Sword of Punishment

Seeing that everyone had signed the contract, Ji Yuan corresponded one by one with the three kinds of miner's system mentioned by Li Yuan, and found that he couldn't match any of them. He looked at the contract in his hand, hesitated for a while, and then agreed. Li Yuan asked:

"My lord, I am not a prisoner of war. I was just captured by them. How do I sign my contract?"

Upon hearing Ji Yuan's words, Li Yuan suddenly came to his senses, patted himself on the head and said:

"Yo, look, I forgot about this, um, your name is Ji Yuan, isn't it? Master Tu gave special instructions just now, saying that it was Master Zhu's intention, you don't need to sign a contract, you can live here for a year before you talk about it During this period, you can go down to mine with them. If you don’t want to mine, you can do whatever you want in the mining area. If you perform well, there may be unexpected benefits. You should seize the opportunity.” Li After talking about it, Yuan smiled slightly when he looked at Ji Yuan, and said in a somewhat mysterious way.

"Ah? What's going on?" Ji Yuan scratched his head with his hands suspiciously after hearing what Li Yuan said, and asked suspiciously while looking at Li Yuan. [

"I won't tell you this for now, just remember that you have to perform well this year!" Li Yuan smiled and did not answer directly.

"Oh? Well! Boy, I remember!" Ji Yuan saw that he couldn't ask anything, so he put down the contract in his hand and stood there. When the other people heard Li Yuan's words, they immediately looked at Ji Yuan differently, and some were envious. , especially those prisoners of war, I don't know what made this young man so favored by the head of Zhu's Mine.

After Li Yuan saw that the contract was signed, he said to everyone again:

"There is one more thing I want to tell you. When mining underground, if you mine high-grade ore, you must report it immediately, and you are not allowed to hide it privately. Otherwise, if you find it, you will be punished. In order to prevent theft, all miners who go down to the mine to mine Dress is allowed."

After hearing Li Yuan's words, Ji Yuan and the others understood why those miners were all naked and working in the nude. It turned out to be the case.

Then Li Yuan brought Ji Yuan and other sixteen miners to a group of simple wooden houses, and let them enter one of the wooden houses.

There are [-] simple wooden beds inside. There is a pillow made of fine rattan and a thin quilt on the wooden bed. It is summer now, and the Chishan area is hotter than other places, so a thin quilt will do the trick. Overnight.

"Today you don't have to go down to mine. Rest well tonight and start working hard tomorrow. You choose a bed to rest. The place to eat is behind the West House. There is a natural hot spring pool in the back mountain of the South House. You can take a shower." Li Yuan left the wooden house after giving instructions.

After Ji Yuan and other sixteen miners saw Li Yuan leave, they each chose a wooden bed. The journey was tiring, and everyone felt very hard. When they saw the big bed, everyone couldn't wait to lie down and sleep soundly. Dinner I can't even bother to eat.

A night passed unknowingly, and when Ji Yuan and the others were soundly asleep, there was a sudden shout from outside the door:

"Everyone is up, hurry to wash up and have breakfast, and then start working!..."

Ji Yuan was startled in his sleep, he opened his sleepy eyes and saw that it was just dawn outside, and the other people in the same room had also woken up, one by one hurriedly got up, washed up and had breakfast, a group of people including Ji Yuan With great reluctance, the new miner took off all his clothes.

After Ji Yuan took off his clothes, a khaki ring suddenly appeared on his neck. Originally, this ring could be vaguely seen from a corner when he was wearing clothes, which did not attract much attention, but now After taking off his clothes, the ring immediately revealed the true face of Lushan Mountain. The diameter of the ring was about one foot and three inches, slightly thicker than an adult's thumb. , I feel a sense of depression in my heart, which is extremely uncomfortable.

When the people in the room saw the ring on Ji Yuan's neck, they all showed surprise, but then they didn't ask any more questions, they just thought it was a collar worn by children since childhood, but this ring is a little more peculiar than ordinary collars .

Only the fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy named Zhou Hua's eyes lit up when he saw the ring of Ji Yuan, and he immediately walked up to Ji Yuan and asked with interest: "Brother Ji, your collar is so beautiful. Is it just around the neck?"

"Ah! Brother Zhou, yes, I've been wearing this since I was a child!" Ji Yuan was slightly taken aback when he saw Zhou Hua asking about the ring around his neck, and then looked at Zhou Hua nervously and replied.

"The khaki collar is rare. The collars I see are usually silver or gold, and they are not as thick as yours, but your collar looks very powerful!" The boy looked at Ji Yuan enviously. The khaki ring on the neck, I want to touch it with my hand.

"Oh, maybe it is!" Ji Yuan replied in a hurry, just when he thought that Zhou Hua would not ask any more questions, he didn't expect that Zhou Hua would suddenly bring up something that made Ji Yuan almost stumble and fall to the ground.

Zhou Hua looked at Ji Yuan, and asked enthusiastically, "Brother Ji, can you show me your beautiful collar?" [

"Ah! This, brother Zhou, you better not read it, we have to go to the mine to start mining, and we will be scolded if we go late!" Ji Yuan's expression changed immediately when he heard Zhou Hua's request.

Seeing Ji Yuan's expression, Zhou Hua's heart moved, and he continued to demand:

"Brother Ji, show me, we are brothers, you don't agree to such a small request, brother, I just see that your collar is very special, I just want to hold it in my hand and play with it !"

Seeing that Zhou Hua had such an attitude, Ji Yuan couldn't do without showing him. If he didn't show it, he was afraid that he would continue to pester him. He took it off and handed it over. Zhou Hua stretched out a hand with joy to take the collar from Ji Yuan's hand. Unexpectedly, as soon as Ji Yuan let go, his hand sank and the collar fell to the ground. With a chirping sound, a deep circular trench suddenly appeared in front of my eyes.

"Ah! Brother Ji, what kind of collar is this, why is it so heavy?"

Zhou Hua exclaimed, he stepped back a few steps with horror on his face, looked at the ring smashed into the ground as if petrified, there was no response for a long time, and his eyes were full of horror, it turned out that when Ji Yuan let go, He felt that the collar in his hand was suddenly as heavy as a mountain, and he didn't have time to exert all his strength to grasp it, and the collar fell to the ground in an instant, smashing the hard ground into a trench more than five feet deep.