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Chapter 171 Inner Ghost(1/3)

Shortly after Gu Caining and Gao Feng returned, they noticed that someone had been secretly peeping at them.

But they don't care.

"There are too many lice, and there is no need to worry about debt. So it doesn't matter if there are too many people to peep at it now. Do you think so?" Gu Caining talked to Gao Feng openly about this matter.

Gao Feng nodded. "It's better to have more people. We check and balance each other, but no one dares to attack us."

The county magistrate, the prefect, and the Xining Marquis Mansion, now at least these three people have been observing them. The county magistrate must be afraid of the prefect, and the prefect is afraid of the Xining Marquis Mansion. As for the Xining Marquis Mansion... Although I don’t know what the family is selling, Gu Caining is sure that they have no malice.

Since that's the case, they should do whatever they should do. As for those people in secret, they can just watch it!

So, when they got home and packed up, the first thing they did was to clean up the snake courtyard, and asked someone to pick up the weeds in the field, and then they began to welcome batches of small snakes that broke out from their shells.

Because they have been doing control experiments this year, the rate of shell breakage of snake eggs is still not high. However, because they found a lot of snake eggs this year, and the female snake they raised in their homes also laid many eggs, so there are quite a few small snakes hatched, with 200 in front and behind!

Now, not only are the hatched large tanks not enough, but also the snake box for raising snakes and the rooms for placing snake boxes are not enough.

They were holding the more than 40 taels of silver that Zhang Yuanli gave them in their hands. Gao Feng made a quick decision: "Get the time to expand the Snake House!"

"Okay!" Gu Caining nodded immediately and agreed.

At first, they asked someone to clean up such a large area next to their house to raise snakes. However, because last year, the funds on hand were limited and the number of snakes was small, they just cleaned up all the huge area, but only a few small houses were built, and they could barely stuff the dozen snake boxes.

So now, Gao Feng paid another money and invited someone to come and continue to build several houses on other open spaces in the Snake Courtyard.

While building the house, Gao Feng went to the carpenter in the village to customize a batch of wooden boxes.

After all these things, the snake egg business of Zuixianlou came to an end this year. Zhang Yuanli and Ning family sent the next batch of fifty taels of silver.

After careful calculation, this batch of snake eggs did not make much money, but the market response was excellent. You finally made the price of the bowl of snake eggs to 100 taels! Faced with the large sum of silver delivered to me, Zhang Yuanli did not accept it, but said seriously: "Thank you all to you, I have been taking care of our business in Zuixianlou for many years. I, Zhang, are not a heartless person, so I will not sell this last bowl of snake eggs this year! Last year, the six who adopted snake eggs in my Zuixianlou will invite you to eat snake eggs!"

Then he really kept his word and asked someone to fry the bowl of snake eggs and cook them to make several flavors. He also served the signature dishes of Zuixianlou, and satisfies the six fellow gentry in Guanyin Town.

Now, although Zhang Yuanli did not make any money, he firmly grasped the hearts of the six gentry. Especially Liu Yuanwai, since the Lantern Festival, his eldest son made trouble in Zuixianlou, he almost had no shame to see Zhang Yuanli. But Zhang Yuanli ignored his past grudges. After he developed some snake eggs, he came to the door to ask him to go to Zuixianlou to taste. In this way, his face was given enough, and he became the most loyal supporter of Zuixianlou.

After this incident, everyone knows that Zhang Yuanli is a man who does not forget his roots! Who wouldn’t be happy to deal with such an honest and loyal person?

In addition, Liu Yuanwai and others helped him speak good things and make connections, and his status in Guanyin Town is increasing.

These benefits are not something that can be bought with just one hundred taels of silver!

So when he came to Gao Feng's house, he talked about this matter with great enthusiasm, and then proudly declared: "Brother and sister-in-law, how do you think I use this method? It was originally just a few worthless snake eggs, but in the end it was praised by so many people. Those who didn't eat snake eggs this year must be greedy! I believe that when the snake eggs are on the table next year, it will definitely cause robbery! That time is the time for us to really make a lot of money!"

He was not here to ask them questions? He was here to show off to them, okay? Gu Caining curled his lips in anger.

However, he is indeed worth showing off. After all, he fryed a few snake eggs that were originally used for children to eat and play with, and even coaxed the powerful people in the town well. This is his real ability. Looking at this town, no other person can compare to him.

So Gao Feng nodded firmly. "You are so awesome."

"On average, thank you for your praise, brother." Zhang Yuanli bowed with a smile.

