Chapter 228: Tang Yue has daddy issues Part1

Tang Yue emptied out the meat on her plate quickly and she followed the old dwarf to the family's mines. 

Charlotte, the little kid, and the wolf cub as well followed closely behind her.

Since there was always a lot of manual labor in the mining process, it was only natural that she brought along these newly acquired slaves with her.

The group quietly walked over to the hills nearby and Kosa stopped in front of their mining territory.

Tang Yue couldn't help but look around in awe. 

While the other dwarves simply had a portion of the hill or shared their territory with a couple of families, the chieftain had an entire huge hill to himself.

Tang Yue could see why someone like Barton was intent on maintaining his relationship with the family and seeing the engagement through.

But even with such a big mining resource, the dwarf was still riddled with debts and drowning in poverty, all due to a very simple reason.

Kosa was paying more than half of the tax revenue owed to the Emperor from the entire village. 

Tang Yue sighed. This old man was too kind for his own good. 

It was no wonder the villagers and the other clan leaders had never opposed Kosa and competed with him for the chieftain's position.

When the old man, Tang Yue, and the group walked over to their mine entrance, a couple of dwarves coincidentally walked out from the neighboring hill.

"Heh. Coming so late to work? Are you getting lazy these days Lord Chieftain?" A middle-aged dwarf's voice echoed. 

This was Maarg, one of the dwarven clan leaders of the village. He looked at the young man standing next to him and chuckled. 

"Did you see that, Dobey? Our chieftain and his talented daughter have arrived to finish their hard day's work."

As these two continued talking nonsense, a bunch of dwarves walked out, carrying big bulky sacs on their bag.

In the span of a minute, about ten huge sacs were neatly lined up outside the hill.

And stacked together, these sacs were quite eye-catching and would surely fetch a lot of gold.

Each contained thick sturdy chunks of the ore Nebulum, one of the many ores used to craft mid-grade and high-grade weapons.

This was the ore most commonly mined in this particular region of the dwarven empire. 

Kosa gulped at the sight of such a huge harvest. 

It would probably take him an entire month and perhaps he wouldn't be able to extract so many ores even then.

However, he didn't mind the hurtful words at all and didn't say anything in return.

"Good job. Congratulations on your harvest, Maarg." He simply nodded with a smile and started heading in. 

Tang Yue as well glanced at the other group and followed behind her father.

"Hmph. Useless bastard and his useless daughter. We will see how long you can sit on that gold mine of yours." Maarg gnashed his teeth and walked away.

All the major clan leaders hated Kosa to the core, but at the same time, their hands were tied.

If they dared to initiate any coup and usurp Kosa from his chieftain position, then they would have to pay the revenue following Kosa's footsteps.

It was definitely not a win-win situation. They were extremely frustrated.

But the old dwarf hadn't thought about such things. He simply held onto the huge family mine because he wanted to help the poor families in the village.

Inside the huge mountain, Kosa silently walked down to one of the mining nodes and started hitting the hard rock with his pickaxe.

Tang Yue keenly observed the dwarf and his actions. 

She hadn't mined anything before so she didn't want to be too hasty and ruin the ores.

A hill typically had several mining nodes in the interior, and around each node ores surface and protrude after sufficient incubation.

The energy of the world, mana mixes in with the earth and coalesces earth elemental essence in the form of these ores.

So when mining an ore, one shouldn't affect the main root or vein of the node and skillfully excavate only the superficial layers.

This was a very laborious and painstaking process, especially for someone who was still in the Martial realm.

Even Maarg and his son were also in the Martial realm but they had several workers to help them with the mining process and hence their output was far greater.

In the past, Kosa also had employed several miners to help him with the ore management.

But because of Barton family's underhanded scheming, none of the village miners worked with Kosa any longer.

Just with these carefully planned moves, Barton's family had successfully pushed Kosa in a corner. 

They knew that the old man would definitely cave in for the welfare of the village. After all, there was only so much a single isolated person can accomplish. 

By the time the actual wedding took place, handing over the mine to the Barton family would be his only option left!

Kosa didn't know all of this. But because of Zinya's extensive knowledge, Tang Yue clearly knew the whole scheme.

What a thankless bunch of idiots! Tang Yue fumed. 

This man was helping them so much behind the scenes but they still allowed themselves to be easily bribed. They even forgot the bigger picture.

Tang Yue patiently sat down on the cold hard ground and observed Kosa for a long time.

The old man occasionally looked in her direction but didn't say anything to her even though she was obviously slacking and not doing any work.

Before long, it was already evening and Kosa had to return to the main house to take care of some chieftain duties.

"Child, are you okay?" He patted Tang Yue and asked with concern. 

Yana always used to run down and help him so energetically but today, she was simply sitting. 

So he was worried if the girl was not feeling well.

"No. No. Father, I am completely alright. Please don't worry. Can I come back home a little later today?" She asked.