Chapter Twenty-Three: Wall Lamps

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"Hanshuang," Zhang Zhaohua raised his head from the front of the desk, and when he saw the dim light around him, he couldn't help but call: "Why is it so dark - turn on the wall lamp!"

"Niangniang," Han Dong asked, "Do you really want to turn on the wall lamp?"

"Open it," Zhang Zhaohua said: "It's not something that can't be opened, it's not for lighting people, I can see it in the dark here, I don't know how you see things?"

In fact, the indoor lighting tools in addition to the table lamp used on the table, as well as the wall lamp hanging on the wall, the outdoor courtyard uses horn lighting, and there is lantern lighting at night, Zhang Zhaohua lives in this world, and he also uses the table lamp, and has never lit the wall lamp, because it is generally not very useful, everyone follows the law of sunset, and it is time to go to bed when it gets dark at night, and if you don't sleep, use the table lamp, and the light is enough - the wall lamp in the house is generally set up for dinner.

Although it is said that the wall lamp is usually lit at night when there are many people, it is not just a dead rule that it can only be used for night banquets, so Zhang Zhaohua let Hanshuang light the lamp, and there is no hindrance. Picked it down with a pole, opened the lampshade, and added a candle flame β€”

This time, the light in the room was penetrated, and the light was more than two or three times that of the table lamp. Zhang Zhaohua walked over to observe this thing with great interest, and found that this wall lamp is really a thing made of fine work, the structure is octagonal, with fine wood as the frame, and is bonded by more than 20 pieces of wood of different sizes and engraved patterns, divided into two layers, the top is large and the bottom is small, it is the appearance of the pavilion in the building. These are not surprising, mainly because the lamp yarn is not made of any material, and it does not look like ordinary gauze, because it looks like the internal structure of gold wire crystal, and it is as fine as a glass piece composed of hair, which is translucent glass, and it is cold and slightly hard to the touch, not like touching gauze, but like touching a piece of nephrite.

Zhang Zhaohua was startled, and just about to invite the palace maid to ask what kind of material this was, he saw Gao Chi lift the curtain and walk in, and as soon as he came in, he was also stabbed by this dazzling light, and when he saw it clearly, he said, "Why did you light the wall lamp?"

"Isn't it too dark," Zhang Zhaohua went over to take off his cloak for him, pushed him to the lamp, and said: "This lamp is also the first time I have seen it, and it is the first time I have lit it.

Gao Chi touched the red and yellow tassel tassels hanging on the wall lamp, and said: "This lamp is naturally not an ordinary lamp, it is a relic of Empress Xiaoci, and it was given to the mansion, and there is also one in the middle hall." ”

According to Gao Chi, this lamp has a special name, called "filament lamp", from Yunnan Golden Tooth Guard, the earliest in the thirteenth year of Hongwu, by Xiping Hou Muying. Because at that time, Queen Ma had a thin white puff in one eye, and she couldn't see things clearly, and she didn't allow the palace people to light more candles at night, saying that it was a waste, Mu Ying knew that she offered this kind of filament lamp from Yunnan, the material and production process are actually quite valuable, because it is made of agate and purple quartz and one or two other kinds of cool stones, crushed and pounded into crumbs, boiled and rotted into silk, must be lit with smallpox in the north, in order to solidify, such things can be fished out and reeled into silk, and then woven into silk after silk, made into a lamp yarn to cover the lamp, can make the candle inside shine, only one candle can make the whole house bright。

This time, Zhang Zhaohua understood that the silk satin cooked by a stone with a high refractive index such as agate purple quartz refracted and reflected the light of a candle countless times, just like lighting countless candles.

"Empress Xiaoci used this lamp, she can see a lot of things clearly, she is very happy, there is only one candle in it, it is not a waste," Gao Chi said: "In fact, I was coaxed, this thing is just such a silk, and it will be boiled out of a basket of purple quartz, a total of eight noodles, that is, eight baskets of purple quartz." But the emperor's grandfather made twelve lamps in one go so that she could see clearly, and until she died, she didn't know how this thing was made. ”

After the death of Queen Ma, twelve palace lamps were placed in the palace, and the emperor blocked things and thoughts, so he gave these lamps and old relics to the kings, and the Yan Wangfu got two lights, one was placed in Princess Xu, and one was left in the prince's house.

"I didn't expect this lamp to have this origin," Zhang Zhaohua sighed: "Let's just say that this thing looks like a palace lamp, and I have never seen it. ”

"Let's do it," Gao Chi said: "This lamp is just to be lit, and it must not be the intention to set it aside and let it be dusty." ”

He took off his robe by himself, Zhang Zhaohua sat beside him and opened his underwear, and applied the ointment to his back, this is the first two days when he went to the eastern suburbs, he was drilled into his clothes by midges, and bit out three or five bags, and now the bag is down, and what is left on his back is a small rash, and he feels itchy, so he uses ointment to cool and calm down.

His little rash was carefully looked at by Liu Yizheng, and said that it was okay, Zhang Zhaohua finally put her mind at ease, and after she applied ointment to Gao Chi, she also picked up a cotton swab and stuffed it into her nose.

Gao Chi turned his head and saw that there was a cotton swab in each of her nostrils, and he was frightened, and said, "What's the matter with your nose?"

The cotton swab was made up by Zhang Zhaohua herself, and when she first smeared the medicine on Gao Chi, she couldn't wash off the smell of medicine on her hands, so she simply asked for a pound of cotton from the Clothing Bureau of the Dianbao Institute, dipped it in wine and exposed it to the sun, and dismantled the bamboo pole to make a cotton swab stick, made a cotton swab by herself, and made a small box out.

She put a medicinal cotton swab on Gao Chi, and stuffed two cotton swabs into her nose because the house was too dry, because the spring cold began to fall again in the past few days, and the temperature dropped sharply, so there were four braziers erected in the four corners of the house.

Zhang Zhao sneezed a lot, knowing that he didn't have a cold, but that his nose couldn't stand such dry air, so he simply dipped a cotton swab in water and stuffed it into his nostrils to moisturize, which was really much better.

"Let's let you have fun today," Zhang Zhaohua pointed to his nose and said, "What is this, this is a pig's nose with green onions - pretending to be an elephant!"

But the joyful appearance she deliberately made did not attract the expected effect, Gao Chi just pulled the corners of his mouth slightly, and his face sank again.

Before Zhang Zhaohua could ask what was wrong, he saw Wang An coming in from outside, holding a mourning dress made of raw linen in his hand.

"Put it down," Gao Chi turned his head to Zhang Zhaohua and said, "I'll wear this tomorrow, and you will wear it tomorrow." ”

It turned out that today I just got the news that the fast horse galloped forward, the king of Qin Zhu Zhangxue died, he was ordered to conquer Taozhou Zhufan in the first month and achieved success, and died of illness shortly after returning to Xi'an.

According to the mourning system, King Yan has to serve his brother for one year, the county king serves his uncle for nine months, and the princess of the county has five months. While Zhang Zhaohua felt a little lost, he also felt a little relaxed, after all, it had been nearly a year, and he didn't have to worry about his heirs.