In the next few days, the first three members of the Japanese monk never came to Shang Cheng.

Shang Cheng didn't care. He was stunned when he played chess with Gu Shi that day, but an idea suddenly came to his mind, wanting to take advantage of the chaos in Japan to make some profits. But after calming down and analyzing carefully, Da Zhao really sent troops to intervene in the Fujiwara rebellion of Japan, and the deployment of troops, supply and transportation were all big problems.

He did not continue to study the measurement of meridians, but began to make globes.

On this day, he, as well as Sang Xiu and Zhennu, the three of them were making a globe in the study together.

The biggest test of making a globe by hand is how to draw a map on a wooden ball. It was not an easy task to completely copy the "world map" hanging on the wall on a hollow sphere more than two feet in diameter. To add insult to injury, the timber is permeable to water, and it seems like an unattainable challenge to meticulously draw the map with ink without making a mistake in the middle. After scrapping five or six hollow wooden balls in succession, Shang Cheng had to give up the idea of drawing directly on the wooden balls. As a last resort, he re-picked up the "triangulation method" that only had a vague memory; We have perfected this method as much as we can, and we have begun to try it.

If he is the only one who wants to draw the maps on the wall piece by piece on the triangular silk silk, and then splice them together and paste them on the wooden ball, then it is better to let him continue to study the meridians. Fortunately, he has two good helpers. Sang Xiu and Zhennu are both women with clever hearts, Shang Cheng felt that it was a cumbersome headache, but they felt that it was very simple, after knowing some of the requirements of triangular mapping, they quickly found the trick, and when drawing sub-maps, they became faster and faster, and more and more sub-maps were drawn. Shang Cheng's main purpose in making the globe was just to pass the time, but in order to please him, they stayed up all night to rush to work, and after only staring at him for less than two hours in three days, and after drawing dozens of silk silks, they finally drew all the twenty-four sub-maps this morning.

Shang Cheng immediately made a happy decision and immediately pasted the triangle on the globe.

Now, Sang Xiu and the others are carefully pasting the last silk painting with fish glue onto the wooden ball.

The real slave stood next to the makeshift stand that held the wooden ball in place, and she used an ivory hairpin to press the tip of the triangle against the north pole on the globe; Sang Xiu bent down and carefully contrasted each of the lines that marked the river, the mountains, the land, and the coast with the lines on the three adjacent paintings, and then stitched them together. When comparing the two paintings, she was so nervous that her lips bit out blood, and her big gray-blue eyes didn't dare to blink; She couldn't even hold her breath, for fear that her arm would shake if she accidentally did......

While they were concentrating on the painting, Shang Chengcheng stood beside him. For him, painting these triangles and making wooden balls is nothing, at most it is just a little more time-consuming, and it is nothing if he doesn't do it well this time, and he will do it again; But this is a piece of Sang Xiu and Zhennu's heart, if there is an accident and some flaw, the two of them will definitely be sad for several days. So more than an hour ago, when they were just pasting silk paintings on wooden balls, he asked people to close this courtyard to prevent martial law. Fearing that someone would suddenly disturb him at a tense juncture in the poster's progress, he even gave a death order to Gao Qiang and Li, as long as the sky hasn't fallen, no matter who he is, he is not allowed to report!

At present, the production of the globe has reached the last moment, he no longer speaks, does not speak, takes off the blindfold and grasps it in his hand, and stares at Sang Xiu's hands with bated breath. As Sang Xiu's slender and slender ten fingers slowly moved against the seam of the painting, his gaze followed closely, and every hesitation and pause of his fingers made him feel breathless. This kind of performance made him feel very ashamed, and he couldn't help but mock himself in his heart: You are also a person who has seen the world, how can you be so uncompetitive?

The last corner was finally attached to the wooden ball.

Shang Cheng didn't go to check whether each silk painting was pasted very tightly, and if there were any wrinkles in the place, and he didn't care if the silk paintings were neatly spliced, he said to them first: "Hurry up and go to bed!" ”

But neither Sang Xiu nor Zhennu moved their feet.

