The two walked for a while and returned to their original place. Everyone was waiting there, including Qiu Dao and Wang Jin, who were already dressed neatly.
"Brother Bao, Brother Qiao, we're all waiting for you. It's time to call it a day. Get in the car." Liu Junjie called out loudly.
After getting on the simple mine car parked on the railroad track, Qiu Dao pulled down the valve above his head, and the steel cable slid forward, dragging the mine car along the railroad track out of the cave.
Everyone saw that although Lu Rankong and Lan Yu were sitting together, they did not communicate with each other. They both had stern faces and looked in different directions. They understood that they were arguing.
Qiao Fei nudged Liu Junjie, signaled the two people in front of him with his eyes, and asked him, "What's wrong?"
Liu Junjie whispered in his ear: "Brother Qiu and his friend were fighting while smoking. It's so interesting."
"Oh..." Qiao Fei suddenly realized.
Soon they returned to the surface, and prisoners from several other mines also came out in mine cars. After the roll call was taken to confirm the number of people, they returned to the prison under the guidance of two prison guards.
After working for a whole morning, everyone was a little tired and leaned back in the tracked vehicle in a daze.
Officer Liu said to Lan Yu and Lu Rankong, "You two are new here and don't know. Let me tell you something. Go back and have a good meal at noon. After you eat, take a rest. Don't go to other people to play cards or gamble. You still have to do handicrafts in the afternoon."
"Got it..." Lu Rankong replied lazily.
We returned to the prison along the same route, and it felt faster than the way we came. After a while, we climbed over the last hill and stopped on the ridge of the crater.
From here you can overlook the entire Quye Prison, which is like a gray-black steel fortress, standing silently at the foot of the mountain.
Prisoners from other areas were also returning to prison. The road was filled with tracked vehicles moving, which looked quite spectacular.
Go down the mountain, return to the prison, go to the cafeteria, and eat.
Lan Yu and Lu Rankong didn't say a word along the way, and they were like air in each other's eyes.
But during the meal, Lan Yu heard him asking people at other tables where they were playing cards.
This guy is used to being dissolute, and he would probably get itchy if he didn't gather with others to gamble for a few days. Lan Yu wanted to remind him that he was on duty in prison after all and should be patient. But when she thought of the nasty words he had just said, she became angry and said nothing, pretending she didn't hear anything.
Lu Rankong finished his meal quickly without saying anything to Lan Yu. He just walked away with the people at the next table, talking and laughing. During that time, he heard those people calling him Brother Leopard.
Lan Yu continued to eat calmly, feeling a little down. There were prisoners around who were secretly looking at him, and the sounds of their discussions could be heard intermittently.
"Robbery, kidnapping, murder, human trafficking, arms smuggling..."
"Someone got the news from the prison guard that he killed thirty-six people, but in fact there were only twelve because they were all pregnant women, and they were twins..."
"The Star Wars Wanted is broadcast every day, called the Twin Killer..."
Lan Yu looked over and saw that everyone had shut up.
There was a sound of wheels at the door, and a prisoner came in pushing a wheelchair. Lan Yu took a look and found that the person sitting in the wheelchair was the clam whose legs were broken by her and Lu Rankong.
Hua Clam was sitting in a wheelchair. His legs had just healed from broken bones after passing through the treatment cabin. He was still applying recovery agent and wrapped in bandages. But his expression was still fierce, and he sat in the wheelchair as if he was sitting on a throne.
The person behind him pushed him to an empty seat and went to get his meal tray. Hua Hai stared at the prisoner across the table and spat out one word, "Get lost..."
The prisoner quickly picked up his plate and left the table.
Hua Clam's gloomy gaze slowly swept across the hall, and then he met a pair of even gloomier eyes that were faintly revealing cruelty and bloodthirstiness.
Lan Yu raised one corner of her mouth and silently mouthed, "Get lost..."
