In the blink of an eye, the next day has arrived.Wei Xi came to the nursery in a carriage and saw that Zhou Yuan was already standing at the door of the nursery hall waiting.Through the glass window, Wei Xi beckoned to him, Zhou Yuan nodded and jumped into the carriage, and sat in front of the carriage with the coachman, and the carriage turned a corner and headed towards the outskirts of the city.After about half an hour, the carriage stopped in front of what appeared to be a newly renovated house.The location of this house is a bit wonderful.There is a stagnant pond behind the house, but now there is no water, revealing the dry riverbed, and you can still see a few dried lotus leaves in the middle of the pond.Wei Xi took Xiao Qi out of the carriage, pushed the door in, and nodded to Wei San, who heard the sound outside.Wei San clasped his fists and saluted, and then his eyes fell on Zhou Yuan, who was following behind, and glanced at him expressionlessly, turned around and followed closely behind Wei Xi who was walking towards the house without saying a word.He couldn't help but be nervous.Saltpeter powder is no better than others, this thing doesn't look ordinary, but Wei San has seen the power of saltpeter powder with his own eyes.To this day, he vividly remembers the deafening explosion and the people who were so miserable that it was bombed.It's just that now he can't persuade the second lady, so he can only protect it with him, just in case.And for the person who sent saltpeter powder, he didn't have such a good face.Zhou Yuan touched his nose uncomfortably by Wei San, and took a few steps behind to follow.Wei Xi didn't care about the strange atmosphere behind him, walked through the courtyard to the corridor, and saw three thigh-high jars on the ground, the mouth of the jar was sealed, and the smell of saltpeter powder could still be vaguely smelled."
Wei San, you and Zhou Daochang carry a jar to the house."
After instructing the guard, Wei Xi hurriedly entered the house with Xiao Qi, and then turned around and entered the room.When the two came out, Wei San and Zhou Yuan, who were standing outside, were stunned.I saw that Wei Xi and Xiao Qi were both covered with a white robe, from their necks to their ankles, and they also wore a hat on their heads that completely covered their hair, and their faces were also wrapped in a layer of cloth towels.The whole body was covered except for a pair of eyes."
There are two more in there, you two go in and change them."
The two nodded blankly.By the time the two of them stumbled through the equipment and walked out, they saw that Wei Xi had already stood behind the only long table in the room, opened the jar of saltpeter powder, and was scooping it out with a transparent glass spoon.And the originally empty table was now filled with all kinds of objects they had never seen before, from wood to metal to glass, taking up nearly half of the originally large table.Zhou Yuan walked two steps quickly to the table, his eyes swept over the table, and after making sure that he couldn't recognize a single thing, he looked at Wei Xi, who was concentrating on scooping saltpeter powder out, and his voice came out muffled from behind the cloth towel: "Miss Wei" Wei Xi raised a hand to stop his unfinished words, "Look first." ”Zhou Yuan had no choice but to keep his mouth shut.Wei San stood aside, nervously watching Wei Xi's every move, his whole body tensed.And once Wei Xi entered the experiment, he was extremely focused on everything else.As early as when she first discovered saltpeter powder, an idea came to her mind.Naturally, this idea is not to make something as powerful as gunpowder, which can cause great disaster if you are not careful.Instead, use saltpeter powder to make something harmless, but can produce a lot of convenience and fun in life.For example, a little bit of a lit match, a preservative to prevent food spoilage in the summer, and, her favorite fireworks.Although she couldn't tell why she could do these things, she seemed to be used to them.Just like the rouge rice, tofu, and glass in front, Wei Xi sometimes feels as if his brain has sunk a lot of things, and only waiting for an opportunity for these sunken skills to emerge from his mind.After coming and going, she said she was used to it.Wei Xi asked him to look at it first, and Zhou Yuan really took it seriously.I watched as all sorts of utensils were used with the white gloved hands, and watched the saltpeter powder become completely unfamiliar after adding something strange.Looking at it, it's a little crazy.Until there was a pop in the air.The eyes of all four people in the room fell on a wooden stick in the glass enclosure.Something was wrapped around one end of the stick, and it was burning in the glass cover at the moment, and soon, the whole small stick was burned, leaving only a little ash.Everything happened too fast.Except for Wei Xi, the other three were a little confused.Until Xiao Qi's voice came out, he also pinched a small piece of glass in his hand and looked left and right, "Miss, why is this wooden stick on fire?"
”As Wei Xi's assistant, she was the first to see the wax-coated wooden stick burning.It's just that it was put in a glass cover, and the lady took a piece of glass and took a photo, and it suddenly burned in the blink of an eye.The experiment was successful, Wei Xi was tidying up the desktop messed up by her, and did not answer for a while.Zhou Yuan's eyes first fell on the wisp of ashes, and then at the paste that was stirred into a glass bowl next to him, and it was this thing that was smeared on the wooden stick, and finally his eyes fell on the piece of glass that Xiao Qi was pinching, and after thinking carefully about it before and after, his eyes suddenly lit up."
