Moreover, the person who followed the carriage to transport the gold was a close associate of Magistrate Li.

He didn't believe the words of these officials. He just thought that these people were cowardly and wanted to covet the gold.

Helpless, in order to prove his innocence, the leading official could only wave his hand and order: "Search them all! Dig the entire mine three feet into the ground to find those thieves!"

The officials took the order and left dozens of people to guard the miners to prevent them from taking the opportunity to riot and escape.

The remaining dozens of people spread out and searched everywhere with weapons.

Seeing that several officials were about to walk towards the mine where she was hiding, Qiao Ran felt anxious. She looked at the mine behind her and saw that everything was empty except for some rocks scattered on the ground. There was no place to hide at all.

Just when she was about to hide in the space, suddenly, there was a commotion outside.

"There's a fire! There's a fire in the granary!"

"Quick! Put out the fire quickly and save food!"

Someone shouted, and when the officers who were about to search for the thief heard this, they quickly turned around and ran towards the granary.

The granary stores food for more than a hundred officials and thousands of miners in the mine. Magistrate Li has people deliver food to the mountain only once a month. There is still half a month left before the next food delivery. There is no food. , they will be hungry for half a month!

Suddenly, in addition to the dozens of officials guarding the miners, other officials, including the servants of Magistrate Li who drove the carriage to transfer the gold, also helped to put out the fire.

Qiao Ran quietly poked her head out and saw a raging fire in a wooden house.

The officers who were guarding the miners also stretched their necks and looked over there, paying attention to the situation of putting out the fire.

Seeing that no one was paying attention, Qiao Ran quickly escaped from the mine and hid in a wooden house that looked like a kitchen under the cover of the house and vegetation.

Qiao Ran took a look and saw that there were two pots, one large and one small, in the kitchen, as well as a large water tank.

She opened the lid of a pot and looked at it. There were still a few uneaten white steamed buns inside.

This white-flour steamed bun looks like it can only be eaten by the officials overseeing the work. The food eaten by the miners is definitely not that good.

It seems that this kitchen is specially used for cooking for officials.

At this time, the officials were fetching water and putting out the fire in a thatched house. It seemed that that was the kitchen where the miners were cooking food.

Qiao Ran thought for a while, took out a medicine bottle from the space, opened the cork, poured the medicine powder inside into the water tank, and stirred it with a water spoon.

The medicinal powder quickly blended into the water, and soon nothing strange was visible.

These medicinal powders, often referred to as "Ruanjin Powder" in martial arts novels, can make people feel weak and weak, and their movements are limited.

Even if he can walk freely after a few days, he will lose all his internal strength and become a disabled person.

These officials were supervising the work here, and they were all very vicious. Qiao Ran made them useless and could no longer work for the dog officials, which also gave these miners a chance to escape.

After doing this, Qiao Ran took advantage of the panic among the officials, jumped out of the kitchen window, and quickly disappeared into the woods.

On the other side, halfway up the mountain, Mo Beihan, who had asked Mu Er to set the fire, saw with his own eyes that the slender figure escaped safely, and then turned around and left with his two subordinates.

In the mine, with hundreds of officers taking turns fighting to put out the fire, the fire was finally put out, but most of the food in the house was also burned.

The rice and white flour eaten by the officials were burned and they could not last for two days, but the low-quality rice eaten by the miners was enough for five or six days.

The officials were panting from exhaustion. After working for a while, they were tired, thirsty and hungry, so they arranged for a few miners to fetch water for cooking.

The officials ran into the kitchen, grabbed water spoons and rice bowls, scooped water from the water jar, and poured it into their stomachs.

After a while, when all the officials and Magistrate Li's servants had drank water and were getting ready to eat, someone suddenly fell to the ground with a "thud" and couldn't get up for a long time.

Then, "dong", "dong", "dong"...

People kept falling to the ground, squirming like maggots on the ground. They didn't even have the strength to get up. When they opened their mouths, they couldn't shout, only making a weak sound like mosquitoes and flies.

For a moment, the officers fell to the ground, and the miners, who were ordered to continue digging for a while before they could eat, were so shocked that their eyes almost dropped, and they didn't understand what happened.

"What...what happened to these officials? Why did they all fall down?"

"Are they poisoned? Should we find someone to save them?"

"You are stupid! What are you doing to save these inferior things? They have all fallen. If we don't escape quickly, how long will it take? Do you still want to mine here until you die of old age?"

"Escape, escape? Can we escape? There must be officers and soldiers guarding the outside of the mountain."

"How do you know if you don't try? Are you willing to take a gamble and regain your freedom and return to your family, or are you willing to be beaten to death, exhausted in this place that eats people without spitting out bones, or dragged to the mountains to feed wolves when you are sick? Or be buried alive and never see your family again?”

"I, of course I am willing to take a gamble! Whoever wants to stay in this hellish place, I want to go home!"

"Let's go! Let's go quickly! This is a rare opportunity. Someone wants to save us! Those who don't leave are fools!"

Then, someone took the lead, and all the miners ran excitedly into the mountains and woods.

As long as they escape from these rolling mountains, they can return to their relatives!

Some people couldn't wait to drag the iron shackles and run away, but the iron shackles were too heavy and they couldn't run fast, and they were easily tripped by tree roots and stones.

Some people boldly ran to the fallen officials, took out the keys from their bodies, and opened the iron shackles on their bodies.

Some officials wanted to resist, but they were so weak that they didn't even have the strength to raise their hands.

Some miners were tortured so severely that they hated the officials who took advantage of others and did not regard the miners as human beings. After taking off the iron shackles, they lifted them up and smashed them on the heads of the officials who were unable to resist.

The officers saw blood on their heads, which made the miners red-eyed.

Someone else put iron shackles on the necks of these officers and strangled them hard. The restrained officers died.

Others picked up the swords of the officers and slashed them at random on the ground, injuring many of them.

Without stopping, someone among the miners shouted: "Kill all these scoundrels! Don't let them run out to report the news!"

When the miners heard this, in order to prevent these officials from recovering and running to report the news, and to buy themselves more time to escape, they became cruel and picked up knives, swords, iron shackles, and stones one after another to attack these officials and servants. Greetings on the body.

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