"So many briquettes have been sold?" Wu Wan'er greeted her in surprise and shouted as she looked at the empty cart.

"I didn't sell any of them, and I didn't want any money to give them away." Chen Ping drooped his head and responded weakly to his sister's question.

"Don't listen to Ah Ping's nonsense, it's not called giving away, it's called advertising." Chen Yue glared at Chen Ping and said to Wu Wan'er with a smile.

"Advertise?" Wu Wan'er was stunned, she had never heard of such a word.

"It means to advertise widely, like merchants will dance dragons and lions when their new stores open, set off firecrackers to twist Yangge, like a melon seller will cut a melon for everyone to taste, and everyone will naturally buy the sweetness of melon." Chen Yue patiently explained.

"I see!" Wu Wan'er smiled and nodded, "Young master, you mean to let others try it first, and everyone will know if it is used well, and someone will naturally buy it in the future." ”

"That's what it means, Wan'er, you're so smart!" Chen Yue praised.

Although Wu Wan'er is empathetic, it is a fact that a briquette was not sold, and the atmosphere in the coal yard was very depressing this afternoon, and Chen Ping and Chen Mo were powerless to make briquettes.

Chen Jianghe and Chen Yan were not in the coal yard, and at Chen Yue's request, the two of them should continue to make a large number of coal furnaces, and the number of coal stoves was as large as possible. Although he doubted that so many coal stoves would be sold, Chen Jianghe instinctively chose to believe in his son.

Many of the customers who came to Aunt Zhang's bun shop for breakfast noticed a strange thing, a row of tall black and round things were piled up next to the stove where the tea eggs were boiled, and each thing had more than a dozen round holes on it.

"What is this, what is it for?" Finally, a customer couldn't help the curiosity in his heart and asked Aunt Zhang.

"This is honeycomb coal, which was sent to us by Ah Yue." Aunt Zhang stopped what she was doing and explained with a smile.

"Ah Yue? Is it the fool who has gotten better? Honeycomb coal, what a strange thing. ”

"This thing is easy to use," Aunt Zhang wiped her hands, came to the coal stove, picked up the iron pot with tea eggs on it, and let everyone look at the red flame in the stove, "It only takes three briquettes to burn for a day." ”

"Three briquettes, how much coal is this, how can it burn for a day?" Some customers expressed disbelief because the coal stove at home only burns during cooking, but even then it takes much more coal than these three briquettes a day!

"It's not that you burn it all day long, you can seal it up when you're not cooking." Aunt Zhang said as she blocked the vent under the coal stove with a wooden stopper, so everyone saw that the flame in the stove was rapidly decreasing.

"As long as you cover it with a piece of iron, the briquettes will no longer burn." Aunt Zhang continued to demonstrate to everyone, "The next time you use it, just pull out the iron pieces and wooden stoppers, and the briquettes will burn again, and you don't have to make a fire every time." ”

"Won't this furnace suffocate then?" Some people raised their own questions.

"No, my stove was sealed overnight last night, isn't it good to return it today." Aunt Zhang put the tea eggs on the stove and continued to boil.

"It's so handy."

"Who says it's not, don't say you don't need to make a fire again and again, you don't know that I hate lighting a fire the most, every time I make a room full of smoke, and my face is full of black ash."

"Me too, you see this briquette is so chic, it's not like the black and round stuff that I bought from the coal dealer, and we have to smash it with a hammer ourselves when we go home, and every time we make the yard black and dirty."

In the bun shop, everyone was talking, all talking about this novelty.

"I'm running out of coal, why don't you buy some of these briquettes?"

"Buy it quickly, I'll buy it when my briquettes are burned out!"

"Aunt Zhang, what kind of honeycomb coal did you say Ah Yue gave you? Where did you buy these briquettes? "Finally someone asked where the honeycomb coal came from.

"It's Ah Yue who is selling, he bought a coal yard outside the city, and now he is doing this honeycomb coal business. This briquette seems to be two pennies a piece. Aunt Zhang was very dedicated to advertising for Chen Yue.

"Two pennies a piece? It seems to be a little expensive, and this honeycomb coal doesn't seem to have much coal. ”

"Ah Yue said, this honeycomb coal is different from other briquettes, it is very troublesome to make, don't look at it expensive, but it is burn-resistant, as long as three can cook a whole day's meal, it is much more cost-effective than you use the previous coal." Aunt Zhang explained impatiently.

"It's also very cost-effective, three briquettes are only six yuan, my family only cooks two meals at noon and night every day, and I have to spend more than 200 yuan to buy coal a month, and I have to pay eight or nine yuan every day!" The shopkeeper of the tea shop is very good at arithmetic, and after counting with his fingers for a while, he came to this conclusion.

The shopkeeper Zhang is a businessman, since he said that honeycomb coal saves money, it must be true! So everyone accepted the fact that honeycomb coal is easy to burn and save money, and they planned to buy some honeycomb coal when the coal at home was burned out.

"Mother, why are you talking so much? It's all delaying our business! When there were few customers in the store, Zhang Xiuer finally couldn't help but complain to her mother, just now Aunt Zhang only cared about introducing the benefits of honeycomb coal to the guests, and all the work fell on her alone, delivering steamed buns, serving soup, collecting money, washing dishes, and she was busy complaining endlessly.

