Chapter 74 This mine has clearly been opened...
This mine had clearly been excavated; it was a sophisticated underground facility. Rusty rails, like cold, giant pythons, stretched across the surface into the dark depths of the vein.
Along both sides of the track, several stone chambers were carved out of the rock wall. The first three chambers were equipped with steel doors with precision rotary locks. Japanese characters were painted on the doors in white paint, and they gleamed with a cold, hard luster under the light of military flashlights, which was out of place with the rough mine environment around them.
Yu Songchuan couldn't understand it and asked curiously, "What did the Japanese devils write?"
Lu Chenzhou shone his flashlight over the words on it and said, "This is the alchemy room." He then shone it on the somewhat corroded ventilation ducts, "There are gold refining equipment inside, and the several boxes of gold by the door are from this refining process."
Continuing further in, there are two armories, neither of which have windows, so you can't see inside.
Further inside were four stone chambers, the locks on which had been replaced with ordinary locks. One of the chambers looked more luxurious and even had a window. The curtains were not drawn at the moment, so one could see the scene inside: an iron-framed bed and a table with various kinds of food on it, though they were already rotten. Behind the bed were several iron cabinets, indicating that it was a high-class dormitory.
The other room was also very upscale, with a metal bunk bed and a table.
The other two rooms are dormitory rooms, with six bunk beds.
Yu Jiajia wanted to go further in, but Lu Chenzhou pulled her back by the wrist, saying, "You and your third sister go to the dormitory and see if any documents have been left behind."
Yu Jiajia looked into Lu Chenzhou's eyes, pursed her lips, and decided to listen to his advice and not go inside: "Okay."
Her eyes were exceptionally dark and bright, now veiled in a thin mist.
Lu Chenzhou sighed silently. They weren't even sure what lay deeper inside, and she was already on the verge of tears. He was only guessing at the worst-case scenario. He softened his tone and said, "This should be where the person in charge lives. Hopefully, they were in such a hurry that they didn't have time to destroy the data here."
He told Yu Jiajia to step back a few steps, then swung his entrenching tool and smashed the window lock with the sharp edge of the blade! With a crisp 'bang,' the glass shattered. He cleaned up the remaining glass shards, reached inside and felt around for a moment, then heard a soft 'click' from inside.
He withdrew his hand, then pulled hard. The rusty iron door creaked open with a teeth-grinding sound, and a foul, damp, and cold smell wafted out.
He Yuanzheng patted Yu Songchuan on the back of the head: "You should go too."
Yu Songchuan had already guessed what was going on, and he stubbornly said, "I'm not going."
Cheng Xiuying felt a little uneasy. Reason told her that she should go to the dormitory with her daughter to take a look, but her curiosity stopped her.
Lu Chenzhou and his group continued walking in, and at the deepest part of the passage, the scenery suddenly changed.
There were several large stone chambers side by side, but the doors were completely different. They were no longer heavy iron doors, but fences made of rough wood and thumb-thick iron bars, which looked more like cages.
There were no Japanese markings on the door, only a thick iron chain and a huge, rusted iron lock, like a venomous python, tightly coiling around the door and locking it securely.
The iron chain was choking everyone, making them suffocate.
He Yuanzheng: "Auntie, you keep an eye on Jiajia."
There's no need to stay and watch scenes that are too heavy; it only adds to the sorrow. That's history that can't be changed.
Cheng Xiuying gritted her teeth, wishing she could stab those beasts who had caused all this to death. She couldn't imagine what kind of scene it was. Her fingers were trembling. She couldn't stand it any longer and pulled Yu Songchuan back.
Yu Songchuan was reluctant to leave. "Mom, let go of me. I need to go inside and help."
He knew, but he had to see it.
Cheng Xiuying really couldn't persuade her youngest son, so she simply gave up on him.
Yu Jiajia and Yu Jiamin walked into the high-class dormitory together; it was truly exquisite and luxurious.
The room was quite large, about seven or eight square meters. Next to the window was an iron shelf, and the top two shelves were neatly stacked with cigarettes printed with foreign languages, bottled sake, various canned fruits, canned luncheon meat, and some other bottles and jars of food that I couldn't understand.
Further down were various dehumidifier boxes. Inside were all sorts of Japanese books. Another box contained thick notebooks and stacks of documents, the pages of which were severely yellowed and brittle, covered with dense penmanship and scribbled diagrams.
