He rubbed his still aching jaw, then knelt on the ground: "Sister, I'm willing to tell you anything. Please spare my life. I have a sixty-year-old mother at home..."
"Stop, stop, stop... Let's get to the point! Where is this? Why were we abducted here?"
The yamen runner trembled and said, "This is a mine. You are allowed to mine it!"
Tang Youyou's eyes lit up: "Mine? What mine?"
The bailiff's eyes widened; he actually saw a look of surprise in the woman's eyes.
"It's a silver mine!"
"Hey! It looks like this isn't the first time you've done this, is it?"
The yamen runner quickly shook his head: "No, this is my first time, and it's also for my seriously ill mother at home..."
Tang Youyou pursed his lips: I don't believe you at all.
The men here had already untied the ropes on their hands and feet and gathered around. Their faces turned as black as the bottom of a pot as they looked at the yamen runner, and their hands clenched into fists at the same time, as if they were going to beat him up the next moment.
The bailiff was about to cry: "I...I really didn't lie to you. You'd better escape quickly before it gets dark."
Tang Youyou complained in her heart: Run away? Don't want this ready-made money? Do you think I'm a fool?
“How many people are here?”
The yamen runner hesitated for a moment, then closed his eyes and replied obediently: "There are more than a hundred people in total, and we have more than twenty of them!"
She thought of the vague words she heard when she fainted yesterday, that twenty victims died in one day, and a thousand horses galloped through her heart.
The Wumu County Magistrate is truly audacious. Isn't he afraid of an investigation from higher authorities? Or is there someone behind the scenes who's behind this?
What the hell, this is really disregarding human life. Are disaster victims not human beings? Do disaster victims deserve to be bullied? What are they being beaten for?
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. His chest kept heaving, and he kicked the yamen runner: "Bah! What a heartless thing!"
He looked at Butcher Zhang and whispered softly, "Take them down the mountain now and meet up with Dalang and the others ten miles outside the city."
Butcher Zhang nodded and reacted: "You're not leaving?"
Tang Youyou shook her head: "There are still so many disaster victims here, are we just going to watch them die without helping them?"
Butcher Zhang looked at her in confusion. This didn't seem like her nature. Wasn't it normal to watch someone in danger and not help?
She only told everyone: "Follow Brother Zhang down the mountain and listen to him!"
He looked at Xu Da and Tang Wen: "You two stay!"
He kicked the bailiff's leg and said, "Take them away obediently. I'm telling you, my eldest brother is even more brutal than me!"
The bailiff followed her gaze and saw Butcher Zhang staring at him with a smile on his face, his fingers stroking the sharp blade.
"Huh? I've killed wolves and wild boars before. Sister, what do you think it feels like to kill someone?"
Tang Youyou's mouth twitched. This guy is pretending. Not to mention, he looks quite intimidating.
The yamen runner was shaking like a sieve, terrified: "Don't kill me... Don't kill me..."
Butcher Zhang grabbed him by the collar and said, "If you obey me, I won't kill you. Otherwise..."
The bailiff nodded vigorously: "I'll take you down the mountain. I know a small path that leads directly out of the city..."
In this way, everyone took advantage of the night and went down the mountain with the yamen runners.
Xu Da was extremely puzzled: "Sister, what do you want to do?"
"Brother Xu, you're so smart, you can guess it, right?"
Xu Da swallowed his saliva and complained in his heart: I don't believe that you would risk your life to save those disaster victims you don't know. I'm afraid you want to rob me.
But before he could say it, Tang Wen said with a smile: "Sister, do you want to rob the silver mine?"
Tang Youyou chuckled: "I'm really stupid to say you're stupid. This silver mine is in the mountains. I can't rob it even if I want to. I'm going to take you to search for silver."
Tang Wen: My sister is getting more and more shameless. How can she justify robbery so confidently? But it sounds very exciting.
Xu Da looked at the unconscious yamen runner on the ground: "What should we do with him?"
“Save it for the New Year!”
Xu Da understood and looked around the room for a stick.
Tang Wen's eyes widened. "Brother Xu, what are you looking for? What are you guys talking about in sign language?"
Tang Youyou held her forehead, waved her hand, and stepped on the neck of the yamen runner. The latter died in a few breaths.
"Let's go! Let's turn this mine upside down tonight!"
The three of them swaggered out of the thatched house, but they were dumbfounded when they came out. They could see a lot of stones in the moonlight, but that was all.
"This mine is quite large!"
"What should we do next?" Tang Wen asked a soul-searching question.
Tang Youyou thought for a moment: "I guess those officers and soldiers haven't rested yet. Maybe they are drinking and playing finger-guessing games? Let's find a place with light!"
Isn't that how it's played out in TV dramas? The scorching heat was unbearable, and drinking was probably the only pleasure these soldiers had in the mountains.
She guessed correctly. At this moment, more than a dozen officers and soldiers were sitting around two tables, toasting each other.
"Hey! I heard that more than 30 men were sent here today. Has anyone of you gone to see them?"
"I went to check, and they were still asleep!"
"Let's starve for a day, and then tomorrow at noon, everyone will come and carry the stones."
"I heard there's a woman?" An officer showed a lewd expression.
The soldier shook his head and said, "I went to see him. He was as thin as a bamboo pole, with not a single piece of meat on him. His face was as black as the bottom of a pot. I couldn't even see his face. He also smelled terrible!"
"Aren't all disaster victims like this? You thought she was a girl from Chunxianglou, haha..."
Tang Youyou behind the boulder touched her face silently, then smelled herself. Well, you know what, it did stink.
Maybe I'm used to it. I only washed it twice in a month, but my hair has become clumpy.
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