The big man has a living father

Chapter 138 (Large Chapter) Porcelain and the Ten-Year Average Lifespan

When Huo Hai got into the car, he realized that the princess Liu Xijun, left behind by the perverted Liu Jian, had become a burden to him.

When Huo Hai got into the car, he pointed to a big car next to him and said, "See? That's General Huo Qubing, my brother. Go to his car. We are going to the same destination anyway. His car is bigger!"

Huo Qubing over there had heard what Huo Hai was saying and kicked the driver: "What are you looking at? Hurry up! We are in a hurry to eat roasted whole lamb. Don't you want to eat it?"

The driver whipped the horses on their buttocks. His unique skill of whipping two horses with one whip was indeed powerful. The carriage pulled straight on the spot and ran away.

Huo Hai rolled his eyes and pointed to the other side: "Do you see that car? That's Huo Guang, my brother. You can take his car."

That was clearly Liu Che's car.

Liu Xijun is not stupid, doesn’t she know that the biggest and most luxurious car belongs to the emperor?

Besides, the carriage was shining with gold, and the wood was also shining with gold. How could it be Huo Guang’s carriage?

Liu Xijun just looked at Huo Hai, making Huo Hai feel scared.

Huo Hai: "You don't want to stab me, do you? To be honest, I don't have any grudge against your father. Scolding him in court is my duty as an official. Do you understand?"

Liu Xijun nodded: "I understand."

Huo Hai: "Then why are you still staring at me?"

Liu Xijun: "I look at you not because of my father, but because you are Huo Hai."

Huo Hai tilted his head.

Liu Xijun: "Is it the "Ode to the Goddess of Luo River" that you wrote?"

When The Goddess of Luo River was first published, there was no paper.

The people of Jiangdu State copied "The Goddess of Luo River" on bamboo slips. You should know that they did not have the original version. Instead, they wrote and confirmed while asking, and finally finished it and sent it back to Jiangdu State.

Because they knew that the little princess liked this.

The location of Jiangdu State is Yangzhou, which is far away from here and has no water transportation, so it takes a long time to travel there.

When The Goddess of Luo River arrived in Jiangdu State, it was around the time when Liu Jian's case occurred.

During that period, Liu Xijun didn't know where to hide, so she could only stay at home and read "The Goddess of Luo River".

When reading "The Goddess of Luo River", Liu Xijun knew that the person who wrote "The Goddess of Luo River" was a teenager who was not yet adult, and who was a child of the same age and height as herself.

Now that I see Huo Hai, I realize that he is actually quite strong.

Apart from that, Huo Hai was pretty much the same as he had imagined.

Huo Hai: "It is definitely me who wrote The Goddess of Luo River."

Seeing that Liu Xijun had no intention of committing any crime, Huo Hai got into the car.

After Liu Xijun got into the car, Xiang Xu poked his head out and asked, "Sir, where are you going?"

Huo Hai: "Go home and sleep."

Xiang Xu was puzzled: "I heard that there was a big incident in the court today, and the argument was fierce. Almost all the officials participated in the argument. Why don't we do something to deal with it and go home directly?"

Huo Hai: "Go home, they quarrel, it's none of our business."

Sitting in the carriage, Liu Xijun started to speak: "They are obviously coming for you, aren't you worried at all?"

Huo Hai leaned back on the sofa and said, "Believe it or not, the reason why His Majesty didn't touch Zhang Ou was because he gave face to the Huo family, otherwise he would have died long ago."

He played power games in front of Emperor Wu of Han. If he didn't have a share in the crown prince's career, he would have been dead long ago.

I'm getting old and confused.

……

On the last day before the New Year, many porcelain shops finally opened in Chang'an City.

As early as three months ago, the porcelain factory had recruited a large number of workers, more than the paper factory and even the brick factory.

But these people did not join production at the beginning.

Several people who study porcelain at the institute have been teaching these workers how to make clay and glaze.

