Chapter 748 - Period was Here (1/2)

In this place, how could one still wish for good food and for other people to call them and save rice for them?

Xia Ruoxin already had a bad feeling about this place, and it was one not considered scary but was actually a pretty frightening place. Even though they did not know what they were here for, the fight between women had already started.

It was not for money or men but for a mouthful of rice and their life.

In the morning the next day…

The door was slammed open, and Xia Ruoxin hurriedly sat up; so did Shen Wei. She rubbed her eyes and wore her shoes, and the woman with a thick waist walked over and pointed at them one by one with her finger.

Ruoxin knew that she was counting the people.

Actually, even if they ran, it should be now; but it was just their first day here so they did not even know what grew here. How could they run and escape?

After the headcount, she passed them a bamboo basket with a net and some other items. Xia Ruoxin took the items but did not know what they were used for. However, when she came out, she understood as it was all women around here and no men.

She turned around to look at Shen Wei who held her head down. She had a nice jawline, and this ending was pretty good for them. At the very least, there were no men here—which meant that they would not be hurt in that way.

However, they might suffer a bit more physically, but there was still hope that they could go out alive and clean.

The woman with a thick waist brought them to a nearby river, and Xia Ruoxin then knew what they were here for.

They had to mine for gold. Yes, mine for gold.

With the net and other tools, they had to stand in the muddy river day after day—year after year—and mine the little bits of gold or gold dust from here. This meant that they were in a mine, even though they were still unsure of their exact location.

Suddenly, she felt a pain in her butt; and the person behind kicked her hard and almost made her fall to the ground.

Shen Wei wanted to stand up for her, but Xia Ruoxin hurriedly held her wrist and shook her head. It was best that they did not do anything as these people were probably like the crew members who did not treat them like humans and would harm and kill them whenever they wished.

They were living other people’s roof so they had to bow down to them.

Shen Wei could only tolerate it.

The woman with a thick waist was yelling something, which seemed to be rushing them down to the water.

Xia Ruoxin went down, and even though the weather was pretty hot, the water was ice-cold. When her feet touched the water, a gush of coldness rushed up her entire body from her foot.

She copied the others and took the net container to the sand and started finding gold. However, the containers went down one by one; but let alone gold, they did not even see a single bit of silver.