Chapter 30: Prayers
For a few days in a row, Miao Zhi went back and forth in the major blacksmith shops in the city, and Shen Yuqian also practiced martial arts and swords in the training ground in recent days, and the brother and sister only happened to meet once.
Shen Yuqian gave Miao Zhi a small brand, which turned out to be the waist card that Bei Anhuang asked Bei Yiyuan to bring her, so that she could enter and exit the official kiln at will.
In modern times, anyone who has studied chemistry knows that glass is the product of the chemical reaction between sand and lead oxide, although Miao Zhi knows the composition of glass well, but in this ancient time when science and technology are backward, it takes a lot of effort to fire glass with high transparency.
Miao Zhi remembers that the earliest glass in ancient times was lead barium glass, and barium was the main culprit for the flaws and low transparency of glass products. Lead is widely used here, such as rouge powder is made of lead, and alchemy is also called lead and mercury.
Therefore, the envoy of the moonset said that the broken "glass cup" was from the hand of their national teacher, and Miao Zhi was not unusual.
She went to so many blacksmith shops to see which one had better lead melting technology, so as to reduce the impurities in the lead and increase transparency.
The scorching sun was scorching, and the scorching huge sun was scorching the earth, Miao Zhi and Xiang Yan finally found a high-quality lead ore and entrusted it to Lao Li's blacksmith shop in the west of the city to burn glass.
Before Ning Er could fill the teacup, Miao Zhi couldn't wait to pick it up and drink it.
"Ah, I'm dying of thirst, it's really sunburned outside, quick, Ning'er, have another drink." Looking at Ning Er's slow and methodical movements, Miao Zhi almost wanted to reach out to get the teapot by herself, but she was stunned to let Ning Er dodge it, and then poured the teacup again.
"Miss, you have to pay attention to the image, the image." Ning Er was a little crying and laughing, since the young lady woke up with a broken head, it was like a different person, her temperament had changed, her speech had changed, although she did not have the temperament of a celebrity lady as before, but she still preferred the current young lady, cheerful, bright and dazzling.
"How can there be so much exquisiteness, although you are my girl after you go out, but in private you are my good sisters."
Xiang Yan, who had just stepped into the Mandarin Pavilion, heard this sentence, and a trace of emotion suddenly flashed in her eyes, and then disappeared.
"Come on, come on, Xiang Yan, you can drink some water too." Miao Zhi couldn't help but say nothing and handed her another teacup on the table.
"Thank you" took the blue and white porcelain teacup, Xiang Yan said eloquently: "The matter of calcining the lead stone has been taken care of, Miss said that day that she wanted to pawn some more jewelry, and my father asked me to go back to the dart bureau, and the pawn shop happened to be on the way, so I came to pick it up." β
"Oops, how did I forget this?" Miao Zhi patted her head and hurriedly asked Ning Er to take the jewelry box.
"This, this, yes, yes, and this." Miao Zhi said, took out most of the beads and hairpins in the jewelry box, and Ning Er, who was looking at it, was anxious on the side.
"Miss, this won't work." Ning Er picked up a pair of impatiens beads and hurriedly put them back in the box, "This pair was given to Miss by the eldest young master on Miss's tenth birthday." As he spoke, he picked up a peacock hairpin again, "This is what the young lady has been begging for a long time from her wife, and she can't take it away." β
As he spoke, he put back the jewelry that Miao Zhi took out, "This can't be, that can't be, Ning'er, you're really more and more like a housekeeper." β
Miao Zhi said jokingly, and suddenly found an inconspicuous jade pendant from the bottom of the box, which was engraved with strange patterns, like people, clouds, and fish. Miao Zhi looked at it for a long time, and she didn't have any impression of this jade pendant in her memory.
"Then let's take these little beads and hairpins, it's enough for us to put up a faΓ§ade."
Before the words landed, he couldn't help but hand over the things in his hand, and before Xiang Yan could reach out to take it, Ning'er, who was fast, snatched the jade pendant away.
"This one is even worse, miss, this one really doesn't work. Aunt Xiu said that this jade pendant is the life of the young lady, and it must be kept no matter what. β
Ning Er sighed at Yu Pei and rubbed it with the handkerchief in her hand.
