Eat in Song Dynasty

Chapter 162 Fire

After resting on the ground for a while, until the violent heartbeat subsided, Wen Shu slowly stood up while supporting the table.

But after being frightened by this, she doesn't plan to enter the iron box again in a short time.

Sensing her movement, the fat-stealing bird gave a soft "goo" and rubbed her arm with its beak.

Only then did Wen Shu realize that there was a fellow sufferer next to him, so he couldn't help but raised his head and touched its head, and sighed softly: "I took you in to find food, but I never found it when I wanted to eat, but I went in for nothing. A fish. If I had known earlier, I might as well have given you the leftover fish.”

The fat-stealing bird nodded in agreement, and grunted again, as if to say that you only know that those fish were blinded for nothing.

There was no light in the room, so Wen Shu couldn't see its movements clearly, but she could sense them a little. She couldn't help shaking her head and laughing, flicked its head, took out two steamed buns from the storage basket and threw them in front of it.

"You can't start a fire at home. You can just eat these two steamed buns. When your legs are good, go find food yourself. If you really don't want to stay here, you can leave if you want. I won't stop you. As long as you want to go back to the original place, but it will take a while.”

After speaking, she looked up out of the window.

The moon was in the middle of the sky, the bright moonlight came in from the window, casting a silver light on the table, and her father's snoring could be faintly heard from the east room, everything was so reassuring.

Afraid of waking her father up, Wen Shu lazily carried the fat-stealing bird around, told it not to make any noise, not to bark indiscriminately, then undressed and fell asleep.

This sleep was particularly sound. The next day, until the sun was shining, and the sound of her father's clanging and planing wood came from the shop in front again, Wen Shu rubbed her eyes and sat up.

After a simple wash, she carried the fat-stealing bird to the well in the courtyard, and threw two steamed buns to it, then went back to the room hungry and continued to grind the almond market.

At this time, two days have passed since eating Zhu Yu Cao. In order to test the true efficacy of the grass, she has been resolutely resisting the temptation of delicious food with the belief that if she can eat it, she will not eat it.

But this is really hungry, but this kind of hunger is still within the acceptable range. After thinking about it, she continued to endure it, wanting to find out and see where the limit is.

It's really uncomfortable to suffer from hunger, but fortunately, I slept well last night and my energy level is quite high, so I didn't delay the work at hand.

It only took half an hour for Wen Shu to grind all the pills left over from yesterday.

Put the ground dandelion into a bag and tie it up, and hid it under the bed. Seeing that it was still early, and since fire was still banned today, she didn't need to cook, so she dragged out another bag of unground dandelion for grinding.

Although only one bag is sold this time, the other bag will also be sold in the future. Anyway, it will be ground sooner or later, so it is better to grind together while you are free.

Time passed unknowingly in such a clanging sound.

In the afternoon, when the other bag of dandelion was half ground, Wen Shu's patience finally reached its peak. If she didn't eat any more, her hands and feet became weak.

At the end of the experiment, she carried a small handful of Zhu Yucao for nearly three days, thirty hours to be precise.

Having not eaten properly for a few days was really a torment for the foodie Wen Shu. Now that he let go of the food, his appetite suddenly increased, and he swallowed five steamed buns before he knew it.

After eating, she regretted it a little.

A small handful of Zhuyu grass lasted her for three days, but now that she has eaten five Zhuyu steamed buns, she won't be unable to eat for a few more days.

Don't do it, although this thing is hungry, but it's not as happy as eating normally.

In the midst of her worrying thoughts, two days passed by, and it was Qingming in a blink of an eye.

In the early morning of Qingming, the kitchens of every household were busy, and the women went to the kitchen early in the morning to clean the pots and stoves, and light the fire for cooking.

After eating cold food for three days in a row, my stomach couldn't take it anymore, and finally I was able to light a fire, so I was proud to make something hot.

There are sick people in the family, and those who can't eat cold food feel that spring is ushered in.Thinking of the mood when I secretly hid in the room to light the stove in order to make the food warm in the past few days, I feel that all the hardships have been rewarded.

