As a salted fish, I was forced to become the teacher of all ages

Qi Pengwu chimed in from the side: "That's right, how can there be jokes in the army? What are you talking about now... What kind of captain, you can't count your words in front of your subordinates, right?"

Qi Wanrong looked behind her with a flushed face, and at this moment Xiaodong suddenly leaned over and whispered: "Miss, this hot air balloon... I heard from Xiao Nan that the playboy doesn't have much confidence, and the eldest lady has accepted the bet now." , then you might as well take a gamble, if you win, wouldn’t it be nice for a playboy to wear a Fengxia cape?”

Qi Wanrong's eyes lit up: "Hey, I've never seen a man wearing a phoenix cloak! Besides, it sounds like fun to ask him to marry me!"

Xiao Dong echoed: "Extremely extreme. Didn't the eldest lady say a few days ago that a playboy always looks like a villain? If he gets married, then the eldest lady will be the husband, and the husband will be the guide for the wife. He has to do whatever he does..."

Qi Wanrong smiled brightly: "Yes, yes, I see him being arrogant all day long. If I ask him for a firecracker, I have to wait for a long time. If he marries me, I will beat him if I don't give it!"

While the two were whispering, Hua Manlou was frantically shouting at the Qi brothers: "I am the one who made the bet, why are you two the ones who decided to bet? How can marriage be so hasty?"

Qi Pengfei put his arms around Huamanlou's shoulders, and said cheerfully, "The man is unmarried and the woman is unmarried, and you and I are rightly married, so why not decide on this?"

Qi Pengwu said solemnly: "Sister-in-law, look at my little sister, she is beautiful and beautiful, as beautiful as a peach or plum, virtuous and virtuous, suitable for an IKEA..."

Hua Manlou looked horrified: "Brother Qi, you...are you talking nonsense with your eyes open? Does Lingmei have anything to do with the virtuous and virtuous Yishi IKEA! And don't call me sister-in-law!"

Qi Pengwu was very embarrassed, but Qi Pengfei said: "Then you don't deny that my little sister is as beautiful as peaches and plums?"

Huamanlou couldn't help but glanced at Qi Wanrong--again, it is better to emphasize that the current aesthetics, both men and women, are sickly, but Huamanlou doesn't like that style very much, so Qi Wanrong can be regarded as a kind of beauty for him. It's really a beautiful sunny girl, and he can't do it without conscience saying that this girl is ugly, but...

"All in all, how can anyone bet on getting married?" Hua Manlou gritted his teeth and glared at the two scum of the Qi family.

The two were about to say something, when Zhao Ren spoke: "Brother Hua, come here, let's light the fire together!"

Qi Pengwu looked at Huamanlou cheerfully: "Go quickly, sister-in-law, that's the deal!"

162. Live with a sense of ritual

It has to be said that the Qi family brothers were forced to do so.

It seems that the Chinese New Year is coming, and after the New Year, Qi Wanrong will have to grow up. If she is sixteen and still has no husband's family, it seems really unbelievable in these years.

What's more, it has been spread all over the capital that a top nobleman like the Qi family has a daughter who cannot be married. The group of girls in Dong acted accordingly and gave their own cabbage to the pigs of Hua's family to go to Gong Gong's right, which showed how anxious he was.

In addition, Ying Guogong also heard from his wife that the honorable wives in the capital circle are all staring at Huamanlou, whoever told him not to make a show would be a blockbuster?

According to the aesthetics and values ​​of this era, his own daughter has no core competitiveness, but the default son-in-law is being targeted by many people, which makes Ying Guogong even more anxious.If Uncle Huai'an was in Beijing at this moment, Duke Ying would even come to talk about the marriage in person at the expense of his status - there really is no woman who comes to the door first, which shows that he is forced into something.

So in this case, after a group of people came to Xishan together a few days ago, there was no progress between Qi Wanrong and Hua Manlou, so Mr. Ying must be furious?If the old man got angry, wouldn't the Qi brothers be in bad luck?

That is to say, on the day when Huamanlou returned to Beijing and Emperor Guangxing made an agreement to open a mutual market, the two unlucky bastards were hoisted to the beams of the house by Ying Guogong himself, and it was a miserable smoke...

But the brothers of the Qi family are also in a dilemma. Hua Manlou is busy all day, and most of the time he stays with Zhao Ren. ?

So although it was a bad idea to bet today, the two brothers were really cornered—seeing the Chinese New Year, they must go home, right?After returning home, if there is no entry, it is necessary to smoke again, but...

Right now, the injury on my body is still aching, but I have to wait for someone to slow down for a few days, right?

