The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 216 Can realgar mixed with quartz sand be used as ignition powder?
After a great explanation, the second uncle was speechless and retreated speechlessly!
After inspecting the fifth battalion, they successively inspected Guanying, Huichuan, Sanchakou, Hezhou and Taozhou.After this round, I found a lot of problems and also saw some good phenomena.The biggest impression is that people's lives are becoming more and more stable, and the popularity of the city is becoming more and more prosperous. In places such as Wuying and Yungu, many people are building new houses.In places such as Taoyang and Huichuan, you can also see many construction sites for new houses.

People are building a large number of houses, which is a typical manifestation of people's determination.It shows that the common people have basically overcome the survival crisis and have begun to make more long-term plans.

Many of the newly built houses use new materials and new styles.Building materials such as cement and red bricks are increasingly used.Over in the Fifth Camp, people even built a two-story brick building.This architectural form, which originated from the official style of Yungu Army, is likely to become a popular trend.

When Song Yingkui thinks of building a house, he thinks of the promise he made to his grandfather to build a brick house in Yangjiapu, but it has not yet been fulfilled.Let's wait until we have the opportunity to build a house. Now that the whole family has moved to Taoyang City, it doesn't make much sense to build a house in our hometown.

It's February, and there is another big event for the Song family. Song Yingkui's second brother Song Yingfang is getting married.The second brother's marriage was much smoother than that of Song Yingkui. Last summer, they made arrangements to get engaged, and it only took half a year for a new wife to get married.

The daughter-in-law whom Song Yingfang was told was a native of Wuying and a girl from the Jia family in Yanchuanzi.There was a boy in his family who was serving in the army. Once, a girl from the Jia family went to visit her brother in the camp and was attracted by the second brother.When Song Yingkui asked his second brother what he thought about marriage, he told him about it.When someone came over and asked, the marriage was done.With the current status of the Song family, it is indeed not difficult to arrange a marriage under Yun Gu's rule. There is no question of whether others look down on her or not, only the question of whether the Song family will marry or not.

Although Song Yingkui was the one to arrange the second brother's marriage, he actually didn't have to worry much about it. It was far less laborious than when he married his second and third uncles.Speaking of this matter, Song Yingkui felt depressed.As a nephew, we are extremely busy with the matter of marrying our aunt, which is simply off the mark.

It is a happy event to have a new member in the family, but the older generation, including Song Tianshun, cannot hide their sadness behind their joy.Today, the Song family has a huge hidden worry. In recent years, the number of people in the family has been declining.

It seems inaccurate to say that men are not prosperous. To be precise, men are not prosperous.Except for the two sons born to Song Yingkui and Bai Feiyan, the entire Song family has not had a single son in recent years.Song Yingkui and Ding Yumei gave birth to a girl!The second uncle gave birth to two girls in a row. The third uncle and the third aunt currently only have one child, a girl.

Song Tianshun looked at his four great-grandsons all day long, his brows furrowed and he sighed from time to time.I think back then, although the Song family was poor, the number of boys in the family was increasing one by one. How could it be said that they were poor and happy at the same time.But now, the family is big and the business is big, but there is no son. This is called wealth and pain.

"Kuiwa, why don't you go to Sunan yourself? Bring Zhaoping and Zhaoye to our place? Even just one of you can do it. Your grandma and I are both so old, and we can't leave. You won't be able to see your great-grandson!" Song Tianshun, who was purely counting on the newborn, felt that he might not be reliable, so he went to Song Yingkui to play moral kidnapping.

Faced with his grandfather's moral kidnapping, Song Yingkui could only excuse himself: "Zhaoye was just born a few months ago, so it's not easy to walk a long way. Feiyan just gave birth to her baby soon, so it's not appropriate to suddenly take Zhaoping over. Let's hold on for a few more months." Years."

Bai Feiyan is now like a wild wolf protecting the calf, trying to calmly take the two babies over.Song Yingkui couldn't bear it if he used force.We have no choice but to hope that time will resolve this matter.

"Wait, do your grandma and I have so much time to wait? If you don't pick up Zhao Ping and Zhao Ye, I'll ride a mule to the grassland to see my grandson. No matter how arrogant she is, Bai Feiyan, can she still act like an old man like me?" Song Tianshun responded with Song Yingkui's dragging technique. "Grandpa, can you stay away for a year? I will find a way to bring Zhaoping over next year. This summer, let Feiyan bring the two babies to Taoyang City to visit relatives, right?"

"Hmph! Just drag me and your grandma into the dirt. Let's not talk about Zhao Ping and Zhao Ye. I thought about it. Now that your second uncle and your third uncle are both officials, what's the matter? Adding a concubine is not a big deal. Please tell the two of them and get this matter done as soon as possible." In order to add a boy to the Song family, grandpa really could think of any way, and he even started a fight with his second uncle and his third uncle. Uncle’s idea of ​​taking a concubine.

"You guys should talk about this! How can I, a nephew, encourage my uncle to marry a concubine? How will I see two aunts in the future!" Facing his grandfather's blame, Song Yingkui quickly pushed back.Are you kidding? Can you say this casually?

"You are now the chief official of Yungu, and your second uncle and your third uncle are your subordinates. This is appropriate for you to say. Your grandma and I are the adults in the family, how can we say such things to the public?"

Listen!What is this word?Grandpa's nonsense made Song Yingkui speechless.

"Okay! Look at you, you really don't look like a person who takes big things. Let's not talk about your second uncle and third uncle. Let's talk about you. Your two wives are not living up to expectations. Besides, you haven't married yet. , as soon as you’re done, tell our family that a real wife will come over, it can be done.”

The topic turned to himself again, and Song Yingkui had no choice but to use the escape technique to escape from his grandfather's endless nagging.Since time travel, the most hurtful thing is marriage.Now that he has a son and a daughter, it is really difficult to think of marrying a woman.

After escaping from his grandfather, Song Yingkui came to Danyuan on Qinglong Mountain.The environment here is good, you can relax, and take a look at the alchemists to see if they have made anything surprising.

As the saying goes, if your family affairs are not going well, your career will go well, and you will get an unexpected reward when you come to Danyuan.While observing an alchemist named Liu making alchemy, Song Yingkui discovered a surprising scene.This guy can actually make smoke with his hands!
Seeing this magical phenomenon, Song Yingkui quickly asked: "What did you use to make the fireworks?"

Danshi Liu, surnamed Liu, said with great arrogance: "Masters and villains use realgar and Yingsha to rub smoke! This is a technique to suppress evil spirits."

To calm down the evil spirit, Song Yingkui quickly asked him to repeat the operation several times.When realgar rubs against quartz sand, smoke and sparks can really be produced.This is a major discovery. Based on this idea, it may be possible to solve the problem of igniting powder that has always troubled people!
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