Chapter 415: The Authorities Are Confused
After a few moments of playing in the water, everyone's clothes were all wet. I didn't have a water fight or do anything, and my clothes were all wet. No way, the clothes don't fit. In later generations, the pants were easy to get wet when rolled up, let alone the wide robe with big sleeves now.
Pull it up, tuck it up, let it go without moving twice, and drag it in the water if you don't pay attention. The four brothers and sisters soon became water people.
Seeing them like this, Xiangcheng and Ziyu said that they didn't want to go down and mess around with them.
"Big girl, second girl, you two hurry up, what kind of system do you have for the girl's family." Wang Ziyu shouted at the two sisters-in-law with a straight face.
"No, it's so cold and comfortable in the water, sister-in-law, you can also come down and play." Erya will not be frightened by Wang Ziyu, not only did she not obey and go ashore, but she also wanted to seduce the two of them into the water.
"Dead girl, you're disobedient." Wang Ziyu glanced at the second girl fiercely, then looked at the eldest girl and said, "That one is disobedient, you won't be disobedient, right?"
"Hehe" The big girl smiled and didn't answer, but the action of continuing to pick up stones and throw them into the water already showed her attitude.
"You, you guys, you're mad at me." Wang Ziyu angrily pointed at the four people in the water with his fingers, and then ignored her, and angrily grabbed a handful of river sand and threw it on the head of his little brother-in-law Wu Yuanshuang.
Looking at Wu Yuanshuang, who was inexplicably attacked, looked up and looked around for no reason, Xiangcheng was amused and giggled.
When they left the creek and returned home, it was already evening, and a few people went back to the house to change out of their wet and dirty clothes, rinse them briefly, change into dry new clothes, and then came to the hall to eat.
The weather was hot and the kitchen only made a few hot dishes, and the rest were all cold dishes. Peanuts mixed with cucumbers, spicy pig ears, cold shredded potatoes, red oil powder, spiced duck liver, the staple food is cornmeal rubbing, put it in half temperature, it tastes very refreshing, and it will not sweat profusely.
After dinner, we walked outside for a while, and after eating and drinking, the family returned to the hall again.
Summer nights feel more stuffy than during the day, especially before midnight, so it is impossible to go to bed early, and the rooms of several people have just been smoked with lit wormwood, and the room is full of smoke and the smell of wormwood, even if you are not afraid of the heat, you can't get in.
"Why don't we play cards?" Erya proposed, the little girl was full of energy, played all afternoon, and had just eaten and had the heart to play cards. It's like Wu Yuanqing, after eating, he thought of lying on the bed.
Wu Yuanqing didn't want to play, and the remaining Xiangcheng, Ziyu, Da Ya Erya, and Yuan Shuang were five people who fought the landlord and played mahjong one more.
The last three small guesses decide who plays and who doesn't, Wu Yuanshuang is always the saddest, no matter if he wins or loses, he will definitely lose in the end.
So the four women began to play mahjong, and the bitter Wu Yuanshuang could only watch from the side, sometimes saying more than one word, don't hit that, and immediately be criticized by the four women.
Smack, a crunch.
"Dead mosquitoes, it's endless." Er Ya slapped a second cake and slapped her neck with her hand.
Then a big poisonous mosquito was shot to death on the way to suck blood, the intestines were rotten, and the black and red blood stained Erya's hand and neck. With so much blood, I don't know how many people I have bitten.
"Big brother, why are there so many mosquitoes here, so big." Erya rubbed her little hands vigorously, trying to rub off the bloodstains, while pouting and complaining.
"yes, how do you sleep this night?" Wu Yuanshuang echoed with some worry.
"How you sleep in Chang'an, how you sleep here." Wu Yuanqing said angrily.
"Can that be the same, how can there be so many mosquitoes such a big one in Chang'an." Wu Yuanshuang complained.
Well, that's what I said. After all, Chang'an is the capital with a large population, and the natural vegetation coverage rate is relatively low, and there are fewer plants and mosquitoes.
Martial arts are different here, there are few people and many plants, and it is close to the river, and there are many mosquitoes and big mosquitoes, and it is inevitable that there will be poison.
"Big brother, you are the most capable, is there any good way to get rid of these hateful mosquitoes?" The second girl said with a snort.
"Yes, if there are mosquito coils lit, you don't have to worry about these mosquitoes anymore." Wu Yuanqing said with a smile.
Huh, hey, not only Erya, Yuan Shuang, but Xiangcheng, Ziyu, and Daya's eyes also lit up.
"It's a pity, we don't have mosquito coils." Wu Yuanqing shook his head and poured cold water.
Hey, the shoulders of several people collapsed in an instant.
"There are no mosquito coils to make, big brother, you can help us make some." The second girl blinked and sold cuteness with big eyes.
"But I won't do it," Wu Yuanqing asked helplessly.
"Is there anything that Big Brother won't?" Erya looked incredulous.
"That's it, what is this mosquito coil, it's hard to get a big brother." Wu Yuanshuang said.
"Mosquito coils are a kind of incense, similar to the incense you light at the temple, but there are mosquito repellent things in it, and the smoke produced when you light them will drive the mosquitoes away." Wu Yuanqing explained.
"Ah, isn't that the same as smoking mosquitoes with wormwood." Xiangcheng let out a low sigh.
"Well, really." Wang Ziyu thought for a while and said.
"That's right, that's right." The second girl, the eldest girl nodded vigorously.
Wu Yuanqing's eyes lit up at this time. It is said that a leaf blinds the eyes of Mount Tai, and it is said that the authorities are obsessed with bystanders, and he is like this. When he was bitten by a mosquito, he would think of how good it would be to have a piece of mosquito coil, and he often saw people smoke their homes with wormwood, but it seemed that there was a layer of window paper blocking it, so he never thought of using wormwood to make his own mosquito coils.
Now that the window paper was pierced by Xiangcheng's casual words, his brain suddenly brightened.
That's right, he doesn't know the chemical ingredients or mosquito repellent ingredients added to the mosquito coils in later generations, and it is impossible to make them. But it doesn't mean that mosquito coils have to be replaced with those things, which can be replaced by other things with the same effect.
When you don't have chili peppers, you can get a spicy taste with dogwood.
Silly, really stupid.
After his brain was bright, Wu Yuanqing immediately thought of several things that could achieve the effect of repelling mosquitoes.
Wormwood must be the main thing, and this thing was used as early as the Warring States period to ward off evil spirits. "Jing Chu Years Chronicles" recorded: "The four people of the Dragon Boat Festival stepped on the grass, picked wormwood as a person, hung it on the house, and poisoned it." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Then there is realgar, which has been used in traditional Chinese medicine as a detoxification and insecticide, dampness expectorant, and malaria.
In the early years, during the Dragon Boat Festival, in addition to inserting wormwood on the door, people would also use realgar to soak wine on their bodies to freshen the air and prevent mosquito bites.
Then there is arsenic, which has a similar chemical composition to realgar and has a similar effect, but it is more toxic.
Oh, and by the way, there is also sulfur, which also has an insecticidal effect.
With these things, it is not a problem to make a Datang version of mosquito coils.