Poor family mother and son

Chapter 618 Gritting Your Teeth
The begging sound made Ge Jingtai recognize Luo An's voice at once, so he hurried out to have a look.

Outside, a group of men from the Chu family were forming a group, punching and kicking something, while the fourth prince's guards were only on guard outside, without any obstruction.

"What's going on?" Ge Jingtai shouted, but the boy from the Chu family who was fighting ignored him.

A guard had no choice but to report: "The man sneaked into the caravan's carriage just now, and he seemed to have taken something. He was discovered, and they are teaching him a lesson."

When Ge Jingtai heard it, it was not good!

Luo An is his staff member. He is very smart, and he is especially good at collecting and sorting out all kinds of information. Maybe he took the risk of stealing some secrets from Chuqing?
Thinking of this, Ge Jingtai rushed into the crowd, he had to save Luo An quickly, and see if he could keep the things he stole.

In the gap between people, I saw Luo An hugging his chest tightly, his whole body huddled up, and the men of the Chu family were pulling his arms hard, trying to find something from his arms, but they couldn't move him, so they Kick and hit.

"Stop! Stop!" Ge Jingtai squeezed in desperately: "This is our person! Don't be too presumptuous!"

Xiangzi pulled Ge Jingtai out: "How do you talk? Your people? Your people can steal from us?"

Ge Jingtai hurriedly explained: "No, no, but after all, we are two countries, and you can't punish us Voss people at will. You should hand him over to me for interrogation."

Xiangzi: "Fart! Who are you from the two countries? Our carriages are concentrated here. If he comes over, it means he has reached the border of our country!"

Ge Jingtai: "Funny! This is our country of Voss!"

"Oh?" Chu Qing came over: "Come on, let's go back to China!"

Saying that, he took the lead to walk to his carriage.

Ge Jingtai was a little confused: "Chu Dong's family, what do you mean?"

Chu Qing replied: "Isn't it your land? Don't talk about our business with your land!"

Ge Jingtai: "..."

The fourth prince had no choice but to come forward: "What did he steal? Hand it over!"

Everyone let go of Luo An, and Luo An's nose was bleeding, and his eyes were swollen into slits. It seemed that he had been beaten fiercely, and even his breathing became cautious.

Trembling, he took out a stack of papers from his bosom, and quickly stuffed them into Ge Jingtai's hands, but Xiangzi snatched them away: "It really is a spy! Master, look!"

Chu Qing took a look, it was a paper with a bunch of lines drawn on it, the point of Chu Qing's pen was a little forked, the meaningless lines she randomly drew on the paper when she was adjusting, and there were a few bank notes.

But Xiangzi shook the paper and said angrily: "Boss, this is our border defense map and bank notes, let this kid steal it!"

Chu Qing clenched her teeth, her jawline clenched tightly—otherwise she would laugh and say, "Tie it up and take it away!"

Announcing the border defense map?The fourth prince and Ge Jingtai gasped, and looked at Luo An with no doubts, only regrets.

They have no reason to stop the spies caught in front of them.

A fierce light flashed in the fourth prince's eyes, Ge Jingtai understood, and nodded imperceptibly: Don't worry, they won't be allowed to bring living people back!

Seeing that Chu Qing was about to walk to the carriage, Ge Jingtai hurriedly shouted: "Chu Dong's family, you can't leave!"

Guards immediately surrounded Chu Qing, but they did not threaten with spears.

Ge Jingtai quickly chased after him: "Chu Dong's family, we didn't instigate this, he is a slave of my family, not a spy, no! He... he might just want to steal money!"

Luo An, who was being tied up, also immediately shouted: "I just want to steal the bank notes! I, I, and I didn't steal it, so why not pay you with jade! I have a piece of jade on me! Jade! "

Qiao Keli was winding the rope, and he shouted impatiently, and pulled the rope into his mouth, and continued to wind, only Roan's indistinct grunt was left.

Chu Qing only gave one word: "Huh!"

Seeing Chu Qing's indiscriminate attitude and insisting to leave, the fourth prince said: "It's just a thief, Mr. Chu, why bother us to discuss business because of such a trivial matter?"

Sitting back at the negotiating table, Chu Qing still didn't have a good face, and even questioned the fourth prince's purchasing power with disdain: "Can you afford the money?"

The fourth prince was reminded by Luo An's call just now: Jade?Yes, jade.

"I'll exchange jade mines with you!" What does gnashing of teeth mean, please see the fourth prince.

Due to time constraints, the fourth prince had no choice but to exchange a medium-sized jade mine under his name for Chu Qing, and the time limit was three years.

What the fourth prince exchanged was not a river beach, but a mine, and there were his bad intentions in it.

The most common methods of jade mining in the country of Voss are picking jade and fishing jade, while digging jade and attacking jade are very rare. In exchange for Chuqing's mines, jade needs to be attacked.

Picking jade and fishing jade, as the name suggests, just bend over and pick in the river.

The jade pickers of Voss lined up with 30 people, walking side by side barefoot and stepping on stones,

Once found, he bent down to pick it up, and the accompanying supervisor on the bank would hit the gong and mark it with red color to ensure the number of jade found in the river.

It is very difficult to dig jade and attack jade.

Digging jade is to dig out jade in gravel layers such as river valleys and shoals; but it is more difficult to dig jade, and it is necessary to mine mountain jade from high mountains and terrain.

This is a very difficult job. The jade mine is located on Yujing Mountain, at a high altitude, covered with snow almost all the year round, and the annual mining period is only about three months. It is extremely difficult to go up the mountain to collect jade.

Miners also need to have considerable identification ability and mining experience, and they need to be careful enough to separate the jade ore from the rock as large and complete as possible.

Moreover, transportation is not simpler than mining jade, both of which require a lot of manpower and material resources to support.

Thinking about earning back 30 taels in three years, no, it should be said that in nine months, in the eyes of the fourth prince, it is impossible.

This is also the reason why the jade mines of the Meng family that Xiaobao robbed were all good products with the size of a head, and they were exchanged for iron ingots!

Small pieces of jade are relatively easy to obtain, but large pieces are more difficult. In Daxuan, jade ornaments as big as a head and of medium quality are worth more than a thousand taels.

However, this time, because the fourth prince hijacked Chu Qing's caravan, he thought he had a chance to win, so he didn't think about jade at all, so that he lost a "Daxuan Border Defense Map" for nothing!
What Chu Qing traded was not iron ingots, so the fourth prince would not directly exchange jade with Chu Qing, but the three-year mining right of the jade mine, otherwise it would be too cheap for Chu Qing.

Chu Qing threatened Luo An's theft, and asked for an extra piece of jade river beach mining rights, also for three years, otherwise, all the wasted days of negotiations before would be void.

Time waits for no one, the fourth prince gritted his teeth and agreed.

Because mining jade on the river beach, that is, digging jade, is also not easy. In addition to the inconvenience of transportation, digging jade itself is also very difficult. It needs to peel off the sand and stone layer on the river beach before digging, and it cannot be as carefree as mining iron ore. , To keep the intact jade, one has to be careful and careful, which is more difficult and less efficient.

Moreover, the fourth prince only provided the mining rights to mines, and not only did the workers in their own mines not provide them, but they all had to move out.

Chu Qing clenched her cheeks again: "Then I will take someone there myself!"

Fourth Prince: "Whatever!"

(End of this chapter)