Qin Hu

Chapter 139 After the bridal chamber, people will be grateful to me!
"Isn't my husband cheating on the moon?"

The confusion in Xiangliyue's eyes quickly blurred, but there was a smile on the corner of her mouth.

As an engineering dog, she often burns the night to fight when she encounters difficult problems that cannot be solved for a while.

result……

Not to mention that the soybean oil wick needs to be stirred from time to time, otherwise it will go out.

As far as the area illuminated by the lamp is concerned, and how long the table is, at most it can illuminate such an area...

And the brightness is extremely dim, and the article has to be close to the heart to see it word by word.

If you want to write, you have to lie down even more...

Every time I finished studying, I would definitely have sore eyes, sore back and neck cramps the next day.

Xiangliyue has thought about how to make the oil lamp burn brighter and brighter...

It's a pity that there is no other way to do it than to increase the size of the lamp and inject more soybean oil.

On the contrary, this oil is easy to spill and it is easy to cause fire.

Now, Zhao Zihu said that there are lamps that can be very bright, and a piece the size of a palm can burn for hundreds of days...

How could this not confuse her?

Although what this stubborn tiger said and did was finally confirmed, there was no water mixed in.

But she still lowered her request in private.

Not to mention lighting up for hundreds of days, right?
It can light up half the room for a day and a night, that's enough!

Seeing Xiangliyue's reaction like this, Zhao Zihu knew that he had to tell her that facts speak louder than words.

He strode forward, grabbed her hand and left.

When he stepped out of the tent, he thought of something again, and he turned his head and said: "Whoever calls Li You, ask Xu Fu for some saltpeter."

Since someone rushed to answer, they ran past them in a flash, and the other cold-blooded thirteen eagles knew that there was something interesting to do, hula la followed behind the two of them.

Zhao Zihu led Xiangliyue to the shoal where the big fish was, beckoning Gan Luo to come closer.

"But please show me, my lord!"

"Cut a large bucket of fish fat for the forehead. Remember! Don't cut the skin. Prepare another bundle of wicks, six to eight bamboo tubes, right? Another big iron kettle, two copper basins, a piece of gauze..."

Looking at the four cranes and long ropes stretching out each, there are 25 times the black fish skins and white fish skins like four large tents, Zhao Zihu quickly made arrangements.

While he was giving orders, he and Xiangliyue sat on the thick mat brought by Gan Luo, and a gauze curtain was put on top to shade the sun.

"Only~"

After setting up gauze tents and seats for Hu Hai and other young masters, Gan Luo quickly retreated under his orders to start arranging everything.

Li You soon arrived with a servant carrying a bag of saltpeter.

Afterwards, what Zhao Zihu needed was also placed in front of him.

Gan Luo also very thoughtfully allocated four people.

Zhao Zihu took a sip of tea, and began to guide: "Look up the fire quickly, just like cooking, don't add a drop of water, put the bucket of sebum in the pot to force out the oil..."

This step will take about half an hour, and he is not in a hurry. During the period, he asked someone to cook another big pot and boil some thirst-quenching medicinal soup, and sent it to the sharp men and common people who decomposed the big fish.

"Do you think that this oil can be used as a candle? No, no, no. This oil is the best and purest, so it must be preserved as a raw material for face cream!"

Seeing that Zhao Zihu asked the craftsman to carefully fish out the top layer of oil floating in the iron kettle into the copper basin, Xiang Liyue asked curiously, "Oh? Then where does the oil for making candles come from?"

Zhao Zihu laughed and said nothing, watching the craftsmen beat up all the clear oil, and then it turned into that kind of brown-red muddy oil, he immediately asked them to stop, and removed the big lump that looked like oil residue in the iron cauldron. Play into gauze and mash finely.

"Okay! Put another half of the water in the iron kettle, wrap the oily residue with gauze, and boil it in it. After boiling, there will be a lot of oil, and the color will be darker. That's spermaceti wax!"

Those four people followed what Zhao Zihu said, and worked meticulously, but he asked one of them to spare his hands to make ice with saltpeter, in order to make the first oil cool and solidify faster and easier to store.

The secondary oil to be fished out was also in the copper basin, and was quickly solidified into a whole cake of wax oil by ice water. Zhao Zihu then ordered several people to cut the wick, hang it on the bamboo tube, and break the oil cake into small pieces. Boil the small copper pots and pour them into the bamboo tube one by one.

"The bamboo tube is sealed well, leaving only a section of the wick. The wick is soaked in oil and wax, and the whole strip will be moistened soon! Therefore, it is better to keep it longer than shorter, so that it can be cut later..."

