novelsmap Chapter 20 The Family
Chapter 20 The Family
"... Take the bark of green sandalwood stems and stems, mash them, add plant ash and other secret ingredients to cook, sun wash and whiten, and then... you can get new paper. The paper is white and large, and it can be rubbed with ink. Dyeing, easy storage, and low cost, it is more than ten times better than 'thin wave paper'!"
Li Xian excitedly recalled the good paper that Zhong Ke was bragging about back then, and tried his best to describe to his uncle Zheng Zhu that this "new paper" had a "golden" future and was sold all over the world.
Zheng Zhu stood up, stroked his beard and laughed loudly, nodded, walked around slowly, and asked with a smile: "This recipe sounds like a model, where did you get it by trickery?
"Uncle looked down on people again, how could he be kidnapped?! Obviously, my kindness was rewarded..." Li Xian was greatly aggrieved, and told how he met a beggar in the market a few days ago and was kind enough to listen to his dying words , And collect the beggar, and get the reward of the secret recipe.
【Hmph!You took this great immortal to force a confession before death, and almost brought me back to life after death, how kind of you!Embalming is a job that Zhou Dun asked his subordinates to do. You were so frightened that you went back home, and you didn't dare to look back. 】Zhong Ke was not convinced, and hummed in Li Xian's mind.
The barrage was very cheerful for a while, and everyone's ability to talk about Mr. Li's nonsense has increased so quickly, and they all praised the anchor Ke for his good training.
Li Xian ignored Zhong Daxian's nonsense, and told the uncle the truth and falsehood. This prescription was indeed passed down by Zhong Ke, but it was not passed down by his first encounter in this life, but obtained by a fellow prisoner in a previous life.
The matter of the previous life involved too much, and it even involved the "live broadcast" of the abbots who are hard to distinguish between good and evil. Even if it was the closest relatives, he had to think twice, not daring to reveal the slightest.Now if you want to trap him, you can only trap him. If you get annoyed by the masters, if you fall with a thunderbolt, you really don't know how many lives you will live.
Deep down in his heart, Li Xian was still deeply wary of visitors from other worlds, whether it was Zhong Ke or the monks.
"Little cats also know how to make money and grow hair, which shows that they have grown up." Zheng Zhu sighed with a smile, "Then let someone do a trial production first, and you write down the detailed formula and method. Discuss in detail how to securely win a game and take a big profit!"
"What's the need for this? As soon as my paper was born, it surpassed the paper of the world. People sell a thousand pieces of paper for a knife and a hundred pieces of paper, but I only sell a hundred pieces of paper. I'm afraid it's not enough to sell. I guarantee that it will be unrivaled in the world. Why do I need it?" Fight?" Li Xian thought that uncle didn't believe it, so he hurriedly argued for the new paper.
Zheng Zhu laughed loudly, his eyebrows and beard trembled, and his eyes could barely find a slit. After laughing for a while, he sighed heavily, patted his nephew on the shoulder, and said, "It's good that you have such a competitive spirit, but it's just that I'm a little immature, and I'm not thinking too much. Okay! Let me ask you, let's not talk about Chen Guobei, just me, Dayan, do you know who is running the paper industry, where it is sold, how much profit is there, and where is the foundation?"
Li Xian is dumbfounded, it's just selling paper, why is it so complicated?
"In the north of the great river, the main business of the Wang family is; in the south of the great river, the Lu and Wen divisions. Wang, Lu, and Wen, which one is not a family with deep roots? Although my Zheng family has a long history and originated from Zheng in Xingyang, it was born earlier. Five clothes, the branches are far away. It is easy to say in the northwest, because my family has a good location. In the south of the Yangtze River and the north of the river, if you don’t plan well, you will be killed or injured. You think that in the past, I, "Zheng Shibu", entered the south of the Yangtze River because of the high quality and low price of the cloth." Did you sell it?"
When Zheng Zhu said this, his tone was not heavy, but the chill and blood between the words could be heard in the face.
He looked at Li Xian gently, and asked again: "Why is the aristocratic family so powerful? Even the emperor dare not take it lightly?"
Li Xian's eyes were full of confusion, and he didn't know why he mentioned the secret recipe of making paper, so uncle asked him eighteen times. If he knew so much, his previous life would not have been so miserable.
