Ye Qing tore off a few long grass stalks, kneaded them a few times and braided them, and the slender grass stalks flew in his fingers, and soon they were pulled into a pattern of a lotus flower! stunned Li Jingshan!

Li Jingshan can also weave gadgets from blades of grass, and I think she successfully attracted the attention of Fu Bo, who went to the tooth shop to find a maid, with a grasshopper woven from grasshoppers. But the flowers and birds she weaves still see the breath of grass and grass stalks, and they are by no means like the lotus in Ye Qing's hand, which is actually like a shape made of wire coils.

Ye Qing looked at her with a look of surprise on her face, and laughed, "Without him, only he is familiar." ”

He took out a small roll of metal wire from his arms, "Miss Li invited me to tea, this roll of copper wire should be regarded as a thank you gift, you can also take it and practice well." ”

"Good! Thank you Master Yip! ”

Ye Qing laughed, "I don't dare to be a master, it's just a matter of learning from each other." He touched his chin and said, "But we will learn the same art in Tianqiao Hall in the future, and I can still afford to call me a senior brother." ”

"Yes, Senior Brother Ye!"

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In the next few days in the car, Li Jingshan practiced with the coil of wire when she was fine.

She already has a bit of a craft foundation, and Ye Qing points out from time to time, and after two or three days, she can already pull out a simple suit. Ye Qing had nothing to do, so he looked through Li Jingshan's painting book. He was more interested in the characteristics of plants and trees recorded in his drawing books.

"Your flowers and plants don't look like design patterns, but like herb illustrated books?" Ye Qing flipped through Li Jingshan's painting and said curiously: "What can be recorded is not pharmacological effect at all. What is it for? ”

"It's just a record of exotic flowers and plants." Li Jingshan couldn't explain why she knew the relationship between plants and mineral veins, so she had to answer vaguely, "I just saw that they were different from other places, so I drew them." ”

Ye Qing saw that she marked next to the picture, it was indeed the location of the address, the distribution, etc., and she was no longer entangled. Pointing to a pattern, he said, "This kind of red leaf grass is commonly used in our smelting." Adding grass ash to the smelted metal gives the metal a reddish color. ”

"Huh? Spice up with plant ash? ”

Li Jingshan raised her head from the wire she was fiddling with, and saw that the grass was called Iron Wire Red Spot Grass, which was a plant that grew in the land rich in iron ore, because it absorbed the iron element underground, and the whole body was red, and the darker the color, the richer the mineral deposits.

"Yes. Some plants can be used in smelting to add color to metals. But only a few, red, gray, black, etc. Ye Qing explained: "I once thought about whether it could be made into colored gold wire, so that when I did this process, I would have more choices. ”

He smiled frustratedly, "But it didn't work out in the end." There are too many metal impurities with plant ash, and the hardness and color are not satisfactory. ”

Li Jingshan's heart moved, and blurted out: "Let's find a way together, maybe it can be done." ”

Ye Qing raised her eyebrows and looked at her: "Can you smelt?" ”

“…… I won't. Li Jingshan's forehead was dripping with sweat.

She was telling the truth, what she studied in modern times was geology and minerals. Although I visited a smelter when I was in college, the production of that kind of large machinery was completely unfeasible in ancient times.

Ye Qing rolled up the drawing book and knocked her on the head, "You won't, you deserve to be so happy!" ”

Li Jingshan covered her head and dodged, "I mean, let's keep this idea for now, and when we go to the headquarters to study, we will discuss it with the masters and gentlemen there, there will always be a way." ”

"Well, that's right." Ye Qing put down the painting book and nodded: "Actually, Yuecheng was the forging place of the army's weapons in the early dynasties, and after you arrive at the Yuecheng Treasure Pavilion, you can inquire." ”

"It seems like you're almost there, right?" Li Jingshan looked out the car window, and outside the reckless mountains, she could already see the house crowded.

The convoy arrived at the Jingbao Pavilion branch in Yuecheng in the evening. The shopkeeper in the store arranged a good call to catch the wind and wash the dust.

Chang Yong was about to excuse himself, but the shopkeeper smiled and took out an envelope, "Mr. Chang should not be polite." Before you arrived, Third Young Master Ruan's letter came after you first. I'm afraid that I will snub you. Well, here's a letter from him. ”

Chang Yong accepted the letter with a smile, but he was surprised.

Ruan Mingyu is not the kind of person who is delicate, the correspondence on weekdays is the official business of the store, and the contact with the family is also a text message of routine report every month, explaining the situation in a few words, to the effect of a few words: I am very good, the store is very good.

And Chang Yong received his personal letter for the first time in his life. He hurriedly looked for an excuse, and walked to the side room next to him to open the letter. After reading it, I put my heart down, but my eyebrows were raised. The corners of the mouth show a little bit of meaning to smile or not.

He walked out of the side room, and everyone was waiting for him to go to the restaurant for a banquet. Seeing that he looked as usual, the shopkeeper of Yuecheng Liu knew that it was not a big deal, so he put his mind at ease and beckoned everyone to get drunk tonight.

