Chu Zhen brought up a printed copy of "Barefoot Doctor" and happened to bump into Li Qingzhao waiting at the stairs.
"It will take time to print out the remaining copy. Give this one to Miss Lin first. Will you pick it up next time?"
"...According to Mr. Chu's wishes."
Li Qingzhao agreed, but he complained a little in his heart. Why didn't he ask her if she wanted to stay and wait?
She also wanted to teach him how to play horseplay, so she brought the dice and chess pieces!
"Then you take it to Miss Lin. I'll stop the printer to save some paper, and I'll buy you books directly in the afternoon."
Chu Zhen handed the printed copy to Li Qingzhao, turned around and went back downstairs.
After a while, he came up and looked at what they had prepared. Chu Zhen smiled and said, "Leave the horse-drawing picture here with me? You can teach me next time you come, so as not to forget to bring it."
Li Qingzhao smiled and agreed.
The little resentment in my heart before was swept away.
"and this!"
Chu Zhen gave each of them a gold ingot, "I want to ask you one thing. Didn't I give you some small things before? You can also buy some from the Song Dynasty and Shun Dynasty for me, including food, drink, calligraphy and painting. Write an article, or collect gold and stone. Don’t you like gold and stone, Miss Li? These things are all antiques, and they are too expensive to buy!"
Li Qingzhao sounded quite fond of it, but when he mentioned her preferences in the next sentence, she felt strange: "I never buy gold and stone antiques, and I don't particularly like these. Where did Chu Langjun hear about... Li Yian?"
She realized it, Chu Zhen must have known it from reading history books!
Lin Daiyu covered her mouth with her handkerchief and smiled, but she didn't say anything about the "Preface to the Record of Gold and Stone".
"Anyway, take it!"
Chu Zhen, who was a little embarrassed, handed the gold ingots to them and said with emotion: "Thousands of years have passed from the Tang and Song Dynasties to modern times, and many ancient books have been destroyed due to wars. Now that we can take this opportunity to collect some, it is a great achievement for us."
Li Qingzhao hesitated for a moment, then calmly accepted the gold ingot, saluted Chu Zhen, and said: "The slave family will live up to Chu Langjun's trust. They will buy more ancient books and antiques and hand them over to Chu Langjun for safekeeping!"
Chu Zhen smiled and said: "Although ancient books and antiques are important, I also want to taste what the wine of the Song Dynasty tastes like."
Li Qingzhao's cheeks turned red with embarrassment, and he lowered his head and did not answer.
Lin Daiyu said: "I will ask my father and mother to buy some ancient books and bring them back."
"It doesn't have to be ancient books, novels and plays can also be used. There is no need to collect them specially, just pick them up casually."
Chu Zhen talked to them for a while, but Lin Daiyu didn't seem to understand, so she just wrote it down and asked her mother again when she went back.
After finishing the matter, Chu Zhen sent them to the stairs. Lin Daiyu looked at Li Qingzhao and was the first to go down the stairs and go back to Yangzhou City.
Li Qingzhao, who was left behind, stopped and said to Chu Zhen: "I read some of Dream of Red Mansions, and then I saw the part about Zhou Rui's family sending palace flowers.
Sister Lin's temperament is similar to what is written in the book, but she is not the Scarlet Pearl Fairy in the book after all. Mr. Chu will still look at her differently in the future. "
"I will."
Chu Zhen also thinks this should be the case.
Li Qingzhao lowered his head and said, "I have never had the title of Jushi Yi An. Why does Mr. Chu always think of me as Li Yian?"
As she spoke, she raised her eyes again, her eyes filled with resentment.
Chu Zhen was stunned. It turned out that Li Qingzhao said that Lin Daiyu was not Fairy Jiangzhu, and at the same time he was also saying that she was not Li Yian.
"...It's not always, right?"
Chu Zhen recalled, "Just once, and once when we first met."
Li Qingzhao bit his lip and said nothing, his expression full of resentment and the grievance of a young girl.
