Chapter 32 Master Shang’s mission (please read)
At dawn the next day, the Taoist bell of Daoshan Mountain began to echo in the mountains.
As soon as Tian Lin got out of bed, Han Li knocked on the door.
When Tian Lin opened the door, he saw Han Li holding a brand new dustpan, throwing it to Tian Lin and saying: "Quickly go out and grab a seat. I'm afraid I won't be able to grab a good seat in a while."
When Tian Lin took the dustpan and went out, he found that there were few people outside the house.
He found that everyone was shirtless, with their trousers rolled up and their feet bare.
Just when he was about to take off his robe, Han Li urged: "Don't take it off. If it's too late, you really won't be able to grab the spot."
Tian Lin followed Han Li down to the stilted building, and his ears were filled with the shouts of "Come on" and "Hurry up" from the handyman disciples in the mine.
A group of people scrambled to be the first to wave dustpans in their hands, with cloth bags wrapped around their waists, waving their wings like ducks and jumping into the rapid river.
"In the queue later, no one should grab a seat!"
The few men who entered the river first leaned slightly against the fast-flowing river up to their waists.
The five of them lined up in a row, forming a human-shaped embankment.
As soon as the five men entered the river, they buried their heads in the river.
After they straightened up, the river water became a lot darker.
I saw them raising their dustpans and pouring a heavy dustpan of river sand into the baskets on their backs.
But even so, they still refused to go ashore. Instead, they took a step forward against the current, once again dug a dustpan of sand into their backpacks, and continued to move forward greedily.
The same was true for the men in the second row, who followed the five men in the first row. However, they followed the men in the front row, and the amount of sand they shoveled was obviously not as much as the first row.
Not to mention those latecomers, the handyman disciples in the third and fourth rows.
When Tian Lin and Han Li arrived, they were already behind the ninth row.
There were also a few handyman disciples carrying baskets on their backs on the shore. They were not in a hurry to get into the water, but instead took out their dry cigarettes and started smoking.
Someone laughed and teased Han Li: "Boss Han, you are usually the fastest runner. Why are you late today?"
Han Li jumped into the river, scooped up the invisible sediment from the river and put it into the backpack on his back.
Listen to Han Li say: "Instead of making fun of me, you should come down and work to earn money."
The few handyman disciples smoking dry cigarettes on the shore were not panicked. They said with a smile: "It's too late anyway, so why not take a day off. As long as you work harder tomorrow, you can always earn back today's money."
"Brothers, does anyone want to play dice?"
They chatted for a while, and then returned to their sleeping place with their backpacks and dustpan.
Han Li said to Tian Lin next to him: "They always say they can earn more the next day, but they will only come out and shovel a dustpan when they can't eat -"
Tian Lin said: "Brother Han was late today because he was waiting for me. I'm really sorry, brother."
Han Li laughed and said: "This is nothing. If I work harder in the afternoon, I can still make back what I lost in the morning."
The two of them followed the people in front of them and shoveled the river sand with dustpan after dustpan. After the men in the first few rows were forced to go ashore because their backpacks could no longer hold the sand, they slowly moved to the front. There are also more and more sediments.
After working like this for half an hour, Tian Lin's basket was finally full.
He followed Han Li's example, and after landing, he dumped the sand in his basket in a separate place, then lined up behind the others and continued moving forward.
In just over two hours, a group of people shoveled from the river at the door to the waterfall.
Just listen to Han Li shouting: "No one is allowed to be busy anymore. Let's all go ashore to rest. When there is more sediment on the river bed, we will shovel again in the afternoon."
The men in the river reluctantly went ashore and poured the sand in their baskets into their own areas.
Han Li explained to Tian Lin: "This waterfall brings out silt from Yuechi Mountain every day. In the silt, there is Shuiling Mine. Let's pick the Shuiling Mine out of the sediment and hand it over to San Stewardship in exchange for money.”
Third Steward, Tian Lin has heard this name many times.
Tian Lin did not ask who the third manager was, he just said: "I see there is no one to supervise us. Aren't the people above afraid that we will hide the Shuiling Mine privately?"
Han Li smiled and said: "I am the person and supervisor of the mining in our mine! But there is nothing to supervise, because the Shuiling Mine is poisonous. If you want to truly turn it into Shuiling Stone, you need to hand it over to the third manager." After being refined by the sect, it’s useless for us to hide it and we can’t take it out.”
After saying that, he first pulled Tian Lin to the river bank, pointed to a group of people sitting on the river bank sifting sand and said:
"They are sifting the water spirit ore now. If they are lucky, one or two water spirit ore can be found in a dustpan, then they can earn one or two silver coins."
As soon as he finished speaking, a man who was sifting through the sand smiled and said: "Boss Han, you are really my auspiciousness! When you come here, I will have a pimple here!"
