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At this time, seeing the businessman showing off his wealth, he immediately annoyed Lou Dalang, he was also a brave and hateful person when he was young, but he was getting older, his belly was getting bigger, and fighting with people no longer relied on the courage of blood, but preferred to smash people with silver, Lou Dalang shouted: "That person is deceiving me The merchant of the Li Dynasty has never seen the gold beads? Come on, take my newly bought blood coral and give it to Mr. Houlong, just take this transaction to form a good fate!"

A few moments later, a few servants brought in a wagon a large vat containing a branch of blood-red coral.

The corals in complete condition are originally high-quality, and this blood coral is even rarer, although the three-foot-tall blood coral is not rare in the world, but it is also extremely rare. Lou Dalang took this blood coral to send Mr. Houlong, who had never met, which can be regarded as a big deal.

But I didn't expect that the stupid big man and Li Bo insisted on not accepting it, Li Bo said: "Mr. Wu only needs to deliver the silver taels at the auction price, we don't accept any gifts, in fact, those merchants just now replaced the silver taels with gold beads, but they trouble us to convert the gold beads separately, and after taking them back, we have to ask someone to sell them and exchange them for silver taels, and there are a few more procedures." ”

And the stupid big one muttered: "What's so good about this coral, Brother Guo said, it's just the accumulation of the corpses of a small bug." Isn't it a fool to use this as a moneymaker?"

Lou Dalang almost had a crooked nose, the first time he heard someone say that coral was transformed by the corpse of a small insect, it was really nonsense, but although he didn't know that the "Brother Guo" in the mouth of the stupid big man was the white-bearded "Mr. Houlong" in folklore, he didn't want to offend the stupid big man.

Lou Dalang said with a smile: "This blood coral is just a gadget to play with Mr. Houlong, a piece of heart, and I also ask two Mr. Houlong to dedicate it to Mr. Houlong." He lowered his voice: "In the future, Mr. Houlong will make any interesting things, and please inform the two of you in time, there are also many friends and shops in the northwest, and you will be able to sell Mr. Houlong's goods at a good price." ”

Okay, this Lou Lang has some vision, just from the punctuation marks, snow sugar and other things, he found that Mr. Houlong is not an extraordinary person, and he sent out a blood coral, if he can form a good relationship with Mr. Houlong, it is a good deal.

On this day, the entire Yinxian County was coaxing, Houlong Village pulled out a cart of snow candy, in exchange for a cart of gold beads - the people of Pingtou naturally will not distinguish that this car of gold beads is actually a deposit for a whole year's snow sugar production, they only know that the cart full of money is so heavy that even the ruts have pressed a deep mark on the mud floor!

At the same time, Mr. Houlong's name is also spreading more and more, and in the mouths of some villagers, Mr. Houlong is an immortal who can turn stones into gold!

Guo Dalu was standing in his small courtyard, taking Hao Ge'er, Li Bo, Silly Big Man, Big Girl, Second Girl, Huang Manyuan and other children to look at the blood coral presented by Lou Dalang.

The stupid big man touched the coral clumsily: "Brother Guo, you said that this coral is alive, but I feel like a stone?"

Guo Dalu said: "The polyp is alive, and in the extremely hot ocean in the south, you can see the live polyp, and this insect grows by eating plankton smaller than it in the sea. When the polyp dies, its carcass accumulates, and as the years go by, the carcass absorbs the calcium and other minerals in the seawater, and it becomes the stone-like coral you see today. ”

Hao Ge'er and the others didn't seem to understand what calcium and minerals were, but they understood that this beautiful coral was actually a corpse of a small insect, and the hand that was carefully touching the coral suddenly retracted, and exclaimed: "Is this really a corpse?"

Brother Hao glared at the girl: "Sister, isn't this ivory also an elephant's corpse?

Li Bo nodded and said: "That's right, I heard that this coral can only be salvaged from the bottom of the sea, and in order to salvage this coral, I don't know how many fishermen either died in the wind and waves in the sea, or were swallowed by the sharks in the sea, and the reason why this blood coral is so red is that it is all made of blood!"

The big girl was even more alarmed: "What? This blood coral is made of blood?! Isn't this an evil thing?"

Li Bo tilted his chin: "Girl, you don't understand, this thing turned into essence and blood is the most suitable for the town, and ordinary dirty things don't dare to approach this blood coral." This rich and noble family got blood coral, and they were all placed in the main hall to ward off evil. ”

Guo Dalu laughed: "Li Bo, what are you talking nonsense, the reason why this blood coral is red is because its corpse absorbs iron, manganese and other elements on the seabed in the process of sedimentation and calcification, and the iron element is red, so even the coral has turned red, which has nothing to do with blood." By the way, the reason why blood is red is also because of the presence of iron in blood cells. ”

The second girl covered her mouth next to her: "Oh my God? Do we have iron in our bodies? How did this iron get in? I haven't seen anyone eat iron with their mouths?"

