"You are white, you can't ride horses in the capital, let's walk."

It was not early, the princess and Li Qingfang should go back, and when the group arrived at Luofeng Gate, the princess asked Zhao Yingqi to dismount and walk.

Li Qingfang couldn't see the greasy and crooked appearance of these two people all of a sudden, so he just slapped the horse and went straight to the General's Mansion.

"Xiaotong, take my horse back, I'll send the princess."

Zhao Tong came over and took the reins from Zhao Yingqi's hand, a pair of beautiful eyes kept sweeping between the two, and the corners of his mouth smiled, as if he knew that there was a situation between the two of you.

"Miss Tong, leave my horse with you, and I'll pick it up tomorrow." The princess turned over and dismounted, and she was still uncomfortable wearing high heels for the first time, so Zhao Yingqi hurriedly helped her.

The smile on the corner of Zhao Tong's mouth became even stronger, and she had to lead three horses back to Nanshi Town alone.

The princess didn't care about the eyes of the two of them at all, the children of Northern Xinjiang, dare to love and hate, and never made a twisted look that was afraid of being laughed at and being known.

Zhao Yingqi is no longer the age when he subtly keeps everything in his heart and keeps silent, although his body in this life is only twenty-one years old, but in fact, Zhao Yingqi's twenty-nine years of life experience in his previous life is not less, and at this moment, that familiar feeling once again came to his heart. I will never allow myself to leave this kind of regret in my life.

In fact, Zhao Yingqi did the same, and he didn't let go after helping the princess get off the horse just now, and took the princess's hand very naturally.

The two walked into Luofeng Gate side by side, walking on Tongying Street, speechless for a long time, the princess thought about it and broke away from Zhao Yingqi's hand.

In Zhao Yingqi's surprised gaze, he took off the deerskin gloves on his hand, and then took the initiative to take Zhao Yingqi's hand.

Feeling the smoothness in your hands is another feeling, another feeling that is different from seven or eight years ago in your previous life, with a sense of relief and rejuvenation.

At this time, there were only a few people on Tongying Street, a few lights in the sparse Lala, and the snow fluttering.

The two of them walked hand in hand towards the imperial city at the end, getting closer and closer, until Zhao Yingqi handed the princess's hand from the front of him to his right hand, and his left hand naturally wrapped around the princess's shoulder.

"That day, my father left you to be an official in Da Zhou, why didn't you agree?"

Zhao Yingqi did not speak.

"Didn't you say you wanted to be with me? Let's go down together. ”

"Yes, I want to go down with you, and keep going like this."

"Then I'll ask you now, will you stay?"

Zhao Yingqi was silent again.

The princess quickly stopped and looked up at Zhao Yingqi.

"What the hell do you mean, I thought you were different from those southerners, how come you are also a mother-in-law?" The princess's brow furrowed for the first time this afternoon.

"I still have to leave, leave for a while."

"Why?"

"I still have things to do in the South." Zhao Yingqi looked directly into the princess's eyes.

"Your confidante? Duan girl? ”

"It's not." Zhao Yingqi paused slightly: "Not exactly. ”

"What does 'not all be' mean?" The princess broke away from Zhao Yingqi's hand holding her shoulder: "Are you really going to look for her?" ”

"Yes, I did go to her, but not in the way you think. I have other things to do, very important things. ”

The princess stared at Zhao Yingqi's eyes for a long time, and her brows gradually expanded: "Okay, I believe you, just say when you will come back." ”

Zhao Yingqi thought for a while: "It's two or three years in the short, four or five years in the long, and I will definitely come back." ”

"Okay, I'll wait for you."

The figures of the two merged together again and walked towards the imperial city.

...

"Lord of the Army, the operation has begun below, but there is too much water, the mining efficiency is very low, and there is continuous rainwater pouring in, which is very dangerous." A soldier covered in rain stood in front of Dong Xiang to report the situation in the mine.

This is something that Dong Xiang never thought of, with the help of his father, he made up a candidate for joining the army, and the first killing after really entering the ranks was actually the uncles and uncles who watched him grow up.

A long drought will meet a major flood, I heard Mr. talk about it when I was studying in Jinzhou, but at that time, I only cared about practicing martial arts, and I didn't take it seriously at all.

Now, it's come true.

This summer, there was no rain for two and a half months, and this rain was a month.

On the night when it rained for only one day, the mine collapsed, turning from three mines into a large pit with a diameter of four or five miles.

Open pit mining is far more efficient than underground mining.

My father said nothing about the one hundred and three people who had been buried in the three mines that night after they had collapsed.

The lord of the government said that it was not important.

Dong Xiang's playmate since childhood, the dog, is also inside, under the ground of more than 30 zhang, he is only responsible for transporting ore to the ground by cart, not the bottom responsible for mining.

No one knows how deep it has been dug out, or that the people who know are already underneath.

Lords and adults never cared how deep they dug up, only how much they dug up.

The dog, the second egg, and the maid and her man, and many, many people who grew up with Dong Xiang or even watched Dong Xiang grow up, are buried underneath, and many of them have hugged him and Huanhuan.

I also ate and slept at their house.

Now it's all the big pit, the mud in the big pit, and everybody wants to dig them out.

On the fifth day of the rain, the pond in the town could not hold it anymore, and it gushed out, and even if the channel to the canal was dug up, it could not flow out as fast as the rain fell.

On the seventh day of the rain, the pond burst and broke the embankment to the canal, completely merging with the canal.

My father said that it was all right, there was plenty of water, and the ship carrying the ore was not afraid of running aground.

