Chapter 30: Chemistry lessons

The last name of the week looks just a dude with no brain ah, pretend so like?

Not necessarily faking it, dude doesn’t mean brainless, he’s making good use of dude tactics, picking fights, using connections, flexing …. Trying to take me away in one set.

Moreover, the aftermath of doing so was minimal. Although the Beijing investigation was approaching, but the whole death of an insignificant Xu official; county court constable, it is hard to not be able to shake the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, the Hall of the third grade?

It s just that the surname Zhou did not expect that not only did I get in touch with the Si Tian Supervisor, but I even let the great Confucian of the Yunlu Academy personally appear …… Thinking of this, Xu Qi an had a sense of thrill of walking a tightrope.

“From the day I solved the tax and silver case, I had offended the Minister of the Household and was passively involved.

Thanks to me, I was thinking of staying away from the royal power and living a boring and simple life as a rich man with many concubines.

If Jiro hadn’t happened to be sending poems to the college elders, and if I hadn’t written a bit of chemistry from memory on a sudden whim the other day …. I might have cooled off.

Don’t even understand the real reason why you got yourself killed, just think of it as messing with the second generation of dudes.”

One coincidence after another stacked up to get me through this crisis …. It was luck! Xu Qi’an drew in a breath of cool air, and suddenly his heart stirred, “Miss Caiwei, you know how to look for Qi?”

“Hmm.” Chu Caiwei swallowed the food in her mouth, “An eighth grade warlock is called a Qi Looker. Qi Looking is the most basic ability of our Warlocks. All the subsequent divinities are built on the foundation of Qi Looking.”

She looked chatty and excited as she talked about her cultivation system, chirping, “But do you know why the ninth rank of a Warlock isn’t a Qi Watcher but a Healer?”

Xu Qi’an shook his head and pursued the question as if holding a joke, “It’s not like all of you warlocks have a heart for saving lives.”

Chu Caiwei straightened her small waist, put on a serious look, seemed to enjoy the feeling of being a teacher, said:

“Everything in the world has qi, with man being the most important, the eight sufferings of life and the seven emotions and six desires are all qi. Healers save the dead and help the wounded, inevitably will be tainted with life, old age, sickness and death, over time, will be born a pair of clear pupils that can see through the qi.”

I like this kind of girl who knows everything ….. Xu Qi’an said, “Then can you take a look at my qi?”

Chu Caiwei wiped her small mouth with a handkerchief and gazed at him, her dark eyes bursting with clear air, occupying her pupils a little.

In the gaze of the clear-lighted eyes, Xu Qi’an’s spiritual sense was touched, as uncomfortable as a thorn in his back.

In a few moments, the clear light in Chu Caiwei’s eyes faded, and her face was as normal: “The qi number was light red with black qi mixed in.”

“What do you mean?”

“The red color means that you are eating official food. But a light color means you are a bottom-feeder. Black gas, on the other hand, is a symbol of bad luck, something I think you know well.”

Xu Qi’an frowned and tried, “Aren’t there any other colors? Like the color that symbolizes the Son of Heaven’s Destiny.”

“It’s fine for you to say this in front of me, if someone with a heart of gold hears it, it will be a crime of great disrespect. Other than the emperor, no one dares to call himself the son of the Mandate of Heaven.” Chu Caiwei was taken aback, so much for great disrespect, where did this person get the nerve to think that he was the son of the Mandate of Heaven?

Chiron Chiron you wipe your eyes and take a good look again!

She can t see it, it may be a segmentation problem, or my Ou Huang physique has nothing to do with the number of qi …. Xu Qi’an was calm on the surface, but his thoughts rose and fell in his heart.

Snap!

Chu Caiwei again slapped open Xu Qi’an’s hand that was holding the food, puffing out her cheeks to express her unhappiness, “You wait until I’m full, I’ll give you food when I’m full.”

Xu Qi’an glanced at the sumptuous food that had been half-done away and secretly speculated on the extent to which her current stomach was several months pregnant.

“By the way, what is the situation of the Minister of the Household today?” Xu Qi’an sat upright, not looking at the food.

“The Minister of the Household Department impeached Minister Zhou the other day, and the folders were suppressed by His Majesty.” Chu Caiwei said, after a pause, she added:

“Those two committed suicide in fear of their lives.”

So it’s no evidence? But these days, the emperor really wants to screw anyone, in fact, do not need evidence, everyone free heart evidence …. It may also involve when the party dispute …. Or the emperor has other ideas ….. Uh, the court things I do not understand, after all, did not touch, have to find an official old oil to probe the wind ….

