The Last Mecha

Chapter 179
It's not too long after lunch, it's noon, and the sun is shining brightly.

The scorching air caused the old yellow dog lying in front of the door to poke its tongue straight. The sunlight deflected by the glass fell on the haystack, steaming. Luckily, someone discovered it earlier. A piece of cloth was covered over the window. .

Jiang Song's summer is tormenting, especially in the past two years, when it is on time, it is very hot. Strange to say, this place is obviously near the sea.

But the scorching heat can't prevent the factory from going to work. In the Fanshan Mine under Zijin Mining, the red-gold sunlight splashed all over the ground, and only scattered scaffolding provided a little shade. The workers who did not enter the mine were one by one Roll the rag around your head.

At first, some people would dip some water on their towels and faces, but Wang Deshun, the foreman of the mine, felt that this was a waste, so he closed the water gate.

It was past lunch time here, and not long after the start of work, a group of people came to the other end, with large cars and small cars. The two people in front walked slowly. Some people held umbrellas and others fanned them.

Wang Deshun didn't like to see people disturbing him. After all, there was a target for the output of each mine every day, and he was the one who was unlucky if there was less output.

But when this person is out of society, there are always times when he bows down. When he saw the battle from a long distance, he knew that he was not someone to be provoked. After spitting hard on the ground, he lifted two fingers and slid the corners of his mouth to fix his smile. He ran forward in two steps, the sweat beads on his forehead flew across the ground in the wind, steaming white on the hot soil.

As soon as he got closer and saw clearly, the smile on Wang Deshun's face was even more exaggerated.

He approached, bent down and bowed, his head almost fell into the soil, and rubbed his hands with a smile: "Master Zhang and Master Guo, you two came from a long way on a hot day, but you are far away to meet there, villain, this place is broken." It’s dilapidated, with nothing but iron frames and earthen pits, and no hospitality.”

Zhang Li was at the front, with a sallow face, trembling as if he was about to return to the west at any time, two maidservants on the left and one on the right were holding their arms, and there were three people standing behind, the one in the middle was holding an umbrella to shade the sun, fanning the wind from left to right, this Not enough, there are still people ahead, dragging a bowl of warm tea and waiting.

Those who didn't know saw this formation from a distance, and might have thought it was the emperor coming.

He coughed twice and waved his hands.

"Okay, I'll come to your place if I want to drink tea and cool off? I'm here to do business. Are you the foreman today?"

"Back to the adults, the villains are."

Wang Deshun's old official accent is very straightforward. At this time, the new style and the old style of the Xia Kingdom are parallel, and even the way of speaking in the officialdom often has a wonderful scene of both the ancient and the modern.

"Then you, tell all the workers in this mine to stop, but they are not allowed to move. They stay where they are when they shout, and they can't move an inch." Zhang Li said.

"Ah?" Wang Deshun's eyes twitched, unable to figure it out, "My lord, we have just started work, and those people just got up their strength to prepare for work, but all the shouting stopped, and it happened that the class was still full. , the loss is really big——uh, otherwise, you can tell me to do anything.”

"Did I tell you?" Zhang Li's voice was hoarse, "That's okay."

"Adults, you talk, little ones are all ears."

"Stay here and don't move."

"okay."

"Zhang An Wang Wu." Zhang Li turned his head and looked at the two servants who were trustworthy and able to handle affairs on weekdays. "Did you hear what I said just now? Go, call to the mine, and then take People check."

Those two men were wearing gray mandarin jackets, they responded in a rough voice, and went up with a swish of their arms.

"Check?" Wang Deshun shook his head when he heard it, and said with a smile, "My lord, what are you looking for?"

"Check the mine, I came to the mine, but I can't check the water meter." Zhang Li said something and coughed for a while, and his face recovered after a while, "Recently, the accounts in your district are wrong, and they are outrageously wrong. gone."

"No, my lord"

Wang Deshun wanted to say something, but was immediately interrupted by Guo Penglai who was standing aside. The thick eyebrows and big eyes were full of heroism, and he poked his fingertips, "Presumptuous! Your Excellency Governor wants to check the mines, so it's your turn to talk?"

That Wang Deshun was so frightened that he shrank his neck, looked at him twice, swallowed his saliva, and said, "Really check?"

"Nonsense, what else? Make tea?"

While talking here, investigations have already been carried out over there. A large group of people came from nowhere behind Zhang Li, wearing new-style official uniforms with lapel collars and four patch pockets. Dead man.

The workers had never seen this scene before. They swallowed their saliva, clutched their palms one by one, and stood there not daring to move.

The Fanshan mine is not big, so it is not troublesome to check it, and it only takes half an hour to go back and forth.

Zhang Li was drinking tea and eating melon seeds here, while Wang Deshun stood beside him motionless, sweating like a faucet.

"My lord!" When Zhang An came back, he knelt on the ground with his hands clenched into fists and one knee, "There is a situation."

Really found out, such a big place, so few people, once checked, all the truth was revealed.

At this point, there were two more shifts inside, two mine roads, and one of the carriages that should have been parked in place to pull mines was missing.

"Explain it."

Zhang Li tremblingly raised his hand, and accidentally pointed it crookedly, before turning a corner, he stabbed at Wang Deshun, piercing his heart like a sword.

Wang Deshun was terrified, and immediately threw himself on the ground, banging his head twice with two "dong dong", his mouth sounded like a flood, "Damn the small one, the small one should be damned, the daily output of mines is tight, and I feel confused. It was only for the sake of production that I secretly arranged two more shifts, my lord clearly learned from that!"

As a result, Zhang Li ignored him, and with a wave of his hand, two big men came out from the left and the right, with the shiny back of the knife pressed against his neck.

"It's okay if you explain it this way. You must have a record of working overtime secretly. Do you want to find me the mining volume and transportation records of the two mine tunnels and the dark shift?"

Wang Deshun put the two knives on like this, his face was pale, but his brain turned quickly, and he replied tremblingly: "My lord, it's easy to talk about things, but if you are in a hurry for a while, do you want to let me know?" Two hours?"

Before Zhang Li could answer, a figure came rushing over there, an old gatekeeper of the Municipal Council.

"Master Zhang Zhang."

On a hot day, he ran so hard that he almost didn't bring it up in one breath. He took a moment to say, "Master Zhang, Jiang Mulin, Master Jiang is waiting for you in the city bureau. Please ask me to bring a letter."

"Him? What's the matter?" Zhang Li asked, with little interest in his eyes.

"Master Jiang didn't say anything, he just told me to give it to you, no more, no less, eight words, 'I have a memory chip in my hand'."

The old doorman wrung his fingers and counted twice to confirm that there was no problem, and then he was relieved.

As soon as his words fell, the expressions of Zhang Li and Guo Penglai, one in front and the other in the back, changed.

(End of this chapter)