the knife of love

Chapter 153 Corpse, she wants to ask him for an explanation

Yudu Hotel is the only foreign-related hotel in Pagan. It was only when Tang Jingcheng arrived at the door that he realized that it was just a small three-story concrete building. There were lights in the building and the door was parked on the flat ground poured with cement Several gray off-road vehicles.

However, compared with the messy wooden houses and shacks around, the condition of this three-story building is obviously much better.

Radumin took Tang Jingcheng's luggage and took Tang Jingcheng into the hotel lobby.

"Miss Tang, wait for me here, I'll get you the key."

Tang Jingcheng immediately took out his passport from his small bag and handed it to him, but he waved his hands again and again: "No need for this."

"Shouldn't you use your passport to register?"

"It's not that troublesome." Radomin pulled the suitcase and walked to the front desk. The receptionist at the front desk was a thin Burmese girl.

Radumin came over and said a few words to the girl in Burmese, and the girl immediately took out a bunch of keys from the drawer at hand, and then glanced at Tang Jingcheng twice.

Tang Jingcheng nodded slightly at her, but the girl immediately buried her head shyly.

Radumin quickly returned with the key: "Come on, Miss Tang, I'll take you up."

The room is on the third floor, on the east side. The area is not too big. There is an independent toilet. The furnishings and conditions are equivalent to those of a single room in a domestic guest house, except that the bed is covered with a mat.

"Miss Tang, our conditions here are relatively poor, so you should live here first."

"No, it's pretty good." Tang Jingcheng pointed to the TV set on the cabinet and the air conditioner on the wall, "There are still these electrical appliances."

"Hehe..." Radumin scratched his head unnaturally, "These electrical appliances can only be used as decorations, and you can't use them."

"why?"

"Because of the lack of electricity, the electricity used in the entire mining area basically relies on generators, and the voltage can't keep up, so the lights can be turned on."

"..."

Sure enough, after Radumin left, Tang Jingcheng found that the TV couldn't be turned on, the Internet had no signal, and even the only electric fan in the room that could cool down the room was intermittent.

The environment here is really much worse than she imagined.

Tang Jingcheng could only open all the windows in the room. Fortunately, it was late at night and the dew was heavy in the mountains, so some cool wind could blow in.

She stood at the window and looked at the mountains not far away, hidden in the night, with occasional dots of lights, and the roar of excavators was still clear in her ears, including the corpses dragged away from her...

She didn't know where the bodies would be dragged, but this was not the Hpakant mining area she had imagined.

Tang Jingcheng looked up at the sky, deep in the mountains, but the sky seemed to be covered with a layer of gravel, it was gray, and there was not a single star in sight.

The fan turned up and down at night, and Tang Jingcheng was woken up several times by the heat. She was fast asleep when dawn approached, and she didn't know how long she had been asleep. Finally, she was woken up by the increasingly noisy sound of excavators outside the window.

When I woke up, it was already seven o'clock the next morning, and the miners in the mountains had already started work.

Tang Jingcheng couldn't sleep anymore, went to the bathroom to take a shower, changed clothes and stood by the window, the sky was bright in front of him, and everything he saw was completely different from last night.

Pagan is built on the mountain. At a glance, there are rows of wooden buildings and shacks on the mountainside. The roofs are all blue or black, and they are mixed in the trees to form a special scene.

Tang Jingcheng glanced at his watch, took out his cell phone and wanted to call Su Jue.

They had already changed the local phone card in Myanmar in Mandalay, but they couldn't get through after calling several times.

The signal in the mountains was too bad, so she had no choice but to give up.

Just as he was about to go downstairs, Radumin came, still driving the army green Toyota off-road vehicle.

"Ms. Tang, good morning."

"morning."

"Have you had breakfast?"

"Not yet, I'm going to eat."

"Then I'll take you to the restaurant, the hotel provides breakfast."

The so-called breakfast is nothing more than some local pancakes and a few side dishes, but fortunately there is milk. Although the taste is not good, it is finally drinkable.

Sitting in the dining room, Tang Jingcheng forced himself to eat something, and accidentally found that Radumin sitting opposite was still wearing the blue shirt from yesterday, but the shirt was already dirty, and the shoes on his feet were also covered with mud.

"You didn't go back to sleep at night?"

"How can I sleep well? President Su is still suffering in the mining area when such a big event happened."

"You said he didn't sleep either?"

"Yeah, I can't sleep. I've been guarding the mine. There are still a few miners going to make trouble in the morning." Radumin seemed to speak straightforwardly, and he wasn't too wary of Tang Jingcheng.

Tang Jingcheng took the opportunity to ask him: "Is the situation serious this time?"

"That's right, so many people died after all." Radumin's tone was not too strange when he said this, and Tang Jingcheng thought of the few corpses he saw last night.

"How many deaths and injuries have been counted so far?"

"Statistics?" Radumin smiled, "I don't know who was injured. Some of them have been taken to the hospital in the town, but there are more than 100 corpses that have been pulled out of the mound. missing persons."

Tang Jingcheng felt his heart tremble visibly.

More than 100 bodies, this is not just a piece of data, this was more than 100 living human lives.

"Why did such a big accident happen?"

"It can't be blamed on our mismanagement." Radumin felt aggrieved, "The area where the landslide happened is our abandoned earthwork. The so-called abandoned earthwork is the sand, stone and land excavated from the mine. Truckloads were transported to a specially designated site. In the place where the earthwork has accumulated over time, some quarrymen often go to dig in the abandoned earthwork. If they are lucky, they can also dig out jade stones that the miners have missed. But this kind of thing is very dangerous. A landslide can be encountered if there is a mistake, and there are many miners’ shacks around the earthwork, and the accident happened suddenly at night, and there is no chance to escape..."

