There are 9 administrative villages in Sangyu Township, covering an area of ​​149 square kilometers, with a vast area and sparsely populated areas.

Meng Jinxing and Mu Tian spent one day in each village, paying for food, food and accommodation in the villagers' homes. In eight days, they had a thorough understanding of the conditions in the eight villages. On the ninth day, they arrived early in the morning at Xiawan Village, which borders Dabazi Township.

Mu Tian introduced it to Meng Jinxing on the way. Dawan Village is located in a deserted mountain and its geographical location is very hidden.

"Boss Liang has a quarry here, and Liang Chang and Liang Jingzu usually take care of it," Mu Tian said and chuckled, "That being said, they are usually too lazy to come here.

Most of the places are managed by the beards in the village. You see!"

The road condition was not good, so Meng Jinxing drove slowly. Following Mu Tian's hand, he saw that half of the mountain peaks had been cut off, and the rocks were exposed, making them look even more desolate. Occasionally, he could still see mining trees halfway up the mountain.

Stone cart.

"It must have been open for several years, right?" Meng Jinxing asked.

"It hasn't been that long." Mu Tian bowed his fingers and said, "It seems to have only been five or six years ago. I remember that that year, the third son of the fifth master of the Liang family was elected deputy mayor."

"Master Liang Wu's third son?" Meng Jinxing thought for a moment and asked, "You mean Vice Mayor Wang?"

"The enemy. Vice Mayor Wang's direct relative, the old man, was sent to Xiawan when he was transferred to Xiawan. He was grateful to Mr. Liang Wu for helping him. After Mr. Liang's two sons went up the mountain to cut down trees and died, he asked Mayor Wang to recognize Mr. Liang as his father."

"So that's it." Meng Jinxing nodded, and the Ford drove into the village.

Xiawan Village is not big, with only a dozen households in the whole village. Except for two households scattered on the mountain, the rest are concentrated in the mountains. Except for a few wooden houses, most of them are mud houses, which made Meng Jinxing frown.

He parked his car on the side of the road and walked with Mu Tian, ​​hoping to chat with some women who were sunbathing at the base of the wall.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they approached, those women would run away in a hurry.

"What's going on? We look like fierce gods?" Meng Jinxing turned around and asked Mu Tian.

Mu Tian shrugged and said, "I don't know. I've been here before. It's not like this."

"Is there something wrong with me?" Meng Jinxing looked at himself up and down, and then asked Mu Tian to see if there was anything wrong with him.

"Bang... boom..."

Suddenly there was a loud noise, accompanied by dust, smoke and flying stones, covering Meng Jinxing and Mu Tian standing in the center of the village in haze.

Meng Jinxing reacted very quickly and flew towards an old man who had not run far away. He pressed him under him and protected his head with his arms.

When there was silence all around, Meng Jinxing stood up slowly, then pulled the uncle up, "Are you okay?"

The confused uncle looked at Meng Jinxing, and stroked the back of Meng Jinxing's hand with a thin, dark, wrinkled hand, "My dear, you are injured!"

Meng Jinxing looked at his injuries and smiled at the uncle, "It's okay. It's just a little flesh injury and it will heal soon."

"Meng Xiang, your car!"

Mu Tian suddenly ran over and shouted. Meng Jinxing looked back and saw the smoke dispersed. The roof of the dusty Ford was completely dented, and the front windshield turned into a spider shape.

"Did you just quarry rocks and fire cannons?" Meng Jinxing turned around and asked the uncle.

Hearing this, the uncle hesitated to speak. Finally, he patted Meng Jinxing and said, "My dear, let's go quickly and stay out of other people's business."

Meng Jinxing frowned and asked, "Does this happen often?"

The uncle raised his face full of grooves and said angrily: "How come you kid can't listen to good words? Don't worry about things that have nothing to do with you." Then he left with a long sigh.

Mu Tian seemed to have realized something, his face was ugly, he pulled Meng Jinxing's sleeves and whispered: "Meng Xiang, go back and repair the car quickly."

Meng Jinxing's eyes were fixed on the old man's hunched back, his lips were pursed tightly, and a cold light flashed in his eyes.

"Can you drive?" he asked suddenly.

"Yes, but I don't have a driver's license." Mu Tian asked quickly, "Does your injury mean that you can't drive?"

After hearing what he said, Meng Jinxing immediately put the car key in and said, "I seem to have injured my internal organs. You can help me drive the car to Shanghai immediately and find Wu Yaqin from Wuji Thatched Cottage and ask her to take the car to repair it."

Also, ask her old man to bring the doctor."

Mu Tian was startled, "What will you do if you are alone now?"

"So go quickly, the sooner the better!" Meng Jinxing waved his hand as if in pain.

Mu Tian was afraid of losing his life and did not dare to delay. He immediately ran back to Ford. After a while of fussing, he finally started the car and ran out.

As soon as Ford disappeared, Meng Jinxing made his hair look like a chicken coop with his hands, rolled and rubbed his whole body on the ground, leaving his clothes in tatters, and then limped toward the quarry.

go……

The gate of Xiawan Quarry is closed at the moment. In the guard room, four long-haired young men hold cigarettes and play cards while a crusher not far away makes a rumbling sound.

"Bang, bang, bang," the heavy banging on the door dampened the mood of the four card players. A one-eyed man stood up, cursed and opened the side door. Looking at the ragged Meng Jinxing outside the door, he said viciously: "***,

Do you want to die?"

