Chapter 2168 Flower Struggle (Seventy Six)

In Chapter 41 of Dream of Red Mansions, after coming out of the "snow cave" in Hengwuyuan, Grandma Liu and Jia Mu went to Longcui'an to drink tea. After drinking tea, Jia Mu felt tired and went to Daoxiang Village to rest.

They accompanied Grandma Liu to the archway of the "Provincial Family Villa". Grandma Liu thought it was the archway of the "Jade Emperor Temple".

Grandma Liu didn't know whether she was really illiterate or was deliberately making fun of herself and made everyone laugh. Then she felt her stomach rumbling, and she hurriedly asked a little girl to get two pieces of paper before she came out of the toilet.

Later, the strength of the wine was blown away by the wind, and coupled with my age, I just felt that my eyes were spinning and I couldn't tell the direction.

Just like a Wuling native, she slowly walked along a gravel road and came to the door of a house. She searched for a long time but couldn't find the door. Later, she walked along the bamboo fence and flower barrier for a while and found a month-long cave door, so

When we walked in, we were faced with another pool with clear water and a white stone lying across it.

She stepped on the stones and walked over, turned two more turns before she saw a door, and a girl walked towards her with a smile on her face.

Grandma Liu said hurriedly, "The girls left me behind. I bumped into each other and came here."

However, the girl did not answer. Grandma Liu went to hold her hand, but bumped into the wall and hit her head painfully.

She looked at it carefully for a long time and found that it was a painting.

She touched it on the left and looked on the right. This painting was different from the New Year pictures posted at her home. It looked three-dimensional but felt flat.

Then she turned around and found a soft curtain. She opened the curtain and walked in. She found that inside was gold and pearlescent, the walls were exquisite and clear, and even the bricks under her feet were green and carved.

Grandma Liu was dazzled by what she saw. She wanted to go out, but there was no door. As soon as she walked out from behind a screen, she saw her mother-in-law coming. Grandma Liu teased her, "You have never seen the world, and you have seen the flowers in this garden.

Your life has not been in vain."

Her relatives didn't answer, so Grandma Liu thought, "I often hear people say that wealthy people have a kind of full-length mirror. Why don't I be in the mirror?"

After saying that, she stretched out her hand and touched it, and sure enough she touched the carved red sandalwood board used to inlay the mirror. There was a Western machine clasp on it that could be opened and closed. Grandma Liu happened to knock the camouflage open while fumbling around.

Walking away from the mirror, Grandma Liu found a bed. She was already 70 to 80% drunk and tired from walking. She was thinking about which lady's bed was in the embroidery room. She just said thank you, but she was not there.

Involuntarily, I turned around and fell asleep on the bed.

Everyone waited for Grandma Liu for a long time, but when they found that she didn't reply, Ban'er cried anxiously, but the others laughed and said, "Don't fall into the pit."

After a long search, I finally found Grandma Liu sleeping in Yihong Courtyard, where Baoyu lived. Not only was she snoring like thunder, but there was also a smell of alcohol and farts, which was so offensive that others might know about it, so she hurried to the cauldron.

I sprinkled three or four handfuls of lily incense, covered it with a hood, and tidied it up a little before it was clean. Fortunately, Grandma Liu didn't vomit. Then Xiren took Grandma Liu back to everyone, as if nothing happened.

The "masters" in the palace not only wear furs in winter, but also use hand stoves to keep warm. Most of them are made of copper, but the ones burned inside are not ordinary coals, but incense charcoal. The most commonly used in the palace is red charcoal.

It is produced by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and is usually transported to the Hongluo Factory outside Xi'an for storage. In winter, it is allocated and used by the Ministry of Internal Affairs according to their respective levels.

This kind of carbon is resistant to burning, gray and does not explode. It not only produces less smoke, but also has a fragrance when burning. However, this kind of carbon is not actually the best. It is like the ink produced by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It does not seek merit, but seeks no faults.

.During the reigns of Kangxi and Yongzheng, the imperial ink that was paid tribute was made by Cao Sugong of Huizhou. By the time of Qianlong, it became the ink of Wang Jinsheng and others.

The two families have some connections. Cao Sugong also took the imperial examination before. Later, he took over other people's shops and ink models and opened his own ink shop. Wang Jinsheng worked in the Cao family for many years, starting from the ink craftsmanship.

