the knife of love

Chapter 155 Darkness, the tip of the iceberg

"them……?"

Su Jue let go of Tang Jingcheng's hand.

"This is Earthwork No. 103 in the Sufan mining area. Every 10 minutes, a truck will transport the waste excavated from the mining area to here."

"Then these people?"

Su Jue didn't answer directly: "Wait a few more minutes, and there will be an answer in a few minutes."

Sure enough, about four or five minutes later, a large truck drove over on the road above the earthwork, and those people ran up the earthwork slope like crazy when they heard the sound of the truck.

The scene became restless until the truck stopped.

With a sound of "boom", the loading box at the back of the truck was lifted up and fell down, and dozens of tons of waste rolled down along the slope of the earthwork, and those people rushed up from both sides, regardless of whether the stones were still rolling down , as if to seize the opportunity to grab something precious.

Tang Jingcheng has always remembered this scene in his mind since then. On the earthwork of Su Fan 103, hundreds of people looted.

"What are they doing?"

"I'm gambling, I'm looking for my own destiny!"

These are quarrymen wandering around the mining area. They don't go to the mine, and they rummage in these abandoned and dumped earth and rock piles all day long.

Tang Jingcheng stood and watched for a few minutes, the whole earth was in chaos, those people were scrambling to climb up, the stone on the top was still rolling down, a child fell down, and the woman pulled him by the side, by the way Kick it and continue.

Is this fatal?Just for a few stones?
"They..." Tang Jingcheng didn't know what to say for a while, and swallowed, "Can you find jade?"

"Yes, but it depends on luck! Maybe after a few days, you can only find a piece of worthless tailings. You can sell it in the market to cover your family's expenses for a few days, or you may be able to find a fish that slipped through the net with excellent quality. This kind of thing happens a lot in Hpakant.”

After Su Jue explained, he looked at Tang Jingcheng in front of him: "This is the answer I want to give you. Everyone has the same greedy and ugly face in front of money. Those people go to the abandoned earthwork at night and cause accidents. I can't control it." , I don’t want to worry about it, as for the people around who are implicated, I’m sorry, I can only blame their bad luck.”

Tang Jingcheng digested his words little by little, and laughed, this was really the clearest but cruelest explanation she had ever heard.

"So you're not a philanthropist!"

"Neither are you!" Su Jue retorted, taking Tang Jingcheng's hand, her ten fingers were flamboyant, slightly curled and exposed to the sun, "How many jades have you touched with these hands? When those jades were first mined in the mining area It’s not worth much, after you carve, polish, and finally display it in a well-lit window, the price has not only increased by dozens of times?”

It really speaks volumes.

Tang Jingcheng couldn't help smiling bitterly, yes, she is not a philanthropist either, she is at the top of the food chain just like Su Jue.

"Qiu Qiguan once told me that every piece of jade was stained with blood. At that time, I didn't understand what he meant."

"Understood now?"

"I probably understand it. Come to Pagan and go around and see these sufferings and darkness."

"Darkness? Do you think what you see is darkness?" Su Jue couldn't help laughing.

"Is there something darker?"

"Of course! Do you know why the miners are here to make trouble? Know why the military and police are dispatched to a landslide?" Su Jue seemed to have something to say, and Tang Jingcheng wanted to ask, but he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief: "Forget it, there are some things that you It’s better not to know. My father is here, and I’m going to meet him in Myitkyina the day after tomorrow. There are some things that need to be settled there. I’ll take you with me then and arrange for someone to take you to Bagan.”

Su Jue squeezed Tang Jingcheng's cold fingers: "You shouldn't come here, you are not suitable here at all."

"Then where am I suitable? Mandalay? Bagan?" Tang Jingcheng sneered, "Indeed, there are only corpses and casualties here, but Bagan is full of Buddhist pagodas, the sun is setting and the sky is full of stars at night..."

The world is always half heaven and half hell, and what you live or experience is only a small part of it.

Tang Jingcheng covered his swollen belly with his hands.

She is very grateful that this trip to Myanmar allowed her to see the most complete despair and hope in the world while pregnant with her child.

……

Ye Qin couldn't go back to Myanmar so quickly because of the abortion, and Lao Mai still cared about her in his heart, so he went to ask Guan Lue for favor.

Guan Lue agreed to let her rest in Yunling for two weeks before going back.

The flow of people is also like confinement, food, clothing, housing and transportation must be particular about. Lao Mai hung a small sign on the clinic door: "Closed for two weeks", and then moved to Ye Tan to serve her.

Ye Qin has become more gloomy and depressed since the miscarriage, and his attitude towards Lao Mai is also extremely bad.

Lao Mai only thought that it was the pain of the operation that caused her to be like this, so he didn't take it too seriously. No matter how much she lost her temper at him, he endured it and continued to serve her food and drink silently.

At noon, Guan Lue had something to do with Lao Mai, and when he came in, he saw him cooking fish soup in the kitchen.

"You sit on the sofa by yourself for a while, and I'll cook for another 5 minutes." Old Mai's voice came from the kitchen.

Guan Lue glanced at the living room, Ye Tan was sitting on the sofa eating oranges, the oranges were also cut into pieces and sticked with toothpicks, it looked like Lao Mai's handwriting.

Guan Lue snickered inwardly, it seems that one thing falls one thing, Lao Mai has met his mortal enemy.

"How is it?" He sat down with his trouser pockets in his pocket, and threw the cell phone knocked in his trouser pocket on the coffee table.

Ye Tan glanced at him lightly: "Brother Ninth, what do you want to ask?"

