After talking, Qiu Shuyu led Tang Zheng Zhang Taixu up the mountain.

The Shimen faction had already set up a rich luncheon for Tang and Zhang in the faction and entertained them hobly.

After three rounds of drinking, Tang Zheng gradually learned about some local conditions.

Originally, there were three immortal cultivation sects in the area of Yongsui Mountain, but since the discovery of the ore vein, the Shimen sect has become stronger, and gradually suppressed the other two sects, and one of them was simply forced to leave this place. It's just that with the depletion of the ore veins, the good days of the Shimen Sect are about to come to an end.

At the banquet, Qiu Shuyu was even more embarrassed when he said this, and said to Tang Zheng: "Relying on this vein over the years, the Shimen sect has indeed gained a lot of benefits. But in order to protect the ore vein, he also offended many villains. Back then, the Yuhua faction wanted to steal the mine, and my Shimen faction fought three battles with them, killing and wounding countless disciples, and even I myself was heavily injured, so I could hold this mine.

The Yuhua faction was the one that was forced away by the Shimen faction, and Tang Zheng knew that the Shimen faction had indeed fought several battles with the Yuhua faction, as for whether it was to defend the mine, it was difficult to say. Judging from the actual situation, it is more like fighting for the control of the Yongsui Mountain area.

And from the perspective of the Moon Washing Sect, whoever guards this mine is the same, anyway, as long as they give them eighty percent of the profits. Even if the Yuhua faction really seized the ore vein, it would only take the share of the Shimen faction, and they would not dare to erase the share of the Moon Washing faction if they were so bold. Therefore, even if the Shimen faction is fighting to defend the mine, it is not fighting for the Moon Washing faction, it is for themselves. Qiu Shuyu said this just to show loyalty and take the opportunity to ask for a price.

Sure enough, after speaking, Qiu Shuyu said: "But recently, I heard that the Yuhua faction is not dead and has been waiting for an opportunity to take revenge. Now that the ore veins are about to be exhausted, I am afraid that it will be difficult for the Shimen Sect to maintain its existing family business in the future, and it is bound to shrink, and I am afraid that these thieves will have a chance to take advantage of it. ”

said with a sigh on his face.

Tang Zai laughed in his heart, and said: "The general of the defeated army is not brave enough, and he is definitely not the master of the Shimen faction, Qiu Zhangjiao is too humble." ”

But it was not revealing the wind of words that could be caught by Qiu Shuyu.

Qiu Shuyu saw that the other party was unmoved, so he could only smile awkwardly and stop talking.

After a moment of full wine and food, Tang Zheng wiped his mouth and said, "I've eaten and eaten, let's get down to business." Please take me to the mine. ”

Qiu Shuyu hurriedly said: "Why should the prince be in a hurry, it's not too late to play in my Shimen sect for a few days before going to see it." ”

Tang Zai shook his head: "No, I still have something to do, and it's best to finish it today." ”

As he spoke, he stood up.

Qiu Shuyu saw that he was resolute, and he could only agree, before leaving, Qiu Shuyu stuffed a mustard seed bag to Tang Zheng, Tang Zheng opened it and took a look, only to see that it was full of spirit stones, and estimated the value, no less than 100,000.

Tang Zai smiled, but returned the mustard seed bag.

Qiu Shuyu hurriedly said: "This is just a little bit of the Shimen faction's intentions, and there is absolutely no intention of buying." ”

Tang Zheng only shook his head resolutely, Qiu Shuyu could only take it back, and took him to the location of the ore vein.

The Lingshi vein is located in Baile Peak of Yongsui Mountain, only five miles away from Shimen Peak. Qiu Shuyu, Tang Zheng and others flew all the way, and soon came to the mine, and saw a crowd of people at the mine vein from a distance.

Qiu Shuyu was about to fall there, but Tang Zheng smiled and said, "Don't be in a hurry to alarm them, I want to take a look at the situation first." ”

When Qiu Shuyu heard him say this, he could only nod in agreement, and everyone fell far away and approached on foot.

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The entrance to the cave is always the liveliest place.

A middle-aged scribe with three mouse's whiskers sat behind a bookcase, in front of which there was a long line of ragged miners armed with pickaxes, some of whom were only a few teenagers.

Everyone still carried a basket on their backs, and the miners took out pieces of jade-colored stones of different sizes from the basket, which were spirit stones. These are just rough stones, which need to be polished and processed before they can be used, but despite this, you can still feel the energy fluctuations contained in them through the thin stone coat.

