Chapter 121: Uncle Niu Tests the Cylinder

Mingyue didn't want to get close, but the two dead people, the direction of leaning forward and the appearance of twisting, seemed to rush into the roots of the banyan tree.

Mingyue was curious, and dared to approach the roots of the banyan tree, not daring to touch the hair-like roots with her hands, and picked them up with a snakeskin dagger, and behind the thick roots, an iron fence was revealed.

The iron fence is locked with a general lock the size of a man's fist, and behind it is a stone crack that can only be passed by one person, and the gusts of wind blow along the stone crack, wafting with a salty taste, Mingyue knows in her heart that behind this cracked stone crack must be leading to the belly of the mountain, and in the belly of the mountain, there is an inexhaustible salt mine, and it is even very likely that the entrance dug out by Chengyue at the foot of the mountain is a salt mine in the belly of the mountain.

Mingyue was even more firm in the fact that the plague incident of that year was a man-made event at all, but in the cloak of the plague, a fire burned all the corpses, so that the truth was buried forever.

As long as it wasn't the plague rampant and the ghosts were not haunting, there would be no danger for the whole family to move in, but Mingyue was relieved, and the shadow of "candle extinguished" was also dimmed a lot.

This matter is too secret, the more people know, the worse it is, Mingyue didn't dare to stay longer, hurriedly climbed to the ground, and just closed the secret passage, Han Xing pushed the door into the courtyard, not only fetched two large buckets of water, but also brought two helpers, Xiaocui and Xingxing.

Four people cleaned up the front hall, and finally only a slip of room behind the room, the room is attached to the back of the main room, there are seven trapezoidal stove eyes according to the wall, try to add firewood to the bottom of the stove, gradually burn and prosper, the temperature of the cauldron of the seven stove eyes is different, the pot on the middle of the three or four stove eyes, the water boiled in it is the most boiling, the more up the warmer, the top only plays the role of heat preservation.

Xiaocui's family originally opened a tofu workshop, and he was more knowledgeable, looking at Mingyue's curious eyes, and explained, this is a fire dragon stove, which will only be available to large households, only the bottom stove is burned, and the seven stoves are heated at the same time, and the stove can be used for more than a dozen tables of dishes at the same time, and the stove leads to different earth dragons and fire walls, and the front room will be warmed up with it, and it will be warm as spring in winter.

Mingyue couldn't put down the firewood to the stove, feeling the wisdom of the ancients of the "Fire Dragon Stove", and couldn't help but envy it, and her hands were itchy to try her own housegirl skills.

The four of them didn't clean up the house inside and out until it was dark, Mingyue returned home happily, and told Liu, Mingyang and Song'er the "good" news, Mingyang and Song'er were just surprised, but Liu's was in addition to surprise and panic, his mouth was wide open, and he didn't give a correct expression of joy or sorrow for a long time.

Mingyue shook her palm in front of Liu's eyes, and Liu came to his senses and said, "You mean, you mean, you bought the Sun Mansion, as long as you buy the window paper, we can move?" ”

Mingyue nodded heavily, and said excitedly: "The most important thing is that Xiaocui and Xingxing have been in the Sun Mansion for a whole day, there are no ghosts, no dead bodies, and it is guaranteed to be fine." ”

Liu Shi swallowed a mouthful of saliva deeply, felt that he was still choking, and looked at Song'er, who encouraged: "Mother, a blue brick house is better than an adobe house, and I used to live in a blue brick house." ”

Liu showed a trace of embarrassment on his face, and he didn't know how to tell the child the rumors that Sun Mansion was haunted.

Mingyue quite understood Liu's worries, and said to Liu: "Mother, I know what you are afraid of. You can rest assured. I didn't let you make a few sets of men's clothes, it was made for my master, my master is not an ordinary person, martial arts are world-famous, flying eaves and walls, superb, invincible, as long as you stretch out your hand, you can scare away all demons and monsters! If you don't feel at ease, Niang, Song'er and Mingyang can live in an adobe house for a while, and then build a new house here in the spring. ”

Mingyue did not hesitate to put all the words that describe the strength of martial arts on Cheng Yue, I am afraid that even if he is as thick-skinned as Cheng Yue, he will blush when he listens, if he is so powerful, how could he be blocked in the salt mine by Wei Zhixing in the first place, and he has been covered with black hair for decades? It hurts so much that he gritted his teeth?

Xiao Cui squinted her eyes and smiled, looked at Mingyue teasingly, and then looked at Liu, her eyebrows opened and she smiled, but she couldn't bear to say it, Mingyue suddenly realized, and sneered: "Oh, I forgot, my mother can't wait for the spring to build a new house, by that time, she will have already moved to the Han family to be a bride." ”

Liu Shi was blushed by Mingyue, and remembered Han Lin's soft voice during the day, and his mood became sweet.

Mingyue has always had an idea, but she, a mother, has always had no idea, and it was useless to oppose it, so she let Mingyue toss blindly.

On the second day, Mingyue first led Cheng Yue to the new house, after all, the locked passage underground, two terrifying skeletons, and dozens of tons of salt and stone all need to be solved by him, a strong man, and he can't wait for everyone to move in.

handed over all the troubles to Cheng Yue, Mingyue went to the county, in the past, he didn't dare to buy it if he had silver, that is, he was afraid that the people in the village would make irresponsible remarks, and he was afraid that the old mansion would be suspicious, and now with Han Lin's ready-made shield, Mingyue decided to buy a big deal, as if it was sold with tears and blood, and the big reward was free.

