The main reason why Wan Lei delegated power to the postmen was because he was too busy and couldn't get away from it. Of course, he also knew the principle of seeking profit. He paid silver as wages and was not afraid that the three brothers of the Zhao family would not work honestly.
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In the laboratory, Wan Lei used tweezers to gently turn over a piece of paper, and the yellow oil stain on the paper dissolved little by little into the bottle of light yellow liquid, and the paper slowly spread out.
He opened it. Fortunately, the ink marks and handprints on it had not faded. He carefully took out a deed of sale worth a thousand taels and hung it up to dry.
"Li Sell": An orphan girl from the Zhou family, named Wei, was twelve years old. Because her parents died early and she had no means of living, her uncle was unable to raise her, so he asked the middleman to negotiate a deal and sold her to Old Master Gao Deqin of Songjiang Prefecture. Three words made it clear,
The tooth price is fifty taels of silver with a foreign pattern, and it will be settled with the same pen. If there is a successor, the middleman will take over it on his own behalf and will have nothing to do with the buyer.
I am afraid that I will never return without proof. I will sell it immediately and keep the photo.
Limai calligrapher: Zhou Bao
Mediators: Li Bin, Zhang Gao
Writer: Liu Zhou
It was established on February 21, the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu."
Wan Lei carefully read the deed of sale made five years ago, and then looked at the record of the subsequent transfer of ownership, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: Every word on it was written with tears! It turned out to be a good thing.
Because of this contract, people were relegated to a lowly status. Without human rights and freedoms, they were not only slaves for life, but also slaves for generations, and could never get over.
But then again, Wei'er's value has risen really fast. In just a few years, a little girl worth fifty taels has changed hands many times and now she has become a popular celebrity worth thousands of taels.
.If Wan Lei hadn't gotten into trouble yesterday, Wan Lei really wouldn't be able to buy her.
Just when Wan Lei was trying to find a psychological balance, there was a gentle knock on the door outside the laboratory, and he just responded: "Come in."
"Master, it's time to eat." Wei'er came in holding a food plate. It turned out that it was lunch time.
"Put it aside for now." Wan Lei immediately put down the work at hand and washed his hands. Not to mention, having a maid is different. In the past, I couldn't even order a meal. The life of being hungry and full is really not the same as now.
Compare.
Wei'er put down the food plate and looked up to see that his contract of prostitution had been cleared out and hung on a shelf like clothes. His tense heart finally relaxed again.
Although the status of a maid is low, she is still relatively free compared to those women who have to work in the fields. Now she does not have to make a living by making jokes like before, so Wei'er has nothing to complain about. After all, she has nothing to complain about.
Without an inch of land, it is already destined that life is not your own.
In addition, after the maids grow up, they are either taken as concubines by their male masters, or betrothed to young men of the same low status, or they are resold to be married off. They have no choice as to who they end up in.
, just like fallen leaves in the autumn wind, drifting with the wind. As for whether they fall into the brocade tent or on the dung heap, you can only leave it to fate.
Wei'er also knew that her new master spent a lot of money to buy her, and she would probably become a concubine in the future. The new master was quite benevolent and righteous. Not only did she protect her in every way, but she never did any inappropriate behavior, so she should be someone she could rely on.
After a sleepless night of thinking and weighing, she decided to accept her fate and just asked not to be resold.
"Have you eaten?" Wan Lei wolfed down the porridge and side dishes again and asked as soon as he wiped his mouth.
Wei'er looked at Wan Lei's "bold" eating look, which looked like a starving ghost reincarnated, and couldn't help but feel a little funny. When he heard this question, he quickly replied seriously: "Eat, I have eaten."
"Oh, that's great. Can you be a female worker?" Wan Lei asked when he saw that she was still idle.
"Yes, but not done well."
"As long as you know how, I have a few rags in my wardrobe. Could you please help me mend them?"
"I, I was free just now. I've mended the rags and washed the dirty clothes." Wei'er whispered.
"Oh, so fast?" Wan Lei felt even more satisfied. He looked down at her hands and found that they were red from the cold. It seemed that they were frozen by the cold water while washing clothes. He quickly took a bottle of skin cream and handed it to her, saying:
"Apply it first to avoid ice sores. Remember in the future, menial tasks such as laundry are the work of the postman, so you don't have to do it."
"This, this, I can't have it." Wei'er didn't take the bottle of skin cream, because she knew that it was a valuable thing, worth at least one tael of silver.
"Just take it, apply it on it, and then go over there and bake it to prevent your hands from freezing. You should also apply some to your face to prevent it from freezing again."
Wei'er had no choice but to take the bottle of skin cream, pick a little and apply it gently on her hands and face. She suddenly felt warm in her heart. As she was told, she sat in front of a conspicuous large iron cabinet and felt waves of heat coming from it, and
The whole laboratory was as warm as spring, and it seemed to be related to it. I couldn't help but asked curiously: "Master, what is this for?"
