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Chapter 885 Chapter 885, Coal Mine

After stepping away with the horse, Xiao Yeyang pulled Daohua out of the carriage, helped her to mount, and turned over and sat on it.

The two ride on the same horse, admiring this vast wasteland, walking without haste.

Daohua leaned comfortably in Xiao Yeyang's arms, enjoying this rare solitary time.

"Do you want to ride a horse to gallop?"

Daohua's eyes lit up and nodded busy.

Xiao Yeyang saw him, smiled freely, waving the horse whip in his hand, and the horse sitting down shot out like an arrow from the string.

The sweet laughter and the wanton smile, accompanied by the horse's gallop, stayed on this land.

Xiao Yeyang slapped his horse whip and ran fast with the rice flower. When the horse rushed up an uphill field, a dark half-aged young man suddenly appeared behind the slope.

"Call~"

Xiao Yeyang was startled, and quickly tightened his mount.

And the young man was shocked and stupefied when he saw the tall horse rushing over.

The horse raised its front foot high, and was tightly restrained by Xiao Yeyang, before kicking it towards the boy.

Xiao Yeyang drove the horse to avoid the boy, and then stepped back a few steps before quickly looking at Daohua: "Aren't you scared?"

Inahana patted her chest: "Fortunately, I was surprised."

Xiao Yeyang saw that her expression was still normal, so he 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.

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

Blessed: "Master, what happened?"

Xiao Yeyang ignored him, strode towards the young boy who was so black that only his eyes could see the white.

The young man seemed to be frightened and stupefied, standing still in a stiff posture.

Daohua also walked over, not wanting Xiao Yeyang to scare people anymore, and asked first: "Little brother, are you okay."

Inquired into the ear with a caring voice, and the boy finally recovered. Once he recovered, he fell on the ground with his legs weak, and then, tears flowed down.

Uh.

Daohua and Xiao Yeyang looked at each other quickly, and the boy in front of them was only twelve or thirteen years old. Seeing him crying sadly, the two men felt guilty about bullying the children.

Seeing that the two masters were embarrassed, they quickly took out their handkerchiefs and handed them over: "Little brother, don't cry, let's say something."

The young man looked at Daohua and didn’t feel malicious, so he wiped his eyes with the blessed veil, choked and said, “I thought I was going to die just now.”

Defu was a little bit dumbfounded: "Aren't you still dead? Get up quickly, don't cry." As he said, he stretched out his hand to help the boy.

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

Daifu looked at the directly dyed black veil, and the corners of his mouth twitched: "The veil is here for you."

Seeing that the boy's emotions stabilized, Daohua asked, "Brother, where did you come from, how did you make your whole body so dirty? You just ran so anxiously?"

Hearing this, the youth's expression suddenly became nervous and panicked. Before he could say anything, loud voices came from behind the hillside.

"That little **** must not run far, so I must catch him back to Lao Tzu."

The young man was about to flee, and was blessed to grab him.

The boy was anxious: "They are people in the coal mine. They came to catch me."

Xiao Yeyang looked at the boy: "Did you escape from the coal mine?"

The young man nodded quickly: "You let me go. I'm going to die if I'm caught by the people in the coal mine. I beg you."

Xiao Yeyang heard the sound getting closer and glanced at Defu, who hid the young man in the carriage.

As soon as the young man was forced into the carriage, a few fierce and strong men appeared in his sight.

Xiao Yeyang stood in front of Daohua, blocked her behind, and swept the brawny men blankly.

Several brawny men looked at Xiao Yeyang and the others, and they were all taken aback.

It may be that he sensed that Xiao Yeyang and his party were not easy to provoke, and the brawny men continued to chase forward without asking anything.

"Brother Tiger, why didn't you ask those people just now?"

"You are blind, that horse and carriage are not something ordinary people can afford at first sight, and the look of the man in brocade clothes is more frightening than that of the adults. Those people are not something we can afford to offend. of."

"What if that kid hides in their carriage?"

"Heh, you don’t have many opportunities to deal with the nobles. I don’t know that the aloft they don’t look at us with mud legs in their hearts. Among those people, there are still female relatives, how could it be possible to help a dirty child?"

Waiting for the people to walk away without a figure, only when they were blessed did they open the carriage and let the boy get out of the carriage.

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

Xiao Yeyang looked at the young man, who was twelve or thirteen years old, his body was so thin that a gust of wind could blow away, and he asked with condensed eyebrows: "You are still so young to work in a coal mine?"

There was some anger on the young man’s face: "I was forcibly arrested by them."

Xiao Yeyang: "Why did they arrest you?"