The miners handed the rough to the middle-aged scribe, and someone next to him stepped forward to weigh it.

"Twenty-four catties of low-quality ore, one catty of medium-grade ore, you can get two coins and nine cents of silver. The middle-aged scribe spoke, counted out some copper coins and handed them to the other party.

The miner shouted dissatisfiedly: "This medium-quality piece is obviously two catties, how can it become one catty?"

The middle-aged scribe snorted coldly: "Shut up, useless things, no matter how noisy it is, I'll let you get out!"

Lingshi mines also have quality points, according to the standards delineated by the six major factions, which are the four grades of the extreme. Ore collection is also based on this standard, among which the inferior ore is the cheapest, only one penny of silver per ten catties of rough stone, five coins for medium-grade ore, three taels for high-grade ore, and twenty taels for the best grade.

In the cultivation world, ten catties of low-grade rough stones can produce about one low-grade spirit stone, and the price of a low-grade spirit stone is about two hundred spirit dollars, even if the black market price is not considered, this conversion ratio is also one to two thousand.

This is the difference between cultivators and mortals, between immortals and mortals, it is always the former who exploits the labor force of the latter.

Searching for spiritual mines is extremely tiring and dangerous, the mine is never safe, there are always various risks hidden in it, even if cultivators enter, they will often encounter unpredictable disasters, which is why the mining business is handed over to mortals. For most poor families, mining is dangerous, but it is not cheap. If they are lucky, they will get one or two good mines, and they may be able to escape the fate of poverty, so they will be willing to take risks to go to the mines, but even then they will be exploited from all sides.

The middle-aged scribe is one thing, and the foreman in the mine is also indispensable.

Under the normal working conditions of the miners, it is not a problem to get an average of five dollars of silver a day, but there are often only two or three dollars left after three deductions and two deductions.

At this moment, the miner knew that he had no choice but to leave angrily. The miner was followed by a young man, who also carried the basket on his back, and came to the case of the scribe and knocked the basket down, but a lot of rough stones were rolled out.

I can't see that this kid is thin, but there are a lot of mines dug up.

When the scribe saw it, he smiled unprecedentedly: "Remnants, today's harvest is okay." ”

The boy just looked at the scribe coldly and did not speak.

The scribe's face suddenly sank, and the person weighing next to him had not yet spoken, and the middle-aged scribe had already said: "Ten catties of lower grade, give one penny of silver." ”

As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar.

The rough stone poured out by this young man can be found to be at least thirty catties or more even if you look at it with your eyes, and two of them have a special luster, obviously of medium variety, and they were all erased by the middle-aged scribe, and only ten catties of lower grade are counted, which is already so black that it is beyond measure.

There were already miners behind who were angry: "This is simply a way to live." ”

"Who said that people can't live?" The middle-aged scribe snorted coldly: "One penny of silver, at least enough for his brother and sister to eat and drink for three days, offended Jin Gongzi, and there are not many people who could have lived until now." Xi Remnant, you better go back and think about it, send your sister to Jin Gongzi as soon as possible, things will still take a turn for the better. Otherwise, I can collect your mine for a penny of silver today, but I may not even give you a penny of silver tomorrow!"

The young man just glanced at the middle-aged scribe coldly and said, "Wu Heixin, you are dreaming." ”

"What did you say?" the middle-aged scribe was furious.

He presided over the collection of ore in this vein, and he has always been greedy for ink, and he doesn't know how much hard-earned money he has blackened the miners, and he has long been known as a black-hearted talent, but no one dares to say him to his face. I didn't expect to be called out by this young man, and my heart was angry, I wanted to teach this kid a lesson, but I remembered this boy's fame, knowing that this boy was bold and never afraid of death, as early as when he was in the mine, he had fought a few fights with the foremen, and made some prestige, and now those foremen who are exclusively exploiting are not very willing to provoke him, and they are the least to loot him, so they can hand over more ore every time.

I'm too close to this kid now, I really want to fight against myself, and I'll bear with it.

The middle-aged scribe thought and glared at him angrily, the young man had already taken the silver and left.

Seeing that the boy was far away, the middle-aged scribe shouted, "You people are blind? Don't you see that kid insulting me?

Behind him, several big men with round waists and thick shoulders had already pounced on the young man at the same time.