"Don't, don't touch it, or you may burn your hands." Wan Lei quickly stopped Wei'er who was about to hit it to see what was going on, and said: "This is called a stove for making carbon black. If you don't open it easily,
Because it contains poisonous gas."
Sodium, actually carbon black, is the raw material used to make ink. Ink is one of the four treasures of the study and an indispensable daily necessities for scholars. In the Ming Dynasty, people still used native methods to make carbon black, that is, collecting animal and vegetable oils and burning pine and cypress branches.
The smoke is thick, the productivity is low, and the price of ink is also very high.
It is precisely because of the high price of paper and ink that very few people in the Ming Dynasty could afford to write, and most people were still illiterate. Because they could not afford to read, reading was also a privilege of rich families, and children from poor families were the most literate.
Being able to write your own name in just a few words is worthy of praise.
Of course, Wan Lei knows that carbon black is not just soot. It is amorphous carbon obtained from the incomplete combustion of gaseous or liquid hydrocarbons under conditions of insufficient air. Don’t underestimate these black powders. In addition to being used for
Besides making ink, it has many uses.
No, after the oil well was sealed, Wan Lei built an extra gas outlet pipe to lead the natural gas out of the oil well, and made a large iron box. The oil and gas burned inside for many days. Not only did it provide hot gas to the laboratory, it should
A lot of carbon black has been accumulated. However, Wan Lei is currently busy making tiger balm to make money, and has no energy to deal with the carbon black that is still being produced automatically.
Of course, when oil and gas burn in the absence of air, they will also produce a highly toxic gas - carbon monoxide. Therefore, the big box is completely sealed and cannot be opened easily. Even the gaps have been filled, and there is only one
Thin vents lead to the outside.
After hearing what Wan Lei said, Wei'er hurriedly sat down with her hands down, not daring to touch anything in the laboratory. However, her big eyes still glanced around curiously, and everything she saw seemed novel, especially that one.
The large wooden shelf filled with bottles and jars has a lot of paper with special symbols on it, which looks like ghost drawings. In short, like the owner of this room, everything is mysterious.
Just as Wan Lei returned to the experimental table and was busy again, he suddenly heard a roar: "You bastard named Wan, get out of here, or I will burn your doghouse!"
"It's effective so quickly, not bad." Someone came to the door to make trouble, and Wan Lei already guessed who it was, because in addition to the roar, there was also the painful groan of a person. Instead of being angry, he was happy and walked out quickly.
Before leaving the house, he did not forget to say to Wei'er: "Sit here and don't go anywhere."
At this moment, a group of people had kicked open the door of the inn and rushed in. Since the Zhao brothers had gone out to supervise the work, no one in the inn stopped them. However, when they were about to kick down the door everywhere to find someone,
Wan Lei has appeared in the vestibule.
"You bastard, tell me quickly, what kind of poison was used on my master?" The person who came was not the second young master of the Li family, but a group of scoundrels. The person in charge was a tough and strong man with a very loud voice. He was really powerful.
Quite scary.
However, Wan Lei was not intimidated by the other party, and he did not take the dozen or so scoundrels in front of him to heart at all. He smiled faintly and said: "Your master is greedy and eats everything he sees. God knows he will eat it again."
What poison."
"You don't have to make excuses. My master has clearly been poisoned by you. If you don't detoxify him soon, I will bloodbath this place." The bastard in charge said angrily, but he had reason to be angry, because last night they
After being a barefoot immortal for a night, his feet were stabbed by frostbite. It was really horrible. Old hatreds were added to new ones. They already hated Wan Lei.
Facing the murderous looks cast by so many people, Wan Lei looked unconcerned and said: "No matter what kind of poison your master is poisoned by, I can cure it. However, I just don't like to be threatened."
, let’s do this, you all kneel down and kowtow ten times, and I can consider giving your master the antidote for ten days.”
"You, don't be so arrogant. Come here, tie him up and seal this drug den. I don't believe it. I can't find the antidote?!" The leading bastard waved his hand, and more than a dozen people rushed forward.
, prepare to take people.
Wan Lei had no intention of resisting arrest, he just laughed, took out a vial from his pocket and held it up in his hand, saying: "Do you think I would be stupid enough to put the antidote and poison together? There is ten days' worth of medicine here.
I was going to give it to you for free, but since you are so ignorant, I might as well feed it to the dogs."
"You, don't think that it's great to have the antidote in your hand." The leader was angry because Wan Lei had made it clear that he wanted to blackmail, and he planned to do so for a long time.
"Of course I'm great, you bite me if you can?!" Wan Lei rolled his eyes at the scoundrels in front of him, and then said: "Originally, I just wanted to live in peace with your young master, and didn't want his life, but you are so arrogant.
If you are domineering, immoral and shameless, then it is no wonder that I am doing justice for heaven."
"Hmph! Do justice for heaven? Just you?! Do you know who my young master is? You dare to threaten our Li family. You are so courageous. Believe it or not, we will chop you up now."
