Chapter 36: Ten Thousand Households Flying to the Sky (I)
In the winter in Beijing, the water drips into ice, and no matter how much clothes you wear, you feel the heat running out of your body little by little, and it is cold from the head to the bones. Guocheng and Zhu Youzhen stayed in the room and didn't want to go anywhere.
Seeing Zhu Youzhen's face flushed, Guocheng was a little anxious. Because that's not a healthy red, it's a symptom of mild gas poisoning. He himself is a little dizzy, how can he survive this winter?
Kang, by the way, the fire kang is popular in the Northeast, and the firewood is burned outside the house, and the warmth is left in the house, and there is absolutely no danger of gas poisoning. Guocheng immediately summoned a mason and put all the bedrooms on a kang, of course, Zhu Youzhen and his own bedroom first.
Three days later, the kang plate was ready. A little fire under the kang, and later, the whole room is warm like spring. Zhu Youzhen is not as sleepy as before, and has become lively. Guocheng also "Ming" the cards, and played happily with Zhu Youzhen, Wang Chengen, and Cao Huachun. Of course, Wang Chengen, who played the abacus very well, offered to bring the cards to the royal store to sell, and the children's paradise had an additional income.
But always playing in the house is not good for the body after all, and how to keep warm has become an urgent problem. One day, Guocheng happened to appear, and the chickens and ducks that had been plucked last time were very depressed digging in the soil to eat--why I was depressed, I don't need to ask anymore. He suddenly thought of the down jacket of the later generations. So the chickens and ducks in the paradise suffered again, and they were collectively plucked out of their fluff.
Guocheng knows that the biggest drawback of down jackets is to run hair, if the down jacket contains hard feathers or the lining of the down jacket is thicker, it is very easy to run hair, not only unsightly, but also will quickly lose the ability to keep warm. Fortunately, Daming's textile technology is very good, the warp and weft of the cloth are very dense, and the sewing girls in the paradise are meticulous and will not let go of a single hard hair. A few days later, a new down jacket was born, of course, in a very different style from the later generations. Guocheng admires Hanfu very much, how can he challenge his aesthetic with the style of Western clothes. Besides, the emperor and grandson, as a model in the world, are not suitable for fancy dress.
Wearing a soft and light, warm and good down jacket, looking at Guocheng's bloodshot eyes, knowing that he hadn't slept well for a few days for his own warmth, Zhu Youzhen felt extremely warm from his body to his heart, and said: "The most far-sighted thing in my life is to recognize you as Brother Guocheng." ”
Guocheng was humble for a while and said, "Hurry up and make a few more sets." We have to send it to the emperor, Zheng Guifei, His Royal Highness the Prince, Li Xuanzhi of the East Palace, Li Xuanzhi of the West Palace, His Royal Highness the Imperial Grandson, Lu Shou, Wang An, Li Jinzhong, Wang Chengen, Cao Huachun and others, of course, we have to leave a set for myself. By the way, duvets can also be done in this way. The people I just mentioned will each receive a quilt. ”
When Wang Chengen and Cao Huachun heard this, their hearts warmed, and they thought to themselves, it is still the little brother of Guocheng who will hurt people.
Suddenly, Cao Huachun thought of a key question and said, "The fluff may not be enough." ”
Guocheng said: "You can go outside to collect it." I remember that there were many roast duck restaurants in Beijing, and there should be a lot of duck feathers to be received there. The fluff is left for us to make a down jacket, and the other wool can also be made into a down jacket after removing the hard rod in the middle, but the warmth is a little worse, and it will not be wasted. ”
Wang Chengen thought about the business again, and said: "We can put the down jacket in the imperial store to sell, so that we can make a lot of money." ”
Guocheng said: "Don't do it, down jackets are military supplies, and they must not flow into the people." My Daming will have a war on the northern border in the future, and the northerners themselves are not afraid of the cold, plus this warm artifact, it is very unfavorable to the Daming. ”
Zhu Youzhen and Guocheng have been staying for a long time, and their strategic vision has improved a lot, and he said hurriedly: "That must not be sold, let's keep it, first arm our 100 brocade guards, and see how effective it is." ”
A few days later, Guocheng's down jacket was ready. He and Zhu Youzhen wore light down jackets, and felt that the winter had suddenly become much warmer, and they were building snowmen and having snowball fights in the yard. Many people who don't know the inside story sighed: "In the end, it's a child, not afraid of the cold, no wonder the old people say that a child has three fires in his buttocks, that's right." ”
While the two were having fun, there was a noise outside the door, and someone said, "Look, ten thousand households are about to fly into the sky." Some said, "These 10,000 households are dead." Others said: "Wanhu was fascinated by Chang'e and wanted to fly to the sky to find her." "There is a lot of information, and there are two words that are repeated the most: Wanhu and Feitian.
