Bianshanhan [farming]

On a snowy and windy night, several people broke into the stone house. Li Qingwen, who was sleeping, was carried onto the sledge, and he was fed a cold wind. He still didn't know what happened.

The sled was burning pine wood, and the sparks blown down by the wind covered Li Qingwen's face. The surroundings were dark, and the wind was blowing so hard that he couldn't open his eyes, and he couldn't see anything. About [-] people walked away. Stopping, he was carried down again.

There was snow under the feet, and then there were uneven stones. Finally, there was light in front of it. It seemed to be a large wooden door. The heavy wooden door was turned open, and Li Qingwen was pushed in.

Just as Li Qingwen struggled to get up, the door was closed again, and the person who arrested him turned his head and left.

Without a leather robe, Li Qingwen was frozen inside and out during the journey. He hugged his shoulders to inhale the air-conditioning and looked around.

This place looks like a big cave, with fire on the stone wall, and there are scattered fires in the distance. There should be other people here. He heard snoring and whispering.

It was so cold, Li Qingwen felt that he would not be able to survive the day, so he leaned on the stone wall and moved towards the nearest fire.

When he was about to walk there, his feet seemed to have stepped on something. Li Qingwen quickly raised his legs, and only when he heard the sound of breathing under his feet did he realize that he had stepped on someone.

But he didn't step on it just now, the other party was still sleeping and didn't wake up, just turned over.

He gave way to the open space, and Li Qingwen walked to the side of the fire smoothly. His internal injuries were not healed, and he felt severe pain as soon as he sat down, so he had to lie down with his body curled up.

Sure enough, once the body stretched out, the pain was not so great.

Listening to the sleeping sounds one after another next to him, there are no longer a small number of people here.

As his body warmed up, Li Qingwen thought about what happened just now. He was originally a captive, and it would not be surprising that he would be sent anywhere, but he didn't know how Lin Xiuyun was doing now.

Ever since I woke up and saw her on the first day, I haven't met her in the following days. I was sent here, so where was she sent?

Li Qingwen was thinking wildly, when a hoarse voice suddenly came from beside him, he was startled, and saw a person crawling up from the opposite side of the fire, looking at him as if he was asking something.

But Li Qingwen couldn't understand what he said, and didn't know how to answer it.

The man sat up, threw some firewood into the fire, and spoke again, still in an unfamiliar language.

Li Qingwen lay still and said, "I'm from Daliang. They arrested me. I can't understand what you're saying."

As soon as the firewood was added, the flames grew bigger. Li Qingwen saw that the person talking to him was an old man with a dirty face, his hair and body were in a mess. At first glance, his facial features were not much different from those of Daliang people. Both have black hair and black eyes.

"Daliang." The old man spoke again, and the two words were actually quite standard.

After many days, Li Qingwen felt something different when he heard the familiar words again. He didn't know if the old man could understand, so he asked, "What place is this?"

Li Qingwen didn't expect him to answer this question, he just wanted to talk to someone. It would be great if he could find out the whereabouts of Chen Wen and the others.

It's just that he didn't expect that the man actually answered him, "The mine."

He seemed to only be able to say these two words, and repeated them to Li Qingwen three times.

Li Qingwen was overjoyed. He heard from Lin Xiuyun that Chen Wen and the others were imprisoned here. It was a blessing in disguise for him, and this time he was able to meet them!

Thinking in this way, Li Qingwen thanked the old man and asked him if he had seen Chen Wen, but this time the old man couldn't understand and just kept shaking his head.

Li Qingwen's heart moved, and he said, "Old man, do you know Liu He? Liu He!"

As far as he knew, among the people captured by Luo Che State, apart from Daliang's officers and soldiers, there were also members of Liu He and his tribe. This person was not from Daliang, nor from Luo Che State. of.

But the old man didn't respond to the name, and Li Qingwen lay down disappointed until the people next to him got up.

The mine was very deep, and there was no light coming in at all. Li Qingwen didn't know how these people judged the time by burning things. After they got up, they heard someone knocking at the door, urging them What.

When the people who woke up heard the movement, they all ran to the door. After a while, Li Qingwen saw them holding bowls, so he knew it was time to eat.

Li Qingwen was also very hungry, but he dragged his body so he didn't dare to squeeze in with other people. When the others started to eat, he moved closer and found that there was nothing left.

Li Qingwen missed the first meal when he was thrown out, his bare feet were pricked by gravel a few times, he touched a few handfuls of hay and wrung it into a rough straw sandal.

After wearing the straw sandals, walking was still very uncomfortable and painful, but he didn't want to add more wounds to his body, so Li Qingwen could only endure it.

After eating, the wooden door was locked again with a bang, and everyone else put on their baskets, picked picks, and buckets, and walked into the mine with logs in their arms. Li Qingwen followed behind them.

