Chapter 178: Smoke Huā

The Chinese New Year is a big festival, and the people have been busy for a year, and they are all saving up energy to play a good game in the New Year. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info not only strength, but also the silver in your pocket. Don't look at the Jin family Zhuangzi is a newly built village, the villagers really have two dollars under their hands, and Jin Yu has spent a lot of money on infrastructure construction, and they all give priority to hiring tenants of their own families.

Some time ago, the merchant who came to the Jin family Zhuangzi walked the streets and alleys to sell xiǎo things tasted the sweetness, and walked around the xiǎo villages around Chang'an, and there were not many people who could be richer than the Zhuang households of the Jin family. Speaking of which, these xiǎo merchants have basically encountered it, but the business they do is different, and there is no competition and conflict between them. No, I made a piece of talk a year ago, and as soon as the big guys summed it up, they were thinking about setting up a market in Jinjia Zhuangzi. However, this matter still has to be approved by the master's family, Jin Yu and the others did not speak, but they still handed Chen Rui a message.

Jin Yu thought about it, this is a good thing, not to mention the excitement, it can also be convenient for his own households, there is no reason to refuse. So Jin Yu let this go, and sang a three-day drama from the twenty-fifth to the twenty-eighth year, without huā money, whoever wants to come can come.

If you want to say that this entertainment activity, not only the rich and noble families do not have it, but also the xiǎoménxiǎo households are very lacking. Usually it's just a busy farm, and I don't have much to play after a tired day, but winter is different, and there is basically nothing to do! In addition to eating, it is to nest in the house and play with his wife, otherwise how can there be so many babies, and most of the children are concentrated from July to September of the lunar calendar! This is also a good thing, after the autumn harvest is busy, you will have children, farm work, and inheritance.

This young man has a relatively strong firepower, and once the farming is over, some will think about finding some fun for themselves, so this has become an unstable factor in a harmonious society. Everyone thinks that the countryside is different from the city, and there is no curfew in the village. Most of the night are dangling outside, pretending to be a cat in front of the widow fumén, throwing a stone in front of the lonely old man, even if you can't wipe out any fire, it's not very scary, right? There is a way to be a father and mother, marry a daughter-in-law and tie the baby's mind, aren't you hot? It's good to put out the fire at home, if the family conditions are better, you can take a few more concubines, and there are more fire extinguishers around, even the monstrous fire can be frozen. How else can we say that the ancients were wise?

The Jin family Zhuangzi gathered together, and the villagers in the neighboring villages were happy to come, and they could watch and sing the drama while drinking the northwest wind! And it's all free, it's a fool not to join in the fun! The xiǎo vendors are also happy, the more people the better, and the chances of becoming jiāo are greater.

After this bazaar was set up, Jin Yu took Yang Ying to go shopping for a long time, all of them were xiǎo objects, and now there are really no two of them who can look at them, Yang Ying finally just bought a few needles and went home to make shoes for Jin Yu.

Jin Yu watched it with relish, although the imperial court was known as the "peaceful and prosperous era", but the people's lives were very ordinary, whether they were coming to catch up with the market or watching the big drama, there were more or less patches on their bodies. Many people don't have living money in their hands, so they take some food, cloth or something to barter, and the xiǎo traders are used to it, but Jin Yu looks strange.

The seller of rou made a profit, and a pig was stunned that it was not enough to sell, so he let his son drive back and pull half a horse over. In these years, the more féi pig rou sells, the better it sells, and the bones, pig trotters and so on save the most. "How do you sell this bone?" Jin Yu fell in love with the bone, although it was clean, but it was good to take it home and feed it to the dog.

"Huh? Do you eat this? This butcher is also regarded as the "strategic partner" of the Jin family Zhuangzi, when he started Zhuangzi, he made money from Jin Yu, and when he came to deliver the pig rou, he saw Jin Yu from afar, so he knew Jin Yu, but Jin Yu didn't know him.

"Do you care if I eat or not? How to sell? The butcher asked, Jin Yu was a little unhappy, he planned to buy it back and feed the dogs, wouldn't the butcher be abusing people by asking this? But it's no wonder that other people are butchers, how can people know what Jin Yu thinks in his heart?

"Not for sale! I sent it to you. "Jin Woo is choking enough, right? However, the butcher didn't have the same knowledge as Jin Yu, not because he didn't want to, but because he didn't dare, after all, his identity was here.

"Generous, if you are not busy for a while, you will send it to the house, so I will let you send it." Yang Ying casually threw a handful of copper coins to the butcher, she definitely didn't take this thing herself, and she didn't let Jin Yu take it, it was all broken bones, and she didn't have a bamboo basket or anything like that in her hands, it wasn't shameful enough to string it up with a rope, it would be bad if people thought that the poor couldn't afford to eat rou.

