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Chapter 25 Corruption

Three days later, Liang Chen set out with the team and headed to the Fuyushan Mine.

At this time, he was still hanging his arm and pretending that his injuries were not well.

Fuyu Mountain is located at the easternmost point of Dongyang County, more than a hundred miles away from the county town, and several people ride wildebeests.

The wildebeest is the strange beast that Liang Chen saw when he first saw the grain truck. It looks like a horse, with horns and scales on his body.

First, Liang Chen had an arm injury, and second, he had not ridden a wildebeest, so he couldn't ride a horse.

Therefore, after several people gathered, Bai Yan said that in order to apologize, he wanted to ride a horse with him and teach him riding skills on the road.

The captain and others agreed, Liang Chen was in trouble.

When we set off in the morning, five people and four horses walked eastward. At noon, we went to Dongshan Town for a rest. After lunch, we continued to go east in the afternoon. Before the sky was dusk, we finally arrived at the foot of Fuyu Mountain.

Along the way, Liang Chen once again saw the desolation in the wilderness of this world, with plants, thorns and forests everywhere, and ferocious birds and beasts often wandering around.

However, this time was different from when he went to Dongyang County. Liang Chen had initially achieved success in his body refining. Although there were ferocious birds and beasts around him, he did not feel much fear.

This is because of force, even when facing ferocious birds and beasts, they have the confidence to protect themselves.

Along the way, Bai Yan, the "Smiling Tiger" also tried his best to teach him riding skills, and seemed to be really apologizing for accidentally hurting him three days ago.

Liang Chen studied all the way, and although he had not tried it personally, he learned a lot of experience. The magical fruit representing the "elephant" on the Seven Treasures Tree gradually emerged.

Fuyu Mountain is located east of Dongyang County, and runs north and south, stretching for hundreds of miles. It is said to be the branch and tail vein of a large mountain range in the north.

A kind of "spiritual iron ore" is abundant in the mountains. It is said to be one of the common materials used by monks in the Qi Refining Period to refine magic weapons. The Hutang recruits civilians under his rule for many years to come here to perform labor service and mine.

Occasionally, there are disciples of Longtang who go deep into the territory and sneak attack such mines and other places, so people are needed to send people to guard them.

"Meihu" Su Hong came forward and handed over to the previous garrison team.

After that, the two teams attended the dinner held by the mine, which was both a welcome and a farewell. The most important thing was that Liang Chen and his new team needed to get to know each other with the mine management.

After the dinner, it was getting late, so everyone went back to their house to rest.

Although this is a mountain mining area, Hutang has been operating for many years and has already built various supporting facilities.

Each member of the garrison team was divided into one residence. Liang Chen saw that the conditions were better than the small courtyard houses in the middle entrance of the county town, and he was quite satisfied.

There was nothing to say all night. On the dawn the next day, the team members gathered together for breakfast and then separated and worked their own things.

The task of garrisoning the mine is more of a respite for the Hutang team. Although there are few dangers, they only need to send two people to patrol the nearby mountains every day, and others can be busy with their own affairs.

This is also the reason why Teacher Zhang asked someone to find connections and arranged him into the "Bahu" team. He asked him to follow the team to garrison the mine, which is safe and free, which is not much worse than training and practicing in the county town.

Today is the first time that the "Bahu" team has begun patrolling nearby mountains after they have received the mission.

Therefore, the captain "Bahu" personally took the initiative and patrolled the surroundings with "Cold-faced Tiger" Chen Feng to eliminate the danger.

A newcomer like Liang Chen naturally will not assign tasks, allowing him to act freely and do his own things.

He thought about it and did not go to find a place to practice martial arts first, but walked towards the mining area on the mountain.

The Hutang team came here to guard the safety of the mining area. They often did not interfere with the work of the mining area, mining, civilians who were in labor service, etc.

The management of the own mine is responsible for the entire work, management, operation, etc. of the mining area.