Hua Cham's face suddenly turned pale, and he looked down at his wheelchair, motionless. After the prisoner in charge of taking care of him brought the meal, he whispered a few words. The man put the tray in his hand and pushed the wheelchair out of the cafeteria.
Lan Yu's depression seemed to ease a little, and she began to eat peacefully.
Next to the large playground where the prisoners usually do exercises and run, there is a secluded corner, with a high wall on one side and a machine room blocking the other. There are now a few stools and a small square table here, and the prisoners are playing poker in a circle.
Lu Rankong held a cigarette in his mouth, squinted his eyes at the cards in his hand, and put them on the table. He reached into his jacket pocket, pulled out a piece of paper money and put it down, saying, "Fifty star coins..."
"Fifty star coins! Wow, Brother Leopard is really generous. This must be a good hand."
"My cards are pretty good too," said a prisoner.
"Then you follow, keep up."
The prisoner was a little hesitant. Fifty star coins could be a prisoner's expenses for several months. But looking at the cards in his hand, he couldn't bear to admit defeat, "I don't have fifty star coins."
Lu Rankong took the cigarette in his hand, slowly exhaled the smoke, and said proudly: "You can all follow me, Brother Bao doesn't care about that little money, if you have shower gel, shampoo or anything like that, you can bring it over."
"Really?" The prisoners were surprised and happy.
"Of course it's true. Brother Leopard means what he says."
"Then Brother Bao, please wait for me for a few minutes." Two prisoners had already started running towards the cell.
"Brother Leopard, I don't have shampoo or shower gel, but I have a bottle of skin cream, is that ok?"
"Can……"
"Brother Leopard, I have a box of facial masks. I originally wanted to woo a prisoner in the beta zone, but he used half of it and rejected me, so I asked for the rest. Now I have half a box left. Can I go with you?"
"Okay..." Lu Rankong waved his hand, "Go back and get it, hurry up."
After Lan Yu finished his meal, he returned to his cell and lay down for a while. Just as he fell into a drowsy sleep, a whistle sounded.
The prisoners who were taking a nap got up and left the building one after another, heading to the craft room at the back.
He followed the crowd, looking left and right as he walked, but did not see any trace of Lu Rankong.
The handicraft room is quite large, like a warehouse. Many prison guards in charge of various prison areas are standing at the door, all gathered there chatting idly.
A long banner was hung on the top: Transformation and production are synchronized, and quality and efficiency go hand in hand.
After Lan Yu followed the team in, she quickly looked around inside, but still didn't see Lu Rankong.
Go ahead and gamble, it would be best if I lost everything and then got caught by the prison guards and put in solitary confinement, he thought to himself.
There were hundreds of machines in the craft room. Lan Yu heard Liu Junjie and Lin Lin behind her wailing, "Ah, why are we making dolls again today?"
Qiao Fei whispered, "It's good to be a doll. It's better than going mining."
"I'd rather go mining than do this stuff." Qiu Dao said gruffly.
Wang Jin rarely agreed with him and followed suit with a "hmm".
However, when Lan Yu saw the machines and the semi-finished dolls in the big bamboo baskets, joy immediately overflowed from the bottom of her heart.
What a cute doll, squeezed in the bamboo basket, the fluffy appearance makes people think of the soft touch, gently pinch, the long hair flows out from the fingers, so healing...
Under the arrangement of the prison guards, several people sat down in front of a row of machines in order, each with a bamboo basket of dolls and a bag of fluffy ears beside them.
These dolls are not stuffed yet, only have a layer of fur and no ears, and their task is to sew small parts such as ears or tails on.
Chen Zheng was sitting on Lan Yu's right, and the sewing machine on the left was empty. That was the seat reserved for Lu Ran by someone in the same room.
He was thinking that the man would not come, and was put in solitary confinement for being addicted to gambling. He might have to go into the mine alone tomorrow, when a figure sat down next to him.
At the same time, a package fell into the bamboo basket where he kept his dolls.
