Hand over the jade seal first [Infrastructure]

Seeing that Xiao Zirong was silent, Xiao Xuexing thought he was still misunderstood, so she said, "It's not easy for you to do this, I'm not in a hurry, so don't think too much about it."

After hearing this, Xiao Zirong came back to his senses and said confidently: "I buy these things to make my own life comfortable. The money for selling is secondary. If you let other people's homes have electric lighting, your palace will still be used. Oil lamp, what do I do with these things?"

Xiao Xuexing felt warm after hearing this, rubbed his head and said, "That's good."

Xiao Zirong thought for a while and said: "I'll give you the main points of the line layout later, and then let the people below watch to arrange."

Xiao Xuexing raised his eyebrows: "I'll ask someone to give you the blueprint, can't you arrange it?"

Xiao Zirong suddenly frowned and said, "Brother, tell me...wouldn't it be bad if I sent someone to find out the layout of the house of the person who bought the electric light?"

This is equivalent to letting outsiders step on the house all over the place. Will people be suspicious?

Xiao Xuexing gave him a strange look: "What are you thinking about? Why do you care about this?"

Xiao Zirong scratched his face and said, "In case they are worried that I will send someone to assassinate me or something."

Xiao Xuexing patted the back of Xiao Zirong's head expressionlessly after hearing this: "What kind of messy thoughts are in your head, how could you have such doubts?"

In fact, the layout of the homes of people of similar rank and status is almost the same these days, especially when everyone generally lives in the mansion bestowed by the emperor, the layout is the same, that mansion belongs to the imperial court, and people who are begging for bones or committing crimes are ransacked. To the next term, so basically everyone knows the layout, it's just that the allocation of courtyards is different.

What's more, in political struggles, it would be too low-handed to really use assassination methods, and it is despised by others.

After Xiao Zirong was held by Xiao Xuexing's ears and taught a good lesson, he realized why everyone was so relieved of him.

After Xiao Xuexing went back, he gave him the distribution map of his home, not one but two.

One is the palace in Jiankang, and the other is the palace.

After Xiao Zirong got it, he began to study it with great interest, and then raised his head and asked, "Where do I need to install it?"

No matter how rich you are, it is impossible to install electric lights in the entire mansion. For example, the place where slaves and servants live is not necessary.

Xiao Xuexing stretched out his hand and nodded, and Xiao Zirong knew at a glance that he was pointing out the place where he often moved.

After Xiao Zirong looked at it, he saw the main hall in the backyard looking up at Xiao Xuexing and asked, "Isn't there a pretense here?"

Xiao Xuexing glanced at it and said, "I won't go there, there's no need."

Xiao Zirong chuckled twice, poked Xiao Xuexing and asked, "Brother, are you planning to get married?"

Xiao Xuexing didn't speak, Xiao Zirong gradually started to gossip, and couldn't help asking: "What's the matter? Haven't met the little lady you like for so many years?"

Xiao Xuexing said very simply and rudely: "Trouble."

"Huh?" Xiao Zirong was a little confused: "Trouble? What's the trouble?"

Xiao Xuexing said: "If I marry anyone, it is easy to form a clique invisibly."

His status is too sensitive, and with his status, it is natural to marry a young lady from a wealthy family.

Although Xiao Xuexing was the only one left in his family, the Wen family was considered a prominent family back then. It was not bad in terms of background, and its status was high. It was capable of both literary and military skills, so it was naturally a hot spot in the Jiankang marriage market. resource.

Up to now, there are quite a few people in the court who want to be his father-in-law, even Xiao Yan has this idea.

Don't look at how fiercely Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuexing fought, if Xiao Xuexing fell in love with his young lady and wanted to marry, Xiao Yan would definitely agree without saying a word.

It's a pity that Xiao Xuexing himself didn't have that kind of heart. Xiao Xuan originally wanted to be a matchmaker for him, but Xiao Xuexing didn't have this idea himself, so he didn't force it.

