Li Wan looked anxious. Aunt Xue came to the door this morning, which surprised Li Wan. Even though Aunt Xue knew that it was Xue Pan who was at fault, she felt a little uncomfortable thinking about Xue Pan being beaten up by Li Weijian.
When Xue Pan killed Feng Yuan and caused a big trouble, wasn't it revealed in an understatement in the end? From beginning to end, Xue Pan never lost a hair.
He was just drunk last night, so Li Weijian just avoided it, so why did he bother to hit Xue Pan?
I feel uncomfortable in my heart, and these words are naturally a weapon and a stick. It was obvious that he was worried, but his inner thoughts were revealed, which made Li Wan feel restless.
As soon as Aunt Xue left, Li Wan took the maid and went straight to Li Weijian's residence.
Li Weijian smiled on his face, thinking that the elder sister was really here for this. Immediately, he introduced Li Wan into the hall and said, "Don't worry, big sister, where did you get the letter so early?"
Li Wan sat down and said, "Where else could it be? My concubine came here early this morning to complain. After hearing what she said, she complained very much that you beat that Xue Pan."
Li Weijian sat down with him and said thoughtfully: "Well, it seems the beating was gentle."
"ah?"
Li Weijian immediately made a long story short and told what happened last night, which made Li Wan tremble with anger.
"My concubine only thought that Xue Pan was in a state of disarray after drinking, but who would have thought that he would be so... so shameless!"
Qingwen brought tea, and Li Weijian poured it for Li Wan himself. He said calmly: "Sister, don't be angry. I have never suffered any loss. If Xue Pan comes to bother me again, I will give him a good look."
After Li Wan was angry, he suddenly felt worried again when he heard this. He frowned and said: "After all, they are my wife's close relatives, and the two families have been friends for several lifetimes. You might as well..."
"Be patient?" Li Weijian shook his head. He knew that Li Wan had such a personality, otherwise Mrs. Wang would not have bullied him into this position with Mrs. Jia taking care of him. He said: "Sister, do you know that you can punch away with one punch to avoid hundreds of punches? Xue Pan is just stupid. There are many stupid and bad children in the Jia family. If I endure it this time, who knows how I will be bullied in the future. ?”
"This...it's better not to make too much of a fuss." Li Wan tightened her handkerchief. She only knew how to give in when something happened, but she didn't know how to deal with it.
Li Weijian smiled and said, "Sister, don't worry, I can handle it." After a pause, he added, "Sister, let me ask you secretly, how much money have you saved privately?"
Li Wan said: "There are still some worth 800 yuan... Don't you have any money? I will send some more later."
Li Weijian shook his head quickly: "No, eldest sister, I have a lucrative business that I am planning. If it succeeds, eldest sister will invest all her money in the business. From now on, it will be better to make a profit every year than to survive." Some."
Li Wan said: "In your business...could it be that you pay bills?"
Li Weijian was slightly stunned, and then said: "Eldest sister, where did you want to go? I am just a scholar, and I am not familiar with the capital. How can I get it back even if I put the money away? The business I am talking about must be a serious business. Health, um... the kind that benefits the country and the people."
Li Wan breathed a sigh of relief and said: "If you are short of money, just ask me to get it. Qiu Wei reckons that he will only have half a year left, so he still has to study hard."
Li Weijian smiled and agreed, and Li Wan asked again what was wrong with him in the past two days and asked some trivial questions before leaving in relief.
Li Weijian had been writing and drawing in the study that day, carefully perfecting the water pump, thinking in his mind that he would build the water pump tomorrow after seeing the level of craftsmanship in the inner palace.
Just after Chen hour, Hongyu went to get the food and came back. Just as Li Weijian was about to wash his hands, a woman came from outside to report that someone had posted a message and she needed to see Li Weijian.
Li Weijian was wondering, it was sooner or later, who posted it for him? After putting on his outer cloak, he quickly called the doorman to come out and saw a servant waiting in front of Jia's house.
The servant glanced at it, bowed and said, "But is it in front of Li Xiucai?"
"Exactly, I dare to ask——"
The servant took out the post from his pocket and presented it: "I have been ordered by the master to post a post for Li Xiucai. I also asked Li Xiucai to read it in person."
"Okay." Li Weijian opened the post and glanced at it, wondering: "Is Da Sikong free today?"
The servant said: "The master has a serious illness and took leave yesterday."
Li Weijian said: "Okay, after I ride the horse, I will go visit Da Sikong."
The servant bowed again and left first.
Li Weijian fumbled and took out a piece of broken silver, threw it to the familiar doorman, and ordered Wu Haiping to be called, and then brought the horse. When the man started to weigh it, he realized that he had to have four coins for less than half a tael, so he was very happy and hurriedly dealt with it.
After a while, Wu Haiping was called and the horses were led. Li Weijian and Wu Haiping immediately got on their horses. Just after walking for a while, a woman led a naughty boy to the front of Ningrong Street. He immediately hurried to Da Sikong's house. Naturally, he didn't pay attention. He just urged the horse to go, and left in a moment.
