Chapter 33: Breaking the Game

After Xuanyuan Yuze listened to my speech, he asked the emperor to resign and walked out of the Jinluan Palace.

It didn't take long for Ji Xiang to come forward and ask for instructions, and the two eunuchs brought up two wine jars, two fist-sized stubborn stones, a plate of dry white powder, a pot of ginseng water powder, a pot of water, a piece of butter, a few hollow bamboos, and a few pieces of white and black cloth.

I swung forward for a while, grabbed a handful of mud and sand from the jar, and showed it to everyone in the court.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the soil that I asked King Li to dig from the dry place of the burial concubine forest, in fact, even if you don't use the soil of the burial concubine forest, it is the same from other places, but I want to better prove the matter of the burial concubine forest, so I took the soil over there."

Seeing that everyone was looking at me in confusion, I pointed to the dry powder again and said, "This is the quicklime that I asked King Li to prepare for me, and the pot with water is white phosphorus." Next, I'm going to show you how to make a stone burn underground. ”

I took a stone, smeared it with quicklime, put it in the dirt, and poured some water into it.

Soon, green smoke rose from the dirt, and I waited a few moments before taking the stone out.

The stone was fine, although it was a little hot, but it didn't show any signs of blackening.

I took the stone to Dingguo Gong and some ministers and touched it, and then asked, "Can you feel the burning sensation?" ”

Seeing them nodding, I said again: "This is the reaction of lime and water, everyone in the imperial pharmacy knows that lime can stop bleeding and become hot when exposed to water, so even if there is no fire source, it can easily scald some things." ”

I coated the outside of the stone again with white phosphorus from ginseng water, and then tried to apply lime, but the lime heated up as soon as it touched the water, causing the white phosphorus sealed in the water to crackle and burn in the air.

Fortunately, I was prepared, and when I did this experiment, I didn't hold a stone, which I had coated with lime on the ground and burned.

After a puff of green smoke, the stone was burned black, just like the stone in the funeral forest, it appeared black.

I took a white cloth and picked up the stone, holding it above my head so that everyone could see what it looked like.

"Have you noticed that although the stone has the same effect as the stubborn stone in the burial concubine forest, I have not put it in the soil, so it is not enough to prove that the matter of the burial concubine forest is man-made."

Among the officials of the DPRK, many people nodded their heads, but now, there are some wise people who have maintained a neutral attitude, and they dare not insist that this is the will of heaven, and just look at me silently to see if I can clear my name next.

After all, there is still a jar of dirt and a stone that I have not experimented with, that is, the experiment is not over.

I smiled slightly, and my eyes involuntarily looked at Xuanyuan Yi.

At this moment, Xuanyuan Yi, with an elegant face, seems to be very optimistic about my explanation, and has a kind of admiration for me.

I didn't dare to make any more conjectures, so I opened my eyes, picked up another stone again, and in full view of everyone, applied white phosphorus mixed with water on the surface of the stone, and with the fastest movement, picked up the solid butter, sealed a layer on the outside, and finally, I got a lot of lime.

This time, the lime didn't burn right away, so I carefully put it in the jar, covered it with earth, and then inserted hollow bamboo on the outside.

"Your Majesty, Concubine Niangniang, ladies and gentlemen, the stone in this jar is like the stone statue in the forest of the burial concubine, and the kettle in my hand is like the spring rain a few days ago......"

As I spoke, I poured water into the water, and the smoke curling from the dirt grew thicker and thicker, and then a pungent smell seeped through the dirt, causing some of the ministers present to cover their mouths and noses.

I covered my face with my sleeve and glanced at the little eunuch who had just brought me stones and dirt.

He is Xiao Hangzi, who guards the gate of the cold palace, the person of Queen Jinyue, and the person called by Fu Jinyue to help me.

At my signal, he silently took out a cloth bag from his sleeve, put it on the ground, then bowed, and finally withdrew from the Taihe Palace.