The boy shook his head: "I don't know, my dad is a staff member of Yang Baihu of Beihu Office." At this point, the boy's eyes were red again, "Last fall, my dad suddenly died 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 Yang Baihu to send someone to the coal mine to work in the coal mine just after the new year."

"They tortured me every day, they kept me digging for coal, and they didn't give me food. I really couldn't stand it, so they escaped."

Xiao Yeyang looked at the boy, knowing that he had nothing to say, and was too lazy to ask.

However, Beiwan Hundred Households discovered a coal mine.

In the past few months, he checked all the taxes paid by the thousands of households and the hundred households under the jurisdiction of Ganzhouwei for the past two years, and did not see how much tax and silver all Beiwan hundred households had paid.

The coal mines in Xiliang can be mined privately, but a certain amount of tax and silver must be paid every year. Obviously, the Beiwan Hundred Households has concealed the coal mine.

Thinking of Ganzhou Guard’s financial expenditures, Xiao Yeyang was very annoyed by such officials who took the lead in tax evasion and tax evasion. He glanced at the boy again and said quietly, "Those people have already left, you can leave by yourself."

After finishing speaking, Xiao Yeyang took Daohua and walked towards the carriage. He was taken aback and didn't want to ride a horse anymore.

The young man looked at the backs of the two, with a look of struggle. When his father was still alive, he often went to the Baihusho and met some noble people.

These people in front of him felt stronger than Yang Baihu. He also saw the scene that the people in the coal mine just dared not provoke and evaded them actively.

Can these people help him?

Thinking of the elderly grandfather and grandmother in the family, and the sister who was being watched by the villain in the village, the boy gritted his teeth, decided to take a gamble, and ran towards Xiao Yeyang and Daohua quickly.

Blessed, I thought he was going to do something, so he quickly stood up and wanted to stop him.

Who knows, as soon as the boy ran over, he knelt directly in front of Daohua and Xiao Yeyang: "Two good people, please save me and my family."

Although Daohua had some sympathy for the teenager to dig a coal mine at a young age, she looked away when she thought that the teenager had just spoken vaguely.

Xiao Yeyang simply ignored him, reaching out to help Daohua get into the car.

"If two good people can shelter me and my family, I would like to tell you the location of an open-pit coal mine."

Hearing this, Daohua and Xiao Yeyang turned their heads to look at the boy.

The young man looked at the two with hopeful eyes: "Can you help me?"

Xiao Yeyang raised his eyebrows: "It depends on whether what you said is true?"

Teenager: ". My dad is responsible for guarding all the copywriting books of the Hundred Houses. Last Mid-Autumn Festival, my dad returned home excitedly and told me that he had found a coal mine in the previous topography. Those people just arrested me and went back. That seat."

"My father found news about two coal mines in total. Yang Baihu caught me in the coal mine to torture me, and wanted to ask for the location of another coal mine."

"I knew that once I told him, I would die suddenly like my dad. Maybe my grandfather, grandmother and sister could not escape, so I never said."

Xiao Yeyang stared at the young man: "Do you know what will happen to me if I go wrong?"

The boy hurriedly said: "I didn't lie to people, what I said was true."

Xiao Yeyang took a deep look at the boy: "Would you like to go to Ganzhou City?"

The boy nodded quickly: "As long as we can escape from Yang Baihu's clutches, my family and I can go anywhere."

Xiao Yeyang looked at Defu: "You run with him to pick up his family." Then, he walked to the boy and patted him on the shoulder, "Boy, don't lie to me. Otherwise, it would be more terrifying to offend me than to offend Yang Baihu."

The boy shook his head with a pale face: "No."

Xiao Yeyang retracted his hand, got into the carriage with Daohua and left.

"Do you say that what the boy said is true or false?"

In the carriage, Daohua looked at Xiao Yeyang.

Xiao Yeyang: "It's true in all likelihood. Under my gaze, his eyes didn't dodge." He said and smiled, "If his disguise can deceive me, then he is also a talent. "

Daohua smiled and said: "At the age of twelve or thirteen, we can see that we can contend with Yang Baihu. We made a decisive decision to ask for help with great profit. The courage and determination alone is better than many people."

Xiao Yeyang nodded in agreement: "The shaolin trees in Xiliang are cold in winter, and most of the heating is carried by briquettes. If an open-pit coal mine can be found, it will also relieve Ganzhouwei's financial pressure. "

After    came here, he had already invested a lot of silver, and this time the gold he bought the horse came from the Xiao Mansion.

Once or twice, that’s fine. If this continues, he will vacate the house.

Daohua reminded: “If you use coal, you must pay attention to ventilation, otherwise it will cause gas poisoning.”