Seeing this, the young man called Xi Scar turned his head and ran, and several thugs saw that he was going to run and chase more closely, and just as he was about to catch up, the young man suddenly flashed and grabbed an iron pillar beside him, and his body swirled in the air, and he was kicking a strong man in the face head-on.

This roundhouse kick was not light, knocking the strong man directly to the ground.

The boy had landed lightly, turned to run again, and suddenly grabbed a small stone platform beside him, threw it backwards, and smashed it on the foot of another strong man. There were only two of the four strong men who pursued at once, but this blockade also put the boy in danger.

A strong man grabbed the boy first and said with a cruel smile: "Good boy, look where you are running this time!"

Unexpectedly, before he finished speaking, he saw the young man turn around and grab a pearl with a second dragon, which was poking him in the eye. This time it was urgent and ruthless, it was completely a posture of wanting to gouge out his eyes, and the big man in pain covered his eyes and shouted, and withdrew his hand and retreated.

At the same time, another strong man had punched the boy in the back.

The black-skinned strong man hugged the boy with his arms wide open, and his arms were like iron hoops around the boy and he couldn't move, and kept tightening, it seemed that he was going to strangle the boy's arms.

The two strong men who had been subjected to it here also came up, and the angry look almost tore the boy apart. At this moment, a glimmer of brilliance suddenly flashed on the young man's body. At the same time as this brilliance rose, the arms of the strong man who held him had been stretched out, and at the same time, the young man flew up and kicked the two people who were ushered in, and another double flying foot knocked the two down, and his head hit back, and the man who was in pain wailed and covered his face when he hit the bridge of the nose of the strong man who hugged him.

The four of them were all hit in the face, and at this moment, they covered their faces together and screamed in pain, which made people stunned.

Only then did the young man walk back to the middle-aged scribe and said coldly, "Wu Heixin, before Jin Gongzi kills me, I can actually kill you first." So ......"

He beckoned to the scribe, and the middle-aged scribe shuddered as he re-offered the embezzled silver.

The young man looked at the silver, nodded with satisfaction, and said, "For the sake of you still collecting the mine, I won't knock you out." ”

"What?" The middle-aged scribe was stunned, and the boy had already smashed his fist on the middle-aged scribe's stomach, and his face was deformed from pain.

Wu Wenshi twisted his face and said, "You...... Hello ......"

He hissed and shouted, "Guard, guard!"

Several miners have already pushed the young man: "Leave quickly, you have already committed a crime by beating Wu Heixin, and the iron guard of the mine is coming." ”

The boy nodded, turned around and ran.

Out of the mine, two black-armored puppets had already appeared, and they were the Xuanjia soldiers of the Moon Washing Sect.

There was also a disciple of the Shimen Sect who appeared with the Xuanjia soldiers, and when he saw the young man, he snorted coldly: "Xi Remnant, it's you again, you are really going to cause trouble." ”

With a wave of his hand, the two Xuanjia soldiers had already chased after the young man.

Seeing this, the young man turned his head and ran, the speed was extremely fast, and the two Xuanjia soldiers couldn't get up for a while.

The Shimen sect's disciple's eyes gradually showed impatience, and he took out a bladeless sword, pinched the seal method and pointed at the young man: "Go!"

The great sword roared in the air, and it was in pursuit.

Although this sword has no edge, it has a majestic momentum, once it hits, even the stone can be smashed into powder, and the young man will never survive.

The young man was also shocked when he saw this, but no matter how he dodged, he couldn't dodge it, and when he saw that he was about to die under the sword, he suddenly saw a flower in front of him, and a figure appeared in front of him.

A hand that appeared horizontally grasped the bladeless sword, powerful, calm, and the sword body drummed out an unwilling low sound, but it couldn't shake off the entanglement of that hand.

The boy had escaped death, and was already lying on the ground gasping for breath.

Only then did he find a young man standing in front of him, smiling at himself.

"What kind of person, what a bold man!" The Shimen sect disciple was furious when he saw that someone had taken action to sabotage his spell.

was about to step forward to teach, but saw a few more people appear, and the first person was even more stunned by the Shimen disciple who was watching.

He first rubbed his eyes to confirm that he was not mistaken, and then pushed Jin Shan to his knees like a jade pillar, and shouted: "Disciple Chu Junyu has seen the master of the sect, the second uncle, the third master, and the fourth uncle!"

