"Fat Tai, take a rest now and gather some strength. We will rescue you soon."
Li Yuanji warned and watched Tang Ping hang up the phone. The two looked at each other and then looked up at the sky.
Then Li Yuanji said worriedly: "I'm afraid it's going to snow!"
It was the coldest time in Daye. Li Tai originally planned to go back to Chang'an to celebrate the New Year, but he didn't expect to encounter such a thing.
If it snows, it will definitely cause great trouble to the rescue.
Tang Ping looked at the busy crowd around him: "We don't have enough manpower. I just asked people to notify the nearest government camp and asked them to bring people over."
"Let's go and help. We can rescue them earlier and feel at ease earlier!" Li Yuanji patted Tang Ping on the shoulder.
The rescue here does not have those rescue machines, it is all human power.
Digging from the mine here requires a lot of manpower to dig, transport, and support.
Tang Ping and Li Yuanji also stepped forward and helped transport the earth and rocks dug out of the mine to a farther place.
This kind of labor is really life-threatening for people like Tang Ping who don't work often. He started to feel soreness in his back after working for only half an hour.
At this moment, the county magistrate ran back with a happy face.
"Ping Guo Gong, I have brought the helper."
From the beginning, he was asked to call all the people the county government could call, but now Tang Ping looked up and saw that he was followed closely by countless people.
"This...is this?" Tang Ping stopped what he was doing, stood up straight and asked.
"We are all citizens of Daye!" A middle-aged man came up and took the basket of soil from Tang Ping's hand, turned around and handed it to another woman next to him.
"I heard that Duke Ping came to save people, so everyone came to help!" the woman said, and then passed the dirt on her hands back.
Under the arrangements of the mining area, some of these people came down to the mine carrying tools, while others stood in rows and rows, passing things out of the mine from person to person. Send supplies in.
"Thank you, thank you everyone!" The sudden help made Tang Ping burst into tears.
"Thank you for what?" The middle-aged man in front of Tang Ping said: "We should thank Duke Ping. Now my boy's video is played in front of the government office from time to time. You said that our boy was in the border army and gave it to your family. He has a long face, and as a person from my hometown, I can’t embarrass him, right?”
"Okay, Lao Lu!" the woman who took the soil from his hand said with some sourness: "Now who doesn't know that your son has made meritorious service in the border army? But our son is not bad either. He sent him home. It’s written on the photo, he will definitely be promoted to corps commander this Chinese New Year!”
This group of people worked so enthusiastically that they even disliked Tang Ping and Li Yuanji for being too slow and pushed them to the back.
And the heavy snow also started to fall at this time.
Tang Ping regretted not bringing more raincoats or something. Although the workers wore a lot of clothes, their heads, faces, and necks were always exposed.
The snow turns into ice water as soon as it touches it, and from time to time you can see someone shuddering while doing it.
What's more, it was already dark now and the temperature was even lower at night, but it was a race against time to save people, and Tang Ping couldn't tell them to stop.
We could only call some women on one side, set up a big pot, keep some of the emergency ginseng brought from Chang'an, and throw the rest into the big pot.
A cow that was pulling things up the mountain was also slaughtered mercilessly on Tang Ping's order.
Put the beef, pieces of ginger slices and salt into a large pot and stew it into ginseng beef soup.
Anyway, there were many people coming, so they were divided into two groups, one group worked and the other group rested.
The rest is to drink a big bowl of hot ginseng beef soup. If you are hungry, add a few taels of noodles to the soup.
"Hey, Duke Ping, this is our first time to drink ginseng soup!"
"No, I heard that this thing is a magical elixir that even gods and goddesses take!"
Tang Ping put a lot of extra pieces of beef into the bowls of the two people who came over, and then said with a smile: "It's all nonsense. It's not something that grows in the ground. It's just that because the quantity is small, it seems valuable."
"In this way, after I return to Chang'an, I will ask people to send some ginseng seeds so that they can be planted in the spring. I will ask people to teach you how to plant them. I will be responsible for purchasing the grown ginseng. The price will definitely be far worse than wild ginseng, but it will definitely be better than ordinary ginseng. The crops are valuable, what do you think?"
