Not only Liu Che was surprised, Liu Ju also subconsciously touched Liu Tan's forehead, wondering if his brother had a fever and was confused today because he didn't sleep last night.
The more Liu Tan looked at this place, the more he liked it. He even decided that once he conquered Langjuxu Mountain and Hanhai, he would erect monuments and write a biography in each of these two places!
In order to prevent future generations from not knowing where Langjuxu Mountain is, the fact that the Huns had no written language is really annoying.
The smile on Liu Che's lips gradually disappeared. It was rare that he didn't know what to say for a moment.
Liu Tan was still asking, "When can I leave?"
Are you so impatient to leave? Can the palace bite people?
Liu Che's face darkened and he waved his hand, saying, "Get out of here!"
Liu Tan wanted to say something, but Liu Ju covered his mouth and said quickly, "Your sons and ministers, please take your leave!"
Then he was dragged away by Liu Ju. He dragged him outside. After making sure that Liu Tan would not be able to escape, Liu Ju let him go. He then took out a handkerchief to wipe the saliva on his hands and said, "What are you thinking? Shuofang is a shabby place. No one wants to go there even for appointments. And you are still willing to go? I know you don't want to get married. Isn't it a coincidence that Gongsun Wuniang has disappeared? Whether she can be found is still uncertain. Why do you have to treat yourself like this?"
Liu Tan waved his hands. "No, no, no, I didn't. I think that place is really good. Although it's not a good place for farming, don't you see I found a gold mine in the Western Regions?"
Liu Ju looked at himself with a face that didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "You are... just because there is a gold mine doesn't mean you can always find gold mines. Stop kidding!"
Liu Tanxin said that was not necessarily the case, but if he insisted on saying that there was a gold mine there, others might not believe him. Even if they believed him, wouldn't he be exposed if he was asked to point out where the gold mine was?
I was really lucky last time. Actually, how would Liu Tan know whether there was a gold mine in Shuofang!
Liu Tan had no choice but to say, "Anywhere is fine, I don't care."
Liu Ju was very troubled. His two younger brothers, one of whom was too ambitious and the other too unmotivated, made him uneasy.
The one who is too ambitious makes him want to strangle him to death, and the one who is too unmotivated makes him want to beat him up. What a mess!
Liu Ju didn't want to continue to dwell on this topic, so he asked directly: "Were those methods you just used to exorcise ghosts really taught by the gods?"
Liu Tan turned to look at Liu Ju: "Guess?"
Liu Ju reached out his hand expressionlessly to ruffle Liu Tan's hair and said unhappily, "Stop it, tell me."
Liu Tan slapped his hand away and asked, "Do you believe me?"
Liu Ju didn't say anything and seemed to be struggling. Liu Tan asked again, "Do you believe that is magic?"
Liu Ju's expression was five parts disbelief, three parts hesitation, and two parts vigilance.
Liu Tan felt relieved instantly. Fortunately, fortunately, this person can still be saved.
He smiled and said, "Let's go back to the palace. I'll show you some magic!"
Liu Ju immediately understood what he was saying and grabbed his hand, whispering, "Are you crazy? How dare you lie to our father?"
Liu Tan asked in return: "What did I lie about?"
Liu Ju was annoyed: "What do you think?"
Liu Tan laughed and said, "I'm not asking for wealth or anything else. At most, I just want the Shuofang Prefecture as my fiefdom. Don't confuse me with those swindlers."
Liu Ju ignored him. Liu Ju found that this naughty kid either didn't speak at all or spoke a bunch of nonsense when he opened his mouth.
What does this have to do with whether or not you want something? The point is to cheat!
Liu Ju hurriedly dragged Liu Tan back to the palace, or rather, dragged him directly into the prince's palace.
After returning to the Prince's Palace, he didn't know if it was his illusion, but he always felt that there was still a lingering smell of blood in the palace.
The eunuch who was watching over everything beside Liu Ju came over and whispered a few words in his ear. Liu Ju lowered his eyes for a moment, and his temperament became stern. He turned around and said, "The emperor has already arrested the relevant personnel. If you don't tell me, you will be sentenced to death. Remember not to alarm Sanlang."
As soon as Liu Que finished speaking, he turned around and saw Liu Tan looking up at the sky, pretending not to hear. He couldn't help but reach out and pat him on the back of the head: "Go in."
Liu Tan covered his head and followed Liu Tan all the way to the main hall of the Crown Prince's Palace. After Liu Ju sat down, his face calm and he said, "I didn't expect it was the harem that did it."
His words were rambling, but Liu Tan understood them and said, "That woman's identity is probably extraordinary. We'd better dig deeper, otherwise it will be difficult to explain to our father."
The emperor would not care how many concubines the prince had. He would only ask when he wanted to give the concubine a proper status.
Now Liu Ju is practicing witchcraft in his backyard and pointing his sword at the emperor. If it weren't for the involvement of Xue Yao and others, I'm afraid that even with Liu Tan's testimony, Liu Ju would have no way to defend himself.
Liu Ju took a deep breath and did not continue the topic. He just asked, "Didn't you say you wanted to perform magic? Come on."
Liu Tan simply asked someone to bring all the raw materials and started processing them in front of Liu Ju.
First, there was yellow paper. Liu Tan picked up a bowl of water and a box of white powder and said, "This is water and alkali."
After saying that, he threw the alkali into the water. After it dissolved, he took a brush and dipped it in the alkali water to draw a human figure on the yellow paper.
