"Li Tai, go find Lao Cui downstairs. There are still some firecrackers left today. Ask him to give you one."
"Here!" Li Tai put away his notebook and happily ran down to find Lao Cui.
"Cheng Chumo, go find Wang Tieniu below. There are still some iron pipes left for decoration."
"Here!" Although Cheng Chumo didn't know what the experiment was, he knew it would be interesting.
"Li Bai, I'm asking for two bottles of Coke from your sister Xiao Luo. I want a can."
"Okay!" Li Bai ran down with a hiss.
The originally scheduled opening ceremony was immediately interrupted due to such an unexpected incident.
Many passers-by who were attracted by the sound of firecrackers talked about it.
"Is this a new restaurant?" This belongs to the pure melon-eaters.
"It looks like it is. Hey, the name is Xihe Lou, which is a bit interesting!" This is a bit of culture, knowing what Xihe and Wangshu mean.
"But will it be open? I even said it's a try!" This is a potential customer.
"Shopkeeper, what do you think they are doing?" The waiters of Wangshu Tower, who were initially shocked by the grand opening news across the street, also gathered together.
"How do I know?" Shopkeeper Wang rolled his eyes at the waiters around him: "What are you doing here? If someone else opens their business, we don't have to do business. Do you want to eat today? If you want to eat, why don't you hurry up and attract customers for me? go?"
Several waiters hurriedly ran out, and a few smart ones started shouting: "Hey, gentlemen, this restaurant is about drinking first and then eating, and everything else is empty. Today we are looking at Shu Lou Jiu There is a big reward and a famous Huaiyang chef invited from Huaiyang. He can cook such dishes that even the Emperor of East Vietnam and King Zheng agreed after eating them!"
When running a restaurant, the flow of people outside the store is always a very important factor. This intersection is usually crowded, and today many people were attracted by the firecrackers in Xihe Building.
Originally, if Xihe Building could open for business at this time, many people in the crowd would probably want to go in and have a try.
But now the Xihe Building suddenly became quiet, and those who originally wanted to eat could only turn around and enter the Wangshu Building.
Shopkeeper Wang's face was about to burst with laughter. He was originally frightened by the big fight between Bi Xi and Lou, but now it seems that they are just making wedding clothes for themselves.
In the quiet Xihe Building on the other side, Tang Ping directed Wang Tieniu and Li Tai.
"Cut this iron pipe a little shorter, yes, it's as long as it is. Then seal this end, it must be sealed."
"Li Tai, if you break the firecrackers like this, do you see that the black and gray stuff is gunpowder? Carefully collect them together."
Then Tang Ping took out the finished Coke can: "Also, who can use this to hammer out a few small projectiles, just make them into small balls."
"Let someone come!" Yuchi Jingde stood up, with a body like an iron tower, taking the can Tang Ping handed him with one hand, and blocking the hammer Tang Ping handed him with the other hand.
With two clicks, the can was crushed by him.
Then just pull a piece with your hands and knead it in your hands like rubber clay.
In the blink of an eye, the can just turned into a few small silver and blue projectiles.
Then Wang Tieniu quickly made iron pipes that were sealed one end with only a small hole left. Wang Tieniu also used scrap wood to make a frame for it and fixed it.
Li Tai and Cheng Chumo also produced a small pile of gunpowder.
In fact, Tang Ping, Li Shan and Gou Shaoqun made this thing when he was a child, using the gunpowder in firecrackers to make a small cannon.
It's just that at that time they used bamboo tubes, but since there are iron pipes here, of course iron pipes are better.
Insert a lead into the small hole reserved, then make a funnel with paper and shake the gunpowder powder in.
Then comparing the diameter of the iron pipe, he stuffed the soft mud that Li Bai found into it and poked it with a chopstick until he felt that all the gunpowder inside had been compacted.
Select a few pellets from the small pellets pinched out by Yuchi Jingde and put them in.
During this whole process, everyone watched him operate without making a sound. Only Li Tai took out his notebook again and used a ballpoint pen to write down something unknown.
By now, the entire small cannon is ready, but Tang Ping is not sure whether it can fire or how powerful it is.
There are sunshade curtains on the edge of the fourth floor. When the sun is strong, people sitting by the window will not feel hot if they are lowered.
At this time, Tang Ping had already asked someone to lower the curtain, and the muzzle of the small earth cannon he had just made was facing the curtain. Otherwise, how could the effect of firing an empty cannon be seen?
After thinking about it, he asked Li Bai to go downstairs to get a bottle of wine, put it on the fence on the fourth floor, then closed one eye and pretended to take aim.
In fact, this standard is completely unnecessary, because this improvised cannon has almost no progress to speak of. The projectiles inside are still shotgun shells. I can only pray that if the direction is correct, a blind cat can hit a dead mouse. On that wine bottle.
"Boy Tang, are you okay?" Yuchi Jingde wiped the sweat from his forehead. He was getting impatient with the waiting.
"Okay, okay!" Tang Ping waved his hand and asked everyone to retreat behind him. Who knows what the result of Datang's first shot will be?
If someone here is injured, it will be troublesome.
Carefully use a lighter to light the exposed fuse.
The lead wire made a small sizzling sound with sparks, getting shorter and shorter, and everyone's eyes followed the small sparks.
Finally, all the leads exposed outside the iron pipe were burned out.
"Why didn't you respond? You can still hear your farts!" Yuchi Jingde muttered softly.
Then before he finished speaking, there was a loud bang, which shocked everyone.
This sound was much louder than the firecrackers downstairs just now, and because several people were relatively close, their ears were buzzing now.
Then everyone saw that the bottle placed on the fence suddenly fell into pieces. The reason why they did not hear the sound was because the sound of the small cannon was too loud just now, covering up the sound of the bottle breaking.
Then the curtain was also punched with several holes.
The small cannon on the table here has only a scrap wooden frame, and it has been turned over on the table.
Yuchi Jingde and Cheng Zhijie ran to the fence and took a deep breath after taking a serious look.
Just because a hole the size of a finger was punched out in the solid wood fence. If you look closely, there is a burnt black flat thing inside the smoking hole.
