Chapter 96: Rubbing shoulders

"How could the Cheng family build a glass workshop in such a remote place?" Kang Yeon lifted the curtain and looked out the window at the increasingly desolate place. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

Their carriage had been walking along the official road for more than an hour after leaving the mall, and they had just come down from the official road and walked on a slightly narrow sheep intestine path, not far from which was the looming green hills.

Qiao Danhua poked his probe out, sat back and explained to Kang Yan: "The main raw material for making glass is something called quartz sand, which is lumpy, which must be crushed first, then heated at high temperature in the pool kiln, then molded, and finally annealed, quenched and other treatments. ā€

"Quartz sand is a kind of ore, the Cheng family built the workshop here, most of the places where quartz sand is produced are particularly close, easy to transport, and they want to crush at high temperatures, they have to build a large pool kiln, but also annealing, etc., naturally the workshop can not be built very close to the city, that is too dangerous."

"Oh." Kang Yan didn't seem to understand, although she had seen glass, she didn't know how it was made, "Danhua, you know a lot, did you learn this in your school?" It's nice that you guys know so much about women. ā€

She often chats with Jordan about the life of her time these days, and she can't help but yearn for Jordan's era between words.

"It's just that you can go to school and study, we still have a lot of female doctors there, well, the doctorate is equivalent to your Confucian," Qiao Danhua said and grimaced, "In fact, I'm not particularly proficient, but my main major is chemical engineering, and I will also be exposed to this kind of things, don't envy me, in fact, it's very hard to study, and you have to take the exam, and if you can't take the exam, you have to keep taking the exam, and if you don't study well, no one wants to go out to find a job, and it's very hard to earn money, it's better to be here, how good it is for a woman to marry and teach her children." ā€

"Cut, with your temperament, I don't believe that you will be willing to teach your husband and children?" Kang Yan glanced at her, and now she would pop out of her mouth from time to time with some fresh terms that Jordan Hua said.

Jordan Hua grinned, "Maybe, if you meet the right person, maybe you will do it willingly." After speaking, he lifted the curtain and looked out of the car window again, "After walking for so long, it should be almost there, right?" ā€

The carriage had turned out of the sheep's intestine trail and headed northwest on a slightly wider dirt road.

Kang Yan glanced out of the car casually, "It should be almost there, didn't Second Uncle Cheng say that he would leave for two hours?" We've been walking for almost two hours since morning. ā€

"Hey, there are other people coming to such a remote place?" Qiao Danhua, who was lying bored at the car window, suddenly sat up straight, poked his head out again, and said in surprise.

"Where? Let me see. Kang Yeon became interested, and also squeezed to the window and looked out.

Sure enough, I saw a man and a horse coming from the opposite side, because it was a little far away, I couldn't see the appearance clearly, and I could only see that it was a man, riding on a horse galloping, looking like a dusty man.

"I guess there's a shortcut in a hurry," Kang Yan guessed, "Quickly put down the curtain, be careful and eat a nose of dirt." ā€

The path they are walking on at this moment, the horse galloping forward, must have brought up a cloud of dust.

"You're close to the window, and if you want to eat, you'll eat first." Jordan lowered the curtain and teased Kang Yeon.

"Okay, I'll eat it first, and then spit it out and feed you, see if you're disgusting." Kang Yeon also grimaced at her and answered in passing.

"Okay, Ayan, you're bad at learning now." Jordan Hua didn't follow, smiled and stepped forward to tickle her.

"Ahaha, it's so itchy, let go of me," Kang Yeon was most afraid of itching, laughing while hiding to the side, accidentally touching the curtain, the curtain swayed, staggering a gap.

The sound of horses' hooves galloping by.

Kang Yan subconsciously turned her head to look, the horse's hooves brought up a piece of dust, and in a trance, Kang Yan seemed to see a familiar face flashing.

Kang Yan was stunned, it seemed to be Su Chenjing.

She didn't have time to think about it, so she quickly lifted the curtain and looked out, only to see a familiar back galloping past in the vast dust.

is wearing ordinary cloth clothes, and this person should be very thin from the back, shouldn't it be Su Chenjing?

Kang Yeon looked at the back that had already walked away and denied her guess.

"Ayan, what are you doing? Say that you eat soil, why did you really lift the curtain and eat soil? Qiao Danhua looked at Kang Yan, who was instantly left with a face full of dirt, and pulled her away with some tears and laughter, and asked her while helping her shoot the soil, "What do you see?" ā€

"Oh, no, I thought I met an acquaintance, but I read it wrong." Kang Yan came back to her senses and wiped her face with a handkerchief.

I guess it's wrong, right? I heard that Su Chenjing's case has not yet been concluded, how could he come here?

She was still worried about Ling Jing in her heart, and wanted to know if she was reborn in Su Chenjing's body, so she would be wrong.

