The group walked a mile along the avenue and came to the gate hall. There is a main door and two side doors in the main hall, and in addition to the aisle, there are statues of the four heavenly kings on both sides of the main door. Like Gao Zhangyu, with a hideous face. There is an incense burner and a merit box in front of the image, and many good men and women are burning incense and kneeling in front of the image.

The merit box is an ordinary large wooden box, with a layer of red paper pasted on the outside, and the words "merit box" written on it. From time to time, people threw money into the box, including copper coins and scattered silver, and copper coins were the majority.

Tang Xin'an is also a devout believer, but he only worships the four gods of wealth, standing outside the door hall to worship the four heavenly kings, shaking his head and smiling, and said, "Let's go to the side door!" ”

There are no idols in the side entrance, but there are more people blocking it than there are people at the main entrance.

Tang Xin'an wondered, I don't know why so many people stayed in the side door. After entering, I found that there was an ear room in the side door, and the people who stayed were waiting to enter the ear room, and the people who came out couldn't help but sigh: "It's so warm!" If you buy one and keep it at home, you won't have to freeze this winter! ”

Tang Xin'an was even more curious, and saw a big hole in the door frame of the ear room, and a round iron pipe came out of the hole, and the pipe was smoking from time to time, and I don't know why!

He said, "Let's go inside and see the strangeness!" ”

Li Feibai smiled: "Please!" ”

A servant guarding the door had already seen Li Feibai leading a group of people to come and wait, and when he saw that Li Feibai was interested in entering the house, he hurriedly stopped the people who were about to enter, and shouted at the house, telling those who were still staying to come out quickly. Before all the people inside came out, he opened the cotton curtain and said with a stammering face: "Lord Li, please!" ”

Li Feibai entered the house!

At this time, it is the early winter season, although it is not as cold as the cold winter wax moon, but standing outside the house is too cold to stand it. But as soon as he entered the house, Tang Xin'an found that the house was as warm as spring, and he immediately wanted to take off his coat outside.

The space of the ear room is not big, but it is not small. It is slightly larger than the bedrooms of the poor people, but much smaller than the bedrooms of the rich and noble. In such a space, in this season, if you want the indoor temperature to reach such a level, you have to burn at least two braziers. If it is the bedroom of the rich family, it will require five or six braziers. But there wasn't a brazier in the house, so how did you raise the temperature?

Tang Xin'an looked around and understood the reason.

In the middle of the room is a cast iron stove, which, unlike a normal stove, can be moved. In the middle of the stove was a large copper kettle, the water in which it was boiling, and it was steaming out suddenly.

Tang Xin'an stepped forward and lifted the copper kettle to look inside. As he expected, there was a fire burning inside, not firewood but coal. Although the coal had been shaped into a cylindrical shape, with twelve small holes in the middle, he recognized it at a glance.

He secretly said in his heart: "Burning coal directly in the house, aren't you afraid of coal poison?" "Then after a little pondering the structure of the iron cast stove, I knew that the coal poison was discharged out of the house along the round iron pipe connected to the stove, how could the coal poison be poisoned!

Tang Xin'an pointed to the coal fire and asked, "You did this?" When he heard the affirmative reply, he couldn't help but admire Li Feibai for being a genius who made clever things, otherwise how could he come up with such a way to burn coal in the house. It's a pity that he is not a business wizard, if he is a business wizard, how could he lose all his daughter's 300,000 taels of silver, and he didn't realize that this thing was a thing that could make a lot of money.

He smiled, and was about to ask how much this thing would cost if it was going to be sold? If the price is right, how much can be done in a month, he has it all! The words came to my lips and I took them back!

He was making a bet with his daughter, how could he talk about business today, wouldn't that give his daughter a chance to win? It's better to wait until these two days have passed, and then talk about buying and selling.

Tang Xin'an said: "I still have something strange in the Dao, it turns out that there is nothing." Let's go! ”

Tang Zilan knew his father's temperament, and when he heard him say this, he guessed a seven, seven, eight, eight, and shook his head helplessly.

