"Husband, you can go back to Xianyang in two days, and you have to rest for a few days after you go home!"

Half a month after leaving Qinghe Town, Chen Xu's convoy finally arrived at Hangu Pass, looking at the towering Hangu Pass city wall and tower sandwiched between the two mountains, Ying Shiyan gently held Chen Xu's hand and said gently.

"I'm not tired, it's just that you can't eat and sleep well with me all the way, after I go home, I'll go to the other courtyard to stay for a few days, I'll make some delicious food to treat you and Wan'er......"

"Brother Xiaoxu, Yu Ji also wants to eat delicious treats, you see that my hungry teeth fell out yesterday!" Yu Ji, who was sitting next to her and playing checkers with Xing'er, turned her head and shouted, pointing to her mouth with a missing front tooth by the way

"Haha~" Looking at Yu Ji's cute and dumbfounded appearance, Chen Xu couldn't help laughing.

"Hehe, but it's it, poor Yu Ji has lost a tooth!" Meng Wan and Ying Shiyan both covered their mouths and smiled.

"You're so stupid, every child is going to lose their teeth, and in a few years you'll lose all your teeth!" Apricot scoffed.

"Don't, Yu Ji don't lose her teeth, I want to eat delicious food, and I want to gnaw on duck neck and chicken claws!" Yu Ji cried and shouted as soon as her mouth was deflated.

Chen Xu glared at Xing'er with a smile, and hurriedly comforted: "Don't listen to my sister's nonsense, go back and I'll make you a good meal to replenish your body, and you will soon grow new teeth!" ”

"Well, I want to eat braised pork, sweet and sour pork ribs, barbecue patties, crispy roast duck, braised chicken thighs......" Yu Ji burst into tears and began to break her fingers, and in an instant several voices of swallowing saliva sounded in the carriage.

"Husband, I want to eat it too!" Ying Shiyan blushed and whispered.

"Okay, let's get the convoy to go faster!" Chen Xu himself knocked on the window a few times with saliva in his mouth, asking the driver to speed up.

"Hou Ye~~Hou Ye~ etc~~"

Just as the long convoy was about to pass through the gate of the pass, several fast horses were galloping towards the road behind them, and immediately someone kept shouting loudly.

"Master Hou, someone behind is calling to chase!" The leader of the guards prayed by the window.

"Stop!" Chen Xu nodded and ordered.

As soon as the coachman retracted the reins, the four horses immediately slowed down and soon stopped on the side of the road, and the long line also stopped.

"Hou Ye, wait~~" A few horses came in an instant, the flying hooves of the horses brought up the dirt all over the ground, and the horses jumped off the horses before they could stop a few people.

"Hey, it's you, what's going on?"

The leader of these people was a craftsman from the Academy of Sciences, and Chen Xu thought that there was an accident at a construction site, and he was suddenly a little nervous.

"Master Hou, it's not urgent, it's just that now that Dongfang Road has officially started, there are a few sections that need to be straightened in the last planning that need to be straightened by Master Hou to deal with it personally...... "The craftsman led by him hurriedly said.

"I see!" Chen Xu breathed a sigh of relief, pinched his chin and thought for a while and said, "I already know about this matter, and I will arrange it as soon as possible after I return to Xianyang, and you will go back to arrange for the engineering team to build other lots for the time being!" ”

"What? Didn't you hear what Ben Hou said? Seeing that this craftsman and several entourages did not move, Chen Xu frowned.

"Master Hou, it's not that we can't wait, it's these businessmen who contract these sections can't wait, and now seeing that construction is going on elsewhere, the businessmen who contract these sections are all very anxious, and beg their subordinates to ask Hou Ye to use Taiyi Divine Thunder to blow up those hills blocking the road out of the passage earlier!" The craftsman said with a wry smile.

"Master Hou, we are really anxious, seeing that new roads are being built everywhere every day, we can only look at those small mountains and stare at them, so I specially caught up and disturbed Master Hou, hoping to help us deal with it as soon as possible!" The few who followed all gave their hands together.

Seeing the dusty appearance of a few businessmen, they must have chased for a few days to catch up with him, so Chen Xu couldn't help but refuse, so he could only comfort and said: "I have seen the surveying and mapping data of those hills, and it will be completed in more than a month at most if they are exploded, so why be in such a hurry!" ”

"Master Hou, hurry, you can save a lot of wages by finishing it early, the longer you drag it on, the more food coins consume a lot every day, for us and others, saving money is actually making money...... Hey! Several businessmen were a little apprehensive with smiling faces.

"Well, that's what I said, the engineering team consumes a lot of money and food every day, okay, I'll arrange this matter!" Chen Xu thought about it and felt reasonable, so he called a guard over and ordered, "You take my warrant, hurry back to Xianyang, send this letter to the Academy of Sciences to the director Zhao Qingzhao, and ask him to go to the factory outside the city to arrange for someone to properly load all the gunpowder leads and other things I stored in the basement of the factory and transport them to Michi, by the way, I will also go to the Nanshan Courtyard to bring the two dumb slaves over, remember to pay attention to safety on the road, and remember not to make a mistake in waterproof and fire prevention......

After Chen Xu earnestly admonished, he wrote a letter on the car, stamped it with his seal, sealed it and handed it to the head of the guard.

"Master Hou rest assured, his subordinates will definitely complete the task!" The guard took the letter and put it away as soon as he put it away.

