“Customers are here~”

Through the gate, bypassing the screen wall, facing a row of spacious houses with flying eaves. With the butler's announcement, the three old men slowly walked from the living room to the door, stood in front of the dripping eaves to greet them with a smile.

Zhao Qi was stunned for a moment and quickly stepped forward and bowed, "Zhao Qi pays homage to Duke Chong, and to both gentlemen!"

"The son of Guangzhou Chen Ji paid homage to Duke Chong and to his two gentlemen."

"Guangzhou's son Yao Ran paid a visit to Duke Chong and to both gentlemen!"

Chen Ji and Yao Ran also rushed forward to salute.

This gift is really rare and cannot help but excited the two of them.

"Haha, no gifts, no gifts. I was talking to Xijianjueweng just now. I didn't expect you to come. It was windy outside and talk inside!" Wu Qian waved his sleeves and turned into the room.

"Please, please!" Wu Wenying and Ye Mengding smiled and showed their palms together.

"I dare not, Mr. Xijian and Jueweng invite you first!"

After some refusal, the five people followed Wu Qian into the house, and sat down with the host and the maid brought the tea. At the same time, fresh fruits such as watermelon, melon, pear, grape, etc., and some dried fruits such as dried plums, apricots, etc. were delivered like running water. Soon the coffee table in front of several people was filled.

After the maid left and the living room was quiet, Zhao Qi stood up and bowed with a little embarrassedly and said, "Last time Duke Chong went to Yanggong Town to inspect, the boy happened to be kidnapped by bandits, so he could not welcome Duke and his two gentlemen. After sorting out the matter of the harbor these days, he came late. Please forgive me for Duke Chong!"

"It's okay, your Xiaolongwan Port is not small, almost 100% of the entire Yanggong Town Port. It is naturally not easy to sort out the complicated affairs. Moreover, the thieves framed you and your family suffered a lot of frightening and grievances. This is because I am incompetent in the governance. If I apologize, I should be thinking of you to apologize!" Wu Qian waved his hand with his thorns.

"Duke Chongguo is magnanimous and I am very grateful. I came to visit today to thank Duke Chongguo for helping us clear the haze and so that the construction of the harbor can be quickly put on the right track. At the same time, there are several special gifts to show my gratitude!"

"What kind of special gift?" Before Wu Qian could speak, Wu Wenying became interested.

"It should be considered a bit special. I heard that Duke Chong Guo, his two gentlemen and Miss Yuechan had all gone to the harbor on that day, so I prepared four gifts, except Duke Chong Guo, both gentlemen. Please ask the housekeeper to help me carry the gifts!" Zhao Qi bowed and turned around and said to a vicious old man about fifty years old standing behind him.

"Please bring the gifts brought by the guest!" The butler walked to the door and ordered. Soon two or two servants came in with a large wooden box and placed it carefully in the middle of the living room.

Zhao Qi walked to the front of the box, took out the key and opened the copper lock, lifted the lid of the box, revealing the messy straw inside.

Seeing Zhao Qi's cautious look, but the straw was exposed, Wu Qian and the other two were confused. Chen Ji and Yao Ran didn't know what gifts were placed in Zhao Qi's box, so they both looked at it carefully.

The butler standing in the hall, the middle-aged scholar and several servants, also held their breath and felt a little nervous, for fear that Zhao Qi would suddenly take out a chicken or a snake and other lively things from it.

Zhao Qi was rumbling around in the wooden box as if no one was around. As the grass chips flew, he took out a piece of cloth and walked carefully to Wu Qian and gently placed it on the coffee table. He smiled and said, "This first piece was given to Duke Chong. It is called an old horse in the stable, and his ambition is thousands of miles away. Mr. Wu, please see..."

When Zhao Qi spoke, he opened the thick linen cloth, revealing a purple-colored crystal clear horse inside. His three legs were off the ground, and his feet were trampled on a blue-black glass brick to make a running momentum. Inside the glass brick, there was also a piece of gold foil inlaid with the eight words "an old horse is in a stable state".

The horse raised its head and neighed, its eyes widened and its mane flew up, and its snow-white hooves showed various movements. The shape of the whole horse was realistic and vivid, with a magical sense of skill.

Looking at the lifelike glass horse, Wu Qian stood up excitedly with a huh, his gray beard and eyebrows trembled and said, "This... is this Liuli?"

"When I go back to Duke Chong, this is not glass, but glass!" Zhao Qi corrected with a smile.

"Glass? Did you get it from the big cannibal?" Wu Qian was stunned for a moment.

"No, this is made by us using the method of burning glass from the big cannibals and the method of burning glass. Because the process is complicated, the yield rate is very low. I made more than ten of them, and in the end I only had this one that was the most exquisite and vivid. Today I specially gave it to Duke Chong to wish Duke Chong to achieve great success next year!"

"Okay, okay, okay!" Wu Qianlian said three good words, then he picked up the crystal glass horse with a ruler and high trembling hands, and looked over and over again and couldn't let go of it.

