On September 15, the eighth year of the Xuan calendar, Fu Xiaoguan received a note from Fu Daguan.

This note has a line of words: Son, my father is going to take a concubine, five at a time, you have to come back and take a look, recognize your face and don't call the wrong person, right?

So fast?

Fu Xiaoguan was surprised for a moment and then thought about it, this matter must be fast, because the holy decree says that before August 15 of the next year, Fu Daguan will have to give birth to five children, if he doesn't hurry up, if he is not convicted of bullying the king, it will be a big game.

He thought carefully about the current situation in Xishan, the houses in Wangjia Village have been built, the perfume workshop in Xishan has also been built, and the glazed equipment transported from Linjiang is being installed.

In the past two days, she has taught Zhang Xiaomei a few times, and she should be very familiar with it.

Jasmine and osmanthus are also entering the storehouse these days, but it will take a month for the flowers planted by the farmers to bloom.

The new brewery had also been built, ten times larger than he had planned, and had been put into operation in the first two days, and the production capacity of Xiangquan and Tianol had increased a lot, and the output of Xishan Qiong had only increased by two percent, because the alcohol had to be refined.

Now the R&D center and school are under construction, the soap and soap workshop is in the next step, and the papermaking workshop is in the last step.

The letter sent back by Feng Laosi said that the road to Fenglin Mountain has been opened, but because of the terrain, the progress is slow, and it is expected that the road to the bottom of the Broken Soul Mountain will be completed by the end of the year at the earliest.

The letter also said that he went to the group of people who built the road and selected more than 20 blacksmiths and hundreds of middle-aged people to enter the Broken Soul Mountain, and he needed manpower to further explore and study the mining methods, but he did not tell the young master in advance, hoping that the young master could understand.

In this way, it is necessary to put the explosives/ammunition on the agenda in advance.

Fu Xiaoguan thought about it, so he called Zhang Ce and asked him to call Li Yi.

Li Yi helped in the back mountain of Xishan and returned to the Xishan Courtyard at noon.

"That's right, come, let's eat together." Fu Xiaoguan greeted warmly.

Li Yi was stunned, hurriedly waved his hand, and said: "The villain doesn't dare, the young master can only tell if he has something, and the villain will go back to the shed to eat." ”

"Don't grind, if I tell you to sit down and eat, you can sit down - Xiu'er, give Li Yi a meal."

"This ......" Li Yi was very entangled, this is a young master, I sat down with him to eat, didn't I exceed the rules?

"I don't have rules, you and I will naturally know after getting along for a long time."

Li Yi sat down uneasily, and Chunxiu brought him rice and chopsticks.

"Eat first." Fu Xiaoguan said and gave him a chopstick dish, "I'll come by myself." Li Yi hurriedly picked up the bowl and ate it.

"That's right...... Where was your home? Fu Xiaoguan asked casually while eating.

"In Huishui County, Ningzhou."

"Oh, living in the county?"

"Well, this time the Yellow River flooded the entire Huishui County in the middle of the night, and only the family fled."

"Do you have any relatives?"

Li Yi paused for a long time and said: "I don't know, I couldn't see anything at that time, I ran my own way, and I don't know if my parents and brothers are dead or alive now." ”

"Jiren has his own natural appearance, and I will call Xishan Express to inquire in the future."

"Thank you, young master!"

"Little things."

Fu Xiaoguan didn't ask again, the two finished eating silently, Chunxiu cleaned up the table and made a pot of tea for the two.

"I remember you said that your house makes fireworks?" Fu Xiaoguan asked as he drank tea.

"Master Hui, exactly, my family's fireworks are very good."

"That's right, I need you to prepare black fire and medicine, tell me how your black fire/medicine is proportioned?"

In this era, there are already fireworks, and black fire and medicine are not uncommon, so Li Yi quickly replied: "It's the same as other people's, one nitrate, two huang, and three charcoal." ”

Fu Xiaoguan nodded, and said, "You write down the recipe I said, go and try it, the ratio of nitrate and sulfur is 75, 10, 15." Be bold and experiment - I'm not asking you to make fireworks, what I need is that you make this thing that is not susceptible to moisture and can burn steadily. In addition, when processing, my advice is to purify the impurities of nitrate and sulfur as much as possible, and try to be as fine as possible when crushing and stirring the herbs, that is, I want this thing to produce much higher calories than your recipe in the same amount. ”

Li Yi scratched his head, the young master actually knew this?

But is there a difference between his recipe and his own? That must be according to the young master's recipe, and what is this calorie? How to evaluate it?

Fu Xiaoguan didn't explain to him, and said: "You may not know the rules of our Xishan, this project is handed over to you, you are the person in charge, how many people do you need, how much money, how many raw materials, etc., you only need to report to Zhang Ce and Steward Zhang, and he will give you all the implementation, what you have to do is to study without worries." ”

"I'm going back to Linjiang, the R&D center is being built, you can go to the place where it has been built and choose a laboratory, whatever you want, as long as you don't blow up my building, of course, you have to ensure your own safety."

Li Yi probably understood, the young master meant that he wanted a black fire/medicine that was powerful enough.

"Don't worry, young master, I'll go to Steward Zhang, and I will definitely give this thing to the young master to understand."

"Go ahead."

Fu Xiaoguan lay on the chair and thought for a while, and that's it, "Xiu'er, prepare to leave back to Linjiang!" ”

……

At nightfall, Fu Xiaoguan and his entourage returned to Linjiang Fufu.

The house has been lit up, and there is a lot of festive flavor.

Fu Daguan's face was full of spring breeze but somewhat embarrassed, and he was eating dinner with Fu Xiaoguan and Qi Shi in the main hall.

"Son, I burned that decree for your mother."

Fu Xiaoguan was taken aback, and Fu Daguan said again: "How can I explain this to your mother clearly?" Only by burning this decree to your mother and letting her see it with her own eyes will she believe it. ”

I said...... Actually, you don't have to be like this, my mother has been gone for more than ten years, I think she wants this Fu family to be lively. ”

"Hey...... Anyway, this thing can't help your mother. ”

"Dad, these five mothers, but you picked them yourself? You don't have to go around looking for five. ”

"It's strange to say, there are a lot of matchmakers who are willing to marry me as concubines, and one of them is still the daughter of the cloth merchant Qu family, so this is not all five at once. If I marry someone and run a party, my family can charge more gift money, but people will gossip, so my father thought about simply doing it once, and our family is not short of that money, right? ”

Fu Xiaoguan was happy, thinking that you guys have done it unified, on the night of the candles in this cave room, five women are waiting, you are not old bones, can you eat it?