"Shiyan, Wan'er, it seems that I can't go back to Xianyang with you, I'll ask the guards to send you back first, rest at home for a few days, and I'll be back in a few days!" Chen Xu got into the car and said to Ying Shiyan and Meng Wan with a wry smile.

"Husband is busy, we will take care of ourselves, you also have to take care of your body, don't get tired!" Ying Shiyan gently helped Chen Xu tidy up his clothes and said softly.

"Take care, husband, it's cold now, don't suffer from the cold!" Meng Wan also advised carefully.

"On the road, I will protect the two ladies, if something goes wrong, I will ask you and others!" Chen Xu said to a group of guards after getting out of the car.

"Master Hou, don't worry, we will definitely send the two ladies back to Xianyang safely!" A group of guards hurriedly threw up their hands and said loudly.

"You wait for the six people to stay to protect the Hou Ye, and the rest will follow me to protect the two Hou concubines back to Xianyang!" The leader of the guards commanded loudly.

"喏~"

"Brother, I'm staying with you, I haven't seen Taiyi Shenlei yet!" Han Xin, who had been with a group of teenagers all the way, walked over and said excitedly.

"Well, you can stay with me!" Chen Xu nodded.

Seeing a group of guards with fifty teenagers escorting Ying Shiyan and Meng Wan and a group of maids and servants away, Chen Xu got into another smaller four-wheeled carriage, on which there were only two maids in the car, Chunxiang and Qiuxiang, who took care of their daily life and food, and then six guards and a few domestic servants who took care of the carriage and horses' luggage, Han Xin still rode a Hun horse with a few guards.

"Let's go!" Chen Xu patted the window of the car a few times depressedly, and the carriage started to turn around with the craftsman and a few merchants.

Ying Shiyan and Meng Wan are both noble daughters, they have never suffered since they were pampered, this time the journey back to their hometown to visit relatives and ancestors and return to Xianyang is far away, the road is bumpy and tired, and they can't eat or sleep well, and they are both tired after half a month, and they seem to have lost a lot of weight, although Chen Xu is reluctant, he can only arrange to go to his own place temporarily.

If the water is gentle, it will definitely insist on being by your side.

As soon as he thought of the gentle water, Chen Xu suddenly became depressed, and sighed silently and lay on the soft bearskin chair, and the two little maids of Chunxiang and Qiuxiang hurriedly knelt down to help beat their legs.

There are few people and they move quickly, and they don't stop at all along the way, and they arrive at Michi two days later.

China is divided into two parts of the north and south with the Qinling Mountains as the central axis, the climate in the south of the Qinling Mountains is humid and warm, the Yangtze River water system is the mainstay, called the south, and the Qinling Mountains are dry and cold in the north, the Yellow River water system is the mainstay, called the north, the climate difference between the north and the south is huge, the difference in products is huge, and the living habits of people are also very different.

Many of the tributaries that flow into the Yellow River originate in the Qinling Mountains, and there are dozens of large and small rivers, and the Dongfang Road to be built today will have to cross many rivers, so dozens of bridges of all sizes need to be erected.

In addition to these rivers, along these large and small rivers, there are also countless Qinling Mountains, the remaining veins of the eight branches extend to the bank of the Yellow River like fish bones, although there are roads in many places that can be walked smoothly, but the roads are also zigzag and not a straight line, these zigzag roads are connected by the large and small counties and towns along the way.

According to the surveying and mapping map of the Academy of Sciences, Chen Xu confirmed that the first place that needed to be changed and straightened was in Mianchi County.

Mianchi County is close to Luoyang, belongs to Sanchuan County, when the Qin and Zhao Huimeng was in Mianchi, the story of the folk circulation of the complete return to Zhao happened here.

And the territory of Mianchi is mountainous, mainly in the Qinling Mountains, and there is also the terrain of Danxia landform, so the road traffic is very inconvenient, and the Oriental Road that is built is winding and winding in the large and small mountains, so there are two places in the territory of Mianchi.

The banks of the Yellow River have always been the most developed agricultural areas in the Central Plains, densely populated, although the pond is small but close to Luoyang, it is basically the northwest gateway of Luoyang, in order to block the attack from the Qin State, the Qin State wants to attack the Central Plains Han Wei, and the Mianchi is a place that cannot be bypassed.

But after all, Mianchi is a prosperous area in the Central Plains, both commerce and agriculture are relatively developed, so the flow of people is dense, and the Oriental Road has already been built relatively smooth, but there are several sections that need to be detoured for a long distance, so that the traffic is time-consuming and labor-intensive.

The mountain in front of him is not high, Chen Xu will not exceed fifty meters by sight, but all of them are bare rocks, and the current Dongfang Road is along the foot of the mountain to the north, zigzag around a few valleys, and then detour back to the back of Dashan and continue to the east.

And this mountain is actually not unwalked, the people passing by nearby are directly over this hill, and it will not take more than half an hour, so Chen Xu stood at the foot of the mountain at this time, and he also saw people carrying rattan baskets and even donkeys and goods along the path on the mountain.

Pedestrians carrying goods and burdens can, but the bulk goods pulled by horse-drawn carriages can't, so they can only obediently detour, and it takes almost two hours to bypass, so the horse-drawn carriage caravans can only look at the mountains and sigh, and detour with a bubble of tears in their eyes.