It was raining outside, and Xu Hao in the house was fanning the wind with his left hand and holding a report in his right hand.

Sitting next to him was Mu Qingshuang, whose face had not diminished, and he happened to be smiling and playing with a few egg-sized original gems.

Xu Hao didn't expect Qingshuang to go overseas to play, and on the way he met several students from the Department of Geography, who was invited by the governor's mansion of various continents to explore the mineral veins, so Qingshuang followed others and traveled all over the mountains and rivers and learned a lot of knowledge in this area.

After coming back, she quietly visited the surroundings of Jinling, which took nearly a month.

Originally, Mu Qingshuang was active by nature, and she was healthy and healthy when she was exercising outside for many years, and her temperament was more and more different from Ning Xue who was in the inner house. All in all, each has its own advantages and disadvantages, and being open-minded is not immune to the heavy worldly prejudices that come with not getting married.

Xu Hao knew that Qingshuang had already discussed with his aunt and Cuiliu about his plan to settle overseas, and he was not qualified to stop this, so he proposed that they go to South America.

Thirty miles east of Shangyuan County, Jiangning, Qixia Mountain, coal mine. The ore seedlings are not prosperous, the ore is distributed in the clayslate, the thickness is not more than six feet, the quality is not good, the advantage is that it is close to the waterway, about three miles of road. Inferior.

Thirty miles southeast of Shangyuan County, copper mine. The ore seedlings are prosperous, the ore is very large, the quality is clay, the preliminary survey is a good mine, and further testing must be carried out to be sure, and there is an official road nearby. Finest.

Zhongshan in the east of Shangyuan County, the whole mountain is limestone, and there are many rain stones, and there are no minerals.

Twelve holes in the northwest of Shangyuan County, cinnabar mine. It is a clay slate, containing purple-brown impurities, like cinnabar. Mineral assays are required to know the certainty. Inferior.

Shangyuan County Xing'an Mountain, Baohua Mountain, Paitou Mountain, Hushan, Huishan, coal mine. The seedlings are not prosperous, and the quality is not good. Inferior.

Twenty-five miles east of Shangyuan County, Qinglong Mountain, coal mine. The pulse is strong and easy to mine. Medium.

Seeing this, Xu Hao smiled approvingly: "Yes, may I ask the Qingshuang Great Scientist, do you plan to open a mine?"

"yes." Qingshuang nodded, "I know that the imperial court is not allowed to open mines nearby, for fear of digging up any dragon vein royal qi, so I asked you." ”

Xu Hao smiled and said: "The copper mine is fine, forget the rest, I'm too lazy to go to court with the ministers."

"Hmm." Qingshuang snorted absently, for her, a few veins are nothing, the most important thing is to get the man's approval and attention, this is not in vain.

Xu Hao continued: "Lingyan Mountain, fifteen miles east of Liuhe County, is a gemstone, and it is a genus of beautiful stones. Stone?"

Raising his hand and scratching his head, Xu Hao was a little depressed, many nouns are different from the names of later generations, there is no way, this is all researched by the teachers and students themselves.

Mu Qingshuang explained: "At first, I was very happy, but who knew that the stone wall had been washed by the stream for many years and became smooth, and it was stained by acidified iron, so I misunderstood it as a gemstone, and it was just inferior."

"Yo! Do you know about iron acidification?" Xu Hao laughed.

Twenty-five miles east of Liuhe County, Xiyang Mountain, coal mine. It is an ordinary rock, sandwiched with plant charcoal, not coal. The stone quality is quite good, inferior.

"Plant charcoal?" Xu Hao was a little puzzled and said, "Could it be a plant fossil?" Since it is inferior, let it be kept for future generations to study. ”

"Whatever you want." Mu Qingshuang smiled.

Xu Hao smiled and said: "You, you don't look down on coal mines at all, your eyes will only stare at gold, silver, copper, iron or precious stones." Oh, there is a silver mine in Yeshan, forty-five miles north of Liuhe County? It's still superior?"

"That's right." Mu Qingshuang said proudly: "Preliminary inspection, according to what you said, the reserves are very large, containing gold and silver, and mixed copper and iron, how much is the quality?" Further trials are needed. ”

Xu Hao was not surprised by this, because the iron ore in Jinling Yeshan is very famous, as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, it was the place where the ancestors mined copper and smelted iron, and its ruins were more than 1,800 years earlier than Europe.

At the same time, a corn garden, the study.

Xu Yu, like his Lao Tzu, is also talking to women, the difference is that Xu Hao is doing the right thing, and he is purely playing.

After dividing the chips, the four of them began to shuffle the cards, and Yu'er said worriedly: "It's not that I'm timid, if it's really in my village, the second master has a big card, then what should I do?"

