"Then what was his purpose in doing this?" Zhu Yueran asked bluntly.
That's a good question. None of the four people present could guess what Prince Cheng was thinking, so they could only continue to investigate.
"Let Zhao Mingyue investigate the fishing village. We'll keep a close eye on the Prince's mansion." After the four finished talking, they dispersed and went back to their rooms to rest.
Zhu Lin had taken a nap for a few hours and was not sleepy at all. After having breakfast with Xingxing, he went to keep an eye on Prince Cheng. After watching him all day, he found that Prince Cheng had stayed in his room all day without going out, regardless of the fact that there were outsiders in the mansion.
After a day of perseverance, Zhu Lin lost patience and handed the task over to his two senior female colleagues, letting them arrange for them to take turns keeping watch.
Strangely, Prince Cheng stayed in his room for three days straight. It's not normal for someone to stay in their room for several days without leaving, unless they were injured.
The servants of the Prince's mansion were indeed brewing medicine to send to Prince Cheng. Xingxing stopped the servant and asked what was going on. The servant only said that the prince had caught a cold.
The people of Xianwu Island know a little about pharmacology. Zhu Changge went to the kitchen to check the dregs of the medicine and found that they were just some medicines for relieving heat and fever. It seemed that Prince Cheng was more likely to have suffered an external injury than a cold.
That night, Xingxing and Zhulin sneaked into Prince Cheng's study. The three senior brothers kept watch outside the door, while the two senior sisters stayed with Zhang Xiantao for the past few days to protect her safety.
Xingxing and Zhulin have been searching the study for most of the day, but they still haven't found the secret room's mechanism.
"That can't be right, how could there be no secret room?" Xingxing continued to explore, unwilling to give up.
Zhu Lin gazed thoughtfully at the chair beside the table, then sat down, placing his hands on the edge of the chair, his slender fingers pressing casually on it.
Sure enough, he found something unusual on the armrest. He touched the button that looked like a mechanism, but pressing it didn't do anything, as if the mechanism was just playing a trick on him.
Zhu Lintao's eyes darkened, and she said calmly, "There's no need to look anymore. It seems that Prince Cheng is much more cunning than we imagined. I'm afraid he has already sealed off the secret room in the study, and it will be impossible to find anything now."
Xingxing walked over, watched him lightly press the chair handle, and also reached out and pressed it a few times. "It seems the mechanism is on this chair handle, but it was damaged before we arrived. Prince Cheng is truly remarkable."
In the forest, Yokoyama Chiyo was having the passage sealed off. She was always cautious, and with Yokoyama Ichiro and Yokoyama Eiko frequently going in and out of this passage these past few days, she felt that this secret passage was unnecessary.
The white-clad figures around the eldest princess are not easy to deal with. She doesn't want them to discover her secret base too quickly. The experiment is only halfway done, and it will take at least two or three years to succeed. If this batch of weapons isn't made, how can she dominate the world?
If she had known she would time travel, she should have studied science, mechanical engineering, or read more books on the subject. Unfortunately, it's too late now, and she can only rely on her limited knowledge and imagination to figure it out.
She had bought a wooden gun when she was studying abroad, but she didn't dare to use it. However, out of curiosity, she took it apart and saw that the major structural changes were clear.
After transmigrating, she was determined to build a few guns. However, wanting to build them was one thing, but actually building them was not so easy. It took her more than a year to have one gun made, and the second one is still under construction.
Building a wooden gun wasn't the main goal; she wanted to build a few cannons. But no matter how she conceived the idea, she hadn't been able to build one yet. In the end, she could only try to build a cannon based on the existing fire chamber design.
It's still in the experimental stage, and we don't know if it will succeed, but if you want to do great things, you have to be patient and wait. She's only nineteen, so there's no rush even if she waits until she's thirty.
However, the experimental base cannot be located here anymore; it needs to be moved to a new location as soon as possible. She has already found a new secret base, not inland, but on an island. She specifically went out to sea to find that island and finally chose it.
Preparations began three months ago, and the production workshop has now been built on the island. All that's left is to transport the materials from the forest there.
The large ship had been prepared in advance, so Yokoyama Chiyo finished transporting everything in one night, and the house in the forest was temporarily abandoned.
Meanwhile, Yokoyama Eiko and Keiya Nishi also arrived in Nanyang Prefecture. The mother and daughter opened a rouge shop there, and the shop was in a good location and business was good.
The mother and daughter ate at the Zhou family's restaurant every day. Even if they didn't go there in person, they would send someone to buy food for them. Firstly, they wanted to get acquainted with the people at Mei Zhou Lou, and secondly, the food and wine at Mei Zhou Lou were indeed delicious and addictive.
Yokoyama Chiyo said that the money earned from the rouge shop didn't need to be given to her; she and her daughter could keep it. Keiya Nishi was a person who liked to enjoy life. Although the Eastern Kingdom wasn't wealthy, she was, after all, the king's woman, so her daily treatment was still quite good.
She had long heard about the luxurious and decadent lifestyle of the royal family in the Great Jin Dynasty, and she had always longed for such a life, but unfortunately, she had never been able to achieve it.
In the Eastern Ocean, she couldn't compete with the other royal wives and ended up being expelled. With great difficulty, she came to the Great Jin Dynasty at the urging of her eldest daughter. Her son became a prince after his face was changed, but she couldn't show herself openly and could only live in the shadows.
Moreover, with her eldest daughter keeping an eye on her, Gui Guxi's life could only be considered acceptable, but she couldn't be willful. What she wanted to eat and what she wanted to wear all depended on her eldest daughter. If she dared to disobey, her eldest daughter would lock her up and starve her for several days.
If she dared to curse, her eldest daughter would have her mouth sewn shut with needle and thread. In short, she couldn't cause any trouble in front of her eldest daughter.
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