"...Does drinking and playing horses count? Or do you blame me for the jokes I made?"
"A slave is not a small-minded person."
Li Qingzhao raised his head and said sternly: "Mr. Chu only needs to promise me one thing. For other things, no matter what Mr. Chu does... I will not be angry."
"Please say!"
"Mr. Chu, all you need to remember is that I am not Li Yian... Can Mr. Chu hear you clearly?"
"Listen clearly!"
Chu Zhen answered according to her words.
Li Qingzhao looked at him with his clear eyes:
"Chu Langjun, please say it again."
She's kind of cute now.
Chu Zhen laughed and said to her: "Miss Li does not have the nickname Yi An, and she is not the Li Yian in the history books! Right?"
Li Qingzhao lowered his head, blushing faintly on his beautiful cheeks.
She walked up the stairs with gentle steps and left a message: "Chu Langjun, I have to say goodbye. In those three travel notes, please look up the allusions slowly. If there is anything you don't understand, ask me again next time~" "
Does she like to be a teacher?
"Wait a minute, didn't you say you don't need so many allusions?"
Chu Zhen reacted, but Li Qingzhao had already disappeared down the stairs and returned to the Song Dynasty.
After looking at the stairs for a while, Chu Zhen looked away and went to pack the things they sent.
First, Zhu Yuanzhang put away the gold ingots he used to buy fruits, and later bought them on the app and had someone deliver them to him every morning. From time to time, he would drive to buy them himself to avoid being noticed.
Secondly, Li Shimin kept the original works of Wang Xizhi given by Li Shimin first. When he found a shop to frame the paintings and calligraphy, he didn't know which shop could frame them.
This painting was valuable even in ancient times. Chu Zhen planned to buy something else as a gift to him, preferably something that would help Li Shimin lead his troops in the war.
What can I give as a gift?
"It's impossible to get guns, they can't be found in the country, and we won't do anything illegal."
"How to make black powder? Glass soap is not needed to conquer the world, but it can be used to make money... But can the furnaces of the Tang Dynasty refine glass? What is the cost of refining it? Is there a market for it?"
Modern technology is crushing ancient times, but there are too many things and they are too complicated to be reproduced in ancient times. Chu Zhen could not imagine so many things at the moment.
After taking the large deer legs brought by Sister Lin for the New Year to the fourth floor and putting them in the refrigerator to freeze them first, and putting away the rouge rice, Chu Zhen went downstairs, drove his van and went to the nearby vegetable market.
But after searching around, I couldn’t find any crops that could be saved for seeds. Regardless of corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes and soybeans, you need to buy seeds every year, especially potatoes. The seeds will accumulate toxins. How to save seeds is a specialized knowledge - this is selling potatoes. An old woman told him, otherwise Chu Zhen wouldn’t know about it.
He searched online again, found a seed dealer, and went to ask.
"You want those corn and potato seeds that can be saved in the 1970s?" The staff was a little surprised.
"Yes, I want to grow some in my vegetable patch."
There is a wasteland in front of Chu Zhen's house, and there is a river not far away where you can fish.
"Yes, yes." The staff hesitated, "But I have to contact you specifically. You don't buy much, so you might as well come here every year to buy seeds."
"I'll order the seeds for five thousand yuan first!"
Chu Zhen generously threw money, "Others, rice, wheat, soybeans, corn, peppers, tomatoes, etc. that can be planted, give me a few bags."
The staff looked puzzled, but he didn't have trouble with the money and agreed to come down and help him find it.
After paying the deposit, Chu Zhen left with satisfaction.
Modern crops have been improved, and they may also be suitable for ancient times.
Why not sure?
Because the higher the yield of seeds, the more soil fertility is absorbed. In ancient times, without chemical fertilizers, it was not necessarily possible to grow high-yield crops.
Chu Zhen could only buy all kinds of seeds and ask Li Shimin and Zhu Yuanzhang to send people to try to plant them.
