Just one pregnancy and four babies, but the prince actually pledged his love to her

You have to know that without the live broadcast room, they would not have been able to exchange the previous 100 million kilograms of grain from the mall.

And when the next cold wave comes, the first things to be affected are cold-resistant supplies.

Without sufficient cold-resistant supplies, even if there is plenty of food, countless people will still not be able to survive in the season when water freezes into ice and the mountains are covered with snow.

However, the winter supplies she wanted to exchange from the mall must be those available in this era, otherwise she wouldn't dare to take them out easily.

It looked like clothes made of cotton. At least she had never heard of or seen such clothes in all the time she had been here.

Even if she could exchange tens of millions of cotton clothes from the mall, she would have to dare to take them out.

However, the discovery of coal mines on the mountain of Xinghua Village shows that there are still coal mines in Da Zhou.

According to the locations of coal mines discovered by people in later times, it is estimated that most of the coal mines of the Great Zhou Dynasty were in the north.

If we could find a few large coal mines before winter comes, mine the coal, make it into honeycomb coal, and sell it to the people at a low price, it would give the people more hope of survival.

It’s not that she didn’t understand what the system meant, but it was not so easy to find a coal mine in a short period of time.

Even if she were allowed to go to the north, it would be difficult without the help of a full set of geological monitoring equipment.

Li Mengyue was very conflicted for a moment and glanced at Xie Ruiyuan several times.

"Why are you peeking at me?"

"How could I peek? I was looking openly."

Faced with Li Mengyue's unreasonable arguments, Xie Ruiyuan simply shut up.

"Hey, why aren't you talking?"

"I'm asking you, speak."

"say what?"

"You don't ask me what I'm going to do with these pieces of coal."

Suddenly Xie Ruiyuan stopped.

"Coal, you know this black stuff and what it's used for."

"Of course, otherwise why would I bother with these things? Am I just sitting there with nothing to do?"

"What are these black things, no, these pieces of coal, for?"

"Heat."

Xie Ruiyuan got the answer and said in a puzzled voice.

"Heat?"

Although he didn't know how to use these coals for heating, he knew that Li Mengyue would not make up stories or tell lies.

So, these coals can really be used for heating.

If this is true, the coal mine next to Beiling City is not small. If it is brought into the army, the soldiers will have a better life in winter and will not get frostbite all over their bodies.

"Looking at your expression, do you know there is a coal mine there?"

"Ayue, I won't hide it from you. I do know a place. But these coal blocks need to be processed before they can be used, right?"

"It seems that my child's father's IQ is still very high?"

"If you don't ask and just let people use it for warmth, they could easily die of poisoning."

"Poisoned?"

Hearing this, Xie Ruiyuan was glad that he liked to think more about everything. If he had asked one more question this time, more soldiers would not lose their lives.

"Put me down first."

"No, I'm not tired."

"I don't care if you're tired or not. I just want to talk to you about the coal mine."

Xie Ruiyuan knew that he had misunderstood, but he would not admit it. He just gently put Li Mengyue on the ground.

Then he found a clean stone nearby and placed it in the shade.

Li Mengyue sat down without hesitation, and Xie Ruiyuan sat on the ground next to Li Mengyue, intending to listen carefully to what Li Mengyue was going to say next.

"Since you know there are coal mines there, I can tell you for sure that the northern region has abundant coal resources. As long as we find them and use them properly, we can easily survive the coldest winter."

Xie Ruiyuan knew that since he was willing to believe Li Mengyue, he would not doubt what Li Mengyue said.

Li Mengyue knew that coal resources had always existed from ancient times to the present.

It’s just that the utilization rate in ancient times was too low, and the poisoning rate was very high.

After all, in ancient times people paid attention to closing doors and windows. So when the coal was burning, without air circulation, people would naturally suffer from poisoning and lack of oxygen, leading to dizziness and headaches, and even death in severe cases.

Of course, this situation does not exist in the Great Zhou Dynasty. Royal family members like Xie Ruiyuan are not aware of the existence of the coal mine, let alone ordinary people.

In other words, the basket of coal in front of her would mark the beginning of the utilization of coal resources in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Although she also wanted to save trouble and directly use chemical products and chemical processes for desulfurization, the reality did not allow it.

Then she did not hide anything and told how to utilize coal under the existing conditions.

"Coal is a very good burning material. It can not only replace firewood, but also be used to boil water and cook. It can also be used to keep warm in winter. However, coal is poisonous. However, when making honeycomb coal, as long as you add combustible sawdust, yellow mud for neutralization and thickening, and quicklime for desulfurization, you don't have to worry about poisoning when using it indoors, and there will be no pungent smell."

After hearing what Li Mengyue said, Xie Ruiyuan went straight to the point and asked, "How do you make honeycomb briquettes?"

"this one?"

Li Mengyue put her hand in front of Xie Ruiyuan and rubbed her fingers.

"how much is it?"

"One thousand taels."

Xie Ruiyuan looked at Li Mengyue who looked like a money-grubber. He really couldn't connect him with Li Mengyue who generously gave him one million kilograms of grain.

"Okay, no problem. But I don't have any money right now, so I'll owe you the money first. It's okay if you ask me to write you an IOU."

Li Mengyue wanted to build a reservoir and do business, which required a large investment in the early stages. However, the money she had was not enough for her to "squander", so she thought about making a little money.

She never thought that Xie Ruiyuan was even poorer than her, and still owed a mere 1,200 taels of silver, yet he was willing to write an IOU.

She really couldn't understand how Xie Ruiyuan could claim to have owed something in such a serious manner despite being the Prince of Chen.

"You...you can't even take out one thousand taels of silver."

"As you can see."

Li Mengyue couldn't help but swear. Although she never expected Xie Ruiyuan to raise the child, the child's father was too poor.

It was impossible for a prince to end up like this, and no one knew how he did it. She couldn't help but admire him.

Fortunately, she didn't have that kind of thought, otherwise she would have vomited to death.

"I'm so fucked!"

"Okay, remember, you owe me one thousand taels of silver."

Even though Li Mengyue was a little angry, she still had to explain the coal matter to Xie Ruiyuan.

Because she understood that if she wanted to rescue more northern people in the extremely cold weather, she had to rely on Xie Ruiyuan, and only on him.

Not to mention that she had to stay in Wuning County to rescue the victims in the two prefectures, even if there were no victims, she probably couldn't go to the north.

After all, her belly is more than four months old and it is already obvious. Even wearing loose clothes can't hide it. Anyone with a discerning eye can tell what's going on.

The key point is that she is not pregnant with a single baby. There is not just one baby in her belly, but four.

That's right, four.

Some time ago, when the baby was still young, she took her own pulse and only knew that it was multiple pregnancy, but she was not sure how many babies there were.

At that time, she guessed that there might be three, but she never thought there would be four.

In her previous life, she had never even held a man's hand, let alone had a child, let alone been in love.