Fireworks were set off in the capital.

I don't know whose idea it was, but it seems that everyone likes to use fireworks as a signal.

All kinds of fireworks are blooming one after another, and Xiao Fan, who is far away in Baishui Town, has seen it in his yard.

In the direction of the capital, flashing and flashing.

Climbing on the roof, Xiao Fan saw a fireworks show dozens of miles away.

"It's over."

Xiao Fan smiled clearly, if the emperor died, absolutely no one would dare to set off fireworks.

What do you mean?

The emperor died, and you set off fireworks to celebrate?

Nine Clans: We don't know him!

Therefore, the emperor must have "woken up".

At least after the dangerous period, someone will set off fireworks to exorcise evil spirits and congratulate the emperor, which is also reasonable.

It's about to dawn.

Xiao Fan stayed awake all night, and at this moment, he also felt a little sleepy.

He got off the roof and tiptoed back to the inner room of the east courtyard.

Following.

No, it should be after dawn.

Xiao Fan felt that he had slept for a long time, and when he woke up, he was in a trance.

I went out and looked at the sun, only to realize that it was past afternoon.

"Master, the kitchen specially left you a meal, if you want to eat, I will go and ask Sister Zhang Qiao to warm it up." Qiu Die carried the basket of clothes she had put away, and came back and ran into Xiao Fan.

Xiao Fan waved his hand: "No need." ”

He also has to go out, and when the time comes, he can go to the street to buy a cake, or simply go to the porridge shed to rub a bowl.

"Huh?"

"Where's Madame?" When Xiao Fan came to the courtyard, he didn't see Yu Yourong, so he asked everyone.

Zhao Feng was burning charcoal ashes, lifting his dusty face, so it wasn't funny:

"Master, Mrs. followed Mr. Sun Tong to the clinic early in the morning."

"She doesn't know how to do medicine, so why don't you join in the fun?" Xiao Fan shook his head.

It's not that I don't want Yu Yourong to go out, it's just that there have been frequent major events recently, and there will be a lot of big people around Gyeonggi, so it won't be good if someone recognizes her.

Moreover, there are too many displaced people outside the city, and once they pour into the city, it will be very dangerous for the people of Whitewater Town.

"Where's Zhang Qiao?"

Xiao Fan asked: "How much rice was consumed in the porridge shed yesterday?" ”

"Zhang Qiaocai bought it, master, I know," Qiu Die put away her clothes, came out and bumped into it again, and said, "Sister Qiao said that it cost more than 30 stone meters yesterday. ”

Thirty stones?

One stone is one hundred and twenty catties, that is, more than three hundred catties?

It doesn't seem like much.

It's even a little little.

"It is said that there are already nearly 10,000 people outside the city, how can they only use these rice?" Xiao Fan was puzzled.

"The yamen is also giving porridge, and some people go to the porridge shed of the county government to eat, so they don't come to our porridge shed to eat."

Xiao Fan said unexpectedly: "So conscious? ”

Originally, he stipulated that each person in the Xiao family's porridge shed received a bowl of thick porridge every day, and deliberately did not mention the matter of the yamen.

In other words, if you eat it at the county office, you can also eat a bowl at the Xiao family's porridge shed.

Eating two bowls a day is already very good for hungry people.

"How can you be realized?"

Qiu Die smiled: "Master, I don't know, there are too many people in line, and if you eat a bowl of food here, you will be blown away by those in line." ”

"I see."

Xiao Fan couldn't help laughing, but he didn't expect that this actually formed a kind of self-supervision.

It was an accident.

"But there are wise ones, who eat on both sides, and several men exchange clothes...... When we saw it, we didn't say anything, they were all poor people. Xiao Peng was boiling the medicine and said.

Now the epidemic will rise at any time, it is Xiao Fan's order, and the people in Xiao Mansion must drink sour plum soup to escape the heat every day, and they also have to drink medicine to prevent epidemics.

Xiao Peng and Lin Hu are in charge of this.

Xiao Fan brought a bowl of cold sour plum soup from the side, and his stomach was extremely sour.

Lin Hu smiled: "Master, cool down, I specially left it for you, and added ice cubes!" ”

"Not bad......"

"Where is Jiang Xing?" Xiao Fan looked around, "What about the second master?" ”

Jiang Xing and Zhang Zongbao were also not there.

"Jiang Xing is striking iron next door, he doesn't let us see it, he doesn't know what to do, he says it's an errand ordered by the master." Lin Hu said with a little unhappiness.

Xiao Fan nodded: "Yes, it's the work I ordered." ”

"Really?" Lin Hu felt a little more comfortable at this time, "I thought he was talking nonsense." ”

"He knows a bit of craft, and I tell him to make things that are rare enough to sell for a good price if he's lucky." Xiao Fan said casually.

"That's a good idea!" When they heard this, they were all happy.

