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Chapter 115 Selling Piglets

"Tianyu, is the mine they went to the gold mine that Zou Jie mentioned?" Ye Zirou looked at Mo Tianyu, a hint of curiosity flashing in her eyes.

"It should be correct."

"Then let's find an opportunity to go and take a look?"

Mo Tianyu nodded in agreement.

After a while, Mrs. Huazi came in with two bowls of steaming noodles. She had a smile on her face, but she couldn't hide her tired look.

"Ms. Ye, Mr. Mo, come, have some noodles. We don't have anything good to offer you at home, so just make do with what you have." Mrs. Hua Zi said a little embarrassedly, putting the noodles on the table.

Ye Zirou smiled and responded, "Sister Huazi, you are too polite."

She picked up the chopsticks and gently stirred the noodles in the bowl, feeling the warm breath.

The three of them sat there quietly, eating and waiting for Brother Huazi to wake up.

As time passed, a faint fragrance filled the room.

Finally, when Ye Zirou and Mo Tianyu had almost finished eating, Brother Huazi slowly opened his eyes.

"Cough cough~" Brother Huazi coughed and his face was as pale as paper.

"Wife, wife~" he weakly called out to his wife

When Mrs. Hua Zi heard the sound, she hurried over, sat beside the bed, and watched the person who had been in a coma for many days finally wake up.

She held Hua Zi's hand tightly, tears streaming down her face uncontrollably, as she spoke.

“I’m here, I’m here…”

Brother Huazi slowly opened his eyes, and his blurry vision gradually became clear. He saw his wife's face covered with tears, and his heart was filled with sadness and guilt.

He raised his hand with difficulty and gently stroked her cheek, trying to wipe away the tears that kept flowing.

"Okay, stop crying. It's all my husband's fault. If I hadn't been so obsessed with making more money and living in the city, I wouldn't have..."

Mrs. Huazi interrupted him and said firmly, "Okay, let's not talk about this. I just want you to live well."

At this moment, she suddenly remembered that their savior was still in the room, so she turned to look at Ye Zirou and Mo Tianyu.

"By the way, it was these two benefactors who saved you." Mrs. Huazi introduced them to Brother Huazi.

Brother Huazi followed Sister Huazi's gaze and saw two strangers standing there, dressed gorgeously and with extraordinary temperament.

Brother Huazi said gratefully: "Thank you both!" He struggled to sit up, but his body was a little weak.

Upon seeing this, Mrs. Huazi hurriedly supported him and let him lean against the bed.

Ye Zirou stepped forward anxiously and asked.

"Excuse me, Brother Huazi, do you know who recruited you? Do you know where you went?"

After hearing this, Brother Huazi's eyes flickered for a moment. He did not answer Ye Zirou's question immediately, but turned to look at Sister Huazi and said:

"Wife, I'm a little hungry. Can you go to the kitchen and get me something to eat?"

"Okay, okay, I'll go right away." Upon hearing this, Mrs. Huazi's face immediately broke into a bright smile.

Mrs. Hua Zi was very excited when she heard that her husband had an appetite. God knew he had been lying in bed for so long without eating anything and had become so skinny.

Now she felt hungry and wanted to eat, so she ran to the kitchen excitedly.

After Brother Huazi saw his wife leave the room, he looked at Ye Zirou, Mo Tianyu and others with some vigilance. Brother Huazi could see that they were not bad people.

But he was also afraid of bringing disaster to the villagers, so he pretended to ask: "Miss Ye, what do you mean by this?"

"Because I found that you were all poisoned, and this poison can only be found in the gold mine cave, so we want to know who is mining."

Ye Zirou saw Hua Zige's concerns and told him frankly that they only wanted to investigate that mine.

After hearing this, Brother Huazi was shocked. He suddenly fell into deep thought and recalled what happened a month ago.

"About a month ago, a few people came to our village and said they were recruiting workers, young and strong. If you follow them, you will get a generous salary, but you have to keep it a secret.

Everyone came forward to sign up, and I was the first one to set out and follow them. When we got there, we found that there were not only people from our village.

There were other villagers there too. When they arrived, they started working right away. The people who recruited us wanted to work earlier so they could get paid earlier…”

"Then... do you know who those people are? What kind of work do they do?" Ye Zirou asked.

"At first, we had no idea who they were or what they were doing. In the first few days after we arrived, we only saw them busy at the entrance of a cave, carrying some heavy goods. For country folk like us, this job was not too tiring."

Ye Zirou thought to herself: [Isn’t this what people call: selling piglets! ]

"What then?"

"Later, those who recruited us started to treat us very harshly. They treated us like slaves, only giving us leftovers to eat every day, and sometimes we even went hungry.

We worked day and night with almost no time to rest. Some people couldn't stand this torture and chose to escape.

But in the end, they were all caught and beaten to death. They didn’t treat us as human beings at all, but just used us as tools.”

When Brother Huazi said this, the expression on his face became more painful, as if he was recalling those horrific scenes.

He calmed down and continued, "Later, we found that more and more people fell ill, and those who were sick were sent back to recuperate.

But their conditions became more and more serious, and some of them never came back."

Ye Zirou was puzzled and couldn't help asking, "Why did those people let you come back to recuperate? Aren't they afraid that you would reveal their secrets?"

"If they get sick, they will release them, but there are so many sick that it is impossible to execute them all.

Moreover, most of the people doing the work are from nearby villages, and it would be difficult to explain if we killed them.

Besides, those who are sick are almost all waiting to die, and there is no hope of treatment at all.”

There was helplessness and despair in Hua Zige's voice, and his eyes gradually became empty, as if he had returned to that helpless moment.

“At first, we didn’t notice anything unusual until the sick people left. Only then could we, the latecomers, enter the cave to work.

At that time, we were very excited to be able to go in and work, thinking that we could earn more money, and we were also curious about what was in the cave.

When we stepped into the cave, the sight in front of us almost made me hold my breath. There was dazzling golden light all around. I realized that it was a gold mine. The golden light was so dazzling that I couldn't take my eyes off it. I didn't expect that this was just the beginning of a nightmare. "There was endless despair in his words.

Hua Zi's memories came flooding back like a tide. He recalled the days when he worked day and night in the mine. The mine was deep and dark, and the air was filled with pungent smells. They didn't know that this smell was eroding their bodies step by step.