Chapter 14: A Palm-Sized Fragment
"Let's get up early and come back later, so that there will be a few days that can't be completed at the beginning, and we will definitely be able to rush back after a long time" Yang Qing tried his best to suppress the emotions in his heart, pondered for a while, and said his thoughts. "It's a bit of an eyesore when it's dark, but the homework is not a careful job, so it doesn't have much impact"
"No matter how late you do it, you can only do it when you get there, and if it's too late, it will be forbidden to open mines, and it will affect the rest of others" Tian Bo shook his head, his face was helpless.
"Let's get up at the end of the day, come back at the end of the day, except for the time to eat, there is close to eight hours, although the physical strength will decrease after a long time, the speed of mining will be reduced, but it can almost be completed" Yang Qing folded his fingers and calculated, his voice was suppressed but there was a hint of ease.
As long as it is not completed in less than ten days in this month, this matter is over, and the difference will be made up later.
"Yang Qing, you are almost over, one day the dragon is fierce, Tian Bo and I can't finish it, unless we don't sleep" Lu Zhen complained.
It takes about five and a half hours for Lu Zhen and Tian Bo to complete a day alone, and it takes about four hours for Yang Qing.
This is in the case of abundant physical strength, as the physical strength disappears, the mining speed will become slower and slower, and the cold iron ore is very hard, and the physical strength is exhausted, and hundreds of hammers cannot be smashed.
"The person in the same stone house as me can help me a little, and if I do what Yang Qing said, it should be similar," Tian Bo said loudly, he was unwilling to give up until the last moment.
"You both have a way, just leave me" Lu Zhen didn't think of a way, his face was bitter, and he was a little disheartened.
"Lu Zhen, don't give up, it's not easy for us to enter this Imperial Wind Sect, and then think of a way" Yang Qing knew that Lu Zhen saw that he was beaten, so he rushed forward, this will Lu Zhen has no choice, he is also anxious.
"Lu Zhen, I hurt you, or if I don't do it, I'll help you finish it" Tian Bo was even more reluctant to go, planning to give up his own non-doing and help Lu Zhen to complete it.
"Pull it down, then I won't have a good time for the rest of my life" Lu Zhen shook his head in denial, refusing to do so, and said weakly.
"There's no need for this, let's find someone to help you complete a thousand catties, and then pay him back two thousand catties, and spend this time first" Yang Qing was anxious, and suddenly came up with such a solution.
This can already be regarded as the best way for the three of them to think of, without further ado, the three of them hurriedly left the stone house to find someone else to help, they are relatively familiar with only these teenagers who came together.
After a busy time, there are two people who are willing to help them do their homework for 1,000 catties every day, and after a month, they will have to pay back 2,000 catties.
When other people heard about this, some were not interested, and others didn't want to offend Zhou Tenghai in a daze.
In the same room as Tian Bo was the sturdy young man, who promised to help Tian Bo after completing his homework.
At that time, the sky had just brightened, and only a few rays of red light appeared, and the entire Dongju Mountains were still pitch black.
Yang Qing, Lu Zhen, and Tian Bo have all appeared in the mining area of the cold iron ore area, and they are first looking for the cold iron ore that can be moved on the mining area.
There was no ore stored in advance in the mining area, even if there were three people, they couldn't move it, and the lack of suitable ore in other places was pitiful, and it was all moved by other disciples.
I didn't find a few pieces, so I could only swing a sledgehammer and smash up the cold iron ore, and the sound of 'clang, clang' continued to sound, echoing repeatedly in this open space, but fortunately, the walls of the stone house were thick, and it did not wake up the sleeping people.
At noon, the three of them were reluctant to waste it, so they quickly put the food in their stomachs, and then immediately returned to the mining area to continue mining the cold iron raw ore.
When Zhou Tenghai mined the cold iron raw ore again, he chose to be next to the three of them, and looked at the three of them with a smile while mining.
In more than four hours, Zhou Tenghai completed twice as much homework, which was faster than many new teenagers completing two thousand catties of ore.
