...... Thank you, Big Brother Gérald......"

Hearing Wright's words, Valker, who had long been impatient, immediately grabbed the wine glass in front of him and poured it into his mouth, with a happy expression on his face.

Wright shook his head at his co-worker's actions, but he couldn't blame Valker, the wine was in front of him, and it was already good that someone who was addicted to alcohol like that could drink it without taking Gerald's wine directly.

"By the way, Brother Gerald, you say, what do you mean by being afraid of those nobles playing tricks?" Wright asked intently, and after staying by Egbot's side for a long time, he seemed to be tainted with some calm temperament.

"As you know, I have a caravan of ore to buy ore from your employers, and sell it all over the country, and I have heard from my men that these nobles intend to drag you first, and then fire you when the ore under the existing contract is finished, and then go back to Tomei to recruit a new batch of miners, who are there many people there and have low wages. ”

"Phew!"

Wright slammed his fist on the table, he was just contaminated with Eggbot's temperament, after all, he was still a straightforward miner, and when he heard such news, he immediately knocked on the table angrily, and said angrily: "Shameless! Despicable! The conscience of these nobles has been eaten by dogs!"

'Noble?' Gerald sneered, "Do the nobles have a conscience?'s blood on their bodies is black, these guys rely on their own identity, they have always sold ore to me at a high price, and the caravan that wants me to transport the ore has gone through a lot of hardships to transport the ore to the next family, but most of the gold coins are earned by the nobles, and my brothers and I can only earn a pitiful little hard-earned money, if there is an accident on the road, this money is not enough for the pension!"

The same enemy narrowed the distance between Gerald and Wright, and the two toasted hard, the force of the collision spilling the golden liquid of the ale onto the table.

"Damn nobles!"

"A nobleman who gave birth to a son without an asshole!"

......

The rude shouting soon rang out, and Gerald threw a large handful of copper coins at the bartender, and the table was soon filled with a fist-sized wooden wine glass.

In addition to Wright and Valk, more miners walked up to the table, and Gerald laughed with them, toasted and hooked shoulders, scolding the greed of the nobles, cursing the rising price of food, and if it weren't for a neat coat, Gerald would have looked like a real miner.

"Woo......"

Among the many scolding voices, a discordant cry came out, and a sturdy man squatted on the ground, covering his face and crying.

"Selt, why are you crying, why do you have to act like a when I finally saw you come out to drink!" Valker said viciously to Selt as he put down his glass.

"I suddenly remembered that the old lady who died of illness last month was harmed by the nobles raised by those bitches, and there was no money! Now, I finally have the money to drink, because I don't need to support the old lady, woo woo......

Celt's voice was literally bloody, and the noisy miners stopped howling in their mouths, what happened to Celt may happen to them in the near future.

"Fuck it, why do these nobles make a lot of money, we can't even eat!

Walter, who had obviously drunk too much, kicked over the stool under his feet, gritting his teeth on his flushed face, "We can't go on like this, Brother Gerald, you have a better brain than us, please come up with ideas for me!"

"Well, it's not good, after all, you're here with Big Brother Eggbot in charge. Gerald looked embarrassed and excused himself.

"yes, Valker, let's wait for Big Brother Eggbot to come back. ”

Valker's face softened a little, but his eyes swept to Selt, who was still sitting on the ground crying, and his heart was irritable again.

"No matter, there's no time to wait for Big Brother Egbot, we can't eat here, Brother Gerald, we're going to get a salary increase now, you have a good brain, help us think of a way!"

"But, Valker ......," Wright tried to dissuade.

Valker waved his hand and said very firmly: "Needless to say, Wright, if there is any blame for the return of Big Brother Egbot, I will bear it alone! Okay, Brother Gerald, please tell me, what should we do?"

There was already silence under the dark night sky, and the dark clouds were so heavy today that there was not a single starlight in sight, and even the crickets had stopped without making a single cry.

Francis was very bored, and he couldn't sleep until three o'clock in the night, so he touched the water glass at the bedside and drank a sip of water while it was dark, which soothed his emotions a little.

Dressed in his bed, Francis stood in front of the bedroom window, staring intently at the darkness in the distance.

During the day, Eggbot was in a hurry, and the people from the mine did not know what to say to him, so Eggbot hurried away, although it was said that his mother suddenly fell seriously ill and had to go, but Francis always felt that there was something wrong with it.

What is it?

Boom!

Francis's heart skipped a beat, and the uneasiness he had just suppressed rebounded.

"Knock knock!"

There was a knock on the door outside the bedroom.

"My lord, the mine supervisor has an urgent matter to report. ”

"Jamal?" Francis frowned, the uneasiness intensifying.

"Tell him to go to the office, and I'll be right away. Francis said in the same majestic tone as usual.

"My lord, it's me, the master is not good, please let me see you immediately!"

"Wait, what's the hurry, I'll come!" said Francis, who was also an old man with whom he had been with him for a long time, but he was still reckless, which made him very unhappy.

Covering the delicate woman on the bed with a quilt is not that Francis is very considerate, but as an old aristocrat, Francis is unwilling to let others look at his woman.

"What the hell!"

As soon as the door was opened, Francis was ready to reprimand Jamal.

"My lord, something is wrong, and those mud-legged people in the mine refuse to work again!"

"What?" Francis felt his heart pound and almost burst out of his throat, "Didn't they make an agreement with us, didn't they say that they would pay the previous salary first, and then raise the salary after the negotiation was over?"

"But, sir, this morning, those mud-legged people don't know what madness happened to the road, all of them refused to go to work, no matter what we said, it didn't work, they just refused to return to work, they also detained us, the overseers, until the evening to let us go down the mountain, as soon as the villain came out, he immediately found a horse to rush back to report the news, my lord, my lord, you ......."

In Jamal's frightened eyes, Francis rolled his eyes and fainted.

PS: Thank you for the monthly pass of my friend 'Iosmi', thank you!(To be continued......)