Chapter Ninety-Four: The Mine
The corners of Wang Yong's mouth twitched, pointing to the carriage containing the corpse, and asked Henry puzzled: "What's going on?"
Henry said disapprerovingly: "This is normal, most of these slaves are exhausted, each of them has a task that must be completed every day, and if they can't complete the task, they won't be given food, and we don't raise waste here." ”
After a long period of modern thought, Wang Yong is actually difficult to accept the slavery system, but he can't change anything alone, and he can only accept it slowly, but Wang Yong also has his own bottom line.
When he saw the inhuman treatment of the slaves, Wang Yong still couldn't help but want to get mad, but he couldn't help but think about it, because now is not the time, this place has not been completely controlled, and it is better to wait until Henry and these scumbags are solved.
Wang Yong couldn't bear to look at the corpses in the carriage anymore, turned his head to look at the surrounding buildings, and found that it was basically all warehouses, and there were few stone houses that could live in it.
Wang Yong asked Henry puzzled: "Where do those slaves usually live, and where do they eat?"
Henry replied, "There is a large iron mine in the mine that has been mined, and there the slaves rest in shifts. As for eating, slaves would be given food when they came to hand over the ore, and they could eat wherever they wanted, and there was no fixed place. ”
Wang Yongqiang held back his anger and asked Henry some questions in the mine, and the hundred cavalry sent by Ryan finally arrived.
Wang Yong said to Henry, "You have someone take them to take over your work, and then leave your bookkeeper here and ten people who are familiar with the environment inside, and let them guide these soldiers, and the rest of them will go to Kevin's to report." Henry didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly called someone to arrange it.
Wang Yong said to Henry in an unquestioning tone, "Take me to the place where the slaves rest." ”
Henry's expression froze when he heard this, and then he persuaded: "My lord, you better not go there, that place is so dirty, the air is not good, and every time I go there, I can't eat for a few days." ”
Wang Yong's expression was solemn, and he said impatiently: "Don't talk nonsense with me, hurry up and lead the way." When Henry saw that Wang Yong wanted to go there, he didn't dare to disobey, so he had to lead the way reluctantly.
Henry took Wang Yong and five cavalrymen all the way to the left and right, and finally came to the largest mine.
Wang Yong looked at the environment of the mine as he walked, and the inside of the mine had basically been hollowed out. Although there are many caves on the outside, I found that the caves are actually connected.
It's like a labyrinth, with those passages crisscrossing the city, and it's easy to get lost if someone who doesn't know how to get in.
On the walls on both sides of the passage, there were several braziers hanging sparsely, and the faint light of the fire made the inside of the mine dim and lifeless.
Wang Yong walked to the brazier to take a look, what kind of brazier it was, in fact, some unknown liquid was put in the big iron bowl as fuel, and there was a cotton thread in it as a wick to burn.
The smoke from the brazier was very loud and choking, but fortunately the ventilation in the cave was good, otherwise these slaves would not have done anything, and they would have been smoked to death if they came in.
Henry pointed to the liquid in the brazier and said, "These are the yellow sticky water I just told you about, such a bowl can burn for a long time, but the smoke is a little bigger." ”
Wang Yong nodded, these liquids looked a little like oil, but the color was wrong, thinking that he must go and see what those so-called yellow sticky water were when he had time.
Henry led the way in front, and Wang Yong followed slowly and leisurely all the way to observe, and walked inside for about twenty minutes, and finally came to the place where the slaves were resting.
Wang Yong took a look, it was a space the size of a football field, with many unopened walls in the middle, which played a load-bearing role and divided the place into several areas.
Wang Yong and the others covered their noses, holding torches and slowly walked inside, probably the slaves had gone to work, and there was no one resting in the few areas outside.
Along the way, Wang Yong saw that the ground was covered with dead grass and some stone utensils, because of the dampness, the dead grass had rotted and looked black. Wang Yong felt that even pigs would not want to stay on it, but this was a place for slaves to rest. Wang Yong looked at the environment here, and felt very uncomfortable, shook his head and continued to follow Henry.
After looking at several areas outside, Wang Yong and the others turned a stone wall and came to the next area.
There are people here, they are all resting, and they are sleeping soundly, even the arrival of Wang Yong and others, these slaves are unaware.
Wang Yong looked at the thin bodies of the slaves one by one, their skin darker than that of black Africans, and if it weren't for their heaving chests, he really suspected that these were dead people.
Wang Yong saw a slave who didn't know what happy things he dreamed of, and a warm and satisfied smile appeared on his face, Wang Yong secretly sighed: "Maybe these people can only find happiness in dreams!" sighed, Wang Yong's heart was very uncomfortable.
Wang Yong couldn't bear to look at it anymore, and was about to turn away, but found that there was a seven or eight-year-old child in the corner against the wall, pushing the woman next to him with his hand, and calling his mother weakly.
