Wuwang Mansion, in the bedroom of the west cross courtyard. △ Top Novel,

Li Yuanba was sitting on the kang and was staring at Wu Shun with wide eyes.

Just when Li Yuanba was ruthless in his heart and wanted to take the lead in letting Wu Shun look away, Zhao Jingjing's voice sounded outside the house: "Lord Wang, Butler Bai has something to see!" ”

"Call him in!" Li Yuanba blinked hatefully, reached out, and was about to point the tip of Wu Shun's upturned nose across the table.

Wu Shunqiao's face turned red, and she hurriedly dodged back, and said coquettishly: "Lord Wang......"

"Hahaha!" Li Yuanba laughed wickedly.

"Lord Wang!"

At this moment, Bai Fu opened the curtain of the door and walked in, bowed down and said, "Gonggong Liu sent someone to send a message, and the holy decree has been issued to the Ying Guo Mansion, saying that it is the holy decree received by the two sons of the martial family!" ”

"Oh? Did he say what the two brothers were like at the time? Li Yuanba picked up an orchid bean on the table, threw it into his mouth and asked.

"Gonggong Liu said that the two sons of the martial arts family were a little distracted at that time, as if they had encountered something terrifying!" Bai Fu thought about it, suddenly laughed, and said: "Father-in-law Liu also said that this Ying Guogong's family is really generous, he just ran an errand once, and he actually gave a thousand taels of silver money!" “

"One thousand taels of silver!" Li Yuanba's eyes lit up, turned his head to look at Wu Shun, and said, "Do you have any other industries in your family?" ”

Wu Shun thought for a while and said, "It shouldn't be there, right?" However, in addition to my father, the two brothers help take care of the affairs of the family, and I don't know how much income there is in the house every month! However, this thousand taels of silver is indeed an exaggeration! ”

"Whatever, anyway, when you get married in a few days, it has nothing to do with the Yingguo Mansion, if you miss your mother and sister, you can go back and see it from time to time. Don't think about how much money he has and how he's doing! ”

Li Yuanba didn't think about it so much, and what he said was very straightforward.

"Hmm!" The little girl was still a little shy, and answered in a voice like a mosquito, and stopped talking.

"By the way, what happened to the Carboniferous Mine?" Li Yuanba glanced at his future daughter-in-law with some amusement, turned his head and asked Bai Fu.

Bai Fu said, "Wang Ye, the workers we hired before were all people from the villages around Chang'an City, because it had just passed Chinese New Year's Eve, and they were currently working in the mine. They are all some slaves purchased by the royal palace, as well as the royal soldiers who are responsible for guarding them! ”

"Didn't those soldiers of the royal palace celebrate the festival at home?" Li Yuanba frowned and asked.

Bai Fu shook his head and said: "Although that piece of black stone mountain was bought by us, there are still people around us from time to time to steal and excavate, and the royal soldiers are stationed on the coal mine, one is to guard those slaves, and the other is to guard the coal mine!" ”

"You have a point!" Li Yuanba nodded knowingly. Suddenly asked: "Bai Fu, how many soldiers are there in the government on the coal mine?" ”

"There are more than 20 people in charge of supervision, and there are more patrols, about 80 people! In addition, there is the beginning of cooking and some craftsmen. That's almost 130 people together! Bai Fu thought about it carefully and said.

"Well, then, go to the treasury and take out fifteen hundred taels of silver, and then prepare the carriage. Go to the Carboniferous Mine with this king! ”

Li Yuanba thought about it in his heart, and directly commanded, and at the same time, he grabbed the fur coat with both hands. draped over the body.

"Lord Wang, are you going out?" Wu Shun looked at Li Yuanba curiously and asked.

"Yes! How? Do you want to go with this king? Li Yuanba put on a fur hat and asked.

Wu Shun pointed to himself with some surprise and said, "I, can I go too?" ”

"Of course, it's not a big deal!" As he spoke, Li Yuanba opened the curtain and looked at the snow outside, and continued:

"But if you want to go along, you'd better wear something thicker! As the saying goes, 'snow does not chill and snow cold', yesterday the heavy snow fell more than a foot deep, and now it is only a small part of it, so the temperature will drop very low! ”

"Okay, Lord Wang, you wait for me, I'll go get the robe now!" Wu Shun happily replied and hurriedly ran towards the room assigned to her yesterday.

After the time for tea, Wu Shun put on a white fox fur coat.

Li Yuanba took her little hand with a dead face and came to the gate of the palace.

As soon as he arrived at the door, he saw Cheng Fu wearing a regular uniform, standing in front of the carriage with three horses, while the butler Bai Fu and the other two royal soldiers were riding on a tall horse, quietly waiting on the side of the carriage.

"Cheng Fu, I'm going to trouble you again this time!" Li Yuanba patted Cheng Fu's shoulder and laughed.

