The story of Sun Laoqi has to start from twenty or thirty years ago. His original name was Sun Qi, from a humble background, was the eleventh child of the Sun family, the family could not afford to raise, when he was a child, he was sent to Chu's blacksmith shop as an apprentice, he loved to read, it happened that the blacksmith master had a friend who was a teacher, and he could get him a lot of books to read, and then give them back after reading. The boy was also diligent, and worked at night, and by the light of the burning iron, he had to hurry up and read a few lines. He carefully held the book to prevent it from falling into the stove. Master often taught that people can be poor, but not short-minded, and that studying is not to change one's destiny, but to do great things.

Sun Qi smiled. He remembered what was said in the book, "Poetry" cloud: such as cutting, such as learning, such as grinding. Maybe it's also a big deal to stick to one thing and be a blacksmith for the rest of your life.

Sun Qi was less than sixteen years old that year, and he took advantage of his spare time to go to Mr. Teach's to ask some questions, and when he returned to the blacksmith shop, it was late, and he didn't see the master, until the neighbor Aunt Zhang told him that the arrester of the strong man had come again and wanted to form a new army, and Sun Qi's master and Aunt Li's husband were arrested.

Sun Qi tried to find the master, but he couldn't find it, and there was no news of half a word. Soon after, the teacher died of illness, and Aunt Zhang also returned to his hometown, he did not want to go back to Sun's house, and he did not have many friends and relatives around him, so he was completely alone. Although there was no news of the master, Sun Qi still planned to stay in the blacksmith shop and wait for him to come back until one day......

"My uncle is not here, so I can only look for you." The person who came to him was called Chu Shuaikang, who was Master Chu's nephew.

"Brother Chu, what is going on? It's okay to go. Sun Qi knew that Chu Shuaikang had a bad stomach, and he must be doing some speculative things, and he probably didn't hold back any good farts this time.

"Your brother and I have a drawing now." Chu Shuaikang took out the drawings and showed them to Sun Qi: "Look, this thing is a container, it must be made of iron, and the internal structure is quite complicated, but I know you can make it." ”

"No, I don't know what this is, what if you use this thing to hurt people?"

Chu Shuaikang almost fainted when he heard this: "My brother Qi, look, this thing doesn't even have a sharp point, I just hit people with something, and I'd rather find a stone than use this thing!" ”

"That's not going to work, you have to make it clear what it's used for, and whether it's dangerous, before I can get it out for you."

"What for? This is what the son of a large family wants, and he asks for this price. Chu Shuaikang stretched out two fingers.

"What a big family, only two oceans."

"I don't know, two dollars is enough for me to run errands."

"Twenty? Two hundred? If it's two hundred, I really won't take this job, it's obviously a trap. ”

"Cut, what two hundred, is this two, two small yellow croakers (gold bars)." Chu Shuaikang said: "I won't hide it from you, this big family is the big and young family of Muchun Hall in our Han capital, Shi Mingyu." He wants to do a big thing to prove himself, the Chinese medicine of the Shi family has been passed down from generation to generation, the old man does not believe in Western medicine, and Shi Mingyu found a group of foreigners from the West to research a new type of medicine, which is said to be used to treat the plague. Once this is done, the drug is sold all over the world, which is amazing. ”

"What does that have to do with me? To be honest, I know Mu Chuntang, but I haven't heard of Shi Mingyu. ”

"Therefore, people are new to the study of medicine, and the development of new Western medicine requires a special reaction vessel, which is the key to success. Since Shi Dashao was doing this without hiding it from his family, it was inconvenient for him to come to you in person, so he asked me to come. ”

Sun Qi carefully studied the drawings, pointed to a place and said, "Although I haven't learned Western medicine, I have taken it, and it does work." But can this thing drawn on the paper really make medicine? I don't think there's something quite right, you see this design, once the temperature is too high, it's easy to pop off here, which doesn't make sense. ”

"What the hell do you call him, those are two goldfish! If something is made, let's take the money. You don't have to give too much to my brother, I'll just ask for a few ocean errands. ”

Sun Qi hesitated for a long time before agreeing, but he still had a request: two gold bars for each of them, and once something happened, the two of them must also bear it together. Chu Shuaikang held Sun Qi's hand tightly: "Even if something happens, the sky will fall, and the two of us will carry it together!" ”

It didn't take long for Sun Qi to make a prototype iron tool weighing several catties, with many small holes on it, which he guessed was for filtration. Sun Qi is not a person who sees money, he vaguely feels that this matter is not quite right, so he keeps a hand and draws an identical drawing in case of trouble.

When the gold bars were in hand, Chu Shuaikang went to the casino to be happy.

"Wu Dalang, Lao Tzu has good feng shui today, I have to kill you without leaving a piece of armor."

"Chu, where did you kid get rich again!" Wu Dalang's surname is Wu Guozheng, he is a shroud maker, and there are several industries under his door. It sounds like a shroud chain, because of his short stature, he is nicknamed "Wu Dalang".

"I won't tell you, it's not something you can earn." Chu Shuaikang, Wu Dalang and others found a small room to play Pai Gow.

Wu Dalang was disdainful: "Hehe, we dare to take the life of the dead, and there is money that I can't earn?" I just let Shi Wentao win a lot of money yesterday, and I will definitely be able to earn it back today! ”

Just after a few rounds of gambling, a group of people suddenly rushed in and shouted in the main hall: "Who is Chu Shuaikang!" ”

Chu Shuaikang looked out of the crack in the window, it was a group of people he didn't know, and suddenly thought of what Sun Qi had said, maybe this matter is really not that simple, and now that he has earned money, he shouldn't come out to publicize it. So he took out a few pieces of ocean and gave them to a few gambling friends around him, and said to Shi Wentao: "Brother Tao, it is estimated that the comer is not good, you can help me block it." The younger brother left first, and there will be heavy thanks in the future. ”

With that, he climbed through the back window and went to the blacksmith shop to find Sun Qi.

A group of people came upstairs, Shi Wentao and the others pretended to be having fun, "Are you looking for Xiao Chu?" I saw him in the innermost room on the third floor. "To say that these gamblers have enough eyes, often in the casino, everyone knows that the innermost room on the third floor is the place where the casino boss Wang and his lover fool around, this group of people just bumped into the big scene, Boss Wang was in a hurry, called the guys to start fighting, and the two sides fought for a long time before stopping, which bought a lot of time for Chu Shuaikang to escape.

Besides, Chu Shuaikang just ran to an alley, met a thin and tall beautiful man, and said to him: "Refuse to gamble, everyone is responsible." ”

Chu Shuaikang didn't have time to deal with this neurosis, so he ran straight to the blacksmith shop.