Shang Cheng thought that they wanted to watch him put the globe on the copper seat, so he patiently explained to them: "The weather is a little hot today, and the fish gelatin will not completely dry and solidify until at least after dawn, and you have to find someone to brush the tung oil twice, so it will definitely not be placed on the copper frame today." He also said, "This globe is not easy to come by, and it is the first heirloom of our family, so when it is placed, everyone must be present." If you still have dark circles under your eyes, you have to be careful of being laughed at. Also, I think that in the future, I will record the whole process of this matter in the family tree, and show that this globe is the work of both of you! What does that mean? He thought for a moment, then affirmed, "That's right, it's a genealogy ......."

For a moment, Sang Xiu and Zhennu thought that they had heard something.

Genealogical name? Is this true, and is it really named in the family tree? They stared at each other with wide eyes, and then hurriedly turned their heads to look at their husbands with blank faces. They didn't care about what he was talking about anymore......

With their origins, can they also write down their names in the family tree?

Both of them are singers and dancers from the church, with humble status, and being able to be a concubine of a merchant is already a great blessing that they can't think of in their lives, so they don't dare to do anything else. They have endured a lot of hardships and seen a lot of human warmth, so they know very well in their hearts: it is their life for men to love them; Men do not pity them, it is their life; No matter what, they will not and dare not complain. Sometimes they wake up in the middle of the night, lie in the crook of the man's arm, listen to his breathing, and look at the dark roof, they can't help but wonder if everything in front of them is a dream. At the moment, men love them, and they know this very well in their hearts; But who can say how long he will love them? Maybe it's half a year, maybe it's three or five years, but there will always be a day when he gets bored. Therefore, their only wish is to give birth to a son and a half daughter for Shang Cheng, so that they can at least have a support in the future. They don't even dare to think about what will happen to them when they get old. Perhaps, they didn't have the time to see their old white head in the bronze mirror...... Now, they are standing here, not because they don't want to rest, but because they were too nervous when they were pasting the painting just now, and when they were done, they suddenly became extremely relaxed, so they felt irresistibly tired both physically and mentally, not only did they not want to move, but they couldn't even say a word. Besides, helping to do a good job of this strangely named thing, they are also eager to hear praise from Shang Cheng. It didn't take much praise, just a sentence or two to make them sure that he was happy, and to teach them that he had seen their exertion, and that was enough for them to expect so much. Who knew that they would hear such praise in the end......

After receiving her husband's affirmative reply, they could no longer stand and squatted on the ground to wipe their tears.

Shang Chengcheng knew that as soon as his mouth slipped out of his elation, it would inevitably be such a result. But he didn't tell a lie, this ugly globe full of mistakes and omissions will definitely be recorded in the "Yingxian Shang Family Tree", which does not even have eight characters. As for the reason that it is the first globe, this reason is very strong, right?

When Zhennu and Sang Xiu went to sleep, and carefully checked the globe, he found that the process of solidifying the fish gelatin was very smooth, and the silk painting did not wrinkle or wrinkle, and he remembered the martial law.

He hurriedly called someone to lift the guard.

The order from his side was conveyed, and Li Feng came to report: Lord Zhenqianzhen, the left attendant of the military department, has arrived for almost two hours.

He saw Zhenqian in the outer study.

Zhen Qian never mentioned what treacherous things he was doing in his own home, nor did he inquire about what major matters needed to be guarded, and he didn't care about his experience in navigation skills, so he directly pushed a case file on the table in front of him and said: "This is the draft of the "General Etiquette of the Great Zhao Army" compiled by the Ministry of War. You are a soldier, you know the battle, help see if there is anything that needs to be modified. ”

Shang Cheng said with a smile while untying the hemp rope buckle on the case file: "This little thing, do you still need to run away from you, the left squire of the military department, in person?" ”

The real skin snorted without smiling.