Zhao Zihu stopped talking for a while, wiped off his sweat, drank a cup of Chinese medicine soup, and then said: "Soak the bamboo tube in ice water, wait for three quarters of an hour, take it out and scrape it off, it will be a candle the size of a palm!"

It was midsummer, and I was staring closely at the iron cauldrons one after another, boiling oil and boiling water. Not to mention the sweltering heat, the four craftsmen were sweating profusely...

Xiang Liyue, Diao Chan, Li You, Hu Hai and other stinky brothers also blow hot air.oh!Diao Chan sneaked back when she was boiling her hair oil.

Although they couldn't stand the heat, they were all amazed at the clean beige paste formed by the first oil, and the leather-like light brown with powder in the oil cake formed by the second oil.

Diao Chan deliberately pretended not to take the hair oil for face cream seriously, and asked, "Is this all right? How do I feel that the color of the second oil is better, and it looks a little festive."

Xiangliyue stared at the bamboo tube in the ice water, and said impatiently: "It's a pity! It's only around noon, and it's still a long time before dark. I don't know how effective this candle is?"

Zhao Zihu shook his head, looked at the cold-blooded thirteen eagles, and even Yazi, who was looking forward to Gan Luo and the four craftsmen, and smiled: "This is not easy! Follow me..."

He stood up and took the lead to walk forward. Everyone quickly followed, and the craftsmen even lifted the bucket of ice water directly.

Gan Luo also wanted to take a look, but because his duty was to break down the big fish, he could only pace around in frustration.

Soon, everyone realized that Young Master Zihu was heading straight for the Clipper.

Xiangliyue also realized that the daytime was also dark at the bottom of the bilge, which was the best place to experiment with candles.

Under the guidance of Li You, Zhao Zihu and others boarded a nearby flying shear boat, carefully cut off the shell of the bamboo tube on the deck, took eight candles that had been shaped, and everyone quickly got out of the cabin.

"Hey! Don't rush away. Brother Zihu, give me one too, I'll order some to play!" Diaochan chirped while walking.

Zhao Zihu gave it, laughed, and asked Xiangliyue: "Could it be, don't you want it? Yue'er."

"If you dare to give it, of course I dare to take it. I'm afraid you'll avoid me again!" Hearing that Zhao Zihu's words had other meanings, Xiang Liyue bit his sweet lips unobtrusively before taking the candle.

However, the way she held the candle, Zhao Zihu watched, it was a bit like the gesture of stroking the wet, with a twitch of the corner of his mouth, he thought to himself, hey hey hey!Is this really good...

Is it possible to drive in this situation?
Most of the people around are still underage!

Don't be afraid to take them down.

Diao Chan didn't expect to be shown off by Xiu En'ai here, and she hummed depressedly beside Li You.

Li You shook his sleeves helplessly, and persuaded: "Okay, okay! Let's test the effect of the candle first."

He took out the fire pocket, blew on it, a little star lighted up in his hand, and called Diao Chan to light the candle.

"What are you doing? Brother Li You, what are you doing? Why don't you order the ones from your sister-in-law first, brother Zihu also has a lot?"

Diao Chan twisted away angrily, and hid the candle behind her back like protecting a calf: "It took me so much to come."

"It's just a candle, what's the point of this?" Zhao Zihu was thinking, as expected, he couldn't underestimate the comparison of women, so he handed out a candle for Li You to light.

He coaxed Diaochan again and said: "If you want, brother will make another batch for you later, and how about adding some lacquer paintings? For example, phoenixes! Horses! Flowers..."

Before he finished speaking, everyone saw a firework suddenly lit up in front of Li You. The fire became very lively in the blink of an eye, and the range expanded rapidly. They were not surprised in the future, and they felt surrounded by people. Bright and warm.

In fact, Zhao Zihu knew that these were just psychological effects. The whale oil candle was indeed very bright, but its brightness was weaker than ordinary flashlights.

Its range, specifically, can only illuminate half of a [-]-square-meter house, and the feeling is already extremely weak when it is on both sides of Hu Hai and another small partner.

However, even so, it was enough to make everyone present experience an unprecedented shock.

"Wow! So good, so bright..."

Accompanied by Diao Chan's exclamation, the exclamation of the cold-blooded thirteen eagles came and went in the cabin.

"It's really bright!"

"Two more, it will be the same as daytime here."

Xiang Liyue looked at the candle in Li You's hand, then at Zhao Zihu, and asked in astonishment, "Can this candle really burn for hundreds of days?"

"Where. Ordinary whale oil candles can only burn for a whole day at most! As I said earlier, it is a kind of big fish called a sperm whale. The essential oil in the skull of the candle can have this miraculous effect."

