How could my childhood sweetheart be the current empress?

Xu Chengling gave the lady a pair of thumbs up. His words were so domineering that it seemed as if they had been spoken by the empress herself.

Yan Jixue didn't fall for the flattery. She continued to look through the account book in her hand and said in a cold voice:

"By the way, I don't have time now, let Xia Chan apply some medicine on you."

"Yes, ma'am."

Xia Chan, who was standing aside, bowed and nodded, then looked at Xu Chengling in front of him and said:

"Master, come in, I'll apply medicine on you."

"OK then."

Xu Chengling thought about it and felt that Xia Chan was the lady's personal maid, so there should be no problem in applying the medicine to him.

The two returned to the house, Xu Chengling took off his clothes, exposed his upper body, and lay on the bed.

"Then I'll trouble you, Miss Xia Chan."

Xia Chan sat on the edge of the bed, put some ointment on her slender hands, and looked at the body in front of her that was completely exposed to her, and her pretty face couldn't help but blush slightly.

"So... this is what a man's body looks like."

Xia Chan couldn't help but think.

She didn't understand how this body could make His Majesty fall in love with it and even be obsessed with it.

Xia Chan couldn't help but think that it was this body that His Majesty faced every night. There was not a trace of excess fat on his body, just like a man would be moved when he saw a woman's body, and the same was true for women.

Especially the abstinence sword technique she practiced. Because she had always been abstinent, she had never seen a male body.

Now that he had seen it with his own eyes, Xia Chan couldn't help but feel his heart beating faster and he had a strange feeling in his heart.

"Miss Xia Chan, why are you just watching?"

Xu Chengling couldn't help but ask, it's been so long and the other party hasn't seen it yet.

And judging from her appearance, she might be obsessed with her own body.

"Ah, no, I just remembered something."

Xia Chan hurriedly shook her head and explained, a blush appearing on her pretty face, and then she quickly buried her head in applying medicine to him.

After applying medicine to him, I helped him put on a bandage.

After a while, Xu Chengling was wrapped into a rice dumpling by her.

"Master, I'm leaving first."

After doing all this, Xia Chan ran away with a red face.

"Why are you running so fast? Are you afraid that I will eat her?"

Xu Chengling couldn't help but shrug his shoulders. He didn't know what was wrong with Xia Chan today. He always felt that something was weird.

He put on his clothes, went outside again, said hello to his wife, and went out.

……

Xu Chengling came all the way to Sun Mansion.

Standing at the door, he was about to knock when it opened.

A pretty white figure stood at the door, smiled at him, then gestured for him to come in, and said:

"Mr. Xu, please come in."

Following the woman in white into the yard, Xu Chengling couldn't help but look at her and found that she looked much better than before.

Sun Yuyi looked back at him, sat down in the yard, and asked him:

"Mr. Xu, do you want to see me for something?"

"Well, there is one thing."

Xu Chengling nodded, but before he could say anything, Sun Yuyi suddenly asked him;

"Mr. Xu, have you encountered any bloody disaster recently?"

"Yeah, how did you know that?"

Xu Chengling couldn't help but feel very surprised. He was attacked by an assassin last night and was injured and bleeding. Isn't this a bloody disaster?

I didn't expect that Sun Yuyi guessed that he had encountered a bloody disaster just by looking at him. This is too amazing.

But soon, Sun Yuyi shrugged and said to him:

"Because I saw bandages wrapped around Mr. Xu's body, I inferred that you were in danger not long ago."

"I see. It seems Miss Sun is very observant."

Xu Chengling couldn't help but smile awkwardly. Well, he was overthinking it.

"I came to see Miss Sun today to ask for your help in avoiding danger and seeking good fortune."

Xu Chengling explained the purpose of his visit. He found himself very unlucky recently and wanted to have his fortune told.

"If you're going to vomit blood like last time, forget it."

"Haha, Mr. Xu, don't worry. It only takes a little skill to avoid danger and seek good fortune. You just need to read the face."

