After leaving the palace, Li Xin returned to his house to rest for a while, and then without knowing how many people watched, he took a turn in Yongle Fang, and when he returned to the gate of Jing'an Hou's Mansion, the sedan chair in the palace had been waiting for a long time, and Xiao Huai, a eunuch dressed in purple, bowed down and said: "Taifu, Your Majesty has been waiting for you for a long time." ”

Li Xin nodded, got into the sedan chair with his short hands, and said, "Let's go." ”

The sedan chair quickly entered the Yong'an Gate, but did not stop at the gate of Weiyang Palace, but stopped at the palace of the big school, the son of heaven in blue clothes has been waiting in the school for a while, and when he saw Li Xin's carriage coming, he personally walked over, opened the curtain of the sedan chair, and said to Li Xin inside: "The teacher has finally arrived." ”

Li Xin walked out of the sedan chair and arched his hand to the Son of Heaven: "Your Majesty has been waiting for a long time." ”

The Son of Heaven squinted his eyes, looked at Li Xin's cuffs, and said, "Did the teacher bring something?" ”

Li Xin nodded, took out a clay pot about the size of an adult's fist from his sleeve, and held it in his hand.

That is, the cuffs of the clothes of this era are wide, and such a large jar will not be visible at all if it is placed in the cuffs.

The Son of Heaven took the clay pot in his hand, looked at it carefully, and then looked at Li Xin.

"Are you sure this thing will blow up?"

Li Xin nodded: "Naturally, it will be fried." ”

He stretched out his hand and said, "Your Majesty doesn't believe it, the minister can show it to His Majesty with his own hands." ”

"Not really."

The Son of Heaven looked at this clay pot, rolled his eyes, and said to Xiao Huai beside him, "Go get the dagger." ”

Xiao Huai immediately found a knife and handed it to the Son of Heaven with both hands, the Son of Heaven held the clay pot with one hand, and pried open the seal of the clay pot with a dagger with the other hand, and then saw the black medicinal powder in the clay pot.

After doing this action, the Son of Heaven glanced up at Li Xin, with a faint smug look in his eyes.

Li Xin frowned at first, and then looked at his nose and nose.

The Son of Heaven asked the eunuch to take out a small porcelain bottle, used a dagger to take out half of the medicinal powder in the clay pot, poured it into the porcelain bottle, and then resealed the clay pot.

However, he looked excited, and glanced back at Li Xin with a smile.

"Teacher, if this clay pot can be fried, it doesn't matter if I want the rest of the heavenly thunder."

This is a blatant breach of covenant.

The Son of Heaven wants to get the real thing of the thunder, in order to be able to get a sample of the gunpowder and hand it over to the Ministry of Industry for study, he now takes out half of the gunpowder powder in this clay pot, if this clay pot can be fried, that is to say, these powders are real, with the real thing, it is not so important whether you want other thunder.

After getting the "sample", it is impossible for him to let Li Xin out of Beijing, or even let Ye Mao out of Beijing!

The Marquis of Jing'an's face was calm, he put his two hands in his sleeves, and said lightly: "I taught Your Majesty a long time ago that small means can't make big things, and once this thunder is formed, it can't be disassembled, otherwise it will fail." ”

As he spoke, Li Xin pointed to the clay pot on the ground that only had half of the medicinal powder left, and smiled: "Your Majesty might as well give it a try." ”

The smile on the face of the Son of Heaven disappeared suddenly, he personally took the torch from the eunuch on the side, walked to the center of the school with the clay pot, lit the fire paper at the seal of the clay pot, stepped aside, and then stared closely at the clay pot in the center of the school field.

The paper quickly burned out, and the flames drilled into the clay pot, but the clay pot only made a muffled sound, and a puff of white smoke came out, and there was no more movement.

The Son of Heaven's face was ugly, he raised his head and glared at Li Xin, gritting his teeth.

"Teacher, you lied to me again!"

