The fairy city of the market man

Chapter 28
The next day, Ma Kuan brought over a black gold stone that was as thick as a little finger, and said that he had already withdrawn from the VIP room and was about to leave. He asked Shang Saner, a good brother, to go to the Southern Jin Kingdom to find him for drinking and playing chess.

Twice goodbye, Shang San'er is going to the Longlin City Stone Field today.

The immortal prisoners in the quarry were either thieves caught from the mountains or the remnants of Dongshan County's conquest of a certain city or sect.

These individual immortals are either restless or have a great cause and effect with the Lu family of Dongshan County. Even if they are fished out of the quarry and raised with bamboo leaves every year, they will not be grateful and willing to defend the city of Green Willow.

Shang San'er still hasn't decided whether to choose the prisoner from the quarry, so let's have a look first.

Before going to the quarry, I first searched for Lu Shang and asked Mo to reveal his true identity. I just made up an excuse, saying that it was a new government soldier or a small official sent to the quarry by the county.

So, he was given a piece of broken silver and asked him to eat at home, and Chen Wu was left in the protocol department.

Under the guidance of the petty official, the new yamen soldier wandered off to the quarry to take up his post with an old dog that lacked skin and flesh.

The quarry is in the north of Longlin City, and the bottom of the quarry is the same as the Tiankeng of Liujie Mountain, which is also a dark passageway.

The quarrying prisoners are all immortals, and some of them have family members. Although the treasures are taken away and Taoism is forbidden, there are many strange tricks, so they must be strictly guarded against.The scope of the quarry is not small, with high stone walls on all sides, guarded by Taoist soldiers and yamen soldiers, and three ninth-order immortals in Longlin City are on duty.

Black gold stones are produced here, and the secrets of cultivation can be squeezed out from the prisoners to some extent. The oil and water are naturally rich. The manager Lu arranged is the second lady of the county guard's family, but she is obsessed with cultivation, and she rarely shows up in the stone field. To the deputy steward.

The deputy steward is also surnamed Lu, named Lu Chang, looking at the new Yamen soldiers led by the officials, he felt a little bit guilty.

It's really that the newcomer Shang Chun's yamen uniform doesn't match at all. Not to mention he's a fool, and he also wears an old dog with injuries all over his body. He doesn't look like he's here to do things, but rather like a rich man on an outing!

The officials who led the way were a little too polite to the new yamen soldier.

What he did was false, could it be that some villain sued him, and the magistrate sent someone to visit the quarry?

But there is no young lady in the county guard's family who is as strong as the second lady. My family has always been flattering, so as long as it is not a big mistake, can you bring me down?

Muttering, Lu Changan recalled his recent actions, but he had the disadvantage of fearing being caught out.

After the officials who led the way left, the new yamen soldier said to Lu Chang, "Brother, you don't need to worry about me, and don't send me anything. I'll just play for a few days and leave!"

Listen to this breath!
Lu Chang was not afraid of being deceived by this guy, and he would just say it in front of the second lady when he turned around, it didn't matter whether it was true or false.

Without flattery or fear, Lu Chang waved his hand: "Fun with you!"

That guy really turned around and went out with the dog, without paying any attention to etiquette, and didn't take him as a steward at all.

Turning around and going to complain, the beautiful woman Guan Mingyue, who was accompanied by the second lady, came into the room to complain, and came out and said: "The second lady knows, and said that the Lord Chancellor has a letter, and let him stay for a few days, don't worry about it!"

Then it's not about checking yourself, Lu Chang was relieved immediately, and he didn't care about the dog wandering around the quarry.

After a while, the fake yamen soldier with the dog has already asked other yamen soldiers that the former ninth-rank human immortal Ruxiu, although his veins are broken, has been able to walk after so many years, but he can't move his spiritual energy to protect him. He can't go underground to quarry stones, and the quarry arranges light work such as paperwork and accounting for him, but he doesn't care at all. He can't do anything about it, and he can't kill him. , easy to find.

