The matter of First Day, Li Biao, and La Shiwu forcing their way into the Pearl Gathering House had already spread. Quite a few people in the Mountain Opening House knew of it.
Bing Mining Area.
Some of the mountain workers who shared a room with Li Biao had not gone down into the mine.
One spread it to ten, ten spread it to a hundred.
All two hundred of them had refused to enter the mine.
Steward Qian held a whip as quite a few bare-chested men stepped forward.
The crowd was fired up!
Steward Qian lost his nerve too. "You've really turned the heavens upside down! First Day and Li Biao have gone mad—have all of you gone mad too?!"
"Fine, fine. When the He Family guards get here later, you'll know fear. I'm done dealing with this."
A plump steward from the Mountain Opening House walked up. "What are you doing? What are you doing?"
"You've become lawless, have you?"
This was Steward Chang. He took the whip from Steward Qian, and merely holding it left his somewhat obese body panting for breath.
Spittle flew from his mouth. "Whose food do you eat? Whose home do you live in? The heavens want rain, a mother wants to remarry—then quit!"
"Now get your asses down into the mine!"
"Whoever won't go down, step out here and tell me your name."
He was completely confident. Whenever trouble arose in the mining area before, he had always used such methods to suppress the situation.
As long as one person lost their courage, it would drag down the entire crowd.
These mountain workers were all people burdened by bitter lives. If they did not have attachments behind them that they could not let go of, who would be willing to risk