There is Room For the Poor Daughter - Chapter 885

[Chapter 885 Chapter 885, Coal Mine]

Bu Gandang left with the horse, Xiao Yeyang pulled Daohua out of the carriage, helped her onto the mount, and sat on it himself.

The two rode together on the same horse, admiring the vast wilderness, walking at a leisurely pace.

Daohua leaned comfortably in Xiao Yeyang’s arms, enjoying this rare time alone.

“Do you want to gallop?”

Dao Hua’s eyes lit up, and she nodded hurriedly.

Seeing Xiao Yeyang, he smiled freely, waved the whip in his hand, and the sitting horse flew out like an arrow off the string.

The melodious laughter and wanton and bright smile, accompanied by the galloping horses, stayed on this land.

Xiao Yeyang slapped his whip and galloped quickly with the rice flowers. When the horse rushed up a slope, a dark and half-grown boy suddenly sprang out from behind the slope.

“Woo~”

Xiao Yeyang was startled, and quickly tightened his mount.

But when the boy saw the tall horse rushing towards him, he froze in place in shock.

The horse’s front legs were raised high, and Xiao Yeyang tightly reined in it, so it didn’t kick at the boy.

Xiao Yeyang steered his horse to avoid the young man, took a few steps back, and then quickly looked at Daohua: “Aren’t you scared?”

Daohua patted his chest: “Fortunately, I was just startled.”

Seeing that her face looked normal, Xiao Yeyang turned over and got off the horse.

“I want to go down too.” Daohua stretched out her hands.

Xiao Yeyang immediately reached out and hugged her down.

At this time, Defu and Mei Lan, who were riding in a carriage, also arrived.

Defu: “Master, what’s the matter?”

Xiao Yeyang ignored him, striding towards the boy who was so dark that only his eyes could see some white.

The young man seemed to be stupefied by fright, and he stood there with a stiff posture in a daze.

Daohua also walked over, not wanting Xiao Yeyang to scare anyone again, she took the lead in asking: “Little brother, are you okay?”

The questioning voice came to his ears with concern, and the young man finally came back to his senses. God, he fell to the ground with weak legs, and then, tears flowed down.

Uh.

Daohua and Xiao Yeyang glanced at each other quickly. The boy in front of them was only twelve or thirteen years old. Seeing him crying sadly made them feel guilty for bullying a child.

Defu saw that the two masters looked embarrassed, and quickly took out his handkerchief and handed it over: “Little brother, don’t cry, let’s talk if you have something to say.” The

young man looked at Daohua and the others, and felt no malice, so he Wiping his eyes with Defu’s handkerchief, he choked and said, “I thought I was going to die just now.”

Defu couldn’t laugh or cry: “Aren’t you dead yet? Get up quickly, don’t cry.” Then, He reached out to help the boy.

After the boy stood up, he saw that the handkerchief in his hand was already pitch black, and he looked at Defu with some embarrassment.

Defu looked at the veil that was directly dyed black, and the corners of his mouth twitched: “The veil is for you.”

Daohua saw that the young man’s mood stabilized, and asked, “Little brother, where did you get it? The whole body is so dirty? You ran so fast just now?”

Hearing this, the boy’s expression suddenly became tense and panicked, and before he could say anything, loud voices came from behind the hillside.

“That little bastard must not be far away, I must bring him back to me.” The

young man was about to run away, but Defu grabbed him.

The boy was in a hurry: “They are people from the coal mine, they came to arrest me.”

Xiao Yeyang looked at the boy: “Did you escape from the coal mine?” The

boy nodded quickly: “You guys let me go, I If you are caught by the people in the coal mine, you will die, please.”

Hearing the sound getting closer, Xiao Yeyang glanced at Defu, who immediately pulled the boy into the carriage and hid in the carriage.

As soon as the boy was stuffed into the carriage by Defu, several fierce and strong men appeared in sight.

Xiao Yeyang stood in front of Daohua, blocked her behind, and swept those strong men expressionlessly.

Several strong men looked at Xiao Yeyang and the others, and were stunned for a moment.

Perhaps because they realized that Xiao Yeyang and his party were not easy to mess with, the strong men continued to chase forward without asking anything.

“Brother Hu, why didn’t you ask those people just now?

” Those people are not something we can afford to offend.”

“What if the brat hid in their carriage?”

“Oh, you don’t have many opportunities to deal with noble people, and you don’t know who they are in the high places. From the bottom of my heart, I can’t look down on us mud-legged people. There are still female relatives among those people, how can they help a dirty child?” When the

people disappeared, Defu opened the carriage and let the boy get off.

The young man looked at Defu, then at Daohua and Xiao Yeyang, and knelt down with a ‘thump’: “Thank you kind man for saving me.”

Xiao Yeyang looked at the young man, who looked twelve or thirteen years old, his body He was so thin that a gust of wind could blow him away, he frowned and asked: “You are still so young and you are going to work in a coal mine?” The

young man showed some anger on his face: “They took me forcibly.”

