"It's the arrival of a disaster!"
Shu Jiaying originally wanted to make a wish, but she was defeated by Yu Chenfeng's words.
Silently lowering her clasped hands, Shu Jiaying weakly asked, "Don't shooting stars bring good luck?"
"Shooting star? You mean the one that just streaked down from the sky?"
"Yes, a shooting star is a meteorite that falls from the sky. However, most people in our area believe that if you see a shooting star and make a wish at it, it will bring good luck to the person making the wish. However, shooting stars always flash by, and very few people can actually make a complete wish."
As she spoke, Shu Jiaying looked at the starry night sky with disappointment. But then again, without the embellishment of shooting stars, the night sky is actually quite beautiful. I wonder if making a wish to it will work?
Thinking of this, Shu Jiaying silently made a wish in her heart. She said to the night sky, "Actually, being with Yu Chenfeng is pretty good. I hope that days like this will never change, and I will grow old with him!"
boom……
Suddenly the carriage jolted, and because of this sudden situation, Shu Jiaying almost fell to the ground. Yu Chenfeng quickly grabbed her.
"Are you okay?"
Shu Jiaying shook her head.
"It's okay, what's going on outside?"
"I don't know either. Let's go down and take a look."
After pulling Shu Jiaying off the carriage, a huge sinkhole appeared in front of them, and the sinkhole was only a few centimeters away from their carriage.
The coachman said thankfully, "Your Highness, we are lucky. The ground shook a little just now, but luckily I stopped the horse in time. If we had taken another step, we would have fallen into this hole."
"Old Wang, what's going on in this cave?"
"Your Highness, I don't know what happened. The ground suddenly shook a little bit just now, and I felt uneasy, so I stopped the carriage in time. When the carriage stopped, the ground returned to calm, but a huge, bottomless pit appeared in front of us."
"This should be a landslide, which is a local downward movement caused by the consolidation and compression of loose underground strata, resulting in a lowering of the crustal surface elevation."
"What?"
Yu Chenfeng and the coachman didn't understand what Shu Jiaying said at all.
Shu Jiaying then realized that her words were too technical. She smiled awkwardly and changed the subject, "Old Wang, do you think we should take another route back to the palace? Let's put up a sign here to tell people not to pass by. We'll have someone fill it in when we get back, otherwise it could be dangerous."
"Yes, Princess, I will go cut some branches right away."
"I'm going to help Lao Wang. You sit over there and take a rest."
Shu Jiaying nodded and sat on a patch of grass by the roadside.
After Yu Chenfeng and Lao Wang had marked the sinkhole to warn passersby, they returned to the carriage.
Lao Wang jumped onto the front of the car, while Yu Chenfeng helped Shu Jiaying back into the car.
I thought Yu Chenfeng would forget the previous question, but as soon as he sat down, he asked, "Yingying, what do you mean by crustal subsidence?"
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"Stop pretending. Old Wang wasn't around to ask me just now. The meteors you mentioned and the current subsidence of the earth's crust aren't things we Luosuo people can know. Even if Aunt Su were still alive, she wouldn't know these things. Tell me... who are you?"
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