Codex of the Old Gods: I Have a World

Rebecca Levy hurriedly went to buy New Year's goods with Tang Qunying.

The journey was long, and neither Jiang Jian, Tang Qunying, nor the new civil servants who joined Lubin Prefecture returned to their hometown.

"Xi Tao, New Year's Eve is a grand occasion. Is it okay to prepare an appetizer, soup, side dish, main dish, vegetable and fruit dessert, one main dish and six side dishes?"

Tang Qunying shook her head, "The Spring Festival evolved from the ancient New Year's prayers and sacrifices. Food, clothing, accessories, pastings, greetings and exchanges are all called New Year's goods. In the peaceful years, we also rely on the weather for food. You, me, Nina, and the prefect, it is enough to cook six dishes and make dumplings, and the rest of the money can be used for other things. Don't be extravagant, and don't follow the Western way, otherwise you will end up making things worse and offend your sweetheart."

Rebecca Levi immediately became nervous: “Xitao, it’s still you who makes the decision, I’ll pay the money.”

Tang Qunying rolled her eyes.

Two women, wrapped in thick cotton jackets, wandered on the bustling streets of Lubin Prefecture, while carriages and coachmen were waiting outside to load goods.

This year's Lubin Prefecture is really lively.

Since the Qing army entered the pass and established its capital in Beijing, Manchus and Han people have lived together, and the economic and cultural exchanges and influences of each other have been close.

The customs of the Han people were absorbed by the Manchus, and the Spring Festival became a common custom of the Han and Manchus.

Tang Qunying took Rebecca Levi to buy rice cakes and fire spoons first, saying that they would be used when offering sacrifices to the ancestral tablets.

And buy some rosin candles.

Beef, mutton, chicken, fish, deer and pork, among which deer and pork are both game.

Yogurt wine, simmered pot, tea cakes, sugar balls, tobacco...

Rebecca Levy was attracted by the peach wood carvings of Shentu, Yulei, Qin Shubao, Yuchi Jingde, Fulu, Panzi and other door gods, and she couldn't leave for a while.

Later, I saw all kinds of Spring Festival couplets and wanted to buy them all.

Tang Qunying hurriedly stopped him: "What you are looking at are Manchu Spring Festival couplets. The custom of Spring Festival couplets was passed down to the Manchus by the Han people. The Han people used red paper to write, while the Manchus used white paper. Influenced by the Han people, the Manchus also began to believe that white is unlucky, so they decorated the white paper Spring Festival couplets with blue and red borders. As for us, we naturally have to buy all red ones."

Rebecca Levy suddenly realized.

She still had a lot to learn.

As for the wooden horses, sanxian, flutes, huqin, ghost face masks, single ropes, stilts, unicycles, etc. in the market, they are the things needed by the local Mongolian people for the Spring Festival celebrations.

The Han people call it the Spring Festival, while the Manchu people call it New Year's Day.

It is different from the New Year's Day on January 1st of the Western calendar in later generations.

The two girls went around and around, lingering in the market for a whole day, picking and choosing, comparing prices, and finally they managed to gather all the New Year's goods they needed.

When I got home to unload the goods, I went into the house and saw that Zhao Chuanxin had not come back yet.

Rebecca Levy was a little panicked: "The Spring Festival is coming, and he still hasn't come back. Why do you think so?"

"If you can relax, he might come back." Tang Qunying said helplessly.

"Xi Tao is right." Rebecca Levi nodded in agreement, and then continued to mutter worriedly: "Why hasn't he come back yet?"

Tang Qunying: "..."

I'm afraid he's possessed by a demon.

……

Zhao Chuanxin was in the white house in Quetshalan at this time.

Around two o'clock in the morning in Quetshalan, the area around the white house was unusually quiet.

Zhao Chuanxin and Xingyue now need a quiet environment where they will not be disturbed.

Light a lamp in the yard and a lamp in the house.

