Qibeipo Mine is located in the north of Qixing Mountain. Except for a small number of mining areas in the open pit, most of the mining areas are located in caves.
Although she stayed in Qixing Mountain for more than a month, this is Ye Lingyue's first visit to the North Mountain of Qixing Mountain.
Different from the Nanshan, which is verdant all the year round, the Beishan of Qixing Mountain does not have much vegetation, and the bare rocks are exposed, which looks very desolate.
In the past, there were mine carts and miners coming and going in the Seven North Slope Mine, but once you entered the mine today, there were few people in the mine, and it was a desolate scene.
Ye Lingyue followed Ye Sheng and hurried to the depths of the mine.
After arriving outside the Qibeipo mine, Ye Lingyue heard Ye Gu's angry reprimand.
After nearly ten years of mining, one-third of the mines on Qibei Slope have been excavated. The mining area is very wide, less than half the size of Qiufeng Town.
In the mine with the pine oil torches on, the two brothers Ye Huangyun and Ye Huangcheng lowered their heads. The two men in their thirties were scolded into silence.
"Bastard, how on earth did you supervise the work? How did a good ore become like this overnight." Ye Gu was so angry that his eyes were red, and the veins on his forehead were throbbing like earthworms.
At his feet, some ore was scattered.
Dark iron ore has two colors, the one with poor color is black with gray in the middle, and the one with more than 40% color is silver gray.
However, the ores in the seven north slope mines are crimson. If you look closely, those red ores are rusty ores.
Anyone who has ever dealt with the iron ore business knows that rust moss grows when the ore has been poorly preserved and damp.
In order to keep the ore dry, the mine is kept dry all year round to avoid moisture.
The ore covered with rust moss is difficult to refine.
Worried that the Song family would play tricks on the mine on the Qibei Slope, Ye Gu specially ordered Ye Huangyun and Ye Huangcheng brothers to be in charge of the handover of the mine this time.
The two brothers have hardly slept a wink in the past few days. They personally took over the Qibeipo Mine from the Song family. They have also seen the ore inside. How would they know that when they came here today, they found that all the ore was covered with rust moss .
And the rust moss is still increasing, and even the mountain walls of the mine have a large area of rust moss.
If this continues, the entire mine on the Seventh North Slope will be destroyed.
To make matters worse, in order to obtain the Qibeipo Mine, the mine in the hands of the Ye family has been handed over to the Song family. As a result, the Song family no longer has a mine.
If the loss caused by Ye Sheng's near-deception last time was still a drizzle for the Ye family, then the mine crisis on the Qibei Slope this time is a scourge that can destroy the Ye family's hundreds of years of foundation.
Some miners who got wind of it left the Ye family and went to work in the Song family. There were rumors outside that the Ye family was doomed this time.
"Father, we dare to guarantee with our heads that when my elder brother and I took over the mine, the ores in it were all good." Ye Huangcheng was the main person in charge of the mine, looking at the piles of waste ores, his heart was pierced.
"Grandpa, Dad, what's wrong with these ores?" Ye Sheng and Ye Qing entered the mine, and the mine was filled with dreary clouds and rain.
"Go, go, you children, what are you doing in the mine?" Ye Huangcheng was feeling depressed, and when he saw his son and others, he became even more depressed.
As soon as Ye Lingyue walked into the mine, she felt a burst of dampness.
Seeing that Ye Gu and the others were agitated, she didn't come forward to beg for scolding, and walked around the mine a few times.
"Uncle, why is there ice grass in the mine?" Ye Lingyue saw it at a glance. On the mountain wall and some inconspicuous corners, there were inconspicuous white grasses growing.
Reminiscent of the Song family buying a large amount of ice grass in the medicine shop earlier, Ye Lingyue quickly recalled the records about ice grass in the Hongmeng Handbook in Ye Lingyue's mind.
"Bingning Grass, what is that? These grasses are just some weeds." Ye Huangyun didn't have the heart to pay attention to those weeds.
"That's not a weed, ice grass is a kind of grass that condenses water vapor. Just transplant them in the mine, and it only takes one night to make the ore rust and grow a lot of rust moss." Ye Lingyue had a headache. No, these uncles of hers are experts in ore mining and refining, but they don't know anything about medicinal herbs.
She kindly reminded them earlier to investigate the reason why the Song family bought the ice grass. Looking at it now, the Song family clearly wanted to use these ice grass to destroy the entire Qibeipo mining area.
"What! Ling Yue, what you said is true?" Ye Gu and Ye Huangyun were shocked when they heard it.
As for Ye Huangcheng, he also had an ugly face.
"Could it be that these ice grasses were planted by the people of the Song family? Damn the Song family, this old man will never let you go." Ye Gu was furious, and he slammed his palm on the mountain wall. A pothole was made, and rocks splashed all over the ground.
"Grandpa, right now is not the time to settle accounts with the Song family. The top priority is to find a way to remove these rust mosses and refine these ores again." Ye Lingyue's words, in fact, everyone understands, but going out of the rust moss is easy to say, but the operation It's hard to get up.
"It's easy for you to say. To remove the rust moss, you must have a very high-temperature primordial fire. In Daxia, only a few big chambers of commerce and royal alchemy rooms have primordial fire. Even if you remove it, you will need a huge amount of money. , even if our Ye family goes bankrupt, we can't afford it." Ye Huangcheng was very angry.
He had never heard of Bing Ningcao, but a thirteen-year-old yellow-haired girl saw through it, which made Ye Huangcheng very embarrassed.
Ye Lingyue has a dry cauldron in her hand, so it is not difficult to remove the rust moss on the ore, but that will reveal that she has a lot of treasures, and the mine on the Qibei Slope is too big, Ye Lingyue's cauldron has to digest it. Multi-ore is difficult.
"Original fire is not the only way to remove rust moss. As far as I know, lava fire can also remove rust moss." Ye Lingyue clearly remembered that Hongmeng Fangxian made a similar record in Hongmeng Handbook.
"The temperature of the lava fire is similar to that of some primordial fires, but where should I find the volcanic lava fire at this time." Ye Gu nodded and then shook his head after hearing Ye Lingyue's suggestion.
"As long as it is confirmed that the lava fire can remove the rust moss, then the Ye family will be saved. Grandpa, do you believe me?" Ye Lingyue's eyes flickered, and she stared at Ye Gu. She also knew that and made everyone believe her words immediately. , with some difficulty.
Ye Gu is skeptical, and now the Ye family has no other better way, so let's just trust his granddaughter and treat him like a living doctor.
Seeing that Ye Gu believed in her, Ye Lingyue no longer hesitated, and took Ye Gu to the cliff cave where the golden-footed snake worm was found earlier.