"It's hot!"

Looking at the cloudless sky outside the window, Dong Ce pulled the open placket, shook off the stuffiness accumulated in his clothes, and lowered his head into the fireworks shop.

Liu Fu, who learned the news, hurriedly came, and when he saw the young man's sweaty and embarrassed appearance, he smiled bitterly, in previous years, he fanned him behind the young man, but since the young man recovered from his illness, he was no longer allowed to serve him like this.

"Young boy, why are you here?" Liu Fu asked.

"The weather is getting hotter and hotter, the fireworks shop should pay attention to fire prevention, I'll see if you're slacking!" After Dong Ce finished speaking, he walked inside.

Liu Fu hurriedly followed, and said with a smile: "Young boy, rest assured, everything is as you arranged last time, the prepared gunpowder reserves are very small, and the fireworks and firecrackers that are made now are also transported out of the production room and stored in the warehouse at the back." ”

"How's the warehouse ventilated?" Dong Ce glanced at a few large water tanks in the workshop.

"The ventilation is very good, the young man should go over and take a look now?" Liu Fu said with a smile.

Dong Ce nodded, but he was not in a hurry to go over, but walked around the workshop, especially checked the production room in the West Chamber, and only after making sure that there was no problem, did he walk to the warehouse.

The warehouse of the fireworks workshop was specially improved by Dong Ce, not only spacious, but also half a zhang of underground dug up, and the fireworks and firecrackers were hollowed out, so that there was a cool atmosphere, and there was no fear of excessive humidity.

After checking and making sure that there was no indiscriminate storage, Dong Ce smiled with satisfaction and said to Liu Fu: "The wooden frame will be checked every three days, and if there is any crack, it will be replaced immediately, and in addition, I will send Tao Rong over in a few days to build another warehouse." So you don't have to worry about overloading, besides. Now this point of survival is not ironclad until the New Year. ”

"Isn't it!" Liu Fu was taken aback. Now that the warehouse is almost full, it is more than ten times more than the sum of the productions before and after the Chinese New Year, how can it not be enough to sell?

Liu Fu is not a businessman after all, he just saw the market in Jinling, but ignored the foreign places, since the Jinling fireworks came out in the New Year's Festival, foreign businessmen are flocking, if it is not for the later price increase, let them hate Ningshang. I'm afraid there are a few books in the order.

But hate to hate, you can't hate money either!

Therefore, recently, foreign businessmen have come to Yiyuan and Dong Ce to order fireworks.

After Dong Ce finalized the location of the new warehouse and instructed Liu Fu to make some preparations, he left the fireworks shop and was about to ride a horse and donkey, but after touching the saddle of the donkey that had skyrocketed for two quarters of an hour, Dong Ce swallowed a mouthful of smearing and gave up. Lead the donkey to the art garden.

On the way, Dong Ce also took a detour to the foundry, and after making sure that the fire prevention was no problem, he returned to the art garden.

Just returned to the art garden loft. Dong Ce opened the door and saw Xiaohu lying on the ground napping, Dong Ce was stunned, this situation is rare recently. But when he saw the little monkey on the wooden couch scratching his body frantically, he immediately understood.

Turning his head to Zhu Dashan, who was enjoying the shade under the attic, he said, "Old Zhu." Help me get some mint from the pastry stall outside Zhang Yuanwai. ”

When Zhu Dashan heard this, he immediately went to do it, and it didn't take long for a while. Dong Ce entered the attic with half a bowl of mint leaves, and when the little monkey saw him, he immediately looked at him pitifully.

Dong Ce smiled slightly, smashed the mint leaves with a mallet, and then stretched out his hand, the little monkey hurriedly jumped into Dong Ce's arms, and Dong Ce picked up the mashed mint and wiped it for the little monkey.

The itchy body of the little monkey is not lice, but the skin is inflamed, and Dong Ce doesn't know if it is prickly heat, but the coolness of peppermint can be temporarily relieved.

Speaking of this mint, Dong Ce doesn't know if others have developed it in these years, in short, when he first mentioned it, not many people knew, Dong Ce asked Zhang Tan to pick and plant, make mint cakes, now this thing is a big seller, as soon as it came out, it was immediately scraped away, causing Zhang Tan's small workshop to be too busy at all, and finally negotiated, he decided to join forces with Wang Fuyan to launch more kinds of mint cakes, and also planned to expand the pastry workshop.

When Dong Ce learned about it, he immediately asked him to forget it, it was really unnecessary to expand, but it was necessary to open a branch factory, so Dong Ce proposed to let him go to Gusu to build a pastry workshop, and then slowly follow the footsteps of Yiyuan to promote it to the whole country.

After hearing this proposal, Zhang Tan immediately nodded and agreed, after all, he still has to cooperate with Wang Fuyan, after all, Wang Fuyan likes to develop new dishes, and pastries are naturally among them.

Now not only Wang Fuyan, but also Lu Kexuan, Mei Niangzi, Yang Jing, and they have begun to cultivate a group of people who develop new products, although they basically imitate Dong Ce's design and do not have their own style, but after all, it is a good start, helping Dong Ce reduce a lot of trouble.

The little monkey who had rubbed the mint regained his spirits, and the first thing he did was to tease the little tiger, and suddenly, a chase scene was staged!

But now Dong Ce is not worried at all, because after the little monkey provokes the little tiger, he will run to the small yard behind the attic, where there is a tree, which is its favorite place to stay, especially when he sees the little tiger clumsily climbing the tree, the little monkey is happy to quack, a naughty child.

For this reason, Dong Ce named it "Xiaopi".

Through the window, Dong Ce watched Xiaohu and Xiaopi chasing and fighting in the trees under the bark tree, and the comfortable scene made him feel that the fragrance of Biluochun seemed to be stronger!

……

In the middle of the night, in the Yunlong Temple in Jinling Xicheng, Qiankong sat on a chair, holding his forehead with one hand, looking very tired.

In front of Qiankong, several young people dressed as Taoist priests were silent, until suddenly a person entered the hall, and Qiankong looked at everyone at the same time.

The man who came was only sixteen or seventeen years old, dressed in plain clothes, with sharp beaks and monkey cheeks, and his figure was also very thin, as soon as he entered the hall, he hugged his fists and said: "Master, everything is ready, as long as you give an order, the foundry will definitely catch fire in a quarter of an hour!" ”

"It won't be extinguished." Qiankong said with some concern.

"Don't worry, the disciples have prepared lamp oil, and they are sure that they will burn to the point that there is no slag left!"

"Hmm!" Qiankong got up and said loudly: "Zhou Dahai has fallen into a cult, and the foundry is a cult industry. ”

"The evil door is crooked, and it must not be stayed!" All the disciples echoed in unison.

"Okay, do it!" With an order, the thin boy turned around and rushed out.

A quarter of an hour later, outside the foundry in the west city of Jinling, more than a dozen figures approached the foundry under the cover of night, carrying wooden barrels and carrying stairs.

These people are silent, their movements are slight, and they look very relaxed and comfortable when they climb over the wall tiles, and it seems that they have done a lot of this!

In several rooms, several craftsmen were busy minting copper coins overnight, and a dozen assistants were also busy burning brass, and no one noticed that on their heads, under the moonlight, the glittering lamp oil flowed from the barrels to the roof, and soon fell like rain down the eaves.

After a quarter of an hour, the men in black quickly retreated, and one of them took out a fire fold, blew lightly twice, and then threw it onto the roof! (To be continued.) )