Kong Yingda stood outside the gate of Princess Xinping's mansion, with a folding fan in his hand, waving it gently, and a cool breeze urged his squirming beard.

Nowadays, folding fans have become popular among literati, and if you don't have a folding fan in your hand, you are embarrassed to say that you are a scholar.

Cheng Chubi came from inside, saw Kong Yingda, and quickly arched his hand, and said: "I've seen Confucius, I don't know why Master came today?" ”

Cheng Chubi also studied under the supervision of Guozi, and it was not abrupt to call Kong Yingda a master.

"Yes." Kong Yingda nodded.

"Master, please." Cheng Chubi said, and hurriedly led Kong Yingda inside, and when he stepped into Princess Xinping's mansion, Kong Yingda's eyes couldn't help flashing a trace of dissatisfaction.

Outside are all in the transmission of the road Bi life extravagance, now it seems that it is not ordinary extravagance, the ground is pasted with porcelain, this is simply extravagant!

From the gate all the way up to the hall, everything they saw and heard was extremely fresh, and Kong Yingda's two servants looked left and right with wide eyes, they had followed Kong Yingda for many years, but it was the first time they had seen such a novel place.

"Master, please take a seat, Xiaohuan, and serve fragrant tea." Came to the hall, Cheng Chubi said loudly. Soon, a long round and jade maid walked out from the side and served Kong Yingda and Cheng Chubi a cup of tea.

"Master, please use tea, this is the new princess tea." Cheng Chubi smiled slightly.

"Yes." Kong Yingda took a sip, then put the cup down, and sighed: "Everyone in the world says that horses live extravagantly, and when I see it today, it is not only extravagant, but incomparably extravagant." ”

"The master smiled, in fact, the life of this horse is still very simple, take this tea as an example, the same tea, when others eat it, they will add a lot of condiments to it, and I only need a pot of boiling water." Cheng Chubi smiled and said, this old man is estimated to have been a teacher for a long time, and he wants to come to train everyone when he sees him, this is an occupational disease.

"And what does this cement say?" Kong Yingda asked.

"Cement, this is a good thing, don't hide it from the master, in fact, cement is made of clay and lime, and it consumes very little manpower and material resources, as long as you know the secret recipe, even ordinary people can make it." Cheng Chubi replied honestly.

"Oh? What is the value? ”

"A room is just a lot of money."

"So, it's cheap." Kong Yingda nodded and said, "What about this porcelain floor?" ”

"So that the Master may know that the tiles on this ground are made of clay, and they are so simple to make that they can make thousands of pieces in one furnace." Cheng Chubi smiled slightly and said: "Compared with the porcelain vase, this tile is simply too cheap, presumably it won't be long before the rich families of Datang can use it." ”

"Moreover, with ceramic tiles, the living environment can become cleaner and more comfortable. And living in a clean and hygienic environment will not make it easy to get sick. Cheng Chubi said.

"Well, I see, it seems that this gorgeous floor is worth a little money." Kong Yingda touched his beard and nodded.

"Confucius, I don't know what happened to you this time?" Cheng Chubi asked, he didn't believe that Lao Kong came to his house to visit him, and the relationship between the two was not good enough to this extent.

"This is the Tang dot symbol that I have studied, and you can look at it." Kong Yingda was a little proud and handed the punctuation marks he developed to Cheng Chubi, Cheng Chubi took it and looked at it, almost squirting out a mouthful of tea.

What the hell is this? The symbols look like ghost drawings, anyway, Cheng Chubi can't understand them, and he doesn't know what these symbols represent.

It looks pretty good, but it's flashy.

"Huh?" Seeing this situation, Kong Yingda's brows couldn't help frowning slightly, does this vertical look down on the old man?

"What do you mean by that? Isn't it funny? Kong Yingda asked with a cold snort.

"It's really not funny to go back to the master's words, it's just that, I think these symbols of the master are very beautiful, but they are too complicated, this Tang dot symbol, naturally, it has to be simple and clear, so that people can know what it means at a glance, and the symbol of the master is simply a strange word." Cheng Chubi said, originally he wanted to say that these were spells to suppress evil spirits.

"Well, the old man also thinks that this symbol is too gorgeous and has lost its duty, so it has not been shown to anyone." Kong Yingda stroked his beard and said, this ancient person likes to touch his beard when he speaks, as if he can be inspired by touching his beard, which makes Cheng Chubi very puzzled.

"Since you were the first to discover the Tang dot symbol, it is better to write down your discovery and let me also see it, whether it should be or not, so that I can mention it to you." Kong Yingda said.

Hearing his words, Cheng Chubi couldn't help but sigh secretly: A cultural person is a cultural person, obviously you came to ask for punctuation, but now it's like I want to ask you for punctuation, Lao Kong, you are amazing~!

"Cheng Di, go get some pen, ink, paper, and inkstone." Cheng Chubi sighed helplessly, what Lao Kong said was so obvious, if he didn't hand over the inventory, I don't know what this old man would say.

You must know that this old man's preaching is even more terrifying than Wei Zheng's, and people who are so patient as Li Chengqian were all impatient with what this old man said, and then rebelled.

Soon, Cheng Tiancheng took all the rice paper and began to grind it.

Cheng Chubi took the pen and wrote out all the punctuation marks he knew, and then explained to Kong Yingda one by one that in fact, most of the punctuation marks were almost written at the last court meeting, and this time it was just a revisit.

"This thing is very good, but there are many shortcomings, the old man will take it back first and make more modifications, which can be regarded as making the best use of it." Kong Yingda waved his hand naturally, and the two servants next to him hurriedly stepped forward and picked up the paper full of punctuation marks.

"You relax, the old man will not take it in vain, this is the old man's newly marked and broken sentence "Analects", and it is given to you." Kong Yingda handed a copy of the transcribed and broken sentences of the "Analects" to Cheng Chubi, and Cheng Chubi hurriedly took it.

In this era, books are the most valuable possessions, and now there are not as many paper and printing tools as in later generations, and paper is still very precious.

Luoyang paper is expensive, why? Because there is less production and more people use it, it will naturally be in short supply.

Books are the greatest wealth in ancient times, and ordinary people can't buy them at all, and there is no place to buy them, you borrow them, I borrow them, and they borrow each other. It is not unreasonable that whoever has a large collection of books will be rich.

Kong Yingda is a novice writer, and it is estimated that he will be able to exchange a lot of silver in a few years.

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