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"Do you have any gold mines?" Gu Yue asked.

"Gone. Madam took all the silver I was going to exchange for the gold mine and used it to fill the gap in the payment for the goods." Lu Jucai said.

"Then can you contact Meng Jincheng?" Gu Yue thought to himself, I know it.

"There has been no news for some time." Lu Jucai looked a little dejected.

Mrs. Zhou suddenly pushed the door open and walked in.

Gu Yue turned around and was startled.

Mrs. Zhou had tears on her face, but her expression was extremely scary: "My Lord, I am so sorry, I overheard your conversation... I didn't expect this bastard to be so bold, I am so!"

She was furious.

"Alas, this medicine is very powerful. If you don't have a very strong will, you will not be able to escape." Gu Yue tried to comfort her.

Why didn’t Shi San stop him?

Mrs. Zhou calmed down and said, "If you say that you want to sell your shop for gold mines and then for the medicine powder, I have some ideas."

She said, "We ladies in the Lord chat together occasionally. Two or three grain and jewelry shops in the surrounding area have encountered the same problem and sold a lot of goods. They asked their masters, but they just said that they had their own uses... I guess they were also tricked by that mysterious man."

"Can I explain this to those ladies and ask them to be vigilant? They might find some news about Meng Jincheng or the mysterious man." Mrs. Zhou said.

Gu Yue pondered for a moment.

Gu Xuxian said, "It's better not to. After all, it's rare to find someone as clear-headed and decisive as Madam Zhou. If I rashly reveal the news and accidentally let it slip, I'm afraid it will alarm them."

Mrs. Zhou looked dejected.

"In this case, Madam, you don't have to be blunt. You can just ask the ladies to pay attention to their own masters' movements, or bribe a few people in the mansion to find out. Should that be possible?" Gu Yue said, "We just want the location of Meng Jincheng or the mysterious man."

Mrs. Zhou's eyes lit up: "This is feasible."

She looked cautious again: "I know the seriousness of this matter, and I will certainly be cautious. As for those unreliable ones...I will personally take care of them."

It turns out that this is a woman with ruthless means. Gu Yue was very happy.

"Then I'll leave it to you, Madam." He clasped his hands together and said, "If everything goes well, we will ask for your family's guilt to be reduced."

We will, right? Gu Yue nudged Gu Xu with his elbow.

Gu Xu also nodded.

……

After a bumpy ride, the carriage finally stopped.

His wrist was pulled behind him, and he got off the car along with the workers who were tied together. Many of them fell to the ground. Then, someone untied the bandage from his eyes, and Wu Yan slowly opened his eyes and found that he was in a dark canyon crevice. There was a narrow ray of light above his head, barely illuminating the surroundings.

There are three checkpoints in the narrow valley ahead, all of which are equipped with roadblocks and barricades and are heavily guarded.

The foreman's expression changed, and he said fiercely, "Now that you are here, you should have understood what is going on. Now that you are in this mountain, you should work hard and don't think about running away and reporting to the authorities, otherwise, you will die miserably!"

Wu Yan looked around and found that there was indeed only this one passage. The rock wall was almost vertical and ordinary people could not climb it at all.

Before they boarded the bus, all their money had been taken away from them. Now that they were in the canyon, they were all being treated as hard laborers and not as human beings.

When passing three checkpoints and heading into the canyon, someone broke free from the rope and tried to escape, and had an ear cut off on the spot. Someone was so scared that he peed his pants on the spot, adding a weird flavor to the already tense atmosphere.

"This is a warning." The foreman pinched the bloody ear and said grimly, "Each of you has two chances to make a mistake. If both ears are gone, you can expect how you want to be reincarnated in the next life."

Wu Yan remained silent and followed the team into the canyon.

The three checkpoints were left far behind.

Wu Yan memorized the layout of the checkpoint. Simple catapults, defensive spears, and iron-embedded chevaux de frise shields seemed to be the equipment of the government troops.

This is not a private mine.

At the end of the valley, there was a huge dark cave in front of him. When he stepped into the cave, the surroundings suddenly became dark. Wu Yan closed his eyes and barely adapted to the darkness, and then he saw a huge mine cave. The top of the cave was as high as a three-story building, and there were mine tunnels on the cave wall, and he didn't know where they led to.

There are mine cart tracks embedded in the ground, and they look brand new, as if they have not been used for too long.

The surrounding support wood is also new.

The ropes on their hands were untied, and all the workers were divided into several small teams and sent to different mine tunnels.

Wuyan entered the mine tunnel facing the cave entrance.

The mine foreman who came to lead the new workers led the group of people into a cave. The cave was connected to a small cave, and the foreman asked people to look at each one. Without exception, all the workers who had seen it lay on the side and vomited violently.

It was Wuyan's turn to step forward.

He took a look into the small hole that was only big enough for one person to pass through and was also shocked by the situation inside.

It was a corpse pit, filled with two or three skin-and-bone mummies, covered in tattered linen clothes. The stench of corpses was not strong, probably because of the dryness of the place.

The foreman said, "We all belong to the same mine, and I don't want to make things too difficult for you. Last month, someone led a rebellion and killed the mine foreman in an attempt to escape, and the result was that this big hole was filled. There are people guarding the mine closely, and you are all mortals, so it's better not to resist."

Wu Yan knew it well, and Boss Gu had guessed it right.

The work in the mine seemed very intense. Without much nonsense, each new worker was given a handful of manuscripts and sent to dig a hole. Wu Yan had never mined a mine, but he knew how to dig stones. Looking around, he chose a miner who looked weak but was generally in good condition, walked up to him and started working.

The man obviously had no strength left and was covered in sweat. He had to hit the stone with the pickaxe two or three times before he could chip off a small piece of stone.

"Where are you from?" Wu Yan asked.

The man immediately became alert, looked around, and made a hushing gesture to him.

Wu Yan walked away silently.

After a while, the man whispered, "I'm from a nearby village. Keep your voice down. If they catch miners talking in private, they will whip them."

Wu Yan frowned deeply.

"Isn't this a government mine? Why is it so..."

"What government mine? I've long called that damn thing... Alas." The laborer shook his head. "My name is Zhao Dabao, what's yours?"

"Shi Liu." Wu Yan said.

"Pomegranate?" Zhao Dabao smiled. "If you don't have children, I'm afraid it will be difficult for you to have many children."

"how do I say this?"

"This is a man-eating devil's den... It's just the difference between dying early and dying later." Zhao Dabao said, "We dig day and night, resting only for two hours a day, and not even a single piece of meat for meals. If people die, we will recruit another batch..."

"Where were those dead people taken?" Wu Yan asked.