Along the way, the team that followed grew larger and larger.

Master Xile sat on the donkey cart led by him, pointed the procession all the way forward, and finally stopped at the entrance of the vegetable market with the people.

At this time, there were nearly 1,000 people who heard the news.

Master Xile has grown a beard for many years, and he is already quite immortal, and his old face is still thin and thin, and it is difficult to reduce the faith of the people in the slightest.

Master Xile stood still on the donkey cart, chanted the Buddha to the onlookers, and then raised his head and said aloud: "My Buddha is merciful, the north is cold, and the poor monks can't bear the cold winter of the donors. Coal has been considered a poison since ancient times, and the poor monks do not deny it, but this does not mean that coal cannot be used by us.

I don't know if the donors can find that the coal poisoning is in a house or a relatively confined space, and if it is a courtyard and other ventilated places, it will not happen. That's right, when coal is burned, it produces a kind of poisonous gas, as long as we keep ventilated, the fresh air will take the poisonous gas away and we will not be poisoned. Of course, in winter, opening windows does not work for heating at all.

The problem of poison gas was not unsolvable, and with the help of the monks and a few well-meaning donors, we were able to make briquettes. ”

Master Joy held a briquette and said to the onlookers with great joy, "That's right! It is what I have in my hand, the smell of briquettes is very small when burning, and with the special ventilation hole on the stove, the briquettes will be very safe when burning. ”

To prove that this was true, Master Joy lifted the stove that was covered beside him.

The onlookers thought that the master had asked them to see something good and stretched their necks to lean over, but when they saw the burning briquettes in a trance, they fell backwards in panic one by one.

The young man at the front covered his nose exaggeratedly and screamed, "I won't be stupid when I smell the poison gas!" Mother! Mother! Where are you, I haven't taken my daughter-in-law yet, help! ”

Although the others were not as exaggerated as him, they were also far away one by one with their noses covered, and if it weren't for the fact that Master Joy was still standing still, all the people around him would have run away.

Master Xile jumped off the donkey cart nimbly, picked up Wang Dazhu, who fell to the ground in panic, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, it's absolutely fine." In order to prove the authenticity, Master Joy also took a few deep breaths over the stove.

"The Buddha said, I don't go to hell, who goes to hell, since a few days ago, the temple has used briquettes to make food and heat, and the monks in the temple are not abnormal. Today, the poor monks also come to promote the briquettes, and the donors can get the briquettes for free and go home to try them, and the monks and laymen in the temple will guide them. ”

Master Xile looked at the onlookers with anticipation: "Today, the poor monks will also stay, and if the donors have any questions, the poor monks will answer them carefully." ”

The master wants to stay! The Master is going to answer their questions!

Many people exclaimed, they had only heard of the miraculous deeds of Master Joy, but they had not experienced them personally, but this did not affect their worship of the master.

I heard that those powerful families with ten thousand taels of silver in their hands would not necessarily respond to them, and now the master actually said that he would stay here to answer their questions. What a shock! Otherwise, they will also take two briquettes and ask the master what he can do to make a fortune and marry a wife!

Master Xile looked at the crowd with a smile, and said to Wang Dazhu, who was still covering his nose next to him: "The donor has to try it, the son wants to raise but does not wait, and the donor is in good health and Lingtang may not be able to survive this harsh winter." ”

Wang Dazhu's eyes widened, how did Master Joy know that his mother was sick! even knew that there was no firewood in his house!

Wang Dazhu's father was a small merchant, and he died on the road when he was two years old. At that time, the brothers of the royal father came to take the body of the royal father back to their hometown, but because of their age, Wang Dazhu did not return to his hometown after he was born. The brothers of the royal father immediately refused to admit that Wang Dazhu was their brother's child on the grounds that they had never met Wang Dazhu and that Wang Dazhu had not been listed in the family tree.

The royal father's brothers robbed the family of belongings, took the royal father's corpse, left Wang Dazhu, orphaned and widowed, and left.

The royal father has many brothers in the family, and the queen mother is the daughter-in-law that Wang Dazhu's grandmother bought for her son with money. Without her mother's family to rely on, the queen mother had nowhere to go with Wang Dazhu, so she stayed in Beijing for a few years.