I don't know if the child is afraid of disturbing the rest of the people, or if he doesn't have the strength to shout loudly, in short, the voice is too small, if it weren't for Wang Yong's keen hearing, he really wouldn't be able to hear it.
Wang Yong didn't expect that there would be a child here, so he hurriedly walked over to check, it was a little girl, skinny and skinny, black all over her body, and she didn't have much clothes.
The woman pushed by the little girl didn't react at all, just lay down quietly, with a hint of relief and reluctance on her face.
The woman was wearing only a pair of tattered pants, covering her chest with a small piece of rotten cloth, and when the little girl pushed her like this, the piece of cloth that the woman blocked her chest completely rotted, revealing a pair of plump breasts that were slightly whiter.
Seeing this, Wang Yong hurriedly took out a piece of his own clothes from the space ring, walked to the woman's side and covered it for her, and then reached out and tried it on the woman's forehead without disgust.
Her head was hot, she had a high fever that would be life-threatening if not treated in time.
The little girl looked at Wang Yong curiously with her big innocent eyes. Wang Yong smiled at the little girl, took a piece of clothing to help the little girl put it on, and instructed the cavalry behind him: "You carry her out for treatment, and take this child with you." ”
When the little girl heard that she was going to take her mother away, she cried loudly, hugged the cavalryman who was about to carry the woman, and begged: "My mother is not dead, she is still alive, don't take her away, I can work to feed my mother, please don't take her away." ”
Listening to the little girl's immature cry, Wang Yong's eyes moistened, walked over and picked up the little girl, and while helping her wipe away her tears, he said to her gently: "Little sister, don't cry, your mother is sick, we are taking your mother to treatment, your mother will get better in a few days, you also go with us, can you help take care of your mother?"
The little girl's cry became louder, and while slapping Wang Yong with her thin and weak little hand, she struggled and said: "Bad people, you are all bad people, the people who were carried out by you before never came back, you lied to me, you want to kill your mother, you are a bad person." ”
Wang Yong stood in place, letting the little girl be afraid of hitting her face, but her eyes were staring at Henry. Henry sensed the anger in Wang Yong's eyes, and quickly lowered his head, not daring to look at Wang Yong.
After such a fuss, the little girl's cry had already woken up the resting slaves. Seeing Wang Yong and others, a small number of slaves hid to the side one by one, for fear that they would be implicated, and most of the slaves were full of hatred and anger in their eyes, but they didn't dare to come over to resist, just watched silently.
Only a man with a fairly burly figure stepped forward, glared at Wang Yong angrily and said, "Let her go, otherwise I will fight with you even if I die." ”
When the little girl in Wang Yong's arms saw the man coming, she struggled and stretched out her little hand to pounce on the man, and shouted loudly: "Uncle, come and save your mother, the bad guys want to take your mother away." Wang Yong reluctantly handed the little girl to the man.
The man took the little girl and held her in his arms, patted her on the back dotingly, and looked at his cautious appearance, as if he was afraid that if he used more strength, he would hurt the little girl.
Wang Yong looked at the man, he had an iron chain in his hand, his face was not vicious, and his eyes were full of heartfelt concern when he looked at the little girl.
Wang Yong asked curiously, "Who are you?"
The man saw that Wang Yong was different from those people before, and seemed to have no malice, so he pointed to the woman on the ground and replied: "She is my sister-in-law, as long as you don't embarrass them, you can let me do anything, even if it is death, I don't care, anyway, it is better to live like this than to die." ”
Wang Yong didn't care about this person's disrespectful tone, and asked with a smile, "What's your name?"
The man said in a cold tone, "My name is Hank." ”
Wang Yong said softly: "Hank, I have no ill intentions, your sister-in-law is sick, if she is not treated, she will really die, don't believe it, go and see for yourself." ”
Hank hugged the little girl, stared at Wang Yong vigilantly, slowly moved to the woman's side, saw that Wang Yong and they didn't make a move, looked down, touched the woman's forehead again, and found that the woman was really sick.
Glancing at the woman's clothes, Hank got up and asked Wang Yong, "Do you really want to help her heal?"
Seeing Hank's eyes full of disbelief and suspicion, Wang Yong shrugged helplessly and said, "Of course, I don't think you want her to die like this, so if you don't worry, you can go out with us." ”
Hank hesitated for a moment, and said in a resolute tone, "Okay, I'll go with you, if you want to die, our family will also die together." After speaking, he put down the little girl, picked up the woman on his back, and said to Wang Yong, "Okay." ”
Wang Yong nodded and took the lead to walk outside, Hank following behind the woman on his back. The little girl stopped crying, obediently pulled Hank's trouser belt and didn't let go, and trotted along with a little flower face soaked with tears.