"Those people are so shameless and domineering!" Inside the house, a man who looked older than Uncle Wang said angrily.

After Li Tian and Uncle Wang got out of the mine, they returned the mining tools, and then they didn't go anywhere else, and went down the mountain directly to their residence.

A few people had already returned to the house.

Li Tian didn't carry those people behind his back, and immediately complained to Uncle Wang about the matter just now.

The other people in the room listened and talked and discussed, and then the man sighed.

After the man sighed, he saw that Li Tian and Uncle Wang were both newcomers and didn't understand anything, so he told them a few unspoken rules in the cave.

The first point is that the largest amount of ore is produced under the platforms connected by the various forks.

If you can go down there to mine, everyone can dig up a lot of ore every day.

But the prisoners, especially the condemned ones, don't want that. These condemned prisoners have a fixed amount of ore to hand in every day, and this amount of task will definitely not be completed in the peripheral fork of the road.

Only under the platform can the condemned prisoners dig up enough ore. In other words, these condemned prisoners rely on these ores to survive.

If everyone goes down to that platform to mine, even if the ore reserves below are huge, they will be dug up one day, and then it will be the death of those condemned prisoners.

So, while they are mining these ores, they are also protecting them.

In order to ensure that they could live longer, after the condemned prisoners went to the mine, they united to guard the various cave entrances and watch the ore.

Whoever wants to touch the ore they are saving their lives will have to fight them.

Therefore, if you want to make money by mining every day, you must have the courage to fight and fight those condemned prisoners.

Some people formed groups and forced their way through the blocks of the condemned prisoners before they could go down to the platform to mine.

One or two miners, just like Li Tian and Uncle Wang, can't even make a wave, and they have to hand over a large part of the mining, which is equivalent to mining for the condemned prisoners.

Hearing this, Li Tian also understood why there were gangs of ten people under the platform, and each of them was fat and strong, so they looked very capable of fighting, and it was not easy to provoke.

With their daily mining volume, when they settle their wages every month, they can indeed make a lot more money than other miners.

During this period, Uncle Wang interjected suspiciously, and asked the official government yamen if he knew about the situation.

The miner sighed, saying that it was useless to know, and the people in the government did not go to the mine every day to supervise the work.

The people from the government went down to check once, and maybe everyone took advantage of the momentum to dig for two more days, but once the people from the government did not go to the mine, it would return to the way it was before.

The miner continued.

In fact, few people are willing to fight with those condemned prisoners.

So most people are just small gangs of three or five people digging ore at the fork in the road.

It's also good to be able to guarantee a certain amount of salary every month.

As for why there are not more groups of people, it still involves the division of interests.

The ore in the fork in the road, under normal circumstances, a small group of five or six people is barely enough, if there are more people in the group, the power is great, but in the end, no one can complete the task.

When Li Tian heard this, he couldn't help but ask the doubts in his heart.

Those prisoners, you can't just watch from inside all the time, don't go mining during the day, and when they come out at night, they will all go back to the prison. Wouldn't it be okay for other people to go in and mine?

Even if you don't go under the platform, and then go to the fork in the road at night, where seven or eight people occupy a lot of reserves, then you can get a lot of gains, right?

When those miners heard Li Tian ask, they laughed one by one, as if they had heard something interesting.

This smile made Li Tian confused, Li Tian thought to himself, he didn't say anything else, could it be that he couldn't go mining at night?

Since you don't need torches to see in the sun, isn't it the same to go in during the day and at night?

Wouldn't it be more efficient to work two shifts during the day and at night?

The miner explained to Li Tian again, and Li Tian couldn't help but be a little afraid.

The truth is really not what Li Tian thought, if he really went into the mine to mine at night, it would be dangerous.

In the mouth of the mining workers, a widely circulated saying is "when it is cold, retreat, and do not go to the mine at night"

At night, miners are really not allowed to enter the mine to mine ore.

Throughout the day, there was basically nothing abnormal in the mine, and everyone was assured of mining.

However, as night approached, a cool breeze blew from somewhere in the mine.

At this time, all the miners must be withdrawn, regardless of whether the mining volume is completed that day, and they must put down their work and leave the mine.

After half an hour of cool breezes, water vapor will gradually appear in the mine, and finally the water vapor will gather and form a fog.

Originally, the mine cave only relied on a glimmer of light to see, and together with this fog, people can see a few steps in front of them, and they are basically blind.

You must know that the road in the mine is crooked, there are many forks, under normal circumstances, it is possible to get lost, and the fog is together, the mine is a large maze, and it is too difficult to see everywhere, and it is too difficult to get out of it.

The miner aroused Li Tian's curiosity, and Li Tian then asked, Is it true that no one has ever entered the mine at night?

Not to mention, the miner said that a few people had actually been in.

I heard that the people who went in were all death row prisoners, and they contradicted the boss of the death row prisoners, and then the other death row prisoners directly drove them to the fork in the road that day, preventing them from mining under the platform.

Although the ore reserves in the fork in the road are large, they are far from satisfying the task of a few condemned prisoners.

The other miners even avoided them when they saw them from afar, for fear that they would rob them of the ore.

When the cool breeze blew that day, these condemned prisoners did not dig up enough of the share that should be handed over.

If you don't hand over enough shares, you die!

Although there was still a chance to make amends the next day, several of the condemned prisoners also knew that the situation would certainly not be much better the next day.

