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Chapter 123 This scene should only exist in the sky

The eleventh day of the first lunar month, Xu time.

Although more than ten days have passed since the new year, the current emphasis is on "the new year is the first month", and the employees of Luliuwei Agricultural Reclamation Group and the students of Lanxiang Academy are still in the long winter vacation.

During the Chinese New Year, the red lanterns hung on the doors of every household have not been removed, and groups of children play the game of "one, two, three wooden figures" under the ginkgo tree in the center of the village by the light.

Cai's backyard.

The pig iron coal stove in the side hall of the third entrance is blazing hot, and there is a copper kettle on the stove eye, with bubbling steam coming out of the slender spout.

Beside the kettle, a jar of glutinous rice liqueur was warmed, and some sweet potatoes and jujubes were baked. Ru'er, who was standing by, turned the sweet potatoes and jujubes over from time to time to avoid burning them.

Occasionally, the misty sound of children chasing and playing came into the hall.

Inside the house, it was as warm as spring. Cai Wei, Mao Er, Yunong, and Chen Chu sat around a small table on four sides, with a row of rectangular blocks made of bamboo in front of them.

"Chicken."

"bump!"

"Two articles~"

"Short oil, flowers on the bars. Hee hee, all in one color, flowers on the bars total five and thirty. Thank you Chen Dutou, Mrs. Chen, Xiao Yunong, hee hee."

Cai Hua, who was dressed as a man, stepped on the low stool with one foot, picked up the wine cup with one hand, and sipped the glutinous rice liqueur.

"Why did you win again!" Yu Nong looked up to prevent Cai Wei from cheating, and opened her purse with her mouth pouting after confirming that the cards were correct.

Chen Chu and Mao'er paid in silence.

Ever since Cai Hua, Mao Er and Yunong learned to be proud of the Sparrow in the afternoon of the first day of the new year, Cai Hua has been staying here, running over every day at dawn, and not leaving until the hour of the night.

Eat three meals a day from the Chen family, and keep winning money from the Chen family
In the past few days, this cauliflower snake has won a lot of money from the three members of the Chen family.

Eat my food!Drink my wine!Win my money!

Even though the man was invited by Mao'er, Mao'er already felt a little regretful, and couldn't help but glance at Cai Wei.

Cai Wei caught Mao'er's eyes very keenly, and looked at each other with a smile, "Hey? Why is Mrs. Chen looking at me with such fierce eyes? Didn't I win you a few pennies?"

Then, he turned into a coquettish look again, and said aggrievedly: "Hey, Chen Du used to bully the slave family and treat the slave family like a cow and horse. Now the slave family only won a few pennies, and Mrs. Chen also came to stare at the slave family. This family, Not a single good person."

Chen Chu, your sisters keep talking about what I did, and besides, who is using whom as a bull?
The cat is already a married woman, so she can naturally tell that the cows and horses Cai Wei is talking about are not serious cows and horses.
Bah~ Shameless.

The cat drooped its eyelids and had a sullen face. The cat knew that Cai Wei was deliberately angry with herself. These days, what Cai Hua was most keen to see was the Chen family's lady breaking her defenses, so the cat didn't want her to do so.

"Third lady, why are there no good people in my family? My family is full of good people"

Yunong on the side took out three 'Dang Ten' small pink coins in pain, and said something fair for himself with a pouty mouth.

"Your family?" Cai Wei narrowed her eyes and looked at Yunong who betrayed her face to face.

Her appearance made Yunong a little scared, and immediately, a small hand under the table held Yunong's hand.

Yunong didn't need to look to know that it was her sister who was encouraging her. She couldn't help but glance at Mao'er gratefully, and said courageously, "Of course it's my home!"

Yunong is now in the shape of Chen Chu from the inside to the outside, some feelings are made, and she is loyal to the Chen family!

In order to protect his own family, he dared to argue with the devil in his heart!

Low oil!Rebellion, Yu Nong dared to show his teeth to me!
Cai Wei reached out and pinched Yunong's face and tugged, "Don't you think I can't deal with you without your body deed?"

"Hiss~ hiss~ oops, it hurts~ it hurts."

"Miss Cai San! No matter what Yunong was like before, she is my family now, so it's too rude of you to do this."

Cat, who had been drooping his eyelids, finally spoke slowly.

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Cai Wei raised her eyes to look at the cat, and realized in her heart that the little wild cat was silent at first, but it provoked Yu Nong to argue with her, and she was sitting like a dignified woman.

Now he stands up and reprimands again, making it look like Cai Wei and Yunong are jealous!

Cai Wei, who felt that her identity was overwhelmed by Maoer, let go of Yunong, and was ready to concentrate on fighting with Maoer.

