It has been a month since Mao Geng disappeared. During this period, Wen Yuan has been trying to find clues to find out where Mao Geng is.

During the days of the suspect, Wen Yuan and the third sister of the Dun family lived together day and night, feeling the passion of the third sister of the Dun family every day, and became affection over time, gradually forgetting the so-called rules of the master that were false. At this extraordinary moment, Wen Yuan was not such a person with firm will. Finally, the affectionate girl and the down-and-out boy achieved good things at a certain auspicious time. Wen Yuan lost the body of a boy, but was in exchange for love.

Now Wen Yuan has returned to Baixi and lives in the Dun family courtyard. Wen Yuan also learned about Wang Qinqin’s current situation from the side. Wang Qinqin actually regarded Wen Yuan as a playmate. Wen Yuan was not sad when he became the Dun family’s son-in-law.

Baixi has suddenly become much lively during this period. First, Baixi official school suddenly became more popular than Xinhua County school. Secondly, foreign merchants came to buy wax paper engraving equipment and chalk, making the small Baixi Town look unprecedentedly prosperous.

There are rumors that Baixi official school will be upgraded to Baixi Academy, but because the popular scholar Kang Yuliang did not go anywhere, he lies in Baixi official school and did not move. In this way, many students who were determined to be disciples of great scholars had to flock to Baixi official school.

Not only the students from the county school had to transfer to Baixi official school, but even the students from Anhua County school had to go to Baixi official school. However, although Baixi official school hired two more teachers to teach, it could only accommodate up to 150 students, so it could not withstand scholars from far and near to flock to the crowd! As a result, the degree of Baixi official school became particularly in short supply.

Through the Dun family, there are many people who want to get a degree in official studies in Baixi. Wen Yuan is not as ignoring civil affairs as Mao Geng, and he has to hand over a few notes to Mr. Kang. Mr. Kang looked at Wen Yuan's face and took the exam to take the student who held the Wen Yuan note, and finally took the initiative to accept two, which was already a great favor from Wen Yuan.

As a suspect, Wen Yuan was able to plant students in Baixi official school, which shows his influence. Now the rumor has passed, and although County Magistrate Xu did not write a document to publicly rehabilitate Mao Wen and the other two, he asked Mr. Luo to come forward. In addition to asking Mao Geng to return to the county, he also comforted Wen Yuan and asked Wen Yuan to return to Baixi. In fact, Mao Geng and Wen Yuan had already taken off the hat of spies in the Jin soldiers.

Wen Yuan’s reputation was not obvious, but it was the time when he was a suspect. However, the pirated version of Baixi Academy created by Wen Yuan was already very famous. The number of prints of "New Chemistry" was only 150 copies, while the number of prints of "Baixi Academy" actually had to be engraved twice, and the number of prints jumped to as many as 400 copies.

After Wen Yuan made a high-profile appearance in Baixi, the news that Wen Yuan, the contributor of Baixi Academy Journal, spread like wildfire. The circle of knowing this matter became bigger and bigger, and Wen Yuan's reputation naturally became more and more famous. However, because of Mao Geng's disappearance, Wen Yuan spent a lot of energy on finding Mao Geng. The so-called one-mindedness cannot be used twice, and the update was greatly affected. The three-day issue was changed to seven-day issue.

A few days ago, someone suddenly built a model house in Baixi. The bricks used were red. Then someone sent a piece of paper the size of a palm to Dun's house. The paper was selling tiles, which were cheap. However, through further information obtained later, the floor of the tiles was made of cement. Wen Yuan contacted Mao Geng's disappearance and found that this matter was extraordinary.

After discussing with Fuguo Railway and Dun Erbao, the two remembered that when Mao Geng mentioned the Maoban ship on the ship that day, he mentioned the firing of bricks and tiles. In this way, Qujiadong, which built model houses and sold bricks, was extremely suspicious, and Qujiadong was also one of the several forces in Xinhua that dared to engage in this calamity.

At this point, Qujiadong was listed as the biggest suspect, but there was no evidence, so it was difficult to come directly to ask for people. Qujiadong's evildoers, known to all the evildoers, are well-known for smuggling tea, and even the government is afraid of it. If Qu Laisan simply destroys the corpse and traces in order to deny it, it would be bad.

Su Zhidao also felt that it was not appropriate to be reckless, because Su Yuanwai was not sure that he could rely on the Su family's remaining power to intimidate Qu Lai San. Qu Lai San's behavior is unreasonable. Su Yuanwai thought about it and felt that it might really stimulate Qu's family to do something extreme. Therefore, Su Wui said that this matter must be a comprehensive plan and must not take the life of a perfect son-in-law.

