Firstly, he wanted to know the number of rewards for overfulfilling the task. Secondly, he didn't know if anyone would come in to check. If it was discovered that he was hiding the ore, it would be bad. He wanted to know clearly first, and then decide whether to use the excess in the future.
The ore is hidden in case you are unlucky and don't dig enough ore to complete the task.
After thinking about this, he continued to mine. The next day, he carried the bamboo basket and walked outside. Anyway, this month was completed, and he wanted to hand in the task in advance and take a good rest for two days, and take a shower by the way.
After not taking a bath for a month, Xiao Lin felt like he was about to shed his skin.
On the way out of the mine, Xiao Lin was cautious, holding the pickaxe tightly with both hands, always prepared for sudden dangers. Xiao Lin was very nervous along the way. When he first came to the mine, Sun Fang from Bailiantang told them
However, killing people to seize mines is also possible. Although Xiao Lin doesn't know whether this is Bailiantang's acquiescence to the legality of such a thing, he is certain of one thing, that is, such a thing must have happened.
, and it happens quite a lot.
This made him miss Xiao Shi a little. After all, if he and Xiao Shi were together, the probability of self-protection would definitely be much higher. After all, Xiao Lin is only twelve years old now, and his physical strength and height are far higher than those of others.
Onto those adult miners.
After thinking about it, he stopped, took out the largest piece of hematite ore from the bamboo basket, and put it into his arms close to his belt.
After walking halfway, Xiao Lin turned into a main mine. At this moment, two kerosene lamps suddenly lit up and several figures appeared in front of him. His heart suddenly sank to the bottom.
Several figures approached Xiao Lin. Only then did Xiao Lin see clearly that there were five people blocking the road. The leader of them had a beard that almost covered the lower half of his face. A pair of triangular eyes kept turning and looking.
When he arrived at Xiao Lin, his beard suddenly split open, revealing a mouth full of yellow teeth.
"Haha, I've been waiting for a long time, and finally I'm here." The other four people also had ferocious expressions on their faces. The most important ones are all adult miners. The leader looks to be forty years old, and the other three youngest ones are also about 40 years old.
In his thirties.
"What...what do you want to do?" Xiao Lin took a step back with a look of horror on his face.
"What do you want to do? Boy, are you just here? Don't you even understand the rules?" A man next to the bearded miner walked up, patted Xiao Lin's frightened and pale face, and smiled sinisterly.
He said.
"I just came here last month. What are the... rules?"
"Oh? It turns out you are really a young man. Wang Ji, tell this little brother the rules of our No. 3 pit." The bearded miner grinned and said to the miner beside him.
Wang Ji was the miner who slapped Xiao Lin on the face. Hearing this, he sneered and said to Xiao Lin: "Boy, you are lucky to have entered our No. 3 pit. The No. 3 pit is our Xiang Kun Xiang San
This mine is the site that I am responsible for, and this mine is also the first shovelful of soil dug by Master San, so every miner who enters Pit No. 3 must, as usual, hand over a certain amount of road money every month."
"Road money?" Xiao Lin was surprised. He heard this word from the big-headed miner in the cafeteria more than half a month ago. At that time, he didn't understand what it meant. But now that Wang Ji said it, he immediately understood.
Come here, the emotional road money is the hematite you need to pay when crossing the road. This is a clear road robbery.
Wang Ji snatched the bamboo basket behind Xiao Lin and weighed it in his hand, with a surprised expression on his face: "Oh, you can do it. You can actually finish the work of an adult miner when you first come here.
I'm afraid the hematite ore weighs more than fifty kilograms."
Hearing this, Xiang Kun was very surprised: "Your boy is really lucky. He seems to be a good prospect. Leave him thirty pounds and use the rest as travel money."
Hearing Xiang Kun's words, Xiao Lin's face turned pale and bloodless. Although these people did not take away all his ore, leaving only thirty kilograms for him meant twenty whippings. This
Twenty lashes would definitely kill him.
He looked up at several people, his eyes full of hatred.
"Pa." A slap came over, and Xiao Lin staggered back several steps, his face burning with pain.
"Boy, let me tell you, everyone who mines in this No. 3 pit has to pay half of the mining fee every month, otherwise we don't mind digging another pit in this mine and burying you." Wang
Ji Yin's face was sullen, with murderous intent lurking in his eyes.
Xiao Lin was shocked. He suppressed the hatred in his eyes, sighed softly, gritted his teeth, and fell silent.
"Good boy, you are quite flexible and flexible. I admire you very much, but appreciation is appreciation. The rules cannot be broken. Everyone must pay twenty kilograms of hematite ore every month. This is a line. If you want to cross it,
There is only one way along this line, and that is to leave the life behind and pass through the body.”
"Can I leave?" Xiao Lin knew that even if he tried his best, there would be no results. Everyone here was stronger than him, so fighting hard would only lead to death. Besides, he still had thirty kilograms of weight.