"What did Aunt Xiu say? Why? Miao Zhi was a little puzzled, and even Xiang Yan couldn't help but prick up her ears.
Ning Er looked embarrassed, "Ning Er doesn't know, Ning Er has been serving Miss since she was serving, she saw Aunt Xiu looking at this jade pendant every day, and told SΓΉ Ning Er that this is Miss Miss's life, which is very important to Miss Miss, and she wants Ning Er to take good care of Miss with her." β
"Miss, someone's coming." Miao Zhi, who was still thinking, was interrupted by Xiang Yan's words.
Sure enough, Steward Jia and Mother Jiang entered the Mandarin Pavilion after a while.
"Miss." As soon as the two entered the door, they respectfully blessed their bodies, "In recent days, many young ladies have sent greetings for young ladies to come over to talk about it, but they have been blocked back by Mrs. Miss's burning of 'glass cups'. In a few days, it will be our Beixin Daughter's Day, and every year at this time, the young ladies will sit together. Mother Jiang smiled flatteringly as she handed over a gilt post.
"Now the ladies of all families have sent a message to Miss You, and Mrs. is not easy to refuse, so I sent the old slave to ask Miss what you mean."
Steward Jia smiled and squinted his eyes, looked at Miao Zhi and couldn't help nodding, "Yes, yes!" β
Miao Zhi looked at the beautiful Xiao Su on the post, it turned out that her appearance at the palace banquet that day had made her famous among the ladies and ladies, and all the ladies wanted to see what she was capable of this year.
Miao Zhi's heart was slightly sour, she was really afraid of being famous, and pigs were afraid of being strong. What kind of Daughter's Day prayer post is this, showing that she has become a gorilla in the zoo, waiting to be released for people to visit.
Miao Zhi glanced at the two people below, and the fat and greasy face had staggered and vertical folds because of the flattering smile, this formation, Ling Shuirong was clearly telling her that she was not allowed to shirk, she could only agree!
Miao Zhi put down the post in her hand, her big eyes rolled around, and she looked carefully at the two people who were standing.
Mother Jiang and Steward Jia looked at the young lady in front of them, her sharp eyes seemed to be able to see through them, and after a while, she was a little sweaty.
Miao Zhi stared at it for a long time, and suddenly raised her voice and opened her mouth; "Oh, Miss Ben is also a celebrity now, okay okay, this daughter Miss Ben has gone."
Only then did the two people who were standing relax their tense bodies and exhaled shallowly.
"By the way, Steward Jia, these days I have been running for the 'glass cup', and the monthly money is about to bottom out, can I get a fulcrum from you first, and then go to sue my mother."
"It's still the lady's thoughtfulness, knowing that the young lady must be short of money these days, so she sent a servant to send some silver taels to the young lady." Steward Jia took out a money bag from his arms and slowly placed it on the table.
Miao Zhi suddenly smiled, great, just now I was thinking about letting Xiang Yan take some more jewelry as a pawn, now this silver is not coming, her small shop, can finally be opened.
"If Miss is fine, the old slave will go down."
"Hmm." Miao Zhi held the shelf, watched the two old minions gradually walk out of the Mandarin Pavilion, turned her head and picked up the heavy money bag on the table and handed it to Xiang Yan.
"Xiang Yan, I'll leave the matter of the pandian to you. This is silver, the store doesn't need to be too big, the shelves don't need too much, it's bright and tidy, and you don't have to worry about the rest. β
After Xiang Yan took the money bag, Ning Er, who was confused, asked, "Miss, you want to open a store?" β
"Uh-huh, yes." Miao Zhi smiled and squinted her eyes and nodded, "Then what are we selling?" Clothes? Rouge?"
"No, it's not, let's sell glass products, and when your young lady and I burn the bottle that the emperor wants, we can use this to make a lot of money, and when the time comes, Aunt Xiu's medicine won't have to worry."
couldn't help the excitement in her heart, Miao Zhi pinched Ning Er's soft little face hard, and Ning Er screamed again and again.
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