At the end of the first month, Song Jiang, Sun Erniang and Xie Xuan's family in Qingzhou, as well as Wu Yong, who was stationed in Jiangnan, and some businessmen who had a good relationship with Wuzhi came to Bianjing, of course, and some representatives of Qingzhou College were indispensable.

As for Lin Chong and Lu Zhishen in the barracks, because they have military positions, they can't travel far at will according to the system, so they are represented by Lin Niangzi and followed Sun Erniang to Bianjing.

Unconsciously, Wu Zhi has accumulated such a deep network, everyone came to Bianjing Wu Zhi's big mansion, and it was filled with guests who came to participate in the banquet, you must know that there are nearly fifty guest rooms in the front yard of Wu Zhi's house, but fortunately, Wu Zhi is not only a big family, but also a big business, and it would be good to arrange for those who can't live in the family to go to the Fan Building.

Now Wu Zhi's mansion is very lively, and Wu Zhi finally understands why the richer the person, the bigger the house, the more luxurious it is, Wu Zhi still feels that it is a waste for his family to live in such a big mansion.

Sling mentality.

The guests who came all brought gifts, Song Jiang and they brought some Qingzhou specialties to Wu Zhi, Wu Yong came from Jiangnan and brought some Jiangnan customs to Wu Zhi, and Mr. Zhou not only brought Wu Zhi a precious calligraphy and painting, but also taught Wu Zhi earnestly, which was nothing more than to remind Wu Zhi not to forget the original promise to bring down the Zhu family and Li Yan's power within three years.

In this regard, Wu Zhi can only "laugh and accept" one by one and seriously guarantee.

In fact, Wu Zhi also knew that these people took the opportunity of participating in Wu Zhi's child's birthday banquet to communicate with Wu Zhi and get close, the child is so young, a birthday will not alarm so many characters.

However, there are also special for children, such as Sun Erniang, she has no children, and she is the godmother of the children in Wu Zhi's family, but Wu Zhi's four children can be treated as treasures, and this time I didn't bring any gifts to Wu Zhi at all, but prepared a lot of small toys for the children, small gifts, wave drums, small tiger head puppets, and small gold locks

There is also a gadget that makes Wu Zhi's eyes light up when he sees it, because this thing is a fist-sized solid glass ball, and inside is a cloth flower, which looks very beautiful.

The reason why Wu Zhi's eyes are shining is because of this glass, there is no glass in this era, but Sun Erniang actually came up with such a thing, it seems that the process of firing glass has been mastered by Sun Erniang and his wife.

The method of making glass Wu Zhi was briefly mentioned in the chemistry textbook, in fact, Wu Zhi was not clear, he knew that the glass was made of soda ash limestone and quartz fired together, ancient limestone and quartz are easy to find, soda ash can be collected in some trona lakes, of course, how to burn the glass must be very complicated, I didn't expect Sun Erniang and his wife to burn it, but it was much beyond Wu Zhi's expectations.

"Second sister-in-law, have you memorized this glass making recipe?" Wu Zhi took the glass ball and asked Sun Erniang, who was teasing the baby.

"This is the dead ghost of my family who made it up, you ask him." Sun Erniang continued to be close to the child without raising her head.

"Second Brother Zhang, this recipe"

Zhang Qing had been bowing his head and pondering something, and only then did he suddenly raise his head when he heard Wu Zhi ask, and after Wu Zhi asked again, he nodded and said: "Write it down, it took me three days and three nights to tinker with this." ”

"This, if you build a factory to produce this, is it feasible?"

Wu Zhi went straight to the topic, transparent things, in the Great Song Dynasty is extremely expensive, and extremely scarce, if glass can be mass-produced, not only is it a big money, but also can add a lot of color to the lives of the people of the Great Song Dynasty, because the current Great Song Dynasty has glass, but no glass.

"Not yet."

Zhang Qing shook his head solemnly and said: "The main thing is that soda ash can only rely on the collection of natural ones, which is too small, and it is not pure at all, and it is particularly difficult to make glass." I've been researching the extraction of soda ash from plant ash recently, but I don't know when it will be successful. ”

Hearing this, Wu Zhi looked at Zhang Qing with admiration, this honest man was immersed in the chemistry textbook he gave him in Qingzhou and couldn't extricate himself, Wu Zhi believed that with Zhang Qing's research energy, he would definitely be able to create surprises in the future.

"Second brother, I believe in you." Wu Zhi encouraged.

