Wu Chao: Take the whole family to escape the famine

Shopkeeper Bai’s ancestors were single-passed for three generations, and when he came to him, he would have no children. Although everyone in the Bai family village was named Bai, he and shopkeeper Bai were both offshoots of the Five Fortunes. Therefore, shopkeeper Bai has been ill for so many days. Almost no one came to see him. , ask at most, "Are you feeling better?"

Now that Shen Yu'an and Ji Xun came, Aunt Bai seemed to have a backing, and she was not even qualified to cry before, but now she cried loudly with her arms around the corpse of shopkeeper Bai.

After the person is gone, the next thing is to spend money. Shen Yuan and Ji Xun almost gave the shopkeeper Bai a funeral according to the specifications of their daughter and son-in-law.

It was three days after finishing the funeral of Shopkeeper Bai, Shen Yuan and Ji Xun sent Aunt Bai back to Fengming Restaurant.

Shen Xingwang also knew Shopkeeper Bai and Aunt Bai, and was very saddened to hear the news, so he settled Aunt Bai well.

After finishing all this work, Shen Yuan and Ji Xun went directly to Baijia Village. After investigating Baijia Village and several villages downstream, Shen Yuan, who originally only wanted to kill the person who poisoned shopkeeper Bai, changed his mind.

The water in the big river is polluted by slag, and the water is undrinkable. The crops irrigated with the water from the river are poisonous. Even taking a bath in this kind of water will cause sores. People are almost desperate.

Seeing someone come to investigate this matter, everyone knelt down and kowtowed, hoping someone could help them.

After some investigation, it was getting late, and the two of them were going back to Dahe Town.

"Ah Xun, we have to help them." Shen Yu'an's eyes were firm, she was not a virgin whore, she came from the modern countryside, she knew the hard work and helplessness of farmers, how small and humble they were, and how desperate they were when they had nowhere to go.

Therefore, she wanted to help them, just like helping her own parents and her fellow villagers.

It may be difficult, because iron mines are government-run in this era, and each iron mine represents a huge power, and not everyone can bring it down.

But Shen Yuan wanted to do it no matter what, how would he know if he could do it if he didn't work hard?
"We can collect personal evidence and physical evidence, and then go to Mr. Xunyan, and ask Mr. Xunyan to help." Shen Yuan said.

Ji Xun had already guessed that Shen Yuan would take this move, but this iron mine was mined privately by Prince Wei Yuande without telling the emperor, physical evidence is easy, so many carriages transporting ore can be obtained casually, mainly witnesses, absolutely Not so easy to get.

"Don't worry, I'll leave this matter to my husband." Ji Xun drove the carriage with a calm but firm voice, "I'll take you back to Shenjia Village first."

"No, I want to go with Ah Xun." Shen Yuan's tone was affirmative.

"It's too dangerous, Yu'an doesn't know kung fu."

"Ah Xun's kung fu can be equal to ten by one, but can it be equal to a hundred by one?" Shen Yu said, "Isn't it good to discuss it with several people?" She would never let Ah Xun take risks alone, never.

"Okay." Ji Xun took a step back, "Then let's go to the iron mine to explore tonight."

"En." Shen Yuan responded.

The two went to Dahe Town in a carriage, bought two night clothes and rented a horse in the town, then went to the inn to open a room, ate something casually and waited for dark.

In the middle of the month, the moon was big and bright. Around [-]-[-] o'clock in the evening, the two put on night clothes and left Dahe Town, riding to Baijia Village.

It was about the middle of the day when we arrived at Baijia Village, and the countryside went to bed early, and the village was silent.

In order not to disturb the villagers, they rode on horseback to the river and bypassed the village to the iron mine.

The iron mine is located in the north of the village. From a distance, you can see the torches at the foot of the mountain, which are as bright as day, and the sound of mining can be heard endlessly.

Tethering the horse in a hidden place by the river, he quietly groped towards the iron mine under the moonlight. When he got close, Ji Xun climbed up a big tree and looked inside the iron mine.

In order to prevent the miners from escaping, the mine has built high walls and sent heavy guards. There are hundreds of miners wearing shackles and holding picks to mine. Ragged and unkempt.

At the gate of the mine, the mine manager and several officers and soldiers were drinking and chatting there.

"What kind of poison is in this iron ore? It's so powerful? I put a little bit of it in old Baitou's tea that day, and he died within seven or eight days."

Hearing this, Shen Yuan looked at the man fiercely, it turned out that he was the one who poisoned Uncle Bai, and in the future he must personally kill him to avenge Uncle Bai.

There was a big mole on the man's chin, and Shen Yuan firmly remembered his appearance.

The other two answered.

"Who knows? Anyway, it's none of our business. It doesn't matter how many people die under the orders of the officials."

"Isn't it? If this goes on, the villages on both sides of the river will die. Come, drink, it's none of our business."

Shen Yuan listened from a distance, fists clenched, who is the boss behind this iron mine? It is a disaster for the common people to have such a high official in the state of Zhou.

Angry, Ji Xun got down from the tree.

Holding Shen Yu'an's hand, he quietly hid in the nearby woods. After talking about the situation inside, he felt that there was no way to sneak in right now.

"We can wait for the guards inside to sleep before we can think of a way." Shen Yuan said.

"Well, that's the only way to go." Ji Xun shook Shen Yu'an's hand, and held her in his arms to resist the chill of the spring night.

The two of them had just waited for a short time when there was sudden shouting and beating in the mine. It sounded like someone was resisting, and the two of them hurriedly pricked up their ears.

"Eat worse than pigs, and they are not allowed to sleep at this time, who can survive this?" Ji Xun's face changed when the voice was raised, and he clenched his fists hard.

This is a veteran under him named Wang Chang.

He Shaoyuan, a bastard, actually dismissed such a brave veteran and left him here to mine.

"That is, without food or sleep, if this continues, everyone will die of exhaustion."

"You have to go to bed at the first hour of the day and wake up at the middle of the day, otherwise we won't do it."

One of these two voices is General Lin and the other is Vice General Zhang!
These were all heroic and loyal soldiers under his Night King, but now they are all...

In the mine, there was the sound of whips and sticks and angry shouts, scolding the eighteen generations of He Shaoyuan's ancestors, but there was no scream.

Ji Xun's complexion changed again and again, no one knew his mood at the moment.

I don't know how long it has passed, but there is the sound of closing the iron door, and Shen Yu'an, who was dozing off, suddenly wakes up.

Ji Xun climbed up the tree again and looked into the mine. Many of the torches inside were extinguished, only a few remained here and there, and hundreds of guards also went to sleep.

However, the gate was locked, and there were still four or five people inside the gate drinking tea and chatting. It seemed that they were on duty 24 hours a day.Ji Xun felt that it was a bit difficult to get in, so he brought a rope tomorrow and tried to see if he could sneak in.

Just about to go down the tree, I suddenly saw a big fat pig coming out of nowhere, humming and arching towards the gate.

That big fat pig weighed at least one to two hundred catties, and the five people in the door saw it at a glance.

"No way? Where did such a big wild boar come from?" The five guards' eyes lit up, and they all stood up without drinking tea.

"Catch it and you can have an extra meal tomorrow, how about it?" One of them took out a large bunch of keys.