Xie Rouhui was not hindered any more and walked to Mrs. Xie's house.

The wind in April was clear and warm, and after a few rains, the trees were flourishing and spring flowers were everywhere, and the dull atmosphere of Mrs. Xie's funeral seemed to be swept away.

The courtyard was full of maids, and they were not as trembling and holding their breath as they had been some time ago, and the girls whispered and laughed from ear to ear, and there was a lively laughter in the house.

Xie Rouhui frowned, and there was a burst of irritability for no reason.

"The eldest lady is here."

The girls lifted the curtain, Xie Rouhui walked in, and saw Mrs. Xie surrounded by many women.

The women laughed and got up, and the girls standing beside them saluted.

Xie Yao stretched out his hand to greet him.

"Speaking of you." She said.

Xie Rouhui smiled and took her hand, her eyes swept over the people in the room.

"What do you say about me?" She laughed.

"Jiajia, you have really worked hard, you are busy going back and forth in the mine at home." A woman said.

Xie Rouhui smiled.

"It should." "It's not hard," she said. ”

"Are you okay in the mine?" Mrs. Xie asked.

Xie Rouhui nodded.

"It's okay, mother rest assured." She said.

It stands to reason that when their mother and daughter talk about the mine, these women and girls in the house should immediately avoid it.

But at this moment, everyone sat and stood motionless as if they hadn't heard.

Mrs. Xie also seemed to be in a good mood, unlike the previous paragraph, when she was annoyed when she saw someone in front of her, she stopped asking after asking this sentence.

"The weather is getting better and better, and the family hasn't eaten together for a long time." She said.

As soon as she finished speaking, the women stood up.

"I was talking about asking my sister-in-law for permission. Set up a table in the courtyard. ”

"The flowers in the yard are blooming, and it's very beautiful."

Everyone laughed and laughed, Mrs. Xie was more interested and ordered people to do it immediately, and after a while, a group of people came to the courtyard, set up tables and chairs and lay brocade mats, and the maids and servants arranged the banquet lively.

Xie Rouhui sat on the table, absentmindedly fiddling with the teacup in her hand.

"Miss." Xie Yao approached and handed over a plate of fruit, "You taste this." ”

Xie Rouhui picked up one casually and ate it, without lifting her eyelids.

"The family affairs of the king of Dongping County. Which one is it in Beijing? Xie Yao asked in a low voice a little closer.

Xie Rouhui stroked the hand of the teacup and paused.

Mrs. Xie couldn't help but reveal the news. Of course, it was not said that it was the king of Dongping himself, but only that the king of Dongping said that he was pro-family.

The princes of Dongping County are naturally the powerful royal relatives of the capital.

The Xie family's house suddenly exploded.

"Mother didn't say it, and I don't know." Xie Rouhui said.

Seeing Xie Rouhui's ignorance, Xie Yao was anxious and hateful.

It's no wonder she doesn't know.

It's such a good thing. I even learned about it from my mother and sisters. I was laughed at for days.

"What does Yaoyao do with the eldest lady every day? Is it just serving tea and pouring water? The eldest lady won't tell you anything? ”

Thinking of the words of the sisters, Xie Yao hated to death in his heart.

Oh, yes. Serving her with tea and water in front of the saddle, isn't it as good as a girl?

This man is really cold-hearted, ruthless and unjust.

Xie Yao clenched her hands, really wanting to pick up the tea in front of her and splash it on her face. But it's just a matter of thinking, who let everything she wants be tied to her.

"Miss." She pulled Xie Rouhui's sleeve with a bit of pleading, "I'm fifteen this year, and I'll be sixteen in the New Year." ”

"So you want to get married, you want to leave me?" Xie Rouhui said with a smile.

"No, I just wanted to help you more." Xie Yao said.

Xie Rouhui put down the teacup.

"I know." She said, "But that's not the right one, I'll help you look at the more suitable ones." ”

In this way, Xie Yao smiled happily with a sigh of relief.

"I'll listen to you." She said.

Seeing Xie Rouhui sitting up, the girls around the table who were laughing suddenly looked at her, nervous and eager to try.

Xie Rouhui swept over them.

"I've eaten, drunk, and sat a little sleepy, let's go fishing." She said.

The girls responded in a disorderly manner, and they all stood up, you squeeze me, I squeeze you, and leaned over to Xie Rouhui.

"Sister Xin." Xie Rouhui's eyes fell on a girl and beckoned with a smile.

The girl's face lit up suddenly.

"Jiajia." She shouted happily.

The smile on Xie Rouhui's face faded.

Fool! Didn't these fools see what they called Xie Rouhui every day?

Miss, Miss, what kind of Jiajia is shouting for being smart.

You deserve not to please her.

