The palace, the imperial garden was crowded, the great Zhou Tianzi Yuwen Qiankeng, surrounded by the inner servants and guards, stood three steps in front of a copper kettle, he looked at the steaming liquid in the pot, and then looked at Yuwen Wen behind the pot, and swallowed his saliva with difficulty. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, Yu Wenwen was wearing a purple yang scarf, wearing a gossip robe, carrying a peach wood sword, and pedaling black upturned cloth shoes, like a Taoist priest who begged for rain, and recited words in his mouth when he jumped up and down.

Next to the emperor, Chi Jing, the chief lieutenant of the left palace, looked at Yu Wenwen in disbelief, the other party was going to perform a strange art for the Son of Heaven today, and warmly invited everyone to watch, so the Son of Heaven not only let the eunuchs come to watch, but also the guards on duty came to watch.

The left and right palace guards are in charge of the palace guards, Yu Chijing is often on duty in the palace, Yuwen Wen enters the palace to face the saint, and from time to time he takes a picture with him, so he is familiar, his late father Yu Chiyun, and Yu Wenwen's father-in-law Yu Chishun are cousins, so the other party is his cousin-in-law.

Wei Chijing didn't know much about Yu Wenwen's situation, but he just heard the businessmen who traveled between the north and the south in Yecheng mention the joke of the "one-legged bronze man" of Bazhou Assassin Shi Yuwenwen, he naturally wouldn't take it seriously, but today the other party actually wanted to use a magic trick to "make money by rolling oil", which was really sensational.

"Your Majesty, Weichen asks Your Majesty to appoint someone to see if there is oil in this kettle." Zhou Faming said that he accompanied Yuwen Wen into the palace to face the saint today, because he already had the rank of the second-life martial horse Sima, although he had no official position, he was qualified to call himself a "micro-minister".

"Hmm... Who wants to give it a try? Yuwen Qiankeng asked, he looked at the copper kettle with excitement, and he was quite worried about Yuwenwen.

"Your Majesty, please give it a try." Wei Chijing came out of the line and saluted and said, when the Son of Heaven nodded and said "Okay", he turned around and walked to the copper cauldron, first glanced at Yu Wenwen, who was doing the practice of "please God on the body", and then looked at the copper cauldron.

There was a layer of oily liquid in the kettle, and the smell was a little familiar, looking at the steaming liquid surface, Yu Chijing did not hesitate, and directly reached out his left hand to touch the liquid surface.

The liquid looked hot, and he didn't know if it was hot, so he decided to try it with his left hand, but his right hand was going to kill the enemy with a knife, and he didn't want to ruin his right hand because of an inexplicable performance.

The left hand was close to the liquid level, wrapped in the hot air coming up, it seemed to be very hot, Yu Chijing gritted his teeth and probed his index finger into the liquid surface, feeling that it was not very hot, and then probed the entire palm into it.

Stirring under the liquid surface, Wei Chijing retracted his hand, spread out his palm and looked carefully in front of him, and found that the liquid was yellow and clear, and it was very greasy.

After washing his hands in the basin of water brought by the chamberlain, he turned to the Son of Heaven and said, "Back to Your Majesty, there is no doubt that there is lard in the kettle." ”

After someone determined that the kettle was indeed lard, Zhou Faming bent down and picked up a few handfuls of firewood, threw them at the bottom of the kettle and plucked them with a stick, and after a while, the fire burned more vigorously, and when he got up, he glanced at Yu Wenwen who was 'doing', and sighed in his heart:

Don't want to come up with any moths!

The fire burned for a while, the oil in the kettle began to bubble, and then more and more bubbles began to boil, looking at the churning lard, Zhou Faming wiped the sweat on his forehead, and saluted to the Son of Heaven not far away: "Your Majesty, the oil is rolling." ”

Yuwen Qiankeng cautiously approached, and was quite nervous after seeing the boiling oil in the kettle, he looked at Yuwen Wen, who was jumping around and doing it, and asked with some worry: "Xiyang Gong really wants to make money in this kettle?" ”

"Your Majesty, don't worry, Xiyang Gong has a secret technique, and he can't hurt himself by boiling oil." Zhou Faming replied, he took out a few copper coins from his arms, spread them on the palm of his hand for the Son of Heaven and others to see clearly, and then threw them into the kettle.

