"Master Hou, Mr. Gao is fine and everything is stable!" Doctor Hua said in the hall.

"Thank you, Doctor Hua!" Ling Xin'an quickly saluted.

"I don't dare to take it. It's all thanks to the Marquis." Doctor Hua said.

"No, no, Ling just knew it by luck, but he has no ability to hold a knife."

"The Marquis said that he had read it in a certain witch doctor book. Could you tell me where it is? I would like to take a look."

Ling Xin'an thought for a while and said: "Ling once read it in the academy. As for the title of the book, I really forgot about it. There are only a few missing pages. If Dr. Hua wants, Ling will draw it for you again based on his impressions in the past few days.

Once the painting is done, I will send it over."

"Thank you so much, Lord Marquis!" Doctor Hua said.

"You're welcome, Doctor Hua. You are a famous doctor of the generation. You can naturally save more people, but it is useless to me!"

"Master Hou is kind-hearted, I thank you!"

After bidding farewell to Dr. Hua, Du Wei, Duan Qing, Dou Kai, Guo Song and others immediately came to Ling Mansion.

"Greetings to the Marquis!" Everyone saluted immediately.

"No more courtesy!" Ling Xin'an said with a smile: "Everyone, I haven't seen you for a long time, and you look even more charming!"

Du Wei's promotion to prefect can be said to have been promoted by Ling Xin'an. More than three months have passed, and now everything is going smoothly without any mistakes.

"I'm just doing what the Marquis did!" Du Wei said.

"Prefect Du is so humble! You deserve the most credit for being able to deal with it so quickly and in an orderly manner." Ling Xin'an said, "Okay, when did you find out?"

"Master Hou was first discovered by Feng Cai at the port. At that time, there were masked men chasing the boat. The port guards and the Xianqingmen rescued him. He was already unconscious after being rescued," Guo Song said.

"There were other people who came with him on the boat. They were all dead. They were killed by swords. We can't tell who they were!" Dou Kai said.

Ling Xin'an nodded and thanked everyone, then chatted about some topics and then everyone left.

For the next three days, Ling Xin'an kept waiting for Goldman Sachs to wake up in the Ling Mansion. It was not until late at night on the fourth day that he finally opened his eyes, and the first words he said were: "I'm so hungry!"

"Are you saying that the chamber of commerce that originally sold it to us betrayed our location?" Ling Xin'an frowned.

"Yes, otherwise it would be impossible to besiege us. It is an extremely precise sneak attack and killing. The purpose is to kill people and silence them while destroying the coal mine!" Goldman said while eating porridge.

"If I remember correctly, I purchased the coal mine from the Hejia Chamber of Commerce. Later, I seemed dissatisfied. Shuang'er went to deal with it, and Wuyan went to investigate the situation of the Hejia Chamber of Commerce!"

Zhong Wuyan and others, who arrived in Jiangzhou City three days later than Ling Xin'an, immediately left after hearing this.

"Some people doubt you, Mr. Hou!" He also heard from his subordinates that Ling Xin'an rescued him. At this time, Goldman was filled with grief and anger. Mr. Hou's career could be said to have suffered a serious blow.

"Don't worry, the real culprit will be found!" Ling Xin'an comforted: "You have a good rest, let's go take a look."

Immediately, Ling Xin'an took Zhong Wuyan, Xiang Feiyan and others, and left quietly by boat in the middle of the night.

They went straight up the Yangtze River, passed the jurisdiction of Qingzhou and entered the Zhijiang River. They drove along the Zhijiang River for two days and landed on the shore. Along a narrow path, the five people spread out and headed straight towards the coal mine.

After half a day, before anyone arrived, they smelled an extremely strong rancid smell. The five people stopped, each took out a piece of cloth to cover their mouths and noses, and walked towards the coal mine.

There are rotting corpses all along the way. In addition to guards, these are slaves. Many of them have been eaten by animals. The sight is shocking, and the smell is nauseating.

The five people arrived at the mine. At this time, only a pile of ashes from the fire were left. The entire mine had been burned to the ground, and the entrance to the coal mine had been blown up.

"Check around to see if you can still find any survivors or if you have discovered anything!" Ling Xin'an ordered.

The four people dispersed, and Ling Xin'an stood at the entrance of the coal mine. The entrance had collapsed, and only cinders and gravel were left in the dark area. Nothing was found.

"Young Master, we didn't find anything!" Zhong Wuyan and others came back and said: "Except for the rotting corpses, there are no outsiders, either slaves or guards."

"Sir, I noticed something. It seems that the enemy has just left for a few days!" Xiang Feiyan said.

"How many days have you been away?" Ling Xin'an was confused: "Seriously?"

"Yes, sir, there were signs of fire, and it was later than the burning of the mine. This means that the enemy has known the owner of this mine for a long time, and is still waiting here, perhaps just to wait for the mine owner to come back so that he can attack and kill him.

!”

Ling Xin'an's eyes flashed with murderous intent. Now it seems that the news of the He family's betrayal is almost certain. In this barren mountain, even if someone is found mining here, the people in the martial arts will not care.

He was just a businessman, but it was impossible for the businessman to take action before he found out the identity of the owner. Now that they killed people and silenced him, there were only those who secretly murdered Ling Xin'an.

"Can those corpses still be transported?" Ling Xin'an thought for a while and asked.