The royal father was a very successful businessman, a poor boy who worked odd jobs in a small town, and worked his way up to a small house in Kyoto. The brothers of the Wang family thought that the house where the royal father lived was rented, and left directly after grabbing the property, and did not pay attention to the house.

Her husband died and her property was taken away. The helpless queen mother looked at the ignorant Wang Dazhu, so she could only grit her teeth and sell the hut, and took Wang Dazhu to start a hard day.

The Queen Mother has a good hand in embroidery, and in the past ten years, many people have mentioned that the Queen Mother has remarried. But the queen mother was sold by her stepmother back then, and she was afraid that her children would have the same fate as herself, so she refused directly.

Now that the queen mother is old, her eyes are not good, and the embroidery work has long been abandoned, but fortunately, Wang Dazhu can earn money to make a living when she is old.

Wang Dazhu earned only enough money in the expensive Kyoto to barely starve to death, and the Wang family did not dare to buy more than firewood for cooking every winter. Every year, the jacket and quilt are all covered and the body is forced to survive.

A few days ago, the Queen Mother suffered from the cold, and she ate for a few days intermittently. Wang Dazhu was afraid that his mother would freeze, so he secretly put the quilt on his mother every night and slept in a sack full of reed flowers. Wait until it's almost dawn to change the quilt.

Wang Dazhu wanted to go to the temple in Xishan for help today, and when he saw Master Xile and his monks entering the city, he thought about looking for them directly, and in the extra time, he could go to carry the goods for his mother to exchange for two meat buns to eat.

As a result, this leading monk turned out to be the legendary Master of Joy.

Now Master Joy has told them about their family's situation, and he knows that his mother is not in good health! How is this possible?

Master Xile opened his eyes wide at the king and said very compassionately: "The donor has a relationship with the poor monk, I don't know if I can use the donor's home today." ”

The Master of Joy wants to live in his house!

The key is that Master Xile's medical skills are invincible, if the mother can be treated by the master, wouldn't it be right away!

Wang Dazhu looked at Master Xile in surprise and nodded violently.

Master Joy smiled and asked, "Even if you want to burn briquettes in your house to keep warm today?" ”

Wang Dazhu remembered his mother, who was shivering from the cold at night, and nodded fiercely, "Okay!" ”

Master Joy asked people to pull briquettes and go to Wang Dazhu's house.

Wang Dazhu's house is near the entrance of the vegetable market, and you can see it when you stand at the intersection, and many people have surrounded it when they see it.

The reason why Master Xile chose Caishikou is also because it is much more likely to promote coal here.

The entrance of the vegetable market is the execution ground, and there are a few days here every month where cutting off the head is like cutting melons. The bloody and deadly market is definitely one of Kyoto's most murderous places in the eyes of everyone. So much so that it has become the cheapest place in the whole of Kyoto.

At that time, the queen mother sold the cottage, and it was quite difficult to take Wang Dazhu, and she was once reduced to nowhere to go and could only rent the cheapest house in the vegetable market.

After living for a long time, the queen mother found that this place is actually good, the house price is cheap, it is convenient to buy things, out of the fear of ghosts and gods, it is very quiet here at night, there will be no idle man who can not marry his mother-in-law to knock on the door at night, and petty thieves never come.

In the end, the queen mother simply took her son to settle down at the entrance of the vegetable market, and lived there for so many years.

Wang Dazhu opened the door and invited Master Xile to come in, but the donkey cart brought too many briquettes, and in the end they could not all be piled up in the yard.

"Master, please come in!" Wang Dazhu opened the door of the main room and let Master Joy in.

There are two houses, one large and one small, and listening to the coughing sound coming from the room inside, it is obvious that the Queen Mother lives there.

Wang Dazhu smiled apologetically, ran directly into the hut, and waited for the coughing sound inside to subside before running out in a hurry.

"Master, can you see my mother?" Wang Dazhu looked at Master Xile with anticipation, and when he saw the master nodding, Wang Dazhu hurriedly invited the master to the hut happily.

