PDLP Chapter 398 Live for Her
Chapter 398 Live for Her
Seeing that Chi Nur was not going to leave, Qin Bingrui said with a dark expression, "Are you also planning to be captured by our army and taken to Blackwater City?"
Chi Nur did not waver. He had nothing now and could not take his Princess Helian with him. The cause of restoring the Qiyue Kingdom was in jeopardy. His ideals and beliefs all collapsed in an instant.
Just as he was about to aim the sword at his neck, the meteor dart in Luo Lu's hand flew out and collided with the sword he was raising, making a crisp and loud metal collision sound. His hand was numb for a moment, and he looked at Qin Luo Lu blankly.
Luo Yu asked Zhu Jinyou to turn the horse around, and they had to leave the grassland immediately and return to Heishui City.
The wind was whistling in Luo Yu's ears. She never looked back, but she firmly believed that Chi Nur would not commit suicide again. Helena Ling hoped that he would be alive.
Zhu Jinyou's heart finally settled down. She finally chose him instead of Chi Nur.
But she had thought about escaping from him before, and still had a grudge against Zhu Jinyou.
Qin Bingrui led his team across the grassland again. A few days later, they returned to Heishui City.
During the one-month-long absence, there was no autumn in Blackwater City. It was as if summer had transitioned to freezing winter overnight.
Luo Lu stayed in the house for a few days. Fortunately, the wound was shallow and he was fine after a few days of rest. However, Zhu Jinyou was injured in several places. Luo Lu asked someone to send him medical ethanol to prevent the wound from getting infected and causing fever.
However, she didn't expect that after lying in bed for five days, Zhu Jinyou didn't bring any news to tell her how his injury was.
Luo Yu got out of bed and wanted to go and see for himself.
As she was about to leave the house, Qin Bingrui came back from outside with a mysterious look on his face. Seeing that Luo Yu was able to go out and walk around, he immediately pulled her out.
"What are you so excited about?"
"Sister, I found a coal mine using my instrument."
"and then?"
"We have tens of thousands of captives from the grasslands, plus tens of thousands of Wangzhou troops. The expenses are quite high anyway. Winter is coming now, and we don't have to fight for the time being. Why don't we start mining? With coal mines, our soldiers can keep warm and we can sell it for a high price. That's a great thing!"
Luo Yu followed her steps and said carefully: "The coal mines have always been the imperial court's reserves. They won't allow people to mine them casually, right?"
"So I'll have to trouble you to convince His Royal Highness Prince Ning." Qin Bingrui sneered, "I'll take you to have a look first. Using our high-tech survey equipment, we've discovered that this mine is quite large. We have a lot of people, so I can secretly get some equipment later. I estimate that the coal mine will be completed in two or three years."
"You mean, you want to stay here for two or three years?" If the emperor can survive for that long, it is not impossible to consider it.
"No, we'll just stay here until next spring. I need to bring a group of technicians with me first."
Under the leadership of Qin Bingrui, they came to a relatively remote location 20 kilometers out of the southeast city gate. Luo Yu discovered through the display screen of the surveying instrument that the surveyed coal mine area was at least five square kilometers, which could be regarded as a medium-sized coal mine.
"Won't people be suspicious if you bring this machine out?"
"Don't worry, at the moment only Pu Azhong, Pu Acheng and Lao Jin know about it. I trust them."
The main reason is that A Zhong and A Cheng have not seen much of the world and cannot tell whether this thing is a modern product or a future product. As for Lao Jin, he is an educated person and is not surprised by anything he has seen.
After returning, Luo Yu was overwhelmed with worry. To open a mine, he needed an imperial seal. Since the emperor was unconscious, he had no choice but to consult Zhu Jinyou. If Zhu Jinyou could successfully take the position of regent, he would also approve the coal mining. After all, this was a long-term undertaking that could not be carried out casually.
When Luo Yu went to visit Zhu Jinyou, he saw him lying naked on the bed. The room was warm. It turned out that there was a fire wall in the room he lived in. In a city like Heishui City where it is mostly winter all year round, there are many houses with such primitive fire walls.
When Zhu Jinyou saw Luo Yu, he was not surprised. He just asked her if her injury had healed.
Luo Yu was not so pretentious. He smiled and said, "My minor injury is nothing. It's mainly because I can't adapt to the climate here. I slept in a daze for a few days."
She took a closer look at the bandaged wound on Zhu Jinyou's body and said with heartache, "You are the one who was injured so badly, and you were still protecting me all the way."
Seeing her pitiful appearance, Zhu Jinyou felt as if she was the one who was hurt instead of him. He raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and took her in his arms, holding her tightly against his chest.
Luo Yu was afraid of touching his wound, so he carefully stuck to him and muttered, "Don't be too anxious, wait until the wound heals."
Zhu Jinyou smiled and said, "Okay, okay, the girl is mine anyway. I will marry her immediately after we return to Beijing."
Luo Yu raised his innocent eyes and asked him, "When will we return to Beijing?"
"If you want to leave early, we'll leave early."
Luo Yu thought about it and decided to send Qin Bingrui to the military training, but he accidentally discovered the matter of the coal mine and told him about it.
"Coal mine?"
Zhu Jinyou knew there were coal mines of varying sizes north of Rong State, but they were mostly small-scale. He had heard that the coal mines in Blackwater City were enormous. If they were excavated, it would at least ease the military conflict with the grassland tribes. Most importantly, it would make Blackwater City more prosperous. Prosperity would allow for trade with the grassland tribes and small states to the northwest, which would be beneficial to both the people and the government.
Luo Yu hadn't expected Zhu Jinyou to agree to mine the coal so quickly, but without the imperial approval, Zhu Jinyou couldn't agree privately. Who knew who would be in power in the future? If mining a large mine was convicted, many people would be implicated. Furthermore, the potential benefits were so impressive and tempting, so he naturally had to be cautious.
Zhu Jinyou thought about it and decided to return to Beijing in half a month.
Luo Yu knew that Qin Bingrui could not leave Black Water City for the time being, so she said that she would go back with Zhu Jinyou alone.
Zhu Jinyou smiled mischievously: "I wonder if Miss Qin is willing to let her sister go with me?"
Luo Yu didn't think about all these trivial things. She was just afraid that Xia Liang wanted to take the emperor back to the capital with her, and she didn't know if the two of them could protect the emperor.
Zhu Jinyou knew she was overthinking it and promised her: "Don't worry, girl. The capital will not be in chaos. I will not let the people of Rongguo suffer."
Luo Yu looked him in the eye. They had been through so much together, so he was the one she should have trusted the most. But why was it that every time the words came to her lips, she always wanted to hold back half of them?
"Zhu Jinyou, if the emperor really can't wake up, will you let the queen and the seventh prince go?"
Zhu Jinyou was slightly stunned. She was indeed still worried about this matter.
"Yes, you have to believe me."
The premise is that they never thought of resisting.
It wasn't a matter of whether Luo Yu believed it or not. She felt that she needed to say it a few more times so that he would have a clear idea.
Seeing that she didn't say anything, he gently kissed her cool lips, feeling sweet but also feeling his thoughts surge.