Chapter 42: The Wheels of Progress
Turning, the carport has disappeared from sight, the car marks on the ground are still there, Liu Ye licked his upper lip, licked his lower lip again, and turned around slowly.
A month later, Xiangyang, Jingzhou.
When Ma Hong brought Fei Yi back from Xiling City, Fei Yi's father Fei Chai had already died, and Fei Chai committed suicide on the third day after Ma Hong left Xiling City. After Ma Hong brought Fei Yi back to Yicheng, he placed him in his own house and let him live with his fourth brother Ma Liang. The fourth brother, Ma Liang, is ten years old this year, one year older than Fei Yi, and letting two children of the same age live together can allow him to integrate into the family more quickly. Wait another two or three years, Ma Hong will let Ma Liang and Fei Yi go to Shuijing Villa to apprentice.
Winter is coming, and in this winter, Ma Hong is going to do something, to kill someone. Today is not a good day, the sky is overcast and the wind is not small, but the time is when, because it is the planned time. Ma Hong brought fifteen wooden barrels from Yicheng, eleven of which contained wine and four barrels containing gunpowder.
Gunpowder is not too difficult to make, as long as you know its composition and mix ratio, although three house slaves were killed during the experiment, but after all, it was a success. The raw materials for the configuration of black powder are nitrate, sulfur and charcoal, and the mix ratio used by Ma Hong is 15:2:3, Ma Hong also knows that this is not the best mix ratio, but the most commonly used mix ratio, although Ma Hong wants to make the best mix of gunpowder, but he does not have this data in his memory bank. Ma Hong's way of obtaining fire nitrate is to bury stones in the toilet, and then extract fire nitrate from the stones, sulfur and charcoal are two common raw materials, saltpeter is the active ingredient of the explosion, sulfur is the ignition agent, and charcoal is the passivating agent.
In the process of making gunpowder, Ma Hong used charcoal of poor purity at first, but after consideration, he chose charcoal made from wicker ash and cotton stalks. Since he was ten years old, Ma Hong has been thinking about how to make gunpowder, and has made preparations in advance, collecting raw materials for production, and he has only made five barrels of gunpowder in three years, and this time he brought four barrels to Xiangyang.
After the four barrels of gunpowder were packed, they were placed under the wooden bridge in the south of Xiangyang City, and Cai Mao will come to Xiangyang with his family to meet Liu Biao this evening. This is a great opportunity, Cai Mao has a pivotal position in Jingzhou, and if Cai Mao is eliminated now, it will inevitably plunge Jingzhou into turmoil, which is what Ma Hong is looking forward to. Jingzhou is too stable now, and it needs to be **** so that the Ma family can take the opportunity to gain benefits in this **** and develop.
Ma Hong and Liu Qi chose a window seat on the second floor of the restaurant in the south of the city, and through the window, Ma Hong could clearly see the wooden bridge. But Ma Hong didn't keep staring out the window, he only looked at the wooden bridge when Liu Qi and Yang Yi weren't paying attention. Liu Qi didn't know that Ma Hong was going to murder Cai Mao, he was just invited by Ma Hong to have a drink, and he happened to meet Yang Yi again in this restaurant. Ma Hong didn't happen to meet Yang Yi, although Yang Yi was surprised when he saw Ma Hong, but the surprised expression on his face lasted for more than five seconds, obviously he had long known that Ma Hong would come here. Because Yang Yi knew that Ma Hong had set a place in this restaurant in the morning, and this restaurant happened to be run by Yang Yi's relatives.
Ma Hong also knew that Yang Yi had always hoped to become a disciple of Mr. Shuijing, so he found Ma Hong and wanted to ask Ma Hong to help him. Yang Yi is the same age as Ma Hong, and when Ma Hong came to Xiangyang when he was a child, Ma Hong played with Yang Yi. The Yang family in Xiangyang was at odds with the Pang family, so Yang Yi couldn't go to Pang Tong for help. Although the relationship between the Yang family and the Xi family is good, Xi Zhen did not become a student of Mr. Shuijing, and Yang Yi wanted to find Xi Zhen obviously to expose Xi Zhen's injuries.
