39. Silver Water Mine (1)
After a while, footsteps sounded at the entrance of the cave again, and the person who came was a middle-aged uncle, carrying a medicine box in his hand, followed by two soldiers guarding the entrance.
Yu Wenyue and Chu Qiao looked at each other and nodded, but they wanted to confirm again, so Chu Qiao said loudly: "Doctor, we have a seriously ill person, bleeding nonstop, and his breath is weak, can you take a look first?" β
The middle-aged doctor walked over and squatted down to give Meng Feng a pulse. After a while, her face was slightly gloomy, "This girl has a very serious traumatic injury, I have some trauma medicine, I can stop the bleeding for her first." β
After taking out a few packets of medicinal powder from the medicine box, he didn't get up and leave immediately, but shook his sleeves again, took a small bottle from his other hand, and mixed it with Chu Qiao. Whispered: "Blood tonic pills, two pills at a time, once a day." Then he got up and went to see the others.
Almost an hour had passed, and the two soldiers who had followed the old man in a loud voice said, "Doctor Meng, the time is up. β
Dr. Meng put away the medicine box, got up and walked to the entrance of the cave, and went out with the soldiers, and after a while, the two soldiers returned, carrying a bamboo basket with fresh ingredients, but the amount was not too much, at most it was just enough to fill their stomachs.
Seeing the soldiers who put down the ingredients leave, the women in the cave began to get busy, went to the cave where the food was stored to prepare for tonight's dinner, and then walked out of the cave, it should be to wash vegetables and cook.
After dinner, the strong men who worked in the mine during the day all went to bed early, and Chu Qiao and Yu Wenyue, most of the newcomers, were injured and rested.
In the dead of night, Chu Qiao and Yu Wenyue opened their eyes at the same time, got up slowly, carefully pressed their bodies against the rock wall, and walked towards the entrance of the cave.
found that there were four soldier handles at the entrance of the cave, and then retreated into the cave, and then the two walked into the hole where the food was stored, and at this moment the two felt movement behind them, Yu Wenyue looked back, it turned out to be the middle-aged man during the day, and he put his mind at ease.
The middle-aged man suddenly woke up halfway through his sleep, and found that Yu Wenyue and Chu Qiao were retreating from the entrance of the cave and entering the cave where the food was stored, so they followed and touched it.
Chu Qiao frowned and saw the middle-aged man and said in a low voice, "If you don't sleep, what are you doing with us." β
"I see that you two gods have entered here mysteriously, don't worry, just follow along." The middle-aged man said with a frown and uneasy.
"What's your name?" Yu Wenyue asked the middle-aged man.
"Xu Chang, what about you?" Xu Chang asked.
Yu Wenyue said without thinking about it: "My name is Qingyue, and her name is Chu Xing." β
Chu Qiao listened to Yu Wenyue's name with a disgusted face, what is this name? Qingyue, Chu Xing?
Xu Chang glanced at the two of them and said, "You two are husband and wife."
When Chu Qiao said this, he almost choked up, his face was crimson, but Yu Wenyue was more comfortable, as if that was the case.
I only heard Yu Wenyue say: "She is my fiancΓ©e." β
Chu Qiao suddenly turned his head to look at Yu Wenyue, revealing an expression of how I didn't know that I was your fiancΓ©e.
Xu Chang looked at Chu Qiao, suddenly understood, coughed and said, "Little brother, work hard." β
Chu Qiao became more and more energetic when he heard them talk, and reminded angrily: "Talk about business." β
Yu Wenyue coughed lightly and said to Xu Chang, "Brother Xu Chang, how long have you been here?" Can you tell us about it? No matter how big or small it is. β
Xu Chang looked at Yu Wenyue, looked at Chu Qiao, thought for a while, and said calmly: "I'm afraid you two are not ordinary people. Let's start with your purpose. β
Yu Wenyue saw Xu Chang say this, which showed that they had found the right person, and said calmly: "Xing'er and I are indeed not ordinary people, the purpose of our coming here is very simple, to save all the slaves here and give them freedom." β
After Xu Chang heard this, he shook his head and said, "You can save this wave of people, can you save the next wave?" This is a bottomless pit, and it can be filled at any time if you want to. β
After hearing this, Chu Qiao also felt that this was the reason, and he had to think of a way to do it once and for all. Turning his head to look at Yu Wenyue, he didn't know how to call him good, so he could only turn his head to look at Xu Chang again and said, "Uncle Xu, you haven't answered our question just now." β
Xu Chang said: "The caretaker of the mine is called Zhu Dacheng, who was originally the bandit leader in the area of Yinshui Peak, and after being Zhao'an by the Great Wei Emperor, he was arranged to mine ore in Yinshui Peak to provide materials for forging military weapons for the imperial court.
