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Chapter 275: The Miner

The intersecting area between the Leath River, the Naita River and the Huwang Valley is the center of the power of the Ragon Free Army and the final destination of Long Liexue's trip. The night before! Ji Deng led everyone into Wu Lingbiao's territory, and the real arrival of the center of the Ragon Free Army was after noon the next day.

After crossing the mountains of Himalayas and Naita River, they crossed the mountains and crossed the mountains, crossed through a densely packed ridge, and then rushed southward. On the hillside on the north bank of the Himalayas Valley, there is a loose building complex, like a small town, nestled among the shadows of trees. This town is the "capital" of the Wulingbiao power.

It is not the time for big fireworks to bloom and harvest. But the mountains and fields here are full of large smoke fields waiting to mature. It is not the first day to enter the Golden Triangle, and it is not the first time Long Liexue has seen poppy fields, but this is the first time Long Liexue has seen such a large-scale poppy field.

Soldiers with guns can be seen everywhere here.

As someone who was won back from the casino, Long Liexue did not have the chance to enter Lagong that day. When he came here, Ji Deng did not take much care of him. I don’t know if it was due to the dike or did not take Long Liexue seriously at all. After asking Long Liexue to unload the goods, he gave a bodyguard and asked the bodyguard to take Long Liexue away.

Of course, the bodyguard would not take Long Liexue to a hotel, but hand it over to an old man who looked like he was in his fifties. His face looked like an old man in his seventies. When Long Liexu saw the old man, the old man was lying obliquely on a bamboo bed in a wooden house, holding a cigarette pipe and an oil lamp, and was sucking opium so much. When he saw someone coming, the old man only narrowed his eyes and looked at the door.

The bodyguard didn't say much. He just pushed Long Liexue forward, "Mr. Meng, this person was won back by Ji Deng from the casino on Bajie. I'll ask me to bring it to you!"

The old man opened his eyes again and glanced at Long Liexue lazily, without any surprise, "The man is quite strong! It's a good mining material, tell Ji Deng that I'll be a shepherd."

The bodyguard was quite respectful to the old man. After hearing what the old man said, he didn't say anything, nodded, turned around and left.

Long Liexue later realized that the old man in front of him was the "main director" of the mine factory under Wu Lingbiao who was responsible for the digging of jade mines. Digging jade is not as simple as ordinary people think. It is not easy to dig jade in the vast mountains and countless river stalls. This is not a simple matter. First of all, you have to find jade and dig jade. Where is the jade, how deep it needs to be dug, and what kind of goods you will usually produce must be clear. When it comes to digging jade, on Wu Lingbiao's territory, this old man basically has the final say.

There was a faint special scent of opium in the room.

The old man smashed two opium cigarettes and let out a breath of smoke with satisfaction, without even looking at Long Liexue, "Have you dug a jade mine before?"

"No!" After coming here, Long Liexue said the truth with a rare occasion.

"No? That doesn't matter, as long as you have strength, it's done!"

The old man was still lying on the bed.

Wu Lingbiao's jade veins are located west of the upper reaches of the Luo River, and jade is produced along the river, crossing more than 10 miles. This place is not the largest jade ore belt in the Golden Triangle. The largest jade veins in the Golden Triangle are in the upper reaches of the Linglu River. The jade ore is spread over a hundred miles in a radius. A hundred years ago, the jade output in the upper reaches of the Wu Lu River almost accounted for 80 of the world's jade output. With the increasing depletion of jade ore resources and the decrease of high-quality jade ore in the entire Golden Triangle region, today, the jade ore under Wu Lingbiao has become even more precious.

The old man sucked all the opium and took Long Liexue to the mine factory he managed with energy. Along the way, what Long Liexue saw was full of deep pits and mounds of soil. The road was muddy and rocks were scattered.

"In my place, there are only two rules. I am lazy and have no food to eat. I am stole the jade and threw it into the fallen river. Do you understand?" The old man said to Long Liexue viciously. The wrinkles on his face, like dead vines, made his face look a bit hideous like an old monster.

Long Liexu nodded in fear.

The old man seemed very satisfied with Long Liexue's performance. He didn't seem to want to scare him all of a sudden, and his face became a little gentler. "Although Ji Deng won you back, you are not going to be out of here. Last time I had a kid here, which is similar to you! He won by Ji Deng. However, that kid was lucky. He stayed here for three years. The best jade he dug in person was heavier than his weight. In order to reward him, we also returned his freedom. He is now in Lagong and got married and had children. This is your way. There is another one. I think you have a good physique, so it's a waste here! As long as you work hard, when the commander of the martial arts army expands, I recommend you to join the army, which is also a way out!"

