"Your Majesty, look!"

Yuan Bin chased after him, but found that something was wrong, so he stopped quickly.

Zhu Qizhen also held the horse's head and observed carefully that the balloon in the sky seemed to be affected by the wind and began to turn back.

"Chase!"

The king and his ministers also turned their horses and chased after them.

The balloons in the sky are floating and are beginning to be seen by more and more people.

The people were talking a lot, and some timid people thought it was a god who came to the world, so they kowtowed.

At Chaoyang Gate, Bai Laoqi looked at the balloon that had returned and asked in confusion: "What kind of thing is this? Why did he return it?"

"Go, go!"

With a rapid sound of horse hooves, Bai Laoqi suddenly reacted and hurriedly shouted: "Get out of here!"

Several fast horses galloped past, raising dust all the way.

Bai Laoqi patted the clothes and said to himself: "What are you doing..."

Eight sedan chairmen were carrying a luxurious sedan chair and walking swaying on the street.

Inside the sedan chair was Xiao Weizhen, a bachelor of the Zhang Academy of Hanlin Academy. It was almost dusk and he had just got off home. He squinted his eyes on the way to take a nap.

"master!"

Xiao Weizhen opened his eyes and asked, "What's wrong?"

"There is something..."

"What?"

Xiao Weizhen was a little surprised and was about to open the curtain to take a look, but he felt his body sinking, and the sedan chair seemed to be thrown directly to the ground.

This made him very badly and couldn't help but scold, "You dogs..."

Bang!

The sedan was hit by something and suddenly scattered.

Xiao Weizhen was also knocked out, and this fall made him feel confused and Venus appeared in front of him.

The crowds around immediately rushed up to watch the fun. Only the sound of horse hooves behind him were heard, and some people shouted: "Get out of the way, get out of the way, the Jinyiwei handled the case!"

Hearing the three words "Embroidered Uniform Guard", the onlookers consciously made a way out.

Zhu Qizhen tied his horse's head and stopped at the scene.

I saw a sedan chair on the ground. No, it should be said that it was originally a sedan chair, but now it is broken into pieces of wooden boards.

Among these fragments, some other parts seem to be found, including cowhide and rattan, which look like a huge hot air balloon with cowhide as the top and rattan as the bottom.

Two people lie on the ground, life and death are uncertain.

Zhu Qizhen stepped forward and took a look. One of them was Xiao Weizhen from the Hanlin Academy.

And the other one seems familiar, and seems to have seen it somewhere.

"Who...oh!"

Xiao Weizhen got up staggeringly, looked around blankly, recalling what had just happened.

Zhu Qizhen curled his lips. This old scholar was in good health. He was struck by lightning at the beginning. Today, he was a disaster. As a result, he once again proved with his actions, what is the old man stronger?

"Emperor...Emperor?"

Xiao Weizhen thought he was dazzled, and when he rubbed his eyes, he looked at it again, it was indeed the emperor, so he hurriedly knelt down and bowed.

Zhu Qizhen asked, "Have the Qing family been injured?"

Xiao Weizhen touched his head, then his body, and said, "No, I'm not injured..."

He just didn't know what happened just now.

Why was he suddenly knocked out and even the sedan chair was smashed?

Why are there anyone on the ground?

Yuan Bin winked at the lieutenant behind him, and immediately someone came forward, squatted on the ground, touched the breath and heartbeat of another person, and then nodded.

"Ahem..."

The man suddenly opened his eyes and started coughing.

After a while, I looked around and then my eyes were fixed on Zhu Qizhen.

"Student Mei Chun, long live my emperor!"

It's Mei Chun!

Zhu Qizhen suddenly remembered that this man was the son of Mei Yongzhen, the commander of Xiaolingwei. When he left Nanjing, he ordered him to copy ancient books.

"Why are you here? Also, what's the one you were sitting on?"

Mei Chun smiled with a smile, saying, "It was the Kongming lantern made by the students themselves."

"Is this thing a Kongming lantern?"

“That’s right!”

Mei Chun's face was filled with joy of success and said, "The student copied books in Nanjing and copied the "Wanbishu" of "Huainanzi". There was a passage in it, "Take the chicken, remove the juice, and burn the mugwort.

The wind was swelling in the egg, and it was lifted and flew.' At that time, I didn't understand why the eggs could fly?"

"Don't say it now!"

Zhu Qizhen waved his hand and said, "Go back to the palace with me and check you first. I didn't die after falling down so high. I'm so lucky!"

Mei Chun bowed and said, "Students obey the order!"

Yuan Bin recruited a carriage from nearby and asked Zhu Qizhen and Mei Chun to get on the carriage. He rode his own horse and escorted back to the palace.

Xiao Weizhen looked at the carriages and horses away and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

who I am?

Where is this?

what happened?

On the carriage, Mei Chun couldn't help but tell her experience.

He made this Kongming lantern to take the spring exam!

Mei Chun was originally a juren from Yingtian Prefecture and was qualified to participate in this year's spring examination.

Just because I missed the exam time after copying the book, I suddenly had a whim. Since Kongming Lanterns can fly, why can't I fly over?

Although he knew that this thing flew very high and could be killed at any time, he still made it when his forehead was hot.

The Kongming lantern was one of the important inventions in ancient China. According to ancient books, it appeared as early as the Qin and Han Dynasties.

What he said just now is that the burning mugwort fire makes the chicken fly, which means that the burning mugwort fire can be put into the egg shell, so that the egg shell can fly.

There are rumors among the people that the Kongming lantern was invented by Zhuge Liang.

When the Shu army was besieged by Sima Yi in Pingyang, the whole army was helpless. Zhuge Liang came up with a clever plan, using white paper to make countless lanterns, and then used the upward power of smoke to drive the lanterns to rise, and small lanterns rose one by one.

The soldiers in the camp shouted after seeing this: "Mr. Kong Ming is sitting on the sky lantern and breaking through!"

After hearing this, Sima Yi believed it and led his troops to chase him in the direction of the sky lamp, and the Shu army was able to escape.

Therefore, later generations called this kind of lantern "Kongming Lantern".

Perhaps it was Zhuge Liang who saw the records in "Huainanzi" that he was able to invent the Kongming lantern at the critical moment of crisis and help him escape from danger.

When Mei Chun saw this, she was thinking about why the eggshells could fly?

The ancients did not learn the modern principles of thermal science, and the heated gas expanded and discharged downwards, pushing objects to rise.

However, this did not affect the emergence of Kongming Lanterns.

So Mei Chun made a big one, enough to carry people to heaven according to the style of making Kongming lanterns by the people.

He had measured the wind direction and speed before, and believed that he could land in Beijing by taking off from Nanjing.

When he really flew into the sky, he realized that things were not that simple.

Because he cannot control the altitude and direction of the flight!

In this way, the huge manned Kongming lantern floated in the clouds with the airflow for several days.

This is a great attempt and a life-and-death adventure.

Fortunately, he prepared food and water in advance so that he would not be starved to death and thirsty.

In this way, until the lamp oil burned out and finally... landed.

What’s amazing is that this huge Kongming lantern really floated to Beijing!

It was a coincidence that Xiao Weizhen's sedan chair helped him resist the impact of landing, otherwise he would not have survived...
Chapter completed!