Chapter 187: Humbling Her Pride.
Xingnong first followed Zhang Zheng to take a look at the works he had newly made in the past month. A large pile was scrapped, and only five sets were high-quality, just enough to make a hand. But these five sets of porcelain were perfect!
They could absolutely be considered treasures to be passed down through generations.
After all, these crafts, such as Famille Rose and Enamel, were appearing for the first time in this dynasty. The first perfect works to appear were epoch-making.
Zhang Zheng was truly a very talented ceramic master.
“Sister Xingnong, which ones do you like? I’ll give them to you!” Zhang Zheng said generously.
Xingnong shook her head: “No need, take them to auction. ”
Zhang Zheng knew that Xingnong would refuse. It didn’t matter, these were actually not the ones he was most satisfied with. He wanted to give the most satisfactory set to Sister Xingnong.
“Let’s go see the glass you made. ” Xingnong said.
Then Zhang Zheng took Xingnong to the workshop that specialized in making glass.
Zhang Zheng first took Xingnong to look at some glassware and colored glaze products.
Xingnong immediately saw those few transparent and brightly colored colored glaze beads.
Colored glaze beads were only available overseas. These beads were strung into bracelets and sold, and they were not cheap. Moreover, the more transparent and the rarer and more brilliant the color, the more expensive they were.
Of course, no matter how expensive colored glaze beads were, they were not gemstones, so their value was limited. However, because they were from overseas, rare, and hard to come by, a colored glaze bracelet now cost several taels of silver outside. Only young ladies from wealthy families would buy them to wear.
Now that they could be made domestically, sooner or later this craft would leak out, and they would become even less valuable in the future.
But the first person to eat crabs would always earn the most.
Xingnong looked at these few colored glaze beads as if she was looking at glittering silver.
In addition to the colored glaze beads, there were also a few blown colored glaze products, with strange shapes. They were probably failed works from the first attempts.
But at least they were sufficiently transparent.
The glassware was also very transparent.
The quality was up to standard.
It only took more than a month from finding the materials to making them, which already surprised Xingnong.
Only this kind of craftsman who had inherited the skills for hundreds of years could do it!
“Let’s go see the site. ”
“Okay!” Zhang Zheng immediately took Xingnong there.
As soon as she walked into a spacious room, Xingnong felt a wave of heat pouring over her.
She saw more than twenty workers shirtless, blowing glass with long iron pipes.
When everyone saw Zhang Zheng suddenly bring a woman in, they felt a little embarrassed and rushed to get their clothes to wear.
Only then did Zhang Zheng realize that Xingnong was a woman. It was a little inappropriate for her to see this scene.
“Sister Xingnong, I’m sorry, I’ll let them leave now. ”
“It’s okay. I’m just taking a look. Everyone, just continue with your own work and don’t mind me. ”
Then someone couldn’t help but ask out of curiosity:
“Young Master, who is this girl?”
“Young Master, it’s hot and messy here, with fire everywhere. Be careful not to burn her when you bring such a beautiful girl in!”
Zhang Zheng immediately said: “This is Miss Shen. The colored glaze that everyone is playing with now was her idea. Alright, everyone, go about your own business!”
Everyone was surprised when they heard this!
This colored glaze was actually thought up by such a young girl?
Everyone immediately felt awe.
They all began to praise her:
“Miss, you are amazing!”
Xingnong waved her hand: “I also got the recipe from someone else. ”
Everyone understood, and someone asked: “Are the people overseas blond with blue eyes?”
Xingnong smiled and answered evasively: “Have you seen them?”
Not wanting to lie, answering evasively and shifting the focus was the best method.
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“No, I heard about it! Miss Shen is amazing, to be able to buy a real recipe. I heard that the recipe Zhao Kingdom bought at a high price was fake!”
“Our recipe must have cost a lot of money, right?”
Facing everyone’s words, Xingnong just smiled and didn’t say anything. After all, her recipe wasn’t bought, but learned in modern times.
Let everyone guess!
Well, she didn’t say anything anyway.
Zhang Zheng said: “Alright, everyone, go about your own business! Miss Shen has important things to do here. ”
Upon hearing this, everyone went about their own business. It was only two days ago that they successfully melted the sand and other raw materials into glass liquid with high purity. They were now excitedly trying to blow out objects of various shapes.
Xingnong glanced at the equipment in the glass workshop. In such a short time, three furnaces for melting materials had been built. This was already very efficient.
It was just that some molds were lacking. She would draw the lacking molds when she went back, and then go to the blacksmith shop and have the blacksmith make them.
Xingnong walked around, noted down the areas that needed improvement, then pointed out some glassblowing techniques to the workers, demonstrated by blowing a cup, and then left.
Xingnong walked onto the official road with the wild bull and the mountain goat. The little mountain goat started running happily by the roadside again, running for a while and then nibbling on grass.
Very cheerful!
Xingnong couldn’t help but shake her head and laugh when she saw this, and then she took the two animals up the mountain to find Old Master Tang.
She had questions to ask Old Master Tang.
The formation in the peach blossom forest on the mountain had changed again.
This time it was changed to a more difficult one.
Halfway up the mountain, Old Master Tang was angrily combing his precious beard with a small comb.
This stinky girl had been back for so long, and she just threw down a stack of formation design drawings on the mountain on the first morning and left in a hurry.
It made him study day and night, thinking of reading through all those formations before she came today.
So that when she came up the mountain this morning, he could answer her questions.
Unexpectedly, this stinky girl didn’t come until the sun was about to set!
What happened to coming up the mountain to learn every day at Chen Shi?
Hmph! Don’t think that just because she designed a few formations and broke the three great formations, she was amazing and could skip class!
So he deliberately created a difficult formation to trap her!
To humble her pride.
To make her arrogant and conceited!
Old Master Tang said to Zi Wu beside him: “This time, she definitely won’t be able to get out for an hour!”
Zi Wu shook his head: “No! Junior Sister is smart! Master, you are not as good as Junior Sister. ”
Master had just been praising Junior Sister for being smart and capable. She had breakthroughs in places he couldn’t figure out himself.
Didn’t this mean that Junior Sister was already better than Master?
Then how could Master’s formation possibly trap Junior Sister?
Old Master Tang was furious when he heard this: “Do you want to bet with me?”
Zi Wu: “Hmm, no laundry or cooking for a month. I bet Junior Sister can break the formation in two quarters of an hour. ”
Old Master Tang: “Okay!”
At the foot of the mountain, Xingnong no longer broke formations solely by intuition, but by using what she had learned. After nearly two quarters of an hour, she had figured out the entire formation and walked out.
On the mountain, Old Master Tang saw that Xingnong was about to walk out of the peach blossom formation. He shouted loudly: “Girl, get back into the formation! If you dare to come out, I’ll break your legs!”
Before Old Master Tang finished speaking, the person beside him flashed away.
Old Master Tang was so angry that he blew his beard and glared, and then flashed away too!
Doing laundry and cooking for a month was too painful!
Xingnong, who was just a step away from stepping out: “. . .”
What’s going on?
