wind geese

Another day of work begins.

The mine was really stuffy, Su Yu tied his jacket around his waist, his naked upper body exposed old and new scars, a few whip marks on his back were still bloodstained, and sweat dripped down his chest and back.

Dragon gold stones are scarce, and after several days of mining, more than half of the ore in this mine has been excavated, making mining more and more difficult.

During the meal time, Su Yu was still not given a meal by the supervisor on the grounds that he had not completed three times the workload.

The iron pick was raised, lowered, and dug countless times. Su Yu's shoulders and backs were already swollen and sore.

A whip immediately bit his back, tore his flesh and pulled his consciousness back abruptly.

"I thought you were so good, you can't do it after only two days without eating, hahaha!" Wanton ridicule sounded from behind, and the whip continued to fall.

Su Yu gritted his teeth, barely stopped, his vision became blurred, the iron chain sounded in his ear, Ah Rui's voice came, the boy was begging the supervisor, crying "stop beating", Su Yu saw the supervisor turned to face Ah Rui Rui raised his whip, and he wanted to reach out to stop it, but someone shouted "Stop".

Everyone followed the prestige and saw Boss Zhou leading Luo Xunfeng and two followers appearing at the entrance of the cave.

That shout was exactly what Luo Xunfeng uttered. At this moment, he was held back by those two attendants, and he rushed forward.

"Master!" Su Yu said in a daze, and took a few steps forward, but was stopped by the supervisor.

The two were a few steps apart, looking at each other, Luo Xunfeng seemed to be in good health, but his expression was extremely angry, while Su Yu felt comforted, he felt a little guilty when he thought that Luo Xunfeng saw his bloody and sweaty appearance.

"Boss Zhou, is this how you treat my people?!" Luo Xunfeng asked while trying to break free from the restraint.

"Ha, Mr. Feng, don't be angry," Boss Zhou said with a dry smile, and asked the supervisor in the cave, "What's the matter, why is he still working during meal time?"

"Uh... isn't that right? If he can't finish his work, we treat him equally." The supervisor who swung his whip just now replied.

"That's not true!" Ah Rui rushed to Su Yu's side, wanting to get close to him but was afraid of the supervisor beside him, "They never gave my brother food, and forced him to do three times as much work."

"You brat!" The supervisor turned his head and raised his whip, but Boss Zhou stopped him with a dry cough.

Luo Xunfeng's face was very ugly, he slowly straightened his back, let the people on both sides pull him, he remained silent without saying a word, his eyes gradually darkened, his pupils shrank, one hand slowly curled his fingers by his side, and his cuff shook slightly .

"Young master!" Su Yu suddenly said, his voice was hoarse.

Luo Xunfeng's expression froze.

Su Yu went on to say, "Now we are under the control of others, and we can't escape. Please also ask the young master to do things for Boss Zhou, so that Su Yu can live a better life."

Luo Xunfeng frowned deeply, with complicated emotions between his brows.

Su Yu shook his head slightly at him, and said, "Small things require patience, you taught me, young master."

"..."

"Okay, okay, since the little brother is so reasonable, don't embarrass him, let him go to rest for a while, and give him food." Boss Zhou said, pointing to Ah Rui and saying, "You, help him to the wall Sit down for a while."

Then he turned to Luo Xunfeng, "Mr. Feng, you have met him and said something. I also ordered him to rest and eat. The face is given to each other. If you still have any dissatisfaction," his face suddenly darkened Exiting, said, "I'm afraid that Zhou will not be able to take good care of him!"

Luo Xunfeng frowned, turned his eyes to the cave, and watched the young man who had spoken just now supported Su Yu towards the wall. Su Yu might not be used to being supported by others, and his posture was a little twisted, but the young man kept supporting him. Let go, let him sit down, and ran away in a hurry.Su Yu raised his head, just in time to meet Luo Xunfeng's eyes, his expression was a little embarrassed, Luo Xunfeng raised his eyebrows.Soon the boy ran back to the wall, holding the porridge and steamed buns in his hand, and handed the porridge bowl to Su Yu's mouth, Su Yu reached out to take it.Luo Xunfeng saw that Su Yu raised the corner of his mouth slightly at the young man, and the young man immediately responded with a smile, and sat down beside Su Yu.

Su Yu raised his head to look at Luo Xunfeng again, Luo Xunfeng suddenly turned his head away and pursed his lips secretly.He glanced at the coolies in the cave, whose clothes were torn and physically and mentally damaged, took a deep breath, and said to Boss Zhou, "Boss Zhou is serious, Feng is a person who doesn't know the current affairs."

"That's great, then let's go, we need to talk about the blasting plan in detail." Boss Zhou said with a corner of his mouth.

……

"Brother Su Yu, so your name is 'Su Yu'." Ah Rui said beside Su Yu, this little harvest made him look happy.

"En." Su Yu replied, his eyes followed Luo Xunfeng's back, watching him walk out of his sight.

"Which two words are they?" the boy asked.

"'Su' for 'serious', 'feather' for feather."

"'The swan geese are flying, suspend their feathers'", the young man thought for a while and said, "This name is derived from "The Book of Songs. Swan geese". Your parents must have been very careful when they named it."