Not only did Wen Shu not eat hot food these days, but he didn't even enjoy cold food. Now that he turned on the fire, he got into the kitchen and started to make drastic moves.

The common people opened fire, and the palace was no exception.

It's just that the firing ceremony in the imperial palace is much more complicated than that in the folk. In the imperial garden at this time, Zhao Duo, the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, was directing dozens of internal servants to drill wood to make fire.

The waiters lined up, using sharpened jujube prongs to drill the dried elm knots.With the help of the fly rope and a simple mechanism, the rope is tied to the wooden peg, and then the peg is drilled on the elm, the two legs are firmly against the elm, and the two hands are tightly grasped by the fly rope, one left and one right pull up .

By turning the wooden prongs at high speed, the friction generates heat and the flames are drilled out, but this process is very difficult and the success rate is very low.

However, the royal family has no shortage of people. There are always one or two secret servants who can emerge from dozens of secret servants, and this secret servant will be rewarded heavily, because he has brought new fire to the royal family.

When the royal family has a new fire, it will use this new fire to light many candles, cover them with covers, and distribute the contents to the homes of relatives and dignitaries of the clan and ministers of civil and military affairs.

But not everyone can get it, only the prince, the prime minister, the deputy prime minister, the privy envoy, the third envoy, the prefect of Kaifeng, the Hanlin bachelor, the appeasement envoy who went to Beijing to report on his work, the concubine in the harem, and the dignitaries in the palace The eunuch.

Weiyuan Hou Mansion, as a noble man, also received a new fire from the palace, and sent away the servants. Lu Yuancheng looked at the little orange flame, but couldn't help but think in his mind that a month later, that appalling scene, from the beginning to the end. Rongwang Palace, however, continued to burn the eight palaces in the Forbidden City, which hurt the country's capital.

The fire began to spread from the palace of King Rong on the night of April 23. Before dawn, the residences of King Yong, King Xiang, King Nanyang, King Yan, King Cao, and King Rong were completely burned down.

On the second day, the fire continued to expand and burned down Chengtianmen, Yiluansi, the back pavilion of Chaoyuan Hall, Neizang warehouse, and fragrant medicine warehouse.After burning the incense medicine storehouse, the fragrance can be smelled dozens of miles away.

Then the fire returned eastward to Zuozangku and Mige History Museum.On that day, thousands of people risked their lives to salvage the belongings in the left storehouse and piled them up on the walls of Miyagi.

At noon, when the fire reached the east corner of Chaoyuan Gate, the wind suddenly turned eastward and hit the city wall, and the gold and silk treasures stored in the left storehouse were burned again.At the end of the day, the fire burned outside the palace city, burning Zhongshu Province, Menxia Province, and the Court of Appeals.

In the end, more than 2000 houses were engulfed in flames, and more than 1500 people were burned to death by the firefighters and trapped people.

Afterwards, the officials issued an edict of guilt, self-reflection, and demoted King Rong, the source of the fire, as King Duan, and expelled him from Kaifeng.At the same time, Qin Pei, the political adviser, was appointed as the repair envoy of Da Nei to preside over the repair.

This fire can be called the largest fire in history, and the losses it caused are unprecedented.

Now that he knew what was going on, he had to try to stop it.

It's just that he has no friendship with King Rong, so it's really strange that he came to people's house for no reason to prevent the fire.He didn't know the reason why King Rong's palace caught fire.

What remained in the case files of Dali Temple were only a few words of the escaped man. After everyone talked about it, the final conclusion was that a maid in the kitchen of Rongwang Palace got up in the middle of the night to steal food, and accidentally overturned it. Lamp leads to.

As for the truth, no one knows, because the maid who was accused of knocking over the teacup died in the fire long ago.

In such a situation, if you want to isolate the fire, the best way is to ask Rong Wang to ban fire in the whole house during those few days.But there is no justifiable reason for such a big event, how could King Rong believe it.

Lu Yuancheng pinched his forehead irritably, thinking about countermeasures.

(End of this chapter)