Most of the time I came to the quarry was because of this Confucianism cultivator. After inquiring about it, Shang San'er went directly to find it.

This Confucianist cultivator was named Dong Ce, with Chinese characters, medium height, thin, silver hair and long beard, wearing kudzu clothes and grass shoes. When he was found, he was squatting outside the shack, rolling up his sleeves and using a wooden stick to wash clothes.

Shang San'er was not polite, and approached with the old dog. Seeing that there was no place to sit, he kicked the old dog first and called, "Lie down!"

The old dog got down obediently, sat on the dog's back, and held the dog's head with his hands: "Mr. Dong, I can rescue you, and I am willing to seek medical treatment for your wounds, just..."

"Boom!"

The old man threw the laundry stick into the tub, splashed a lot of water, and drank with a cold face: "Get out!"

Don't even want to talk about it.

Shang San'er tried harder: "Really."

"Humph!"

This time, he directly picked up the wooden basin, and poured a basin of dirty water on Shang San'er along with his clothes!
The old dog reacted quickly, and took Shang San'er out in one step, without splashing!

Dong Ce looked at the old dog, sneered, turned around and went back to the shack.

The old lady said that you need tenacity to do business, but Shang San'er just followed along regardless.

"Wow!"

This time, Old Man Dong was referring to the toilet in the shack, pouring out all the feces and urine.

Shang San'er jumped back to avoid it, almost splashing on him!
Really want to fight with Lao Tzu?
"Old dog, lick it clean!"

The light in the shack was not good, but it couldn't stop Dixian's gaze. The old dog really came to lick it. Old man Dong was really dumbfounded, and the expression on his face seemed to have seen a ghost.

The corners of Shang San'er's mouth turned up slightly, and he was about to speak again, when the old man suddenly yelled: "Killer! Today, the Lu family killed me, Dong Ce!"

After calling this, the old man jumped up and grabbed the ground with his head!
In the shack, apart from the beds made of hay, there are only stones on the ground.

Dong Ce bumped his head against the corner of the rock, and his forehead bled blood!

Shang San'er was dumbfounded!
"Uncle Dong, it's your ability! Don't bother me, kid!"

The Lu family doesn't want to bear the notoriety of killing this old man, how dare he, Shang San'er?
The master of his Daluo Jinxian is under the seat of Baidi, and Baidi is the great sage of Confucianism!

This old man is obviously playing a scoundrel and threatening his life, but he really can't afford to mess with him.

It's so frustrating, what can I bring with me?

Maybe the master will drive me out of the teacher's school!

Unable to offend, Shang San'er ran away.

There is still an old dog in front of the shack, and it can only leave after licking and eating the ground according to the owner's order.

Old man Dong got up, didn't wipe the blood off his face, just looked at the dog and just sneered.

Can't talk about old man Dong, see that eighth-rank bandit again?
But it was still early, and in all the huts there were only women and children walking around, and the prisoners were all quarrying underground, so they could not be seen.

When the old dog came back, Shang San'er took it to the entrance of the quarrying passage and waited.

After the stone is quarried, the prisoners will come up here to see if there is a chance to close their eyes.

Like Liujie Mountain, the bottom here is also dark, except that there are a few more iron chain cableways on the surrounding stone walls for people going up and down.

There are also many local ordinary stones piled up around, which were transported by ordinary people. The empty space under the cave must be filled with local ordinary stones. After thousands of years, they will turn into black gold stones and will not be useless anymore.

There are desks and three chairs beside the passage, all of which are empty at the moment, and Shang San'er sat casually on the outer chair.

To pass the time, it is natural to use dogs to refine black chess pieces, and then warm up the chessboard when you feel bored, in exchange.

"what?"

Raising his head, the sun was already in the west, and there were many young women in light yellow skirts around him, with white necks, pretty sides, and an enchanting charm.

The first time I saw it, my heart was plucked.

The surprised sound earlier was made by her.

"Mian Sheng, when did you come to the quarry? With the ability of the immortal family, why don't you become a Taoist soldier or a guest minister instead of being a government soldier?"

