"Your Highness, wait!" Ishibu waved his hand towards His Highness, "Let me say a few words first, okay?"
"Of course." His Highness nodded, "Go ahead!"
"That's it." Ishibu pointed at Hei Lu'er, Wu Shu Dan and A Piao, "They were just tired and confused, and they came up with such a way in a hurry. In fact, there is a simpler way. , more convenient, less hassle, and most importantly, less expensive.”
"It saves money..." His Highness was amused by Ishibu's words, "Okay, I'll listen to your method of saving money."
"Wait a minute!" Hei Luer and Ah Piao said in unison, "We probably know what you are talking about."
"Please tell me, you two."
"You want water, right?"
"Yes!" Ishibu snapped his fingers, "It's just water."
"Why use water?" His Highness and Wu Shudan looked at each other, "Let's be more clear."
"That's it." Seeing that His Highness and Wushu Dan were still confused, Ishibu explained, "Isn't the thing in this pit gunpowder? Since it is gunpowder, it must be afraid of water and tide. We Just pour water down from this pit until it is enough to soak the fuse and completely disable the gunpowder. Although this method is a bit wasteful of water, it is much cheaper than digging an entire street, right? ?”
"That's right!" His Highness nodded, "This way we don't have to dig out an entire street, and we don't have to worry so many people about the hard work, right?"
"That's what His Highness said." Ishibu smiled, looked around, and said in a low voice, "If an entire street is chiseled out, the noise will be too great, and it will inevitably disturb some people and spread the news. information."
"You are right to remind me." His Highness patted Ishibu on the shoulder, "In this case, I will leave this to you."
"Ah? No, Your Highness, didn't they discover this?" Ishibu looked stunned. Why did this job fall on his shoulders inexplicably? He pointed at Hei Lu'er, Wu Shudan and Ah Piao, "There are still a lot of things in the dungeon. I still have to interrogate those people. I don't have time to deal with this. These should be the three of them..."
"After we've finished this, we can stop caring about those people in the dungeon. It doesn't matter if we leave them alone for a few days. Don't they always like to talk nonsense with their eyes open? Then let them talk to themselves. After they've had their fun, let's go and clean up. They." His Highness waved his hand, "But you really can't do it alone, so how about..." She stretched out her hand and pushed Wu Shu Dan, "How about I leave him to you?"
"What do you mean, leave it to me, Your Highness!" Ishibu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he still caught the Wushu Dan that rushed towards him in time, "Be careful."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk!" His Highness curled his lips in disgust, pulled Hei Lu'er and Ah Piao and turned around to leave, "Let's leave quickly, don't disturb others' work."
"Your Highness!" Ishibu sighed helplessly, "Why are you going with Master Hei and Master Piao? Do you want to bring some guards?"
"No need, the two of them are enough." His Highness winked at Hei Lu'er and Ah Piao, "You two go about your business and don't worry about us. We will just take a stroll in the city. It will be safe."
"Then come back early!" Looking at His Highness, who had already led Hei Lu'er and Piao out, Ishibu quickly shouted, "Master Hei and Master Piao, please take care of yourself."
The three people continued to walk forward, and at the same time raised their right arms and waved them, indicating that they understood and told Ishibu not to worry.
"Okay, you don't have to worry so much. Didn't I tell you that you're just strolling around the city, there won't be any problems. Besides, with those two here, you can completely protect His Highness's safety." Wu Shudan looked at it. He looked at the pit and rolled his eyes at Ishibu, "It's better to focus on the present first. If you have any ideas, please tell me quickly so that I can tell the brothers to do it. Keeping this is also a big disaster. Who knows when that guy outside the city who has a bad brain will think of this and give it to him again."
"I haven't seen this pit yet. I'll go down and see what's going on inside."
As Ishbu spoke, he jumped into the pit, squatted down, picked up a little bit of fine soil with his hands, put it under his nose and smelled it.
"How? Is it really gunpowder?"
Ishibu nodded affirmatively towards Wushu Dan, reached out and picked up the shovel that A Piao had thrown aside, carefully shoveled it down twice, twisted it a little more, smelled it again, and continued to repeat the previous actions. .
After repeating this for about seven or eight times, Ishibu threw the shovel in his hand onto the pit and stretched out his hand to signal Wu Shudan to pull him up.
"Thank you for your hard work, brothers!"
"Lord Ishibu is joking. This is the responsibility of the subordinates. It's not hard at all."
"Let's get started!" Wu Shudan patted the dirt on Ishibu's body, "We have to finish this before His Highness comes back, do you understand?"
"Understood!"
All Wu Shudan's brothers went back to the palace to work, leaving only Ishibu and Wu Shudan at the pit.
"How's it going? Have you found an opportunity?" Ishbu asked in a low voice, "Have you told her?"
"Not yet." Wu Shudan shook his head and patted Ishibu on the shoulder, "Don't be impatient, this matter cannot be rushed. Aren't we cooperating with others now? Besides, the young prince is still in their hands. We have no proof now, and no one believes anything we say. What I mean is, to prove our identity, we have to wait for the young prince to return to our own territory, what do you think?"
"That makes sense, but before the young prince comes back, we have to clean up the inside and outside of the palace and Yiqing Mansion. Those suspicious people must be cleaned up." Ishibu sighed. He looked at Wushu Dan and asked in a lower voice, "There is a question that I have always wanted to ask you. Do you think your boss's identity is innocent?"
"This...it's hard to say, but just based on my intuition..." Wu Shudan blinked, "It should be similar to us, right? But we are definitely not in the same camp."
"It's not us, it's over there. It definitely can't be..." Ishbu raised his chin and pointed to the outside of the city, "It's over there."
"Hey!" Wu Shudan sighed, "Now that I think about it, it's really not easy for our little highness. The people around him are not our own."
"You can't say that, right?" Ishibu heard the footsteps coming from far away and patted the people around him, "You can't say that we are not our own people. Until the young prince enters the palace, we are all our own people. People, understand?”
Wu Shudan didn't answer, nodded towards Ishibu, and watched his brothers come back carrying the big wooden barrel.
"Come on, brothers, let's get to work!"
After saying that, Wu Shudan lifted a wooden bucket with one hand and poured the water into the pit.
