"You really don't want to take revenge overnight." Zhai Zhiming's emotions were complicated and his tone was difficult to understand.
Judging from his brief contact with the young man in front of him, he felt that he was a man with a sharp mind. If the Liu family provoked him, it would definitely not be easy, but he never thought that he would come to make trouble in the morning and die in the afternoon.
"How do you say this?" Wei Feng put down the mud ball in his hand and looked at him with interest, without denying it.
It is polite to look at the person you are talking to.
Zhai Zhiming: "There was a fire in the south of the village. Two houses were burned down and four people died, Liu Laosi, Liu Laowu and their two sons."
Wei Feng said calmly: "Then is God opening his eyes and avenging me?"
Zhai Zhiming: "The villagers here have a habit of piling excess firewood that cannot fit in the kitchen at the entrance of the courtyard. Judging from the traces on the scene, the fire should have started in the firewood pile in front of Liu Laosi's courtyard. Today, the wind blew from the southeast again. The wind and the fire spread to Liu Laowu’s house.”
Wei Feng blinked: "It means you still need to have fire protection awareness, right?"
Zhai Zhiming did not answer his question: "But I asked the villagers that it has been raining here for three consecutive days. Although Liu Laosi has done waterproofing, it is inevitable that the woodpile will be wet. How could it catch fire? The woodpile wants to To start a fire, at least it needs an existing fire source to bake it for a while."
Wei Feng touched his chin and rubbed the mud on it without caring: "That makes sense. You mean, someone set the fire? Oh, no wonder you look at me like that. You suspect that I set the fire."
He spread his hands and looked innocent: "But based on the time, I should have been cooking medicine when the fire broke out in the south of the village."
Zhai Zhiming continued: "Thinking of this, I checked carefully and found that most of the firewood stored at the entrance of Liu Lao's Fourth Courtyard was firewood, but there were also traces of other dry firewood burning on the edges, so I guess the fire started there. "
Before Wei Feng could speak, he continued: "If that's all, I can't be sure it was you who did it. After all, you and I were both in this room when the fire broke out. You did not have the time to commit the crime, but in fact this was the first thing I discovered. "
As he spoke, he carried the pot-shaped object he had just put down in front of Wei Feng.
The object looked like it was made of metal, but the concave side was polished very smooth. It would reflect light when placed under the sun, making it particularly dazzling.
Zhai Zhiming showed a look of recollection on his face and said slowly: "When I was still in the academy, my mentor told me about what he saw and heard when he was young and traveled around. One of them was in a certain plateau area, where The sun is exceptionally abundant.
Local residents discovered that particularly smooth gold and iron objects would reflect sunlight and be very warm on people's bodies.
Later, a local wise man had an idea and formed a circle of these gold and iron objects, and then adjusted the angle towards the sun so that the sunlight reflected from all sides would be concentrated on one point, and the high temperature generated could heat the food and make it more delicious. They were exempted from eating raw food. "
He pointed to the pot-shaped object he brought back: "The instructor copied it according to the principle after returning to the academy, and it was similar to this thing, so the moment he saw it, he remembered that anecdote."
Wei Feng chuckled and put away the pot-shaped object. It used the light-gathering principle of a rotating paraboloid to polish the metal until it was smooth enough, and then adjusted the curvature to make a condenser, which focused the sunlight to generate high temperatures.
In another world, it has a familiar name, called a solar cooker.
"It's just that I don't understand two things." Zhai Zhiming said again. At some point, the topic between the two of them changed from whether to kill people to an academic discussion. It seemed that they didn't care much about the four lives.
Wei Feng looked at him again, waiting for his next words.
Zhai Zhiming: "First, the temperature generated by the item you made is not enough to ignite dry firewood. This is the conclusion I came to after testing it with dry firewood. You don't need to argue. Then how did you use it to set fire?" Well, I'm pretty sure it's useful, otherwise it wouldn't be there."
Wei Feng thought for a while and said seriously: "Anything needs to reach a certain temperature to be ignited. This temperature is called the ignition point. The ignition point of dry firewood is higher. Due to material limitations, my crude solar stove cannot reach it. Such high temperatures.”
He didn't lie. It was indeed a matter of material limitations. If you could buy a normal solar cooker made of aluminized glass mirrors, not to mention burning three or four hundred pieces of dry firewood, even taller wet wood would be available to you every minute.
"But." He changed the subject and said, "The ignition point of paper is very low. I only need to light the paper on fire."
By this time, he no longer denied that he did it.
"Randian...solar stove..." Zhai Zhiming murmured the two words he just heard. He thought they were quite appropriate and asked curiously: "Are these words invented by you?"
Wei Feng remained silent. He couldn't answer this question. What should he say? Could it be that Zhai Zhiming dared to believe it when he said it was taught in the nine-year compulsory education? So he could only remain silent.
But in Zhai Zhiming's opinion, it seemed like acquiescence.
"Secondly, I only learned about this thing through the introduction of my mentor. My mentor also saw it on the plateau. The plateau residents were also trapped by the lack of firewood and had to find other ways. But the plateau is far away from here and you have never been away for a long time. Village, how do you know the principle of this thing?"
Zhai Zhiming looked inexplicably excited, as if he was waiting to verify something.
Wei Feng only felt a toothache. He couldn't even talk about nine years of compulsory education. Do I have to tell you about Napoleon III and Mushot?
As a last resort, he could really hum out a sentence from between his teeth: "I said I researched it myself, do you believe it?"
At the same time, he secretly sighed that his face was still not thick enough and he needed to strengthen his training.
Unexpectedly, Zhai Zhiming suddenly became excited: "Believe it! Of course I believe it! I didn't expect that when I happened to pass by a small mountain village, I would meet a research talent like you." Hearing Wei Feng's personal admission, he vaguely made a certain decision in his heart. Decide.
Wei Feng looked strange. On the one hand, it was because the other party really thought highly of him. You can believe this. On the other hand, he was quite surprised by the last term "research talent". How could this term be so similar to that on earth? The word "mentor" is also included. Is it really such a coincidence?
Zhai Zhiming asked the villagers a lot about Wei Feng, and finally understood his life clearly.
He came to Moshi Village with his parents since he was a child and has not left the village for so many years, which means that he has no chance to study outside.
Zhai Zhiming has been very smart since he was a child. He doesn't like to talk or play around. Whenever he behaves differently from ordinary people or says something that others don't understand, the villagers just think it is a child's weird words. However, Zhai Zhiming thinks of some talents in the academy. A gifted doctor, he discovered some truths in the world since he was a child, but was not understood by adults.
Later, I found out that those who bullied Wei Feng and seized his family's property, house, and land were almost dead except Zhang Laosan.
Only the third child in the Zhang family has a cowardly temperament with some kindness, while the other three are very vicious.
I heard that it was the eldest, second and fourth eldest son of the Zhang family who first occupied the Wei family's house. At that time, he also persuaded the brothers not to add insult to injury and bully Wei Feng, a young child. The three brothers did not listen and instead isolated him. .
When Zhai Zhiming heard this, he concluded that the three people probably did not die in an accident, but in some elaborate design, just like the killing of Liu Laosi and Liu Laowu today.
The main reason why he had such an idea was that he happened to decipher Wei Feng's murderous method today, and based on this, he built an image of Wei Feng in his mind that was good at planning.
He would also imagine that Wei Feng would create various coincidences to murder other enemies, and then make the image of Wei Feng in his mind outrageous. This is called preconceptions.