Is it just for the two people at the core of this matter...

Needless to say, Hua Manlou, although he doesn't hate Qi Wanrong, and it's nice to have fun together occasionally, but it doesn't necessarily mean he has to marry her, right?

To a certain extent, Huamanlou and Qi Wanrong felt like brothers and girlfriends at the moment. According to Qi Wanrong's beating nature in daily work, Huamanlou always felt that if this guy was in his previous life, he would definitely be able to squat with him. The Zhuer who sees beautiful women on the street or shares the same Huazi, is the Zhuer who can go to an Internet cafe together to form a group, although the feeling is not bad, but...

Is it a bit sloppy to be the object of marriage?

In addition, Hua Manlou's way of thinking is still the way of thinking in his previous life, he simply can't accept getting married at the tender age of '15', it's too ridiculous.

What's more, Hua Manlou thinks that the Qi family brothers are purely mentally ill, or they just want to touch porcelain: Will your sister rely on me if she can't get married?If everyone is like this, will the young master still survive?

And as far as Qi Wanrong is concerned...

As the spoiled young lady of a top honored family, can she not be proud?

Therefore, after the rumors that she could not get married in the capital spread to her, while she was furious, she still had a mentality of 'what if my aunt doesn't marry', and day after day it strengthened to 'it's just you. These stinky fish and rotten shrimps, my aunt doesn't even look down on them, and she still wants to marry me'?

Moreover, Qi Wanrong was extremely impatient about the fact that a woman married her husband.

In her opinion, after marriage, she can neither ride a horse nor go hunting in the wild. She spends all day at home caring for her husband and children, leaving her life only in the backyard. How can she bear it?

Ever since, Xiaodong, who knew Qi Wanrong very well, changed Qi Wanrong's mind a little: If Hua Manlou marries me, then he will take care of his wife and teach his children at home, and I will look after Xishanwei for him. Is it not bad?Although I have only heard of a son-in-law before, I have never heard of a man marrying a woman, but there are exceptions to everything, right?

So this nonsense bet was established under the condition of ignoring Huamanlou...

And Hua Manlou didn't even bother to deal with these three scammers from the Qi family, so he went directly to Zhao Ren's side: "Everything has been checked? Is there anything wrong?"

"Yeah!" Zhao Ren nodded excitedly: "There is no problem at all. In my opinion, don't test it. Let's just sit on it?"

Hua Manlou sneered and said, "I want to go with you, I won't accompany you to death. It looks like it can fly now, but don't forget, will this isinglass-glued balloon leak, can it withstand Pulling is an unknown, if it falls off without testing, it will be a dead end!"

Zhao Ren shuddered: "Forget it... Anyway, let's start a fire now? The balloon was made by the two of us, so the first time it caught fire, we have to come, right?"

Hua Manlou said cheerfully, "That's right, life has a sense of ritual!"

The balloon has been pulled up by the youngsters of Xishanwei with a rope, hanging deflated in mid-air, and they will untie the rope when it can take off.Below the balloon is a special iron furnace, which is the crystallization of the wisdom of Xishan craftsmen, so they also came to the scene today and watched from a distance.

Under the eyes of everyone, several teenagers walked to the hanging basket with burning charcoal basins. Hua Manlou and Zhao Ren stepped into the basket together, filled the burning coals into the stove with tongs, and then added some unburned coals. charcoal, wait to heat up.

Anyone who has let go of Kongming lanterns knows that it takes time to make the lanterns fly after the fire is lit, and it takes even longer for a hot air balloon.

When everyone was getting impatient, the balloon gradually became inflated, and then the hanging basket began to shake.

Hua Manlou, who was watching the movement from a little distance, immediately excitedly said: "It's almost done! Quick, put two sheep on it, first untie the rope on the balloon, and then untie the rope on the basket when the hanging basket is off the ground! Get ready!" Horses, follow the balloons for a while!"

Following Hua Manlou's order, a group of people took action immediately.

A few teenagers just threw two innocent black sheep into the 1.4-meter-deep hanging basket, and then the hanging basket shook suddenly, and then slowly left the ground, pulling the rope tied to the ground pile straight .After the teenagers untied the rope, the hot air balloon began to lift off flickeringly.

"Really...can you really fly?"

"A miracle! This is a miracle!"

"Fly, fly, fly!"

The onlookers shouted, some were delighted, some were terrified, some knelt down and prostrated, and they made a fuss—these days, unexplainable things will naturally be attributed to the gods, and we can’t expect these words to be all right. People who don't know have such a big brain like Zhao Ren to figure out the buoyancy of air, right?