"Of course I know that your Li family is nothing. I dare to kill even the King of Yan, but I am still afraid of your Li family's bunch of dandies. Anyway, I am the only one who has the antidote, but I just can't stand your Li family. You guys immediately
Call that bastard here and make him swear to never do a bad thing, and I might consider giving him the antidote regularly until he recovers."
"You, you are so complacent. I will arrest your whole family right now. If you dare not give me the antidote, I will kill them one at a time until I kill them all."
"Capture, capture, I am the only one in my family, kill, kill, if I die, I can use a villain as a backer, and my life will not be wasted." Wan Lei looked like a bachelor again, because he was so accurate.
They were just trying to scare him and didn't dare to actually kill him.
As Wan Lei expected, seeing that he couldn't scare the other party, the bitch suppressed his anger and asked: "What do you want, let's draw a line."
"I don't want to do anything. I just want to give peace to the people and peace to myself. Let's do this. Let the evil young man in your family write an oath and swear to never do evil things. Post it in conspicuous places in Beiping City so that the people can see it.
Come, as long as no one files a lawsuit against him, you can get an antidote every ten days, and I will keep my word."
"How do we know if the antidote you gave me is the real antidote?!" That bitch was really scared, because the bottle of medicine he took back last night not only did not heal him, but his master had just eaten breakfast this morning.
, his stomach hurt like crazy. He went to many doctors but could not find the root cause of the disease, and couldn't find any medicine. As a last resort, he had to bring people to Wan Lei to force him to get the antidote.
However, Wan Lei was a bachelor who was not afraid of death, the kind who had no worries about being naked. He used all the conventional methods he could think of, but he still couldn't scare people.
"This is the antidote for ten days. You don't have to believe it, but your young master just waits and dies from abdominal pain." Wan Lei threw the antidote over with a simple and honest smile: "I don't have any strengths, I'm just good at it.
Playing with all kinds of novel items. I am not afraid to tell you that I have a strange well here with black oil coming out of it. The antidote is extracted from this black oil. If you want your master to live a long life, it is best to
I really hope I can stay here for a long time, otherwise, hehe..."
In fact, Wan Lei was bullying others for not knowing the inside story. It is said that the tiger balm refined from petroleum has no medicinal effect at all. What really worked was the antidote given by the sloppy Taoist priest. He mixed the antidote into the tiger balm and it made him
People can't figure out the ingredients of this antidote. Secondly, it is to ensure that they can serve as Changping Yi Cheng for a long time.
Of course, Wan Lei also admired that sloppy old man for actually doing what he said. He didn't know what method he used to do it. However, judging from the pathology of abdominal pain, it should be functional, possibly due to the restriction of certain acupoints.
, so that the blood vessels are blocked, the intestinal wall temporarily loses blood, and strong spasms occur when stimulated, which results in abdominal pain like cramping.
No matter what the cause is, Wan Lei believes that the medicine given to him by the old Taoist is absolutely effective. After all, the old Taoist is very particular about harmony and will not kill people for no reason. If it really doesn't work, he should have a way to remedy it.
The person who tied the bell was naturally able to untie the bell. Therefore, Wan Lei divided the package of antidote into dozens of parts, one part being enough for ten days.
In addition, if you want to use drugs to control the second son of the Li family for a long time, the most important prerequisite is that the guy is more afraid of death. People who are afraid of death will do anything to prolong their lives. Wan Lei has always shaped himself
To become a ruthless person who is not afraid of death, you must clearly tell the other person: Be obedient and don't take my ideas, otherwise we will both perish.
As the saying goes, bad people are bad, and good people are worse than bad people. To deal with bullies like the second young master of the Li family, one must be ruthless and ruthless in order to survive. Of course, while fighting for time, Wan Lei also knew that he
We should seize the time and find a strong backing, otherwise it will eventually lead to a dead end.
The bastards surrounding him naturally didn't know what Wan Lei was thinking. After they got the so-called antidote, they still surrounded Wan Lei. This time, they learned the lesson and let a bastard try it first, and found that there was no
Poison, and then gave it to the master who was riding in the sedan chair crying for his father and mother.
After doing this, half an hour passed. Wan Lei was tired of standing, so he sat on the steps and drew "ghost symbols" on the ground as if there was no one else around. This scene fell into the eyes of the bastards surrounding him, and they didn't understand.
So. However, with the appearance of these "ghost painting talismans", they found that the master's screams gradually stopped, which must have worked.
Not long after, the condition of the second young master of the Li family improved. Thinking that he was cured, he opened the sedan chair, glared at Wan Lei with resentment, and ordered to the scoundrels outside: "Tie him up and take him back to Wan Lei."
Cut into pieces!"
"Hahaha..." Wan Lei laughed wildly. He had long expected that the second young master of the Li family was a master who refused to accept his fate.
ps: Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it’s another chapter. Xiaodao wishes all children a happy Mid-Autumn Festival, and have fun during the long holiday.