Bury Him Alive

Zhou Wanwan said with a smile, "It really is hematite! We're rich now!"

With this hematite, Zhou Wanwan can do many things.

She can make a lot of tools, and besides, she has people from Luban Village.

She can invent tools and machines from her past life and make these mountain strongholds impregnable.

These will be future havens for refugees.

The Old Scholar Tree was quite fast; in no time, all the hematite in the warehouse was gone.

Zhou Wanwan looked at the mine shaft, her face full of reluctance. There must be even more hematite inside, right?

Suddenly, they heard the desert worms inside start talking. "Oh my, this hematite is really good, let's try to see if we can lift it up?"

Zhou Wanwan cultivated countless desert wormwood plants, which absorbed energy and grew wildly.

There are now many desert wormwood plants in the entire Black Wind Stronghold, and she never expected that these desert wormwood plants would come with her.

Those desert wormwood plants are incredibly powerful, especially after absorbing energy; their strength increases more than tenfold.

Soon, all that could be heard throughout the mountain was a clicking, clattering sound.

Zhou Wanwan watched as they dug out chunks of iron ore.

Zhou Wanwan hadn't expected these desert wormwood stalks to grow so fast.

In no time, they had dug up a large pile of hematite.

Those carrying trees were practically steaming with exhaustion. "Oh no! These little guys are too fast!"

I didn't have time to move it.

The Old Scholar Tree also took a deep breath and said:

"That's right, with my old arms and legs, their speed is just too fast."

"But there's just too much hematite here!"

It would indeed be quite difficult to rely on the miners here.

In just one night, the entire hematite mine was exhausted.

Looking at the piles of Manman in the mountain stronghold, Zhou Wanwan sighed and said, "Isn't it a bit much to have so much hematite in this stronghold?"

The desert wormwood chuckled and said, "What's so difficult about that? We can just dig a big pit and bury all this hematite in there, right?"

Zhou Wanwan saw the group of desert wormwood start digging a pit, and soon they dug a particularly large pit, and then they pulled the hematite into the pit.

Zhou Wanwan quickly said, "Don't take it all in! Leave some for me; we still need it for making things!"

The next morning, Zhou Wanwan discovered that the hematite had completely disappeared; it had been buried.

The mine owner also woke up, and stared at the heavens with his eyes open. "How did I end up sleeping in the wilderness last night?"

He rubbed his head and said, "My head is spinning! You bunch of trash, why aren't you getting to work?"

All the miners stared at him, saying nothing.

The mine owner walked straight to the front and shouted, "Get to work and start mining! If you don't get any ore, you're not eating today!"

The miner looked at him coldly and said:

"Then we probably won't get any food today. You've been bullying us like this all along, so today we're going to rebel. You still want your mine?"

To tell you the truth, all your ore has been moved; there's not a single ore left in the mines."

The mine owner laughed heartily:

"You idiots, what kind of bullshit are you spouting?"

They actually said there was no ore left in my mine. Let me tell you, this mine can't be finished within three years."

But as soon as he entered the mine, he was dumbfounded.

The miners shouted, "This mine owner is a scoundrel! He exploits us every day for his own profit. Let's bury him alive!"

"Yes, bury him alive."

The mine owner was indeed unkind to the miners; their relationship had always been that of slaves and slave owners, so the miners hated them to the core.

The miners simply smashed the mine owner to death with stones.

Then they took the food and fled.

What they didn't know was that this was the imperial concubine's mine.

By the time the Imperial Concubine found out, more than ten days had passed.

She was so angry she felt dizzy and said:

"Sunset Glow Mountain was our most profitable mine, and now it's gone. What happened?"

"Eunuch Hai, you must send someone to investigate immediately."

Eunuch Hai was dumbfounded when he heard this:

"It's said that the mines in Sunset Glow Mountain could be dug for several years."

"We only sold hematite from here, how could it be gone?"

The Imperial Concubine gritted her teeth and said, "How would I know what's going on?"

Suddenly, a young eunuch rushed in and said, "It's terrible, Eunuch Hai! There's been a problem with our shipment; all of it is gone!"

Eunuch Hai coughed up a mouthful of blood. "You... you say that again."

The young eunuch hurriedly said:

All of our more than one hundred carriages have disappeared.

I don't know why, but now I can't contact either the person or the car.

Eunuch Hai shouted, "That was escorted by thousands of soldiers! How could it just disappear like that? It's utterly ridiculous!"

Both Eunuch Hai and the Imperial Concubine were worried about something going wrong, so they hired an army escort.

But now a problem has arisen, and the Imperial Concubine, her face ashen with anger, said:

"Why is there another problem lately? I have a feeling there's something wrong with Qingshui County."

"Eunuch Hai, immediately send people to investigate. You must get to the bottom of this!"

Eunuch Hai nodded in agreement:

"There's a Lion Camel Ridge there, and the bandits there are extremely powerful. I suspect that the bandits there intercepted our goods."

I will send men to attack Lion Camel Ridge right now; we must take it down.

Soon, the army received the order, and the general was so angry he was fuming.

"Who are you looking down on? It's fine for me, a great general, to fight on the front lines, but sending me to suppress bandits? Isn't that a waste of my talents?"

I'm not going; I can't do this job.

The strategist beside him quickly advised:

"Oh dear! General, you mustn't be willful. We still have to go to suppress the bandits. Don't you know, the Imperial Concubine is in power now."

"If she finds out, we won't be able to handle the consequences."

The general snorted angrily, "Sending me to suppress bandits is worse than killing me! Besides, what use are those bandits to me?"

The strategist quickly continued to persuade them, "We're just going to relax. I've heard that Lion Camel Ridge is quite wealthy; who knows, we might actually benefit from this misfortune?"

Upon hearing the word "silver," the general beamed with joy.

"That's not bad at all; who wouldn't want more money?"

Since that's the case, let's make the trip!

But it will take about half a month to get there!

Zhou Wanwan has been counting her storeroom for the past few days; there's just too much stuff piled up inside.

There were more than 120 horse-drawn carriages, 50 of which carried grain, enough to last Lion Camel Ridge for a while.

There were also 20 horse-drawn carts carrying iron ore.

The 20 carriages were all loaded with silk; the rest were filled with medicinal herbs, spices, tea...

Zhou Wanwan sighed and said, "Organizing all this takes too much time. Let's go pick them up first!"