Those workers who were able to learn stayed and received a monthly salary of up to three thousand yuan. Those who were unable to learn could only do rougher work, such as washing, beating, and transporting mud.

Just because someone has learned the skill and becomes a porcelain worker, it does not mean that the things they make are qualified to leave the factory.

What they made was divided into three batches.

Fine products, qualified products, and unqualified products.

The best products are kept, the qualified products are sent to the major canteens in the coal mine, and the unqualified products are directly smashed.

At the beginning, the rate of quality products was shockingly low, and only a few bowls could be produced in one firing.

The qualified products are pretty good.

The number of defective products is extremely large, accounting for more than 70%.

The so-called fine products are those without any air holes, any glaze protrusions, no glaze missing, and are fired just right. There is no excess glaze flowing out, which would cause visual imbalance in the glaze surface.

The so-called qualified products are those with no more than three needle-tip-sized air holes, and the air holes are not inside the bowl. They can be considered qualified for use.

Any bowl with more than three air holes larger than a needle tip, or with air holes inside the bowl, will be deemed unqualified. Any bowl with uneven glaze will be deemed unqualified.

After such strict selection, people are constantly eliminated.

There are also those with good skills who are selected and promoted.

It was not until this month that the old craftsmen led them to make those fancy things to be sold to the nobles.

These are the results of several months of work by the institute's people.

In the research institute, they experimented with various glazes, various formulas, and the effects of firing at different temperatures without regard for consumption.

In Huo Hai's opinion, they almost completed the hundreds of years of progress in glaze materials in just a few months.

It’s just that the technology has not yet matured to that level.

But compared to the pottery used before, it was already a divine work.

These techniques, glazes and the most skilled workers began to produce high-quality products in large quantities.

The best of them is of course the "tribute", but it is different from the traditional tribute, because Liu Che has completely accepted Huo Hai's proposal that everything costs money, so although these are tributes, they are actually paid for by the palace.

They were tribute items because they were more expensive than all other types of porcelain.

The remaining workers have been using the large-scale kilns continuously for three months, but the finished products have not been sold until today.

There are porcelain shops everywhere in Chang'an County, and all of them are open for business.

The sight of the glittering bowl on the shelf is enough to scare people to death; it doesn’t need any form of advertising.

"Damn! What's the point of this new shop? How much money would it cost to buy such a big piece of jade to carve a big bowl?"

"What a waste of natural resources! What is this! How can you sell this thing? There are no jade bowls this big in the Weiyang Palace, right?!"

"Ah?! My eyes! What did I see!"

People passing by and nearby businesses were immediately attracted here.

Even the delivery drivers passing by stopped and stared at the porcelain in amazement.

The shopkeepers of the porcelain shop smiled and said, "You are mistaken. This is not a jade bowl, it is porcelain."

Someone responded: "Is it the porcelain that is used to deliver milk?"

A driver suddenly realized, "I was delivering goods to the prime minister's residence before, and I happened to meet the ranchmen delivering milk to them. The milk bottles were made of porcelain, crystal clear, smooth and shining. I heard that it is very clean and no dirt can enter or pass through it, so it is the safest to use it to store milk. But how big is that porcelain bottle? How can this bowl be so big?!"

Someone remembered: "So that was a porcelain vase?! I've seen it from a distance before, and I saw a lot of colorful paintings on it, but there are none on this bowl."

The porcelain shop owner laughed: "It can have paintings on it or not. Some of our goods here have paintings, and some don't. These porcelains also come in different colors. Of course, this gray-white porcelain is the cheapest."

With current technology, pure white porcelain is the most expensive, but grayish-white porcelain is specially prepared for ordinary people.

It allows you to tell at a glance whether the plates, cups and bowls are clean, and it is not particularly expensive.

The owner of the porcelain shop asked the waiter to take the vases and other items to the outermost shelf for display.

