At the foot of the mine, a large group of people gathered nervously around a torn sack!
Although they all carry swords and arrows in their hands, no one dares to act rashly against this sack that can only speak human words!
The scene was at a stalemate for a while.
"Old Liu! Go and open the sack!"
Just when Xiao Han was thinking about asking someone to open the sack first to expose the contents to the sun.
Unexpectedly, the sound that had disappeared for a long time suddenly sounded again at this moment!
"Are you Han Chinese?!"
This time, everyone present heard it clearly!
This sound did not come from the broken sack, but from the side of the mine!
It was just that it was too weak before and could not be heard clearly, so Xiao Han and the others mistakenly thought that the piece of gold with the head of the dog had become a spirit and could speak!
"Who! Who is pretending? If you don't get out, I will let go!"
Knowing that the sound was not caused by a spirit, Liu Hongji finally breathed a sigh of relief and felt a little more confident even when he cursed.
"Don't, don't shoot the arrow..."
Hearing that Liu Hongji was about to release an arrow, the voice on the other side was obviously anxious and shouted twice. Then, an old man who was so thin that he was not humanoid stood up from behind a pile of rocks.
Seeing this old man suddenly, not to mention Xiao Han, even Liu Hongji was startled and took a few steps back!
It's not like they haven't seen skinny old people before.
Especially in the Tang Dynasty in the past few years, many young and strong people were so thin that they were only skin and bones because they didn't have enough to eat!
But those people, no matter how thin they are, still have a human shape!
But if the old man in front of him hadn't been standing under the sun, Xiao Han would have regarded him as a skeleton turned spirit!
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What kind of old man is this!
The dry arms and thighs are like four dead branches!
The body supported by the "branches" was covered with a linen garment that was torn and could no longer be torn. Through the rips in the linen garment, the ribs of the old man could still be vaguely seen!
As for the head, how can this be the head of a normal person?
The sparse white hair is scattered randomly on the top of the head. Under the white hair, all the skin is tightly pressed against the bones, and even the eye sockets are sunken deeply!
If it weren't for those eyes that could move, this would be a living skeleton!
This look, let alone scare Xiao Han! If he came out at night, he would probably scare people to death!
"You...you..."
Although, the sun is shining brightly above everyone’s heads at this moment!
But looking at the old man standing tremblingly, everyone still felt a chill coming out of their hearts! If there weren't other people around, they would all want to turn around and run away right now! Not even the gold nugget.
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Even Xiao Han plucked up the courage and asked cautiously: "You are a human and a ghost! Why do you say what we say? Are you also a Han?"
"I am a Han! I am a Han from Jiangnan!"
Perhaps, even Xiao Han himself did not expect that his sentence "You are also a Han" would actually make the old man who looked like a skeleton opposite him burst into tears and his body could not help but tremble!
"You are finally here, finally here! I, I have been waiting for you for almost twenty years!"
"Twenty years?!"
See this strange old man
The man suddenly started crying loudly, and Xiao Han's heart suddenly moved! At this moment, he guessed the origin of the old man!
Twenty years?
Twenty years ago, wasn't that the time when Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty made three expeditions to Goguryeo?!
Could the old man in front of me be the Sui warrior who was defeated and captured?
"You, are you a Sui general?"
Obviously, Liu Hongji on the side also thought of this!
His face changed, and he didn't care about the mud all over the old man's body. He quickly rushed forward, supported the old man, and asked eagerly: "You, why are you here?"
"Yes, I am a general of the Sui Dynasty!" ??
The old man's lips were trembling with excitement at this moment, and his two pairs of deadwood-like hands were tightly grasping Liu Hongji's arm, as if he was afraid that if he let go, Liu Hongji would run away!
"I am Hu Hongguang, the leader of Team C of the Great Sui Dynasty! Ever since I was defeated and captured, I have been captured by those beasts and mined for twenty years!"
"What? Twenty years! Have you been mining here?"
Liu Hongji was shocked again by the old man's words. He looked at the old man in disbelief and asked: "But a few years ago, didn't His Majesty issue an edict asking the Emperor of Goguryeo to send you all home?"
"Send it home?"
There was confusion in the old man's cloudy eyes, and he soon became excited again: "No, no! We have all been forced to mine here by the Goguryeo people for twenty years! Most of the brothers who came with me were exhausted
Die, beat to death in this mine, no one comes to save us, no one takes us home..."
As he spoke, the old man holding Liu Hongji's arm suddenly tilted his head and made no sound!
When Liu Hongji saw this, he was shocked and rushed
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Look down and check carefully!
But I found that because the old man was too excited just now and his body was very weak, he actually fainted!
But fortunately, the person is still alive and still has a heartbeat and breath!
"Water! Hurry! Give him some water. If there are dry biscuits, they have also been soaked in water. Give him some!"
Xiao Han from behind also surrounded him at this time. Seeing the old man acting like this, he immediately shouted and asked people to find water and food!
After the people around him scrambled to find things and fed the old man a large bowl of water, he fainted and finally woke up! But his body was still very weak. After swallowing another half of the soaked dry biscuit,
Only then did the sallow face regain color.
"Brother, how many people like you are there on this mountain?" Seeing that the old man gained strength, Liu Hongji immediately pointed to the mine full of holes and asked.
"No, they are all dead, they are all dead!" The old man sat on the ground covered with clothes, his lips trembled twice, and he replied with difficulty: "Thousands of brothers who came with me all died here one after another.
On a mountain, the body was thrown into the ravine behind it! A few days ago, they saw that I was old and could no longer work, so they threw me in too. They didn’t expect that I was lucky enough to survive..."
"Thousands of brothers died here!"
Hearing this, Xiao Han and Liu Hongji couldn't help but look at each other, their eyes full of horror and anger!
At this time, they roughly guessed why the old man appeared here!
This must mean that the Pu family borrowed the power of the army to escort the Sui prisoners of war, including the old man, to this mine so that they could work day and night!
In fact, they even ignored the imperial edict of the old emperor Li Yuan a few years ago. They had to squeeze out the last bit of value from the old people before they treated them like garbage, threw them out of the mine, and left them to fend for themselves.
