Zhongshan North Road, people come and go.

Li Yunshang and Lu Jianting, who were "excited" from the school, were pulling Xi Jun to buy and pick and choose in front of a hand stove shop.

Hand warmer is also known as "sleeved stove", "hand smoke", "fire cage", "huai furnace", etc.

In winter, it is a heating tool in the palm that is commonly used by ancient palaces and even among the people.

The history of hand warmers that evolved from a brazier can be traced back to the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. In the Tang Dynasty, people began to make hand stoves with copper, but the output was small, and only a few nobles and even royal families had the ability to use it.

At this time, the hand furnace type is "Gui and Gui", which is two types of square and round, where charcoal or stove ash with residual heat is placed inside, and small ones can be placed in the sleeves to "fuze clothes and moxibustion fire".

Until the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the hand furnace production process reached its peak.

The shapes of the hand stove are also ever-changing and diverse, including round, square, rectangular, oval, hexagon, octagonal, melon-edge, plum blossom, and crabapple...

In addition, while considering the practicality and aesthetics of the hand stove, craftsmen designed the bottom of the furnace into flat bottom, concave bottom, milk foot soles, water chestnut bottom, etc., and also made artistic designs on the hand stove handle, such as arc-shaped handle, pattern handle, flower basket handle, folded corner handle, bamboo handle, etc.

Pattern decoration is also quite exquisite. People's love, hope, pursuit, happiness and other pursuits for life by carving geometric patterns, auspicious patterns, etc. can be found in some antique shops in later generations.

The exquisite carving and engraving techniques were also a highlight of the hand furnaces in the Ming and Qing dynasties. The two techniques of carving and engraving were used to carve hollow flowers and birds or auspicious patterns on the furnace cover, and some even carve figures, flowers, birds, landscapes and other patterns on the furnace body, achieving the perfect ultimate of the artistic image of the hand furnace.

The hand stove shop in front of Li Yunshang is one of the industries in Xijiazhuang. The hand stoves here are dazzling, and the hand stoves of various shapes are dazzling.

There are bamboo weaving, wooden carvings, clay reliefs, white porcelain flowers and birds, and of course, there are more copper stoves. After all, for Xi Yunfei, copper stoves are cheaper, but they can only be bought from the light curtain, so the output is minimal.

The owner of the store was a pretty woman in her thirties. She was the store manager recruited by Ma Zhou from the brothel. She was unfamiliar with Xi Junmai, so she did not recognize Xi Junmai's identity at this time, but regarded the three of them as ordinary guests and asked the servant to greet her.

And she personally hosted a group of nobles from the Turks not far from the three of them.

Shuofang Dongcheng is a trade place at the junction of the Three Kingdoms. For the store manager's requirements, he must not only be able to speak well, be proficient in math and business, but most importantly, he must also be proficient in the languages ​​of the Turks and the Tang Dynasty.

The beautiful store manager spoke fluent Turkic language, which obviously made the Turkic people who bought hand warmers very useful.

In addition, the hand warmer in this store, whether in shape, pattern, inner liner material and insulation duration, is far superior to that of this era. These Turks did not bargain too much, and almost two or three people were in hand, and the deal was reached on the spot.

Just then.

Bang ~

In the direction of the schoolyard, which is the direction of the former Turkic market, a faint sound came.

Several Turkic people who were paying for the money were slightly stunned. The leader was about 18 or 19 years old, with a slightly dense beard, white skin, broad forehead, thick eyebrows and big eyes.

"What's the sound?" The young man with a beard frowned slightly, turned to look at the beautiful store manager.

The beautiful store manager was also stunned. There were such strange noises coming from time to time in the direction of the school site. She had been accustomed to it for a long time, but no matter how used to it, she didn't know what the sound was. At this time, she could only shake her head honestly and said she didn't know.

The bearded young man looked at the schoolyard again with suspicion on his face, and finally walked towards the carriage with several friends with his hand stoves.

After they left, Xi Junmai, not far away, came up to the beautiful store manager, and asked curiously: "Hello, I want to ask for advice. What did the Turkic man ask you just now?"

The beautiful store manager looked at Xi Junmai in confusion, his eyes full of alertness, and he paused, and wanted to evade it casually.

Xi Junmai suddenly took out a token from her arms, saw the word "Xi" on it, and she was so scared that she bowed her head and bowed.

Xi Junmai asked her to the void and said, "The store owner doesn't need to be polite, so I'd better answer my question just now."

The beautiful store manager glanced at Xi Junmai, and then gave a gift to Li Yunshang and Lu Jianting who were also coming over, and then truthfully reported the content of the Turkic people's question just now.

She dared not offend anyone who could get the token of attending the house, otherwise she would lose her life if she lost her job now, so she said everything and even recounted some of the words that the Turks said inadvertently when they selected the Lun of the Turks to buy.

After hearing this, Xi Junmai's eyebrows frowned slightly, and the two girls looked at each other. Unexpectedly, those people just now turned out to be from the Turkic Ashina clan. When they changed to the Tang Dynasty, they were from the Li clan in Longxi, and the royal family.

Li Yunshang suddenly reached out and pulled the sleeve that La Xijun bought.

Xi Junmai turned to look at her: "Sanniang?"

Li Yunshang's eyes slanted slightly, and he signaled Xi Junmai to look to the right.

Xi Junmai was stunned for a moment, turned around and found that the Turkic people were looking at him across the street just now.

The young man with a beard in the head was not very old. At this time, he politely took off his felt hat and nodded slightly to Xi Junmai to show his goodwill.

Xi Junmai was stunned when he saw this. Out of politeness, he instinctively returned the gift.

The bearded young man grinned and withdrew his gaze before he inadvertently glanced at the token in Xi Junmai's hand.

Only then did everyone realize that the man actually recognized the token in his hand.

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Leaving the hand stove shop, the young man bearded walked out with his tribe members for a short distance and suddenly stopped.

"Zhubi."

A short and strong man walked up behind him and stood respectfully behind him waiting for instructions.

The young man bearded still had thick eyebrows slightly frowned. He turned around and looked at Xi Junmai and the other two who also left the hand stove shop behind him. Then he looked at the schoolyard and said in a deep voice: "Send someone to explore that place. I want to know if the strange sound just now was the thunder fire that Master Liang said."

"Yes." The short and strong man responded in a deep voice and quickly fled into the crowd and disappeared.

The bearded young man withdrew his gaze, lifted the hand stove with charcoal in his hand, and comfortably leaned into his arms. After a while, he continued, "You go to find Ashinawudu, just say that I have something important to do and need to return to Khan City as soon as possible and ask him to step up the handling of the spoils."

"Yes." A few more men left, and only the bearded young man was left in the scene, holding his hand stove and walking through the crowd.

"The green and green collars are endless, my heart is endless. Even if I don't go, my son would rather not be able to succeed? The green and green collars are endless, my thoughts are endless. Even if I don't go, my son would rather not come? I am in the city. I don't see it for a day, like three months..."

If a Tang student who is proficient in Turkic language passes by this person, he will definitely be shocked by his low voice.
Chapter completed!