The copper coin splashed a lot of oil splashes into the oil, although it did not splash out of the mouth of the kettle, but it was also so startled that the people around couldn't help but retreat, everyone knew that if the hot oil droplets were on the face, hands, and body, it was not a joke.

Not only Yuwen Qiankeng, but all the onlookers and guards were tiptoeing, waiting around the kettle to watch Gongyu Wenwen of Xiyang County perform a "strange technique", fishing for copper coins in this boiling oil, looking at the boiling lard, no one thought that Yuwenwen's hand could be safe and sound.

This time, even if it's just an instant, the skin on the hands of the Xiyang County Duke will be fried and crispy!!

All kinds of tragic situations invariably appeared in everyone's minds: Yuwen Wenwen's howl like killing pigs, rolling on the ground, a charred arm, and unshapeable five fingers...

I'm afraid this scene will be staged in a while, which is really terrifying, but no one retreats or doesn't look at it, because it's too exciting, it's impossible to make money in boiling oil, but you can't miss it.

"Order to !!" Yu Wenwen shouted, and then 'returned to normal', seeing that the crowd of onlookers by the kettle had already arrived, he put down the wooden sword in his hand, and then picked up his sleeve robe and walked towards the copper cauldron.

"Your Majesty, please look!"

After he finished speaking, he spread the palm of his right hand, signaling that there was no copper coin in his hand, and then poked towards the boiling oil in the kettle, and the onlookers all looked at it intently, watching Yu Wenwen just put his smooth right hand into the copper kettle.

"Woo!" Yuwen Wen shouted, which shocked Yuwen Qiankeng's complexion changed greatly, and the onlookers around him hurriedly stepped forward to protect themselves in front of the little emperor from being splashed with oil, and everyone around him turned pale.

When Yu Chijing heard Yu Wenwen shouting like this, he was about to rush forward and tear him away from the copper cauldron, but he didn't expect Yu Wenwen to shout and struggle in pain, only to see his right hand moving in the cauldron, as if he was fishing for something.

Zhou Faming also stood with a pale face, he watched Yuwen Wen fishing for copper coins in the boiling oil, and the others were also stunned, the other party's fishing method was as easy as fishing for stones in a basin of cold water.

Seeing Yuwen Wen's performance, Yuwen Qiankeng couldn't help but want to go forward to see what he understood, but the servants around him tried hard to stop him, for fear that an accident would splash the hot oil on the emperor, and Wei Chijing on the side was speechless when he looked at this scene.

The lard is boiling over, he can fish in the boiling oil so calmly, could it be that the rumors of the one-legged bronze man are true?!

A group of people held their breath, watching Yu Wenwen use his right hand to fish in the oil, many people were in a cold sweat, a moment later, I saw Yu Wenwen pull out his right hand, and then spread his hand, only to see three copper coins appear on the palm.

The copper coin and Yuwen Wen's palms and wrists were greasy, and when they saw that he really fished out the copper coin from the hot oil, everyone was dumbfounded, and after a few breaths of coldness, Yuwen Qiankeng came back to his senses and shouted "Okay" repeatedly.

"Xiyang Gong is really powerful!"

Seeing the little emperor smiling, the chamberlains and guards also nodded in admiration, today they are an eye-opener, and there are really people who are not afraid of boiling oil, and use magic to get copper coins from oil.

Yu Wenwen took the copper coin, looked around at the people present and asked if anyone wanted to try it, everyone shook their heads silently when they heard this, they saw this boiling pot of oil, where did anyone dare to try it.

The copper coin was put into the kettle by Yu Wenwen, and the splashed oil beads fell slightly on the back of Zhou Faming's hand, and he immediately shook his hand, shaking it and was shocked to find that the oil was just hot, not hot at all, not to mention that the back of his hand was blistered.

'What's going on?' Zhou Faming was amazed in his heart, but he didn't say anything, just silently helped Yu Wenwen to help, after all, the other party had also explained beforehand that this method of making money was 'strange'.

