HLnovel Chapter 357 Let's fight our way out!
Chapter 357 Let's fight our way out!
All the salt workers in the pit turned around, staring blankly at Lu Yangyang, hardly believing how this pretty boy could dare to do such a thing...
Guan, whose face was stomped into the ground by Lu Yangyang, was stunned for a moment by this sudden turn of events. Then, his eyes widened in disbelief, and he roared, "Are you tired of living? Are you tired of living? Let me go! Let me go now, or I'll make you..."
Lu Yangyang impatiently stomped on his face twice more. The steward choked on dirt, his eyes rolling back, whimpering, "Mud, mud..."
"Stop talking nonsense, I can't be bothered to listen to your babbling. If you dare to cause trouble again, I'll bury you first." Lu Yangyang stomped down, burying half of his head in the ground.
"Ugh, ugh..." The steward could no longer make a sound.
Just as Lu Yangyang was about to pull him out and throw him away, a shout suddenly came from afar: "Someone's been killed! Someone's been killed!"
Following this shout, many people climbed out of the salt pit and looked toward the scene of the accident.
Lu Yangyang wrapped the whip around the manager's neck and climbed up as well. Not far away, a large crowd had gathered around a salt pit. Several men dressed as managers rushed over and shouted, "How dare you! You dare to injure people in the salt mine! Men, tie him up!"
Several of the manager's men rushed towards the man in the middle, and were thrown out in a few swift movements.
Lu Yangyang quickly dragged the steward through, and as they got closer, they immediately spotted Chief Luo in the salt pit.
Lian Sheng, who had run over with her, whispered worriedly to Lu Yangyang, "It's all over! You can't fight while working at the saltworks. If you fight, you'll definitely be locked in the dark room. I heard that many people who were locked in the dark room starved to death!"
Lu Yangyang: "..."
She didn't know whether the others were dead or alive, but she was certain that Chief Luo wouldn't die.
Although it's uncertain whether Chief Luo is connected to the Chenzhou case from back then, his iron-fisted demeanor and over ten years of experience as a bandit, coupled with his deep hatred for government officials, mean these people have messed with him...
As expected, when Luo's bandits discovered that the person at the center of the incident was their leader, a dozen or so of them swarmed towards him, immediately surrounding him and glaring menacingly at the manager who was about to arrest him.
The manager was so angry his nose almost twisted. He roared, "Are you trying to rebel? Don't you know where you are? I'm warning you, Manager Yang is here to inspect today. If you dare to cause trouble, fine, I'll grant your wish right now! Men, bury these people right here and throw their bodies into the sea to feed the fish!"
"Listen up, all of you! Kill them! Whoever gets a head will be promoted!"
As soon as he shouted these words, more and more salt workers gathered around the salt pit, forming a dense crowd of at least several hundred people.
Lu Yangyang frowned and looked at Boss Luo in the salt pit.
Luo, the head of the gang, wore a mocking expression as his gaze swept over the numb yet eager salt workers: "Come on, all of you, come at me! Open your eyes wide and see why you're trapped here, beaten and starved every day, living a life worse than pigs and dogs! I know some of you may have committed crimes, while others just want to get a job, but those of you whose sentences are up, have they paid you? Those of you who came here to work, you received a few copper coins in wages, but can you leave this place? No! So come on, and see if these corrupt officials can keep any of their promises!"
"Today we die here, tomorrow it will be you. All of you are nothing more than livestock that they can slaughter at will!"
Upon hearing these words, the sparks of hope that had been flickering in the eyes of the numb salt workers vanished almost instantly.
Yes, even if we kill these people, will the promises made by those in charge be kept?
No, from the moment they arrived here, regardless of their initial reasons, they were nothing more than a bunch of beasts to be driven at will, not even human beings. So how can we expect them to keep their promises?
Nothing can be fulfilled.
The henchmen around Chief Luo immediately shouted, "Chief, we were fooled by that little wench! These corrupt officials are all scoundrels! They don't treat us like human beings at all! Rather than waiting to die here, let's fight our way out and go back up the mountain! Chief, we swear to follow you to the death!"
"We swear to follow our leader to the death!"
Several henchmen shouted, yelling at the salt workers, "You lot, instead of staying here and being treated like cattle, why don't you fight your way out with us and start over in our Wangshan Village! Kill all these corrupt officials!"
"Yes! Kill all these corrupt officials!"
Many people cheered, and even some of the salt workers who had been watching couldn't help but shout, "Let's fight our way out and kill all these corrupt officials!"
Seeing the situation, the foreman shouted angrily, "You bunch of good-for-nothings, do you want to rebel?! You're all tired of living! Fine, if you don't care about your lives, I'll grant your wish today. Go and call some men to throw all of you trash into the sea to feed the fish!"
As soon as he finished speaking, several salt workers who surrounded him pinned him down.
The situation quickly spiraled out of control.
Lu Yangyang never expected things to turn out this way.
The salt workers around them grew increasingly excited, and as darkness fell, their shouts grew louder and louder.
Only Lian Sheng, standing beside Lu Yangyang, was extremely anxious: "How could this happen? What should we do? What should we do? If this gets out of hand, it will cause a huge disaster!"
Lu Yangyang looked at him with surprise and asked, "Don't you want to leave here?"
Even his dark face turned purple with frustration: "I... I want to leave here, of course I do, but... but this is wrong, this is wrong!"
He couldn't explain it clearly, he just felt that this wouldn't work, this was wrong, and he was so anxious that he didn't know what to do.
Lu Yangyang patted his shoulder: "Stay close to me later!"
Lian Sheng was confused, but he felt a strange sense of trust in this new friend he was meeting for the first time. He nodded hurriedly and instinctively stood protectively beside Lu Yangyang.
Lu Yangyang grabbed the steward who was dragging on the ground and slapped him hard on the back, knocking out the dirt he had swallowed. The steward was finally able to breathe again. "Pretty boy, I'll kill you!"
Lu Yangyang grabbed his wrist and snapped it with a crack. Then, as if by magic, she produced a dagger and pressed it against his lower back: "Behave yourself. No one is here to save you now. If you don't want to die, take me to see your manager right now!"