Chapter 127 Gold! So much gold!

"Master, this subordinate waited too late and made the master trapped. This subordinate deserves to die and will be punished by the master."

The three men in black knelt on the ground respectfully, not daring to raise their heads.

At this time, Mo Beihan had already put on a mask, but his face was cold, completely different from the smiling Mr. Mo that Qiao Ran had seen.

"Mu Yi, Mu Er, Mu San, the three of you did not arrive at the agreed time. After you return, you will go to the punishment hall to receive your punishment. Now, Mu Er, you go to this place and protect this girl until you see her reunite with her family. Until then. Remember not to follow her too closely. Follow her from a distance. If there is no danger, don’t take action. If she is in danger that she cannot handle, help her secretly and try not to show up."

"Yes, Master!"

Although Mu Er was surprised why his master asked him to protect a girl, as a subordinate and the second master of the wooden hall among the five halls of metal, wood, water, fire and earth, he was accustomed to obey his master's arrangements and immediately responded without saying a word. Got up and went on a mission.

Mu Yi and Mu San were still kneeling on the ground with their heads lowered, without any unusual behavior.

Mo Beihan stared at the two of them for a long time before finally speaking: "Get up! Mu Yi, keep an eye on Magistrate Li. If there is any abnormality, report it immediately. Mu San, come with me to the western suburbs."

"Yes, Master!"

They both responded in unison.

Mu Yi immediately ducked out, and Mu San rode with his master to the western suburbs outside Linzhou City.

At the foot of a rolling mountain fifty miles away in the western suburbs of Linzhou Fucheng, when Qiao Ran arrived on horseback, she got off her horse some distance from the road into the mountain.

He led the horse to a secluded forest and let it graze in the forest while he used Qinggong to go up the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain, every intersection is guarded by officers and soldiers, making it impossible to go up the mountain road.

Qiao Ran found a relatively steep hillside and saw that there were people guarding it from a long distance away. She quickly climbed up from the bottom of the slope, using the cover of the trees to prevent the guards at the bottom from seeing her figure.

It is impossible for ordinary people to climb up such a steep hillside. Even people with martial arts background will find it difficult to climb up, unless they are very powerful masters.

On the hillside, there is a relatively flat open space guarded by two officers and soldiers.

Further up the hillside, there are mountains and forests that are easier to walk on.

When Qiao Ran was approaching the top of the slope, she took advantage of one of the officers and soldiers to go into the woods to relieve themselves, threw a small stone and led the other officers and soldiers aside, and she quickly went up the mountain.

This mountain is too big. Except for the officers and soldiers guarding various intersections at the foot of the mountain, there are simply not so many officers and soldiers guarding the mountains.

It's just that Qiao Ran wandered around the mountains for more than half an hour and still couldn't find the gold mine.

Just when she was a little impatient, she suddenly heard the faint sound of metal and stone colliding in front of her.

The sound is still very far away. If you don't have good ears, ordinary people will definitely not be able to hear it.

Qiao Ran quickly walked through the forest in the direction of the sound.

Sure enough, although she heard the sound, she still climbed over the top of a mountain and stood on the top of another mountain. Only then did she see countless people as densely packed as ants in the valley of this mountain.

Looking down from the top of the mountain, we can see countless miners in ragged clothes and shackles like prisoners, mechanically mining ore under the supervision of a group of officers and soldiers with swords at their waists and whips in their hands.

In the valley, there are exposed rocks everywhere, and there are also some mines where many miners go in and out.

In a relatively high place in the valley, there are dozens of dilapidated thatched houses, apparently where miners rest.

And higher up, there is a row of five or six very strong wooden houses built, and there are officers and soldiers guarding the outside of the house.

Qiao Ran saw clearly the general situation in the valley. There were more than 200 officers and soldiers responsible for supervising the work of the miners. There were officers and soldiers guarding the row of wooden houses about ten meters apart.

Several miners carried bamboo baskets and sent baskets of golden things into the wooden house. When they came out, the bamboo baskets were empty.

With such strict security, Qiao Ran frowned. How was she supposed to get into those wooden houses?

It seems that the gold dug out is put into the wooden house for storage, and will not be moved away until a certain amount is reached.

It would be great if I could enter those houses.

Qiao Ran looked at her clothes, tore them into tatters, then wiped a handful of dirt on her face, messing up her hair like a gray-faced miner.

After getting off the top of the mountain, we quietly approached the valley.

She first went to those dilapidated thatched houses and searched. In a dilapidated thatched house with air leakage from all directions, she saw a middle-aged miner lying on the bed dying.

It looked like this man only had one breath left. He was breathing more out than in. His face was sallow and his body was skinny. He lay motionless on the bed.

When Qiao Ran saw that the man was still wearing shackles on his feet even though he was about to die, he knew how difficult it would be for the miners here to escape.

Qiao Ran stepped forward and gave the man a pill, hanging on to his life. It was up to him whether he could survive it.

Then she took out a piece of iron wire and, somehow, after a few fiddles, she opened the iron shackles on the man's feet.

She left the thatched house in shackles and blended in with the miners.

Although there was a new face, among a group of miners who were all gray-faced and couldn't see their faces at all, Qiao Ran's face was as numb and dull as the other miners, and her steps and movements were mechanically slow. No one looked at her at all. Get something strange.

When Qiao Ran and another miner carried a basket of gold into a wooden house, her eyes were dazzled.

Gold! A lot of gold!

The ground is piled with golden gold!

Qiao Ran's heart almost jumped into her throat! This was the first time she had seen so much gold!

I don’t know how much gold has been dug out of this gold mine. In this one room alone, there are hundreds of kilograms of gold.

Gold! If converted into silver, it would be ten times as much!

One tael of gold is equal to ten taels of silver, so here are hundreds of kilograms of gold that can be exchanged for silver...

Qiao Ran simply didn't dare to think about it.

She tried her best to suppress her excitement and trembling hands, but still moved her steps mechanically, pouring the basket of gold onto the pile of gold.

The supervisor was urging impatiently outside. After the miner who came in with Qiao Ran poured the gold in the basket onto the ground, he immediately picked up the basket with numb and mechanical movements and walked out the door. Looking at the gold in the room, Not a second glance.

I guess I have been working as a miner here for too long. I have seen too much and know that I can't escape, so I have become numb.

Qiao Ran deliberately squatted down to tidy up the rotten straw sandals on her feet. When the miner was approaching the door, she quickly put all the gold in the room into the space.