The butcher took the money, put the bones in the basket, and immediately took action. At this time, Rou had already sold out, and his son would not arrive until a while, so it was not impossible to show favor to the head of the family. ,

"What's the hurry? I haven't finished buying it yet! Jin Yu called out to the butcher, "How can you sell this pig's head?" "Don't look at the pig's trotters without rou, put some huā raw rice, boil a pig's trotter jelly, cut some shredded green onions, pour some sesame oil and vinegar, double the fragrance!

"Send ''''''" the butcher said that he slipped his mouth, and when he opened his mouth, he found that there was a mistake, and the bones were not valuable, but this pig's trotter could still be sold for some money.

"Let's send it over in one piece." Although Yang Ying didn't understand why her husband wanted to buy pig's trotters, she still took out a handful of copper coins and threw them on the pig stall, obviously more than last time.

Jin Yu wanted to go shopping again, but was stopped by Yang Ying, this market is full of villagers, Yang Ying was a little uncomfortable, Jin Yu had no choice but to take Yang Ying home.

When the two entered Mén, they saw Chen Rui walking inside holding a bundle of bamboo poles, which aroused Jin Yu's curiosity. What is Chen Rui's identity now? This kind of manual work has not been done for a long time, and there is nothing to use at home on the bamboo pole, this thing is not good for fire.

"Uncle Chen, what are you doing with so many bamboo poles?" Jin Yu called out to Chen Rui and asked, pointing to the bamboo pole with the thickness of his thumb.

"Burst the rod, burn it in the year, ward off evil spirits, listen to the sound, and you can also get lucky." Chen Rui put down the bamboo pole in his hand and saluted Jin Yu and his family.

"How?" Jin Yu was interested, but he didn't expect there to be firecrackers this year, this should be the earliest prototype of firecrackers, right?

"Just throw it in the fire, there is a crackling sound." Chen Rui gave Jin Yu an answer that didn't create anything, and it seems that no one is thinking about adding something to the Asari now.

Jin Yu nodded, "Oh, then let's take it in." Since it was custom, Jin Yu didn't object. Steward Chen said, if you want to be auspicious, no one wants to be unlucky, right?

Yang Ying felt a little embarrassed that she was a husband, so she said goodbye to Chen Rui, and pulled Jin Yu and walked towards the back house. "Uncle Chen, you are busy first."

Jin Yu let Yang Ying pull his sleeve and dragged himself to the back house, like a corpse walking with him, this baby is still struggling with the explosive rod. Legend has it that there was a fierce beast in ancient times, whose name was called "Nian", and the three hundred and sixty-five days of chun, summer, autumn and winter were in sāo to disturb the people, either eating this sheep or taking the xiǎo child of that family, and the people hated it to the bone. Later, this "year" was going to plague the next family, and the father of the family wanted to protect the child, but he didn't have a weapon in his hand, so he picked up a bamboo pole that was still burning in the stove and waved it. After seeing the wind, this bamboo pole is "crackling" straight sound, "Nian" thought that there was a monster more bullish than himself, and ran away with a smoke, and since then this method has spread.

Later, when the "year" went to harm others again, I saw this "explosive rod" again, and I was shocked: it is really the Yangtze River after làng pushing the front làng, and one làng is stronger than one làng. I've been busy for so many years and haven't taken a break from work, forget it, retire yourself! So the "year" never appeared again, but the custom of burning the "blasting rod" has been handed down.

Hearing Chen Rui say this, Jin Yu realized that there was something missing this year. Which of the xiǎo children in later generations has not played with smoke and firecrackers? At the end of the year, it is also put during the New Year and marriage, and if you don't set off firecrackers, it seems that something is missing. But Jin Yu didn't dare to drum out the firecrackers, that thing had too much impact, not to mention more killing, and it was not in line with Qin Laoguogong's entrustment - less tossing!

Firecrackers can't be tinkered, smoke can always be, right? This thing can toss the immortal, unless you get impatient and throw yourself into the smoke huā for a "fire huā bath". It is not realistic to burn to death, but after burning, it is possible to die of inflammation. (Note: The appearance of smoke huā is later than that of fire, which appeared for the first time in history in the early Tang Dynasty, but was not popularized.) Although Tang poems have the verse "smoke huā March down to Yangzhou", the "smoke huā" in this refers to the huāhuā grass looming in the mist. ）

The smoke huā is not difficult to match, and some metal chips are added on the basis of the fire yào. Just do it, Jin Yu got rid of Yang Ying's hand, and said mysteriously: "For the husband, let's do a big job!" Toss it for the lady at night! ”

Yang Yingqiao's face flushed, she took a sip of Jin Yu, and thought that her husband had some bad intentions, but her husband's "bad thoughts" were really tight, and Yang Ying liked it very much.

