The side room on the second floor of the main house in the small courtyard was once again used by Lin Linyou to pile up debris.
Although Yu Miaolan returned to live in Jiaofangsi, the room in the middle was kept intact, so that if guests came to stay again one day, she would not have to move it around.
The Jiaofangsi case is finally settled. Jin Chang, who forced Huang Ze's aunt to death, and Huang Ze, who rebelled against the party, commanded Jidu to personally tell them to send someone to get it, leaving them alone.
I can finally breathe a sigh of relief, take a good rest, and enjoy the few remaining holidays at the beginning of the year.
The only thing that hasn't been settled now is helping Yue Rong find her biological brother.
Hey, dear... no, I can't find it!
Fortunately, Yue Rong didn't rush him for the time being. Lin Linyou suspected that this little girl would put on night clothes and sneak out late at night from time to time. He was too tired these past two days and slept on the pillow, so he didn't hear anything. There's something going on.
I finally regained my composure today, but I couldn't sit still. I first went to the Gunpowder Department of the Inner Court War Bureau and "asked" for something from the man on duty. After I came back, I rushed to the second floor...
Zhang Bi was almost recovered from his injuries. He slept until noon, got up and ate the lunch that Lin Linyou and the others had left for him. He watched Yue Rong and Lin Long play with the cats in the courtyard and bask in the sun. The gentle sunshine of late winter and early spring shone on her. On the two pink cheeks and dark hair, the years are quiet.
Lin Linyou was nowhere to be seen.
"Little sister, where is your brother?" Zhang Bi asked.
Lin Long was still very innocent and honestly said: "Brother Zhang, my brother is upstairs!"
The clothes drying on the bamboo poles swayed gently in the breeze. They were all hand-washed by Yue Rong, Linlong and the others. Ever since the "washing machine" was broken by Zhang Bi, they had no time to repair it, and perhaps, they didn't want to repair it at all.
Zhang Bi thought Lin Linyou was repairing the "washing machine" upstairs, so he looked up and saw thick smoke billowing from the side room on the left. He yelled "Wochao" in his heart and hurried upstairs. Run!
As soon as he went upstairs, he saw Lin Linyou running out of the room, with a charred face, lying on the railing, fanning himself and coughing.
"Second brother, what are you doing!" Zhang Ben yelled, "You didn't really change the washing machine into a barbecue, did you?"
"Ahem -" Lin Linyou wiped away his tears.
"Brother, are you okay?" Lin Long stretched his neck and shouted. She and Yuerong also saw thick smoke.
"No...it's okay." Lin Linyou waved his hand downstairs, rushed into the room, lifted up the linoleum covering the ground that was smoking faintly, looked at it, then covered it again, with his back to Zhang Bi and said, "There's no smoke. Come on, big brother, come in and talk!"
Zhang Ben hesitated and saw a piece of bamboo hanging next to the door of the small room with the words "Wenxi Pavilion" written on it.
"You kid, you're getting serious now!" He was a bit dumbfounded.
Lin Linyou was squatting on the ground with his back to him, tinkering with something, and was seriously engaged in it. When he heard Zhang Bi coming in behind him, he didn't even look back.
"What are you doing?" Zhang Bi asked, "How can the invention cost you three thousand lives?"
"Brother, you came just in time..." Lin Linyou wiped his face, stood up and turned around, not even wiping his face which was darkened by the smoke.
"If I hadn't seen this smoke, I would have thought you got into the stove to catch the cat!" Zhang Ben said.
"Brother, I recently discovered that putting charcoal, saltpeter, and sulfur...in a small space..."
"For example, in a person's mouth, right?" Zhang Bi reached out and slapped Lin Linyou's palm away from his eyes angrily, knocking all kinds of powder from his palm to the ground, "Boss! Can you wake up a little? , you don’t know that our Ming Dynasty’s firearms, not to mention being far ahead in crushing the world, are also second to none! Hongwu iron cannon, hand blunderbuss, bowl mouth blunderbuss, three-eyed blunderbuss... There are so many cannons and blunderbuss, and I still need you. Put gunpowder in your mouth?"
"Yes, I know, but there is still one thing missing."
"What?" Zhang Bi jumped back a step, "You don't want to use my mouth to try it out, do you?"
