Chapter 52: The Power of Gunpowder

Yan Ning was stunned, "Why are you crying?"

The little tyke was teary-eyed: "You accepted his Jade Pendant, but not mine, sob, sob, sob..."

Children have loud voices; as soon as the little tyke wailed over there, Yan Ze and Xiao Chengtian immediately stood up and walked over.

Seeing several people dressed in finery, the others didn't want to court trouble and immediately dispersed.

Yan Ze looked at Yan Ning: "I thought something had happened over here."

Xiao Chengtian, meanwhile, asked Xiao Huaijin: "What happened?"

Xiao Huaijin: "Ningning wouldn't accept his Jade Pendant, so he cried."

Everyone:...

Someone even offered advice from the side: "The kid is crying so miserably, why don't you just take his Jade Pendant?"

The little tyke's father, Lu Wanshun, immediately came over.

Seeing the child crying so hard, Lu Wanshun hurriedly comforted him.

Lu Wanshun even tentatively cracked a joke: "Your Highness, your daughter isn't betrothed yet, right? My son..."

Before he could finish, Xiao Chengtian immediately interrupted: "Ningning is already betrothed; it's to my son, so don't you go getting any ideas about Ningning."

Lu Wanshun hurriedly said: "It was just a joke, I will have a good talk with my son when I go back."

Lu Wanshun was somewhat surprised: "It was decided so early?"

At the same time, Lu Wanshun was calculating in his heart what kind of background the Xiao Chengtian family had.

He thought for a good while before finding it in his memory.

This is the Prince of Nanyang!

If it were an ordinary family, Lu Wanshun could still compete for it, but it turned out to be the Prince of Nanyang, whom even the Emperor was somewhat wary of.

This marriage could not be snatched away.

At the same time, Lu Wanshun's attitude toward Yan Ze became even more respectful; with the Prince of Nanyang helping, Yan Ze's return to the capital was just a matter of time.

Thinking of this, Lu Wanshun said: "Since you have all come here, why don't I host a banquet to entertain you all, so that the people below don't fail to recognize His Highness and cause a lot of trouble."

Yan Ning said with a smile: "We won't go; after we finish listening to the storyteller's tale in a while, we have to head back early tomorrow morning."

Lu Wanshun felt some regret and could only warn his subordinates not to go and cause trouble for the First Prince.

At night, Yan Ning blew out the candle, fished a Night-Shining Pearl out of her space and placed it on the table, then she took out a large watermelon; she cut the watermelon open, and it was actually a seedless watermelon!

The melon flesh was bright red; one look and you could tell it was a "gratitude watermelon."

Yan Ning whispered: "Eating this chilled watermelon is refreshing, isn't it? It's a pity there are no watermelons near Haicheng, we can only eat it on the sly."

Yan Ning took a bite; the chilled watermelon was sweet and refreshing, with a faint fragrance, a bit crisp, and quite delicious.

Yan Ning looked at the dozens of watermelons in her space and felt some regret: "It's a pity this watermelon is seedless; I don't know what to use to plant it, and I don't know if the watermelon seeds the leader of the Primitive Tribe gave us are from seedless watermelons."

Yan Ze said to her: "It's fine, the cultivation methods for agricultural products are in the space. I took a look; I couldn't understand a word of things like diploid, triploid, and tetraploid, but we can follow the videos to do it."

Yan Ning was shocked, "Even this is in there?!"

Yan Ze sighed with emotion: "The first trading partner is truly thoughtful. I don't know if we can meet him again in the future; I like the things he gave too much. Everything in the Tablet is good stuff."

The family of three decided to watch the popular science videos inside more often, whether they had something to do or not.

It could save them from taking many wrong turns.

After eating, they wiped their mouths and hands with clean towels.

Yan Ning was quite regretful: "Such good watermelon, only our family can eat it; there's no way to share it."

Yan Ze: "The Seed has already been planted; everyone will be able to eat it next year."

The next morning, the Yan Ze family and the Prince of Nanyang's family prepared to return. Xiao Chengtian planned to stay here for a few more days; the Princess Consort was very interested in the Glazed Glass and wanted to play here longer.

When returning, the Prince of Nanyang looked at the high platform: "Come to think of it, these three Watchtowers have people guarding them every day; it's quite reassuring."

Yan Ning said with a smile: "Isn't that so?"

Ever since they had the Watchtowers, Yan Ning could finally set her mind at ease, and she slept exceptionally well at night.

Yan Ning took out a piece of lean meat for Li Dachu to process; the meat was firm and had no other odors, so it was best stir-fried with green peppers.

Xiao Chengtian said: "The things you have here are too delicious; I can't bear to leave."

Yan Ning said with a smile: "Then Uncle Xiao, stay here for a few more days."

Xiao Huaijin was very happy: "Yay! From now on, we'll live here forever. I want to watch Mother make beautiful Glazed Glass. One for me, one for Ningning!"

Yan Ning revealed a smile: "Stay as long as you want."

After eating and drinking their fill, the group took a walk, and it was already getting dark.

There was no other entertainment at this time, so they went to sleep as soon as the time came; even Yan Ning was exhausted while holding the Tablet to watch a TV series.

She fell asleep just like that, in a daze.

In the middle of the night, everything was quiet, and only a few cicadas and frogs could be heard chirping.

But the few people guarding the Watchtowers did not dare to slack off in the slightest.

It was thanks to the many guards here—the ten who came with Yan Ning, plus the thirty soldiers from the Prince of Nanyang's estate—that the forty people could take turns watching, and the six on night duty were in good condition, showing no signs of fatigue.

At this time, the Watchtower where Zhuo Heng was located was the one closer to the coastline; from afar, he could see a small boat coming.

There was a faint firelight on the boat, and one could clearly see that the people on the boat were wearing night-traveling clothes and were sneaking around looking at a map.

Zhuo Heng gently struck the gong three times; this meant an enemy attack.

Before long, another Watchtower also struck three times; good heavens, there was more than one pair coming.

At the other Watchtower, the team leader Weilin also used the Telescope to see the boat in the distance; there were about twenty people on it, which was quite a lot. Weilin touched the Gunpowder Bag at his waist.

The Young Lady said that if there were only one or two people, he should injure them and keep them for interrogation, but if there were too many people and they couldn't win, he should throw the Explosive Package directly.

In any case, these forty people were all very important; the Explosive Package could not be spared, and no one could be allowed to get hurt.

This time, people were sneaking over from both sides; they definitely didn't have the advantage in numbers, and this group of people were all desperate criminals, so he couldn't let his brothers be harmed by them.

So Weilin waited for them to disembark, and as soon as they stepped onto the shore, he threw a Gunpowder Bag over.

"Bang—"

"Bang—"

The sounds of the Gunpowder went off almost one after the other, and the two groups of people who had just stepped onto the shore were blown to smithereens, with pieces of corpses flying everywhere.

Zhuo Heng looked at his own hands, somewhat in disbelief, then took a look through the Telescope; good heavens, most of those people no longer had complete bodies, though there were two who had been standing further away and hadn't been killed by the Gunpowder.

They could be kept for interrogation.

It was the same on Weilin's side, with only one person still having a breath left.

When Yan Ning came out, she asked them: "What happened?"

Zhuo Heng happened to be coming down, preparing to deal with the corpse pieces, and seeing her come out, he said: "Two groups came over to cause trouble, and we dealt with them using Gunpowder; Miss, why don't you go back inside and wait for us? There are severed limbs everywhere, and it's very bloody; we'll clean this up first."

Yan Ning imagined the scene and shuddered, "Then, you all clean it up first."