"I didn't lie to Your Majesty."

The Marquis of Jing'an said indifferently: "It's Your Majesty who wants to lie to me." ”

He walked up to the Son of Heaven, reached out and took the torch from the Son of Heaven, walked to the center of the school yard by himself, and then miraculously took out another clay pot from his sleeve, lit the ignition paper, and calmly stepped aside.

The flames also burned out, and the result was very different.

The clay pot made a loud bang and exploded!

Immediately white smoke rose from the center of the school field, and the fragments of pottery shards scattered everywhere.

Li Xin put his hands in his sleeves, slowly walked in front of the Son of Heaven, and bowed slightly: "Your Majesty saw it, the minister did carry the thunder on his body, and he did not deceive His Majesty, but His Majesty wanted to be clever and ruined the rare trust between us." ”

The face of the Son of Heaven suddenly became cloudy.

He can't be sure now, the first clay pot didn't explode, whether it was because he broke the seal, or because the medicinal powder in the clay pot was fake!

If it is fake, that is to say, his behavior was all predicted by Li Xin in advance, and he responded to it!

If it is true, then he, the son of heaven, is a gentleman with the heart of a villain.

What's even worse is that he doesn't dare to bet on whether these medicinal powders are real or not, because he can't afford to gamble, Dajin urgently needs to get the heavenly thunder, and it is impossible to miss three more years because of this!

Thinking of this, Yuan Zhao Tianzi snatched the porcelain bottle filled with medicinal powder from Xiao Huai's hand on the side, and slammed it on the ground, the porcelain bottle fell to the ground and became shattered in an instant.

He first glanced at the white smoke in the center of the school field, and then turned back to Li Xin and smiled reluctantly: "I am joking with the teacher, tomorrow I will issue an edict to let Ye Mao go out of Beijing and return to Jizhou to lead the troops, and then draft an edict to let the teacher go north." ”

The Marquis of Jing'an smiled: "Your Majesty's joke almost cost me my life." ”

If the Son of Heaven gets the sample of Tianlei in advance, then Li Xin will at least end up in prison for life, and if he doesn't get it right, he will be killed by the Son of Heaven.

The young Son of Heaven sneered, "No matter what, I won't kill the teacher." ”

He beckoned to Xiao Huai on the side and said, "Xiao Huai, send the teacher home on my behalf." ”

Li Xin didn't say anything more, arched his hand to the Son of Heaven, and then sat back in the sedan chair and left the big school.

The Son of Heaven looked at the direction in which Li Xin had gone, his eyes full of resentment.

He looked down at the pile of broken porcelain pieces and the black medicinal powder all over the ground under his feet, and said coldly to the eunuchs beside him: "These medicinal powders, all of them are collected, and sent to the Ministry of Industry to be handed over to those craftsmen. ”

said yes, the Son of Heaven snorted and brushed his sleeves away.

More than a dozen craftsmen beside him turned blue with fright, and they knelt on the ground one after another, and began to collect those black medicinal powders.

At this time, the sedan chair carrying Li Xin was also about to arrive at the gate of Yong'an Gate, after walking out of Yong'an Gate, Li Xin stopped the internal guard carrying the sedan chair, and then stepped off the sedan chair and said: "You go back, I will walk back the rest of the way." ”

The guards glanced at each other, saluted Li Xin with their fists, and then walked away with the sedan chair.

At this time, the sky was already dark, and the moonlight was spreading, illuminating the bluestone road of Yongle Fang, as well as the pale blue city wall of Yong'an Gate behind him.

Li Xin walked a few steps with his hands in his hands, and then turned around to see the Yong'an Gate that he was all too familiar with.

In the past ten years, he has entered and exited this palace gate I don't know how many times.

"You're so much worse than your father."

Under the moonlight, Mrs. Li shook his head and sighed softly: "Compared to Emperor Zhao, it is even too far behind." ”

"In that case, then I'll have to do what I have to do......"