"...Many officials are powerful?!"
【well!Dead wood cannot be carved! 】
[The simple political economy of the ancients is rare! ]
[There should be a mirror here, it can be seen that Li Xiaopang's eyes are full of bewildered circles. ]
[The so-called ancient aristocratic family monopolizes knowledge rights and thereby monopolizes political power.A small number of elites train their descendants to sit on the heads of the vast majority of ignorant and stupid mortals for generations, until the ass people can't survive and turn the tables to resist bloody. ]
[So, I think Xiao Xianzi also hit the nail on the head, there are many officials so he is powerful, there is nothing wrong with it. ]{fruit*100}
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"Hahaha! What you said is so subtle! Isn't it just that there are more officials? If there are more officials from generation to generation, the power will naturally increase, and of course there will be no worries about wealth."
Zheng Zhu picked up a piece of "thin wave paper" produced by himself on the desk, flicked it lightly, "Your new paper is no matter how good it is, and no matter how low the cost is, you can't sell it cheaply. What is paper? The body of a book carries knowledge. Why are the children of aristocratic families able to be officials? Why is it so difficult for children of a poor family to become officials? Books and paper are expensive, and knowledge is stored in aristocratic families. To govern the world, you have to rely on the children of aristocratic families!
Well, you read more and think about it later, and you will gradually understand. Write down this recipe first, and Uncle will take care of it. "
After saying a few more words, seeing his nephew's misty appearance, Zheng Zhu also laughed to himself.
This child lost his mother's upbringing since he was a child, and his harsh appearance was harsh, so he didn't like to see him, so he became more naughty and arrogant, he didn't like learning, and his temper became more and more surly. It's rare that now he knows that hair growth is not easy, and thinking about earning money is also a good thing pile.With this temperament, I don't expect him to be a high-ranking official and rich salary. With my uncle's family for a day, I can slowly train him and make a few good livings, so that the child can be safe and prosperous for a lifetime.
Li Xian stared at the words and sentences flowing through the live screen in the corner of his eyes.
After getting used to it these days, he can already distinguish a lot of characters with missing arms and legs. It seems that the other world and this one are also in the same line. I have seen a lot of weird sentence patterns, so it is not too difficult to understand.
Hearing Uncle's words that were rare to say a few more words, while being gratifying but actually regrettable, the big-hearted Young Master Li also felt a little uncomfortable.
He also wants to do something, instead of letting his uncle take care of everything and enjoy the benefits, if there comes a day, if he can't keep the uncles... No, there won't be that day.
Li Xian hummed and uttered bold words: "Uncle! Don't underestimate me. Now that I have gone through some things, I understand a lot of truths. If you don't let me do some things, how do you know I can't do it? How many times do you dial?" A knowledgeable craftsman and housekeeper from the family came to help me with trivial matters, and there are Aqing and Achi here to help, I don’t believe there is a recipe, and I still can’t come up with a good paper that will make the world famous!”
"Okay, okay! Uncle is waiting for your 'prestige in the world'!" Zheng Zhu laughed.
Li Xian looked at Uncle's bold and unrestrained smile, opened his mouth, and didn't mention the silver mine that caused trouble, just because calculating the time, at this time of year, the "mining seedling" probably hasn't caused any trouble yet.The most important thing now is to get this paper out first, accumulate money and potential, and then try to earn more points, which can be exchanged for prescriptions to treat congenital infirmity, so as to make up for the second uncle's health.
Then, slowly tear apart the relationship between yourself and the Li family, it doesn't matter if you keep tearing apart, as long as the incident breaks out in the future, it will no longer be me who is responsible, and let my dear second brother "Li Family Qianliju" heroically fight Stand still!
Well, at most, Mr. Li will be dismissed. Anyway, my elder sister was married at that time. Can he rely on Mr. Li and uncle!
Thinking about how comfortable and carefree Mr. Li is from this kind of Junan Mountain, don't interfere with his unworthy son.
Back at his home, picked up a pen, and carefully recalled the secret recipe that Zhong Ke said back then. Of course, he did not forget those few important words, but after careful consideration, how to choose materials, how to process bark and straw, how much secret medicine should be added... ...the details are so unclear?How can this be done!
