"You still have a reward that I didn't take away, remember?" Just when the old man was about to step out of the door, Jiang Xingchen suddenly said this.

The old man froze at once, when Jiang Xingchen was going to send an abacus to the finance side a few days ago. He took the initiative to ask to explain it for the sake of show. Jiang Xingchen once said that if you teach those people, you will give yourself a reward. And this reward is related to the practice of Tai Chi.

But during this time, he put all his mind on learning abacus, and after a long time, he forgot all about this stubble. Now that Jiang Xingchen mentioned it, he remembered it again.

Tai Chi, this is a big stalk in his heart. Seeing that Tang Chuxue was so powerful now, his eyes were blue with envy! Now that Jiang Xingchen mentioned that reward, how could the old man not be moved.

"Boy, I remember what you said!" The old man turned around, the smile on his old face bloomed like a flower, and he walked to Jiang Xingchen in two steps: "If you don't say it, you are interesting enough, and you are thinking about the reward for me until now!"

Jiang Xingchen smiled and stretched out his hand: "Tea!"

The muscles on the old man's face twitched, and he said weakly, "I really ...... Nope!"

Jiang Xingchen shrugged his shoulders, but he was not angry, and said indifferently: "The reward is gone!"

"Boy, you can't do this! We agreed at the beginning, I will teach those financial people to use abacus, and you will give me a reward for Tai Chi...... You are a dignified duke, you can't be untrustworthy to me, an old man!" the old man grabbed Jiang Xingchen's arm and shouted.

"I didn't say anything and didn't believe it!" Jiang Xingchen broke away from the old man's hand and asked rhetorically, "Did you really teach those people?"

"It's taught......" The old man was about to nod his head, and his face changed suddenly. That's when I understood. Isn't it true that this little soul has the final say, just drag out a person. insisted that he hadn't learned, what could he do. There's no way to prove it.

"Insidious, shameless, despicable......" A series of derogatory words popped up in the old man's mind, and they were all thrown on Jiang Xingchen's body. I knew this earlier, and when I came back, I went to ask for a reward. By the way, what have I been doing since I came back from the city hall, as if I was wondering how to steal tea......

"Old man, one last chance! Give me back the tea!" Jiang Xingchen said with a smile.

The old man hesitated for a long time. Gritted his teeth and said: "Little Soul Dan, count you ruthless! Give me the reward first, and I'll get you tea!"

"Old fellow, do you think it's possible, neither of us knows who! Hurry up, I have limited patience!"

The old man saw that the last trick didn't work, so he had to go to get the tea in frustration.

After a while, the old man came back with the tea leaves and put them on the table: "I've returned it to you." Hurry up and give me the reward!"

Jiang Xingchen reached out and took the tea, opened it and smelled it, and after making sure that it was correct, he took a blank piece of paper from the table. I drew two strokes and pushed it to the old man.

"What is this?" the old man grabbed the blank paper and looked at it and was stunned, the things on it were very simple. I drew a square and a circle.

"Boy, that's the reward you gave me. You are playing me, this has a fart relationship with Tai Chi!" The old man was so angry that his face was deformed. Slapping the table and yelling.

Jiang Xingchen smiled faintly and asked, "What is the biggest obstacle to your cultivation of Tai Chi until now?"

The old man instantly regained his calmness and said in a deep voice: "I always unconsciously mobilize my vitality!"

Jiang Xingchen said: "It's okay when you deliberately control it, but as long as you concentrate your mind and completely enter the Tai Chi posture, your vitality will run unconsciously." That's what you said last time, right?"

"That's right!" the old man nodded.

"That's it, you just need to be distracted!" Jiang Xingchen tapped the blank paper on the table.

"What do you mean by being distracted?" The old man frowned, looked at the white paper, and still didn't quite understand: "Since you require mental concentration, how can you be distracted for two purposes! What does this have to do with the squares and circles drawn on the white paper!"

Jiang Xingchen said: "You can try to practice drawing squares with your left hand and circles with your right hand! When your mind is concentrated on one of the patterns, the other pattern can also be drawn completely, and this is a success! At that time, you can not only concentrate on Tai Chi, but also control your own vitality!"

The old man was stunned and asked, "It's so simple?"

"Yes, it's that simple in theory, but in practice, it's not easy to do!"

"But why do I feel a little unreliable...... I always feel like you're fooling me!" the old man stared at Jiang Xingchen, trying to see something on his surface.

Jiang Xingchen looked calm, and said lightly: "It's all said, it's just a theory! Just like what I told Miss Tang, as for whether I can practice or not, I can't guarantee it!"

"Okay, I'll try again the way you do! Don't look for me for this time, I'm in retreat!" said the old man, picking up the blank paper and walking out of the room.

