Chapter 56 Preparations before the banquet 2

"Brother! I'm back!" Meng Ruolang was followed by three servants holding boxes. One box was full of sulfur, and the rest was naturally bamboo tubes and charcoal.

Bi Yuntao stretched, took Meng Ruoxi to the courtyard, and directed the servants to bring in the firecrackers they just bought today.

"Brother! Why did you buy so many firecrackers?" Meng Ruolang looked at several large boxes of firecrackers and asked doubtfully.

Bi Yuntao did not answer his words. He opened the firecrackers and poured the gunpowder inside into the basin. But looking at the gunpowder in the basin, he frowned and sighed, "Sure enough, it's just as I thought!" The purity of these gunpowders

Not enough, the content is too little, but fortunately, I bought enough firecrackers, and there are remedies!

"Brother! What are you going to do? What are you doing taking apart these firecrackers?" Meng Ruolang looked at Bi Yuntao's movements, his little head full of doubts.

"You don't know? You still ask yourself that you don't know everything!" Bi Yuntao looked at him with amusement.

"Uh..." Hearing the contempt in Bi Yuntao's tone, he scratched his head in embarrassment.

"Pfft!" Meng Ruoxi laughed out loud when she saw her brother's funny actions, "You little fool, you don't even know this. Master told you to read more and you still didn't listen. This time, you will regret it when you know that the books will be used."

Come on!"

"Then tell me, what are you planning to do?" Meng Ruolang's face turned red at what she said, and she retorted angrily.

"Well... I think he is going to make a big firecracker!" After saying that, her face turned red, and she didn't know what Bi Yuntao was going to do.

"Uh..." Bi Yuntao had black lines all over his head. "What are you talking about me? You don't even know the result!" Meng Ruolang rolled his eyes.

"Haha! Although what Ruoxi said is different from the final item, it is still very close to what he said!"

"No, brother! Wouldn't it be better to have the big firecrackers customized? They'll be ready in about a week!" Meng Ruolang complained feebly.

"A week is too long. I'm in a hurry, so I'd better do it myself. And..."

"And what?" Meng Ruoxi asked.

"Besides, the power of firecrackers is too small!"

"This..." The two siblings look at me and I look at you. What's the use of powerful firecrackers?

"Haha! Just watch, I'll definitely surprise you!" Bi Yuntao smiled mysteriously, "Just in time, Ruo Lang, you can also help open these firecrackers." Then he pointed at the two servants and said, "Help me find them.

Farmers who raise pigs and cows scrape off the hoarfrost from their pig pens or cattle pens and bring them to me. The more the better, money is not an issue. As for you!" He turned to another servant and told another servant, "You go to the courtyard.

Let me do it on the corner of the wall. I've seen it and there's a lot of hoarfrost on the corner."

Meng Ruoxi watched Bi Yuntao instruct Meng Ruolang and the others to do various things, and she also wanted to help. "What do you want me to do? I can also help you!"

Bi Yuntao looked at her eager expression and chuckled, "Just supervise Meng Ruolang's work!"

Bi Yuntao fetched well water, poured the white frost scraped from the corner of the wall into the bucket, stirred it for a while, let it sit in the water, and then ran to the kitchen to light a fire.

Meng Ruoxi looked at him busy in the kitchen and didn't understand what he was going to do. "What are you doing making fire? Do you need to light a fire to make firecrackers? You asked the servants to pour the hoarfrost into the water and did it again.

What?"

Bi Yuntao was in a good mood at this time. He couldn't help but whistle. When he heard her question, he happily explained to her, "The white frost is saltpeter. Saltpeter is generally found in pigs, cattle pens, and courtyards."

Old wall bases, cliff edges, caves, and floors that are not easily washed away by rain. These hoarfrosts contain saltpeter. The saltpeter will melt with clean water. Soaking it in water can separate it from impurities. Use an iron pot to boil the water.

Boil it dry, and the powder attached to the iron pot is the saltpeter I want."

"Then Zuo Xiang's Mansion also has so much saltpeter!" Thinking of what Meng Ruolang said before about saltpeter being used for making gunpowder, he couldn't help but feel a palpitation in his heart.

Bi Yuntao guessed her worries and smiled. "Haha! Don't worry, you can't make gunpowder with saltpeter alone. You need other things to match it in a certain proportion. Otherwise, you will be exposed to the sun every time after it rains."

If someone sets a fire on a certain day, your home will be destroyed!"

Meng Ruoxi breathed a sigh of relief and patted her chest with palpitations. Seeing that he knew so much, she couldn't help but feel a little confused, "But how do you know this? And isn't there gunpowder in firecrackers? Why do you still need it?

It took a lot of effort to make it myself.”

"This! Life is the best teacher! These all come from life!" Bi Yuntao smiled mysteriously, without explaining too much why he wanted to make gunpowder. This chemical knowledge is an introductory course for agents, and when he thought about it,

This knowledge was spurned by the literati and politicians who lived in ancient times. They looked down on the knowledge that these craftsmen had painstakingly researched. A little sadness could not help but appear in their eyes. If they had always valued this, how could they be ignored by other young people?