After the family mastered the craftsmanship and technology of "Sugong ink", they opened their own shop called "Jiangu Zhai". The ink from both families was tribute from officials.

Hongluo charcoal is actually a low-grade fragrant charcoal. In the Qing Dynasty, the harem was still simple, and besides burning red luo charcoal, there were other ways of heating. The amount used was not large, but with so many high-grade concubines, the total amount was only

too much.

Miaoyu said that she collected the water from the plum blossoms, which probably meant that the water had the flavor of plum blossoms, and those who had just eaten big fish and meat might not be able to taste it.

Water has no smell, and similarly the most basic raw material of incense charcoal has no smell. The Ministry of Internal Affairs uses ordinary hardwood from Daxing, cuts it into sections, burns it into carbon and puts it in a wattle basket, and uses red soil mixed with spices on the outside.

Apply a layer of brush.

To make good fragrant charcoal, use Quercus ebony, which mainly grows in the Shenlongjia area. It is named because the burned charcoal has a metallic knocking sound like black steel. Take a round and thin wood like a lamb leg bone and grind it into powder.

Sieve the broken carbon powder, take the very fine carbon powder, then add the fragrant powder, mix the two evenly, then add the glutinous rice paste, knead it into a ball, then beat and mix, and finally the carbon ball

Press it into a carbon cake and put it into a mold to form.

If the wood itself has a fragrance, it will change the smell of the incense powder. The Song Dynasty left a recipe called Plum Blossom Incense. Take one part each of agarwood, sandalwood, and clove, three parts of clove bark, three parts of camphor, and musk.

A little, put all the spices except camphor and musk into a bowl and crush them, add four ounces of charcoal coal, and the fragrance will be even. At this time, you can choose to use glutinous rice paste, or you can use glutinous rice paste with honey, add camphor and

Beat the musk and mix it into a ball, then press it into a cake, then put it in a watertight container. When using it, add some silver leaves or mica, and the smell will be the fragrance of plum blossoms.

It's just like the eggplant that Grandma Liu ate. Ten chickens made it taste like that. There is no plum blossom in it. Even He Shen is not luxurious enough to use it for heating. It is used to warm inkstones.

Wenyuan Pavilion is an imitation of Tianyi Pavilion. Tianyi Pavilion is based on the saying "Heaven generates water and the earth carries it", which is intended to prevent fire, so it is impossible to carry a brazier into the library.

The winter in BJ is very cold, and the ink will freeze. In this case, a little bit of pressed flower-shaped incense charcoal is added to the warm inkstone. As for people, they can only wear more clothes, but wearing too much is not conducive to activities.

That's why the palace examinations were held in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Since the salt merchants were as rich as any other country, they could probably afford to play with charcoal. The officials who ransacked their homes said that their expenses were comparable to those of an emperor.

There is a saying that if you have too much debt, you don’t have to worry about it. Even if the Changlu salt merchants can no longer repay the interest, they are still borrowing money. What’s more important is that the Yan Zheng Mu Teng has written a memorial on his forehead that he will spread the owed silver in the salt bank. The salt merchants are even more confident.

No more fear.

Juren was in a state of poverty, but he sold his property in order to treat his parents' illness.

Tim's Club is a strict smoking organization, and members are not allowed to smoke heavy cigarettes, and Nick happened to have dealings with people from the East India Company.

It is unknown how many people Harrock hired to draw maps. It is possible that the news was leaked. The Timber Brothers knew that he was looking for people to draw maps everywhere, so they thought Nick was a "hateful yellow-haired spy" who leaked their "

confidential".

As early as when Li Shiyao was still serving as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, the Timi Society was already active. They burned down the barracks and planned to burn down the dock. Taiwan and Siam were the main sources of Fujian rice. If the Guangzhou dock was destroyed, then Siam

It will be difficult to unload rice here, and Fujian will be more dependent on rice from Taiwan.

They are businessmen, and at the same time they are not so simple just for business. Legend has it that because Kangxi destroyed Southern Shaolin, several lay disciples founded the Timi Society and launched an uprising against the Qing Dynasty.