Only then did Shang Cheng realize that Zhenqian seemed to have some intentions. He pulled out a few pages from the case file and scanned them randomly, put them back again, and said, "I'll go back and take a closer look." Brother Huaichun one by one, you came to me, did you have something else? ”

"Heh," Zhen Qian snorted meaninglessly, took two sips of water from the teacup, raised his eyelids and looked around, turned around and said with a smile, "Uncle Ying's study has books, scrolls and paintings, it's very elegant." The words hanging on the wall over there, I don't seem to have seen them when I came back, and they are the authentic works of Young Master Liu's "Chang'an Stickers"? ”

Shang Cheng glanced at the lettering. It was after he moved to Zhuangzi, and Chang Xiu wrote it to him. Chang Xiu is worthy of being a writer, calligraphy attainments are very high, every year in the New Year's Festival full of his fat characters in the capital, many wine shops in the city also have his ink treasure, in order to get a little bit of Chang Fat's literary atmosphere, so Shang Cheng put this 27-character "Chang'an sticker" to hang here. In addition, there is also the phrase "Zhuang General" in "Chang'an Post", which is also very appropriate. Speaking of which, when he moved out, Zhenxiang and Xue Xun were on the same road, but Chang Xiu came over two days late, so Zhenxiang had never seen this painting. It's just that Zhenqian's tone seems to be a little resentful, could it be that Chang Xiu provoked him?

Shang Cheng explained casually, his mind kept spinning. Zhenqian is not a group, not a party, does not look at other people's faces, and has a good friend in private, and when it comes to official business, he has encountered a lot of walls in Zhenxiang. But there is a strange thing about the personality of this person, that is, he befriended people, and it seemed that it was all based on the first feeling, and he didn't care about how the person was at all. Ye Xun, a bachelor who is now idle, is an example; In fact, there is nothing about this person who can't stand Zhen Xiang, but Zhen Xiang just wants to target him everywhere, obviously because of Zhen Xiang's personality. Another example is Xue Xun; Xue Xun is sleek, in the first ten years, the north and south factions sang and I appeared, fighting to the death, everyone else hid far away for fear of being affected by the pond fish, only he went back and forth between the two groups, one will help the north faction and the other will help the south faction, but they all get along very well, and the rank is still rising again and again, and now he is the first of the six departments of the ministry Zuo Shilang. It is said that with Zhenxiang's character and style, it is impossible to walk with a two-faced person, but things are so dramatic, Zhenqian is actually getting closer and closer to Xue Xun. Shang Cheng also heard that the two of them had teamed up not long ago to overturn a decision of the Prime Minister's Office.

In addition, as far as Shang Cheng knows, Zhen Xiang and Chang Xiu are nodding and dealing with each other, and they are not even acquaintances, could it be that Chang Xiu has done something in the past few days that has made Zhen Xiang unhappy? It's quite possible. Although Chang Fatzi has become an official and a waiter, he is still a literati in his bones, and it is not impossible to accidentally offend Zhenqian. He thought that Zhen Qian was his friend, and Chang Fat was also his friend, and he was in the middle of two friends who had conflicts due to misunderstandings, and he had the responsibility to stand up and resolve this matter.

He showed a smile on his face and said softly, "Brother Huaichun, why are you angry? Then he changed to a more contemptuous tone. That Chang Fat Man is that kind of person," he didn't want to talk about Chang Xiu's strengths and weaknesses behind his back, so he muttered, "...... You can't fight with him at all. And said sincerely, "If Chang Fat accidentally offends you, you see my feelings, forget it, will it be successful?" I confess my mistake to you on his behalf, and you will expose it. ”

"Chang Wenshi offended me?" Zhen Qian was both surprised and surprised, stared at Shang Cheng and looked up and down, and said with a sneer, "I'm afraid that Chang Wenshi has offended you, right?" If he hadn't offended you, would you have led him to a dead end? ”

Shang Cheng opened his mouth wide in astonishment: "When did I lead Chang Fat Man to a dead end?" It's just burning glass, even if there is no hope, it can't be said to be a dead end, right? If it's a big deal, I'll ask for punishment! Could this be regarded as forcing Chang Fat to go to a dead end? ”

Zhen Qian looked at him coldly, with a hint of ridicule on his face: "Chang Fat Man has friends all over the world, but there are only a few who may be called confidants, who can give him this kind of idea of finding death and teach him to be convinced, who else can it be besides you?" ”