Chang Yong deliberately dropped a few steps, walked beside Li Jingshan, and said with a smile: "Miss Li, the third young master wrote to me to ask me if I had seen or heard anything along the way, and asked me if there were gorgeous flowers and plants in Taizhou City, and if I saw the egrets in the paddy fields in pairs...... What should I do if you say these questions? ”

Li Jingshan's big eyes turned around, her face couldn't help but flush slightly, and she didn't know how to answer after thinking about it for a long time, so she had to bow her head and mutter, "Uncle Chang saw something, tell the young master truthfully." ”

Chang Yong smiled and said: "I'm a half-old man, where can I have the leisure to watch flowers and birds on the road, my mind is full of digital accounts." Could it be that you want me to report the accounts of Taizhou Mansion to the third young master? I have a heart, and the young master doesn't like to hear it. ”

Li Jingshan's face turned even redder, but she couldn't figure out what Chang Yong meant by this, but Chang Yong personally came to warn her that the hostess was not allowed to get involved in business in the Jingbao Pavilion.

She looked at Chang Yong in confusion. Chang Yong, the human spirit, naturally understood what she wanted to ask, smiled casually, and said, "The young master is willing to send you to the capital, so he naturally recognizes you as an employee of the Jingbao Pavilion." Since you're going to work in the store, it's always good to have a good relationship with the owner. As for whether to be a friend or an enemy, it depends on one's cultivation and open-mindedness. ”

Li Jingshan's heart was light, as if the boulder that had been pressing on her heart for many days had been removed, and even her eyes became clear. She bowed to Chang Yong and said with a smile: "Thank you Uncle Chang for your advice, the little girl has been taught." ”

Chang Yong laughed and said: "It's easy to say, so ...... this letter?" ”

Li Jingshan took over the conversation very kindly, "If Uncle Chang doesn't dislike it, the little girl is willing to reply on her behalf." ”

"Haha, then please."

Ye Qing walked not far in front of them, and listened to these conversations. He thought of the pendant he had made for Li Jingshan, and his eyes gradually became darker.

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Everyone stayed in Yuecheng for a few more days, and when Chang Yong and Zhang Mingjun checked the accounts, Ye Qing and Li Jingshan were wandering around Yuecheng.

This was once the former military camp weapons casting place, sure enough, there are many blacksmith shops, even the Jingbao Pavilion branch here, all use all kinds of metal to make decorations, and the wall is hung with metal deer heads.

However, after walking around, I found that most of them are shops that make weapons and knives, and there are very few precision smelting and forging for jewelry products. It was easy to find one, and when I asked about the process of forging colored metal, the craftsmen in the shop didn't know.

Ye Qing was a little disappointed, but saw Li Jingshan staring at the pile of ores in the corner of the wall in a daze.

"What are you looking at?" Ye Qing walked over curiously.

Li Jingshan asked the craftsmen in the shop thoughtfully, "Master, where did you get these ores?" ”

"On the Leigong Mountain, more than a hundred miles outside the city, all this kind of stone is produced," replied the craftsman, "and when you make iron, you add some of this ore, and the knives made are much sharper and more wear-resistant." ”

Li Jingshan nodded, her eyes shining. She knew that the ore contained a rare metal that had indeed been added to the steelmaking process in modern times to improve the quality of steel.

She asked eagerly, "Can you tell me in detail about the specific location of Lei Gong Mountain?" ”

"Go out of the West City Gate and go south, more than 30 miles, you can see Lei Gong Mountain. There are many quarries over there, and people come and go all day long, and you can get there along the road. ”

"Thank you, master!" Li Jingshan was about to go out of the door after she finished happily, but was stopped by Ye Qing.

"You don't want to go to that mountain, do you?"

Ye Qing looked at her funny, "Don't you also want to open an iron shop here?" ”

"These ores may be of great use!" Of course, Li Jingshan did not want to make a sharper kitchen knife, but she knew that this rare metal was usually accompanied by another non-ferrous metal. This is a huge clue to the creation of colored gold wires.

"You, the ore is right in front of you, do you still need to run more than a hundred miles to find it?" Ye Qing went to chat with the craftsman, and the craftsman gave him two large pieces of ore.

Ye Qing put the two pieces of ore in Saili Jingshan's arms and continued to tease her, "Oh, these are enough for you to build another chain pendant, right?" ”

Li Jingshan's face turned red and muttered, "What is Senior Brother Ye talking nonsense? ”

"Oh? I also pointed out that when I arrived in Beijing, I could use your face to make good use of the smelting workshop of Tianqiaotang. Ye Qing stared at her and said, "How dare you talk nonsense?" ”

Li Jingshan was surprised: "What face can I have?" ”

"You can use the private seal of the young owner of Jingbao Pavilion to send letters, and you can also help the three shopkeepers of Jingbao Pavilion catch knives and write back letters. Isn't this face big enough? I guess,"

Ye Qing stretched out his hand and touched the pendant hanging on Li Jingshan's chest, "Your pendant, judging by the original style, should be a button or ornament, and it is also related to that person, right?" ”

Li Jingshan was surprised by Ye Qing's sharp and clear mind, and she simply nodded generously, "Yes, I am the third young master of Xinyue Ruan." But I don't think it's a face-saving thing. I was able to go to Beijing to study, and I didn't rely on this face to get it. ”

Saying this, Ye Qing breathed a sigh of relief, he was silent for a long time, and suddenly asked, "The Ruan family does not allow women to get involved in the jewelry industry, do you know?" ”

Li Jingshan nodded.

Ye Qing sighed and said with a wry smile: "It is precisely because of this rule of the head office that Lan'er consciously quit the jewelry business for me...... What kind of rule break you say? ”

"......" Li Jingshan hesitated for a long time, and suddenly said, "Senior brother, have you ever thought about rebelling against this broken rule?" ”