"Brother, just tell me how to crack that stone henge!"
A smile erupted on Yang Yi's fat face, and she picked up a bowl of tea and touched Ma Hong's wine glass.
Ma Hong sighed, put down the wine glass, and said to Yang Yi: "Yang Er (Yang Yi is the second in the family), it's not that you don't tell you when you are a brother, it's your wrong method." ”
Yang Yi sniffed and said, "What's wrong, you were born three days earlier than me, and I call you brother, this method is so right." ”
Ma Hong smiled and said, "Yang Er, so be it!" If you ask me a question, just drink half a bowl of wine, and I will definitely answer you well, brother. ”
Yang Yi glared at Ma Hong, put down the tea bowl, knocked on the table with his fingers and said, "Ma Laosan, you are still embarrassed to let me eat wine, I can't eat wine now, it's not all thanks to you." ”
Ma Hong saw that Yang Yi was angry, so he could only hold back his laughter. Yang Yi blushes as soon as she drinks alcohol, and she is allergic to alcohol, of course, this alcohol allergy has a certain connection with Ma Hong. Two years ago, Yang Yi was playing at Xi's house, and Ma Hong and Xi Wei fooled Yang Yi into drinking a lot of wine, and as a result, Yang Yi drank badly, probably because of alcoholism. Since then, Yang Yi has not drunk a drop of alcohol. At that time, Yang Yi's father was frightened and ran to Xi's mansion to ask for the guilt, Ma Hong threw the black cauldron to Xi Wei, and let Xi Wei carry the black cauldron. Xi Wei was forced by Ma Hong's obscenity at that time, so he could only silently take the blame for Ma Hong, but Yang Yi did not say that Ma Hong was the culprit, so Ma Hong escaped, which Ma Hong still admires Yang Yi.
"I said Ma San, if you can't hold back your laughter, can you do it? But you've got to help your brother! ”
Yang Yi looked at Ma Hong's discomfort, picked up the tea bowl and moistened her lips and said.
"Yang Er, I was teasing you just now, can I not help you with our relationship? I'll go to Shuijing Villa in five days, and I'll give you a good talk in these five days, today we only drink and talk about feelings. ”
Ma Hong snorted out laughing, and then raised his wine glass to Yang Yi and said.
Yang Yi shook his head and said: "Wine is a good thing, I don't drink when I come to the restaurant, I always feel that something is missing." ”
Liu Qi smiled on the side: "The wine is attractive!" You two are young, don't get too addicted. ”
Yang Yi looked at Liu Qi's withered yellow face, and said secretly in her heart: The person who was hollowed out by the wine had preached in reverse.
At this time, Ma Hong suddenly heard a whistle from downstairs, Ma Hong knew that Cai Mao was coming, and his heart was pounding, he couldn't help but look out the window, and silently picked up his wine glass and drank.
About half a pillar of incense, there was a sudden rumbling sound, three times in a row, the sound was like thunder, at this moment Ma Hong's ears rang, and the wine in his hand spilled out. Liu Qi's startled wine glass was thrown out, and Yang Yi was drinking tea when he heard a sound and a mouthful of water sprayed on the table. Then the two of them were stunned, and after stopping for more than ten seconds, they stood up and looked out the window, and Ma Hong also pretended to be surprised and stood up and looked out the window.
The wooden bridge was blown to pieces, the flames burned very strongly, and the people on the bridge would be burned to death even if they were not killed, and the master who set up a stall selling clay figurines at the head of the bridge was swept to the ground by the heat current, and his body was on fire, and the flames on his body were extinguished with the help of the residents on the side.
Yang Yi's mouth opened wide, and she suddenly shouted: "My younger brother is on the bridge." ”
Then Yang Yi dragged his fat body towards the wooden bridge in a panic, Ma Hong did see a child playing on the bridge at that time, but he didn't expect that child to be Yang Yi's younger brother. Even if he knew, he wouldn't ruin the plan to take the child.
Cai Mao, you don't know how you died!
Let me say sorry for your death, I want to control this Jingzhou, and I will first kill you. It's just that when I kill you, I blow up your family by the way, and let you reunite underground, which can be regarded as making up for you!