So it is conceivable that even if they were a little psychologically prepared, everyone was still quite frightened by what Huamanlou was doing.

But Huamanlou was too lazy to care about these people, the balloon floated leisurely, he and Zhao Ren immediately got on their horses, and chased after the balloon that was drifting away in the wind, but only a few people reacted at the moment: Zhao Ren His personal bodyguard, and the Qi family brothers who are shocked but still do not forget their true heart...

"Why does the balloon face east and west now? The wind direction hasn't changed!" After chasing for a long time, Zhao Ren became a little mad.

Hua Manlou lowered his head and rubbed his sore neck: "The airflow in the sky is not like the ground, every section has a different wind direction, so we seem to have forgotten one thing..."

Zhao Ren asked in astonishment, "What's the matter?"

Hua Manlou smiled wryly and said, "I forgot to add something that can adjust the firepower at the mouth of the furnace. Without that thing, the balloon will probably go up until it reaches a certain critical point, and then float along the wind direction at that height... ..."

Zhao Ren was taken aback for a moment, then elated: "So, if we ride on it, there is a way for it to float wherever it wants?"

Hua Manlou nodded and said, "Theoretically, that's the case. But now..."

He looked up at the sky again, with a broken expression on his face: "It seems that we added a little too much carbon, this thing will keep flying when it is heated, so we have to keep chasing... what the hell?"

Zhao Ren was used to Huamanlou lying on the bed from time to time, so he calmly said, "What's wrong?"

Hua Manlou frantically said: "This thing seems to be flying towards the capital!"

As Hua Manlou said, a hot air balloon cannot keep rising into the sky. It will remain at a certain height when the firepower continues. Now this height happens to be the west wind, so...

Zhao Ren said disapprovingly, "It's okay to fly to the capital, right? Just to open the eyes of the people in the capital!"

Hua Manlou broke down and said, "You know this so you won't panic, but the people in the capital don't know what this thing is, what if it causes panic? Also, what if it flies into the palace... Fuck it, fly more and more It's far away, hurry up!"

The two rode in front, with the distraught bodyguards and the Qi family brothers in the middle, and finally the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion played by the even more disintegrated imperial guards, and...

I don't know how to be a good Qi Wanrong.

A group of female soldiers surrounded Qi Wanrong, chirping: "Miss, you are really flying!"

"To be precise, it wasn't Missy who flew, but the hot air balloon!" Xiao Nan emphasized: "In this case, Missy will lose, so..."

"Missy is going to marry Playboy?"

"Uh-huh!"

"What kind of playboy do you still call him now? Shouldn't he be called uncle?"

"Uh-huh!"

"I said earlier that the uncle and the eldest lady are very suitable for each other!"

Qi Wanrong gritted her teeth and shouted: "Shut up!"

I have to say that Miss Qi's mood at this time is very complicated.

Didn't you agree that the thing can't fly, so Hua Manlou will marry you?But how did things become like this?

After being angry, regret followed, followed by anger from the heart, evil to the gut: Qi Pengfei, you did a good job!Are you in such a hurry to marry me off?And you are full of flowers, how can you dare to marry me?My aunt has decided that from now on, she must marry you back to my Duke Ying's mansion as my wife... No, as a concubine!

Hua Manlou didn't know that he had suddenly taken a big pot, and Qi Wanrong didn't know that the most vicious way to get revenge on a person is to ignore him, not to fight him...

(Let me tell you, everyone who has read my book knows that I never push the plot by force, right? Even the harem must have the truth of the harem, how can it be forced? Just read the book, except for the plot to kill one , the other few are still mushrooms after marriage, but now the sugar is not sprinkled... And considering Miss Qi's character, maybe she just admits it?)

163. Auspicious?

The horse galloped all the way, and the more Hua Manlou chased him, the more he felt like a fool.

In fact, before the experiment, you should have thought of adjusting the firepower. You should also have thought that the purpose of this experiment is to test whether the hot air balloon can float and whether there is air leakage after floating. Therefore, the most suitable way is to tighten the hanging basket with a strong long rope The ground is tied to ground stakes, and as long as it can float for a long time, things will be simple.

only……

After the hot air balloon was made, Huamanlou forgot everything when he was so excited, and there were two guys who tried to blame others on the test site to make trouble, which led to the current dilemma: the hot air balloon is impartial and unyielding. Flying towards the capital, the flying is called a no turning back.

It has to be said that this was the first time Huamanlou galloped on a horse after crossing.