The two strong men were stunned. They didn't expect that such a valuable ginseng could be grown by them. Moreover, Ping Guogong promised to harvest it, so they didn't even have to worry about how to sell it.
Tang Ping repeatedly confirmed that what he said was true, and both of them excitedly spread the word. According to Tang Ping, a family does not need to plant too much. If they can plant an acre of land carefully, the family will have a lot of income.
And you can keep some at home. If you get sick in the future, although the cultivated ones are not as effective as the wild ones, they can still have some effect.
Tang Ping didn't say it casually. This was originally one of his planting plans for next year. In this era, Chinese medicine is naturally the main focus, but there are too few medicinal materials in Chinese medicine, and they are basically all wild.
On the one hand, the price of medicines remains high, and on the other hand, many people have no medicines to use.
Especially in the army, during the Battle of Baozicheng, the number of medicinal materials prepared by the frontier army was so limited that all the first aid kits brought by Xuan Jiaqi were used up. Many sergeants died of injuries due to insufficient medicinal materials.
Later, Tang Ping and many surrounding countries purchased a large batch of medicinal materials, but compared with the million-level army and more civilians, it was still far from enough.
So next spring, he originally planned to let people plant medicinal materials on a large scale, which would not only increase people's income but also solve the shortage of medicinal materials.
The medicinal effects of various cultivated medicinal materials are not as good as wild ones, but they are better than nothing!
I don’t know whether it was the ginseng and beef soup that really made people happy, or the news that Tang Ping announced to everyone inspired these people.
The rescue work here has not stopped all night long.
After receiving Tang Ping's order, the county magistrate kept returning to the county to purchase supplies. Nutritious food such as meat and eggs were delivered to the Daye mining area for free.
Many people knew that Tang Ping was here to save people, and spontaneously came to help.
The work was originally expected to take more than a day, but when it got dark the next night, cheers came from the underground.
"It's dug through, it's dug through!"
"Hurry up and tell them to wait!" Tang Ping was serving egg pancakes to people. When he heard that he had dug through the eggs, he quickly threw away the eggs in his hand and ran over.
"Li Tai, Li Tai, ask the people inside to tie up the eyes with the cloth strips we sent down this morning. Remember, they must be tied tightly to prevent light from leaking out!"
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Tang Ping originally wanted to take people to pick up Li Tai and others, but the county magistrate and the person in charge of the mining area refused to let him go.
It seems safe now, but what if? What if something unexpected happens?
If Tang Ping were buried in it, not to mention his whole family, all the eggs in the house would be shaken loose and turn yellow.
The two of them fought hard to save their own lives and to stop Tang Ping from entering the cave.
Tang Ping had no choice but to ask the rescuers to come out and replace them with the Xuanjia Cavalry who drove over on a steam locomotive in the afternoon and carried stretchers one after another into the mine.
Then about five or six minutes later, Li Tai's chubby body appeared in everyone's sight.
After lifting it to the mouth, Tang Ping and Li Yuanji went up and grabbed Li Tai's fat hands on the left and right.
"Fat Tai, are you okay? Does it hurt anywhere? Tell your third uncle."
"..." Li Tai was stunned for a moment and didn't move, and then suddenly started crying.
"Okay, okay, it's okay, don't worry, it's okay!"
No matter how evil Li Tai behaves in studies, he is still a young adult, and in modern times, he is just a freshman in high school.
After experiencing such a life-and-death moment and meeting two relatives, Tang Ping and Li Yuanji, I couldn't bear it anymore.
"Ping Guogong, let's take King Wei to the county government first? The official has prepared the room." The county magistrate said excitedly on the side. He was relieved that the man was rescued.
"No, I have to wait for everyone to come out!" Li Tai said choked with eyes covered.
"Okay, let's wait until they all come out." Li Yuanji patted Li Tai's hand to reassure him.
Li Tai's condition seems to be good, so it doesn't matter if he waits for a while.
The guards and miners trapped behind were rescued one by one. Every time someone came out, the people surrounding them cheered loudly.
The heavy snow falling around them seemed to be suppressed by their shouts.
In the end, of the twenty-four people trapped in the mine, twenty-one were rescued, but three people still died unfortunately.
One of the guards, two miners.
Li Tai cried even louder.
In the end, Tang and Ping were finally coaxed by him and sent to the county government office to rest.