Because there were too many things to buy, Mingyue specially hired Uncle Niu's ox cart, paid two cents to enter the city, and drove the ox cart directly to various shops to buy things, and after a while, he piled up half a cart, and saw that Uncle Niu was straight-tongued, and his heart was angry for Han Lin, this Han Lin Province was frugal and saved money, and he married a water-based Yang Hua Liu, not to mention a few money-losing goods under him, Yin Mingyue is still a big spend, how can the old Han family live this day in the future! In the end, every time Mingyue buys one, Niu Bo pats his thighs, looking at the strength, I am afraid that his thighs will be patted blue.

Mingyue doesn't care if Uncle Niu's thigh is patted blue, every time he sees a shop, he plunges into it, his eyes are not enough to seem, pots and pans, tea bowls and teapots are indispensable; The curtain cotton is indispensable, and the most important thing is to urgently order a wooden bath bucket so that the whole family can take a good bath before the year, and there must be a large tank for water, a wooden bucket for carrying water, a broom for sweeping the floor, etc.

The small pieces were bought, and finally the two went to the pottery workshop, Mingyue looked at the large and small pottery jars, clay pots and couldn't put it down, and ordered dozens of small jars of various colors in one breath, so that the shopkeeper painted the mark of the treasure shop on it, as a mark for the future treasure shop.

There should also be a water tank in the new house, and Mingyue naturally has to set a large tank, depending on the thickness, there is room for two adults to put it in.

Uncle Niu followed Mingyue and ran forward, and then hugged Han Lin, the boss was already unhappy in his heart, seeing the excited Mingyue carefully looking at the vat, he couldn't see anything famous at all, the old man's eyes rolled, he counted his heart, pointed to the water tank, and said with a simple smile: "Mingyue, do you know how to look at the quality of the tank?" ”

Mingyue shook her head cutely, Uncle Niu asked Mingyue to put her head into the vat, he slapped the cylinder wall outside, and the water tank made a "buzzing" sound, Mingyue was so frightened that she retracted her head suddenly, and looked at the cylinder wall with her eyes blankly and silently.

Uncle Niu was originally a sincere farmer, but he wanted to punish Mingyue for spending Han Lin's silver on a whim, and when he saw Mingyue shaking his head like a fool, he panicked and hurriedly helped Mingyue.

Mingyue only felt that the stars in the sky were running rapidly, and her ears were buzzing, like thousands of mosquitoes buzzing in her ears, and it took half a day to wake up.

looked at the foul-mouthed vat again, happily hugged Uncle Niu and smiled: "Uncle Niu, I remember!" Come to think of it!!! ”

For some reason, Uncle Niu danced with Mingyue in a daze, and the two of them were as happy as little babies who ate candy.

When Mingyue just put her head into the big tank, she thought about buying a few more bites and replacing all the small jars and basins for pickles at home with large water tanks to pickle.

When Uncle Niu knocked on the cylinder wall violently, the cylinder wall "buzzed" sounded, Mingyue was shocked and lost five of the seven souls, and the idle one suddenly opened his mind, remembering a way to test the kimchi tank by watching TV shows in modern times.

The kimchi jar resembles a pregnant woman's big-bellied body, with a skirt-like rim groove and a lid buckled in the groove like an upside-down basin.

If an expert wants to try whether the cylinder is in good condition, he will pour alcohol into the groove of the cylinder mouth, buckle the lid, and ignite the alcohol, and the alcohol will burn until the air in the cylinder burns out, and the alcohol is inhaled into the belly of the cylinder, which is a very interesting method.

This kind of tank can be completely isolated from the air, the kimchi maintains a vacuum state, using itself for fermentation, during the fermentation process, the vat will emit the sound of alcohol bubbles from time to time, and when hit with chopsticks, there will be a "flutter" bubble cracking sound one after another.

Mingyue has a happy face, how can he forget such a good instrument? Originally, it was because there was no place to put it, but now it has a "basement" of several hundred square meters, and it is a good place with constant temperature.

Mingyue happily drew the shape of the tank on the ground, and compared it with the ready-made large water tank for a long time, until the craftsman fully understood her intentions, and finally reached a price of 20 yuan higher than the ordinary large tank, and delivered ten large tanks after four days, and took away ten more before the fifteenth day of the first month of the new year.

People are in good spirits on happy occasions, and after buying things, Mingyue tied a large water tank to the ox cart and let Uncle Niu drive the ox cart to go home leisurely.

Outside the effect of the pottery workshop in the county seat, you must pass through the main street where the county government is located to go out of the city gate, and it is nearly noon at this time, but you can't get past it when you walk to the county office.

Mingyue stood on the ox cart and looked around, only to see all kinds of women in front of the county government wearing red and hanging green, flowers and branches, fragrant overflowing, just like the incense tasting meeting, flower appreciation banquet in general, bustling, shoulder to shoulder, so lively.

Although the happy women were crowded, they still had to put paper kites in the cold wind, but the paper kites in the air were not as enthusiastic as their owners, but stumbled down from the air, three or five of them were entangled in one place, and even their respective masters were also planted in one place, like a stack of arhats.

The demure women were not to be outdone, wearing summer gauze clothes on a cold day, their faces flushed with shame, Mingyue was very suspicious, it was frozen red, not blushing.

At this time, on the wall more than a foot high, a man in dark red clothes and embroidered with red peonies is like a fire in the cold wind with a long sword.