"Husband, I have seen the Taoist priest next to my father making elixirs. You put these stones in a pot and boiled them. It seems that you are not making elixirs, right?" Su Xingran watched Chen Xiaomu put all the stones that he had picked up on Tianmen Mountain that day into a marching pot and boiled water.

While cooking, he used a wooden stick to stir the pot from time to time, which was very confusing.

"Honey, the elixirs I make are different from those made by Taoist priests. My master taught me this is the Buddhist alchemy method." Chen Xiaomu replied with a smile while stirring the pot with a stick.

"There are still monks who make elixirs? Don't monks always use incense ash to treat people?" Su Xingran was even more puzzled.

Chen Xiaomu handed the wooden stick in his hand to a soldier next to him and asked him to continue stirring in the pot. Then he patted the lime on his hand and put his arm around Su Xingran's shoulders.

''My wife, let me tell you, the elixir of mine is completely different from the elixir made by Taoist priests. The elixirs of Taoist priests are all scams. The elixir of mine is just more painful when you take it, but there will be no pain in the future, and you can directly enter the paradise world.

Got it!"

Su Xingran blinked her big eyes, looked at Chen Xiaomu, and asked suspiciously: "I heard that people can only go to the Paradise after they die. Could it be that the elixir you made is a poisonous elixir?"

Chen Xiaomu quickly covered Su Xingran's mouth with his hand, pretending to feel guilty, and looked around with a sly look.

"Honey, I'm just pointing out this pill to earn some living expenses! Isn't your shouting a bad thing? If people hear this, who else can I sell it to?"

Su Xingran glared at him, "If you keep talking nonsense, I will ignore you. Tell me quickly, what kind of elixir are you making? Why do I get weirder every time I look at it!"

Chen Xiaomu thought for a while, then shamelessly leaned into Su Xingran's ear, "My dear wife, I'm telling you, you have to keep it a secret for me."

Su Xingran glared at him, "Will you tell me or not? If you don't tell me, I'm leaving. Don't come to me at night!"

"Okay!" Chen Xiaomu seemed to have made up his mind, and suddenly asked Su Xingran out of nowhere, "Honey, do you want to light firecrackers in the new year?"

"Why are you asking? Is this related to the elixir you made?" Su Xingran glared at him.

"It's okay, I'm just asking. You said it was related to this elixir. Let me think about it, it's really related!" Chen Xiaomu said with a smile.

"Of course we have to light firecrackers. Every year on New Year's Eve, my father will ask Manager Zhou in the palace to find some bamboos with thick joints and set them off in front of the palace gate. This is to show that my father loves the people like his sons and shares the same feelings with the people.

The second is to add some joy to the festive atmosphere of the New Year."

''Then when the firecrackers were lit, were you happy or not?" Chen Xiaomu continued to stare at Su Xingran and asked.

"They must all be happy! Especially the younger sister, she is the one who likes to light firecrackers among us sisters the most. Every year on New Year's Eve, when the firecrackers are set off, she will wait in front of the palace gate early, clamoring for her to light them with her own hands.

Firecrackers!" When Su Xingran mentioned his family, a smile of happiness came from the bottom of his heart.

Chen Xiaomu smiled and said: "Then how about calling my elixir "Happiness Suoming Powder"?"

"Happy Suo Ming San" Before Su Xingran could reply, a small scream suddenly came from behind the two of them.

The two turned around and saw that Lu Yi was following them. Chen Xiaomu immediately darkened his face, "Captain Lu, how dare you eavesdrop on the whispers between our husband and wife! You are really brave!"

"No, Your Highness, Princess, I really didn't eavesdrop on what you two were saying." Lu Yi waved his hands repeatedly and stammered: "I came to report something to Your Highness. I saw you and the Princess talking, so I didn't dare.

Don't bother Your Highness and Princess, I'm just following you from a distance."

"You dare to say you didn't hear what the princess and I said?" Chen Xiaomu narrowed his eyes and stared at Lu Yi.

Lu Yi stretched out his hand and scratched his head, looking very embarrassed, "I just heard that the elixir your Highness made was an aphrodisiac! So I couldn't help but scream."

When Su Xingran heard Lu Yi say that what Chen Xiaomu was practicing was an aphrodisiac, Su Xingran's face instantly turned red, she stamped her feet and left Chen Xiaomu alone, and walked away alone.

Chen Xiaomu smiled and waved to Lu Yi, "Come on, Commander Lu, tell me, did your eye see that what I was making was an aphrodisiac?"

Lu Yi whispered softly in his throat: "I heard that the name of the elixir mentioned by His Highness seems to be the name of an aphrodisiac, so...!

"So what I make is aphrodisiac, right?" Chen Xiaomu couldn't laugh or cry.

Lu Yi fell silent, and Chen Xiaomu glared at him, "What do you want from me?"

''Your Highness, according to your instructions, I asked the soldiers to burn more than a thousand kilograms of charcoal and dig out more than a thousand kilograms of stone and sulfur, all of which were dried and ground into powder. Do you want to bring them over to you now?"

Originally, Chen Xiaomu's favorite thing about Lu Yi was that he did things neatly and never sloppily. He expected to have to wait two more days for what he was told yesterday morning, but he didn't expect Lu Yi to complete the task in one day!

He patted Lu Yi on the shoulder, his eyes unable to hide his admiration, "Captain Lu did a good job, now you go prepare a bigger tent for me, and I'm going to practice my Happy Life Powder

Yes, haha!”

Charcoal, sulfur, and saltpeter have been prepared. Now Chen Xiaomu is faced with another difficulty. There is no equipment. In addition to the jars and jars used for eating, there are no extra equipment that can hold explosives in the army. He can't even eat. There is nothing he can do.

