Li Weier invited Zhu Shou and his entourage to sit down on the chocolate-colored buffalo leather sofa, and the waiter pushed the cart to bring tea and snacks. Li Weier and Li Yueer sat elegantly opposite each other.

"We don't really believe that the earth is a sphere, but we don't bother to debate with my little brother, we can only say that his statement is reasonable, after all, no one can confirm it. Listen to it. "Everyone was a little shocked to see the globe. Li Weier explained.

"I don't know what the truth is, can the girl not hesitate to teach, I am grateful for ten thousand years" Zhu Shou arched his hand and said, this is the truth between heaven and earth, about what the earth is like, is a topic that many people are concerned about.

"Childe has ever gone to sea on a boat, or watched a sailboat enter the port while standing on the seashore?"

"I'm ashamed to say this, I've never left Beijing. I don't know what it's like outside the walls. ”

"Well, let's explain it this way, if you stand on the shore of the sea and see a sailing ship coming from a distance, you will definitely see the highest mast and sail first, and as the ship approaches, you will see the hull, which means that the earth is a curved surface, and connecting these curved surfaces is a sphere." Li Weier said.

Seeing that Zhu Shou was deep in thought, Shi Bright opened his mouth and said: "That's the case, young master, on the plain, there is an army in the distance, we see the flag flying high first, and when we get closer, we will see the helmet, and then the person wearing the armor." “

If this is the case, then we can return to the original starting point if we keep going in one direction, and the idiom that goes in the opposite direction is wrong. Didn't he who dwelt under the ball fall? Zhu Shou said suspiciously.

"Smack", Li Yue'er snapped her fingers, "No wonder you can be friends with your little brother, even if you think of this, I can't think of it, my little brother said that this is called gravity, this sphere will suck all objects on the ground and will not fall, just like a fruit will fall to the ground when it is ripe and will not fly to the sky." “

"Yes, why did the fruit fall to the ground when it was ripe, why no one had ever thought about such a simple question," Zhu Shou said to himself.

"Zhengyi is really amazing, even know this, it's really a matter of knowledge," Zhu Shou said with a sigh.

"This is actually not the discovery of the younger brother, it is a sage named Newton, one day sitting under the apple tree resting, but was hit on the head by the falling apple, and then began to discover that all objects fall to the earth instead of flying to the sky, and after research, the gravitational force was discovered. Of course, this is just the younger brother's statement, I have flipped through a lot of books, but I have not found this sage surnamed Niu. Li Weier said.

"Try this, it's very refreshing," Li Yue'er said, this is the waiter pushing a small cart, and on the small Ni stove on the cart sits a small gold pot and a dozen gold glasses. The liquid in the golden pot boiled, whining, and a mellow fragrance wafted out, and Zhu Shou, Shi Ze and the others couldn't help but swallow their saliva.

"This thing is called coffee, it is a drink from the big cannibal, it smells fragrant but it is bitter, it is better to add some milk and sugar, the waiter poured a cup for everyone, and motioned everyone to add milk and sugar according to their own taste.

Zhu Shou secretly waved his hand to stop Shi Ze's move to try it, but Li Wei'er keenly found out and muttered in her heart, this Zhu Gongzi is not the prince's son, and his subordinates are actually going to test the poison. Zhu Shou picked up the cup first, and the others hurriedly followed, Zhu Shou sniffed it with his nose first, and a mellow fragrance came, and then took a small sip.

"It does smell good, but it is bitter to drink"

"You can add some milk and sugar cubes to try, we usually drink to add, only when the younger brother stays up late to draw, it is not added, it is used to refresh the mind, you can stir it with a spoon." Li Wei'er said, picking up the milk jug, pouring a little milk into Zhu Shou's coffee cup, and then using a bamboo tong to put two sugar cubes into the cup.

This time, Zhu Shou took another sip and exclaimed: "This time the entrance is sweet, it is really a rare and good drink." You all taste it. ”

Broad & Bright and the others hurriedly cast the same spell, added milk and sugar cubes, lowered their heads and sipped their coffee, and let out a low sigh of admiration. In this era, there are not many sweets, and it is very pleasant to drink coffee for the first time.

"With coffee, I can have it"

"Well, this doesn't seem to be there, according to the younger brother, it was produced in a country called Ethiopia in Africa, which was the west of the city where the three treasure eunuchs went to the West. They began to cultivate this crop around the time of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and began to boil coffee beans with water in the late Tang Dynasty and drank this drink, and they attacked Yemen in the Great Food Region in the former Yuan Dynasty, bringing this drink to the Great Food Region, and now it is north to the Rumi Kingdom (Ottoman Turkish Empire), south to Adan (Yemen, Aden), west to Morocco, and east to Persia. It is very common to drink this drink. ”

"I didn't expect that there are so many good things overseas, the information of the Three Treasures Eunuch Western Ocean was lost, it's a pity, if it can continue, I don't know how many good things it will bring to my Daming."