As far as she knew, in the past few months, several furnaces in the Iron Smelting Institute, except for the two blast furnaces newly built by Shi Feng, who are racking their brains to test new steel, the other old furnaces are remelting the iron ingots that have been smelted before into molten iron, and then casting them into coal fires. The workers became more and more skilled, and more and more iron furnaces were cast every month, from a few hundred per month, to more than 1,000 per month, and now the number of furnaces cast per month remains at 3,000.

At present, there are more than 5,000 coal fires and exhaust iron pipes that have been cast, and more than 10,000 can still be produced by the end of winter, adding up to 15,600. A coal fire, plus an exhaust iron pipe, plus a matching briquette machine, is not a problem to sell for about ten taels. If her father could make the bag round, it would be an income of 150,000 or 60,000 taels, and half of the 300,000 taels of gambling would be solved at once, and her pressure would be reduced.

It's a pity that her father is so treacherous that he deliberately pretends not to be interested, and he will definitely wait until the auction is over to talk about this deal, so as not to give her any chance of winning.

Tang Zilan secretly hated: "If I lose, you don't want to make this business, and everyone will break up!" ”

Before the group came out of the ear room, Tang Xin'an looked up and looked up at a young figure in the stele forest not far away, who was concentrating on the inscription, and looked a little familiar, and carefully distinguished that it should be Qian Zijun, pointing at the person and smiling at Li Feibai: "Is that Qian Zhenfu?" ”

Li Feibai said: "It's Qian Zhenfu!" ”

Tang Xin'an said: "Let's go, come with me to say hello!" ”

Li Feibai had a long talk with Qian Zijun last night, so why don't you need to be polite again. Besides, he still wants to go and see how the auction venue is arranged, and the auction is about to start in a blink of an eye, so don't make any mistakes! said: "Mr. Tang is the shopkeeper himself, I still have some things that need to be dealt with in person, so I won't accompany you." ”

Tang Xin'an has not made progress in befriending Qian Zijun, not because he is not good at making friends, but because he has no chance to meet Qian Zijun at all. At this time, I finally had an opportunity, and a large group of people rushed up, but it was not easy to make friends, so it was better to go alone to make friends. He thought for a moment and said, "Okay." If you have something to do, you can get busy, and you don't have to pay too much attention to me, an old man! After that, he hurried to Qian Zijun's place.

Li Feibai led everyone to continue walking, and as he was walking, he saw a group of people not far away who were hugging a richly dressed rich boy coming towards him. After seeing the man's face clearly, he couldn't help but frown, and led the person in the other direction, intending to avoid the group.

The richly dressed boy also saw him, glanced left and right, and laughed with an exaggerated expression: "Li Feibai, Master Li, why are you here?" We're also old friends, why don't you hide from me when you see me, and you don't treat me as a friend! ”

Li Feibai didn't want to stop and couldn't stop, because the rich boy's entourage had blocked the road and quickly surrounded them. He smiled and said, "It turned out to be Cui Wenxiu Cui Dagongzi, what wind blew you here in Jiyuan!" ”

Cui Wenxiu smiled: "It's the wind of the auction!" I'll come and see what's going on. You didn't follow Zhao Xuefei, why did you come here? ”

When Li Feibai heard this, he knew that Cui Wenxiu was definitely not invited to participate in the auction when he came to Jiyuan this time, otherwise he should have known that the auction was held by him. Presumably he was not angry that he was forced to leave in Jiyuan last time, and this time he came to take revenge on his bad luck. When I arrived in Jiyuan, I heard that there was this excitement and came to take a look.

He said: "I also heard that there are a few good things in the auction, just like the last Tianxianglou, it is also the highest bidder, so I came to try it and see if I can auction a few good things!" I didn't expect Cui Gongzi to also come to bid for things, this time I must work hard, don't be the same as last time, and at the same time fancy one thing, I feel sorry for the silver again, and I will regret it for the rest of my life. ”