Shanhe Festival 261. The Mystery of the Treasure, Confession

Yes, let it be.

If Ye Li was reborn not in this completely unfamiliar era, but in a certain dynasty in the past, she would definitely take out these things without hesitation. Even if it pushed the course of history forward, so what? It wouldn't be worse than the original history.

Now, Ye Li didn't get tangled up for long. She wasn't someone who liked to get tangled up. It was just that neither the former emperor nor herself knew much about military engineering. She didn't know what the former emperor was originally, but even if Ye Li knew all the most advanced weapons in the world, it didn't mean she could make the same weapons. Needless to say, she couldn't solve the problem of materials. So Ye Li didn't regard this place as a place where lethal weapons for the battlefield could be mass-produced, but with all the most basic knowledge that the skilled craftsmen of this era could understand, giving them a concept that was completely different from the current one.

Ye Li didn't need them to create AK-47 or long-range missiles immediately. They just needed to work hard in this direction. Whether it took a hundred years or several hundred years, Ye Li believed that with these sparks, this piece of land would no longer suffer what her hometown had suffered in this regard.

"Princess..." A middle-aged man came towards them. When he saw Ye Li, his eyes lit up and he rushed over with a crazy look on his face.

Mo Xiuyao held Mo Xiaobao and stared coldly at the man who rushed over. He narrowed his eyes in displeasure and stepped in front of Ye Li. The man who rushed over almost stopped in his tracks. Looking at Mo Xiuyao's gloomy face, he knew that his behavior just now was a bit rude. He could only stand there awkwardly, at a loss as to what to do.

Ye Li walked out from behind Mo Xiuyao and said with a faint smile: "Master Li, what's the matter?"

The middle-aged man said quickly: "We made the things that the princess asked us to do. It's only suitable for those who want to ask the princess some questions." Ye Li nodded and said: "Then let's go and take a look together."

There was a pistol in front of Ye Li and Mo Xiuyao. Mo Xiuyao was completely unfamiliar with the object in front of him, but Ye Li couldn't help but flash a trace of nostalgia and joy in his eyes. He walked forward and picked up the gun on the table. To be honest, for Ye Li who had seen all kinds of advanced weapons in his previous life, the gun in front of him was so crude and crude that it was a bit unsightly. It was much cruder than the automatic pistol that appeared in the world in his previous life.

But it took only five years to complete the hundreds of years of evolution of firearms to make such a thing. Ye Li believed that these skilled craftsmen had done their best. Picking up the pistol and weighing it in his hand, Ye Li turned back and smiled at Mo Xiaobao, saying, "Xiaobao, cover your ears." Mo Xiaobao looked at the thing in his mother's hand curiously, but still obediently covered his ears with his little hands.

The pistol spun in Ye Li's hand, and Ye Li's eyes changed as he raised the gun and fired three shots at the position not far ahead. After three loud bangs, Ye Li frowned slightly as he looked at the position in front of him. The first shot hit the bull's eye, the second shot only hit about four rings, and the third shot's bullet flew directly. Of course, there was no problem with Ye Li's shooting skills, it was obviously a problem with the gun itself.

Master Li, who was following behind, still had a fiery look in his eyes, but this time he was not looking at Ye Li but at the gun in her hand. In his eyes, the thing that Ye Li had somewhat disliked was as precious as a peerless beauty.

Scratching his beard in annoyance, Master Li said, "We made two of these things, and one exploded directly. This one is fine, but I can't hit it accurately. It gets farther and farther off. It's really rare for the princess to hit the bull's eye on the first try like this." However, the second and third shots were obviously not good enough. The difference was so big that he couldn't help but wonder if the princess's first shot was an accident.

"It seems to be a material problem. As for the suggestions for improvement, I will sort them out for you later. You will have to worry about the materials yourself. I will send all the necessary minerals to you. I can't do anything else." She is not an expert in military industry, nor an expert in military materials. All she can give is the general content and some conceptual theories that she knows. The rest must be explored step by step by themselves. Although Master Li felt a little regretful, he knew that this could not be forced, so he nodded and agreed.