Xiao Zirong looked at him with his face in his hands and said: "But I didn't see that you have any concubines, don't you want children?"

Xiao Xuexing tapped Xiao Zirong's head with the scroll in his hand angrily and said, "Don't worry about what you have or not, it has nothing to do with you."

Xiao Zirong patted his head and said confidently: "I want to see what you looked like when you were a child. You look so good-looking, so your child must be good-looking too."

The corners of Xiao Xuexing's mouth turned up slightly, but he still said: "Who can guarantee that my child will be like me? What's more, I'm tired of raising one of you, and I don't want to have another one."

Xiao Zirong originally wanted to argue that why did he bother with Xiao Xuexing?

He can make money and protect himself.

But thinking about the things that Xiao Xuexing worried about and looked for for several years, he still swallowed these words.

And at that moment, a thought suddenly flashed in his mind: You should support me for the rest of my life.

But this idea quickly disappeared, how can he need others to support him?What's more, this idea is not realistic.

Xiao Zirong was honest here, but Xiao Xuexing was a little restless on the other side.

When Xiao Zirong asked him why he didn't get married just now, he subconsciously felt that it would be good to live with Xiao Zirong like this.

However, he soon felt that this idea was inexplicable. He himself had no intention of getting married, but his younger brother would marry and have children sooner or later. When Xiao Zirong had his own wife and family, how could he still be as close to him as he is now? seamless?

Xiao Xuexing frowned slightly, it was hard to ignore the uncomfortable feeling in his heart, but for a moment he didn't understand why it happened.

Calculated according to the average age of the aristocrats nowadays, he is considered half of his life, he has tasted both ups and downs, and he has experienced life and death early, so he shouldn't worry about such things anymore.

So... what went wrong?

It was rare for Xiao Xuexing to be in a daze while reading, and this was because Xiao Zirong himself was meditating and didn't realize it.

He was more open than Xiao Xuexing, and when he found out that his idea was impractical, he threw it aside and began to think about the gift for Xiao Xuexing.

In fact, he had already selected a few gifts before, and they were a set of colored glaze soldiers. This set of colored glaze soldiers included all three types of arms, land, sea and air, as well as horses and boats.

The soldiers are no larger than a palm, and the rest of the buildings and horses are scaled down in equal proportions.

There are three hundred infantry, twenty rotten buildings and boats, and sailors on top, and three hundred horses and infantry.

Whether it's soldiers, boats or horses, they are all exquisitely made, and even the armor on the soldiers is made according to the word "Xue".

But now Xiao Zirong suddenly changed his mind, he suddenly wanted to "pluck" the moon from the sky for Xiao Xuexing.

Now that electric lights have appeared, it is not too much for him to get a moon lamp, right?

Originally, he wanted to completely reproduce the moon lamp according to the appearance of the moon, but after drawing the schematic diagram, he always felt that there was something missing, which seemed unattractive.

Xiao Zirong changed several versions. At the beginning, he did not draw the circular crater on the moon, but found that if the whole body yellow lacks transition, it is no different from ordinary glazed lamps, and even worse than ordinary glazed lamps.

Later, he painted the craters again, and found that after the real painting, he couldn’t explain why he knew there were so many craters on the moon—under special conditions, the human naked eye can faintly see those on the surface of the moon circular pit.

But the problem is that most people don't think that the moon is full of annular craters, right?

And it doesn't look too good-looking if it's too real.

For a moon lamp, Xiao Zirong worried for a whole day, and finally had no choice but to look out the window with his chin on his hands.

Zhai Xi was very curious about the fact that Xiao Zirong squatted in the Ministry of Industry for a day but did nothing, and asked a little puzzled, "Is there anything embarrassing for the city lord?"

Xiao Zirong said casually: "The moon... what else is there on the moon?"

Zhai Xi thought for a while and said, "Chang'e?"

Xiao Zirong was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then his eyes lit up: "That's right, Chang'e, Moon Palace, Osmanthus Tree, Moon Rabbit...why didn't I think of it?"