"The food is served. Please enjoy your meal, sir."

Shen Jia slowly walked to the door, opened it, looked at the waiter's flattering smile, took the food handed to him, and asked:

"Who called this?"

"To the soldiers accompanying you, this dish is made with the fattest lamb in all of Ningwei. It's delicious. You must try it."

This place is the forefront of the war and is also the place that best understands the horror of war and the hardships of the soldiers. Therefore, seeing Shen Jia and Xu Zhao, two girls from other places, staying with the soldiers in the military camp, it is natural to send the best things in the store.

"Thank you."

After a brief understanding, Shen Jia closed the door and smelled the delicious mutton. Even though he was tired, he still wanted to try it.

As expected, the taste of the mutton raised on the grassland is different. Although the mutton obtained locally in Hezhou is also good, it still tastes a little different from what we eat now.

After eating and resting, the group immediately set out on their journey to look for coal mines.

Yan Zhou looked at the energetic Shen Jia and Xu Zhao and introduced the people he had found to them. "This is our fellow villager who is familiar with the western part of Ningwei. If Miss Shen has anything you want to know, just ask directly."

Looking at the other person's face, which was shaped by long-term exposure to wind and sun, as well as years of erosion by cold winds, Shen Jia felt sad.

So he asked, "We need to look for a place with sparse vegetation, or even no vegetation at all. Remove the yellow soil on the surface, and the color inside will be darker and blacker, and the smell will be different from the surrounding area. If there are black lumps directly exposed on the surface, that would be even better."

Hearing what Shen Jia said, Temur, who was called to help, couldn't help but start to recall in his mind whether he had ever seen such a place.

Now most of Quanningwei is still covered with a thin layer of snow, and the grass has not yet started to grow. If you observe directly, you can't see anything.

Temur was also called in hurriedly. He had no idea what was going on in his mind for a moment, so he tried hard to think and then gave a place name.

"It's at the foot of Mount Alba, west of us, near the garrison. I heard from my children at home that black mud was once dug up there. And that area has always been barren. There's a good chance you'll find what you want, General."

Hearing Temur's answer, Yan Zhou shouted immediately before Shen Jia could react, "Everyone, get ready and head to the Alba Mountains immediately.

Miss Shen, you guys get in the car too, and we’ll go see the place the fellow villager mentioned later.”

Then he turned to explain to Shen Jia and the others that the main reason was that the dialects of the two places were quite different. Shen Jia felt that he was already familiar with a lot of the local language in Hezhou, but after coming to Quanningwei, he still felt in the dark.

She could only hear some of what Temur said intermittently, so when Yan Zhou decisively gave the order to set off, she was still a little confused.

He replied blankly, "Okay."

It seems that they are going to set off now. On the way there, she can use her machine to check the surrounding environment again to see if there are any coal mines. Maybe she won't have to sit in the carriage for so long.

Thinking of this, she followed Xu Zhao into the carriage, and Yan Zhou was still driving for them.

To her surprise, Temur, who looked very old, was actually a good horse rider and seemed to be as skilled as the other soldiers.

The group headed towards the Alba Mountains that Temur mentioned. Along the way, Shen Jia used his mind to open his system and began to monitor the surrounding environment to see if there were any suitable mines.

In addition to coal mines, she believed that it would be even more exciting if there were large reserves of iron ore in this first stop of the war.

Just think of it as her kindness towards the ordinary people of the Great Sheng Dynasty and her contribution to better guard the border.

All that could be heard along the way were the sounds of horse hooves, wheels crushing ice and snow, and the whistling wind. These alone created a picture of the northern border in Shen Jia's eyes.

While listening to Xu Zhao's mumbling, she used her instrument in the void and watched the signals passing by.

She didn't know how long it had been, but just when she felt her eyes were about to dry out, Yan Zhou outside the car suddenly spoke:

“Miss Shen, Mount Alba is not far away from us, and we are going to see this place later.”

"Yes, is it?"

Shen Jia, who was suddenly interrupted from his thoughts, retorted casually, then lifted the curtain beside him and looked at the mountains in the distance through the window.

The top of the mountain is dotted with white snow, and the shape of the mountain peak is faintly revealed in the white clouds.

Perhaps due to the weather at this time, the foot of the entire mountain range also has traces of snow, echoing the distant view.

Seeing this, she called out her instrument again without giving up. Seeing that there was still nothing on it, she suddenly felt that today's trip might be in vain.

But looking at the expectant eyes of the people outside, she felt that she might not be able to bring herself to say it, and what reason could she use to dissuade them from moving on.

While she was still hesitating, they had already arrived at the foot of Mount Alba, which was still covered with snow and nothing could be seen from the surface.

“Miss Shen, please get out of the car and let’s check it out together.”

Yan Zhou outside the door reminded Shen Jia that they had arrived at the place, then he jumped out of the car and asked the two to get out.

Shen Jia lifted the curtain and got off the carriage with the help of Xu Zhao.

Seeing the surroundings still covered with snow, she faced the expectant eyes of several people and said:

"First, find a place to dig and see if the color of the soil underneath is the darker color I mentioned, different from other places. If it doesn't work in one place, try again. If that still doesn't work, we'll try somewhere else."

Because we were planning to visit the coal mine, we specially prepared digging equipment.

Yan Zhou listened to Shen Jia's arrangements and immediately said to the others: "Hurry up and listen to Miss Shen's arrangements. Each of you should take your own hoe and keep a certain distance between each person to avoid wasting your efforts."

After saying that, he also took a hoe and started working.

Shen Jia took advantage of their work start posture to look at the exposed surface and took a look at his own system instruments.

Suddenly she saw her instrument pointing to a certain place, and a big exclamation mark popped out. This was not enough, and a harsh sound also rang in Shen Jia's mind, but only she could hear it.

She immediately realized that the coal reserves here might be even greater than those in Yanhe Town, and the instrument's reaction this time was much more intense than last time.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but make a sound, and everyone was attracted by her voice. Coincidentally, there were people digging in the direction she was looking, but they couldn't see anything unusual from this place.

Shen Jia quickly shouted, "That's right, there looks like there's something there in the area to the left of you guys. Try to push hard there as well."

After hearing Shen Jia's words, several people quickly moved to another position and quickly expanded the ground that had just been exposed in a small area.

As they dug deeper and deeper, someone soon felt that the things he dug up had a different feeling when they bounced back. He immediately raised his hoe and showed the place where there was a gap in front of several people.

"Look, are these black crumbs the coal we're looking for?"