The Female Officer Became a Farmer After Getting Reborn

The two of them fell to the ground and saw the people lying in various places inside. They were all ragged and skinny men. They didn't react to the movements made by the two of them.

Ding Yi scratched Hu Cheng's palm a few times and told Hu Cheng that he wanted to stay and watch for two days and then find a chance to escape.

Hu Cheng agreed with Ding Yi's idea, and the two quietly discussed how to deal with it through the secret language unique to the secret guards.

Less than an hour later, the people in the cave were woken up. Hu Cheng and Ding Yi were also driven away by the guards with leather whips, following the team of miners and moving forward in a panic.

Ding Yi peeked at the miners in the valley and felt that they should work in turns. On the road, some miners used wheelbarrows to transport carts of iron sand to the iron-smelting furnace. Next to the furnace, there were people who packed the iron sand into baskets and threw them into the furnace. Enter the furnace.

Under more than a dozen tall iron-making furnaces, in front of the hearth of each furnace, there are more than a dozen thin, dark-faced men, mechanically pulling the blowers. Every once in a while, two men with leather hands stand standing. Whip, guard with a long sword at his waist.

If the miners moved a little slower, the whip would fall on the miners. Those people did not dare to resist, so they could only grit their teeth and speed up the pace.

Suddenly, a miner pushing a wheelbarrow stopped, swayed a few times, and then fell straight down. The supervisor yelled and cursed, walked up to him, raised his whip and hit him. At first, the man twitched a few times, but after a while, there was no movement.

The supervisor bent down and took a look, then dragged the miner towards a cave. The other people silently speeded up their movements.

Ding Yi and Hu Cheng looked at everything in front of them and thought: No wonder these miners are so honest. They couldn't have been so insensitive when they first came here. They must have become like this after being beaten for a long time.

More than a dozen smelting furnaces were refining day and night, and the fiery red molten iron flowed out along the grooves. How much pig iron was refined by the Cheng family? Listening to the faint sound of hammering iron tools coming from the front, Thinking about how many weapons the Cheng family has produced over the years?

The further we walked, the tinkling sound of hammering got closer and closer. When we turned around, we saw several rows of burning stoves, with thirty or forty blacksmiths sweating profusely while forging iron tools.

After walking for a while, they reached the depths of the valley. The miners stopped, picked up their tools and walked to the foot of the mountain to start digging for iron ore.

The supervisor pointed to the basket, hammer, and shovel on the ground, and looked at the two of them, "The two newcomers, take the household items and go over there to work. Only after you can get all that piece out can you rest."

Hu Cheng and Ding took a look at the place pointed by the supervisor, honestly picked up the basket, walked to the foot of the mountain, picked up the shovel and started working.

The soil and gravel were dug out, shoveled into the basket with a shovel, and filled into a cart. The supervisor asked Ding Yi to push the wheelbarrow and follow the miners to transport the sand and gravel to the place where the iron sand was sifted. No miners talked to each other along the way, and it was unknown. Doing it.

There is a large pool where the ore is screened and washed. The pool is surrounded by cliffs on three sides. The stream flows down from the cliff and washes the ore. A dozen miners are constantly sifting and washing the ore there. There are also miners who carry the ore and push wheelbarrows back and forth. Running around, Ding Yi found that the number of supervisors here was the smallest.

After working non-stop for an hour, the two of them were already very hungry. Seeing the two miners next to them slowing down, Hu Cheng asked him in a low voice, "Brother, when will we have food?"

The miner glanced at him and shook his head silently. The supervisor over there raised his whip and shouted, "Hurry up. If you don't want to do it, I will drag you into the cave and let you rest for the rest of your life."

Ding Yi and Hu Cheng thought of the miners who had just been dragged into the cave, yes! When you die, you can rest forever.

The miner sped up his movements, and Hu Cheng turned to look at the supervisor, "Manager, I'm hungry, please give me something to eat!"

The supervisor walked up to Hu Cheng and pointed his whip at him, "Since you are new here, I will spare you this time. I will tell you the rules. Work for two hours at night and rest for one hour. Two steamed buns, if you want to eat, wait for an hour. During the day, you have to work harder for me, and you can only rest after finishing the assigned work. Work quickly, or my whip will not recognize anyone. "

Hu Cheng calculated after hearing this. His grandmother only slept for one hour a night and had to finish the assigned work during the day before she could rest. This was treating people like animals, no, worse than animals.

The two of them worked hard until it was time to distribute the steamed buns. One of them handed out two hard multi-grain steamed buns, and then the supervisor drove them back to the smelly cave to rest.

After all the miners fell asleep, Ding Yi lay there and counted the number of supervisors. After counting, he found that there were no less than a hundred supervisors in the valley, and there were guards on the mountain. From the furnace to the mining area, there were the most supervisors and guards. The only one who was lax was There is a sifting pool.

Ding Yijue could easily escape with his kung fu, but he didn't know if Hu Cheng could escape. Did the people sent by Shopkeeper Chu follow him? Did you send the news back? If they had already gotten the news, running away with *** would definitely alert the snake...

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In Yuezhou Prefecture, the team delivering the decree had arrived at Yuezhou. Magistrate Feng and Cheng Shan, the eldest son of the Cheng family, along with officials of all sizes and a group of squires from Yuezhou Prefecture, met the team delivering the decree at the city gate.

Magistrate Feng and Cheng Shan glanced at Zhou Jia, who had a gentle smile on his face, smiled, bowed his head, and said in salute: "I pay homage to the Imperial Envoy, Mr. Zhou."

Zhou Jia smiled and stepped forward, helped him up and said, "Master Feng, no courtesy."

Cheng Shan also smiled and came forward to salute. After everyone exchanged greetings, the team carrying the decree moved into the Yuezhou Post House. Magistrate Feng smiled and said to Zhou Jia: "Master Zhou, there is a reception banquet tonight at Zuixian Tower. Wait. You have a good rest, I will send someone to pick you up."

Zhou Jiatui refused: "Thank you, Mr. Feng. Please thank everyone for your kindness on my behalf. It's really hard work, so I'll just skip the reception banquet!"

"Mr. Zhou, everyone is with you, please show me your respect." Magistrate Feng bowed and saluted.

Zhou Jia nodded, "Okay! Prepare casually and don't be extravagant and wasteful."

Magistrate Feng responded respectfully, "Master Zhou, please take a rest and I will take my leave."

The postmaster welcomed Zhou Jia and his chamberlain into the posthouse, arranged their accommodation and then left. The chamberlain sorted things out and went to the Cheng family to deliver the order.

Zhou Jia looked at the manpower waiting at the posthouse in the yard and said to Ruyi: "Let them all go back. I have guards and you, so you don't need them to serve."

Ruyi looked at them, "Did you hear what the adults said, you are not needed here, please go back!"

"Sir, we are sent by the post office to serve you. If you drive us back, the master wants to..."

Ruyi looked at them arrogantly, "If you are asked to leave, leave quickly. Someone, come and drive them out."

The guards came forward and drove them away.