At this time, Ning was finally not afraid of those snake eggs. She sat beside Gu Caining, watching her nailing several pieces of wood together to make the shape of a ladder, and she made several ladders, stacked them together. She looked at her question marks: "Sister-in-law, what are you doing? And isn't it better to leave this kind of work to the carpenters in the village?"

"The carpenter is busy making snake boxes, so I have no time to deal with these things. And I think he can't do them well, so I might as well do it myself. There are only a few, so it's not a lot of trouble." Gu Caining said as he added up the two ladders neatly, and put a wooden board in the middle of the ladder that was only one foot wide, and the three were nailed together firmly.

Whatever Ning looked at, she thought this thing was very strange. She couldn't help asking: "What is this thing for?"

"It's for them to play!" Gu Caining pointed casually at the four children of Zhang Yu, Zhang Wei, Chen, Xiao, and Xiao, who were still comparing with each other.

Ning was stunned. "How to play this?"

Seeing this, Zhang Yuanli became interested. "How to play this?"

"It's very simple." Gu Caining said, she waved to Gao Feng, "Help me stand up on a single-plank bridge."

Gao Feng hurried over, and the two of them worked together to help the thing called the single-plank bridge stand up. Gu Caining climbed up three times along the small ladder below and stood at the end of the single-plank bridge four or five feet high above the ground. Then he took his feet and walked forward in a staircase.

"Sister-in-law, be careful!" Seeing this, Ning quickly screamed.

But immediately, she found that her worries were superfluous. Because Gu Caining stood on this single-plank bridge, her feet were as if she was walking on flat ground. Even though the width of the wooden board under her feet could only accommodate one foot, she still stepped steadily every time, and never stepped steadily even a single step.

With so many people watching, she walked down the single-plank bridge in one step, and it took only a blink of an eye!

After walking to the other side of the single-plank bridge, she jumped directly, then her body became a ball and turned around in a circle in mid-air, and finally her feet were firmly on the ground.

The movements are simple but beautiful, and they are so cool and neat that they can't take their eyes off their eyes.

Seeing this, the children were so shocked that their eyes widened. They hurried over and clapped their hands hard, and their hands were red.

Xiaoyato couldn't help it, and immediately tried to climb the single-plank bridge with both hands and feet, and tried to make a beautiful leap like her mother.

Gao Feng hurriedly carried her down.

Xiaoya Tou was still unhappy! The little child frowned and kicked his calves and kept screaming: "I want it! I want it!"

"You are still young, so I can't play this. Now let your brothers play this, and then my parents will make you a few more of them." Gao Feng quickly and gently advised his daughter.

But when Xiaoya heard this, she still looked unhappy.

When Zhang Yuanli heard this, he looked surprised again: "Are you planning to do something else?"

"That's of course. After half a year of training, the children have almost finished their foundation, and now they can start targeted training. Then, professional tools are very necessary." Gu Caining nodded, "We have drawn sketches of several professional tools, and they will make them one after another in the future. It just so happened that my place was big enough to put them all in, so they could all play with them, and they could identify their respective strengths, so they would also train them in a targeted manner in the future."

"What other professional tools are there?" Zhang Yuanli asked hurriedly.

Gu Caining nodded to Gao Feng, and Gao Feng went back to the room to get a few pieces of kraft paper. Zhang Yuanli took the kraft paper and opened it, and saw that the top was covered with various strange-shaped things, with dense annotations on each thing. Looking at the names of these tools, they were called horizontal bars, parallel bars, cloud ladders, etc., he was dazzled. Anyway, it was something he had never seen or heard of.

Zhang Yuanli instantly seemed to push open the door to a new world. He quickly pulled Gao Feng to ask about the purpose of these things. Gao Feng also explained to him one by one.

After hearing this, Zhang Yuanli suddenly realized: "So that's the case. Brother and sister-in-law, you are really amazing. If you really practice all these things, it would be a problem for my two boys to fly over the eaves and walls, right?"

"Of course." Gu Caining nodded without hesitation.

Zhang Yuanli immediately clapped his hands. "Okay! These things look weird, and there shouldn't be many carpenters know each other, so I won't mess around with them. However, if you have any needs, just mention them to me. After all, this is also a learning tool for my two boys. It is logical that we should buy them at home."

"Okay!" They were already so familiar. Gu Caining didn't be polite to them, and immediately took out another long list, "Everything we need is here."

"Okay, so you've been waiting for us here for a long time!" Zhang Yuanli immediately laughed and took the order readily. "I'll ask Shi Tou to buy it when I go back, and I will definitely send it to you as soon as possible!"

