Fengqi crabapple

Chapter 286 quirky

Cheng Haitang quickly returned to his small study room and dug out three yellowed books from under the book box. There were three big words on the cover: Lu Ban Book.

I don’t know where the master got this book from. It has three volumes: the upper, middle and lower volumes. The first volume is about strange manufacturing and construction, and the middle and lower volume is about medicine, Taoism, witchcraft, and magic.The master told Haitang not to read this book, let alone use it.It is said that the above medical skills are more like black witchcraft, which cannot cure people, but will kill them.

However, Haitang not only used it, but also used it to save the lives of Xie Yuanfang and Xie Ruitang.

Haitang put the middle and lower volumes on the table and took only the top volume to give to the second child.Xie Ruitang just came back and saw Haitang holding a yellowed old book. He took it and looked at it and smiled: "I heard you say it several times. This is the first time I have seen it look like this today. Please open this book and come out." do what?"

After Xie Ruitang listened to Haitang's idea, he put the three "Books of Lu Ban" on the bookshelf and asked Chang Le to go to his study to get two more books, one "Essentials of Qi Min" and one "Essential Art of Qi Min". This "Mengxi Bi Tan".Haitang didn't even think about putting away those three strange books, so they just kept on the bookshelf.

He smiled and said: "These two books have both nature and technology. If he likes it, let him read it. Yunxuan picked you up, and you are already weird enough now. If you give me those fairy books of yours, Without him, I'm afraid our palace won't be able to be saved. It's better to leave it to you to settle the matter yourself."

When Yunxuan was almost four years old, Xie Ruitang and Haitang had a third prince.

The emperor is in charge of the prince, the queen is in charge of the third youngest, Xiao Yunqi, and the second prince Yunxuan has to create his own sense of presence.

On this day, five-year-old Xie Yunxuan asked her mother for saltpeter.

Haitang asked strangely: "You neither make gunpowder nor cure diseases, so what do you need saltpeter for?"

"Mother, give it to me, the more, the better!" Xie Yunxuan said mysteriously: "I can't say it now, I will do a trick for you!"

Haitang was watching the third prince Xie Yunqi eating with a wooden spoon. When Yunqi heard this, he stopped eating. Holding the wooden spoon in his hand, he stood up and was about to leave, saying: "Play tricks, play tricks."

Haitang grabs the restless Yun Qi and has no choice but to ask Ji'er to go to the pharmacy to get some saltpeter for Yun Xuan, and then watch him play.

Yunxuan got a bag of saltpeter. He asked Chang An to bring a bowl of water and put the saltpeter into the water. The saltpeter slowly melted into the water, and the bowl of water gradually turned into ice!
"Ah! It's really a magic trick! I only knew that saltpeter has the effect of breaking through hard deposits, detoxifying and reducing swelling, but I didn't know that it can condense water into ice!" Ji'er exclaimed: "Isn't the second prince the reincarnation of a god? He knows everything. !”

"What's this? There are many magical things recorded in the "Mengxi Bi Tan" my father gave me!" The second prince looked at the ice in the basin and said with some worry: "Although saltpeter is not poisonous, this ice is not good either. Eat..."

"What's so difficult about this? Ji'er, go and take out the divided tripod where we eat hot pot and give it to the second prince." Haitang came over and said holding Yun Qi in his arms.

So the second prince made a bowl of edible ice with the help of his mother. Cai Lian brought juice and sugar and poured it on Yunxuan's ice.

The third prince in Shuang'er's arms was about to rush forward with all his strength: "Eat ice! Eat ice!"

In the midst of chaos, the emperor and the prince came back.

Xie Ruitang asked with a smile: "What? The second and third children are grabbing food?" "Father and brother, look! This is the ice I made!" Yunxuan said hurriedly: "You gave it to me The method recorded in "Mengxi Bi Tan"."

"Oh? This is something new. It's not enough to rely on ice in the midsummer. If you can make ice in summer, it will help your father to worry about it!" Xie Ruitang encouraged.The second child likes new things, which is a good thing.On weekdays, whenever any strange Western gadgets were obtained in the palace, the emperor would be the first to pick them out.

The prince's brother also felt strange and walked over to take a look. Yunxuan felt proud and quickly demonstrated it again on the spot.Several people saw it with their own eyes and found it magical and interesting.

With his father's encouragement, the second prince became more active in doing various weird experiments from then on.

Feng Mingze and Jiang Saihua also have a pair of sons and daughters. The son is Feng Qi. He doesn't like to read the Four Books and Five Classics, but likes to play with the bunch of secret treasures kept by his father.He was the same age as Yunxuan, and they were less than ten years old, so Feng Qi poked fun at Yunxuan and thanked her for traveling.

Feng Mingze heard the emperor say something casually before noon, so he beat Feng Qi when he got home: "The prince is out traveling?"Your father will beat you into sleepwalking!

You can't go out, so Yunxuan is doing new tricks in the palace.

Yunxuan saw that the Queen Mother had inconvenient legs and feet and had to be carried outside to bask in the sun. He drew a picture of a wheel and asked Chang An to go out and find someone to make it. Then he installed the wheels on the Queen Mother's chair so that the chair could be pushed.Later, he and Feng Qi made many improvements and finally made a stable wheelchair.

The Queen Mother finally breathed a sigh of relief: This time I can't push back anymore. If I do it again, my old bones will be left in the hands of this great-grandson!
When Yunxuan saw his mother, he often cooked some ointment with medicinal materials and asked them to dip willow branches in it to clean their teeth. So he found a bone, pulled out the unused bristle pen in the study, and inserted it into the bone-grinding hand. Put it in the bag and dip it in the queen's ointment to brush your teeth.This time, not only the teeth are brushed clean, but also the gum is less likely to be poked.

The emperor didn't feel sorry for his new brush at all. He saw that the toothbrush made by his son was really easy to use, but the bristles on the brush were too soft.The emperor asked people to find short and hard bristles to make the bristles. With this change, the cleaning effect of the toothbrush will be better.

Now, everyone in Xuanyun Palace began to use the toothbrush invented by the second prince and improved by the emperor.

In order to distinguish whose toothbrush they belonged to, the palace people made different handles out of bamboo, wood, and animal bones.Later, the work became more and more sophisticated, and the handles became more diverse.

Once when Gu Mansheng came to the palace, he accidentally saw a toothbrush and asked curiously, "What kind of novelty is this? There are pig hairs growing on the bamboo?"

Haitang said with a smile: "This is a small tool that Yunxuan came up with. Apply cleaning and sterilizing ointment to the mane and use it to brush your teeth. The teeth will be brushed very clean. It is better than the willow branches used before. There are more. You can take two back to try it out. If you think it works, just ask them to do it."

How could Gu Mansheng not want it?Even Haitang brought back a lot of ointments made from honeysuckle, agastache, green salt and clove bark.Soon, both the Cheng and Shen families started using the toothbrush invented by the second prince.

People in the capital love to follow trends, not to mention that this is a new invention of the prince and emperor, so don’t you use it? Wouldn’t it be too shameful?Everyone likes to ask when they meet: "Did you brush your teeth today? Didn't you brush with the prince's toothbrush? Then please stand five steps away and don't talk to me."

From the capital, it spread to dignitaries everywhere, and the bristle toothbrush became a popular tooth cleaning tool in the Chinese Dynasty.

The second prince Yunxuan grew up in such an eccentric way.

(End of this chapter)