It seemed that there was only one house in the whole town with lights on.

Villa Galvez got up at night and saw a dim, flickering light like a ghost fire in the distance in the white house. He couldn't help but shiver.

These days, he could see the lights on in the house every night, the door was locked during the day, and the windows were tightly blocked by curtains.

Afraid it's haunted?

He pulled up his trousers guiltily, glanced at the starry night sky, finally dispelling the coldness in his heart, and hurriedly turned back to the house.

In the white house, Xingyue manipulated the black puppet craftsman to grind the true vision crystal lens for several days.

In the past few days, Zhao Chuanxin has not updated the "Code of Old Gods".

Apart from eating, drinking, defecating, urinating and sleeping, he spends every day accompanying Xingyue in building their "new eyes".

Each piece of True Vision crystal is first cut into a roughly circular shape, and then the surface is ground with an elf knife to ensure that the spherical curvature radius of the lens meets the requirements.

The surface of the lens is then ground and polished with a shaped diamond grinder, and then finely polished with silk fabrics of various mesh sizes to make it highly smooth and translucent.

This will create a basic lens.

The new eyes that Xingyue wants to build are equivalent to optical lenses and require multiple sets of lenses.

These lenses need to fit tightly into the lens barrel, and since there is no suitable plastic with a low coefficient of thermal expansion, the lens barrel has to be made of fine steel.

The inner and outer diameters of the lens must meet the assembly requirements, and the lens barrel is integrally formed and wrapped.

The edges of the lenses need to be inked to reduce reflections and stray light from the inner surface of the lens.

These processes are complex and delicate.

Xingyue's True Vision Crystal Eyes could not achieve the microscopic effect, and the ground lenses did not meet the parameter requirements, so they could only make do with it at first.

After putting on the new eye, use the new eye for more detailed polishing.

True Vision Crystal has an imaging effect that can be far or near. After high-precision grinding, the microscopic effect is excellent, surpassing all contemporary microscopes.

This cycle repeats until Xingyue is satisfied.

With a high-precision adjustable-focus microscope as eyes, Xingyue first transformed and upgraded the central control rune fragments in the body of the puppet servant.

The central control rune fragment is the puppet's computing and control core and is the final unit for information processing and command execution.

Xingyue upgraded the puppet slaves with the central control rune fragments, replacing the original low-grade micro-processing silk with finer high-grade processing silk, and grinding the gem inlays smaller. Not only did he integrate the computing path and the control path into the same baseboard, but the instruction system was also initially improved.

Xingyue calls it the superscalar filament flow structure.

The central control rune fragment is of the same size, but it can already control the parallel movement trajectories of all the silk threads in the puppet slave.

With this transformation and upgrade, the puppet slaves' movement accuracy is comparable to that of black puppet craftsmen.

At this time, Xingyue controlled the puppet slaves to dismantle the black puppet craftsman, and used the microscope to create new central control rune fragments and install them into the body of the black puppet craftsman.

After the black puppet craftsman has completed the upgrade, control the black puppet craftsman to grind the True Vision Crystal Lenses with higher precision.

The process is extremely tedious and requires a lot of patience.

After the Black Puppet Craftsman installs a more advanced True Vision Crystal Lens Set, use the Puppet Servant and the Black Puppet Craftsman to upgrade each other.

The cycle repeats itself until there is no more room for upgrading.

星月将中控符文碎片由8条虫丝处理架构，升级到16根、32根、64根、128根，256根，最后512根为止。

At this time, the black puppet craftsman can process action tasks in high parallelism with multiple cores.

Then Xingyue began to transform the soft golden armor for Zhao Chuanxin.

First upgrade the central control rune fragments, then update the silk power system.

In the past, the "metal" of the Star and Moon species was very sloppy, but the soft gold armor shell components he remade had the soft gold "seed" of moderate thickness, every inch of the joints was precise, and the sealing material had a very high degree of fit.