After finishing the painting, he asked someone to take the yellow paper away to dry, then picked up a piece of white paper, and then asked someone to bring two bowls of extremely smelly liquid to Liu Ju. Liu Ju couldn't help but cover his nose, leaned back and asked in a muffled voice: "What is this?"
Liu Tan said, "Male dog bile and carp bile."
As he spoke, he mixed the two bowls of liquid and smeared it on white paper, and asked someone to take the paper to dry.
Then we deal with the lamp cord, which is much simpler. We just need to dip it in snake blood.
After Liu Tan finished processing all these, the yellow paper had dried.
Liu Tan had two whips and a bowl of water brought over and said, "This is turmeric water."
As he spoke, he soaked one of the whips in turmeric water, and then used the other whip to gently whip the yellow paper twice.
But this time, the yellow paper showed no reaction. Liu Tan specially asked someone to give the yellow paper to Liu Ju. Liu Ju held the yellow paper and looked at it from front to back for a long time, and found that there was no reaction except a few whip marks.
Then Liu Tan took the whip soaked in turmeric water and gently whipped the yellow paper, and a blood mark immediately appeared on the yellow paper.
Liu Ju was surprised but realized that there was indeed some truth in it. Liu Tan even tested it with ordinary yellow paper and a whip dipped in turmeric water, but there was no trace.
Liu Ju pondered, "So, when turmeric water meets alkaline water, it turns red?"
Liu Tan snapped his fingers: "That's right!"
Just as Liu Tan was thinking about how to explain the scientific principles behind this to Liu Ju, he saw Liu Ju put the yellow paper aside and asked excitedly, "What else? What are those?"
Liu Tan sighed in his heart, alas, the prince’s thirst for knowledge is not good enough.
Although he complained, he still demonstrated them one by one.
The white paper that had been smeared with a mixture of male dog bile and carp bile was carefully covered with pearl powder, leaving almost no trace. It was then folded into a small turtle that was able to swim in a basin of water.
The lamp cord is even simpler. Just throw it into the lamp oil and light it, and a smoke snake will appear.
Comparing this to a turtle folded out of ordinary white paper that can only float when it enters the water and an ordinary light cord that doesn't have the same effect when lit, how could Liu Ju not understand that this was achieved through some tricks?
After they finished looking at it, Liu Ju suddenly asked, "Where's the oil pan?"
As he spoke, he took Liu Tan's hand and looked at it carefully, and found that there was indeed no problem.
Liu Tan asked someone to get oil and borax, put the borax at the bottom, poured in the oil, and after a while it began to churn inside. At this time, because the oil was churning, it was impossible to see the borax under the pot.
Liu Tan pointed at the oil pan and said with a smile: "How about it? Do you dare to try it?"
The eunuch beside Liu Ju turned pale with fear and said quickly, "Your Highness, please let me try first."
Liu Tan looked at him and said with a smile: "You are loyal."
The young eunuch's smile was uglier than his crying. He thought to himself that he could not be disloyal. Testing the oil pan for the prince would at most mean losing a hand, but if anything happened to the prince, he would lose a head!
The young eunuch stretched out his left hand tremblingly. He originally wanted to put his whole hand in, but he was not brave enough and ended up putting in only one finger.
He had gritted his teeth and prepared himself to endure the pain, but after he put his hand in, he found that there was no pain at all, and he couldn't even feel the oil pan was hot at all!
The young eunuch thought it was his illusion at first, but when he pulled out his finger, he saw that there was really no damage on it except that it was covered with oil!
Liu Ju was so surprised that he couldn't help but put a finger in, and then the corner of his mouth twitched - with this kind of heat, it would be strange if he got hurt!
After finishing, Liu Ju looked at the mess in the room and suddenly felt a little bored.
He turned to Liu Tan and asked, "Is this true for all alchemists in the world? They just found a method that others don't know about, so they can deceive others?"
Liu Tan felt very relieved, all his tricks were not in vain. Liu Che... Liu Che was probably beyond saving, but Liu Ju was okay, wasn't he rescued?
However, he also knew that this kind of thing had a great impact on one's worldview. He was afraid that Liu Ju would go too far. Without a scientific system to support this view, Liu Ju would not be able to find a reason to explain it, and would then hesitate between belief and disbelief, and something would happen sooner or later.
So Liu Tan looked at Liu Chuan seriously and said, "Yes, and no. Some things are better believed than not. However, alchemists who pursue fame and fortune are basically scammers."
Liu Ju was obviously shocked and nodded thoughtfully: "Is that so?"
Liu Tan stood up and said, "Your Highness, please don't overthink it. Some things cannot be explained, but the tricks they played are really easy to expose."
He yawned as he spoke, and Liu Ju was shocked to realize that he and his brother hadn't slept for almost a whole day and night. He said with some distress, "Go back to sleep quickly. Come, send my Curry Dragon Bone and Night Crossing Vine to Suiyu Palace."
After giving the order, he said to Liu Tan, "These are all tranquilizers. Take them back and have someone get them for you."
Liu Tan quickly waved his hands: "No, no, I don't need to calm my nerves."
He just wanted to fall asleep right now, so why should he be so worried?
However, Liu Ju did deliver the gift to him. But before Liu Tan left, an official from the Crown Prince's Palace hurried over and said, "Your Highness, we just received news that the envoys sent to Dayuan to exchange for the celestial horses were kidnapped, and all of them were killed by the Dayuan."
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