When walking inside, Li Qingwen realized that the place was so big. Some of the tunnels dug out were wide enough to allow a carriage to pass through, while others were so narrow that one had to turn sideways to pass through.

The road is supported by logs in all directions, and in some places, logs are even piled from the ground to the top.

And on such a road with different widths, he walked more than 300 steps and came to a spacious place. Then he saw the people in front of him piled firewood beside the stone wall and lit a fire.

They were roasting the stone wall with fire, and Li Qingwen took advantage of this time to walk around, trying to find Chen Wen and others.

He just looked around, but didn't see a familiar face, and he suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.

While he was in a trance, the firewood burned out one after another, and those people poured water from the wooden barrels on the hot stone wall, and a gust of scalding heat rushed from all directions, Li Qingwen subconsciously took a few steps back.

After splashing the water, before the heat dissipated, they took the pickaxe and smashed it one after another. Large and small stones fell easily, and the stone chips splashed everywhere. They only felt a few pains on their faces, and Li Qingwen quickly stretched out his hand to block it.

It wasn't until those people put the smashed rocks into the back basket and carried it out that Li Qingwen knew that this was what he was going to do in the mine.

But he can hardly breathe now, and maybe he can't do anything except light the fire.

Without going back with the others, Li Qingwen looked around. This place was not completely closed, and there was a light in the slanted sky, which seemed to come in from the outside, but it was too far away, very hazy, and couldn't be seen clearly.

He moved his eyes to other places, trying to find a chance to escape, but only saw the thick stone wall, and the occasional golden light flashing on the stone wall.

Golden light?

Li Qingwen was stunned for a moment, touched the shining place, looked carefully, touched it again, a little unsure, is this a gold mine?

What he doubted was not his own eyes, but the technology here. Even if the ore with gold was taken out, could they extract gold from it?

It's better to find a place to pan for gold sand if you spend this effort.

Li Qingwen didn't know at this moment that Chen Wen and the others were digging for gold sand right now, and they were almost frozen into popsicles.

After Li Qingwen finished observing the inside, the group of ore deliverers came back again, and repeated what they did before, burning the stone wall, smashing stones, and turning their backs.

Li Qingwen asked if there was anyone from Liang, but no one responded, but the old man and a tall and thin man who had talked to him before came to Li Qingwen, and the tall and thin man said in an awkward accent: "No, no work, no Rice, no rice..."

Li Qingwen understood, thanked him, tried to bend down, and the stone was still lifted, and he retched a few times when he opened his mouth, but he didn't spit out anything, but it hurt his back and stomach, and the pain came out. Sweating all over.

Seeing Li Qingwen's appearance of falling down at any time, the tall and thin man asked him, "Injured, injured?"

Li Qingwen nodded and motioned him to take off his clothes. The old man and the tall thin man gasped when they saw the injury on his back.

After a long time, Li Qingwen couldn't hit the stone. At noon, the people in the mine exchanged the ore for food, and Li Qingwen couldn't even drink the northwest wind.

However, thanks to the fact that the mine is warm in winter and cool in summer, otherwise the little clothes he was wearing would not be able to withstand the wind and snow outside.

On the first day, Li Qingwen went hungry for three meals, became dizzy, and lay on the ground without strength.

He became familiar with this mine, and met Cui Yuan who knew some Daliang dialect, and the old man Jin who was the first to talk to him, and these two people turned out to be Puyu speakers.

Regardless of the two of them, in this mine, except for Li Qingwen, they are all people from all walks of life, it's just that the year of arrest is somewhat different.

After hearing about their identities, Li Qingwen was still on guard. After all, Puju and Daliang had an ambiguous relationship. Later, when he heard that they had been captured here for seven years, Li Qingwen was only angry and worried.

What is angry is the cruelty of people like Luo Cheguo, and what is worrying is that they have not been able to escape after being imprisoned for so many years, which shows how difficult it is to escape...

Although Cui Yuan's Daliang spoke poorly, from his mouth, Li Qingwen learned that there were dozens of mines in this mine, and the one they were in was only one of them.Moreover, when the weather is warm, most of them go out to pan for gold, and only enter the mine after it is windy and snowy.

The reason is simple. Working outside in such weather, many people will suffer from frostbite, fever, and die. Those people do not want slaves to die so easily, so there is such an arrangement.

Maybe it was because Li Qingwen was so pitiful. Early the next morning, Cui Yuan gave him two mouthfuls of pea soup. Because the food was limited, everyone couldn't eat enough, and he still had to work, so he couldn't give Li Qingwen too much.

In addition to pea soup, the workers also got a piece of smoked fish, which was not good at all, and Li Qingwen wanted to vomit when he smelled it, but he had no strength and his stomach was empty, so he couldn't vomit anything.