Now Haitang can only make simple firecrackers, and the cannon body is also simple to complete. The birch bark becomes soft after soaking and can be used as the cannon body, but Haitang feels that it is not festive enough.
Red is the color of celebration, so I took out some discarded scraps of red-colored fabric, cut them off one by one, and glued them to the cannon body, leaving holes for the lead wires.
It looks more festive this way, red.
There was not much saltpeter left, so Haitang filled the small iron pot with soil. This soil was not just available, but the one from the kitchen was the best. The kitchen often cooks, so a lot of saltpeter precipitates.
After putting the soil into the pot, keep adding water to boil it. As it simmers, a layer of white saltpeter will float on top.
Haitang picked them up and used rice tools to break them into small particles. The small particles could not be used yet, but they had to be further crushed bit by bit until they were crushed into pieces. Finally, they were mixed with sulfur and soil.
The gunpowder component of firecrackers has been removed.
The sugar cane brought back from Shuilian Mountain last time has grown a bit. I took a section of Begonia to extract a little sucrose and put it into the gunpowder. It can increase the loudness and make it sound more festive.
Unfortunately, there is no magnesium. If you add some magnesium, the color will be more beautiful and the brightness will be greatly increased.
After the cannon body and gunpowder were completed, all that was left was to draw the message. Haitang fixed one end of the long paper strip, unfolded the paper, and dipped an iron rod into saltpeter powder. Shaking his hand, the saltpeter powder on the iron rod would fall on it.
A long strip is formed on the paper, and when you rub it with your hands, a lead will come out.
Such leads are still loose. Haitang then needs to dip his hands into wet rice paste and stroke the leads with his hands. The leads will not come apart after being dipped in rice paste. Then he needs to fix the leads one by one like a fan.
Dry on the dryer.
By the time I finished all this, it was almost dawn. Looking at the long string of red firecrackers, I roughly calculated that there were hundreds of firecrackers.
After hanging them up, Haitang made several sets of fireworks in the remaining time. Since she had done it last time, she had it handy this time and finished it in a short time.
At ten o'clock in the morning, Haitang took a nap in the dispensing room and was woken up by the mute girl's knock on the door.
It was early in the morning. The mute girl got up really early, holding in her hand the hot buns prepared for Haitang and some white thread-like things.
After Haitang finished eating the buns in an orderly manner, the mute girl handed the white silk thread to Haitang.
Haitang took a look and immediately recognized it. It was the spider silk spun by a black spider!
"Spider silk! The black spider is spinning silk!" Haitang pulled it gently. It was very elastic, strong and not easy to break! And it felt very good.
The mute girl nodded. Seeing how happy she looked, she felt happy too.
Datong won the first prize, and more and more silks were woven from silkworms. Now even black spiders are spinning silks. Good things come in pairs, one after another.
The mute girl is a hard-working girl. She gets up very early every day. This morning, she still went to the waterhole to wash the cloth in water and went there alone.
Haitang picked up the spider silk and thought of the imperial edict. She didn't know what the edict was made of. She knew that Datong had placed it in the study. Seeing that no one had any idea, Haitang quietly entered the study.
This seems to be a bit different since my own stuff is even more secretive.
When I entered the study, I saw it at first glance. It didn't weigh much in my hand.
If you look closely, you can see that there is a small amount of silk mixed in the longitude and latitude lines, and the rest is cotton, and that's it. The dyeing color is bright and even.