But I don't want to, seeing the cat supporting her, Yunong rubbed her face and muttered in a low voice: "Third lady, you have to be polite, if you want to enter my Chen's house in the future, you will still be behind me, and you will call me when you meet. Sister, don't pinch me anymore."

"Pfft~" Mao'er couldn't hold back, and laughed out loud. Good Yunong, domineering!

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Cai Wei, whose chest was heaving rapidly, looked at the Yunong meat buns that she threw at Chen Chu with her own hands, and felt sad while being angry. What went wrong?
"My lord, report from outside that Master Huang has made the kind of fireworks you mentioned, please go and have a look."

Fortunately, Cui Yuan, who came in to pass on the message, temporarily resolved the embarrassing atmosphere.

"Ahem, let's go, let's go out and watch the fireworks"

Chen Chu greeted, and the heartless Yunong bounced off the scorpion, hugged Chen Chu's arm and was about to go out.

Mao'er and Cai Wei sat in their original positions for a few more breaths, and they looked at each other silently. Mao'er suddenly pursed his lips and showed a victorious smile.

San Niangzi. Your people are now mine, hehe.

Little wild cat. Don't be too proud, let's wait and see, hee hee.

After a while of eye contact, the cat lowered its eyelids to block the sight, then got up and said softly: "Officer, put on a robe before going out, it's cold outside, be careful to catch the cold."

At three o'clock.

There is an open space under the embankment wall on the north side of Luliuxu.

Hearing that fireworks were going to be set off, Da Lang, Peng Er, Liu Erhu and others who were having a drink at Wu Kui's house all followed.

Even the big sword, which had fallen asleep early, was called up by the big girl, and she stood outside the crowd with the little girl on her back.

Huang Huihong is about forty years old, with a short messy beard under his jaw.

A few days ago, on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, he came to Luliuxu to be Chen Chu's medicine puppet.

At present, fireworks are divided into three types.

A frame made of moso bamboo, on which various small fireworks are bound, looks like a wall of fire after being set off, called frame fireworks.

The second type is made of paper tubes rolled into a medicine room, the bottom is blocked with mud, and a lead wire and a nozzle are left on the top. After being ignited, a bouquet of orange pear blossoms of varying heights will be sprayed out. The so-called "fire tree and silver flower" refers to this kind of Bonsai fireworks.

The third type is puppet fireworks, which is the most difficult to make among the three types of fireworks, and it is also a skill that Huang Huihong is quite proud of.

On the night of the fifth day, Huang Huihong made a Zhong Kui medicine puppet as tall as a person.

The bamboo strips are the bones, and the colored paper is the skin.

Ignite the medicine thread, and Zhong Kui, who is fixed on the circular base, can turn around in circles with the thrust generated by the gunpowder. After more than ten breaths, Zhong Kui spewed out a tongue of pear blossom fire two or three feet long.

At that time, the villagers of Luliuxu were amazed and cheered, and only Chen Chu said, "That's it?"

Huang Huihong's family has been making fireworks for several generations, so he was naturally not convinced by Chen Chu's statement, so Chen Chu said again: "Have you seen blue, yellow, green, red fireworks? Have you ever seen ones that can hit thirty or forty feet high?" Firework bombs?"

Now, I stopped Huang Huihong.

Due to the charcoal component in the gunpowder, the fireworks are mostly orange when they are set off. I have never seen the colorful yellow, but I only heard that someone can make yellow fireworks.

Later, under Chen Chu's aggressive method, Huang Huihong signed a contract with him: Chen Chu taught him how to make colorful fireworks, and Huang Huihong was willing to work for Luliuwei for three years to help Chen Chu build the firecracker factory in Naluoshizi.

From Huang Huihong's point of view, it is not a loss at all to do so. If he can learn how to make colored fireworks, he will be able to find a golden job for future generations. Not to mention three years of work, even five or ten years. worth.

Of course, the premise is that Chen Chude can really teach him.

From Chen Chu's point of view, it's not a loss. He is a king of keyboards, and he can't use his hands.

Back then, I followed a firework blogger on Douyin. People said that adding iron powder to gunpowder would produce small blue stars when set off; adding salt would produce yellow fireworks; adding copper powder would produce red; adding copper oxide would produce green
But Chen Chu couldn't remember the specific ratio.

After all, it still needs a master master who has been immersed in this business for many years to operate.

Furthermore, although the colorful fireworks are beautiful, they are just an introduction thrown by Chen Chu. What he really wants to do is the fireworks.

The end of Xu.

Chen Chu instructed the joint defense team on duty tonight to maintain order at the scene. Huang Huihong took his two sons to move the bonsai fireworks and put them on the open space, and lit them himself.