But when Juren was setting up a stall on the street, he heard someone say that the reason for adding his younger brother was a monk named Hong, who lived in Fenghua Pavilion in Houxi.

Leave your hair but not your head, leave your head but not your hair, some people simply shave their heads, but do not become a monk. "Hong Tong" means the same color as "Zhu", and Yan Yan is a person's name. He and the monk Hong Erfang lived in Fenghua.

We met in the pavilion, and then there was the "Yan Yan" Tim Brother Club.

In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, anyone with a different surname who swore sworn brothers would be punished with a hundred lashes. Later, the punishment would be even worse. Anyone who made an alliance with blood and burned his or her watch to swore a sworn brother would be punished with the Dharma.

This is still related to the braid-cutting case in the 33rd year of Qianlong's reign. Growing hair and worshiping people with different surnames are Han cultural customs. Koreans think that braids are ugly.

Later, the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi really went to find and beat up a monk named Hong and a man named Zhu. However, after interrogation, they found that they had not done anything illegal, and the "Fenghua Pavilion" was nowhere to be found, like falling flowers.

Blown away by the wind without a trace.

After Fukang'an regained Taiwan, Yan Yan was caught. His public identity in Changhua was the owner of a spicy seasoning shop, and he was just a small trader. He denied that he was the chief rudder of the Tim Brotherhood, and instead confessed that he was the owner of the Tim Brother Society.

The association originated from Sichuan and was started by a man named Li and a monk named Zhu.

He revealed that it was Monk Wan who started the meeting in Guangdong, as well as three senior members of the Tiandi Association, Zhao Mingde, Chen Pi, and Chen Biao, who spread the word about the meeting in Zhangzhou, Huizhou and other places. Yan Yan was only persuaded to join the association by Chen Biao.

They have a secret phrase: the third surname is Jiewan Li Taohong, and the surname of Jiulong is Li Zhuhong.

Li Zhuhong is the general name of the founder.

The "leader" currently operating in Guangzhou also has the surname Yan, named Yan Pinyu. Ever since Zhang Maqiu burned down the military camp and burned and looted the salt farm and was arrested by Li Shiyao, Guangzhou has been peaceful. As for whether this Yan Pinyu exists, it is only a rumor.

Nick's only way out now is to rely on the government, that is, the admiral. Juren's evaluation of him is that he is only generous, but he is not impatient about justice and goes too far. It would be okay if he was not a military general, but he is a military officer.

The common people like him because he doesn't loot. Do the officers and soldiers like him?

"After being confused for so long, I finally got some clues that don't look like anything. Now I have a taste for it. The admiral is like Xi Ning. He will step down immediately and leave, but the next person to take over will be in big trouble."

Juren said worriedly, as if he cared about this city where he had wandered. It happened that the cuckoo bell rang at this time, and it was also an imported product.

Nick flipped through his picture album. He had been to many places, but he had not left much affection for any city. However, he felt that he would never forget Guangzhou.

He was hesitating whether to include the portrait of the young man who punched him.

He remembered the little man hurriedly walking towards him at dusk, the maze-like alleys, and the reflection he saw in the bronze mirror on Mazu’s birthday. It was already dark and there were many beautiful lights around him.

The lanterns, the light illuminated his face.

If it had been dark, Nick wouldn't have been able to see him, and he wouldn't have remembered that he recognized him.

"It's too heavy," Georgiana whispered.

Bonaparte said nothing. He looked at the ceiling, as if he was lost in some kind of memory.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have read this book." She said softly.

"Don't you want to see it?" he asked.

"I thought this was a love story." She said sadly.

"What you want to see is a love story without complications. Nick's current behavior is a normal reaction of a person."

She made no assumptions about what would have happened if Nick hadn't provided the portrait.

That boy should go to school instead of being a "bait" in such a dangerous thing.

The sound of "Brother" seemed to ring in her ears, and she was trembling all over. Then she suddenly remembered that the firewood in the fireplace was not lit, no wonder it was so cold.

He held her in his arms so that she stopped shaking.

But she still couldn't continue reading. She wanted to just be quiet for a while. Although this might be a story and all of it was false, she still wanted to mourn the loss of that young life.

Even if she is not a sentimental person like Lin Daiyu who cries because the flower withers and has to bury it.
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