Nongmenfu girl's daily life

Chapter 235 The Hardworking Qin Erlang

The mountains overlap and crisscross, the terrain is steep, and there are endless mountains.

Qin Erlang and the strong men who went to serve in the army were escorted here.

At first, they resisted and refused to enter the mine.

Being imprisoned in a water prison and being starved for two days, many people gave in and chose to compromise.

Thinking of his wife and children at home, Qin Erlang also lowered his head.

They were released from the dungeon and arranged to mine fine iron ore in a mine.

Before them, there were already hundreds of people in the mine, apparently recruited from other villages.

During the period, a mine near them collapsed, burying 70 people alive.

The mine was dark and lit by oil lamps. They lived in such an environment for a long time, and they became more and more lifeless.

There was a scholar who was assigned to the same mine as Qin Erlang. Because he was the only son in the family, he was forcibly added to the list of military service by the head of his village.

Under the dark oil lamp, the man wrote something on the leaves with a charcoal pencil...

Qin Erlang got up at night and leaned over curiously, "What are you writing?"

The scholar lowered his voice and said: "This is fine iron ore. Mining it privately is a death penalty for killing your family. These people tricked us into mining here. When we finish mining, they will definitely not let us go."

Qin Erlang also thought of the worst outcome, and sighed, "I'm afraid we will be killed in the end."

The scholar raised the leaf in his hand, "I wrote that we were originally serving in the military, but we were brought here to mine. If the leaf happens to fall into the hands of powerful people, we can follow the vine and find the recruiter. If we find out about these people, if we are really silenced, someone will take revenge for us."

Mining in the dark, they can't even tell whether it is night or day, and the food they eat every day is porridge that is so thin that it bottoms out.

Gradually, their physical strength was exhausted, and slowly, many people fell ill.

People who died of illness were piled aside, and the corpses were piled up into hills, and some corpses even grew piles of maggots...

One day, the scholar said to Qin Erlang anxiously: "I feel something is wrong, they... it's like a plague..."

"Run away, let's escape!" Qin Erlang proposed to escape after being frightened.

The two set up a more careful plan and escaped in the middle of the night, but in the end, because Xiucai was startled by a snake jumping out of the grass, he made a sound and was discovered.

Xiucai hurriedly pushed Qin Erlang into the bushes, and fled in the other direction to distract the pursuers.

It's just that he is a weak scholar after all, and he can't run fast.

Not far away, he was stopped.

The group of people got angry and beat the scholar, Qin Erlang, who was hiding in the dark, covered his mouth tightly, and dared not go out, because he knew that going out would only kill one more person, and it would disappoint the scholar's painstaking efforts to lure them away.

In the middle of the night, he would always dream of Xiucai's eyes that were never closed...

He got sick, started coughing, and slowly lost limbs.

He closed his eyes and lay in the mine, waiting for death. He knew that those who were sick could not live for three days, and he felt that he could be relieved.

The noise rang out, Qin Erlang had no strength at all, it was difficult for him to open his eyes.

Just as he was gradually losing consciousness, an oil lamp was lit in front of him. He looked for the light and saw a familiar face—his elder brother, Qin Dalang.

He thought he was hallucinating.

how can that be possible?
Why did the eldest brother appear here?
People say that people will have hallucinations before death, so I am about to die, right?

(End of this chapter)