Qin Rushuang led the people outside. Along the way, she also asked a few people about the situation in the coal mines. These people were not very strict. After all, it was not a secret that Boss Xiao had contracted the mining of the mines, so they only mentioned Xiao.
The boss's name.
Qin Rushuang deliberately asked the groom to drive the horse slower, and several people escorted Qin Rushuang out.
Along the way, Qin Rushuang pretended to rest in the carriage, and the supervisors followed from a distance. As they walked, they began to chat in low voices.
They thought their voices were very quiet, but they didn't know that Qin Rushuang had excellent hearing and had been listening to their chat with bated breath.
"Time flies so fast, and it's summer again in the blink of an eye. The rainy season in the south of the Yangtze River is really difficult!"
"I hope it rains less this year, otherwise there will be floods again. Oh, by the way, it rained a few days ago. Did Boss Xiao call for reinforcements in the mine?"
"I heard that the court allocated the money, but as for Boss Xiao..." The man chuckled: "The money went into Boss Xiao's pocket. Whether the veins are reinforced or not is another matter."
"How can this work? The soil is wet after raining, and the same is true in the mineral veins. What if the soil becomes soft and the inside collapses?"
"You don't need to worry about it. It's not like you don't know who is inside! Let's take the money from the overseer, so we should worry about the overseer. Just don't let the coal diggers run away. The rest
You don’t care about him! Let’s talk about it after it collapses!”
The more Qin Rushuang listened in the carriage, the more she felt something was wrong.
She remembered that when she first came to Jiangnan, her grandfather once mentioned to her that they came at the right time. It had rained heavily a few days ago and it has only become sunny in the past few days.
Combined with the low-pitched conversation between the supervisors just now, Qin Rushuang couldn't sit still anymore. She opened the curtain and ordered the coachman: "Quick! Stop!"
The coachman was stunned for a moment, "What's wrong, madam?"
"We're not going to the city anymore. We're going back to the mines!"
The more Qin Rushuang talked, the more uneasy she felt, and an extremely bad feeling arose in her heart.
Seeing that her face turned pale with anxiety, the coachman hurriedly said: "Madam, don't worry, I will stop the carriage first and then go talk to the next few people."
The coachman didn't say anything. After he finished speaking, he suddenly heard a "boom -" sound. Qin Rushuang felt the carriage shake violently, and even the ground beneath her feet shook for a while.
Qin Rushuang's face turned pale!
"Ore veins! Don't let anything happen to the mine veins! Hurry back, the prince is still inside!"
The driver became anxious upon hearing this and immediately turned the horse's head.
Qin Rushuang took advantage of this opportunity and ordered a few of her subordinates to control the supervisors, "Leave one person to guard! The others are following me back! Hurry!"
They walked out not far away, and they went back even faster. When they arrived at the mine vein, they saw that a large piece of the ground had collapsed, and the remaining supervisor fainted aside.
Qin Rushuang was so frightened that she couldn't even speak. She suppressed the fear in her heart and took a few deep breaths before ordering her subordinates: "Go to Du Mansion alone to report the news to Mr. Du, and the rest will stay here."
Dig it right where you are!"
She had just finished giving instructions when she suddenly saw the earthbags at her feet moving. Qin Rushuang thought that Xie Xun had just gone down there a while ago, and maybe he had already rushed out when he noticed something strange?! She quickly ordered the people next to her
: "Here! Dig this place quickly!"
Qin Rushuang is anxious, why are her men not anxious!
Firstly, they are loyal to the prince, and secondly, if something happens to the prince in Jiangnan, all of them will be beheaded, and all of them will die without mercy!
They didn't have a shovel at hand, so they had to start digging with bare hands at the piece of land Qin Rushuang pointed to. After digging for a while, a hand suddenly stretched out from inside. Several people looked happy when they saw this and hurriedly pulled the person out.
.
But Qin Rushuang's heart skipped a beat when she saw that man's face. This man was not Xie Xun!
Qin Rushuang rushed to the man, shook his shoulders and asked, "Have you seen a strange man go down the mine?!"
The man had been frightened by the sudden landslide. Qin Rushuang squeezed his shoulders tightly and asked him several times before he realized what he was doing, and then cried "Wow".
"The mine collapsed!! People are buried inside!"
"Answer my question! I ask you, have you ever seen a strange man in the mines?!"
The man finally came to his senses and replied tremblingly: "I saw it! I saw it! I have never seen him. He discovered something abnormal after he went into the mine, and pushed me out at the last moment. He himself was
It’s buried inside!”
Qin Rushuang felt her eyes go dark and her mind was spinning, and she had only one reaction -
What to do? What to do? Xie Xun is buried inside!
"Where is he! Point it out to me!" Qin Rushuang's voice was sharp and broken, almost shouting.
The man wiped his face, wiped off all the soot on his face, pointed to a sunken place and said: "He built a load-bearing pillar at the entrance of the mine. It should...should be no problem...
"
Qin Rushuang felt relieved and quickly ordered the people next to her: "Dig! Dig it for me! If it doesn't work, go find explosives and blow it up!"
The man who was rescued had fear and hesitation on his face at this moment. He said to Qin Rushuang: "There is a load-bearing pillar where the man went down. If... if this place is blown up, there will be more than thirty people inside.
Workers, all...all will be buried inside."
"How could this happen?! Are there no load-bearing pillars deep in the veins?!" Qin Rushuang was going crazy.
The man was about to cry, "No! Not at all! The load-bearing pillar at the door was built to cope with the imperial court! We are all beggars captured by Boss Xiao! Who will care about our life and death?! The first one to collapse was
If we blow up this pillar at the entrance, everyone inside will die!"
"What should I do? Princess? What should I do?" Now the person was anxious.
Qin Rushuang grabbed the beggar by the collar and asked sternly, "Are you sure the man who went down was not buried?!"
The man was frightened by Qin Rushuang's terrifying expression, but he still nodded and said, "It should be... it should be... there is a stone slab under the load-bearing column. If you hide quickly, there should be some space under the stone slab, but
…But as time goes by, I don’t know anymore…”
Qin Rushuang was in a dilemma.
On one side is Xie Xun, on the other side are the lives of more than three hundred beggars.
She identified the location pointed by the beggar she rescued. The place where Xie Xun was buried was the entrance to the mine, and it was the only load-bearing place. The collapse of the ground inside also started near the load-bearing pillar.
The place where the workers were actually mining has not collapsed yet, but if she blows up the load-bearing pillar and rescues Xie Xun first, then the three hundred people inside will undoubtedly die.
Several subordinates were as anxious as grasshoppers on a hot pot: "What should we do? Princess? What should we do?! Otherwise, why don't we go to the local government?! The prince must not let anything happen here!"