Everyone was fascinated by the show.

"This is too perfect, it really is as white as jade, no, it's even whiter than jade!"

The owner of the porcelain shop held up a plate and said, "More importantly, the glaze of porcelain is very fine. If you put sauce in it, it won't seep into it and it will always be shiny."

Although eating meat with dipping sauce was a luxury for ordinary people in the past, with the great economic development in recent months, many ordinary families have started to eat meat. In addition to bacon and barbecue, other boiled meat is still most commonly eaten with dipping sauce in this era.

However, ordinary ceramic bowls will always have a mark after being filled with sauce.

No matter how much you wash it, it won't come off.

The waiter put the water used to soak the sauce cubes into a dish and then poured it out.

Because there is no oil on it, there is almost no residue. If there is a little, it will fall off by rinsing it in clean water.

The owner of the porcelain shop said: "I don't know if you have read the scientific journals. Many diseases are caused by molds that are invisible to the human eye. If the bowls are not washed clean after eating, the residues left behind are prone to corruption and mold growth."

"Porcelain bowls have a fine glaze and are easier to clean, which can avoid this problem."

No one present felt anything about this.

The shopkeeper continued: "According to the research report of Medical Officer Yi Shuo, she believes that the current average life expectancy is only in the 30s, which is largely due to the excessive consumption of human vitality by fungal infections."

"If this problem can be avoided, life expectancy can be raised to over 40 or even 50 years old."

Someone said, "Boss, you are talking nonsense. How can the average life expectancy be only in the 30s? You should know that many people on our street are already 40 years old."

The owner of the porcelain shop said: "The life expectancy statistics of Yi Shuo also include those children who died at birth. The average life expectancy of a child of zero years old and a person of forty years old is twenty years old."

"In addition to those who died young, there were also those who were beheaded for committing crimes, those who died in accidents, those who died of illness, and those who died of natural causes of old age."

"Our average population is over 30 years old, which is pretty good. It shows that we have a good life here."

In fact, excluding accidental deaths and a large number of premature deaths, the actual average life expectancy is close to 40 years old, which is already very high.

Changing from two meals a day to three meals a day can greatly increase this number.

The current introduction of porcelain can continue to greatly increase this number, which is estimated to reach around fifty-five.

It is impossible to go any higher unless antibiotics are produced on a large scale.

He also invented forceps and developed surgeries such as cesarean sections.

However, raising the average life expectancy from over 30 to around 55 is already a huge improvement.

If people under the age of fifteen are considered to be children who lack the labor force, then the working years of each laborer in this era is originally twenty years.

Now it has been raised to fifty-five, which means forty years of working life.

This is equivalent to doubling the labor force without any additional population growth.

If the current birth rate is maintained for another 20 years, the entire Han population will increase by 40% to more than 70 million.

What's more, with the abundance of food, under the agriculture-based ideology, having a large number of children is inevitable.

Huo Hai felt that within thirty years at most, the population of the Han Dynasty would reach 150 million.

This new generation, a huge labor force, together with the labor force liberated by scientific and technological progress, will bring an unprecedented wave of industrial benefits to the Han Dynasty.

The productivity in the next thirty years will surpass all the wealth created since the birth of mankind.

Of course, ordinary people don’t know these things.

But ordinary people can understand that the average life expectancy has increased.

Someone wondered: "So, using this bowl as tableware can extend your life by an average of ten years?!"

The shopkeeper nodded. "According to research, that's right. It may not be the case for every individual, but if you take the average of all people, it's right."

The shopkeeper said with some regret: "What a pity. We are already quite old. We don't know if the food we ate before was clean or not. It may affect our life span. Children born now can be considered to have caught up with a good era."

There were also people in the crowd who were attending night school and had read Science News: "What the shopkeeper said is true. Mold is indeed like this. Everyone knows that food cannot be eaten if it is moldy, but they don't know that mold is actually invisible when it is not concentrated. The dishes were not washed clean before, so there must be mold. This seems to be the case in theory."

