the knife of love

Chapter 152 Mine Disaster, Serious Casualties

Su Jue originally wanted Tang Jingcheng to go to Bagan by boat alone, but he was a little worried about the nine-hour waterway. After all, she was still pregnant, and Tang Jingcheng didn't want to stay in Mandalay alone. Go to Pagan to have a look.

"I have been carving jade for so many years, and I have passed through too many jades, but I have never seen the place where the jade is mined." Tang Jingcheng stood on the pier to Bagan, wearing a sun hat and black super sunshade glasses , in a light grass green loose T-shirt.

At that time she was more than four months pregnant.

"Hpakant is different from Mandalay and Bagan. It's a mess."

"I know, Qiu Qiguan told me a long time ago, so I want to see it with my own eyes."

As soon as the name "Qiu Qiguan" was mentioned, Su Jue surrendered.

"Okay, let's go there together. I'll let Qi Zheng go directly to Pagan from Germany. When he arrives, you can obediently follow him to Bagan."

"Okay, I have a measure." Tang Jingcheng took off his sun hat and left the pier with Su Jue.

There is no direct flight to Hakant, you need to fly from Mandalay to Myitkyina first, and the mine has already sent a car to Myitkyina to pick up Su Jue.

The bumpy road passed, and Tang Jingcheng vomited several times.

Su Jue was worried that she would be overwhelmed, but fortunately nothing happened, and Tang Jingcheng didn't show her coquettishness at all. She just sat on the grass by the roadside to rest along the way.

"I can't see that you are spoiled and can handle it." Su Jue got out of the car and gave her a drop of water to drink.

Tang Jingcheng took two sips of the water, then patted her hot face with water a few times, the water dripped down her flushed cheeks, and she stood under the sun and smiled: "It's okay, I won't take it at the critical moment." It will hold people back."

"What about the child? How is the child?"

"What do you mean by him?" Tang Jingcheng held his swollen belly with his hands, "Looking at him, I know he must be very tough in the future..." After saying this, Tang Jingcheng wanted to bite off his tongue, and his face immediately turned embarrassing.

Su Jue was a little embarrassed and didn't know how to answer.

"Cough... get in the car, it's important to hurry." Tang Jingcheng immediately wiped off the water on his face with his hand, and handed the mineral water bottle in his hand to Su Jue.

Su Jue looked at her thin back, stood where she was and let out a heavy breath.

The construction of roads and bridges in Myanmar is very poor. From Myitkyina to Hpakant, the road along the way is basically a dirt road with potholes and bumps. The dust is flying under the hot sun, and a burst of loess is raised when the tires are pressed over.

Fortunately, the car is a good car, with the windows closed and the air conditioner running inside.

Tang Jingcheng leaned against the window quietly with his neck propped up. Outside the window, the loess was scorching sun, large areas of huts and hills flashed past, and yellow earth cubes exposed among the green hills.

Those earthworks are all waste mined from jade mines, accumulated over time and piled up into a small mountain, and some of them are mines that have been over-mined and no jade can be dug out, as if pieces were forcibly plucked out of the vegetation on the mountainside The scars are all over the place in Pagan.

Tang Jingcheng knew that the source of the jade material was bad. He heard Qiu Qiguan mention it before, but he didn't expect to see it with his own eyes, but he was still a little shocked.

"Is it coming soon?" She asked Su Jue next to her.

Su Jue saw that her face was not looking well, so she advised: "There is still a long way to go, you can sleep for a while."

As a result, I slept for two or three hours, and when I woke up, it was already dark. Tang Jingcheng looked out from the shaking car. The car was still driving on the narrow and potholed mountain road. The dots of yellow light should be the lights from the houses in the mountains.

"Mr. Su, we're almost here, about 10 minutes away." The person who was sent to Myitkyina to pick up Su Jue was a small leader in the mine named Radumin, a Chinese Burmese who lived in the Hpakant Emerald Mining Area for more than 20 years. Can speak Chinese and Burmese.

Su Jue put the hat next to the seat on Tang Jingcheng.

She was a little awkward: "There is no sun outside."

"I know, but the dust in the mining area is very choking. Wearing a hat can block it."

"..."

Facial paralysis will also have a delicate side, Tang Jingcheng smiled: "Thank you."

"No, you don't need to get out of the car after arriving at the mining area in a while. I have asked someone to arrange a room in the hotel. I will ask Radumin to take you to the hotel to rest first."

"I'm not going!" Tang Jingcheng had a very stubborn temper at the critical moment, "I've been here all along, so I have to take a look with you."

"No, that place is not suitable for you!"

"What doesn't fit, isn't it just a landslide?"

The landslide she imagined was nothing more than loess everywhere, but she didn't know that she was too naive until she followed Su Jue to the scene.

"President Su, a total of 76 corpses have been dug out of the gravel pile so far. The search and rescue operation is still going on, but due to the large number of missing persons, it is estimated that the number of victims will increase."

Chao Jian, the Chinese director sent by Su Fan to the Pagan mining area, reported to Su Jue.

Tang Jingcheng shook visibly when he heard "76 corpses".

