Martial arts long journey

Chapter 12 Peeking Through the Conspiracy
While Zhou Yan was meditating secretly, Xu Wang had already run to Zhou Yan's side again.

"My lord, it seems that the food and drink are not available for the time being. The prisoners and slaves in the mine broke out in riots because they robbed the ore. Let's deal with the riots first!"

After coming to Zhou Yan's side, Xu Huang smiled wryly and told Zhou Yan the whole story.

It turns out that in Zhou's mine, every slave miner has to dig at least five hundred catties of ore every day to be able to eat, and this is just barely enough to eat.

If you want to get more things, you need to exchange for more ore. Every [-] catties of ore can be exchanged for an extra piece of bread, and every [-] catties of ore can be exchanged for a piece of meat.

Therefore, these slave miners will often fight for ore, but usually it is just a small fight.

In addition, although these slave miners competed for ore, they also increased the ore output of the Zhou family a lot, so the supervisors of the mine turned a blind eye and ignored them at all.

However, who would have thought that over time, the hatred among these slave miners would grow stronger and stronger, and today several turmoil broke out directly, making it impossible for the supervisors of the mine to suppress it.

"It's okay, the food and drink can be eaten later, it's more important to put down the riot first!"

Hearing Xu Huang's explanation, Zhou Yan said with a chuckle.

"Okay, then let the eldest son see how I deal with those slave miners who don't open their eyes."

Xu Wang bowed his hands to Zhou Yan and said with a smile.

"That... Eldest Young Master, Brother Xu, if I go with you, will I cause you trouble!"

However, at the moment when Xu Fan's voice fell, Deacon Zhao said hesitantly.

Although Deacon Zhao is the deacon of the Zhou family's caravan, he is an ordinary person who doesn't even know how to fight.

However, because of his exquisite and incomparably sleek handling style, he was valued by the Zhou family, and became a deacon who was responsible for transporting the refined ore from the Zhou family's mines to other places for sale.

Now that turmoil broke out in Zhou's mine, it goes without saying that blood was seen, and Deacon Zhao, an ordinary person, naturally didn't want to go forward to join in the fun.

"Brother Zhao, you were exhausted on the journey, so you should go back to the guest room to rest, but my little brother wants to use some of your caravan masters to suppress those unscrupulous slave miners."

But seeing a trace of contempt flashed in the depths of Xu Wang's eyes, he said with a smile on the surface.

"That's nature, that's nature!"

After Deacon Zhao divided the caravan of more than 20 people into more than [-] strong men who were proficient in martial arts and handed it over to Xu Wang for management, he hurriedly led the other members of the caravan towards the brownstone courtyard. walked over.

"My lord, let's deal with those slave miners as soon as possible, otherwise the food and drink will be cold!"

After Deacon Zhao left, Xu Wang smiled and said to Zhou Yan.

Hearing Xu Huang's voice in his ears, although Zhou Yan didn't seem to have any abnormalities on the surface, he was secretly vigilant in his heart.

The slave miners in Zhou's mine often broke out in turmoil, and Zhou Yan had heard of this incident.

Ever since Zhou Chuanxiong was demoted to this mine as a deacon, Zhou Yan had predicted that he would encounter this situation.

However, Zhou Yan did not expect that just as he arrived at the mine, riots broke out among the slave miners here.

If this incident is just a coincidence, then it is very abnormal that Xu Huang has been urging him to suppress the riot in his words.

Even Deacon Zhao, a mere deacon of the Zhou family caravan, was able to avoid this sudden turmoil.

However, as the deacon of the Zhou family, Xu Wang didn't want to defend him as the eldest son, and he even took the initiative to invite Zhou Yan, the eldest son of the Zhou family, to go to suppress the riots together. You must know that Zhou Yan was a handless man in his previous life. Powerful scholar!
Therefore, Zhou Yan guessed in his heart that there must be some kind of conspiracy.

However, Zhou Yan still directly agreed, and with his current attainment of thousands of spiders and venomous hands, even if Xu Wang was a genuine martial artist in the forging realm, he would not have the slightest fear.

What's more, if you can only be a thief for a thousand days, there is no reason to guard against a thief for a thousand days. If you don't take this opportunity to see clearly Xu Wang's true intentions, Zhou Yan's heart is really hard to feel at ease.

"Lead the way!"

Immediately, Zhou Yan nodded to Xu Wang with a light smile and said.

And Xu Wang followed Zhou Yan, led by the bald young man, and walked towards the mine on the west side of the blast furnace square.

The underground mines of the Zhou Family Mine are intricate and complicated. Although there is only one main mine, more than ten forked mines have been excavated.

As soon as he stepped into the mine tunnel, Zhou Yan heard shouts of curses coming from the bifurcated mine tunnel, and he could even vaguely see many slave miners wrestling and tearing each other in various mine tunnels.

"You enter the mine separately to suppress those slave miners who don't know how to live or die."

Xu Wang pointed to the mines where the turmoil broke out one by one, and gave instructions to the dozens of supervisors behind him.

Then he walked quickly to Zhou Yan's side, and said with a wry smile, "My lord, the mine is a little short of manpower, and the last mine needs the three of us to suppress it."

"No problem, let's go!"

A trace of imperceptible sternness flashed in his eyes, and Zhou Yan said with his usual expression.

"Second, protect the eldest son!"

After solemnly instructing the bald young man, Xu Wang led Zhou Yan to the depths of the mine.

"Lead yourself into the mine? Wrap yourself in the middle with that bald young man? I want to see what Xu Wang wants to do!"

Seeing himself being surrounded by the bald young man and Xu Wang one behind the other, Zhou Yan thought to himself.

But seeing a meaningful arc on the corner of Zhou Yan's mouth, he followed Xu Huang deep into the mine without hesitation.

After about half a cup of tea, Zhou Yan was deliberately led into a deep mine tunnel by Xu Wang.

Against the background of the flickering torches on the two walls of the mine, the whole mine looks very strange.

The rumbling footsteps of the three people seemed very hollow in the mine, and some stone chips fell from the roof of the mine from time to time.

In the air, Zhou Yan smelled a damp and musty smell.

"This is a good place!"

When Xu Wang stepped over a beam made of wooden piles, Zhou Yan suddenly stopped and let out a long sigh.

"What good place is the eldest son talking about?"

Hearing Zhou Yan's words in his ears, Xu Wang couldn't help listening to his footsteps, and asked aloud.

But Zhou Yan didn't pay attention to Xu Wang, instead he walked slowly to the side of the mine, and casually grabbed a handful of ore soil from the cave wall.

After crushing the ore soil finely and sniffing it, Zhou Yan said quietly, "A good place to bury bones!"

(End of this chapter)