Xie Qing looked at Qin Wan, his eyes full of admiration. "You're right. I'll send someone to deliver the letter right away."
Xie Qing immediately wrote a letter, affixed his seal, sealed it with wax, and took out his jade pendant, handing it to the young eunuch: "You go there in person."
"yes."
The young eunuch put the letter in his arms with great care and turned to leave.
After finishing everything, Xie Qing asked the two, "Are you hungry?"
Qin Wan nodded, her eyes falling on the dam outside. She touched her stomach, feeling hungry: "There shouldn't be a shortage of fish here, right?"
Qin Wan thought the seafood she had at Qianxianglou last time was very delicious. The water quality here is so good. Although there is no seafood, there are fish.
Xie Qing smiled as he looked at Qin Wan tenderly, "If you want to eat, I'll have someone cast a net, but the cooking skills here aren't very good. How about asking Yi Jia to come up?"
When their eyes met, Qin Wan's pupils shrank slightly. She knew that nothing good would happen when this person smiled!
He must have known that she had a relationship with Zhuangzi in Shenyang!
And he also knew that Zhuangzi was at the foot of the mountain!
Yijia's departure happened right under his nose!
Qin Wan clenched her fists and forced a fake smile, "Then I'll trouble Your Highness to send someone down the mountain to pick her up."
"Okay." Xie Qing nodded slightly and arranged for someone to lower the fishing nets and pick up Yijia.
With nothing else to do, Qin Wan started a fishing competition with Xie Qing and Master Du.
The fish here are extremely plump and easy to catch. After a while, the three people's fishing rods all bent down.
Qin Wan shook her hand and a fat fish flew to the shore.
Xie Qing and Du Shizi beside them also put away their fishing rods. The three of them looked at the three fish on the shore, each weighing at least three pounds.
Prince Du laughed heartily: "What a treat for lunch!"
Qin Wan said, "If we transport it down the mountain, I wonder how many people will be fed."
Xie Qing had the same idea: "There will be a lot of fish coming out of this net. I'll have someone carry them down the mountain."
After he finished speaking, he turned to Qin Wan and said, "I remember you mentioned that fish need to migrate to reproduce. What's going on here?"
Qin Wan didn't know this at first, but she had heard Bai Wanyi mention it in her previous life. Naturally, she couldn't say it now. "I heard from a fisherman that some fish need to return to their birthplace to reproduce. Building dams will intercept too many fish, and the fish released into the dams won't be able to return, which can easily lead to fish extinction."
Xie Qing didn't quite understand: "What will happen if they become extinct? There are so many species of fish, it wouldn't matter if one or two became extinct, right?"
Qin Wan thought for a moment and asked, "There are so many delicious things in the world, how about extinct cabbage?"
Xie Qing shook his head: "You are not being realistic. Cabbage is easy to save seeds and grow. How could it become extinct?"
Qin Wan rephrased her question, "Is the Ferghana horse precious because it's so hard to reproduce? If some fish were as rare as the Ferghana horse, and we could never see or eat them again, wouldn't that be a shame?"
The fishing net was pulled up at this moment, and a group of silver fish scrambled to jump out of the net, making the water surface sparkle, which was particularly beautiful.
Qin Wan pointed at the silver fish and said, "These small silver fish are the most delicious when stewed in soup. I remember when I was a child, I could eat them everywhere, but now they are generally not available in the capital."
"There are also fish like this that need to be specially bred..."
Qin Wan actually doesn’t like eating fish very much, but the kinds of fish she mentioned are all her favorites. Coincidentally, these kinds of fish are also the ones that the nobles in the capital like to eat.
Whether it's because merchants are pursuing profits and the reduction of these things is caused by human factors, or because less of them are eaten, in short, it's not easy to eat them now.
If I can’t eat it anymore in the future…
Xie Qing nodded. "You're right. But, even with the dam built, they won't be able to migrate, right? We need to find a solution for this."
After the dam was built, the fish could not take advantage of the released water to migrate. The impact of the released water was so great that people could not swim upstream, let alone the fish.
"Let's wait until the craftsmen arrive." Qin Wan only raised the question, and it was up to them to solve it.
What's more, if there is really no other way, we can only compromise with reality. After all, the lives of tens of millions of people downstream are more important than the lives of these fish.
“What a big fish!”
Prince Du's exclamation attracted the attention of the two men. They turned around and saw a fat fish breaking free from the fishing net and falling to the ground with a plop. This big fat fish must have weighed more than ten pounds, and it did not give up even after falling to the ground, and struggled tenaciously.
In full view of everyone, the fat fish jumped and fell back into the water with a splash.
“Don’t run!”
Prince Du pounced but failed to catch the big fat fish and almost fell into the dam himself.
"Ha ha ha ha!"
A group of people pointed at the embarrassed Du Shizi and laughed. He crawled on the ground, watching another big fish about to jump out of the net, and shouted hurriedly: "Quick! Catch it! Don't let go of the fishing net so quickly! Drag it to the shore!"
There was a sudden flurry of activity, and the fish in the fishing net could no longer escape.
Qin Wan looked at the commotion and suddenly turned to ask Xie Qing, "The rumor that the Crown Prince is ruining the country, I guess it started with Shen Yang. Aren't you afraid of being beaten back by coming here?"
Could it be that in her heart, I was such a coward in my previous life?
However, the situation in his previous life forced him to go back, and all his achievements were wasted.
Xie Qing wanted to explain, but didn't know where to start. Could it be that I suspected you were reborn? What a coincidence, me too?
The Crown Prince's heart was suddenly in turmoil, and he could no longer maintain his outward composure. He turned and walked to the side, looking at the scenery in the distance. After a long moment, he said, "This isn't a bad idea. We can use this opportunity to wipe out all the evildoers in Shenyang."
Qin Wan raised an eyebrow, guessing his intention. The rumor must not have been that widespread, and it was only within Shenyang. It was the Crown Prince who spread the rumor to the capital, amplifying its impact. "You are so self-deprecating, aren't you afraid that it will really damage your reputation?"
Xie Qing said nonchalantly, "Some people want to take advantage of the situation and uproot it."
Qin Wan looked at the rushing water. It is better to drain than to block. Sometimes, you have to use some tricks: "Indeed."
Qin Wan closed her eyes and thought about the several princes in the palace. It seemed that the fifth prince's mother was born in Shenyang. Could it be that Xie Qing's sudden return to Beijing in the previous life was related to the fifth prince?
Yes, how dare ordinary people slander the prince? Only through the struggle for imperial power can people not fear the imperial power, because once they are in power, they are the imperial power.
Qin Wan opened her eyes, looked at Xie Qing, and asked, "This journey will be difficult. Are you fully prepared?"
Xie Qing turned sideways and looked at him. His thoughts were unclear in his dark eyes. "If you want to go back to Beijing, I can arrange for someone to take you back."
"Fighting without retreating is not my style." Qin Wan met his gaze with a hint of pride.
Xie Qing's eyes lit up, and the corners of his lips curled up in a barely noticeable arc as he said, "Didn't you retreat without a fight when you faced the Bai family?"
Qin Wan raised her eyebrows, looked at Xie Qing angrily and said, "This cannot be compared. I left the Lu family. I wasted eight years in the Lu family. There's no need to sacrifice the rest of my life for others. Leaving the Lu family doesn't mean I can't fight anymore, right?"
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