Xiao Yeyang “Why did they arrest you?” The

young man shook his head, “I don’t know, my father is a small official under Yang Baihu of the Beihu Office in Beiwan.” Speaking of this, the young man’s eyes turned red again, “Last autumn, I Dad died suddenly and inexplicably.”

“My family and I were very sad, but we didn’t dare to go to the Baihu Office to inquire, but I didn’t expect that Yang Baihu would send someone to arrest me and take me to work in a coal mine just after the New Year this year. ”

“They tortured me every day, kept me digging coal, and didn’t give me food. I couldn’t stand it, so I escaped.”

Xiao Yeyang looked at the boy, knowing that he had nothing to say, and he didn’t bother Ask.

However, the Beiwan Baihusuo discovered a coal mine.

In the past few months, he checked the taxes of the Qianhusuo and Baihusuo under Ganzhou Wei for the past two years, but he did not see all the Beiwan Baihusuo. How much tax was paid.

The coal mines in Xiliang can be mined privately, but they have to pay a certain amount of tax every year. Obviously, the Beiwan Hundred Households have kept the matter of the coal mines a secret.

Thinking of Ganzhou Wei’s financial expenditure beyond its means, Xiao Yeyang was very annoyed at this kind of officials who took the lead in tax evasion. He glanced at the young man again, and said softly: “Those people have already left, you can leave on your own.”

Said After finishing, Xiao Yeyang led Daohua and walked towards the carriage. He was startled just now and didn’t want to ride a horse anymore.

Looking at the backs of the two, the young man struggled a little. When his father was still alive, he often went to the Baihu House and met some nobles.

These people in front of him felt stronger than Yang Baihu, and he also saw the scene where the people in the coal mine didn’t dare to provoke them and took the initiative to avoid them.

Can these people help him?

Thinking of his elderly grandparents and his sister who was targeted by villains in the village, the boy gritted his teeth, decided to take a gamble, and quickly ran towards Xiao Yeyang and Daohua.

When Defu saw him, he thought he was going to do something, so he stood up and tried to stop him.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the young man ran over, he knelt down in front of Daohua and Xiao Yeyang: “You two good people, please save me and my family.”

Although Daohua sympathized with the young man who went to dig coal mines at a young age , but thinking of the boy’s slurred speech just now, he looked away.

Xiao Yeyang ignored it directly, and stretched out his hand to help Daohua get into the car.

“If two good people will protect me and my family, I will tell you the location of an open pit coal mine.”

Hearing this, Daohua and Xiao Yeyang turned their heads to look at the boy together.   The young man looked at the two people with hopeful eyes: “Can you help me

?”

Xiao Yeyang raised his eyebrows: “That depends on whether what you said is true?”

Last Mid-Autumn Festival, my father returned home excitedly and told me that he had found the news of the coal mine in the previous topography, which was the one that those people arrested me just now.”

“My father found a total of two Yang Baihu took me to the coal mine and tortured me because he wanted to find out the location of another coal mine.”

“I know that once I tell him, I will die suddenly like my father, maybe the family members Grandparents, grandparents, and elder sister can’t escape, so I haven’t said anything.”

Xiao Yeyang looked at the boy: “Do you know what will happen to me if I miss it?” The

boy hurriedly said: “I didn’t lie, everything I said is true. It’s true.”   Xiao

Yeyang took a deep look at the young man: “Would you like to go to Ganzhou City?” The

young man nodded quickly: “As long as we can escape Yang Baihu’s clutches, my family and I can go anywhere.”

Yeyang looked at Defu: “You run with him and pick up his family.” Then, he walked up to the boy and patted him on the shoulder, “Boy, don’t lie to me. Otherwise, offending me will be more terrifying than offending Yang Baihu.” The

boy shook his head with a pale face, “No.”

Xiao Yeyang withdrew his hand, got into the carriage with Dao Hua and left.

“Do you think what the young man said is true or not?” In the

carriage, Dao Hua looked at Xiao Yeyang.

Xiao Yeyang: “Nine times out of ten it’s true. Under my gaze, his eyes didn’t escape.” He said with a smile, “If his disguise can fool me, then he is also a talent. ”

Daohua smiled and said: “At the age of twelve or thirteen, I saw that we could compete with Yang Baihu, and Xu Yizhongli asked for help without hesitation. This courage and determination alone is stronger than many people.”

Xiao Yeyang agreed Nodding his head: “There are few forests here in Xiliang, and it’s cold in winter. Most of the heating is carried over by briquettes. If we can really find an open-pit coal mine, it will also ease the financial pressure of Ganzhou Wei.”

Come here Afterwards, he had already invested a lot of silver. The gold used to buy the horses this time was provided by the Xiao Mansion. Although it was useless, he would have to use it for the next horse purchase.

It doesn’t matter once or twice, if this continues, he will evacuate his family.

Daohua reminded: “If you use coal, you must pay attention to ventilation, or you will be poisoned by gas.”

