I don’t know how long it has been since I became friends with Alan. It seemed like a long time, but it didn’t seem like that long.
But that day that changed Lin Fan's life would never be forgotten even in the future.
July 13, 1777
Lin Fan carried the ore with all his strength, and Cang walked easily past Lin Fan carrying a bag of ore.
Cang said disdainfully: "Trash!"
Lin Fan's temper suddenly rose. After carrying his own burden, he helped Alan's burden.
Seeing Lin Fan struggling, Alan said, "I don't need your help. I can take my time by myself."
Lin Fan said breathlessly: "It's nothing..."
Then Lin Fan walked past Cang, looking very relaxed.
Lin Fan said disdainfully: "Trash!"
"Holy shit!"
Then the two started a meaningless competition again, with Alan sighing from behind.
Now Alan is no longer as shy and timid as before. After all, staying around those two people will be unknowingly affected. However, Alan is still very shy in front of strangers he meets for the first time.
"How...how...are you convinced?" Lin Fan said out of breath while lying on the ground.
"No...I don't accept it," Cang Ye said out of breath while lying on the ground.
Lin Fan said: "Tsk, garbage."
"You are trash," Cang retorted.
Alan put the water bag on their faces and said: "Okay, okay, take a rest. What will you do when you are exhausted?"
The two rested on the ground panting heavily.
"!" Alan noticed that several adults were gathered around in the distance and didn't know what they were doing.
They stayed around for a few minutes before being dismissed by the guards and went to dig their own mines.
"Right" Cang said
"Huh?" The two of them focused on Cang.
Cang asked: "The Old Moon Festival is coming soon, how are you going to celebrate it?"
"Let's live like this, what else can we do?" Lin Fan said
Cang said: "Aren't you curious about what food will be available on the day of the festival? What if we are given extra food?"
"Would you like extra food?" Alan whispered.
Lin Fan said: "It doesn't matter if you add extra meals or not, it's just life anyway, and it makes no difference if you have one more meal or one less meal."
"Hiss!" Lin Fan felt pain in his back again.
Cang said: "Hey, have you heard? There were a lot of adults missing from the mine some time ago. I heard that they were all sent to the battlefield to join the army. I don't know what happened?"
Lin Fan remembered that he had heard the adults chatting during the break. They all mentioned a place in the west, the Demon Realm.
Lin Fan said: "I think they were all sent to a place called the Demon Realm."
Alan asked: "The Demon Realm? Where is that? Is it far away?"
Lin Fan shook his head, "I don't know. I only know that it is located in the west of the mainland. I heard that many countries are participating this time."
Cang sighed: "My dear, one Demon Realm requires many countries, so our Qin State will have to ask for the whole world. I wonder why the production has been so large recently, and my emotions have been used to fight."
"Hey! What are you doing if you don't work?" asked the guard responsible for supervision.
Several people hurriedly ran in three directions and ran very fast.
"What are you doing?" asked another guard
"nothing"
When the guard saw them running away, he was not prepared to continue pursuing them.
"Don't look at it, come over and help. This batch of goods is being pushed very hard, so don't let anything go wrong. Hurry, hurry up."
"coming."
"Oops, ha--" Lin Fan put his hands on the wall and gasped
He probably didn't come over. Lin Fan thought to himself that he would go to Canghe Alan later.
"!?" Lin Fan noticed movement coming from the depths of the mine and walked in cautiously.
Lin Fan hid in a corner and took a look, and found that his fellow workers who had worked in the mine together were sitting around, not knowing what they were planning.
"How's it going? Have you arranged everything?" the leader asked.
"Everything has been arranged. Now we just need to wait for the talisman washing water to arrive before we can take action." One of them said
The leading man asked again: "Is it guaranteed that the rune-washing water that can wash away the runes can come in?"
"Don't worry, it's the Old Moon Festival soon. There will definitely be vacancies in the guards on the festival day, and the talisman-washing water is guaranteed to come in."
"That's good. Don't let anyone else who is hiding it be discovered. It's almost time to plan. Please pay attention to me."
"correct……"
Lin Fan was listening intently when suddenly he stretched out his hand from behind and pushed himself to the ground.