Sun Yuyi smiled slightly, helped Xu Chengling to look at his face, and then pretended to count with his fingers.

Suddenly, her expression changed, as if she saw something bad.

"Master Xu is a man of destiny, with great luck. Even if he encounters a crisis, he will be able to turn it into a blessing. Yuyi has something here that can help Master Xu resolve the disaster."

After saying that, Sun Yuyi took off the white beads from her neck and put them on Xu Chengling.

This white bead has been with her all year round, and it contains her life essence. In the near future, Xu Chengling will encounter a disaster, and she hopes that this bead can help him resolve this disaster.

The purpose of her doing this cannot be revealed for the time being, but Xu Chengling must not be in trouble. He is the man of destiny and the only one who can change her ultimate prophecy.

Xu Chengling touched the white bead. The surface of the bead emitted a soft milky white light and felt warm to the touch, like touching a piece of warm jade.

Moreover, when this white bead is worn close to the body for a long time, its surface will emit a faint body fragrance of a young girl.

Seeing Xu Chengling smell it, Sun Yuyi couldn't help but blush and lowered her head shyly.

"Thank you Miss Sun. By the way, this is your reward."

Xu Chengling thanked her, thought for a moment, and then placed a few pieces of silver on the table in front of her as a reward for her fortune-telling.

"You are the destined one. I don't need any reward to tell your fortune."

Sun Yuyi shook her head and refused his reward.

Although she lived a poor life, she was not short of money. There was no one in the house, but this solitary life was more suitable for her.

"Are you going anywhere next?"

Sun Yuyi asked him.

"Well, next I have to go to the palace to meet someone."

Xu Chengling nodded. He currently had a lot of doubts in his mind and needed to meet someone to get them answered.

And this person was the empress dowager whom I had met before.

He suspected that the person who attacked him last night was most likely the Eighth Wise King!

Chapter 258 All fear comes from insufficient firepower

Xu Chengling's guess that it was the Eighth Wise King who attacked him was naturally based on facts.

First of all, the assassin is extremely powerful, at least at the level of a first-rate master. To be able to train an assassin of this level, there must be a powerful figure behind him.

There are only a handful of people in the capital who meet this condition, including a few princes or the empress herself.

The Empress can be ruled out. After all, even the Empress herself was in danger last night. If she wants to do something to herself, there is no need to go through so much trouble.

Among these princes, the only one Xu Chengling could think of who could send out such a master was the Eight Wise Kings.

When the empress ascended the throne, the Eighth Wise Kings and the Old Prime Minister were appointed by the late emperor as regents and assistants. The two worked together, with the Old Prime Minister providing intelligence and the Eighth Wise Kings sending assassins to eliminate those ministers in the court who opposed him.

However, the motives of the Eighth Wise Kings for attacking him are still unclear, and it is not certain whether the person behind the scenes is the Eighth Wise Kings or some other force.

Xu Chengling guessed that perhaps the Queen Mother knew some inside information, and that Queen Mother did not seem to be an ordinary person.

To be able to reach the position of empress dowager at such a young age, it is definitely impossible to say that she has no ability.

Judging from the current situation, the Eighth Wise King stationed his troops a hundred miles around the capital in the name of protecting his master. Over the past three years, the Eighth Wise King has been loyal to the empress and has never had any other thoughts.

But we must always be on guard against others. If the Eighth Wise King intends to rebel, your Majesty's throne will inevitably be threatened.

After saying goodbye to Sun Yuyi, Xu Chengling left the Sun Mansion and went to the palace.

This time he has Tongxin following him, so no one can threaten him unless a peerless master takes action personally.

Although Xu Chengling has many masters around him, none of them is a peerless master. Most of the masters who have cultivated to this level have chosen to retire and not get involved in the affairs of the world, so it is not easy to ask them to come out and help.

As far as Xu Chengling knows about the peerless masters, Master Tongxin is one, the guardian of the Blood Ghost Sect is one, and the owner of Yujingfang is also one.