At this moment, he even almost forgot that he really didn't know how to ride a horse, and this riding skill was taught by Uncle Huai'an when he was young.The horse galloped all the way so hard that Huamanlou's internal organs were almost dislocated, and the inner thighs were painfully worn by the saddle, but even so, he couldn't care less, after all...

In this era when there were no flying objects at all, the sudden appearance of a balloon above Jingshi's head might really cause panic.

Moreover, if the hot air balloon suddenly encounters some problems and falls, who will be responsible for killing someone?It can't be said that the two black sheep in the hanging basket are plotting to kill people, right?

The sheep have paid enough, and Hua Manlou feels unbearable to let them take the blame...

This crazy pursuit, Hua Manlou almost lost half of his life, and the horse almost lost half of his life - you know, flying in the sky is not particular about the route, at least not in these years, but on the ground you You have to walk along the road, and it's a horse, not an off-road vehicle, and you can't go over mountains and ridges indiscriminately...

The flight of the hot air balloon has been very smooth, there is no problem at all, which shows that the cobblers are very hardworking, and the hot air balloon can be used for a lot of things - this is luck.Unfortunately, when the capital could be seen from afar, Hua Manlou discovered in despair that the balloon had started to land. After all, the charcoal fire in the stove could not keep burning, and the buoyancy of the balloon began to drop when the fire got weaker.

……

The capital, the imperial palace.

Emperor Guangxing is in a pretty good mood recently, because...

The end of the new year is approaching. At this time, everyone is not in the mood to go to work. They just look forward to an early holiday, and the ancients are no exception.

Therefore, the censors who have always liked to challenge the limits of survival in recent days have stopped jumping, and the six departments will not report if there is no major event. Emperor Guangxing simply stopped the morning court, and the departments are working normally, and they can stay for a few days Just take a rest.

Could Emperor Guangxing be in a bad mood without officials interfering?

Therefore, the emperors of Ming Dynasty and Dazhao were both hard-pressed. With the expansion of the power of the ministers, the relationship between the emperor and the ministers looked more like the major shareholder who is also the chairman of the board and the small shareholders of the decision-making layer. Although the interests in the general direction are the same, there are also many confrontations, so the emperor these days really rarely stops.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"

Putting down the last note sent today, Emperor Guangxing was planning to take a break and go for a walk outside to relax, but at this time Xu Dacheng suddenly stumbled into the warm pavilion.

Emperor Guangxing frowned: "Why are you panicking?"

Generally speaking, when Xu Dacheng has this kind of reaction, something big happens - after all, he is 'honest and honest', isn't he?An honest person will naturally show everything on his face, so in this situation, Emperor Guangxing would basically not blame him for being rude, but he was extremely angry in his heart: Do you want me to stop?

And Xu Dacheng had figured out Emperor Guangxing's temperament, so he didn't even stand firm after entering the door, and shouted in surprise: "Your Majesty, the heavens are auspicious!"

Emperor Guangxing raised his eyebrows: "Auspiciousness? Where did the auspiciousness come from?"

In the minds of wise emperors, general auspiciousness basically falls into the category of compliments, and they really don't necessarily like auspiciousness very much.

because...

If the weather is good, the grass will produce double ears, the earth will produce sweet springs, and strange birds and beasts will be better, but things like white foxes uttering human words, Buddha statues opening their eyes, and fishes with silk for writing in their stomachs seem to be fine. It is in the same category as Xiangrui, so Xiangrui is not necessarily very good. What if someone misunderstands it?

Therefore, Emperor Guangxing felt that this was purely idle, and it was almost time to cure this unhealthy trend in the next year.

But Xu Dacheng didn't care about this, he dutifully played his honest and honest personality: "Back to Your Majesty, just now someone saw a... an unknown thing floating from the west of the capital. Beast, and some people said they wanted to shoot it down. But because the thing flew too high, the soldiers and horses of the five cities at the west gate did not move rashly, just waiting for it to fall. But the thing seemed to be in no danger, Then it circled around the sky a few times slowly, and then slowly fell down. During this period, soldiers shouted and shouted that it would not be surprised..."

"When the thing started to fall, the people from Wucheng Bingmasi saw that it looked like a big ball with two big characters Guangxing written on it, and there was a hanging basket hanging under the ball, and the sound of sheep could be faintly heard. ..."

The writing on the ball was done by Zhao Ren. He felt that what he did was something that would make his emperor's father honorable, so he called the first hot air balloon the Guangxing, and Hua Manlou felt that this matter had something to do with it. I wanted to please the big boss, so I didn't object...

Only then did Emperor Guangxing feel a little surprised: "Written with the word "Guangxing"...it can also bleat sheep? What the hell is this?"