"Ten years of life..."

Is this a bowl? Isn't this an elixir?
Someone directly took out the money and said: "Boss, I want it, a whole set, enough for my whole family!"

No matter whether he is true or not, it is better to believe it than not!

And those who are actually studying and going to school, and who can read, understand that this is indeed true.

But they also wanted to see how much these things cost.

The shopkeeper stopped the people in front and said, "Don't worry, I'll calculate it for you."

"A set of eight of these rice bowls, four of these deep soup bowls, eight plates, two of these extra large bowls, two of these long plates, and eight cups. If you buy all of these together, there's a discount. The total is five hundred yuan."

"Of course, these can also be sold individually. For example, the smaller ones like these are ten coins each, the large ones like these are twenty, and the largest one like this is thirty."

In fact, this price is finite.

Of course, Huo Hai couldn't set the price according to market demand. If that were the case, even 500 coins for a set would be considered low.

Of course, it is not determined based on the cost-profit ratio. If that were the case, a price of two hundred cents would already be very high.

Huo Hai set the price at twice the price of meat.

The current price of meat is about nine cents per pound.

That is to say, a set of bowls and plates has an average of thirty-four pieces, and one plate is equal to two kilograms of meat, so the final total is more than six hundred yuan, and with a discount, it is five hundred yuan.

This price is acceptable to ordinary people.

Of course, this refers to the price that Changan people can accept.

When it comes to local areas, the prices will continue to drop.

However, the price of meat in local areas is not as high as nine cents. Basically, it is still about two pounds of meat per plate.

Huo Hai deliberately set this relatively high price.

Huo Hai trained so many kiln workers, but only kept the best ones. For many of the rest, he only paid them low wages and asked them to do carrying work.

Any noble with a normal mind would dig such people out and bring them to his own fiefdom to make porcelain.

It’s just that the yield rate will be lower.

However, a rough master does not mean that he cannot teach a good apprentice.

After all, sometimes this kind of thing depends on talent.

As long as there are more people to screen, many talented craftsmen will be selected soon.

Huo Hai estimated that porcelain would be popular throughout the country for no more than three years.

Because Huo Hai didn't keep any formula secret, unlike the steel mills, coal mines, and cement plants, which were completely public. Why did Huo Hai open a porcelain factory so close to Chang'an?
Instead of directly opening an industrial cluster like mining kaolin and coal mining?
This is to make it easier for workers to run away and take the technology with them.

In order to promote this technology, Huo Hai tried every possible way.

Because a patent protection mechanism will be implemented in the future and the stock market will emerge to stimulate business, Huo Hai cannot take the lead in actively transferring technology.

This is what led to the technology leak.

In the future, even if many people set up porcelain factories in their own fiefdoms and claim that they developed these technologies independently, Huo Hai will not pursue the matter or pay any attention.

However, more advanced colored porcelain, including methods of painting porcelain, the firing of tribute, and the more complex bone china production which is still under research will not be leaked.

Because these techniques are learned by first selecting talented and excellent craftsmen and then teaching them.

These people are paid high salaries and have signed formal contracts. They will not leave with such high treatment, and they dare not sell the formula for money.

……

In Chang'an, porcelain became a huge hit as soon as it appeared.

Apart from anything else, such beautiful and exquisite tableware will never have trouble selling without any form of promotion. After all, aesthetics is human instinct.

After the news spread that porcelain is easier to clean and can help people get sick less often, everyone flocked to it.

There are restaurants everywhere in Chang'an County now. A large number of porters and coachmen need to eat, so there are catering shops opened everywhere.

These shops have to wash a lot of dishes every day, it's hard!

Now we have porcelain bowls, washing dishes is much more convenient than before, why not use them? !

Also, now that there are so many restaurants opening, everyone is competing, and the fact that they use better bowls than others is a selling point.

