A few months after Lu Sisi left, Li Xuanxuan left the customs and broke through the five-layer Jade Capital Wheel of fetal interest, ranking third in the family, followed by two right-hand men, Li Qiuyang and Chen Donghe, both of whom were four-layer Fetal Breath.
Li Xuanxuan gathered a group of strong Shanyue to go to work in the mine, and the wages in the four towns that were decreasing day by day due to surplus labor suddenly rose a lot, and the negative impact caused by overpopulation in the four towns was greatly reduced, and their lives became much more comfortable.
A large hut was located along the mine vein, and with the joint efforts of the three families, a decent town had been established in the past few months, and in the first year, the Li family sent qi training monks to guard the Qingwu Mine.
According to the agreement, each of the three families sent a fetal breath monk to the mine to supervise each other, and Li Xuanxuan had already sent Li Qiuyang out, and it had been several months.
When Li Xuanfeng landed on the mine with the wind, the three fetal breath monks were already waiting on the ground, and the surrounding miners knelt down.
"Welcome senior!"
The three of them shouted in unison, Li Xuanfeng just waved his hand, nodded towards Li Qiuyang, and called out:
"Uncle."
Only then did he look at the fetal breath monks of the Lu An family, and nodded:
"No need to be polite."
With a sweep of spiritual consciousness, the two people in front of him only had three or four layers of cultivation, and they were both around forty or fifty years old, waving their hands to dispel these two people, Li Xuanfeng said in a low voice:
"Uncle, how has the ore vein been in the past few months, hurriedly called me here."
Li Qiuyang arched his hands, the boy who swallowed the snake dragon fruit in the mountains is now in his thirties, and he has already hugged his grandson, with a dignified appearance, holding a long knife in his hand, and has the posture of a family elder, he replied:
"Just started digging, seven were mined in March, and the production should gradually increase in the future, but since the past few months, there have often been miners who have lost their speech, there were still one or two last month, and there are dozens more this month, so I have to send someone to send a message to my home."
"Aphasia......
Li Xuanfeng was carrying a longbow behind him, frowning in confusion, and replied:
"Take me to see these people."
Li Qiuyang nodded repeatedly, led Li Xuanfeng for a while, passed through the large and small tents, and came to a large courtyard.
Most of the large courtyard was built by the Lu An family, and there were more than a dozen people squatting against the wall, most of whom were Shanyue miners who moved from the Li family, all looking uneasy.
Seeing Li Qiuyang and Li Xuanfeng coming, the stewards in the courtyard were very nervous, and called out the squatting Shanyue miners one by one, knelt tightly on the ground, and stared at the ground full of loess anxiously.
Li Xuanfeng put his hand on the shoulder of a Shanyue miner at the front, and the primordial essence circulated a few times, but he didn't find anything unusual, his face was slightly strange, but he found the qi orifice that swallowed and exhaled spiritual energy in this middle-aged manly aura cave.
"It's a pity to have a spiritual aperture."
These words were like a thunderbolt, which made the middle-aged man scream twice, his expression was both excited and sad, looking at the middle-aged man's slightly white sideburns and complicated expression, Li Xuanfeng turned his head and ordered:
"Take this person back and find a clan girl who looks right to marry."
Li Qiuyang nodded, and suddenly several clan soldiers stepped forward to grab the man who was crying and laughing, and took him down, Li Xuanfeng picked a few more people to check, but found nothing, and asked:
"What was strange about these people before they lost their speech?"
"Never ......"
Li Qiuyang shook his head and replied:
"However, four of these dozens of people have mined the Qingwu Mine......"
Li Xuanfeng nodded thoughtfully, his eyes stayed on the few people in front of him for a while, and took the blue-black blue-black ore rough stone handed over by Li Qiuyang.
"Most of it is because of this Qingwu Mine...... Please call those two people over."
Li Qiuyang nodded when he heard the sound, and found the monks of the Lu An family, and the two stood in front of Li Qiuyang uneasily, estimating in their hearts that most of the Li family's qi training was to find their own mistakes, and they were all terrified.
"The people in this mine often have aphasia, do you know?"
The two of them were stunned when they heard Li Xuanfeng's words, and they responded obediently, and scolded:
"Qi cultivators still care about mortals' illness, old age, life and death? Aphasia is not a disability, as long as he can work, who cares about his life and death......"
