Late Qing Dynasty Executioner

Chapter 97 All living things are cattle and horses
This is a canyon about ten meters wide. The hills on both sides are not high, but very steep, and the cliff walls are all made of stones, so there is no need to worry about the danger of landslides.

Of course, stone walls may also slide, but the probability is much smaller than that of earth slopes and can basically be ignored.

The two walked more than a hundred meters along the canyon covered with black oil stains, and they could see a black pond in front of them.

That's not water, it's oil. The low point is the asphalt left after evaporation, and it's impossible to tell how thick it is. Looking inside, you can see slowly flowing oil, but no one knows where it's coming from.

Chen Gu looked at the cliffs on both sides, thought for a moment, and said, "Let's go back. Let's find a place to go up the mountain and go around to the source to have a look."

"Then we have to go up the mountain from the entrance!" said Lao Piao.

As the two were walking back, Lao Piao thought for a moment and said, “There was also oil with this smell on Dengyun Mountain before, but it was not black, but yellow, and it flowed out from a crack in the rock. But the amount was not much, maybe only about half a pound a day.

Besides lighting lamps for the Buddha, there is still some left to sell for money to buy salt."

"Is there such a thing?" Chen Gu asked in surprise, "Then why did it disappear later?"

"Later, my eldest brother was greedy and took a chisel to widen the crack in the stone. As a result, sparks were produced and the oil caught fire. After burning for three days, no more oil flowed out. Because of this, my eldest brother ran away because he had caused trouble." Lao Piao said depressedly.

That's true. After all, under the current conditions, it is not easy to extract oil. Chen Gu doesn't know how to extract oil. The reason he came here is just to see if the oil here flows out by itself.

Arriving at the entrance of the valley, the two found a place to climb up the hillside, and then walked along the canyon into the interior.

It was also a stone wall. Two or three meters away from the place name, oil was flowing out like a spring. The flow rate was not too large, just like a faucet turned to the maximum.

Although the two walked for a day and a half, because they were always walking in the old forest, they only walked about 70 or 80 miles. The straight-line distance could be shortened by at least half, after all, they were always going up and down the mountain.

The road on the mountain was even more difficult to walk on, but fortunately the canyon was not very deep, probably only about four or five hundred meters. After walking for less than half an hour, the two reached the end and saw where the oil was gushing out.

"No, my fellow disciples wanted to try it, but the master wouldn't let them. He said that this was the Buddha's will. Since the Buddha has taken the oil back, we can't force it, so as not to cause greater disasters!" Lao Piao explained.

If mining is necessary, Chen Gu doesn't know what to do.

Chen Gu thought for a moment and asked, "Did you guys try to open the cracks in the stone again?"

But for Chen Gu, it was enough. After all, it was something he picked up for free and did not need to be mined. He just had to collect it in a container and take it out for distillation.

I think the relationship between these two brothers should be good.

Of course, a lot of preparations need to be made. First, we need to explore the mountain and then build a road in. Fortunately, this place is not far from the Buddhist treasure.

After sending people to explore, building a road should be able to shorten the distance a lot, but we will have to explore further to know the exact amount.

After the road is built, houses will be built here to distill oil. Houses will also need to be built here to store crude oil.

"Okay, let's go back. Come back after the brothers have finished their exploration and repaired the road!" Chen Kui said. "Can this black oil really be turned into the yellow oil that can light a lamp?" Lao Piao asked with some disbelief.

Chen Gu thought for a moment and said with a smile, "How about we pack two gourds first and take them back, and I'll make one for you to see?"

"Sure!" Lao Piao said with a smile, "It's not that I don't trust you, but it's such a long distance, sending so many brothers to explore, and building roads, the cost is very high. If you can't convince the brothers, I'm afraid everyone will have opinions. I dare not guarantee you, after all, I don't know if what you said is true."

This has nothing to do with trust or not. The truth is that people have never seen it, so how can they trust you?

Of course, with Chen Gu's reputation, he should be able to force this matter through, but the efficiency of forcing people to do things and having them take the initiative to do it is definitely different.

Morale is something that cannot be seen or touched, but you cannot say that it does not exist. When the morale of an army is high, it can accomplish many impossible tasks. On the contrary, when the morale is low, many things that could have been done may go wrong due to various problems.

"I didn't expect that such a carefree guy like you could be so thoughtful!" Chen Gu laughed. This is what they call being rough but meticulous.

"Come on, I'm just tall, that doesn't mean I'm stupid!" Lao Piao pulled the corner of his mouth and said, "Whether it's my monk master or the old man, they all say that I'm very talented, okay?
If I didn't want to be the executioner, would you have been given the position of Young Master?"

"Haha, in that case, I have to thank you even more?" Chen Gu said with a smile.

"Forget it." Lao Piao curled his lips and said, "When you suffer like a cow or a horse in your next life, just don't blame me."

"Do you really believe in the next life?" Chen Gu asked.

"Then what basis do you have to say there is no next life?" Lao Piao asked back.

"This~!" Chen Gu couldn't help but be speechless. Who the hell can prove whether there is an afterlife or not?

On the contrary, Chen Gu seems to be able to prove that there is an afterlife. Isn't he living a new life now?

"Okay, you win. Don't worry, I will never blame you when I have to work like a slave in my next life and suffer!" Chen Gu said with a wry smile.

Lao Piao nodded in satisfaction and said with a smile: "That's right. When you are reincarnated as an ox or a horse in your next life, remember to come to my house. I will give you some more concentrated feed."

"Get out of here! You don't know what you'll be in your next life!" Chen Gu curled his lips. If he could succeed in his rebellion, then even if Lao Piao was reborn as a human in his next life, he would most likely be a cow or a horse.

If Chen Gu's rebellion fails and history cannot be changed, then Lao Piao will probably be worse than an ox or a horse in his next life.

The two chatted and laughed for a while, then Lao Piao went to find a vine, tied the gourd filled with water to it, and lowered it down to catch two gourds of crude oil.

Anyway, there is no shortage of water along the way, so it’s okay to use two gourds.

Both gourds are large, each containing about three pounds of water and five or six pounds of crude oil, which can at least distill out more than one pound of light oil. The exact amount can only be known after it is distilled.

(End of this chapter)