In the early morning on Zhoushan Island, it was almost mid-autumn, and it was full of thick fog today, and it was already a little cold.

Freehand, who still got up early, personally took people out of the inner courtyard, and then sent all kinds of rice, grain, firewood and other things from the outside, and took the maids and servants to move them to the courtyards inside, while checking the situation in each small courtyard.

Nuan Niang was called up to follow again this time.

Zhu Yuan moved to this island, and her schoolwork for those girls was stopped, and she went to the island together, which was blank, and she felt that her own petty officials were the first, and everything else was nothing. Nuan Niang also felt in her bones that even if she was going to teach those girls, in fact, it was better to stay in the inner courtyard of the deep house.

Don't like to show your head.

After seeing a small courtyard, Nuan Niang, who lowered her eyebrows and drooped her eyes, wanted to leave together, passed by a window, was stared at coldly by a girl, walked a few steps, stopped in the end, found a reason to say a word with the front freehand, and returned.

Entering the house, moving to the girl who was still staying by the window, Nuan Niang's eyes hesitated for a moment, and finally asked softly: "Sanniang, ...... you Luckily? ”

"The slave is called Loulan now, and if Loulan is not broken, it will not be returned," the girl seemed to answer the question, and turned to Pear Blossom, who was assigned to the same room for some reason: "Get out." ”

Lihua, who was illiterate and sheep-like, was frightened by Loulan's sharp voice, and hurriedly walked out, obviously she was several years older than this Nizi, but she didn't dare to refute at all.

When there were only two people left in the room, Lou Lan suddenly raised her hand and pinched Nuan Niang's body, not sparing any strength, and her tone was even more intensely resentful: "Mother is dead, why don't you die?" ”

was pinched by the girl in front of her, and with these words, Nuan Niang's face turned pale in an instant, gritted her teeth and endured the pain, bowing her head without saying a word.

Seeing her like this, Loulan suddenly let go again, looked Nuan Niang up and down, and mocked her with undisguised ridicule: "You must be favored by adults, right?" ”

Nuan Niang didn't answer.

Loulan also seemed to know her temperament, and continued: "I'm going to the adult, you help me!" ”

Nuan Niang's face suddenly turned whiter, and she shook her head slightly.

The girl's temperament that had just eased down, seeing her like this, subconsciously raised her hand, reacted, and didn't dare to hit it, but changed her expression again: "Don't think I don't know, you're a cool one, if you don't help me, just think about living a stable life by yourself, then don't care about the ups and downs outside the house."

Nuan Niang finally spoke again, and raised her hand slightly: "Sanniang, can't ...... Can't ......"

Loulan hit back, and finally scolded: "Slut! ”

Nuan Niang was silent.

Loulan quickly said: "You have to help me, I have to save my father, I have to save my brother, my lord is favored by Emperor Zhu's side, if I please him, I will definitely be able to ......" said and looked at the woman in front of him hatefully: "...... Don't count on you! ”

Nuan Niang subconsciously shook her head again, paused, and then said, "Sanniang, my lord...... My lord...... He is not easy to talk about. ”

Loulan obviously didn't listen, just glared at Nuan Niang: "If you don't help me, I will die here, and I will come to you every night in the future, so that you will not be able to live in peace for the rest of your life." ”

Nuan Niang immediately looked up, waved her hand and said, "Mo ...... You don't have to. ”

"You help me ......"

Nuan Niang bit her lip, was silent for a moment again, and finally said, "I...... I'll give it a try. ”

Loulan saw that she agreed, and there was no gratitude in her expression, and then she said: "Besides, the adult is a person who likes to paint, I am not good at skills, and you will come to teach me if you are free." ”

I have agreed to that matter just now, and Nuan Niang can only admit it again this time.

Seeing her agree, Loulan suddenly lost the slightest disposition to get along with her, turned her head, looked at the fog in the small courtyard outside the window again, and said, "You go." ”

Nuan Niang seemed to want to say something, but she didn't know how to speak, silently exited the house, and left the small courtyard.

Through the porch and through the hole, I soon came to the courtyard where the little master lived.

Nuan Niang entered the kitchen and looked, it was Liubai and Luo Shui who were busy, and there were four girls to assist, seeing her probe, Liubai said: "Where is Sister Freehand?" ”

Freehand has not returned.

Nuan Niang's heart was suddenly empty, this Nizi didn't have a freehand to speak, so she could only whisper: "Slave...... I went back first. ”

Liubai didn't ask this time, but said, "You don't need to be here, just go and rest." ”

Nuan Niang retreated silently.

I wanted to go back to my room, thinking of Loulan's request just now, and I couldn't help but look at the main house.

According to the little master's way of timekeeping, it was only eight o'clock in the morning, and it was not yet time for him to get up.

I wanted to go in and have a look, so I found a chance...... But, in the end, no.

