Poison Genius Consort - Chapter 478

Chapter 478: The Duke of Qin’s generous piece of work Original and most updated translations are from volare. If read elsewhere, this chapter has been stolen. Please stop supporting theft.

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Coal-liked powder streamed out from the cracks in the jug to pour out on the floor. They had found their gunpowder—hidden in the wine jugs at the basement of the restaurant!

Han Yunxi was delighted and immediately dug out some poisons to reward Lil Thing. “You did a beautiful job! You’re better than either of them!”

Lil Thing seemed to almost understand her words as it took the poison and jumped around in joy. Long Feiye only pretended not to hear as he said coldly, “Zhangsun Zelin’s smart enough to hide the stench of gunpowder beneath the smell of wine! By hiding them in porcelain jars, he’s fireproofed them as well!”

“Your Highness, this is both the safest and most dangerous place to store them. There’s nothing but alcohol overhead. If anything caught on fire, the consequences would be unimaginable!” Han Yunxi said with feeling. If the gunpowder ignited and shattered the wine jugs aboveground, the alcohol content would be strong enough to act as a bomb. Long Feiye nodded with interest at the idea before walking over to pick up a wine jug. He seemed to be testing its weight.

“Your Highness, what do we do now?” Han Yunxi asked seriously. They had found their evidence, but now came the hard part! How were they supposed to link everything back to Zhangsun Zelin? Were they supposed to threaten him directly with knowledge of the gunpowder, thus forcing him to hand over the evidence of his secret dealings with Medicine City? Under normal circumstances, a threat like that might work, but this was the black market. Zhangsun Zelin was in charge of half the businesses here. How could he be so easily threatened?

If they failed, they’d only startle the snake in the grass. Heaven knows how much help Zhangsun Zelin had in the black markets. If they really pressured the man, they might never take another step out of the black markets themselves. As a result, the matter merited further discussion and a step-by-step plan.

“Your Highness, should we hand over the matter directly to Tianhui? Then extend an olive branch to Zhangsun Zelin?” Han Yunxi suggested. The imperial court had allowed the black markets to exist without persecuting them, not because they feared the powers here, but because they didn’t want to end up implicating their own people in the investigations. Thus, it had always kept a blind eye to everything that happened here. As long as the black market wasn’t doing anything too outrageous, Emperor Tianhui wouldn’t find trouble for them.

However, hiding gunpowder was an altogether different beast.