While Guo Kang was thinking about the portrait, Theodora put the cork back on.

"I'll take it back and try it for dessert." She said to Guo Kang: "There should be many uses for this drink. ”

"Okay, whatever you want." Guo Kang said, and took out a few more bottles: "These are made of grapes, and they taste good." Of course, it is not as precious as the bottle just now. You can try it out, and even if you fail, you don't have to feel sorry. ”

"Is it easier to process grapes?" Theodora asked.

"Actually, all kinds of fruits are similar, but we don't have a shortage of good grapes here, and the industry is ripe." Guo Kang said: "There are still two boxes in the warehouse, which were originally intended to be given as gifts, but they were not delivered. You can tell Wu Han and let him take someone to the palace directly. ”

"Isn't it anyone?" Theodora asked.

"Well, those Heavenly Fang Sect merchants still feel fooled." Guo Kang was a little helpless: "They tasted a bottle and found that the taste was wrong, and they thought that we were coaxing them with unfermented grape juice." ”

"This thing is not less technical than wine." Theodora commented.

"Everyone has their own good, and I can't help it." Guo Kang shook his head: "The businessmen said, 'We don't accept what is not fermented'." ”

"Maybe it's on their side, it's not easy to sell." He guessed: "The market conditions in different places are really different......

"Is this also a gift leftover?" Theodora didn't discuss business with him, but asked with mango juice.

"yes." Guo Kang nodded.

"Who did you give it to?" Theodora said dissatisfied.

"It's all sent to the priests and craftsmen." Guo Kang said: "This is the fifth batch. The first two batches were complete failures, and in the third batch, we overturned the entire process and refilled the whole process, and it was only then that we succeeded. The fourth batch was the grape juice, along with a few jars of apple juice. It was not until the fifth batch that it was relatively ripe, and I was willing to use mangoes. ”

"There are dozens of bottles in this batch. But I took this one myself, and I gave the rest to them as a souvenir. It was originally experimental in nature, and there was no expectation of making money. ”

"They've all contributed a lot to this, and I think it's only natural for them to taste their results. For us, it is also a necessary way to motivate citizens to work. He didn't give in this time, and said calmly: "If you think it's a leftover, you don't want to." But in this matter, I will not budge. ”

"Oh, that'll do." Theodora looked completely unconcerned: "I thought you gave little Jeanne an 'old friend'." ”

She deliberately emphasized the words "old friend" and looked at Guo Kang and said.

Guo Kang originally thought that this was a question of understanding the noble and the lowly, and the distribution of the fruits of labor, but who knew that she didn't care about important social issues, but was jealous, which made him a little speechless.

"I'm afraid it's too late for tonight's banquet." Theodora said, "In a few days, I'll bring it to entertain the guests, and by the way, I'll help you spread the word." ”

"What kind of banquet is it?" Guo Kang asked.

"Those Frenchmen." Theodora said, "It is very simple to deal with them. The more extravagant and strange you are, the more they think you're amazing. I'm going to use this drink and pastry as a promotional point, and then I'm going to bring the Central Plains clothes ordered by the Javanese merchants. It's enough to frighten them for a long time. ”

"You really bought clothes from Sun Shiwan." Guo Kang still feels sorry for the money: "To be honest, I think this is playing the piano to the cow." Those people can only understand swords, and if you show them that they have money, they will only think about 1204 again. ”

"Both are indispensable. Since you and Tohwan are both studying swords, let's study how to use money more effectively. Theodora still didn't care: "By the way, what about the weapon you said is better than the sword, how is the research now?" ”

Guo Kang took out two pistols and put them on the table: "Now there are two more." ”

"The one on the left is made of metal clockwork, and the one on the right is made of ballista-like torsion springs. Both can ignite gunpowder through flint. "There are four routes now, and I don't know which one is better," he said. ”

"Then do some of them." Theodora said, unbuttoning her robe, only to find two pistols stuck in her waist. It's just that it happened to be decorated with intricate lace outside, covering the ups and downs, so that he couldn't see it just now.

"You gave it last time." Theodora explains: "The arquebus is so hard to hide that I don't like it very much. This lightning gun is very useful, so I always carry it. But can you adjust the hammer in the back? It triggers too slowly, and it takes a bit of a slowness to press the trigger before it can fire. ”

"Uh......" Guo Kang was startled, and then he reacted: "The disadvantage of this weapon is that it is too sensitive, so I deliberately designed it this way." If the trigger is too dexterous, it is easy to misfire. ”

"Okay, then these two may be the most suitable for this time. I'll go back and try it too. Theodora said, reaching out and grabbing two pistols, which were actually inserted directly into her big skirt, and disappeared. Guo Kang looked at it dumbfounded for a while, but he didn't understand how he hid it.

"You're really ......," he didn't know what to say for a moment.

"Forget it, there's one last gift, take a look." He shook his head and lowered down to open another box.

"How many novelties have you made?"

Before Theodora could finish his emotion, he saw Guo Kang take out another thing with a complex structure - it was composed of a lot of strips of material and a lot of ropes, even though Theodora was well-informed, he couldn't understand what it was for a while.

"This time, it's really just for you." Guo Kang triumphantly explained: "I call it a composite gravity dispersion device!" ”

"What is this......" Diodora still didn't understand.

"I'll show you how to show it and you'll understand." Guo Kang said, and brought out a semi-finished female plaster bust. It had carved the basic outline of the human form, but the facial features and clothes had not yet had time to be made.

"Let's make a demonstration of this." As he spoke, he quickly fastened the device to the bust and introduced it while fastening the rope strap.

"These resilient materials are baleen. They have a shaping effect and are very tough, and can be used as a skeleton to provide support for the chest. Guo Kang pointed to the bust and gestured: "Then, here, below, a part of the weight will be transferred to the waist through these brackets." ”

"And above." He pointed to the straps that were fastened to his shoulders and back: "Here I used a diagonal pull, also pulling from above. ”

"You see, in this way, the gravity of the whole chest can be dissolved. Wouldn't that be much easier? ”

Theodora was also stunned, and then blushed: "You...... How do you still design this kind of thing! ”

"What are you shy, what do we have to do with each other." Guo Kang was originally focused on force analysis, but when she said this, he was a little embarrassed: "Last time...... Didn't you remember it when you said that your shoulders were sore when you were in my room? ”

(End of chapter)