Lan Yu suddenly turned his head and saw Lu Rankong sitting next to him, slumped lazily on the back of the chair, not looking at him, but staring somewhere else.
Lan Yu glanced at the bamboo basket and saw a large plastic bag inside, which was filled with a lot of things.
He leaned over and used his fingers to open the bag, and found that it was filled with a bunch of shower gels and shampoos, even face creams, facial masks, facial cleansers and so on.
"I promised to find these for you, and I've done it." Lu Rankong still didn't look at him, but just looked at the door and said lightly.
Lan Yu picked up a furry little monkey, rubbed it with her hands, and said indifferently, "Well, thanks."
Their cells were under the jurisdiction of Officers Wang and Liu, so they also followed them to the outside of the handicraft room and stood at the door smoking with other prison guards.
Officer Liu held a cigarette in his hand, turned around and blew a whistle, "Let's start, let's start. As usual, fifty per piece, and rest when you finish."
The rumbling sound of electric sewing machines was heard, and Lan Yu could not wait to turn on the one in front of her and put the monkey and a pair of ears on it.
Nowadays, no company uses this primitive method to make dolls, but many people still like handmade dolls. When labor costs are very high, prisons will take on this kind of work to generate income for themselves.
He put the ears into the opening on the top of the head, placed it under the sewing machine, and moved it back and forth skillfully. After a series of clicking sounds, one ear was sewn on, with standard and even stitching.
Then sew the other ear. After turning it over, all the stitches will be buried inside and cannot be seen from the outside.
Lan Yu examined the monkey and thought it was well made, so she threw it into the empty frame and picked up a doll and the corresponding ears.
When I looked up, I found that Lu Rankong was dealing with an elephant seriously, his brows were tightly furrowed, veins on the back of his hands were bulging, and his well-defined chin was clenched tightly.
Lan Yu just took a glance and continued working on her own, completing one in two minutes. At this rate, he would only need more than an hour to make all the dolls in this basket.
The entire handicraft room was filled with the rumbling sounds of sewing machines, and Qiu Dao and Wang Jin behind him made angry noises from time to time.
Lan Yu made the doll quickly while thinking in her mind.
Just like Lu Rankong said, if the Longte people occupied the spiritual realm of his lover, then as the other half, he would be able to sense that something was wrong no matter what, right?
Liu Junjie should be here to take the blame, Qiu Dao and Wang Jin are lovers. In this case, the most suspicious people now should be Qiao Fei, Lin Lin and Chen Zheng.
When Lan Yu thought about this, she couldn't help but glance at the three people.
They were all on the right side. Qiao Fei and Lin Lin were making dolls while chanting something. Lan Yu heard something that sounded like a formula: turn it over first, then align it… keep the speed steady and be gentle…”
Chen Zheng lowered his eyes, his hands moved slowly but methodically, his face had no expression, and he looked his usual gloomy self.
Lan Yu looked at his hand for a while, then turned her gaze away.
After working for more than half an hour without realizing it, he found that the doll in the bamboo basket was half finished. He stretched his stiff neck, then looked to the left while holding the unfinished puppy.
Lu Rankong on the left had stopped at some point and was staring at the puppy in his hands, his eyes full of admiration and amazement.
When he noticed Lan Yu looking at him, he immediately yawned, turned back as if nothing had happened, and continued to deal with the doll in his hand.
Lan Yu saw him holding a small blue dolphin and a fin, and was trying to attach the fin to the dolphin's belly. There were only three finished products in the bamboo basket beside him.
He glanced at the three finished products: the stitching on the elephant's two ears was uneven, and after being sewn crookedly, one ear was shorter than the other. One of the puppy's ears is sewn backwards, with the back of the ear facing forward. There is also a light pink rabbit with a pink cat tail sewn on it.
The last time this guy was tinkering with a little crossbow, he seemed quite skillful, but the doll he made ended up looking like this. Moreover, the difference between light pink and peach pink is so great that even a blind person can see the difference. How could he sew them together?
