Summary of the previous chapter: Ma Xiaoquan plans to bring Can Xin and Luan Hongyan together...
Two days later, Ma Xiaoquan was resting in the inn when he suddenly received news from the shopkeeper that the leader of the entire mining area had arrived.
The general boss is naturally the brother-in-law of the foreman, who is also the leader of this place.
Ma Xiaoquan was very curious. Based on his observations around the mine in the past few days, he found that the workers in the mine worked very hard. Although there were incidents of mistreating miners, it was not as embarrassing as Ma Xiaoquan imagined. On the contrary, every time
In the evening, the miners had plenty of time to rest. As for the wages paid to the miners, Ma Xiaoquan also had a rough understanding. Generally speaking, it was relatively reasonable.
"Let's go out and take a look." Ma Xiaoquan said hello and walked out the door.
"Wait a minute." Dongfang Qingxue suddenly grabbed Ma Xiaoquan, helped him straighten his collar, and said, "The person I will see later is not an ordinary person. Although you, the deacon of Jinyiwei, are hiding your identity, you can't lose face."
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Ma Xiaoquan nodded, smiled, and kissed Dongfang Qingxue's pretty face. The latter immediately lowered his head and punched him lightly.
Ma Xiaoquan snorted, nodded, and led a few of his men out of the inn.
At this time, the foreman was leading his brother-in-law to walk from the gate of the mining area. Behind them, there were nearly a hundred or ten people following them. These people were all big and tall, and they looked like nothing at first glance.
What a good thing.
Ma Xiaoquan walked up to the foreman with a smile, bowed his hands and said, "I'm Ma San, you are the new owner of this mine."
"New owner?" Next to the foreman, his brother-in-law frowned.
The foreman quickly answered: "Brother-in-law, this is the Ma San I told you about. He...he has a contract transferred by Eunuch Wei."
"Oh." The other party was obviously very sophisticated. He nodded with a smile, raised his hand to Ma Xiaoquan, and said, "I am the parent officer here. Well, my surname is Li Mingwei and my courtesy name is Hongwei. You don't look like an ordinary person."
Well, may I ask where you got it from?"
Ma Xiaoquan smiled slightly, looked at the man briefly, and said with a smile: "I'm from Beijing."
"Oh, it turns out that this is a distinguished guest from the capital. It's really strange. I forgive my ignorance. Your Excellency just said that this mine has become yours. This is not true."
The tone of the other party's speech was very calm, and there was no hint of unhappiness, but it gave people a very uncomfortable feeling.
Ma Xiaoquan raised his eyebrows slightly and said: "Mr. Li, what you said is not very authentic. Could it be that you... uh, brother-in-law, right? Your brother-in-law didn't give you a good explanation for me taking over this mine.
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Li Wei nodded and said with a smile: "Of course you said so, but just by bringing a piece of paper, can you convince me that you took over this mine?"
Ma Xiaoquan shook his head, took out the contract from his arms, and handed it directly to Li Wei.
Li Wei snarled angrily, and his brother-in-law quickly accepted the contract and presented it to him respectfully.
With an air of dignity, Li Wei read the contract.
"I see. I didn't expect that Eunuch Wei would really give this copper mine to the Ma family. Your Excellency, your name is Ma San, so naturally you are also a member of the Ma family."
Ma Xiaoquan nodded: "That's right."
"It's easy to talk about. Since there is this contract, then I naturally agree with the Ma family to take over."
Ma Xiaoquan was stunned and thought, "No way, it's that easy?"
Li Wei saw Ma Xiaoquan's disbelief on his face and said with a smile: "Well, I'm older than Brother Ma San, so I just call myself brother. Brother Ma San, brother, I am also a sensible person. In this contract,
The writing is clear and clear, and there is no fraud in the contract. Moreover, I also received the oral instructions from Eunuch Wei a few days ago, so I can't cheat on this matter. How about this, Brother Ma San, I think the weather is good today.
Why don't we take a tour of this mining area together so that I can introduce it to Brother Ma San."
Ma Xiaoquan was seriously suspicious, but looking at Li Wei's harmless smile, he had no idea.
At this moment, a soft female voice suddenly came from behind Ma Xiao: "I think I will accompany you too."
Ma Xiaoquan was stunned, turned around and saw that it was Hua Yue.
"Sister Yue, why are you..." Before Ma Xiaoquan could finish speaking, Hua Yue had already approached, gently nodded to Ma Xiaoquan, then gave Li Wei a maiden ceremony, and said slowly, "I too
Go ahead”
Li Weiyi was a little stunned when he saw Hua Yue's beautiful appearance. He had never known that such a beautiful woman existed in the mining area.
"This is..."
Ma Xiaoquan introduced: "Oh, this is my sister."
"Sister?" Li Wei's heart moved slightly.
"Yes, Mr. Li, do you think my sister is very beautiful?" Ma Xiaoquan said with a smile.
"Not only beautiful, she is much more beautiful than the concubines in the palace."