In fact, I also know that she is still quite defensive of herself, and Nuan Niang doesn't want to be bored.

But I heard a faint sound of singing coming from the house.

It seems that the little master got up a little early today.

Zhu Yuan did wake up a little earlier today, mainly thinking about things.

Yesterday it burned glass.

Because it is said that the first furnace will burn for six hours, that is, 12 hours, it is impossible for Zhu Yuan to wait all the time and come back here in advance.

I don't know how it turned out.

Last night, I was surrounded by a young lady.

Compared with Luoshui's intellectual interest, Qingniang is the most obedient one, and she is also quite pleasing to Zhu Yuan. Recently, it happened that the long-made Gu girl suit was completed, and Nuan Niang specially wore it for Zhu Yuan yesterday, and the beautiful silver jewelry on her body was indeed interesting.

I woke up a little earlier today, and the young lady woke up together.

The temperature dropped, and there was no earth dragon here, so I lay on the bed, and the young lady couldn't ask for it, so she snuggled up in the ...... Well, I don't know who's snuggling with whom...... Entangled looks. talked about small things, and sang a tune to his own petty officials.

She doesn't have a lot of tunes.

Without Luo Shui singing well, he didn't dare to speak on weekdays, but at the moment, if the petty officials are willing to listen, they dare to sing.

"It rains and clears in Phoenix Mountain, the water and wind are clear, and the sunset is bright............ I want to wait for the end of the song to ask for it, but no one is seen, and the peaks are green and ......"

Zhu Yuan hugged the woman, listened quietly, and said with a smile: "The artistic conception is very good, but it is not the scene." ”

"Well, it's the Mid-Autumn Festival soon, and you should sing that Suzi's "Water Tune Song Head"." Qingniang said softly: "The slave will learn it in private, and in the future, I will sing it to the little officials......"

Zhu Yuan's expression was strange: "...... in the future"

The pure young lady didn't understand what was happening at all, and blinked innocently: "What's wrong? ”

Zhu Yuan smiled again: "Sing it now, well, it's okay to recite it." ”

The young lady obediently began to read: "...... When is the bright moon, ask the wine to the sky......"

After only half reading it, Zhu Yuan planned: "Changed, Su Zi's words are too immortal, not suitable for this kind of scene, that, Jiang Jie's "Poppy Beauty", listen to the rain, Luo Shui sang it a few days ago, you follow along." ”

Qing Niang retorted a little this time: "Little official, this word ...... What the writer said is too hurtful, so I shouldn't listen to it more. ”

"Sad spring and sad autumn, literati, should be a little sad," Zhu Yuan smiled: "Do you think I am a literati as a petty official?" ”

Qing Niang nodded hurriedly.

Zhu Yuan was slapped on the woman's body in the nest: "Singing ......"

Qing Niang only felt that her body was crispy, and began to hum: "...... The boy listened to the rain song upstairs, and the red candle was dim and the tent was ......"

After singing this sentence, Zhu Yuan didn't feel anything, but the young lady's eyes were already full of flattery.

Red candle dim tent.

It's a pity that this very good artistic conception was suddenly broken as Freehand opened the curtain and entered the door.

looked at the two people on the bed, stepped forward with a smile, and helped the outside quilt to be pulled by the young lady who was unconsciously lifted inside, covered her body, and said: "Little official, but you have to get up, the slave thinks that he will go ashore in these two days, the colder the sky is here, and there is no fire dragon." Besides, the Mid-Autumn Festival always has to be spent on the shore? ”

Zhu Yuan has no opinion: "You are ready." ”

Freehand said a few more words before finally saying, "Slave...... Can the petty officials get up? ”

Can you do it if you don't get up?

So he nodded.

I got up, had breakfast, and followed a bunch of things.

Wen Zao came back yesterday and sent Lao Zhu's letter, as well as the war situation in the north, Zhu Yuan wrote a reply last night, and early in the morning, he called Wen Zao again and asked him to embark on the road to the north again.

This time, Zhu Yuan mainly said one thing to Lao Zhu.

Regarding the Dadu side, the various documents of the Yuan court, and the various craftsmen in Dadu, we must focus on it, and it is best to send them all to Jinling.

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As for the rest, gold, silver and jewelry, Zhu Yuan didn't care too much.

In addition, regarding the war in the north, Zhu Yuan did not give any more opinions this time. I want Lao Zhu to be more restrained, after all, he just won the capital, and in the blink of an eye, he went to outflank Wang Baobao, which was more or less radical.

In the past, Lao Zhu was not like this.

I have to say that my influence is ...... Zhu Yuan himself sometimes feels that it is a bit excessive.

I'm not too worried.

Zhu Yuan can also see that the overall situation in the north has been decided, so Wang Baobao is there, even if he loses this battle, or let Wang Baobao run away, it has nothing to do with the overall situation, but it is just a bit of trouble in the future.

