Chapter 26: Drinking Tea

  Liuli Chang

  Luli Studio

  Yang's reform was already bursting with excitement in his heart. He pushed open the door: "Liniang, Liniang, I've come to see you."

  "Miss Lian welcomes Mr. Yang. Mr. Yang, please come in." Sun Li Niang blushed and led Yang into the house with a shy smile.

  Seeing the lovely young woman in front of him, Yang Gan swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva.

  "Please sit down, Master Yang." Sun Li Niang poured a cup of tea for Yang Gongzi.

  Yang Gaizhi sat down, not knowing what to say, and simply gulped down the tea, making Wang Chengen look anxious on one side, hastily pulling Yang Gaizhi's collar. Didn't we agree not to eat casually outside the palace? How did you start drinking as soon as you came?

  Yang Reform is at a loss for words when facing the lovely and beautiful beauty, not knowing what to say. Should he "tease" her right away? And doesn't know what to say or do when it comes to "talking about love". Should he bring some kind of gift? Like sending a rose or something.

  "Cough... ", let's talk about something serious and ease the atmosphere a bit. Yang Reform said: "Liniang, how have you been lately?"

  "The young lady is doing well. Don't worry about me." Sun Li Niang gave Yang Gaozheng a white eye and threw him a big cabbage.

  ……

  Half-hearted and nothing more can be said.

  Half past five again.

  "Hey, Lina, where are you from?" Yang Gaizhi felt a bit strange.

  "Beijing people! Born and raised here!" Sun Liniang replied.

  "Oh~ how old is he this year?" Yang Gaizhi felt that his "internet chat addiction" seemed to have a precursor to an attack.

  "...A young lady's age is better left unasked, it's embarrassing." Sun Li Niang hesitated for half a day before saying this.

  "Heh heh, I see. Is this Luliu Zhai run by you yourself?"

  "Return it to you, young master. This Luli Zhai was built up by this humble woman with her own hands." By saying this, Sun Li Niang was justified and confident.

  ……

  "Not bad, not bad! Li Niang is really a strong woman! By the way, how many people are in your family?" Yang's "online chat" disease relapsed.

  "Why did you ask so clearly, sir? Are you checking our household registration? To be honest with you, it's no big deal. There are three people in my family: me, my brother, and our father. However..."

  …………

  Yang thinks this otaku treats this place as "QQ online chat", the questions asked are almost no different from those on QQ. Very formulaic and handy.

  "Do you have a boyfriend... uh... or a fiancé?..." Yang suddenly realized that he might have asked something inappropriate, and this wasn't like chatting about "friends" on QQ in the 21st century. He felt like he had asked too directly. Suddenly coming to his senses, he was so embarrassed that he didn't know where to put himself.

  Sun Liniang's face turned red with shame, and she thought to herself: This person is too direct. It's so embarrassing to ask someone that. In a humming mosquito-like voice, she replied: "I have not yet been promised to marry into his family."

  Not only was Yang Reform himself embarrassed, but Sun Liniang also had a red face and nothing to say. Even Wang Chengen, the eunuch who had grown up with Chongzhen, felt awkward. Wang Chengen only then discovered that his emperor's face was really "thick", and his old face also turned red and white alternately.

  His Majesty, you are too clever. You like this little woman, ordinary people should have a proper marriage, or call a matchmaker, send betrothal gifts, that's the right thing to do. If Your Majesty likes her, even if it's just using a sedan chair to bring her into the palace and giving her a title, that would be okay too. But this... asking directly about her family background, whether she has a husband or not... if the officials find out, they'll probably laugh their teeth off.

  ……

  Embarrassing, extremely embarrassing.

  ……

  "How's this, how's that, and what about the glass?" Yang Gaofeng finally put work first again.

  Sun Liniang's face turned red and said: "The young master's prescription is indeed no problem. According to my brother, there have been some signs of improvement already. If the young master wants to know more details, he still needs to call my brother over."

  "This, your brother has already called away. Will be here soon." Yang reform was very embarrassed, quite depressed, thinking to himself that he had never been so brainless when facing those ministers in the imperial court! What's going on? Is it true that a man trapped in love becomes less intelligent? After saying this, he drank another large cup of tea.

  "Cough... Ah, this, Liniang, I've been thinking about you lately..." Yang Gaofeng suddenly came out with such a sentence.

  Yang's internet addiction has completely flared up.

  The lovely young woman Sun Li's face immediately turned red again, covering her face with her sleeve, and said in a mosquito-like voice: "Young master, don't tease the little girl anymore!"