Jiang Xingchen looked at the old man's back and rubbed his chin, and said in a low voice: "Distraction is dual-purpose, things in martial arts novels, can the old man succeed...... Can't ......."

After more than ten days, the old man really didn't come out, which made Zhao Danqing and the second brother complain, and they couldn't play cards together, and no one else played with them.

Jiang Xingchen is clean, busy with his work every day, and the design progress of machine tools and molds is fast.

By the end of April, the abacus in the institute had been popularized, which not only played an important role in the calculation of the real number jù, but also entered the classroom, and the children were learning.

On the side of Minggang City, twenty steel rolling machines have been manufactured, and light steel rails have begun to be produced. And the teams of the major forces to survey the terrain have also been basically completed, and the construction route has been determined. Soon the rails will be transported in a steady stream and the construction of the light rail will soon begin.

And the first money of the major forces also entered the account of Jufu Qianzhuang Xingchenling, with a total of 2.6 billion citrine coins. The owner of Jufu Qian Zhuang is so beautiful that he can't find the north.

According to the original agreement with Xingchen Ling, they immediately arranged for people to contact various countries and prepare to open a branch of Qianzhuang.

On the ice field, the first batch of soldiers in rotation has returned, and the tens of millions of combustible ice that were dug up at the beginning have all been brought back. Jiang Xingchen was preparing to send Tofu to lead the beetles over for the second time, and dig out another batch. At the same time, while summer is approaching, build a base there, otherwise the people stationed there will be too hard.

Hongyuan City is also making rapid progress, the living area has been completed, the manganese refinery plant is more than halfway through, and the task of the steel plant is relatively heavy, and it will take some time to complete.

On the Xingchen Leader's side, the area of the new city is too large, and there are many buildings of all kinds, so it can't get up in a short time. Underground works are still under construction on the university side.

The progress on the outside is very smooth, but the progress on the side of the institute is not satisfactory. The team led by Xian Ning, in the study of the steam locomotive, got stuck in the brake system and never got over. The study of glass was almost shelved. In terms of education, physics and chemistry are still blank due to the lack of time to study.

Jiang Xingchen himself is also a little anxious, the construction of Hongyuan City is very fast, once the steel plant is completed, it will be able to produce heavy steel rails immediately, as long as the topographic survey is done, the railway should be laid soon, if the steam locomotive is still not researched by then, won't the rails become decorations?

The old man's gambling contract can be regarded as a joke, but with the emperor, his cattle have been blown out, and many people in the upper echelons of the empire must know about it. At that time, I am afraid that it will not make people laugh off their big teeth! And the emperor can spare no effort to support himself, which is also directly related to the railway, after all, it will benefit the entire empire in the future.

The most important thing is that more and more materials will be needed for the development of the territory in the future, and now the way of carriage transportation can no longer keep up, and there is no railway transportation, and I don't know how long it will be delayed!

Although he was anxious, he comforted Xian Ning and their team not to be anxious, he was afraid that Xian Ning was in a bad mood, and being anxious would cause old injuries.

At the beginning of May, he received bad news, Shi Wazi came to tell him that the grapes were not bearing fruit. This surprised him, the seed had obviously been nourished by the vitality, why not.

"Could it be that I didn't plant it right?" he really didn't have much memory of grapes, as if he was eating them all but eating them.

"Forget it! If you don't plant it, you don't plant it, grapes are perennial, maybe cuttings will work! Go back and let the ribs run, get some branches from the Tubo Valley, and plant them again!"

Originally, Jiang Xingchen didn't take it to heart, didn't he just eat grapes a year late, and it was nothing! But then Grandpa Fu came to tell him that last month's Xingchen Monthly had already followed his instructions to launch new wine and food advertisements in the summer.

Jiang Xingchen was depressed after hearing this, and let out the big words, but there was no new wine by then, and his credit would be gone. The key is that this is still published by Xingchen Monthly, so you can't be confused!

Send another message, saying that it was wrong last time, only food, no brand new wine, and then Xingchen Ling will become a laughing stock. Now, due to the liberalization of paper, small newspapers have appeared in various places, and the competitiveness is already great, so if we come out again......

"No, we have to find a way! Fortunately, I only talked about brand new wines, not wines...... Is it okay to make fruit wine?" Jiang Xingchen immediately shook his head, there is no large-scale cultivation of fruit trees at all, and there are not many wild fruits that ripen in summer, so it is too little to make fruit shaved ice.

"What should I do, or go to the Tibetan Valley, buy a lot of grapes, make wine there, and then transport them back...... No, it's easy for the ribs to fly over, but it's troublesome to transport the wine back, this trip will take more than two months, and it's already early May, so it's not a rush at all!"

Just when Jiang Xingchen was pondering the solution, a letter came from the Land of the Damned, this time it was good news, the shipyard had finally researched and manufactured a seven-story treasure ship. (To be continued......)