Chapter 20 The things that exploded
In this blink of an eye, it was almost a few days before the New Year. Uncle Gui returned with the mine team. Thirty people went there. Now the people who came back were also No. 30, and they were all in full spirit and did not delay their return home to reunite. After a few words of explanation, they sent them to Uncle Li. They received money and reunite with their parents, wife and children. In short, everyone was happy.
The winter in the south is indeed comfortable, but it is also cheap. Before we came through, the whole winter was cold and cold, and the sun was almost impossible to see. The temperature was only seven or eight degrees, and sometimes it was even below zero. Now we have reached the warmth of the earth. We missed the previous winter. We took advantage of the warm afternoon sunshine and lay beautifully in the yard, putting some pastries and snacks on the table, and ate them bite by bit.
The new yard was finally completed before the New Year. The second yard was only manually dug a pool in the middle. The springs in Dongshan were directly led to the pool. The flowers and plants were not cleaned up yet. It looked a bit bare. I came to do it again in spring. These were all planned by Yu'er based on his feelings, but the big banyan tree did not move and built a pavilion next to him. Yu'er knew that I like to rest here. Now it's better, and I'm not afraid of it. Look at the feeling of rain falling in the pool. It's good and quite artistic.
Yu'er patted the dust on her body, walked over, sat down next to me, and calculated that it had been half a year since we came here. Although we had not experienced any storms, we finally slept in the same bed for these days. Yu'er is a good wife. She doesn't talk much on weekdays, but she is meticulous. No matter what I have in my heart, she can feel it. Especially when I am upset, Yu'er can also give me a kind of comfort and support. Who said men don't need to rely on? At least I'm not, especially the freshness of time travel, when I think of my parents, I really felt inexplicable panic. Fortunately, Yu'er was with me, so I finally got through it.
"What do you think of?"
"I miss you, I've been there for so long."
Yu'er leaned softly beside me, habitually drawing circles on my belly. I don't know when this action was developed. I enjoyed it very much, patting Yu'er's back, and the two of them enjoyed the warmth of the afternoon sun at the same time.
"In the future, all the work in this family will be left to the servants to take care of, don't be tired."
Since several maids and mothers came to my house, the yard has gradually become popular, and more people have walked upstairs. Someone has helped me with anything I ask for and what I say.
Just as Yu'er was spending time, Uncle Gui came in with a bundle of things, happy, he was so old that he was really energetic, so he quickly went up to meet him, Uncle Gui quickly greeted him
"Haha, sir, let's see how this explosive pole is? This was selected by me personally. Look, it's all two-year-old green bamboos, which are very burning and loud."
The explosion pole is the legendary firecracker's previous life? Look, it's just an ordinary bamboo, with a little expression that was not cut, and was seen by Uncle Gui. Uncle Gui frowned and didn't say anything.
"Well, it's not bad, will it be more detailed?" Seeing that Uncle Gui was worried, he quickly opened up the topic.
"No, the thin roots sounded crisply and spread far, and it was more satisfying than the thick branches." Uncle Gui saw that I was not in high spirits and had no interest in chatting with me. After packing up, he rushed to Uncle Li to continue showing off.
"Mr. I hurt Uncle Gui's heart. Every year, Uncle Gui burns the pole, and you follow Uncle Gui happily every year. Today, I won't be able to get out of Taiwan."
Yu'er just entered the house to change my tea. Before she could wink at me, I offended Uncle Gui now.
"Ah, I forgot, I'll talk to Uncle Gui later." He slapped his forehead and asked someone to catch up quickly. Let Uncle Gui come back. Isn't it just a burning pole? Simple. Since Uncle Gui has this hobby, we can just burn it, just a little gunpowder, a high-tech formula that is necessary for travelers. Anyway, those Taoists probably haven't figured out the correct ratio yet, so we will do it in one stop.
Uncle Gui was wondering, and came back with a bundle of green bamboos. Seeing me standing in the yard and about to speak, I waved my hand.
"Let's go, Uncle Gui, let's get a shocking pole."
Without waiting for Uncle Gui to react, he pulled Uncle Gui to Master Zhou and went to wherever he was. Master Zhou was busy trying out the steel according to my recipe. When he saw me coming, he quickly ordered his apprentice to prepare tea.
Charcoal is ready-made, and Master Zhou of saltpeter can also find a way to get it. Since you want to do it, you can do it with a big deal. Let’s put a satellite too. Make thirty or fifty kilograms of sulfur first. The saltpeter is almost the same. It is crushed directly and packed in two wooden barrels for later use.
The mixing was carefully mixed in proportion. Uncle Gui and Master Zhou didn't know what I was doing, so they followed behind curiously.
"Uncle Gui, get a piece of explosive pole, just one piece, there must be bamboo joints."
Put the gunpowder in place and stuff it tightly. Try it first and find an empty place. Just beside the Dongshan Water Pond. There are no plants everywhere, and you won’t be afraid even if it burns.
Uncle Gui volunteered to ignite the fire, but I definitely won’t approve it. It’s better to build the fire by sir. It’s a high-tech thing. If there is something, we are still young and there is still a long way to go.
"boom!!!!!!!"
I was stupid, Uncle Gui was stupid, and Master Zhou was stupid, too. A ball of flame rose into the sky with thick smoke, illuminating the entire pool at the foot of Dongshan for a moment.
Someone was peeing in the farmhouse, and a few cow legs were weak in the cattle shed, and they lay down, and the soup was flowing all over the floor. Yu'er was like crazy, pulling me to tell the shocking thunder just now!
"God is angry, really angry. The husband has heard it too. I will go to the temple to burn incense tomorrow and I will not go there in March. I am afraid of this New Year when I think of it."
Shivering, Yu'er was trembling obviously, and she shook Yu'er's little hand and looked righteous.
"Don't be afraid, wife, this is the explosive pole we burned!"
"What, is it a blow-off? Where did such a big noise come from?"
"Hehe, my husband, I added seasoning to the blowing pole, it's shocking." He clapped his hands and walked slowly in the room. We were proud. Not to mention anything else, I'm afraid no one in the world can do it except me. Humph, history is written by us, black gunpowder, inventor Ning Wen, and the first experiment in Zhenguan in three years. Baidu Encyclopedia will definitely introduce it like this.
I never wanted to disturb the yamen, but they still came to me. Etiquette was indispensable. When I opened the middle door, the whole family went out to greet me. Although the county magistrate was a seventh-rank official, and I could almost ignore it when I put it in the capital, after all, it was on the other person's territory, and the county magistrate was better than the current management.
I asked about the sound of the night, and someone saw the firelight appearing on Ningjiazhuang. No wonder the county magistrate was so concerned. Later, I heard from the village household that the county magistrate was studying the structure of the human body with a prospective concubine that night, but was shocked by this loud thunder and stopped the scene. I said.
After explaining a few words, he pulled the county magistrate to look at the scene of the incident. The drought thunder was indeed domineering. He believed it. At this time, no one could make such a big noise for no reason.
After seeing off the county magistrate, the village finally breathed a sigh of relief. After all, there was a problem with the sex of the county magistrate. This was a first-class major in Liangde County. We always had to find the culprit. Of course, God was not allowed to find it. But later I heard that the county magistrate often burned incense to the county temples, and even abandoned the government affairs and eventually lost his official position. He was whispering all day long and always told people that he had offended God and was struck by thunder in the dry weather. I blamed this, I am really sorry for the diligent county magistrate.
Chapter completed!