In any case, after this battle, compared to the time when he only took the capital, this time the foundation of the Yuan Chamber was eradicated in one fell swoop, and the Yuan court forces in all other directions either stood on their own or surrendered.

Submission is the best choice.

As for self-reliance......

In this era, if you want to get a legal orthodoxy, it is actually far from being as simple as ordinary people imagine.

If you don't admit it, it's strife.

The reality is, how can it be so easy to recognize.

sent Wen Zao away, and Qiao Wang also brought someone over and sent the first furnace of glass that was burned last night.

Things don't go well.

Smoothly, twenty crucibles, all of which were very crystalline with all kinds of things.

The unfortunate thing is that I don't know if it is overburned, all kinds of colors, all kinds of looks and looks of the 'glass', all glued together with the crucible, so the craftsmen are holding the crucible together and sending it over, so that Zhu Yuan decides what to do?

These cauldrons are not cheap and cannot be smashed as in other molds.

Moreover, whether it is Qiao Wang or other craftsmen, they have also found that these finished 'glass' are definitely very valuable things.

It's just that the current situation seems to be ...... Something isn't right.

Zhu Yuan was also a little confused at first.

Glued together, what to do, online, etc...... Nothing waited.

You can only think for yourself.

After racking his brains, he finally came back to his senses.

Melting point of glass...... No, glass doesn't have a fixed melting point, it seems like something...... I can't remember it for a while, but in short, there is probably a melting temperature.

Compared to the firing temperature, which may be in the range of one or two thousand degrees, the melting temperature of glass is very low, and it seems that it only takes six or seven hundred degrees.

Thinking of this, they didn't need Qiao Wang to go to the furnace under the mountain again, that is, on the side of Zhu Yuan's residence, they directly burned the coke stove and put the crucible, and sure enough, as Zhu Yuan expected, after heating for a while, the glass began to melt, and in comparison, the graphite crucible with a heat resistance of about 3000 degrees was safe and sound.

When the glass melts, the next step is to shape it.

I have already found a craftsman in advance.

Interestingly, in addition to the craftsmen who made ceramics, Zhu Yuan also found two other candy blowers.

It seems that the glasswork of the past, of course, was handmade glasswork, and not the mechanized production of the factory, in short, it seems...... It's blown out.

Various tools are also prepared in advance.

Zhu Yuan's first goal is still a thermometer.

There is already a plan.

First of all, it is necessary to make capillary glass tubes.

At the request of the site, the craftsmen began to try, first blowing and pulling out the glass tube, and then, by pulling, the glass was extended as much as possible, so that the middle cavity was fine. However, several craftsmen tried together, each showing their magical powers, and the thinnest diameter was only two or three millimeters, which could not meet Zhu Yuan's requirements.

Subsequently, it was proposed that the piercing should be carried out through a steel wire.

Immediately he ordered someone to find a tool.

Thin steel wire, softened glass, brushed, left empty.

After another attempt, we finally made an ultra-fine glass tube with a diameter of less than one millimeter.

With the glass tube, there is also the thermometer underneath...... Zhu Yuan didn't know what to call it, in short, the part that contained the expanded liquid, or alcohol, or mercury.

Of course, Zhu Yuan chooses alcohol.

Mercury is poisonous.

In short, start by making a small spherical container, like a much smaller round-bottomed flask.

It is then burned together with a capillary glass tube.

This step is not easy.

To bond the two together, also make sure that the capillary and the cavity at the bottom are not blocked.

I tried the same several times, and finally it was a success.

The preliminary finished product, the expansion liquid cavity at the bottom, Zhu Yuan deliberately made a relatively large one, about one centimeter in diameter, which is also considered in advance, can be loaded with more expansion liquid, so that when heated, the upper part of the tube is not very thin compared to the later thermometer, the liquid has more room for expansion.

The length of the glass tube also reaches one foot.

Then, it's time for the next steps.

There was no alcohol for the time being, so I found a strong liquor as a substitute, dyed it, boiled it, put a sample of the prepared thermometer into it, and let the boiled red wine slowly seep through the pores until the cavity at the bottom was almost full.

Although it is not pure alcohol, it is not pure water either, so the boiling point of the spirit, should be less than 100 degrees.

Zhu Yuan hopes to test boiling water.

That's 100 degrees Celsius.

With this requirement in mind, one of the details, the liquor in the pores, should not be completely full, leaving a certain void.

In the final step, keep the thermometer in the boiling spirit, set it up, wipe the top dry, frost it, and melt a small piece of glass next to it to glue and seal the capillary pores at the top of the thermometer.

This step is also troublesome.

In order to maintain the proper high-temperature expansion of the liquor in the thermometer, it is impossible to fire it directly in the furnace, otherwise, the liquor inside will definitely evaporate.

Also frosted to keep the bond tight.

The bonding was completed, and the first thermometer of this era was officially baked.