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Assistant Liu was also anxious because this was not his own territory.

Perhaps sensing Yun Tinglan's anxiety, Huo Zhensheng and Zhao Shengli came out together, and Zhao Shengli was still persuading them to stay.

"... maybe there will be a chance in the future. We are quite tight on time this time. We still have to go to Mogok tonight to check out the situation at the mine. Mr. Zhao is also welcome to visit us. The production line must be packed and packaged by next week at the latest. I will have someone contact Mr. Zhao by then."

Hearing this, Zhao Shengli smiled even more. "Then wait for good news from Mr. Huo. I will arrange for someone to pick you up at the customs."

Huo Zhensheng nodded to indicate yes.

Zhao Shengli also said that he would arrange for someone to escort them over, but Huo Zhensheng declined, "No need, my people are already here and are outside the gate."

Only then did Yun Tinglan realize that Huo Zhensheng was waiting for them.

The signal here is not good, so we can only communicate via satellite phone, and electricity is supplied by their own generators.

In such a place with backward communications, Lingxi's abilities were greatly limited.

Zhao Lan didn't leave because it wasn't on her way, and she didn't dare to wander outside at night.

"Isn't this the way back?" Yun Tinglan frowned. Are they really going to the gem mine? She didn't know where the gem mine was yet, and she was a little worried. "Can we get there before dark?"

Huo Zhensheng comforted: "No problem."

Two hours later, their convoy entered a brightly lit factory area.

"It's a bit desolate." Apart from the newly installed mobile container houses and some machinery and equipment, there are almost no people here.

The place is big enough. Not counting the factory building, the open space alone is at least a thousand square meters. Apart from anything else, it is enough for them to do morning exercises.

The sentry post at the gate was built entirely according to the requirements of a military camp, and there is always someone on duty on the tall watchtower.

If Huo Zhensheng hadn't told her that this was the place, she would have thought it was a military base of some force.

On top of the two-meter-two wall, there is a high-voltage power grid more than one meter high. The layers of protection make people feel at ease.

Other facilities are still being installed, but the power facilities are very complete. There is a river in the valley less than 500 meters away, which uses hydroelectric power, and there is also a set of fuel generators as backup power.

The entire venue was brightly lit, and there were cell phone and internet signals.

As soon as Yun Tinglan's cell phone signal was restored, she received dozens of messages, most of which were sent by He Ye. At first, she was curious about what was happening in Myanmar. Perhaps because the messages had not been sent successfully, she became a little anxious, and all the subsequent messages were filled with anxiety and concern.

There were also more than a dozen missed calls, also from He Ye.

Yun Tinglan chuckled, called He Ye back to report that she was safe and told her that the signal was bad here, then went downstairs to have dinner.

This point can be considered a midnight snack, with light porridge, side dishes and steamed buns.

Sister Man and her friends had arrived a long time ago and made buns of several flavors, including meat, vegetarian, fried, and steamed, to suit everyone's tastes, so everyone had a good appetite.

It turns out that they all have Chinese stomachs. It’s okay to eat food from other countries occasionally, but I can’t stand eating it for a long time!

The moment the wakeup call sounded, Yun Tinglan suddenly opened her eyes, stood up instantly and tensed up her whole body. After she saw the surrounding environment clearly and came to her senses, she breathed a sigh of relief and lay back on the bed.

I reached for the phone on the bedside table and saw the time was five thirty.

Yun Tinglan lay on the bed for ten minutes in a daze. She couldn't fall asleep, so she changed her clothes and got up. When she passed by the kitchen, Sister Man and the others were already busy preparing breakfast.

Feeding hundreds of people is not an easy job.

Yun Tinglan originally planned to follow everyone for a morning run, but when she saw Huo Zhensheng exercising on the parallel bars in the distance, she stepped back.

The blood vessels on his right leg were bulging hideously. At first glance, it looked like there were long bloody worms wrapped around his leg and swimming in the blood vessels, which was creepy to see.

Didn't they say unknown energy? But what I just saw...

It's obviously a living thing!

Then what's on his leg... could it be Miao Qiang's witchcraft?

When she first came here, she analyzed the reasons why Mrs. Huo adopted the original owner.

Zhang Youyou once blurted out some fortune, her words were filled with resentment and dissatisfaction, and her words were all about the original owner's good fortune. The original owner's own interpretation was that Mrs. Huo superstitiously believed that she was destined to ward off disasters and bring good fortune to Huo Zhensheng, so she adopted her.

By the way, she can also become Huo Zhensheng's dispensable playmate.

The Huo family's servants had been replaced after Huo Zhensheng's accident. They were very secretive about Huo Zhensheng's leg. She could get very little useful information, so Yun Tinglan was reserved about the original owner's judgment.

If Huo Zhensheng was really poisoned by witchcraft, does that mean that the original owner's existence was to help him get rid of the poison?

So Huo Zhensheng obviously liked the original owner but he restrained himself and dared not express it. He was also silently nice to the original owner and made up for it in various ways.

Besides liking him, I also feel guilty.

