Chapter 32: To Make Money
When Jian Chen returned to Mincheng with a stomach full of thoughts, Li Yun had been waiting in Mincheng for ten days. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
Li Yun has been entertained very well in the past ten days, and Chen Siwen has tried his best to help his son lie.
However, there is a specialization in the art industry, and it was only two days before Li Yun heard that there was a problem, and this possible junior disciple did not have the foundation to make those things at all. But in the same way, Li Yun also knows that his possible junior brother does not have the ability to impersonate - this kind of thing that can leave a name in history is not the turn of a young son who has just become a school official for only a generation.
Therefore, Li Yun is even more curious about this little junior brother. This curiosity seems to make Li Yun become like a cat, thinking of many strange stories, but it is difficult to convince herself.
In the days that Li Yun was waiting, some rumors about Chen Jian also spread far and wide, carrying the aura of the previous drama success and fame at a young age and changing the past, people subconsciously like more magical stories to happen to one person, so it is dramatic when they talk about it.
Li Yun came from the capital, he was born in the school palace, and he came specifically to find Chen Jian, and he also asked others on the way whether Chen Jian's house had been bombed and smoked.
So a more nonsense statement was put forward: a few years ago, when the envoy of Qi came to the capital to negotiate, he was attacked by a large iron black powder bomb, and this matter was downplayed in the end, but the story was still very mysterious by the merchants who came and went.
Therefore, when words such as capital, school palace, and explosion were associated with Chen Jian, some people in Mincheng said that Chen Jian might be related to that incident, and some people said that it must be because Chen Siwen was a navy, and if he didn't fight, he would not be able to make meritorious contributions, so his son and some people in the capital secretly planned the last explosion. Otherwise, why would he be so stubborn before, but now he can do such a thing? Obviously, the previous stubbornness was all pretended, and it must have some involvement with the big people in the capital......
This kind of boundless story is full of magical colors, and it is very in line with the habit of talking about national affairs when the ethnic group is idle at this time.
So when Chen Jian rode back to Mincheng from the county below, people secretly pointed fingers at him, and several people who had lost relatives in the previous war with Qi blew a few praiseful whistles at Chen Jian, and some people threw a few oranges at him to welcome him.
Chen Jian looked at the orange in his arms and was sure that it was not a rotten egg after the orchid incident was exposed, so he was relieved, but he didn't know what happened.
I wanted to go and see Lin Xi and ask her if there was anything she didn't understand about the exercise books he wrote, but now it was very weird, so I went home first.
When he met Li Yun, the other party explained his intentions, and Chen Jian understood it, Chen Siwen listened to it on the side, but he also breathed a sigh of relief, which is a good thing.
It's just that now I can't understand my son more and more, and even the road that was originally paved for my son doesn't seem to have to go. But after thinking about it carefully, Chen Siwen suddenly thought of stargazing with his son on the night a year ago, and thought of what he thought was a joke that day, and his heart suddenly moved.
Looking carefully at his son, who no longer seemed to know, Chen Siwen sighed imperceptibly. A year ago, when I heard my son say that he wanted to go to the outside of the sea, he didn't have much emotion at that time: he was a little happy with his son's ambition, but only slightly. Whether it is personal ability or money, the son does not seem to have the possibility of practice. Just like in the past, if you say something big and then don't do it, how can such a big thing sound like it can cause all kinds of emotions?
But now, his son has become famous, and even alarmed the characters of the Capital School Palace, and he has money that he doesn't know where it came from, which makes Chen Siwen a little scared.
At that time, I heard my son say that he could rely on the rules of heaven and earth to measure the latitude, but I only thought that it might be my son's whim. But now facing the questions asked by Li Yun, in Chen Siwen's opinion, it is no longer a whimsical thing, but it has simply become a question that he didn't dare to think about before.
Ambition is good, and it's good to go out into the sea and see, but if it can ruin my son's life, it's always a little sad.
Being a father is always contradictory. When his son is stubborn and does not seek progress, he hopes that his son has some ambitions and ideals; When the son got rid of the reputation of being stubborn and not seeking progress, he hoped that his ideals would not be too big, and it was better not to put his life on the line.
After listening to a few more words on the side, listening to the things that popped out of his son's mouth from time to time that he didn't understand at all, his heart sank suddenly: he didn't want to know where these things his son knew came from, but he knew that his son seemed to be one step closer to being buried in the sea.
With this inexplicable sadness, Chen Siwen left the room and only gave the space to Chen Jian and Li Yun.
At this time, after Li Yun experienced the previous suspicion and curiosity, now only recognition remains.
