kingnovel Chapter 861: The Good Sizi and the Stupid Slave
Chapter 861: The Good Sizi and the Stupid Slave
"I thought you--" Cheng Chumo wanted to say something else, but when he saw Li Kuan raised his arm again, he immediately stopped talking.
"Okay, I know about this. Go to the Prince of Hejian's mansion now and see if you can save Huairen. If you can't..." When His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu said this, he suddenly remembered something: "By the way, it's almost the end of the year... Has Li Huairen's elder brother Li Chongyi returned to Chang'an?"
"He is still at the border, and he probably won't be back." Cheng Chumo heard the meaning of the string and said quickly, "But I heard that the Prince of Hejian has recently invited famous doctors from all over to treat his body. How about we sneak into the Prince of Hejian's mansion and put laxatives in his medicine?"
“Hmm…” His Royal Highness the King of Chu was still somewhat resistant to Cheng Chumo’s “amazing wisdom”, but he understood the association: “Wait a minute… Chumo, a long time ago, my fifth and sixth sons teamed up to put laxatives in Wei Zheng’s bowl at a dinner party… This idea… couldn’t have been yours, right?!”
"Ah..." Cheng Chumo thought about it seriously, and then said: "Brother Kuan... maybe... it was too long ago... I can't remember clearly..."
"..." His Royal Highness the King of Chu can basically be sure that this matter was Cheng Chumo's idea!
Well, it’s difficult for Wei Zheng.
It's a big bowl of medicine paste. It's not right to drink it, and it's not right not to drink it...
"All the great military achievements I made in the past... were done by my brothers at your instigation..." Thinking of this, the King of Chu could not help but sigh again: "Alas... you old Cheng family... are really good at it..."
"What?" Cheng Chumo really didn't understand at this moment: "Brother Kuan, it's fine if you just talk about me... Why do you have to talk about our old Cheng family?"
"I'm praising you." His Royal Highness the King of Chu said as he hugged Cheng Chumo's neck and said, "Come on, I'll take you out of the palace!"
"Oh……"
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Half an incense stick later, King Chu, who had sent Cheng Chumo to Li Xiaogong's residence, came alone to a house in Yong'anfang.
When he saw several large carts of charcoal, sulfur, saltpeter and copper ore piled up in the backyard, His Royal Highness the King of Chu was delighted. At the same time, he summoned a large number of shadow assassins from the space.
With sufficient manpower, His Royal Highness the King of Chu began to prepare for the experiment.
"How did the ratio come about... one part saltpeter or one part sulfur..." His Royal Highness the King of Chu directed the shadow assassins to carefully grind the saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal into powder, and then used the bamboo sieve found from the warehouse to sift the three materials repeatedly until they were all uniform particles. He then found a few flat stones and began to conduct experiments on the open space.
"Swish..." - After nearly half an hour of tinkering, His Royal Highness the King of Chu finally succeeded in seeing a burst of brilliant golden sparks igniting on the stone, so he nodded with satisfaction: It seems that the prototype of the fireworks has been created.
But further advancement...
King Chu thought about it and finally decided to continue the experiment for the sake of his sisters' freedom in the future.
Because King Chu had previously told his sister Sizi that she was a fairy child living on the stars, and thus King Chu had the idea of creating fireworks. In fact, he was planning to take advantage of this New Year's Day to give his sisters a beautiful memory, and at the same time plant a seed in the heart of His Majesty Li II...
Only in this way, one day in the future, when the seed sprouts and breaks through the soil, he can use this as a condition to smoothly bring Changle, Lanling and Sizi out of Chang'an and give them a free future...
At dusk, after a busy day, His Royal Highness the King of Chu had to bathe and change clothes in the courtyard where the experiment was conducted in order to cover up the smell on his body, and then returned to the palace.
"Second brother!" Little Princess Sizi may have realized that her brother is about to go on a long journey. Although she cannot tell the difference between this separation and the previous ones, subconsciously, Sizi always wants to stick with her second brother a little longer.