Long Liexue listened. His face was naturally filled with a look of silly gratitude.

The old man nodded and called a middle-aged man in his forties who looked like a foreman. He gave it casually, and Long Liexu's mining career began for a moment.

There were more than ten people in the mine where Long Liexu was located. They were just off the slope of the mountain by the river and opened a pit about the size of a blue court. The pit was divided into two layers, and everyone was busy inside.

For these mining workers, this is a job without any technical content. Everyone is like plucking rats and only knows how to dig down. The tools everyone uses are not much different from those used by people a hundred years ago. Ropes, carrying poles, shovels and shovels. Long Liexu then understands why the old man said, "As long as you have strength, it's fine."

The people below were digging. After digging the soil, they passed it up and poured it out of the pit. The stones they dug were piled up and placed on the second floor, and waited for the factory manager to choose. Some jades were exposed outside. Once they were dug, they knew that they were treasures, while more jades were jade purs. If there was any goods inside, they had to be cut open. When gambling stones, they usually bet on this type of jade purs.

Among all the mining people, none of them seems to like to talk. Everyone is working with their heads buried, their faces are like machines.

The job that Long Liexue was assigned was to transport the mineral soil and stones at the bottom of the pit to the outside of the pit. This was the most tiring job, but there was always someone to do it, which seemed to be a bully. As soon as Long Liexue came, the job fell on his head, and no one helped him.

Long Liexue said nothing, just like he accepted his fate, working with those mining people with his head down. The foreman here saw that Long Liexue was working hard, and his eyes fell on Long Liexue less.

When Long Liexue carried a large stone weighing about 70 kilograms from the bottom of the pit to outside the pit alone, the people in the same pit also looked a little more awe at Long Liexue...

On the first day of work, everyone had to rest until the sun set. The dinner was full, but the dishes were very simple, but there was still a little oil and water that everyone ate.

There are about seventy or eighty people working in various mines in this mine, and they can basically meet each other when they are eating. Long Liexue, the youngest person working here, looked at him. There was a man who was only twelve or thirteen years old, with big eyes, a face full of food, and a thin wrist like a pilobar. When queuing for food, people always squeezed him to the back. No one seemed to take him seriously. Although he was small and weak, he struggled hard, among the group of adults, he was like a leaf floating on the waves. Looking at the increasingly empty pot, the child's tears were rolling in his eyes, but he always gritted his teeth and did not cry...

In the end, it was the child's turn, which was a layer of crumbs and a little bit of dish residue...

After dinner, it was almost dark. People who had been working hard for a day basically had no nightlife here. Everyone went back to the simple workplace where they lived and chatted for a few words, and almost went to bed. The shed was very spacious, except for all kinds of strange smells and some dirty things, and they were not crowded. When everyone was sleeping, they fell asleep with their clothes on the board and did not need any quilts. Seeing the strength and strong body that Long Liexue showed during the day, no one would deliberately get along with him. But even so, no one seemed to want to talk to him about a newcomer, and there would be no "newcomer welcome ceremony". Long Liexue acted silently.

As someone who has been won from a casino, on the first day of his arrival, Long Liexue, who is unfamiliar with the pseudonym Tooth Blood, will naturally not be happy, and it is even more impossible to catch someone and ask questions. Long Liexue is almost certain. If he does this, someone will immediately report to the old man.

Now, what I need most is patience! Long Liexue said to himself quietly.

In my ears, I could hear the sound of the river water falling from the river hitting the stones on the river beach. It was thin, like a branch dragging on the sand, and someone in the shed was whispering something...

Long Liexue was lying on the bed, and tossing and turning for a moment.

This is the Golden Triangle. The richer the richer and the poorer the poorer the golden Triangle. Looking at the ragged boy who was twelve or thirteen years old who had been working hard in the mine for a day before he could eat, you know that any romantic and warm fantasy about this place is like a fairy tale in heaven, so unattainable. For many people living in this land, many people face the test of survival and death as soon as they are born.

Long Lie Blood is waiting...

Wu Lingbiao Dadu never dreamed that his brother-killing enemy, the blood dragon thousands of miles away, would be the real boss, sleeping in his mine shed at this moment!

There are always unexpected things in life!
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