Yang Qing and the three of them looked at it, but they couldn't do anything, and they didn't want to cause trouble anymore until they had to.
Yang Qing and the three of them only handed over about 2,000 catties of cold iron raw ore tonight, because by the time the red beard horse came to fetch the four-wheeled cart, none of them had completed twice the amount.
It is better not to pay the insufficient amount, as long as it is less than ten days, it will not be expelled from the Imperial Wind Sect.
"Remember, as long as you can't finish it in ten days, you can pack up your things and leave here, there is no need to discuss" Zhou Tenghai saw that the three of them only handed over about 2,000 catties of ore, his face was very bad, and he turned around and left after dropping this sentence indifferently.
Dinner was still in a hurry, and after resting for a while, the sturdy boy and the other two disciples also went to the mining area to help them mine the raw ore together.
The sturdy young man's name is Qi Xiaohu, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and his strength is no less than Yang Qing, he is here to help Tian Bo, and the other two are helping Lu Zhen, after all, Lu Zhen has the slowest mining speed among the three of them.
Qi Xiaohu and the three of them rested, the speed of mining was not slower than during the day, the speed of Yang Qing and the three of them had decreased a lot, their physical strength was about to be emptied, their strength had decreased, and the direction of the hammer was no longer accurate.
Especially Yang Qing, the injury on his left forearm made him dare not exert his strength, and at the end of the day, he felt that the injury was even more serious.
"Tian Bo, why don't you rest for a while, if you go down like this, you will hit my feet sooner or later" Qi Xiaohu was in good spirits, and when he saw Tian Bo's tired appearance, he couldn't help but quip.
The ethereal sound of the guzheng sounded leisurely, the time had come, and it was strictly forbidden to open the mine.
Up to this moment, the three of them have not scraped together enough two thousand catties except for the mining amount of the day, but they are not far apart.
Yang Qing was the worst, if there was no rule that it was strictly forbidden to mine ore after the end of the day, he would have been able to complete it in another hour and a half to two hours.
In other words, it takes more than nine and a half hours for Yang Qing to mine enough ore of about 4,000 catties. When he arrived, Yang Qing didn't even have the strength to wield the long hammer.
Qi Xiaohu and the other two teenagers had already gone back to rest, and Tian Bo was just about to go back when he was stopped by Yang Qing.
"Tian Bo, don't be busy going back first, practice the "Innate Sixteen Styles" for a while and then go to sleep, otherwise you will start tomorrow morning."
Tian Bo was tired of speaking with no strength, and seeing that Yang Qing didn't seem to be joking, out of trust in Yang Qing, he cultivated suspiciously.
Yang Qing, Lu Zhen, and Tian Bo came to the open space, leaving an appropriate distance between each other to keep them from each other, and then practiced the "Innate Sixteen Styles".
Mining the cold iron raw ore for nearly eight hours, the body is extremely tired, and in such a situation, when you practice the "Innate Sixteen Styles", between pulling and pressing, the muscles are extremely painful.
After a few sets of cultivation, he was covered with sweat, and the sweat that flowed out at this time was even more than when he opened the mine.
"Yang Qing, why is my body so sore" Lu Zhen scratched his body with his hands, but he felt that his body was itchy everywhere, and his two hands were not enough at all, and he looked surprised.
Tian Bo also looked at Yang Qing suspiciously, he had been cultivating the "Innate Sixteen Styles" for a month, and this was the first time he had encountered such a situation.
"I don't know, every time I'm tired and cultivate, it's like this" The itching everywhere in the body, Yang Qing has long been used to it, and it is more itchy today than usual, wiping the sweat off his face, shaking his head and grinning.
"Won't this be harmful to the body, let's not cultivate, maybe we're too tired, and we can't cultivate now" Lu Zhen hesitated, grabbed around like a monkey, and began to retreat.
"It should be fine, don't you feel that you are not so tired" The tired look on Yang Qing's face was reduced, and he had the strength to speak, and his voice was steady.