Of course, he also reported to the Magistrate Xu in time for such a big thing. Xu naturally attached great importance to this. Mao Geng knew too much and had to find Mao Geng no matter what. Therefore, County Magistrate Xu specifically asked Mr. Luo to be responsible for the case, and specially sent Zhang Haisan and Luo Qi to be responsible for the errands.

After Su Fudun and the three families of the three families locked the suspects in Qujiadong, Mr. Luo felt it was quite difficult and also believed that he had to find a complete solution. From the perspective of County Magistrate Xu, it would be fine to destroy the corpse and traces. He was afraid that Qu Lai San would transfer Mao Geng to another place. Mao Geng must not be cheaper in other counties. This is one of them. Secondly, Mao Geng is an insider of the God-making movement. If everything about the God-making movement is leaked, County Magistrate Xu would suddenly fall from the peak to the bottom. According to the current situation, Mao Geng may be in Qujiadong, and it seems that he has no life for the time being. He can't alarm the snake and alarm Qu Lai San. If Mao Geng is transferred to another place, it will be even more difficult to find Mao Geng again.

Although everyone knew that Mao Geng was in the hands of Qu Lai San, it was ridiculous that the three families, including the government, all agreed that they had to make a long-term plan, but none of them advocated killing Mao Geng directly to rescue Mao Geng.

A few days later, Qujiadong started to play with new tricks. A red wall of the model house was painted gray, and then each company received new paper sheets. This time, the paper sheet not only sold bricks, but also claimed that the newly established "West China Contractor Team" could take care of the work of building a house for the boss - to build a house for the boss - to provide all the materials for the boss! The boss did not have to worry about anything except making a request, which was both save trouble and was not expensive. In addition, it was paid in installments, and then paid half of the money after the construction was half, and then paid half of the money after the remaining half was paid one year later. In addition, it was also specifically stated that building a red brick wall is a tradition for Yao people, and the boss can get a 10% discount on choosing a red brick wall.

The first person to come to ask about the house building was Li Song.

The blacksmith Li Song made 120 guan in the past two months by making steel plates printed with wax paper. And if this continues, it will be no difficult to make 300 guan by the end of the year. After Li Song got the money, he felt that he was also a rich man, and it was indecent to live under the eaves of Fu's house. He heard that a beautiful brick and tile model house appeared on the street and could also build a house. Li Song took the time to see it himself. After looking at the inside and outside the model house, he was immediately moved.

When Li Song asked, building a house with four rooms with a main hall, the "Western China Contractor Team" reported the contracting materials to be 75 jin. There was a discount of 10% during the opening period of the first month, which was only 67 jin. If you could accept the red exterior wall, you could also have a discount of 10%. It would be exactly 60 jin. Li Song calculated that there were two large main halls. In total, it was six rooms. It was only ten jin when it was spread out in one room, and the floor was still cement.

Li Song knew the market for building a house. The brick and tile houses in Shandong cost at least 11 or 20% of the year. Besides, he was alone in Baixi and could never build a house by himself. There is another advantage. The "West China Contracting Team" can even buy land for himself. The people in the contracting team were very enthusiastic and were even willing to sell more than one acre of land next to the model house to Li Song. This place is also a prosperous place in the local area, and the price was only 15% of the year. Li Song was very satisfied at a glance.

Even building a house with a land belt is only 75 jin. If you don’t have to worry about it, you will still pay in installments. There is nothing more cost-effective than this. Li Song is now well-off, so he decided to make a deal with the "West China Contracting Team". The two parties contacted the town government office to apply for a documentary contract. Li Song paid 15 jin of land money. The contracting team started construction for Li Song, the owner of the second day.

Fuguo Tie was Li Song's partner. After learning about this, Fuguo Tie changed his mind and thought that this might be an opportunity. So a group of people, including Mr. Luo, got together again and started discussing it.

Wen Yuan's mind was quick, and he also felt that this was an opportunity. There were more than one or two people who had taken care of the house building. Among these people, there were inevitably some people who were not stern. Perhaps they could work hard on these house building people. As long as someone spoke and showed his words and followed the clues, it would be easier.

Su Zhidaoze believed that it would not take many people to build Li Song's rooms, and it was not difficult to choose more than a dozen stern men in Qujiadong. It would be better to simply take charge of building a house in Baixi official school to Qujiadong. Baixi official school is overcrowded and urgently needs to be expanded. According to the plan, more than 20 new houses should be built. If they are all included in Qujiadong, Qujiadong would have to send at least thirty or forty more people, with too many people talking, so they would not be afraid that he would not leak the news.

