When he wakes up in the morning, the feeling will slowly fade away, but strangely, he will feel very energetic and his strength will increase a little bit.

Before, Dolai would feel sore all over when he woke up every morning, as if he was dead. Now he doesn’t have that feeling at all. How should I put it? He just feels relaxed and happy, as if his whole body is full of strength.

When did it start? It seems to have started on the third day after I found Otto.

Duolai thought about it and thought that maybe it was because he did good things and God rewarded him. Thinking of this, Duolai got up from the bed and checked his body, but found nothing serious.

Just then, Odo crawled over from the corner and licked Dolai's palms and cheeks.

With this idea in mind, Dole liked Oddo more, and it seemed that his resentment towards Oddo outside for stealing his money was reduced a lot. He touched Oddo's dog head, scratched it casually, smiled, and said, "Stay at home, I'm going to work." He didn't care whether Oddo understood it or not, and went outside to wash up.

In the middle of the slums, there is a half-meter-wide waterway. Water from the mountains flows down from it, passes through the slums, and flows into the Domon River outside the city.

Dolai washed his face, wiped it with his sleeve, then walked out of the city, passed the market, went to the shop and bought three vegetable dumplings, then ate them all in one go before going to the mine.

When they arrived at the mine, Duodu had just arrived. After seeing Duolai, he shouted, "We are not smashing stones today. The leader asked us to go to the river to screen small stones. We dug up some colored ores today, and they asked us to screen those stones."

Dolai nodded and followed Dodu.

No matter what he does, as long as he can have food to eat, his goal is just to stay alive.

The mine is very large, with a flat ground at the entrance filled with various stones. The work outside is to smash these ores one by one, pick out the parts containing ore and put them together, and throw the other gravel on the ground. Someone will take those gravel away.

The wages of miners working in the open space outside are not high, while the wages of miners in the mountains are a little higher, about five times that of miners outside. However, it is also very dangerous, and people die almost every day due to various reasons, and the deaths are miserable. However, there are still many people willing to go to the mines, because the wages are high, the pensions are also high, and even if they die that day, the wives and children left behind can be well taken care of, which is the main reason why they are willing to do so.

Those who work on the flat ground outside, apart from the elderly and the weak, are the only labor force in the family, or those who live alone, like Dolai himself.

Dolai followed Duodu and some other people and soon came to the river. Dolai saw that many small stones had been piled up on the river bank. These small stones were different from the stones usually seen on the open space. These stones were more gray, more dense and looked very heavy.

After Duodu's introduction, Dolai finally understood that they needed to make these small stones smaller.

There are some golden stones among the pebbles. They need to filter out the golden parts and ignore the others.

Dolai nodded, and the two of them occupied a small section of the river and began to work. Their work was still to swing a sledgehammer to smash the stones. The difference was that today they did not use the naked eye to distinguish them, but used a sieve to screen the stones.

Dolai had also seen this kind of golden stone. It was real gold, but he was not greedy. In the mine, gold ore was not very common. The most common were iron ore, tin ore, and copper ore, with iron ore being the most common. Gold ore only appeared occasionally, in small quantities. Some people wanted to take these gold mines for themselves, but their fate was usually miserable. The mine had an alchemical product that could detect whether a person had metal on his body, and it worked every time. As long as you passed by the door, it was easy to tell the difference, so no one dared to do so.

Moreover, miners have no human rights. If they are caught on the spot, they will be immediately demoted to slaves and hung at the door for three days as a warning to future generations. After three days, those who are lucky enough to survive will basically become disabled people and will die a miserable death in the future. So generally speaking, no one dares to do this.

Dolai has been in this city for so many years and has seen many things. He has long been numb. All he has to do now is to survive as much as possible. So, no matter what kind of ore he has on hand, he just needs to complete his work honestly and not cause any trouble.

Duodu and Duolai had been working together for a long time, so Duodu knew exactly what kind of person Duolai was. After seeing his expression, he grinned and said, "Get to work. Today's pay is a lot. You can give me the other coppers that are more than five Marfa coppers, and I'll take them out for you. Let that bastard Odo take three."

Hearing this, Duolai's eyes lit up, and he became lively from numbness, "Thank you very much, Uncle Duodu."

This was probably the best news he had heard today. Dolai was immediately filled with energy and felt that his whole body was filled with strength.

There were a lot of stones, and they needed to be smashed into blocks with a hammer. But gold mining was different, and he needed to smash them into smaller pieces. Dolai had been smashing stones for several months and had already developed a lot of strength. So he picked up the sledgehammer and started looking for a place to smash the stones.

The advantage of small stones is that one person can complete the work. For large stones, they need to be split with a sledgehammer and a chisel first. After being split into small stones, they can be slowly broken into pieces, which takes a long time.

But you don’t need to use small stones. Just put them on hard ground and smash them directly.

However, after smashing for a while, the two of them worked in perfect harmony, one smashing and the other starting to screen. Soon, some small orange metal blocks appeared on the river bank. They were all gold.

There are supervisors near the miners, but as long as you work hard, the supervisors will ignore you. Only those who are lazy and unwilling to work hard will be given special attention by the supervisors. In mild cases, they will be scolded, and in severe cases, the whip in their hands will come in handy. The whips are made of beef tendons soaked in water. One whip will ensure that the skin and flesh are torn apart, and the taste is very sour and refreshing, so few people challenge the authority of the supervisors.

About two hours after the work started, the supervisor came to the two men, took the gold away with an expressionless face, and then handed them two small rice balls.

Because of the strenuous physical activity, miners usually eat a lot. Generally, mines will arrange for meals to be delivered, but there is a requirement that they must finish eating quickly. Any unfinished food will be taken away. Almost all miners are satisfied with this, which is why Dolay likes working at the Bianchi Mine.

After wolfing down the meal, Duolai felt strong again and started working with Duodu.

The process of smashing stones is nothing new. Everyone sweats over and over again. Under the sun, everyone's body is bronze and their muscles bulge. Even the thinnest person will become like this after working in the river for a month, and Duolai is no exception.

The work process is very boring. Only when I am screening the stones and see those orange particles, I feel a sense of accomplishment.