Outer city of Suero.

Just after the spring break after the New Year's Day, the stalls in the outer city are already bustling.

Chen Hansheng and Kalanda were strolling between the stalls. After watching the New Year's Day party at school, the two of them set off with the caravan to Suero.

Chen Hansheng doesn't need to run goods often, but as the deputy leader of the business group, it is still necessary to keep abreast of the market situation. So every once in a while he would go to several major trading cities such as Suero.

If you're lucky, you'll be able to find some good things that the locals don't think are of much value, but the school has a way to process them. A month ago, in the same market, Chen Hansheng found a brown gum block, said to be a type of gum from the southern forests, and the locals couldn't think of any use for it, so they made it into elastic insoles, toy balls and small bowls. At that time, he thought that this thing was very similar to rubber, and after buying it back for identification, he found that it was indeed a polymer compound that was very close to rubber. So they immediately contacted the merchant to supply the goods, and established a new trade route.

After the New Year, there are often some new faces in the market, and Chen Hansheng is like a hunter looking for prey, happily wandering through the forest.

Although the weather has just warmed up, the atmosphere in the market is already in full swing.

Chen Hansheng looked east and west, and chatted with the stall owners if he had nothing to do. Kalanda has no such interest. She just hummed a small tune and followed behind Chen Hansheng.

The song that Kalanda hummed was "Moonlight on the Lotus Pond", which Lao Chen taught her and then sang at the New Year's Day party. Every time she thinks of the scene when they sang this song together on stage that day, she can't help but curl the corners of her mouth.

Originally, Lao Chen was assigned the task of singing by the organizing committee of the party, and he just wanted to deal with it. He picked a random song. After teaching her twice, she went to work. But Kalanda took the appearance very seriously. Even she didn't know why she would take out the decision and motivation to practice such a song with the determination and motivation to cultivate Douqi.

In order to practice singing well, she specially went to Liu Wan as a teacher, calibrated the pronunciation word by word, and sang the right tone sentence by sentence.

This song is very different from their traditional style songs. She practiced secretly for two weeks before she fully mastered it. When she sang this song aloud during rehearsal, everyone was shocked.

She still remembers Chen Hansheng, who was both happy and proud when she heard his singing.

"Okay, stop singing. Rest for a while, my brother has time to teach you to sing a few other songs. My ears are calloused when I keep cycling singles. Chen Hansheng put a piece of ore back into the stall and turned to joke with Kalanda.

Then he was kicked in the leg.

"Hehe, your members of the group would be stunned to see you playing a little temper now. ”

"What do you mean?" Karanda clasped her hands to her chest and squinted at Chen.

"Of course it's stealing Lebei, you're like this, only I can see it. They only deserve to see you look like a big woman with a straight face. ”

Karanda bit her lip and wanted to say "Nasty." But my lips are going to be engraved with tooth marks, and I still can't say it. In the end, he had to kick Lao Chen again.

Chen Hansheng took Kalanda's hand, and the two of them wandered around the market for a while. Chen Hansheng suddenly sighed, leaned in front of a stall, picked up a cup, and looked at it carefully.

"What's wrong? What's so nice about a cup. Kalanda took a look and saw that the cup was made of iron, similar to the usual enamel cups in school, but of much lower quality. And there's no such colorful, slippery stuff out there.

Chen Hansheng didn't answer, and picked up the bowls, pots, and basins on the stall and looked at them.

Seeing that Chen Hansheng was looking carefully, the stall owner hurriedly introduced: "This guest, the ironware produced here by me is a good thing. You see, this style is especially popular among the discerning aristocratic lords. If you sell it somewhere else, it will sell well. ”

Chen Hansheng put down a teapot in his hand. Pointing to his face, "Can you see where I'm from?"

"I know. You must have come from Montenegro, Suero who doesn't know that the old ladies from Montenegro have black hair and black eyes. The stall owner said with a bit of flattery.

"Then don't you know that we merchants from Montenegro have always only bought raw materials?" Chen Hansheng said.

"I've heard of that, too, but I'm good at these things. I have never seen such pots and pans made of iron sold in Montenegro. You've never seen anything like this over there, have you?" said the stall owner.

Chen Hansheng picked up another basin and pointed to the two small swords crossed on it, "What does this mean?"

"Ah, it's their ...... Brand. If you use it well in the future, it's good to look for the iron tools of the double sword brand. ”

"Hey, I even have a sign. ”

"How about it? Would you like to buy it?"

"Buy one first, go back and see if it's durable. If it works, I'll come to you tomorrow. Chen Hansheng spent ten copper shields to buy this cup.

"No problem, I have a fixed stall here, every day. Welcome back tomorrow. The stall owner said.

After the two walked away, Kalanda asked, "What the hell is going on?"

"Don't you think this cup is very similar to the style of the cup in school?" Chen Hansheng.

"What's the matter? It doesn't seem difficult, it's normal for someone to see it imitated. ”

That means it's leaking out of school. The problem is that we haven't sold these products to the outside at all, and it doesn't matter if one or two pieces are leaked, but whether it's a cup or a pot, more than a dozen products are so similar, and there is a problem behind it. This kind of design is not something that can be done casually. Chen Hansheng said.

"Then should we ask the shopkeeper for clarification? ”

"Wait a minute, I'll go back to the caravan to make sure of another thing. ”

Chen Hansheng returned to Suero's office, waited for the evening, and finally waited for a young man from the industrial group. His name was Cai Xuetao, and he had come here with a caravan to select ore, and he knew a lot about metalworking.

"Xiao Cai, come and see this cup. ”

"Hey, Lao Chen, where did this cup come from? ”

"Bought on the market. Will it be the locals who do it?"

Cai Xuetao looked at it for a while and said, "It's not like, this surface treatment is not like what they do." It's like the standard processing method in our factory. It's just that the conditions are worse and not in place. ”

"Are you sure?"

"Sure, I've seen the locals' ironware, and that's not the same thing. Old Chen, what the hell is going on?"

"Don't keep quiet about this, I'll investigate it properly. ”