Chapter 139: Danger on the Return Journey
The eternal night is coming, and the entire Xia Kingdom will fall into darkness.
By then, all parts of Xia Country will need coal for heating, and no one knows how much coal will be needed to keep everyone alive.
It's such a pity that this unknown coal mine is left abandoned here.
She was reluctant to share the supplies in her space with others, but she could reveal the news of the coal mine to the best of her ability. With one more coal mine, perhaps the official coal transport team could also bring more coal back to the floating city.
After firing the flare, Xia Xiaoman drove away immediately, and even took a detour to avoid the Yancheng soldiers who were heading to the flare launching site.
After driving to the vicinity of the official coal transport team, Xia Xiaoman found a secluded place to park the car, planning to follow the official convoy back to Fucheng early tomorrow morning.
Wang Shijin had told her that in order to get more coal back before the eternal night, the official convoy had already agreed with the people at Yancheng Mine before departure that they would load the trucks the day after arriving in Yancheng, rest for a night, and then return. The round trip, including the time for loading, would only take three days. So she was sure that the official convoy would set off tomorrow.
At 6:30 in the morning, Xia Xiaoman quietly approached the official convoy and saw that they were already preparing to set off, so he quickly drove to the back of the team.
The return trip was slower than the trip in because of the coal. Xia Xiaoman estimated that it would take at least 16 hours to get back to Fucheng.
Several times she couldn't help wanting to overtake and go back by herself, but thinking of the dozen or so robbery cars she encountered on the way here, she held back and obediently followed the team and drove slowly.
Suddenly, the convoy stopped and waited for a long time. The car in front neither pulled over nor restarted, and just stayed in the middle of the road.
Xia Xiaoman thought about it, took out the binoculars, and leaned out to look around. He saw a few people get off the first car, looking for something in the middle of the road. After a while, they picked up a bunch of things and came back, restarting the car and driving forward.
Xia Xiaoman followed the convoy closely. After driving a few dozen meters forward, several cars suddenly rushed out from both sides of the lane and forced the five trucks in the middle of the convoy to stop.
At the same time, the leading car saw something was happening behind and immediately stopped the car. All the crew members were on alert and pulled out their pistols to shoot at the robbery cars.
When the official convoy came, they didn't want to delay the trip, so they didn't bother to deal with these robbers. But now every car in the convoy is full of coal, and they can't let anyone rob them anyway.
The gunfire was intense. Instead of retreating after hearing the gunfire, several more cars came out to attack the lead car.
The private convoy following the official car was worried that they would be affected, so they backed up and tried to leave the battle circle. In order to avoid being hit by other cars, Xia Xiaoman had to pull over to make way for those who were fleeing.
At the same time, she saw Wang Shijin and others holding crossbows made by the Logistics Department to help the official convoy fight against the robbers.
At this moment, a team of five trucks somehow attracted the attention of the robbery trucks and were chased by three of them.
Someone in the three robbery cars shot at the trucks with guns. Several trucks rushed forward in panic and were about to hit her.
Xia Xiaoman gritted his teeth, took out a Molotov cocktail from the space, lit it, and smashed it in front of him. The truck driver saw the sudden fire and turned the steering wheel in shock, crashing into one of the robbery vehicles, and all the coal in the truck fell to the ground.
A large truck was blocking her way, blocking many vehicles that wanted to retreat. The people in the vehicles cursed and turned around to look for other ways to go.
On the other side, the lead car was well-trained and captured five robbery cars. Seeing that the situation was not good, the other robbery cars had the intention of retreating.
The official convoy was full of coal. The other party wanted to leave and they couldn't stop them. They could only fire a few shots at the other party's car body unwillingly.
Hearing the gunfire gradually stop, Xia Xiaoman drove around the truck and onto the main road. The people in the lead truck were already cleaning up the scene, and private caravans also joined in to help. However, they were not there to help the lead truck clean up the scene out of kindness, but to see if they could steal some supplies from the robbed car.
The people in the official convoy could see through these little tricks at a glance, and immediately had all the robbed cars searched and all dangerous items such as pistols put away.
Xia Xiaoman also wanted to get a pistol, but when he saw so many people coming down from the official convoy, he immediately gave up the idea.
After the official convoy cleaned up the battlefield, it drove directly back to the floating city without waiting for other private convoys to come back.
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The journey was smooth and it was already past 12 o'clock in the morning when we returned to the floating city.
Xia Xiaoman did not return to Shuiyue Bay directly, but found a place to hide outside for a day and return at a different time.
When she returned to Shuiyue Bay, she happened to see the Ye family fleet coming. Sun Qing waved at her, "Xiaoman, where have you been? I just asked the people in Shuiyue Bay, and they said you took leave and went out, and you haven't come back for several days."
"I have some personal matters to take care of." Xia Xiaoman changed the subject and said, "You guys came quite early this time. You came here just after seven o'clock."
Sun Qing smiled and said, "I brought live fish this time and wanted to sell them quickly, so I set out an hour earlier."
The weather is getting colder, and it's hard to dry seafood. If she doesn't have so much dried food, she can sell live fish. Live fish is easier to sell than dried food, but the transportation cost is higher than dried food. If she really can't get so many truckloads of dried food, she wouldn't want to sell live fish.
"How are you going to sell these live fish?" Xia Xiaoman asked curiously. If the price is affordable, she wants to buy more and kill them to throw away in the space, so that she can eat fresh fish every now and then.
Sun Qing said, "This time the goods are mainly used to exchange for cold-weather items, such as quilts, cotton, down jackets, etc."
Xia Xiaoman raised an eyebrow, "Why do you need to change so many cold-weather items?"
Sun Qing laughed and scolded, "Stop pretending. I don't believe you don't know about Yong Ye. Yesterday I heard that someone saw Wang Shijin in Yancheng."
"You also went to Yancheng?" Xia Xiaoman looked surprised.
"I didn't go, but others did." Sun Qing explained: "You also know that the watermelon developed by us in Yuancheng solved Yancheng's urgent need. They are very grateful to us in Yuancheng. As long as people from Yuancheng go there, they can buy coal."
"Xiao Jie found out about this and organized a team to transport coal to Yancheng. I don't know if that big mouth let it slip, but the eldest brother of the Ye family found out about it and took it over."
"The coal was transported back safely, but when it was distributed, only one-third was given to Xiaojie. He kept one of the remaining two-thirds for himself, and the other was given to Sister Ye's family."
When Sun Qing heard the news, she was so angry that she almost wanted to beat up the eldest brother of the Ye family. The convoy was organized by Ye Xiaojie with great effort, but when it was about to set off, it was snatched away by the eldest brother of the Ye family.
You can rob them if you want, we are brothers and sisters, you can split the coal in half when the time comes. But why only give one third? And a small part of this one third is coal slag.
This is not the way to bully someone, especially his eldest brother. This is too much.
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