261 The Treasure Mystery Confession

used for."Mo Xiuyao smiled and said, "Liyi has a wide range of interests. You even find medical knowledge interesting"Ye Li shook her head and replied, "I have no talent for medicine. But some basic k...Treasure Mystery, Confession

Treasure Mystery, Confession

Yes, let things take their natural course.

If Ye Li had reincarnated into a historical dynasty instead of an era completely unfamiliar to her, she would have毫不猶豫地將這些東西拿出來。即使她貿然推進了曆史進程又如何？總不會比原來的曆史更糟糕。

Now, in fact, Ye Li did not hesitate for long. She was not someone who liked to be indecisive. However, whether it was the previous dynasty's Grand Emperor or herself, their understanding of military technology was actually quite limited. The identity of that previous Grand Emperor she didn't know about, but even if Ye Li had a complete grasp of the performance and structure of all the most advanced weapons in the world, it did not mean she could produce exactly identical ones. Apart from other factors, just the issue of materials would be difficult to solve. Therefore, Ye Li did not consider this place as somewhere capable of mass-producing deadly weapons for war. Instead, she provided them with the most basic knowledge that craftsmen of this era could understand and gave them a completely different concept.

Ye Li didn't need them to immediately create an AK-47 or long-range missiles. They just needed to work hard in this direction, whether it took a hundred years or several centuries. Ye Li believed that with these seeds sown, this land would not suffer what her homeland once did.

"Madam..." An middle-aged man walked up and, upon seeing Ye Li, his eyes lit up as he came over excitedly.

Moxiuyao held Mo Xiaobao and glared at the approaching man. Narrowing his eyes in displeasure, he stepped to block Ye Li's way. The man almost stopped abruptly when he saw Moxiuyao's dark expression and realized his behavior was somewhat rude. He could only stand there awkwardly.

Ye Li walked out from behind Moxiuyao and smiled faintly, "Master Li, what is it"

The middle-aged man hurriedly said, "We made the item Madam requested, but we have some questions." Ye Li nodded, saying, "Let's go take a look then."

Placed in front of Ye Li and Moxiuyao was a pistol. Moxiuyao was naturally completely unfamiliar with this object, but Ye Li's eyes involuntarily flashed with nostalgia and joy. Walking forward, she picked up the gun on the table. To be honest, for someone like Ye Li who had seen all sorts of advanced weapons in her previous life, the current pistol looked rather crude and unsightly. It was much coarser than the earliest automatic pistol, the Mauser C96, which appeared in the world.

But it only took five years to complete this evolution that guns went through over hundreds of years, Ye Li believed these craftsmen had done their best. Picking up the pistol and weighing it in her hand, she turned back to Mo Xiaobao and smiled, "Xiaobao, cover your ears." Mo Xiaobao curiously looked at what his mother held before obediently covering his ears.

The pistol spun in Ye Li's hand, and her eyes changed as she raised the gun and fired three shots towards a target not far ahead. After three loud bangs, Ye Li frowned slightly when looking at the target. The first shot hit the bullseye, but the second was only about four rings away from it, while the third missed entirely. This naturally wasn't due to her shooting skill; clearly, there were issues with the gun itself.

The Master Li who followed behind still had a fiery gaze, but this time he was looking at the gun in Ye Li’s hand rather than her. What Ye Li found somewhat distasteful seemed to be as precious to him as an unparalleled beauty.

Slightly troubled, Master Li scratched his beard and said, “We managed to make two of these things, but one exploded on its first attempt. This one is in good condition, but it’s not very accurate; the more you fire, the worse it gets. Your Excellency has never hit the bullseye with her first shot.” However, the second and third shots were obviously not as impressive, leading him to doubt whether that first successful shot was just a coincidence.

“It seems there are material issues,” Ye Li said. “I’ll organize my suggestions for improvement later. As for materials, you’ll have to worry about them yourselves; I will ensure all necessary minerals are delivered. Beyond this, I’m afraid I can’t do anything else.” She was no expert in military engineering or materials science—she could only provide rough knowledge and conceptual theories. The rest they would have to discover on their own step by step. Although Master Li felt somewhat disappointed, he understood that it couldn’t be forced upon her; thus, he nodded his agreement.

Master Li left with heavy thoughts but left the gun behind. Though this was their first successful product, as its performance wasn't satisfactory, he didn’t mind leaving it and in his heart made a vow to create something better when he returned home. Ye Li handed over any remaining bullets from the gun to Mo Xiaobao who had been eagerly waiting for a new toy. With a new toy in hand, Mo Xiaobao immediately focused on studying what was in his hands, no longer complaining about his father not letting him play earlier.

"Is this something left behind by Emperor Gaozu of the previous dynasty" Mo Xiuyao asked as he looked around. Ye Li nodded and asked, "Do you think this gun is good, Xiuyao" Mo Xiuyao shook his head and glanced at what Mo Xiaobao was holding: “It has no practical value.” Its range wasn’t even comparable to an archer’s arrow; although the first shot did pique his interest briefly, the subsequent shots disappointed him. "For now, it has no practical value."