Although everyone can keep up and learn, if you don’t learn to cook, no one will come to your house to eat.

Since the porcelain was put into sale, it has become the biggest news in Chang'an and quickly became a hot topic in Chang'an.

In addition to workers from the Tongguan coal mine, steel plant, and cement brick factory, workers from the porcelain factory also became the target of matchmakers in Chang'an.

The porcelain factory's three-month inventory was consumed by people in Chang'an County in a short period of time, directly causing a shortage.

The powerful people in Wannian County and Ling County, as well as other residents in Sanfu area, also wanted to buy it, but there was no stock at all.

All they could do was wait.

Instead, the nobles have their eyes on those glazed porcelains that look more simple, elegant, and more interesting. However, these porcelains are a bit expensive and are not the same as those used by ordinary people. Such high-profit items have low total demand and are not out of stock.

The director of the porcelain factory, Fan Bei, one of the Four Heroes of Maoling, had discussed with the Huo's shopkeeper Shang Fu and decided not to take out all the goods at once. Instead, they deliberately created this situation to cause the biggest sensation.

Commonly known as...hunger selling method.

There is not enough cheap stuff, but there is enough expensive stuff, so you can buy as much as you want.

The emergence of porcelain also brought a new concept to the people of Chang'an.

New things are needed in the New Year.

……

At the Huo Mansion, Huo Hai arranged for Liu Xijun to live in a room next to his own courtyard.

Huo Hai's own courtyard has quite a lot of rooms, and currently only Xiang Xu and Huangfu Hua live here.

Not long after Liu Xijun was given a room, Eunuch Wang came with two large carts.

These things all belong to Liu Xijun.

Eunuch Wang came in person to convey Liu Che's message.

We must not let Princess Liu Xijun suffer any injustice and must not let anything happen to her.

Another thing is to urge Huo Hai to find something for the literati to do as soon as possible.

Before the Chinese New Year, educated people would still play with Spring Festival couplets. Everyone was thinking of auspicious words that followed the rules and wrote Spring Festival couplets everywhere.

Now, hundreds of different kinds of Spring Festival couplets have been created throughout Chang'an County.

But this thing is time-limited after all. After the New Year, no one will pay for Spring Festival couplets, and educated people will not play with this anymore.

Even if you play, it will just remind you of the toys for a moment and it won't kill much time.

So Liu Che asked Huo Hai to speed up, so as to prevent these scholars from gathering in Chang'an and causing trouble.

After saying this, Eunuch Wang left.

Huo Hai knew that Liu Che did not want others to know about this, otherwise he would have told him in the palace. It would be impossible for him to let Wang Nei Shi make a special trip.

I really need to write a book.

The servants were moving things for Liu Xijun.

Huo Hai captured two strong men from the Academy of Sciences.

These two guys are soldiers who have just become professional teachers. They are now responsible for teaching the newly joined craftsmen, workers and apprentices in the Academy of Sciences to read and learn to write.

Huo Hai captured two people, of course, for the purpose of writing a book. He dictated and they wrote.

Huo Hai wouldn’t write it himself. A novel is so long, how long would it take him to write it?
The two sat at the desk, and Huo Hai first explained the points to note: "When copying for the first time, it is best to leave a larger gap to leave some room for modification, as you may need to rework."

The two nodded repeatedly.

Huo Hai: "Also, what I am going to write is mainly in ancient white."

The two teachers were confused: "Gu Bai?"

Huo Hai nodded.

At present, for the sake of scientific development, Huo Hai is directly promoting vernacular, thorough vernacular.

However, this novel is designed to be appreciated by both the elite and the masses. The tens of thousands of readers who used to study classical Chinese and those who are learning simplified Chinese now can all read it.

So it’s white, but not pure white.

