In the mountains outside Chencang County, Zhou Ma was riding a donkey and following a team of government troops, aimlessly running around the mountains. From time to time, small beasts ran past him, making erratic sounds.

This is the fourth day of entering the mountain. In the past four days, Lin Dayong, the commander of the Qizhou Prefecture Army, was the guy who was once responsible for protecting Qishan County Magistrate Zheng Keshuang, led his team to dig holes everywhere. They dug nearly one-tenth of the million acres of forests around Chencang.

What? You said that the mountains around Chencang are only more than 100,000 acres?

Don’t joke, after all, it’s a county, how could it be only more than 100,000 acres of mountain forest? That’s just a number written on Li Hao’s land deed. To be honest, this mountain is even more than 100 acres.

However, because of the inconvenience of transportation, Li Hao gave up the place far away, leaving only some places close to the official road and conveniently exited, so there is a concept of more than 100,000 acres.

As for why Lin Dayong brought Ma Zhou into the mountains, it was mainly because Chen Cang was Lin Dayong's hometown. Before joining the army, he made a living by hunting in the surrounding forests. Later, he joined the army and slowly made his way through the skills he had learned from hunting when he was a child. Then he became the chief lieutenant in Qizhou Prefecture.

He is also an inspirational person.

Lin Dayong's mission to enter the mountain was not just to lead the way. He also shouldered the responsibility of prospecting. Relying on his familiarity with this mountain, he easily discovered two small-scale carboniferous ores on the first day, and another iron ore on the second day.

But he seemed to have used up all good luck two days ago. In the next two days, the whole team never gained anything in the mountains. As a last resort, they had to go to a deeper place in the mountains to discover the limestone in the mouth of a little ancestor.

Ma Zhou looked up at the scorching sun above his head, and was a little dazed. Even though he had experienced running back and forth at the construction site in Chang'an, he still struggled to death over the past four days.

"Mr. Ma, do you want to take a break first?"

Lin Dayong was the first to discover that something was wrong with Ma Zhou, so he stopped the team and came to his side.

"Emperor Lin, how far is it from the place where you rest?" Ma Zhou asked with the help of the government army beside him, panting.

"It's about ten miles away." Lin Dayong looked at the surrounding terrain and said considerately: "However, we can rest here. In the years of severe drought, there is no fear of any mountain torrents."

Ma Zhou nodded with difficulty: "Then let's take a break here, Commander Lin, I've caused you trouble."

"It's okay." Lin Dayong smiled indifferently, turned to his head and shouted at his men who were on standby: "Stay on the spot and camp on the spot."

‘Boom…’, a group of big-headed soldiers heard that they didn’t have to continue leaving. They were so happy that they took off their shoulder bags and tools, and started camping in a lively manner.

It has been four days since we entered the mountain. These government troops are not like Ma Zhou and donkeys. They not only have to carry heavy bags on their way, but also have to be responsible for prospecting and digging mountains when necessary. After four days, they are already exhausted. They heard that they can rest in advance and are naturally very happy.

Lin Dayong shook his head helplessly, personally helped Ma Zhou find a stone to sit down. The guard next to him who had been able to do anything had taken a kettle from the donkey's back and handed it to Ma Zhou to serve him earnestly.

"Mr. Ma, don't mind, you guys are tired these days." Seeing Ma Zhou's eyes wandering on the men's soldiers, Lin Dayong quickly explained.

It won’t be possible if you don’t explain. This person is a celebrity around the young master in Chang’an. If you go back and give yourself some eye drops, your life will be ruined.

Although Ma Zhou people were arrogant, they were very tolerant of some miserable people. He smiled and said, "Master Lin, I am not a mean person. I see how hard my brothers have worked since I entered the mountain and remember it in my heart. So... you can put a thousand, two hundred hearts. No matter whether we can find limestone this time, we will have no less rewards after we go back."

There is also a reward?! The busy mansion army around Ma Zhou couldn't help but show joy on his face when he heard it, and his hands also accelerated a lot.

However, Ma Zhou fell silent after saying this. Compared with those optimistic government troops, he no longer had much hope of finding limestone this time.

This mountain is too big, and it is not much easier to find limestone here than to find a needle in a haystack.

The speed of the patrol army camping was quite good. In less than half an hour, the camp of 200 people stood up in the forest, and all the guard posts were dispersed.