The treatment of Xiao Zhai is too good, they naturally don't want to lose, but the premise of a high salary is that the master can earn money.

After that, Xiao Fan walked from the open wall to the house next door.

Seeing that Zhang Zongbao was here, he was guarding from afar, not letting anyone approach.

Jiang Xing was also there, and the sound of striking iron guided Xiao Fan all the way.

In order to tinker with firearms, Xiao Fan set up several blacksmith shops for Jiang Xing, all of which were moved to several surrounding houses.

The location of Jiang Xing's daily work is also uncertain, and he can go wherever he wants, so as not to be easily spied on.

"Zongbao?"

"Brother, you got up, you didn't sleep all night last night? Hey hey ......"

Xiao Fan glanced at him: "Don't think about it, for the sake of the capital, I just stayed up until dawn, and didn't do anything else." ”

"Then you can really survive, I will sleep when I come back from the post house, and I will count the first three counts......" Zhang Zongbao showed off his sleep.

Jiang Xing said enviously:

"The second master is really the reincarnation of the god of sleep, I can't sleep, and when I fall asleep, I have one eye open, and I'm used to it all year round...... Now there are after-effects. ”

Xiao Fan smiled.

He knew that Jiang Xing used to be in the middle of the rivers and lakes, and he was framed before he was sold into the tooth shop.

In the years of walking the rivers and lakes, Jiang Xing developed the habit of having to open one eye even when he sleeps, and he still can't change it.

No matter how comfortable the current environment is, Jiang Xing's sleep is very shallow, and the movement of mice or the chirping of birds can wake him up.

"Master, what do you mean by last night's incident?"

Jiang Xing grinded the pipe, but still didn't think clearly.

Xiao Fan sat under the shed and poured him a bowl of tea.

Jiang Xing smiled and didn't dare to take it, he was self-aware of his identity.

However, Xiao Fan didn't care about this, put the tea bowl aside, and smiled when he saw Jiang Xing leaving.

"The commander of the forbidden army last night, is it true, didn't it mean that His Majesty was terminally ill, how could it be that Sun Hu could be saved if he went?"

There are no outsiders here, and Zhang Zongbao dares to ask carefully.

Xiao Fan shook his head: "Sun Hu...... He made a move, Your Majesty must be fine, there are many fireworks in the capital before dawn, and it must be a good result. ”

"Fireworks?"

"Why didn't I see it?" Zhang Zongbao was puzzled.

Jiang Xing laughed: "Second master, you are still sleeping dead." ”

"Hehe...... Zhang Zongbao scratched his head and smiled embarrassedly.

Xiao Fan is also relaxed now, the dust in the capital has landed, and there have been no accidents.

In the coming days, there should not be such a tense moment.

"Jiang Xing, how is the thing that asked you to forge?" Xiao Fan asked the matter.

Jiang Xing shook his head: "It's unsatisfactory, it won't take a few times, and it will be destroyed." ”

"That's a matter of materials." Xiao Fan sighed, no matter how much he had a brain, he would not do it overnight.

A lot of technology is required for firearms to be produced properly.

It's not a drawing, just give a few pieces of iron ore and it's over.

Now it is good to be able to come out with an inferior version and bomb it a few times.

"I'm afraid it's not just the material."

Jiang Xingzheng said: "The temperature of the fire is not enough, and more impurities cannot be refined, and the materials that come out lack toughness." ”

"If you want to go further, I'm afraid that you need the kind of blast furnace of the Ordnance Bureau, which is burned with refined coal."

As soon as Jiang Xing finished speaking, Xiao Fan gave him this idea:

"No, in that case, it is easy to be said that it is a private weapon with the intention of rebellion."

When Zhang Zongbao heard this, he hurriedly said: "If it doesn't work, this will definitely not work, we can't look for death!" ”

Jiang Xing nodded.

"The master is right, I also know that it can't be done, haven't I mentioned it?"

"Perhaps, you can raise the furnace temperature without using a blast furnace like that."

Xiao Fan went into the blacksmith shop and walked around, only to find that there was not even a bellows.

The work of iron smelting, without bellows, is naturally half the effort.

"Gotta make a bellows."

"What are bellows?"

Xiao Fan was surprised: "There are no bellows in the world? ”

I thought that Jiang Xing didn't have bellows, but I didn't want to, because the entire industry didn't have bellows?

"I haven't heard of it."

Jiang Xing was very interested: "What is the use of the bellows?" ”

"I'll draw you a picture, and you'll know when it's done."

"I have to buy some raw materials and make a few more, this thing is easy to break, and I won't fix it."

Xiao Fan said that he only remembered the principle and didn't know how to make it at all.

I had to draw a picture, find a professional, and come up with an idea.

After Jiang Xing glanced at the drawings, he was surprised:

"This thing, it's so simple?"

"It's so simple, no one thought of it?"

"What a vain life...... Master, I can make this thing, a few taels of silver. ”