So most people were buried alive under the gravel.

Radumin spoke in a very ordinary way.

Tang Jingcheng swallowed his breath: "This kind of thing happens often?"

"Of course, at least dozens of large and small landslides and mining disasters occur in mining areas every year."

"The local government doesn't care?"

"How to manage it? The government also wants to make money. Every piece of jade mined in a mining area has to pay taxes when it is auctioned on the public market. More than 40% of Myanmar's national income comes from jade, not to mention that every miner signs a labor contract. They all signed the certificate of life and death. In the event of a mining disaster, the jade mine owner only needs to pay a small part of the cost, so you just asked me how many deaths and injuries have been counted so far. I really can’t answer, because the corpses can be counted, and the missing persons buried below It may be possible to pick it up, but the wounded who were sent to the hospital cannot be controlled."

"No way to control it? Why?"

"Because..." Radumin sighed, "Because the mine owners are not responsible for their medical expenses, and our medical conditions are poor, so those who are more seriously injured are left to fend for themselves."

Fend for itself...how could this be!

"Su Fan doesn't care?"

"Of course it doesn't matter, every mine owner does this."

"But how can we let them fend for themselves, they are all living lives, what right do you have to ignore them?" Tang Jingcheng's tone suddenly became agitated.

This was not the world she could have imagined.

"I'm going to find Su Jue."

Even if other mine owners don't care, he can't.

Tang Jingcheng immediately stood up from the chair, and Radumin hurried over to stop her: "Miss Tang, are you going to the mining area?"

"Yes, I'm going to find you President Su."

"Oh, don't go. Mr. Su is too busy to take care of you right now. He asked me to come here to give you a message not to run around. When things calm down tomorrow, he will send a car to take you back to Bagan."

"I won't go!" How could she go now, "Take me to Su Jue, I have something to tell him."

In the end, Radumin couldn't resist her, so he could only drive Tang Jingcheng to the mining area.

It was dark last night, and everything could not be seen clearly, and now the sight of the mining area along the way came into Tang Jingcheng's eyes little by little.

There are simple tents and shacks built everywhere on the roadside, flying sand, deep pits dug by excavators and hills that are almost hollowed out on both sides of the road.

Tang Jingcheng was very depressed, and kept pinching the jade key on his wrist with his fingers.

The car drove on the road for about 10 minutes, and finally stopped at the door of a simple one-story house. There were two signs on the door, in Burmese, and Tang Jingcheng couldn't see anything.

It's just that when she got out of the car, she could smell a strange sour smell in the air, not like the smell of sand, gravel and loess.

Turning around and looking around, I found that the mountain about a kilometer away was billowing black smoke, and the peculiar smell should be coming from there.

Tang Jingcheng was a little surprised, pointing to the black smoking mountain and asked, "Is there a fire over there?"

Radumin frowned and covered his nose with his hand: "It's not a fire, it's burning something." After that, he seemed unwilling to continue this topic, and opened the door of the bungalow for Tang Jingcheng.

"Miss Tang, why don't you go inside and wait. There are electric fans in the room, so it's cooler than outside."

Tang Jingcheng was really getting dizzy from the heat, so he entered the house. The inside of the house was indeed much more comfortable than the outside. There was a ceiling fan above his head. After scanning around, he found that the bungalow should be a simple office in the mining area, with four desks pushed together. There are two desktop computers on the table, and there are printers and fax machines beside them.

There's even a small refrigerator in the corner.

"Miss Tang, please sit down for a while, I'll go and find President Su for you now."

Tang Jingcheng let out a "hmm".

Radumin opened the door and went out, but the landline on the table rang when he got to the door, and he ran back to answer the outside line.

"Hey, Manager Chao, you said... yes, Mr. Su is still in the mine. What? The old chairman and Master Zhan have both arrived in Myitkyina? All right, all right... Then I will send someone to drive there to pick them up..."

After hanging up the phone, Radumin ran out anxiously.

Tang Jingcheng was also taken aback.

Both Su Hongzhi and Su Zhan came to Myanmar?
It seems that this time things have really become a big deal.

About 5 minutes later, Su Jue came over, opened the door and entered the room, and almost died when he saw Tang Jingcheng sitting there.

"Why don't you stay in the hotel obediently?"

"I can't stay!"

"Then take a stroll around the hotel, this is not the place you should come at all!" Su Jue seemed to be really angry, and took out a mask from his pocket while talking. It is a disposable mask, which is commonly used in hospitals. A medical mask.

"Put it on!"

"What?"

"Put it on!!!" Su Jue's voice was vicious, as if he was really annoyed by Tang Jingcheng's appearance.

Tang Jingcheng felt baffled, so why did she ask her to wear a mask, but seeing Su Jue's serious expression, she could only take the mask over, pulled off the straps on both sides and was about to hang it on her ears, but just for a moment, just for a moment For a moment... as if something pierced her heart all of a sudden.

She suddenly pushed Su Jue away and walked to the door, opened the door, the bungalow was right on the top of the mountain, and the thick smoke in the sky seemed to be even thicker.

"What's burning over there?"

"..." Su Jue didn't answer.

Tang Jingcheng turned his head and stared at him firmly: "Tell me, what is burning over there?"

"The body of the victim!"

(End of this chapter)