The bottom dehumidifier box contained gold, a large amount of heavy gold.
Yu Jiajia felt a churning in her stomach and felt nauseous.
The room reeked of a foul stench, not just from the dust, mold, and rotting wood in the air, but from a deeper, psychological stench.
She could almost see a man in a Japanese officer's uniform leisurely drinking sake, eating canned food, and flipping through a notebook recording mineral data in this room, while outside the window, perhaps, his enslaved compatriots were digging for gold for him in the dark and dreary mines.
Every inch of air here is soaked with the greed of the plunderers and the blood and tears of the enslaved.
Every item in the room reeked of a nauseating stench.
No matter how dazzling the wealth here is, it cannot conceal its inherent filth.
Yu Jiajia possesses the soul of a person from a later life. She has witnessed firsthand the strength of her motherland, its cutting-edge technology leading the world, and its People's Liberation Army awe-inspiring in all directions. No force dares to easily provoke the motherland.
The sunshine of peace shines on every corner, and prosperity and dignity belong to every Chinese person.
Standing atop this gold mine once plundered by invaders, she felt a surge of deep respect for the martyrs. Every inch of land beneath her feet was once the land they had fought and defended with their lives.
But our motherland is not strong enough.
May our motherland rise up soon, so that past humiliations may forever become history, and the Chinese nation may soon stand at the top of the world.
She was just an ordinary person, somewhat smart, but not a genius; she couldn't make the country prosper through science and technology.
But she has a system.
The Five Animal Frolics is just the beginning; the Qingnang Book will surely find a suitable time to be revealed.
She believes that the future system will be able to offer even more valuable things.
Footsteps could be heard outside; Cheng Xiuying had returned.
She looked at the things in the room but had no interest in searching. She felt a surge of anger rising to her head, spat fiercely, put her hands on her hips, and started cursing: "You son of a bitch! You really know how to enjoy life! Why don't you drink yourself to death or smoke yourself to death! You beast that deserves to be struck by lightning!" The more she cursed, the angrier she became, and she raised her leg to kick the iron frame.
Yu Jiajia quickly stopped her: "Mom, don't kick it! These are all evidence, they're all useful."
These are irrefutable pieces of evidence for recording history and holding criminals accountable.
Cheng Xiuying kicked the ground hard. She bent over, her liver and stomach aching with anger, and she had nowhere to vent her rage.
Yu Jiajia and Yu Jiamin knew without asking what might exist at the deepest level.
That is the cruelest tragedy left by history.
Yu Jiajia and Yu Jiamin searched the entire room, and Yu Jiajia even found a hidden compartment containing a locked small box.
The gold is just lying around outside; what could be inside?
The things inside must be very precious.
The room had already been searched. Cheng Xiuying picked up an iron stool and smashed open the window next door. The three of them went into the next room.
Unlike the previous room, which was designed for comfort, this room resembled a technician's room, filled with books and documents.
There was also a calligraphy scroll hanging on the wall, written in Japanese, but I didn't know what it said.
The metal cabinet was also covered with moisture-proof boxes. The first box contained Japanese books, while the following boxes contained various cultural relics and books looted from the motherland.
Yu Jiajia hesitated for a moment, wondering whether to put the Qingnang Book in, but then gave up.
The Qingnang Book contains the Five Animal Frolics.
She needed to find a reasonable source for the Five Animal Frolics, and the Qingnang Book was the most suitable.
After Yu Jiajia and the other two had inspected all four dorm rooms, He Yuanzheng and the others returned, their expressions heavy.
Yu Songchuan walked up to Yu Jiajia with his head down and took her hand. "Sister."
Like a little dog.
Yu Jiajia tiptoed and ruffled Yu Songchuan's hair, then slipped him a piece of milk candy.
Yu Songchuan couldn't eat the candy. He forced a relaxed smile and said, "Brother Chenzhou said the gold content of the vein is very high, and not much has been mined yet. They may have only managed to mine the first batch of gold and haven't had time to transport it out yet. Now it all belongs to our country! With this batch of gold, our country can definitely do many, many things."
Yu Jiajia also forced a smile: "That's great."
Yu Jiamin then said, "That's great."