Nowadays, those who learn simplified Chinese characters are studying the "Children's Six-Lesson Combined Edition", which also contains "The Analects of Confucius", "Tao Te Ching", "Xunzi", "Zhuangzi" and even more contents from hundreds of schools of thought. Therefore, they can also understand the interspersed words of elegant language and ancient Chinese in vernacular, but they just can't read as fast.

And the scholars who studied elegant language in the past would not find it too unfamiliar, unable to get started or read it.

If they can't get into it from the beginning, then it would be a waste of time to write it.

Huo Hai: "This book is called Journey to the West, also known as Journey to the West to Settle the Evils."

"The first time... the spiritual root nurtures the source of flow, the mind cultivates the great way and gives birth to
Poetry:

Chaos is not divided into chaos, and no one sees it.

Since Pangu broke the Harmony, opened up a clear and turbid distinction.

Covering the group of students and admiring benevolence, inventing everything to be good.

If you want to know the power of creation, you must read Journey to the West. "

In fact, Huo Hai could not remember the entire original text. Although he read the original text of Journey to the West in the sixth grade of elementary school, he later found many omissions and read it again in junior high school. In high school, he read various conspiracy theory interpretations and read it again. After he became an adult, he read it again in order to learn writing.

But I couldn't memorize all of it, I could only remember the general story.

I still remember many of the wonderful verses clearly.

Titles and other things are only roughly written, so just write a general idea and it's fine.

Huo Hai sighed after reading it.

If I remember correctly, novels originated from miscellaneous notes, and the ancestor of miscellaneous notes, strange records, miscellaneous histories, miscellaneous biographies and other strange novels is "Stories of Emperor Wu of Han".

Huo Hai remembered that "Stories of Emperor Wu of Han" should have been written before the Wang Mang era and it told the story of Emperor Wu.

That book writes about the Peach Garden, Dongfang Shuo stealing the peaches, the Queen Mother of the West and other concepts.

From then on, stories about gods, demons and monsters became the unique feature of Chinese novels.

This kind of popular book was widely circulated and played a strong role in promoting the creation of the later mythological system.

Because the ancestor of this novel is a historical novel, historical novels have always been the mainstream novels in ancient China until the emergence of "Journey to the West".

Moreover, even though Journey to the West has deviated greatly from the historical theme, even more so than Water Margin, it is still set during the Zhenguan period.

Huo Hai could only sigh. Huo Hai had no way and no ability to write all those novels in between, so he could only write "Journey to the West" directly.

However, I just filled in all the necessary things.

As I was sighing, I saw two teachers scratching their heads.

Huo Hai was furious!
I haven't even started writing Journey to the West yet, and you two are already playing tricks on me, right?!

Huo Hai got up to take a look, only to find that what the two had written was very entangled.

There are many words that I don’t know what they are or how to write them.

Huo Hai pinched his chin and thought for a while, then he suddenly realized.

Just like modern people know simplified Chinese characters, they can roughly recognize traditional Chinese characters without learning them.

But knowing is knowing. If you ask modern people to write traditional Chinese characters directly, they will not be able to do it.

The two teachers can read elegant language, but cannot write it.

For them, they have also learned some of the essence of elegant language, and with the understanding of context, they can read ancient vernacular Chinese, but they cannot write it at all.

This is just like when Huo Hai read Journey to the West in the sixth grade of elementary school. He couldn't understand many paragraphs and sentences, so he skipped them and just read the general idea.

"This……"

Failure of dictation?

At this time, Liu Xijun came over and found that the two were writing something. She looked at Huo Hai excitedly and asked, "You want to write a new article?"

"It's not an article." Huo Hai: "It's a novel, a very long one."

Liu Xijun: "So... why are they writing it?"

Huo Hai: "I want to write such a long text myself? I don't like writing."

Liu Xijun knew that her chance had come: "I'll help you write it."

The more sad Liu Xijun's life has been recently, the more she likes Huo Hai's "The Goddess of Luo River" and the more she appreciates Huo Hai's talent.

