Luoyang, the capital of the gods, is full of dragon energy.

In a dark house, there is a ghost fire drifting.

A huge map spreads out on the open ground.

The map is marked according to the administrative division, and there are many small buildings made of gold, stone, iron and wood, which are not operated by anyone, but from time to time there are small buildings that are slowly built and expanded, and a middle-aged man dressed as a Taoist priest is stroking his beard and smiling at this scene.

His smile didn't last long, as a small building in the middle of the map suddenly collapsed, shattering many fine wooden boards on the map.

The Taoist priest looked fixedly, frowned, turned around and arched his hand: "Great King, the lower mansion of Jixiang County, Yunzhou Prefecture, Zhongzhou, has disappeared." ”

Someone said softly: "It doesn't matter, Shi Zhoushan is dead, and there is no need for his house enemy to exist." ”

"King Mingjian, what my subordinates are worried about is whether this house enemy will be damaged by someone with a heart?" asked the Taoist priest again.

A soft voice sounded: "Don't worry, I have already sent Xingzhu to Jixiang County to investigate this matter, listening to the Heavenly Prison is busy with party strife and infighting, the Green Dragon King does not attach too much importance to this matter." The secret of the house is known only to us, and it should have been destroyed by accident. ”

The Taoist priest nodded and said, "What the king said makes sense, if the Heavenly Eunuch already knows the secret use of the house, he will definitely not destroy it easily, but should study it." Yes, that's exactly what happened. ”

The king said: "But the house enemy is precious, if there is no trace of the prison in Jixiang County, I am not willing to use the house enemy to control Shizhou Mountain." In this way, you issued an edict on my behalf, telling the stars to postpone the search for the prison in Jixiang County, and to go and transport the enemies out of the house first. ”

The Taoist priest said: "According to the edict of the king, this matter should be simple, after the house is broken, there is only a pile of rotten wood left, and the people who listen to the heavenly prison will not keep it, but will throw it away as garbage." However, it is more important to find the prison in comparison, right?"

"The prison is not so easy to find, the person who stole the prison is a slippery head, he hides very deeply, I heard that the heavenly prison has sent Zhongzhou Yushuai to find it, and after looking for three days, he found nothing. We don't have to worry about this in the long run. ”

"Besides, don't you Han people have a saying? You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, and now this prison is a piece of hot tofu. We can't eat it, but the person holding it doesn't feel good either. So in comparison, it is more important to find the home, listen to the great cause and big money of the heavenly supervisors, they don't look down on the house and a pile of rotten wood, but the surrounding people may not look down on it. ”

The Taoist priest hurriedly bowed his hand: "The king Gao Jian, that subordinate immediately sent an order to the stars, asking them to go to the post house and wait outside to clean up the house." ”

"Well, be sure to bring me all the enemies of the house back, Jixiang County has a new Great Seal, and I am very interested in him. In the future, this house enemy may have to return to Jixiang County, and its mission is not over. A soft voice rippled, and there was no one in the room at all times.

The Taoist priest saluted respectfully, then took out a small bottle from his sleeve and opened it, and after blowing a breath, a black shadow the size of a thumb jumped out and disappeared in a flash:

"Bring back the otaku!"

The house is a collection of grievances, Xu Da said that it is not a good thing, it can absorb the essence and fortune of the people in the house.

In this way, why did Shi Zhoushan make a special house and live in it?

Wang Qilin had a discussion with Xu Da, but no result was reached.

Xu Da finally lost his patience and said: "Anyway, it has been killed by you, and the house has been demolished and turned into a pile of rags, even if it hides any secrets, it has been destroyed, so let's throw it away." ”

Wang Qilin was thrifty and said: "Don't throw it away, move it to the kitchen and burn it, it just so happens that the kitchen needs firewood." ”

Chef Liu almost had tears left: "My lord, do you dare to eat the rice that is burned on the coffin board? ”

Wang Qilin thought about it again and said: "That's right, let's do it, Lao Liu, let's burn the wood into charcoal first, and then we will use charcoal to warm up in winter." ”

Chef Liu said blankly: "Is there any difference between this? Who dares to use the coffin board for warmth?"

