Chapter 224: Retreat in the Mountains



Following Concubine Rong's instructions, a young eunuch quickly moved a chair and placed it behind Fei Jinhe.

Fei Jinhe didn't insist on being stubborn and just sat on it.

After kneeling for so long, her legs were so sore that she could no longer stand.

"Thank you, Madam Concubine."

Mother told the little girl to be polite, and Fei Jinhe was very satisfied with her performance.

Concubine Rong was smiling and looked like a kind elder.

She said, "I was negligent a few days ago. Now that you are here, you can live here. I will have someone make room for you next to Xiaowu. You two sisters should get along well."

When the Fifth Princess saw that her mother not only did not help her punish Fei Jinhe, but instead asked her to live with her, she immediately became unwilling.

She stood up and protested: "Who wants to live with this bitch!"

After shouting this, the fifth princess rolled up her sleeves and went out.

Imperial Concubine Rong tried to smooth things over by saying, "Xiao Wu has an arrogant temper, but you are well-behaved, so I don't think you will blame her."

"When you get used to living here, I will ask your mother to come to the palace to reunite with you."

When Fei Jinhe heard that he could be reunited with his mother, his face turned into a flower with a smile.

She confirmed: "Will you really let me meet my mother?"

Imperial Concubine Rong smiled in an unfathomable manner, "As long as the princess is obedient, I will naturally reunite you and your daughter."

"Take the princess away and serve her well. If I find out that you have neglected her, watch out for your heads."

In the evening, Wuding Palace.

Fei Yanche, Fei Yunsong and Wen Yunlan were sitting in the study discussing something.

At this time, a secret guard flashed in, knelt on one knee and recounted everything that happened to Fei Jinhe in the palace today.

Upon hearing that Fei Jinhe was bullied, Wen Yunlan's eyes turned red with anger and he stood up and was about to rush out.

Fei Yunsong quickly stopped her and comforted her.

Fei Yanche also said, "Don't worry, mother. Since Concubine Rong has taken Jin He to her palace, she won't be bullied in the near future."

"She must be trying to use my sister to make us submit to the Fourth Prince. Before we enter the palace, she will definitely not let my sister suffer any more grievances."

Wen Yunlan was stopped, but his mood did not ease much.

Although they were able to find out news about Fei Jinhe over the past year, there were heavy troops guarding outside the palace in the name of protecting them, so they could not enter the palace to see Fei Jinhe.

Sometimes she even thought, why not just rebel against the royal family!

But the time is not right now, so they can only endure it for now.

In Longxian Village, far south of Dawei, Shen Yu'an also received Fei Yanche's reply.

It was four days later that Shen Yu'an received the reply.

When Shen Yu'an received the letter, he was still a little shocked.

She originally thought that even if Fei Yanche wrote back, it would first go through Fei Xi's hands.

What Shen Yu'an didn't know was that the letter she received was the first one, and the letter that Fei Yanche wrote to Fei Xi was still on the way.

In the letter, Fei Yanche told Shen Yuan to do whatever he wanted, and to ask Fei Xi directly if he needed anyone.

The most important thing is the matter of the mine. Fei Yanche made it clear that he would send a few craftsmen to her service.

He also briefly talked about the situation in the capital.

Even though Shen Yu'an was not in the capital, he seemed to have seen Fei Yanche's difficult situation.

Last year, numerous natural disasters struck the Wei Dynasty, but the imperial court did not send much food to help the victims.

The court asked the Ministry of Revenue to allocate food and fodder funds to the border on the grounds that the war situation at the border was tense.

Because it was the Fourth Prince's maternal family fighting on the border, and the Emperor was about to pass away at any time, and the Fourth Prince was the most popular prince among the people, the Ministry of Revenue did not dare to withhold grain.

After being transferred by Concubine Rong and the Fourth Prince, all the food and silver finally fell into their own pockets.

The national treasury is in a tight spot and the people have nothing to harvest. Now grain merchants in many places have begun to raise grain prices.

It is already May and everyone is very busy.

Except Wulang, Liulang and Hua Nan, the rest of the Shen family, Dalang to Silang, will all take part in this year's college entrance examination. Every day they are either in the town school or in the study.

However, they also did not neglect martial arts and physical exercise.

A few days later, another letter from Fei Yanche to Fei Xi and several reliable craftsmen found by Fei Yunsong arrived at the camp in the mountains behind Longxian Village.

Shen Yu'an also handed over the affairs of the paper-making workshop to the Shen family. She found an excuse and went into the mountains, telling the Shen family that she would not return for sure.

In the letter that Fei Yanche gave to Fei Xi, he explained the arrangements for the mine discovered by Shen Yu'an.

After receiving the letter, Feixi got busy and the task of arranging people for mining was given to him.

Shen Yu'an plunged into the house and worked with the new craftsmen to study higher quality smelting techniques.

The craftsmen who were assigned to come had heard that someone could forge iron better, and they wanted to learn from him.

But when they saw that the master who came was a little girl, they were completely stunned.

But they were soon impressed by Shen Yu'an's abilities.

The iron she refined was actually much stronger than that refined using previous technology.

Four months passed in a flash.

The temperature in the room was too high. Shen Yu'an raised her hand to wipe the sweat off her face. The dust on her hands was stained with sweat, and a black mark appeared on her face the next moment.

A craftsman handed Shen Yu'an a glass of water and said with a smile, "Miss Shen, have some water."

The craftsman was a middle-aged man in his forties, and at this moment, he looked at Shen Yu'an with admiration in his eyes.

Not only him, but even the remaining few who were older than him admired Shen Yu'an very much.

When I first met Shen Yu'an, no one believed that she was so young and a girl, and had no real skills.

But in the past four months, Shen Yu'an has brought them so many surprises that they have changed their attitudes.

The most important thing is that Shen Yu'an is very open-minded and tells everyone what he has discovered so that they can study it together.

Although he still hadn't produced steel, Shen Yu'an was satisfied when he saw that the purity of the iron had been greatly improved.

Shen Yuan took the cup, drank it all, and put the cup on the table.

"Thank you for your hard work."

The craftsmen smiled and said, "Miss Shen, you are too polite. You are the hardest worker. We old guys should thank you for teaching us the real skill of eating."

Shen Yu'an walked out of the house and raised his hand to block the sun, and asked Fei Xi who came over: "What month is it now?"

Fei Xi smiled and said, “Miss Shen, it’s already the end of August.”

At the end of August...

Then didn’t my elder brother and the others have already taken part in the college entrance examination?

Oops!

She had promised Sanlang and the others that she would go to cheer them on when they took the college entrance examination, but she was so busy that she forgot about it.

"You can arrange the rest. We can start making weapons from the mined ore. I'll be leaving now."

After saying this, Shen Yu'an ran down the mountain in a hurry without even having time to change his clothes.

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