"Brother, good brother," the little guy hugged Chen Qi's thigh, swayed, and coquettishly said in a very coquettish tone, "If you go out for a while, you can go with me, and you will be very well-behaved." ”

"Hehe, I won't allow you to be coquettish," Chen Qi pinched his sister's cute little qiong's nose.

"Brother is a big villain!" shouted the little one, very sad, and sat on the ground, rolling around, and shouting, "Even is going to go!

While shouting and crying, tears mixed with the dust on the ground, the little face quickly turned into a big cat, Chen Qi was very distressed, quickly picked it up, picked up the handkerchief, and wiped her.

"Brother, did you agree?" the little guy asked with some hope.

"No," Chen Qi hardened his heart and refused.

"Hmph," the little guy was really angry, pushed his brother away, twisted his body, put his little hand behind his back, ignored his brother's shouts, and walked away without looking back.

Chen Qi hurriedly summoned a few maids who had been waiting outside the door, and ordered them to follow quickly, take good care, and don't let the little guy run around.

Chen Qi continued to go back to the study to deal with the documents, but it didn't take long for a maid to come to tell him in a panic that the little guy took advantage of their inattention and secretly escaped, but fortunately he was bumped into by the patrolling family and was arrested.

"How many of you adults, you can't even look at a little doll?" Chen Qi reprimanded loudly.

"Little master, little young lady is too naughty, tricking us into playing hide and seek in the garden, and when it is her turn to hide, the people disappear quietly, and the slaves and maids think she is hiding. "When encountering such a small and eccentric young lady, the maids are also very helpless.

"Hmph, it's not good to do things, go to the torture room to get ten boards, and fine you for three months, are you convinced?"

"Yes, the slave and maid admit the punishment. The maid bowed her head and admitted her mistake.

At this time, the depressed little guy was surrounded by a group of maids, and the eyes of the group of people were firmly fixed on her, for fear that this little ancestor would suddenly disappear again.

Looking at the dejected little guy, Chen Qi was angry and funny, stepped forward to pick her up, and slapped the little fart, "Yo, our eldest lady is so capable, she automatically learned to run away from home, why, such a great ability will still be caught?"

"Hmph," the little guy turned his head and muttered, "Bad dog, bad dog." ”

"What bad dog?" Chen Qi wondered, but the little guy ignored him, so he asked everyone. It turned out that they found the little guy in front of a dog hole in the corner of the backyard yard, when there was a big black dog tied to the wall on the opposite side of the dog hole.

After thinking about it for a while, Chen Qi guessed the general course of the matter, obviously the little guy had a plan to sneak out, the terrain was explored, and he was ready to drill out of the hidden dog hole, but he never expected that there was a big black dog opposite, and the little guy was very scared, so he could only stare at it with big eyes.

After figuring out what happened, Chen Qi was very happy, and hurriedly ordered, "Order someone to plug all the dog holes in the courtyard wall of the mansion for me, and at the same time, let the family members thoroughly investigate all the courtyard walls of the Chen Mansion and find out all possible defense loopholes." ”

Chen Qi hugged his sister back to the study, criticized and educated him fiercely, and the little guy also admitted it, just kept nodding, but Chen Qi knew that she didn't listen to it at all, which made him a little worried, there are a thousand days to be a thief, there is no reason to prevent thieves for a thousand days, no, this metaphor is a little inappropriate, but the meaning is almost the same, the little guy is a big ghost, and he yearns for the outside world, even if he takes precautions, but if there is a negligence, he accidentally lets her succeed.

She sneaked out of the house, alone, no one followed, and if she met a bad person, the consequences would be unimaginable. Forget it, it's better to be blocked, Chen Qi opened his mouth and said, "Er, let's make an agreement, if you promise my brother that you won't sneak out in the future, I will take you out every few days, you can do anything." ”

"Really?" said the little one, with his eyes lit up expectantly, "can it be done now?"

"Yes, but you have to promise my brother that you must take the maid and Xiao Si with you when you leave the house in the future. ”

"Let's go, then!" the little one suddenly became excited, and his frustration disappeared.

