Traveling through the Gaowu Tang Dynasty, Li Kuan and Li Shimin became the second sons of the Prince

Another month later, in the bright spring sunshine, His Royal Highness the King of Chu brought his good brothers Li Huairen, Fang Yiai, Pei Chengxian and others to test new firearms on the beach.

King Chu ordered his shadow assassins to form groups of two, and then each group carried an elm tree about seven or eight inches thick and half a meter long.

In the center of the elm wood, a round hole about one and a half inches in diameter was dug out, and the depth of the hole was three feet three inches. Moreover, from the opening to the bottom, every one and a half inches, there was a piece of iron sheet tightly tied to the trunk.

At this moment, His Royal Highness the King of Chu ordered the Shadow Assassin to stuff enough gunpowder into the elm cannon, and then stuff some small prismatic iron blocks into it, and then aim the elm cannon at the wooden stake with armor hanging on it twenty feet away and fire.

"Hiss..." As the simple fuse was ignited, a moment later, with a loud "boom", a dazzling light and fire shot out from the muzzle of the elm cannon, and then, in a burst of black smoke, the elm wood was completely scrapped.

But His Royal Highness the King of Chu didn't care about this. He just ran quickly to the target and found that there were many dents on the armor, and some of them had tiny holes.

"Brother Kuan, this thing of yours... is a bit scary!" Pei Chengxian was only one step behind His Royal Highness the King of Chu, but after seeing the lethality of the Elm Cannon, he couldn't help but smack his lips and said, "People can wear armor, but not many horses can wear armor - and livestock are naturally afraid of fire. If you have this thing, it will be very effective when facing a large-scale cavalry charge!"

"Is that so?" His Royal Highness the King of Chu proudly put his hands on his hips when he heard this. "I plan to use this thing as a stab in the back when I cooperate with Tubo, Tuyuhun, Xueyantuo and Tocharian to fight against India. I can give it to anyone in India, but not to them, especially Tubo. After all, if these bandits have grain-producing land, that will be a real problem."

"Brother Kuan, you think so far ahead? You are worthy of it!" Li Huairen on the side couldn't help but give Li Kuan a thumbs up when he heard the words.

"Brother Kuan, you are so ruthless? You are worthy of it!" - Fang Yiai also wanted to maintain the formation.

Unfortunately...he was doomed to suffer as soon as he lifted his foot.

"You kid..." His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu kicked Fang Yiai without thinking: "Do you know how to speak? I have a good plan!"

"Okay, Brother Kuan, you have a good plan..." Fang Yiai is now very happy in Qiongzhou Island. The Fang family is originally a scholarly family, but Fang Yiai is devoted to martial arts, so when he was in Chang'an in the past, Fang Yiai always felt that he was out of tune with the surrounding environment. But now that he has come to Qiongzhou, things are very different.

Even Wang Xuance and Xie Minlin, who were the most literary, could easily beat ten of them, so Qiongzhou was a blessed land and a treasure land for Fang Yiai.

Of course, if Gao Yang didn’t entrust his second brother to provide “proxy” services every now and then, Fang Yiai would think it would be even more perfect.

"Not such a good plan." His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu saw that Fang Yiai was not even sincere in his flattery, so he immediately said sympathetically: "What's the matter? Are you missing Gao Yang? It's okay, I will write her a letter later and tell her that you go out to tease beautiful girls in Qiongzhou every day and are so happy that you don't want to go back to Chang'an - that way, she won't miss you - and if she doesn't miss you, why do you still miss her? Don't you want your dignity?"

"No..." Fang Yiai suddenly realized that the real reason why he was beaten every now and then was not because of Gao Yang: "Brother Kuan, we have been good brothers since childhood, how could you... be a kind person!"

"Get lost!" Upon hearing this, King Chu immediately rolled his eyes and said, "You bastard, do you dare to say that you didn't go to the tofu shop in the West Market to buy tofu a few days ago?"

"Brother Kuan, the proprietress of that store is already forty-four years old..." Fang Yiai felt that he would be wrongly killed sooner or later.

"But her daughter is as beautiful as a flower!" King Chu narrowed his eyes when he heard this: "Isn't that right, Huairen?"

"Ah?" Li Huairen was stunned at first, then he suddenly realized: "Oh...it seems to be like this...right Chengxian?"