Li Wei is not bragging. Although Zhu Youxiao is young, the palace has given him many beauties for him to play with. However, Zhu Youxiao is only addicted to carpentry and has no interest in women.
Of course, except for Ke Yinyue, well, but this is also a secret that cannot be told.
"It's not too late, let's go shopping"
Ma Xiaoquan and Hua Yue looked at each other and nodded.
The group of people strolled slowly in the mining area, chatting and laughing while walking. While talking, Ma Xiaoquan was muttering in his heart, because ever since he saw Li Wei, he always had an indescribable sense of crisis.
Hua Yue seemed to have the same feeling.
When a group of people came to a mine ditch, Li Wei smiled and said, "Brother Ma San, there is a story in this mine ditch."
"Story? What story?" Ma Xiaoquan asked curiously.
Li Wei walked to the edge of the mine ditch, crossed it back and forth a few times, and said, "This mine ditch has always been abandoned. Why? Because there are many bodies of people in this mine ditch."
"Corpse? Why is there a corpse? Did it fall for no reason?"
Li Wei smiled and said: "That's not true. Brother Ma San has been in the mining area for a few days. Honestly, the workers in this mining area are actually very leisurely, right?"
Ma Xiaoquan nodded.
"But... have Brother Ma San discovered that few people in this mining area will go this way?"
Ma Xiaoquan exclaimed, scratched his head and said, "It's true what Mr. Li said. I haven't seen anyone walking this way these days. Is it possible... is it because of this mining trench?"
"Exactly how to put it, this trench is actually the eye of the mine."
"Mine eye?" Ma Xiaoquan frowned and said, "As far as I know, if there is a mine eye, but Mr. Li wants to perform some sacrifices, is it possible that the sacrifices used in this mine eye are all living people?"
Li Wei nodded and shook his head: "Of course they are alive, but these people all jumped by themselves."
"Why? Don't they all value their own lives?"
Li Wei sighed: "Hey, it's also for livelihood. Think about it, people are inevitably injured in mining. Once you are seriously injured, you can't do anything. Instead of doing this, it's better to just die. I can still give you help here."
For their funeral expenses, there are still people who will do this kind of deal that kills two birds with one stone."
Hua Yue asked: "Isn't there someone who intentionally harms others?"
Li Wei shook his head: "I can't say for sure, but no matter what, if two people jump out every month, the mine will be much more stable, and the output will be inexplicably increased."
"So magical?" Hua Yue curiously walked to the edge of the mine ditch and stretched her neck to look into the ditch, but it was pitch black inside and she couldn't see anything at all.
Just when Hua Yue was about to retract his steps, a crazy miner suddenly appeared from behind everyone. The miner roared nonsense like "I want to get rich, I want to get rich" and then bumped into Hua Yue.
Huayue was not fortified in the first place. When the miner hit her like this, she fell directly into the trench with a bang. The whole process was very fast. Even if Ma Xiaoquan reacted, it was too late.
"Sister Yue, sister Yue," Ma Xiaoquan's eyes turned red and he took two steps to the edge of the mine ditch and shouted wildly.
Li Wei raised his lips, shouted anxiously when Ma Xiaoquan stepped forward, and kicked him hard on the thigh.
Ma Xiaoquan didn't have time to react. He just let out a huh and was kicked down by Li Wei. However, Ma Xiaoquan reacted quickly and reached out to grab the edge of the trench.
"Li Wei, you shameless person attacked me secretly." Ma Xiaoquan gritted his teeth and wanted to climb up.
Li Wei laughed and stepped forward, stretched out his foot to step on Ma Xiaoquan's hand, and said fiercely: "Ma San, Ma San... Do you know that I have planned this accident for a long time, and you want to play with me,
You're still a bit tender, haha, come here, poke him down with a spear."
Ma Xiaoquan roared angrily, broke free from the hand that was stepped on by Li Wei, and fell into the trench.
In the darkness, Ma Xiaoquan's angry roar came: "Li Wei, you plotted against me, I will not let you go."
Li Wei walked to the edge of the mining trench and shouted to the bottom of the trench: "Ma San, this mining trench is so deep that you can't get out at all. Even if you don't fall to death, you will die of hunger and thirst, haha...
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"I will come out, you wait, you wait..."
The foreman followed up and asked cautiously: "Brother-in-law, Ma San fell into the mine ditch and died. How many people are there in the inn?"
Li Wei chuckled: "There are so many of us, I can't believe how many of them we can't catch. Xiao Lei, let me tell you, there are two presumptuous women in Ma San. Well, I want to catch them alive."
Enjoy it, but it’s a pity that the beauty fell down together.”
"Okay, okay, brother-in-law, I will do as you are told, hehe."
Li Wei turned around, looked at the mine ditch behind him, clicked his tongue twice, and murmured: "Eunuch Wei has an order, no matter who comes to take over this copper mine, he will die. Ma San, you are from the Ma family."