Crossing over reveals a waste's difficult journey home

After the two officials finished speaking, Shi Miao heard the man who was respectfully called Lord Xiao Yu reply, "Okay, I got it," and then he asked the officials to remove the shackles from him.

Without the shackles, he didn't dare to move and still stood there obediently. He could feel that the adult was watching him.

After a long while, he heard the adult speak again: "Do you want to die or live?"

Shi Miao didn't expect that this young and handsome Lord Yu would ask him whether he wanted to live or die. He was confused for a moment, but quickly reacted.

Who wants to die? He didn't want to. Especially after seeing his parents starve to death and having almost starved to death, he had a persistence in living that others could hardly imagine.

"My lord, I want to live."

"If you want to live, follow me."

Shi Miao didn’t know what psychology was, let alone what micro-expressions were, but he knew that not everyone could be a liar, and at least one had to be able to read people’s expressions.

You must learn to find breakthroughs from other people's unintentional behaviors in order to achieve the purpose of deceiving others.

He believed that he was better than his master in this regard. His master always said that if he put his intelligence into alchemy, he would definitely achieve something.

Shi Miao himself knew that his desire for money and food was much stronger than those useless and even potentially lethal pills.

He listened carefully when his master taught him, but he never believed in his heart as much as his master did. He just wanted to live a good life until he died of old age.

Now that it was a matter of life and death, his sensitivity to other people's emotions came online again. When he said he wanted to live, it was obvious that the sense of oppression emanating from this Lord Yu had diminished a lot.

Now he was sure that as long as he maintained this submissive attitude, Lord Yu would not kill him.

After confirming this, Shi Miao felt a little more relaxed and started thinking about other things. Since he didn't want to kill anyone, then why did he bring him here?

With doubts, he followed the other party into a room. In the middle of the room was a long, tall table with many things on it.

"Go and take a look. Do you recognize those things?"

Hearing the order, he walked over without much hesitation. With a casual glance, he saw several very familiar things on the table: cinnabar, saltpeter, sulfur, and lapis lazuli (lead).

Smart people tend to think a lot. When Shi Miao saw those things, he already had countless guesses in his mind. The most reliable guess he thought was that someone knew he could make pills and asked him to do it.

And who was the person who asked him to make the elixir? He glanced at Lord Yu secretly with his peripheral vision, and his heart kept sinking.

Since he could get such a powerful official to bring him here and could get Lord Yu to contact him, he must be an extremely powerful person.

Who is it? Some powerful official, noble, or... His Majesty the Emperor?

Thinking of the last guess, he shuddered involuntarily.

Shi Miao summed up some experience in the process of cheating for many years. Generally speaking, people who are particularly obsessed with elixirs have two characteristics: one is a noble status, and the other is that they are sick.

With a noble status and enough ability to enjoy the wealth of this world, how could one be willing to die? Naturally, he would try every means to seek immortality.

When you are sick, out of attachment to life, you will try every possible way to keep yourself alive.

Often, these two characteristics are combined together, that is, when a person of noble status gets sick, he will pay more attention to and be more obsessed with elixirs.

If his experience was accurate this time, it meant something big was happening.

His Majesty the Emperor, who used to hate alchemists and sorcerers so much, suddenly asked these sorcerers and alchemists to make elixirs. What does this mean?

This may mean that there is something wrong with the Emperor's health, and even the highly skilled imperial physician is helpless, forcing His Majesty to resort to elixirs.

Shi Miao's master is an avid fan of alchemy. He has been with him for many years but he doesn't believe in elixirs. How could he possibly make elixirs that can cure complex diseases and make people immortal?

Now Lord Yu seemed to have no ill will towards him, but he was sure that if his guess was true and he was unable to refine any useful elixirs, he would definitely face consequences a thousand times more miserable than his previous work.

Thinking of this, he no longer hesitated, and knelt down in front of Lord Yu, knocking his head loudly and begging for mercy.

"Sir, I know I am wrong and will never make pills to harm people again. I am just a liar and I can't make any immortality pills. Please spare my life!"

Yu Chong, like his father Yu Yuan, is a technology enthusiast and has almost no resistance to all kinds of strange things.

When Your Majesty gave them the methods of smelting steel and making gunpowder, he and his father were both happy and sad.

The good news is that these technologies are very helpful to them, but the bad news is that they are just one person and cannot split their time to study two things.

There was no other way, he could only discuss with his father and decide to act separately, and then exchange ideas when they met again.

Yu Chong knew his father's temper. It was okay to let him be with people he was familiar with, but if he studied something with unfamiliar people, all kinds of problems would definitely arise.

In the end, he let his father stay in the Shaofu Mansion to study steel smelting, while he himself came to the large courtyard arranged by His Majesty on the outskirts of the capital to study gunpowder.

Before this man named Shi Miao came, Yu Chong had met several so-called alchemists and sorcerers, but those people disappointed him greatly.

Some people, after seeing him, kept talking about how great they were, but when they saw the things on the table, they couldn't even recognize what they were.

Some people were so frightened after seeing him that they trembled and cried bitterly and couldn't even speak clearly.

After meeting a few of them, Yu Chong had an even worse impression of those sorcerers and alchemists.

These seemingly useless scammers actually deceived so many people. Your Majesty made the right decision to catch them all in one fell swoop.

However, what he didn't know was that it wasn't that these sorcerers and alchemists were all bad. Some of them were big liars with real skills. They were either killed by the Emperor or fled before they realized that something was wrong. The ones left behind were just these small fish and shrimps with no real skills.

Originally, Yu Chong had given up any hope in these alchemists and sorcerers. He was already thinking that if he still couldn't find the right person, he would do it himself.

Although His Majesty and the Prince do not agree with him doing it himself, saying it is very dangerous, but if there is really no suitable person, wouldn’t it be perfect for him to do it himself?

He felt excited when he thought that he could make the gunpowder that the prince talked about, which was as powerful as lightning.