Xu laughed and said, "Didn't the Seventh Master say it? Who uses the coffin board to keep warm? We use charcoal to keep warm!"

"Where did that charcoal come from?"

"The coffin board is burned. ”

Chef Liu smiled bitterly: "This is amazing?"

Xu Dadao: "I got a fart, then let me ask you, what did you eat at noon?"

"Cabbage dumplings. ”

"What do you use to water the cabbage to grow fat? Isn't it right? You see, you eat more vegetables than anyone else, and you don't dare to use the charcoal made from the coffin board?"

Chef Liu stopped talking, he felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't refute it.

Uncle Jin nodded: "The logic is fine." ”

Wang Qilin looked at Xu Da in surprise, this product is really a logical genius, and Heidou is also a logical genius, fate!

Without further ado, the coffin board is not a good thing after all, and they have to pick it up quickly.

Wang Qilin asked, "Is there a fire-making kiln in the county?" Let's send the wood over and let them burn it into charcoal. ”

In the New Han Dynasty, charcoal burning was called smelting, so the cave where charcoal was fired was called a smelting kiln.

Xu Da rolled up his sleeves and said, "What kind of furnace do you find?" ”

Wang Qilin lacked confidence in him: "Big brother, are you really good?"

Xu Da gave him a reproachful look: "Remove the '?'." ”

But he pondered for a while and was a little depressed: "There must be a cave for making fire, and I know how to burn wood into charcoal, but I don't know how to build a cave." ”

Uncle Jin smiled and said: "Coincidentally, Lord Xu, I know how to build a cave, old man, but I can only build an earthen kiln, which I learned when I burned charcoal in the army before." ”

Xu Daxi couldn't help himself: "Great, then let's build a clay kiln directly in this courtyard, it's just in the rainy season, and you can burn a fire to remove moisture for the yamen." ”

Uncle Jin is different from him, he is an old horse who knows the way, not only has the ability in his mouth, but also has the ability in his hands.

The kiln is rough but simple and effective, it consists of a fire door, a chimney and a charcoal silo, and it needs to be high above the ground, so it needs a lot of earth.

Xu Da pushed the little earth ox to pull the soil, and Wang Qilin pasted the Lingguan Doom Talisman to the door of the post house.

This time, it's just a sticker.

Before, I couldn't stick the house because of the house enemy, and the spirit officer chong doom charm can only be pasted on the building, not on the person, nor on the ghost, the house is the incarnation of the house enemy, and sticking it under the eaves is equivalent to sticking it on the forehead of the house enemy, and naturally it can't be pasted.

Truckloads of dirt piled up, up to two meters high.

After tamping the mound, Uncle Jin dug it himself, he said: "Digging and refining the kiln has to start digging from the charcoal warehouse, not elsewhere, and this depends on the craftsmanship." I haven't dug in years, so I don't know if the craft is still good. ”

Xu Da handed him a pot of wine and said, "Lao Jin, you take two sips first, the man drinks wine, and he has everything." ”

Uncle Jin laughed, and took two sips of wine with two salted edamame: "Refreshing!

After drinking the old wine, he was really more stable, digging the charcoal warehouse first and then digging the fire door, don't look at the old man's age, but his body is still strong, and he didn't even rest before he dug it all.

Finally, digging chimneys, this is the most important.

If the chimney is too large, it will burn the wood to ashes, and it will not be able to burn the charcoal.

It's too small, and it won't work, and it will hold the fire when the time comes, Uncle Jin explained: "Once you hold the fire, it won't burn charcoal, at most you will burn some cigarette blocks." ”

The cigarette block is a small piece of charcoal that can be burned, but it can be burned with smoke, which is very choking.

Wang Qilin's father, Wang Liuwu, went to work for a large family in the autumn of one year, and then picked up a bunch of cigarettes and came back.

It was very cold that winter, but Wang Qilin's house was quite comfortable, but there was a lot of smoke, and at first, whenever his house burned charcoal, some people in the village thought that their house was on fire......