"..." Su Yu stared at Ah Rui for a moment, but finally did not explain to him that her name was not given by her parents.He didn't know that his name was related to the "Book of Songs", but recalling the names of Luo Xunqiu's other three accompanying shadow guards, "Canghen", "Mingyan", and "Guren", it seemed to be related to his own name. slidely different.At this moment, he was really confused, why did he get such a special name when he was forced into Luo Xunqiu by the owner.On the other hand, a regret emerged in my heart. The name given by the master is the greatest favor the shadow guard has obtained, which represents the relationship between infinite obedience and absolute fetters. I really... really want to be named by that person. Maybe... Now that I can help him accomplish what he wants to do, he should be content, he said to himself.

"Brother Su Yu?" Ah Rui saw that Su Yu's expression was a bit complicated for a while, so he called him again.

"Oh, nothing, have you read a lot?" Su Yu asked.

"Fortunately, my family is considered a big family in the village. This is the first time I have traveled far, and I was..." The young man lowered his head, sighed, and quickly raised his head and said, "Hurry up and eat."

Su Yu gulped down the porridge in his hand, the porridge was still warm, which brought some comfort to his dry throat and throbbing stomach.He lowered his body to the outside and pressed half of his forehead against the cold rock wall to reduce the burning sensation in his head.

Ah Rui became nervous when he saw this, and leaned over to touch his forehead, but he grabbed his hand.

"Do you want some steamed buns?" Su Yu turned around and asked him as he handed over the steamed buns in his hand.

The young man swallowed, and said, "No, eat quickly."

Su Yu divided the half steamed bun in his hand into two and handed one to the young man.

Ah Rui hesitated to take it, and finally ate it with Su Yu.

"Brother Su Yu, you are so kind." The boy said while eating, "When we go out, I will definitely bring you to my house as a guest and treat you to delicious food."

"We can't get out!" A hoarse voice came, and a tall figure approached, bringing a shadow.

"Boss Han!" Ah Rui exclaimed, and suddenly shrank back, almost bumping into Su Yu, who held his shoulder.

"You...don't try to steal our food." Ah Rui said, protecting the last piece of steamed bun in his hand.

Boss Han squatted down beside them. He is the tallest coolie among the coolies, and he has been particularly vicious in the past few days of grabbing food. He looked around and said, "Hmph, I robbed those people because of them. Snatch others first, since they like the weak to eat the strong, I will not be polite. You little brat, why should I bully you!"

"..." Seeing that Boss Han didn't move any further, Ah Rui relaxed a little and asked, "Why do you say we can't get out?"

"Didn't you hear that just now? Boss Zhou said that blasting/demolition will be carried out again. This is to dig a new mine, and it is to exhaust us here!" Boss Han said, turning around and looking Looking at Su Yu, he said, "What kind of young master of yours has caused you a lot of trouble! I'm afraid he will not be able to protect himself. When he finds a new mine, he will either be unloaded and killed, or he will be pushed back to our place and become a miner." Coolie, those people can’t be merciful and let you go, we will all die in the end!”

"You are talking nonsense! There is always a way..." Ah Rui became anxious, and said to Su Yu, "Brother Su Yu, say something..."

Su Yu patted Ah Rui on the shoulder and said, "This may not be the case."

Boss Han sneered, his face full of despair.

"I have something to ask you." Su Yu said suddenly at this moment.

"You say." Boss Han turned around.

"Is there anyone here who was brought in on the fifteenth of this month? Who were the people brought in that day? Did anything special happen?"

"I remember... Ah Wen and Shui Sheng came that day." Boss Han pointed to the two coolies sitting in the distance, "Old Lu, the tallest and strongest supervisor who transported people that day, is not here today. There is also the person called 'Lutou', there should be one more person, usually three people..." Boss Han thought.

"There is another person who always makes things difficult for you. His surname seems to be Cao." Ah Rui added to Su Yu, and then asked, "Special things, what do you mean?"

Su Yu thought for a while, and said bluntly, "That night, a girl drowned and died. I found the girl's clothes on the grass above the elevator. I suspect that her death was related to the supervisor who transported people that night. .”

"Ah!" Ah Rui whispered, "I remember that night, when the supervisors surnamed Lu and Cao brought people in, the front of their clothes and the sleeves were all wet."

"Are you sure?!" Su Yu stared slightly.

"Yeah." Ah Rui nodded and asked Boss Han, "Did you see it?"

"I didn't pay attention, I can ask Shuisheng for you later." Han Lao said.

"Brother Su Yu, who is that girl from you?" A Rui asked suddenly.

"...Neighbor." Su Yu said.

A Rui let out an "oh".

At this time, the supervisor's whip sounded, and the rest time was over.

Because of Luo Xunfeng's appearance, although the following work was hard, the situation of Su Yu being deliberately made things difficult was reduced.

When work was over in the middle of the night, Su Yu got two pieces of news.

One is that Boss Han told him that on the [-]th day, before being taken underground, Shuisheng woke up slightly, and vaguely heard the girl's screams and chasing sounds on the ground, and also confirmed that Lu and Cao were leading them. When I went down, my clothes were wet.Su Yu thus locked the murderer who killed Ping'er.

The second message is the message on the stone that he got when he passed the multi-forked road again. It is two sentences——

"Do what you can, you must live."

In the dark cave, Su Yu fought against the pain and high fever with perseverance.He repeatedly rubbed the scratches on the stone he got today, and the stone was warmed in his hands, warming his heart all the way.