In the conversation just now, he knocked a few words on the side, but he didn't expect Jian Chen's answer to be very professional, and he couldn't hear the appearance of a layman at all, and he was even more proficient than some insiders.
The only weird thing is that sometimes there are some questions, and the other party will mumble a few strange words that they don't understand, and then give a completely correct answer that they can understand.
Now, there is no need to ask irrelevant questions, and the topic has become more direct.
"Jian Chen, you should have guessed the purpose of my visit this time, right?"
"Yes."
"My husband liked your lab report and was curious about the strange wax-like thing. So I want to see how you do it. ”
Speaking of this, Li Yun took out a piece of paper from his arms, with some words printed on it, as well as Mr. Mu's seal, to prove his identity and purpose.
Jian Chen looked at it, in fact, he didn't understand it very well, but he already believed it in his heart. After all, Li Yun didn't come to find her alone, but came to her home first and waited for a few days.
"See? If you can repeat your experiment, Mr. Mu can recommend you to study in the Academy, which is a rare opportunity. ”
After saying this, Li Yun suddenly said again: "If it is true, then you are my junior brother, I am very happy, and my husband will be very happy." ”
"But if it's fake, please tell me. I don't want my husband's hopes to turn into soap bubbles, he's too old and in poor health, and I don't want to make my husband angry because of a lie. If anything happens to you because of this lie, I swear I will hate you. And even if you are fake, you will understand that you must not provoke a person who studies mineral chemistry to hate you. ”
The threat in the words Chen Jian understood, and the respect and love for Mr. Mu in the words Chen Jian also heard it, so he smiled and nodded: "I understand." ”
"That's good. In order to find a solution to the problem that a new saltpeter powder is easy to absorb moisture, his finger was blown off. Two of my classmates died that time, so I've seen blood and death, and please don't take my words as a joke. ”
Li Yun didn't say anything more, Chen Jian led the way in front, and the two of them came to Jian Chen's small and simple laboratory.
In the hut, Jian Chen expertly repeated the previous process, and there was still a lot of ground ashes, silica and charcoal powder left.
As he operated, he explained, "I thought that since charcoal can extract iron from iron ore, it may also be possible to refine things from bones......
Li Yun didn't speak, watching Jian Chen's movements, listening to Jian Chen's seemingly reasonable explanation, until finally seeing those yellowish wax-like solids reappear from the bottom of the water.
Chen Jian wanted to collect it, but Li Yun stopped it.
Looking at the extremely simple experimental equipment in the simple cabin, a mood called moving germinated in Li Yun's heart.
As the group of people who are laughingly called the fastest runners in the school palace, Li Yun knows very well what kind of subject he is learning, and he also knows how many peers and ancestors have died on it for hundreds of years.
The young man in front of him, who seemed to be smiling and didn't care about anything, together with these simple, pottery or porcelain, few glass bottles and other utensils, made Li Yun imagine a respectable scene.
It was as if he saw a young man frowning in a simple wooden house, burning all sorts of strange minerals in these vessels that could be blown up at any moment, hoping to find something new that could explain the world.
He thought of the description of the solid poison and the smell of stinky garlic in the test report, as if he saw that the young man did not know to cool the water at first, but allowed the highly toxic steam to fill the room, and the room was filled with the smell of stinky garlic. But he didn't know that the smell was not garlic, but a little bit of poison that could make a big dog die in agony.
Thinking of the scribbled fonts on the paper, he seemed to see a young man's excited shouts in those flying words, and a young man's repeated boring and highly poisonous experiments step by step here for countless days and nights.
Even, he seemed to see the fire that was burning, and when he saw that the young man was not nervous but observed the smoke and dust produced after the fire, he wrote the simplest and most story-filled words in the candlelight instead of the highly poisonous fire.
What's more, he seemed to see the young man reading all kinds of books in this wooden house far from the bustling city, guessing his conclusions, and the reason why he did this experiment may be to find out why cattle and sheep grow bones and why they can grow bones by eating grass, so as to know what affects the yield of flowers and fruits......
Just like the play called Orphan that Li Yun had heard of and watched, he didn't understand why his little junior brother would write such a thing.
And now seeing all this, he feels like he understands.
He felt that the scene was the little junior brother's expression of his heart - no matter how many failures, no matter how many times of destruction, would not crush a heart with ideals in his heart.
He felt that, as said in that scene, all this was for the sake of self-fulfillment and for the betterment of China: the orphans in the play chose politics to stop the blood of their fellow clans from flowing meaninglessly—while the younger brothers chose to let the land produce more food and make the people of the same clan less hungry.
