At this time, the sound of rock crushers came from the direction of Xiaolong Village, followed by the sound of explosives exploding.

It's eight o'clock. The villagers' quarry is still working?

Ma Ming asked You Weimin: "Mine Manager You, do you also have operations at night in Xiaolong Village?"

You Weimin glanced at him in surprise and said, "You don't know?"

Lai Junjie shook his head and said, "I don't know."

"I have been doing homework every night for many days, sometimes even staying up all night."

"This is a violation." Ma Ming opened his mouth and said.

You Weimin smiled meaningfully and said, "More than violations?"

Lai Junjie stared at him and said, "Mine Manager You, what do you mean by this?"

You Weimin said with a smile: "Nothing. Let's go, I'm off work." After saying that, he made a gesture of invitation.

No matter how they asked, You Weimin never said a word.

After parting ways with him, Ma Ming caught a worker who had just walked out of the mining area and asked him. The worker looked around and saw no one, with a look of jealousy on his face, and whispered: "I heard they opened the mine privately and made a fortune.

"After saying that, he got on his motorcycle and quickly disappeared into the night.

Ma Ming and Lai Junjie were secretly shocked. Without a business license, mining license and safety production license, private mining is illegal!

"How about calling the police?" Lai Junjie said hesitantly.

"Hearsay, it's not appropriate to call the police directly." Ma Ming said, "Besides, isn't this something your bureau oversees and handles?"

"There is a law enforcement and supervision brigade, which is attached to the Law Enforcement Supervision Section." Lai Junjie said with some helplessness, "However, they don't take care of things very much. There are only seven or eight team members in the county, and one person is responsible for one or two towns, so they can't patrol at all.

, and they are all contract workers with low wages and high turnover, so the inspection effect is not obvious, and the bosses solve the problems with red envelopes before they are reported."

Ma Ming saw that Lai Junjie was speaking in a normal way and sneered: "Everyone is accustomed to seeing this kind of corruption."

"It's been like this for many years."

"Then start improving from today!"

Lai Junjie felt that Ma Ming was taking everything too seriously, so he said: "I'll call the reporting number for you." After saying that, he took out his mobile phone and called the reporting number. After get off work hours, it was Saturday night again, and no one answered. Finally, he He also called Lu Dongsheng, the captain of the supervision team.

"Luke, there is a situation. People reported that Xiaolong Village has opened a mine privately."

"Oh, this probably doesn't exist. There are indeed several quarries in Sanlong Community, but they are all certified. I heard that there are some small family-style quarries. The township has strengthened supervision or closed them.

Just stop." Lu Dongsheng's answer was more official, but also perfunctory, passing the question to Baoshan Township.

"It's okay if it's granite, but I'd better send someone to look at the fluorite mine."

"Okay, I'll immediately send nearby team members to take a look."

After hanging up the phone, the two of them sat on a stone by the roadside and waited.

Lai Junjie believed that Lu Dongsheng was deceiving, but Ma Ming didn't believe it.

Fifteen minutes later, the person who responded to Lai Junjie's call was Qian Ying, deputy captain of the inspection team, saying that he had just sent team members to check and found that there was no illegal mining of gold. The operation was in a quarry, and operations at night had been ordered to be prohibited.

Lai Junjie smiled bitterly: "Brother, did you see it? They even ignored my report, and the patrol team didn't come at all."

Entering and exiting Sanlong Community, the road under their feet was the only gravel road where cars could be driven, and they were guarding the intersection. In the past ten minutes, they had not seen any patrol members coming or going.

"Then let's go see it ourselves!" Ma Ming made up his mind.

"Walk!"

The two drove along the bumpy but relatively wide mountain road. After driving for thousands of meters, they arrived at the entrance of Xiaolong Village. The sound of quarry operations became clearer and louder. However, the road ahead was blocked.

, the villagers set up an iron fence across the middle of the road. There was a guard box next to it, and there were people guarding the guard box.

The car had already alerted the guard at the bayonet, who turned on his flashlight and shined a light on it.