Master Li left with a heavy heart, but he kept the gun. Although this was the first finished product they had made, Master Li kept it without regret because the effect was not satisfactory, and encouraged himself to make something better when he returned. Ye Li took out the remaining bullets in the gun and threw it to Mo Xiaobao, who had been eagerly watching it. After getting the new toy, Mo Xiaobao immediately studied the thing in his hand with full concentration, and no longer cared about his father holding him in his arms and not letting him get down to play.

"Is this what the former emperor left behind?" Mo Xiuyao asked, looking around. Ye Li nodded, looked at Mo Xiuyao and asked, "Xiuyao, what do you think of this gun?" Mo Xiuyao shook his head, glanced at the thing in Mo Xiaobao's hand and said, "It has no practical value." The range is not as long as the arrows shot by the archer. Although the first shot did make him interested, the next two shots immediately disappointed him, "For the time being, it has no practical value."

Ye Li nodded in agreement and continued walking forward with Mo Xiuyao. The founding emperor of the previous dynasty certainly prepared more than just these things. Even if Ye Li knew how to do this, he would not know this little bit, and there were also some practical and valuable things.

Walking into an empty room, the smell of sulfur hits you right in the face. In one corner of the room, there are some wooden boxes neatly placed. Ye Li walks over and unpacks the top one. There are some black spherical objects in the box. Mo Xiuyao ponders for a moment and says, "Is this... gunpowder?" It's not that there is no gunpowder in this era. Some people have used it in wars. However, gunpowder needs to be ignited by open flames, and its lethality is not too high, so even the Mo family army does not use it often. But it does not mean that Mo Xiuyao is completely ignorant.

Ye Li nodded and said, "Yes, it is indeed gunpowder. But... I prefer to call it a bomb."

Mo Xiuyao raised his eyebrows and asked, "How powerful is it?" Since Ah Li showed it to him, it would not be the usual effect. Ye Li picked up one and said with a smile, "Let's try it somewhere else and we'll know." It's hard to say about other weapons, but Ye Li is still very confident about the power of the bombs. Because the production method of these bombs was not left by the previous emperor, but provided by Ye Li herself. Sure enough, after throwing a bomb in an empty room in the underground palace, the effect after a loud bang made Mo Xiuyao look surprised.

Leaving the place where the bomb was placed, Ye Li took Mo Xiuyao into a secret room at the innermost of the underground palace. The secret room was very simply decorated, just filled with various books and weapons. Mo Xiuyao saw that some of them looked like what he had seen when he passed by outside just now.

Ye Li took out a thick booklet from a secret compartment and handed it to Mo Xiuyao, saying with a smile, "This is the treasure left by the previous emperor." Mo Xiuyao took it and flipped through it. There were pictures of various firearms on each page, and there were also text annotations. However, there were many foreign words in the annotations, and Mo Xiuyao could not fully understand them. But this did not hinder his understanding. This was a booklet with pictures of various weapons, and the ones that could be made here were the worst ones. Because many of them looked much better than the toys that Mo Xiaobao couldn't put down in his hands.

Looking at the atlas, Ye Li sighed softly, "If all these things are really made and mass-produced as he envisioned, the army that obtains them will definitely be truly invincible."

Mo Xiuyao frowned slightly, looked at Ye Li and asked, "Ah Li likes these?"

Ye Li was slightly startled, and after a long while she nodded and said, "Yes, I like it very much." How could she not like it? In her previous life, she had spent twenty years with these things. She was familiar with and liked them as if they were her own family and comrades.

Mo Xiuyao said: "Then let people make them all." Ye Li smiled and said: "If they make all of them... we may not be able to see them in our lifetime. If we really want to make all of these things... how can we do it without one or two hundred years?" This definitely involves more than just military industry. Technology in every aspect must develop at the same time to achieve such a forward-looking weapon concept.