So a few people discussed and made a bold decision, they wanted to go into the mine overnight to mine, and several people entered together, and everyone didn't go deep, so it was estimated that they couldn't get lost.

When the people of the government saw that these condemned prisoners were going to enter the mine late at night, not only did they not stop them, but they also provided them with items issued by two immortals that could release light spells.

In fact, the government also wanted to find out what happened inside the mine after the fog was foggy at night, and whether it could continue mining.

However, after those few condemned prisoners entered, they seemed to sink into the sea and never came out.

Some people say that they should have taken advantage of the lax guards at night and slipped out of the entrance of the mine and ran away.

Others say they may have found another way out of the mine.

Some people even say that they went to the bottom and found treasures and became immortals.

Opinions differed, but since then, no one dared to enter the mine late at night, and no one on the side of the condemned prisoners dared to disobey their boss.

Having said this, Li Tian's curiosity was even heavier, one night, even if the few death row prisoners were lost, but the next day, when the fog cleared and the miners entered the mine, they could also follow them out.

A few big and three rough men are not going to starve to death without eating at night, so where did this person go in the end?

Li Tian felt that this matter still had to be asked clearly, outsiders said that there was danger in the mine, but this danger was only known to the miners.

Part of the danger is man-made disasters, if you have a conflict with other miners, you can't beat others in the end, and most of your lives will be thrown in the mine.

So what danger is hidden in this strange fog that can make a few people disappear?

Uncle Wang was also listening, but after all, Uncle Wang had seen more things than Li Tian, and those old miners must have said half of the matter and left half of it for these newcomers, and it is estimated that there is something else that Uncle Wang and Li Tian have not told them.

Uncle Wang saw that Li Tian also wanted to ask again, so Uncle Wang took out a few copper plates from his baggage, stuffed them into the miner's hand while others were not paying attention, and whispered to him to reveal more news, so that their uncle and nephew could be on guard.

The miner saw that Uncle Wang and Li Tian were also sincere, nodded and glanced at Uncle Wang, and then went out under the pretext of going to the thatched house.

Uncle Wang also said to Li Tian to go out and go shopping, and then also pulled Li Tian out.

Not far from the house, Uncle Wang and Li Tian found the miner.

The miner whispered to Uncle Wang, these words have not been said to the people in the house, so you have to be careful with secrecy.

Then the miner began to narrate.

This was something that only the miners who had been in the mine for a long time knew, and there was another incident that happened before the death row prisoners entered the mine at night.

It was an elderly beggar who rushed to sign up as soon as he heard that he could provide food and shelter as long as he mined in the mine, and he was the first batch of miners who could receive wages after the mine opened.

One day the beggar wanted to dig more ore, and when the cool breeze blew, he did not leave the mine immediately.

He wanted to take advantage of the time before the fog to continue mining.

By the time he had dug up enough ore, there was already a slight fog in the cave.

The beggar walked out unhurriedly.

But the more he walked, the more he felt that something was wrong, and as the fog thickened, he became more and more flustered, and began to run and rush out......

However, even this could not alleviate the fear in my heart.

In the end, I didn't even want the ore I dug up, and I threw all the hoes on my back!

Fortunately, his position was not far from the exit of the mine, and after running for a while, he also rushed to the entrance of the mine, and he was able to get out immediately.

At this time, the beggar breathed a sigh of relief and subconsciously looked back into the cave.

This time, he was almost scared to death, the mine was foggy and gray, but in this gray, there was actually a red figure not far behind him.

The beggar shouted and rushed out of the mine.

This shout startled the guard at the entrance of the mine, and reprimanded him for what the hell was called and came out so late.

The beggar pointed to the hole behind him for the guard to look in, but there was nothing to see.

He then told the guard about what had happened to him, but the guard only thought that the beggar had slept too much in the cave and had lost the mining tools he had been distributed.

scolded the beggar for a while, and fined a lot of wages for the month.

But the beggar didn't even want his wages, and when he went back to his lodgings and told the other miners who were living with him about it, he went back the next day to ask for food, and never came to the mine again.

……

Li Tian was a little scared when the miner said, so frightened that Li Tian looked left and right, and the miner laughed a few times when he saw this: "Doll, don't be afraid, we don't take what the beggar said seriously."

It is very likely that he lost the mining tool and said so on purpose! Moreover, there was no such thing as the beggar had said after that. A lot of people don't know about it now.

So, don't take it seriously, it's just that you remember not to go down the mine at night, come out quickly when you encounter a cool breeze during the day, and follow the rules, you will definitely be able to save a few dollars in the mine, enough for you to go home and marry a daughter-in-law, hahaha......"

Although the miners comforted Li Tian so much, Li Tian still felt that there was such a thing, the beggar who was scared away, if there was no such thing, why didn't he continue mining the next day, but went back more often to continue to be a beggar? As the old saying goes, when things go wrong, there must be demons.

After the miner said these words, he asked Uncle Wang if the two of them would like to join the miners' small gang, there were four people in their gang, plus Li Tian and Uncle Wang, and the six of them could occupy a territory with more iron ore reserves.

Uncle Wang next to him thanked the miner and said that he would consider it.

Uncle Wang lied to the miner, saying that the family would continue to use the money and would need to dig a lot of ore to pay off the debt.

The miner didn't force it, but said a word to go to the hut, and turned to leave.

The situation of Uncle Wang and Li Tian is similar to the lies told by Uncle Wang, they do need to dig more ore than ordinary miners to complete the daily task.