The Empress came ashore and beheaded the meritorious officials, forcing me to wear the yellow robe

Li's backyard...

Li Jize did not show up from beginning to end and did not want to contact Lao Zhang.

After all, this is the critical moment to close the net, and he doesn't want any involvement between the two parties, otherwise it will be exposed and arouse suspicion from others.

At this moment, Li Jize assembled the polished iron pipe and the gun handle, and finally successfully made a short gun.

The thing in his hand was different from the previous rifle. It was made entirely by hand by Li Jize. It was not a simple matchlock gun, but a flintlock gun!

To put it simply, it no longer relies on a fuse to ignite the gun, but instead uses a flint to create sparks, igniting the gunpowder in the barrel for firing.

The advantages of doing this are, first, it saves loading time, and second, it is not affected by weather.

It's ridiculous to say that I, a doctor of military engineering, came into this world and had to start from scratch. And I had to make guns by hand bit by bit.

When Li Jize lamented the backward manufacturing capabilities of the feudal era and the lack of machinery and machine tools to allow large-scale development...

Inadvertently, he saw a red cloth hanging on a jujube tree opposite the Li family.

Just one glance! Li Jize stood up in an instant, his heart skipping a beat, and quickly put away his pistol.

This was the agreement between him and Lao Zhang. If there was any emergency, they would tie a cloth strip on the tree opposite.

Danger levels are also divided into green, yellow and red.

At this moment, a red strip of cloth appeared on the tree, which meant...

He encountered a very dangerous situation over there!

Li Jize frowned and fell into thought. It seemed that he had to go and meet him.

After putting away his musket, Li Jize straightened his clothes and was about to go out.

Unexpectedly...

A fragrant breeze blew towards me, and suddenly a figure jumped out.

With a bang, Li Jize was caught off guard and bumped into her directly!

The woman screamed, "Fool, what are you doing? You're walking with your eyes closed!"

Li Jize covered his lips and saw blood, which made him angry.

"Who of us has no eyes? I'm bleeding, okay?"

"Bleeding? Who's bleeding?"

Just when Li Jize and his wife Wang Yuanya were arguing, his mother Huang Suqiu's voice rang out, and both of them were startled.

Without even thinking, they subconsciously turned around and tried to escape, but Huang Suqiu was faster than them. She rushed forward and grabbed them from the left and right.

"Hey, hey, hey, where are you going? You two? Why do you run away when you see mom?"

"Hehe... Mom (Mother-in-law)!"

Both of them had an awkward yet polite smile on their faces.

Huang Suqiu was heartbroken to see blood on her son Li Jize's lips.

"What's wrong with you, kid? Why is your mouth bleeding for no reason?"

Li Jize was furious when he heard that. He looked at Wang Yuanya and said unhappily, "It's her! She just ran over and hit me."

"Me? My forehead is bruised too, okay? Who bumped into whom?"

Wang Yuanya also complained with dissatisfaction.

Huang Suqiu looked at the young couple and saw that one of them had kissed her lips and the other had been hit on the forehead. She covered her mouth and laughed, "Oh, they are a couple! My husband kissed my forehead, it's okay, it's okay!"

"Who wants him to kiss her! (Who wants him to kiss her!)"

The two of them shouted almost in unison.

Then, they looked at each other and snorted coldly, not wanting to talk anymore.

Huang Suqiu was happy to see this. She looked at her son on the left and her daughter-in-law on the right. The two of them seemed to be getting more and more in tune with each other.

"It's getting dark now! It's cold, I think you two should stop sitting around! Go back to your rooms."

"Go back to the room? Why go back to the room?" Li Jize widened his eyes and asked.

As a result, my mother was really shameless and said with a smile: "Of course it's cold, hurry up and get into bed! It's warm inside. Let's go!"

Good boy! He got into bed again.

Li Jize and Wang Yuanya became extremely panicked when they thought about how their mother had squatted outside the door and watched over their "bridal chamber" last night.

Moreover, the two of them had ulterior motives and had important things to do at night.

Just when Li Jize was racking his brains to find an excuse to leave the Li Mansion and go to the "Silver Ship" to meet Lao Zhang...

The ugly daughter-in-law Wang Yuanya reacted even faster than him. She yelled, "Mother-in-law, I... I can't get into bed today. I have something to do!"

"Something's going on? What's going on?"

Huang Suqiu, who was originally full of joy and looking forward to holding her grandson in the bridal chamber as soon as possible, felt a little unhappy when she heard this.

“I, I, I… I…”

Wang Yuanya looked flustered and looked around, obviously looking for an excuse.

In a hurry, she thought of a clever idea and suddenly said, "Oh! My dad, my dad feels unwell. I might have to go back to see him!"

"Ok?"

Huang Suqiu was stunned and asked in confusion, "Isn't my relative an imperial physician? How could he be sick?"

"It's just a cold. Mother-in-law, you know! He caught a cold alone, with no one to take care of him. As his daughter, I'm very worried."

The daughter-in-law still wanted to go back to fulfill her filial duties, and Huang Suqiu had no reason to stop her.

"Okay! Go ahead, and come back early! If you need anything, remember to say hello."

"Okay! Mother-in-law, I'll go over there then."

Wang Yuanya was overjoyed, feeling that she was so clever that she could come up with such an excuse. This way, she could leave the Li family without hesitation and explore the "Silver Ship" at night.

But I didn’t expect…

"Ji Ze, it's not safe at night! Your father-in-law is sick, so please go with your wife."

what?

Wang Yuanya was stunned!

What the hell? Is Li Jize going too?

Li Jize was also stunned. He pointed at himself and looked at his mother Huang Suqiu in confusion.

"What are you looking at? Go! You and Yuan Ya don't have to come back tonight, just stay at Wang's house."

After Huang Suqiu said this, she didn't give her daughter-in-law and son a chance to explain. She pushed them from behind and pushed them out of the Li family.

Standing outside, feeling the hustle and bustle of the streets covered in snow and ice, both of them were disheveled in the wind.

Ah this...

Why were they tied together?

Li Jize glanced at the ugly wife...

Wang Yuanya glanced at her idiot husband...

"Ugh!"

The two of them sighed in unison, helplessly lowering their heads and walking towards the Wang family.

The two of them didn't speak a word along the way.

Wang Yuanya put his hands behind his back, looked down at the road and thought, how could he get rid of this fool and complete today's night exploration of the silver ship?

Li Jize put his left hand on his chest and touched his chin with his right hand. He glanced at Wang Yuanya next to him and was also thinking about what excuse to use to not go to his father-in-law's house with his ugly wife, but to go to the silver ship to discuss with Lao Zhang what had happened.

Oh! I'm worried, really worried.