The gold mine in Donglin Prefecture is next to Ankang Town in the west of Yuexi, in fact, when he came from Ankang Town, Yuan Xi had already taken a cursory look, and the laborers walking with shovels all passed by on that road. According to Dr. Wang, the laborers Yuan Xi saw were already the third batch of laborers who had entered the Donglin Gold Mine. Those people in the past, sick and injured, later heard that it was the foreman Tian Ye who gave them a sum of money, and they disappeared happily.

Yuan Xi flipped through the account books, and the number Wang Nianen said was exactly the number on the account. Yuan Xi threw the account books aside, feeling a little depressed, such a large sum of silver, if it all fell into the hands of this foreman named Tian Ye, this surnamed Tian would be really rich and steep.

"Has this Tian Ye purchased any property in Donglin Prefecture?" asked Yuan Xi.

If a person can be greedy for more than 10,000 taels of silver, he must be happy and don't know how to spend it.

But Wang Nianen shook his head: "This Tian Ye has always lived in a tiled house next to the gold mine, and there is only one old wife by his side, who is in her forties, and she is still a cripple, and the husband and wife have never been able to have children, so they have no children." Tian Ye's life has always been very poor, and his two meals a day are the same as those of the laborers on the construction site, and sometimes he can eat rice bran and pickled vegetables. ”

That's a bit of a surprise.

Yuan Xi took a sip of warm tea, and the tea taste was very light, similar to white water. Zhong's mother said that pregnant people can't drink strong tea, so she mixed a lot of white water in her cup. Yuan Xi put down the cup, what is the difference between drinking this tea and not drinking it?

"Are you acting with us?" asked Won-hee.

Tian Ye was recommended by the former Donglin government, how could a person who could be related to the government be destitute? Unless he was pretending, but if he could pretend to be like this, he should have some special purpose, and it wouldn't be just for these tens of thousands of taels of silver, right?

"Acting? won't you? What kind of play can you act for so long? This Tian Ye has been like this since he came to Donglin, as always, he has never shown any horses. According to Weichen, it looks like it's real. Wang Nianen stood with his hands down.

Yuan Xi pursed his lips: "Perhaps, he has other plans?"

"The gold mines are being handed over day by day, and the laborers have never heard of any rebellion, so what will be the plot?" Wang Nianen asked rhetorically.

Yuan Xi was asked, this, she still couldn't figure it out for a while.

"I don't know, I'm just a little skeptical. Yuan Xi leaned on the back of the chair, crossed his hands, and was silent for a while: "Then does this Tian Ye have any special friends?"

Friend? Wang Nianen thought of this, and felt that this Tian Ye was about to cry, as if he was a lone star, except for his lame wife, there was not even a labor friend. Every day, except when he went to work and got off work, someone said hello to him, and at other times, there was no one to talk to him.

Wang Nianen shook his head: "It doesn't seem to be." ”

Yuan Xi gritted his teeth, this is strange, isn't he the one who is corrupt? But besides him, who else can access the silver spent by the Sect Master's Mansion?

Yuan Xi stood up and said, "Imperial Doctor Wang, you go back and prepare, and let's go to the mine in the afternoon." ”

Wang Nianen bowed his hand, turned around and went back to his mansion.

Hearing the words of Weifu's private interview, Mother Zhong was frightened, and she had to follow whatever she said: "Master, think about it, you are not alone now, you still have the flesh and blood of the prince in your belly." In a place like a gold mine, there is a miasma of smoke, and if it hurts the fetus, it will be terrible. ”

Yuan Xi smiled, took the wooden comb, pulled his hair, put on a hair crown, and changed into a man's outfit. Turned around and smiled at Mother Zhong: "Don't worry, Mother Zhong, I'm going to take a look, and I'm not going to dig coal, how can I move the tire gas?"

Mother Zhong watched Yuanxi transform from a beautiful girl to a handsome son, and she was a little stunned, Nunu said: "No matter, anyway, the slave and maid will follow." She loosened the jade belt that Yuan Xi was fastening, and said, "If your stomach is so tight, it will hurt the child." ”

Yuan Xi nodded: "Got it, then I'll go." ”

"Hey, hey!" Mother Zhong hurriedly stepped forward to stop: "The slave and maid are going to follow." ”

Yuan Xi put his hands on Zhong's mother's shoulders and coaxed: "Mother Zhong, I'm going to Weifu for a private visit, if you go along, people should suspect that I am a woman." ”

Mother Zhong's gaze slowly slid down from Yuan Xi's face, fell on Yuan Xi's upright chest, and sneered: "If I don't go, people can recognize you as a woman." ”

Yuan Xi followed her gaze and saw her breasts, she couldn't help but gasp, and covered her chest with both hands: "Mother Zhong, where are you looking!?"

Mother Zhong shook her head: "I can also see from my face that the master is so handsome, I know that it is a woman at a glance." ”

"Well, what if people can see that I'm a woman? that's not why you keep going. Yuan Xi bypassed Zhong's mother, picked up the jade pendant purse and other things and hung them on the jade belt.