"Bad luck." Xu Yu smiled while stacking cards: "You said that every time I go to your village, they don't want to say that we will partner up to give them a sedan chair to sit on?"

As soon as these words came out, Qiu Xiang, who had a ghost in her heart, looked at Yu'er, and Yu'er couldn't help but lay her face on the table, and her shoulders twitched vigorously.

Qiu Xiang herself smiled crimson, and Xu Yu wondered: "Strange? I said, "Why are you laughing like this?"

Xiao Nan tried hard to keep a straight face and said, "It's not! What a laugh is laughing, it's useless like this. ”

"Haha." Yu'er finally couldn't help it and laughed.

Xu Yu looked at them and said, "Looking at you like this, it can't be really discussed, right?" I prepared a sedan chair and planned to carry me together. ”

Xiao Nan immediately buttoned the thirteen cards in front of him and said: "Then let's make it clear, the second master is afraid that we will partner, then don't play."

Xu Yu said speechlessly: "You are like this every time, why should I be annoyed if I just say a word?" Come on, why don't you fight?"

Xiao Nan smiled with satisfaction and said, "We are a three-person sedan chair, and the second master is willing to sit on it?"

"That's right." Xu Yu said, "If you really partner up to beat me, I'm not afraid." ”

Qiu Xiang smiled: "Oh, this is all said by the second master." At first, he was afraid that we would carry the sedan chair, and then he said that he was not afraid of sitting in the sedan chair. ”

"Am I a bully? We'll see. Xu Yu casually played a card.

"Bump!" Qiu Xiang suddenly exclaimed excitedly.

Xiao Nan smiled: "This is your own fight, it has nothing to do with us, and you can't wronged anyone."

"It's okay." Xu Yu shrugged his shoulders, and when Qiu Xiang played the cards, he didn't eat or touch, and he touched the cards and played out a card casually, only to see Qiu Xiang push the remaining cards, and said happily: "Hu!"

Xiao Nan laughed and said, "This was personally beaten to her by the second master, and we can't blame it."

Xu Yu shook his head helplessly and said, "I hope your luck is always so good."

Because he was repeatedly stimulated by Xiao Nan's words, Xu Yu held back his strength to ask for a big name, but it was too difficult, especially when he was unlucky, and the chips he lost were already considerable.

He didn't care about counting the money, but he didn't want to lose like this, so he had to draw money every time, and said with a smile: "Anyway, my family loses, draw a few more money, get more delicious food, and I can eat some back."

Xiao Nan reminded: "If you want to eat, you should know that you will know, and as soon as you turn back to the kitchen for dinner, no one will pay attention to us."

Xu Yu said: "I personally confessed, and the mothers will not suppress it."

"Someone!" Xu Yu shouted, and soon a mother-in-law came in, and he said: "Mother Li, you go and give orders, cook a few more dishes in the evening, and snacks for four people, and record them in my account."

Li's mother said, "How much is it?"

Xiao Nan hurriedly said: "Don't have too much, at most two taels of silver."

After Li's mother left, the four of them continued to play cards, and Xu Yu and Xiao Nan quarreled frequently. Before you know it, you lose more.

Suddenly, the door was pushed open, Xu Yunning walked in, and said with a smile: "Okay, you guys are playing here, why don't you take me with you?"

Xiao Nan hurriedly got up and said with a smile: "Miss, come on, come on, there are a lot of good things today."

"What's going on?" Yun Ning asked, and put the small umbrella aside.

At that moment, Xiao Nan said that he would play cards and ask for snacks, Yun Ning said to Xu Yu: "So the second brother lost money?" Then you let me fight for a while, can you succeed?"

Xiao Nan was suddenly anxious, she had a good relationship with the young lady, and she didn't want to win her money, so she said: "Don't, the second master lost the most today, the feng shui is not good there, do you want to lose for him?"

Xu Yunning asked, "You have been fighting for so long, don't you feel the wind again and change directions?"

"Even if you change direction, you still take his place." Xiao Nan flipped his hands and looked innocent, "Eighty percent still have to lose money." ”

"You're so bad." Xu Yu raised his hand and pointed at her, "Do you think I lost money?" Okay, Yun Ning, you come to watch the battle, I have to fight for breath. ”

Qiu Xiang lost no time in saying: "You have lost too much, unless you change it next, even if you continue to win, you may not be able to win back your money."

These words obviously wanted to stimulate Xu Yu to continue to play big names, but Xu Yu was not a stubborn person, and said: "If you don't make fun of me again and again, you just lose some money." But you're just saying I can't win, hmph, I can't be that stupid. ”

Yun Ning saw that the second brother didn't end the game, so she said to Xiao Nan: "You let me play for a while."