Xiao Yeyang: “People here in Xiliang use coal for a long time. They know this better than us. Don’t worry too much.”

When it was getting dark, Xiao Yeyang brought Daohua to live in the inn next to Beiwan Baihusuo again.

After running for a day, everyone was hungry, Xiao Yeyang ordered food, he and Daohua sat at the same table, Mei Lan Meiju and Deshou Yingying sat at the other table.

Everyone had just eaten halfway when they heard exclamations from the backyard.

People in the inn lobby looked over one after another, and many people even got up and walked to the backyard.

Xiao Yeyang glanced at Deshou, and Deshou immediately followed the others to the backyard.

Soon, Deshou came back.

“Master, madam, it’s all right, but the woman who was burning the fire in the kitchen fainted from the briquettes. After being carried out, she vomited for a while, and she was fine.”

Xiao Yeyang nodded and continued to eat.

Daohua asked, “Balls? The solid ones?”

Xiao Yeyang shrugged. He had never seen a briquette before.

Dao Hua looked at Mei Lan: “Mei Lan, after you finish your meal, go to the kitchen and bring me a briquette and show me.”

Xiao Yeyang: “What’s so good about a briquette?”

Daohua: “I’m just curious. If it’s really a solid briquette, I might be able to modify it so that the burning rate of the briquette is higher and the poisoning caused by the incomplete combustion of coal can be reduced.”

After the two finished their meal, I went back to the room.

As soon as Dao Hua loosened her bun, Mei Lan came in with a black briquette.

“Sure enough, it’s solid. I’ll go back and ask the blacksmith to make a manual briquette mold, and then I can change the solid briquettes into city briquettes.”

Seeing Xiao Yeyang’s blank face, he said with a smile: “It’s definitely better than this briquette , if that young man really led you to find a coal mine and make this briquette, it will definitely sell well.”

Xiao Yeyang smiled: “Then I will wait for my wife to show her skills.”

After buying horses, Xiao Yeyang started to go out early and late When I got back, if I went to the frontier barracks, sometimes I would not go home for several days.

The young man who offered to exchange coal mines for asylum was called Li Mancang. The day after he was taken to Ganzhou City by Defu, he took Defu, Bu Gandang, and a team of guards to find the coal mine.

On the third day of May, Daohua was instructing the mother-in-law and maids in the kitchen to make zongzi, when Gu Yu walked over quickly: “Girl, Commander Defu and Bu have returned.”

Hearing this, Daohua turned around and wanted to leave, but just now After taking a step, she stopped and said to Gu Yu, “Look here, the carpenter’s shop for the rice dumpling box will be delivered later, you can pick it up.”

Gu Yu nodded, she knew that these rice dumplings were all for sale . The gift to the officials in Ganzhou City is related to the face of the Xiao Mansion, and she dare not be careless at all.

When Daohua arrived in the front yard, she saw Defu’s brows that could not hide her excitement, and she suddenly had a guess in her heart: “Have you found the coal mine?”

Defu smiled and nodded: “Ma’am, that open-pit coal mine is on the Gobi Desert. It is very big. Master will be very happy when he finds out.” Daohua

: “Gobi Desert? No wonder no one has discovered it.”

Other places in Ganzhou Wei are sparsely populated, let alone Gobi Desert.

Daohua was also very happy to find the coal mine. Ganzhou Wei has a lot of financial expenditures, but not many sources of income, and does not receive support from the court. For this reason, she often sees Xiao Yeyang worrying.

“Since the coal mine has really been found, the Li family can’t treat them badly. In this way, you can buy them a house in the city with a store with a backyard.”

“When the coal mine starts to be mined, let them sell briquettes in the store , In this way, the young and old of the Li family can also make a living.”

Defu replied with a smile: “Madam is still thoughtful.”

Daohua said again: “I have asked the master in the blacksmith shop to make a few honeycomb briquettes. Abrasives, bring me some coal powder and yellow soil, and I will teach you how to make briquettes.”

“By the way, call the young man from the Li family.”

In Xiliang, not only in winter, but also in other times Coal, the next day, Defudu got a pile of coal scraps.

It is said that it is Daohua Sect, but in fact she is talking about it, and the specific things are done by the servants.

After experimenting with the ratio of coal and yellow mud several times, the briquettes came out that day.

“After drying, you can use it.”

After Li Mancang saw the briquettes, he looked at Daohua excitedly: “Madam, this briquettes are much more useful than the briquettes we usually use.”

Daohua smiled Said: “That is natural.” This is the crystallization of the wisdom of the working people.

Li Mancang immediately said: “Madam, my shop will be called a briquette shop from that day on?”

Daohua smiled and said, “You said it was your shop, so it’s up to you to make the decision.”

Knowing that the coal mine was found, Xiao Yeyang came back from the barracks, considered the officials of the guard, and finally sent Zhang Da to take charge of the coal mining, with Dong Yuanxuan assisting.

(end of this chapter)