At least, he was moved by himself like this, and used this emotion to speculate about Chen Jian, so it was logical and even more moved.
Jian Chen was still talking, and Li Yun was still listening, but when Jian Chen said that he was tired, Li Yun stretched out his hand and pressed Jian Chen's shoulder, signaling that he didn't have to say any more.
"Senior brother, I can only say that your luck is really good. He told us not to rely on speculation to explain something, because guessing is always accurate. But many of your guesses are right, and Mr. sighed before he came, saying that sometimes there is still a need to guess. ”
Li Yun smiled and said that one of Jian Chen's "guesses" was confirmed. That is, the bones and shells look a little similar, so Chen Jian "guessed" that there were things in the ashes that were in the shells and lime.
If you test it, Chen Jian didn't have those reagents, so he wrote it on the paper sent to the school palace in the form of a guess. The messy equipment in the school palace was left by him or was not made at the beginning due to the conditions, so he knew very well that there must be hydrochloric acid in the school palace.
So he used the excuse that the bones and shells looked very similar, and the shocked people who made white phosphorus used hydrochloric acid to dissolve the ashes, and the filtrate reacted with sodium carbonate to form a precipitate. After heating, it decomposes and matures after adding water, which proves that the bones contain calcium, which is not called calcium today.
Add to this the acidity of white phosphorus when dissolved in water, and the acid-base yin-yang dualism that was quite popular at this time, and it can be speculated that bone is actually a combination of phosphorus and calcium in the form of acid-base binary.
This proves that bones contain phosphorus and calcium, which is important for some industries. For example, adding some lime to the fermented feed of cattle will grow taller, which not only aims to ferment itself, but also solves this problem that is known but not known: it turns out that it is to make cattle grow bones better.
This is not just a bottle of white phosphorus and two experiments, but solves a series of questions, although there are some "guesses" that Li Yun does not like, but at this time, Li Yun, who was moved by his "guesses" and fantasies, has forgotten this little dislike.
"Senior brother, I want to congratulate you. You will be the youngest person to leave a name on the Panthéon in 200 years. Now that you have proved that you have done all this, the last bit of doubt of the gentleman will also be dispelled, he has been upright all his life, and he will not easily recommend others to enter the school palace to become his disciple, you are one of the few people. ”
"I think I will be very happy to receive a disciple like you in my twilight years."
Jian Chen let out a sigh and shouted excitedly, showing how a young man should behave when he heard such good news.
It's a bit exaggerated, a little contrived, but in Li Yun's opinion, this is normal, if you know that such news is as stable as a pool of water without wind, then there is a problem.
After shouting, Jian Chen cheekily called out to Senior Brother, and greatly praised the achievements of Mr. Mu from those books.
He has a high level and knows a lot, and he naturally sees things from different angles, and even when he talks about the point with praise, he is the most proud of Mr. Mu. Li Yun, a disciple, often hears about it, and when he hears Chen Jianyi say it, he suddenly feels that this junior brother is very good, and what he says is definitely in line with Mr. 's heart, and he also has a little closeness to this young junior brother who became famous but is not proud.
In fact, Jian Chen's praise is sincere, he admires this kind of painstaking research. He is a plagiarist, and Mr. Mu is the one who breaks the thunder light from the darkness, and he can't help but admire him.
However, Chen Jian had a different idea about going to school in the school palace, so he said: "Senior brother, I like to listen to it next to my husband, but ...... But can you go back in two years? I have something to do here. ”
Li Yun frowned and said with a smile: "Senior brother, I have also heard of your reputation in Mincheng these days. is young, and there are plays to leave a name, which is indeed better than boring learning for young people. But I think it's better for you to go to the school palace. Even though you know a lot, maybe better than me, there are some things that you can't prove here. It's like the 'calcium' in the ashes, you can only guess here, and even if it's true, you can't prove it. ”
"Isn't it your dream that you can better understand and interpret the world there?"
Jian Chen nodded and said, "This is exactly my dream, but I'm afraid what I think is not the same as what Senior Brother thinks." ”
"How?"
"I don't know why Senior Brother wants to learn these things?"
"Because I've loved it since I was a kid."
"So are there many people in the school palace who study with Mr.?"
"Not much."
"So what are people willing to learn?"
"Regulation, regulations, justice. These are still very useful when taking the clerk exam, and it will always be difficult for those of us to make money and be promoted. So there aren't many people. ”
"So...... I hope that in the future there will be more people studying our subject than now. ”
"Why?"
"Earn money."
"Money is not the best ideal."
"But the most human dreams."