God-level Consort of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 42 Curiosity Killed the Cat
late at night.

The Tai Chi Hall is brightly lit.

Li Er is still dealing with government affairs.

Empress Changsun ordered the maid to make a snack and delivered it herself.

Li Er ate some snacks and chatted with Empress Changsun for a while, his melancholy mood eased a lot.

"Guanyin maidservant, you don't know. Now the drought in Shandong and Henan is getting worse, and there are more and more refugees. If this matter is not handled properly, there may be small-scale turmoil. I have ordered Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling The two went to Henan, and I only hope that the two of them will come back as soon as possible and report the disaster truthfully." Li Er said worriedly.

Empress Changsun kneaded Li Er's shoulders and said softly, "Your Majesty, the disaster is certainly important, but you can't ignore your body!"

Li Er smiled and said: "I am very healthy, but you, Guanyin servant girl, have your headaches recurred?"

Empress Changsun seemed to be in a good mood when she heard the words: "Your Majesty, if you don't tell me, my concubine will almost forget it. It has been half a month since I took the elixir given by Du He, and there has never been a recurrence. , it’s truly miraculous!”

When Du He was mentioned, Li Er felt a little headache: "Du He, he is not bad, but the matter of Yuan Shu and Li Zhi, I... it is really difficult!"

Empress Changsun nodded in agreement: "Now, inside and outside the court, everyone knows that His Majesty intends to marry Li Zhi to Changsun Chong. It is really difficult to deal with such a sudden incident. Your Majesty, my concubine suggests that Yuan Shu and Du He should get married as soon as possible." , when the time comes, Du He's playful personality will definitely change."

Li Er nodded: "It seems that this matter needs to be resolved as soon as possible, otherwise, after a long time, I don't know what kind of trouble this little bastard Du He will cause again! Hmph!"

The majestic emperor has nothing to do with a young man, and Li Er feels a bit useless.

the same moment.

East inner garden.

In Li Yuan's small courtyard.

Li Yuan and Li Ke each held a lantern and stood at the door of the room where Du He made black powder during the day.

Li Ke said anxiously: "Grandpa, before Du He left, let us not touch the things in the room. Isn't it a bit inappropriate for us to go in like this?"

Li Yuan laughed and waved his hands: "What's wrong, this is my house, can't I go in and have a look? I'm really curious, Du boy has been tinkering all day long, what exactly did he come up with? Can't wait any longer."

Li Ke also nodded: "Yes, Grandpa Huang, I'm curious too."

With that said, the two of them pushed the door open and entered the room.

I saw a mess of tools and raw materials on the ground.

On the table, there were four large sheets of paper, all of which were piled up with a pile of black things, which were black gunpowder.

"Is this black powder? Duhe said he wanted to use this thing to fry fish? How exactly?"

Both Li Yuan and Li Ke were stupefied, they couldn't understand how this little thing could bring fish out of the lake.

Li Yuan took a few steps forward and got close to the pile of black powder on the far right, wanting to see exactly how the black powder was made.

The light was not good in the dark, so he moved the lantern closer.

Suddenly, a spark jumped out of the lantern and landed on the black powder.

This pile of gunpowder suddenly burned violently, making a rustling sound, and the flames burst into flames.

Li Yuan didn't have time to dodge, the flames sprayed on his face.

The only fortunate thing is that Li Yuan also led troops to fight when he was young, so he reacted very quickly, and hastily covered his eyes with his sleeve.

Seeing this, Li Ke hurried over and shouted, "Grandpa Huang, are you alright?"

The man in black guarding the door also rushed in.

The gunpowder burned up in an instant.

Li Yuan said: "I'm fine, I'm fine... I just feel a little itchy on my face."

Li Ke took a closer look with a lantern and almost fainted.

The man in black was also taken aback.

I saw that Li Yuan's face was black and swollen, as if he had been rubbed with charcoal.

Most importantly, the palm-length beard on his chin was gone.

Li Yuan touched his chin, and immediately turned pale with shock: "This...how can this be done?"

Li Ke said dumbfoundedly: "Grandpa Huang, don't worry about your beard, are you okay?"

Li Yuan shook his head: "It's okay, I just feel that my face is itchy and a bit hot. It must have been burned just now. It's okay! My beard..."

Li Yuan was so depressed that he died, so he hurried back to his room to sleep.

Early the next morning, Du He came to the small courtyard.

As soon as he saw Li Yuan, Du He was overjoyed: "Oh, old man, where's your beard? Not to mention, after shaving off your beard, you look much younger!"

Li Yuan had black lines on his face, expressing that he didn't want to speak.

Du He thought to himself, why is the old man acting weird today?

When he walked into the room, he saw that the pile of gunpowder on the far right had been burned, and even the paper on the table was burnt with a hole.

Look back at Li Yuan again.

Du He understood everything.

"Old man, you are dishonest. You even secretly touched my things. I reminded you." Du He said angrily.

Li Yuan chuckled, blushing a little: "Curiosity, just curiosity."

Du He shook his head helplessly: "Curiosity killed the cat? This thing is not fun. There is a guy named Nobel who plays with this. Of course, it is more advanced than this, and finally killed the whole family." ..."

Li Yuan and Li Ke opened their mouths wide in surprise at the same time.

Can this thing kill people?

At the same time, the two couldn't believe it.

Duho checked, waved the others away, and then he started making explosives.

Gunpowder is ready.

Duhe uses cowhide with good airtight and waterproof properties.

Although the Tang Dynasty did not allow cattle to be slaughtered, there were still a lot of cowhide in the palace.

Du He prepared four pieces of cowhide. He originally planned to make four dynamite bags, but the old man wasted a bunch of them, so he had to make three first.

After putting the fuze in, it was wrapped with cowhide layer by layer with gunpowder, and Du He was satisfied after wrapping more than a dozen layers.

Then use thin hemp rope to tie up the explosive package tightly, the tighter the better.

After spending a whole morning, Du He made three explosive kits.

It was the first time to make this thing, and Du He didn't know if it would be successful.

Can only hope for luck.

When he appeared at the door with three explosive bags, Li Yuan and Li Ke were shocked.

Because each explosive pack is as big as a hug.

The outside is still wrapped in cowhide, which is very scary.

Li Ke asked curiously: "Is this the dynamite bag you mentioned? I don't think it's anything special. Isn't it just wrapping black powder with cowhide? That way it can explode?"

Du He said a little speechlessly: "Little friend, your scientific knowledge is a little lacking, forget it... I'm too lazy to explain, you will know later."

(End of this chapter)