() Jiang and his entourage heard Mrs. Peng say this, their faces blushed slightly, in the final analysis, this thing is indeed not authentic, but they were going to do this, so they didn't have too much overseas Chinese feelings, hehe smiled, and said: "Mrs. Peng doesn't understand, so Jiang will tell Mrs. Peng?"

Mrs. Peng's face was flat, she couldn't see the joy, anger and sorrow, and responded lightly: "It's okay!"

Jiang and his entourage pondered for a moment and said, "Madame doesn't know, this firecracker is really inferior to our Jiang family?"

As soon as Jiang and his entourage said this, Mrs. Peng understood what this person had in mind.

If you want to say that this firecracker, it is still a little exquisite, and it is also called "explosion", "cannonball", and "firecracker" in the bright world In ancient times, the bamboo was burned with fire, the sound of peeling, the sparks burst, called firecrackers, and then after continuous evolution, it evolved into today's firecrackers, according to the firecrackers on the firecrackers, but it can be blown up, but some firecrackers are really not ringing, the Peng family is mostly women, and they are born with no good feelings about this evil spirit, when they buy it every year, they obviously look good-looking, but on the day of the opening of the market on the sixth day of the first month, there are always some things that are not loud, this is not counted, even if it is ringing, it is a little less popular than the Jiang family, every time the Peng family is extremely depressed, but one does not understand this thing, and second, every year, I don't know what the problem is, I had to look at the sound of the Jiang family's firecrackers on the opposite side, which attracted a large number of guests to watch.

Later, on this article every year, the Peng family avoided setting off firecrackers with the Jiang family opposite, for fear of being ashamed.

Jiang and his party saw that Mrs. Peng had a calm face and did not speak, and was a little proud in his heart, to say the secret that this firecracker was louder than others, except for him, no one really knew, when he went out, passing by the Chang'an area, it happened to be the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, Chang'an was full of firecrackers, it is said that on Chinese New Year's Eve, it is not strange to hear the sound of firecrackers, but Jiang and his party are a caring person, he found that the firecrackers in this area, constantly ignited and quickly exploded, and the loud was extremely loud, and there were few that could not be exploded, which made him very surprised.

With the sensitivity of a natural businessman, he knew that there must be some problems, and after some inquiry, he finally knew that at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the plague was everywhere, and a man named Li Tian put saltpeter in a bamboo tube, and after igniting it, it made it make a louder sound and stronger smoke, which dispelled the miasma of Shanlan and stopped the epidemic of epidemics. This is the earliest prototype of firecrackers. Later, when gunpowder appeared, people filled saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal into bamboo tubes and burned them, resulting in a "blast war". In the Song Dynasty, the folk began to generally use paper tubes and hemp stems wrapped in gunpowder to make strings to make "cannons" (that is, firecrackers), and made zuò double cannons, so the firecrackers in Chang'an are much louder than other places, and there are few that can't be exploded.

Knowing the news, Jiang and his entourage were overjoyed, the businessman's acumen, let him feel that this was a good business opportunity, at the moment let people transport some firecrackers from Chang'an back, carefully checked and studied, and found that as the people of Chang'an said, this firecracker put saltpeter in it, these saltpeter into the blasting rod, after igniting the fire, those firecrackers are more combustible and will make a louder sound when burning, compared with the firecrackers in the south of the Yangtze River, it is simply a world of difference.

Knowing this secret, Jiang and his entourage were overjoyed, and wanted to use this craft immediately, but when they returned to Jiangnan, they found that many people already knew this craft, why the firecrackers were not as loud as the north, and the reason was undoubtedly that the climate in the south of the Yangtze River was humid, and the firecrackers were not as loud as the north after the firecrackers were damp.

Although the firecracker business has not been done, but he knows this craft, every year his own firecrackers are his own single-handed, because he knows the mystery, to make a three, two sounds is easier, this is how for several years, the Jiang family's firecrackers have always been better than the Peng family.

"Madame doesn't know, the so-called distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, our Jiang Qingtang and your Peng family's silk are a relationship with water, every year watching your Peng family on this day firecrackers, every year is not as good as a year, Jiang is heartbroken, with a heart of help, there is today's move!" Jiang and his entourage hugged their fists and talked eloquently.

Yang Zheng looked at this person in just a few words, and turned the originally unreasonable thing into help, and couldn't help but feel a little impressed by this person.

Mrs. Peng knew that this person did it on purpose, but after hearing these words, she couldn't say that it was wrong, the Peng family's firecrackers were indeed inferior to others, and it was reasonable for people to come to help.

"Hmph, isn't it loud, my Peng family also has it this year, but you don't need to come to the cat to cry and fake mercy!" Duan Yu stepped forward with Mao Zhu in a huff, and said with a snort.