Being able to witness the emergence of a new masterpiece was something Liu Xijun had fantasized about before.

Huo Hai: "Do you know simplified Chinese characters?"

Liu Xijun: “…”

Huo Hai: "Can you write in vernacular Chinese?"

Liu Xijun: “What is that?”

After Huo Hai explained what simplified Chinese characters are and what vernacular Chinese is, Liu Xijun understood.

It turns out that the new work I’m about to write is more important than I thought!
"I learned simplified Chinese characters and vernacular Chinese, and then you told me to write." Liu Xijun said seriously: "I can learn it."

Huo Hai shook his head. How long does it take for a person to learn simplified Chinese characters for vernacular literature? According to the situation at the university, it is more difficult for people who know how to learn than those who don't know how to learn at all, because the things they have learned before will interfere.

It takes time to adapt.

Liu Xijun: "I can learn it."

Huo Hai couldn't help but sigh: "Learn it."

Can I expect this? It seems that I can't be lazy anymore and can only write it myself.

After writing several thousand words and before he finished the first chapter, Huo Hai's wrists felt weak, so he dropped his pen, turned over and fell asleep.

The next day, Huo Hai wrote three hundred words, and then he started writing the outline instead of the main text. He skipped to the part about havoc in heaven, but after thinking about it, he felt it was not right, so he could only silently take out a piece of white paper to pad his writing.

On the third day, I wrote fifty words and left.

He also used the excuse of completing Liu Che's task as an excuse and did not even go to the Prince's Palace.

This went on for ten days.

When Liu Xijun appeared in front of Huo Hai again, she claimed that she had learned all the simplified Chinese characters and could write the same vernacular articles according to the teacher's diary and lesson plans.

Huo Hai didn't believe it and began to narrate "Journey to the West".

Liu Xijun held the pen and wrote quickly without stopping.

Huo Hai dictated a chapter and a half in one breath, then stopped because his mouth was dry.

Liu Xijun: "Continue?"

Huo Hai stopped and said, "Ahem~ Drink some tea and take a rest. My throat is burning."

Ten minutes later, Huo Hai was lying on the table, and Liu Xijun's little head popped out from under the table: "Go on."

Half an hour later, Huo Hai was carving a spinning top in the yard. Liu Xijun poked her head out from behind a pillar and said, "Keep going."

An hour later, Huo Hai was sleeping soundly on the bed. Liu Xijun continued to stick her head out: "Go on."

Huo Hai was angry: "You are a Yue monkey, right?"

Liu Xijun: "I know that with your talent, you can write the sequel without even thinking about it, so why do you need to rest?"

Huo Hai: "I...I have a genius brain, but not a talented voice."

Liu Xijun: "But didn't His Majesty ask me to write this?"

Huo Hai originally wanted to say that he was lazy, but he wrote fast enough, so fast that it could scare others to death.

But didn't say.

But: "Can't you go play for a while?"

Liu Xijun: “It’s not as fun as writing articles.”

Huo Hai turned over and said, "Don't you like musical instruments? I see all your belongings are musical instruments. Go play some music."

Liu Xijun pondered: "Playing music? That's a very accurate word, but I don't want to play music now. Those are nothing new. I've played them all before."

Like Dongfang Shuo, Liu Xijun had a photographic memory.

Are these perverted geniuses so fond of getting bored with the old and falling in love with the new?
Huo Hai: "I'll get you a new instrument, go play with it."

When Liu Xijun heard that there was a new musical instrument, she no longer pestered Huo Hai like a ghost.

A day later, Huo Hai took out a few bamboo boards strung together and gave them to Liu Xijun: "This instrument is called Kuaibaner. Learn it well and practice it well... Go and play it."

Liu Xijun: "Is this... a musical instrument?"

Huo Hai: "How fresh! Percussion, authentic percussion! The best percussion combined with vocals! It's so much fun. Go and explore it."

(End of this chapter)