It is not difficult for Huang Huihong to make this kind of pyrotechnics, but he just added some other ingredients to the gunpowder.

The discharge was considered smooth. Although it was not as gorgeous as the colorful fireworks of the later generations, when the red and green fireworks spewed out, there was still a burst of exclamation from the crowd.

With the bonsai fireworks going so smoothly, Huang Huihong also has more confidence in the next experiment of 'firework bombs'.

However, Chen Chu became nervous.

Let the defense team persuade the onlookers to stay away, and then stepped forward and repeatedly said: "Master Huang, you must leave the lead wire longer, and run away as soon as possible after lighting it."

If you want to hit the fireworks shells high into the sky, you need to rely on the kinetic energy after the deflagration of the propellant.

But Chen Chu didn't know exactly how much to load. At the same time, he didn't trust the current gunpowder fuse enough.

After a while, Huang Huihong and his son brought up a hollow paper tube half a person high. The paper tube was wrapped with mulberry paper. The wall of the tube was two or three fingers thick and the inner diameter was three inches.

This is the launcher.

Chen Chu had seen that paper launchers were used to launch small fireworks at the fireworks show, and metal launchers were used only for large-sized projectiles, so he thought that the chamber pressure of this kind of fireworks should not be high.

After confirming again and again that the [-] feet around the discharge site were clear, Huang Huihong stepped forward to light the fuse, turned around and ran away.
Just now, seeing Chen Chu and Master Huang being so solemn, everyone couldn't help but look forward to this strange fireworks.

Chen Chu also looked forward to it.

'呵呵呵~'

In the dark, the lead wire is lighted into the paper cylinder one by one.

'Boom! '

Thunder on the ground.

The place where the paper tube was placed suddenly exploded with dazzling flames, and immediately, smoke and dust rose.
Everyone felt their scalps tingling and their ears buzzing.

Grandma dropped, fortunately she was far away, and it really exploded!

I don't know if it was because the propellant was filled too much, or it was a problem with the lead wire. The firework bomb exploded directly with the propellant on the spot.

After a moment of silence, everyone rubbed their ears in unison.

Yunong was stunned for a moment, then suddenly grabbed Chen Chu's arm and shook it excitedly, "Master! These fireworks are really loud!"

This little sycophant never fails to pat a horse's leg.

"." Chen Chu smiled awkwardly, "I didn't succeed this time, and the fireworks didn't sound good."

"Oh, it's very loud anyway, the young master is very powerful anyway!"

Yunong forcefully praised.

Afterwards, Chen Chu stepped forward to exchange a few words with Huang Huihong.

Next, lift out a launcher again.

This time, Master Huang reduced the propellant dose.
With the lesson just now, everyone is farther away this time.

Master Huang repeated the process just now.

Everyone looked at the launch tube again. The fuse ignited and burned into the paper tube bit by bit.

Everyone who was ready to hear the sound again did not wait for the loud noise.

But there was a sound of '咻', and a projectile with a faint light spot flew straight into the night sky.

Everyone's heads couldn't help but follow the light spot and look up.

After one or two breaths, a cluster of red flowers suddenly exploded in the dark night sky.
Immediately afterwards, there was a muffled thunder-like sound.

Standing below and looking at it, I feel that it covers the sky and covers the sky.

Mao'er and Yunong, who were separated from Chen Chu's left and right, raised their heads together, each reflecting the colorful sky in their big clear eyes.

The surroundings were quiet for a moment, and suddenly there was a 'buzzing' discussion.

This scene should only exist in the sky, not like in the world.

When people are too shocked, they always want to say something.

"Four liang, this, this, this."

"What, what, I heard from Dalang that the fairy peaches that sell for hundreds of pennies in our county this year are also made by the owner. Some people say that the owner is an exiled immortal from the sky"

"Yes, yes, yes! My boss must be a banished immortal! Otherwise, the scene tonight would be visible to mortals!"

The discussion below gradually grew louder.

However, Chen Chu felt that the fireworks bombs flying just now were too low. The fireworks bombs he saw before often flew as high as 200 meters.

The one just now was only more than 20 meters at most.

However, he was satisfied with the successful launch of the second test.

Old craftsmen like Huang Huihong should not be underestimated. They are never short of ingenuity. Sometimes they only need to help them light a layer of window paper, and they can make achievements beyond the expectations of others.

Tomorrow, let him move his family here as soon as possible.

Next, we will continue to improve the delay lead and gunpowder, which will probably cost a lot of money and time.

But Chen Chu felt it was worth it.

Because this thing is set off on festivals to add festive fireworks to people, if you change the formula of the projectile a little, it will be a mortar.

(End of this chapter)