Royal Gold Medal County Magistrate

Xiao Letian hurried to adjust the valve of the kerosene tank.

The flame above immediately decreased a lot, and Li Yuanzhao finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Freeing up time, he continued to observe the situation below.

Seeing Taoyuan County below, it seemed to be drifting in the direction of the capital, wondering if it could successfully drift to the capital...

"Young Master Li, has our direction changed?" Xiao Letian asked suspiciously.

"The direction has changed. Wasn't it tied up just now? Now that there are no ropes, how could it not change?"

"No, no, no, it seems that the direction changed after I turned down the fire..." Xiao Letian frowned, "Could it be that the height of the hot air balloon affects the direction of the drift?"

It felt like there were some changes, but they weren't too obvious.

Li Yuanzhao also frowned. He hadn't really noticed this phenomenon just now.

"Why don't you... turn the fire back up and try again?"

"Okay! Then let's try again!" Xiao Letian gritted his teeth and stepped forward to move the valve again.

The hot air balloon's altitude rose....

This time, Xiao Letian stared intently at the direction of travel and said, "Young Master Li, lend me your sword."

Li Yuanzhao was stunned for a moment, then handed over his sword.

Xiao Letian took the sword and directly cut off a corner of his clothes.

He held up the cut piece of cloth.

"Are you testing the wind direction?" Li Yuanzhao suddenly understood and asked.

Xiao Letian nodded, not answering.

As the altitude changed, the wind began to pick up again. Suddenly, the corner of the cloth that was originally drifting in one direction changed.

Li Yuanzhao immediately shouted, "It's changed! The wind has changed!"

Xiao Letian also saw it, retracted his hand, and stared blankly at the corner of the cloth, muttering, "Could it be that the wind is layered? If that's the case, then controlling it shouldn't be too difficult."

He didn't expect that the control problem would have a clue so quickly.

Li Yuanzhao was happy: "Hey! You really are a genius! Quickly adjust the fire and try again!"

Xiao Letian quickly adjusted the fire, and the two of them started tossing up and down...

The people below were already as anxious as ants on a hot pot, chasing wildly on horseback.

Finally, after many tests, Xiao Letian had a plan in mind.

Facing Li Yuanzhao, he happily said, "Young Master Li, let's go down first. If we burn any longer, I'm afraid there won't be enough kerosene."

"Okay! Let's go down first, it's too cold up there."

The fire was turned down, and the hot air balloon began to descend slowly, still a hundred meters from the ground.

Suddenly, a corner of the hot air balloon's envelope lifted up... with a whoosh, it began to leak air.

The two of them were sitting in the basket, still savoring the feeling of being in the sky. Li Yuanzhao said with a smile, "We're coming down pretty fast."

"Yes, it feels like the speed has increased, it's just a pity that we couldn't fly to the highest point. I wonder if there's anything in the sky... Oh crap! It's leaking!"

Xiao Letian looked up and was immediately terrified.

Looking from the inside, he saw a piece of the envelope lifted up, fortunately the area wasn't too large.

Li Yuanzhao's eyes were also blank, and he felt like he was suffocating.

"Are we two going to fall to our deaths! No, no, no, that's not right... Add fire! Add fire quickly!"

In this moment of life and death, Li Yuanzhao's CPU began to operate at an overload.

Without hesitation, Xiao Letian went up and turned the fire to the maximum!

The hot air balloon's descent speed began to slow down, but the descent speed was still not slow.

Li Yuanzhao made a decisive decision and shouted, "Cover your head! Curl up!"

Twenty meters... fifteen meters... ten meters... three meters...

With a bang!

The hot air balloon basket crashed heavily into a farmland, and was rolled over twice by the balloon above.

After a period of dizziness, Li Yuanzhao felt that his internal organs were aching, and his bones seemed to be broken.

Xiao Letian was not much better, constantly wailing.

Until it was completely stable... the two of them crawled out of the basket, looking frightened.

Fortunately, their bodies were unharmed!

Li Yuanzhao coughed twice and smiled foolishly at the sky: "Alive... succeeded!!"

"Xiao Letian, are you okay!"

"I'm okay..." Xiao Letian crawled up from the ground, covered in dust, feeling panicked.