Ma Ming hurriedly said: "Turn around and retreat!"

Lai Junjie was puzzled: "No, it's already here!"

"There's something obviously wrong with setting up roadblocks and checkpoints in the middle of the night. Don't alert others yet!"

Lai Junjie turned around and drove back to the entrance of You Weimin's mine.

Lai Junjie held the steering wheel, stretched his head and looked outside. As night fell, the big mine in the deep mountains and old forests looked a bit eerie, so he said, "Should we forget it? It's too late."

Ma Ming did not flinch and said: "The car is parked here, let's take a small road to get there."

Lai Junjie glanced at Ma Ming, seeing his firm attitude, and nodded.

The two got off the car and walked in the dark along the gravel road toward Xiaolong Village.

Ten minutes later, the two arrived near the village entrance and hid in the woods to observe. There was a villager standing outside the roadblock, and there was another villager inside the barricade.

They smoked cigarettes and watched the surroundings vigilantly.

Ma Ming raised his head and looked around, then whispered: "Let's climb the mountain and go around."

Lai Junjie looked at the bubble shoes on his feet, and then at the leather shoes on Ma Ming's feet. The two looked at each other, smiled, and said in unison: "Go!"

Ma Ming was in front and Lai Junjie was behind. They climbed up a gentle slope from the side. However, there were no roads in the forest. There were bushes and trees everywhere. Ma Ming broke a wooden stick to block the branches and thorns. Lai Junjie turned on his mobile phone.

The flashlight illuminated. After climbing for more than 20 minutes, we finally reached the mountainside dozens of meters high and entered the thicket of tall trees. Although there was still no road, at least there were no low bushes and thorns blocking it.

In the woods, the chirping of crickets, frogs and unknown animals were mixed together. Mosquitoes and black insects were chasing and biting them. They were sweating profusely. They also remembered that wild boars had been in the mountains, and both of them were a little scared.

Ma Ming and Lai Junjie got out of the woods and climbed to the top of the mountain. The view finally broadened and they felt the coolness of the mountain breeze. A narrow mountain road wound away to the north. There was no sound and the night was dark. The two followed it.

With the sound of machinery working, I continued to walk north along the mountain road. After walking for thirty minutes, I finally saw the light of fire at the bottom of the mountain. There was a mine there.

The two endured the bites of mosquitoes and the pain of being scratched by thorns, and continued walking. After ten minutes, they finally approached the mine.

The mine is not big and brightly lit. It is divided into strips. There are open-pit mining and underground mining at the pit. Several mining rock drills and drilling machines are drilling holes downwards in the rock mass.

More than a dozen workers are working together.

Lai Junjie looked at it for a while and wondered: "No, this is a fluorite mine. The fluorite here is generally purple, and the color of the deposit should be dull, but why is there golden yellow? Moreover, there are random things around it.

There are a lot of tailings piled up, which are obviously abandoned. Also, those tailings are all good ores, but even the fluorite mine is abandoned? It’s unbelievable.”

Unlike Ma Ming, who had a background in geology, and whose department was responsible for prospecting and researching minerals, he just felt that these people were sneaky. In addition to the workers, there were also people watching and supervising the surroundings.

At this time, a cart came out of a pit, and workers quickly transferred the raw ore inside to a mine cart. The truck was filled and covered with plastic sheeting, and walked along the gravel road paved in the middle of the ore deposit.

Drive away.

The moment it was loaded into the truck, the minerals shone with golden light. The mine truck did not go out of the village, but went north.

That direction should be Wulong Village, which is very strange.

Ma Ming suddenly had an idea: Are they trying to sell dog meat? The mines here may not be stone mines, but rare minerals, or even gold mines?!

He immediately took out his cell phone and took a few photos.

After taking the photo, the two continued to stretch their heads and look down.

Suddenly, Lai Junjie heard movement behind him, turned his head and looked nervous, his pupils dilated.

Ma Ming saw something was wrong with him and asked, "What's wrong? Are you so nervous?"
Chapter completed!