This call started, and everyone around was stunned.

It was actually the head of the Shimen Sect who drove it in person?

For those mortals, Qiu Shuyu's respect for such a faction is tantamount to a god-like existence.

The next moment, I heard the sound of hula, and everyone was already kneeling down.

Then I heard two bangs.

But it was the two puppets who were still chasing the young man, and they were knocked away by Tang Zheng's two punches, and by the way, the Xuanjia warrior's control array was closed, making it impossible to act, and then he said: "Before kneeling next time, remember to stop what should be stopped." ”

That Chu Junyu blushed for a while, and said angrily: "Who are you, you dare to ......?"

"Shut up!" Qiu Shuyu had already reprimanded: "This is the envoy of the moon washing, Tang robbed Tang Gongzi, and he hasn't seen the courtesy." ”

"Wash the moon envoy?" Chu Junyu was startled, and hurriedly said to Tang Zheng: "I've seen Tang Gongzi." ”

Tang Zai Shi Ran walked over: "Don't be polite, it looks like you're quite busy." ”

Chu Junyu hurriedly said: "Don't dare, it's really these Diao people who love to cause trouble too much, and they know to make trouble all day long, if there is no thunder, they will repeat it at every turn." ”

Tang Zheng nodded: "If there is no thunder, I agree with the repetition of this at every turn, the more crowded the place, the easier it is to make trouble, this is not false." ”

Chu Junyu was overjoyed when he heard him agree with what he said.

"But ......"

This just made Chu Junyu's heart fall to the bottom immediately.

Tang Zao said leisurely: "Regardless of whether it is right or wrong, regardless of the root cause, is it really the way to solve the problem?"

Chu Junyu and the middle-aged scribe were already trembling with fright, and the meaning of Tang Zheng's words was clearly to say that the middle-aged scribe was the source of the problem.

Sure enough, some of the energetic miners shouted one after another when they heard this: "That's right, it's this Wu Heixin, who exploits us every day, scrapes the ground, and is extremely unscrupulous." ”

Wu Hei was shocked, thinking that this was bad, and he was about to say forgiveness, but Tang Zheng raised his hand: "I am not the master of Qingtian, and I am not here to be ordered to investigate the life of the miners, if you have any grievances, you don't need to shout at me." ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was cold again, but Wu Heixin was relieved, and even Qiu Shuyu couldn't help but praise Tang Zheng for handling things and not abusing power.

In fact, the detention of miners is everywhere, and it is not necessarily unusual here.

There will be moths in the storehouses of rice and grain, and rats will be born in the barns that are full.

As far as the immortal family is concerned, the subordinates are not honest, and it is inevitable to be greedy for ink. In this case, instead of looking for the one who is not greedy, it is better to find the one that is easy to use, not to mention that there is another wonderful use at the critical moment.

This Wu Xiucai is flexible and easy to use, and he does not forget to provide for him every year, so he has been using it until now.

Although Tang Zheng is not in charge of the affairs here, but for the sake of his envoy's face, Qiu Shuyu will definitely not protect Wu Xiucai and offend Tang Zheng for a mortal, but he will definitely despise his excessive justice in his heart.

Now that Tang Zheng didn't do this, Qiu Shuyu had a great impression of him.

"But what about ......" I didn't expect Tang Zheng to add these three words in a long tone.

As soon as these words came out, Wu Heixin was certainly shocked in his heart, and even Qiu Shuyu couldn't help but smile bitterly, can't you talk well if you kid think? Can you not be so angry?

Tang Zheng said: "Anyway, the miners are also the people under the rule of Wenxin, and they are blessed by my Moon Washing Sect. If the people's lives are too poor, won't it also seem that my Moon Washing Sect is incompetent?"

As soon as this big hat came out, everyone changed color together.

Tang Zheng has said again: "Besides, this kid must have a lot of greed, if you send someone to check, you will be able to find a huge amount of money......"

He didn't say any more, Qiu Shuyu already understood what he meant, and laughed and said: "What Tang Gongzi said is that in fact, sometimes I have to give an explanation to the people, and I will reappoint a person to take up the post of collecting ore when I turn around, as for this person, go back and check how much benefit he has gained, and confiscate him." ”

Then he lowered his voice and said: "Gongzi has made great contributions to the discovery of corruption for our faction, and he must be grateful." ”

said that he had stretched out three fingers, which meant that after copying Wu Xiucai's home, thirty percent of the benefits would go to Tang Zheng.