"In such a remote place, if you can meet acquaintances, it's really fate. As a result, you look at you, acquaintances didn't see it, and they ate ashes. Jordan laughed at her.

Kang Yan untied her hair and combed it again, it was all dirt just now, and now she can't wash her hair, so she can only pat it and tie it back up, she is doing her hair, and she glanced at Jordan Danhua angrily, "For the sake of me eating a body of soil, why don't you hurry up and help, you are embarrassed to laugh at me, if you don't tickle me, the curtain will not be touched, and the soil will not come in." ā€

Qiao Danhua stepped forward to help her comb her hair, and the two talked and laughed, and left what had just happened behind.

Not far behind their carriage, the horse that had just galloped by suddenly stopped, and the people in the carriage looked back at the carriage in confusion.

The laughter that came from the car just now was really familiar.

Impossible, Su Chenjing smiled and shook his head, this is the outskirts of the mall, and it will take more than a day to get here from Macheng Mansion, how could Yan'er come to such a remote place.

It must be that I've been thinking too much lately, and I'm hallucinating, so let's hurry back, my grandmother and mother are waiting, and it's been a lot of delay to get things when I come out.

Su Chenjing glanced at the carriage that was getting farther and farther away again, raised his whip again, and galloped away.

A horse and a cart, galloping on their backs, going farther and farther, gradually disappearing into the vast world.

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Kang Yan got down from the carriage, looked at the big courtyard in front of him, and asked, "I didn't expect your family's glass workshop to be at the foot of this deep mountain, if it wasn't for Second Uncle Cheng to lead the way, we wouldn't have found it here." ā€

"It's a secluded place, it's spacious, it's not noisy." Second Uncle Cheng explained with a smile, raised his hand and pointed to the east, "Less than a mile east from here, there is a waste mine, which is said to be a silver mine discovered in the previous dynasty, but it was later emptied, and now it is also abandoned." ā€

"Our yard was built before, specifically for those silver mining workers to eat, drink and live, and then after the mine was abandoned, this yard was useless, my second uncle used it to build a glass workshop on the spot, or it is not easy to find such a large piece of land in other places, not to mention, but also to spend silver to rebuild the house." Cheng Minyuan followed to explain.

Silver? Kang Yan's footsteps paused, and she couldn't help but look east in the direction of Second Uncle Cheng's finger.

In the dense forest, a moderately wide road winds eastward, and there is no silver mine in sight.

It's about a long time since anyone walked around, and the road was full of weeds.

Ling Jing had mentioned to her that a silver mine had been found in the mall, and he and his imperial brother had come to supervise the mining, so I guess it was this silver mine, right?

Remembering that Ling Jing had been active here sixty years ago, and perhaps had stopped where she was standing now, a very subtle feeling rose in Kang Yan's heart.

"Hey, second uncle, you see, there are traces of horses' hooves here, and the soil is still wet, it must have been walked by the person we met when we came." Cheng Min saw Kang Yan stop, and he also stopped, but when he looked down, he found the dirt on the ground that had been trampled by horses' hooves.

On the way they came, they all saw men speeding by on the opposite side.

Second Uncle Cheng squatted down and looked at it, "Well, this soil is freshly turned up, it should be him, look at the traces of this step, or go back and forth twice." Second Uncle Cheng looked east in some surprise, the end of this road was the silver mine, "Strange, that mine has been hollowed out and has been deserted for a long time, how can anyone go anywhere?" ā€

"Maybe there's something urgent to cut it short." Jordan went over and looked at the horseshoe prints and thought there was nothing strange.

Kang Yan froze in place, feeling her heart beating faster.

Could it be that it wasn't her own delusion just now, what she saw was really Su Chenjing?

Only Ling Jing knew that there was once a silver mine in this place, and Su Chenjing definitely didn't know.

If it was really Su Chenjing who came here, did that mean that Ling Jing was really reborn in Su Chenjing?

Kang Yan regretted a little that she didn't call the car to stop just now, she should have chased it over and took a closer look, even if she recognized the wrong person, at least she didn't have to keep guessing like this.

"Ayan, what's wrong with you? Why is it always unrelenting? Qiao Danhua felt that there was nothing to look at in the line of horseshoe prints, and when he turned around, he saw that Kang Yan was still standing in place, looked stunned, and stepped forward to pat her.

Kang Yeon came back to her senses, "It's okay, I'm thinking about the person I just met." ā€

"Still thinking about it," Jordan Hua wondered: "Don't think about it, we've gone so far, what about acquaintances, we can't catch up anymore, we'll see each other in the future." ā€

I'll see you again in the future!

Will they ever see each other again?

Ling Jing used to say that she was his destined person, so she should meet her, right? Kang Yeon thought uncertainly.

"Aren't you curious, let's go, let's go in and see how glass is made?" Qiao Danhua pulled Kang Yan and walked towards the courtyard.

Kang Yeon looked back at the deep horseshoe prints on the ground again, sighed in her heart, and followed. rs