Dressed as the prince's substitute? I took the throne

"What? You said Lao Liu developed a crossbow?"

Looking at the old eunuch reporting from below, Emperor Wu's eyes showed a hint of disbelief: "How is this possible? It's rare for him to understand the bow and arrow, how could he possibly develop a crossbow?"

"This...I have witnessed it with my own eyes, and I would never dare to deceive Your Majesty!"

The old eunuch said tremblingly.

"I saw with my own eyes that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was holding a strange-looking object and firing crossbow arrows, even firing ten in a row!"

"The target fell to the ground a few dozen steps away..."

"Follow me to take a look!"

"Yes!"

Inside the East Palace at this time.

Zhou Chuxuan, holding the Zhuge Crossbow, rode on a Ferghana horse in a very high-profile manner, shooting arrows wildly in all directions.

The palace maids and guards dodged left and right. The guards were fine, but the palace maids were so scared that they were trembling all over, but they didn't dare to scream.

Xu Hanyan stood in front of the window, watching all this with cold eyes.

"Is he trying to expose himself and seek death?"

"Everyone is staring at him. What is he trying to do?"

Xu Hanyan was extremely anxious and wanted to go out and pull Zhou Chuxuan back several times, but after thinking about it, she held back. There was always a voice in her heart telling her that this kid was definitely not simple.

Maybe, I can really trust him.

"What is this?"

Erhu suddenly appeared beside Zhou Chuxuan, shouted away the surrounding palace maids and guards, and directly pulled Zhou Chuxuan off the horse.

"You, you are not allowed to steal my things!"

Zhou Chuxuan held the crossbow in his arms.

"Hmph, just be quiet!"

Erhu snorted coldly, a murderous look flashing in his eyes: "Just do what you should do honestly and hand this thing over!"

"I do not!"

Zhou Chuxuan was still holding the crossbow, with a silly look in his eyes.

"it is good!"

"You won't give it to me, right?"

A hint of coldness appeared in Erhu's eyes. This fake actually dared to challenge him?

Then I will teach him a lesson today.

Anyway, what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince meant was that as long as he wasn't killed for the time being, it would be fine!

"You...you are not allowed to steal my things!"

As the two were pulling, a deep and powerful voice came: "Erhu, what are you doing?"

Upon hearing this voice, Erhu was startled and quickly turned around and knelt down.

"Kowtow to Your Majesty!"

My heart was beating a little. I thought, His Majesty Emperor Wu should not have seen what happened just now, right?

"Father!"

Zhou Chuxuan quickly ran to Emperor Wu and said in a pitiful manner, "Uncle Hu stole my things!"

Mudd!

Erhu cursed inwardly, "This bastard fake has even learned to complain! I must teach him a lesson he will never forget tonight."

Otherwise, this kid might reveal the Crown Prince's secret one day.

"Erhu, why did you steal Laoliu's things?"

Emperor Wu looked at Erhu with sharp eyes.

Erhu's scalp suddenly went numb. Facing the emperor, he was filled with fear. "Your Majesty, how could I dare to steal the Crown Prince's things? I just saw that the things in His Highness's hands were a little dangerous, and I was afraid that he would hurt himself, so I wanted to come out."

"Forget it, just leave now!"

Emperor Wu waved his hand and said, "Sixth Brother is my son, not someone you can bully at will! If I find out you dare to commit treason, don't blame me for taking your heads off!"

"I would never dare to do that even if I die!"

Erhu kowtowed quickly.

"Get out!"

"Yes!"

Only after Erhu left did Xu Hanyan come out of the house.

"The daughter-in-law greets His Majesty!"

"Ok!"

"No need to be polite!"

Emperor Wu glanced at Xu Hanyan, then took the crossbow from Zhou Chuxuan's hand and said, "Sixth Brother, what is this?"

Zhou Chuxuan smiled foolishly, sucking his fingers: "Father, your son, Sister Hanyan drew a few pictures for you. I had an idea, so I made one..."

Emperor Wu held the crossbow in his hand, aimed it at the distance, and pulled the trigger in the middle.

shhhhhh!

Three crossbow arrows were shot out in succession, directly smashing the vase in the distance into pieces.

Emperor Wu's expression changed and he looked at Xu Hanyan.

"What did you draw for him?"

"Your Majesty, my daughter-in-law simply drew a few pictures of bows and crossbows for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. I thought Your Highness was interested, so..."

"Bring it here for me to see!"

Xu Hanyan ran back to the house and took out the blueprint that Zhou Chuxuan had drawn in advance.

Emperor Wu took a glance at her and couldn't help but look up to Xu Hanyan. The daughter of the Xu family was not just a pretty face. She even knew the principles of making bows and crossbows.

"Sixth Brother, tell Father how you made this thing?"

Emperor Wu stared at Zhou Chuxuan's eyes, as if trying to see some clues from them.

"Father, I am following this blueprint... Look and see..."

"Later, I realized that this crossbow could only fire one arrow at a time, which was too slow..."

"Later, I somehow managed to come up with this thing."

"Father, am I good enough?"

Zhou Chuxuan's face was calm and his heart was not beating fast, and he just smiled foolishly.

Emperor Wu's pupils slowly contracted, and he looked at Xu Hanyan: "How long did it take him?"

"Three days!"

"hiss……"

Emperor Wu's expression changed drastically and he took a deep breath.

Could it be that this Old Six is ​​a genius?

Such an astonishing weapon was invented within three days!

If this thing can be deployed on a large scale in the army, it will definitely catch the opponent off guard during the battle. Moreover, it is small and light. If it is equipped on light cavalry, it can catch the opponent off guard in the moment of close combat.

From now on, the cavalry of their Wu Dynasty will be able to fight against the grassland cavalry.

"Father...you haven't said whether your son is capable or not?"

Looking at Zhou Chuxuan's silly grinning face, Emperor Wu sighed slightly in his heart. It was a pity that the sixth brother was born stupid. This thing was probably created by chance.

"Amazing! Lao Liu is really amazing!"

"Really, Father?"

Zhou Chuxuan jumped and danced with joy.

"I'm leaving my sixth son in your care. If anything goes wrong, I'll hold you accountable!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Xu Hanyan bowed.

"All right!"

"Sixth Brother, can this be given to Father?"

A rare smile appeared on Emperor Wu's serious face.

"of course can!"

"It's just... this was originally intended for my second brother!"

Zhou Chuxuan blinked.

"What did you give it to him for?"

Emperor Wu was stunned.

"Last time, my second brother got beaten because of me."

"I felt a little guilty, so I thought of giving my second brother a gift."

Emperor Wu snorted, "That's your second brother's own fault. Don't bother with him!"

"Father, can you please give this to my second brother?"

"Your son will make another one for your father!"

"Alright!"

Emperor Wu finally nodded.

Zhou Chuxuan took the repeating crossbow from Emperor Wu's hand, stroked it up and down as if cherishing it, and finally handed it to Emperor Wu reluctantly.

"Father, you must give it to my second brother!"

"Don't you dare lie to me!"

"Do not worry!"

After Emperor Wu walked away, he did not notice that Zhou Chuxuan's mouth curled up into a subtle and strange arc.