Chapter 8 Finding relatives is difficult to find a home Mining quarrying makes money
"How is my family?" asked Ogawa when he came back to his senses.
"I don't know, your family moved out a year ago, and I heard that you are returning to your hometown..."Dagui said sympathetically.
Ogawa stood dumbfounded in the collapsing courtyard, which had once been his home, but now had a different owner.
Dagui stood beside Xiao Chuan and did not speak.
At night, Xiaochuan lay beside Dagui, staring at the dilapidated roof with wide eyes.
"Unexpectedly, you were abducted. You must have suffered a lot, you are hungry, and your body has not grown much!" Dagui said without a word.
Ogawa felt sorry for Dagui. Dagui cares about himself so much, he brings himself rough flour cakes to eat, and arranges for himself to spend the night at his own home, and he must accompany himself.
But if not, what can he do? Could it be that he told him that he was struck by lightning on the mountain, and he got into Liu Qianyan's stone chamber twice. Or, tell him what the thieves and men of the Ling family are in the South China Sea...
To be honest, if the woman of the Ling family hadn't made an expression of extreme disgust to Xiao Chuan, she would still want his life. Xiaochuan thinks that when he grows up, it is good to marry her as a wife.
Now, Xiao Chuan learned from Dagui's mouth that three years ago, there was a change in Fox Hill Mountain, and the thunder and lightning were raging for more than half a month, and almost half of the trees on the mountain were destroyed by the thunder and lightning. It is said that there is a treasure in Fox Hill. Then, many people came from the outside one after another, and those who came were all immortals, and there were even people who could fly around in the sky when they stood on a sword.
The men went around and finally found a gem in the mountains and hired someone to mine it. Dagui's elder brother Dafu mined gems in the mountains, and his salary was quite considerable.
Although these immortals still occasionally fight, they can also hurt people. But the benefits are even greater, just like the two brothers Dafu and Dagui, they will never wear a pair of pants like before. Dagui said that he would go to the mountains to pick gems in a few days, and if he had saved enough money in another two years, he would marry the slug's sister home as his wife.
Xiao Chuan and Dagui came to Fox Hill together, and Dagui promised that he would let Xiao Chuan enter the mine as well. Xiaochuan needs to be entangled in finding his family, and it is a good way to come here to pick gemstones.
In the beginning, the mine only needed young and strong people, but now the mine has changed hands several times, and there are several owners, and now it is necessary to work as long as you can no matter how old you are. And it's not based on the day, it's based on the number of gems you pick, one gem for two copper coins. It is said that at first it was five copper coins per gem, but later the mine changed owners, but even this was enough to make the miners happy.
It should be worth more to steal the gems you find and sell them. Just kidding, don't you see that the people who supervise the work in the mine are all the masters of the government? The most important thing is that you can't hide it from the gods who patrol the mines, as long as you have gems hidden in you, the treasures on the gods will shine. Once upon a time, there were cases of miners stealing gems and escaping. However, he was soon captured and executed in public. Even those who rob someone else of their gems will be put to death. Because, the gods are worried that it will affect the speed of mining.
As for casually killing people, everyone thinks that there is nothing wrong with stealing things and robbing things to be executed, not to mention, it is said that even His Majesty the Holy Emperor is polite to these immortals.
Ogawa has three more gems in his pocket. Although Ogawa didn't gain anything for a while, his luck finally got better and better.
When he first came, Xiaochuan didn't have a harvest, so he could only get one rough noodle cake for each meal, and he couldn't eat enough at all. However, Ogawa accidentally saw that the scorched book was written - Bigu Method. Xiaochuan has known a lot of words since he was a child, and Xiaochuan understands the two words Bigu, which means that he doesn't need to eat. Therefore, Ogawa was particularly interested in this, and tried according to the recorded method, and sure enough, he felt less hungry, and the more he tried, the more energetic he became.
"If all the words on this page are good, maybe you don't have to eat! If that's the case, you won't need so much to entangle, and you will soon be able to go to your family..." At this time, he did not know that he had embarked on a completely different path from his own wishes.
Ogawa has new changes every day, but he doesn't know about it, but he feels that the work is getting easier and easier.
However, there are times when Ogawa is confused. That is, once you get the gem in your hand, it always feels like there is an ice line, from the gem to the palm, then to the arm, scattered all over the body, and after a while, you feel that the pores of the whole body are open, extremely comfortable. Every time this moment, Ogawa feels extremely enjoyable.
But not everything was as good as it could be, and that was when Ogawa found that the quality of the gems he picked was getting worse and worse, and it was evident from the appearance that they were not as smooth and shiny as others. As a result, Ogawa now earns only half the wages of others.
Ogawa is now a celebrity among the miners, and everyone gives him the new nickname "Bad Luck Kid" or "Bad Luck Young Master". Thinking about it, the aristocratic young master who has only been a two-and-a-half-day man is unlucky enough. Therefore, everyone took Ogawa's bad luck for granted. Gradually, Xiaochuan's fame became more and more famous, and everyone became farther and farther away from him, for fear of being contaminated with bad luck.