Cheng Fu was suddenly a little flattered, and said: "The prince is serious, this is what the last general should do!" It's cold outside, so please let the prince and the lady hurry into the car! ”

"Hmm!"

Li Yuanba patted Cheng Fu's shoulder again and got into the carriage.

The interior of the carriage was really large, about a foot square, except for one side of the chariot, on each side of which there were small beds that were five feet wide, ten feet long, and one foot high, and in the middle of the three-sided bed was a small square table, on which were dried fruit snacks, and in the center there was a charcoal brazier, firmly embedded in the small table.

If it weren't for the fact that these kings and nobles knew how to enjoy it, not to mention the interior decoration, the volume of this carriage alone was large enough, no wonder it was necessary for three strong horses to pull the cart together.

"Lord Wang, Miss, sit down, the end is leaving!"

Cheng Fu said to Li Yuanba in the carriage, drove the carriage, and began to rush to the coal mine in the northwest outside Chang'an City.

To be honest, there are many coal mines within thirty miles around Chang'an City, and all of them were bought by Bai Fu. However, if you want to talk about the closest carboniferous mine to Chang'an City, you have to say that this newly discovered open-pit mine.

It was only about ten miles from Heishi Mountain to Chang'an City, although the speed of the carriage had slowed down because of the snow on the road, but it only took half an hour for Li Yuanba to see the huge open-pit mine from a distance.

This open-pit coal mine, within a radius of twenty miles, was bought by Bai Fu, and the section of road that Li Yuanba and they are walking on now already belongs to private territory, as long as they go a little further, they will encounter the newly established checkpoint of Heishi Mountain.

To be honest, the road becomes difficult to walk here, because after all, it is not as good as the future generations, there is no cement road, there is no asphalt road, and there is not so much time to pave bluestone slabs, so now the road can only be regarded as barely flat.

After walking a distance of about two hundred meters, the carriage was stopped by the royal soldiers who were in charge of guarding the checkpoint, but when they saw Bai Fu coming from behind the carriage, they let it go directly.

Thinking about it, that Bai Fu is the chief butler of the Martial King's Mansion, and he can willingly follow the horse behind the car, except for the legendary His Royal Highness the Martial King, I'm afraid there is no one else.

Bai Fu bowed slightly at the soldiers, and then drove the carriage all the way straight, and walked about three hundred meters inside again before the carriage stopped.

It was a small square, and on one side of this square were three large brick houses, the smaller one of which was the residence of more than 100 royal soldiers and craftsmen, and the remaining two slightly larger houses were the residences of the slaves.

The entire open-pit coal mine was covered in snow, like a dragon in a white garment, crawling on the ground.

……

At this moment, in this square, some of them have a matte brown skin, some are party members with hooked noses and deep eye sockets, and some are ...... In short, it seems that the slaves of the Chinese are not working.

They were seen with long and blunt wooden shovels in their hands, clearing the snow from the small square, and pulling out the snow from several small mines that were already being excavated.

Not far away, there are also mountains of coal that are a few feet high, and those are all charcoal that has been mined and has not yet been transported to Shenji Mansion.

Bai Fu jumped off his horse, pointed to this white mine, and said to Li Yuanba: "Lord, please see, this is the open-pit coal mine, according to the people of the Taishi Bureau, this open-pit coal mine and the places around it within a radius of fifteen miles have coal deposits, and they are very easy to mine, and the number is amazing!" ”

Li Yuanba glanced back and forth at the surrounding scene, but saw that the mountains were gentle, although they were only snowy, but the black ore that occasionally showed their heads still showed that in this vast land, coal mines were abundant.

"Lord, what kind of place is this? Are those all coals? Wu Shun, whose little face was a little red from the cold, tightened the fur coat on his body and asked curiously.

"Oh? I didn't expect you, the daughter of the mansion of Yingguo, to know Shi Tan? Li Yuanba glanced at Wu Shun with some surprise and said.

Wu Shun was silent for a moment, and said in a low voice: "I wait for the four mothers and daughters, and almost every year we have to prepare some charcoal for backup!" Because of the charcoal in the house, my eldest brother has always only given me the ration of one person! In addition, the monthly living money allocated to us by the government is not allowed to buy charcoal, so ......"

"It's really not as good as a pig and a dog! Even if you are not a sister or family member, what if you see that you are in difficulty, what if you send some charcoal? What's more, it's my own sister? ”

Li Yuanba scolded Wu Yuanqing and the two brothers in his heart for not being a thing, put on a concerned expression on his face, gently hugged Wu Shun's fragrant shoulder, and persuaded softly: "Okay, don't think about those unhappy things in the past, this king promises, you will never be hurt in the slightest in the future!" ”

"Lord ......"

Little girls of this age are often the most easily moved, and in addition to Wu Shun's life in such an environment since she was a child, no one has ever said such explicit words to her, so the little girl was moved by tears, and tears instantly flowed backwards! (To be continued......)