"Alas, Ah Yue's business has just begun, I can help a little." Aunt Zhang said.

"The fool's business is not our family's business, can you use it so hard?" Zhang Xiu'er muttered.

"What do you say, boy? The Chen family's business will not be yours in the future, and you will marry Ah Yue sooner or later. Aunt Zhang scolded.

"If I want to marry you, I won't marry him!" Zhang Xiu'er snorted angrily and once again showed her attitude.

"What's wrong with Ah Yue? The man is handsome and energetic, his demise has been cured, and he is still very capable, you say, who would want to sell such a business as honeycomb coal? Aunt Zhang persuaded her daughter bitterly.

"Selling honeycomb coal is not selling coal, what is the difference between other dirty and black coal dealers? It's all a stinking coolie from a broken military household! If I want to get married, I have to marry a well-read scholar! ”

"Alas, you child!" Aunt Zhang knows that her daughter has been stubborn since she was a child, and as long as she makes up her mind, no one can persuade her.

But daughter, don't you see that Ah Yue has a great future, now that he is pressed by his mother and Uncle Chen, he can still agree to come down to this family business, once the family is booming, you don't want to marry someone else! What's so good about that Lu Xiucai? If you can't bear the shoulders and can't lift the hands, you said that you want to take the test, but you haven't been admitted three times, and when he is admitted to the lifter, he doesn't know the year of the monkey. Besides, it's so easy to take the test, and many show talents have not been admitted after a lifetime!

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The vegetable market street in the outer city is the material distribution center of Beijing. The two rows of the street are densely packed with shops, and all kinds of goods are transported in from Yongdingmen You'anmen, which enter the shops here, and then send them to all corners of Beijing.

Du Yuan sat by the outer wall of a dry goods store, leaning against the wall and bragging as usual.

"We have recently produced a great figure in Xuanwumen Tianshui Hutong, he is Chen Yue, the son of Chen Jianghe, the son of Chen Zongqi of the Shenji Battalion.

This Ah Yue has been smart and extraordinary since he was a child, and his martial arts are outstanding, and a spear makes it impossible to splash water. But when he was fifteen years old, he was hit in the head because of a fight with someone, and since then he has become demented. ”

"Hey, I thought you were talking about who, wasn't that idiot?" Another coolie said disdainfully. The name of the fool was heard by most of the people present.

"Do you think Ah Yue is really stupid? Wrong! Man has three souls and six souls, and he is just one of them and two souls that come out of the body, drifting to the west. ”

"His soul went to the West, didn't he go to see the Buddha!" A coolie laughed out loud and teased Du Yuan, who loved to brag and gossip.

"What is the Buddha? When he arrived at Kunlun Mountain, he was put away by Taiyi Zhenren, Taiyi Zhenren, do you know, he is the master of the third prince of Nezha! Nezha returned his father with bones and flesh to his mother, and he had no body, and it was Taiyi Zhenren who rerefined his body based on a lotus root. At this time, the story of the Romance of the Gods has spread in the Ming Dynasty, and everyone has heard of the names of the third prince of Nezha and Taiyi Zhenren, so they listened attentively to Du Yuan's nonsense.

"Ah Yue's soul and two souls also floated to Kunlun Mountain, and they were collected in the purple gold gourd for Taiyi Zhenren."

"Then why didn't Taiyi Zhenren refine his body for him?" A coolie asked, puzzled.

"You know what? Nezha had to be re-refined because he lost his body, and Ah Yue didn't have a body, why did he have to refine? Don't interrupt! Du Yuan glared at the coolie, "Ah Yue's one soul and two souls listened to Taiyi Zhenren's preaching day and night, and actually had spirituality to open the heavens, and on this day, while Taiyi Zhenren was sleeping, he broke the seal of the purple gold gourd and floated back, so Ah Yue's three souls and six spirits became complete, and he regained his previous consciousness, and he was no longer a fool."

That Ah Yue's soul did not stay in Kunlun Mountain for three years, but saw all the things in the fairy world and learned many wonderful skills. Taiyi Zhenren loves to drink tea, he uses a purple gold stove to burn tea, burning the fairy carbon in the sky, Ah Yue made honeycomb briquettes according to the style of the purple gold stove, although this thing is not as good as the purple gold stove and fairy carbon, but it is also very easy to use, much stronger than our household coal stove. ”

"It's the same as it really is! Have you used it? A coolie pouted.

"Of course I have used it, my family and Ah Yue's family are neighbors, the relationship is extraordinary, he deliberately gave me a stove and dozens of briquettes without money, that thing is very useful, three briquettes can burn for a day! And it's very clean, as long as you seal the fire when not in use, it won't be extinguished even after a day! ”

"Is that good? You won't lie to us, will you? "There are coolies who know Du Yuan's love to brag, and they don't believe Du Yuan's words very much.

"Hey, who am I, Du Yuan, and when have I lied! If you don't believe you, you will come home with me after finishing work today, and you will know if I am lying! ”