Amid the snoring, grinding teeth, and farting of everyone in the house, it was dawn......

Li Tian and Uncle Wang got up early, packed their things, and came to the pavilion where they had breakfast.

Now that it is winter, the pavilion is surrounded by thatch, leaving only one opening, and it is no longer as ventilated as in summer.

There were stone chairs and tables in the pavilion, but few people sat down at this time in the morning, and after the night, the chairs were cold and frozen.

There are those who are not in a hurry to go to the mine, take a bowl of porridge to find a place on the side, suck a mouthful of porridge, and eat a bite of steamed buns with pickles.

If you are in a hurry to go to the mine, you don't have time to drink the porridge, so you can take a few steamed buns and make a pot of hot water and set off into the mine.

Li Tian and Uncle Wang belong to the latter, and before going to bed last night, the two discussed setting off early, and at the fork in the road, they first occupied a small area and dug to try it.

If the ore production is okay, don't risk going down.

There are many people who have the same purpose as the two of them, and this act also has a special name: "Occupy the mine".

Anyone can try to occupy the mine, but whether they can occupy the land or live depends on their own strength.

Those small gangs with a large number of people have already agreed on their respective mining sites, and they will not encroach on each other. Everyone completed the task safely and steadily and received a basic salary.

These people are not afraid of others coming to occupy the mine, and everyone enters the mine at about the same time, after the fog clears in the morning.

Before reaching the respective stone walls of the mine, it is also the front and rear feet.

You have taken possession of my mine, and I will rush you away when I arrive, and you will not be able to dig up a few ores.

If you're lucky enough to dig a lot in such a short period of effort, then I'm sorry, the person can leave and the ore will stay.

There is no unreasonable or unreasonable statement, if you have a strong force, you can occupy a good place, and if you have a small force, you can only be bullied, and it is the same everywhere.

This is also the first day that Li Tian and Uncle Wang started mining, but the two of them didn't go deeper, and after turning into the fork in the road, they chose a place to live that they thought they could occupy and excavated.

Chisel, nail, pry, dig......

I don't know the hard work until I do the work, not to mention anything else, just lifting the pickaxe and waving the arms, these basic movements, repeated countless times a day, and finally the hand can be raised, it is already very good......

It may be that the place chosen by Li Tian and Uncle Wang is indeed not occupied, or it may be that the people who once occupied this territory have come, and they saw that they were mining here, and they didn't want to make trouble, so they went to other places.

In short, after the morning passed, more and more miners entered the mine, but no one came to compete with Li Tian and Uncle Wang for this place.

No one competed with them, but it didn't mean that Li Tian and Uncle Wang were mining smoothly.

The location of Li Tian and Uncle Wang, that is, not long after turning into the fork road, is the periphery of the fork area, not to mention the low ore reserves, there are quite a lot of stones in this area, and it is very difficult to dig.

Half a day had passed, and only about a quarter of the baskets had been laid out in their baskets, which they might have reached if they had tried to reach the level of ordinary miners, but in that case, they would have to dig in the mine for nearly two more months to complete the task of more than sixty baskets.

Gotta figure out how to mine more ore......

When a cool breeze blew in the mine and all the miners withdrew from the mine, Li Tian and Uncle Wang barely dug half a basket of ore.

For other miners, this is acceptable, but for Li Tian and Uncle Wang, this is really unacceptable.

On the first day of mining, the two of them used all their strength, but they owed half a day's task, which is really going to be five months of mining.

"Uncle Wang, let's go down early and go to the bottom of the platform, anyway, it will be a little later to let the prisoners out of the prison, let's take advantage of that time to dig some ore first, and then go back to the fork in the road to dig, so that we can reach the daily amount." Li Tian thought about it and thought of such a way.

Uncle Wang thought about it, and nodded in agreement, it seems that there is only one way now. Before the condemned prisoners are taken to the mine, get some ore first.

Just do what you say.

The two got up early the next morning, got up at dawn and went to the mine to get tools, took a few steamed buns and waited for the fog to dissipate at the entrance of the mine.

In front of the mine, Li Tian and Uncle Wang were not alone, and there were still many miners waiting, but I don't know if they also wanted to take advantage of the fact that the condemned prisoner did not come, and also went down to the platform to dig some ore first.

In fact, it is not that most miners do not want to mine more stones to make money, but choosing to mine under the platform early means that it is possible to be blocked by those death row prisoners, and it is possible to be killed by those death row prisoners when the time comes.

Thinking is more precious than seeking wealth, or life.

So, most miners still want to be more stable.

Before the fog cleared, some miners went down to the mine, and Li Tian and Uncle Wang saw it and followed it.

After entering the mine, the fog gradually dissipated.

Li Tian and Uncle Wang did not continue to follow the miners, recalling the route they took when they went to the mine on the first day, and ran directly to the rich ore area behind the fork and under the platform.

After turning around, Li Tian and Uncle Wang finally arrived at the platform, but when they saw this, they were stunned.

The miners who went down with them were already mining the ore......

These people ......

It seems that it is better to follow them, they must know the fastest route to the platform, in front of these experienced miners, Li Tian and Uncle Wang are still too tender.

The amount of ore reserves below is amazing, and Li Tian and Uncle Wang knocked down a few inlaid stone walls with their hands, and there were several pieces of iron ore inside.

After digging for a while, miners began to withdraw from the place one after another, and it seems that it is probably the time for the death penalty to be sentenced to death.

This time, Li Tian and Uncle Wang followed those miners to act together, and ran out of the platform one after another to mine in the fork outside.

