I became beautiful by eating melons

Jiang Chen did not say that his injury had healed, but continued to ask: "The country does not allow private mining, how do they sell the minerals they dig?"

"There are many ways to do that." The old man sneered, "Register it with other villages that have mining licenses, pay a registration fee of three yuan per ton, and these ores can be completely "laundered."

Jiang Chen thought about what the old man said about not being able to go west, and said, "So the two villages in the west have mining licenses, and Changjia Village registered all the privately mined minerals under their names?"

The old man nodded in appreciation: "In addition to paying the registration fee, they can also contact the mine rats..."

Afraid that Jiang Chen didn’t understand, the old man explained: “That is, the ore middleman.”

Jiang Chen had mined in his previous life, so he was familiar with these words and nodded in agreement.

The old man continued, "These mining rats have private trafficking chains, and they can also "launder" these minerals, but it takes some effort."

"Chang Fei from Changjia Village borrowed the mine cart and said he was selling ore, but in fact he was selling people."

Jiang Chen immediately understood why Cheng Gang had been squatting in Changjia Village for so long but had never figured out how they were transporting people.

It turned out that when Changjia Village had gathered a certain number of people, Chang Fei took them to two other villages in Xishan, loaded them into mine carts, and transported them out under the pretext of selling ore.

"These beasts don't care about anything else for the sake of money," the old man cursed.

"Why do the two villages in the west cooperate with Changjia Village in human trafficking?" As far as Jiang Chen knew, the profits from selling mines were enough to support a village, and with the license, there was no need to take risks and participate in Changjia Village's human trafficking.

"Because... the current Changjia Village is fake." The old man's voice was gloomy.

Jiang Chen suddenly raised his head and stared at the old man.

"There's nothing to hide." The old man calmly turned the wooden stick with the meat on it. "Chang is a common surname. The so-called Changjia Village is actually the collective name of three villages. The other two villages in Xishan were originally called Changjia Village, but Changjia Village at the foot of the mountain didn't have a good relationship with the other two villages."

There are no mines on the mountain behind Changjia Village, but the mountain is covered with medicinal herbs. Relying on the collection and sale of herbs, the conditions in Changjia Village are much better than the other two villages.

Because of the mines, crops could not be grown and the other two villages were always on the brink of starvation.

Until a woman appeared...

"That woman discovered there were mines in the mountains, and since then people from the other two villages have started to secretly mine. At first they used the mines to exchange for food, and for a long time they were not discovered by the government, so they became more and more daring."

The people of Changjia Village were closest to the two villages, so they naturally noticed something was wrong.

In order to keep the secrets secret, the two villages recruited people from Changjia Village to join them.

They mined privately without any tools and had to prepare their own detonators, which resulted in frequent deaths.

The chief of Changjia Village saw the trick and didn't want to get involved, so he refused.

I never expected that it was because of my refusal that I was hated by people from the other two villages.

The people from the two villages kidnapped the people from Changjia Village at night, threw the men into the mines to dig, locked the women in the back mountain to be entertained by the beasts, and secretly sold all the children who didn't remember anything...

In five years, Changjia Village is still Changjia Village, but the people there have changed.

The other two villages also changed their names, one to Zhaojia Village and the other to Lijia Village.

Jiang Chen looked at the old man and asked in a deep voice, "You are the head of Changjia Village, right?"

The old man paused while turning over the fire with the tongs. He didn't admit it, but said, "I said so much just to tell you that the people in the mine are all vicious and cruel. You won't get any advantage by going alone, not to mention that you are injured now."

Jiang Chen was not scared off by the old man's words. He stood up slowly. His tall body was extremely oppressive. He lowered his trouser legs to cover the wound that had completely healed.

"You must have a way to sneak in without alerting the overseer."

He said it with certainty, his eyes filled with a determined gloom.

The old man stared intently at his legs, which were now able to move freely. He smiled when he heard Jiang Chen's words: "Because I escaped from the mine? After all these years, the route I escaped from might have been discovered and blocked by them."

Jiang Chen pointed to the pile of traps in the corner and said, "You stole these from the mine."

The mountains behind Changjia Village are connected together. Only the mountain in front is lush and green, while the two mountains behind are bare.

Jiang Chen had mined before and could tell at a glance that these two mountains were mines.

Based on his experience from his previous life, he successfully found the mine hidden in the mountains.

In order to prevent people from approaching the mine, the people of Changjia Village buried many animal traps around it.

The pile of animal traps collected by the old man were covered with black coal slag, and it was obvious at a glance that they were dug from near the mine.

After hearing his speculation, the old man did not deny it anymore. He shook his head and sighed, "Young people nowadays are not easy to fool."

"Even if I can find a way to get in," the old man said in a disapproving tone, "What can you do alone?"

Jiang Chen stretched his wrist, took down the crossbow that the old man had hung on the wall, and tried the tension of the bowstring.

"Don't worry, I'm just going in to check out the situation inside."

The old man pointed at his ankle and said, "I can tell you, but you have to tell me why your injury healed so quickly?"

The animal traps buried near the mine are iron clamps for hunting large animals. They have amazing bite force and once stepped on, bones can be seen.

An old man once stepped on it and his leg was lame for a whole year.

But the young man in front of him healed his wound in less than half an hour. It was amazing.

The old man had not been out of the village for a long time and had no idea about the situation outside Changjia Village. He believed that the country had developed some miracle medicine.

Jiang Chen did not hide it from him and lifted up his trouser leg to show the old man. He saw that the wound that was so deep that the bone could be seen had completely healed, leaving only the scar of the skin and flesh stretching.

He did not tell anyone about the powerful effects of Ye Rou's medicine, but only said: "I have had a good healing ability since I was a child."

The curiosity in the old man's eyes faded, and he explained the route to sneak into the mine as promised.

Jiang Chen shook the arrow and bow in his hand, "I'll send you to the west, old man, please lend me this one."

The old man rolled his eyes at him and waved his hand impatiently: "Take it away."

Cheng Gang only gave Jiang Chen two days of free time. Jiang Chen planned to sneak into the mine at night. He carried a bow and arrow on his back and suddenly asked before leaving: "The old man doesn't know your name yet."

"Come back alive and I'll tell you." The old man sat facing the fire, turning the pieces of meat over and over in his hands.

Jiang Chen didn't ask any more questions. He pointed at the fire and reminded, "The meat is burnt."

The old man took out the meat and found it was indeed mushy.

He looked up and the young man was no longer at the entrance of the cave.

As expected, I’m getting old. My eyes don’t work well and my nose can’t smell burnt food anymore.

But he had a vague feeling that the arrival of this young man might be able to completely dispel the haze hanging over Changjia Village.

On the other side, Jiang Chen put on the mask given by his wife, completely changing his appearance. Following the route given by the old man, he indeed found an abandoned mine along the west ditch. He moved away the weeds and indeed found a dark cave entrance.

Jiang Chen moved around and went into the mine.

After crawling in the dark and narrow cave for an unknown period of time, he heard the familiar clanging sound of mining.

Jiang Chen did not show his head rashly. Instead, he leaned his head out of the mine from a high vantage point and secretly observed the situation inside. When he caught a glimpse of two familiar figures among the miners, Jiang Chen raised his eyebrows.

Why are these two guys here?