Then, when the carpenter brought the new snake box over, the little snake was placed in the snake box and raised it, and the stone had already delivered the raw materials that Gu Caining and the others needed.

After Gao Feng tapped the order once, he picked up a transparent bottle the size of a palm: "I remember this thing is not listed on the order."

"Oh, this, this is what my young master asked me to send to you for fun!" Shi Tou immediately replied with a smile, "A few days ago, a glass blower came to the county town, saying that it could blow the glass into various shapes, and he could blow it out whatever you want! This person is very popular in the county town now! After my young master heard about it, he sent someone to buy a few of his things, and found that it was indeed very exquisite. Now he is planning to invite people to the town and ask him to tailor a batch of utensils for our restaurant and other shops. The young master has already made the mold of the utensils, and is waiting for others to come!"

"Is that true?" Gu Caining suddenly lit up when she heard this, "Then can this glass blower lend me some use?"

"This is definitely fine. I will tell the young master when I go back!" Shi Tou nodded without hesitation, but he still couldn't help asking, "Madam, do you want him to blow something? Tableware or vase?"

"None are not." Gu Caining shook his head, "It's a little thing-the little thing I'm in urgent need of now."

Apart from that, she didn't say much.

Shi Tou was confused, so he went back honestly and passed on Gu Caining's request to Zhang Yuanli.

Zhang Yuanli has always regarded Gu Caining and Gao Feng as his brothers and sisters-in-law, so naturally he will be satisfied with the requirements they make.

Therefore, after the glass blowing master was invited, he asked someone to blow everything he needed, and asked Shi Tou to send him to Shuangliu Village.

When the person arrived, Gu Caining handed over the syringe made of wood in his hand. "Can you make exactly the same thing out of glass?"

The glass blower took it over and looked at it carefully, and he nodded: "Yes, but this thing is so small, and the tail end is thick and the front is thin, which takes a lot of effort. This price is not cheap!"

Nowadays, glass is a rare thing, and there are very few craftsmen who can blow glass. The prices of things that are usually blown are already very high. Now that the master says this, it is enough to show that the price of this glass syringe will be even more expensive.

He is also kindly reminding Gu Caining now.

But Gu Caining nodded without hesitation. "No matter whether it is cheap or not, I want this thing, just do it!"

The master did not listen to her, but looked at Gao Feng and waited for the head of the family to speak.

A hint of displeasure quickly flashed through Gao Feng's eyes, and he nodded coldly: "I listen to everything in my house, and whatever she says is what she says."

A coldness came, and the master shivered inexplicably. He quickly lowered his head: "Oh, that's it!"

I didn't dare to say anything more, so I quickly studied the syringe that Gu Caining gave him.

He studied it for a long time before putting down the syringe. "I'll try it!"

However, it is easy to use for blowing cups, plates, dishes, and so on. He has never seen this syringe before, but now he has to make the same one when he sees it. The glass blowing master is also a little confused.

He quickly called his apprentice, and the two of them burned the glass frit. When the burning was done, the master picked up a long iron tube and inserted it into the stove containing the glass solution. After dipping it in an appropriate amount of solution, he began to rotate and blow air to the other end through the hollow iron tube.

After blowing tea for a while, he stopped and looked at the shrunk little thing on the other end of the iron pipe. "Oh, it failed."

"If you fail, start over." Gu Caining, who was sitting beside him, said with no sadness or joy on his face, as if he had expected such a scene to happen.

After hearing this, the master did not dare to slack off. He hurriedly knocked down the failed product, and then dipped it in the glass solution and then blew it back on it.

After blowing for more than a dozen times, his mouth was numb and finally he finally blew out a barely qualified syringe.

Gu Caining took it and took a look, and she nodded. "It's OK."

"Very good!"

Hearing this, Master Blowing Glass and his disciples jumped up with joy!

However, after blowing the syringe and the push rod in the syringe, it is also a technical job to make it a size that can be stuffed into the syringe but cannot leave many gaps. This is also a technical job. The master and his apprentice struggled for a long time.

In the end, when everything that echoed Gu Caining's request was made, it was already two days later.

After finishing all the syringes, he couldn't help but wipe the sweat from his forehead: "Your thing is too small, and it's both troublesome and troublesome to do. I have to charge you a tael of silver for such a thing!"

"No problem!" Gu Caining nodded immediately and asked Gao Feng to come with ten taels of silver, "You make ten for me."
To be continued...
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