Xiao Yeyang: "People in Xiliang haven't used coal for a day or two. They know this better than us, so don't worry too much."

When the sky was getting dark, Xiao Yeyang once again brought Daohua into the inn on the Beiwan Baihusho.

After running for a day, everyone was hungry. Xiao Yeyang ordered food. He was at a table with Daohua, and Mei Lan Meiju and Deshou Shadowying were at another table.

As soon as everyone was halfway through the meal, they heard exclamations from the backyard.

People in the lobby of the inn looked around, and many people got up and walked to the backyard.

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

Soon, Deshou came back.

"Master, madam, it's okay. The woman who was burning in the kitchen was smoked by briquettes and fainted. After she was lifted out, she vomited for a while and she was well."

Xiao Yeyang nodded and continued to eat.

Inohana asked, "Balquets? The solid ones?"

Xiao Yeyang shrugged, he had never seen briquettes either.

Daohua looked at Meilan: "Meilan, when you finish eating, come over to the kitchen to get a briquettes and show me."

Xiao Yeyang: "What's so good about briquettes?"

Daohua: “I’m just curious. If it’s really solid briquettes, I might be able to change it to make the briquettes burn more quickly and reduce the poisoning caused by inexhaustible coal.”

The two returned to the room after eating.

As soon as Inaka broke her hair up, Mei Lan came in with a black briquettes.

"Sure enough, it is solid. I will go back and ask the master at the blacksmith shop to make a manual briquette grinding tool, so that the solid briquettes can be changed into city briquettes."

Seeing Xiao Yeyang's face blank, he smiled and said, "It's definitely better than this briquettes. If that boy really leads you to find a coal mine and make this briquettes, it will definitely sell."

Xiao Yeyang smiled: "Then I will wait for Madam to show off her skills."

After buying the horse, Xiao Yeyang began to leave early and return at night. If he went to the frontier barracks, sometimes he would not go home for a few days in a row.

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

On the third day of May, Daohua was directing her wife and maid in the kitchen to make zongzi, and Gu Yu walked over quickly: "Girl, Defu and Bu, commander is back."

Hearing this, Daohua turned around and wanted to leave, but as soon as she stepped out, she stopped and said to Gu Yu: "You are watching here. The Zongzi Box Carpenter's Store should deliver it later, and you will pick it up."

Gu Yu nodded. She knew that these rice dumplings were to be given to officials in the city of Ganzhou. It was a matter of the face of Xiao Mansion, and she did not dare to be sloppy at all.

When Daohua arrived in the front yard, she saw Defu’s eyebrows unconcealed with excitement, and she suddenly had a guess in her heart: "Is the coal mine found?"

Defu smiled and nodded: "Madam, that open-pit coal mine is very big on the Gobi Desert. The master will be very happy when he knows it."

Daohua: "Gobi Desert? No wonder no one has discovered it."

The other places in Ganzhou Wei are vast and sparsely populated, not to mention the Gobi Desert.

Daohua was also very happy to find a coal mine. Ganzhouwei's financial expenditures were very large, but there were not many sources of income, and she could not get support from the court. For this reason, she did not rarely see Xiao Yeyang worry about it.

"Since the coal mine is really found, the Li family can't do anything wrong. In this way, you can buy them a house in the city, the kind of shop with the backyard."

"When the coal mine starts to mine, let them sell briquettes in the shop, so that the Li family can also make a living."

Defu smiled and responded: "It's the madam who wants to be thoughtful."

Daohua said again: "I have let the master in the blacksmith shop lay several grinding tools for making briquettes. You can get me some coal powder and yellow clay. I will teach you how to make briquettes."

"By the way, call that Li family boy too."

Here in Xiliang, coal is used not only in winter, but also at other times. The next day, Defu got a pile of coal dust.

said it was Tao Huajiao, but in fact, she used her lips, and the subordinates did all the specific things.

I experimented with the ratio of coal to yellow mud several times, and the briquettes sat out on the same day.

"After it dries, you can use it."

After seeing the briquettes, Li Mancang looked at Daohua excitedly: "Madam, the briquettes are much better than the briquettes we usually use."

Daohua smiled and said: "That is nature." This is the crystallization of the wisdom of the working people.

Li Mancang immediately said, "Madam, my shop will be called a briquettes shop in the future?"

Daohua smiled and said, "You have said that it is your store, so naturally it is up to you to make the decision."

Knowing that the coal mine was found, Xiao Yeyang returned from the barracks and considered the officials of the health post. Finally, Zhang Da was sent to take charge of the coal mining matters, and Dong Yuanxuan assisted him.

(End of this chapter)