Xie Yao pouted with a bit of schadenfreude.

Xie Rouhui smiled and turned her gaze to the person next to the girl.

"Sister Xin, your sister is good at fishing." She said, "Let her come with me." ”

Miss Xin, who was called first, was stunned, while the girl next to her was overjoyed.

"Yes, yes." She shouted happily, and unceremoniously knocked her arm away from her sister and hurried over.

Miss Xin was also stepped on, she looked down at the footprints on the embroidered shoes, and then looked up at the girl who was held by Xie Rouhui and walked forward, and couldn't help but be angry.

"This little slut, go back and clean you up! Fishing, or I teach! She gritted her teeth.

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At night, the mine is brightly lit, and countless miners are going in and out of the mine, and the sound of trumpets is more intense than the day.

More than a dozen overseers in the straw shed sat and lay down drinking tea and laughing, and soon a miner came over with a little panic.

"Something is wrong with the mine." He said.

The overseers were interrupted and frowned.

"What's wrong?" An overseer said.

"We felt that something was wrong with the cracks." The miner said.

The Overseer sneered, his gaze sweeping over the miner. He was thin and thin, wearing only trousers, and his shoulders were covered with abrasions from ore ropes.

This is the lowest miner, not even a foreman.

"What do you think?" He asked with a smirk, "You guys?" ”

The miners were a little uneasy, but they still had the courage to raise their heads when they thought of everyone's request.

"Last month, our mine was closed in rotation." He said, "The little brother sent by the eldest lady told us a little bit, and he talked about this kind of gap, and said that if it appears, we must be careful. It may be that the rocks inside are already crispy. If you dig it, it may collapse, and if you say that you see it, you have to stop, and if you can dig again, you have to ask the eldest lady to see it before deciding. ”

Hear him say this, and the overseers look at each other. They all sat upright.

"That being the case. Then you stop. Let's go and ask the eldest lady to take a look. An overseer said.

The miner responded excitedly, turned around and retreated.

A dozen miners waited awaitfully at the newly opened mine on the slope.

"Alright, alright." The miner ran happily, "I'll talk about it when the eldest lady comes tomorrow." ”

The crowd rejoiced.

"It's good to have the eldest lady here."

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"Let me go to the mine again?"

Xie Rouhui put down the mouthwash tea in her hand. Look at the steward in front of you.

"What's wrong again?"

"It's not right to say there's a crack in the mine." The steward said.

Xie Roujia, this!

Xie Rouhui took a sip of tea, rinsed her mouth, and spit in the spittoon on the top of her head where the little girl knelt.

"I'm going to go to Yushan with my mother today to worship the ancestors, you find an old miner and stewards to take a good look, if there is something to do, don't dig, if you have nothing to do, try to dig." She said, taking the handkerchief and wiping the corners of her mouth, "If you still can't make up your mind, I'll take a look when I get back." ”

The steward replied and withdrew.

"Jiajia, Jiajia."

Xie Wenxing's voice came from outside the door.

Xie Rouhui walked out, and Xie Wenxing also saw the steward.

"Can you go?" He asked, looking at the steward with some hesitation.

"Mother's car ready?" Xie Rouhui asked.

"Yes." Xie Wenxing said, "If you are busy, you don't have to accompany your mother." ”

"Not busy." Xie Rouhui said, raising her feet and walking out.

Just kidding, what could be more important than being with your mother?

Xie Roujia, a cheap maid, can't accompany and please, so she has to find another way to coax those miners to build momentum for herself to be the eldest lady.

It's ridiculous.

Is the eldest lady of the Xie family determined by the miners and by building momentum?

Xie Wenxing didn't dare to say more, so he hurriedly followed.

The carriages and horses were in order, the guards opened the road in unison, and the battle was set up in front of the Xie family, and the people on both sides were embraced and headed towards Yushan.

The miners stood by and watched as a few old foremen crowded around the overseers to inspect the cracks.

"Give me the axe." An old foreman said.

A miner hurriedly handed it over.

The old foreman raised his axe and slashed at the crack, and the people around him screamed in fright, and the rocks fell in response, and a few pieces of rubble fell from the mountain wall with a clatter.

"Look, it's gone." The old foreman said, pointing to the stone wall of Shicai, "There are gaps in this mountain stone, but there are no inside." ”

Everyone hurriedly went over to take a look, and sure enough, they saw that the rocks inside were restored to their original state.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"These things, after learning three or two sentences, they will become masters."

"Pull the flag, make a fuss."

"They are also used to it, and they are becoming more and more timid like rats and afraid of death."

The overseers and the old foremen said one after another, looking at the miners standing aside with a little disdain.

"But, ......Miss," said a miner, timidly.

