Jiang Lun was a little surprised when he heard this, and asked curiously: "Sister, didn't you say that at the end of last year and the beginning of this year, the current emperor began to visit the harem frequently? Why is it that it is only four or five months before we are ready to give birth to a child?"
Even someone like Jiang Lun, who had no talent and could even be called uneducated, realized that something was wrong.
Princess Jiang said: "Is this something that you and I should be concerned about? Are you going or not? If you go, you will have to be separated from your family for several months... but it will be an experience for you."
"Going to the capital?" Jiang Lun thought for a while and said with a smile, "If you should go, you should go. Who said this is our family matter? I will go back and make preparations."
"Um."
Princess Jiang did not tell her brother too much. After all, when the emperor's concubine was pregnant and when she gave birth to a son, even if Prince Xing's Mansion had doubts, it would not be their turn to express their opinions. At this time, Prince Xing's Mansion only had to express congratulations, otherwise
Everyone will think that you have ulterior motives in establishing the palace.
Jiang Lun walked to the yard outside and muttered: "It seems it's hard to say who will be the emperor. Maybe the Purple Qi will come from the east and end up on the land under my feet! No wonder Lao Lu said this before, look
He should have received the news a long time ago."
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Zhu Hao didn't care about what happened in the capital.
In the past few days, he was discussing with Zhu Niang, planning to let Zhu Niang invest in his business and find another job for Zhu Niang.
In terms of research and development, I can be responsible for it myself, but it is safer to leave the actual production to my mother.
After all, a person's energy is limited. You can't let an eight-year-old child run around all day long. He must not only take care of his studies but also take care of transforming the Ming Dynasty, and even lead a vigorous industrial revolution, right?
"Xiao Hao, what do you mean? We don't dry salt, we want to... open our own workshop?" Zhu Niang felt very strange when she heard her son's suggestion.
Now you can live a peaceful life on the land you bought before, so why go out and show off?
Zhu Haodao: "If we don't open a workshop and make money, will the Zhu family let us go? If they find out that we actually still have land and money, they will definitely make trouble and go to the government to complain that we stole from the Zhu family..."
Aunt Li looked unbelieving: "No matter how arrogant and rude the Zhu family is, they will still think about how much they can give us."
Aunt Li is proud.
Although she did not earn the previous money, she was a participant. With the efforts of the family, more than 10,000 taels of silver were obtained. The Zhu family would not think that they could make so much money from their previous small shop, right?
Madam Zhu seemed to have thought of something again, and frowned: "If the Zhu family said that this was a reward from the imperial court to Xiao Hao's father, people in the market would not know the reason and would probably misunderstand it."
You can’t make so much money from your shop alone, but where can you, a modest woman, make money? People don’t care how you got it, why should you tell others that we got it from drying salt or even selling it privately?
The money itself comes from a shady source, and you are most afraid of being traced.
"Mom is right."
Zhu Hao smiled. He felt that this time his mother finally understood. "If we continue to act like we are sitting on nothing, the Zhu family will suspect that we have savings and investigate carefully, and the secret will be exposed easily. But if
Let's find a way to make a living and put on a posture of struggling to support ourselves. Once the Zhu family has a direction to pay attention to, they won't have so many doubts."
Zhu Niang nodded, looked at her son and asked, "Then let's open a workshop... and do something?"
"I'm in an ancient book..."
Zhu Hao immediately started making up lies.
Zhu Niang immediately interrupted her son: "Speak carefully!"
Obviously Zhu Niang did not want to believe her son's words this time. She always said that she saw the prescription in the ancient book. Where is the ancient book? Why can't others see the ancient book that you can see?
However, Aunt Li liked Zhu Hao's eloquent way of telling stories, and said with an eager face: "Sister, just listen to him."
For a concubine with little education and a relatively humble status, from Zhu Hao's story, one can find a sense of pleasure that "God helps the family get out of trouble". It seems that everything is destined, and the Zhu family keeps coming to find them.
Trouble, and Zhu Hao can find a way to deal with it from ancient books... God has shown his spirit!
"Mom, it doesn't matter where you saw it, at least we can make things that others can't make. In fact, I have asked Yu San to open a workshop, but the scale is very small now..."
Zhu Hao is good at tempting people in a step-by-step manner.
Zhu Niang frowned again: "You run your own workshop? Where did you get the money? And...why would Yu San help you?"
Zhu Hao smiled: "If there is a profitable business, why doesn't Yu San do it? Besides, isn't Dongzhu Su waiting for us to improve the salt-drying process for him? If he knows that we have good stuff and can mass-produce it,
, will he take the initiative to come to purchase?"
Zhu Niang let out a long breath and looked at Zhu Hao with a more stern look. She probably felt that her son was starting to speak and act out of the mind of a normal child, so she wanted to act like a strict mother.
"Mom, you and I will go to the workshop tomorrow to have a look. After you see the finished product, you can decide whether to make it with me or not."
