After thinking for a while, Li Sipang picked up the wine glass to Xu Qilin and said with a smile: "A few days ago, Gu saw the hanging "The Curse of Qing Xin" in front of his father's desk. He realized that it was written by Qi Lin. The word was magnificent and powerful, and he already had the style of a master. Gu saw it very much and wanted to hang it in front of the desk and ponder it all the time. I wonder if Qi Lin could satisfy Gu's intentions?"

As soon as Li Sipang said this, the hall became quiet.

The literati here wrote well. Li Sipang was good at literature, skilled in cursive script, and was excellent in calligraphy. He was also a connoisseur of calligraphy and painting at that time.

Therefore, he said that Xu Qilin's handwriting is good and he said it in public, so it is definitely good. It is impossible to be cheating people and ask Xu Qilin to make a fool of himself. Instead, he gave Xu Qilin the opportunity to show off, and was polite Xu Qilin.

But Xu Qilin didn't want to show it. Li Sipang naturally had good intentions, which made him very embarrassed. Refusing it in one go, in front of so many people, was equivalent to slapping Li Sipang in the face.

After pondering for a while, Xu Qilin had an idea and said to Li Sipang with a smile: "Your Highness also knows that books are in accordance with the state of mind. If your mood is not peaceful and quiet, the writing of these words will be out of standard. Today, I have drunken wine, so how dare I write lightly? One is that I am disrespectful to Your Highness, and the other is that I am afraid of showing my ugliness."

Li Sipang thought for a moment, nodded and smiled, "Qi Lin's words are reasonable, so when will he be calm? Is it good to write another piece of calligraphy to give to the Lone King?"

Xu Qilin bowed his hand and smiled and said, "Your Highness dare not obey your orders."

Although Xu Qilin did not write in public, Li Sipang had already said that his handwriting was hanging in front of His Majesty Li Er's case, which would not be a lie. It can also be seen that Xu Qilin has achieved profound attainments in calligraphy.

Therefore, everyone's eyes changed a little when they looked at Xu Qilin. Moreover, Li Tai was polite and did not force Xu Qilin at all, which shows Xu Qilin's position in his mind.

Li Tai ordered the singer to come on stage and perform singing and dancing. This little episode was over, leaving behind different conjectures in everyone's hearts.

After the singing and dancing, Xu Qilin said that he had too much wine and was afraid that he would lose his composure and bid farewell to Li Tai and others.

Li Taiwan left a few words, and when he saw Xu Qilin insisting, he did not force him and asked someone to send Xu Qilin back to his house.

If he was alone with Li Sipang, Xu Qilin would like to mention him a few more words. But so many people were present, he had to wait for another chance.

When he got home, Xu Qilin splashed ink and wrote a piece of calligraphy for Li Sipang, but he would send it in a few days. Then, he wrote two more letters and called Wu Song to send it to the village immediately, one for Xiao Zhao and the other for the Chen family.

Wu Song was originally Xu Qilin's number one personal bodyguard, so he shouldn't have been to send the letter. But Xu Qilin had his own meaning and ordered Wu Song to stay in the village for a few days before coming back.

However, looking at the fool's expression that he didn't understand, Xu Qilin wanted to kick him twice.

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Ancient books contain: "Squeeze the juice and it becomes candy for several days, and it is called stone honey." During the Han Dynasty, sugar making was a very rough technique.

Most people think that sugar-making is a very simple thing, just boil the sugar-sugar juice. In fact, it is not the case, sugar-sugar juice is actually a mixture of complex ingredients.

As a sugarcane juice containing a complex system of multiple mixtures, if it is simply boiled, it will appear as a paste mixture, which is the so-called sauerk. If it is boiled, it will become a yellow to dark block, that is, stone honey, and it will be broken into small pieces when eaten.

Although the term white sugar began to appear more and more frequently in ancient Chinese books since the Tang Dynasty. However, according to the sugar making process at that time, the so-called white sugar was just a little whiter than red sugar brown sugar.

To make the sugar whiter, first add clarifiers, such as lime milk or activated carbon, to remove the mixture and part of the pigment in the sugar juice; then use the method recorded in "Tiangong Kaiwu" to slide the tank with a tiled tile, then pour yellow mud water on the sugar, and absorb the remaining molasses with pigments through clay minerals to obtain real white sugar.

According to Xu Qilin's instructions in his letter, the officials of Dayingku had prepared paint jars, commissioned a kiln to fire tiles and jars, purchased sugar from the market, and built a new production workshop.

Although the new workshop has not been completed yet, Xu Qilin has already had a place to experiment with when borrowing textile workshops.