Guocheng and Zhu Youzhen glanced at each other, and they both saw from each other's eyes that the fire of gossip was burning, so they went out together to see the excitement, and a group of guards hurriedly followed.
The crowd outside the door was surging, heading in one direction. The two didn't bother to inquire and walked with the flow of people.
Soon, I came to the school yard of a military camp. The school is not guarded by soldiers today, and people can come and go as they please. The school grounds were tightly surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside, but fortunately there were guards to help, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to squeeze in. Squeezed to the innermost circle, the preparation of ten thousand households is really sufficient, let more than a dozen strong men with big shoulders and round waists maintain order, and do not let the people watching the excitement squeeze into the cordon. Guocheng paid attention to it, the audience was men, women and children, and there were even a few big golden noses, it seemed that everyone had curiosity, not just Guocheng and Zhu Youzhen.
In the center of the school grounds, there is a Taishi chair. There are four bundles of enlarged versions of the cupola strapped to the four legs of the chair, which should be the props of the flying sky.
The story of ten thousand households flying to the sky, Guocheng learned it in elementary school. It's just a person named Wanhu who wants to use a rocket to fly into the blue sky, but the rocket explodes, and Wanhu hangs, that's all. Scientists have given this story a lot of noble thoughts, what is not afraid of sacrifice in the pursuit of science, what Chinese have long had the dream of flying, and so on. Guocheng thinks that this is just a young man or two, who didn't do something ridiculous when he was young, but the absurd thing of Wanhu cost his life. However, what makes Guocheng strange is that the legendary ten thousand households appeared in the nineteenth year of Chenghua, and how did the real ten thousand households appear at the end of the forty-fourth year of Wanli, a difference of more than 100 years. It seems that the Manchu Qing Dynasty's policy of burning books by foolish people buried another major event that shocked the world.
Later, a young man of about twenty-seven or eighteen years of age came out, he was tall and rough-looking. Standing in the center of the school field, he raised his voice and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, today is a good day for my thousands of households to fly into the blue sky, you came to see me off, I am very happy, thank you here." ”
As he spoke, he made a four-way gesture, and then continued: "Some people say that Wanhu is fascinated by Chang'e and wants to go to heaven to find her; Some people also said that I was fascinated by the Seven Fairies and wanted to go to heaven and fight Dong Yong. Wrong, although I am a small general banner in the army, I am also a man of the Ming Dynasty, how can I be fascinated by the mythical woman. Now the Mongolian Tartars and Jurchen Tartars are wolf ambitions, eyeing the Ming Dynasty, and they always want to pounce on them and bite hard. Yesterday I saw a beggar who was blind and had lost his legs, and I wondered how he was so unlucky. After asking, I learned that he was a man from the six forts of Kuandian, and the Jurchen Tartars took away his fields, cattle and sheep, raped his wife and daughter in front of him, and cooked them with his heart, and his daughter was only six years old. The beasts blinded him, cut off his legs, and laughed as they watched him crawl on the ground like a dog. He wanted everyone to know the true face of this group of animals, so he endured the humiliation and survived with great perseverance. Look, this is this poor old beggar, originally he lived a happy life like us, but this qiē was ruined by the Tartars! ”
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