Ye Li agreed and pulled Mo Xiuyao forward. The preparations made by Emperor Gaozu of the previous dynasty weren’t limited to this. Even Ye Li had knowledge beyond just these items, some of which did have practical value.

Walking into a spacious room, they were greeted with the smell of sulfur. In one corner, neatly arranged wooden boxes contained black spherical objects. Mo Xiuyao pondered for a moment and said, "This is… gunpowder" Gunpowder was not unknown in this era and had been used in wars, but it required a flame to ignite and its destructive power wasn't high. Therefore, even the Mo family army seldom used it. Nevertheless, that didn’t mean Mo Xiuyao was completely ignorant.

Ye Li nodded and said, "Indeed, it is gunpowder. However… I prefer to call this, bombs."

Mos Xiuyao raised an eyebrow and asked, “What about its power” Since A-li specifically showed him these items, they naturally weren’t ordinary. Ye Li picked up one and said with a smile, "Let’s try it somewhere else." She was confident in the bomb's destructive power because she had provided the methods for making them herself. Indeed, when thrown into an empty room in the underground palace, the loud explosion left Mo Xiuyao surprised.

Leaving the area with the bombs, Ye Li led Mo Xiuyao to a secret chamber at the far end of the underground palace. The chamber was simply furnished but filled with various books and weapons. Mo Xiuyao recognized some items that he had seen outside earlier.

Ye Li took out a thick book from a hidden compartment and handed it to Mo Xiuyao, smiling: "This is what the previous dynasty’s emperor left behind." Mo Xiuyao flipped through pages filled with diagrams of different guns and their annotations. However, many foreign words in the annotations made them incomprehensible for him. This didn’t stop him from understanding that this was a book depicting various types of weapons, and that some of these could be more advanced than what he had seen before.

Looking at the book, Ye Li sighed softly: “If these were all successfully manufactured and mass-produced as intended, an army with them would truly be invincible.”

Mos Xiuyao frowned slightly and looked at Ye Li: "Do you like these a lot, A-li"

Ye Li was slightly stunned for a moment before nodding slowly after a long while, "Yes, I really like them." How could she dislike them In her previous life, in the short twenty-odd years, she spent twenty years living with these things. She was familiar with and fond of them as if they were her own family members or comrades.

Moxiu Yao said, "Then let's have someone make all of them." Ye Li smiled slightly, "To make all of them… We might not be able to see it in our lifetime. To really make all these things… How could it be done without over a hundred years" This involved far more than just military technology. Each aspect of science and technology must develop simultaneously to achieve such forward-thinking weapon design.

Moxiu Yao frowned, "If that's the case, then this previous dynasty's founding emperor was indeed a prodigious talent. It’s a pity that he didn’t really manufacture these things in his time or wanted to but couldn't manage it" The former dynasty’s founding emperor ruled for only a short period after unifying the world. Judging by the scale of this underground palace, it was likely that he died before its completion.

Ye Li smiled faintly, "Prodigious talent Perhaps..." These blueprints didn't qualify as prodigious talent in her view. In fact, these diagrams weren’t even professional; they were at most an amateur's level of military equipment interest. However, being a reincarnated person and living through chaos to unify the world was indeed not easy. Even the founding emperor of Great Chu could hardly be said to have truly unified the land since Western Ling and Great Chu originally shared the same territory.

Ye Li herself was also a kind of reincarnation or rebirth, so she naturally understood that they couldn’t really say whether heaven favored them or not. While it did provide another chance at survival, wanting to achieve dominance like in many novels wasn't easy either. Her environment was already quite good and she had experienced so much; one could imagine the hardships and efforts her predecessor must have gone through to establish an empire.

"You're very familiar with him" Moxiu Yao placed Mo Xiaobao on a nearby table, then turned back to Ye Li and asked. Mo Xiaobao seemed to sense that his parents were discussing something important, so he sat quietly on the table playing with a small toy without interrupting them. When Ye Li had fired the gun earlier, this child hadn't noticed anything missing from it, so he was puzzled as to why he couldn’t shoot something powerful like his mother did.

Ye Li’s smile was faint as she gently stroked the flowing calligraphy on the book on the table with a sense of nostalgia. The artist had left an English autograph in fancy handwriting that people from this era would likely only see as decoration.

After pondering for a moment, Ye Li said, "I’m quite familiar with this previous dynasty’s founding emperor, perhaps no one knows him better than I do." Moxiu Yao was silent. Smiling at him, Ye Li asked, "Do you doubt my relationship with him" Moxiu Yao replied, "You’re the granddaughter of the Xu family," implying that descendants of the Xu family couldn’t possibly have any connection to a previous dynasty’s emperor. Ye Li blinked and asked, "Then, do you not want to ask anything else" After a moment's silence, he asked, "Are you from the same place as him, A’li"

Ye Li was stunned; she hadn’t expected Moxiu Yao to think of such a hypothesis. So close… No, this was truly the answer.