Guan smiled slightly, and raised one long leg: "The one in the kitchen, how does it feel?"

"Not so much!"

"But I've known him for so many years, and this is the first time I've seen him serve a woman!"

"That was his fault, and he didn't take proper measures at that time."

"..."

Ye Tan seemed to be really repulsed by that child. After the miscarriage, he became a hedgehog. Guan Lue didn't want to fuss with her.

"Okay, even if Lao Mai did something wrong, but there are some things that require your love. After all, what you killed was a life, or his flesh and blood. Have you ever thought about his feelings?" Guan Lue didn't know why he came here. Speaking these words to Ye Tan, he was not complaining for Lao Mai, but he was also very uncomfortable about Ye Tan's miscarriage.

Ye Tan quietly stared at Guan for a few seconds.

She felt that this man would be very gentle every time he met a child, whether it was towards A Xi, Chi Feng's daughter Tong Tong, or that Tang Jingcheng. He became a heart of glass, and the evil and ruffian aura in his body disappeared, and his whole body seemed to have changed.

"Ninth brother, do you like children very much?" Ye Tan asked suddenly, his eyes fixed.

Guan slightly frowned, rubbed his fingers and hooked his lower lip.

No answer.

It just so happened that Lao Mai came out of the kitchen with fish soup: "Okay, okay, taste the leaves."

He put the soup bowl directly in front of Ye Tan, and took off the apron around his waist. He looked like a home cook.

Guan Lue was about to laugh, but Ye Tan suddenly threw the bowl in his hand onto the coffee table.

The sound was so loud that Guan Lue was startled.

"What's wrong?" Old Mai asked.

Ye Tan pulled his face: "How can I eat it so fishy?"

"..."

"..."

Guan Lue felt that he had come at the wrong time. He took a look at Lao Mai, stood up and patted him on the shoulder: "Clean up and coax him. Let's talk when you are free. I'll go first." I picked it up, but unfortunately the fish soup was all over the phone, it was greasy and wet.

The screen was black, Guan slightly took out a tissue and wiped it carelessly, then left.

Lao Mai was still holding the apron in his hand, staring at the expressionless Ye Tan on the sofa, his tone was not very good: "What do you want to do?"

"If you don't do anything, you just want to lose your temper!"

"Because Lao Jiu is here? Are you deliberately embarrassing me?"

"Embarrassing you?" Ye Tan laughed, "Are you thinking too much? I'm just upset!" After speaking, he folded his arms and leaned on the sofa without speaking.

Lao Mai was stunned for a few seconds, then threw the apron in his hand to her face: "Okay, you are not happy, are you? I am also not happy! Do whatever you want, love whoever you want!"

Old Mai burst into flames and went out through the door.

Ye Tan breathed a sigh of relief, took out his mobile phone, and opened the inbox. There was a message just sent from Myanmar.

"It has been confirmed that she is indeed pregnant for more than four months."

Attached below is a photo of Tang Jingcheng, wearing an apricot-yellow loose cotton skirt, sunglasses and a sun hat, standing on the bank of the Wulu River in Pagan, his lower abdomen is obviously swollen.

If calculated according to the time, more than four months, then she must be pregnant with Guan Lue's child.

Ye Tan covered her lower abdomen with her hands. What she did was a medical abortion. When the blood clot came down, her whole body was in pain and almost convulsed, but in the end the bleeding was still not clean, so she had to go to the clinic again for cleaning the uterus. The forceps pierced her uterus. She remembered the touch every time she stirred it.

She is not afraid of pain, she is just afraid of cold.

Ye Tan deleted the photos and text messages on his phone, dialed a number, and he got connected quickly.

"It's not that you can't consider what you talked to me last time, but the premise is that you must help me with the matter, and it must be done cleanly, and there must be no mistakes. After the matter is completed, I will return to Myanmar and discuss it in detail at that time... ..."

……

Su Jue was busy all afternoon, and Tang Jingcheng saw Chao Jian bringing several Burmese in uniforms to him. The uniforms were a bit strange, unlike the local police.

Radumin sent Tang Jingcheng back to Yudu Hotel. She was curious and asked, "Who is the person who came to see President Su just now?"

Radumin snorted, "The person Ang Lai sent over to negotiate."

"Ang Lai?"

"The leader of the Independence Army here in Kachin State."

"..." Tang Jingcheng didn't expect this answer, "You have always been related to these people?"

"What's the matter? The mine is on other people's land. If you dig something on other people's land, you have to...you have to..." Radumin couldn't think of words for a while, and glanced at Tang Jingcheng, "Just like you Chinese say To put it bluntly, you can do whatever you want here, otherwise you will find trouble everywhere."

"What trouble can I ask for?"

"I'll hit you!" Radumin was driving the car, and the dust was flying outside the window, "Girl, let me tell you something. For each mine, the Su family can only get three years of mining rights for a few hundred million kyats. After that, you need to pay an additional fee, and if each stone is sold in the normal way, or sold in public auctions, you need to pay a 10% tax to the Myanmar government, which is a lot of money, so avoid it if you can.”

"How to avoid it?"

"I can't tell you how to avoid it, but even if you have the means, go out from Hpagan and you will be surrounded by dense forests. This is the territory of Kachin State. If you want to ensure that your goods don't go wrong, you have to be filial, and the Independence Army Funding activities are required, so it’s a trade-off.”

Radumin's words were vague, but it was enough to shock Tang Jingcheng.

No wonder Su Jue said she was too naive, she said that the "darkness" she thought was just the tip of the iceberg.

(End of this chapter)