After a few moments, I pulled out all the hollow bamboos that had been inserted in the jar, and dug out the stones with another piece of white cloth.

Because it hadn't been buried in the soil long enough, the stone had some butter and impurities that hadn't burned out.

But none of this is important, the important thing is that this stone and the stone statue in the burial forest show exactly the same qualities, burned black, smoke, and a pungent smell of burning.

I took the stone to Ji Xiang and handed it over to the emperor and the concubine Niangniang, and owed a debt and said: "Your Majesty, the concubine Niangniang, the ministers, I believe you have also seen it, many things, I don't need to find out again, if you still want evidence, I can tell you that the cloth bag that the little eunuch took out just now contained the soil around the stone statue." ”

I took two pieces of black cloth again, grabbed some soil in the wine jar and cloth bag respectively, and then handed them to Duke Dingguo: "Grandpa Guo can help his concubine to see if the soil in these two pieces of black cloth is reflective?" ”

Dingguo Gong is Fu Jinyue's uncle, so he will naturally stand on my side, but what I asked him to say is also the truth, and there is no partiality.

For the sake of fairness, I asked Shangshu Qiuting of the Ministry of War to also come over and take a look, and the answer I got was the same as that of Dingguo Gong, there was reflection in the soil.

I then said: "After the white phosphorus burns, it will produce poisonous gas, and you will feel dizzy when you smell too much, which must be among the people watching the funeral concubine forest, and the emperor can find out if you check it, and, as far as I know, touching too much white phosphorus will also cause the skin to ulcerate and not scab over, I think that the two forbidden soldiers who dug up the stone statue at that time have already had such a situation." ”

I smiled and faced Xuanyuan Yi: "The emperor can ask Father-in-law Jixiang now." ”

Xuanyuan Yi's eyes were full of appreciation, and he didn't ask Jixiang at all, he suddenly stood up and clapped his hands one by one.

It was a compliment to me, and he praised me without any reservation in the eyes of everyone with satisfaction.

After that, he walked to my side, his eyes lit up, and he looked sideways and said: "Such a complex and exquisite bureau is indeed breathtaking, presumably in the court, no one can see it at all, Concubine Jiang is very intelligent, so I have to admire, but can I also think that this is the game you set up?" ”

Xuanyuan Yi stared at me playfully, he believed that someone in this harem was trying to frame me and Fu Jinyue, he asked this, just to help the ministers ask a question that they wanted to ask but did not dare to ask rashly, he was giving me a chance to explain, not scolding me.

This game is so exquisitely set up that if I hadn't had a master from the Western Regions who loves to study these things, I wouldn't know so much.

Lime white phosphorus plus butter, I suddenly thought of it when I saw Xiaohuan using lime to stop bleeding, and then I asked Fu Jinyue to do an experiment for me, and the note she gave me clearly told me that it was Li Guifei's doing, that is, my experiment was successful, so I dared to get an axe here.

Just like Xuanyuan Yi said, so many courtiers don't know these things, since I can crack this bureau, it can also be understood as a bureau set up by me.

Then the problem comes, I set up this game and implicated me and the queen, once I come out to break the game, there will be no framing of the queen, then the person I want to frame is the Li Guifei I just said.

"That's what the emperor said, so I still have to explain why I think it's Concubine Li."

I looked at Xuanyuan Yi's eyes, smiled at him slightly, and then turned my eyes to look at the ministers: "I think the adults also saw it just now, this bureau seems to be seamless, but there are still flaws, that is, when I dug out this stone just now, I still need to pull out the aerated bamboo." ”

The discussion of the Manchu Dynasty and the civil and military affairs sounded again, and I silently turned my eyes to look at Xu Fan, who had not spoken again.

His expression was nervous, both hands were curled up in his sleeves, but he tightened his sleeves, which was what he was afraid of, that is to say, he also knew about this bureau, then, it seems that the people involved in this bureau are not only Concubine Wu.