So what if I traveled through time? I'll continue to roll in another place

Everyone's eyes fell on Shen. The woman was not flustered at all. She bowed and said, "I serve Your Majesty. Now that Your Majesty is ill, it is only right that you should check on me."

Chu Yuanming breathed a sigh of relief when he saw her so calm.

He had just started to interact with Shen, and he was still unsure of her style of doing things. Now that the little emperor had suddenly fainted, everyone would suspect him, the uncle who was the head of the family. He was not so stupid. If he could not hit the target with one shot, how could he act rashly?

Song Pu felt that the matter was not that simple. The emperor's illness was a serious matter and must be investigated and dealt with seriously.

Lu Dehou ordered the eunuchs to investigate Shen's Shou'an Palace as well. Shen watched the eunuchs busying in and out calmly, and just focused on serving the emperor.

After some investigation, nothing unusual was found.

"It seems that this matter has nothing to do with Mrs. Shen." Song Pu said solemnly.

Chu Yuanming was secretly happy in his heart, but pretended to be worried on the surface: "Alas, your majesty is not feeling well, I am very worried."

Song Pu said in a complicated tone: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, you are a lucky person and will be fine. But this disease came strangely, so you need to be more careful."

Shen was listening silently at the side, sneering in her heart. She had already expected that nothing would be found out. This was just a little trick of hers.

Chu Zhaoxing slowly woke up under the treatment of the imperial physician, and the Imperial Hospital Director Ge Li and others finally put their minds at ease. "Your Majesty has woken up. I think your Majesty is young, and the state affairs are heavy and the homework is tight, which has caused your Majesty to have insufficient energy and poor diet. The Imperial Hospital has prescribed a prescription, and your Majesty can rest assured."

Seeing that the emperor had woken up and answered a few questions with him clearly and as usual, Song Pu finally felt relieved.

In order not to disturb the emperor, Song Pu, Chu Yuanming and others bowed and left.

Everyone dispersed and Song Pu found Ge Li and asked him privately, "Sir Ge, is it possible that His Majesty fainted today due to poisoning?"

Ge Li replied respectfully, "Your Excellency, there is no poison. We have checked the food and utensils used by Your Majesty one by one, and they are all non-toxic. Although Your Majesty has difficulty breathing and sweating profusely, he woke up and got better after taking the medicine, and he is no different from usual. I took your pulse carefully and there is no sign of poison."

Song Pu nodded thoughtfully, "That's great. However, your majesty's health is of great importance and needs to be closely monitored. If there is anything unusual, report it to me immediately."

Ge Li nodded repeatedly and said that he would do his best to take good care of His Majesty's health.

Even with Ge Li's assurance, Song Pu's doubts were not completely dispelled. He could only wait and see what results the eunuchs and maids left in the palace by his sister would come up with.

Meanwhile, in Shou'an Palace, Shen was secretly feeling proud. Something had indeed been added to the emperor's diet, but it was not poison, but the white sugar extracted by the girls she had secretly experimented with behind Wangyue Mountain.

White sugar is non-toxic, so it cannot be tested. However, if a young child consumes high concentrations of sugar in a short period of time, it will cause high blood sugar, which may lead to cerebral vasoconstriction and ischemia and hypoxia, and then cause coma. She learned this when she was a kindergarten teacher and a child stole too much candy and fainted.

Shen thought that as long as the dosage was controlled, it would not cause too much harm to the emperor's body. She wanted to use this method to let Chu Yuanming know her value, which could never be satisfied by a concubine. Since he wanted to win her over, he had to give some decent chips.

Shen was taking good care of the emperor in the inner room of the Purple Palace, gently stroking his forehead with a loving mother's affection, and it was completely impossible to tell that she was the culprit.

Within a few days, Chu Zhaoxing recovered completely and regained his former vitality. He also studied and practiced calligraphy in the Shangshufang as usual.

However, Song Pu's doubts were not dispelled. He always felt that there was something else behind the emperor's fainting, and the old friends of Queen Song did not stop their secret investigation.

On the other hand, Chu Yuanming wanted to avoid the limelight and was also busy fighting with Song Pu in the court, so he had no time to pay attention to the Shen family's movements.

No one cared about Shen's business, so she asked someone to ask the woman behind Wangyue Mountain to bring some tofu into the palace and come over to answer the call.

Shen had sufficient consideration to set up the R&D base behind Wangyue Mountain. Wangyue Mountain is the location of the royal holy temple Shijue Temple. It is usually under strict management and is not affected by refugees.

In addition, the royal family set up a water-collecting point and a place for offering sacrifices on Wangyue Mountain, and there was frequent traffic in the palace. It was not surprising that she had some contacts with Wangyue Mountain and sent some palace maids there.

Just take the darkest place under the lamp, the most dangerous place is the safest place.

At present, the two most capable women under Shen's command are Kong Nanlu, a fellow apprentice of Zhou Yao, and Nie Su, whose undergraduate major is chemistry. The two are currently helping Shen to manufacture guns and refine other chemical products based on existing firecrackers.

One saltpeter, two sulfur, three charcoal, add a little white sugar and you get Big Ivan. This white sugar is exactly Nie Su's new achievement.

Rather than being a laboratory, the experimental site they are conducting on Mount Wangyue actually has very limited conditions and looks more like a small rural winery or tofu workshop.

Shen disguised it as a tofu shop and set up a water point. She said she had found a beautiful place and ordered several palace maids to make health-promoting tofu for her. Shen was very popular in front of the emperor, so this convenience was still feasible. The place she used was not large, so she did not take it seriously.

The small tofu shop had no test tubes, distillation bottles, or other basic chemical experimental equipment, let alone other advanced and complex equipment. There were only dozens of large water tanks used in rural areas, which were the production lines for making sulfuric acid. There was a stove under the awning in the middle of the yard, and a water-insulated heating pot made of tinplate on top.

The pot set was very delicately made, probably a handmade product of a senior craftsman. It was somewhat similar to a regular constant temperature heating device, and the principle was the same. The effect was quite good, and it was obvious that Nie Su had put a lot of thought into it. There were also some crude tools such as anvils and hammers, but I didn't understand their use at the moment.

Although there are some ancient recipes for black powder that have already been prepared, real military explosives are not only much more powerful than black powder, but also more stable than black powder.

In layman's terms, explosives can only be detonated by the explosion of detonators, and cannot be detonated by heavy blows, open flames, or even low temperature changes like black powder. Otherwise, the powerful explosives will be more dangerous to the user. And testing the stability of explosives requires more complex and high-end experimental equipment.

The current laboratory does not have the conditions to support the research and development of the two, so Nie Su has done her best.

Like Kong Nanlu and Zhou Yao, they only learned how to use and deploy explosives, and did not know much about the production of explosives. There was relatively little they could do to help Nie Su during the research and development stage, and they could only rely on basic knowledge of science to assist Nie Su.

Shen looked at Kong Nanlu and Nie Su in front of her and nodded with satisfaction.

"You did a good job this time." Shen said softly.

"It's all thanks to Madam's good teaching." The two of them said with their heads down.

Shen smiled slightly, with a shrewd look in her eyes. "I will need your help in such matters in the future. As long as we are careful and cautious, no one will find out."

"Yes, ma'am," the women responded in unison.

Shen turned around and picked up a small box and handed it to Nie Su. "This is a reward for you. If you work hard, you will definitely get some benefits."

Nie Su took the box and burst into tears of gratitude, "Thank you, ma'am."

Shen waved her hand and asked them to leave.

After the women left, Shen raised her lips slightly and said to herself, "Chu Yuanming, do you think you can satisfy me with just love? You really underestimate me."