Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

"Bao'er, after paying homage to daddy later, you can go back to the father-in-law's mansion."

Yongping Village, Chu Family.

While Chu was packing up the torn books, he said to his sister who was busy cleaning up the house not far away:

"My father-in-law said that you have a unique Zhedan spiritual root in your body. Before you are not strong enough, you cannot stay in the place where the fire spirit power gathers for a long time. The fire spirit power near Black Mountain is extremely strong. You should go back early. Better."

When Chu Baoer heard this, he was silent for a while, and then sighed inexplicably.

"Well, I understand, brother."

The reason why she fainted at home before was because the spiritual roots in her body collided with the extremely rich fire spirit energy of Black Mountain. This attracted the attention of Lu Chen, Gu Simiao and others who went to Black Mountain for an unannounced visit.

In other words, her rare and top-notch wind-attribute spiritual root attracted the attention of Gu Simiao, who was also a top figure in the world.

So Gu Simiao directly accepted her as a disciple and took her to the county government office in the capital to recuperate her body and prepare for subsequent training.

Although she has passed the optimal age for cultivation, the spiritual roots in her body are extremely special. With careful teaching, she may not be able to establish a foundation and enter the Tao. Even if her understanding is insufficient and her achievements in cultivation are limited, taking her away can be regarded as saving a life. After all, Chu Baoer had no way of staying in Montenegro for long.

As for whether he is worried that Lu Chen is out of kindness, or because he has a love for Chu, and whether he will directly take her back to his house as a maid after learning about Chu Baoer's situation, then Only Gu Simiao knew it.

Soon, the sacrifices were prepared.

The two left Yongping Village side by side and came to several newly erected graves not far outside the village.

Not long after they left, many officials in uniforms slowly appeared not far from the village entrance.

When the two came to Chu Zhan's grave, they unexpectedly saw two familiar figures in front of the grave.

It is Chu Zhan's former Paoze Yue Dashan, and his daughter Yue Qingqing.

"Uncle-in-law, girl-in-law."

Although Chu was a little surprised when he saw the two of them, he soon showed his understanding, and then spoke naturally and greeted the two of them.

"Brother, Bao'er..."

Yue Dashan turned around with an apologetic look and looked at the Chu brothers and sisters.

"You are here."

Chu Zhan's grave was already filled with various sacrifices, including even a chicken.

It can be seen that Yue Dashan sincerely pays tribute to his old comrade.

But Yue Qingqing on the side looked impatient.

In fact, if Yue Dashan hadn't felt sorry for Chu Zhan and forced her to come over because of the regretful marriage, she wouldn't have come here at all, let alone kowtow to Chu Zhan.

But Chu Baoer, who learned that the Yue family regretted their marriage, glared at the two of them angrily.

"What are you doing here?"

The tone was full of anger and dissatisfaction, as if he didn't welcome the two of them.

"Stinky girl, why are you talking?"

Yue Qingqing, who didn't want to come in the first place, glanced sideways and said in annoyance: "My father and I came here specially to pay homage to your father, and you just talk to us like this?"

Chu Baoer opened her mouth and was about to say that you are not welcome here, but Chu suddenly stretched out her hand to stop her from saying any more.

"Bao'er, forget it, stop talking."

Chu's voice was very deep, completely different from the angry young man before.

Obviously, his father's death made him mature a lot.

Chu Baoer frowned and glanced at Chu, his face a little dissatisfied, but he obediently did not say any more.

However, Chu Baoer's attitude still made Yue Dashan's face darken.

He knew that no matter what he said, when it came to regretting the marriage, especially when the Chu family was in trouble, the Yue family was sorry for the Chu family, and all he could do was to sincerely apologize to Chu and Chu Zhan.

In this regard, Chu still looked calm and indifferent, seeming to take a very open mind and not care at all.

Even though his sister had already climbed up Gu Simiao's high tree, he did not argue with the Yue family about regretting the marriage. Otherwise, as long as he revealed a little bit about the relationship between his sister and Gu Simiao, the Yue family would probably be in trouble, let alone regretting the marriage. Send your daughter.

Chu took a very indifferent view of the Chu family's situation, which had obviously improved a lot, and did not use his sister's relationship to gain anything.

