"If you really have a magical fireworks like what you say, I will admit that you are right, and I will not say that ours is fireworks in the future." Zhang Yiming said angrily.

Su Ziheng smiled dumbly, shook his head and said, "Do you admit that yours is a firework, what does this have to do with me?" What good can I do? You should know how valuable real fireworks like the ones I said. There's no way I'm going to just take it out and waste it just to satisfy your curiosity, right? ”

"I ......" Zhang Yiming's voice lowered instantly, "I don't have any money." ”

Su Ziheng picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea gently, and after putting it down, he said lightly: "I didn't say I wanted you money, since you asked me to sell fireworks, you must be short of money yourself." ”

Speaking of this, Su Ziheng was silent for a moment, "Otherwise, since you can make fireworks, why don't you stay and help me make fireworks for a month, how about it?" ”

Zhang Yiming's face immediately flushed, and he said loudly: "It's not good! It turns out that you want to steal the recipe of our fireworks, and think beautifully. ”

Su Ziheng shook his head speechlessly and said, "Dao Chief, since I can get better fireworks than yours, do I still need to steal your recipe?" Besides, what I need you to help me make is not fireworks, but gunpowder for fireworks. ”

"When the time comes, I will tell you the recipe for the production of gunpowder, and you will make it strictly according to my recipe, and I will provide you with all the raw materials and miscellaneous manpower. You just need to teach my people how to produce. ”

Before Zhang Yiming could speak, Danyangzi Wang Boyang suddenly interjected: "Su Jushi, since you know how to make gunpowder yourself, why do you need to wait for the people who teach you to produce it, can't you just teach it yourself?" ”

Su Ziheng sighed, "I don't have that much time to teach them carefully from scratch, I have to find an experienced one to take them." If the Daoists are willing to teach, I will teach them how to make the gunpowder I need, and then the Daoists will teach them. ”

Wang Boyang's eyes flashed when he heard this, thinking of the busy construction scene he saw on the road when he came, and he understood a little in his heart what Su Ziheng meant when he said that he had no time.

"Could it be that Su Jushi was worried that the Mengyuan Empire would attack the hinterland of Liangzhou, so he deliberately took precautions in advance?"

Su Ziheng laughed, "I didn't say that the Mengyuan Empire could attack Xining, but it was not wrong to say that it was not wrong to take precautions, even if you don't guard against the army of the Mengyuan Empire, you can also defend against the attacks of homeless people or robbers and bandits." Some time ago, Zhuangzi was attacked by the bandits of Heifeng Village, presumably Wang Daochang had also heard of it, right? ”

Wang Boyang nodded solemnly, he was able to know something about Sujiazhuang, and it was entirely because of the sneak attack on Heifengzhai some time ago, but he didn't expect that the always fierce and brutal Heifengzhai bandits would actually plant a big heel in Sujiazhuang and wipe out the whole army.

"Su Jushi is reasonable, the world is not peaceful, and we must be more careful."

Su Ziheng waved his hand, stopped continuing the topic with Wang Boyang, and asked instead: "How is the world, it's not for us to force it." All I asked was if the chief would like to make this bet with me? ”

"If the fireworks I take out are not what I said, I will buy all the fireworks brought by the two Taoist masters, and double the price; If the fireworks I took out are indeed as I said, then how about asking a few Taoist leaders from the Dragon Palace Temple to help me for a month? ”

There was a moment of silence.

Su Ziheng had already seen Wang Boyang's face moved, but he didn't know what he was thinking in his heart, so he sighed, "I'm very sorry, Su Jushi, please forgive Poor Dao for not agreeing." ”

"Hey, this is strange, he would refuse a good thing that is obvious, could it be that he has any concerns?" Su Ziheng thought in his heart.

"Master......" The little Taoist priest Zhang Yiming couldn't help but call his master, "Our Taoist temple has been out of food for several days, if we can't get food back today, even if we resist, a few junior brothers and uncles will not be able to bear it." ”

Wang Boyang's face showed a look of struggle, "Yiming, how can we monks easily bet with others because of a little verbal dispute?" If this happens, where does the Dao mind of cultivation go? What's more, whether we win or lose, we take advantage of Su Jushi, which is not what we and other monks should have. ”

Su Ziheng was moved when he heard this, he originally thought that Wang Boyang was afraid of losing so he didn't bet with him, but he didn't expect that he didn't want to take advantage of himself. I despise him!

"That's it, since Daoist Wang doesn't want to bet with Su, then this matter will be stopped. I don't need your fireworks, you see how much food you need, just open your mouth, Su can lend you for the time being. When there is a harvest in the future, it is not too late to return Su. ”

Su Ziheng's words shocked Wang Boyang and Zhang Yiming, they didn't expect Su Ziheng to be so easy to speak.

Zhang Yiming glanced at his master Wang Boyang, and seeing that he was silent, he stood up and arched his hand at Su Ziheng and said, "Master Su, when my master was a monk, he swore in front of the Dragon King of the Dragon Palace Temple that he would only serve the Dragon King for the rest of his life. But it doesn't matter, although the level of Xiaodao making fireworks is not as good as that of the family teacher, it is still not a problem to teach a few novices. Why don't you just let the trail stay until you teach the people of your house, don't you think? ”

Su Ziheng glanced at him, then looked at Wang Boyang, and seeing Wang Boyang nodded, Su Ziheng said happily: "That's the best, but I hope that your temple has a Taoist who can make fireworks, and you can bring more here." I'll eat and live here, and I promise that I won't neglect you. ”

"This ...... Rong Xiaodao went back to the temple and asked a few other juniors, and then told Su Gongzi, okay? "The stakes are high, and Zhang Yiming is not good at making decisions for others.

After asking the number of people in the Taoist temple, Su Ziheng directly promised to donate two stones of grain to them. One stone of grain is nearly one hundred and twenty catties, and two stones of grain are less than two hundred and forty catties, but it is enough for several Taoist masters of Longgong Temple to eat for a few months.

If it weren't for the fact that Wang Boyang and Zhang Yiming couldn't bear so much, it wouldn't matter if they gave one more stone. Su Ziheng has already agreed with Zhang Yiming to help teach for a month, and he will be given one stone of grain a month, or he can choose to ask for silver.

Zhang Yiming chose to ask for grain, but now that there is a war on the border, it is foreseeable that the price of grain will soar at that time. The silver is of no use at all, and it cannot be eaten as food, so it is natural to ask for food.

On the way back, Zhang Yiming and Wang Boyang painfully and happily carried hundreds of catties of corn and wheat, and walked on the mountain road with difficulty. As he walked, Zhang Yiming asked, "Master, the apprentice promised Su Gongzi to help him make gunpowder tomorrow, shouldn't you be unhappy?" ”

Wang Boyang sighed and said: "How can it be, as a teacher, you know that you have liked alchemy more than cultivation since you were a child, and you should be happy to learn new things from Su Jushi this time." ”

Zhang Yiming asked curiously: "Master, do you really plan to guard the Dragon Palace Temple alone and not go to Sujiazhuang with your disciples?" ”

Wang Boyang shook his head and said: "You know that Master's life was blessed by the Dragon King, and he picked it up, and he swore to serve the Dragon King for a lifetime in front of the Dragon King, so you don't need to persuade him to be a teacher anymore." Haosheng helped Su Jushi do things. ”