Chapter 172 Exploded

Bei Jingchu asked Haoyue to bring the freshly heated food and took them to the side hall to find Zhou Huanjiu.

When we got there, we found the door was closed.

The lunch box that was placed at the door in the morning has not been taken in yet.

[How come my mother is not worried about this? It feels like an accident. ]

She asked Changyan to open the door.

I pushed the long cigarette but it wouldn't open.

It must have been locked from the inside.

Bei Jingchu walked up to the door and banged on it, yelling, "Zhou Huanjiu, open the door!"

"If you have the guts to not eat, then you have the guts to open the door!"

Still no one answered.

【Isn’t it possible that something really happened?】

Bei Jingchu was worried, so she asked Haoyue to ask someone to break down the door.

After a while, several eunuchs brought an axe and, under Bei Jingchu's instructions, chopped directly at the door.

At this moment, the wooden door shook slightly and was pulled open.

Zhou Huanjiu opened the door, and the axe chopped straight towards his head.

【It’s over! 】

Before anyone else could react, Bei Jingchu jumped up, stood on tiptoe, stretched out her two little paws, and held the eunuch's hand.

The axe stopped just an inch away from Zhou Huanjiu.

Zhou Huanjiu was so frightened that he froze there, and asked tremblingly, "Chu, Chu, Chuchu."

"When did I offend you?"

Bei Jingchu's eyes were wandering.

[Oops, this is so embarrassing.]

[No, I want to turn the tables! ]

After adjusting her attitude, she asked confidently, "Why don't you come out? How long have we been knocking on the door?"

"Wait until the door is broken open."

"And you even sent away the female guard that His Majesty assigned to you."

"Jiujiu, this is what you are wrong about."

Zhou Huanjiu:......

Although she heard what the child was thinking, she looked at the sky outside and it seemed that she was indeed wrong.

She picked at her fingers that were dirty from the materials used to make them and said cunningly, "I didn't pay attention."

"When I was working on that thing, I felt like I couldn't hear the sounds outside."

[Is this a common problem among mad scientists? ]

【This won’t work. 】

Bei Jingchu asked the eunuchs to disperse, dragged Zhou Huanjiu into the house, and pushed her onto the dressing table.

Why the dressing table? Because the other table was already piled with all the things she was busy with, there was no empty space at all.

There was even a lot of stuff piled up on the dressing table, leaving only a tiny bit of space on the table to put food on.

Bei Jingchu was a little disgusted: "Your room is as messy as a doghouse. There is no place to step."

Zhou Huanjiu:?

Why does this sentence sound a bit discordant when it comes out of Chuchu's mouth?

Haoyue went in with the food box and put the wine cloth on Zhou Huan.

Zhou Huan finished his wine in two gulps and threw himself into his own experiment.

She never stopped for a moment, and it was obvious that she worked really hard on the cakes she drew.

After making sure that the man was not dead and had eaten his fill, Bei Jingchu felt relieved. He went out, closed the door, and stopped disturbing her.

After walking only a short distance, I heard a loud noise behind me.

Several children subconsciously covered their ears.

Haoyue only covered her own hands at the beginning, and the next moment, her two little hands were covering the back of Bei Jingchu's hands that were covering her ears.

And at that moment, Bei Jingchu realized something.

She couldn't control her surprise, and when she turned around, she saw thick smoke and flames coming out of Zhou Huanjiu's bedroom.

【Oh my God! 】

[Is the effect so explosive for the first time? 】

【Where's the wine? 】

Where's my wine?

[She is not dead! ]

[Help! Someone is dying! ]

Thousands of thoughts finally condensed into one sentence: "Help! There's a fire!!!"

A young eunuch hurried into Yu's study and whispered in Eunuch Jiang's ear.

Jiang Zhixian was so shocked when he heard this that his legs went weak and he knelt down.

Seeing this, the emperor stopped writing and had a bad premonition.

All I could hear was Jiang Zhixian standing there trembling and saying, "Something bad has happened, Your Majesty!"

"There's a fire in the Jinshouden!"

Bei Heng was stunned for a moment, then stood up suddenly, not caring about the brush rolling down and staining the words on the memorial.

He felt dizzy and almost lost his balance.

"Are the Queen Mother and the Princess okay?"

A'niang just sent Chu'er to Renshou Hall, where there were so many old and young people gathered together that they could be taken care of in one nest.

Oh, by the way, there is also Zhou Huanjiu, whom he is paying attention to now.

"And what about Madam Zhou?"

Jiang Zhixian looked at the young eunuch who had just come in to report, and the young eunuch knelt down.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me! I came to report when I saw the thick smoke rising from Renshou Hall, but I did not inquire about the situation of the masters."

The emperor could no longer sit still.

He rushed to Renshou Hall at almost the fastest speed in his life.

Fortunately, all three were fine when we arrived.

But Zhou Huanjiu was not there. She was taken away for treatment.

"Aye, you don't know how dangerous this is!"

"Jiujiu was knocked unconscious by the explosion and was carried out!"

"There are several burns on my body!"

"Aye, Jiujiu is seriously injured this time. It will take a hundred days to heal the broken bones."

"She was bombed, so it will take at least two or three hundred days."

"Why not just give Jiujiu a year off?"

Bei Jing initially felt that she was simply a good princess who did what she said.

【If you say you want to give your good friend a year off, then you can get a year off. 】

【This is the real New Year holiday. 】

[How can you call it annual leave if you haven’t taken a whole year’s vacation! 】

emperor:......

What did you promise Zhou Huanjiu behind my back?

Take a year off?

I dare not even think about such a good thing.

But he was only jealous for a moment and then agreed to the request.

Bei Jingchu was jumping for joy, but the empress dowager poured a bucket of cold water on her as she was jumping. "It's Jiu'er who's taking a year off, not you. You can only go to school every day and watch her play. Why are you so happy, little thing?"

Bei Jingchu calmed down.

[Yeah, what am I happy about? ]

Bei Jingchu calmed down and hugged herself sadly.

The Queen Mother was laughing again.

Looking at the expressions of the Queen Mother and Bei Jingchu, one could tell that although Zhou Huanjiu was injured, it was certainly not serious.

Bei Heng felt relieved as long as his talents were safe.

Otherwise who will give him the job?

Even children cannot be spared.

Back in Yu's study, Bei Jingchu introduced gunpowder to the emperor in a mysterious manner.

Bei Heng, who had known about this for a long time, put on a very surprised expression in order not to discourage the child's enthusiasm.

But Bei Jing saw through it at the first sight.

[Eh~ Aye, your acting is so exaggerated~]

Behen: ...

Then, for some reason, the little bastard started praising him.

[As expected of an emperor who has been in office for many years, he remains calm even when faced with a huge disaster.]

[Knowing the importance of gunpowder, he can still remain calm. My Aye is so cool! 】

This time he finally didn't scold him, but actually praised him.

Bei Heng was so pleased that he even had the urge to shed tears.

When the envoys were about to return, a farewell banquet was held in the Liangyi Hall.

Bei Jingchu liked this kind of occasion the most because when Aye called her over, she could take a leave and not go to Hongwenguan.

Which child can refuse the happiness of not going to school? As long as he doesn't go to school, he will be happy doing anything.

The envoy raised his glass to toast, and then asked: "It is time for His Majesty of the Yue Dynasty to give us a response to our request, right?"

Although the envoys said this, they were all confident.