"Brother, I came here for a trip. I got lost in the mountains and lost all my belongings." Meng Jinxing glanced into the quarry and asked, "Can you let me work here to earn some money for my trip back?

"

One Eye looked Meng Jinxing up and down and then asked: "Do you have an ID card?"

"All lost in the mountains."

"Wait here."

Duyan closed the door and went in. After a while, he came back to block the door and said, "I see how pitiful you are. Let's try working for a few days. However, the foreman said that if you don't have an ID card, you have to pay a deposit. If you carry something behind your back, we will have to pay for it."

You're taking it, right?"

"But I'm penniless now!"

"Then I'll work for nothing for two months, and then I'll start counting my wages on the third month," Duyan said.

Meng Jinxing gritted his teeth and said, "Okay. How about taking care of the food?"

"No matter what, it will be deducted from the salary." One Eye stepped aside to make way for Meng Jinxing to squeeze in.

Meng Jinxing thanked him, and as soon as he glanced towards the guard room, he was slapped hard on the head by the one-eyed man, "What are you looking at! Remember clearly, you have to work honestly here, you are not allowed to ask questions, and you are not allowed to wander around.

, don’t look around and touch here and there!”

Meng Jinxing chuckled and said, "Brother, why don't we just collect rocks? Why do we make it look like a prison?"

"For your personal safety, do you understand?" One Eye pressed heavily on Meng Jinxing's head, "Follow me."

Meng Jinxing was taken to the conveyor at the bottom of the mountain. One Eye said a few words to a supervisor, then left Meng Jinxing and walked away.

"What's your name?" The supervisor threw a shovel over.

"Mencius, what do you call eldest brother?" Meng Jinxing asked as he took the shovel.

"If the labor and capital industry does not change its name, it will not change its surname. People in Sangyu will call it Iron Arm Wu."

"Ah, Angkor!" Meng Jinxing said, "Please take good care of me."

"Look after me, let's work!" Iron Arm Wu gave Meng Jinxing a blank look, swung his arms and walked towards the west, shouting from time to time at a group of people working shirtless over there.

Meng Jinxing looked over from a distance. There were a large number of rocks of different sizes piled up on the west side. Flying rocks still fell from the mountain from time to time. The dozen or so people working there did not have any safety measures. They did not look like they were trying to shovel the rocks.

Pretending to be out there seems to be digging for something.

"Little brother, work quickly and don't look around." A hoarse voice sounded not far away from Meng Jinxing.

He looked back at the person who made the sound, and found that the person was working hard to load the gravel from the conveyor. There were countless scars on his bronze skin. Although he reminded him with a sound, he didn't even look at him.

"Thank you, brother." Meng Jinxing started working on his hands, and at the same time lowered his voice and asked, "Is the brother from this village?"

"Work and don't get yourself into trouble." The man replied simply and ignored him.

It is not difficult for Meng Jinxing to repeat the same action. What is difficult is how to conceal his desire to find out.

While he was working, he kept secretly looking at his surroundings.

The excavation on the west side never stopped. For the whole day, everyone within Meng Jinxing's sight was like a machine, silently working on the work at hand. No one came to ask them to eat, and no one left to eat until it was dark.

, Iron Arm Wu shouted, and everyone dragged their tools back to the work shed.

Meng Jinxing was already so hungry that he was boiling water, but when he saw the thin porridge soup in the big pot in the work shed, he was really dumbfounded. Looking at the workers around him, he suddenly felt sad.

The co-worker who reminded him in the afternoon was already squatting by the pot with a bowl in hand, drinking soup. Meng Jinxing received the porridge and soup and squatted down beside him, pretending to be casual and asked: "You only have one meal for such heavy work, and what's more?"

Or should I eat this, do I have to do this every day?"

The co-worker glanced at him as he finished the last sip of soup and said, "You are very curious."

Meng Jinxing smiled and said, "My name is Mengzi, what is your surname?"

"Call me Lao Chai. Why don't you go work outside and come here?" Lao Chai spoke in a low voice and looked around with vigilant eyes.

"I like backpacking, and as a result, hehe..."

Lao Chai glanced at him and said, "Are you a student? Talk less, work more, and get out of here as soon as possible."

Meng Jinxing blinked and said, "Why do I think this quarry is so mysterious?"

"Isn't it mysterious that there have been two consecutive deaths in the past two days?" Lao Chai said.

"Brother Chai's accent is not local, so how can he work here?"

"***, are you full?" Meng Jinxing didn't wait for Lao Chai's answer, but the bowl in his hand was kicked away by One Eye, "You, the new guy, go to the door and squat down!"

Meng Jinxing felt angry and clenched his fists. Lao Chai quickly pinched his waist and winked repeatedly.

"What are you dawdling about?" One Eye kicked Meng Jinxing out of control again.

After receiving Lao Chai's reminder, Meng Jinxing suppressed his anger, moved to the door and squatted down. He found that except Lao Chai, all the workers' reactions were very numb, and they didn't even look at him.

This situation made him feel very heavy. If they had not been suppressed for a long time, how could a group of young laborers have such a bloodless attitude?

One-eye and others quickly ordered everyone to divide into two groups, one group to sleep, and the other group to continue digging at the west end of the quarry.
Chapter completed!