"Boss, this guy is eavesdropping!"
"!" Everyone focused their attention on Lin Fan
I originally thought it was some kind of person who was eavesdropping, but it turned out to be a child, and everyone's eyes changed. However, in order for the plan to proceed normally, everyone's eyes changed back.
"This kid must be a spy arranged by Ma Supervision. Our plan has been discovered. What should the boss do now?" asked the man holding Lin Fan down.
The boss stretched out his hand to indicate not to rush.
The boss squatted in front of Lin Fan and asked, "Is your name Lin Fan? That kid who was slapped and kicked away some time ago, was that you?"
Lin Fan looked around at the adults surrounding him, blushed and nodded.
The boss asked again: "Are you going to supervise the spies arranged?"
Regardless of whether they believed it or not, Lin Fan still shook his head.
"It's not true if you say it's not true. I..." The man holding Lin Fan down was about to twist off Lin Fan's thin arm.
The boss stretched out his hand to stop him and said: "Don't worry, what if he really isn't."
"Do you just trust him so much, boss? Keeping him will be a factor of instability. What if the plan..."
"I mean just in case, just in case, do you understand? I didn't really admit that he was not. And if he really was, it would be more worrying if he didn't report it to the superiors in time."
"What should we do?"
The boss said to Lin Fan: "Boy, tell me every word you heard. If you dare to hide it, we don't mind delaying the plan until the right time."
Lin Fan said everything he heard. Although it was not word for word, he had tried very hard to organize the same words as they had before.
After hearing this, the boss looked thoughtful and said, "It's okay."
The boss said, "Let him get up."
"But..." The man holding Lin Fan down was obviously unconvinced.
"Let him get up!" the boss said again
Under pressure from his boss, the man had no choice but to let Lin Fan go.
Lin Fan slowly got up. The boss knelt down and put his hand on Lin Fan's shoulder, asking: "If you were given a chance to go out and gain freedom, would you seize it?"
Lin Fan started thinking, but the first image that appeared in his mind was of Alan and Cang. Lin Fan didn't know why.
Seeing that Lin Fan didn't say anything, the boss didn't ask further.
"Go back first"
Lin Fan left at a loss. On the way, he was still thinking about why his first impression was of Alan and Cang when he encountered a problem.
"Boss, are you just going to let him go? What if he is? Before he goes far..."
Seeing his impatient look, the boss sighed: "I didn't say I believed he wasn't. Letting him go is the best choice."
"Arrange two people to keep an eye on him secretly and report immediately if there are any problems."
Although there are children like Lin Fan in the mine, there are not many. Their every move is very conspicuous among a group of adults. Regardless of whether he is a spy or not, his disappearance will attract some people's attention.
If it were the guards who treated people like nothing, Lin Fan's disappearance might not be a big deal to them. According to them, it was just one more person or one less person to eat. But to those who knew him, it was nothing more than one more person or one less person to eat. Not necessarily anymore.
Children are very social. No matter what kind of child they are, they will have one or two friends, and these two friends will also know other people.
This is the most troublesome point. Once Lin Fan disappears, his friends will pay attention to some extent. Adults may not care, but it is different with children. As the saying goes, friendship is...
Moreover, children will notice some things that adults cannot notice. It is impossible not to deal with them. In order to complete the show, you will deal with one child after another. Their relationship is as intricate and endless as a web.
You said that not many people would care if a child disappeared in a short period of time, but what about the disappearance of one, two, three...seven...many? Will the people above not care?
And if Lin Fan was a spy, he would keep in touch with Supervisor Ma every day, and he would immediately find out once he was disconnected.
They don't have much leverage now to withstand the consequences, so for the smooth progress of their future plans, staying put is the safest choice.
"If we keep the notice, the plan may be advanced. Be prepared at any time."
"yes."
Lin Fan walked in the mine and kept moving his sprained hand.
Speaking of which, why do I think of Alan and Cang when I think of being able to go back? Why is this?
"If they were faced with this problem, what would be their answer?" Lin Fan said to himself.
"Hey, where did you go? Did you come out so late?" Cang asked
"Huh?" By the time Lin Fan came to his senses, Cang and Alan were already waiting for him.