Zhu Hao found that Zhu Niang was trying to control himself strictly, so he could only restrain his eloquent words and try to let Zhu Niang get in touch with and integrate into her instead of forcing changes.
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Class the next day.
Zhu Hao brought "gifts" to several children. When he showed the contents of a small cloth bag in front of several children, their eyes widened.
"What's this?"
"It's so beautiful, can I touch it?"
"Don't touch it. What if it gets damaged? Is it made of ice? Can it be eaten?"
What Zhu Hao showed in front of them were the glass scraps made in his workshop, some transparent glass balls.
Zhu Hao smiled and said: "I made some good stuff, I will teach you a new way to play later, called marbles... This thing is not edible, don't put it in your mouth..."
While they were still talking, Lu Bing picked one up and threw it into his mouth, wanting to taste what it tasted like.
When he found that the thing was too hard to bite with his teeth, Lu Bing could only spit it out with a grimace. Because it was stained with saliva, Zhu San said with disgust: "Take it away quickly. Bing, you are so disgusting."
, what is it, I don’t know if it’s clean or not, so I just put it in my mouth.”
Zhu Sidao: "Sister, it seems you were asking if you could eat it just now, right? If you hadn't asked, Lu Bing wouldn't have tasted it."
"Do you need to talk too much?"
Zhu San was very dissatisfied with his brother's disruptive behavior.
"Okay, there are not many marbles. Each person has three. Consider it a gift from me... Come on, take your share. I will teach you how to play after class."
It just so happened that the children had nothing new to play these days and were feeling bored. Even Zhu San and Zhu Si frequently begged King Xing to go out of the palace to play. Now that they have marbles, they can last for a while. After all, this has never happened before.
The entertainment projects are full of freshness.
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after class.
The academy became lively.
Zhu Hao popularized some how to play marbles, and then it was a game that was almost like a duel. Everyone's goal was to turn the opponent's marbles into their own.
Because marbles are too rare for them, and they can't buy them with money. There is no other source except getting them from Zhu Hao, but Zhu Hao said that there are only so many marbles for the time being, and the only way they can get more marbles is
Method... Excluding unconventional means such as robbing or deceiving, there is only one way to win over your opponent.
But games like marbles, whether it's digging holes or competing to project a standard line, are games whose rules may seem simple, but require some technical content.
So...
Less than a quarter of an hour after class ended, and after a few games, something unfortunate happened... All the marbles returned to Zhu Hao's hands, even Jinghong, who boasted of having perfect hand-eye coordination, was no exception.
Zhu San was still scolding: "Xiao Jingzi, didn't you say you are very capable? You would brag when you play Cuju, why can't you do it this time? If you had known earlier, I would have joined Zhu Hao."
Zhu Si was also very discouraged: "Sister, Zhu Hao said, if he doesn't ally with us, just say no if his level is not good enough. Don't make so many excuses...Zhu Hao, how about we start over?"
Zhu Si is not stupid at this time.
After losing, I wanted to take the marbles back, but at the same time I began to think in my mind that I could no longer play with Zhu Hao. If a group of laymen who had just started playing marbles directly competed with Zhu Hao, a master who looked experienced in many battles, wouldn't they be waiting to lose?
"I can give it back to you, but it will take an exam. Mr. Lu and Mr. Gongsun have done very little for us recently. I will conduct this exam."
Zhu Hao stated the conditions for returning the marbles.
You actually have to take an exam?
All the children, except Lu Bing, were disgraced.
Lu Bing remained calm because he knew that he would be incompetent no matter what he took and he was the one with no psychological baggage at all.
"We have an exam, Zhu Hao. Don't we have Mr. Lu now? We still need you? Why don't we find another way?" Zhu Si began to complain.
Zhu Hao's attitude was resolute: "I won, even if there is no reward, I should give you some punishment, right? Besides, when it comes to exams, the knowledge you learn is yours. It's just a chance to copy it, which is considered punishment.
Really? The questions I asked are all ones you have learned before, so you don’t even have the heart for this challenge, right?"
Jinghong was the first to accept the reality: "Come on."
When Jinghong spoke, Zhu San and Zhu Si could only take back their nagging words even if they were full of complaints.
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Ever since.
Tang Yin went out for a walk and came back. He thought he could teach a few things casually and survive until lunch, but when he returned to class, he found several children writing furiously.
"Okay, okay, no need to pretend." Tang Yin waved his hand impatiently, "I know how to have fun when my husband is not around. Does it make sense to act like this when I see my husband?"
Tang Yin almost wanted to say, look at Zhu Hao, this kid won't do this. While you were writing hard there, he was staring at the window in a daze.
Even if you don't encourage his lazy spirit, you should still learn from his magnanimity.
Zhu San originally made the slowest academic progress among the children, but she was also the most impatient at this time: "Mr. Lu, don't disturb us. We are taking an exam. If we can't answer... Zhu Hao will punish us!"