The Lord of the Mansion said that it was okay now, Dongjia Town also had a natural wharf, and the river was wider, so there were a few more mining boats.

In the town and the county, there is a lot of plainness, but it doesn't matter, it will be rained in less than a day and you can't see your true face, it is difficult for the living to live, and there is really no effort to deal with the affairs of the dead, after all, there is not even a corpse.

The crown prince sent 5,000 Pingjing guards from Jinzhou, and Dong Xiang thought it was a disaster relief.

Who knows that it was to supervise the copper mining, Ping Jingwei drove over on the eighth day, and Dong Xiang was recommended by his father to join the army on the same day, and he was in charge of 1,500 people.

Lord Fu Ling patted Dong Xiang's shoulder with a smile and looked at Dong Xiang's brand-new armor: "Xiangzi has grown up and become a colleague, and he will be able to marry Huanhuan in two years." ”

Dong Xiang took his subordinates and drove all the way to the mine.

At the same time, 2,500 people requisitioned from Qingling City, Dongjia Town, and surrounding counties began to dig in the pit in the heavy rain that could drown people.

A large gap was dug in the east side of the pit to allow the stagnant water to flow into the canal.

There are more than 20,000 migrant laborers specially sent by the prince to widen the canal on the 130-mile canal.

Dong Xiang stood on the edge of the pit, looking at the people in the pit, some of whom he knew and those who did not know, wielding shovels and hoes, and kept digging, and after a while, the water that had just reached his feet and necks reached his waist.

There was a Sima in the gap, and the whip in his hand never stopped, and he asked the people to dig the gap a little bigger and deeper.

Dong Xiang had been on the edge of the pit for three days, and the tent he was living in had been changed twice because it was unsafe.

The edge of the pit has collapsed three times, and the mine below does not know what it has been dug into.

Dong Xiang had no choice but to move his subordinates' camp north, and then move north, almost on the edge of Dongjia Town.

Before I slept with my clothes and armor at night, I could always faintly hear the crying and laughter in the town.

Dong Xiang felt that this laughter must be Yaya's.

The girl went crazy as early as the fifth day of the rain, and tried to run to the mine, shouting: "My man, my man is there, my man is there waiting for me to bring him bread." ”

The cakes in the basket in Yaya's hand had long been soaked by the rain, Dong Xiang really couldn't bear it, Yaya grew up with her, and she swam in the pond together and was pulled back by her family. She had to tell her men to drag her back, and the women of the town stayed by her side.

The women didn't know anything, but shouted in her ear: "Your man is dead, don't go." ”

Yaya was already pregnant at this time, and she was five months old, and she began to show her pregnancy.

In the past two days, Yaya seems to have accepted the reality that her man is dead, but it doesn't.

But since he went to see Yaya once yesterday, Dong Xiang can no longer forget what Yaya said with a smile on his stomach:

"It's good to be dead, it's good to be dead, it's good to be dead, and you can wear beautiful flower clothes (shrouds) when you die."

Dong Xianglin went to bed and the tears that flowed into his mouth, and muttered a sentence to Yaya:

"Your man, he can't wear it even when he's dead, and his body doesn't know where it is."

Yaya has been guarding, and in the coffin where Dong Xiang specially ordered someone to help him bury him in a hurry, there was nothing, maybe only the basket that Yaya sent him cakes.

At the very least, he still has a coffin, doesn't he? Dong Xiang comforted himself and finally fell asleep.

When I woke up in the morning, I was glad that Dong Xiang's heart was filled, and I was glad that I was too tired in the past few days, otherwise it would be another night that was woken up by nightmares.

It has been raining heavily for eleven days, and on this day Dong Xiang was replaced, as well as the 1,500 Ping Jingwei under his command, in the past three days by the mine, even Dong Xiang's subordinates have three people who have been washed into the flood, and now they can be called floods. There was also a person who was buried in the collapsed mud, the same military Sima who was trying to dig the gap deep into the big one, and he was buried in the mud that was broken by the gap, and he took his leather whip with him. Dong Xiang didn't plan to dig him out.

Of the 2,500 people, more than 70 failed to climb the pit.

Dong Xiang returned to his family's big house in Dongjia Town tired, his father was not there, his father supervised more than 20,000 people on the side of the canal, and also took his four concubines.

When he entered his hall, he found that Huanhuan was also there, and looked at him worriedly.

As soon as Dong Xiang opened his mouth to call her, Huanhuan rushed into Dong Xiang's arms and complained in a crying voice: "Why did you come back, I waited for you for a day, I heard many of them say that there was an accident in the mine, and many people did not come back, dogs, two eggs, and..."

Huanhuan was gagged by Dong Xiang before he finished his sentence, using Dong Xiang's own mouth.

All Dong Xiang's incomprehension, suspicion and confusion at the edge of the pit in the past few days were all vented on Huanhuan's body.

This night, not only Dong Xiang was crazy, but Huanhuan was also the same, hoping to fill his inner uneasiness with the other party's body.

Lying on the bed, hugging Huanhuan, it seems that the rain outside is much lighter.

Huanhuan struggled to get up, looked at his brother Xiang's feet that had been soaked white for the past three days, and asked distressedly: "What happened these days, why didn't I ask anyone and refuse to tell me more, only that something happened." ”

Dong Xiang pulled Huanhuan back into his arms.

"Nothing, nothing." just whispered to comfort Huanhuan, and also comforted himself.

There is still half a sentence left unspoken.

"Nothing..."