Cang asked: "Looking at you looking worried, you failed to flirt with a girl again?"
Lin Fan shook his head
Lin Fan simply shook his head without complaining about himself, which shocked Cang.
"Holy crap, are you still the Lin Fan I know? Hey! Have you been replaced?" Cang started to touch Lin Fan.
Lin Fan pushed Cang away and said, "Stop making trouble."
Lin Fan said: "Cang, Alan, if you had a chance to be free, what would you do?"
Cang said: "Of course I want to travel. I want to travel around the world to see how big this is."
Alan whispered: "As far as I'm concerned, Lin Fan and I will do whatever you guys do."
"Really?" Lin Fan felt a little lonely
Cang asked: "Why are you asking this question suddenly?"
Lin Fan said: "Nothing, just asking."
Cang observed Lin Fan and said, "There is something fishy."
Lin Fan said: "It's really nothing, just asking."
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After the supervisor Ma finished counting the goods on the shelves, he jumped out of the beast cart.
"Let's go!"
The cartmen pulled the reins and said "Get up!" One after another, the beast carts filled with ore set off from the mine to somewhere.
"I'm finally done with my work. I'm exhausted." Supervisor Ma stretched his waist and said.
Supervisor Ma ordered the guard: "Go and boil the bath water for me. I only need 50-degree warm water and good warm wine."
"yes"
"Oh, I've been busy for more than half a month and finally made up for the production. I'll have to relax a bit later."
As the horse supervisor stretched, another guard came over with a group of children.
"Why do you want to rebel?"
The guard said with a smile: "Isn't it because you are too tired? I specially called someone to serve you."
After hearing this, Supervisor Ma laughed and said, "You're pretty good at it, right? What's your name?"
After hearing this, the guard smiled and said his name, looking forward to his future success.
The guard said seriously: "You must serve the horse supervisor, don't make any mistakes, you know?"
In this way, Lin Fan followed the flow of people and headed to the place where the service horse was overseeing.
Oops. Lin Fan thought to himself
Ten minutes ago, Lin Fan just finished asking questions and left alone.
Cang asked: "Why are you going?"
Lin Fan replied: "I dropped something and went back to take a look."
After saying that, he left. Cang and Alan looked at Lin Fan's back and wanted to follow him, but the workers next to them reminded them to stop playing and get to work. I had no choice but to settle it hastily.
After hearing their answers, Lin Fan decided to join them and prepared to return the same way.
But on the way, I happened to meet a guard who was "recruiting" people. I don't know why he only arrested children.
Lin Fan was accidentally seen and when he wanted to run away, it was already too late.
"Why are you dazed? Water it!" Supervisor Ma said loudly
Lin Fan came to his senses and responded "Oh," and poured a ladle of water on the hot stone. The stone spurted out thick white smoke, and the heat in the room rose in an instant.
Lin Fan and the other children's faces were covered with sweat. Lin Fan saw the supervisor Ma lying naked on the seat, obviously sweating, but still persisting. I really don’t understand what enjoyment there is.
Supervisor Ma turned over in his seat and said, "Quickly give me a massage."
Lin Fan and the other four children did not dare to come forward, mainly because they did not know how to massage and were afraid of accidents.
Supervisor Ma urged: "What are you going to eat? Hurry up."
"You," Supervisor Ma pointed at Lin Fan and said, "Come here for a massage, hurry up."
Lin Fan was shocked, glanced at the others, and had no choice but to get in.
Lin Fan put his hand on the horse supervisor's back and touched something soft before he started.
At first glance, I found that it was mud. To put it simply, it was dirt on the back of the horse supervisor.
The skin on the horse supervisor's back is very rough and a lot of mud can be easily pushed on it. Sometimes dirt can be hidden between the skin. Can you imagine how bad his back is?
Due to local conditions, Xueyue City does not have much water resources, so people generally use sweat steaming as the main bathing method, and rarely take baths. Generally, they only take baths on important days. However, sweat steaming generally does not take place every day, but usually takes half a month or so. Wash each one only once.
