Chapter 272: The Secret of the Liu Family (2)
The blindfolded women were helped into the secret passage, and although they felt the change in the environment, they were surrounded by clansmen, and they were not too afraid.
This dark passage is very spacious, and there are oil lamps lit on both sides, which is obviously not newly dug and may have existed for decades.
The Seventh Elder took two Chang and two guards to take the lead, and the group walked in the dark passage for two quarters of an hour before a little light appeared in front of them.
Qin Shuhuang found that the light was not an exit, but a secret room with many lights!
When everyone arrived outside the secret room, only the Seven Elders entered the secret room with two Chang Entourage, and the rest were left outside.
After waiting for about two quarters of an hour, two waves of people gathered from the secret passages on both sides.
One wave was headed by the three elders, and the other wave was led by the four elders.
Similarly, the Third Elder and the Fourth Elder also left the people behind them outside the secret room, and they entered the secret room with several cronies.
After a while, those who remained outside the chamber were allowed to enter the chamber.
Qin Shuhuang and the other women were the first to be brought into the secret room.
Through the specially set gap, Qin Shuhuang saw that a stone door in the secret room was opened, and there were three holes in the stone door.
Qin Shuhuang's eyes narrowed slightly, guessing that the opening of this stone door required the three elders of the Liu family to use the key at the same time.
Three keys together can open this stone door, and none of them can be missing.
It is precisely because of this that every time I go to Zhuangzi, there are three elders.
Following the large army through the open stone gate, this time it didn't take long to get out of a secret passage through a hole.
This is another courtyard.
As soon as I came out of the cave and stood in this strange room, my ears were immediately filled with many noisy sounds.
The shouting, the scolding, the cries of all kinds of livestock...... Compared to the quiet and eerie village before, this is more like a real village.
was taken to the courtyard, and the women who were with Qin Shuhuang were untied from the strips of cloth that were blindfolded.
The long period of darkness made Qin Shuhuang couldn't help but blink his eyes vigorously.
It took a moment to see what was going on.
It was full of people, tinkling sounds, wheelbarrows shuttling back and forth, and mostly shirtless men transporting things.
It's not a village, it's a mine! And it's a silver mine!
At this moment, Qin Shuhuang immediately understood why the Liu family was the only one in the impoverished Guangnan City who would be rich.
What is the biggest secret that the Liu family is trying to hide, and now all the answers are in front of Qin Shuhuang!
This is why the Liu family can give the four princes a steady stream of support!
When the seven elders saw that everyone had brought them, they immediately ordered Chang to follow them, "Take these women and distribute them to the miners." ”
Chang immediately responded, turned around and drove the women away with his family, and walked towards a long house.
Only then did the women who were traveling with them feel that things were out of control, huddled together one by one, and their eyes showed fear of the unknown.
Xie Xuanye glanced at Luda, asking Luda to follow Luo Chu, while he mixed in the family that drove the women to protect Qin Shuhuang.
Fortunately, the number of family members who drove the women was small, and there were only six people including Xie Xuanye and the seventh elder's entourage.
The women were led to the long house, and immediately dozens of men rushed out of the house, all of them miners, they were dressed in tatters, but their eyes were like hungry wolves, eager to tear the seven women in front of them to pieces!
Qin Shuhuang lowered his head and dodged behind the women, and Xie Xuanye used his tall body to block the eyes of those miners.
The miner at the head had a beard, was in his thirties, and had a lewd face, and he laughed and said, "Sir, are these women a reward for us?" ”
Chang said: "Yes, if any of you can make them conceive a child, they are their mother-in-law, and those who have a mother-in-law must take good care of their mother-in-law!" ”
After hearing Chang Sui's words, the miners instantly burst out laughing obscenely.
Although the Seven Elders' Chang Sui said this, the miners here all knew that these women were their venting tools, where could it be a person's mother-in-law, so many men, women were pregnant, how could they still tell whose cub it was.
Every month, in order to prevent these miners from rioting in the Liu family's silver mine, the Liu family's mansion will send some women over.
In less than half a month, some of the women who were sent will be buried.
Only a few survive to conceive children, and then the stewards here arrange for them to work in the kitchens and other places, cook for the miners, and when the children are born and taken away, they will be sent to the miners' rooms......
The woman who was sent here didn't get out alive at all!
With a wave of his hand, the resting miners immediately came up to grab the woman.
In an instant, the woman's screams and the man's cheers mingled.
When a miner wanted to pull Qin Shuhuang, Xie Xuanye immediately protected Qin Shuhuang behind him.
When several miners came into contact with Xie Xuanye's cold eyes as if they could kill, they subconsciously retreated.
One of the miners flattered: "Is the master in love with this woman?" Our rules here, if the lord likes it, the lord will use it first, and we can just eat the leftovers! ”
After speaking, he pointed obscenely towards a room on the very edge, "That's the room left for the master, don't worry, it's absolutely clean." ”
The Seven Elders' Chang Sui watched this scene and didn't pay much attention to it at all, turned around and left.
Obviously, he has seen too much of this scene, and the two family members next to him also patted Xie Xuanye on the shoulder, and teased: "Little brother, your appetite is not small, okay, go and do something, remember to gather after the matter is done!" The elder doesn't like to wait for people, after time, be careful to let you stay here as a miner! ”
Xie Xuanye glanced at these obscene and greedy miners, and pulled Qin Shuhuang to walk quickly towards the house.
The remaining two family members laughed.
The rest of the women who had come with them were already crying and being dragged into other houses by the miners......
The miners were right, the room was clean, and the furnishings were very simple, with only a bed, a table and a chair.
Entering the house, the window on the other side was pushed open from the outside, and a bag was thrown in.
Qin Shuhuang saw it, and the person who just threw something in was Long Jia.
Xie Xuanye picked up the burden and handed it to Qin Shuhuang, and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, hurry up and change your clothes, and I'll take you out of here." ”
Qin Shuhuang nodded, and began to untie his coat in front of Xie Xuanye.
Xie Xuanye's cold face instantly climbed into a flush.
He hurriedly turned his back to Qin Shuhuang.
Qin Shuhuang didn't care about Xie Xuanye at all, what Long Jia sent in was a family clothes, fat, and a hat, and he could cover the woman's figure after wearing it, Qin Shuhuang was originally tall, and then he made some cover on his face, as long as he didn't stare at her deliberately, he couldn't tell that she was a woman for a while.
After changing his clothes, Xie Xuanye took Qin Shuhuang and left quietly through the back door.
Luda, who had been following Luo Chu's side, under the leadership of the three elders of the Liu family, entered the only neat courtyard near the mine.
In the courtyard study, when Luo Chu looked up and saw the person sitting on the top, he froze and lost his temper in an instant!