When he was speaking, Zhao Zihu made a bold move, quickly grabbed the candle in Li You's hand who was in a daze, and said softly, "Brother You! What are you thinking? You are so preoccupied that you don't know that the wax water is about to burn your hands."

"This method of making candles seems quite simple. I was wondering, after the official sailing, can I also catch that big fish to make candles?" Li You was still thinking about it, and subconsciously answered.

Such a thought is really scary!
Zhao Zihu didn't mention the development of the whaling industry in front of Ying Zheng, and he also had this concern.

Li You, or the people around him, he can still dissuade one or two, but what about other people...

Seeing the huge profits of the whaling industry, those who take risks will definitely rise up like a crucian carp crossing the river!

If they go out to sea and find a small island to hide...

The difficulty of clearing and suppressing has increased by tens or hundreds of times.

Why did the Age of Discovery appear in the previous life?Why are there so many pirates...

Isn't it just because the sea belongs to a place outside the law, and there are too many unknown islands!
Zhao Zihu advised immediately: "You'd better think twice about whaling. Brother! Moreover, this candle is extremely flammable, so be careful when using it, it set the boat on fire."

As soon as he finished speaking, someone swallowed his saliva a few times, and then said in fear: "This? We wanted to take this candle and search for treasures in this cabin..."

"Still looking for treasures? If this boat is ordered, the emperor will probably castrate your pair of dog treasures. Hurry up, hurry up!" Zhao Zihu rewarded this stinky brother with a brain-dead blow.

Immediately afterwards, he waved his hand and walked to the deck first, and the stinky brothers hurriedly followed the pace, no one dared to look at Shi Laozi's candle again.

Afterwards, Li You recalled it, and he bowed his hands to Zhao Zihu and said in shame: "Young Master's words are very true, you must remember it!"

Zhao Zihu raised his hand and patted Li You's shoulder encouragingly, smiled at Xiangliyue and Diaochan, and left the cabin quickly.

"Auntie! Can this beautiful candle really set the boat on fire so easily?" Fat Qingzi was still behind, murmuring in disbelief.

"Looking at the fact that it burns so vigorously from a little bit, it's only natural that it would be risky to use it." Xiang Liyue nodded and said.

After thinking about it, she said analytically: "And the wax water that burns out should be more likely to burn people than soybean oil..."

"If you want to use it safely, you must not burn it so bare, it is best to add a candlestick."

Hearing this, Zhao Zihu got on the deck and couldn't help but turned his head and nodded appreciatively at Xiang Liyue.

Anyway, Xiang Liyue is also a proper engineering dog...

This is so good!
I just made the candle with my front foot, and you made the candlestick come into being with the back foot.

He laughed and asked: "It makes people doubt, after a while, did you make the Kongming Lantern for me in advance?"

"Ah?!" This endless question made Xiangliyue a little confused for a moment.

"Nothing. But..."

Zhao Zihu's thoughts began to drift again: "This candle has been made, and if we formulate some corresponding wedding customs and etiquette, people will definitely be very grateful to me for bringing up the atmosphere with wedding candles in the bridal chamber of later generations!"

"Bridal chamber", the three women around him could understand it, and their faces turned red at the same time.

Fat Qing'er was thinking.

This little uncle is so shameless!The purpose of making candles was to play tricks on the couch with my aunt...

Xiangliyue probably thought the same way, only feeling ashamed and annoyed.

Seeing the reaction of the aunt and nephew, Diao Chan was even more unconvinced.

While humming and staring at the two, she had a different understanding of "flower candle".

She immediately asked: "Brother Zihu! You just said that these candles can be decorated with beautiful lacquer paintings, such as flowers?"

Seeing that Zhao Zihu definitely responded, Diao Chan immediately put her head on her hips provocatively towards Xiang Liyue.

I mean obviously...

Don't be too sentimental, you old woman!
The "bridal chamber flowers and candles" that brother Zihu said was made for me, Diao Chan...

How could Xiangliyue fail to see Diao Chan's thoughts, but as a big sister, she didn't have the heart to compete with a little girl to be jealous.

Whatever this girl likes to think, just do whatever she wants!
She still walked beside Zhao Zihu unhurriedly, watching Diao Chan demonstrate, she went to hold the little husband's arm, and then the girl felt that it was unreasonable, so she quickly changed her hand to pull her hand.

"You!"

Zhao Zihu gave Diao Chan a wry smile.

He was really convinced by this, like a little girl who was afraid that she would leave her behind in everything.

Sandwiched between two women, he didn't feel that he couldn't handle it.

Where is this?

It's not like I haven't experienced it in my previous life...

(End of this chapter)