"The skin isn't stitched tightly. It seems that we need to stitch a few more layers to make it stronger."

Li Yuanzhao smiled and patted him: "You really are a madman, still thinking about this kind of thing, I admire you."

"The two of us can now be considered the first people to fly into the sky in all of history!!"

"Hahaha, that fame-seeking guy, Lao Fang, asks me to find a historian to record this and that every day. Does he think I don't know what he's planning? Now that I've become the first person to fly into the sky, wouldn't his intestines turn green with regret?"

Xiao Letian ignored him, still muttering about his gains in the sky, afraid that he would forget them.

After waiting for half an hour, Mo Xiaohu's large group of people arrived.

The crowd breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Li Yuanzhao and Xiao Letian sitting on the ridge of the field.

Mo Xiaohu turned his head and saw the long strip of land plowed out, and felt another burst of fear.

It looks like they fell! They fell hard!

Mo Xiaohu rushed forward and cried, "Young Master Li... you scared me to death! What if you fell and got hurt? Are you okay?"

Then he scolded Xiao Letian, "And you! Don't you value your life? You dare to do anything!"

"Teacher, I have gained a lot this time."

"Shut up! We'll talk about it when we get back. Let's go see a doctor first."

Li Yuanzhao got up and patted the dirt off his body, and said, "Okay, stop talking about him. Come on, load this hot air balloon for me and send it to the capital, I'll study it carefully. Don't worry, I won't use it to go to the sky again."

"This... this isn't good, is it?" Mo Xiaohu said hesitantly.

"Stop talking nonsense, your master would have given it to me directly if he were here. I'm going back to the capital first, I need to eat something to calm my nerves."

After speaking, Li Yuanzhao walked away on his own.

Then we can only build another one, and we'll get scolded when the master comes later.

Mo Xiaohu pouted, almost crying, and said to the people around him, "Hurry up and help Young Master Li load things onto the cart!"

Li Yuanzhao left, and the group returned to the Ordnance Workshop again.

Xiao Letian told Mo Xiaohu everything he had discovered in the sky, and Mo Xiaohu was amazed.

"Nature is truly amazing. Xiao, you have made a great contribution this time. Director Fang will come to the Ordnance Workshop later, and I will personally help you report your merits!"

"Thank you, Teacher!" Xiao Letian was overjoyed.

Mo Xiaohu instructed, "But don't talk nonsense when you see Director Fang, and don't call him mentor or teacher, just call him Director Fang."

"Our Director Fang hates two kinds of people the most, one is those who flatter and brown-nose. The other is those who randomly claim kinship, act familiar, and try to get close. Do you understand?"

"Understood!" Xiao Letian exclaimed, "Director Fang is truly upright and unyielding."

Fang Zheng's tall and upright image rose again in his heart!

"Yes, that's natural."

An hour later, the gate of the Ordnance Workshop was kicked open violently.

Fang Zhengqi rushed in panting, and asked, "Where are they! Are they okay!"

He had been galloping all the way, and his liver was about to be vomited out, for fear that this brat would have an accident.

How dare he be so bold, he actually went to the sky now!

Mo Xiaohu and Xiao Letian quickly got up when they saw Fang Zheng arrive. Mo Xiaohu said, "Master, they're okay. The hot air balloon's ascent was successful! Our project was successful!"

Fang Zheng's whole body relaxed immediately, and he breathed a long sigh of relief.

They're okay... it's good that they're okay.

But on second thought, he regretted it again.

The hot air balloon was successful? He lost the reputation of being the first person to fly into the sky! There should have been a Fang Zheng crater on the moon, damn it, now it's gone!

After suffering for a few seconds, Fang Zheng raised his head and asked, "Where's the hot air balloon?"

"It was taken away by Young Master Li."

"What! Why didn't you wait for me to come and deal with it!" Fang Zheng said angrily.

Mo Xiaohu felt extremely wronged. One side was the master, and the other side was the prince. He couldn't be a good person in the middle!

Seeing him muttering there without speaking, Fang Zheng said angrily, "He wanted it, so you gave it to him?"

"He insisted!"

"He insisted, so you gave it to him?!"

"What could I do if he insisted... I'm also sad."