"..." Pei Chengxian originally didn't intend to get involved in such a boring topic, but he couldn't stand Kuan Ge'er's messy intelligence work: "Well... Kuan Ge'er, I heard that the owner of the tofu shop gave birth to a son - it's just that brother likes to wear women's clothes..."

"Wow..." King Chu, who had worn women's clothes once before, found this matter very intriguing: "I never thought that such a thing could really happen in this world - is this a man addicted to dressing up as a woman? Oh? Yiai - what does your disappointed face mean?"

"I..." Fang Yiai felt that he really had no way to defend himself, so he simply steeled his mind and told the truth: "I am lamenting the trick played by fate that I actually met a bunch of bastards like you - Brother Kuan, if you framed me like this, I really can't clear myself even if I jump into the sea..."

"Really?" His Royal Highness the King of Chu blinked his eyes and said, "I don't believe it."

"I don't believe it either." Li Huairen has always understood Brother Kuan. At this moment, he has already taken a position in advance and blocked Fang Yiai's retreat.

"Me too..." Pei Chengxian was about to speak, but Fang Yiai, who had already realized that he was going to be thrown into the sea, suddenly ran away.

Then the next thing was simple - the brothers began to chase each other madly on the beach, and King Chu was still shouting that he swore to throw this future brother-in-law into the sea to get rid of the smell...

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Chang'an will never be as peaceful as Qiongzhou.

Emperor Li II contracted a strange disease after the beginning of spring - he had nightmares every night, but after waking up he could not remember what the nightmares were about.

What is even more strange is that even though Emperor Li II was so anxious that his face turned red and he was sweating all over in his dream, he clenched his teeth and did not even talk in his sleep.

So, after a period of trouble, Emperor Li II, whose complexion was getting worse and worse, briefly shared the troubles he had encountered with his ministers, hoping that the ministers could come up with a solution.

But faced with such a strange problem, a group of civil officials discussed it again and again, and finally came to a conclusion: invite the imperial physician, and if the imperial physician is not capable, post an imperial edict.

However, Emperor Li II was not very interested in this proposal: he was almost vomiting from the blood-replenishing and nerve-soothing medicinal soup, so it was of no use.

So, seeing this, the generals came up with a solution that was not a solution - Yuchi Jingde volunteered to stand guard for Emperor Li II together with Qin Qiong.

As soon as these words came out, His Majesty Li Er was immediately moved: Because of you, my dear minister, I will no longer feel hesitant easily...

That night, the two old generals, armed with their weapons, stood guard at the door of Emperor Li II's bedroom.

Out of respect for the two old generals, Empress Changsun took Sizi to a side hall and spent the night with Princess Changle.

As for Zhinu, he went to the bedroom of his fourth brother Qingque again. The two brothers held the fried small yellow croaker that their second brother sent from Qiongzhou and gnawed on it for a long time. Then they wiped their mouths with each other's sleeves and fell asleep in a hurry.

This night was extremely long.

Especially in the second half of the night, the cold wind of early spring blew, and even the old general in iron armor could not bear it.

At this moment, a dark shadow quickly passed through the corridor outside the hall.

"Who?!" Qin Qiong and Yuchi Gong heard the noise and immediately shouted in a low voice.

No one answered their questions. Instead, a masked warrior in black holding two wine gourds came up to the two old generals, stood in front of them, and handed them the wine gourds.

"Are you... His Royal Highness the King of Chu's man?" Qin Qiong asked subconsciously.

The black-clad warrior nodded when he heard this, while Yuchi Gong, who was standing beside him, had already taken the wine gourd, pulled out the cork and took a sip, then couldn't help but exclaimed, "Good wine!"

Qin Qiong immediately understood the intention of His Royal Highness the King of Chu, so he also took the wine gourd with a smile and took a sip himself: "It is indeed good wine!"

When the black-clad warrior saw the two old generals taking the warming liquor, he took out two hot roujiamo from his arms and handed them to the two old generals respectively.

Now... even Yuchi Jingde felt a little embarrassed: "This... Your Highness the King of Chu, this..."

But the black-clad warrior never spoke a word. After doing all this, he took a look inside the hall, then turned and left.

But soon after he left, the sound of Emperor Li II snoring suddenly broke out in the bedroom and continued until dawn.