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Chapter 960 Chapter 961 I Can't Go Back

The night is deep, in the dark mountain valley, under the dense shadow of the jungle, there are only dim stars and dots of light in a small area, which is quite gloomy.

When I walked in, I realized that the lights were all torches one by one, some were stuck on the wall, and some were held by patrol members.

This seems to be a village located in the mountains.

The village is neither big nor small, with dozens of large and small houses scattered in order.

The strange thing is that this place is extremely inconsistent with the usual villages, and the security is extremely strict. It can be said that there are five steps, one post and ten steps, one sentry, and there are patrol teams interspersed in it.

The most exaggerated thing is that outside the village is a high and thick wall built of stones like a city wall, and there are secret whistles buried on the wall and in a few big trees outside the wall.

A patrol team passed by the wall, and a slightly fat member yawned and complained: "Brother, why do we need such troublesome patrols every night in this area? I'm trapped to death."

The man known as the big brother also had sleepy eyes and a listless look, "Don't talk about it, we can do what the higher-ups tell us to do, five taels of silver a month, just come for a few laps at night, let's Where can I find such a good thing?"

This is true, the team member laughed, stopped talking and continued to yawn and look left and right meaningfully.

They were nothing more than street thugs on the streets of Zhongcheng, the group of people who formed a group to ask small businessmen to 'pay' protection fees.

Although they were all young and middle-aged, no one dared to resist if they were all capable, but in the middle city, people hated dogs, and they couldn't make much money a month.

The protection fee of ten renminbi or twenty renminbi is only a few tens of taels a month, one share for hundreds of brothers, and one tael per person is not worth it.

But it's different here, an ordinary team member gets five taels of silver a month, and the captain gets seven taels of silver, that is, to help manage the group of people underground, including food and shelter.

After walking for a while, another team member's voice sounded timidly, "Captain, we, do we really want to stay here forever?"

The captain stopped, and after a few breaths, he walked forward again without saying anything, his back looked very heavy.

The chubby player elbowed the team that made the noise just now, and asked in a low voice, "Why monkey? Are you not going to continue?"

The monkey's eyes were red, and he said in a trembling voice, "Fat Brother, I saw with my own eyes this afternoon that those people beat a man down there to death. Fat Brother, I want to go home."

The fat man's eyes turned red, "I think so too, but monkey, since we entered this mountain, we can't go back, you know?"

They were all orphans, all from Lucky House in Midtown.

The captain, Wang Yong, is the oldest, with seven in his thirties this year; for the others, the oldest is just in his early thirties, and the youngest is thirteen or fourteen.

There is only one auspicious building in Zhongzhou, which is the Zhongcheng auspicious building they came from.

In today's Zhongcheng Jixianglou, even if there is no silver tael issued by the imperial court, the three armies of the Northwest have saved some from their own rations. Although they may not be able to eat well, the children will not be hungry after all.

But there used to be at least around ten o'clock, starvation, freezing, sickness and death in the auspicious building in Midtown were normal; the fat man and the monkey happened to catch up/be in that unfortunate decade.

Wang Yong has a sense of responsibility and love as a big brother, and he has been doing his best to help the children in the building.

But he is just an ordinary person, and the little money saved is just a drop in the bucket for a group of children.

Because of this, his daughter-in-law felt that it was impossible to live a good life with him, so she took his daughter, who was just one month old, and ran away with Yi Huan.

Wang Yong is a man, the more you don't let him help the children in the building, the more he will help.

Even if the children who went out of the building couldn't survive outside, he would take them to his side to take care of them after he found out.

But again, he is just an ordinary person.

There are too many people, but they can't afford it.

What can I do then?

No way, the big guy put away the 'protection fee'.

They themselves are not the kind of people who just collect money and do nothing. After collecting the "protection fee" from others, they will naturally take on the responsibility of protection.

But you guys are not people in the government at all, let alone how to protect the stalls in the city, the government itself has yamen servants patrolling from time to time.

Regardless of whether your so-called protection has worked or not, the vendors simply don't appreciate it.

Properly put them in the group of people in the streets of the city.

It can be said that if they were not all young and basically watched by a few or even dozens of people when they came out, people would not dare to offend them, and they would have been driven out of Midtown long ago while smashing rotten eggs.

It's not that Wang Yong and Fatty are ignorant of everyone's dislike for them. It is precisely because they know that someone asks them to take care of the house, and they pack their bags and follow without saying a word.

Unexpectedly, they were taken to this mountain depression with no village in front and no shop in the back. Even if they realized something was wrong halfway, it was too late. They just had the strength, but the person who 'led' them here, Everyone has skills.

And the so-called housekeepers are not looking at a certain mansion or a certain courtyard, but asking them to keep an eye on those people who are digging underground.

Yes, the ground under their feet is an iron mine.

Fatty, Houzi and others are still young and don't know much; the elder Wang Yong is different. He knows that this iron mine used to be the iron mine of the imperial court. Ten years ago, the mine collapsed and died for unknown reasons. After many people, the iron mine was sealed by the imperial court.

At first, Wang Yong thought that the imperial court had reopened the iron mine, and he was glad that the gang of 'street thugs' would have a good day; but when he saw that none of the guards were wearing official uniforms, he knew what he thought. But just thought.

Therefore, Wang Yong did not dare to gamble with the lives of his brothers.

Those who dared to open the imperial court's iron mines privately, just like them "street runners" who had no father or mother and no one knew they died, let alone fighting, and being slaughtered for disobedience, their deaths were all for nothing.

The monkey hummed, wiped away his tears and said, "Brother Fatty, I know, the captain said, as long as we are obedient, we can live."

The fat man choked and couldn't speak.

It's not so easy, they are already fighting against the imperial court, no matter whether the person who tricked them will kill them, once the imperial court learns that the iron mine here has been opened privately, it is absolutely impossible to let it go.

He didn't believe that the people above would take care of their lives at that time.

The result is still the same.

Now, they can only be said to live one day at a time, sooner or later they will all die, the difference is only that they die at the hands of the people above, or die at the hands of the court.

He could only pat the monkey's trembling shoulder, and comforted him in a low voice: "It's good that you understand, you must listen to the elder brother, the elder brother will not harm us."

The monkey sniffed and nodded heavily, "Fatty brother, don't worry, I just haven't calmed down for a while, and I'll be fine after I get some sleep."

However, reality no longer allowed him to wait any longer.

(End of this chapter)