Only Dagui was driven away by Xiao Chuan, and Xiao Chuan didn't want to involve him. Because now Ogawa's luck is even worse. Even, there were two gems that turned directly into powder, just because Ogawa had held them in his hand for too long, just because Ogawa wanted to figure out why the quality of good gems deteriorated.
Now, Ogawa feels that the matter of gems has something to do with him.
Xiao Chuan didn't dare to mention it to others, stealing gems would lead to death, and destroying gems would also be executed!
Xiao Chuan just hopes to save up enough as soon as possible so that he can get out of here as soon as possible.
Xiao Chuan also has a small luxury, hoping to save enough gold coins to give to his grandfather in addition to coiling, and when he thinks that the yellow and clear light of the gold coin illuminates his grandfather's eyes, Xiao Chuan has a sense of satisfaction in his heart.
It's been more than half a year in the mine, and Ogawa already has twenty-two silver coins in his pocket, and Ogawa carefully counts them every night. "If I work for another two months, I will have one gold coin in my pocket and a dozen silver coins left to buy some good things for my family. Lingnan is more than 2,000 miles away from here, and if I walk 100 miles a day, it will be there in 20 days. Now, I don't feel hungry after eating one meal in six or seven days, I don't need to be entangled much, and I can go home soon..."Xiao Chuan thought so, and fell asleep in a daze.
"Get up, there's an accident! Get up!" Xiao Chuan was sleeping soundly, and suddenly seemed to fall off a cliff. It turned out to be the mine overseer, who tore the sleeping miners off the beds made of wooden planks. Because of his short stature, Ogawa was almost thrown out of the sleeping shed.
Xiao Chuan slept very little now, and woke up immediately, unlike some miners who slept very hard, and received a lot of whips from the overseers.
The miners were driven out into the open outside the sheds, and many were still yawning. The shouts of the overseers and the whips were heard.
Several overseers were sitting in front of the room where the daily overseers rested, with a blazing bonfire set up beside them, and the light of the fire reflected the gloomy, serious faces.
"Just tonight, there were traitors and outsiders who robbed the spars in the mine. He also wounded an immortal. Now, I suspect that there are some of you who are in the same party. If so, stand up for myself. Otherwise, I will be recognized by the Immortal Lord for a while, hum..."A sallow overseer who was sitting on the left side said loudly.
It was late autumn, and the miners who had just been pulled up from their sleep were blown by the cold wind in the early morning, and many of them shivered with cold. But no one said anything.
Xiao Chuan looked secretly, and the overseers not far away walked back and forth from time to time with knives on their waists and leather whips in their hands.
In this way, after waiting for more than an hour, the sun had risen, and the miners had a little warmth on their bodies, and many people were quietly moving their numb legs.
Xiao Chuan suddenly heard a sound similar to his clothes being blown by the wind, and looked intently, and a group of white-clothed men galloped towards him at a very far distance from the mine. The people came closer and closer, and there were eleven people dressed in white, with long swords stuck in their backs, and one in a blue dress, the color was as blue as a lake, and the men in blue were as light as butterflies, leaping from tree to tree. Xiao Chuan's eyes widened more and more, his eyeballs almost fell off, and his heart rose to his throat at once, if it wasn't for Xiao Chuan swallowing saliva twice, maybe this heart would have jumped out of Xiao Chuan's mouth.
The group came to a short distance from the entrance of the mine.
At this moment, five or six men in white rushed out of the neatest and most ornate houses in the mine, jumping like birds, and only a few steps towards the entrance of the mine. The overseers sitting at the shed also stood up one after another, bowed briskly and ran towards the entrance of the mine.
Xiaochuan lowered his head, bit his lip, and thought to himself: "I call you aunt and grandmother, you must forget me, hasn't it been three years, no, it should be more than three years, you are very good-looking, I have grown up, and I don't want to marry you when I am sixty years old, so don't worry about me..."
Xiao Chuan was still thinking about what the group said when they walked to the shed, but Xiao Chuan didn't hear a word.
At this time, I saw the miners lining up and walking in front of them one by one. Xiao Chuan only felt a buzzing in his head, and the hairs on his body stood upside down, wishing that there was a mouse hole in front of him, and he would never come out in his life.
One by one, the miners walked by, stopping from time to time to ask a few words.
The woman in blue always held her head high, looking around, and occasionally swept her gaze over Xiao Chuan, which made Xiao Chuan's body tense.
"My aunt, you can't see me, you can't see me..."
"Stop, look up!" Xiao Chuan heard an extremely pleasant voice in his ears. Xiao Chuan subconsciously raised his head and saw the eyes of the woman in blue like a pool of spring water, and the face that would be frightened to wake up when he saw it in a dream.
"When have I seen you?" asked the woman in blue, frowning.
"No, no, no, never," Ogawa stammered.
"Why do I think you're familiar, what are you afraid of?" the woman in blue suddenly shouted in the middle of her words.
"It's me, it's not that I'm afraid, I've never seen or seen such a beautiful and beautiful person as a fairy..."Ogawa was a little incoherent.
The woman in blue smiled, "You can talk, reward!"
The overseer next to him immediately came over and stuffed two gold coins into Xiao Chuan's hand.
Xiao Chuan clutched the gold coin and shouted in his heart: "My aunt and grandmother, what a good person!"