"smoke bomb!"
"Smoke-fog-bomb?" Zhang Ben repeated word by word, frowning and gritting his teeth.
"Now that the materials are ready and the smoke can be emitted, the only problem that cannot be solved is..." Lin Linyou squatted down and started fiddling with it again.
Zhang Bi also squatted down and looked at the boxes on the ground: "Black gunpowder, lime, sucrose... You went to the Gunpowder Department just to get these things? Isn't that the old craftsman Li who makes fireworks in the west of the city?" Can I buy it?"
Lin Linyou smiled evilly: "Of course not, these things are just random things. I went there to observe the imitation Song Dynasty iron shell mines, mainly because I wanted to study its triggering method for reference. Unfortunately, it It was the traditional medicinal thread that ignited the fire..."
"Why, isn't it good for the medicine thread to ignite?"
"It's not that it's not good," Lin Lin said, "it's just that it's not suitable for my smoke bomb!"
"You've eaten too much chicken! What are you doing with smoke bombs? Didn't you say you don't do these things?" Zhang Bi felt that his second brother was a little unreasonable. He knew that he hated the inventions of time travellers, otherwise he wouldn't have done it in the first place. I will give Xia Di a good beating!
"I just make small inventions and gadgets, just to facilitate myself and not hinder the progress of Ming Dynasty. Besides, we really don't have the ability to make big inventions." Lin Linyou knew his elder brother's concerns and smiled, "This I was inspired by Jin Chang's thunder escape that night! With the smoke bomb, if we encounter a crisis in the future, we can escape with just one bomb, don't you think!"
"..." This sounds like it will not have any adverse effects on the people. Zhang Ben calmed down a little, "Well, so now, what problems have you encountered?"
"I just want to make it a hair-pull style, one that will start smoking immediately as soon as I pull it." Lin Lin said, "The ignition was too slow. It took a long time before the smoke came out."
"So? I can't help you."
"I once read in the literature that the emperor built a Taihe Palace at the top of Wutianzhu Peak. In front of Emperor Zhenwu in the Taihe Palace, there was an ever-burning lamp." Lin Linyou talked eloquently, "It is said that As soon as the door of the main hall is closed, the light goes out, and as soon as the door is opened, the light turns on again..." As he said, he picked up a bamboo tube on the ground: "If my bamboo tube is the main hall, the gunpowder and other items in it , it’s an ever-bright lamp, the bamboo tube is sealed, it’s the door of the main hall... I just pulled the seal, and the lamp lit up, and smoke billowed out instantly!"
"Um, so?"
"You have been to Wudang, do you know the principle of the ever-burning lantern?"
"Who told you that I have been to Wudang?"
Lin Linyou slapped his head: "I'm sorry, you have learned art from Taoist Qiu Xuanqing, so I always have the first impression..."
Zhang Ben said: "Although I have never been to Wudang, I know the principle of the ever-burning lantern."
"Oh?" Lin Linyou's eyes lit up.
"White phosphorus!" Zhang Bi said.
"That makes sense!" Lin Linyou slapped his head again, "Why didn't I think of that? But, where can we get white phosphorus?"
"Isn't that what you have?"
Lin Linyou looked at the flint in his hand...
The ancients discovered two types of flint long ago. One is the one held by Lin Linyou, which requires friction to ignite;
There is also a kind of layered flint in the water, which can spontaneously ignite as long as it comes into contact with the air.
The only difference between the two is the amount of white phosphorus exposed to the air. The one that is prone to spontaneous combustion is exposed to more white phosphorus.
Therefore, the flint in his hand can also be used!
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Lin Linyou lowered his head and continued to study his smoke bomb attentively. Zhang Bi beside him shook his head and walked out of the room.
After a while, Zhang Bi quickly ran into the room and kicked Lin Linyou on the buttocks: "Second brother, stop it! Others have already made this smoke bomb, and the smoke is thicker than yours. !”
"Is this happening?" Lin Linyou put down his work, followed Zhang Bi out of the house, leaned on the railing on the second floor and looked into the distance——
I saw thick smoke billowing from Baoshi Mountain outside the city, as if there had been smoke from a wolf.
The smoke came from Jianchu Temple on Jubao Mountain...
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