At this time, he still has not gotten over the shadow of his father's death because of him.

Being so obviously rejected by Chu Baoer, Yue Dashan was not annoyed at all. Instead, he forced his daughter to accompany the Chu brothers and sisters to worship Chu Zhan.

After the worship was over, Chu took Chu Baoer away. Yue Dashan raised his hand and opened his mouth, as if he wanted to stop Chu, but in the end he sighed dejectedly and said nothing.

Yue Qingqing, however, looked relaxed, even feeling completely relieved.

And at this moment——

"Brother, sister Baoer!"

Two shouts suddenly sounded in the distance.

The four of them subconsciously turned their heads to look, and soon saw five thin men running towards this direction covered in sweat.

Chu was a little confused.

He knew those men, they were all villagers who lived together in Yongping Village. Seeing that they were in such a hurry to come over, it was obvious that something big had happened, but if you looked carefully, there was obvious joy on their faces.

Can there be any happy events in this Black Mountain?

Seeing someone coming to see Chu and Chu Baoer, Yue Dashan ignored his daughter's urging to leave.

Soon, the five men came to Chu. The lean man in the lead gasped and said: "...Brother, sister Bao'er, it turns out you are here...it will make it easier for us to find you."

Hearing this, Chu suddenly asked with a puzzled look on his face: "Brother Dadong, what happened to the village? Why are you so anxious to find us?"

"whispering sound…"

Yue Qingqing didn't even look at the people and muttered in a low voice:

"What could happen to this poor place? I'm afraid this poor guy owes someone food, and they chased him out of fear that he would escape."

Only Yue Dashan heard her muttering among the people present. He couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and glared at his daughter. Yue Qingqing stopped muttering, but still looked at Chu with disdain.

The man called Brother Dadong chuckled.

"What a happy event, such a happy event!"

He took a few breaths, and then said impatiently: "Brother, a few high-ranking officials from Luo Jing came to the village just now. They said they were planning to build a water... water... water plant and other things here in Heishan, as well as a coal mining plant. , From now on, we will buy coal from the land assigned to us by the father-in-law!"

As soon as these words came out, Chu was stunned for a moment.

Not only him, but Chu Baoer, Yue Dashan and his daughter were also stunned.

"What? Buying charcoal?"

Coal...isn't that something harmful?

Why did the imperial court make a special trip to collect this thing?

"yes!!"

The man next to Brother Dadong hurriedly answered: "I heard that the imperial court has found a way to prevent the harmful poisonous smoke from burning coal. They want to use large amounts of coal to do big things, so they are interested in the distance from the capital." The nearest coal is from the Black Mountain. From now on, the imperial court wants all the coal in our underground! Take as much as you can!"

"And I gave you a lot of money!"

Hearing this, Yue Qingqing immediately asked subconsciously: "How much?"

"Fifty coins and one stone!"

Brother Dadong said without hesitation.

As soon as he finished speaking, his companions on the side added: "And we don't have to do anything. The government recruits people to mine the coal and gives us money directly after weighing it. In other words... everyone in our village, or all of them, moved to Montenegro. Those who settle down can make a fortune just by lying down!"

boom!

After listening to the two people's stories, Yue Qingqing seemed to have a sudden thunder in her mind. The next second, she felt her mind spinning, her body staggered, and she almost fell to the ground.

Coal... Coal that burns without poisonous smoke...

How can this be? !

How could something so unreasonable exist in this world?

If this were true...

Montenegro is so big that almost every household has been allocated dozens of acres of land, and there is so much coal that can be seen everywhere on the ground, and there is no telling how much is buried underground. If the pebbles can be sold for money, what about Montenegro? The villagers...the Chu family who used to be her fiancé...

Wouldn't it be that Chu, whom she looked down upon, was going to change and become a rich man? !

Is she...ruining her young mistress's future with her own hands? !

"impossible!"

Realizing this, she immediately shouted loudly.

"There is no way there is coal in this world that does not emit poisonous smoke. You must be lying!"

As she said that, she suddenly turned her head, glared at Chu who was not far away, and said loudly: "You Chu, in order to make me regret and make our family regret, you actually directed and performed such a drama yourself."

"I thought you were a gentleman before, bah! Disgusting!!"