"Miss." Xiao Nan pulled a long voice, "You are doing well, if you change someone, everyone will change their luck." ”

Yun Ning said: "Why don't you let me? No, I have to fight for a while before I'm willing. ”

"Okay, okay, I'll let you." Xu Yu stopped his movements and gave up his seat.

"Thanks." Yun Ning happily walked over and sat down, "I play cards, and winning or losing can be my own." ”

"Nope." Xu Yu insisted: "I have lost money, the card can make you, the money must be mine."

Yun Ningjiao smiled: "What if you lose again?"

"Naturally, it's mine." Xu Yu said with a smile.

Since Miss continued to play instead of the second master, Xiao Nanxin said that it was his money anyway, so why be polite? At the moment, he glanced at Qiu Xiang and Yu'er, and the two of them understood.

Xu Yu, who had retreated, went out for a walk, took back the snacks from the kitchen, and personally placed the small square table beside everyone, poured tea for them, prepared hand towels, spittoons, etc.

The bystanders were clear, Xu Yu had time to observe, and gradually realized that Qiu Xiang had obviously lost five taels of silver, but she was still laughing and not in a hurry, which was really strange.

Why is a girl who has to worry about ten copper coins on weekdays to be generous? Xu Yu became suspicious, and found that Xiao Nan couldn't stop complaining that the card was not good.

With her complaining, Qiu Xiang hit a red shot, and Xiao Nan touched it.

Xu Yu suddenly, pretending to refill the tea, went around to the back of Qiu Xiang, and saw at a glance that there was a red card in her card. ”

"Okay!" Xu Yuxin said that the three of them were really united, even if they didn't care how much money they lost, they still couldn't help but be a little angry, after all, no one wanted to be deceived like a fool.

Xu Yu, who was silent, continued to observe, patiently waited for the four rounds of cards to be played, and calculated that Yun Ning lost another four or five taels of silver, adding a total of nearly twenty taels. According to Yun Ning's unconvinced temper, he had to play four more laps.

Xu Yu smiled: "Come on, people have won enough, I'm embarrassed to win again." It's dinner time, so I won't fight. ”

Yun Ning said: "You lost a lot of silver, don't you want to make a profit?"

"If you lose, you lose, and you'll do it again next time." Qiu Xiang got up and said, "I also lost miserably, can I still fail to pay my debts?" It's time for our girl to call someone, I'm not going to fight. ”

Xu Yu deliberately asked, "You lost the monthly case for a few months, are you willing to do it?"

"The second master looks down on us so much?" Qiu Xiang smiled slightly, "There are always winners and losers in playing cards, will you come if you are afraid of losing?"

"Well said!" Seeing them like this, Xu Yu couldn't help but be really moved, and said, "Let's play again in the next two days."

Qiu Xiang smiled: "As long as you have time, you can come, what are you afraid of?" After speaking, she took Yu'er and went straight to the kitchen.

Seeing this, Yun Ning said, "Then I'll go to Sister Lanxiang's side to eat and leave." Leave Xiao Nan to help with the aftermath.

In the blink of an eye, there were only two people left in the room, Xu Yu and Xiao Nan, and Xu Yu couldn't help but say because of her: "I thought you were a straight person, but I didn't expect that you would learn badly now."

"I don't understand how I learned badly." Xiao Nan asked behind his back.

"Okay." Xu Yu sat down, "Let me ask you, why did Qiu Xiang have two red cards in her hand, but she opened one for you?"

Xiao Nan was stunned, slowly turned around, frowned, and said, "How can there be such a thing?"

"I saw her fight with my own eyes, what are you going to rely on?" Xu Yu was angry.

Xiao Nan said: "I'm a couple, she's a couple, and I'm dead." Is there anything wrong with her not being able to take it apart and punch it out?"

Xu Yu laughed angrily and said, "You, you! Now that you've learned to lie, the three of you made an appointment to take me for a fool, didn't you? You want to win some money back, right? When I don't know? It's just for you to win, how much can you win? If you don't tell the truth again, you really take me for a fool, and our friendship will be broken from now on. ”

I saw Xiao Nan snorting and said, "Okay, okay, it's okay for me to apologize." What is the second master who loses ten taels or twenty taels? Even if we work together to carry the sedan chair, it will be strange and miserable to carry it for so long a day. Besides, isn't it worth it that we spent an afternoon with you?"

Xu Yu smiled: "If you say that, it won't be unjust if you lose a few dollars."

"Actually, it was all my idea." Xiao Nan happily admitted, "If we lose money, you won't be able to bear it, and you have to pay it back every time." So whether we make an appointment or not, we have to win today. Good second master, isn't that reasonable?"

"Humph!" Xu Yu was angry, but he was not reconciled, and said: "Forget it this time, if you are still like this next time, I will ask you to return it twice."

"Got it." Xiao Nan looked at the bell absently, "Nothing is wrong with me, right?" I have to go. (To be continued......)