"Zhong Daxian?" Li Xian called softly, "The recipe of 'Xuelang Xuan Paper' you mentioned back then, there are some details..."
[Chenghui 30 points. 】
Inhale, exhale, and take another deep breath.
Li Xian felt that Zhong Daxian and Zhong Er had worn out his outburst of temper these days, but he didn't expect to have a more popular time.
"Zhong Ke, I have this prescription, I just ask you to fill in some details..."
[Very true!If you don’t even have a prescription, then I’ll give you 50 points. You must know that details determine success or failure. You can see how cost-effective it is for you to spend 30 points in exchange for time and experience that are hard to buy. 30 points, no discount.Thanks! 】
Li Xian gritted his teeth for a while, and there was a sentence [beep——] I don't know if I should say it or not, so I don't say it, so as not to be struck by lightning!
Points, points!He has a headache.
In other words, the original 700 points for rescuing the daughters of the Zhong family was already enough to pay, but the unscrupulous Zhong Daxian immediately withdrew the 500 points owed during "Mission 30: Rescue Zhongheng" as soon as he awarded the points.And because he accepted "Task 250: Food tonic", the task was not completed, so he clicked on a bunch of food tonic prescriptions.Such addition and subtraction made his points red again, not to mention taking out [-] points to exchange for squares, and he still owes Zhong Daxian more than [-] points!
Li Zhonger's legs are so good and his body recovers, it will take a month or two. Once he gets paid for this task, he won't be able to get it.
Want to recover the two hundred and fifty debts, hum!
A gleam flashed across Li Xian's eyes, and he could only deal ruthlessly with Zhong Er, the magic weapon for earning points.
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The small kitchen of the eldest son of Li's mansion was full of chaos, no matter the chef or the servants, they all huddled in the corner tremblingly, watching the eldest son with red eyes wielding an ax to compete with pigs, Zheng Qing and Zheng Chi stood nervously by the side, ready to rescue at any time ——Naturally, saving people is not saving dead pigs.
Young Master Li screamed, pouted his buttocks, straightened his waist and stared, holding a small ax in both hands, and aimed at the bloody pork ribs on the chopping board to chop off——
when!With a muffled sound, the pork ribs were perfectly split into two.
It's not that Li Xian has the talent for butchering. You can tell by looking at the pig's head, pig's leg and pig's feet scattered all around the place.
Mr. Li saw that the pork ribs were divided well, so he let out a sigh of relief, threw the ax away with a clang, and panted heavily with his waist supported.
Yan Qing hurriedly took the opportunity to present a warm towel, and carefully wiped the young master's sweat. He stared resentfully at the broken bones and rotten flesh, and accidentally met the angry pig's eyes, so frightened that he almost stabbed the towel into the son's nostrils.Busy tidying up quickly, and quickly backing away, I don't understand why the young master made such a fuss?If there is something you want to eat and use, can't the cook make it?Still have to do it yourself?
If Li Xian could hear the boy's heart, he would definitely give her a thumbs up and earn a hundred dollars!
When setting up the task of food supplements, these abbots who cheated me even outrageously stipulated that Mr. Li must spoon the soup himself! ——What is the law of heaven? !
There is nothing to do, the abbots with rewards have the greatest decree.
Li Xian originally wanted to start from the simple to the difficult, and start with a vegetarian one, but he didn't expect that the masters considered "balanced nutrition", and the prescriptions they gave were basically vegetarian and meat.It's okay to talk about vegetarian ingredients, but it's difficult for others.
Stewed whole pigeon with longan and wolfberry - no one eats pigeon, this thing is caught now, and it can't be caught for a while; old duck is boiled with fresh bamboo shoots, ducks are available, and fresh bamboo shoots are not in season; stewed pork ribs with dangshen and red dates - people eat it Sheep, dogs, chickens and ducks, and rare animals in the mountains are eaten fresh in the water. Where can rich and noble people eat dirty things like "pigs"?
Fortunately, there were a lot of eccentric guys at that time. The younger ones found out that a famous official had raised a few pigs and lived together. They couldn't buy them, so they took advantage of the dark to "buy them secretly" and let the butcher kill them.
Well, the next step is the hard work of Mr. Li.