All other rescued guards and miners have also been taken over. There are imperial doctors who came with Xuan Jiaqi here and will focus on their diagnosis and treatment.
Tang Ping and Li Yuanji had not slept a wink for almost two days and two nights, and they felt extremely sleepy when they relaxed.
Basically fell asleep.
After sleeping until three o'clock in the morning, Tang Ping got up and asked, "How is Li Tai's situation?"
Lao Cui said: "The imperial doctor said there is nothing wrong with the body, but King Wei is unwilling to eat."
"Don't eat?" Tang Ping frowned and asked in confusion: "Didn't I say that I wanted to eat the braised pork made by Xiao Luo before I came out? Is it because the food here is not to my liking? How about you make him some braised beef noodles?" "
"I've done everything but won't eat. Why don't you go and take a look."
"Okay!" Tang Ping wiped his face and walked towards the room where Li Tai rested.
"Ping Guo Gong!" The imperial doctors at the door saluted when they saw Tang Ping.
"How about it?"
"My body is fine. The injuries on my feet have been taken care of. The rest is just a matter of self-cultivation."
"Okay, then go and see the other people. Remember, whether they are the rescued guards or the miners, they will be treated equally. They will use whatever medicine they need. Do you understand?"
After sending away the imperial doctor, Tang Ping opened the door and walked in.
As soon as he entered, he saw Li Tai's fat body shaking slightly on the bed.
But after walking in, Li Tai had no reaction.
"Li Tai?" Tang Ping called softly, but there was no response.
"Hey, you kid, are you pretending to be asleep? I tickled you!" Tang Ping knew that the fat little Li Tai had been ticklish since he was a child. If he had been tickled, he would have gotten up and begged for mercy, but Today, he said that he was going to bite him, but Li Tai still didn't respond.
Tang Ping estimated that the blow was a bit severe this time. It turned out that when watching movies and TV shows, many people were locked up and buried like this, and they would suffer from claustrophobia and the like.
He didn't understand psychology, so he could only scratch his head, and then said: "I heard that your feet are fine. What's wrong? Are you afraid that you will become a cripple and not be able to find the princess in the future?"
Still no response.
"Your guards are all awake, why don't you go and check on them?"
When Tang Ping said this, Li Tai finally reacted. When he turned around, Tang Ping found that his fat face was covered with tears.
"Cousin, it was me who killed them..."
Li Tai cried and told what happened this time.
It turned out that Li Tai was going back to Chang'an soon, but he was not very satisfied with the progress of mining here.
Then he thought of the information he had read about using zha for mining.
Li Tai has never suffered any loss since he was a child. In addition, Tang Ping always praises him, which makes him a little confused.
I prepared some zha medicine and planned to use it to speed up the progress.
So everyone else in the mine was called out, and he took a few guards and a few miners to place the explosives underneath. However, due to improper operation, the explosives exploded before they could fully exit.
And because of the amount of medicine used, it directly caused the cave entrance to collapse, and they were eventually buried inside.
"Wuwu, Second Artillery died to save me. He...his child will be born soon, cousin..."
Afterwards, Li Tai broke down in tears.
Only then did Tang Ping realize why there were more than twenty people buried in one mine.
The person in charge of the mining area and the county magistrate must have known about it, and probably other miners also knew about it, but because the instigator was Li Tai, no one dared to say anything.
Taking a deep breath, Tang Ping patted him on the shoulder: "I understand your mood!"
"Actually, the last time I went to Baozi City, wasn't it because Dongyue came to attack Baozi City because of my presence? Didn't the tens of thousands of soldiers also die because of me?"
"I was very sad, frustrated and confused at the beginning, but whether I am sad, depressed or confused, does it have any effect on those who died because of us?"
"Sometimes the mistakes we make cannot be undone, not even by me! All we can do is always remind ourselves not to make the same mistake again and pay for this mistake."
Perhaps Tang Ping's words resonated with Li Tai. He finally stopped crying slightly, looked at Tang Ping and asked, "Then what should I do now?"
"You little fat guy, you are smarter than me, think for yourself! But first you have to eat something. Didn't you already tell me? You can't think of anything when you are hungry. Tell me what you want to eat. My name is People do it for you.”
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