"That's what the eldest lady commands!" The overseer raised his eyebrows and shouted, raising the whip in his hand, "Get to work!" If you are idle for a month, you will rush back to the construction period! ”

The miners retreated one after another, not daring to ask any more, picking up their tools and ropes and rushing up, and the sound of digging sounded.

When night fell, Mrs. Xie settled down in the ancestral house.

Xie Rouhui personally arranged the tea and dinner, and was about to go in, when a steward came over respectfully.

"Miss, that's done." He said.

Xie Rouhui didn't think of anything for a while.

"That crack is a crack in the rocks, it's okay inside." The steward hurriedly reminded. "Miss, do you still want to go over and have a look?"

Let's just say it.

Xie Rouhui nodded.

"I'll check it out when I have time." She said.

The steward replied and withdrew.

"What's the matter?" Mrs. Xie looked at Xie Rouhui who walked in and asked, through the door, she saw the steward talking in the courtyard.

"The mine on Xiaoyangling, I went to see it last time and felt that something was wrong, so I told them to watch it tightly and come back to me every day." Xie Rouhui said with a smile.

Mrs. Xie nodded.

"You're good like that." She said, looking a little kind, "Sit down and eat." ”

Xie Rouhui said thank you and sat down, eating in a hurry.

"It's hard, isn't it?" Mrs. Xie looked at her and asked.

Xie Rouhui swallowed a mouthful of rice and shook her head.

"With my mother here, I just move around more, and my heart is not hard at all." She said.

Mrs. Xie dialed the rice in the bowl.

Oh, yes. Although I feel that Xie Rouhui has done some things unsatisfactorily. But as long as she is a Dan girl and she is the Dan master, she will stand behind her without hesitation, unlike when she was helpless in foreign affairs.

"You eat first. I'll go and see the incense and candles in the ancestral hall. She said, standing up.

Xie Rouhui got up to see him off and didn't say that she wanted to follow. Watching Mrs. Xie walk out.

It's so silly. I don't understand why I care so much about whether my grandmother likes it or not, whether she likes her or not, she is the Dan Lord, and she is safe and carefree. Where did so much sadness come from?

I really don't know how to be blessed in the midst of blessings, and I deserve it.

Xie Rouhui slowly picks up vegetables.

The lights in the ancestral hall were bright, and Mrs. Xie inserted an incense stick into the incense burner, looking at the high tablet mountain in front of her through the swirling smoke.

The word Xie Shan is clearly placed in it.

"Mother, do you know the First Emperor's Ding?"

She said.

"The First Emperor Ding needs our Xie family to raise luck to appear."

In front of her eyes, she seemed to see Old Madam Xie sitting on a chair again, with a little disdain.

"What's going on?" She said mockingly.

Mrs. Xie clenched her hands.

"How? That is to say, even if you don't give me the scriptures, I can raise the luck of the Xie family, not you, I can make the Xie family more glorious. She said, reaching for the table.

The smoke swayed, and the welcome dissipated.

There was nothing but lights in the ancestral hall, and it was cold and empty.

Yes, I can do it, you don't care about me, you look down on me, you abandon me, I can do it.

Mrs. Xie raised her head and looked at the tablet in front of her.

However, whether it is admiration or ridicule, there is no more.

None of them are gone.

Mrs. Xie burst into tears and slowly knelt down in front of the card.

It's gone, she doesn't have a mother anymore, no one likes her, no one scolds her, no more.

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There was a bang, and the lights in the mine flickered, and the vision became even darker.

A miner raised his head and wiped the dust from his face, and the miners around him were busy, the clanging sound of knocking echoed.

"What do I think," he muttered, looking at the rocks above him.

The murmur did not fall, and a crisp jingle sound sounded in my ears.

He looked sideways and saw a rock rolling down from the mountain wall.

The rocks have fallen.

The miner said in his heart, and subconsciously looked up again.

Through the candle on the hat, you can see that the wall of the cave seems to be shaking.

Shake?

There was a creak, a soft sound, and a crack appeared overhead.

It's like an eggshell, slowly cracking, as if there are chicks about to come out.

Eggshell...... Cracked.......

The miner felt only that his scalp was numb, and he wanted to let out a howl, but as soon as he opened his mouth, there was a bang above his head like a flood of rocks.

The ground shook and thundered, instantly flooding the entire mine.

The laughing overseers in the grass hut at the foot of the mountain jumped up from the ground and looked at the top of the mountain in disbelief, white smoke rose and the sound was like thunder, countless miners screamed and ran wildly, and the smoke and dust behind them were like open beasts constantly devouring the running people.

"Collapse, collapse, collapse!"

The shrill bells rang in the mines, accompanied by a rumbling sound that resounded through the night sky. (To be continued......)