Li Qian fed the horse again and the party continued on their way. Surdak rode a horse and found a big circle along the way. Unfortunately, except for some white wolf dung, even the sand wolf didn’t touch it.
Three days later, the party finally arrived at the foot of the pustule and settled in.
The villagers all wore masks according to Surdak’s request, and everyone hurriedly set up the felt tent before dark.
This is the edge of the rocky area. If you walk a hundred meters inside, you can see stalagmites coming out of solidified lava, yellow sulfur and these stalagmites intertwined …
Chapter 262 Where the sand wolf appears
Volcanic ash flies and falls like gray snow in the sky
There is a strong smell of sulfur in the air, which is dry and hot. The dry and hot environment makes the body dehydrate easily.
A group of masons with white cotton masks and long boots were carrying pickaxes, sledgehammers, crowbars, chisels and wicker baskets. They came out of the tent at dawn and entered the river channel full of stalagmite volcanic rocks. When they saw the stalagmite sulfur mine, they didn’t care how thick the sulfur was, and they started quarrying in full swing.
Every day, a silver coin labor subsidy makes the villagers high-spirited, and it is the first day of coming to Pustuca Mountain. Everyone is ready to gather up a batch of goods as soon as possible so that the transport horses can leave.
More than 20 horses stop at the camp at the foot of Pustuca Mountain, and they eat more chewy food every day than the villagers. Masons are worried that once they run out of beans, they will not compete with them for wheat cakes …
These sulfur are loose in texture, and some parts of the stalagmite surface will be broken and finely divided when the pickaxe is knocked. These stalagmites are very hard, and it takes a lot of effort to extract the sulfur from the stalagmite, and sometimes it is necessary to smash the whole stalagmite.
In order to avoid dehydration, Suldak asked these villagers to drink some light salt water every once in a while.
Moreover, the climatic conditions in this area are too hot. When Suldak will start quarrying, the scorching sun will climb to the mountainside of Pufeng Mountain before and after dusk, and all villagers will be required to withdraw their tents to rest. Some villagers have already collected a wicker basket of sulfur mines when they encounter stalagmites, and some stalagmites that are difficult to collect have been dug up by the villagers.
The villagers were busy in the stalagmite forest, and they were excited to hear the whistle. At that time, they were a little confused, but they still came out from the stalagmite forest in the rocky area with wicker baskets on their backs.
Back to the camp, Surdak found that it was collected and left for everyone to squeeze into a tent and discuss it noisily.
Waiting for Surdak to come in from the outside and sit in the tent to ask the villagers about sulfur mining.
"I think we can work a little longer, don’t you think? Duck … "The big black guy egged on him and was the first to come out.
Behind the big black man sat a middle-aged uncle. He reached out to the big black man and slapped him in the back of his head. "Be respectful of Lord Surdak, you little stinker!"
The big black man, clutching his head, dared to be angry at the middle-aged uncle’s violence.
"Everyone should just call me by my name." Surdak smiled and said to the villagers in the tent.
Sitting next to Surdak, a villager took the opportunity to say, "Dudak, I think we can increase the working hours a little. How can we just go out of the tent and return to the tent to rest before the food is digested? If Uncle Brett knows that we are so lazy, he may deduct our subsidy. You see how difficult it is to earn some subsidies …"
The villagers in the tent nodded, and they obviously thought so.
Surdak shook his head and motioned for everyone to be quiet, and then said, "You may have to keep digging here for more than half a month. The environment here is hard and a lot of water is lost every day. Although we don’t lack drinking water, our bodies are always in such a hot state and it is easy to go wrong, so we must maintain our physical strength."
"The autumn harvest will be carried out in half a month, and everyone’s health can’t be dragged down. This time I will bring this batch of goods back to Woer Village, and I will definitely bring enough supplies."
Surdak said that most villagers were silent. Obviously, everyone also had some concerns.
The big black man shouted at the back of his voice, "Then let’s at least follow his quarry rules. This is the sulfur mine in Woer Village, which makes no sense. So high wages are oh ~ bah! The subsidy is even less than when working in other quarries! "
Surdak has some words. Look at the big black man. Are you a spy sent by the old village chief?
"Considering the environmental factors, it is still reasonable to get these subsidies, and at present, I am in charge here. We will temporarily implement Uncle Brett according to this standard. Then I will personally say that the conditions here are still a little hard, and when life in our village gets better, everyone’s subsidies can be higher." Surdak finally said.
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By the evening of the third day, the first batch of sulfur mines had been prepared and put into canvas bags to hang saddles. Each horse carried two bags of sulfur mines on both sides, with a total of 20 horses and more than three horses riding exclusively on the first sulfur mine transport team in Woer Village.
Surdak, Charley and Val are responsible for transporting the first batch of sulfur mines back to Wall Village, while Luke and two other young people stay in the pustule mountain temporary camp to look after the sulfur mines here. Surdak, Charley and Val took a series of horses to walk back to the village early on the fourth day before dawn.
The cavalry also went out for about 30 miles. The day after tomorrow, the floating volcanic ash decreased to almost no limestone. When a small amount of seabuckthorn grass appeared on the ground, a group of sand wolves appeared at one end of the horizon. Their gray fur was almost limestone, and if they didn’t show their shape from the height of the rock mass, I’m afraid Suldak would have found their traces.