Although Uncle Gu has mastered swordsmanship to perfection and is known as the Sword Saint, he is still one step away from being a true master. But it is this short distance that divides two different realms.

Even the top-notch masters are no match for the peerless masters. The biggest difference between the two is like the foundation building and golden elixir in the world of immortal cultivation. The presence or absence of golden elixir is the biggest watershed.

The owner of Yujingfang is the combat power ceiling in the original novel. His only appearance was when the empress was forced into a desperate situation in the later period and he stepped in to resolve the crisis.

To put it bluntly, the author didn't know how to save the situation, so he created a deus ex machina and created a combat power ceiling, which defeated all the masters of this book.

But unless the Dayan Dynasty is in danger of extinction, the owner of Yujingfang will not act rashly. After all, his combat power has reached its ceiling. If he takes action, will others still be able to play?

Thinking of this, Xu Chengling couldn't help but sigh. He wanted to win over the owner of Yujingfang, but no one except the royal members of Dayan was allowed to enter Yujingfang.

Tongxin's martial arts skills are very strong, but compared with real masters, such as Luo Xinlian and Jiang Changge, she is still a little inferior.

However, in Xu Chengling's opinion, no matter how high the martial arts skills are, they are afraid of kitchen knives. Even the top masters are just mortals. He doesn't believe that the top masters can withstand the power of firearms.

If he could make gunpowder, he would be able to fight even against those peerless masters.

Until now, Xu Chengling still has not given up the idea of ​​making gunpowder. As long as he has gunpowder, all problems can be solved in the face of absolute firepower. All fears come from insufficient firepower.

Before he traveled through time, he saw a post on a forum called "Time Traveler's Guide", which described how gunpowder was made in ancient times.

There are three main materials for gunpowder: sulfur, saltpeter and charcoal. Xu Chengling also knows these materials.

But the problem is, even if he knew the ingredients, he didn't know the proportions to mix them in. I'm afraid the only one who knew this method was the alchemist who made elixirs back then.

It can be said that alchemists were the earliest chemists in ancient times.

It is also very interesting to say that gunpowder was originally used by alchemists to make elixirs, but gunpowder is very unstable and easy to catch fire, and the alchemists were looking for an elixir of life, so they did not continue their in-depth research on gunpowder.

Instead, it was the later generations who conducted in-depth research on gunpowder and applied it to military affairs, which made gunpowder flourish.

If we can find an alchemist, perhaps we can learn from him how to make gunpowder.

But the problem is that there is not even a single alchemist in Dayan at the moment.

In order to pursue the elixir of life, the Qin Emperor summoned all the alchemists from all over the Qin Dynasty, led by the alchemist Xu Fu, to go to Penglai, where they were specifically responsible for refining the legendary elixir of life.

According to records in ancient books, in order to keep the secret of the elixir of immortality, the Qin Emperor killed all the alchemists, which also led to the absence of alchemists after the Qin Dynasty.

At this moment, Xu Chengling had greeted the Qin Emperor a thousand times in his heart, but this Qin was not the same Qin, it was just one of the many dynasties in this world.

According to Xu Chengling's idea, if he could find a Taoist priest who was still alive today, he might be able to promote the development of gunpowder.

Nearly one hundred and fifty years had passed since the fall of the Qin Dynasty and the establishment of Dayan.

To be alive... unless one is immortal, but is that really possible?

……

After leaving Sun Mansion, Xu Chengling came to the palace.

After identifying himself to the guard, he walked directly into the palace and headed towards the harem with ease.

As the saying goes, once is new, twice is familiar. After visiting the harem several times, Xu Chengling was already familiar with the routes in the harem as if it were his own back garden.

If Xu Chengling remembered correctly, the place where the Queen Mother lived was called Guanghan Palace.

He revealed his identity to a palace maid, and then, under the guidance of the palace maid, he went directly to Guanghan Palace.

Looking at the elegant hall in front of him, Xu Chengling took a deep breath and walked in.