Miss Wei, I think I understand how this stick burned."
Wei Xi was looking down and thinking about how to get some red phosphorus, when he heard this, he looked up at Zhou Yuan, and said with interest: "Let's talk about it." ”Zhou Yuan pointed to the glass bowl, "The saltpeter powder in it, I used it for alchemy, I accidentally burned it a few times, I guess the paste mixed by Miss Wei should be easier to burn, wrap it on a wooden stick, and then apply wax oil The purpose should also be to help the wooden stick burn."
And this glass piece, thin in the middle and around the back, I have played with it before, can be used to gather light, when the light is concentrated at one point, it is also the hottest, and it happens to hit something that is easy to burn, and it catches fire. ”As soon as he said this, Xiao Qi and Wei San's faces became more abrupt, and they looked at Wei Xi again, wanting to ask for confirmation of whether Zhou Yuan's speculation was right.Wei Xi's response was to clap his hands, "That's true." ”Otherwise, every alchemist is a potential chemist.These people can condense some strange things together and refine them into elixirs, which is a kind of talent bonus in itself.In this way, it is no wonder that Zhou Yuan was the first to analyze it.And Zhou Yuan, who was affirmed, also had some impulse to try at the moment.He was forced to flee with Zhou Ting and Zhou Tong, and the reason why he chose to pretend to be a Taoist priest was because he liked all kinds of strange things that could be used to pretend to be gods and ghosts since he was a child.In the Zhou family's mansion in Kyoto, which was burned to ashes, there is his collection for more than ten years.Now I haven't touched it for a long time, and I suddenly found the existence of interest, and my hands are really itchy.Wei Xi saw the light in his eyes, couldn't help but smile in his heart, and took the initiative to hand over the things he had just used, "Try it." ”On the other side, he studied the preservatives while watching Zhou Yuan's operation.To say that he is really worthy of being a person who has played since childhood, half an hour later, Zhou Yuan perfectly copied the matches made by Wei Xi.The same pop, the same flame.Wei Xi raised his eyebrows and praised in his heart.She didn't say a word when she was making matches, the number of materials used depends on looking, and the second relies on memorization, so quickly and perfectly to replicate her process and proportions, I have to say, in addition to paying attention to it and remembering it seriously, it is more important to look at talent.Wei San's eyes looked at Zhou Yuan a little different.Because if he was to come, if it wasn't for his modesty, he would really not dare to get started, let alone really make it.It was almost noon after studying the preservatives, and there was no food in the house and no place to cook, so Wei San had to take off his equipment and drive the carriage to the city to buy food.Wei Xi specially instructed him to buy more pastries that should not be stored to test the efficacy of his preservatives.Zhou Yuan didn't have much interest in the use of preservatives, but he also knew that if this thing was really as Wei Xi said, it would be of great use.Especially for those who are in the food business.When Wei San came back, the four of them had eaten, and Wei Xi first divided the pastries he bought back into two parts, one was directly placed, and the other was used with the preservatives just made, which were put into two food boxes and put back on the carriage by Xiao Qi, so that he could observe them after he went back.After that, the afternoon was spent researching fireworks.Fortunately, the place that Wei Xi asked Wei San to find was far away and uninhabited, otherwise there would be a bang from time to time on their side, and the people from the government would have been recruited.Wei San took a burning incense, and the whole person was already a Buddha.When Wei Xi made the first fireworks, he wanted to light them in person, but he was quick to stop them.In the time that followed, setting off fireworks became his exclusive task.Although it will be a blue sky and a white day, they will be close to each other, and they will naturally be able to see fireworks exploding overhead.Red, green, blue and purple, all kinds of colors.And the appearance of fireworks has changed from monotonous at the beginning to more and more patterns.Wei Xi almost had a good time.Zhou Yuan is not far behind, since he understood the principle of fireworks, the technology has also advanced by leaps and bounds.Wei San looked at the two people who were squatting in the yard and were busy working, and then looked at Xiao Qi, who took away the incense in his hand and went to the other side to set off fireworks, and wiped his face tiredly.Since following the second miss, his heart has really become more and more energetic.The sun moved to the west and fell, and the sky became dark, and it was a bit eye-catching to set off fireworks at this time, although it was better to set off fireworks at night, but Wei Xi still reluctantly gave up this bold idea."
Let's go, go home."
The four words fell, and Wei San breathed a long sigh of relief, this thrilling day can be regarded as over.However, what he didn't know was that this thrilling day had only just begun.