In the winter, it was as usual for the social office.

"Senior, please turn on the stove!"

Huanhuan's voice rang out. It feels so cold because the heater is not working. This old-fashioned, swarthy cast-iron stove doesn't heat so red even if it's lit, so at first glance it's hard to tell if it's burning.

"Well, wait a minute."

Bai Ya climbed out of the warm table and walked towards the warm fire.

The litigating ceremony of a fireplace requires a great deal of skill. If you light a fire directly on the firewood, it will not burn. Once lit, it lasts for about two hours, but this ritual is very troublesome.

In the past, this was a secret ritual between the minister and the Ziyin sister, but recently Bai Ya has also learned it. The trick is to first light a piece of paper or a small twig, and then gradually transfer the fire to the thick twig and the thick firewood.

"I'll see."

Bai Ya squatted in front of the stove, holding a long lighter for lighting the fire in his right hand and a thin branch in his left hand.

Huanhuan also squatted beside him, looking at Bai Ya's hand with very excited eyes.

“…… Odd? ”

Bang bang, Bai Ya lit the lighter several times, but no flames appeared.

He picked it up and looked at the light, only to find that there was no gas inside.

"Ahh......h There's no gas, so I'll have to buy another one, this one won't work. ”

Seeing Huanhuan looking forward to it, Bai Ya was a little reluctant, but if there was no lighter, there was no way to ignite it.

"Aren't there matches there?" ，

Huanhuan said.

In front of the basket with firewood, there was indeed a matchbox.

But......

"Uh, that's it, matches...... It's not very convenient. ”

"Senior? Don't you know how to light a match? ”

"Well, that's not what I said. How to say it, if you want to say that you are not good at it, it is indeed not very good. ”

"What the hell is that?"

Huanhuan's sight is like a sharp blade. It hurts, it hurts, it hurts.

In fact, Bai Ya has never lit a match. But under the pride of the younger sister, he can't seem to say that......

"Purple ...... Sister Ziyin. ”

"Huh? What's wrong? ”

The voice of the black-haired schoolgirl came from the computer desk. Recently, I don't know if it's because her apprentice has become more powerful, and the time that Sister Ziyin spends in daily classes is gradually increasing. She didn't have to think about it before, but now she has to think for a few seconds before she can answer. It's not going to be a loss, but the other side seems to be getting tougher.

"This ...... The lighter doesn't work......"

Bai Ya gave up pretending to be a senior again, and frankly asked for help from his senior sister.

"Huh? Haven't you already learned how to light a fire? ”

Sister Ziyin strode over and squatted down against her skirt.

"No, I know how to light the fire...... However, the problem is lighters. ”

Click, click, click, Bai Ya played a lighter that could not be lit.

"Well, then I'll have to buy a new lighter."

Sister Ziyin's black hair shook and she nodded deeply.

"Huanhuan said that there are matches, why don't you two use matches?"

"Uh, that ......"

"So...... Hmm. ”

Faced with the problem of Huanhuan, Bai Ya and Sister Ziyin both showed ambiguous attitudes. Sister Ziyin is the same as Bai Ya, they don't know how to use matches, and they all have unspeakable reasons.

"Can't you light a stove with matches?"

Huanhuan took a match from the matchbox and swiped it neatly.

With a crack, white smoke ignited, and parts of the wood began to burn.

Bai Ya and Sister Ziyin let out a sigh of admiration and kept looking at the burning matches. At this moment, it was as if it was setting off fireworks, which was too powerful.

With a wave of his wrist, the fire went out.

Look at the way she lights matches and extinguishes matches, and her movements are very skillful.

"Huanhuan...... You're very skilled. ”

"Huanhuan lights dozens of matches every day. Order a lot of candles, and then blow out a lot of candles. It's going to be blown out anyway, isn't it good if you don't order it? It's annoying to do this every day. ”

It's so handsome! Ring Ring!

Then again, it seems that the Huanhuan House is a shrine or a temple or a church or something.

"Again, again."

Bai Ya please ring ring. The Ziyin sister beside him has also been transformed into the "Ziyin Sister". Bai Ya and Sister Ziyin both showed the same expressions, please Huanhuan.

"Again, again."

Trivia

match

The tip is coated with a small wooden stick the size of a toothpick with a drug. The edges of the box are also coated with medicine to make sandpaper-like parts. As long as it is rubbed, it will ignite. The invention of matches was about 200 years ago, and the current match of this shape (safety match) appeared about 150 years ago. With the popularity of discardable lighters, matches have become rare. Now the person who can light a match is called a brave man.