Shang San'er was fascinated by this woman at first glance, and asked casually: "Sister is so pretty, why is she here?"

"Whee!"

The woman covered her mouth and smiled lightly, and raised her eyebrows to tease him: "Outsiders can't come in, this place is nothing but imprisoned immortals, Taoist soldiers, government soldiers, and stone quarrying prisoners, who do you think my sister is?"

Shang San'er put away the chessboard and guessed, "Could it be the second Miss Lu?"

"Ah! Don't harm me!" Shang San'er joked, scaring the woman into shock, looking around and saying: "Don't talk nonsense, sister is also a prisoner, how dare she be?"

Hearing her answer, Shang San'er was really surprised.

The second lady of the Lu family hasn't left the cabinet yet, she doesn't know how to dress up as a woman, and she is dedicated to cultivating Taoism. She doesn't care about the quarry affairs. Of course, Shang San'er knows that it can't be her, and she casually said it was just a compliment and a joke, but look at the woman Dressing, skin color, I thought it was a Lu family Taoist soldier or a human immortal, but I never thought that he would be a prisoner.

Except for old man Dong who doesn't get in oil and salt, the prisoners are still mining black gold and stones underground, so why is there another one on the ground?

Fortunately, no one else was seen nearby, the woman let out a long breath, turned around to see him surprised, rolled her eyes, and complained: "Why do you just talk nonsense, not afraid of causing trouble?"

Shang San'er smiled wryly: "My sister is dressed like a prisoner in quarrying?"

"Humph!"

She snorted twice, then said: "You can find out about it, my sister is born with a pair of snobbish eyes, and she has a lot of love in her life, so she gave her body to the deputy steward, so as to avoid the hardship of quarrying!"

The yamen soldier didn't talk about the door, and he finished talking nonchalantly. The woman didn't want to talk to him anymore, stroked her temples, and looked down the passage: "It's time, why don't you come out?"

After another few words, the deputy steward, Lu Chang, and an old man dressed as a pedant also came along with a few Taoist soldiers.

Lu Chang saw Shang San'er from a long distance, saw him looking at his house, he refused to even stand up, let alone greet him, so he ignored him, and sat with the old man on the remaining two chairs.

Looking at Shang San'er, the woman stepped back a few steps.

The Taoist soldiers surrounded him, and it was strange that the little yamen soldier sat side by side with the deputy steward, but if Lu Chang didn't speak up, he didn't have much trouble with the Taoist soldiers.

Not long after, a gray quarryman climbed up along the passage, holding a mottled black gold stone bar in his hand.

"Remember! Remember!"

The prisoner yelled at the woman, but the black gold stone was handed to the pedantic old man.

The old man turned over the stone strip and examined it carefully, and the woman said to Shang San'er: "Please let me go!"

The desk and the chair under her hips turned out to be hers, Shang San'er rubbed her nose, got up and moved out of the way.

The woman sat down, took out the account book and pen from her sleeve, and opened them to look for the name. She found it difficult to find the name, and she was not sure when she found it.

The unkempt quarryman let out a sigh of relief, turned his head and left, and returned to his shack.

When the quarryman walked away, the old man put down the black gold stone in his hand: "There is a little black gold on the skin, very little, wait a minute!"

This time Chang Lu took out another account book and recorded it himself.

Inferior black gold stones are equivalent to one or two knots of shrimp, and they are not worth much for beginners to practice their hands.

Soon, below, the quarrymen climbed up one by one, some were empty-handed, and some handed over the black gold stone.

The black gold stone is harder than iron, and it is very difficult to remove it when it is inlaid on the stone wall. The prisoner and immortal don't have any treasures at hand, so they can only use other stones to slowly knock along the cracks, and it takes two days to hand over one piece.

The work is very hard, and those who fail to complete it will be whipped and have no food for two days.

They were prisoners, and if they picked stones of all colors, the only reward they could get was a few days of rest and a good table of wine and food.

(End of this chapter)