  Yang can only look for a gap in the ground to drill into. Thinking about how embarrassing this is, having said all that was on his mind. Wang Chengen pretended not to see it, but actually laughed so hard he wanted to roll over.

  Yang was speechless with reform, and in order to cover up his embarrassment, he had no choice but to pick up the teapot and drink another large pot of tea.

  ……

  Just when several people were extremely embarrassed, someone finally came to break the embarrassing atmosphere.

  "Sun Dàyǒu has seen the young master." Sun Dà had just entered and gave Yang Gé a big bow, almost ninety degrees.

  "Shen Fuyuan, under your jurisdiction, has met with you, sir. He sends his regards." He also performed a slight bow.

  "Ah, you've arrived! Good! Good!!" Yang Reform said two goods in a row. Finally, no need to be embarrassed anymore.

  Sun Dàyǒu sat down at the edge of the table, while Shen Fúyuán stood respectfully on the periphery of the group, slightly leaning towards Yang Gǎigé.

  Yang Gaizhang asked, "How's it going? What about the glass?" Yang Gaizhang only then noticed that Sun Dahai was wearing a clean robe on the outside, but his hands were covered in calluses and cracks. There were also some deep red spots, probably scalds. His face had a slightly cleaner patch of skin, but his neck and the back of his ears were caked with "black" "mud". His eyes were bloodshot. He looked extremely tired and overwrought.

  As for glass, Sun Dahai became enthusiastic and said: "Young master, it's indeed a secret formula. I only took it to the Liuli Factory for a small test production, and almost got a finished product. Unfortunately, my skills were not up to par, so the finished products didn't turn out well. Often, out of ten pieces, I couldn't even make one that was decent. Shameful, shameful."

  Yang Reform said: "Okay, don't work so hard, I think you're too tired. It's better to take a good rest and summarize the experience of failure, and you can always come up with a suitable method. As the saying goes, 'Failure is the mother of success'."

  Sun Dàyǒu replied: "Thank you, young master, for your teachings. I have taken note of them. 'Failure is the mother of success', indeed... You truly are a man of great insight. I am grateful for your guidance." After finishing speaking, he stood up and bowed deeply to Yang again.

  Yang's reaction to receiving such a big gift seemed very natural, as if it was meant to be that way.

  Sun Dàyǒu took out two pieces of "glass" from his pocket and handed them to Yang Gaige. Yang Gaige accepted them, holding them in his hands, admiring the "glass".

  ……

  "This piece is almost completely transparent now. There are just a few bubbles inside. It can be said that it's close to success. Not bad, impressive." Yang Gaofeng, who was used to seeing glass, evaluated the glass in his hand.

  "This piece has fewer bubbles, and the color is more pure, but the flatness still needs a lot of improvement. It's uneven, and we need to think of a way to fix it! This piece of glass isn't even worth calling glass, let alone comparing it to those smooth pieces from the Yang reform era."

  Sun Dajiang said, "This is what the young master has evaluated. These two pieces are already the best ones I've tried to make recently. They have already had a fundamental difference with the original glass. It should be possible to call it glass according to the young master's words. Only the technique is not yet mature. The appearance is ugly... Letting the young master see a joke."

  Yang Gaizhi said, "This piece of clarifying agent may not be enough, and the stirring is not even. Go back and try again. For this piece, you need to make a mold, pour the glass solution into the mold, so that the resulting glass will be smoother and more even. Otherwise, what's the use of such a lump? Yang Gaizhi pretended to understand and casually gave some "thoughtless" advice to Sun Dayou.

  "The young master taught me that I should change when I go back." Sun Dahu was very humble.

  ……

  He and Sun Dazhi had a heated discussion about the glass problem. Yang Gaoliang's mouth was dry, so he drank another large pot of tea.

  ……

  He and Sun Liniang discussed the glass sales issue again, but since the glass had not been produced yet, it was not easy to expand the work, so they just chatted casually. Yang Gaizhi looked at the lovely young woman, swallowing his saliva, sipping tea.

  Yang had drunk many pots of tea by the time he finally finished. His stomach was making loud noises. From time to time, it would still gurgle out some water sounds.

  Understood the progress of glass production, and also got closer to Sun Liniang, Yang reform felt a little gain, at least the glass is coming out soon. Once the glass comes out, hum, he will be a "ten-thousand-yuan household", a "rich man".

  When he came out, he also said two sentences to Shen Fuyuan: "Do a good job."

  I'm feeling quite depressed, how come I couldn't even hold the little girl's hand, it's really too pathetic.