jdhmnovel Chapter 174 Another time travel?
Chapter 174 Another time travel?
Guo Xin was about to return to his mansion when he caught a glimpse of Su Jin behind him, seeming to want to say something but stopping himself.
Suddenly I remembered that I had been busy dealing with border problems recently and had neglected the glass issue, so I asked: "Do you know where the glass producer is now?"
Su Jin's face lit up, seeing that she had finally caught the young lady's attention: "I'll take the young lady there right away."
Guo Ruo also followed.
Su Jin led the way, while Guo Ruo and Guo Xin walked side by side.
I saw the alley in front of me gradually narrowing and stopping in front of a small courtyard. The courtyard wall was white and black, with a few dog holes in the corners. Outside the courtyard were all kinds of jars placed in a mess, and I didn't know what was in them.
Su Jin put his hands together in front of his abdomen, bowed slightly and said loudly: "Can Master Gao be at home?"
Only a few clanging sounds were heard in the yard, but no human voice.
Guo Ruo looked at Su Jin in confusion. Su Jin nodded and whispered, "This Gao the Carpenter is a strange man. Even if someone calls him, he never responds. Just wait for a while and he will come out."
Su Jin cherished this rare opportunity very much, so in the past few days, he not only followed Liu You to learn how to do accounting and other things, but also visited Master Gao day and night, all for today.
"Squeak", the dilapidated wooden door opened a small crack, and a black round head poked out, with the brown hair on the head casually stuck with a wooden chopstick.
When Su Jin saw the head, he smiled and said, "Master Gao, the person behind this is the owner of the glass workshop."
The black head poked its head out again, looked behind Su Jin, and rubbed its eyes with its hands, leaving two black marks.
The head shrank back, as if something heavy was moved inside. After a while, the door was completely opened, and the black head and body appeared outside the door, saluted towards Guo Xin and others in a very awkward manner.
A rough voice uttered, "My dear masters, my name is Gao Dayu, you can just call me Craftsman Gao. You have come here suddenly today, and I can't clean up the courtyard in a short time. Do you still want to come in for a visit?"
Guo Xin carefully looked at the craftsman in front of him. The craftsman did not look like a person from Dazhao. He had very deep eyes, thick eyelashes, a high nose bridge, and brown hair. He looked a bit like a person from the Western Regions.
But the words he spoke were not the Western dialect, but the authentic Dazhao dialect. Thinking of this, he asked, "Where is Master Gao from?"
As he spoke, Guo Xin raised his foot and walked towards the yard. Seeing this, Gao Dayu immediately led the way.
"I am from the Central Plains, but I am not my parents' biological child. I was picked up by my parents when I was still an infant and raised by them. So I don't look like a Dazhao person, but I speak the Dazhao language. Therefore, you can rest assured to do business with me, my master."
The situation inside the courtyard was even more chaotic than outside. Except for the small path that the people in front of them were walking on, other places were randomly filled with things, green glass bottles, some transparent glass bowls...
"Did you develop this glass recently?"
Guo Xin looked at the dazzling array of glass on the ground. Upon closer inspection, he could see that the glass contained a lot of impurities. However, compared to this dynasty with low productivity, this was extremely rare.
However, if these things were discovered by others, the craftsman would definitely be included in the tribute. How could the craftsman stay in this courtyard full of treasures and be used by her when they fell into her hands?
Gao Dayu said in a rough voice: "I developed these glasses a long time ago, but when I took them out to sell, the shopkeepers directly beat them out of my hands, saying that my glass was poisonous and would kill the nobles, so I had to sell it to the merchants at a low price."
Guo Xin: "If they think it's poisonous, why would they accept it?"
"I don't know either. I heard that merchants have their own ways to sell these things. As long as I can keep supplying them, it will be fine. After all, I have old and young people to feed at home. This is the only way for now."
Old and young? Guo Xin looked around and found no signs of other people.
"My family doesn't live here. They live in a village outside the city." Gao Dayu saw Guo Xin's confusion and took the initiative to say, "They lived with me in the city at first, but the longer they lived here, the worse their health became."
At this point, Guo Xin suddenly understood why no one in the city offered the craftsman's glass as tribute.
The elderly and children are always most sensitive to toxicity. After this incident, who would dare to use this glass? Therefore, the tall fish was used by himself.
Gao Dayu picked up a transparent glass bottle and said, "This is the latest glass I developed. Compared with the previous transparent and colorless ones, it also has less flocs. It can be said to be a good product. And I have tried it, it is absolutely non-toxic."
Guo Xin took the bottle. The mouth of the bottle was smooth and delicate, and the bottle body was transparent. It was indeed a good product. However, where did the craftsman get the skills to make glass? If he had developed it himself, he must have been exposed to chemicals for a long time, and it would have been difficult for him to have children. How could he have children?
He casually asked, "Where did you get this skill with glass?"
The craftsman straightened his back immediately after hearing this, his eyes curled up, and his mouth opened wide. "Master, you have hit the nail on the head. Do you believe in gods? My glass making skills were given to me by the gods. After I got married and had children, the situation at home became increasingly bad..."
Guo Xin listened to the craftsman's words and held the bottle in his hand tighter and tighter.
Why do these words sound so familiar? They are almost the same as what she said when she first came to the Jokhang Dynasty. Moreover, it is obvious that this glass cannot be made by the people here.
Although glass in the past also originated in the feudal dynasty, the glass bottles in our hands, which are made with almost modern technology, could never have been produced in the feudal dynasty.
A guess was growing in her mind. She looked up at the craftsman and asked, "Who are you? Where are you from? Where are you going?"
These three questions are the three questions of the soul from the previous life. They are the philosophical questions that every child has to pursue throughout his life since birth.
Guo Ruo and Su Jin looked at Guo Xin with confusion, not knowing what these words meant. But if you savor them carefully, they make people think deeply.
Guo Ruo quietly tugged at Guo Xin's sleeve and whispered, "Where did you read this? It sounds like something a great scholar said in a book. Let me have a look at this book later."
The corners of Gao Jiangren's eyes suddenly dropped, and he looked straight at Guo Xin. The corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and his expression gradually became complicated.
Although Su Jin was puzzled as to why the young lady asked these questions, he did not think much about it and just regarded it as a way for the young lady to interrogate the servants' background.
Seeing that Carpenter Gao was staring at her young lady regardless of her status, she couldn't help but said in displeasure: "Carpenter Gao, where are you looking at? How can you be so rude?"