The gate was broken, and now there were a dozen miners who knew carpentry working to repair it.
The two exchanged glances and ran in the direction they came from! "Stop!"
A sergeant of the miners called them over.
The two turned around.
Wei Ting used his superb acting skills to block Su Xiaoxiao behind him, and pointed to the bushes not far away with a guilty and fearful look: "There... is something there."
The sergeant looked into the bushes.
Wow, a silver ingot! No wonder the two rushed over, they wanted to grab the silver!
There is another sergeant here to supervise.
He didn't want to share the money with the other party.
He cleared his throat and shouted in a low voice: "Why don't you get back to work? If you dare to say one more word——"
Wei Ting hurriedly said: "Don't dare!"
He took Su Xiaoxiao's hand and walked to the entrance.
Someone was pushing a cart to carry the planks.
"Leave it to us."
Wei Ting volunteered to take the car.
This is a strenuous job.
The man looked at Wei Ting strangely. Since someone was willing to push it, he would be more than happy to do so.
Wei Ting was pushing the cart, and Su Xiaoxiao pretended to help him.
The two of them cooperated tacitly and walked towards the inside of the mine.
Along the way, the two met many miners, most of whom were ragged and thin.
“They’re not having a very good time.”
Su Xiaoxiao said, "I heard from Uncle Quan that when Old Master Cheng was alive, there were no miners in the mines. There were only long-term and short-term workers who earned money by their physical labor. Later, after the mines were controlled by the Xue, Feng, and Mu families, they gradually became miners."
Wei Ting pushed the cart: "Transfer?"
Su Xiaoxiao nodded: "Yes, if you want to continue working in the mine, you have to sign a slave registration and get a sum of money for selling your body. Those who don't want to be slaves will be sent away by the mine for various reasons. Later, they simply bought miners from outside."
Wei Ting was alert to the movements around him and asked calmly, "Do you want to buy it from the human traffickers or from the prison?"
“You understand it quite well.”
Su Xiaoxiao looked at him with admiration, "Half and half, most of the death row prisoners in the cell were exiled here to be miners."
Wei Ting glanced at her and said, "Is this why you must take back the mineral vein?"
Su Xiaoxiao paused and said, "Not entirely. The mineral vein originally belonged to the Cheng family. It's understandable that I took it back for my grandmother."
She is neither a bodhisattva nor a savior.
She just felt that a gentleman should earn money in a proper way.
Wei Ting said nothing more.
She always said he was stubborn, but wasn't she the same?
The world is so big, and she is just doing her best to protect the little justice in her heart.
She thought herself to be nothing special.
But I don’t know how many people were saved.
Pushing the empty cart was somewhat eye-catching, so Wei Ting put some wooden boards and stones into it.
The two tried their best to avoid the patrolling guards and gradually moved forward along the route shown on the map.
When turning a corner in a ravine, Wei Ting abandoned the cart there.
The mine was quite far away, and Cheng Sang was smart enough to remember the winding route.
As they walked further and further away, the two began to display their lightness skills.
If Su Xiaoxiao doesn't meet the patrolling guards, she will do it herself.
If they meet, Wei Ting will give her a ride.
After walking like this for a quarter of an hour, Wei Ting was surprised to find that her lightness skills had improved a lot compared to when she was at Suibei Pass.
"Have you been practicing Qinggong at the Cheng family recently?"
Wei Ting asked.
"No." Su Xiaoxiao wondered, "Why do you ask this suddenly?"
Wei Ting said coldly: "Nothing."
Su Xiaoxiao blinked: "Ah, do you think my Qinggong is better than before?"
Wei Ting neither admitted nor denied it.
Su Xiaoxiao said strangely: "It seems that it is not my illusion. I thought I had lost weight again and my body became lighter. It is strange to say, after I was hit by the inner force of the saint last time, all the tendons in my body seem to be opened up."
Wei Ting's mouth twitched.
Su Li was hit by the saint's palm and lost half his life.
If Su Li knew that you had opened up the Ren and Du meridians, he would have vomited blood.
“Someone is coming!”
Wei Ting collected his thoughts in time and jumped onto a big tree with Su Xiaoxiao.
A patrolling team of guards passed by under the tree.
One of them was holding a food box.
Su Xiaoxiao sniffed it.
It smells like butter and osmanthus cake.
The most urgent task is to find out the secret of the abandoned mine, and Su Xiaoxiao didn't take the box of food seriously.
After the guards walked away, the two returned to the ground.
But before he had taken two steps, someone else came over.
This time it wasn't coming from the front, but from the direction of the entrance.
The two had no choice but to return to the tree again.
To the couple's surprise, the visitor turned out to be Xue Ping, the head of the Xue family.
Xue Ping's martial arts skills are not weak.
The two of them restrained their breathing in time and even held their breath.
Xue Ping passed by the big tree and headed southeast.
And that is where the abandoned mine is located.
Su Xiaoxiao and Wei Ting exchanged glances.
Xue Ping also went to check out the secret.
Su Xiaoxiao looked at Xue Ping's receding back and whispered, "This Xue Ping is really capable. Has he guessed our purpose?"
Wei Ting also glanced at Xue Ping: "He guessed a little bit, but he had no evidence, and he was worried that we would secretly go to the mine to dig up secrets if we disagreed."
Su Xiaoxiao touched her chin and said, "So he went to check if the secret had been exposed?"
"It should be." Wei Ting said, "Let's find a place to hide first and wait until he finishes the inspection."
The two found a valley nearby.
After waiting for nearly half an hour, Xue Ping turned back from the direction of the abandoned mine.
