Chapter 35: The Gentleman Who Digs the Foot

"The mind is a combination with the body, involving the mind, and is a comprehensive presentation of the ability to reason, think, perceive, and understand things.

"The etheric body, on the other hand, is the outermost layer, which is the manifestation of life energy and physical state, and its outward symbol is the aura.

"Now you can't accurately discern the etheric bodies of others, and when you become an extraordinary person in the middle and high ranks, you can not only clearly see the etheric bodies of others, but also invade other people's mental bodies and even spiritual bodies. Of course, only for the extraordinary and the average person whose sequence is much lower than yours.

"As for 'divination', except for those extraordinary ways that have this ability from the beginning, the rest have this ability when they step into the intermediate sequence, but the strength of the ability of divination is different in different sequence paths.

"For the extraordinary who are weak at the beginning, it is recommended to buy a magical item with divination ability, so that you can effectively avoid some dangers. ”

As he spoke, Oliver took out a beautifully wrapped box from his pocket, handed it to Chris, and laughed:

"This is a small gift for the teacher to give you an apprenticeship, which is just right for you now. ”

Chris opened the gift box and saw that inside was a beautifully crafted pocket watch, made of a mixture of gold and unknown metals, and the cover was carved with a delicate pattern of hollowed-outs, shaped like an eye.

With a "snap", the lid opened, revealing a white dial and black hands. In the center of the hand is a small blue diamond. The first time I watched it, it made Chris instantly in a trance, and when I watched it again, I didn't feel this way.

Chris took this pocket watch, which was worth a lot of money at first glance, and the teacher couldn't give him a simple and valuable pocket watch for nothing, just now he said 'divination', is this a magical item.

After repeatedly glancing at the pocket watch in his hand, Chris hesitated, "This is?"

Oliver said, "You can go back tonight and study it carefully, it's the first homework I gave you, and I'll wait for your answer tomorrow." ”

Seeing that it was almost time for Chris to start class, Oliver waved his hand to signal that today's lesson was over and let Chris go to the classroom.

Today is Tuesday, the morning is a boring chemistry theory class, and the afternoon is a lab class that Chris is more interested in.

In this era, physical chemistry and biology are only in the most basic research, and the highest level is only the level of high school in the previous life.

A few decades ago, there was a popular idea of vitality in the biological world, which believed that there was a mysterious vitality in animals and plants, which determined the survival of animals and plants.

As a result, chemists believe that organic matter is dependent on vitality and therefore can only be produced in plants and animals, and cannot be artificially produced. This means that chemists can only synthesize inorganic matter, not organic matter, and there is an insurmountable gap between the inorganic and organic worlds.

The impact of this subjective conjecture is very bad, which greatly limits the research of organic chemists, and the development of organic chemistry is difficult. It wasn't until a chemist artificially made urea that broke the situation.

The young Irish chemist named Vic did an experiment mixing ammonia with cyanic acid.

When ammonia and cyanic acid gas were mixed with water in the container, and after vibrating and shaking for some time, the young man evaporated the solution. As the temperature rises, the liquid is continuously evaporated and a crystalline body appears.

He thought this was the "ammonium cyanate" he wanted to study.

He dissolved the crystals in water to test its properties, but unexpectedly, ammonium cyanate was not made, but ammonium oxalate and an unknown white crystalline substance were accidentally obtained. This substance is not the so-called "ammonium cyanate" as he imagined, but a new substance.

Later in his research career, Virbac continued to explore this crystallization and found that its properties were similar to those of urea. He compared this substance with urea, which was extracted from urine, and determined that they were the same substance.

After that, Vic published a paper in the internationally renowned Irish special newspaper "Oxygen" - "Artificial Synthesis of Urea", in which he published two methods for producing urea:

"The first is to treat silver cyanide with ammonium chloride solution and then heat, and the second is to treat lead cyanate with ammonia, separate the lead hydroxide precipitate and heat it. ”

Virbac synthesized a typical organic urea with inorganic substances, breaking through the boundaries of inorganic and organic substances, greatly impacting the vitality theory, which has a milestone role in the history of organic chemistry development, and also greatly promotes the development of biology.

But vitalists continue to quibble that although cyanide and ammonia are inorganic, they are made of activated carbon, so there are traces of organic matter.

Although Vic's work did not completely overturn the theory of vitality, he opened the door to organic synthesis and opened the curtain of a new century of organic chemistry.

At this time, Chris was on his own laboratory bench, making urea from cyanic acid and ammonia.

Erik, a teacher in his forties, walked around the classroom to watch the progress of the students' experiments, and when he walked behind Chris, he involuntarily stopped.

It's not that there's anything wrong with Chris's operation, it's that he doesn't look like he's operating this experiment for the first time at all, and the action is too smooth.

For Chris, Eric has always paid attention, from the dissatisfaction with the sudden transfer of classes at the beginning, to the heartfelt admiration for his chemistry talent later, and now most of his eyes in class will sweep over Chris.

It's done!, Eric muttered to himself.

Sure enough, white crystals gradually appeared inside Chris's heated glass tube.

After the lab class, Chris drove the carriage to pick up Bert and Bonnie, and they were out of school in about half an hour, and the journey took only 20 minutes.

Just as Chris opened the lock and was about to leave, a blonde man about thirty years old came over and said in a gentle voice:

"Is this your carriage? Can you take me to the streets of Belland on the West End?"

Chris wanted to refuse, and although Belland Street was not far from Bert's public school, he was now their private coachman.

Although Bert and Bonnie never really think of Chris as a coachman, at least they still need to have personal qualities and principles.

However, when he saw the four 1 Hasuo bills handed by the other party, Chris immediately forgot his principles, reached out to untie the guardrail of the carriage, and said with a smile:

"You are such an understanding gentleman, sir, please be seated. ”

The blonde man in a smart formal suit and a bowler hat sat in the carriage, and Chris noticed that the other man was wearing a large sapphire ring on his finger that glittered in the sun.

A big man still wears such a dazzling diamond ring.

Chris sat on a chair at the front of the carriage, driving the carriage and muttering to himself, "It's good to be rich!"

"Little brother, look at the decoration of your carriage, you are a private coachman hired by the nobles?" said the guest behind the seat in a gentle voice.

Chris just glanced at it in a hurry just now, although this guest looked ordinary, his gentle voice made people feel like a spring breeze, and he was generous, he should be a rich man or a nobleman, but he didn't know why he didn't take his own private carriage.

"Yes, sir. My employer happens to be near Belland Street, and you look like a kind and polite gentleman, so I'd love to give you a ride. ”

Chris habitually complimented, after all, after three years of pulling guests, his mouth is still relatively sweet.

"That's right. The guest behind him seemed to be very impressed by his compliment, and continued:

"I've just come to Federenburg, and I'm in short of a coachman, and I'm very pleased with you, what do you think of me here? Of course, the price is double your current salary. ”

Chris was so head-headed after hearing this, it's really capricious to be rich, but why didn't you come here three years ago.

Although he was complaining in his heart, Chris's face was laughing, and he politely refused:

"I'm sorry, sir. I have signed a contract with my employer, and if I leave at will, I will pay a large amount of liquidated damages. ”

"Well, what if I pay you this liquidated damages?"

Immediately, it seemed that it was a bit abrupt and inappropriate to say this, after all, whoever put this kind of pie-in-the-sky thing on him, I am afraid that they will have doubts and suspicions.