A wonderful 'rolling oil to make money' is over, leaving Yuwen Wen's new 'legend', the little emperor Yuwen Qian's sonorous heart is still unfinished, and he still wants to see Yuwen Wen perform other strange arts, but in the spirit of the long stream, Yu Wenwen can only say "and stay next time".

Zhou Faming was edicted to enter the palace today, tell the emperor about strange things, and all kinds of customs and customs of Jiankang City, but now he is responsible for the aftermath as Yuwenwen's deputy, and only Yuwenwen is talking to Yuwen Qiankeng under the pavilion at this time.

"Xiyang Gong, is that magic really so powerful?" Yuwen Qiankeng asked, the excitement had not yet subsided, and the waiters standing on the left and right also looked at Yuwen Wen with admiration.

"Your Majesty, there is no magic in the world, it can really make people not afraid of boiling oil, and Fang Cai Weichen is just a little trick." Yuwenwen replied that he was not a showman who wanted to fool children and gain benefits.

This is just popular science in disguise, one is to enliven the atmosphere of the scene and make the little emperor happy, and the other is to explain afterwards and explain the twists and turns clearly, lest the other party really think that he is a "master of the Tao", or believe it to be true, and then be deceived by the charlatans and indulge in various superstitious activities.

"But the Duke of Xiyang has been doing it all the time, isn't it teasing people?"

"Weichen was terrified, he didn't mean to deceive His Majesty, he just re-enacted the scene he saw back then."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Your Majesty, this oil pot to make money is just a trick of the warlocks in the rivers and lakes to deceive people, but the effect is really amazing, Weichen was also deceived at the time, and only later did he know what was wrong."

"I guessed it." Yuwen Qiankeng nodded when he heard this, and before Yuwen Wen could pick out the riddle, he stepped forward and whispered in his ear: "The smell wafting from the cauldron is mixed with the smell of vinegar. ”

The little emperor sat back in his position with a smile, and when he saw Yuwen Wen, he was stunned for a moment, and smiled like a schoolchild who had guessed the answer: "Xiyang Gong, this trick is really interesting, I have never seen such a trick." ”

"Wechen is ugly." Yuwenwen smiled helplessly, this trick that was once popular in later generations, but the little emperor saw it strange at once, and he still wanted to play tricks, but he didn't expect to be ganged up soon.

Iron pot boiling oil to catch copper coins, a very classic charlatan, of course, can also be understood as street performance, in fact, the principle is very simple: half a pot of white vinegar, half a pot of oil, and then light the fire to cook.

The boiling point of white vinegar is much lower than that of oil, and white vinegar is heavier than oil, just like water is heavier than oil, so oil and vinegar are divided into upper and lower layers.

The boiling point of vinegar is very low, about 60 degrees, so the vinegar boils quickly after ignition, and begins to tumble with oil, and it is still steaming, which looks abnormally hot.

Then put your hand in, there was nothing at all, it was as comfortable as taking a bath, the onlookers didn't know the truth, and when they saw that the oil was boiling, they naturally felt that it was boiling, and the boiling oil was naturally very hot, so they would be fascinated by the performance.

The principle is simple, but there is a small problem when it comes to performance: where does the pot come from. In this era, except for the iron pot he made in Bazhou drums, there were no such cooking supplies in other places, and ding, wok, retort, ring, mustache, kettle, and bell were the common mainstream.

The performance props prepared by Yu Wenwen: oil and vinegar, considering the problem of containers, he prepared more, and it was also a shame that the emperor did not let people carry out a tripod, nor did he let the imperial dining room prepare oil by itself, otherwise he could only start the scene with "Weichen panic".

Of course, there are flaws in the oil pot to make money, the vinegar boils and breaks through the oil layer above, and there will be some sour smell, of course, no one dares to sniff around on the "boiling" oil, so the chance of goofing is very small.

This trick was Yu Wenwen's first official performance, and when he practiced in private, he noticed the problem of vinegar and tried to make the smell of lard heavier to hide the sourness.

Unexpectedly, the "premiere" was debunked, and before he had time to pretend to be profound in front of the little emperor, it lost its effect, and he couldn't help sighing: This is also a slap in the face.

There are slaps in the face every year, and there have been a lot of them recently!! (To be continued.) )