In this case, many things make sense.

After Song Jinhan transformed into Huo Zhensheng, his internal condition had clearly worsened, but he instead presented the illusion that he was almost recovering. Was he trying to confuse Mrs. Huo?

How did they remove the poison? Did they transfer it into her body? That was why Huo Zhensheng and Song Jinhan were so disgusted?

Ling Xi suddenly said: [Master, you can try it. Every time you get close to him, the energy becomes particularly active, but there is also a force suppressing it. I feel like I can devour it. That kind of induction... is similar to a system... but it's a little different.]

Lingxi had zero experience in this area, and couldn't explain it clearly, but the urge to eat was a very intuitive feeling.

[Can it be swallowed?] This is good news.

Yun Tinglan's eyes wandered, and she thought that drawing the Gu into her body would kill two birds with one stone. She slowly stepped back a few steps, and then walked out again with a relaxed demeanor, as if she had just come downstairs.

Seeing Yun Tinglan, Song Jinhan paused. He obviously didn't expect her to get up so early. Thinking of the bugle call just now, he understood the reason.

He then sat down inconspicuously and placed a large white towel on his legs.

Yun Tinglan seemed not to notice his little action. She handed him a bottle of water, said hello, and went on with her morning exercise.

We met again at the dining table.

Song Jinhan returned to his previous demeanor, but his clothes were no longer formal, but an indigo silk Chinese-style double-breasted top and matching trousers.

Yun Tinglan felt that if he had a fan, he would be a perfect elegant gentleman, so she went back to her room and took out a three-sided fan from her suitcase.

The fan with landscape paintings depicts three famous scenic spots in Suzhou and was originally a gift for him.

She herself had one, but it had a picture of a lady on it, and it was just right for fanning herself that day.

The mineral vein here is tailings, and mining was stopped last year, mainly because the investment was large and the output was small, and the mineral vein is almost fully mined.

So give up.

This is also the reason why Mr. Zhao spoke out so easily. Zhao Shengyu wanted to find a sucker to pay money and work hard so that he could profit from it.

But what he didn't know was that when Song Jinhan decided to restart the project, he invited Professor Liu from the famous Geological University of China to bring his students to visit here as tourists.

Through comparative studies of multiple samples, Professor Liu concluded that the ruby ​​vein was indeed exhausted, but there was another new vein in the mountains 500 meters away.

It is not known whether it was due to human error or technical problems, but this mineral vein was not discovered by the Zhao family.

It was an accident that the professor discovered this new mineral vein.

When they went to investigate, they encountered heavy rain and mudslides. They managed to escape the danger with great difficulty.

But fortune and misfortune go hand in hand. When a student was avoiding a mudslide, he discovered that there were ruby-related minerals in the mountain exposed by the mudslide.

The presence of associated minerals is a clue and indicator that ruby ​​deposits may be present.

Later, the professor bought its companion stone, spinel, from the locals, and it was a spinel of extremely high quality.

This area is mostly inhabited by ethnic minorities, and they seem to be consciously concealing this matter and then mining and selling it privately.

The professor investigated here for nearly a month and concluded that there are rich ruby ​​resources here, accompanied by extremely high-quality spinels.

This is why Song Jinhan chose this place. Zhao Shengli did not follow his brother's tricks, but he did not tell him the truth about the almost exhausted mine.

Song Jinhan also concealed the discovery of the new mineral vein, and only included the entire mountain in his sphere of influence. Did Zhao Shengli have any doubts? Yes, but he just thought he was raising a private army.

Because Lao Qiao and his team have been here for more than a month, they have been recruiting people to build walls, electric fences, and various other infrastructure. Apart from that, every day is filled with the sound of training, and there is no intention of digging for minerals at all.

After hearing the report from his subordinates, Zhao Shengli just smiled and asked someone to keep an eye on it. He paid no more attention to it himself and focused on the factory. He intended to transform the family business. The non-renewable nature of the mineral veins had too many restrictions, so transformation was imperative.

Yun Tinglan originally planned to rest here for one night, and after visiting the ruby ​​mine, return to Naypyidaw to participate in the bidding.

Xiao Duan took a plastic bottle and said, "A few children came to the entrance of the field. I thought they were begging but I didn't expect them to take out these rubies and sell them for money."

Yun Tinglan took it in her hand and examined it carefully. "It's not a ruby, it's a spinel." But it's quite beautiful.

"Let them in?" Yun Tinglan looked at Song Jinhan inquiringly.

He nodded. He also wanted to learn about the situation here from them. After all, mining also requires workers.

Why not use cheap labor?

Sister Man brought over a plate of buns and put a dozen in a bag and handed them to them.

The little boy in the lead had dark skin and big eyes, but he had a maturity and experience that did not belong to his age.

Xiao Duan served food to the siblings while asking them some questions.

The boy was the eldest in the family. His father fell to his death while mining and his mother remarried. He then took his younger brothers and sisters to another mining area to do hard labor to earn a living.