The crowd was chattering and discussing at this time, and this is the most prosperous place in Hangzhou, with many shops, restaurants and tea shops, attracting a large number of customers on weekdays, so it seems very lively.

Although the two were close, Jiang and his entourage didn't hear Duan Yu's words clearly, they just smiled.

Duan Yuhe looked like this, and thought that he was despising the Peng family, where could he swallow this evil breath, and said viciously: "If you have the ability, don't go, let me take a look at our Peng family's firecrackers for a while, and see whose it is louder!"

Jiang and his entourage knew the secret of the firecrackers by accident, and he also believed that those businessmen who did the business of firecrackers would not tell the secrets of their firecrackers, so he had reason to know the secret of the firecrackers in detail.

Mrs. Peng glanced at the eldest lady, who shook her head and said that she didn't know about firecrackers.

"Madam, please rest assured, our Peng family will definitely be able to release firecrackers that are louder than the Jiang family?" Duan Yu said in an extremely affirmative tone.

Mrs. Peng glanced at Duan Yu, nodded and said, "I believe in you!"

Duan Yu snorted at Jiang and his entourage, "I'll take a good look at you, what is a firecracker?"

Jiang and his entourage said with a smile: "It's a good thing that newborn calves aren't afraid of tigers, but it's stupid to be too self-conscious!"

"Bad guy, do you think Brother Duan can really release firecrackers that are louder than the Jiang family?" The second young lady pulled Yang Zheng's arm and said a little nervously, the daughter's family naturally likes to sympathize with the weak, not to mention that Duan Yu or his own family can't help but be a little worried.

It was the first time for Yang Zheng to see Duan Yu's serious expression, and he nodded and said, "Don't worry, Brother Duan will definitely not let us down?"

"How do you know?" The second lady couldn't help but be a little curious when she heard his tone, you must know that the Peng family has not overshadowed the Jiang family's firecrackers for five consecutive years, and has long lost confidence in this matter.

Yang Zheng stretched out his hand and smiled lightly on the second lady's dexterous nose, and said, "Because serious men are the easiest to succeed!"

The second young lady was stunned for a moment, then covered her small mouth and giggled, and said, "What is the reason for this?"

Before Yang Zheng could speak, he only heard someone in the crowd shouting: "Look, what is that?"

Yang Zheng and the second lady looked up curiously, only to see Duan Yu in the crowd taking a big round cake from Fu Bo's hand, the round cake was about half a person high, tightly tied together with rusty wire, and the outside was stuffed with a thick layer of paper.

"Haha-?" Surprised, Jiang and his entourage laughed out loud and said, "I said this little brother, is this your firecracker, this is really not good-looking?"

Everyone laughed for a while, and they agreed with Jiang and his party's words.

Mrs. Peng, on her part, coughed lightly twice, but no one spoke.

"Is this a firecracker, so strange?" the second lady asked curiously, frowning.

As soon as this appearance came out, others didn't know what it was, but Yang Zheng was very familiar, listened to the words of the second lady, and said with a smile: "I've seen it!"

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Say a few words, in the middle of the month, the monthly pass is very important, the current eighth place, the gap behind the chase is very small, but the gap in front is very large, book friends with tickets don't forget to send a ticket, your vote is enough to change the situation of the war!

Second, the first two wrote that the concubine eats rock sugar gourd, some people say that I make it up, here is a note, there are really concubines who eat rock sugar gourds in history! So some book friends don't scold, here is not the number of words!

Note: Song Guangzong, named Zhao Dun, was the third son of Zhao Shendi of Song Xiaozong. In October 1187, he was succeeded by Song Xiaozong, and the name was changed to "Shaoxi" in the second year.

During the Shaoxi period, Song Guangzong's favorite Huang Guifei was sick, her face was yellow and thin, and she didn't want to eat. The imperial physician in the palace had many valuable medicines, but it still had no effect. Seeing that his beloved concubine was getting more and more haggard and thin day by day, the emperor was also very depressed, and his face was sad all day long.

There was no way, so I had to go to the people to recruit good doctors.

Soon, sure enough, there was a charlatan who was unveiled. After checking Huang Guifei's pulse, Lang Zhong said: "Guifei's illness is not in the way, as long as you boil the rock sugar and hawthorn fruit, eat seven or eight before each meal, and it won't take a few days." ”

At first, everyone didn't believe this Jianghu Langzhong, but who would have thought that after the concubine ate it, the disease would be miraculously cured.

Later, this way of eating spread to the people, and the common people skewered it up and sold it, which is the rock sugar gourd we see now.

It turns out that hawthorn has the medicinal effect of "eliminating food accumulation, dispersing blood, repelling tapeworms, and stopping dysentery", especially in helping digestion, and has been a good medicine for digestion since ancient times.

I think that Huang Guifei is most likely sick because she has eaten too many delicacies from the mountains and seas, and she has eaten rock sugar hawthorn, so she will naturally be fine.