Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Whereabouts of Jinshan
He replied: "The stubbornness of his subordinates is His Highness!" ”
"His Royal Highness Yun Cheng, do you mean Gu Tianba, or Lin Muyu?" If it's Lin Muyu, that's me, my everything. If it was Gu Tianba, it would still be this body. It doesn't include me.
He looked into my eyes and said seriously: "Yun Cheng's solid ......"
"It's on fire!" A shout outside the door interrupted him, and I quickly got up from my bed and ran out of the door together.
It turned out that it was the candle stand in the hall on the first floor that ignited the curtains of the fabric, but fortunately it was found in time that it did not cause a major disaster.
"Remove all the candle holders for me and replace them with Night Pearls!" My heart aches for the carved window sills and carved frames of the golden silk nanmu. It's burned black, and it doesn't look good if you don't change it. It's especially troublesome to change. There are also curtains, but they are all woven by Mo Qian's specially improved loom, and the materials are also good silk threads, I heard that a loom only weaves a foot of cloth every day, and a curtain has to be woven for several days, and the cost will definitely not be cheap!
Mo Qian said with a bitter face: "Lord, the Night Pearl is very expensive!" ”
"How expensive?" Besides, doesn't this candle cost anything? This time it burned curtains and window frames, so what about next time? If everyone catches fire while they're asleep, it won't just cremate us! Candles are consumables, and when this one burns out, you have to light another one. But the Night Pearl is once and for all, and it also avoids fire hazards, which is cost-effective, isn't it obvious?
Who knew that Mo Qian actually looked at me like a monster: "Lord, the night pearl is hard to find, how expensive do you say?" ”
"Really?" It's over, it's out again! There are too many night pearls in the long secret passage leading to the outside of the East Palace, so I always thought that the night pearl was the price of cabbage here, but I didn't think that the night pearl was so valuable.
"Lord!" Mo Qian thought of something again, "Didn't you say that there is a kind of electric light that can illuminate the room as bright as day without lighting a fire?" Why don't you tell your subordinates how the lights are made, and then your subordinates will replace all the candle holders here with electric lights, so that they don't need to light them again? ”
......I know the principle of power generation, but the power generation equipment is too complicated, and if the electricity fails, it will kill people instantly. When I was a child, I heard about a family in a nearby village that had only one light bulb at home, so he connected a long wire and used the light bulb as a wired flashlight to carry it between the two rooms. In the end, I don't know where the electricity leaked, and he was electrocuted.
I am also extremely afraid of electricity, when I was a child, I plugged in the TV socket, and half of my arm was numb due to electricity. Later, when I took a shower in the factory dormitory, the back of my hand suddenly touched the leaking water pipe, and I couldn't pull it out, and the other hand went to twist the doorknob, and I don't know if I touched the handle, anyway, I kept that posture, and my body was stiff and felt that even the roots of my hair were strong.
If it weren't for the fact that there were still people in the dormitory who heard my shouts and pulled down the electric switch in time, I think I would have died a long time ago. And at that time, I touched the hot water pipe, and after the power was cut off, I was not stupid or confused, but there was a bubble the size of a quail egg on my hand, and I left a scar. Thankfully, I hadn't started bathing yet, and if the water in the bath had been electrified, I would have had nine lives.
Seeing that I hesitated, Mo Qian sighed and said, "My subordinates have millions of taels of savings in their hands, and they originally wanted to dedicate it to the Lord and improve the equipment of the Tianyu Army. Since the lord didn't want to teach his subordinates to make the electric lights, his subordinates had to use them to buy some night pearls to illuminate them! ”
"Do you have savings of a few million taels?" As soon as I heard him say this, my eyes lit up, and recently there were several projects in Tianyu Country, and I had embezzled all the money I originally planned to improve the army's equipment and strengthen the border defenses, and now I am already stretched, and there is no new source of funds, I think I can only go to Xiaoye for help, but some time ago I had too much trouble with him, and I begged him at this time, I'm afraid he can't give me a good face.
My attitude towards Mo Qian was immediately courteous, as if he was my master, helped him to the chair and sat down like helping Lafayette, poured another glass of water, and sent it to his old man with both hands: "In fact, this lamp is not difficult to make at all, the main material of the bulb is glass cover and tungsten filament, and it is best not to have air in the bulb, so as to ensure that the life of the bulb is long enough." But this electricity is a bit troublesome, and there are wires that carry the current......"
In this way, Mo Qian and I spent more than a month to develop a small wind turbine and make a long-life light bulb. The moment all the lights in the castle came on, I felt like I was back in the modern era.
For more than a month, I mixed with Mo Qian during the day and slept at night, completely ignoring Yun Cheng's injury. Until one time, I saw Yun Cheng practicing holding a sword with his left hand in the woods. I was so ashamed that I wanted to give myself two slaps, I went out of the palace to accompany Yun Cheng to recuperate, but in the end, his right hand couldn't even lift the sword, but I didn't know anything.
