The work is on the right track, and the days have passed a lot faster, five days have passed since Li Tian officially joined the company, and after a few days of groping and trying, Li Tian's speed of chopping wood has finally been improved. Two days ago, he still needed Hou Ping to help, but after that, he didn't let Hou Ping come, and Li Tian himself could get almost the same.

Progress is always a joy.

The first three days were indeed bitter for the two of them, Hou Ping was okay, he could sometimes come to the firewood room to help before, and he had a little experience, Li Tian also had the strength to chop wood, and the experience of chopping firewood was all accumulated when he was at home, but that experience is not the same thing as now.

One is thinking about how to cut firewood from the tree and bring it back to sell for money, and the other is thinking about how to chop the firewood bought back into small pieces. The two are not comparable.

In the past five days, the blisters on Li Tian's hands have become swollen. It can be seen that the work of chopping wood is really not simple.

In addition, Li Tian originally thought that it would be very nerve-wracking to report to Zheng Yifan how much firewood he needed to buy every day.

However, after a few days of drying, Li Tian found that the amount of firewood used every day was about the same.

When reporting to Zheng Yifan, he only needs to say simply, the same as the day before yesterday, then the firewood he bought can be enough.

After all, the restaurant will still save a little for emergencies, even if there is too much firewood used on a certain day, and it will be enough to report a little more when the next account is reported, and the firewood in the firewood room will be maintained in a stable quantity, which is good enough.

Except for the first two days, Li Tian was not busy and lived in the firewood room, and Li Tian returned to live in the house for the next three days.

The shopkeeper is also very satisfied with Li Tian's performance, and his life is getting better little by little.

Through Hou Ping, Li Tian also knew the reason for the shaking of the town a few days ago, and the root cause was in the mine not far to the west of the town.

The mine has always been controlled by the government, producing some iron ore, and the government coordinated to bring prisoners from nearby towns to mine, and the high-quality iron ore produced did not know where to be transported.

Some iron ore with a lot of impurities will flow out and be transported into the iron-smelting mill in Linzhen, and that town, including the nearby town where Li Tian is located, can also use ironware thanks to this iron-smelting mill.

These good-quality farm tools and utensils, such as rakes, hoes, shovels, axes, saws, etc., greatly facilitated low-level people like Li Tian who made a living by chopping wood or farming.

Long before the shaking occurred, there was an accident in that mine, and the prisoners of the mining inadvertently touched a certain immortal prohibition, flames, ice picks and other means came out, and the seventy or eighty prisoners died in an instant, but after this prohibition took effect once, it was automatically broken.

Even if so many people died, but the suspected immortal residence was discovered, and the ban had been removed, the government became interested and mobilized more people, including some government officials on duty, to enter the mine to check.

However, the methods of the immortal family, how could mortals predict it.

Later, deeper into the place, there was another sudden outbreak of prohibition, and this time more people died.

Similarly, this ban was also a one-time event, but seeing that more than 100 people died in a blink of an eye, the remaining prisoners and officials poured out of the mine in a swarm, not daring to enter again.

People who have entered the mine once say that they will not enter the mine at all. In desperation, the government either seconded them from other prisons, or used methods such as patrolling the streets and arresting more prisoners, and so on, and once again removed a group of people from the past.

This is also the reason why at that time, as soon as Hou Ping mentioned that there was a shortage of people in the mine, the three people who beat the little beggar stopped.

However, this large-scale deployment of manpower still attracted the attention of some immortal cultivators, and at first it was only the immortal cultivators behind the government who intervened, and sent immortal cultivators to investigate.

Later, some people in the casual cultivation also lurked in the town, just like the wandering doctor that Li Tian had seen.

Of course, mortals like Li Tianhou Ping would not know such details, they only knew that there were immortals who came to inspect the mine.

Those who really know the specific situation are still immortal cultivators.

I heard that this time into the mine, everyone's luck was better than the previous two times, and they chose a mine road to survey and excavate all the way, and they did not encounter a ban after mining for a few days.

Moreover, on the day of the shaking, the treasure was dug up.

What kind of treasure it is, it is not for Li Tian and these mortals to know, and there are all kinds of sayings, some say that it is a powerful weapon, some say it is an elixir, some say it is a shining stone, and some even say that it is the bones of an immortal who are dug up.

There are all kinds of sayings, but in short, it must be something that immortal cultivators can use.

The shaking of the town and the first loud noise were caused by the collapse of the mine after the treasure was dug up, and the second loud noise was caused by some immortal cultivators competing for the treasure and casting spells.

Li Tian is still quite convinced of this statement, others don't know, but Li Tian has seen it with his own eyes, the Yunyou Doctor, who was worshiped as a god by everyone on the street, heard the second loud noise, and quickly drove the flying sword to check.

Now it seems that most of the wandering doctors have also gone to take the treasure.

As for the result, who will end up with the treasure, but there is not even a little word about it, everyone just knows that the government has remobilized manpower and is about to start mining again, after all, there are many benefits from mining iron ore.

As for why the people can know the news about the mine, it is mainly because the gods issued a decree later.

The immortals speculated that there would be that kind of treasure in the mine, but the immortals were noble and could not open the mountain to mine in person, so they ordered the government to recruit the people to go.

How dare the government disobey the orders of the gods, the original plan of the government was to re-mine iron ore, but now it is not only to mine iron ore, but also to find treasures that provoke the gods to fight.

In the face of this situation, there are no longer enough people to rely on those prisoners. The government simply posted a notice to recruit the people.

The government will definitely not treat the people like the prisoners, and the people can sign up and get wages, which are also paid monthly.

The salary is not much, and it is not even as much as Li Tian's monthly money now.

But there is another reward system, which rewards according to the quantity and quality of iron ore dug up.

If you are lucky and can dig out a good quality iron ore, then in the end, after a month, the income can be compared to Li Tian's current income several times.

If you can dig up the treasures that the gods said, and at the same time as sealing the official, you will also be rewarded with a thousand taels of gold, it can be said that you don't have to worry about money in this life, and the whole family will be directly prosperous and rich.

However, there are benefits, but there are also dangers.

The government also made it clear that there is a great danger in the mine, and if you are not careful, you will die, and if you die, the government will not pay for the burial, and if you want to enter the mine to make this money, you must first sign a life and death contract.

No matter what kind of work, as long as there is money to be earned, there will always be someone to do it.

It's no different here.

Many farmers from the surrounding countryside who have finished their busy farming, or woodcutters from poor families, have come to sign up.

There are also many men in the town who have no income and enter the mine to mine after signing the life and death contract.

After Li Tian heard the news, he didn't have any ideas, and now his life is on the right track, although the monthly money is not much, but after signing the work contract two months later, his income can be doubled, and there is no need to venture into the mine.

What made Li Tian feel a little relieved was that because of this year's good harvest, his eldest brother and his father did not sign up to go to the mine.

However, there is still something that worries Li Tian now, there is a hidden danger in the safety of the town.

On that day, by the shaking of the mine and the immortals competing for treasures, a lot of prisoners escaped from the mine, although a lot of them were captured, but there were still those who escaped and were not caught, Li Tian was afraid that some prisoners would run to their village.