If you work hard in a quarry, you can earn 1.5 yuan a day at most.

The quarry will withhold wages for three days, and wages will be settled on a daily basis starting from the fourth day.

If you work without a break for a month, your income will be very considerable.

Because they can make cash, people working there are very motivated.

The quarry also has a strange rule: you can only go down the mountain once a month.

Therefore, everyone who goes up the mountain to work will bring enough supplies for one month and then live in a simple shed on the mountain.

Every night someone would check everyone's accommodation situation. If anyone secretly went down the mountain, not only would three days' salary be deducted, but the person would also be fired directly.

Outsiders are not allowed to go up the mountain in the quarry and will be driven away immediately if they are found.

If a relative works in the mountains, he or she will be fired at the same time.

Therefore, except for the holiday day every month, it is rare to see workers coming down the mountain.

People who go there seem to have disappeared. If they weren't able to see them once a month, their family members would have suspected that they didn't exist.

If the money wasn't enough, most people wouldn't be able to stand the loneliness and would have run away long ago.

The quarry also knows what everyone is thinking, so there is a very strict requirement: anyone who does not go down the mountain as required will be fired and will never be hired again.

You have to know that it was the 1970s and it was very difficult to find a decent job.

Most people make a living from the loess soil, and only a small number of people have formal jobs, and their income and social status are far above them.

If they can keep their jobs at the quarry, they won't have to worry about their elderly family members getting medicine or their children going to school.

The man in the family works in a quarry. Although his wife is essentially a widow, she is rich.

It’s okay to live without a man, but it’s not okay to live without money.

Therefore, work in the quarry is very popular in their village, and everyone signs up enthusiastically every time a job opening is available.

Sometimes, when one vacancy is released, forty or fifty people sign up at the same time. They need to pass various exams and only those who meet the requirements can be admitted.

Based on the plots he had watched before, Jiang Li had always suspected that there was something strange about his father's death. And his mother just went up the mountain to look for someone, so how could she disappear for no reason?

Because of the strict rules of the quarry, and the fact that he had just given birth and his sister was missing, Jiang Li had no time to look for her.

Seeing the explosion, Jiang Li's mind became active.

Villagers whose families work in the quarry do not dare to go up the mountain on their own initiative, but because the quarry has limited employees, most people in the village do not work there.

Everyone can only give money and benefits and ask others to help them check the situation.

Some people came out of curiosity. They had never been to a quarry in their lives and wanted to go and see what the excitement was like.

As a result, more than 10 people went up the mountain.

Jiang Li originally planned to go back to take care of the child, but when he saw this situation, he immediately followed the crowd.

Jiang Li was wearing a blue cloth work suit and a military green hat on her head. She also smeared some mud on her face. She looked so dusty that even people who knew her would hardly recognize her.

Everyone was excitedly discussing what happened while they were on their way.

They were all entrusted to go up the mountain by their relatives and friends. Their relatives did not work in the quarry, so the atmosphere on the scene was quite lively.

Jiang Li lowered her head silently and did not participate in the discussion from beginning to end. She just listened quietly to what they said.

Because there was no official road leading to the mountain in Jiangjia Village, they had to walk on a rugged path all the way, and it took more than an hour to reach their destination.

When they arrived near the quarry, this small stone mine in Jiangjia Village had become a pile of ruins.

The stones are heavy and huge, so explosives are usually used when mining them.

The quarry is so far away from the village that even a normal blast wouldn't make a particularly loud sound.

The explosion they had heard earlier at the foot of the mountain was clearly abnormal.

Not only was the sound loud, but there was also a mushroom cloud. The power of this explosion was ten to twenty times greater than usual.

After the explosion, the mine owner immediately ordered those who were still alive to stay in their rooms, and only a small number of people participated in the rescue.

But how many people can survive such a tragic explosion?

The villagers were about to go over to help when they suddenly saw a bloody man found from the boulder.

Without saying a word, these people carried the man and threw him off a cliff not far away.

Jiang Li, who was following behind the crowd, widened his eyes and looked at the scene in surprise.

They are not saving people, they are clearly killing people to silence them!

The others also gasped in fear, and the person who was about to walk out silently took back his steps.

The rescue work is now coming to an end, but only a small number of people have been saved.

They had already wasted some time when they went up the mountain. Now more than an hour had passed, and they didn't know how many lives they had killed.

Some of the hot-tempered ones wanted to rush out and settle the score with them, but were grabbed by the back by others.

"Don't go, don't go, going now is suicide!"

"Why? Why are they so shameless? No wonder so few people who go to work in the quarry come back every year. I used to think they made money and moved out of town, but now I realize they've been secretly exploited."

Not only that, there were several fully armed men standing not far away.

These men all had hunting rifles in their hands, which were loaded and ready to kill the villagers at any time.

When everyone saw these people, their heads were buzzing. At this time, a clear voice suddenly came from the crowd.

The voice was small and very pleasant, but the words that came out of it made their heads rumble.

"Are most of the people from our village who work in the quarry from poor families? Are the men who go there the pillars of their families?"

It was Jiang Li who was speaking. Although the villagers saw the truth, their brains were unable to react. Jiang Li had to add a few buckets of hot water to the boiling oil to make them react quickly.

The people in the village are simple and honest, but not fools. After Jiang Li's reminder, some people suddenly reacted.

Every time the quarry recruits workers, they are asked to fill out a family situation questionnaire.

Most people in the village cannot write, so there are special people to investigate them.

Every time after asking basic questions, there would be no news for several days. Then, the people who were notified for the next interview were mostly from poor families or orphans.

Some are combinations of grandsons and grandmothers, and some are adult orphans with no contact between their parents and siblings.

In other words, if the man in the family dies, the entire family will collapse.

But this is only what we see on the surface. In reality, after the man died, no one stood up for him.

So many people died and no one was held accountable. Maybe it was because of this that this unscrupulous quarry was able to exist for so many years!