After inspecting the coal mine, Zhao Hao declined Boss Niu's hospitality and prepared to go down the mountain while it was still early.

It was just noon now. We had to hurry back to the town and take the ice cart out of the mountain. We should be able to get back to Beijing before the city gates close. Otherwise, we would have to sleep in the stinky town inn for another night.

This was a great torture for Zhao Hao, who was becoming more and more particular...

After this field trip, he came to the conclusion that he was most comfortable doing metaphysics at home.

Ambassador Hou had long wished he could grow wings and fly back to the capital, so he naturally agreed with both hands.

After a quick meal, they set off on their journey home.

In order to save time, following the advice of Ambassador Hou, they decided to take a shortcut, go straight out of the valley on the southern slope, and sit on ice rafts at Dingjiatan.

Moreover, there are no coal porters on this road, which saves a lot of time.

~~

On the snow slope at the southern end of the mountain, the Li brothers and sisters, Xu Yuanchun and others ate dry food with the ginseng and pheasant soup cooked by the servants, which was considered their lunch.

During the meal, those addicted young men begged Li Chengen to take them to challenge a more difficult snow slope.

"But I promised to continue teaching Master Xu how to ski." Li Chengen said, then looked at his sister and said, "How about you help me..."

"Okay!" Li Mingyue agreed immediately and said to the young masters, "I know a snowy trail that will definitely be exciting."

"Great, let's go together!" The young masters didn't even have time to eat, so they dressed up again and followed Li Mingyue out of the tent.

Li Chengen looked at their backs helplessly. After his sister left the tent, he smiled bitterly at Xu Yuanchun and said, "I actually wanted to ask her to help me teach you."

"Well, thank you very much." Xu Yuanchun gritted his teeth and stood up. He had fallen a lot during the practice this morning. "Let's go, keep practicing. We must learn it today!"

"Okay." Li Chengen looked at Mr. Xu with a new respect.

~~

On the other side, Zhao Hao was riding on his horse, silently sorting out what he had seen, heard, thought and felt in the past two days.

Suddenly, he felt Zhao Shizhen beside him stealing glances at him from time to time, so he turned to look at his eldest nephew and asked, "Is there something on my face?"

"No, it's your nephew who wants to ask your uncle..." Zhao Shizhen paused and lowered his voice.

Zhao Hao knew what he was going to ask, so he and Zhao Shizhen fell to the end of the team.

Zhao Shizhen couldn't wait to ask, "Uncle, is there really a tool that can automatically drain and transport water?"

"Yes." Zhao Hao nodded slightly.

"So, Zhuge Liang's wooden ox and flowing horse really exist?" Zhao Shizhen took a breath of cold air. He had never believed that Zhuge Liang could create an automatic animal that did not need to eat grass or sleep.

"I don't know if Zhuge Liang can make it." Zhao Hao shook his head and said with a smile: "Anyway, I know how to make it."

"Really?" Zhao Shizhen didn't believe it at first, but then he thought of his cousin Zhao Shixi's experience. He was so scared that his face turned pale. He slapped his mouth and said, "If my uncle says it's OK, then it's OK!"

"The spirit of questioning is very valuable and should never be lost." Zhao Hao's requirements for him were completely different from those of Zhao Shixi. He smiled and said, "But questioning should also be based on knowledge. If you question without knowing anything, you are a nitpicker."

After a pause, he gritted his teeth and said, "All the nitpickers in the world can be killed!"

"Yes, I will remember it, uncle." Zhao Shizhen mistakenly thought that his uncle was holding a grudge against Mr. Hai, so he pretended not to hear and listened respectfully.

He had listened to half of the debate between Zhao Hao and Hai Rui the other day, and he knew that his uncle was a learned man. It was from that time that he made up his mind to learn from his uncle. He blurted out, "Uncle, please teach me how to make that thing!"

"Don't you want to learn how to make guns?" Zhao Hao said with a teasing smile.

"I want to learn how to use a gun, and I want to make this one too!" Zhao Shizhen said with a determined look on his face: "I want to make both!"

"No matter which one, you can't learn it now..." Zhao Hao shook his head and said, "Before that, you need to learn some basic knowledge first. Have you finished reading the manuscript I gave you?"

He was referring to the manuscript of "Geometry in its First Moments".

Then Zhao Shizhen said with a bitter face: "Not yet, it's really too profound..."

Zhao Hao was about to say something to comfort him, but he heard Zhao Shizhen continue:

"My nephew is too stupid. He has only proved five propositions so far..."

"Uh..." Zhao Hao almost fell off his horse. As a beginner with no basic skills, this is already amazing, okay?

He was just about to ask which five propositions they were when he suddenly felt an earthquake and was so frightened that he quickly hugged the horse's neck.

Only then did I realize that I had almost fallen off my horse just now, and it was not just a psychological reaction.

The rest of the people also hurriedly hugged the horse's neck. Zhao Shizhen asked in panic: "Uncle, what happened?"

The first person to react was Ambassador Hou, who shouted, "Another earthquake is coming!"

As he spoke, he swept away his previous fatigue, urged his horse hard, and rushed forward, leaving everyone behind.

The group was walking in a long and narrow valley with mountain walls on both sides.

The experienced Ambassador Hou knew that if the earthquake triggered a landslide, this valley would become the burial place of many people.

At this moment, who cares about Xunqing's brother? Even if Xunqing's ancestors were here, he would have to save his own life first...

~~

On the snow slope at the southern foot.

As the saying goes, hard work pays off. After struggling for most of the day, Xu Yuanchun can now glide at a snail's pace on the smooth snow.

"Good, very good." Li Chengen looked at Xu Yuanchun with satisfaction, like an old mother looking at a toddler.

"Hehe, with my talent, there is nothing I can't learn as long as I want to learn it?" Xu Yuanchun became proud when he heard it, and looked at the red dots that kept jumping on the snow slope in the distance.

Immediately, there were music and pictures before his eyes again - in the lingering music of "The Phoenix Seeks the Phoenix", he and the Princess of Lanling County flew through the forest and snowy plains, exchanging glances and flying together...

"There is a beauty, I never forget her after seeing her. If I don't see her for a day, I miss her like crazy. The phoenix is ​​flying high, and the four seas are looking for her!"

In the scene with all the sounds and colors, Xu Yuanchun felt his blood boiling. After reciting a passage of "The Phoenix Seeks the Phoenix", he shouted to the red figure, "County Lady, here I come!"

As he said this, he supported his ski poles with both hands, imitated the girl's leap on the snow, and threw himself out resolutely.

Then it drew a graceful arc and fell headfirst into the snow.

"You want to fly before you can even walk?" Li Chengen pulled him out of the snow with a wry smile, and said to Xu Yuanchun, who had become a snowman, "Didn't I tell you not to yell? It might trigger an avalanche..."

Before he could finish his words, he felt his feet slip and he fell on his butt on the snow, bringing Xu Yuanchun to the ground with him.

Then the mountains shook and the ground trembled, and snow foam rose all over the mountains...

Xu Yuanchun knelt there, dumbfounded, and asked, "Is my voice really that powerful?"

"It's not an avalanche!" Li Chengen, who is experienced, gritted his teeth and said, "It's an earthquake again!"

As he said this, he stood up and looked in the direction of his sister, regardless of the shaking ground. He just happened to see the red figure rising high into the sky and then falling off the cliff.

"Ming Yue!" Li Chengen screamed in pain, his soul almost scared out of his body. He left Xu Yuanchun behind and slid rapidly towards the place where his sister fell off the cliff.

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