Moxiu Yao looked at her with gentle eyes and said softly, "A’li has never hidden anything from me, hasn't she Born into a family of scholars, you’ve never interacted with outsiders yet possess such extraordinary skills. Your familiarity with battlefields… occasionally strange but novel ideas. The handwriting on the treasure map that even people in the former imperial family couldn’t recognize looks familiar to you. Moreover, I think... the high ancestor emperor from the previous dynasty is quite similar to A’li in some ways."

Ye Li smiled helplessly, "I actually revealed so many clues." Moxiu Yao raised his hand and gently caressed Ye Li's cheek with a smile, "A’li never hid anything."

Ye Li admitted that except at the very beginning before Moxiu Yao, she truly had never seriously tried to hide anything. Not only because Moxiu Yao was too perceptive; deliberately hiding things could backfire. More importantly, Moxiu Yao was the most important person in her current life. If she had to hide from him, it would have been better to be a proper lady right from the start—it was just too tiring...

Curiously looking at Moxiu Yao, Ye Li asked, "How do you think of me"

Moxiu Yao said, "Both Buddhism and Taoism believe in past lives. So did Agui come into this world with memories of her previous life" From childhood to adulthood, Agui's personality didn't change much, nor were there any problems with her memory. She remembered clearly even small incidents from long ago and the feelings she had for the Xu family. Therefore, it couldn’t be that she was reborn after a soul left another body. The only explanation would then be reincarnation.

Ye Li nodded and said with a smile, "If you calculate like this, I’m actually over 50 years old. I am much older than you." Moxiu Yao’s eyes narrowed in displeasure as he glared at Ye Li’s slightly smug grin. If not for Mo Xiaobao sitting on the table looking at them curiously, Moxiu Yao would certainly have been less polite. He glanced disdainfully at the plump baby and thought that children were indeed very troublesome. Seeing that Moxiu Yao was silent, Ye Li said with a mischievous smile: "Actually… in my previous life I was a man, are you really not bothered"

"A man" Moxiu Yao asked gravely. Ye Li nodded and replied seriously, “Yes, in the past I was a soldier who sacrificed himself for his country. Otherwise, do you think I could dress as a boy so well” In this era, soldiers were naturally men. Curious, she stared at Moxiu Yao and asked: "Xiaoyao, are you really not bothered" For fun, Ye Li looked at the solemn man in front of her with a playful smile. After staring at Ye Li for a long time, Moxiu Yao suddenly grabbed her and kissed her red lips fiercely.

Mm… Ye Li was stunned and opened her eyes wide, but she couldn’t help glancing to see baby Mo Xiaobao looking at them with his large dark eyes full of curiosity.

She felt hot all over. Ye Li pushed Moxiu Yao away forcefully. Seeing Moxiu Yao’s gaze on her lips as if he wanted more, she glared fiercely at him and regretted teasing him so casually in front of their five-year-old son. She had never been so embarrassed in this life or the last one. She hoped that Xiaobao was still too young to remember this incident for a long time. Otherwise… she really wouldn’t be able to face her son.

"Now you know if I mind" Moxiu Yao asked softly, looking at Ye Li’s annoyed and blushing face with a smile.

Ye Li gritted her teeth and said, "Your psychological adaptability is indeed very strong." Moxiu Yao smiled but didn’t reply. He looked at Ye Li in anger. What a silly girl! How could the refined Agui possibly be a man in her previous life

"Father, mother…" Mo Xiaobao blinked his innocent eyes and asked curiously, "Is Father kissing Mother I want to kiss too. Mother, can you kiss me" To show how eager he was, Mo Xiaobao even pointed at his rosy mouth with his chubby hand. Ye Li’s face turned pale: “Chen’er, who told you that your mother and… were playing kissy-kissy” Her son was only five years old; did she really need to be so mature She didn’t remember ever having such an act in front of Xiaobao.

Mo Xiaobao thought carefully before saying seriously: "Father said it’s because he loves Mother. He kissed her when she fell asleep last time. Father says only lovers can play kissy-kissy. I love Mother too, so I want to kiss her…"

"Moxiu Yao!" Ye Li was furious and glared at Moxiu Yao fiercely: "You will sleep in the study this month!" Finished speaking, she turned around and left without waiting for his explanation.

Moxiu Yao glared at Mo Xiaobao sitting on the table. The child stared at him innocently with his large eyes: "Father, why is Mother angry Why doesn’t she kiss me Does that mean Mother no longer loves her son"

"Don't pretend to be innocent and think it will save you! When did I ever kiss your mother secretly" How could a five-year-old boy see him kissing his wife Moxiu Yao had been around for many years, yet he was fooled by his own child.

Seeing that Moxiu Yao wanted to reach out, Mo Xiaobao hurriedly got up and looked at his father with tears in his eyes: "Wah wah… Mother doesn't love me anymore; I am the son who is not loved…" Seeing his fake crying on the table, Moxiu Yao finally felt frustrated. This child was definitely going to be a troublemaker when he grows up!rmations of Western Ling’s soldiers began to change. Such changes could not be concealed from Ye Li and others who were observing from high above. Feng Zhirao frowned at the changing formations below...