When the family economy was not good, and he couldn't afford to buy the finished cigarettes, Grandpa Tang found green bricks to make them himself. To put it bluntly, it is actually very easy, the heat resistance of green bricks is good, and it will not break when it is hot and cold. It would be great if a steel pipe was used to make a cigarette tube, but now there are no such conditions, so Jin Yu decided to do it himself. A hammer, an iron drill, and a few bricks are enough. Jin Yu "jingled" in the yard and started the promising job of a stonemason. ,

Jin Yu's side of "Ding Lingdang" was getting up, and Cheng Huaimo rushed in, "What's wrong with big brother?" Can't get along with the green bricks? "This is the third trip that Cheng Huaimo has come a few years ago, and every time it is a big car of New Year's gifts, why does the Cheng family have so many etiquette? It seems that the rich are very rich, and they can't give endless gifts like this.

"Don't be idle, let's do it together!" Don't look at the green bricks are not big, but they are technical, and it is not comfortable to squat on the ground for an hour on a cold day. "Uncle Chen! Then find a set of hammers and iron drills. Jin Yu shouted loudly and called Chen Rui in and ordered. There is no need for such good labor as Cheng Huaimo, which is contrary to the virtue of "waste utilization" in God.

Cheng Huaimo is obviously a person who doesn't know how to use dexterity, and he scrapped a brick with a hammer. "Damn! How do you work? Jin Yu glared at Cheng Huaimo, now Jin Yu has a good temper, and he bullies his brother Xiǎo to look like a big name.

"Brother xiǎo, it's not like his hands are cold, he didn't control his strength well." Cheng Huaimo felt that he was a little wronged and argued.

"Oh, then let's go to the study." Let Cheng Huaimo say this, Jin Yu also felt a little cold, he was also stupid, and it was not summer, so he could afford to be frozen outside?

"Big brother, what are you doing with all this?" Cheng Huaimo asked curiously while moving bricks towards the study.

"Your eldest brother, I want to make a great invention that shocks the earth and weeps ghosts! In a few years, you will leave a strong mark in the history books! Jin Yu flickered Cheng Huaimo and said.

"Huh? It's true? Leaving his name in the history books is a good thing to make a name for himself, and Cheng Huaimo was a little surprised.

"Fake! You also believe in lying melon seeds! Jin Yu hit Cheng Huaimo and said, I didn't expect this baby to be so brainless, how many times have you lied to him? Why hasn't you grown at all?

Cheng Huaimo muttered dissatisfiedly: "I know that the eldest brother is playing tricks." ”

"Well, don't cry, there will be something delicious later. If you work hard, you will open your eyes after eating! Jin Yu patted Cheng Huaimo's black face with his dirty hands, anyway, this baby has deep skin, and he can't see that it is dirty, so he has the right to be his own rag.

"What's delicious?" Cheng Huaimo was interested as soon as he heard that there was something delicious, and he still trusted Jin Yu's craftsmanship, wiped his dirty face with the back of his hand, and asked with interest.

"Hot pot fish!" After Jin Yu finished speaking, he pushed away Mén and called the maid who was wandering outside, "Go to the kitchen and let the snow steward make pot hot pot fish, four, pick up the big one, ask for grass carp!" ”

The maid took the order happily, because the New Year is a big festival, and the red envelopes sent by Yang Ying were also extraordinarily bulging, and more than 200 taels of silver were sent out in one go! Equivalent to three or four taels per person, it is enough for a family of six to spend on the wealth in March, so it's no wonder if it's not festive! (One tael of silver in the early years of Zhenguan is equivalent to about 2,300 yuan now, and the taxes in the Tang Dynasty are all converted according to the autumn harvest according to grain, so these are net income, and there is no need to pay personal income tax, let alone the water and electricity bills, property fees, etc.) ）

"What's so good about fish?" Cheng Huaimo originally had food to eat, but he was a little unhappy when he heard that Jin Yu entertained him with fish.

Jin Yu glanced at Cheng Huaimo, "It's terrible not to see!" Don't bite your tongue off for a while. Hurry up and get to work! ”

The two brothers spent the whole afternoon, and when it was dark, they finally rushed to make a dozen or so "green brick smoke huā tubes", if the fire was sufficient, it could be set off all night. (The green bricks should have a cooling process, and they cannot be filled immediately after they are finished.) ）

The hot pot fish did not disappoint Cheng Huaimo, he swallowed two and a half of the four fish, and this baby was very picky, and he didn't eat any fish heads, so he had to let Jin Yu make up for his brain, and let his daughter-in-law say that he was stupid.

"Let's go, let's finish the last step of the earth-shattering ghosts." Jin Yu grabbed the máo towel and wiped his mouth, not even bothering to drink saliva. Smoke huā, it's been tossing all afternoon, and it's a bad match.

