He has a spatial ability and saves three children on his escape route.

Chapter 98 Coal Hill

“Princess, these two mountains were bestowed upon you by the Emperor. However, the soil on these mountains is poor, and many places are bare,” Magistrate Zhang said somewhat embarrassedly.

The Emperor only said he wanted to give two hills at the end of the field to Wen Yuxia. He figured Wen Yuxia wasn't short of money, so he assigned the two hills with the worst soil quality to Wen Yuxia.

Sigh, if he had known Wen Yuxia was a good person, he should have allocated two lush hills to her. Now, the land deeds are in Wen Yuxia's hands.

It was a foregone conclusion that the two barren mountains belonged to Wen Yuxia, and Magistrate Zhang was powerless to change that.

Nothing grows there, nothing can be planted, and the hill that Magistrate Zhang utterly despises might be a treasure trove in Wen Yuxia's eyes. She chuckled and said, "A bare hill is perfect for building a manor."

Haha, as long as you're satisfied, as long as you're satisfied!

The land and hills bestowed by the Emperor were handed over to Wen Yuxia, and it was time for him to retire gracefully. Magistrate Zhang bid farewell to Wen Yuxia with a smile, and on the way back, he was still rejoicing that the two worst hills in Mengzhong County finally had owners.

Looking up at the distant mountains, Wen Yuxia said cheerfully, "Butler Li, you're in charge of building the house. We'll build it at the foot of the mountain."

To distinguish between Li Chuan and Li Yafeng, the older Li Chuan was called Butler Li, and the younger Li Yafeng was called Little Butler Li.

Li Yafeng nodded and replied, "Princess, rest assured, I will go to the fields to recruit people." After walking a few steps toward the fields, Li Yafeng turned back and asked, "Princess, are there any requirements for building a house?"

He was so busy he was completely overwhelmed. Wen Yuxia hadn't even said how big the house would be, how was he supposed to know how many workers to hire?

Wen Yuxia said with a faint smile, "Let's build a simple farmhouse with three main rooms and five rooms each for the left and right wing rooms!"

Having obtained accurate information about building houses, Li Yafeng walked to the mule cart. Two thousand acres of land was simply too vast; if he were to walk there, he probably wouldn't have recruited enough people by nightfall.

There are no houses in this area, and we'd have to go to the surrounding villages to find lodging. We also need to go up the mountain to scout things out tomorrow, and Wen Yuxia didn't want to go through all that trouble. "North One, North Two, set up the tents. We'll spend the night here."

Bei Yi and Bei Er helped Ma Qiang set up the tent, while Ma Qiang's wife, Yu Shi, and Li Yafeng's wife, Guo Shi, were busy setting up the stove, gathering firewood, digging for wild vegetables, and cooking porridge.

Wen Yuxia wasn't idle either; she went alone to the stream at the foot of the mountain to catch fish.

In the capital, at Yunyi Tower, Zhang Jinxuan and Li Jiating stared blankly at the porcelain vases that Lu Mubai had sent from Pingyuan Pass. Xia Yichen smiled and said, "Heh, Sister Yuxia has given me another surprise."

Zhang Jinxuan said incredulously, "Just this tiny granule, the size of a soybean, can stop the pain just by eating one?"

In his letter, Lu Mubai said that these porcelain bottles were entrusted to him by Wen Yuxia to be taken back to Pingyuan Pass for the wounded veterans; they contained pills and powder.

The powder is used to stop bleeding, and there are four types of pills: one for typhoid fever, one for fever, one for cough, and one for pain relief.

He had the hemostatic powder and painkillers administered to the wounded soldiers in this battle by the doctors in the military camp, and they were very effective.

This matter should have been reported directly to the imperial court, but Lu Mubai sided with Xia Yichen, so he sent the memorial and medicine to Ruyi Tower instead.

Li Jiating lightly punched Zhang Jinxuan and laughed, "Lu Mubai never lies, yet you doubt his words too?"

"Hehe, I don't doubt it, I don't doubt it, it's just a bit unbelievable," Lu Mubai was the youngest and most honest among them. Zhang Jinxuan had never seen him lie.

"Yichen, should we submit this memorial?" Li Jiating turned to look at Xia Yichen.

When the memorial was submitted to the Emperor, no one could say for sure which prince would be entrusted with overseeing the production of these medicines.

Xia Yichen's father, the Crown Prince, is inactive, and his uncles are engaged in open and covert struggles. To protect his father and mother and solidify his own position, Xia Yichen...

In addition to handing over the spoils seized at Pingyuan Pass over the years to the imperial court, he would take the lead in donating money and supplies to any county in the Great Xia Dynasty that suffered a disaster.

Xia Yichen also personally paid for the resettlement of the wounded soldiers at Pingyuan Pass.

Despite his seemingly glamorous life, Xia Yichen is actually short of money. Li Jiating hopes he will suppress the memorials and take control of the pharmaceutical business.

Xia Yichen said, "Have someone from the Ministry of War deliver the memorial and medicine tomorrow."

The Emperor must know about Wen Yuxia's creations immediately; Xia Yichen has no intention of keeping his wealth a secret from the Emperor.

In any case, only he and the Emperor knew that Wen Yuxia was different from ordinary people, so the Emperor would definitely entrust him with the task of negotiating medicine with Wen Yuxia.

“Okay,” Li Jiating said sullenly.

Wen Yuxia was unaware that the medicine she had given to the wounded soldiers on a whim had been sent to the capital by Lu Mubai, nor did she know that she would soon become the head of the Royal Pharmaceutical Factory.

At this moment, she was lying in the tent, muttering to herself: "Saline-alkali land, soil layers compacted by manpower, plants evolving into coal after a series of geological processes... Sigh, which one is it?"

Wen Yuxia racked her brains trying to recall under what circumstances the plants on the mountain would not grow or would not grow well. As she thought about it, she gradually closed her eyes.

After waking up early and having breakfast, Wen Yuxia took Bei Yi and Bei Er up the mountain to check.

Watching the three of them run briskly up the mountain, Ma Qiang sighed and said, "No wonder the princess wouldn't let me follow."

Madam Yu chuckled and said, "Bringing along a helpless burden like you will only slow down the princess and the others' progress!"

Guo had known Ma Qiang and his wife for over ten years and was used to their witty banter. She pretended not to notice Ma Qiang's embarrassment.

He calmly got up and walked up the mountain, muttering to himself, "I'm going to gather firewood. You two stay here and keep watch."

Wen Yuxia ran all the way, memorizing every scene along the way. The plants on the mountain were lush in some places and sparse in others.

In some places, the soil was black, with a few weeds growing haphazardly on it. Whenever Wen Yuxia encountered black soil, she would stop, a smile on her face, and start digging at the black mud with her hands.

After traversing both mountains, Wen Yuxia led Bei Yi and Bei Er back to the foot of the mountain.

She faced the mountains, looked up, and silently murmured: "Both are coal mountains, we'll be rich, we'll be rich!"

There is a lot of coal exposed on the ground on these two mountains, which has turned into black soil after being exposed to the wind and sun. Wen Yuxia also saw coal with shapes that resembled tree textures.

After lunch, Wen Yuxia wrote a letter and asked Bei Yi to deliver it to the post station. The letter was addressed to Yunyi Tower in the capital.

Xia Yichen left her the contact address before he left, telling her to send letters to Yunyilou if she needed anything.