I saw him carefully picking up a piece of gravel from the sieve, shaking it in front of the people around him and saying, "Look, before I finished the first sieve, a Shui Ling Mine came out."
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"Bring it to me and have a look!"
Han Li spoke and stretched out his hand towards the man.
The man put the gravel into Han Li's palm, but Han Li handed the gravel to Tian Lin. He said to Tian Lin:
"Even though it's so small, it's worth a lot of money. Take a good look at it. If you want to eat the grass god fish in the future, you'll have to rely on this thing."
Han Li smiled jokingly. When he went to wake Tian Lin up today, he saw that the grass god fish from last night was completely reduced to bones.
He didn't tease her at the time, fearing that Tian Lin would be embarrassed, but now he couldn't help but joke about it.
"It's hard to distinguish this thing with the naked eye. You have to crawl around in the river for a long time before you can tell the subtle differences between this black thing and other black sand."
The man sifting sand next to him said something, and Tian Lin nodded.
In fact, there is no need to distinguish it in his eyes, because the entry already shows that this 'Shuiling Mine' is called 'Dark Iron Stone'.
[Black iron stone: a low-grade weapon refining material, which can enhance the hardness of magic weapons and is not edible]
"Brother Han, I have already memorized the appearance of Qingshui Ling Mine. Let's not waste time and sift the sand first."
Tian Lin returned the Shuiling Mine to the man who was sifting the sand, and saw the man put the Shuiling Mine into the purse on his chest.
Han Li stopped wasting time on Tian Lin and just patted Tian Lin on the shoulder and said:
"You can sift sand more slowly for the first time, and you'll be fine once you get used to it. If you have anything you don't understand about the mine, just ask me."
Tian Lin nodded and walked to his own 'hill'!
Compared with the mountains of gravel accumulated by other handyman disciples, the pile of gravel in Tianlin is just a small bag of earth.
He took a dustpan and shoveled a dustpan of sand, and followed the example of others and came to sit down cross-legged on the bank of the river where the current was not as fast.
As he put the dustpan into the water facing the river, the sand that had been piled into a ball spread out in the dustpan and started to float.
Tian Lin had quick eyes and quick hands. When the prompt word "Black Iron Stone" came on, he grabbed the small piece of gravel that was about to slip away.
He didn't shovel much sand out of the river. After sifting it with a few dustpans, all the sand and gravel he dug up in the morning were sifted out.
At this point, only two water spirit mines were sifted out, and their combined weight probably only weighed two or three coins.
Tian Lin put the Shui Ling Mine in his chest pocket, thought for a while and took the dustpan to Han Li's place.
Han Li shoveled out significantly more sand and gravel than Tian Lin, and he sifted carefully and laboriously.
Tian Lin finished sifting several sieves, and Han Li was still sifting the sand for the second time. "Brother Han, do you want me to help you?"
Han Li was stunned, looked up at Tian Lin and asked, "Have you finished screening?"
Tian Lin nodded. Before Han Li could speak, the handyman disciples beside him all laughed: "Young people just have no patience. If you sift like that, I'm afraid you won't be able to sift even a single hair."
As expected, Han Li asked Tian Lindao: "How much did you sift out?"
Tian Lin took out the two Shuiling Mines from his purse and frowned: "I'm afraid it's only two or three dollars!"
As soon as these words came out, several men showed surprised expressions.
Someone said sadly: "There must be more water spirit minerals in Xiaotian's sand that he missed."
"Oh, such good sand, why don't you sift it again?"
"Where is the sand that was sifted out? You won't pour it under the gate, right?"
Seeing Tian Lin nodding, many people couldn't help but sigh.
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Han Li thought for a while, but he didn't blame Tian Lin after all. When Tian Lin asked him if he needed help, how could he dare to ask Tian Lin to help him sift sand?
"Leave your purse here with me, go and have a rest first, wait until you have eaten, and pick it up again in the afternoon when you listen to my whistle and start working."
Tian Lin looked at the sky and saw that it was not yet noon, so he followed the instructions and walked to his residence.
On the stilt floor of the residence, several handyman disciples were losing money with their shirts off.
Someone saw Tian Lin walking by and asked Tian Lin, "You're new here. You came back so quickly. It seems like you didn't grab any sand, right?"
Someone else wanted to pull Tian Lin to sit down and said, "Why do you need to be so anxious about making money? You won't starve to death anyway, so why not take some time to come out and play with your brothers."
Tian Lin smiled and said: "I don't know how to bet."
"You've never learned how to gamble. Don't you know that newcomers are the most lucky? Come on, I'll teach you and I'll guarantee you a win."
Tian Lin spent a lot of effort to break free from the man's hand, frowned and returned to his residence.
He began to meditate with his eyes closed until more and more laughter sounded outside the room.