Lu Rankong was still concentrating on dealing with the two fins. His lips were pursed into a straight line and slightly turned down, his face full of depression.
Seeing him finally put the dolphin with the fins installed under the needle and prepare to turn it on, Lan Yu couldn't help but remind him, "It's the other way around..."
Lu Rankong stopped and looked over.
"Turn the lining inside out, then turn it back inside out after sewing, and the stitches won't be visible." Lan Yu explained with a cold face.
Lu Rankong glanced at the dolphin in his hand and turned it over, with its belly facing down and its back facing up.
Lan Yu really couldn't stand it anymore, so she reached out and snatched the dolphin away, pulled out the fins, turned out the lining from the opening, put the fins back on, started the sewing machine, and after sewing it up, she threw it into the bamboo basket next to Lu Rankong.
The whole process takes no more than three minutes.
"The main reason is that my fingers are thicker than yours." Lu Rankong said after a few seconds of silence.
Lan Yu shook her head back, motioning him to look at Qiu Dao and Wang Jin behind her.
Although the two men moved slowly and kept cursing under their breath, there were seven or eight finished products in the bamboo basket beside them, and they all looked good.
"Their fingers are thicker than yours," said Lan Yu.
"It's mainly because he's too soft, making it hard to deal with him." Lu Rankong tried to save a bit of his dignity.
"All the dolls here are not too hard."
Lu Rankong remained silent, his brows furrowed, and there was a hint of grievance on his handsome face.
Lan Yu looked at the plastic bag of shower gel in the bamboo basket and said, "How about this? You will be responsible for matching all the tails, ears or other accessories with the dolls, and I will take care of the sewing."
Lu Rankong's eyes lit up.
"But you have to distinguish the difference between pink and peach, goose yellow and egg yolk, dark gray and coffee," said Lan Yu.
Lu Rankong answered quickly: "No problem..."
Lan Yu thought for a moment, picked up a bald dark green little monkey, and handed it to him along with the bag of tails and ears, saying, "Then find the tail of this little monkey."
Lu Rankong rummaged through the bag, took out a tail of the same color and was about to stick it on the little monkey's butt.
When he raised his hand, he glanced at Lan Yu. Seeing that his expression showed no sign of happiness or anger, and he neither confirmed nor opposed, he became uncertain.
"This... is definitely not it." He put the tail back.
He continued to rummage through the bag and pulled out a fluff ball that was a little darker in color. He glanced at Lan Yu quietly, and seeing that he lowered his eyes indifferently, he put it back and said, "This one isn't either..."
Lan Yu looked at him calmly, and when he took out a short dark green tail, a hint of approval appeared on her face.
"Finally found it..." Lu Rankong said with relief while holding the short tail after stealing a glance at him.
Lan Yu smiled and asked, "Can monkeys hang on trees with this three-inch long tail?"
"No, isn't this a doll? It doesn't have to be so realistic." Lu Rankong said.
When he saw Lan Yu's meaningful smile, he felt a little annoyed and angry. He threw the pile of tails into the bamboo basket and said in frustration, "I won't look for them anymore. My eyes are going blind from looking for them."
"Are you color blind?" Lan Yu asked.
"no……"
"Then can't you see that these greens are different?"
Lu Rankong smacked his lips. "If you look closely, they are a little different. Some are darker, some are lighter, but they are roughly the same..."
"Forget it..." Lan Yu said, "I can do it myself. I don't need your help."
After saying this, he rummaged through the bamboo basket, found the accessories for several dolls, and began to make them carefully. It would have been finished in another half an hour, but now there are additional frame dolls, so I have to work harder.
Lu Rankong sat quietly aside without saying a word. Lan Yu looked over several times during the breaks in production and could see that he was staring at her hands, his eyes full of amazement and admiration.
But after noticing Lan Yu's gaze, he turned away as if nothing had happened.
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