However, Director Ma is a person who likes to steam first and then wash. You must know that when taking a bath, you soak in warm water, and this warm water is very time-consuming and resource-consuming, so even wealthy people will not just soak in it.
But for people like Ma Guan, who has mud in the skin gaps on his back, just rub your hands lightly and your hands will be covered with mud.
Lin Fan endured the discomfort and gave Director Ma a decent massage. At this time, Director Ma stretched out his hand, but everyone didn't understand what it was for.
The lying supervisor picked up the water ladle and threw it on the head of the child holding the wine. The child fell to the ground without being able to stand still, and couldn't help but scream when his back hit the hot stones in the basin.
"What's the use if you can't get me a glass of wine?"
When the guards heard the shouting, they came in and took away the child who was burning and crying on the ground in accordance with the instructions of Supervisor Ma.
Watching him being taken away by the guards, the other children did not dare to take a breath, fearing that they would be pressed against the stone and burned again.
"The child's voice is so fucking harsh. What's going on with the massage? Didn't you eat?"
"Oh, okay." Lin Fan increased the intensity of the massage.
As Lin Fan increased his intensity, one of the children quietly approached the supervisory horse.
Immediately, he threw the hot stone in his hand into Supervisor Ma's face, trying to kill him.
Facing the hot stone, Supervisor Ma did not dodge but just pulled another child next to him to block it.
"Ah!" the child shouted as he was burned.
Supervisor Ma stood up and kicked away the child who was acting as a shield. The child holding the stone dropped the stone when he saw that he had no success and was about to run away.
The child kept kicking and banging on the door, but nothing happened.
Seeing the horse supervisor walking step by step, the child was so scared that he collapsed on the ground.
Supervisor Ma said in the child's ear: "Do you think I won't notice your movements? Don't look at how many people are under my command. I haven't noticed hundreds of people, let alone you alone."
Supervisor Ma looked at the blisters on the child's hands and said, "Don't you like to hold rocks?"
Supervisor Ma pressed the child into the basin. The child was burned so hard that he kept screaming.
"Now I'll let you get enough"
The child kept struggling and howling, hoping for a chance to survive, but it was useless in the face of the overwhelming power of the horse supervisor.
After a while, there was no movement, leaving only the burning smell in the air.
Lin Fan and the remaining two hid in the corner and shivered.
Not being handed the wine and being plotted against, Supervisor Ma was a little upset. Looking at the remaining three, he was ready to deal with it together.
"No! No! Please let me go! Please let me go!" said the child (3)
"ah!"
Supervisor Ma also pressed him into the basin. During this period, he felt a huge sense of excitement and felt very comfortable.
"You bad guy! You will definitely be severely punished! You bad guy!"
Supervisor Ma directly pinched him with his hands this time and said, "Bad guy? He's a bad guy to me, but so what? What can you do? Report? Punish? You can't do anything, right? Haha!"
The child (4) fell to the ground
"Next"
Lin Fan was very scared as he watched the horse supervisor approaching him step by step.
"No, no, don't come over!" Lin Fan said with a cry.
When Supervisor Ma was about to take action, his subordinates broke in.
"There was a problem with supervision, and the miners went on strike and began to rebel."
Supervisor Ma was shocked, "What!" He didn't continue to care about Lin Fan and went out immediately.
"Everyone! As long as we hit them, we will be free!" the boss said loudly, standing on the cargo box.
"Oh!" The people below were also excited.
In the crowd, Cang protected Alan and watched everywhere.
Lin Fan, where have you been? Cang was worried in his heart
After the two people who had followed Lin Fan discovered that he was taken away by the guards, they immediately went to report to the boss.
Everyone agreed that Lin Fan was the spy arranged by Ma Supervision. The boss had no choice but to think that he was. In order for the opportunity to go smoothly, they immediately started to act, catching the other side by surprise.
rebel? Lin Fan remembered what happened a few hours ago. Unfortunately, they are in danger.
"Quick, quick, go over there!"
"Where's the goods? Has it come out?"
"No"
"What's going on inside?"
Because of the rebellion, the entire mine was busy. Lin Fan was running among the crowd. Now that everyone was busy, no one would pay attention to him.
