Chapter 264 (1/2)

”You are too far away from me.” Xie Heng said carelessly, ”I can't see.”

Xie Yu walked closer to him with an expressionless face and almost poked his finger under his eyes.

Xie Heng grasped the third childe's wrist and looked at it with low eyes. The young man's hand skin was like white jade, his fingertips rubbed the ash on the ground, facing the faint moonlight, and he also had a trace of frost color.

After looking carefully, I found that it was a colorless powder object with a pungent taste.

He looked down and smelled, ”saltpeter?”

”Yes.” Xie Yu answered.

The two brothers glanced at the corridor and the surrounding ground, and were silent for a moment.

I didn't notice the powder on the ground in the daytime. After entering the night, the moonlight shrouded, and the frost color became particularly obvious.

Xie Heng said, ”the king of Nanning has no inclination to refine pills and seek Tao. Now it's autumn again. He doesn't need an ice cellar. What does he do with saltpeter?”

There are not many nitrate mines in Dayan. In addition to those people in imperial capital who need to make a lot of ice cellars in Xia family, all kinds of alchemists like to make these most. The dosage of medicine is not large.

Yunzhou has always been the king of Nanning, covering the sky with one hand. I have never heard of this area with a large amount of nitrate ore before.

But there were so many bodyguards around the West Wing tonight. After walking around, there was such a layer on the ground. Obviously, the amount was not small.

Xie Yu's tone was faint, ”saltpeter has other uses.”

Xie Heng's eyes were dim, ”you mean gunpowder?”

”There are thousands of missing young men in Yunzhou city.” Xie said, ”if there is no ghost in the heart of the king of Nanning, why kill the officials who come to Yunzhou to visit?”

”Oh.” Xie Heng brushed the dust from the third childe's fingertips with his sleeve, and his eyes were full of disdain, ”incompetent rats, but greedy snakes swallow elephants.”

At the beginning of the founding of the Yan Dynasty, some capable people developed gunpowder with saltpeter and sulfur. It was extremely lethal. However, before it could be developed in large quantities, an accident suddenly occurred, and the formula was lost.

If the king of Nanning is doing this, he is really worried.

Xie Xuan put his hand behind him, looked up and looked at the bright moon hanging in the sky. He didn't speak for a long time.

Xie Heng pinched a fallen leaf and bounced onto the eaves.

The green guards in the dark landed lightly, ”childe.”

”Go and find out where these saltpeter came from.” Xie Heng leaned against the corridor column with a indifferent look.

Qingyi guards answered.

There are only Xie Heng and Xie Yu left in the corridor.

There was nothing wrong with the two people staying together, but after smashing a room of junk today.

They looked at each other rather speechless.

For a long time.

The third childe asked, ”the peony garden?”

”Gao Yuanlu.” Xie Heng said, ”I blocked him in cangyun Prefecture for two months. The old thief ran fast enough to step into the palace of Nanning first.”

Xie Xuan frowned slightly, ”this is the Royal Palace of Nanning. Zhao Li is ambitious. If you can see through your identity...”

”There you are.” Xie Heng stretched out his hand and grabbed Xie Xuan's shoulder. Most of the people leaned against him, so that the third childe couldn't stand stably, and the whole person went to the corridor column.

Xie Heng's voice was low and a little smiling, ”third childe, you will protect me, won't you?”

In the eyes of the dark guard of the royal residence in the distance, it seems that two male favourites of shopkeeper Wen are competing and jealous. The young man in red is pressing the young man in blue on the post.

Xie Xuan's face turned blue when he was pressed by him, and he pressed back the sentence ”who wants to protect you?”.

Half a ring.

The third childe said, ”I don't know.”

Xie Heng smiled and whispered, ”I have nothing with ah Jiu. Don't stink.”