"The slave doesn't have to follow, the slave is worried that no one will take care of the master. Mother Zhong put her hand on Yuan Xi's lower abdomen: "If the slave doesn't stare at it, I feel sorry for the prince." ”

Yuan Xi held Zhong's mother's hand and said with a smile: "Mother Zhong, Wang Nianen is a doctor, what incurable diseases can he not cure? ”

"He's a man, and there's something inconvenient to do. Mother Zhong also quickly combed her hair into a tugging, grabbed a men's dress in Yuan Xi's box and put it on her body.

It doesn't look strange for the youngest daughter's family to pretend to be a man, but this Zhong's mother is over half a hundred years old, and she has a sense of disobedience when she pretends to be a man. Yuan Xi hurriedly stopped Zhong's mother and said, "If you want to follow the old man, you don't have to pretend to be a man." ”

Mother Zhong took off the ill-fitting men's clothes and said with a smile: "It's good that Niangniang said no, hey, this waist is too narrow, and the slave is strangled." ”

Ling'er was very drunk yesterday, and only woke up at three o'clock in the morning, drank half a bowl of hot porridge, but still felt sleepy, and fell asleep again. When Yuanxi and Zhong's mother left, Ling'er just got up from the bed, rubbed her sleepy eyes, and looked at Zhong's mother and Yuanxi inexplicably.

"Where? Ling'er stretched and lay down on the rocking chair in the room, with another cup of Yuanxi's leftover tea in hand, and Ling'er took it and took a sip. Poof, why doesn't it taste at all? Could it be that drinking alcohol has spoiled the sense of taste? Can't even sing the taste of tea? Ling'er slapped his face twice: "Wake up! Wake up!"

Mother Zhong got into the carriage and couldn't help laughing: "Ling'er woke up and was already looking for tea to drink, the tea in the master's room was faint and tasteless, and the slave was thinking about Ling'er's reaction, haha." ”

Mother Zhong was panting with laughter, and Imperial Physician Wang pursed her lips: "The master should drink tea at this time, it is light and tasteless, and it will not hurt the body." ”

From the Sect's Mansion to the gold mine, almost all the afternoon was spent on the road, and when night was approaching, their group would arrive. The sound of the bronze bell came from the mine, Wang Nianen stroked his beard, and said, "Sect Master, why don't we find someone to ask? They still have to rush to work at night, but they don't know what time it is." ”

Yuan Xi raised the car window and looked at the bustling crowd outside, and couldn't help frowning. Yuan Xi raised his chin slightly: "Imperial Doctor Wang, look at them, they all look yellow and thin." ”

Wang Nianen stared at them for a while, and said categorically: "I'm hungry, and I'm a little sick." ”

"How so?"

Wang Nianen twisted his beard and said in a deep voice: "This, the work in the mine is tiring, and the physical strength is naturally consumed. As for this disease, the physically exhausted are the most susceptible to the disease, and the laborers all live in the same place, and if one gets sick, the others will not be able to run. ”

Yuan Xi sneered: "The suzerain's mansion has paid 30,000 taels of silver, but the laborers in the mine are still like this, Imperial Doctor Wang, you say, is the silver we gave not enough, or is this silver not in the hands of the laborers at all?"

Wang Nianen was silent for a moment, and then gathered his clothes: "Weichen went down and asked." ”

Wang Nianen jumped out of the car and stopped a laborer who was hurrying, the man didn't react, his body shook a few times, Wang Nianen hurriedly stretched out his hand to help: "This brother, may I ask ......?"

"What do you ask?" the man looked gloomy, and grasped the shovel in his hand firmly: "Don't you see that I'm in a hurry?"

"Alas?" Before Wang Nianen could say the next sentence, the man had already left angrily.

Wang Nianen glanced at the car window, and went to stop the three people who were walking together.

"Brother, may I ask ......?"

"Brother Tai, hahaha, hey third brother, did you hear it, Brother Tai?" the man standing in the middle laughed: "It's the first time I've heard such elegant words, I said this, this brother Tai, what do you want to ask?" The three of them stopped.

Let him inquire, and there will be a door to this matter. Wang Nianen smiled and said: "Oh, I want to ask my brother Tai about it, is it easy to do the work in this mine?"

"Is it easy to do? What do you say? Look at our virtue, do you say it is good to do it?" The man standing on the left tilted his head to look at Wang Nianen, and completely saw a monster that did not eat the fireworks of the world.

"Oh," Wang Nianen smiled: "That salary ......"

"Oh, we still have to hurry, let's go!" The three of them suddenly changed their faces, pulled out the tools inserted on the ground, and left without looking back.

Wang Nian'en was in the same place, this was really the second monk who was confused. Why did you just ask a good question, and when it comes to wages, you run away like a hot ass?

Wang Nianen stopped one more, this person was skinny and skinny, Wang Nianen grabbed him firmly, for fear that he would run away like everyone else. Wang Nianen took out a piece of silver from his arms and shook it in front of him: "Brother, I will ask you about something, if you tell the truth, these five taels of silver are yours." ”

The man didn't want to deal with him, but for the sake of five taels of silver, the man swallowed his spit and stood still.

You ask. ”

Wang Nianen calmed down, lowered his voice and asked: "Brother, how much can each person get paid every day for working in this mine?"