She knew that the Zhang family was very timid, afraid of people day and night ghosts, and how much courage she had to muster before she dared to chase after her in this dark night.

"Erniang, why did you keep up?" She slumped down and slid down the stone wall.

Seeing her approaching, Zhang reached out and grabbed the corner of her clothes, and begged bitterly: "Qiu'er, go back with me, how can you live as a girl in this cannibalistic world?" Don't be afraid, although Erniang is useless, I will never let the surnamed Rong sell you. ”

Under the moonlight, the woman's pleading eyes moved Xu Weiqiu.

Seeing that she didn't reply, Zhang Shi burst into tears, Xu Weiqiu's heart softened, and he couldn't help nodding and admitting: "Okay, Erniang, I'm not leaving." ”

She stretched out her hand to help Zhang's family: "Let's go back!" Unexpectedly, as soon as he exerted a little force, Zhang frowned and exclaimed: "Qiu'er, I'm ...... I couldn't get up, my leg seemed to be sprained. ”

"I'll take a look......" Xu Weiqiu helped her sit down, stretched out her hand and pressed it lightly somewhere, Zhang screamed in pain, seeing this, Xu Weiqiu's face changed......

When the sky was bright, Zhang was carried into the hut by two farmers, and when Rong saw her appearance, he called him evil.

Zhang's injured leg has been fixed by a splint, which has obviously been dealt with by a special person, seeing Xu Lian's face full of doubts, Xu Weiqiu explained: "On the way, there happened to be a kind Lang Zhong passing by, and he bandaged Erniang. ”

When Zhang heard what she said, his face was a little weird, her leg was obviously bandaged by her personally, why did she panic and say that it was Lang Zhong who got it. Also, the skillful technique she used to bandage herself just now is not something ordinary people can do.

She never knew that her stepdaughter had such skills.

Xu Weiqiu avoided her inquiring gaze, and added in passing: "The doctor confessed, Erniang has to rest in bed for a month, otherwise this leg will be wasted." ”

"What......?" Hearing this, Rong Shi could no longer be calm, she pulled her throat and shouted, "A month? ”

"Yes, a month, not a day."

"No, even if we delay for one day on the way, it's money, let alone a month, we can't afford to wait for two days. What do you say, sir? ”

When Zhang heard this, he was deeply afraid that he would be abandoned, and he was immediately so frightened that he burst into tears.

Xu Lian stood there, looking at this, looking at that, and couldn't make up his mind for a while.

Rong continued: "There are so many of us, how can we have five dollars a month for food and clothing, how can we have so much spare money now? ”

Xu Weiqiu really couldn't listen to it, and couldn't help but say: "Don't worry, as long as you promise not to leave Erniang here alone, I will find a way to spend the five hanging money." ”

Because of this sentence, three days later, Xu Weiqiu changed into Xu Weicheng's clothes and followed a team of strong men to Guhuang Mountain, which was twenty kilometers away.

Before leaving, Rong also took off the cloth shoes under her feet and gave her a pair of straw sandals with rough workmanship, if she wasn't afraid that she would have a hard time with her second mother, Xu Weiqiu really wanted to come forward and fight with her.

There were nearly 100 people in the company, all of them men, some were elderly, some were strong middle-aged people, and more were young people in their teens and twenties, and there were only four people like Xu Weiqiu who were twelve or thirteen years old.

On the way, because of his similar age, a young man named Goudan always likes to come over to talk to Xu Weiqiu; He was an impostor, Xu Weiqiu was afraid of revealing his stuffing and sneaking a look at the errand who was leading the way not far away, so he didn't dare to talk to him; But this dog is a chatter, she only needs to reply with one sentence, and the other party can chat more than ten sentences.

On the way, Xu Weiqiu learned from the dog's mouth that the ancient Huang Mountain is a well-known feng shui treasure land, and the scenery is unique.

They only know that they are arranged to go to the Ancient Phoenix Mountain, but no one knows what exactly they want to do there, if it is a beautiful place, it is also good.

Along the way, over the mountains and mountains, trekking through mountains and rivers, when the group arrived at the destination, the scene in front of them made everyone dumbfounded, where did this picturesque scenery come from?

The huge Guhuang Mountain, which has no end in sight, has long been dug up beyond recognition, and high walls have been erected in many places.

In the rolling dust, as far as the eye can see, there are thousands of laborers.

The project in front of him is huge, if he didn't know that it was the Cheng Dynasty at the moment, Xu Weiqiu would have mistakenly thought that this was the construction of the Great Wall.

Seeing this, the dog who was standing behind her said to her with a sad face: "Xiaoyu, I don't want to stay here anymore, I want to go home." But before they could say anything, the messengers drove them into the workshop, and soon the hundred men were scattered and assigned to work in the districts.

Here, after sunrise and sunset, rest in adobe houses at the foot of the mountain, day after day.

At first, Xu Weiqiu was worried that her daughter would not be able to hide it, however, she soon found that she was too worried, the work here was too intense, and no one would have the energy to pay attention to a yellow-haired boy who had not grown all his hair.

Under the scorching sun, on Guhuang Mountain, people work like ants: moving sand and gravel, digging foundations, transporting timber and stones......

With such a high intensity of labor, even young and strong people feel very hard, Xu Weiqiu has just arrived, and she doesn't know how to slack off when she works, and after a few days of hard work, she already feels that her body can't bear it.

At night, the snoring around was like thunder, Xu Weiqiu curled up in the corner of the grass house and moaned softly, her hands and feet were worn out in many places, and the shoulder bones on both sides were even more painful due to the weight, and a slight touch would cause a piercing pain in the heart.

The next day, when the sky was bright and the whistle sounded like a hypnotic sound, she forced herself to enter the workshop with everyone and began a hard day's work.

The back basket full of gravel pressed on her shoulder, Xu Weiqiu couldn't help but let out a hissing cry of pain, and the uncle on the side saw that her waist couldn't straighten up, so he couldn't help asking: "Are you okay?" ”

Xu Weiqiu shook his head with a bitter face.

Seeing that she was young and small, the other party couldn't help but feel compassion, so he unloaded two boulders from her back basket to reduce her burden, and just about to unload the third one, he saw an overseer turn his head to look at the future, and the uncle was so frightened that he quickly stopped.

In this workshop, the people are also divided into three, six, nine and so on, in addition to the officials who guard the periphery, there are also many errands responsible for supervising the construction on the construction site. The laborers who do coolies are also divided into levels, and there are craftsmen who are paid for money, most of whom are Yao laborers who are forced to go up the mountain like her.

There is also a special group, that is, prisoners.

Prisoners, as the name suggests, are those prisoners who have committed crimes, and are released into the mountains to serve hard labor. One by one, they were dressed in prison uniforms, with heavy chains under their feet, and were driven to work like walking corpses.