Aunt Li still made some food at home, and when Shi Moxi arrived, the smoke had not yet dispersed, and when she saw Shi Moxi coming, Aunt Li hurriedly came to ask for warmth, for fear that Shi Moxi would be wronged by begging for food.

However, before Moxi could answer, Uncle Li, who had a rough smile on his face, explained the whole process to Aunt Li with great interest.

The same relieved smile appeared on Aunt Li's face. Shi Moxi, who made the soul of his thirties, very embarrassed.

The conversation was hot, and Xiao Er and Li Shihammer of Zou Ji Restaurant arrived at the door together.

After sending away the second child of the shop, Li Shizhu happily put the food box on the dining table, and couldn't wait to open it, and his eyes flashed with green light.

"Put the rice away! Today, if you dare to eat first, see if I don't chop off your hands! Aunt Li said viciously, quite a legacy after killing the pig.

Li Shihammer took away his hand fearfully, and while putting the meals out of the food box one by one, he said jealously: "My mother is always so good to Brother Shi, I am so busy day by day, and I didn't give me a good meal." ”

Uncle Li came over and gave Li Shihammer a hammer, "If you can also take the test like a child, I'll let you live in a restaurant, okay?" ”

Li Shihammer covered his head and smiled, "Haha, I'll beat my iron." ”

Aunt Li also walked out of the back kitchen, "Today, Xiaozi has fallen to the official, and he will be exempted from a bad student, this thing, if you can take the test once, you can take the test a second time, and next year you will have to be a young child." ”

When he came back from the courtyard to familiarize himself with the environment, Moxi was embarrassed when he heard Aunt Li's words, he really won't be able to take the exam next year, but he can't say this, so as not to disappoint Uncle Li and Aunt Li, and even more so to prevent suspicion.

Shi Moxi could only smile and say, "Don't worry, Aunt Li, I will do my best." ”

As soon as night came, Uncle Li took out the hair candle he had just bought and put it on the table, and took out flint and velvet from his arms.

The flint rubbed between the sparks, and the nearby velvet was ignited by the spark and turned into a red ball, bringing the fire ball close to the candle, Uncle Li blew lightly, the red light flashed, and the candle was lit, and then the candle was lit with the candle.

Shi Moxi, who witnessed the whole process, was even more convinced that once the matches were made by themselves, they would sweep the market.

The food was still warm, and the wine was also heated by the store, and Shi Moxi started the first meal in the real sense of the Ming Dynasty.

The sound of laughter, jokes, and conversation lingered in this small house, full of family warmth.

Shi Moxi, who didn't know the amount of alcohol in this body, was afraid that he would say something that he shouldn't say after getting drunk, so he left the dining table with the strength of the wine, and slowly walked into the west wing where this body had lived for fifteen years under the bath of the vast starlight.

Pushing open the door, the deafening snoring echoed in the house, Li Shihammer was quite big, but the amount of alcohol was not good, after three small bowls, he didn't eat a few bites of the long-coveted dishes, and went back to sleep.

After calling a few times, I saw that Li Shihammer was sleeping soundly, and he also took off his clothes and slept next to Li Shihammer, the small song of the crickets outside the window was still playing, in the natural music, Shi Moxi's breathing gradually became regular after being busy all day, and he fell asleep deeply.

Nothing happened overnight, and three poles in the sun.

Shi Moxi opened his sleepy eyes, and in a trance, he seemed to be still in the research institute apartment in his previous life.

"Brother Shi, you're awake!"

A greeting pulled Shi Moxi back to reality, and when he turned his head, it was Li Shihammer who was entering the door from the outside.

"Mother said that your eldest brother was too tired at this time, so she didn't ask me to wake you up, but it was almost noon, and I was afraid that you would be hungry, so I brought you some food."

Shi Moxi put on a green shirt, tied his hair in a bun, and took a basin of water to freshen up, but suddenly thought that there seemed to be no soap now.

Large households generally use bath beans or honey locusts, almonds, egg whites, honey and other medicinal soaps, while the commonly used soap or pancreas did not spread until the Yongzheng period.

"It's another good business opportunity, but let's get the matches first, ha! Ha! Lao Tzu is Shen Wansan of the New Ming Dynasty. ”

After freshening up and eating, Shi Moxi called Li Shihammer and asked him to buy some paraffin wax and firecrackers to come back.

And Shi Moxi asked Aunt Li for tools, found some dry pine firewood, and used a knife to cut it into small wooden sticks of about the same size little by little, which was only the length of the index finger, and the thickness was only a little thicker than that of modern matches.

The firewood was already dry, coupled with the sunny weather and the dry weather in Shanxi, by the time Li Shihammer brought back the paraffin, the small wooden stick had completely gotten rid of the moisture.

Shi Moxi also prepared some white paper that he usually used for writing, and each rolled into the original column.

According to Shi Moxi's previous life, what he had to do was a wax stem match or a wax paper stem match, a kind of match that has basically been eliminated in modern times.

The reason why we need to prepare two kinds of materials is nothing more than to adapt to the two needs of large families and ordinary people.

Although the paper is not expensive, the paper required for wax stem matches is relatively thin, and ordinary coarse paper cannot be made at all, and the price of paper suitable for reading and writing is not cheap, so it can only be divided into two types.

Heating the paraffin wax until it melts, Shi Moxi and Li Shihammer respectively soaked the wooden stick and rolled paper into the paraffin solution, and then took them out one by one, while the paraffin wax has not yet solidified, and then sprinkled the gunpowder in the firecracker evenly on one end of the match stem, and then waited for the sun to dry.

Aunt Li watched with a smile for a long time, although she didn't know what Shi Moxi and the others were doing, but looking at their busy appearance, she only felt that the children had grown up.

Shi Moxi took the water handed over by Aunt Li and drank it all, Li Shihammer on the side couldn't hold back his curiosity for a long time, and he didn't know what he was doing after being busy for a long time?

"This! It's a simple version of the candle, and I'm going to call it a match. Shi Moxi didn't hesitate to copy the name.

Li Shizhu looked at the match stalks drying on the wooden board, "That's it!" ”

"What's the matter, look down on it, now it's a semi-finished product that is better than a candle, and when it's completely done, it may be lit without flint, but it's a pity that phosphor powder is a problem." And Li Shizhu, who was a little clever on the side, had already realized that this thing could make money, but he really didn't have any idea how much he could earn.

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Qingyuan County Ya, the county magistrate Wu Yikun sat in the back hall of the lobby with a sinking face, and the official in a soap robe half-knelt on the ground.

"Tell your lordship, the account books have been found in the criminal's home, and the two of them have been deducting them since last year, and now they have been more than a year and a half."

"What, I have been corrupt under the rule of this official for nearly a year and a half, what are you all doing to eat, and all those shitty students are all waste." Wu Zhixian was furious, and his face turned red.

"Adult, do you want to keep talking?" The official was intimidated by the anger of the magistrate, and he was a little submissive.

Wu Zhixian calmed down his anger a little and said, "What's the matter? This official will still be angry to death, what are you doing here! Go on. ”