The new technology launched by Xu Qilin spans thousands of years and has instantly improved sugar making technology to the advanced level of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to the experiment of sugar, Xu Qilin also injected the melted syrup into a paint jar inserted in bamboo strips according to the process of "Tiangong Kaiwu" to allow it to crystallize naturally to produce rock sugar.

The crystallization process takes about several months. Without crystallization tanks and seeds, you can only wait patiently for this natural change.

Even with the craftsmanship in "The Art of Heavenly Works", failure is still difficult to avoid. For example, adding the amount of lime requires constant attempts. If not done well, it will be bitter and hard, and it will be difficult to get started.

For a whole day, Xu Qilin was guiding the craftsmen to carry out the process and operations of sugar making. Obviously, it would take at least three to five days to see the effect.

When he returned to the mansion, Boss Xu had been waiting for a long time to report to Xu Qilin about the renting of the shop.

The real estate projects outside Chunlimen and Jinguang Gate have been completed and handed over. According to the agreement with His Majesty Li Er, Xu Qilin obtained a total of 16 shops. Except for four of them left for their own use, the rest were rented out and entrusted to Boss Xu.

Boss Xu now has three restaurants. Zuixiaolou is considered to be a joint venture with Xu Qilin, while the other two are run by him.

As Xu Qilin continues to add new dishes to Zuixiaolou, Boss Xu's other two restaurants also benefited from it, and the business was quite good.

This time, outside the Golden Light Gate, through Xu Qilin's secret reconciliation, Boss Xu also got an affordable shop and was still planning to open a restaurant to make money.

"There are eight shops rented in the past few days, and the rent is collected every year, totaling 280,000 yuan." Boss Xu handed the account to Xu Qilin and said, "Butler Xu has already counted it and loaded it into the warehouse."

Xu Qilin just looked at the account book briefly, then put it down, and bowed politely: "Uncle Shi, thank you for your hard work. A certain official business is busy and the mansion is short of management talents, so he has to trouble Uncle Shi."

Boss Xu smiled and waved his hand, saying, "Alang's words are just a matter of disgrace. If you compare it with Alang to make money, it is not worth mentioning, but you will get a big advantage."

Xu Qilin smiled and said, "Uncle Shi said this too. His family is making money together. We don't have to count it so clearly."

"Yes, yes, you don't have to be polite to your family." Boss Xu nodded repeatedly, thinking that Xu Qilin's words were nice. Although he was a fifth-rank official, he was still so kind, without being above his rank, and being arrogant.

After pausing, Boss Xu said, "By the way, there is something else that Alang may not know yet."

"What's the matter?" Xu Qilin asked in confusion.

Boss Xu said: "This afternoon, at the store layout outside the city, I saw that Carpenter Sun seemed to have a dispute with someone, and even the sign in front of the store was pushed down."

Xu Qilin frowned and said, "But I didn't see him telling me, it shouldn't be a big deal, right?"

Boss Xu thought for a while and said, "It was about to close the city gate at that time, and I was in a hurry to return. Maybe Carpenter Sun wanted to come back, but was locked outside the city?"

Xu Qilin thought for a moment, and said, "Thank you, Uncle Shi, I will go outside the city to have a look tomorrow morning."

Boss Xu hesitated for a moment, and then kindly reminded: "Alang brings more people. If the matter is not small, he will not suffer any loss."

"Thank you for your concern, Uncle Shi." Xu Qilin smiled and expressed his gratitude.

The two chatted again and Boss Xu got up and said goodbye.

Xu Qilin sent Boss Xu away, returned to the room and took out the account book and taught Scarlett to calculate and organize it.

The rent is about 100 yuan a day, and a shop costs 36,000 yuan a year, totaling 36,000 yuan. This is only the price of the first year. With the development of business and the opening and withdrawal of the Western Regions trade routes, the rent can continue to rise year by year.

Listening to Xu Qilin's explanation, Scarlett took the notes carefully and took the accounts, but in his hand was a quill brush specially made for her by Xu Qilin.

"When all the twelve shops are rented out, yes, thirty-six times twelve..." Scarlett calculated on the paper for a while, and got a number, but looked at Xu Qilin with uncertainty.

Xu Qilin smiled and said, "It's pretty good, it's a total of 432 stalks."

Scarlett smiled with relief and said, "I am very stupid. If it is a little lady, I will be out of here."

Well, Xiao Zhao is very smart, all of them are the Xu family's genes. My sister is a child prodigy. My elder brother is eight years old and my younger sister is extremely smart. Only she, if she didn't rely on cheating, would she be the worst in the Xu family.

However, Xu Qilin still encouraged Scarlett. Over the past few months, he has been studying arithmetic in all of his studies, and he can calculate double-digit multiplication and correct it. He has worked very hard. A bad guy, you can't ask too much, right?