Guo Dalu said: "These truths are still too profound for you, I will talk about the concept of elements in the future, in fact, there are various elements in nature in the human body, such as bones, which contain calcium, water, needless to say, and carbon and other elements." This topic is a bit far, and I will teach you slowly in the future. ”

The children don't seem to understand, but since they saw the car of gold beads, they will be Guo Dalu's admiration of the five bodies in their hearts, as long as it is said by Brother Guo, all the words are absolute truth, I can't understand it, that's just because I'm stupid, as long as I follow Brother Guo to learn, I will definitely be able to learn the real skills one day.

Brother Hao nodded heavily: "I used to hear people in the city say that women are made of water, it seems that there is indeed water in the body, but it is said that men are made of mud, is this mud the peat element that Brother Guo said?"

Guo Dalu almost laughed out loud, Brother Hao actually pulled together the rumors and elements of a certain wanderer in the city, it was really amazing.

Guo Dalu waved his hand: "Move this blood coral to the school, let the children take a look, it will be regarded as a specimen, well, in the future, you have to think of a biological corner or something, put some specimens of various animals, plants and ores, so that the children have an intuitive impression, which is more effective than just gnawing on books." ”

Li Hua sat in the room reading a book, reading the first batch of printed "Three Character Classics", through the window, watching the stupid big man and Huang Manyuan clumsily carry the blood coral to the school, not only shook his head, even if this blood coral is placed in the rich house, it is extremely rare, but his little brother actually used it as a teaching tool to play with the children, and it was indeed an extraordinary person doing extraordinary things.

Guo Dalu instructed the children to exchange all the gold beads they brought into silver taels and copper coins, and then, part of the funds were used to buy brown sugar, part of the funds were used to buy cattle and horses for the villagers, and the rest were all used to buy grain and pork to improve the food for the children in the school - naturally, Guo Dalu himself finally did not have to eat dry millet rice.

The matter of exchanging gold beads is naturally escorted by adult villagers such as the old village chief Zhu, or Brother Hao and other children wander around with a cart of gold beads, which will definitely attract the bad hearts of thieves.

In fact, all the workshops in Houlong Village have long been guarded by the head of Zhu Lao, and the snow sugar workshop has added three posts, and people from other villages are not allowed to approach within 100 meters. The villagers of Houlong Village used to be soldiers to eat food, and it was their duty to do these things, and they didn't need Guo Dalu's two knives to intervene at all.

Guo Dalu called Brother Hao'er, whispered something to him, and stuffed him with something, and Shi Shiran returned to the room.

Li Hua grabbed Guo Dalu: "Give money quickly! I want to print more "Three Character Classics", "Hundred Family Names", and "Thousand Character Texts"!"

Guo Dalu said with a smile: "Senior Brother Li, when have you been so keen on these copper smelly things? You are the serious reading seed of our big Li Dynasty, writing books and biography is what you should do, and doing business is still a layman like me." ”

Li Hua smiled: "Don't squeeze me, I know that your stomach is full of the skills taught to you by the master and his old man, and you are really full of Jinglun, this "Three Character Classic" and other articles, I just want to give you a start." Now the wax paper and ink for printing articles such as the "Three Character Classic" are ready, and they are waiting to buy a large amount of paper and start printing. I can't wait to see that every child in the Great Li Dynasty has a copy of the "Three Character Classic". ”

Guo Dalu thought for a while: "With the profits of the snow sugar business as the backing, let's dump at a low price, naturally we don't worry about the promotion of "Three Character Classic" and "Hundred Family Names", but, Senior Brother Li, I still have some concerns about the attacks of some stubborn literati, scolding us for deviating from the scriptures in this new edition of the book, and then criticizing and writing. ”

Li Hua nodded: "It is inevitable to be scolded, my big Li Dynasty has no shortage of nerds who are stupid in reading, as soon as the punctuation marks came out, some scholars were criticized on the street, and our new style of books with punctuation marks and horizontal rows from left to right will inevitably attract a lot of scolding." However, our book is cheaper, only 30% of the price of common enlightenment books on the market, and because it is printed with wax paper and ink, it is more beautiful and clear than woodblock ink printing, and it will definitely be welcomed by ordinary people. Hey, no one knows, because we have adopted new technology, except for some of the paper to be purchased, accounting for some of the cost, in fact, the cost is very low, at this price, we still have money. ”

Guo Dalu laughed and said: "Senior Brother Li, you still said that you don't understand the economy, but you also have a good calculation in your heart. But he quickly put away his smile: "A few pedantic scholars scolded a few words, I don't care, I'm just worried about whether it will alarm the upper heads--" As he spoke, he pointed in the direction of the county seat.

Li Hua said: "Little senior brother is worried about attracting the government's inquiry? When the great grandfather founded the country more than 2,000 years ago, he set up a stone tablet in the inner hall, and wrote "do not scold people with books", as long as I am a citizen of the Li Dynasty, no matter what book I write, as long as it is not an anti-book, it will not be criminalized. Of course, if the book he writes is not liked by the court, he will naturally not be able to be an official, but the little senior brother is not an official, so naturally he doesn't have to care. ”

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