Wang Anshi's father and son were talking about Xingtou, listening to the old family Zhao Boyu report that Chen Yuan came out to the house to find Wang Bian, Wang Anshi looked at Wang Bian and Yuan Ze, and then found that the two of them had the same name It was really troublesome, Yuan Ze saw his father looking at himself, so he pointed to Wang and said to his father: "Oh, it must be here to find my brother, this Chen Yuanwai is the one I just mentioned to you, who was sent on a bad errand, and almost went bankrupt, and now I find the house, I don't know if I came to pay my brother silver." ”

After listening to this, the king stood up and said to his father, "Father, this Chen Yuanwai has an account book in his hand, on which are written the taxes owed by various households in the county, and if he does not come today, I will go to him." ”

Wang Anshi nodded: "Then you go and see what's going on, don't be frizzy, and ask as much as you can." ”

With Wang Anshi's words, Wang was relieved, he stood up and made an ok gesture to his father Yuan Ze, turned around and walked out of the study, Wang Anshi and Yuan Ze looked at each other, Wang Anshi asked Yuan Ze: "What does that gesture mean?" ”

Yuan Ze thought for a while, shook his head and smiled: "I probably said that I would talk to that Chen Yuanwai for three hours, father, don't you know, my brother came back this time is different from before." ”

Wang Anshi nodded in agreement after hearing this: "I also think that this is not as we thought earlier, seeing that he is not discouraged when he is frustrated, I will be relieved, while he is not there, you tell me what he has done in the capital recently." ”

Yuan Ze then returned to Wang Anshi next to the capital, Kaifeng Mansion bee typesetting, Jinxiulou got a new hot pot and other things to Wang Anshi, their father and son chatted like this, and when it came to interesting places, Wang Anshi squinted his eyes and stroked his beard and nodded, at this time Wang Pan had already gone downstairs and walked to the front yard, and before he went, he heard that the front yard was a little noisy, and there was Tong Guan's voice inside, and the little guy didn't know who was robbing what, so he heard: "Give it to me, you give it to me quickly." The king walked around the corner gate, and the scene in front of him made him laugh,

Chen Yuanwai limped in the courtyard, limping in front of him, Tong Guan chased him behind him, don't look at his lameness, but he didn't run slowly, around the plum tree, seeing that Tong Guan was about to catch up, Wang next to him drank: "Guan'er, don't be rude." ”

Tong Guan heard the shouts next to the king, immediately stopped, and reluctantly walked in front of the king: "Daddy, he robbed us of our things." He turned his head to Liu Qi, who was standing under the porch, and beckoned: "Liu Qi, you are also here, you tell my father if this is the case." ”

Liu Qi hurriedly walked closer, he stood there much more than Tong Guan, and respectfully saluted the king: "The second son is good." After speaking, he dragged Tong Guan,

Seeing that Liu Qi was speechless, Wang Jian knew that these two boys must have secrets, there were guests at this time, and he turned around and asked what the hell these two boys were doing, Wang Pan said to Tong Guan with a calm face: "Don't go to school yet." Tong Guan wanted to say something, Liu Qi dragged him again, Tong Guan glanced at Chen Yuanwai, snorted, and dragged Liu Qi to the study hall of the inner house.

He looked into the courtyard, Chen Yuanwai did not follow, but squatted on the ground, stirred a ball of things in his hand with the soil, and turned over some frozen hard clods from the ground, and buried those things underneath, Chen Yuanwai got up after doing these things, dusted off the soil on his body, and saw the king standing under the corridor of the hall, and quickly limped towards the king.

Chen Yuanwai came to Wang Bian, Wang Bian saw that he was out of breath, and his face was frightened, Wang Bian smiled and let him into the room: "The child is rude, Chen Yuanwai should not be surprised." Wang said this, but he thought in his heart that although this Tong Guan was not very old, he was a little domineering, and maybe Chen Yuanwai heard Tong Guan call him father just now, so he was a little nervous.

Chen Yuanwai wiped the cold sweat that broke out slightly on his forehead, and said in shock: "It's not strange, it's not strange, but this kid doesn't understand the power of gunpowder, and it won't be easy to deal with if he gets hurt." ”

Wang Bi wondered in his heart, where did he get gunpowder in his own home, let alone his own home, since he arrived in the Song Dynasty, he has never seen the shadow of gunpowder, "There has never been gunpowder in my house, where did this gunpowder come from?" ”

Chen Yuanwai took a breath, lowered one hand, and touched his lame leg, "It may also be that I am timid, so that the past things are frightened, people say that once I was bitten by a snake for ten years, I was afraid of the well rope, I think I am afraid of gunpowder and sulfur in my life." ”

Wang Bi thought about it carefully, just now he did see Tong Guan's two children, tucked something hidden, and he didn't pay much attention to it at that time and went to the study with his father, but seeing that Chen Yuanwai would not talk nonsense, he calmed down and asked: "I don't know what that child is playing, which makes Chen Yuanwai so frightened." ”

"Firecrackers."

