bestfiction Chapter 139 New Ideas
Chapter 139 New Ideas
"Sister Yuxia, I'm begging you," Xia Yichen said, then stuffed the last sleeping pill into his mouth and slowly sat down against the cave entrance.
Wen Yuxia entered the cave, moved Lu Mubai and the others into the space, and then sent Xia Yichen, who was at the cave entrance, into the space and placed him on the sofa in the guest room.
Leaving Eagle's Beak Cliff, Wen Yuxia led a horse out of her spatial storage, leaped onto its back, and rode off towards Pingyuan Pass.
Before coming, Wen Yuxia had carefully observed the terrain and knew that there was a small mountain less than ten miles from Pingyuan Pass, with very dense vegetation on it.
Riding horses up the hillside, Wen Yuxia moved everyone out of the spatial dimension, leaving them enough food for a hearty meal. Then she gave Xia Yichen the antidote.
After Xia Yichen woke up, he arranged to meet Wen Yuxia in the village where the veterans lived. Wen Yuxia then flashed into the space.
Although he knew that Wen Yuxia had the ability to disappear into thin air, Xia Yichen still stared at the spot where Wen Yuxia had been standing, unable to come to his senses for a moment.
When Lu Mubai and the others woke up, it was already broad daylight. Xia Yichen said loudly, "I have brought you out of Eagle Beak Cliff. Come and have something to eat now that you are awake."
Lu Mubai and the others couldn't understand how Xia Yichen had led them from Eagle's Beak Cliff to a hillside less than ten miles from Pingyuan Pass.
Xia Yichen didn't want to explain things to them, and directly said to Lu Mubai, "You must be careful in the future, and never be reckless again. I can't always be there to save you. I have other important matters to attend to, so I won't be going to the military camp."
After saying that, before Lu Mubai could speak, Xia Yichen ran towards the veterans' quarters. Lu Mubai watched Xia Yichen's figure disappear into the distance, then waved to everyone and called them to walk towards the city gate.
Not long after Xia Yichen returned to the village where the veterans lived, Wen Yuxia came back. Xia Yichen sincerely said, "Thank you."
Wen Yuxia said with a faint smile, "As a subject of the Great Xia, it is only right to contribute to the Great Xia. There is no need for thanks."
Thinking of the foal that was about to be born at the Xinchuan County horse farm, Wen Yuxia continued, "Brother Chen, let's go to the horse farm and take a look."
Xia Yichen nodded slightly: "It's a rare opportunity for me to come here. Besides the horse farm, I also need to go to the coal mine. I'll have to trouble you to accompany me, Sister Yuxia."
Wen Yuxia put the supplies in the courtyard back into her spatial storage, rested in the courtyard for one night, and quietly left the village before dawn the next day.
A few days later, Xia Yichen and his group arrived at the Xinchuan County Horse Farm. Zhu Wu, the farm manager, happily told Wen Yuxia that a mare was giving birth.
Accompanied by Zhu Wu, Xia Yichen and the others witnessed the entire process of the mare giving birth. Watching the mare lick the foal's body, Zhu Wu explained in a low voice:
"To prevent the foal from suffocating, the mare will lick the foal's body after giving birth, and after about fifteen minutes, the foal will stand up and suckle."
Afterwards, Zhu Wu took them to see the mare who had not yet given birth, as well as the foal that had been born and lived in the same pen as its mother.
Xia Yichen had learned about the construction progress of the horse farm and town in Fancheng. The overall completion would take at least a year. He wanted to know if he could bring the foal back to the capital at that time: "How long will the foal stay with its mother?"
All the knowledge about horse breeding came from Wen Yuxia. No one on the entire horse farm understood the horse's growth process better than Wen Yuxia.
She said with a faint smile, "A foal can stay with its mother for about ten months before it can leave her and live on its own."
Zhu Wu also took them to see the only pair of twins at the horse farm, and he excitedly told Wen Yuxia that the twins were actually a boy and a girl.
The singing coming from next door to the horse farm diverted Xia Yichen's attention. After inspecting the racetrack, Xia Yichen and his group left the deserted horse farm and went to the bustling racetrack next door.
As they entered the racetrack, they could clearly hear every line of the lyrics: "Hooves clatter, the Yellow River flows on..." More than thirty horses galloped side by side on the track, and the boys on horseback cracked their whips and sang the same song in unison.
The area outside the fence along the track was packed with spectators, who would occasionally shout along with the boys on horseback.
Xia Yichen smiled. The racetrack business in Xinchuan County had always been very good, and he couldn't wait to see the bustling scene of crowds at the Fancheng Racetrack.
Before leaving Xinchuan County, Wen Yuxia returned to the Chengxi residence, where Steward Li gave her a brief overview of the income and expenditure situation of Xinchuan County and Mengzhong County.
Afterwards, all the account books and banknotes were handed over to Wen Yuxia. Wen Yuxia left five thousand taels of silver notes for Steward Li and gave Xia Yichen 30% of the racecourse's income.
After lunch, they rode horses to Mengzhong County. Looking at the small hills of coal slag surrounding the coal mine, Wen Yuxia offered her advice:
"Brother Chen, making coal briquettes is too time-consuming. We could build a honeycomb briquette factory, use molds to process coal slag, and produce a batch of specialized honeycomb briquette stoves. If we had suitable water pipes, we could also install iron buckets around the stoves to store water..."
The surveying department, established at Wen Yuxia's suggestion, not only surveyed dozens of coal mines within the territory of Daxia, but also copper, iron, and salt mines.
With the development of coal mines across the country, coal is no longer a scarce resource in Daxia. Xia Yichen plans to produce honeycomb briquettes that Wen Yuxia described as having a long burning time and saving coal.
Honeycomb briquettes, honeycomb briquette stoves, and preheating furnaces—products that had been phased out for many years in his previous life—were treasured by Xia Yichen. He excitedly said, "Sister Yuxia, please draw the mold for the honeycomb briquettes for me first."
Knowing that Xia Yichen wanted to send the blueprints back to Beijing for Lao Wang to make, Wen Yuxia agreed and returned to her room. After closing the door, Wen Yuxia returned to her spatial dimension.
Opening the folder on the computer desktop revealed an introduction to the manual honeycomb briquette machine and a list of ingredients for honeycomb briquettes.
The computer contained diagrams of manual honeycomb briquette machines and preheating stoves specifically for honeycomb briquettes, entirely because of her stubborn grandfather.
In her past life, her grandfather had a particular fondness for preheating furnaces. After the villa was built, he insisted that Wen Yuxia install one for him. To find someone to build a preheating furnace, Wen Yuxia spent a considerable amount of time researching online.
Thinking of the unused honeycomb briquette machine and preheater in the storage room in the backyard of the villa, Wen Yuxia chuckled and said, "Drawing drawings is too much trouble, just give us the actual product."