The Queen Mother leaned on the bed, with a soft smile on her thin and dark face, and saw her son happily come in with a monk, thinking that it was the joy master that her son had just mentioned. The Queen Mother struggled to fold her hands and bowed, and said respectfully and piously: "Master, it's hard work. ”

Master Xile's medical skills have improved a lot over the years, and after some looking and asking, he was sure that there was no problem with the medicine prescribed by Lang Zhong, and Wang Dazhu was both happy and disappointed after hearing it.

After leaving the Queen Mother's house, Master Joy said to Wang Dazhu, "Lord Wang, can you tell me where the stove is?" ”

The Wang family's stove is outside Wang Dazhu's house, and since Wang Dazhu agreed, he didn't shirk and took someone to his room directly.

Master Xile walked around the stove standing against the wall in the courtyard a few times, and then entered Wang Dazhu's house, and said to the mason who came with him: "Just put this stove in the middle of the house, and the vent will be made according to the temple." ”

The mason looked like he had given it all to me, and immediately began to work with his son.

Soon a small stove with the height of three briquettes appeared in the house.

When the stove was dismantled, many people had already walked in by themselves, standing by and waiting to see what was going to happen.

A half-burned briquette was taken from the small stove on the donkey cart and placed in the freshly made stove, followed by two more unburned briquettes.

Master Xile ordered a few people who were willing to come to check the market, and asked people to close the door tightly.

The valve was opened to the maximum, and the bottom briquette quickly burned vigorously, and there was a gentle beeping sound in the upper two pieces.

Seeing that the people in the house were not afraid, Master Joy explained with a smile: "When the briquettes are burning, the smell has little effect on the human body, as long as you remember to keep the vents at night and cover the top of the stove, the possibility of poisoning is very small." ”

Waiting for the three briquettes to slowly turn red, Master Xile let people demonstrate how to use briquettes to cook and boil water and make tea.

During the cooking process, the onlookers were amazed, and as long as they put the briquettes there, they would burn them themselves. There is no need to add firewood, and there is no need to worry about the fire spreading to other places. The fire is also high, and soon a pot of porridge is cooked.

After frying potatoes and cabbage one after another, many people have already looked at the briquettes and their eyes lit up.

If it's really not poisonous, this briquette is simply too convenient!

The key is cheapness! Much cheaper than matches!

Master Xile and Wang Dazhu had a simple lunch, and in the middle of the afternoon, a nearby family who could barely afford to burn firewood invited a mason to build a new stove, leaving some briquettes.

After a noon personal test and verification, the people are all talking about it, briquettes are not poisons, they can use briquettes to cook in the cold!

That night, Master Joy stayed at Wang Dazhu's house.

On the second day, a crowd of people swarmed when the rooster crowed.

These people are just to see if Wang Dazhu was poisoned last night, and if Master Joy has burped!

There are too many poor people in Caishikou, and many adults and children are struggling to survive in winter. Now that there are non-toxic and free briquettes, many people are flocking to it, planning to keep some more for the winter.

The scene of remodeling the stove and distributing briquettes was extremely hot that day.

Hundreds of households used coal to heat their homes that night.

The next day, after hundreds of households were safe and sound, many people firmly believed that briquettes were non-toxic!

The briquettes brought by Master Joy have been sent!

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In the past few days, there has been a lot of discussion in Beijing, and the theme of the discussion is, of course, the joyful master who strives for briquettes to keep warm.

When ordinary people heard about it, they were all waiting for a new batch of briquettes to be produced quickly.

Coal is cheap and easy to obtain, and it is said that the price of briquettes is also very low, if you don't use firewood to use coal, how much money will your family save in a year!

The master is really a good person who benefits the country and the people!

The powerful families in Kyoto don't care about cheap things like coal, and where do big families use cheap coal? They use the finest gold and silver charcoal. Coal is a thing that is occasionally used secretly once or twice when the house fights and palace fights.

The House of Powerful wanted to know why Master Xile studied coal, because of the crown prince and the Nine Emperor Princes, or if he was really just sympathetic to the unbearable cold of the common people.

(To be continued.) )