Riding on his head and humiliating him for hundreds of years.

"What's wrong? Did I say something wrong?" Meng Ruoxi saw that his mood was a little low, and she didn't know what she said wrongly, which made him unhappy.

"Ah, it's nothing, I just remembered something." Bi Yuntao collected his emotions and then asked Meng Ruoxi thoughtfully, "What do you think of the knowledge of these craftsmen?"

"I think it's quite magical. The hoarfrost that can be seen everywhere in the corners of the walls and in the pig and cattle pens can be turned into gunpowder for firecrackers after you process it like this."

"Is it just magical?" Bi Yuntao murmured to himself. When she nodded, he asked casually, "Then do you want to learn? I can teach you."

Meng Ruoxi shook her head, "Forget it, these tricks are still difficult to achieve, not to mention they are not favored by the world. I just didn't expect that as a prince, you would be interested in these things!"

"Haha! It's really a little trick. When I was a child, I learned it from the craftsmen out of curiosity. I didn't expect that I would actually use it." Bi Yuntao kept adding firewood to the stove, and when he saw that the fire was already burning vigorously,

He stood up and wiped the dust off his hands, "Okay, we're almost done. I'm going to see how Meng Ruolang and the others are doing." Forget it, I will teach these things to others when I can participate in court affairs in the future.

People.

Meng Ruoxi felt that he seemed to have something on his mind, but she didn't know how to solve it. She walked up to him inadvertently, blushed and stretched out her hand to hold his thick hand.

Bi Yuntao was startled by her actions. He glanced at him and noticed her pretty red face. He understood her intention. He smiled and tightened his grip, "Come with me and I'll show you."

What kind of battles can these little tricks create!"

"How's it going? Let me see if it's enough!" Bi Yuntao walked to Meng Ruolang's side and was overjoyed to see the gunpowder piled up in the basin. "You continue to take it apart, I will take these away first!"

Take a basin of gunpowder, walk to the bucket where the saltpeter is standing, and start to fish out the upper clear liquid and filter out the impurities. Then pour the filtered liquid into the basin and take it to the kitchen for cooking.

After a lot of work, the most time-consuming saltpeter powder was finally obtained. Bi Yuntao thoroughly mixed the white saltpeter powder with sulfur and charcoal, carefully poured it into the bamboo tube of the diamond hole, inserted it and soaked it in the solution of saltpeter mixture.

String and simple explosives are ready.

"What is this?" Meng Ruoxi looked at the firecracker-like object and asked in confusion.

"Isn't this just a firecracker?!" Meng Ruolang twitched the corner of her mouth. She spent so much effort just to create such a thing?!

"This is the firecracker you guessed before, but now his name is dynamite!" Bi Yuntao explained, "I just want to eat fish recently, let's use this to fry fish!" Bi Yuntao couldn't wait anymore.

If you want to test its power, if it is not satisfactory, you need to reconfigure the content of gunpowder.

"Hey! No! What about the dismantled gunpowder?! It took me nine years and two tigers to dismantle it. Brother, don't you use it?"

"Oh, those gunpowder will be used later, don't worry, let's get food first."

"Stay away and cover your ears!" Bi Yuntao stood by the pond in the courtyard and shouted to Meng Ruoxi and the others.

The two looked at each other, followed Bi Yuntao's words, and stayed away, covering their ears.

Seeing that the two of them were already hiding, he picked up the fire stick and lit the fuse, ran towards them quickly and covered his ears at the same time.

Just as he stood still, he heard a "boom" sound, and the bamboo tube explosives floating in the water exploded, splashing water all over the ground.

"Hahaha! What a great harvest!" Bi Yuntao quickly ran to the pond and picked up the koi carps scattered on the ground. The power of the explosives was still acceptable, so there was no need to reconfigure it. The rest was to look at the koi from the firecrackers.

How powerful is the stripped gunpowder?

Meng Ruoxi and Meng Ruolang stared at the scene in front of them with their jaws dropped. They never expected that Bi Yuntao would produce such a powerful explosive with a casual touch.

"Come and help me pick up the fish! I've wanted to eat these fish for a long time. It's too troublesome to catch them one by one, but it's still so fast!" Bi Yuntao waved to the two people who were stunned.

Only then did the two of them react and walked towards Bi Yuntao in shock, "Brother! This, this, this, how come this explosive is so powerful, and you can get these things easily."

"Hahaha! I said, life is the best teacher!" Bi Yuntao looked at Meng Ruoxi, "Ruoxi, how about it, can you still see through these little tricks?"

"You, these koi were carefully cultivated by the palace, and now they are ruined by you. It's really hard for these koi!" Meng Ruoxi rolled her eyes at him and did not answer his question, but she had to admit it.

The trick does have merit.

"Haha! How can you say it's a waste? It takes a lot of money and effort to raise these fish, so you might as well eat them! Besides, if you don't have any more, you can ask your mother for it. It's not my money anyway, so if you don't eat it, it won't be in vain.
Chapter completed!