Late at night.

Tai Chi Hall, brightly lit.

Li Er is still dealing with the affairs of the court.

Empress Changsun instructed the palace maid to make snacks and personally delivered them.

Li Er ate a snack and chatted with Empress Changsun for a while, and his melancholy mood was much soothed.

"Guanyinwen, don't you know, now the drought in Shandong and Henan is getting more and more serious, and there are more and more refugees. I have ordered Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling to go 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 Eldest Sun kneaded Li Er's shoulders and said softly: "Your Majesty, the disaster is important, but your body can't be ignored!" ”

Li Er smiled and said, "I am very healthy, but it's you, Guanyin, have your headaches recurred?" ”

When Empress Changsun heard this, she seemed to be in a good mood: "Your Majesty, don't you say it, the concubines are about to forget, since taking the immortal medicine given by Du He, it seems that it will be half a month, and it has never relapsed, it is really amazing!" ”

When it came to Du He, Li Er had a headache: "Du He, it's a good child, it's just that Yuanshu and Lizhi are in ...... It's really hard to do! ”

Empress Changsun nodded approvingly: "Now both inside and outside the government and the opposition, everyone knows that His Majesty intends to marry Li to Changsun Chong, and it is really difficult to deal with such a thing suddenly." Your Majesty, the concubine suggested that it is better to let Yuanshu and Du He get married as soon as possible, and when the time comes, Du He's playful character will inevitably be changed. ”

Li Er nodded: "It seems that this matter needs to be resolved as soon as possible, otherwise, after a long time, Du He, this little rabbit cub, doesn't know what big trouble will happen!" Hum! ”

The dignified emperor, there is no way to take a young man, Li Er feels that he is a little guilty.

At the same time.

Higashinaien.

Li Yuan's small courtyard.

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

Li Ke said with some apprehension: "Grandpa Huang, before Du He leaves, let us not touch the things in the room, is it a little inappropriate for us to go in like this?" ”

Li Yuan laughed and waved his hand: "What's wrong, this is my house, can't I go in and have a look?" I'm really curious, Du Xiaozi has been tinkering all day, what exactly is coming up, I can't wait. ”

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

With that, the two pushed the door and went to the room.

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

On the table, there were four large sheets of paper, and on the paper were stacked a pile of black things, which were black powder.

"Is this black powder? Duhe said he was going to use this thing to fry fish? How do you fry it? ”

Li Yuan and Li Ke were both confused, and they couldn't understand this little thing at all, which could get the fish in the lake.

Li Yuan took a few steps forward and leaned over the pile of black powder on the far right, trying to see how this black powder was made.

The light was not good in the night, so he leaned over the lantern.

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

This pile of gunpowder suddenly burned violently, making a rustling sound, and the flames erupted at once.

Li Yuan didn't have time to dodge at all, and the flames sprayed into his face at once.

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

Seeing this, Li Ke next to him hurriedly rushed over and shouted, "Grandpa Huang, are you okay?" ”

The man in black who was guarding the door also rushed in.

The gunpowder burned in an instant.

Li Yuan said: "I'm fine, I'm fine...... I only felt a little itchy on my face. ”

Li Ke took a closer look at the lantern and almost fainted.

The man in black was also taken aback.

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

The most important thing is that the pinch of slap-length beard on his chin is gone.

Li Yuan touched his chin and was immediately shocked: "This ...... How good is that? ”

Li Ke said with a smile and a smile: "Grandpa Huang, don't care about your beard, are you really okay?" ”

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

Li Yuan was so depressed that he hurriedly went back to the house to sleep.

Early the next morning, Duhe came to the small courtyard.

As soon as he saw Li Yuan, Du He was happy: "Ouch, old man, where is your beard?" Not to mention, after shaving your beard, you look a lot younger! ”

Li Yuan's face was black, indicating that he didn't want to speak.

Du He thought to himself, how can the old man be weird today.

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

Look back at Li Yuan again.

Duhe understood everything.

"Old man, you are not honest, you actually secretly touched my things, I warned you." Du He said angrily.

Li Yuan smiled and blushed a little: "Curious, just curious." ”

Du He shook his head helplessly: "Curiosity kills the cat?" This thing isn't fun, there's a guy named Nobel, who just plays this, of course, it's more advanced than this, and in the end it kills the whole family......"

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

Can this thing still blow people up?

At the same time, the two were a little unconvinced.

Duhe checked, waved his hand, told the others to leave, and then he began to build the dynamite.

Gunpowder was ready.

Duhe uses cowhide that is not breathable and waterproof.

Although the Tang Dynasty does not allow cattle to be slaughtered, there are still a lot of cowhides in the palace.

Du He prepared four cowhides, originally planning to make four explosive packs, but he knew that the old man had wasted a bunch of them, so he could only make three first.

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

Then the dynamite bag was tightly tied with a thin hemp rope, and the tighter the tie, the better.

It took him a whole morning to make three explosives packs.

The first time he made this thing, Du He didn't know if he could succeed.

I can only hope for luck.

When he appeared at the door carrying three explosive bags, Li Yuan and Li Ke were both startled.

Because every bag of explosives is the size of a bosom.

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

Li Ke asked curiously, "Is this what you said about the explosives package?" I don't think there's anything special, isn't it just black powder wrapped in cowhide? So it can explode? ”

Du He said a little speechlessly: "Little friend, your scientific knowledge is a little lacking, forget it...... Too lazy to explain, you'll find out later. ”