Chapter 433: Almost Saw the Great‑Grandmother

Since May arrived, Chen Yan, apart from teaching students of all ages, has been showing up more often on the day of his daughter's one‑month celebration.

At other times, Chen Yan has been with Wei King Mao in the research institute, acting mysterious, and no one knows what they are doing.

Li Lizhi and Gao Yang asked, but Chen Yan still kept silent.

On the sixth day, Li Lizhi was arranging servants to clean various places, and Gao Yang was nursing the child.

Everyone was busy with their own affairs.

Boom—

Suddenly, a violent sound burst forth, startling everyone in the County Magistrate's office.

In the master bedroom where Gao Yang stayed, a child's wailing instantly rose; the servants' faces turned terrified, whispering about what had happened.

Li Lizhi stared blankly toward the direction of the sound, looking a bit at a loss.

At that moment, Gao Yang came out holding the wailing infant Xiaosui Ning, saw Li Lizhi still staring, and hurriedly said, "Sister, that noise just now seemed to come from the nearby research institute; could you look after Xiaosui Ning while I go check."

Li Lizhi snapped back, shook her head quickly, "No, no, how can I let you go? I'll go, wait for my news."

Saying that, she gave Gao Yang no chance to refuse and hurried away.

Gao Yang was also very worried; the noise just now was too frightening, like thunder cracking in the sky.

Chen Yan was right there.

"Xiang Lan, could you look after Xiaosui Ning for me? I'll go check."

She called the somewhat frightened Xiang Lan, handed the daughter to her, and then stepped forward to follow.

"Sizi, shall we go take a look?"

At that moment, two little heads peeked out from a room; Princess Chengyang, with a frightened face, hesitated and asked.

Sizi, that little fellow, wasn't scared at all: "Of course we should go. I think that noise just now was definitely made by big brother; let's go see the excitement."

"Maybe big brother has created something fun again."

Hearing this, Princess Chengyang felt a spark of interest and said eagerly, "Alright, let's go; after all, Sister Li Lizhi and Sister Gao Yang have already gone."

"Let's go, let's go, let's go!"

Cough… cough cough!

I... I, damn!

At that moment, on an open area of the research institute, Chen Yan and Li Tai were in a terrible mess; the two young men, who had been fine moments before, now had blackened faces, looking like survivors of a disaster.

They walked a bit farther, then their legs gave out and they collapsed to the ground.

"Chen… Brother Chen, this thing's power seems a bit too great." Li Tai said with a relieved face, having just barely escaped death.

"It's because of your brain‑damage!" Chen Yan's anger flared instantly; he couldn't help shouting, "What the hell did you make? Why did the fuse burn so fast?"

"Didn't I tell you earlier to make the fuse longer, longer?"

Li Tai replied plaintively, "No, Brother Chen, I clearly made the fuse very long, but our experience is lacking, so the fuse we made burned too fast. I… I didn't expect that."

"Alas! My heavens!"

Chen Yan lay on the ground, feeling utterly despondent.

"What kind of player are you? Why does everything you make aim to kill people?"

"Last time it was the Crown Prince, this time it's me; when will you finally be reliable?"

Li Tai opened his mouth, suddenly recalling something, and snapped, "How can you still blame me? We're practically the same."

"Did you tell me at the start that this thing had such great power? If we hadn't run fast just now, we'd already be down there meeting the ancestors, wouldn't we?"

"And who, at the beginning, swore that the power wouldn't be too great? Look over there—does that even count as 'not big'?"

Saying that, he sprang upright, pointing at a charred pit in the distance, where surrounding objects and materials were scattered in a wreckage.

Honestly, the last time we rode that hot‑air balloon, he was very confident at the start, so he wasn't too scared up there; it was only after descending that Chen Yan told him how dangerous it was, and he felt the lingering fear.

But this time the two of them truly almost saw the great‑grandmother, no joke.

When the fuse burned too fast, the two realized something was wrong and bolted away, but they were still slightly affected by the violent explosion.

Now the clothes on their backs are still torn.

Li Tai had no doubt that if they hadn't run just now, they might have been blown up.

Hmm… not flying up without a hot‑air balloon.

"So is there something wrong with the fuse you made?" Chen Yan stretched his neck and said, "If you had at least made it longer, so it wouldn't burn so fast, could we have ended up like this?"

After that, the two fell silent.

After a while, they silently stared at each other, and neither complained any longer.

"Wei King! Duke!"

At that moment, a loud shout came from behind, followed by several urgent cries.

Uncle Tao hurried over with a group of people.

Chen Yan waved his hand, "We're fine, don't worry about us, let us lie down, be quiet."

Li Tai stared at the sky, expressionless, "Right, let us lie down."

Hearing that, even Uncle Tao and the others, despite their urgency, dared not intervene, stepping back a few paces and focusing on the distant explosion site.

Seeing the blackened pit over there and the surrounding devastation, they each swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

"Is… is that a heavenly thunderbolt that fell?"

Uncle Tao said, his voice trembling.

"Heavenly thunder?"

Chen Yan and Li Tai were startled, then burst into hearty laughter together, laughing freely and unrestrained.

"Hahaha, chubby, does this thing work for me?"

"Alright, that's too much!"

Li Tai was overjoyed, not even minding that he called himself Xiao Pangzi.

When Li Lizhi and Gao Yang hurried over, they happened to see the two lying on the ground, laughing like total idiots.

A face so black it was almost unrecognizable, showing only a big white tooth.

"Husband!"

Seeing this, the two instantly grew anxious, rushed over, and carefully helped Chen Yan to his feet.

"Husband, are you alright? You—" Li Lizhi's words stopped halfway, her voice cutting off.

As she and Gao Yang lifted Chen Yan, they clearly saw the rag‑like tattered clothing on his back and the wound beneath, stained with earth and blood, and Li Lizhi's eyes reddened in an instant.

Tears welled up instantly, swirling in her beautiful eyes. She wanted to reach out, but feared hurting him, so her hand hovered trembling slightly.

"You… how did you get injured like this!" Her voice was sobbing, both pained and angry, "What on earth are you doing! Courting death?"

Gao Yang also inhaled a sharp breath of cold air, his face turning pale.

She forced herself to stay calm, quickly examined Chen Yan's back wound, seeing mostly superficial injuries—scary‑looking but not reaching bone—so she breathed a little relief, yet her brows remained furrowed: "It's fine, just flesh wounds. But we must clean and apply medicine immediately, otherwise infection will be a problem!"

After speaking, the two hurriedly helped Chen Yan away.

Li Tai just raised his hand, paused in mid‑air, seeing they had already gone far, wanting to cry but unable: "I am your…."

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