After Xue Ping disappeared, Su Xiaoxiao opened the map and said, "We are here now. The mine should not be far away. Why did he take so long? Is it just a passage and the real secret is hidden in a more distant place?"
Both of them thought of the secret room of the previous dynasty in Suibei Pass.
Su Xiaoxiao murmured: "If this is true, I'm afraid there will be some trouble."
Wei Ting said: "Let's go in and take a look first."
The two walked forward cautiously.
Half a quarter of an hour later, the two arrived at the entrance of the mine passage.
This place is locked with iron fence.
Wei Ting used his inner strength to pull open the iron fence.
After the two of them went in, he used his inner strength to restore the iron fence.
The passage is deep and darker as you go deeper.
Su Xiaoxiao took out a small flashlight from her purse.
Wei Ting has become accustomed to these strange little things.
He took it and led the way.
The two of them walked forward along the passage.
They came to the first fork in the road.
"Left or right?" Su Xiaoxiao asked.
"Right." Wei Ting said.
Soon, they came to the second fork in the road.
Wei Ting said: "Left."
The third fork is right.
This is how Cheng Sang drew it.
After entering the last passage, they walked for a full quarter of an hour.
"It's the end," Wei Ting said. "There's no way out."
Su Xiaoxiao asked: "How is it drawn on the map?"
Wei Ting said: "There are only three forks on the map."
Su Xiaoxiao looked around and said, "So, it should be around here."
Wei Ting patted the wall at the end: "It's solid, there's nothing behind it."
The two began to photograph the side wall.
Su Xiaoxiao patted her hands and kneeled down with her ears pressed to the ground.
After a while, she waved to Wei Ting: "Wei Ting, come here and listen!"
Wei Ting came over, knelt down and listened attentively.
"It's the sound of water."
He said.
There is running water behind the corner.
"You get up first." He helped Su Xiaoxiao and asked her to stand behind him.
He leaned down again and tapped the corner with his hand.
"It's hollow. There must be a way in here."
As soon as he finished speaking, Su Xiaoxiao's eyes trembled: "Be careful!"
An arrow suddenly shot towards Wei Ting.
Wei Ting raised his hand and grabbed the arrow that almost hit his forehead.
Wei Xu had just used this trick this morning.
He learned it.
But the danger is not over.
Countless mechanisms suddenly appeared on the passage they came from, and arrows flew towards the two of them.
Wei Ting blocked Su Xiaoxiao behind him, drew the sword from his waist, swung up the sword, and cut down every arrow!
When the last arrow flew over, he stepped onto the wall and did a roundhouse kick, knocking the arrow away.
After landing steadily on the ground, he turned around and asked Su Xiaoxiao behind him: "Are you hurt?"
"No."
Su Xiaoxiao put on silver silk gloves.
The second wave of hidden weapons attacked.
This time it was not arrows, but poison darts flying like flying flowers.
Both in the front and back.
Wei Ting blocked most of it.
Su Xiaoxiao caught one with her bare hands.
She narrowed her eyes and said, "That Xue guy has been here for so long, isn't he setting up a trap?"
Su Xiaoxiao looked at the venom on the dart that had not yet dried up, and still retained a faint scent of osmanthus cake.
It seems that those guards were pretending to be transporting food, but they were really transporting venom.
Su Xiaoxiao asked, "We haven't done anything yet, why is Xue Ping so defensive?"
Wei Ting said: "It shouldn't be our relationship, it's Cheng Sang. Cheng Sang is related to the secret in the mine. She came to the mine suddenly, and Xue Ping and others were worried that she remembered something and couldn't sit still."
"There shouldn't be any hidden weapons."
"Don't move!"
Wei Ting suddenly spoke in a low voice.
Su Xiaoxiao stopped.
Wei Ting clenched his sword calmly: "There is a poisonous snake."
He slashed with his sword.
The venomous snake was killed on the spot.
“It’s a Gu.”
Su Xiaoxiao wrote this.
She sensed the scent of Gu.
How strange, she hadn't noticed it before.
"If it's a Gu, I'm not afraid."
Su Xiaoxiao took off a sachet from her waist and smiled, "Yin Xiaodie gave it to me. It's three feet in radius and is immune to all poisons!"
Wei Ting: “Oh.”
Su Xiaoxiao: Why do you sound a little disappointed?
The two of them did not encounter any danger afterwards, but Wei Ting discovered a mechanism on the wall.
After pressing it, the wall on the right suddenly moved, revealing a stone door.
There is a strange groove in the center of the stone gate.
The shape of the groove looked familiar to Su Xiaoxiao.
She paused, lowered her head and took out an irregular piece of iron from her purse.
The spy chief gave her three keys in the third magic bag.
One of them was used in the secret room of the Qionghua Hall in the Holy Maiden Temple.
This is the second one.
When she put the key in, the stone door opened with a bang.
Wei Ting looked at her, with a hint of surprise in his eyes.
However, they were not surprised for long, as they encountered something even more surprising.
In the secret room that looks like a palace before my eyes, the night-shining pearls scatter layers of bright light.
Before coming here, Su Xiaoxiao had speculated what secrets were hidden in the mine.
Was it countless gold and silver treasures? Or was it the treasures left over from the previous dynasty? Or was it like the White Lotus Sect, secretly raising a large army?
The result is neither.
The center of the empty hall was bright and clear.
She and Wei Ting only saw one person.
A living person who breathes, has a heartbeat, and is painting.
Be happy today too.
Everyone, remember to give Brother Ting a heart, and it’s also good to vote for him~ (End of this chapter)
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