"Yes, you said this, I just found that my strength has recovered a lot, and my muscles are not very sore, but I am still very sleepy" Tian Bo said in surprise, clenched his fists hard, and yawned long.
"It's really strange, this cultivation of the Innate Sixteen Styles should have consumed physical strength, how can you cultivate and replenish your physical strength" Lu Zhen was very curious, puzzled.
"Don't worry about it so much, hurry up and cultivate, tomorrow will have to be like today" Yang Qing gritted his teeth, stubbornness flashed in his eyes, and he cultivated again, now there are less than four hours before the hour, and there is not much time to delay.
The bright moonlight sprinkled on the clearing, and in the moonlight, there was a young man who was practicing one move at a time, and sweat dripped down his hair to the ground, and he didn't realize it at all.
Now that the time has come, Lu Zhentian and Bo have gone back to sleep, their physical strength has almost recovered, and they have gone back to sleep to recuperate.
Yang Qing was still cultivating, not because he didn't want to sleep, but because his physical strength was consumed more, and it took longer to recover.
"Whew..."After finishing the last form of "Innate Sixteen Styles", Yang Qing stood up and exhaled a long breath of turbidity.
Now he has a lot of energy, and even feels that the bone pain in his left arm has been reduced, especially the strength of his left arm has increased significantly. It's just that the tiredness on his face hasn't gone away. Cultivating the "Innate Sixteen Styles" cannot replace sleep, Yang Qing is very sleepy, his eyelids are uncontrollable and want to close, and he barely opens his forehead.
went back and lay on the bed, this time he didn't go to practice the "Transformation of the Breath Decision", "I will definitely practice the "Transformation of the Breath" tomorrow As soon as his head hit the pillow, he fell asleep and had no dreams all night.
The days in the cold iron ore area were very plain, as usual, there were no blind beasts and monsters rushing up the mountain, and there were no more fights and brawls. It's just that when it's completely dark, there are still six teenagers mining ore in the mining area.
Seven days have passed since Yang Qing and the three of them doubled their homework, and from the next day, Qi Xiaohu's three teenagers also came earlier than usual. The remaining six days were completed except for the first day when double the ore was not delivered.
If this continues, by the end of the punishment, there will be only four days left to be completed, and they will not be expelled from the Imperial Wind Sect, and the difference will be made up after four days.
This is without taking into account the fact that they are harvested in the case of increased speed.
Tonight there was a crescent moon hanging in the sky, and this crescent moon often hid in the clouds, and the mining area was much darker than usual.
Yang Qing and the other six teenagers, their eyes adapted to the darkness, and they were smashing the ore hard.
"Oh mother, scare me, what is this" Tian Bo was also smashing the ore, and suddenly screamed, his voice panicked.
"What's the matter, Tian Bo" Yang Qing's heart tightened, and he asked eagerly, and when several people heard Tian Bo's shout, they all looked at Tian Bo, not knowing what was going on.
"It's okay, the stone I smashed scared him, he didn't hit it" Without waiting for Tian Bo to answer, Qi Xiaohu said with a smile, and he couldn't see the faces of the two of them when it was dark.
"It's okay if it doesn't hurt, this black light is blinding, you have to be careful, you can't say when you get hurt"
Yang Qing and the others didn't care, they just made a false alarm, after all, it was common to be jumped by stones when opening a mine, not to mention that it was still night.
As soon as the crescent moon disappeared, a long time passed, and the two teenagers who helped Lu Zhen had already left, and they helped Lu Zhen open about 500 catties of ore every day.
"Yang Qing, Lu Zhen, what do you think this is?" Tian Bo and Qi Xiaohu ran over when they saw the two teenagers leaving, put their hands into their arms and whispered.
Yang Qing and Lu Zhen didn't know what Tian Bo was going to show them, so they leaned over to Tian Bo and stretched out their heads to look curiously.
I saw Tian Bo, taking his hand out of his arms, holding an object in his hand, looking at the moonlight, it was a palm-sized fragment of unknown material.