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Chapter 102 Let go
He Lingjiang stood up: "Let's go to other mines to see."

The two returned along the same path.

He Lingjiang looked at the other four mines that had not yet been checked, and clicked on two of them: "You are responsible for these two, and the remaining two belong to me."

"The main thing is to find out what is mined inside. If you come out first, you will hide here and wait for a while."

"Yes, Qi Niangzi, be careful." He Zheng told her and entered the mine.

He Lingjiang also turned around and entered the mine tunnel on the right.

Compared with the previous one, this mine road is obviously much more lively.

Except for the waste road that has been mined in front, it is still quiet, and when you go back, you can hear the clanging sound of digging along the narrow mine.

In almost every narrow mine road, there are people busy in it.

Although it was late at night, there was no difference between day and night in the mine tunnel. These miners just fell asleep when they were tired, and continued mining when they woke up.

The clanging sound of chiseling stones has never stopped in this mine.

He Lingjiang avoided the people who came out to pour the mine from time to time, and approached the minerals accumulated in the middle.

Under the reflection of the surrounding oil lamps and the pearl in her hand, the color of the ore was clearly visible.

Pieces of dark brown ore were quietly piled on the ground.

This is not a copper mine!
He Lingjiang frowned slightly.

She reached out and groped, and then her eyes couldn't help shrinking.

It's iron!

They are actually mining iron ore here!
I can't complain, the man said earlier that this mountain range is not rich in copper materials, but it turned out to be occupied by iron.

Copper ore and iron ore are not inseparable, but the two have different geology after all, so some mountains are rich in copper, and some mountains are rich in iron.

If it is said that the place where the Nanshan mining area is being mined is dominated by copper mines, then this mountain range is thought to be dominated by iron, and it is also accompanied by a small amount of copper.

The reason why Liu Da and the others reported that there was someone here was privately mining copper materials was only because they happened to encounter this group of people who shipped the copper materials, or because the sky was dark and could not see clearly.

Now it seems that these people are mainly mining iron ore!

He Lingjiang's eyes narrowed slightly.

Private mining of copper materials is good, private mining of iron ore, both of which are prohibited by the imperial court, but the latter situation is a bit more serious than the former.

If it is said that the previous dynasty also released copper mines, allowing private mining to be collected by the government.

This iron ore has been firmly controlled by the imperial court throughout the dynasties, and has never been touched by others.

Iron can be made into agricultural tools, ensuring the foundation of a country's farming, and it can also be used to forge weapons to help soldiers and soldiers return from the battlefield.

In order to ensure the stability of the regime, successive dynasties have ordered the "official camp of iron ore", which cannot be handed over to the private sector.

The casting of ironware is also operated by the government, and its importance is evident.

Now there are people who are mining privately here. If this incident breaks out, the turmoil that it will bring will be even worse than the private mining of copper mines.

He Lingjiang was thinking to himself, a rustling sound came from the mine tunnel next to it, someone came out to dump minerals.

She hurriedly hid sideways into the mine tunnel beside her.

"Snapped!"

Because of her movement, a small stone fell from the top of her head and hit the ground.

He Lingjiang's eyebrows jumped and he held his breath.

"Ding ding, ding ding, ding ding..."

The sound of stone chiseling in the surrounding mines kept going, and this small sound seemed to be nothing in this mine.

The man who came out to pour the ore didn't notice it. He dumped the iron ore in the back basket on the ore pile in the middle, and couldn't help but move his muscles and bones.

Then, he took out a piece of naan from his arms, sat on the mine and ate it.

Someone came out of the mine road, and when they saw it, they couldn't help but say, "Is there any more? Give me a piece too."

The man grinned, with white teeth showing on his dark face: "Thanks to me for saving a lot of pancakes, oh, here's some for you."

Saying that, he took out another half of the cake and handed it over.

"Thank you, brother." The man who asked for the cake stretched out his hand to take it, and sat down with him, "Doing this manual work is to get hungry fast."

"Yes. Fortunately, the wages are not low, and if you work harder, you will get more rewards..."

The two exchanged a few words and then buried themselves in the cake.

The mine tunnel where He Lingjiang was hiding was extremely quiet, and even breathing could hardly be heard. Only the sound of chiseling stones and the sound of two people chewing pancakes could be heard.

After the two had eaten the naan cakes, they rested for a while, and then lifted the basket and went back to their respective mines.

It was quiet outside, except for the sound of wall digging around, in the mine tunnel where He Lingjiang was located, he could not even hear the sound of breathing, it was extremely quiet.

She held her breath, and then suddenly moved her hand, spinning out the short dagger between her sleeves and stabbing into the void.

In the darkness, the dagger with a fierce momentum suddenly stopped.

A hand grabbed her neck!
He Lingjiang stopped the offensive, even if she couldn't see it, she knew that the short dagger was touching the opponent's heart at this time.

She narrowed her eyes and said nothing.

The other party was also silent.

The two were at a stalemate, no one spoke, and no one was willing to let go first, only the sound of wall-cutting in the mine tunnel.

The opponent's hand was pinched so tightly that He Lingjiang felt that his breathing was a little short, but the right hand holding the dagger remained steady.

She secretly thought to herself that her neck had just healed a bit, and if it continued like this, she would be cut off by this person again.

She pushed the dagger forward a point: "Let... let go."

The man's palm tightened again: "Retract the knife."

He Lingjiang couldn't help but be glad that he was not a living person, otherwise he would not have been pinched and fainted at this time.

The dagger shrunk back by two points, and the palm that was pinching her neck also loosened.

"I count three, let's let go together." He Lingjiang took a breath.

"Okay." The man nodded in the dark.

"one."

"two."

"three!"

The two did not move.

He Lingjiang sneered: "Your Excellency is a little bit broken."

"Aren't you the same?" The man quipped.

They agreed to let go together, but the two of them remained motionless, obviously not believing each other, so why blame each other?

He Lingjiang couldn't help but have nothing to say, but such a stalemate was not the way to go.

"Your Excellency is hiding here. If you want to come, you will come in secretly. You don't want people in the mine to notice. You and I are so deadlocked. When others find out, we can only be trapped here together."

He Lingjiang's voice was slightly deep: "Do it again, this time, let go together."

The man was still a word: "Okay."

"one."

"two."

"three!"

This time, the two finally retracted their hands that pointed at each other's vital points at the same time.

He Lingjiang's fragile neck was finally saved.

The moment the man let go, she immediately turned around and walked out of the mine, and the man followed closely.

He Lingjiang spun slightly under his feet and waved his sleeves. The oil lamps around him suddenly went out, and this half of the main mine tunnel went dark.

In the darkness, the man only felt a sharp blade coming straight at him.

He stretched his hand away from He Lingjiang's hand, then turned sideways to avoid her attack and distanced himself from her.

He Lingjiang held a short dagger and pointed at the man: "Who is your Excellency? Why did you come to this mine?"

The man sneered, his voice was a bit low in the coldness, as if he was between a teenager and a young man: "I should ask you this."

"Your Excellency is not even a person, what is the purpose of coming to this mine?"

He just grabbed her neck, and he felt a coldness in his hands. Under the tentacles, there was no pulse beating in the neck, and there was a feeling of blood flowing.

What's more, she doesn't have the spirit of being alive.

All human beings have qi, whether clear or turbid, but they all carry a warmth.

But when her qi touched it, it was like fog in the forest, mist in the mountains, cool and cool, and lifeless.

The person in front of him is not a living person!
(End of this chapter)