Mr. Luo also felt it was reasonable. Anyway, the price of building a house in Qujiadong is very cost-effective, killing two birds with one stone. Besides, most of the money for the expansion of Baixi official school came from Kang Yuliang's donation. For every set of wax paper engraving equipment sold, Mr. Kang took out 500 documents for Baixi official school. As long as it was conducive to retrieving Mao Geng, Mr. Kang would unconditionally support him.

So, another absurd thing happened! The expansion project of Baixi official school was also included in the "West China Contracting Team". The government knew that Qu Jiadong was the biggest suspect in kidnapping Mao Geng, but he wanted to let Qu Jiadong take over the house to make money. It was really strange!

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On this day, Mao Geng suddenly remembered a method to prepare ultrafine calcium carbonate powder. He remembered that it was to pass carbon dioxide into lime emulsion, then react calcium hydroxide and carbon dioxide to turn into calcium carbonate, and then filter, dry and crushed to obtain ultrafine calcium carbonate.

In order to create inks with better performance, ultra-fine powders must be made, and this ultra-fine calcium carbonate is a good ink filler.

Mao Geng felt that he should try it, so he started a chemical test in his room. There was no beaker, test tube, or something, but it was just fine to have a porcelain bowl. Mao Geng's test equipment was two porcelain bowls and a hollow thatched pole.

Pour lime into a porcelain bowl, stir and let it settle for a while, then pour the upper layer of clearer lime water into another porcelain bowl, and then use a hollow thatched pole to blow into the lime water. Mao Geng bulged his cheeks and kept blowing into the bowl. Then he saw that the clear lime water in the bowl gradually became turbid. Mao Geng knew that this was producing calcium carbonate, haha, it was done!

But the carbon dioxide produced by my own breathing is really limited, and I don’t know how long it takes to blow it to make all the calcium hydroxide in the bowl produce calcium carbonate. This is really a test of lung capacity!

Mao Geng continued to swell into the water with his cheeks, but Xiang Yixuan broke in at this moment. The door clanged. Mao Geng had just finished his breath. In a startle, he sucked the calcium carbonate liquid into his mouth without blowing it, and his mouth was covered with white mucus. This scene happened to make Xiang Yixuan see it, and Xiang Yixuan asked curiously:

"Mr. Mao, what mystery are you doing?"

"Oh, I'm supplementing calcium, oh, no, no, I'm practicing."

Mao Geng thought to himself that our ultra-fine calcium carbonate is also the raw material for the first generation of calcium tablets, but Xiang Yixuan doesn’t know what calcium supplement means, and told him that he is playing the piano against a cow.

Except for opening his mouth, Xiang Yixuan was not smart in other aspects, especially in front of his scientific knowledge. Such a guy could not pee at all, so he changed his tone and asked:

"Brother Xiang will come into this room in the future, please remember to knock on the door. By the way, what's the price to do when visiting the humble house today? Are there any difficult things to ask me?"

In the past, Xiang Yixuan usually came here for help. In front of Xiang Yixuan, Mao Geng gradually developed a sense of superiority.

"Haha, that's it, today is a double happiness."

"What double happiness is coming?" Mao Geng was a little curious. It was rare to be so happy Xiang Yixuan.

"This joy is the joy of Dazhai. Let me tell you, Military Advisor Mao, the 'Western China Contracting Team' has taken over the work of building a house, and there are three places at one time."

"oh!"

Mao Geng suggested to buy a house on the same day. He felt that the name Qujiadong was too rustic, so he took the word "Western" in Huaxi Village, which was the most awesome construction contracting in later generations. Qujiadong is located in the westernmost part of Xinhua, and can be called "Western". However, "Western" seems to owe something, and even the old man, Qu Laisan, thinks that "Western" is famous.

Unexpectedly, the name "Western China Contractor Team" was so quickly contracted three house construction work, which was really unbelievable.

When Mao Geng learned that these three places were Li Song, Baixi Guanxue and Fengjia, he was even more surprised. After being surprised, Mao Geng felt that the outside world should have realized something and that he might have a chance.

Next, Xiang Yixuan said his second joy:

"These two joys are the joys of Military Commander Mao."

Mao Gengxin said, is it the Yao people who robbed the bride and forced the marriage? Xiang Yixuan, is it good to have some creativity? You know that this military advisor looks down on the most vulgar ones, but he still treats this extremely vulgar thing as a happy event. It's too boring!
Chapter completed!