The wife of a powerful minister?Don't worry, I'll take back my destiny first

The underground passage of Dragon King Temple is winding and leads to nowhere.

Ni Zhen was being carried by Wang Shui and the others, feeling extremely unsure of what to do.

Gold mine?miner?These words were wandering in his mind, reminding him of the missing persons who had appeared in Xinghua Village and several neighboring villages from time to time in the past five years.

Could it be that those people were recruited to work as miners?Ni Zhen clenched his fists, thinking a lot.

About a quarter of an hour later, Ni Zhen was thrown to the ground forcefully.He felt a pair of hands playing with his head, and soon the sack was opened, and a bright light pierced his eyes.

"Uncle Zhen, you are indeed awake." Wang Shui twisted his mouth and smiled evilly: "It feels very comfortable to be carried in, right?"

Ni Zhen looked at Wang Shui calmly and said calmly: "Don't you want me to mine? Arrange work for me. Only when I have work can I feel at ease."

Wang Shui bit a toothpick and nodded: "As expected of me, Uncle Zhen, smart! We don't leave waste here, only useful people can live well and long."

Ni Zhen nodded to show that he understood, and got close to Wang Shuitao: "Brother Shui, since we are from the same village, let's arrange for an easier guy."

"Hahaha~" Wang Shui laughed loudly: "Uncle Shui calls me Brother Shui, and I feel really comfortable!"

One second Wang Shui was still laughing, but the next second his expression changed and he said to his men: "Pull him down and give him a good beating first."

"Yes!" Several thugs came up and pulled Ni Zhen into another hole. He threw him on the ground and beat him with punches and kicks.

Ni Zhen held his head and let the thugs' fists and feet fall on him.

The thugs didn't let go until Ni Zhen's body was bruised and bruised.

"Old guy, follow me!" A chubby thug dragged Ni Zhen towards another cave entrance.

Ni Zhen stumbled behind the thugs, stepping on the bones at his feet from time to time. From the twisted skeletons, it can be seen how painful these people were during their lives.

The fat man pointed at the skeletons and snorted: "Did you see it? This is the consequences of disobedience. If you dare to disobey, I will break your hands and feet first, and then break your head. When you die, I will dissolve it in a bottle Once the corpse water is poured out, you will become like this."

Ni Zhen had no doubt that the thugs' story was false. He followed the thugs silently along the short journey of less than two miles and had already seen more than a dozen remains.

The cave became narrow, and it was difficult for the chubby thug to pass through it. Ni Zhen could faintly hear a tinkling sound in his ears.

In the cave, black shadows kept swaying with the light of the fire.

When they passed through the narrowest cave, something suddenly opened up in front of them when they came out - a cave as big as two or three acres of land appeared in front of Ni Zhen.

Under the reflection of the torch, the stone walls in the cave sparkle with golden light, blinding people's eyes.

"Fat brother, why are you here?" A tall and thin man with a whip in his hand came over, looked at Ni Zhen and asked, "Is this restocked? Why is there only one person? Fat brother, give it to Brother Shui." Tell me, get more people! Too many people have died recently, and there are not enough people to work."

"Okay, I'll tell Brother Shui when I get back." The fat man nodded: "Monkey, I heard that this one is very powerful. Let him do all your heaviest and most tiring work. Maybe one person can do the job for several people. .”

"That's a good feeling." Hearing this, the monkey pointed happily not far away and said: "Just in time, we need manpower there, pick a tool and go over to help. If you don't dig out all the gold mine today, you won't be allowed to eat. .”

Ni Zhen had no choice but to step forward resignedly, picked up a copper ax weighing more than 20 kilograms that fell on the ground, and stepped forward to chop the ore in front of him with the miners.

Seeing that Ni Zhen actually chose the heaviest copper axe, the monkey happily said to the fat man: "Fat brother, next time I will also send someone like this who can do things."

As the monkey spoke, he pointed to the man next to him who was carrying gold sand to wash in the pool and said, "That kind of scholar has to take three breaths every time he takes a step. I really want to crush him to death." The fat man said. Looking in the direction of the monkey's finger, he saw a thin and frail man, standing in the puddle with a miserable expression and bending over to wash the gold sand in the basket.

The fat man smiled maliciously and said, "It's a miracle that he can survive to this day."

Monkey sneered: "Isn't it because we don't have enough manpower? If I had someone under my command, I would have killed this white-faced scholar with one blow. Such a coward, living is a waste of food."

The fat man agreed with the monkey and left the same way.

The monkey walked up behind Ni Zhen and waved the whip at him without warning.

"Crack~"

A whip opened a long gash on Ni Zhen's body.

The few people next to him seemed to have not seen it and worked harder to dig for gold.

Everyone comes here like this when they are first arrested.The foreman will continue to abuse you regardless of whether you take your work seriously or not.

In their words, this is called training.

The pride and dignity of these people were wiped out by one whip after another.

When the whip hit Ni Zhen for the first time, he staggered and the copper ax almost dug into his instep.

"Work hard!" The monkey was beating and scolding at the same time: "When you come to work as a miner, you have to be like a dog and obey me in everything. Otherwise, you will be the next person to die!"

Ni Zhen gritted his teeth and groaned, then continued to swing the copper ax in his hand, splitting a piece of gold ore weighing more than [-] kilograms with one strike.

The monkey looked at the falling piece of gold ore, trembled with fright, and took a few steps back with his whip in hand.

He suddenly felt a chill on his neck, as if the ax just struck not on the ore, but on his neck.

Ni Zhen climbed up the ore and continued to swing the copper ax against the stone wall.

The people around him quickly came over and carried the piece of ore to the small cart next to it.

Gold sand is mined slowly in this cave, and large pieces of ore are transported out. There is a place dedicated to smelting gold ore outside.

"Boom~"

Suddenly there was a tremor, and a corner of the mine on the other side collapsed, and several people who were mining were buried under the ore.

Ni Zhen didn't even turn his head. He smelled the strong smell of blood in the air and knew that there was no chance of those people surviving.

"Dad! Dad! Please, save my dad, save my dad~" The thin man who was washing sand in the pool just now rushed to the collapsed place and kept digging sand and gravel with his hands.

"Pa~" The monkey swung down the whip, and the man's thin clothes immediately opened a hole, leaving a shocking blood mark on his back.

"These old guys are so slow in doing things, they should have died a long time ago." The monkey sneered: "Scholar, if you want to go with them, I will help you."

When the scholar was whipped for the third time, he suddenly stood up, turned around, and rushed towards the monkey like crazy. (End of chapter)