And these management teams are usually close to the powerful families in the White Tiger Hall.

They rely on the powerful and noble families in the White Tiger Hall to make a living, and the White Tiger Hall also directly controls resources through them.

As for the people from Heihu Hall, according to Liang Chen’s understanding these days, they are more like suppressed ‘thugs’!

The convention that has been formed has certainly been formed. Of course, this "convention" must be intentional in the White Tiger Hall. The disciples of the Tiger Hall who come here to garrison will basically not enter the mining area and interfere with the work in the mining area.

However, Liang Chen planned to break this "convention" a little and go into the mining area to take a look.

He did not have the strength to fight against the entire Baihutang, so he did not intend to interfere in the work in the mining area.

His purpose in entering the mining area was to see if he had any opportunities to do good deeds.

Previously, the "Shan De Fruit" he accumulated in Dongyang County and had been used by him to repair the damage caused by broken muscles and bones on his arms.

At this time, on the Seven Treasures Tree, the branches of the "Shan De De Fruit" were empty, and there was no "Shan De Fruit" in it. Liang Chen always felt uneasy in his heart.

When Liang Chen reached the entrance of the mine, before he could enter, six people came out of the mine, and one person was carrying him in the middle.

Liang Chen looked at them and all of them were worn out, covered in ripped holes and patches, thin, rough and old-fashioned, and dusty. At first glance, they were civilians who were serving labor service in the mines.

The person carrying the middle was even more bloody and had already disappeared.

"What's going on?" Liang Chen stepped forward and asked.

When several people saw him, they quickly put down their bodies and gave a panic salute.

Liang Chen waved his hand and asked, "How did this person die?"

The six people looked at each other, and finally walked out, looked at Liang Chen, and asked hesitantly: "You are the boy from Liang Hu's family, are you?"

Liang Chen looked at him in a blink of an eye. Liang Hu was the name of his father in this life. Since he knew his father, he seemed to be a neighbor.

Seeing Liang Chen's reaction, the man obviously felt much more relaxed. He squeezed out a few smiles on his face and said, "I am from Liangyuan too. Your family is at the east end of the village and my family is at the west end of the village. However, our two families are close together. Last year, I saw you follow your father to work in the fields."

"However, I heard that you joined the Tiger Hall this year, and now it seems that you have become the master!"

"It turned out to be a neighbor." Liang Chen nodded and said hello.

The mine in Fuyushan is close to Dongyang County. In fact, most of the corvee labor that is collected and started every year comes from various townships in Dongyang County. It is common to meet people from fellow villagers or even villages here.

Seeing Liang Chen nodding and saying hello, the man seemed a little excited, his body seemed to be much straightened, and his smile became deeper.

Then he seemed to think of Liang Chen's question, and his smile gradually dissipated. He looked at the corpse that was placed on the ground with a bloody head, and sighed and said, "This person is from the village next to us. This morning, a rock collapsed. When he ran, his legs were weak. He did not avoid it. He was hit by the rock directly in the head and was helpless on the spot."

The man said and shook his head.

Liang Chen was silent for a moment when he heard this. Even if he died of mine, it was inevitable that even if he had a previous life, he had no choice.

"Where are you going to carry him?" Liang Chen asked again.

"Take it to the north and buried it." said the man from the same village.

"Just buried like this?" Liang Chen asked in surprise: "Don't you send the body back to his house?"

The man from the same village heard this and said with a wry smile: "How to send it? Hu Tang will not send someone to send it to him, so he asked his family to pick it up. There are jackals, tigers and leopards on the way, so who dares to come?"

"So I can only find a place to bury it."

"When the corvee service was over and he didn't go back, his family would know."

The neighbor said, shook his head and sighed, "When is there a person who will never die every year? Everyone is used to it."

When Liang Chen heard this, he didn't know what to say for a moment.

He came to find opportunities to do good deeds, and everything he saw in front of him seemed to be "good deeds" with great potential.

But he didn't know where to start.
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