Jin Yu brought in a grinding stone and threw a few pieces of scrap copper and rotten iron in front of Cheng Huaimo, "Grind this thing, dry grinding, you can't mix it with water!" "There's no such thing as a file now, and if you want the smoke to glow with a different look, you have to rely on hand-made metal shavings, which is very troublesome.

Cheng Huaimo shook his already sore arm and muttered a few sentences, "This is the great cause of the eldest brother's 'earth-shattering crying ghosts and gods'?" ”

"Of course, there are more important technical tasks that you can't do." Jin Yu waved his hand, "Look at me, I also want to learn secretly, this secret recipe is not passed on!" "It's not that Jin Yu is worried about Cheng Huaimo, it's just that the formula of Huo Yào is safer to put in his stomach.

Jin Yu went to the kitchen to get a garlic mortar, and grabbed a large handful of coarse salt, there is no metal sodium these days, coarse salt is rich in sodium, magnesium and other metals, which can be used improvised. Jin Yu's behavior was so shocked that Xue Niang's eyes widened, is this to eat salt? Don't you become a bat after a meal? (The ancients believed that bats were formed by rats eating too much salt.) ）,

Due to the production of fire sickles in the Jin Mansion, he also prepared some saltpeter and sulfur in his own house, which are all very pure kinds, and the charcoal is also ready-made, Jin Yu only needs to grind these materials finely and configure them in proportion.

Cheng Huaimo worked very hard, and when Jin Yu finished preparing the fire, he had already ground a lot of metal scraps. Jin Yu didn't dislike the stone powder mixed in it, swept it up and poured it into the prepared fire, and then stirred it violently.

"Look, it'll be done in a while!" Jin Yu also couldn't help the xiǎoji movement in his heart, and hurriedly brought the chiseled green bricks. First put the fuse into the xiǎo hole on the front, then turn it upside down and fill it with some fire, then tear the piece of xiǎo paper and pad it, and finally fill it with clay, and smash it with a hammer and you're done! (The process of making your own smoke, please do not imitate, the danger is relatively high, if the last step smashes the clay too strongly, it is possible that what you make is just a mine that will sound.) ）

"Who's going to take Madame out of the way." Jin Yu caught a maid and ordered, I don't know what's wrong, why are there always maids wandering around the yard in the past two days? Aren't you afraid of the cold? Or is it too much money to burn?

When Yang Ying came out, Jin Yu had already lit the incense, and Yang Ying was the authentic sandalwood that was ordered to be invited, and the smell in the cold weather was even more calm.

"Niangzi stand farther away, and play a trick for your husband." Jin Yu saw that the personnel were in place and immediately lit the fire.

The effect of homemade smoke huā is very good, and it is nearly three meters high, so that it can be seen outside the yard. Yang Ying and Cheng Huaimo looked at each other even more straightly, and even forgot to scream, so they clapped their hands and applauded! The atmosphere was a little cold for a while.

Before the atmosphere could warm up, Chen Rui came over with a group of people shouting, "It's fire!" What are you still doing? Hurry up and fetch water! ”

"Uncle Chen! It's okay! I made a xiǎo thing, not a fire. "In ancient times, houses were basically made of wood, and the consequences of fires were quite terrible, so there was generally a pond in the courtyard of the deep house, which was used for fire prevention. Jin Yu Khan hurriedly stopped Chen Rui and the others.

"I scared the old slave to death, I thought it was a fire." Chen Rui was relieved when he heard Jin Yu say this, and quickly disbanded his subordinates, if it wasn't for an urgent matter like a fire, the manservant would not be able to enter the back house.

"Big brother, one more!" Cheng Huaimo finally reacted, urging Jin Yu excitedly, and Yang Ying also nodded secretly at Jin Yu on the side, which greatly satisfied Jin Yu's vanity.

After watching the smoke huā performance, Cheng Huaimo held the copper basin that held the fire yào and didn't let go, "Big brother, give the rest to Brother Xiǎo, so that Brother Xiǎo can go back to have a bad time with Daddy." ”

Jin Yu was stunned, it turned out that Cheng Huaimo's feelings for giving New Year's gifts to his family three times and five times were ordered by the old man, and he was waiting for himself to bring some new things to return the gift! Cheng Lao Demon Jing deserves to be Cheng Lao Demon Jing! Of course, Jin Yu would not stop it, but just instructed Cheng Huaimo to take precautions to prevent explosions.

Cheng Huaimo kept them in mind one by one, and when he left, he shamelessly asked Jin Yu to go to the recipe for hot pot fish, saying that Daddy is good for this bite, it's just, the old man hasn't eaten it yet, how can it be a good bite?

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