You are asked to marry in place of the tyrant, and you allow the tyrant to send you to marry?

[Du Zhirou, this stupid woman! This mortar is so scary, how can I prove that it was designed by our banker?]

[And…what are those giant eggs next to it?]

[Does this mortar need to be fed before it can be used to kill the enemy?]

The more Zhuang Ziyu thought about it, the more confused his mind became, and he suddenly felt a little regretful.

He cursed Du Zhirou in his heart, and his face gradually turned pale and bloodless.

"What's wrong? Zhuang Ziyu, are you feeling guilty?

Who was it that just now kept saying that I plagiarized your dealer's design?

Who was it that brazenly assured everyone that there was a way to prove that this mortar was designed by you, the banker?"

"Zhuang Ziyu, you're not going to tell me that your Zhuang family only knows how to draw the blueprints but doesn't know how to use them?"

At this moment, Du Qingwan suddenly walked up to Zhuang Ziyu and spoke with a smile.

Her face was calm and composed, but a hint of disdain and contempt flashed across her clear eyes, and her attitude was quite arrogant.

"I... Of course I can use it! This mortar looks complicated, but it is very easy to operate. I'll show you right now!"

Zhuang Ziyu refused to admit defeat and immediately started to show off his strength and competitiveness.

His words were extremely firm, and his confident attitude was almost catching up with Du Qingwan's.

Seeing Zhuang Ziyu walking towards the mortar tremblingly, everyone almost assumed that the mortar was Zhuang's invention.

"Wait!"

Who would have thought that as soon as Zhuang Ziyu's hands gently stroked the mortar, Du Qingwan quickly shouted to stop.

With a sullen face, she walked up to Zhuang Ziyu and asked disdainfully:

"Zhuang Ziyu, you have to think it through. This mortar is not the laser musket we just saw. It is extremely powerful.

If you accidentally hurt someone else, can you afford to take responsibility for your life?"

Du Qingwan’s reminder is not without reason.

She just didn't want to hurt innocent people while experimenting with new weapons.

But in Zhuang Ziyu's opinion, Du Qingwan was simply guilty.

"Du Qingwan, why are you so nervous? This mortar was designed by my boss. Don't I know more about it than you?"

Zhuang Ziyu was indeed very confident when he said this.

After giving Du Qingwan a stern look, he saw her spread her hands to indicate "whatever you want", and then he started to mock her again:

"Are you worried that I will use this mortar to expose your true identity and then you will panic? Haha..."

"How dare you! Zhuang Ziyu, can you start now?

If you can't use this mortar, then you, the dealer, will come to apologize to the queen with your heads!"

At this moment, Zhu Yunhao suddenly became a little impatient.

He suddenly stood up and pointed at Zhuang Ziyu and cursed angrily.

Zhuang Ziyu suddenly became extremely flustered and almost fell to the ground.

"Your Majesty, calm down. I will demonstrate it to you right now."

After being scolded by Zhu Yunhao, Zhuang Ziyu was like a deflated balloon, and he ran back to the mortar in a panic.

He carefully examined the mortar from all sides, but his heart was pounding like a deer.

[What on earth is this huge thing? I don’t know how to do it!]

[I never thought that I, Zhuang Ziyu, who was so wise all my life, would be bewitched by the little bitch Du Zhirou. How will this end?]

[The Emperor and the Queen Mother are both here. If we are not careful, our entire family might be executed!]

Zhuang Ziyu muttered to himself as he reached out to touch the mortar.

As the coldness of the steel gradually spread to his palms, his expression began to become extremely frightened.

At this moment, the scene was completely silent, and everyone stared with bated breath.

For fear of being hurt by the rare mortar, no one dared to breathe hard, let alone blink.

Seeing that Zhuang Ziyu hadn't even loaded the ammunition into the mortar and was still hovering in front of the mortar for a long time, not daring to take action, Du Qingwan was very calm, with an ambiguous smile on the corner of her lips.

"Zhuang Ziyu, can you use a mortar?

You've been dawdling for so long, and you can't even figure out where the switch is, and you've made everyone sweat for you. Are you ashamed?"

Du Qingwan's words were not very hurtful, but extremely insulting.

Zhuang Ziyu instantly became anxious. He closed his eyes tightly and patted the spare parts on the mortar without hesitation, and his nerves were even more tense.

Unfortunately, he took pictures of almost every part of the mortar, but the mortar still didn't move.

Zhuang Ziyu was stunned and his legs began to tremble involuntarily.

"If you can do it, come on! I don't know how to use it, but that doesn't prove that you invented it! You talk as if you can!"

Zhuang Ziyu refused to accept the challenge and immediately threw the problem to Du Qingwan.

Du Qingwan couldn't help but sneer when she heard this:

"What if I can use this mortar? What will you do?"

The amusement on Du Qingwan's face became even stronger. She stared at the frightened Zhuang Ziyu with her sharp eyes, looking very proud.

Zhuang Ziyu was forced to say:

“Then I admit that you invented this mortar!

I, Zhuang Ziyu, kowtow to you three times and call you aunt!"

Hearing this, Du Qingwan quickly clapped her hands and cheered, her face full of smiles.

She walked up to the mortar, leaned over to pick up a piece of ammunition from the basket, opened the loading port of the mortar, and sneered:

"Zhuang Ziyu, open your dog eyes and watch! Just wait for me to kowtow and apologize to you!"

While speaking, Du Qingwan quickly stuffed the ammunition into the loading port of the mortar, and covered her ears tightly with lightning speed.

With a loud "bang", the mortar, like a mad steel beast, quickly flattened a small hill not far away.

Seeing this scene, everyone present praised it highly.

Zhu Yunhao and Queen Mother Qiao were also extremely shocked and immediately became dumbfounded.

"This mortar is really powerful! Just this one shot flattened the entire hilltop!

If we mass-produce them and send them all to the battlefield in the North, then do we still need to be afraid of those bandits in the North?"

"That's right! We must quickly ask the emperor to order mass production. With this mortar, we will definitely be able to protect Daye for a hundred years."

"Of course! The Queen is really amazing, what about Zhuang? Oh, yes, Zhuang Ziyu!

He is simply a scoundrel, he must have been sent here to cause trouble, just drag him out and beat him to death!"

"That's right. He is just a commoner, but he dared to frame someone so blatantly and even challenge the queen. I'm afraid he doesn't want to live anymore!"

The court officials spoke one after another and soon turned public opinion towards Du Qingwan.

They had lived for most of their lives and had never seen such a lethal weapon, so they naturally stood on Du Qingwan's side.

As for Zhuang Ziyu, no one was too lazy to pay attention to him.

For the civil and military officials, no matter who owns the laser muskets and mortars, as long as they can be sent to the battlefield and win, it is a blessing for Daye.

To put it bluntly, even if the laser musket and mortar blueprints were indeed snatched by Du Qingwan from the dealer, they didn't care.

Therefore, everyone's target was now focused on the laser musket.