C18 Mineral Awareness Friendship

Looking at the mine in front of her, Chuyi frowned. The floor was covered in sand and rocks, she could already imagine what it would feel like after stepping on it. Mei Luo tightly grabbed her hand and whispered, "Can you?"

Chuyi smiled bitterly. Why not? Regardless of whether or not she could endure that heart-wrenching pain, she had nowhere to retreat to. There was no way, she could only give Mei Luo a reassuring smile.

"Why are you laughing? Go to work. Don't think that you don't need to work if you're a woman! "Go over there!" A dark man with a whip came up to them and flung himself at their sides.

The two girls looked in the direction he was pointing. There were men and women in the middle of the mine, each of them stooping to carry bags of stones down the hill. Those who had the strength to move it would return to their original position. Those who didn't had the strength to move it would stop halfway to rest and be lashed by someone nearby. Some directly collapsed, while others grinded their teeth as they held on.

Wa Jia had already ran over, carrying a huge rock on her small body. The two girls couldn't do anything as they walked over. Seeing them coming over, Wa Jia smiled and greeted them before continuing on her way.

Chuyi was stunned. How old was Wa Jia? It seemed like she had been like this since she was young and was already used to it. However, in the eyes of a young lady who had been a young lady for seventeen years, her body was so frail and pitiful. It was likely that she had never experienced a single trace of warmth before.

"Ah!" Someone fell down, and some were even accidentally knocked down by someone beside them. The huge rock directly fell down, and blood splashed all over the ground. Chuyi screamed, and Mei Luo hurriedly covered her mouth, leading her to the place where the slaves were transporting the stones.

Chuyi trembled as she watched the servants throw their corpses to the side of the ore not far away. She even held them down with a stone and then looked at the stones with satisfaction, bit by bit, as if that person had never appeared in this world. However, at the same time, it was as if there was only one inanimate object that did not need to be buried, nor did it need to be pitied with pity. This world... So it wasn't that peaceful … She had thought that her sudden change in family status was already the most miserable. She hadn't thought that there would be someone worse off than her in a certain corner of the world …

The whip fell on her body, causing Chuyi to wake up from her thoughts. She hurriedly held the place on her shoulder where she had been whipped and turned around with great pain in her heart. She wanted to carry a stone like those slaves. However, she couldn't even carry it, much less carry it. When the person holding the whip was about to hit her, Mei Luo helped Chuyi to lift a rock and put it on her back. Then, she followed the footsteps of the person beside her.

"Useless woman, you can't even move a single stone!" The sound of the whip hitting the stone behind him sounded especially heavy. Chuyi gritted her teeth and walked with Mei Luo.

Mei Luo turned her head to look at Chuyi's face and frowned. "Yi'er, why didn't you put mud on your face?"

"Why daub it on your face?" Chuyi asked in a confused manner, her forehead already sweating profusely. She raised an arm to wipe her face, but was stopped by Mei Luo. Mei Luo turned her head and saw that those people were coming over again. She quickly touched the dust on the ground and smeared it on Chuyi's face. Chuyi was shocked, but she did not refuse.

Before the men with the whips arrived, Mei Luo pulled up Chuyi, whose face was covered in plaster, and the two of them carried the stone on their backs and continued walking.

"Mei Luo, why did you make your face look like this?" Chuyi asked.

"When we came to the mine, did you keep your head down?" Mei Luo looked at her.

"That's right …" Doubt shone in Chuyi's eyes.

"Then it's fine!" Mei Luo smiled. "It's good that they didn't see your face. Otherwise, they'll definitely ruin it!"

"Ah …" Chuyi gasped. How could she forget about that? She looked gratefully at Mei Luo. "Mei Luo, thank you …"

"No need to thank me, we are …" "Ugh …" Mei Luo frowned, suddenly not knowing how to say that word, that Central Plains phrase.

"We are good friends!" Chuyi took over the conversation as she looked at Mei Luo's troubled expression with a smile.

Following that, the two pitiful girls started laughing. The scorching sunlight shone on their faces, making them even more dazzling.