Chapter 37 Angry People
A touch of grayish-white light immediately attracted Wang An's attention.

Wang An had an idea and squatted down to pick up the stone that almost made him slip. He saw that the stone was grayish white all over, just like the poor quality chalk in his previous life.

He rubbed his index finger and thumb vigorously, and a lot of powder fell down.

Wang An's breathing suddenly became rapid. If he was not mistaken, this should be limestone!

Could it be that this Crescent Mountain actually has a limestone mine?

In order to verify his guess, Wang An kept looking around for something, and even kept changing directions to observe the terrain of Crescent Mountain.

As soon as we reached a cliff, Goodnight immediately saw the beautiful scenery that gave Crescent Mountain its name.

A crescent-shaped gap appeared on the west cliff of Crescent Mountain.

There is no grass at the gap, and the whole area is grayish white. This is probably why Crescent Mountain got its name.

However, Wang An had no intention of looking at the beautiful scenery in front of him. He quickly squatted on the ground to observe.

Sure enough, we found a lot of limestone mines. It seems that this Crescent Mountain is actually a limestone mine!
I was originally a little worried about how the planned new city wall should be built, but now I am feeling sleepy and have been given a pillow.

With limestone, there is no need to worry about making cement.

With cement, a magical tool for infrastructure construction, building a new city wall has become much easier.

Wang An suppressed his surprise. With cement, there was no need to worry about the strength of the city wall even though it was newly built.

And the overall progress can be greatly accelerated.

When everyone left Crescent Mountain in a mighty manner, Wang An looked back on his horse again. Thinking of the first bandit camp they attacked after arriving in Jizhou, he was suddenly filled with emotion.

"This is truly a treasure trove!" Wang An couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth.

It was originally just an act of revenge, but he did not expect that it not only solved his most difficult financial problem, but also provided him with a complete lime mine.

How could Wang An be unhappy?
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Meanwhile, in White City.

"Miss, if we leave like this, how are we going to explain to the master after we return to the capital?"

At the gate of the government office, several maids brought by Cao Yunmeng were loading large and small bags onto the carriage, while Cao Yunmeng was standing on the steps with an angry look on his face, waiting for the luggage to be loaded before getting on the carriage and leaving Jizhou.

Xiao Zhao stood beside him, looking embarrassed.

Hearing this, Cao Yunmeng said angrily, "It's hard to explain, but I have to explain. This is only the first day I arrived in Baicheng, and I was almost captured by bandits. What would happen if I stayed any longer?"

Xiao Zhao Wenyan was speechless. Even though she was an elite secret guard who had traveled all over the country, she had never seen anything as ridiculous as what happened in Baicheng.

A small bandit actually dared to attack the provincial government. If this matter were to be reported back to the capital, it would be simply horrifying.

Although she was reluctant to leave for some reason, she was just a guard after all. Now that Cao Yunmeng was leaving, she had to follow.

While the two were talking, the maids had already packed the luggage. Cao Yunmeng immediately got on the carriage and without greeting Xiao Zhao, she told the driver to set off.

Xiao Zhao had to catch up when she saw this, but not long after the carriage had moved along the street toward the city gate, it was blocked and could not move.

"What's going on?" Cao Yunmeng asked the driver angrily, as he was about to open the curtain.

The coachman showed an awkward expression, pointed at the people on the street and said, "Miss, there are too many funeral processions. It would be unlucky if we ran into them."

Cao Yunmeng looked up at the street and saw many people in mourning, carrying coffins and crying as they walked out of the city.

Moreover, there was more than one funeral procession. There were four or five coffins on the street alone, and there were also a steady stream of funeral processions coming from the alleys into the street. They all seemed to be going out of the city for burial. "Why are there so many funeral processions?" Cao Yunmeng was horrified.

Hearing this, Xiao Zhao said with sympathy, "Bandits attacked the city last night. Although His Royal Highness Prince Xin led his troops to the city in time, many civilians were still killed."

Even though Cao Yunmeng had the temperament of a young lady, she did not urge them again after hearing this. She just watched silently as the funeral procession walked out of the city.

However, from a distance, one could see a team outside the city gate meeting the funeral procession head-on.

Xiao Zhao had good eyesight, and frowned in surprise, "It's the prince's bandit-suppression team that's back."

"So soon? He must have suffered a defeat. Or maybe Wang An doesn't have the courage to suppress the bandits and is just saying tough words to save face." Upon hearing this, Cao Yunmeng said contemptuously, but a barely perceptible worry appeared on his face.

At the city gate.

Wang An ran head-on into a large number of funeral processions and could guess the reason without asking anyone.

Chen Huaian hurriedly rode forward and said, "Your Highness, please wait a moment. I will bring people to get these people to open the city gate."

After saying this, he called for people to go and drive them away.

However, Wang An quickly grabbed Chen Huaian's arm and said softly, "The dead are the greatest, and we must not disturb the dead soul."

Chen Huaian looked at Wang An in surprise, but didn't say much and retreated respectfully.

Wang An immediately ordered the army and the prisoners to clear the road to allow the funeral procession to pass first.

The order was quickly passed down, and soon the team stood on the side of the road, making way for the main road in front of the city gate.

However, even though Wang An gave up the city gate, accidents still happened suddenly.

When a funeral procession passed by the prisoner gate of the Crescent Mountain Bandit Camp, someone immediately recognized these guys as the Crescent Mountain bandits who attacked Baicheng yesterday.

"Ah, it's the bandits from Crescent Mountain!"

The crowd suddenly became panicked. Many of the deceased's family members who were walking and crying with their heads down looked up in panic when they heard the words, thinking that the robbers from Crescent Mountain had come again.

At this time, most of the funeral procession were still in the city, and only a few people walked out of the city and saw the prisoner team, so the crowd began to run in panic.

Upon seeing this, Chen He immediately rushed out and shouted to comfort them.

"Don't panic, folks. The bandits of Crescent Mountain have been wiped out by His Royal Highness Prince Xin. The remaining ones are captives!"

The bailiffs of the government office also came out to comfort the crowd, and slowly the crowd began to calm down. However, it was not long before the families of the deceased came to their senses again.

"These damned bandits have finally been caught!"

"Brother, you are in heaven, did you see it?"

"Dad, your great revenge has been achieved!"

However, the people did not feel happy for long, as a stronger emotion suddenly spread.

"Mom, I'm going to avenge you!"

"I will make these bandits pay with blood!"

"Killing must be punished with death, as a matter of course!"

The people shouted, picked up carrying poles and sticks, and attacked the tied-up bandits.

(End of this chapter)