In the middle of the camp, some people set up bonfires, made fires to cook, and some people were sent out by Lin Dayong to search for game.

Despite the years of severe drought, there are more or less wild animals in the forest. Wild boars and roe deer cannot be found, and it is not a big problem to find a few rabbits and pheasants.

Although it cannot feed everyone's stomachs, it can satisfy Mr. Zhou's desire for abdomen.

Ma Zhou was still sitting next to the big rock. The sun above his head was so angry that he was irritated. Due to the lack of water, his body was always sticky, attracting many mosquitoes, which made people even more annoying.

Ma Zhou regretted why he had to take over the teacher's task and came to this mountain where birds were not shit. Isn't the rice from Chang'an fragrant? Are the girls from Chang'an beautiful? Why are they running to this mountain where all the stones are all done?

This damn broken place, the mountain is a stone mountain, and the cave is a stone cave. After running in the mountain for four days, I didn’t even see a decent tree.

What kind of evil did you commit? You have to come and suffer this sin.

Thinking of the depression, I directly picked up the masonry hammer that fell when the mansion army was setting up the camp tent, and smashed the big stone under my butt.

‘Bang bang…’.

Crazy, it's crazy.

Lin Dayong, who was inspecting the camp, saw Ma Zhou going crazy, hurried over and hugged him: "Mr. Ma, calm down, calm down! I know you are anxious, but looking for mines is not an urgent matter."

"You, let me go." Ma Zhou held up the masonry hammer and stared at the cracked stone he smashed, struggling hard, which made Lin Dayong almost unable to control him.

Seeing that Ma Zhou was about to struggle out of his control, Lin Dayong shouted at the helpless mansion army beside him: "What are you watching? Didn't you see Mr. Ma being crazy? You're not here to help."

"Hula", with Lin Dayong's call, more than a dozen government troops rushed up, some were taking out linens and some were holding ropes.

Poor Ma Zhou, a scholar, even if he practiced his fists for a few days, how could he be able to defeat these big and thick men? He had been tied up in a solid manner after working hard, and his mouth was stuffed with several balls of linen that smelled less than foot binding.

Ma Zhou was so angry that he kept turning up the soreness in his stomach.

“Woo woo woo woo…”

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Staring at Ma Zhou's red face, Lin Dayong said intimidatingly, looked up and shouted at the surroundings: "Medical officer, where is the medical officer, call the medical officer over quickly. Mr. Ma is crazy."

Your uncle, you are crazy, and your whole family is crazy.

Ma Zhou fell to the ground with tears in his eyes, twisting, twisting...

The medical officer who accompanied him came quickly. After all, the camp was not big. He immediately ran over when he heard the noisy sound here. Seeing Ma Zhou who was squirming desperately on the ground, he was shocked and turned around and ran without saying a word.

After a moment, he ran back with a wooden box in the puzzled eyes, squatted beside Ma, bowed: "Mr. Ma, offended."

"Oh, I said, hurry up, life is at stake, and you still have to worry about whether to offend or not." Lin Dayong was so anxious that he saw the medical officer still muttering, and pulled him to Ma Zhou's side: "Treat quickly, it won't be cured to kill your whole family."

The medical officer was frightened and quickly turned around and opened the medicine box, and took out a few silver needles several inches long from it.

In Ma Zhou's terrified eyes, he inserted his heart, forehead, and temples into his heart.

At the same time, Ma Zhou also heard the medical officer's nagging: "Bless our ancestors, don't make mistakes."

I'm damn...

With anger and shock, Ma Zhou's eyes rolled and he fainted.

...

I woke up again and it was already dark outside, and the sound of bonfire burning came from beside me.

‘Disgust…’, thinking of the sour smell in his mouth in the afternoon, Ma Zhou couldn’t help but sigh, and then a tall figure appeared in front of him: “Mr. Ma, you finally woke up. Fortunately, there was a medical officer just now. Otherwise, if you had a few things, how would you explain to the prince?”

Your uncle, do you think you can explain it now?

Ma Zhou rolled his eyes and said directly without taking Lin Dayong's slap, "Help me up."

"Ma Zhouxian, the medical officer said you need to rest now and you can't be too busy."

Rest in peace….

Ma Zhou was angry and became jealous and said to the courage: "Don't talk nonsense, help me up, otherwise I will let my mentor strip you of your official skin when you go back or not."