Not long after, there was a knock on Tian Lin's door. Han Li had already put on his clothes and said outside the bamboo corridor:
"Let's eat first. After eating, rest for a while. When there is more sediment on the river bed, we can start working again."
Tian Lin followed Han Li to the back mountain and said to Han Li: "Yesterday, Brother Han, you treated me to fish, and today I treat you to grass god fish."
Han Li laughed and said, "My current martial arts level is no longer supplemented by the grass god fish, so you can keep your money to buy the grass god fish for yourself."
He reminded Tian Lin again: "In the courtyard, if you no longer have the ambition to seek immortality, then spend your money on food and drink. Don't gamble like those boys, and don't spend your money on Huahua." On the girls.”
Before Tian Lin asked, Han Li had already squeezed into the crowd to look for food at the window.
As usual, he only ordered hat root, which was the cheapest dish in the kitchen.
Tian Lin touched the silver in his hand. The silver ingot in his hand was fifty taels of silver. He was very rich.
But Master Shang gave him the fifty taels of silver just to help him get a foothold in the servants' courtyard. He didn't say that he would be given more silver taels later.
Therefore, fifty taels of silver seemed like a lot, but it was only enough for him to eat ten meals of grass god fish.
Moreover, Tian Lin’s current target is not just the grass god fish.
He glanced at the window and his eyes were attracted by an entry.
[Three-legged little unicorn: a low-grade spiritual beast. Perhaps it had unicorn bloodline tens of millions of years ago. It contains a weak fire aura and is edible.]
The second mother who was serving vegetables saw Tian Lin poking his head in the crowd, and it seemed that he couldn't squeeze in.
She banged the pot twice with a spoon and cursed: "Stop crowding, can't you let the newcomers order first? You grown men don't know how to give way to children." ”
The men didn't care, they just shouted, "Second mother has taken a liking to the pretty boy."
Erniang let out a 'poof' and scolded: "If you keep fooling around, be careful I spit into your bowl."
A group of people went back to making trouble, and actually made room for Tian Lin.
Only then did Tian Lin make up his mind, pointing to the 'three-legged little unicorn' and said: "I want that dish."
Erniang was stunned for a moment, and the men next to her started to cheer again: "This little man wants to become a big man."
Tian Lin was puzzled and heard Er Niang say: "Little brother, this thing is precious and not suitable for you to eat."
But this is the only dish in the kitchen that has fire energy. How could Tian Lin give up?
He took out the silver ingot and said: "I have seen the price, it seems to be similar to the grass god fish. Er Niang, please help me get one."
The second mother had no choice but to put the vegetables on a plate for Tian Lin and said, "It's better for you to eat less of these three-legged toads."
She didn't say much, but Tian Lin seemed to understand the effectiveness of the three-legged toad.
He took the food and walked to his residence. The gamblers saw Tian Lin, sniffed and said:
"Good boy, yesterday I ate grass god fish, and today I ate three-legged toad. When you entered the sect, you really brought a lot of money with you, right?"
Tian Lin asked with a smile: "Why, do you still want to grab it?"
Yesterday, someone said this on behalf of Tian Lin. Today, Tian Lin really didn't like this sharp-mouthed person, so he took the initiative to say it.
The man looked a little ugly, so Tian Lin ignored him and went back to the house.
But to his surprise, there was a girl in green clothes sitting at her table in the room.
Tian Lin's face changed slightly, he looked at Xiaoyue and said, "Why did you come into my house without my consent?"
Xiaoyue looked coldly, glanced at Tian Lin's passing plate, and said even more angrily than Tian Lin:
"The young master gave you the money, not for you to spend it on such trivial things. Have you forgotten your identity?"
Tian Lin was not afraid of Xiaoyue at all. He put the pass plate on the table and said: "You and I are both the young master's servants. Even if there is anything wrong, it is not your turn to come to me. It's not me who forgot my identity, it's me." You!”
Xiaoyue was furious, but she had noticed someone outside the house peeking inside.
She then approached Tian Lin and gritted her teeth and said: "The young master wants you to rise to the master level as soon as possible and then kill Han Li."
Tian Lin was stunned and said: "Why do you want to kill Han Li? The young master has a grudge against him?"
Xiaoyue frowned and glared at Tian Lin and said: "You will do whatever the young master wants you to do. Why do you talk so much nonsense?"
Tian Lin was silent, and Xiaoyue said: "I'll give you one month. With your martial arts talent and the many tonics in the kitchen, it shouldn't be difficult to become a master in one month, and plot to kill Han Li, right?" ”
Some bosses said that more than 3,000 words is now a big chapter?
I don’t know if 4,000 words counts. If it does, please give it a follow-up read. Xianxia’s new books, especially original ones, are more in need of follow-up reading. Thank you
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