"It's absolutely unheard of. I didn't expect that there was such exquisite glass in the world. It was really a priceless treasure!" Wu Wenying had already fallen down the mat and squeezed to Wu Qian as soon as Zhao Qi opened the linen. He looked at it and his eyes were shining, and he felt saliva flowing down.

"Crystal clear and lifelike, with a high-spirited posture and a brilliant and energetic craft. It is indeed a magical craft. These eight words also have extraordinary meanings, but I don't know how this gold foil is embedded..."

Ye Mengding didn't care about his identity and squeezed over. While watching the horse, he was very puzzled how a piece of gold foil was put in the integrated glass.

When the three old men gathered together to watch the crystal glass horse, Zhao Qi took out a tightly wrapped in linen from the wooden box and put it on the coffee table to open it, revealing a glass object, which was also crystal clear and more than a foot long, with openings up and down, and slightly bulging in the middle.

"Nephew, what's this?" Wu Qian quickly put down the glass horse, and even the title became much closer in an instant.

"The Grandpa is busy with official duties and will definitely stay up late to process official documents on weekdays. There will be no wind in whether it is oil lamps or candles burning. With this thing, Chongguo Gong can read books and paint even in an outdoor pavilion. It is a good thing!"

"What do you mean by Dalang?" Ye Mengding came up curiously, picked up this strange thing and looked left and right, and even leaned over his eyes and looked out.

Regardless of the shape of the slave or the color of the material, this transparent glass cylinder is completely different from the galloping horse, so the three old men were not too excited.

"This is actually a lampshade. Duke Chong asked someone to take a candle and try it out!" Zhao Qi explained with a smile.

"Come on, light a candle!" Wu Qian raised his head and ordered. Soon the old housekeeper came over with a candlestick and placed it on the coffee table to light it. Then he was reluctant to leave, so he hid behind Zhao Qi carefully to see what was going on.

Zhao Qi picked up the glass tube and covered it on the candlestick, covering the entire candle.

"Puff~" Zhao Qi blew hard at the lampshade, and the candle flame inside the lampshade was almost shaking.

"Please look, with this lampshade, even in strong winds outdoors, it will not be blown out or shaken. The most important thing is that the glass is transparent and has very good light transmission. It is more than ten times clearer than ordinary lanterns and horse lanterns. In the future, Duke Chong reads books and handles official documents late at night. In this hot summer, he can be treated with it safely. Therefore, the boy thinks that this lampshade is a good thing, and it is more practical than this galloping horse!"

"Good stuff, good stuff..."

The three old men are all famous scholars today. They naturally stay up late to read books on weekdays. Just looking at the effects of this glass lampshade, they instantly felt like a magic weapon falling from the sky. Wu Qian even threw down the glass horse and his face was full of joy, his lips were trembling and he couldn't stop.

"My friend Zhao, I also went to Xiaolongwan to help say a lot of good things. You can't be more generous than the other!" Wu Wenying grabbed Zhao Qi's arm and was so excited that she even changed her name.

"Glass is so expensive, will it not make Dalang look ugly? Well, I would rather read and write more than you, so I will give you this lampshade!" Wu Qian quickly smoothed out.

"Duke Chongguo doesn't need to give up. I know that Mr. Xijian and Jueweng are both famous scholars in the world. Although this lampshade is not easy to make, it is much simpler than this galloping horse. Therefore, I made three of them, Mr. Xijian and Jueweng have them, all of them..."

Zhao Qi quickly searched the wooden box for a few more times, took out two linen packages and handed them to Ye Mengding and Wu Wenying respectively.

"Hahaha, my friend is indeed a kind and honest person. With this glass lampshade, I will no longer have to be dizzy in the study every night. I am really a good person. Thank you, thank you!"

Wu Wenying couldn't wait to open the cloth bag and took out the lampshade, holding it in her hand and laughed so hard that she couldn't stop.

"In addition to the lampshade, there are some cups and vases made by the same method, but because the process is complicated, the yield rate is not high, and the quantity is a bit small, so I can only express my feelings!"

Zhao Qi went to the wooden box again to search for a while, took out a small wooden box, opened it, and inside the box paved with snow-white silk, four crystal clear glass cups were neatly placed. Each cup was embedded with a piece of gold foil, and the words "Plum, Orchid, Bamboo and chrysanthemum" were engraved on it. The shiny cups reflected a golden light, which gave the simple shape a little rich and noble atmosphere.

"Mr. Wu, this set of wine glass is the third gift for boy. Wang Han of the Tang Dynasty once had a poem about Liangzhou. The luminous cup of grape wine, and the pipa was urging immediately. Don't laugh at me when I lie drunk on the battlefield. How many people have returned from wars since ancient times. Although the battle in the court is not as dangerous as the battlefield, it is also thrilling. The boy used this set of luminous cup to wish Duke Chong to move forward bravely in the court, opening up a new era for the Song Dynasty, driving away the Meng barbarians, collecting the Central Plains, restoring the foundation of our ancestors, and restoring the prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties in China."

Zhao Qi gently pushed the box in front of Wu Qian.
Chapter completed!