Here, Li Tian and the others found a fork in the road, and soon after they walked in, the death row prisoners over there walked from one opening to the platform, some were responsible for mining, some were responsible for guarding the fork in the road, and some even formed a group of death row prisoners to try their luck at the bottom to hunt for treasures.

Turning left and right, Li Tian and Uncle Wang went to a secluded place with a fork in the road, and then the two of them took another look at the back basket, and the small half basket of ore was spread inside, which made people look very relieved.

Sure enough, horses have no night grass and no fertilizer, and people have no windfall and no wealth.

Spell it out in the morning, and directly spell out the amount of tasks for half a day.

While other miners were going down to the mine, Li Tian and Uncle Wang found a stone wall that was not occupied by many people and started their day's work.

The ore content of this stone wall is far less than that under the platform, Li Tian and Uncle Wang dug for a day, and it was enough for the two of them to hand in the amount of tasks, and the ore owed yesterday still did not dig back.

For several days, Li Tian and Uncle Wang went to the bottom of the platform to steal mining stones with other miners who got up early and waited, and they all escaped the death row prisoners who were about to go to the mine.

However, as the saying goes, there is no way to walk by the river without getting your shoes wet.

On this day, Li Tian and the miners who were stealing the ore were just about to choose a fork in the road to leave, but they were blocked by the death row prisoners who came down early.

"Run!" I don't know which miner shouted, and the tools didn't need to run headlong into the unguarded fork in the road.

In addition, the miners were reluctant to dig the ore that had just been dug up, and the ones they carried on their shoulders also found a fork in the road and drilled into it.

The first miner who ran just now shouted like that, which directly made the death row prisoners who had just come down discover Li Tian and them.

A man who looked like the leader of the condemned prisoners shouted: "His grandmother, while we are not there, dare to come and dig secretly, chase them separately, catch them all for me, break their legs one by one, see if they dare to steal!" ”

Although the prisoners were shackled and unable to move, the miners were reluctant to dig up the ore and tools, and they ran slower than the prisoners chasing behind.

Li Tian and Uncle Wang were the same, Uncle Wang's injuries were not yet healed, and he couldn't run fast with the ore on his back, and he was surrounded by several prisoners who were chasing after him after a while.

When a strong man saw Li Tian and Uncle Wang, he sighed: "Huh? It's actually the two of you? Big brother, I see an old acquaintance! ”

At this time, a thin man came out from behind, and he said, "Hehe, what an old acquaintance!" ”

It's just that this man said the word "old acquaintance" very hard. It seems that they have a deep hatred with Li Tian.

Li Tian and Uncle Wang also recognized the people in front of them, who were the traffickers who abducted Xiao En. It was the trafficker leader who spoke.

"Grandpa fell to today's field, but thanks to you, since God opened my eyes today and let me meet the two of you, then you two will die together, there is also a companion on the Huangquan Road!" The trafficker leader said hatefully.

The traffickers hated Li Tian and Uncle Wang very much, if it weren't for these two people, they could have escaped from Houqi Town by virtue of the tunnel, and they would have been happy in other towns at this time!

Moreover, Li Tian and Uncle Wang also killed two traffickers at that time, and this feud has reached the point of never ending.

Li Tian snorted: "Phew, when you stole other people's children, you should have thought that you would end up like this, and it was your deserved retribution!" ”

The leader of the traffickers sneered: "Aren't they just children, wouldn't it be good if they lost them and had another one, we sold them to good people, that's their luck!" ”

The thoughts of this trafficker are really incomprehensible to ordinary people. It is incomprehensible that they have torn apart other families and left abducted children and women to work as slaves, and these traffickers think that they have done a good thing.

"Let's go up and kill them!" The leader of the traffickers shouted, took out a knife out of nowhere, and instigated his subordinates to step forward, but he didn't move, Li Tian and Uncle Wang killed the two of them last time, and he was reluctant to face Li Tian and Uncle Wang.

Rushing to the front was Zhang San.

The last time he failed to guard, he let Li Tian see the tunnel, which finally provoked several of them to be imprisoned in this mine.

Because of this, he has been beaten a lot during this time, and other traffickers will take out their anger on him when they are wronged or in a bad mood.

Today, he finally found the object of his anger, it was this Li Tian, and he had to kill him with a knife for a while, in order to relieve the hatred in his heart.

However, hatred blinded him, and he forgot that Li Tian and Uncle Wang were not easy to mess with.

Li Tian first threw out the hoe in his hand and smashed it on a trafficker, defusing the trafficker's offensive.

Later, Uncle Wang knocked down another trafficker with a basket of ore.

At this time, only Zhang San rushed to Li Tian's side.

Zhang San swung his knife and slashed, but was blocked by Uncle Wang with a pickaxe.

Li Tian took this opportunity to kick Zhang San's calf, and then pulled out the dagger from his arms.

Zhang San's center of gravity was unbalanced and fell to one side.

Li Tian lifted the dagger and swung it from the bottom to the top, wanting to take advantage of the momentum of Zhang San's fall to directly cut Zhang San's neck open.

Zhang San was startled and hurriedly blocked it with an iron bracelet.

However, the dagger can actually be blocked by just an iron bracelet?

I saw that the dagger cut open Zhang San's bracelet, and in Zhang San's extremely shocked gaze, it cut his neck.

Blood gushed and splashed on the faces of the other two traffickers who were still rushing up.

At this moment, the two of them didn't dare to continue to step forward.

Li Tian drank: "Who else wants to come up and die?" ”

The two traffickers didn't dare to step forward easily, and glanced back at the leader of the traffickers, who didn't speak, staring at Zhang San who was holding his neck with his hands on the ground.

However, how can this kind of injury be covered by covering it with your hands?

After a while, Zhang San died......