Uncle Jin explained to them while carefully digging the chimney, at this time it was getting late, he clapped his hands and said: "Tomorrow, tomorrow we can make fire, we have to prepare some straw straw and other things, and then there are sawdust, the more sawdust, the better." ”

Finally, he picked up the coffin board and looked at it, adding: "These boards are all good wood, and they are indeed suitable for smelting fire, and the charcoal that will be burned will be very resistant to burning when the time comes." ”

Another day was May 24, and the smoke in the post house was misty, and someone pushed a cart to collect the rags, and then saw the smoke lingering over the post house and was stunned.

Wang Qilin did not continue to pay attention to the charcoal burning, he had to go to the mansion of Li Ying in Zhixian County to attend the banquet today.

To be a guest, you have to bring courtesy, the Li family is also a big family in Jixiang County, and Uncle Jin is a know-it-all in the county, and he told him a lot of gossip.

The Li family is an outsider from Jixiang County, his ancestor was a beggar when he first came, and then started working part-time, his family's life gradually improved, and he opened a small grocery store.

Then the business got better and better, the family grew bigger and bigger, and now the grocery stores in Jixiang County and the adjacent Gaoyuan County are all his family's.

If you have money, you want to have status, the Li family did not train Li Ying to do business, but let him study sage books hard since he was a child.

"It is rumored that Li Zhixian has no talent for reading, and the private school teacher has changed one after another, but the characters are still written like ghost drawings, and the books are also confused. ”

"The strange thing is that he just knows how to take the school exam, the children's test, the county test, the government test, the township test, and he is a genius along the way. ”

"He will be able to be an official after he is promoted, but Li Zhixian doesn't seem to be very popular among their scholars, and the big men above don't like him very much, so the Li family took a lot of money to do a lot of activities, and got him back to his hometown Jixiang County to be a county master......"

Listening to Uncle Jin's explanation, Wang Qilin nodded suddenly.

He has seen such a person in his dreams, he is not good at reading, he is the first in the exam, some people call them the test masters, some people call them the emperor of Europe, and some people call them the king of cheating.

He doesn't know what kind of person Li Ying is, but he shouldn't be the king of cheats.

The rules of the examination room in the Xinhan Dynasty are very strict, and the Heavenly Supervision Council will send a master with his heart to sit in the town, so if you want to cheat, let alone do it, as long as you have a thought, you will be recognized.

Once the cheater is caught, the punishment is also very strict, and each layer has a different level of punishment, the most basic is to sit together.

For example, when the county exam, the candidate is jointly guaranteed by five people, and then another Xiucai in the county is the guarantor, once the candidate is caught cheating, in addition to the punishment of the candidate, the joint guarantor and the guarantor will be punished, and the deprivation of merit is light, and the serious one will be exiled!

Uncle Jin also guessed so, but he didn't think that Li Ying was lucky, and he would pass every exam.

He whispered to Wang Qilin: "It is rumored that the Li family raises fox fairies, and it is the fox fairies who bless their family to make a lot of money in business and study to gain fame. You see that other people's mansions are called Dou Mansion, Zhou Mansion or something, but what about the Li family?

Qingqiu is the country of ten thousand foxes.

The geographical chronicle "Classic of Mountains and Seas - The Classic of Nanshan" records: There is a mountain of green hills three hundred miles to the east, and its yang is more jade, and its yin is more indigo. There is a beast, which is like a fox and has nine tails.

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas - Overseas East Classic" records: Qingqiu country is in the north of its valley of the rising sun, and its fox has four legs and nine tails. ”

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas - The Great Wilderness East Classic" records: There is a country of green hills, and there are nine tails of foxes.

However, Wang Qilin was not convinced, the Xinhan Dynasty had zero tolerance for folk ghosts and demons, and if caught, he would be beheaded and punished by the nine clans!

He smiled noncommittally and got straight to the point: "The Li family is rich and powerful, so what gift should I bring to the door?"

Uncle Jin said with a smile: "Lord Wang doesn't have to be embarrassed, you are young to worship the Great Seal, the Li family invited you to the door to slap you, and they are satisfied even if you go empty-handed, so I suggest that you go to Wuguzhai to buy some snacks and bring them, it is cheap and affordable, and you can get by on your face." ”

Wang Qilin thought for a while and smiled: "Okay, I'll go buy some snacks, and I actually have something suitable for gifts." ”