It's not easy to run horses in the inner city, and it was already more than half an hour later when we arrived at Shiban Alley. The two got off their horses and tied them to the hitching post, leaving Wu Haiping waiting in the gatehouse. Li Weijian was immediately led by the servant to the study in the second courtyard.
Compare Shaosikou's residence, Gu Weiyue was the minister of the Ministry of Industry, and according to regulations, he was allowed to live in a house with twenty rooms. This mansion still has three entrances, but it looks much bigger than the Yan family.
The study was located in the west chamber. The servant reported it and immediately led Li Weijian inside.
Li Weijian turned around the screen and raised his eyes to see an old man sitting on the soft chair behind the desk. He looked to be in his sixties, extremely wealthy, but with a dark complexion. His temples are all white, and he has a long beard on his chin.
He did not dare to neglect, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him and said, "Student Li Weijian has met Da Sikong."
"Well, you don't have to be so formal in private."
Li Weijian responded and looked up to see the Minister of Industry looking at him curiously. He was worried and didn't know how to exchange greetings at this moment.
Just as he was thinking about it, he saw Gu Weiyue nodding his head and said, "I read your uncle's letter and found out that he is very insightful in the practice of rebirth?"
Li Weijian said: "I'm ashamed, students can't bear to read the Four Books and Five Classics, and prefer to delve into miscellaneous studies about managing the world and benefiting the people."
Gu Weiyue suddenly burst out laughing and gestured: "Sit down and talk, don't get angry. Speaking of which, I had a close friendship with your uncle at first. We were both from the same department and from the same hometown. Later I went to Hedao Yamen, and you The uncle went to the pavilion, and when they met again later, they had a big quarrel because of their different opinions, and they stopped communicating with each other from then on.
Therefore, you will know the surprise in my heart when I saw this letter. Although your uncle didn't even try to flatter you in his letter, he finally gave in to you. "
"Students are ashamed."
Li Weijian was overwhelmed with emotion. He originally thought that his uncle's letter was addressed to an old friend, but he didn't expect it to be like this! The mixed feelings passed in an instant, and the uncle had sacrificed his face to give him the opportunity. Naturally, he had to seize it firmly and not miss it.
Gu Weiyue said with a smile: "Since Li Shouzhong has sacrificed his face, I will always take care of him, but I don't know how far he has learned the practical knowledge of Fusheng." He gently pushed the paper in front of him: "Here are a few questions, Fusheng test Just do it. If it's really ugly, I might turn against you and kick you out."
Make papers? Yes, let’s do it!
Li Weijian stood up and took the paper and glanced at it briefly. There were five questions in total: algebra, geometry, trigonometric functions, and application questions for calculating military supply and consumption. The last question gave the artillery's impact point from two angles, allowing calculation Maximum elevation range.
Li Weijian immediately felt confident, borrowed a pencil to write some calculations, and solved all five problems with just a stick of incense.
He handed over the paper. Gu Weiyue glanced at it and nodded slightly. That’s it for the first few steps, just the basics. For the last step, I read the previous part first, and the result was exactly the same as calculated by the Ministry of Industry. But it was followed by a complex formula, and what was given was not an exact result, but an extremely complex function.
If you look carefully, you can see that there is calculus in this function.
Gu Weiyue felt dizzy and went back to look at the definition of each symbol. He grabbed the pencil and brought in the variables required in the function, and then he got stuck.
After all, Da Sikong was old and had only a general knowledge of calculus, so he simply pushed it in front of Li Weijian: "These are the variables. Just calculate the ten-degree angle range."
"Yes." Li Weijian agreed, calculated three times, five times and divided by two, and listed the values: "Back to Da Sikong, the calculation result is more than one thousand one hundred and twenty-four steps..."
"How many?"
"Eleven hundred……"
Without waiting for Li Weijian to repeat, Gu Weiyue suddenly stood up, screamed in pain, grabbed the paper, and sat down on the couch. He took a closer look at the values and took a breath: "You are a resurrected talent! Do you want to come to our Ministry of Works?" ? I have made the decision to first teach you not to be a low-ranking official. When the new artillery is finalized, I will tell you that I will give you a good future after you are resurrected!"
"Ah?" Li Weijian stared, wondering how this turn of events came about.
Gu Weiyue immediately ordered his servants to serve tea, his face softened a lot, and he said with a smile: "I don't know if I will be resurrected. The Ministry of Industry was ordered to work with the inner government to develop new artillery. A lot of this artillery was cast, but the range still had to be measured.
The Ministry of Industry asked Qin Tianjian to help with calculations, but the calculations often differed greatly from the actual results. For example, at this ten-degree angle, Qin Tianjian calculated that it should be one thousand six hundred steps, but in fact it would be about one thousand one hundred steps when there is no wind.