Lu Chenzhou and the others looked through the dormitory. Yu Jiajia pointed to one of the small boxes and said, "It was found in a hidden compartment. It must be quite valuable."
Lu Chenzhou took careful notes.
The first three rooms were locked by tight rotary locks that couldn't be opened, so experts had to come and decipher them.
Therefore, it's time to leave.
He Yuanzheng left Qin Shuo and the other two here; the place was full of gold, and it would be troublesome if someone else discovered it.
Yu Songchuan also wanted to stay, as he wanted to be involved in what followed. If he went down the mountain with them, there would be no part of his life afterward.
He Yuanzheng nodded in agreement.
The path down the mountain wasn't the same as the one up the mountain. It was a shorter route, but we still couldn't get out in an afternoon, so we had to camp on the mountain that night.
Cheng Xiuying slaughtered the pheasant she had caught earlier and made a mushroom and chicken soup.
Yu Jiajia sat by the lake fishing. She didn't use any all-purpose fish bait, but instead put a little bit of sesame seed cake on her hook. She didn't catch a single fish for a long time.
Lu Chenzhou: "There are times when you can't catch any fish?"
Yu Jiajia: "Everyone has times when they can't catch a fish."
The next moment, she felt a pull on the fishing rod. She lifted the rod, and a large carp had taken the bait.
Yu Jiajia was astonished. You can even fish with a sesame seed cake?
Lu Chenzhou: "We'll have fish for dinner tonight!" He took the carp off the plate, stunned it with a dagger, quickly cleaned it, and added a grilled fish.
There were five of them in total, and a grilled fish and a pot of chicken soup were enough for them.
That night, they encountered a pack of wolves, eight in total. Cheng Xiuying had been holding back her anger all afternoon, but upon seeing the wolves, she became even more excited than they were, grabbing a wooden stick and charging at them.
With one blow, a wolf was sent flying, its head flattened.
Yu Jiamin, holding an entrenching tool, rushed forward and kicked a wolf that pounced on her. The wolf was sent flying several meters away and fell to the ground.
The other wolves were terrified and turned to run away.
Yu Jiajia:! ! !
I witnessed Cheng Xiuying and Yu Jiamin's bravery once again!
Cheng Xiuying was overjoyed; this was truly exhilarating. She brought back both dead wolves and asked, "Can we eat wolf meat?"
She had never seen a wolf before.
He Yuanzheng: "Wolf meat is coarse and has a strong, unpleasant smell. It also makes you susceptible to disease, so I don't recommend eating it. However, wolf skin is a good thing. It's sturdy, warm, and very valuable."
Cheng Xiuying had never skinned wolves before, but with He Yuanzheng's technical guidance, she managed to skin both wolves completely.
Yu Jiajia wasn't very interested in this and went back to sleep.
The next day, at the crack of dawn, everyone set off early. They were very lucky along the way, catching a silly-looking deer, and Yu Jiajia also spotted a wild ginseng.
She took out a red string from her pocket and tied it to the wild ginseng. Cheng Xiuying carefully dug out the wild ginseng, and dug it out very well, with the ginseng roots not being damaged much.
Cheng Xiuying was overjoyed. "This is ginseng! It looks so beautiful!"
Yu Jiajia nodded repeatedly: "It's beautiful! It would be even more beautiful if it were a bit bigger. This one looks over twenty years old." It's not nearly as good as the one that was ravaged by the wild boar, but it's still lucky to have found one.
There's only one wild ginseng, so of course it belongs to Yu Jiajia!
Around noon, they finally descended the mountain.
After another two-hour drive, Lu Chenzhou dropped Yu Jiajia and the other two off at the entrance of the courtyard house, and then he and He Yuanzheng left.
Watching the car drive away, Cheng Xiuying thought to herself, "How much have these two benefited from Sibao? How are they so lucky?"
However, things always have to be done by someone, and the Yu family really couldn't do it.
Fortunately, Lu Chenzhou and He Yuanzheng are genuinely people who care about the people. They are upright and honest, and would never embezzle public funds or allow others to take advantage of them.
All the gold produced from this mine will be used for the construction of our motherland and for the benefit of our people.
They will not deny the merits of Si Bao; what belongs to Si Bao will always belong to Si Bao.
The mother and her two daughters hurried home with bamboo baskets on their backs, the baskets filled with good things! Luckily, it was during working hours, and they didn't run into anyone in the yard.
