Otaku Engineer in Great Tang Dynasty Chapter 536: Justice comes from heaven, thunder fires off snake spirit~! (Medium)

"Aniang, brother, look at it, someone is lighting the sky lantern~!"

Guiyifang, in the home of Meng Wenhao.

Yaya ate dinner and came to the courtyard. She inadvertently saw a bright fire floating in the sky in the northeast direction. The little girl couldn't help but yelled excitedly into the house, pointing in that direction.

The so-called sky lantern is another name for the Kongming lantern, commonly known as the wishing lantern, also known as the praying lantern. It is an ancient Chinese handicraft that was mostly used for military purposes in ancient times, but some people would use it to make wishes and pray on major festivals such as Lantern Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival.

There are two theories about the origin of Kongming lanterns. One is that in the five generations, there was a woman named Xin Qiniang who used bamboo strips to form a square frame when she was fighting with her husband in Fujian. In a large lamp, burning resin is placed on the chassis, and the lamp flies into the sky by hot air, which is used as a military communication signal. This kind of resin lamp is called Kongming lamp in Sichuan. The main reason is that this lantern looks like a hat worn by Zhuge Liang, hence the name.

Another saying is that it was invented by Zhuge Liang during the Three Kingdoms period. At that time, Zhuge Liang was besieged in Pingyang, unable to send troops out of the city for help. Kong Ming calculated the direction of the wind, made a floating paper lantern, and attached a distress message, but the consequence was escaped, so later generations called this lantern Kongming lantern.

No matter which statement is correct, it is an indisputable fact that there were Kongming lanterns in the Tang Dynasty.

"Really, but there are still more than ten days before the Mid-Autumn Festival~! How can anyone put sky lanterns at this time~?"

Mengmu heard her daughter's exclamation and ran out to watch the excitement. After seeing the fire, she said with some confusion.

"Mother, that's not a sky lantern~!"

Meng Wenhao said boringly at this time, and then he gestured with his hands:

"The fire is at least four or five miles away from us. Generally speaking, the farther away things are, the smaller they look. But now we can see so clearly after such a distance, which shows that It is at least dozens of times bigger than a normal sky lantern~! It is definitely not a sky lantern~!"

Meng's mother heard the words and thought about it carefully. Suddenly she realized that her son made sense, but she was still a little confused: "But if it weren't for the sky lantern, what else could fly so high~?"

"Children don’t know~!"

Meng Wenhao shook his head, and said: "But Mr. must know~!"

Meng's mother rubbed her son's head amusedly, and said: "Yes, yes~! Hao'er's husband is the best~! Go and rest early~! Hao'er, you have to go to Hu Yuan's home tomorrow The grain shop has settled accounts~!"

Meng's father has been going to sea for almost three months, and the pillar of the family is gone. Meng Wenhao had to stand up at this time, so he took advantage of the two months of field leave to find a job to subsidize Home.

The other party is the outsider of the Human Mengmu often works for. The position is Mr. Accountant. With the glory of the first in the arithmetic school and the knowledge of arithmetic ahead of this era in his mind, Meng Wenhao is completely worthy of it. There are ten Hu’s original account rooms, so the Hu Yuanwai not only treats him with special respect, but also pays an unusually high salary.

"Oh~! Got it, mother~!"

Meng Wenhao sullenly responded, but his expression became a little weird.

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"Your Majesty, according to the report from the people below, a large group of flames just flew out of the Qiqu Pavilion Workshop, and the group of flames is still flying to the northeast. It should be about to leave the city now~!"

In the Temple of Ganlu, Li Er rubbed his sore wrist and was about to go back to bed with his grandson, but Zhao Song suddenly walked in and reported.

"A flying fire~?"

Li Er frowned and his expression became a little weird. After a while, he seemed to think of something, and suddenly got up and said: "Put the Xuanwu Gate~!"

The north gate of Taiji Palace, Xuanwu Gate, is located at Yupo of Longshouyuan. It has a high terrain and overlooks the entire Chang'an City. If you are in control, it is an important gateway to the north of the palace. Of course, compared with its geographic location, Xuanwumen is most famous for its political and military status. After all, a regime change took place here last year.

Actually, in a few years, a taller and more magnificent building will begin to be built here, that is, the famous Daming Palace. Standing on it, you can see it even outside Chang’an. If nothing else, In the eighth year of Zhenguan, Li Erhui ordered the construction.

"Your Majesty, look at it! It's the firelight, estimated the distance, it should fly out of Chang'an City~!"

When he came to the upper floor of Xuanwu Gate, Zhao Song pointed to the Eastern Sky and said to Li Er.

"Um~!"

Li Er nodded and responded, but his eyes stared in that direction without blinking. Zhao Song didn't know why Li Er looked so attentively, but he didn't dare to ask questions, just Standing aside with a low eyebrow.

"Swing back to the palace~!"

After a long time, the fire became smaller and smaller~IndoMTL.com~ until it finally disappeared, Li Er tossed his sleeves, turned around and left, leaving a sentence in the air but Zhao Song was stunned. .

"After Li Zexuan returns to the city tomorrow, let him come to see me immediately~!"

Zhao Song frowned and followed Li Er, wondering: "Isn't Li Zexuan still in the workshop now~? Why does your Majesty wait for him to return to the city tomorrow~?"

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"Left punch, right punch, we all take a punch~!"

Zhao Song feels so depressed that Li Zexuan can't control it, this guy is now busy wiping his **** for the awesomeness he blown back then~!

After the hot air balloon flew to the sky earlier, he regretted it in his heart, because tonight it was a southerly wind, and Qinling is in the northeast of Chang'an City. This wind direction is not suitable at all~!

If Li Zexuan did nothing and let the fireball fly freely, he would definitely not be able to reach the Snake Spirit Mountain, and would only fly farther northward!

Back then, when Kong Ming was doing Kongming lanterns for help, he had already calculated the wind direction, and although Li Zexuan came from Taoism, he didn't learn how to count. No, he was a little confused when he went to heaven.

This is really a thousand-for-all calculations, except for a miss!

Fortunately, this guy's brain is still clever, he thought of the current method: just to punch to the west, it is a punch with real energy, through the recoil of the punch, combined with the south wind With thrust, Li Zexuan "limped" and floated toward the northeast.

(Little friends who have studied stress analysis can definitely analyze it)

"Special mother~! Is this a rocket with a gas tank~?"

Li Zexuan mumbled depressedly while doing physical work in the sky.

Ahem, I have to say that his description is really appropriate~!

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(End of this chapter)