Chapter 297: By-Products
is not as lively as the Liu family, but the Su family is still quite comfortable. The following stewards are responsible for everything about this temple fair, so Su Wanmiao doesn't have to worry too much.
Recently, she has been busy with all the things she should be busy with, so she has more free time. However, she did not choose to rest, but accompanied Du Bai to pay attention to porcelain matters.
In fact, she took the lead in the matter of porcelain from the beginning, so she also knew a lot about it. But at this point, it involves many things that mortals can't understand, and she naturally doesn't understand it a little.
But this did not prevent her from advising Du Bai on business planning. After all, he has been operating in this road for more than ten years, and it is much better than Du Bai, a halfway monk.
In fact, the thinking of the ancients in making money is not necessarily much worse than that of modern people, but there are differences in some ideas and means. Therefore, Du Bai also learned to tell Su Wanmiao the meaning of advertising and sales techniques on the modern earth, and she will implement it.
In this way, the effect is naturally better.
For this, Du Bai actually has no opinion. He doesn't have much talent for this kind of commercial thing, even if he learns to draw scoops in modern times, but what is suitable for modern times may not be suitable for ancient times, so it is more appropriate to leave it to Su Wanmiao to deal with.
He took some interest in something other than porcelain.
The cause was probably some "discarded products" in the process of firing porcelain in the kiln factory, and after being noticed by Du Bai by chance, he put some thought into it.
In this era, that kind of thing was probably called glass, but in modern times, it is glass.
Of course, the actual finished product is far inferior to that of modern glass. Even because it is mixed and extremely fragile, it is considered a waste product in the eyes of many people.
But in fact, speaking of which, glass also existed in this era, because the difficulty of firing is much higher than that of porcelain, so it is an extremely expensive luxury, and it was once known as a treasure that will be produced by the gift of heaven, so only the real magnates, or even only the royal family, can have it.
The waste glass that occasionally appears in kilns like this is far from the expensive glass, which is not only ugly in color, but also more brittle and difficult to shape, so it is often treated as waste after it is produced.
Until Du Bai found out about this.
The ancients, who had not experienced modern industrialization, naturally did not know that the manufacture of this glass had a great relationship with the temperature of firing and the purity of impurities. However, ordinary kiln factories are mainly engaged in making porcelain, so it is naturally difficult to meet this requirement.
Discovering this, Du Bai quickly thought that if he used spells, would it be simpler?
After all, there is no professional equipment, so you can only start from this aspect.
If it can't be done, if it can really make perfect glass, then what a huge business opportunity it contains, Du Bai feels a little amazing even if he just thinks about it!
At that time, the Su family porcelain will no longer have to bother to imitate other people's porcelain, and there will be no other branch of this one!
For this reason, he and Miss Yuening met twice again to discuss the production of glass.
And the first time she heard that those beautiful and delicate glasses were actually made of the most ordinary sand, Miss Yuening was obviously quite surprised, and she was even more curious about why Du Bai knew so much unknown knowledge.
In this regard, she was not sure whether she could make this glass for a while, and the initial test ended in failure, so she could only say that she would try a few more times when she went back.
Du Bai was not in a hurry, after all, he actually didn't have a deep understanding of making glass, so he just said that she didn't have to worry about taking her time.
Anyway, although the porcelain of the Su family has slowly calmed down after a short period of popularity at the beginning, it is also a steady progress, whether it is other shopkeepers or Su Wanmiao, they are optimistic about it. Then this glass can be used as a secret weapon, not necessarily as urgent as a life-saving straw.
In addition, Du Bai had seen Na Sheng Yunting twice more in the past two days.
Although this kid has regained the spider by his side, his motivation to study has not decreased too much, but he has slightly returned to the level of a normal person, and he is also quite looking forward to the next imperial examination.
And in the past two days, he has not been busy reading, but building a nest for this little spider.
That's right, just such a small spider the size of a finger needs to go to great lengths to build a nest.
For this reason, he also came to Du Bai twice, and asked a little nervously whether there would be any taboos in this nest and what materials were better to use. Later, I asked what the spider should eat, and whether she needed to catch mosquitoes every day to feed her......
When asked about this, Du Bai was naturally a little speechless. Hell knows what nest that spider spirit likes!
However, he still instructed that mosquitoes and other food belong to the nature of spiders, and Sheng Yunting doesn't have to care about her, just let her weave a web to hunt by herself. Do not feed other meats, otherwise they may be wasted. It is best to feed some plants with aura, such as ginseng, which can also indirectly speed up its recovery.
After all, the spider spirit was overtaken by the monk at the beginning, and there are still some residual sequelae.
However, seeing this kid's happy appearance, he was still a little relieved in his heart, and it was not in vain that he spent a lot of effort.
After such a short period of leisure, the time soon came to the day of the temple fair.
Although the official worship service does not begin until the afternoon, the festival is already lively in the morning, and many people come from far and wide to join in the fun. Or if you want to be lucky, there are also those who take their children to see those novelties.
The streets of this small county town, which were originally somewhat spacious, were now truly crowded with traffic, with jugglers, groceries and candy for children.
Many children snuggled up to adults, small hands holding big hands, a pair of timid eyes but kept looking at this novel world, seeing all kinds of people on the roadside, and some fragrant snacks on the street made their mouths drool.
If the family is relatively wealthy, parents may buy some to satisfy their hunger, but if they are not rich, then these children can only watch with their eyes.
Even if someone kindly delivers food, the elders will often warn the children not to take it indiscriminately, otherwise they will be deceived by those "kidnappers" hiding in the crowd at some point.
The child naturally couldn't help but be frightened, and quickly shook his head and shrank behind his parents' clothes, looking at those who were eating and swallowing saliva.
Liu Xiuping, who was dressed in brocade, held the string of sugar gourds in his hand, looking at the back of the child who couldn't help but look back from time to time and gradually walked away with his parents, and couldn't help but chuckle and slowly get up.
He lifted the string of sugar gourds and looked at them, then put them to his mouth and took a bite, and sighed in a voice that only he could hear, "What a pity...... It looks delicious......"
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