The doctor who came to see us today is surnamed Meng, we all call him Dr. Meng, and he came here two years ago. In the past two years, thanks to him, every time we are diagnosed, he will give us a lot of medicine, so that we can survive until now.
Now there are eighty-six people here, except for you who have come here today, and there are sixty-three people who can work except for the elderly, children, and women. β
Yu Wenyue asked puzzledly: "You have been here for so long, haven't you ever thought about escaping?" β
Xu Chang said helplessly: "How can it not be, in the five or six years here, there have been a total of eight or nine big escapes, but the strange thing is that in addition to the first two times after running a lot of people, the later escapes, every time they didn't start, they were killed by Lord Zhu and the guards in the mine, and then everyone felt that there was little hope of escaping, so there was no action." β
Chu Qiao looked at Yu Wenyue and said, "There is an inside story here, and we have to find out the spies." β
Yu Wenyue lowered her head and thought about it, and after a while, she said slowly: "Tomorrow, I will follow Uncle Xu to the mine to have a look, you stay and take care of the injured, and casually observe the movements of the people left behind, as well as the women who went out to cook." β
Chu Qiao nodded, looked at the two of them and said, "Let's rest first, it's not too early." β
The three of them got up separately and walked out, Xu Chang lay back to the place where he had slept before, and Chu Qiao returned to Mo'er's side and looked at Mo'er, at this time Mo'er kicked the quilt away again, she frowned, carefully covered the quilt for him, and then lay down next to him and hugged him and closed his eyes, Yuwenyue saw Chu Qiao lying down, and then slept next to Mo'er, as if the three of them had returned to the night in the tent back then.
A new day began, and the soldiers guarding outside the cave took the gong and struck it, and cried out, "Get up, get up." I ate breakfast and started working. β
The people in the cave were awakened by the sound of gongs, and the men got up separately and walked out first, while the women were behind. The old man and the child were left in the cave. At the time of a cup of tea, Chu Qiao followed the women who had received breakfast back to the cave, while Yu Wenyue followed Xu Chang and they ate and went to the mine.
Chu Qiao, who was carrying two bowls of porridge and some dough cakes, came to Mo'er's side and called softly, "Mo'er, come to eat cakes and drink porridge." β
Mo'er listened to the familiar words, looked at Chu Qiao without blinking, and after a while, I saw that Mo'er's eyes slowly turned red, and her ink-colored eyes were filled with tears, and she suddenly threw herself into Chu Qiao's arms, and said glutinously: "Mother, Mo'er misses you so much, why did you come back after walking for so long, Mo'er was arrested, did your father come to save Mo'er with you?" The little man in his arms had tears in his eyes.
Chu Qiao hugged Mo'er, patted him lightly on the back, and comforted: "Well, I'm here to save Mo'er, Mo'er is not afraid." β
Mo'er snorted and said: "They all said that Daddy died, I don't believe it, Daddy's martial arts are so high, how can he die, mother, have you seen Daddy?" β
When Chu Qiao heard Mo'er say this, he seemed to have guessed who Mo'er's father was.
Meng Feng, who was resting against the wall, raised his eyes and looked at Mo'er hugging Chu Qiao crying, and explained, "Mo'er is the righteous son brought back by Gongzi. In private, they all call Childe Daddy. β
Chu Qiao twitched the corners of her mouth, Yu Wenyue accepted Mo'er as her adopted son, she was happy, Yuwen Yue Wen Taowu was proficient in everything, and it was a good destination for Mo'er, but how did he teach Mo'er, when did she become Mo'er's mother.
She gently let go of Mo'er and wiped the tears off Mo'er's face with her hand, "Mo'er, let's eat first, the meal will be cold in a while." β
Mo'er nodded and said, "Okay, mother, let's eat first." β
Chu Qiao divided half of the cake in his hand to Mo'er, then put the porridge on the ground on the side, walked to Meng Feng, put the other half of the cake in her hand, and then put another bowl of porridge beside her, and then said, "You also eat something, so that the injury will heal faster." β
Meng Feng nodded in response, picked up the hand cake and ate it, and drank a few mouthfuls of porridge.
When they finished eating, Chu Qiao put away the bowl and walked out of the cave with the other women.