The hematite ore, plus the piece he hid, should weigh about thirty-five kilograms. There are still two days left. If it doesn't work, go back and dig for two more days, trying to get the full amount of hematite ore before handing in the task.
, he felt a little uneasy, and he kept praying in his heart that these guys would not discover the piece of ore hidden in his waist.
"Wang Ji, go search and see if there is any hidden iron ore."
Xiao Lin's face turned pale when he heard Mr. Xiang's words, and there was a look of despair in his eyes.
"Ah~" Just as Wang Ji was walking towards Xiao Lin with a sneer on his face, a scream suddenly came out.
Xiao Lin saw a figure suddenly rushing out from the branch hole next to him, approaching the person behind Mr. Xiang, and then rushed into the branch hole in two breaths, and the bamboo basket next to that person disappeared.
Traces.
Seeing that one of his people had been tricked and a bamboo basket of hematite was also taken away, Xiang Kun was furious, his beard exploded, he cursed a few words, and then said to Wang Ji next to him
Said: "You stay here, you three follow me, I must find that guy and skin him alive."
After saying that, he led the people into the mine where the figure rushed in.
Wang Ji's face turned pale with fright. He glanced at his companion lying on the ground with a trembling look. It was obvious that a knife had been stabbed in the heart from behind. The whole chest was soaked with blood, but this man was not dead yet.
, maybe the knife didn't penetrate directly into the heart, but even so, he just lived a little longer.
Xiao Lin lowered his head and flashed a murderous intent in his eyes. If he was really detained by them for more than 20 kilograms of hematite ore, even though there were still two days left, the hope of completing the task was still slim. He had seen with his own eyes the miners being detained.
Every blow of the whip would leave a terrifying bloody gash. If you were whipped for more than a dozen times, not to mention my small body, even a grown man would not be able to bear it.
Glancing at Wang Ji who was still cursing from the corner of his eye, Xiao Lin, who was silent, suddenly became furious, and with a cold light, the iron pickaxe in his hand drove hard into Wang Ji's heart.
With this pickaxe, Xiao Lin used almost all his strength, and almost half of the pickaxe head was inserted.
Since Wang Ji was standing next to Xiao Lin, he didn't have time to react. The moment the pickaxe dug into his heart, his eyes widened and his face was filled with an expression of disbelief. He never dreamed that one and a half
The older child dared to kill himself. He lowered his head hard and saw the dark red blood seeping out from around his chest and around the tip of the pickaxe. His vision went dark and he completely lost consciousness.
Seeing the unwilling expression on Wang Ji's face, Xiao Lin turned pale. He pulled out the pickaxe with trembling hands and wiped the blood off Wang Ji's clothes. This was his first time to kill someone. He tried hard to convince himself that this was
He was trying to save himself. If he was not killed and the ore was taken away from him, he would be whipped to death.
Xiao Lin took a deep breath and took out a dagger and a few taels of silver from Wang Ji's arms. It suddenly occurred to him that there seemed to be a small grocery store next to the three-story attic, which should be convenient for miners to buy some supplies.
, thinking of this, he stuffed the broken silver into his arms.
Xiao Lin, who was about to leave, suddenly saw the miner who had been stabbed, looking at him with disbelief. Although his body was covered in blood, he was not dead yet.
Xiao Lin sighed in his heart and walked up to this man.
"You are going to die anyway, so I will give you a ride and save you a little pain." After saying that, Xiao Lin grabbed the dagger stuck in his heart behind his back without hesitation, and pulled it out fiercely.
A stream of blood spurted out, but Xiao Lin was prepared and did not stand in front of it.
The man's eyes froze, his eyes were open and he was completely dead. Seeing that the man was dead, Xiao Lin took out a few taels of broken silver from his body, and quickly walked out of the mine with a bamboo basket on his back.
.
Xiao Lin's heart was beating wildly along the way. He felt that his hands were shaking, but his brain was unusually calm. He was thinking about what would happen if Xiang Kun returned and saw Wang Ji and that person.
If he dies, will doubts come to his head? How should he deal with it?
On the road behind, although there were a few miners walking out of the mine, there was no killing or taking over the mines. It seemed that the biggest overlord of the No. 3 mine was Mr. Xiang, which made Xiao Lin even more worried.
He was a little nervous, but he did not regret doing so, because he knew that if he did not dig enough ore for the mission, he would also resort to killing people to seize the ore.
When he came out of the mine, he saw that it was dark night. He looked up at the slightly white eastern sky and walked toward the hut with the bamboo basket on his back.
There were no disciples from Bailiantang to mine at night, so he could only wait for the daytime. When he returned to the hut, there was still no one. This made him smile bitterly. It had been almost a month since he came here, and he didn't even know who his roommate was.
He didn't know, but he was relieved. The dagger that killed Wang Ji was still in his arms. Although it had been wiped, there must be residual blood stains.