"When my experiment is successful, I will definitely tell the officials as soon as possible."

"Don't be too anxious, Qingzhou College can open a chemistry class at the beginning of this year, and you and your second sister-in-law should pay more attention to the chemistry branch." Wu Zhidao.

Hearing this, Zhang Qing nodded a little excitedly, it was discussed a long time ago for them and his wife to be in charge of the chemistry branch of Qingzhou University, and they have been studying chemistry for most of the year, and they are also preparing for this.

On the first day of February, there was a small snowfall last night, and the whole of Bianjing was covered in snow.

Tomorrow is the time when the Wuzhi Mansion opens, early this morning in front of the main entrance of the Wuzhi Mansion there are countless carriages and ox carts, all kinds of chickens, ducks, fish, meat, fruits and vegetables are carried by the guys from the carriage and ox carts to the Wuzhi Mansion, the excitement is extraordinary, tomorrow the banquet is huge, so the ingredients will be prepared today.

At this time, the sky was just dawning, and on the west side of Wu Zhi's house, there were two family members with brooms, turning their heads to each other, squinting and sneering at the freight carriages coming and going in front of Wu Zhimen.

"Hmph, it is estimated that after these ingredients are transported to the mansion, the threshold of the gate of this martial mansion is already full of chicken and duck dung and muddy water brought by people coming and going, isn't it a decent family," Jia Ding Jia said sarcastically.

Jia Ding Yi smiled, and said to Jia Ding Yi leisurely: "This can't blame the people's martial arts mansion for being undignified, it's not that your master sealed the back door of the family's mansion."

Jia Ding Jia is the doorman of Wu Zhi's neighbor to the west.

"Look at what you said, I heard our housekeeper say that it was your master who came up with this idea for our master," Ding Jia said.

Jia Ding Yi is the doorman of Wu Zhi's neighbor to the east.

Yi smiled: "Come on, let's not say anyone, if you want to blame it, blame the head of their martial arts family for being too eyesighted, just came to Bianjing and provoked the masters of our two families, this will be suffocated and deserved." ”

"I really deserve it" Jia also sneered, and said: "Although the head of this martial arts family is rich, he is only a painter in the court, and he has no power at all, so he naturally lets our master rectify it, which will block his back door is light, and our master will be unhappy in the future, so he will make his family even more uneasy." ”

"Hehe, in fact, the martial arts family is very restless now" B then laughed, "Don't look at their house has been very lively recently, but in the middle of the night, it is their family that goes out to swill, out of leftovers, and when they go out of the toilet, they are all going through the main gate, oh, that smell, I smell it from afar, it really stinks, in the words of the literati, it is unbearable to enter the nose and unbearable to enter the nose"

A gloated: "The most mansion in the whole Bianjing is their martial family, the toilet has to go through the main gate, it's disgusting to think about it."

"They deserve their family's nest, to put it bluntly, they are a trader, how can they compare to the scholarly families of our two families" B said proudly, "When their family first came to Bianjing, the women of his family still wanted to come to our house to make friends with our wife, but our wife didn't pay attention to them at all." ”

"Our wife is too, and I haven't seen the woman of the martial family." A continued: "It's just the wife of a merchant, I heard that one of the three women of the martial arts family is a lady of the landlord's family, and the other two are all maids, although there are some skills, but how can they compare to our two ladies."

"The eldest lady of our two families is from a famous family, and her two fingers don't touch the spring water, which is like the low status of the martial family" Yi paused, and said disdainfully: "I heard that the eldest lady of the martial family still cooks by herself every day."

In ancient times, it was virtuous for a folk woman to cook, and a wealthy lady would be said to be irresponsible when cooking

"It's a shame that they still have a fateful title, it's really bad and hard to change."

"And what is the fate, our two ladies will definitely have such titles in the future"

Speaking of the fate, Jia Ding A and Jia Ding B suddenly stopped talking, and glanced at Wu Zhi's door with great jealousy.

"Ouch, let's stop talking, it's time to clear the snow."

Feeling bored, the two families separated and began to clear the snow, they were going to come out to clear the snow, but when the two of them went back to their homes to clear the snow, they both deliberately swept the dirty snow at the junction with Wu Zhi's mansion to the boundary of Wu Zhi's house.

Every time they swept a pile of gray and dirty snow at the realm of the martial arts, the two of them would smile contentedly, and their expressions would not be so jealous.

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