"Sizi!" In the square outside Ganlu Palace, His Royal Highness the King of Chu saw his sister running towards him, and he immediately laughed and squatted down, opening his arms and waiting for his sister to pounce on him.
"Second brother, Sizi missed you so much!" Finally hugging his brother, Sizi's voice was filled with tears: "Sizi woke up from a nap and didn't see second brother, I was so sad."
"Oh... it's my second brother's fault. He deserves to be beaten!" The younger sister hugged her younger sister tightly in her arms and said as she slowly stood up: "My second brother deserves to be beaten!"
After Li Kuan finished speaking, he took his sister's little arm and put it on his forehead.
"Oh! No! No!" Seeing this, Sizi immediately shouted anxiously, "Second brother is the best, Sizi won't hit him!"
"Haha..." His Royal Highness the King of Chu laughed again when he saw this, and then he turned his gaze to Changle who was walking down the stairs: "Changle, second brother really wants to see what you look like when you are as old as Sizi."
"Second brother..." Princess Changle smiled happily when she heard this: "At that time, I didn't have a brother who spoiled me to the point of lawlessness, so I was more obedient..."
"Humph! Sizi is more obedient!" Little Princess Sizi clearly sensed the taste of vying for favor in her sister's words, so she hugged her second brother's neck and rubbed her little face against his chin: "Second brother, Sister Changle said bad things about Sizi!"
"What bad things did I say about you?" Princess Changle was really angry and amused when she heard her sister say this: "You clever little ghost, you wet the bed during your nap and put the blame on Zhinu..."
“Humph…” Upon hearing this, the little princess Sizi immediately turned her face away, then leaned on her brother’s shoulder and said in a muffled voice: “Sizi didn’t wet the bed…”
"Do you think that by quietly changing positions with Zhinu you can prove that he wet the bed?" Princess Changle didn't know who of the cute brother and sister, Zhinu and Sizi, was more silly and adorable: "Your fur pants are all wet! And stupid Zhinu, he was in a daze after waking up... He saw the mattress under him was wet and started to cry with his head tilted back... Alas... Really..." Princess Changle couldn't help but shake her head and smile bitterly when she said this.
"Second brother, second brother!" After the little Princess Sizi's embarrassing incident was exposed by her sister, she began to call for support.
“Hahaha… Little Sizi, what’s the big deal about wetting the bed?” Upon hearing this, His Royal Highness the King of Chu patted his sister’s back and continued, “When your second brother was a child, he wet the bed every now and then. The quilts and blankets that were hung out to dry in the yard never stopped wetting the bed. When it rained, we had to buy new ones…”
"Ah?" Princess Sizi's eyes widened upon hearing this: It turned out that the second brother was just like Sizi, who dreamed of encountering a stream and then went down to play in the water?
"Second brother..." Princess Changle also heard her second brother mention this for the first time. She couldn't help but feel a little surprised and amused and asked, "Didn't the Royal Grandmother scold you?"
"Ah?" His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu scratched his head upon hearing this: "It's not shameful for a child to wet the bed, so what's the big deal?"
The only time His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu remembered being scolded by his grandmother was because he was young but timid, and he kept banging his head against the wall, making loud bangs - the Prince of Chu fell into the pond in his backyard three times when he was young.
Finally, the grandmother had no choice but to have people fill in the pond and plant pine and cypress, two evergreen trees that symbolize longevity and good fortune, in it, as a way of praying for her grandson.
After so many years, His Royal Highness the King of Chu recalled this childhood anecdote again. He couldn't help but raise a happy smile, so he couldn't help but hug his sister tightly and laughed: "Little Sizi, we are generous! It's okay to wet the bed, what's so funny? We won't play with children who don't wet the bed! But next time... we have to take responsibility for our own actions, and we can't implicate your honest brother for no reason - a simple and honest stupid slave who is not as cute as you..."