Wang was happy when he heard it, but in an instant he suppressed his smile: at first his first reaction was that this is close to the New Year, every household has firecrackers, firecrackers can scare Chen Yuanwai, this Chen Yuanwai is also a small guts, but in an instant Wang Bei suddenly realized that firecrackers too strong will still hurt people, and there is no joke, the Chinese invented firecrackers, but foreigners made gunpowder to invade China,

The changes on Wang Fang's face were all instantaneous, and naturally Chen Yuanwai didn't notice it, his hand was still rubbing on the lame leg,

Seeing this, Wang said with a little shame: "The child doesn't know the power of firecrackers, thank you Chen Yuanwai just now, I will strictly discipline you when I go back, Chen Yuanwai came to the house today, do you have anything to do with me." ”

Chen Yuanwai waved his hand, but his expression was not relaxed: "Childe doesn't know, my leg was injured in gunpowder back then, I just watched Ling Lang dismantle the firecrackers, and the gunpowder of several firecrackers was combined to make a big firecracker, I was afraid that this ratio would hurt the child too badly, so I stopped it." ”

Wang next to the side sighed softly, if Tong Guan provoked this disaster, it would not be small, and if he hurt himself, he might even hurt others, "This kid, I'll teach him a lesson when I go back." ”

Chen Yuanwai smiled bitterly, he personally understood the power of this gunpowder, otherwise he would not have fallen into this disability, now he is listening to the discoloration of gunpowder, and he didn't know where he came from just now to be so anxious. After saying that, he took out a wooden box from his cloth bag,

Wang looked at Chen Yuanwai's behavior, thinking that I gave him a piece of silver on the street, did he want to return a box, Chen Yuanwai held the box in his hand and handed it to Wang Bian with both hands: "Wang Gongzi, I have a few booklets left by my father, I dare not touch this thing, now that Gongzi is kind to me, I will entrust these things to Gongzi, maybe Gongzi will come in handy in the future." ”

It's a book again, Wang Jian listened to the head is big, especially the ancient texts, before the Song Dynasty, they were all in the style of the language, and they didn't read as smoothly as the novels of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Wang looked at the wooden box, and pushed it to: "How embarrassing is this, I'm just in a hurry today, Chen Yuanwai This is left by Ling Zun, and it should be well collected." As he spoke, he returned the box to Chen Yuanwai's hand,

Chen Yuanwai pushed the box into the hands of the king, seeing that the king was not moved by the wealth at all, and he didn't even look at what was inside, he was even more determined to give this thing to the king, Chen Yuanwei said in a very resolute tone: "This thing must be collected, I don't expect Gao Pan Gongzi, you will leave it as a souvenir, this thing is useless in my hands, but maybe it will be different in the hands of the son." ”

Wang Bianxin said that now except for the time machine and the stone that can wear the past and the present, anything is useless in his own hands, but seeing Chen Yuanwai so sincere, he is a little curious in his heart, what is this that can make Chen Yuanwai insist on giving it to himself,

Wang next to the box, open the inside is really a few booklets, take out the book and double it at will, Wang can not help but be stunned, the booklet has pictures and words: the first few volumes are all kinds of gunpowder proportions and production methods, there is a "fire sulfur method" Wang next to the recognition of some chapters read: "There are sulfur, realgar saltpeter and honey burned, flame burning hands, noodles and embers of the house." "Saltpeter should be used with all kinds of medicines, more is a bad medicine, the living can not be burned with three yellows, immediately see the disaster, where the saltpeter is ambushed, the red charcoal fire is tested, and the oil is not moved into the fire,...... Those who do not fall into the charcoal will be put into the charcoal, even if it becomes a flame. (Sanhuang refers to sulfur, realgar and orpiment),

Wang's eyes were immediately attracted by these booklets, which also recorded the use of "artillery" in the Song Dynasty when attacking the Southern Tang Dynasty, as well as the gunpowder method, the fire pot method, the tribulus terrestris fireball, and the thunderbolt fireball; That's not all, there is also a picture of how to make the earth-shattering thunder, the fierce fire oil cabinet,

In particular, this is called the earth-shattering thunder: the body is coarse and contains gunpowder in the small mouth, the shell is wrapped in pig iron, and the fuse is on it, and the length of the lead is determined according to the distance of the target when used, and the pig iron shell can be blown into pieces after detonation, and the iron armor is pierced, there are two kinds of earth-shaking thunder, one is ignited with fire, and it is fired by a trebuchet when it is fired and exploded in the distance; The other is to light it with fire and explode on the spot, such as throwing it from the city wall to the bottom when defending the city, and when he saw the king, he laughed: "Isn't this just a grenade?" ”

He looked at it carefully, but he forgot that Chen Yuanwai was still beside him, and Chen Yuanwai was startled by the sudden laughter next to Wang: "What is a grenade, I read that these volumes are almost memorized, and I don't know that there are grenades in the book." ”

He followed the king's gaze, and the king was seeing the earth-shaking thunder, and hurriedly explained: "Childe, this is called the earth-shaking thunder, but you didn't say that name, if you slipped your hand and blew up your own people, wouldn't it hurt the team." ”

Wang next to closed the book, looked at Chen Yuanwai's very serious expression, and said with a smile: "This is not a hand bullet, it is a grenade, belch, it sounds the same anyway, you still call him the earth-shaking thunder." Speaking of which, the king's heart moved, just now he seemed to say that he himself was about to be able to memorize this book upside down, and this book does not seem to be the ordinary folk tradition, the various sulfur marked in the book, the proportion of realgar is very accurate, and even the costume of the fire attack such as the fierce fire oil tank is also very clear, how can there be such a book in his home,

Wang put the book back into the box, put the box on the table next to the table, pointed to the box and said to Chen Yuanwai: "Chen Yuanwai, I don't dare to accept your book, it is not an ordinary fireworks and firecrackers gunpowder that is circulated among the people, I don't know if Chen Yuanwai can tell the truth about the origin of this book." ”