A feast, with crying and laughing, finally ended up with a guest and host. After the meal, Lin Qiang sent Rhodes and a few people out, Rhodes deliberately fell behind a few words, and said to Lin Qiang earnestly: "Little fat man, I really didn't misunderstand you." From the moment you made such a fuss, mainly from the perspective of the workers, I knew that you were suitable for this position. ”

Lin Qiang was about to be humble, but Rod waved his hand to interrupt him and said: "You, but this world is far from being as simple as you think, some things are not if you don't do your best to others, others will definitely treat you well." Thinking of this, Rhodes looked a little deep, smiled self-deprecatingly, and said: "Of course, if as a mine owner, I have been with these miners for many years, and I also hope that the workers will live better." But..."

"What but?" Lin Qiang hurriedly asked. Rod smiled and said, "I vacate my house, you have to care about where I live?" Give me the whole new one. Lin Qiang smiled, and then said: "Where do you want to go, I mean your house is so big, just make a place to make a kitchen and find a few women to cook." The barbecue stew, and the stir-fry I showed today, can give the miners a different look. When the meal is ready, let them go to the bowl with the bowl to eat, or find someone to carry the bucket to the mine to deliver the food. ”

After being stunned for a moment, Rod asked rhetorically, "Is this okay?" Really not to make room for me? Lin Qiang smiled: "Hahaha, where do you want to go, but that's not it, how can I let you make room." Rod stared at Lin Qiang for a long time, nodded and said, "Okay, I agree to this decision, when will it start?" "Just for these two days, I'll look for you when I'm ready." Rod nodded, and walked away with a satisfied burp. Lin Qiang was also very moved when he looked at Rod's back, he couldn't imagine that there was such a non-relative person who could be so tolerant and trusting of himself and his friends.

Of course, thinking of the trust of the people in the mine to Rhodes, Lin Qiang also understood that Rhodes' status in the mine was high, not only because he was the owner of the mine. Rhodes is indeed a respectable old man.

After turning back, everyone saw that Lin Qiang had a complicated face, and Chang Shi was the first to ask: "What's wrong with Lin Sang, it's a bit emo?" Lin Qiang shook his head, seeing that everyone was standing and looking at him, he hurriedly beckoned everyone to sit down, and said slowly: "I've been staying for so many days, I don't know what everyone thinks, anyway, I still had a playful mentality at the beginning, because I didn't encounter anything particularly difficult." However, although the things encountered now are easy to solve, it does not mean that they will be solved in the future. ”

A few people were silent, probably because the topic was relatively heavy, and the people who had been good at talking before didn't know how to open their mouths. Han Xu, who was still more thoughtful among several people, opened his mouth and said, "So what? ”

Lin Qiang thought for a while and said, "So we have to find a way to gain a foothold." I always feel that we are not without a purpose in this world, Li Bai said, 'I am born to be useful', I think we must have come here to have the meaning of our existence. ”

Zhao Huiying suddenly opened her mouth and said with a crying voice: "So babies, I want to interrupt." Can't we really go back? ”

Lin Qiang looked at her, and shook his head despite being unbearable: "I'm afraid it's difficult to achieve in the short term, and it's not good to say in the future." ”

Liang Shuopeng pushed his glasses and added: "It's not that it's bad, it's impossible, at least with our current capabilities." We had to know at least how we got here, but we didn't even know how we got there. ”

"I remember Sister Xu said before, we seem to have responded to a prophecy before we were arrested and put in prison?" Gao Ting frowned.

"I remember that." Duan Lingzi added: "It's a prophecy. It is said that one day, some people in fancy clothes will come to this world, with their magic of light and fire, to save the enslaved people of this world. ”

"Is this talking about us, why don't I think it's like it?" Li Xueyuan said: "Enslaved, aren't they these people who can't do magic, including us, and can only sell coolies?" But that said, none of us know magic. Isn't it true that any of you have awakened into a magical girl? ”

Everyone shook their heads.

Lin Qiang said: "There are two possibilities, the first one may be that we are not the people in the prophecy. But I don't think that's very likely. ”

Han Xu nodded and said, "Yes, otherwise, why don't you let us cross." ”

"Well, so I say the second possibility, could it be that the magic in the prophecy is not magic itself?" Lin Qiang looked around at everyone and said slowly.

"You mean?" Tsuneshi suddenly realized: "For example, light? Is it now that Cheng Shaowei and Xiaoliang are making up the lamp? ”

Lin Qiang nodded: "It's possible." "What about fire? And what is fire? Liang Shuopeng crossed his hands, leaned forward instantly, and changed from leaning on the backrest to propping his arms on the table.

"There are a lot of possibilities. But I think it must have something to do with gunpowder. Like guns, cannons, or bombs. Lin Qiang scratched his head, which had lost a lot of hair recently, and said.