Li Xuanfeng thought for a few breaths, after all, the Qingwu Mine is a spiritual mine, the qi of gold and stone is probably damaging to the body of mortals, and the aphasia is considered light, Li Xuanfeng is afraid that these thousands of people will work in the mine day and night, and within a few months, their vitality will fail, and thousands of people will die in vain.
"How are shifts arranged in the mine now?"
"There are more than 4,000 miners, and this mine probably accommodates more than 1,000 people, using two shifts and three days of back-and-forth...... responsible for mining and building facilities."
Li Xuanfeng waved his hand and said:
"Divide the mining into four shifts, don't let the miners stay in the mine for too long, and then I will send people to come to the Hui clan for many shifts."
Seeing that the two of them responded repeatedly, Li Xuanfeng shook his head and went back to report to Li Tongya, but Li Qiuyang looked at the two of them respectfully waiting for Li Xuanfeng to leave, looking quite dissatisfied in private, secretly frowning, and thinking to himself:
"No wonder the population of the two families is only 20,000 or 30,000, my Li family has risen to more than 60,000 in decades, these people clearly don't treat people as human beings, I'm afraid they haven't even supervised farming, let alone maintain any livelihood, these 20,000 or 30,000 people are all people who support his family......"
"Brother Qiuyang!"
The two greeted each other with a smile, and the Lu family monk winked and said with a smile:
"Your senior will still leave this matter to you, and I will leave first when I have something important."
After saying that, without waiting for Li Qiuyang to respond, he left with a smile on his shoulder, which made Li Qiuyang's eyelids jump slightly, and he was a little annoyed.
"These two people sing in this mine every night, and the woman is sent into the house every day, and they don't know anything but eat, drink and have fun, they really wasted all their cultivation! In my Li family, even a monk will be arrested and held accountable by the clan chief, which is really not a thing!"
Turning his head and walking towards his small courtyard, Li Qiuyang was relieved in a blink of an eye, smiled coldly, and said in a low voice:
"Let's have fun, stay for a few more years, I want to see what you two families use to stop my Li family."
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Li Qiuyang went back to the room to finish his instructions and practiced cross-legged, but the big courtyard at the other end was full of feasting and drinking, and the monks of the Lu An family were drinking and chatting.
"This mine is really a good errand! You don't have to look at the face of the person in the family, everything will be handled by Li Qiuyang of the Li family, so uncomfortable!"
"That's right!"
The An family monk laughed, took a sip of the spirit wine in his hand, smashed his mouth happily, and replied:
"Then the Li family is an upstart after all, rising too fast, the qi cultivators are too young, and they still have mortals in their hearts. Only mortals serve monks, how can monks consider mortals!"
The Lu family monk nodded, his expression was relaxed, and he smiled:
"Look at this Li family, although they are strong, they are dragged to the west by Shanyue to serve as a barrier for us and others, it is said that there are more than a dozen qi training in Shanyue, and there is also a king at the peak of qi training, but they can't deal with it!"
Showing off the news he had gotten, the Lu family monk raised his head slightly, but heard the An family monk ask:
"I heard that your Lu family has a high cultivator who practices in the Qingchi Sect, but he is such a big backer."
The Lu family monk shook his head, his expression a little lower, and replied:
"You and I have been in-laws for many years, everyone knows the roots, that person practiced on Moon Lake Peak, he was at the peak of qi training in his early years, and he failed to break through the foundation and died, it has been more than eighty years ago! Except for the Yuehu Peak Lord in the sect and my family, there is no other place that can be regarded as a backer."
After saying that, he lowered his head and said to the monk of the An family:
"How can you compare to the genius of your An family!"
The monk An sighed slightly and said indignantly:
"The one in my family really loves An Jingming very much, and he can use the cultivation food of the whole clan at his disposal! It is said that the rice I eat every day is spiritual rice, which makes me jealous.
"Hey."
The Lu family monk sighed lowly, his expression became more frustrated, and he was particularly abrupt in the sound of silk and bamboo in the courtyard, and he hung his head and said:
"You and I are already in our fifties, but we haven't even cultivated the Jade Capital Wheel, so where is there any hope of qi training in this life? But the rest of my life will be more enjoyable for more than fifty years, and it is worth walking in this world!"
The monk An Jia was also very angry when he heard this, and after drinking the wine, he choked up and said:
"Life is often unsatisfactory...... I've already seen it."
The two of them raised their glasses and cried to each other amidst the sound of silk and bamboo, hugging their heads and crying.