As soon as Cheng Xiuying arrived at her doorstep, she was about to knock when Grandma Yu opened the door from the inside. She exclaimed with delight, "You're back! Come in quickly! Oh dear, you're so dirty! Did you roll around in the mud?"
Cheng Xiuying and Yu Jiamin took the bamboo baskets down. Cheng Xiuying said, "We've been on the mountain for three days, of course we're dirty."
Grandma Yu quickly checked the contents of the bamboo baskets. She first looked at Yu Jiamin's basket, which contained mushrooms, wild onions, and wild garlic on top. When she turned over the mushrooms and saw what was inside, she was stunned: "This is a wolf pelt? Where did it come from? This is a deer pelt? Oh dear, how come there are two live rabbits too?"
Cheng Xiuying: "We encountered a pack of wolves at night. We killed two of them, but we couldn't eat the wolf meat, so we threw it away. The wolf pelts are valuable."
Grandma Yu stared in disbelief: "You killed him?"
Cheng Xiuying: "Mm."
It wasn't mentioned that Yu Jiamin killed one of them.
Girls can be all about fighting and killing all day, but don't tell anyone.
Grandma Yu: !!!
Her daughter-in-law is something else! She can kill two wolves!
Old Yu held back for a while, but his wife didn't ask about the important matter. So he asked, "How's it going?"
Cheng Xiuying smiled: "It's settled! Our family will only get better and better in the future."
Old Yu grinned, "That's great, that's great." Now, when he walks outside, his old friends are all incredibly polite to him.
Grandma Yu was also delighted. She looked at another bamboo basket and saw the roe deer meat at the bottom: "Oh my, this is roe deer? It's so heavy! How much meat is in this?"
How are we going to eat all this meat?
Cheng Xiuying: "It must weigh more than 20 kilograms after peeling."
"How are you all so capable! This is amazing! There are so many good things on the mountain!" Grandma Yu exclaimed repeatedly, then added, "Look at me, I forgot to ask if you've eaten yet? I'll cook some dumplings for you. Your eldest brother delivered five catties of fine grains this morning, and I was thinking of making dumplings. I've already made some; shall I cook them for you?"
Cheng Xiuying: "I'm going to make dumplings. You and Dad, clean up this meat. This afternoon, we'll send a wild rabbit to my eldest brother's family, and also cut five catties of roe deer meat. We'll also give them some mushrooms, but do it discreetly, so no one sees us."
These are all from the mountains, so don't let anyone report us.
Grandma Yu smiled broadly: "I understand, so don't worry."
Cheng Xiuying went to the kitchen and cooked a basket of round dumplings. After they boiled three times, she rinsed them in cold water. The mother and her two daughters ate the dumplings with vinegar. They were made with cured pork and had some diced ham inside, making them especially fragrant.
Yu Jiajia: "Grandma, your dumplings smell so good! Dumplings made with fine flour are the best!"
Grandma Yu beamed from ear to ear: "Eat as much as you like. From now on, we'll have your uncle's family send you refined grains. We have so much roe meat at home, I'll make you roe-filled buns tonight! They'll be even more delicious than this."
Yu Jiajia said sweetly, "Thank you, Grandma." She was full after eating a dozen or so, and the rest went into the stomachs of Cheng Xiuying and Yu Jiamin.
After eating, washing up, and changing her clothes, Cheng Xiuying went to work.
Yu Jiamin was much more meticulous; she washed her hair and took a shower before going to school.
Yu Jiajia was even more meticulous. She washed her hair, took a bath in her room, changed into clean and refreshing clothes, and rolled around on the bed. Sleeping in bed was still the most comfortable.
She's not going to work; she needs to stay home and rest for a while. She'll go tomorrow.
As Grandma Yu carried her bamboo basket out the door, she said to Yu Jiajia, "Jiajia, your grandpa is inside. If you need anything, just let him know. And if you're going out, call him too. Don't let his age fool you; he's not afraid of bad people. I'm going to your uncle's house to bring him some scallions and garlic sprouts."
Yu Jiajia said, "Grandma, drive carefully." She also gave Grandma Yu a handful of melon seeds and a handful of fruit candies for her to eat on the way.
Grandma Yu smiled, her face full of wrinkles, "Look at you, I'm not a child anymore."
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Author's note: Goodnight
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