Mo Xiuyao frowned and said, "So, the Emperor Gaozu of the previous dynasty was really a genius. It's a pity that he didn't really make these things at the time, or he wanted to make them but didn't have time?" The Emperor Gaozu of the previous dynasty didn't reign for too long after he ascended the throne and unified the country. Judging from the scale of this underground palace, it is very likely that he died before it was completed.

Ye Li smiled, "A genius? Maybe..." The drawings left behind are certainly not genius. In fact, in Ye Li's opinion, these drawings are not even professional, at most they are the level of an amateur military enthusiast. But as a time traveler born in a chaotic world, it is not easy to unify the world. You know, even the founding emperor of the Great Chu could not be considered to have truly unified the world. After all, Xiling and the Great Chu were originally one.

Ye Li herself was a time traveler or a reborn person, so she naturally understood that people like them could not be said to be favored by God. Although they had one more chance to survive, it was not easy to be as domineering as described in many novels, with many followers and beauties. Her environment was already pretty good, and she had experienced so many things. One could imagine how much hardship and effort the predecessor had to go through to create a dynasty.

"Ah Li is familiar with him?" Mo Xiuyao put Mo Xiaobao on the table beside him and turned to look at Ye Li and asked. Mo Xiaobao seemed to realize that his parents were talking about something very important, so he sat on the table and fiddled with the little gadget in his hand without saying anything. Ye Li ejected the bullet too quickly just now, and the kid didn't notice that there was something missing from the gun. So he was extremely confused as to why he couldn't shoot something powerful out of the gun like his mother always did.

Ye Li smiled faintly, and stroked the booklet on the table with some nostalgia. The person who drew the booklet had signed his name in English in cursive, which was very coquettish. People of this era could only regard him as a kind of pattern.

After a moment of silence, Ye Li said, "I am somewhat familiar with this great ancestor of the previous dynasty. Perhaps no one in this world is more familiar with him than me." Mo Xiuyao was silent. Ye Li looked at him with a smile and asked, "Don't you doubt my relationship with him?" Mo Xiuyao said, "Ali is the granddaughter of the Xu family." The descendants of the Xu family could not have any relationship with the emperor of the previous dynasty. Ye Li blinked and asked, "Then don't you have anything to ask?" Mo Xiuyao was silent for a while before asking, "Ali... is he from the same place?"

Ye Li was stunned. She really didn't expect Mo Xiuyao to make such a guess. So close... No, this is the real answer.

Mo Xiuyao looked at her tenderly and smiled faintly, "Ali has never hidden anything from me, has she? She is from a scholarly family and has never come into contact with outsiders, yet she has such incredible skills. And Ali is familiar with the battlefield... and sometimes has some strange but novel ideas. And the handwriting on the treasure map, even the royal family of the previous dynasty did not recognize it, but Ali looked very familiar with it. And I think... the former emperor is actually very similar to Ali in some aspects."

Ye Li smiled helplessly: "I actually revealed so many flaws." Mo Xiuyao raised his hand and gently stroked Ye Li's cheek and smiled: "A Li has never concealed it."

Ye Li admitted that, except for the beginning when she was in front of Mo Xiuyao, she had never really tried to hide it. It was not just because Mo Xiuyao was too sensitive, and deliberately hiding it would backfire. More importantly, Mo Xiuyao was the most important person in her life. If she had to hide it in front of him, she might as well be a well-behaved woman from the beginning. It was too tiring...

Looking at Mo Xiuyao with some curiosity, Ye Li asked, "What does Xiuyao think of me?"

Mo Xiuyao said, "Both Buddhism and Taoism have the theory of past and present lives. Ah Li has the memory of her past life since she was born?" Ah Li's personality has not changed much since she was a child, and she has no problem with her memory. She can remember things from when she was very young, and she has a deep relationship with the Xu family. Of course, it is not the case of reincarnation as written in those supernatural stories. Then the theory of past and present lives can only explain it.

