After rebirth, I became a national teacher

A team of several hundred people is going on a long journey, so they naturally cannot just leave immediately.

After obtaining Chen Qingzhu's consent, Zhu Changming organized people to use the rice from the mountain to make a fire and cook, so that the miners could have a full meal.

Then they boiled some water so that everyone could tidy up their appearance. They also searched the guards' clothes and asked many miners to change their clothes that were too worn and ragged.

In this way, it would not be inappropriate to use the token of Duke Dingguo's Mansion during the checkpoint inspection.

Since it was inconvenient for them to get off the boat to buy things before leaving Jiujiang Prefecture, he also asked people to collect all the stored food and firewood on the mountain and prepare to take them away later.

Chen Qingzhu felt relieved when he saw that he was thoughtful and careful.

Although letting Zhu Changming lead the team on the long journey to Nandu this time was meant as a test and training, she still hoped that the trip would have as few twists and turns as possible and that she could bring these people to Nandu safely.

Seeing that some people were still idle while they were preparing, Chen Qingzhu called over a miner who looked more capable.

"How do you deal with the death of someone in the mountains on weekdays?"

In order to prevent the miners from escaping and rebelling, it is impossible for the mine to provide them with adequate food and warm clothing.

With such poor living conditions and high-intensity physical labor every day, there must be many people dying of exhaustion or illness.

Therefore, this mountain must have a place where dead bodies are dealt with in a centralized manner, just like other black mines.

The man called by Chen Qingzhu was called Geng Daliang. He was originally a peddler. He was caught and forced to work as a miner while walking near Mount Lushan.

Hearing the immortal asking him a question, he could not hide his excitement and answered nervously:

"To answer the immortal, there is a mass grave one mile away from here, which is used to bury the dead miners."

Chen Qingzhu ordered:

"Take some of the idle people and deal with the bodies of the guards."

After being assigned the task, Geng Daliang was full of energy and immediately organized people to clean up the bodies.

Two hours later, everything was ready.

Many of the miners had been escorted by the guards to the small dock on the other side of the mountain to deliver stones and jade, so they knew the way.

There were still more than twenty guards left. Chen Qingzhu couldn't either kill them or let them go, so he simply let Zhu Changming take them away and send them to Nandu City to do hard labor to atone for his sins.

Those miners who did not plan to follow Chen Qingzhu were worried that they would be discovered by the Jiang family when they went down the mountain and would not be able to leave Jiujiang Prefecture, so they also requested to go with them.

Chen Qingzhu naturally would not refuse, as this would also reduce her trouble.

So Zhu Changming took all the remaining survivors in the mine and rushed to the dock.

As soon as the miners left, the whole mountain fell silent.

Only then did Chen Qingzhu go to the carriage to see Rong Niang.

In the previous fight with the mine guards, Rong Niang, with her assistance, killed a total of four people.

Before this, although she wanted to help beat the bad guys, she was not mentally prepared to kill people with her own hands.

During the fight, I was so focused on the tension that when the fight was over, I realized belatedly the shock of killing someone for the first time and witnessing many people die tragically.

During the next two or three hours, Rong Niang was a little dazed.

Chen Qingzhu had to deal with the miners' affairs, so he let her stare blankly and relieve her stress for a while.

As troubled times come, Rong Niang, with her identity, will sooner or later have to adapt to killing people.

After the miners left, Chen Qingzhu finally had time to comfort his daughter.

She gently touched the top of the little girl's head:

"Mrs. Rong, do you feel better?"

Rong Niang's young face was filled with confusion and fear:

"I'm sorry, mother, I'm so useless..."

The fact that my mother killed those people without hesitation proves that they deserved to be killed.

But when she thought of the fearful expressions on those people's faces before they died, she couldn't calm down.

Given the huge disparity in military power, she felt that she and her mother had become butchers, and those people were lambs with no power to resist.

"Do you feel guilty watching the people you killed die?"

Chen Qingzhu asked.

"Ah."

"It's normal. Mother was like this when she killed someone for the first time. This is because we have a reverence for life."

Chen Qingzhu picked up Rong Niang and said softly:

"Mom will take you somewhere."

After several ups and downs in the mountains, the two men arrived at the place where the bodies were discarded in the mine.

It was a huge naturally formed pit, and because of the sparse vegetation in winter, the situation inside could be seen clearly.

There are numerous bones in the huge pit.

Bones from various parts of the body were mixed together, and it was impossible to count how many there were, but intuitively speaking, there were a lot of them.

On the other side, there were piles of bodies of the sixty-odd people they had killed today.

Compared with those white bones, the bodies of more than sixty people piled together seemed very small.

Chen Qingzhu said calmly:

"Those bones are all miners who were captured over the years. And these are the mine guards we killed today."

"If we don't kill these guards today and let them run away to tip off the enemy, the Jiang family will definitely chase us and retaliate. By then, maybe the officers and soldiers will also join in the encirclement and suppression."

"If hundreds or thousands of soldiers come, even I won't be able to ensure that all the miners escape safely. Moreover, most of the people who come to encircle and suppress us must be killed or injured before we can put an end to this matter."

"So, Rong Niang, even though not every one of the people we killed had to die, we did nothing wrong."

It's important to let her know that she is not wrong.

Rong Niang listened to these words thoughtfully.

Chen Qingzhu continued:

"There are not so many absolutely just things in the world. There are many evil forces in this world, and they have coerced countless people to work for them. Only the butcher's knife can truly make those evil forces fear and disperse. If you are afraid of killing people, you will not be able to eradicate evil."

"What you should remember is that whether you kill someone yourself or give the order to kill someone, you must have a reverent and protective heart towards life."

"Kill those who deserve to die. Or kill to save more lives."

"Ah."

Rong Niang nodded solemnly and kept these words deeply in her heart.

The anxiety of killing someone for the first time was slowly relieved as I thought about the life principles my mother taught me.

After having dinner with Rong Niang, Chen Qingzhu began to count the jade mines in the thatched hut.

According to the guards, they always handed over the jade to the Jiang family once a month.

Mining depends entirely on manpower and luck.

Sometimes the harvest is huge, with two or three hundred kilograms of materials, sometimes only a little over a hundred kilograms or a few dozen kilograms, and sometimes nothing is dug up for several months.

In short, the mountain produces about 1,500 kilograms of material every year.

Now, more than half a month has passed since they last delivered the raw materials, and about 100 kilograms of raw materials have accumulated in the warehouse made of thatched hut.

The big ones are as big as a palm, while the small ones are only the size of an egg. Only a small half of them are usable high-quality and top-grade jades.

This little gain is nothing to Chen Qingzhu.

After just a quick glance, she focused her attention on the mine.

The bulk of the money is what has not been excavated from the mine.

There are only twelve or thirteen days left before the next delivery of ore from the mine, so she doesn't have much time.

After setting up a formation to absorb spiritual energy, she went out at night to find a place with richer spiritual energy and set up another formation. Then she practiced with the raw materials that had been dug out.

After dawn, he took Rong Niang to the small pier on the other side of the mountain.

After a night of trekking, the team led by Zhu Changming had arrived near the dock, waiting for Chen Qingzhu to come and help seize the boat.