He asked Lu Yi to find some tarpaulins to make tents, and asked Su Xingran to get some rice paper to make into explosives.

Hundreds of people were busy for two days. At the end of the day, Chen Xiaomu bundled ten explosive packets according to the explosive ratio that it took thousands of years for later generations to find out in his mind. In order to increase the power of the explosive packets, he asked the engineers to

He smashed all the used knives and guns into pieces and put them into explosive bags, preparing to find a place with no human traces in the wilderness the next day to test its power.

After dinner, Chen Xiaomu walked into Su Xingran's tent. As soon as the two took off their clothes and hugged each other, the urgent call of Li Gui, the commander of the reconnaissance company, suddenly came from outside the tent!

"Your Highness, Your Highness"

Chen Xiaomu and Su Xingran were both shocked. Su Xingran was so frightened that he hurriedly pulled the silk and wrapped it around his jade body. Chen Xiaomu quickly put on his fur coat and stood in the middle of the tent and asked Li Gui softly who was standing outside the tent.

, "What happened to Captain Li? Did Guo Huai discover us?"

"Your Highness, Guo Huai has been busy attacking Tianquan County for the past two days and has not sent any troops to search for us."

Chen Xiaomu immediately breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that after all, the Emperor of Zheng was more important. In Guo Huai's eyes, our few troops were probably equivalent to stragglers.

"Then why did you come to me?" Chen Xiaomu suddenly became angry and asked angrily, thinking that you are going to ruin my good deeds and I won't take care of you tomorrow.

"Your Highness, when we were monitoring the Chu army's camp, we intercepted a general who rushed out from Tianquan County to deliver a message. I asked him and he didn't say anything. He just said that he would tell us the truth after meeting the princess!"

Su Xingran was hiding on the bed and heard Li Gui's words. She immediately got up, got dressed as quickly as possible, and walked out of the tent with Chen Xiaomu.

Outside the tent, Li Gui was wearing black clothes and black trousers. His face was covered with a piece of black cloth, revealing only a pair of anxious eyes. He was still breathing heavily. When he saw Su Xingran and Chen Xiaomu walking out of the tent, he didn't say a word.

He hurriedly led the two of them into a small tent not far from Su Xingran's tent.

As soon as he saw Su Xingran walking into the tent, a military general with a bloody face, armor and a carved feather arrow stuck in his left shoulder quickly stood up from the straw mat and asked, "Princess, do you still recognize me?"

Su Xingran knelt down in front of the general, looked at it carefully for a long time, and then asked doubtfully, "Are you Uncle Sun?"

The general nodded and couldn't help crying, "Princess, please find a way to save the emperor! Guo Huai has been like crazy these days, attacking Tianquan County with all his strength, and the emperor can't hold it anymore!"

Su Xingran was shocked, "Uncle Sun, how many soldiers and horses are there in the city now?"

Uncle Sun wiped his tears, "There are still more than 40,000 people, but the food and grass are running out, and they only eat one meal a day. Now people in the city are panicked. The emperor keeps saying that Chen Guo's reinforcements are coming soon, but I don't know what Chen Guo's reinforcements are.

Where have the country's reinforcements arrived? Tonight the emperor sent me to break through the Chu army's camp to find you."

Facing Uncle Sun's inquiry, Su Xingran just shed tears but could not say anything. She has reinforcements from Chen State, is Zheng State really going to die now?"

"Princess, what are you talking about? Where are Chen Guo's reinforcements?"

Su Xingran shed tears and shook her head silently!

"Ah, didn't Chen Guo send reinforcements?" Uncle Sun was shocked. He wanted to stand up, but fell down on the straw mat with a "slap". He was so anxious that he fainted.

Chen Xiaomu stood behind Su Xingran and thought for a while, and decided to change the location of tomorrow's blasting test to tonight's Chu army camp to give Su Xingran and Zheng Huang who were trapped in Tianquan County a little more confidence!

But this throwing tool gave him a problem. No matter how physically strong the soldier was, he could probably throw more than ten kilograms of explosives at most, but the lethality of the bows and arrows used by the Chu army was only one hundred meters.

Besides, even if the soldiers' lives were sacrificed, the soldiers would not have the chance to approach the Chu army's camp. Originally, he wanted to wait for two more days for him to refine the gasoline using local methods, then use tent cloth to make a hot air balloon and fly to the Chu army's camp.

He wanted to airdrop explosive packets from the air above the camp, but the critical situation now prevented him from waiting for that time. He didn't even have time to do the explosion test!

Chen Xiaomu asked Li Gui to find the engineer company commander, and several people lay on the ground to discuss for a long time. Finally, Chen Xiaomu drew a drawing of a small simple trebuchet that could be disassembled, carried and assembled in a short time and handed it to the engineer company commander and asked him to

The organizer will hand over to him within two hours.

Hearing that Chen Xiaomu was going to send Huanxi Life San to the Chu army camp tonight, Su Xingran insisted on going with him. No one could persuade him, so Chen Xiaomu had no choice but to take her with him.

The engineer company commander completed the trebuchet according to Chen Xiaomu's drawings and sent it over. Chen Xiaomu found a stone about the same weight as the explosive bag and tested it, and it was thrown almost three hundred meters away!

The group of people changed into night clothes, wrapped grass around the horses' hooves, and disassembled the trebuchet and hung it on both sides of the horse's back. Chen Xiaomu brought all the ten explosive bags bundled in the afternoon. In order to facilitate the assembly of the trebuchet, the engineers
Chapter completed!