idle mistress

Chapter 6

The errands in charge of the supervision here don't treat these prisoners as human beings at all. If things go wrong, they will be insulted and beaten; if they are serious, they will be tortured.

Seeing that the supervisor didn't pay attention to this side any more, Xu Weiqiu turned his head and thanked the uncle, gritted his teeth and walked forward step by step.After walking for a short distance, it was difficult to take a step forward. Under the scorching sun, she stood there with sweat dripping from her forehead, and the weight of the heavy basket made her almost out of breath.

Gritting her teeth and walking a short distance, she couldn't bear it any longer and bent down panting, just putting down the basket.A shadow enveloped her, and she raised her head with a wrong face, and saw the supervisor who had been paying attention to her just now standing in front of her and looking at her.

Xu Weiqiu panicked, lowered his head, and struggled to pick up the basket again.

The supervisor reached out to stop her, and asked, "Are you new here?"

"Yes……"

The other party frowned and looked at her, and said to himself: "Is he a corvee? Is this small body old enough?"

Hearing this, Xu Weiqiu's heart suddenly rang an alarm bell. Once he was found to be serving corvee under another person's name, he would be sentenced to prison.

"Are you 14 years old?"

According to the law of Cheng Dynasty, corvee workers must be at least 14 years old.

"The young one has just turned fourteen this year, and his family is poor, and he often has no food to eat, and grows slower than his peers." She replied tremblingly.

The other party nodded when he heard the words, and didn't ask any more questions, just said: "Put the things down, you go dig the sand over there."

Seeing that instead of punishing him, he assigned him a more relaxed job, Xu Weiqiu heaved a sigh of relief and thanked him repeatedly.

In this way, she worked on the battlefield for more than half a month, and was assigned by another steward to transport timber, each of which was made of high-quality nanmu. Said it was priceless.

The wood is thick and long, requiring the cooperation of the mover at a high height. Xu Weiqiu is small in stature, and the manager who has not worked for two days feels that she is not suitable, so he assigns her to move the stone again.

This time I went to the quarry in the east, where the stones were bigger than the ones she had moved before. When Xu Weiqiu arrived at the east yard, she secretly complained; but soon she was surprised to find that although the stones were difficult to move, But it's not as terrible as it used to be.

She laughed at herself: maybe after a period of tempering, her skin has become rough and her flesh has thickened.

"Why stop and dawdle to be lazy? Hurry up, hurry up... hurry up..."

Hearing the yelling behind her, Xu Weiqiu hurriedly quickened her pace, but within two steps, she stepped on a sharp and hard object, which didn't feel like broken stones on the mountain; she bent down to dig the thing out of the sand and gravel At first glance, it was a piece of iron, the size of a thumb, with rust on the surface; she turned her head and looked around, and put the iron piece into her pocket calmly.

Baskets of stones were moved over, and time passed. Xu Weiqiu felt parched and bitter in his mouth. Just as she stopped to drink water, she suddenly heard a loud noise coming from afar. As the sound got closer, the people who were working moved away to both sides.

Soon, a tall black horse came in a gust of wind, and dust billowed everywhere it passed.

Xu Weiqiu stared blankly at the bright white color on the horse's back.

The soldiers here are wearing gray uniforms, and the more well-dressed supervisors are also uniformly dressed in black, and these coolies who work day and night, who is not sloppy, the clothes on their bodies are all black and unrecognizable.

As for Xu Weiqiu herself, since she went to Guhuang Mountain, she has not been able to take a bath for ten days and a half months, and her whole body is disheartened. She knows that her image is not far from that of those refugees in Africa.

It can be said that the entire Ancient Phoenix Mountain is dark and lifeless.How can the sudden bright white color on the horse's back not make people fascinated.

"Oh my god, this living Hades is back!" Someone beside him murmured softly.

Xu Weiqiu didn't pay attention to the meaning of these words, his eyes followed the dusty center... This was the first time she saw someone galloping on a horse since she came to this other world.

Different from the Xu family's horse, which was as thin as a mule, the one in front of him was a handsome horse, and the person on the horse's back was full of vigor and majesty.

After galloping wildly on the mountain, he stopped at a high place.

Xu Weiqiu was fascinated by looking at this god-like fairy figure in the distance, he didn't notice where this person's gaze was, and everyone lowered their heads, not daring to look at him.

In a moment, the man on the horse's legs clamped the horse's back, and he walked away in a blink of an eye, leaving billowing dust flying around...

"What are you looking at, hurry up and work." A supervisor not far away stepped forward and pushed her, Xu Weiqiu came back to his senses, but when he lowered his head, he saw that his tools had disappeared.

Here, even without tools, she still has to do work, so she started digging sand and stones with her bare hands.

The person next to her felt that she was moving slowly, so he stretched out his hand and pushed her impatiently: "Go, go over there, don't get in the way here."

Xu Weiqiu had no choice but to move to the side. The place was relatively empty, and there were a few prisoners in handcuffs working. These people are usually assigned to work in another area. In order to isolate them from other people, it should also be for convenience. manage.

But for some reason, many prisoners have been arranged to come here recently.

The supervisors keep a close eye on these prisoners. Usually, where there are them, other workers are unwilling to get too close.

Xu Weiqiu didn't care about this, he bent over and worked hard there.

The prisoner standing next to her was tall and thin. Seeing that she was digging gravel with bare hands, the skin of her ten fingers was worn out by sand and stones, so he handed her the shovel in his hand to her.

When Xu Weiqiu saw the shovel, he hesitated for a moment and reached out to take it, but when he looked up, he was startled by the long scar on the other's face, she was stunned for a while, and then said softly after a while: "Thank you! "

The other party looked down at her, turned around and continued to work without saying a word.

Looking at the shovel in his hand, and then at the tall and thin back not far away and the heavy iron chains on his feet, Xu Weiqiu had mixed feelings in his heart...

When it was time for dinner in the evening, Xu Weiqiu lined up with a bowl to get food. When it was her turn, she couldn't help frowning when she saw the two coarse-grain steamed buns in the bowl.

"Isn't it four steamed buns per person?" Even the porridge in the bowl is only half of the amount of others.

The cook who cooked for her was fat and strong. Facing her objection, she gave her an angry look: "You are so small, two of you are enough."

(End of this chapter)