I had no choice but to order people to measure it with live ammunition... The calculation of the resurrection is extremely accurate. I think there is an extra wind resistance. I think this is the reason for the previous deviation. "
"Exactly." Li Weijian talked about the impact of ventilation obstruction on ballistics, then changed the subject and said, "Da Sikong..."
"Eh? Don't be heretics when you are resurrected. I have a close relationship with your uncle, so you can just call me uncle."
Li Weijian's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately hit the snake on the stick and said, "Uncle, my nephew is naturally willing to help. It's just that autumn is approaching, so I have to spend more time studying. Therefore, I don't need to join the official position. If my uncle can use it, Take care of your nephew, he will be there whenever you call him."
Gu Weiyue said with a smile: "Well, I understand, you think the official is too young. It's okay, you can help me with this first. When the matter is completed, I will definitely recommend it."
"Thank you uncle, my nephew will definitely do his best!"
Gu Weiyue was in a good mood, so he asked his servants to prepare a meal, and then entertained Li Weijian for a meal in the study. It was only when Li Weijian was eating that he realized that the reason why Gu Weiyue was not good at walking was that he had been greedy for eating seafood given by the palace a few days ago and suffered from gout.
Let’s not mention this side for now, let’s talk about Rongguo Mansion.
After lunch that day, Xue Pan wandered back to Dongfu to look for Jia Rong and Jia Qiang to play mischief.
Jia Qiang then said that a new Dingxiang Restaurant had opened nearby, specializing in Huaiyang cuisine, so the three of them went to Dingxiang Restaurant to have a drink together.
After eating and drinking, after the wine had passed three rounds and the dishes had passed the fifth taste, Xue Pan thought of everything yesterday, and suddenly became angry and yelled at Li Weijian.
Jia Qiang is too narrow-minded and only drinks and eats in silence, and at most agrees twice; but Jia Rong never takes Li Weijian seriously.
So he casually said: "Uncle Pan, we are just relatives and have nothing to do with that guy surnamed Li. He doesn't know how to praise him, so he just looks for an opportunity to teach him a lesson. Why disturb his interest?"
Xue Pan said angrily: "I want to teach you a lesson, but I'm not familiar with the place and I really don't know how to start."
Jia Rong sneered, twisted the peanuts, threw them into his mouth, and said with a smile: "If Uncle Pan can trust me, just give up one or two hundred silver to ensure that the man surnamed Li can't eat it and carry it around."
"Really?" Without saying a word, Xue Pan took out two hundred taels of silver notes from his pocket: "I'm not short of silver! I must say this!"
Jia Rong's eyes lit up, she reached out and grabbed the banknote, and said with a smile: "Come on, Uncle Pan, please wait!"
After the banquet was over, Xue Pan went away after eating so much that Jia Qiang went home by herself, while Jia Rong entered Rongguo Mansion through the corner gate.
Arriving in front of Sister Feng's yard, the mother-in-law quickly went in to inform her, and after a while she led Jia Rong into the room.
Jia Rong straightened her clothes, lifted the curtain with a smile, and saw Wang Xifeng talking to a woman in coarse clothes and a naughty boy.
Sister Feng always wears a sable Zhaojun suit, surrounded by pearls, a peach red flowered jacket, a chinchilla cloak with carved stone and blue silk, and a bright red crepe silver mouse skin skirt. She is pink and fat, and she sits upright. There, he held a small copper fire chopstick in his hand to stir up the ashes in the furnace.
The old lady was restless, so Sister Feng smiled and said, "Just sit there, this is my nephew."
Jia Rong remembered Jia Zhen's instructions in the morning and hurriedly smiled and said: "My father sent me to ask my aunt to ask for the glass kang screen that my uncle and his wife gave to my aunt last time. I will invite an important guest tomorrow and borrow it to display it." Just send it over.”
Sister Feng said: "It's a day late. I already gave it to someone yesterday."
Jia Rong listened and smiled, half-kneeling on the edge of the kang and saying, "If Auntie doesn't borrow it, he says I won't be able to speak, and I'll be beaten again. Auntie just takes pity on my nephew."
Sister Feng smiled and said, "I haven't seen you either. Are the Wang family's things all good? You have those good things there, but you can't see them. The ones that favor me are good."
Jia Rong smiled and said: "It's great to have this over there! I just want to be merciful."
Sister Feng said: "If you touch it a little, you should watch your skin carefully!" Yin Ming Ping'er took the key to the building and sent it to a few appropriate people to carry it away.
Jia Rongxi smiled happily and said, "I personally took someone to take it, don't let them touch it." After saying that, he got up and went out.
Here, Sister Feng suddenly remembered something and called out the window: "Brother Rong is back."
Several people outside said, "Uncle Rong, come back soon."
Jia Rong hurriedly turned around and stood with his hands down, listening to He's instructions. Sister Feng just ate her tea slowly, lost consciousness for a long time, and then smiled and said: "That's all, you can go ahead. You can come and talk about it after dinner. There are people here right now, and I don't have the energy anymore." Jia Rong agreed. With a sound, Fang slowly retreated.
