"What's wrong with you?" Jia Lian asked when he saw her strange.”
Heng 'er said," After Second Master left this morning, Grandma hated her for acting on her own, so she tied a hairpin on it."”
"What?" Jia Lian stepped forward and held her shoulders, gently opening her singlet.
Man 'er's hands tightly gripped her clothes.
"What are you hiding for?" Jia Lian said angrily. The four of you are all in my room. How dare you stop me from taking a look? Heng 'er, catch her!"
Heng 'er rushed forward to hug her, her face turning red.
Where's the person in the room?
Jia Lian saw that Man 'er's shoulder was indeed red and swollen. "Don't move, I'll get some medicine to apply!”
He took out a small wooden box from his desk and placed it on the table. He picked out a small bottle and stuffed it with a cotton ball. He poured out a little and rubbed it on Man 'er's shoulder.
Man 'er was in so much pain that tears started to fall." Second Master, it hurts! It hurts!"
Jia Lian then realized that he had used too much force and quickly tapped a few times." Fortunately, I have clothes to cover it, so it didn't pierce through. I'll apply it once a day and it'll be fine in three to five days."”
When Man 'er heard that she had to apply medicine every three to five days, she shook her head anxiously."Second Master, I'll do it myself tomorrow!”
Jia Lian glanced at her and said teasingly,"So you think I have nothing to do every day, so I apply medicine on you?”As he spoke, he passed the cotton ball and bottle to Heng 'er.
Heng 'er pursed her lips and snickered. Man' er's face was red as she quickly covered her clothes and ran away.
Heng 'er could only chase after him with the bottle,""Man 'er, I haven't finished applying it!"
Jia Lian watched them run away, and his face darkened.
Sister Phoenix's personality was indeed not something that could be changed in a short period of time. She dared to do such a thing if he was not careful.
He could imagine that if he really had Man 'er last night, with Man' er's long face and brainless personality, she would probably not live for more than half a year under Sister Phoenix's torment.
It seemed that before completely subduing Phoenix Sister, he really had to be careful with his words and actions. Otherwise, he would harm these girls for a moment of pleasure. How could he feel at ease?
Jia Lian sighed and got up to put away the wooden box. Suddenly, he found a transparent bottle inside.
He picked it up and looked at it carefully. It was not crystal, but real glass. Judging from the calligraphy and paintings on it, it was truly made by the Chinese Dynasty!
This was strange!
Jia Lian was still counting on burning glass to make money! Who knew that this thing had already existed! Then, would the heroic words from before become a joke before they even started?
In fact, in another timeline, during the Kang, Yong, and Qian dynasties of the Qing Dynasty, the emperor had set up a glass factory in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It could already produce all kinds of glass products, even small pieces of glass mirrors. Gradually, glass was no longer a mysterious and difficult jewelry, but a special and expensive instrument.
Therefore, the good news was that there was no Kang Yongqian in the timeline now, and there was no manufacturing office. Although Boshan Yanshen Town still produced glass, the craftsmanship was not as good as the Qing Palace Glass Factory, especially large pieces of flat glass. Whether it was the Red Chamber era or Cao Xueqin era, they had to be imported from the West.
At that time, the price of flat glass could be seen from the import records of Guangdong customs in the Qing Dynasty: "Guangdong customs, 9th of May, supervisor De Kui sent a letter to deliver a piece of bright glass that is two feet eight inches long and two feet six inches wide.”
In September of the thirty-ninth year of Qianlong (1774), Suzhou Weaving Side was fined three months of salary for cutting and breaking a piece of glass that was eight feet three inches long and five feet one inch wide. The price of the broken glass was: "According to the approval of the Guangdong customs to purchase large pieces of glass, it should be worth 622 taels of silver and nine cents three percent.”
The glass that was less than one square meter was only worth a dozen taels of silver, but when it was five square meters, it was worth more than six hundred taels of silver!
This was a real windfall!
Jia Lian held the glass bottle in his hand, his heart thumping wildly. This is my career!
He couldn't hold his temper and hurriedly walked out of the west room. He glanced around the main room and then hurriedly ran to the east room.
The moment he entered, he searched around.
Man 'Er and Heng' Er, who were hiding inside, were shocked.
Man 'er saw Jia Lian's red eyes and hurriedly tied the sweaty towel tightly. She was worried and tied a dead knot. Even Heng 'er was the same. One dead knot wasn't enough, so she tied another one.
"Second Master, you…what are you doing?”
The two little girls asked in fear.
As Jia Lian searched, he said,"I want a pen and paper! Why was there not a single piece of paper or pen in this huge courtyard? I've had enough! Did he not read or write before?”
Jia Lian was still nagging, and the two girls heaved a sigh of relief.
Heng 'er accidentally tightened the knot, causing her waist to hurt. She quietly turned around and untied the knot.
They also helped to search for a while.
It was a pity that Jia Lian had not studied for more than ten years and had even forgotten how to hold a pen. How could there be those things in the house that made his head dizzy?
Therefore, it was destined that he would not be able to find it!
Jia Lian also gave up. Why not go outside to Dream Slope Zhai and steal some from Second Uncle Jia Zheng's study?
"Second Master, what do you need a pen and paper for?" Man 'er whispered. If we only draw things, can we use the eyebrows we usually use?”
Heng 'er then suggested," I have a few useless window papers at home. They can still be used?”
Jia Lian roared," Then what are you still standing there for? Hurry up and bring it over!"
Inspiration and memories, if not grasped in time, would be gone!
When Jia Lian laid the window paper flat on the table and held Mei Dai in his hand, his heart collapsed!
Who would have thought that he, the son of a rich family, who had been rich and official for four generations, did not even have a pen and paper in his family? From this point of view, it would be unreasonable if the Rong Mansion did not decline!
A detailed proposal was essential!
The raw materials for making glass were still manageable. There were only a few of them. He vaguely remembered a few proportions and needed to try them one by one to find the best one.
If it really didn't work out, he could take a shortcut and buy the glass strips from Yanshen Town for further processing.
Back then, the glass factory in the manufacturing office was similar to the processing of materials.
After that, he needed a crucible furnace and an tempering furnace. This structure was not complicated. After all, he could already produce high-quality glass now.
The troublesome thing was, what kind of method was used to make it?
The main methods of hand molding were blowing bubble method, crown method, blowing tube method, etc. Due to the low production efficiency and poor glass surface quality, mechanical forming mainly included calendering, vertical pulling with grooves, pair of rolls, vertical pulling without grooves, flat drawing, float forming, and so on.
The best quality was naturally the float process, but there were too many difficulties. For example, how was nitrogen and hydrogen prepared and stored?
Fortunately, Jia Lian's chemistry grades were above average back then. He vaguely remembered that the drainage method was a commonly used method to collect gases!
And so on.
The problems kept appearing, and there were all kinds of solutions.
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