In their understanding, the miners couldn't get out of the mine because of the Cartilage Talisman, and the only ones who could be outside were non-miners' colleagues, so no one cared about him.
As for why Lin Fan didn't have the charm, it was because it was washed out when he went out to work. Originally, he had to repaint it after finishing the work, but now it seems that it is okay.
Cang, Alan, please don’t let anything happen to you. Lin Fan prayed in his heart.
"Boss, all the guards in the mine are here."
"How is the situation now?"
"Everything is done. We have occupied all the mines. Now we just need to wait for the water to come."
The boss said: "There is no need to wait for the water to come. We can use these people as bargaining chips and let them wash away the total talisman directly."
"Wash away the total talisman, yes, why didn't I think of it? It's easier and more crude to wash away the total talisman than to wash them one by one slowly. Boss, you are so smart."
The boss smiled happily, "Now is not the time to relax. As long as we don't break through the siege and wash away the runes, our battle is not over yet. Now go check the food, water and weapons, and be prepared for a protracted war."
"yes"
Lin Fan sneaked into the mine among the crowd. People outside were gathering people to surround the entrance of the cave, and it was almost the same inside.
Fortunately, I got in early and almost couldn't get in. Lin Fan thought to himself
"Hey! Here we go again!" Lin Fan's back started to hurt.
Lin Fan didn't care so much and continued running through the crowd looking for Alan and Cang.
"Lin Fan!" came a voice from the crowd, it was Alan
"Ah..." Lin Fan was about to respond, but someone punched him in the abdomen and knocked him to the ground.
The man stepped on Lin Fan and said loudly: "Boss, I found the spy!"
Everyone's eyes were focused on Lin Fan, who looked confused.
Although Alan was afraid of appearing in the eyes of everyone, he still ran to Lin Fan when he saw Lin Fan crawling on the ground.
Alan pleaded: "He is not a spy, Lin Fan is not a spy."
That person didn't care at all and suppressed Lin Fan from getting up. The people around didn't know what was going on, so they had no choice but to stay put.
"He is not a spy. Lin Fan is not a spy. Please let him go." Alan continued to plead.
Alan kept pleading in front of that man, which made him feel that Alan was as annoyed as a mosquito.
"Are you bothered?" The man pushed Alan down, and Alan hit the stone and fainted.
"Alan!"
"What's going on? Boss, they haven't come here yet?" The man thought for a moment and realized something was wrong.
By the time he realized something was wrong, the guards had already rushed in and took control of the situation.
The guards pinned the man holding Lin Fan to the ground. He kept resisting, but everything was in vain in the face of the dueling force.
"A...Lan" Lin Fan's back hurt so much that it was almost unbearable.
"Yo, you're here"
The familiar voice made Lin Fan's eyes widen. Supervisor Ma walked up to Lin Fan and said with a smile: "I thought you would take advantage of the chaos to escape and I didn't plan to take care of you. Why did you come back?"
Lin Fan crawled forward slowly, crawling with all his strength little by little. Supervisor Ma didn't like being ignored. When he looked at Alan in front of him, he smiled.
Supervisor Ma picked up Alan and asked with a smile: "Is it her?"
"Give me...put it down..."
Seeing Lin Fan's reaction, Supervisor Ma leaned into Lin Fan's face and said, "Yes, yes, that's it. Haha, tell me, what would it be like if I put her in a dog pile?"
"Oh no, you said it takes three seconds for a stone to fall into the deepest mine. How many seconds does it take for that person?"
"lay down……"
When Supervisor Ma was about to throw Alan to his men, the wound on Alan's head started to bleed.
Lin Fan saw the blood on Alan's face and exploded.
The severe pain in his back formed a powerful wave of air, knocking everyone away.
In another mine, the guards controlled the crowd, and the vibrations of the air waves generated by Lin Fan shook up a lot of dust in the mine.
"What's going on?" one of the guards asked
"I do not know"
Cang couldn't help but stand up from the crowd and wanted to take a look.
"What are you doing?" The guard stopped him
Even though there were guards blocking him, Cang couldn't help but move forward because he had an indescribable feeling in his heart, which wasn't very good anyway.
"Don't let anything happen to you, Lin Fan, Alan."