"Stop, you haven't promised your brother yet, be obedient!"

"Okay, the puppet has always been very well-behaved, my brother is a big villain, I don't take the puppet out to play, my brother's fault. ”

"Okay, my bad, let's go now. ”

Chen Qi hugged his sister with a large group of followers, and as soon as he walked out of the gate of Chen's mansion, he saw a fast horse galloping and came to Chen Qi, and the knight turned over and dismounted and said, "Little young master, the fourth young lady sent a villain to spread the word, saying that there was a mistake in the Dinghai project, and I hope you can go and deal with it." ”

"Ding Hai?" Under Chen Qi's guidance, the Chen family had many secret research projects, each of which had a code name, and he quickly remembered what the Ding Hai project was, and couldn't help but be shocked in his heart, "What went wrong? Is it serious?"

The Dinghai project is black powder, Chen Qi studied black powder naturally not for rebellion, nor for the purpose of making muskets and artillery, but for mining in the mountains, Chen's firm needed too many ore raw materials, so he bought many mines to dig by himself to reduce costs.

However, in this era of low productivity, mining is not only hard but also dangerous, few people are willing to be miners, and Lingnan is sparsely populated, and there are not enough people to recruit, in order to improve mining efficiency, Chen Qi provides a rough formula, and his craftsmen secretly develop black powder.

"This," the person who reported the news stepped forward and whispered in Chen Qi's ear, "Little young master, the villain doesn't know the specific situation, but I heard that it is very serious, and he is still dead." ”

"Sure enough!" Chen Qi said secretly, he naturally knew the danger of black powder, so he kept telling him to pay attention to safety, but there was still an accident, but now is not the time to pursue responsibility, the first priority is to properly handle the aftermath.

Thinking of this, Chen Qi looked at the villain in his arms with some embarrassment, the little guy seemed to understand that things had changed, and looked at him with blank eyes, "Come on, go and call Chen Yan." ”

"Little master, what's the matter with your name me?" Chen Yan is twenty years old, he has already married and has children, and he is still as straightforward as ever.

"Chen Yan, you take the little lady to go around the East Market, bring more people, you must protect her, understand?"

"Okay, little master, don't worry," Chen Yan patted his chest and promised.

"Be sure to come back before dark. Chen Qi told again uneasily.

"I understand, I'll be back soon. ”

At this time, the subordinates had already prepared their horses, Chen Qi flew up, waved goodbye to his sister, and galloped towards the dock outside the city.

Half an hour later, Chen Qi came to the gunpowder workshop, the scene in front of him was terrifying, the original gunpowder workshop five in and five out of the courtyard, now half of it was blown away by the terrifying explosion, everywhere there are ruins, broken bricks and tiles, and residual flames burning, obviously the explosion occurred not long ago.

"When did the explosion occur, and were there any casualties?" Chen Qi asked when he arrived, the steward of the workshop had been waiting for a long time.

"Little master, the explosion occurred half an hour ago," replied the steward, "because today is a bathing day, so there are not many people in the workshop, three dead and one seriously injured." ”

"Who is the dead?"

"It's Master Sun and his two apprentices. ”

"What?" Chen Qi was a little distressed, no matter what era, talent is always the most important, although he has many advanced ideas or ideas, but someone needs to seriously carry out research in order to realize, this master Sun is the only few craftsmen who are interested in black powder, and he is also very talented, and he is one of the people in charge of the gunpowder workshop.

"What was the cause of the explosion?"

"This," the steward hesitated a little, "according to the old Sun Tou who woke up, today is the bath day, it is his turn to guard the door, in the morning, Master Sun came in a hurry with two apprentices, saying that he had a new inspiration and needed to be studied, Old Man Sun did not dare to stop them, let them enter the workshop, the explosion occurred at about three o'clock in the afternoon, the reason should be that Master Sun did not operate properly......"

"Okay, needless to say," Chen Qi waved his hand, "I have said many times, let you and others pay attention to safety, fire and explosion prevention, but you all turn a deaf ear, and now you see the consequences?" he reprimanded loudly angrily.