Chapter 101: Traveling the World
The first appearance of glass products predates the Warring States period, almost 3,000 years ago, when a European Phoenician merchant ship, laden with the crystalline mineral "natural soda", sailed on the Belus River on the Mediterranean coast.
Due to the low tide of the sea, the merchant ship ran aground.
So the crew took to the beach.
Some crew members also brought cauldrons, firewood, and used a few pieces of "natural soda" as a support for the cauldron to cook on the beach.
After the crew finished eating, the tide began to rise.
They were about to pack up and board the ship to continue sailing, when suddenly someone shouted, "Come and see, everyone, there is something bright and shining in the sand under the pot!" ”
Later, the Phoenicians made a fortune by mixing quartz sand with natural soda and melting it in a special furnace to make glass balls.
In 1688, a man named Naf invented the process of making large pieces of glass, and from then on, glass became an ordinary object.
The glass we use today is made of quartz sand, soda ash, feldspar and limestone at high temperatures.
And Lü Buwei sighed at this thing he had never seen in his life.
"It's just a glass, and taste the beer, though it's not quite like your wine back then."
I don't drink, I have to drive, and I can't have an accident at such a critical time.
"Is this thing expensive?"
Lu Buwei still thinks this thing is very good.
"Take it with you if you like, and you'll find this kind of stuff everywhere, cheap and practical."
Hearing my words, Lu Buwei stood up and got up respectfully, fortunately I was quick, grabbed him, and the waiter came over and asked, what's wrong?
"It's okay, my brother is a little excited."
After sending the waiter, Lu Buwei asked.
"What does that mean?"
"Uncle, I beg you, in this era, it's not that it's not exciting, it depends on the occasion, many etiquettes are not deserted, but omitted, in the future, you can do whatever you want, how comfortable and how to come." Don't keep bowing, it's scary. All right? ”
I promise that I was pleading at the time, Lu Buwei was stunned, nodded, and seemed to understand.
"Can't salute?"
Lü Buwei confirmed in a whisper.
"Yes, you were all thousands of years ago, the existence of your ancestors, what kind of salute do you have with me?"
This reason is okay, and Lu Buwei also has a feeling that this is indeed the case.
"Wheaty and icy, this is wine?"
A mouthful, a full burp.
They don't even get choked, and what I'm curious about at this moment is their current body structure.
"Uh-huh, it's wine, is it delicious? There are different wines all over the world, waiting for me to take you to taste. ”
I raised the milk tea in my hand and toasted to him, and he learned to touch the cup with me and drink it all.
"I'm tired."
When I got home, I started to pack my things, and when Lu Buwei entered the door, he looked at the door twice, I didn't explain, and he didn't ask.
When she was sitting in the living room waiting for me, Yin Na came back from going out, and as soon as she entered the door with the courier brother carrying something, Lu Buwei stood up.
"You are... Forget it, my brother's customer, I understand. ”
Yin Na didn't ask too much, because she heard my voice in the bedroom.
The courier brother put down his things and left, and Yin Na sat in front of her package, dismantling and assembling it.
Lu Buwei didn't plan to greet Yin Na originally, he just wanted to sit and wait for me.
Because when I came, the contract I signed stipulated that there was a clause in it, and I should not communicate and contact with the people of this era too much.
However, Lü Buwei saw a different feeling in Yin Na, this feeling was familiar, a sense of hometown.
"What are you looking at?"
I came out and saw Lu Buwei looking at Yin Na, so I went over and asked.
"This girl has an air that I feel familiar with."
Lü Buwei pointed at Yin Na and replied.
I thought about it, but I was going to say it.
"She is the inheritor of Guiguzi, the inheritance she received not long ago, passed down by Sun Bin."
After hearing this, Lu Buwei was greatly surprised and said.
"Mr. Guigu is older than my time, and future generations are in awe of his mystery and strength, but I didn't expect that I would be lucky enough to see the descendants of Guigu, in Xia Lu Buwei, disrespectful."
Lu Buwei actually bowed deeply to Yin Na, but fortunately, Yin Na was concentrating on assembling her thing with a headset and didn't pay any attention to it.
It was not Yin Na who bowed to Lü Buwei, but the inheritance of Guiguzi, in that era, they were all in awe of their ancestors, especially those with mysterious colors.
I watched, didn't speak or stop, and it wasn't until Lu Buwei stood up straight that I stepped forward and prepared to take off Yin Na's headset.
But before I could touch her headset, she asked me.
"Brother, what's wrong?"
She asked me without looking back, which made me feel a little weird, this is a state that Yin Na has shown recently, similar to the prophet of the unknown, very strange feeling, she will suddenly give you a rag, and then you accidentally knock over the water glass, or let you open the door, the courier brother just raised his hand to ring the doorbell, and so on, making people feel indescribable.
I knew that at this moment, there must have been white rings in her eyes.
"You're listening to a song?"
I'll just ask.
"No, I'm memorizing words."
She still didn't look back, and I was a little embarrassed.
"Well, it's good to learn English, and I'll have to be a translator when I go abroad in the future."
I feel like a broken thought, like, she is a sister and I am a brother.
"No, you're learning Arabic and you're going abroad?"
She replied casually and asked me rhetorically.
I nodded, and oh my God, she didn't even look at me.
"Here's what you're given."
She finally stood up and turned around, pulled something out of her pocket that looked like an MP3 and handed it to me, but luckily there were no long black headphones, so I shouldn't have been confused.
"What is this?"
I asked, but I took it.
Look, there are some buttons on it.
"The translator, which can recognize foreign languages and translate spoken languages, is a lot more convenient to carry."
And this thing? I've seen it on the Internet, but it's right to think about it, Yin Na has been abroad for a long time, and this kind of thing is absolutely necessary for her.
"Well, okay, I'll study slowly on the way, girl, brother is going out to travel around the world, it's okay for you to be home alone, right?"
It's still more reassuring to be Yin Na.
"You go, I'll take care of the house, can I have pets?"
What surprised me was Yin Na's question.
"Pets?"
It's not bad to have cats and dogs at home, and I agree with this proposal.
"Of course you can, but you have to take care of it, don't get fat pets and starve yourself."
I confessed that if someone came to me, it would say that I was on a business trip.
I called Zhang Qin, and she said that she wanted to go, but because it was the most critical period of college, she had to reluctantly ask me to pay attention to safety and ask me to bring a gift.
That's all right, send another message to the fat man.
"Fatty, my brother has traveled the world, and he will be back in a few days."