There has been a lot of commotion here recently, and everyone realizes that a new mine owner has contracted this place and is preparing to reopen the mine.

Many people flocked back to apply for the job, but they didn't know the character of the new owner, so no one dared to step forward rashly, so they pushed the brother and sister to come over to scout the way.

They may also want to test whether the mine owners really understand gems and whether they can do anything privately.

Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence that they are all red spinels, without a single ruby ​​or semi-precious stone of other colors.

Gems are not as big as jade, so a tiny bit of the raw stone can be put into the mouth or some other part of the body and taken away.

Or you can replace ruby ​​with spinel, which is very practical.

There might be thieves who specialize in stealing gemstones among the job applicants. Don't think it's impossible, it's real life.

Yun Tinglan did not lower the price. Not to mention that these brothers and sisters were indeed pitiful, she also hoped that it would be a good start and that more local people would come to sell gems.

The boy took the food, but he didn't take the money. He also asked tentatively if he could exchange the money for a bicycle and the rest for food to give to his brothers and sisters every day, so that he could go to a farther place to earn money.

For example, go to the morning market in Mekong River to sell gems.

Seeing him pointing at a light bicycle-style electric vehicle, Xiao Duan, who was bald, explained to him with great effort that it was an electric vehicle, not a bicycle.

Actually, I can give him one, but if the electric car is out of power, it is really not as labor-saving as a bicycle. I promised to bring him a bicycle next time I go to Mandalay.

The boy then showed his white teeth and left with his younger brother and sister, holding the food.

"The little guy is too trusting. Fortunately, we are not bad people, otherwise he would have suffered a great loss." Sister Man sighed.

Xiao Duan also sympathized with them, but it was not good if they were too rampant, as they would suffer losses here. When he was guarding the border, he saw many such bloody incidents, and sometimes the elderly, the weak, the sick, the disabled, women and children were more lethal.

Because people will instinctively let down their guard against them.

"Sister Man, don't be fooled by him. That guy is not as pitiful as he says. He is very smart."

"I don't see that he doesn't want money, but he lets his brothers and sisters come here every day to exchange for food. This can not only ensure the safety and food of his brothers and sisters, but also allow them to get benefits here."

"You don't have to worry about your brother and sister being too young and not being able to keep the money and having it stolen. You can also maintain a friendly relationship with us and get the latest news from us."

Sister Man didn’t quite believe it. They were so young, they shouldn’t be so cunning, right?

Wang Wei was smoking in the distance, taking note of the incident. He then asked Lao Qiao to inform those whose families had children, asking them to go back and remind them to keep their mouths shut.

The work has not started yet. After the gem mining starts, outsiders will not be allowed to enter the camp at will, and family members are not allowed to discuss the people and things in the mining area with outsiders.

Yun Tinglan was thinking about how to prevent the workers from hiding the items. She couldn't ask them to go to a special body-search room and be searched one by one after work before they could leave.

Not to mention whether doing so can completely eliminate the problem of private hoarding, it will inevitably strain relations with the locals. They are outsiders and are too radical and oppressive in their actions, which can easily provoke a war between the two sides.

Besides, it is not safe. The naked eye cannot ensure that everything is safe, for example, if it is swallowed or stuffed somewhere.

But adding a scanner will inevitably increase the budget.

Yun Tinglan was just about to say that she was here to purchase these security equipment when Lao Qiao came back with a convoy of vehicles escorting a batch of equipment.

Ling Xi told her that one of the cars was equipped with a high-precision X-ray scanner, and even if you put a gem into it, the scanner would be able to see it clearly.

Yun Tinglan: "..." Very good, very powerful.

There were two other trucks, one carrying daily necessities and supplies, and the other truck had about 40 people getting off.

All together, there are nearly 600 people in the entire site, so it is still possible to protect the mining area.

Daily supplies were a big problem, and they had to go to Mogok to buy food every three days. Of course, this meant vegetables, meat, and food. The storage of grain and compressed food was enough to sustain their survival for two months.

In addition, Sister Man and her family have already opened up five vegetable plots in the backyard and bought some poultry from local people. Everything is on track.

Old Qiao has been stationed here for almost two months and is very familiar with the place. Seeing that Yun Tinglan was interested and the boss acquiesced, he personally drove them to the mine.

In fact, it is not far away, only a few minutes away, but the road is not easy to travel on, and it will take a few days to be completely repaired.

The main reason is lack of people.

Their mine is a mountain mine, that is, mountain material.

The so-called mountain material means that the gems and mineral deposits grow together, they are inseparable, there are many cracks, cotton and impurities, and the size is relatively small.

The advantages are that the edges and corners are relatively clear, the colors are very bright, and the fire produced by cutting and polishing is also very strong.

The corresponding ones are naturally water and stone mines.

Compared with water stone and mountain material, its raw stones are all single whole pieces, relatively large in size, with a clear base, but darker in color, and without too many cracks.

As soon as they got off the car, a black shadow rushed past their eyes and went into the woods like a big black rat. Wang Wei led the other three to chase after it at the same time, and followed it around in tacit understanding.