"I'm sorry!" I held his hand, but I only said these three words. If I hadn't asked Yun Cheng to save me at that time, he wouldn't have fought with Xiao Ye, and he wouldn't have been pulled out by Xiao Ya. Although Xiao Ye is willful and arrogant, it doesn't really hurt me. Besides, what if Xiao Ye really takes me away? If I find another chance to come back by myself, why should I let Yun Cheng stop him?
Yun Cheng looked very optimistic, but comforted me vigorously: "Your Highness, the doctor said that as long as the hands of his subordinates recuperate, there will be a chance to recover!" ”
No matter how good you cultivate, you can connect the bones if they are broken, you can grow when the skin and flesh are injured, but if the tendons are broken, you will really be crippled. Thinking that he had appeared again and again when I needed it most, with a sword in his hand to protect me behind me; I thought of him gently covering my eyes with one hand, and plunging his sword into the villain's chest with the other; The thought of him slicing his arm open and using blood to stop the pain in my body......
Now, he can't even hold chopsticks steadily, and I feel even more sad. I want to make up for it, when he struggles to pick up the teacup, I will quickly bring the cup to his mouth; I would snatch the chopsticks from his hand and feed him the food in one bite; I'll loosen his untied hair and comb it again......
I said to him, "Yun Cheng, from now on, I will be your right hand!" ”
"Your Highness......" He hesitated for a long time, and finally swallowed back the next words. He always worked hard to take care of his own affairs and refused to bother me. I think after a long time, he will get used to my help, even if I get used to his protection.
My father has not urged me to go back, and I am happy to be idle, walking around the neighborhood every day, and there is a hot spring bath when I am tired, I don't have to get up early, I don't have to think about how to deal with the affairs of the court, and I don't have to worry about being found out about my daughter's identity. It's better to live comfortably like this, better than anything else!
One day, I heard a flock of birds chirping and saying that I had seen a mountain made of gold. After inquiry, I learned that in a high-walled compound on the western outskirts of the capital, someone was melting the gold mountain into gold bricks little by little.
Hu Yanzhuo and Hu Yanyang both said that the dowry of Beimo's marriage to Tianyuguo was a gold mountain made of one million taels of gold and ten carts of treasures. But in the end, the mission was killed, and even his father had never heard of Jinshan Treasure. This matter is very strange, my father firmly believes that those are all lies that Hu Yanzhuo said casually, but he can take out the silver ticket of 10 million taels of gold without blinking an eye, how can he lie to me for these things.
So when I heard the word Jinshan, I concluded that Jinshan was the dowry of the Northern Desert. As for why he appeared in the western suburbs, I decided to find out for myself, and once I determined the mastermind behind this incident, I would definitely break his body into pieces. To tell the souls of heaven all the innocent lives that died because of that war.
Mo Qian and I left Muyu's small residence on the pretext of going to the iron mine to inspect. In the western suburbs, it was easy to find the yard away from the village. The bricks and tiles of the house and courtyard walls have not yet dried, and it seems that they have just been built. The golden mountain, which was so flashing that people couldn't open their eyes, didn't even have a cover, just put it in the open hood in the middle of the courtyard.
Dozens of craftsmen in the courtyard are working shirtless to chisel the gold mountain, smelt it, and put it into a box.
Mo Qian came down from the wall and muttered in a low voice: "Strange, it's so weird......"
"How?" Except for the fact that this is a gold-melting workshop, I really don't see anything else.
"Doesn't the Lord think it's strange that there is so much gold, but there is only a group of craftsmen, and there is not even a single overseer?"
"Maybe they are the murderers who killed the Northern Desert Greeting Mission and robbed Jinshan." Murder and robbery together, melt gold and sell stolen goods together. When this mountain of gold is melted, they will be able to share the gold that they will not be able to spend for several lifetimes. Why give up thousands or even tens of thousands of gold bricks for the sake of a few gold bricks!
"The lord thinks that a group of craftsmen have the ability to pretend to be Tianyu courtiers to meet the Northern Desert delegation at the city gate? Or do you think that a group of craftsmen robbed the money, and they were kind enough to send the Northern Desert Mission back to their hometown, and then provoked Hu Yanzhuo to lead his troops south by the way? Mo Qian turned around, and the pair of hooking peach blossom eyes did not forget to discharge indiscriminately at this time, "Lord, the statement of the Northern Desert is: The Northern Desert mission entered the city and lived in the so-called post house. But even if the Northern Desert Mission is low-key, this golden mountain is really very, even if the people don't know that it is a golden mountain, the carriage that pulls it alone is already very conspicuous, and it is impossible for people with good things to watch and discuss. ”
"You mean, the Northern Desert Mission was robbed before it entered the city?"
"No!" Mo Qian denied, "Since Hu Yanzhuo has a business in Tianyu Capital, it means that there is his eyeliner here." If the mission was robbed and killed before entering the city, the eyes of the Northern Desert would not reach the news that the Huyanzhuo mission was killed in the post house. ”
"When you enter the city, and no one sees you? Could it be that they entered the city at night? But when they enter the city at night, who will open the gates for them? Besides, how could so many officials of the Ministry of Rites in the Northern Desert Mission do such a barren beach thing as entering the capital of another country at night? ”
Mo Qian asked rhetorically: "What if they enter the city and leave the dowry outside the city?" ”