Tang Zheng smiled and didn't speak.

This time, he accepted the money unceremoniously.

Wu Xiucai's face changed greatly: "Qiu Zhangjiao, no!"

He has collected mines for the Shimen faction over the years, although he has made a lot of benefits, but a considerable part of it has been given to the Shimen faction and Zhang Taixu and others, but now Qiu Shuyu wants to collect it all at once, which is equivalent to making him admit all his crimes.

He didn't know that in the eyes of the Shimen faction, people like him were like a pig, which could be slaughtered after fattening. Eighty percent of the benefits obtained from the mine will be handed over to the Moon Washing Sect, and the benefits obtained by Wu Xiucai will be harvested, but they can all be returned to themselves.

In this respect, he Wu Xiucai is a useful tool, through guò he is greedy for ink upwards and sucks the marrow downward, and the Shimen sect can get a lot of additional benefits, but at best it is a crime of lax supervision, and will not be regarded as a dedication due to the greed of ink by the Moon Washing faction.

The arrival of Tang Zheng just made Wu Xiucai unlucky earlier, without him, this pig would have to be killed sooner or later.

At this moment, after dealing with Wu Xiucai, Tang Zheng came to the miners and said loudly: "I, Tang Zheng, came to explore the mine on the order of the Moon Washing Sect, and I need a guide. Here to understand the situation of the mine and stand up, if the table is good, you can get a reward of 100 taels of silver. ”

As soon as these words came out, many people were immediately moved, and they all said that they could be guides, and the young man from before actually stood up. He was right next to Tang Zheng, so it was convenient to speak, and he said directly: "No one is more familiar with this mine than me, but if you want to use me as a guide, I have a condition." ”

Tang Zheng looked at the young man: "I just saved you, and you will negotiate terms with me?"

The young man's face turned red: "I don't want your money, I want you to promise me one thing." There are many forks in the road in this mine, and there are many dangers, and no one is more familiar with it than me. If you don't believe it, ask them, who has mined the most mines here in recent years!"

If he asks them if I am the most familiar, most of the miners will shout that I am no worse than you, but he shouts who has mined the most mines, and all the miners are immediately dumbfounded, and it is obvious that no one can compare with a teenager in this matter.

Tang Zheng nodded: "It sounds like you really have two hits, what do you want?"

The young man said boldly: "That son of the Jin family has taken a fancy to my sister and wants to accept her as a concubine, you must be a very great person, I want you to help me deal with the Jin family." ”

Tang Zheng turned around and asked loudly, "Who is the Jin family?"

Zhang Taixu replied: "A mortal family in this area, there are many shops in the nearby town that are run by his family, and he has some thugs under his hands, including a spirit master, and he is also a well-known tyrant in the local area. ”

Although this last sentence is a bit of a drawback, it is aimed at the needs of Tang Zheng.

Tang Zheng nodded, turned to the young man and said, "I can only guarantee that he won't get your sister, and you have to promise me one condition." ”

These two people put conditions on each other to the point that they became addicted.

The boy asked, "What conditions?"

Tang Zheng had already taken the young man aside, leaned into his ear and whispered, "Let you open the treasure or cheats of the Jade Gate." ”

As soon as these words came out, the young man's face changed greatly, and he immediately realized that he had revealed the clues when he was besieged by the four strong men before, and he was actually seen by the person in front of him. If people knew that he could actually cultivate, I was afraid that he would immediately be ruthlessly snatching and killing, and when he thought of this, he was already full of fear when he saw Tang Zheng's face.

Tang Zheng still looked at him with a smile, as if he was telling him that he would not snatch his treasure, but would only exchange.

The young man settled his mind and finally said, "Then I have to add a condition." ”

This is really a condition to add flowers.

Tang Zheng asked, "What?"

"Teach me to cultivate immortals. ”

"It's not difficult, but it also depends on the value of the thing, the higher the value, the more I can do for you. ”

The young man secretly stuffed an object into Tang Zheng's hands.

As soon as this thing arrived, Tang Zao's heart froze, and he asked in a low voice, "Where did you get it?"

"In the mines. The boy replied, "But only I know where it is." ”

Tang Zheng nodded, and quietly put away the things: "The matter of cultivation is wrapped up in me." ”

"What about the Jin family?"

"There won't be any more Kim family. ”

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