Su Jue noticed the strange expression on her face, and was a little worried: "Is there something uncomfortable?"

"No." She didn't dare to disturb Su Jue.

Su Jue continued to ask Chao Jian: "Why are so many people missing?"

"The landslide happened at three o'clock in the morning. At that time, the miners living in the mining area were sleeping. When the sandstone collapsed, nearly a hundred houses in the surrounding area were buried under it. In addition, the location of the place is too remote, and the rescue work is extremely slow. .”

Various reasons led to this major landslide in the jade mine.

Su Jue asked, "Who is doing rescue work now?"

"The town's fire brigade, military police and Kachin State community, oh yes, people from the Red Cross also came."

Su Jue couldn't help closing his eyes: "Who leaked the news?"

"No, who dares to reveal this kind of thing? But you can't hide it, because too many people died this time." Chao Jian was still in shock. It's tricky, after the incident, the people in the mining area were in chaos, and the old chairman sent a message at noon, and it must be properly resolved..."

Chao Jian said while wiping the sweat on his forehead: "But now it's all right, Mr. Su, you come to shake the field, and my heart that has been hanging for a day can be relieved."

Su Jue couldn't help but smiled wryly: "I'm not a god, and I can't recover from it. I can only try to minimize the impact of this matter. What's more, even the Myanmar government and local associations in Kachin State are involved. This matter will only get worse. It's getting more complicated."

"That's right. The family members of some miners started to make trouble this morning. This must have been instigated by the people from Anglai. Fortunately, the military and police were still there at that time. Otherwise..." Chao Jian said halfway, and suddenly looked at him with faint eyes. A glance at Tang Jingcheng next to Su Jue.

Tang Jingcheng realized the suspicion and suspicion in the man's eyes.

"President Su, who is this?"

"I'm a friend of Mr. Su, surnamed Tang." Tang Jingcheng took the initiative to introduce himself.

Chao Jian was stunned for a while, and finally reached out to her: "Miss Tang, hello, are you here for a trip to Myanmar?"

"No, I planned to go to Bagan to raise a baby, but something happened here, so I followed your President Su to take a look." Tang Jingcheng replied calmly, with no expression on his face.

Chao Jian was dumbfounded.

Feed?whose fetus?Taking another look at Tang Jingcheng's stomach, it was indeed slightly protruding forward, and seeing Su Jue's unusual attitude towards her, Chao Jian immediately understood in his heart.

The woman Su Jue raised outside has a big belly and wants her to hide in Myanmar to have a baby.

Well, it sure is!
"Miss Tang made the right choice to go to Bagan. The tourist city there is very comfortable. It's just that the environment in our mining area is too bad, and there is a smog everywhere."

Tang Jingcheng had already experienced this point on the way here. There are loess and hilltops everywhere, random shacks and domestic garbage everywhere, and everything is barren.

"I'm just here to take a look, you guys talk, I'll walk around." Tang Jingcheng had already realized that Chao Jian was on guard against her, as if he had something important to discuss with Su Jue.

Su Jue also ignored her: "Then don't go far away, I'll ask Radumin to take you back to the hotel later."

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Tang Jingcheng is located in the Hpakant Jadeite Mining Area. According to statistics, more than 90% of the world's jadeite comes from Myanmar, and Hpakant is one of the pits where high-quality jade can be mined.

The mining area is located on the bank of the Wulu River. The water of the Wulu River has been diverted for mining. Tang Jingcheng walked along the river for a short distance and found that many sections of the river have become mining pits. There is the roar of excavators coming, the winding lights in the distance, and the shouts of miners.

There are still jade mines working so late, Tang Jingcheng knows that mining at night is a very dangerous thing, because of insufficient lighting and unknown terrain, mining accidents are prone to occur.

Tang Jingcheng didn't know exactly where the earthwork of the landslide was, but he could see many lights on the slope of about several hundred meters by hearing the sound. Several small orange lights moved towards Tang Jingcheng.

When Tang Jingcheng got closer, he realized that they were all miners. They wore hard hats and small lamps specially used for mining. The clothes on the miners were so dirty that they couldn't tell the color, and their faces were dark. , A few people behind were dragging or carrying something.

Because the light was too dim, Tang Jingcheng didn't see clearly, but those people dropped something when they walked past her.

is a hat.

She quickly picked it up and ran after it quickly, but when she was about to shout, she realized something was wrong.

What they drag behind is not things, but people, or corpses, there are about three or four of them, dragged on the ground like rags, raising dust all the way...

The hat in Tang Jingcheng's hand fell from one of the corpses.

She let go of her hand like an electric shock, and her dirty hat rolled half a meter away. She stood trembling in the dust dragged out by the corpse, her stomach rolled violently, and she ran to the side of the road and vomited in a mess.

When Su Jue found her, she was standing by the river, her face was pale and her forehead was covered with sweat.

"Why are you standing here alone?"

When she turned her head, the machines in the distance were still roaring, and the rescue operation should still be going on.

"How many bodies were found in total?"

"..." Su Jue frowned, "You don't need to know this, let's go, I'll ask Radumin to take you to the room to rest first."

(End of this chapter)