Chapter 88 - Lighting the Candle with the Smoke
"On behalf of her, challenge me?" Ding Bao was surprised.
"No, good women do things well. I don't like someone, I only dare not do it but not recognize it. I used to poison the restaurant, store items under the bed, and put General Ci at night in the old Sichuan Post. These are all my ideas, and my cousin Kong Ci didn't know. The elder brother helped my abominable brother avoid the poison, and discovered the trap of the dirty bed. In the end, he defeated General Ci, which made Sister Lu'e burn his hands and feet red. Until now, she was still wiping tears outside. It's nothing. The younger sister's skills are not as good as others, so she can only sincerely say that she admires her, sighing that this abominable brother is blessed and has a noble person to help him all the time..."
Kong Lianyi's voice was childish and her expression was cute, but she was clearly organized. She raised her eyebrows and changed the subject and said, "However, General Ci was a toy made by Kong Ci's cousin and gave it to her younger sister. It has been made for months without any disadvantages, and has scared many people. Not to mention being discovered, there is not even half of the reason for it. But now, it has been broken instantly by your elder brother."
"What does Miss Ripples mean?" Ding Bao seemed to understand something, so he asked with a smile.
"Big brother is extremely smart. Even if he can't match Kong Ci's cousin, he should be a person of the same level." Kong Lianyi took a small shot and then said: "Smart people are extremely conceited, especially my cousin. At this point, the eldest brother should have heard of it. My cousin knows my temperament and can control the gifts from General Ci to me. He will definitely be confident that no one can understand or break it. However, the eldest brother can counterattack in a small space, and even teases Sister Lu'e who is hiding and controlling it in the middle of the game. It is inevitable that it can be explained by the word "understanding". According to my cousin's temper, he will inevitably challenge the eldest brother and regain this formation. My younger sister is here today, and I will overtake my subordinates. When Kong Ci's cousin asks in the future, it will be easier to explain."
At this point, Ding Bao could see that the brother and sister are worthy of being the same mother and speak one by one.
However, Kong Lianshun was more stubborn and stubborn, while this little girl Kong Lianyi had a clear purpose, true and false, and was full of confusion.
"Miss Ripples, what is the way to play the charter?" Ding Bao said directly.
"Okay, my elder brother is really happy." Kong Lianyi looked brilliant and smiled, "Smart people have their own ways to play smart people. My younger sister has a small trick here. I have loved playing since I was a child, but I have been thinking hard and can't understand the truth. My older brother is a strange person who can instantly defeat General Ci. I think I will not disappoint my younger sister."
"Brother Ning, don't agree!" Kong Lianshun, who had been standing next to him and rubbed his hands in a hurry, saw Kong Lianyi showing a familiar devil smile, and finally couldn't help but remind him.
Ding Bao's eyes flashed, his lips pursed and he seemed to be thinking.
Kong Lianyi saw this and smiled like a bell, "If the big brother wins, my younger sister and Kong Ci cousin will guarantee that they will not cause trouble for my brother anymore. They have written off all kinds of things before. If they lose, it is also very simple. The big brother just needs to compensate Sister Lu'er in front of me, and then no longer stop me from asking Kong Lianshun for the New Year's money."
"It's up to you."
When Kong Lianshun next to him thought that Ding Bao was going to stand up for him, he was so moved that his eyes were red.
Little did he know that Ding Bao simply didn't want to be troubled anymore, and he didn't dare to have hope for him easily.
He can see now that he has such a demonic sister in his family, and a demon cousin who is obviously taller and deeper in Taoism. If he doesn't come forward to settle this matter for Kong Lianshun, it would be a fool to expect Kong Lianshun to sneak home and steal his father's craft cards. It's a blessing to have this kid who can guarantee that they will not be messed up after entering the house. As for when he can come out again, whether he can get the craft cards or not, the gods and Buddhas in the sky can't guarantee it.
Upon hearing Ding Bao's reply, Kong Lianyi smiled with her hands behind her back, took a light step, her waist flowing, and her light little yellow skirt swayed in circles of ripples.
After raising the high fives three times, the door of the guest room opened, and the two followers took out the things they had prepared.
There are two bronze candlesticks with coiled dragons hanging around the plate, which is very gorgeous and noble. On the candlesticks, there is a candle as thick as an arm on each.
"Beeswax? So luxurious." Ding Bao's nose moved and he sighed inwardly.
The candles in this era are mostly made of animal fat, which is very expensive, far from oil lamps, and torches are more popular, especially beeswax made of honey fat, which is a treasure that ordinary people have never seen before. Kong Lianyi casually took out these two big pieces, and said that it was a trick that he loved to play since childhood, and I don’t know how many pieces were ruined.
"Big brother, see clearly, the little sister is about to start."
Kong Lianyi smiled confidently and cleverly, holding the candlestick in both hands, first skillfully trimmed the cotton wicks of the two candles with gilded scissors, and then took the fire-induced object from his subordinates and lit the two candles together.
After two thick beeswax were lit, the light in the room suddenly became brighter and softer, and a sweet fragrance was faintly scattered in the air.