So Xu Qi’an side-stepped and poked around, but Chu Caiwei wasn’t interested in the affairs of the court and didn’t give any valuable information.

“Aiya you’re so annoying, we, Si Tian Supervisor, don’t ask about the affairs of the court.” When she was asked sharply, she raised her willow eyebrows and looked unhappy.

I seem to have struck her self-esteem as a teacher …. Xu Qi’an sensibly stopped asking more questions.

………

“How much silver for this table?” Xu Qi’an ate without a care in the world.

After drinking and eating Chu Caiwei boarded her fingers and counted half a day, and then there was no then.

“Hmm?” Xu Qi’an looked up.

“I gave the shopkeeper four taels of silver and got back to me one tael and sixty coins.” Chu Caiwei said bitterly, “Then how much did I really spend?”

The frown was adorable, reminding Xu Qi’an of the way a seven-year-old little girl looked when doing math problems.

“….” Xu Qi’an mused and sulked, “I don’t know.”

One tael of silver is equal to eight coins, and one coin is equal to 100 wen. Because it’s not a 10:1 ratio, it’s considerably more difficult to calculate.

By the looks of her, she probably only knew how to read, but hadn’t learned arithmetic.

So Xu Qi’an wouldn’t try to be a hero.

When Chu Caiwei heard this, her eyebrows arched, feeling that Xu Qi’an was a kindred spirit.

“Then how do you count so well when you solve a case.”

“I’ve been thinking about it for a long time.”

“Oh.” Chu Caiwei stared at him, “You don’t seem happy with your food?”

“No, it just tastes average.”

“Nonsense, this is the Drunken Heart Residence is the best restaurant in that part of the South City.”

“I’ve had better.”

Chu Caiwei’s eyes bristled with light.

Xu Qi’an continued, “Come over to my house when you’re free, I’ll cook something delicious for you.”

…..

Alchemy Room.

A group of white clothes surrounded the experimental apparatus, staring at Song Qing as she operated it.

Thin as eggshell porcelain cups set on the fire candle baking, steam curls, porcelain cups of water evaporated, precipitation of crystals.

Song Qing snapped her fingers, and a bright flame wrapped around the crystals and slowly melted.

“If I had this skill in my past life, snapping my fingers and lighting smoke, it would definitely be a great tool for picking up girls ah ….” Xu Qi’an was a little envious of the fancy Warlock.

Sodium chloride crystals melted, Song Qing showed a look of gravity, the past countless times are stuck in the next link:

Lightning strikes!

Song Qing subconsciously looked at Xu Qi’an beside her.

Including the wide-eyed cute girl Chu Caiwei, the other white clothes had cast glances toward Xu Dalang.

Xu Daolang nodded with an expressionless face.

Surprisingly silent guidance …. This means that all of my steps so far are fine …. Song Qing’s heart was so determined that he snapped his fingers.

Slightly bright arcs of electricity suddenly traced through the air, persistently infusing the porcelain cup.

“Hold your breath.”

Suddenly, the crowd heard Xu Qi’an’s voice, and without hesitation, they immediately held their breath.

In fact, even if you directly inhale the toxic gas, you nonhumans will be fine …. Xu Qi’an was just telling everyone to hold their breath out of inertia of thinking.

In the next moment, a scene that shocked the white clothes of the Heavenly Monitors occurred.

Irregular silvery-white lumps, not unlike silver, formed in the porcelain cups, and the edges of the lumps were adhering to fine salt that had not been thoroughly transformed.

“Success, it worked ….”

“Senior Brother Song Qing, how did you do it?”

The white coats were shocked, how they were unsuccessful before, this time they even refined fake silver in one go.

Unsurprisingly, ah, that day Caiwei girl can refine fake silver, a success, not to go out of luck …. No, it was just a stroke of bad luck, because there was me around, involving me ….. Xu Qi’an watched in silence, verifying the speculation in his heart.

Song Qing looked at the fake silver and then at the excited senior brothers, his face slightly confused.

I haven’t changed much …. It used to be like this ….. Thinking of this, he subconsciously looked at Xu Qi’an and found that this little constable was not the least bit surprised, his eyes were dark, as if he had expected it.

Song Qing’s heart stirred, “Xu Ningyan, do you know the reason?”

Chu Caiwei, who was thinking, immediately looked at Xu Qi’an.

The other whites craned their heads.

Xu Qi’an stood with his hands behind his back and smiled, “This question shouldn’t be asked of me, a mature alchemist should learn to think independently about issues.”

“I think you should be able to realize what the problem is.”