Ye Li nodded, looked at Mo Xiuyao with a smile and said: "According to this calculation, I am actually over 50 years old this year. I am much older than you." Mo Xiuyao narrowed his eyes unhappily, staring at Ye Li's slightly smug smile in a warning. If Mo Xiaobao hadn't been sitting on the table and staring at the two of them, Mo Xiuyao might not have been so polite. He glanced at the fat baby on the table with disdain: children are really the most troublesome. Seeing that Mo Xiuyao didn't say anything, Ye Li's eyes turned and said: "Actually... I was a man in my previous life, do you really not mind?"

"Man?" Mo Xiuyao asked solemnly. Ye Li nodded and said seriously, "Yes, I was a soldier in my previous life, so I sacrificed my life for the country. Otherwise, why do you think I look so much like a man when I dress up as a woman?" In the understanding of people in this era, soldiers are naturally men. Staring at Mo Xiuyao curiously, she asked, "Xiuyao, do you really not mind?" Suddenly, she felt like teasing people, and smiled at the man in front of her who was as calm as water. Mo Xiuyao lowered his head and stared at Ye Li for a long time, and suddenly grabbed Ye Li and kissed her delicate red lips fiercely.

Hmm... Ye Li was stunned and her eyes widened suddenly, but she accidentally glanced at a fat kid behind Mo Xiu Yao who was looking at them eagerly, with curiosity written in his dark eyes.

A wave of heat immediately hit her face, and Ye Li quickly pushed Mo Xiuyao away. Seeing Mo Xiuyao staring at her lips as if he was not satisfied, Ye Li could only glare at him fiercely. She regretted her behavior of teasing Mo Xiuyao casually. In front of her five-year-old son... Ye Li felt that she had never been so embarrassed in her two lifetimes. She just hoped that her little treasure was still young and would soon forget about this matter. Otherwise... she really had no face to face her son.

"Now you know whether I mind or not?" Mo Xiuyao asked in a low voice, looking at her angry and slightly blushing face with a smile.

Ye Li gritted her teeth and said, "The prince's psychological adaptability is indeed very strong." Mo Xiuyao smiled but did not answer, watching Ye Li still angry. What a silly girl, how could Ah Li, who is usually so elegant and graceful, and whose every move is full of charm in his eyes, be a man in her previous life?

"Father, mother..." Mo Xiaobao blinked his innocent big eyes and looked at his parents, curiously asking: "Father and mother are playing kissing? Xiaobao wants to play too. Mother kiss..." In order to express his expectation, Mo Xiaobao even touched his pink lips with his chubby hands. Ye Li was shocked, "Chen'er, who told you that mother and... were playing kissing?" Her son was only five years old, should he be so precocious? She remembered that they had never done anything too much in front of Xiaobao. Is it because she always kisses Xiaobao for fun?

Mo Xiaobao thought about it seriously and said, "It's Father. Last time I saw Father secretly kissing Mother while she was asleep. Father said that only people who love each other can play kissing. Xiaobao also loves Mother, Xiaobao wants to kiss..."

"Mo Xiu Yao!" Ye Li was angry and glared at Mo Xiu Yao fiercely, "You should sleep in the study this month!" After saying that, she turned around and left without waiting for Mo Xiu Yao to explain.

Mo Xiuyao stared at Mo Xiaobao on the table with a dark face. Mo Xiaobao stared at his father with innocent big eyes, "Father, why is mother angry? Why didn't you kiss me? Doesn't mother love me anymore?"

"Don't think you can get away with it by pretending to be innocent! When did I kiss your mother secretly?" Even if he did, how could he be seen by a five-year-old kid? Mo Xiuyao, who had been so powerful all his life, was actually tricked by his own son.

Seeing that Mo Xiuyao was about to stretch out his evil claws, Mo Xiaobao quickly climbed up and turned his butt towards his father and started crying, "Wuwu... Mommy doesn't love Xiaobao anymore, Xiaobao is a child that Mommy doesn't love..." Looking at his son who was crying with his butt sticking out on the table, Mo Xiuyao finally felt at a loss whether to laugh or cry. This kid will definitely be a disaster when he grows up!