After the candlelight was burning, the two wicks were re-mixed once, Kong Lianyi then had a small face. She placed one of the candlesticks flat on the table, held the other candlestick in her hand, and hung it over the previous candlestick. She carefully measured the distance with her forearm, and suddenly blew out the candle below, then held the candlestick above with both hands, and slowly shook it in a specific small range with a specific posture and movement, while also muttering words in her mouth...
Suddenly, a first-class light burst out from the flames of the candle above, like a fire dragon, winding downwards out of thin air. When it touched the candle wick on the table below, the extinguished candle burned again, and the fire dragon from top to bottom seemed to be sucked into the candle wick below and disappeared in an instant.
Such a magical situation was extremely strange in the guest room of Si Gengtian. Although the two followers had seen it before, they still couldn't help but their scalp and limbs became weak.
Kong Lianshun first widened his eyes and clenched his fists, then seemed to have been cheated of money first and then cheated, and finally turned into the kiln. His face turned red as blood, his neck was exposed, his fingers were trembling, and pointed at Kong Lianyi with his feet and shouted angrily: "Kong Lianyi, you, you are cheating! You are obviously the seventh feature in "The Twenty-Features of the Guyuan" written by Kong Ci's cousin, 'Two Dragons Connect to the Sky, Flying Fire in the Sky'! This, even Kong Ci's cousin himself couldn't understand the flying fire in the sky. How do you ask Brother Ning to answer? This is unfair, I am not convinced!"
"I'm pretty good at seeing. So what if it's "two dragons reach the sky, fire flies in the sky"? Humph, the big brother didn't say anything, why are you jumping?" Kong Lianyi put his hips on his hips and rolled his eyes.
"You are cheating!"
"You are shameless when you steal the children's New Year's money!"
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When the two were quarreling, Ding Bao was stunned by the mysterious secret of Kong Lianyi just now.
What a ghost, "two dragons reach the sky, and fire flies in the sky"? The name is very scary. This is clearly the interesting experiment called "Xuyan Burn Candle" in the junior high school physics textbook in the previous life, okay?!
The experimental principle of "burning candles through smoke" is very simple, because solid candles and gaseous wax vapors are both the same substance and can be burned.
So like the Ripples just now, lit two candles, one placed on top and the other placed below, blowing out the flame of the lower candle. Under the action of the residual heat generated by the previous combustion, the candle oil will produce smoke, that is, the wax vapor generated when the candle burns, rising.
While moving the candle, she just happened to let the candle flame touch the wax steam, so the flame of the candle was transmitted along the candle steam to ignite the candle, looking like a strange fire dragon, descending out of thin air.
Because Kong Lianyi didn't understand the reason, she followed the experience method of her predecessors' thousands of experiments, first measured the angle distance, and then moved the candle with a set of fixed actions, and muttered words in her mouth. In fact, this phenomenon had nothing to do with what she said and the fixed actions she did in her hands.
This principle is extremely simple, but Dan Bao was very confused about how to explain solids, steam, combustion, and heat to her in a common way...
"Big brother, I've finished my trick. Do you see clearly? Do you want my younger sister to do it again?" Kong Lianyi easily beat Kong Lianshun. She turned around and found that Ding Bao was still stunned. She thought he was completely shocked as if he had seen it for the first time. She became more and more confident and proud in her heart, and said generously.
"...Cough, the reason is actually very simple." Ding Bao coughed and said carefully.
"Jian, simple?!" Kong Lianshun and Kong Lianyi and his brothers rarely synced once, and they all looked shocked and disbelief.
Ding Bao carefully explained the truth in the words and tried his best to explain it in a way they could understand.
"I understand?"
The brother and sister were synchronized again, and their heads were shaking like rattles.
Ding Bao sighed and thought for a while. In order to make it easier for them to accept, he reorganized his language. This time, he focused on the flames not burning out of thin air as they imagined, but burning down along the smoke from the candlelight below, and finally burning to the wick, which caused the wick to rekindle.
"Did you understand this time?"
Kong Lianshun's head continued to shake like a rattle. Kong Lianyi nodded first, then shook her head, nodded again, and shook her face with a seemingly confusing and confusion.
"Okay, I have a trick here too. After I finish it, you and the two of you think about what I said just now and you should get something."
Ding Bao suddenly felt his heart moving, and he remembered another simple way of playing in middle school when learning from one example. After saying that, he took a candlestick directly, lit the candle, blew it out first, and pointed to the rising smoke for the brother and sister to see, "Is this the smoke ignited by the candle, that is, the wax gas, you can see it?"
Both of them did not dare to blink and nodded quickly.
Ding Bao stopped talking, lit the candle again, clone the wick with scissors to ensure that the candle flame is burning to the highest level, and then blow it out.
Watching the smoke rise and rise, when the smoke reaches its highest point, quickly take the prepared fire fold and hit the smoke at its highest point. There was neither any spell nor any cumbersome movement. With a "puff", a brilliant fire dragon that was twice as long as the ripples just now winded down and instantly penetrated the candle wick. The candle that had just been blown out burned again.
Chapter completed!