"Yes, my Ming silver's is not produced in the Ming Dynasty, mainly the Francos transported from the Americas to trade and imported into the Ming Dynasty, and the other half is imported by Dongying, the younger brother said, Dongying three islands are densely covered with gold and silver deposits, and one-third of the silver produced in this world is produced by Dongying." Li Weier said

"Yes, yes, I remember that the younger brother also said that now there is a war on the side of the Franco, it seems that the younger brother is calling the Thirty Years War, saying that it is going to fight enough for a generation, and now the poor are not good, there is no money to buy things in Daming, and it seems that the shogun is also closing the country and prohibiting trade, and the silver over there will not be able to come." Li Yue'er followed.

"I Ming is to use silver to collect taxes, since Zhang Taiyue reformed a whip law, farmers are converted grain into silver taels to pay taxes, if the silver input is insufficient, the price of silver will rise, farmers have to sell and wait for more harvest to pay enough taxes, so it will increase the burden on the people." Zhu Shou said with a deep groan.

"Wow, you're so good, the little brother said the same" Li Yue'er's eyes were full of little stars.

"Zhengyi said the same thing," Zhu Shou asked in surprise.

"Yes, he also said that this will lead to a shortage of taxes, and the finances of the imperial court will have a difficult period of more than ten years," Li Yue'er nodded.

Seeing some brown thumb-thick strips in the wooden box on the table, Zhu Shou couldn't help but ask, "What is this and what is it for?"

"This is called a cigar, and it is rolled with tobacco from Luzon, and my younger brother often smokes this thing," Li Weier said, picked up one, carefully cut off the ends of the head and tail with a polished shiny little guillotine in the box, handed it to Zhu Shou, and motioned for him to light it with a lighter.

Zhu Shou held the cigar between his fingers, not knowing how to get it.

Put it in your mouth and suck it gently. Smoking a cigar is different from smoking, and the cigar should not pass past the lungs after smoking, but after smoking, you should spit it out and taste the unique aroma left in the mouth."

"What is smoking," Zhu Shou said suspiciously.

"It's also a kind of tobacco, and that one has to be inhaled into the lungs and exhaled through the nostrils."

Li Yue'er picked up a cigar mischievously, imitated Li Jing, cut it with a small guillotine, and then motioned to Zhu Shou to light it with a lighter, rotate it to heat, light it, and then lean on the back of the sofa, cocked Erlang's legs, then took a puff, then spit out a smoke ring, and squinted his eyes comfortably.

Li Wei'er took off the cigar in her hand and said, "The little brother said that girls are not allowed to smoke, it is not dignified. ”

Zhu Shouxue leaned on the sofa, cocked Erlang's legs, and took a puff gently, but he couldn't spit out the smoke ring, just a puff of smoke. It didn't take long for him to discover that it was a good thing to get excited about. It's so cozy.

Zhu Shou swallowed the clouds and spit out the fog for a while, only to realize that he had been unknowingly staying for a long time, and he was going to open today. Hurry up and take your leave.

Li Wei'er asked the waiter to bring two wooden boxes of large-leaf red sandalwood, one containing two cans of coffee beans and a set of coffee grinders, an alcohol lamp for steaming, a siphon coffee pot, sugar cubes and a small silver can of milk (silver can sterilize and prevent spoilage), and a piece of paper, which is the instruction manual. Another wooden box contained a hundred cigars and a set of guillotines and other utensils. It was packed in a cowhide printed with gold and jade characters and handed it to Zhu Shou.

"Today's opening of the store is auspicious, and the son is the first distinguished guest to come, which is a little bit of the store's heart, not a tribute, must be accepted." Li Wei'er bowed and said. Li Jing attaches great importance to the etiquette of receiving customers in the store, and repeatedly emphasizes that the customer is God Li Yueer asked what God is, and Li Jing explained that it is what our food and clothing parents mean. The second daughter then understood.

Zhu Shou was very embarrassed, and suddenly remembered, and took out two imitation lighters from his arms in the past two days, made of brass skin, sugang for lighters, and flint for imitation flintlock pistols. The combustion core inside is made of cotton thread, there is no kerosene, and soybean oil is used inside.

The shell of the fire machine is carved with dragons and phoenixes, and it is also inlaid with turquoise, amber and other beautiful anomalies.

"I don't know if your store is opening today, I didn't bring any decent gifts, it's really rude, these two lighters are my own imitation, although it's not worth anything, even if it's a little heart, please be sure to accept it."

Li Weier said politely: "How embarrassing is this?"

Zhu Shou insisted again and again, Li Wei'er had no choice but to accept it, watching Zhu Shou say goodbye and leave, Li Wei'er wondered in her heart, how did the little brother know this little boy with an otherworldly temperament, and turned his head to see that Li Yue'er was excitedly constantly using the lighter given by Zhu Shou to keep igniting, extinguishing, igniting, and extinguishing. looked heartless, so I had to sigh.