Lin Dayong suddenly felt a kindness that he was treated as a donkey's liver and lungs. The corners of his mouth were twitching, but he could not resist Ma Zhou's threat. He helped him sit up and personally served him to put on his shoes.

When we walked out of the tent and came outside, there were already stars outside, and dozens of bonfires were growing in the camp. The government soldiers talked about nothing else around the bonfire.

Looking at the peaceful scene outside, Ma Zhou's anger was slightly reduced, and he turned to Lin Dayong and said, "Prince Lin, take me to the stone in the afternoon."

"Stone?" Lin Dayong was stunned. His first reaction was that Ma Zhou's insanity was not yet very quick, so he opened his mouth and wanted to call someone over.

Seeing this, Ma Zhou hurriedly said, "I'm not crazy, and if I read it correctly, the stone I smashed in the afternoon should be the limestone that Enshi was looking for."

"..." Lin Dayong seemed to realize something, stared at Ma Zhou for a while, and said nervously: "Mr. Ma, are you sure?"

"Not sure, so I'm going to check it out again." Ma Zhou shook his head, as if he suddenly thought of something: "By the way, you have someone take out the sample I brought, and we'll compare it later."

The so-called sample is a limestone sample taken out in the cement workshop when Ma Zhou left Chang'an. The purpose is to compare it when looking for ore.

For some time, he had nothing to do and looked at the sample over and over again, and had some concepts about limestone.

Because of this, after smashing the big stone in the afternoon, he immediately found that the stone was shattered and the limestone sample he brought. He was so excited that Lin Dayong misunderstood that he was crazy.

The limestone sample was quickly found by Lin Dayong. In fact, the thing was always carried by Ma Zhou. He wanted to find it, just go back to his tent and flip his pockets.

The two of them took four entourages of the government army and were wearing torches. They searched all the way to find the stone in the afternoon. After careful comparison, discussion and analysis, the six people found that the broken stone was indeed the same as the sample.

Very embarrassing...

Facing Ma Zhou's malicious gaze, Lin Dayong scratched the back of his head and grinned, "That, that's what, Mr. Ma, did you believe what happened in the afternoon?"

He also realized this time. In the afternoon, Ma Zhou probably found that the stone was broken and looked like limestone, so he was very abnormal.

He was a fool who didn't even ask questions, and directly regarded this abnormality as a craziness. He not only tied up the prince's disciple, but also stuffed his mouth with a stinky stitchcloth and stabbed him with a needle, which finally made him dizzy.

The stone is exactly the same as the sample mouth, which means they have found the limestone that Li Hao is looking for. Ma Zhou in a good mood squinted Lin Dayong and asked maliciously: "What do you think, Lin Duwei."

"I..." Lin Dayong was crying without tears. He turned to ask for help from the four followers who followed him. As a result, what caught his eye was the gaze of the four guys, "You're finished."

It's time to have a kiss, and now it's really over.

"Ma, Mr. Ma, I, I'm really wrong, next time..."

"Okay, don't explain." Ma Zhou waved his hand and interrupted the nervous Lin Dayong: "Go and notify the brothers with the news. The limestone has been found. Our mission has been completed. We will return to Chen Cang tomorrow dawn."

"Then, what about me?"

"If you don't want to go back, stay here as a savage. You can't give up the opportunity to receive the reward yourself, and you won't let your brothers go back to receive the reward!" Ma Zhou gave Lin Dayong a blank look, snatched the torch from a mansion army beside him, and personally carried it back to his tent.

"What, what does it mean?" Looking at Ma Zhou's back as he left, Lin Dayong was confused. Should I go back?

In the end, his subordinates beside him were clever and poked him, "Prince, what he meant is that we can go back and receive the reward."

"What about me?"

"Of course you have to go back, you are our highest commander. If you don't go back, who will dare to go back to receive the reward?"

"That's... it's okay?" Lin Dayong was still a little uncertain.

"That's definitely okay, otherwise Mr. Ma wouldn't say you'd give up the opportunity to receive the reward."

Hey? It seems that this is really the case.

Lin Dayong thought about it and finally realized that Mr. Ma was not really angry, he was just scaring himself just now.

These scholars are so sensible that they almost scared me to death with just one sentence.

But..., this seems to be good, and we will clear each other.
Chapter completed!