"Oh, I see." Several of them felt that their thoughts were much clearer. They had been more or less thinking before, but today they finally got it right.

"So what are we going to do next?" Tsuneishi said excitedly. As the most capable of fighting among the several people who crossed together, he felt that the burden on his body became heavier and heavier as time passed, and this pressure was almost overwhelming him. The reason why he went to the mine to work himself was also because of the urgent need to exercise.

"Is it possible?" Lin Qiang asked Liang Shuopeng. Because of the heavy topic, Liang Shuopeng was also in the mood to mock, and he replied: "I have also thought about making firearms, but there is no drama for the time being, because many technical conditions are not enough." I still have a lot to prepare. ”

"Make a list of what you need to prepare, and we'll solve it the same, and we'll talk about the technology later. First of all, I want to talk about what we should solve now. Lin Qiang waved his hand.

Everyone stared at him, his lips lightly opened, and he spat out two words: "People's hearts." ”

Two days later, the news that the mine was going to build a canteen, under the deliberate propaganda of Lin Qiang and several people, the people in the mine knew about it. None of these miners who have worked in these mines for a long or short period of time don't know what the canteen is, but when they hear the name, they feel that it should be related to eating.

"Hey, Lao Wang, what do you think this canteen is? Why do you still let us go to work and no one brings a basin? A miner asked the miner next to him.

"The hell knows what. However, I heard from my neighbor Li Er that his daughter-in-law seems to have been recruited to work in the canteen. Lao Wang replied.

The miner who asked the previous question sighed and said, "There are fewer and fewer women in the mine now." ”

"Isn't less a good thing? It's dirty, tiring, and dangerous, and it shouldn't be done by women and children. Now that women do some chores, or household work, how good it is for children to have that school. Lao Wang said.

"That's right. Oh yes, where's that cafeteria? The miner then asked.

"You have so many problems, just like Rod's courtyard, the leader is one of the women from those outsiders, who looks a little similar to the people in the royal capital. Said that it seemed to have made a meal and sent it to the mine. ”

"Let's talk, don't delay the work in your hands. Who, Lao Wang, you go and burn the fire of the steam engine stove, add more stones, and replace Lao Li. Hal commanded.

"It's coming, it's coming!" Lao Wang hurriedly ran over.

In a blink of an eye, it was already noon, and the mine sounded the gong to suspend work, and everyone put down their work and wanted to go back to eat, but Hal stopped everyone: "You don't have to go back to the mine to get food today, and I won't go down the mountain to go back to the village to eat, just wait for dinner." ”

"What, what are you waiting for?" A miner who hadn't heard the wind squeezed forward and asked.

Hal said angrily: "So many words, sit there and rest, keep your mouth shut." ”

After a while, a sturdy young man, a young miner, was temporarily sent to the canteen to deliver food to Mine No. 2 with a sturdy shoulder. As soon as he entered the mine, he shouted: "Chief Lin asks the mine owner, and the mine canteen will be responsible for making lunch for everyone in the future. ”

Everyone suddenly realized: "It turns out that this is the canteen." "The miners lined up to eat, and they were in an orderly manner. After the fight, they squatted to the side and ate in twos and threes. The miner who asked Lao Wang a question just now walked up to Lao Wang with a pot of rice and squatted down. The miner's rice bowl was full of wheat rice at the bottom, and on top of it was a large spoonful of a dish called "Northeast Stew", but this time it was not purple.

"Don't say it, it's quite fragrant." Lao Wang took a bite and said with a smile. If Han Xu was here, hearing that someone had such a high evaluation of her signature dish, it would probably be moved to tears.

"Yes, but if you want me to say, my uncle is really good." The miner also gulped down and said with a smile. The miners at the bottom generally don't like to turn corners and go straight, and they don't even bother to change their titles. So although Lin Qiang has long been a foreman, the miners at the bottom are still used to calling him uncle.

Lao Wang sighed: "Yes, it's not. But since he is a relative of Rhodes, he must not be wrong. ”

A similar scene abounds throughout the Qingling Mine. The whole mine has also been revitalized by various measures such as steam engines, electric lights, three-shift shifts, labor propaganda, and canteens, and the output and efficiency have been greatly improved. It didn't take long for the mine's clerical staff to calculate and count that the mine's ore reserves had really exceeded 300,000 tons after counting the mining in the first half of the year. This is undoubtedly a good thing for Rhodes, for the people who pass through, even the miners in the mine.

It's just that nothing is perfect, just like Rod said, this world is not simple, even if you are wholeheartedly good for others, it does not necessarily mean that others will be good to you.

On the night when the ore reserves of the mine exceeded 300,000, there was a figure that was more familiar to several people, and quietly set off outside the mountain at night.