If Scarlett was not a woman, Xu Qilin really wanted her to enter the math school. In less than a year, she would definitely become a math in math.

Although the School of Mathematics was under the Imperial College, Xu Qilin got the privilege from His Majesty Li Er to set up a branch in Dayingku and cultivate talents for Dayingku according to his vision.

Now, Chen Laocai's son Chen Jingxuan can be considered one, and the rest of the students can only recruit them now.

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The moon rises, sprinkling a light like milk and mist.

Sun Asi packed up the mess in the shop, sighed and sat down, worried that those guys would come again tomorrow.

The woman silently served the meal and greeted the man and a few friends and apprentices to have dinner, but she was also frowning.

"Master, go to the city tomorrow morning to ask Xu Lang for help?" Apprentice He Xiaogui said tentatively: "He is a fifth-rank official. Even if he can't suppress that county magistrate, he will be more effective than our ordinary people!"

When the woman heard this, she looked at the man with some hope, thinking that this was a good suggestion.

Sun Asi's chopsticks stopped, but shook his head and said, "Xu Lang has helped us so much, I don't want to cause trouble for him. At worst, I will give up the warehouse to Duke of E tomorrow."

"But the Duke of E has made a reservation to come to pick up the goods the day after tomorrow!" He Xiaogui asked in confusion: "It's too late for us to make it now!"

"Maybe, maybe—" Sun Asi said stutteringly: "Tell me a good talk to the Duke of Hubei, maybe I can be given a grace for two days."

The woman said depressedly: "Then I need Alang's help, the boy from Duke of E is very good to him."

Sun Asi was stunned for a moment, sighed helplessly, and said, "It's better to have a few days of grace than to go against others? Although it's all about trouble, the size of things is different!"

He Xiaogui thought about it and nodded in agreement. Seeing that others had no objection, the matter was settled.

Sun Asi was also kind-hearted. Even if it was a trouble, he should try to make it as small as possible so that Xu Qilin could easily solve it.

But he didn't expect that early the morning, the city gate had just opened for a short time, and Xu Qilin rushed to the store with more than a dozen guards.

When Xu Qilin saw the bruises on Sun Asi's face, he immediately knew something was wrong. Boss Xu said it was true, so he asked calmly: "Someone was in trouble in the store yesterday and even beat you, right?"

Sun Asi wanted to hide it, but when he saw Alang's face was as deep as water, he was immediately frightened and stammered and couldn't speak.

He Xiaogui was a little brave and interrupted, "It's from the family of Chai Lingwu, the son-in-law, who came to buy furniture yesterday and asked them to pay the deposit and wait for a few days. Then he got angry and beat the shopkeeper and said he would carry it today. If he couldn't hand it over, he would smash the store."

Xu Qilin glanced at the half-boy, pursed his lips slightly, nodded slightly, and showed a slight appreciation. He turned his head to Sun Asi and said, "I know you are afraid of causing trouble for me, but if you don't take this back, others will come to force you to buy it. How can you continue this business?"

After pausing for a moment, Xu Qilin continued, "Leave this matter to me, so that the Chai family will not be finished if they don't bow their heads and admit their mistakes and beat up the clever slaves. Even if they fight him, the store will be too big to open, but it will not make him do what he wants."

Sun A Si's wife respectfully presented tea and said softly: "There are furniture made for the Duke of E in the warehouse. If you can't fight, you can give the furniture to the Chai family first. Alang and the Duke of E in the palace are familiar with each other, or you can make a move."

Xu Qilin raised his eyebrows and smiled and said, "It's all right. Well, let's talk about it when someone from the Chai family comes."

It was Xu Qilin's kindness to help Sun Asi open a wooden shop, but he didn't expect that such a thing would happen. It is conceivable how difficult it is for a commoner to do something.

If you dare not say that if you compromise once, everything will be fine, then you will be able to punch one punch to avoid a hundred punches. Anyway, although Chai Lingwu is the son-in-law, he is not a role that cannot be offended.

Even if his father Chai Shao is still alive, Xu Qilin is not very scared. He has many ways to slap people, but he just doesn't want to reveal it easily, which is known to everyone.

Xu Qilin drank a cup of tea and had settled his mind. He reached out to call He Xiaogui and told him what to say when the Chai family came. After the explanation, he took the guard to hide in the back hall and prevented the Chai family from seeing him.

Then, Xu Qilin wanted to write and draw with ink, paper and inkstone.

The Chai family may really need a set of tables, chairs and furniture. Xu Qilin waited for a while and heard the sound of horse hooves outside. Then, there was another noise of people.
Chapter completed!