"Sir, most of them were burned and eaten by wild beasts, and most of them were rotten. Most of them are impossible!" Yan Shikuan said.

"After all, they are human lives. They are the guards we invited. Cut down the trees and set fire to the mountains. We cannot let them die in the wild."

"Yes, Young Master!" The four of them were about to walk when they heard Ling Xin'an's loud shout: "Don't move!"

Zhong Wuyan was startled, the knife was already out of its sheath, he was protecting Ling Xin'an and looked around.

"Don't make any sound!" Ling Xin'an whispered, putting her hands on her ears and listening.

The wind blew, the leaves were whirling, the flowers and grass were swaying, and everything was quiet. Ling Xin'an was attentive, his ears were raised high, and he continued to listen.

Ta-ta-ta...

The faint sound of knocking stones could be heard. Ling Xin'an was startled. He turned back to look at the collapsed coal mine entrance and said, "Get inside. Break it open!"

Everyone started digging at the entrance of the cave, Xiang Feiyan went to cut down the tree, and Ling Xin'an also rolled up his sleeves and started moving stones.

Fortunately, everyone was strong. For most of the boulders, it was basically two people working together, and nothing could be moved. Ling Xin'an also paid attention to the roof of the cave to prevent it from collapsing again. As he continued to open it, the voice calling for help became clearer.

Help... my voice is weak and my tongue is very tired from banging it.

"Hurry up and dig!" Ling Xin'an ordered.

The five of them worked together, no matter how fast they were, it took them almost two hours to dig out a passage, and a small part of it collapsed in the middle.

Finally, it was opened, revealing the dark fellow inside. A dirty and inhuman figure blocked the light, lowered his head and dodged.

"Sir, this is a slave!" Zhong Wuyan said.

"Drag him out and save him later."

Seeing that it was Ling Xin'an and others, the man wanted to struggle and run deeper into the mine, but he was already skinny and hungry and had no strength at all.

Xiang Feiyan and Zhao Yunzhi dragged him out, but the latter had already lost his strength, and the stench filled the sky.

When he came to the mine well, he was thrown directly into it. The man who had no strength now drank water desperately, regardless of the dirt on his body that polluted the well water.

It wasn't until he was lying straight on the water with his eyes lifeless that Xiang Feiyan pulled him up. The man didn't resist and let Xiang Feiyan throw him to the ground. Zhong Wuyan took out the food he carried and threw it to him:

"Eat quickly, don't choke to death, the master has something to ask you."

The man quickly grabbed the dry food and ate it voraciously. He finished one piece of dry food in a few mouthfuls, and Zhong Wuyan gave him four more pieces. In the eyes of others, he almost looked like he had swallowed it.

"Okay, don't give it anymore, be careful to strangle him to death!" Ling Xin'an said.

Hearing this, Zhong Wuyan stopped.

This was not a Zhou person. He had eaten five pieces of dry food, his lips were chapped and bleeding, and he was already so thin that he no longer looked human, but more like a beast.

"Looking at him like this, I can't ask any questions. Let's knock him out and take him away first," Ling Xin'an said.

Hearing this, the man was about to speak, but even after drinking water, his throat was so dry that he couldn't say a word when he opened his mouth. Pain shot through the back of his head, and he fainted.

I don't know when he woke up slowly, and the smell of meat came from his nose.

"Are you awake?" A voice came, and he turned to look over. In the light of the fire, he saw the handsome man with a ferocious beast spinning in his hand.

"Come here and eat meat if you can still crawl!" he continued.

Hearing the voice of the man on the other side, he stood up and staggered over, knowing in his heart that he couldn't run away. With a little fear and shrinkage, he came to the fire, but still stayed away from them.

Because he knew that he was a slave and did not dare to work with them.

"It will be there in a moment!" Ling Xin'an said.

The mouth-watering aroma of the meat on the grill came from the ferocious beast, but Ling Xin'an was still grilling it. He could only wait, but the sound of hungry grumbling from his stomach broke the silence here.

No one paid attention to him until Ling Xin'an took out a small knife and gently put it in his mouth to taste it, nodded, then cut off a large piece of hind leg meat and handed it to him and said: "Eat slowly, don't burn it.

"

Looking at Ling Xin'an's eyes, hunger overcame everything. He took it with both hands, and started to eat the hot meat hungrily.

Everyone ignored them and each took out their knives and started cutting the beast's meat. Ling Xin'an also took out wine, one bottle each, and started eating and drinking.

The man was really hungry, so he only had half a stick of incense, so he backed away and swallowed half of it, looking at the ferocious beast in the fire.

Fortunately, the beast was huge, so Ling Xin'an cut off the entire upper body of the beast and threw it over. At the same time, he threw a bottle of wine over and said, "Drink some wine, keep warm!"

The man looked at Ling Xin'an, looked at the wine on the ground, picked it up and poured it into his mouth. He choked and coughed, and the violent cough was accompanied by spitting out the wine.

"Drink slowly, this is not something that ordinary people can afford." Zhao Yunzhi said.

After the man finished coughing, he slowly drank it into his mouth. Sure enough, a scent that he had never experienced before spread into his nose and reached his whole body, making him feel comfortable.

I didn't have time to think too much, so I hurriedly took a few sips, picked up the beast's head and started to chew it, taking a sip of wine and a bite of meat.
Chapter completed!