GBP Chapter 123 A Mao's Sister
Chapter 123 A Mao's Sister
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"Who are you?!"
Lou Xiao didn't expect that someone would see through her at a glance, but before the other person could say the second sentence to attract other people's attention,
Lou Xiao immediately covered the man's mouth and pushed him behind a pile of rocks.
The winding and narrow space was filled with knocking sounds, and only a brief cry of surprise attracted no attention.
Lou Xiao used his hands and feet to hold the man tightly, so that he couldn't even move.
She lowered her voice and warned him in his ear, "Be honest, or no one will know if I kill you."
It is very easy for a person to disappear in a dark mine. As someone who works here, he cannot be unaware of the difficulty of it.
But what is this woman doing here? If she is here to work, how could he not know her?
Could it be that the news of the discovery of the precious jade had spread? Was she here to find out?
Regardless of the other party's darting eyes and changing thoughts, Lou Xiao looked him up and down and found that his clothes were not as shabby as those of the villagers.
He looked more like a little leader, with a short whip for driving animals hanging around his waist.
"Do you know everyone here?" Lou Xiao's voice was as soft as a mosquito, just loud enough for him to hear.
The skinny man was covered by her mouth and could not speak. Lou Xiao only said, "Just nod your head, yes or no."
The man nodded rapidly upon hearing this, fearing that if he was slow she would strangle him to death on the spot.
"They all come from the same village? They came here voluntarily?" Lou Xiao didn't understand why, if so many people knew each other,
Don’t you know that the familiar people around you are disappearing?
If someone died in an accident in the mine, they might be buried there.
But how did those people die in the pit on the hillside outside?
Lou Xiao stared at the skinny man's expression. Seeing his unnatural look and panic in his eyes, she guessed that something was wrong.
Then he moved the hand covering his face to his throat, which made him feel uncomfortable but also made him speak.
First, she pinched him deliberately to make him feel the horror of suffocation for a moment, and then she let go to signal him to answer honestly.
The skinny man had a bitter face and dared not disobey, begging for mercy in a hoarse voice,
"Working for a day only earns half a penny, who wouldn't be tempted... Everyone wants to earn more money, and I have elderly parents at home..."
Lou Xiao frowned, "It's just a mine, how can they afford such wages? Aren't you afraid of losing your life?"
The skinny man said hurriedly, "Someone got it... a huge sum of silver! I saw it with my own eyes! And this is not an ordinary mine... At the end of that road, a treasure was dug out!"
Lou Xiao disagreed. It was just the ore used to cast iron. Even if he really dug out precious jade as he said,
How much money could they be worth that the mine owner would be so generous as to give them half a penny a day's wages.
Seeing that Lou Xiao didn't believe him, the skinny man thought she was testing him on purpose, so he pointed behind her and said,
"That's it! We specially selected a few skinny people from another mine to get into the mine. It is said that a small piece of that thing is worth a fortune and is worth a fortune!"
Another mine? A very small one?
Lou Xiao tried to ask, "Do you know those people?"
"I know you!" the man asked flatteringly, "Why, are you looking for someone?"
Lou Xiao then said a name. Amao's sister and Amao both lived in poverty and must be equally thin. She wondered if she would be there.
The skinny man immediately took over the conversation, "It's her! I know her. Her family is extremely poor and they are counting on her to earn some money to change their fate."
"She's here?" Lou Xiao asked in surprise.
The skinny man pointed behind her and said, "She is so skinny, isn't that a good opportunity for her to go in? She said she would buy her sister some nice clothes after she got the money back."
Lou Xiao eased some of the strength in his hand, and the man broke out in sweat. "Spare me! Spare me! What I said is true!"
Assuming that he didn't have the courage to lie, Lou Xiao withdrew his hand, looked at the dark mine tunnel, and jumped in.