Li Mengxi reached out and asked the guard for money.

The guard brought a heavy bag of money, but Li Mengxi poured the whole bag of money into the old man's basket without even looking at it.

The old man was so rich that he looked at Li Mengxi in disbelief. He was stunned for a while. When he realized what he was doing, an old man in his 80s and 80s knelt down to thank Li Mengxi on the spot.

Li Mengxi quickly supported him.

Finally, the embarrassed old man pulled his grandson over and kowtowed to Li Mengxi to thank him. Li Mengxi accepted it with a smile. He picked up the child, asked the guard for money, and gave the child a bag of money as a gift in return.

The old man felt that Li Mengxi was too much, so he refused.

During the pulling process, Li Mengxi forced the money into the little baby's hand and said, "Here, little brother, take the money and go back to buy some clothes."

Afterwards, after chatting with the old man for a while, Li Mengxi expressed his intention to buy a monkey. The old man had already obtained Li Mengxi's money. Seeing that Li Mengxi wanted the monkey, he was about to give the monkey to Li Mengxi.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Li Mengxi took the monkey and paid the old man a large amount of money. The person who paid the money was a deposit, as Li Mengxi said, so that the old man could catch him later.

Send it to the monkey after you arrive.

Li Mengxi allowed the old man to take over the money just to make the old man happy. He didn't expect that there were actually monkeys in the old man's house. The old man said that there were more than a dozen households of monkey performers in his village, and there were monkeys in every house.

It's said that you can't find anything even if you wear iron shoes. It takes no effort to get it. I was worried that I couldn't find the monkey, but now I found a bunch of them.

Li Mengxi simply paid the old man a large sum of money so that he could go back and have money to make purchases.

For the old man, today was a lucky day. He happily picked up his money bag and took his grandson to leave.

"Wait!" Li Mengxi called, and Li Mengxi ordered two guards, "Old man, I will go back with you."

The old man thought that Li Mengxi was not trusting him, so he sent two people to watch. The old man misunderstood. Li Mengxi didn't care about the mere money. Just now, Li Mengxi saw the old man carrying the money tremblingly. Li Mengxi realized that the two men were old and young.

I carried a bag of money back with me. It was so unworldly. Someone would have robbed me on the way, so I sent two guards to accompany me all the way.

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Li Mengxi's evaluation of Luoyang is right. Luoyang is indeed a gathering place for technology.

Farewell to the two monkey-playing men, Li Mengxi couldn't walk far and saw something interesting again.

A group of people gathered on the roadside in front, but in a place with many people, there must be something lively to watch. Li Mengxi squeezed in and found that it was a mirror grinder.

Li Mengxi saw a mirror grinder for the first time. An old man had a bronze mirror on his lap, holding a piece of gravel as thick as a finger and as long as a finger, and carefully grinding it in circles.

Not long ago, Julu held a "Slide Contest". The slide contest was very simple. It was just a competition to see who could find the best materials, who could polish the slide rails smoother, and whose ball could roll farther.

Although the problem is simple, it involves two technical foundations: materials and grinding.

Grinding is very important. It needs to be ground to make lenses. It also needs to be ground to make high-precision parts. Li Mengxi accidentally bumped into a mirror grinder and couldn't help but stop and take a look.

Mirror grinding is a slow and meticulous process. The old man's movements are slow and detailed, and the process is extremely cumbersome. The old man polished it hundreds of times with a stone as thick as his finger, and then changed to a different stone and polished again.

Change the stone again.

More than an hour passed. The old man changed more than a dozen stones one after another. Li Mengxi saw the professionalism. It was like when a worker was working, he put a row of dozens of drill bits there. It looked very professional and sharpened.

Old Man Jing doesn't have a drill, but he has more than ten kinds of stones, including green, white, yellow and gray.

After changing more than a dozen kinds of stones, the old man used linen, fur, and finally a ball of silk.

There were many idle people watching the excitement around. While the old man was busy, there were whispers all around. After the old man polished the mirror and rinsed it with water, the smooth and polished brass mirror shined after being stained with water.

There was a bright light, and people around him expressed their admiration.

A young woman took a look at the polished mirror. She was obviously very satisfied with the mirror and had a smile on her face.

After the woman paid a handful of money and left, Li Mengxi came up to her. He bent down and picked up two of the fingers-thick stones used by the old man to polish the mirror and looked at them. He smiled and asked, "Old man, your craftsmanship is pretty good!"

The old man chuckled, and said with a certain amount of pride on his face, "Three generations of my ancestors have been grinding mirrors for the palace. In Luoyang City, there are not many people who can compare to me in terms of craftsmanship."

Got it, I’ve met an expert, the world’s top mirror grinder is right in front of me. The best craftsman in the world who grinds telescope lenses is here, and the best craftsman in the world who polishes machine tool parts is also here.

Li Mengxi was interested in recruiting, so he took off the sword from his waist and asked, "Old man, I have a short sword, maybe I can help sharpen it?"

The old man took the sword and took a look at it. The sword was stained with rust.

Li Mengxi's sword is actually quite good. It is made of hundred-forged steel. However, Li Mengxi doesn't care about it and doesn't bother to sharpen it. The sword is covered with rust.

The old man hesitated for a moment, then looked up at Li Mengxi and said, "Iron swords are not easy to sharpen, they are precious."

Li Mengxi smiled, "It doesn't matter, the old man can just grind it. How much does it cost to grind a bronze mirror? I'll pay you a hundred times the price."

After saying that, regardless of whether the old man agreed or not, Li Mengxi asked the guard to carry a bag of money over and threw the money directly into the old man's stall.

When the old man saw that Li Mengxi was so generous, he felt a little unsure.

The money given by Li Mengxi was too much, and the old man was afraid that Li Mengxi would not be able to speak well, and that he would get into trouble if he did not do his job well.

The old man carefully looked at the rusty iron sword again and again. Then, the old man stood up and took out a piece of blue feldspar from the basket on the side, ready to grind it.

Li Mengxi thought that the old man was going to start sharpening his sword directly on the feldspar. Unexpectedly, the old man started to sharpen the stone first, and the stone also had to be sharpened. The old man poured some water on the feldspar, then picked up a fist-sized white stone and pointed it at it.

The feldspar rubbed against itself.

Li Mengxi saw many gray water stains rubbed out on the blue feldspar.

When Li Mengxi saw this scene, he felt a little confused.

The old man spent some time polishing the feldspar, and then began to sharpen the sword.

From the way the old man sharpened his sword, Li Mengxi could tell that this old man's skill was really outstanding. Not only could the old man sharpen mirrors, but he was also good at sharpening swords. Of course, mirror grinding is a top-notch grinding process. If you can sharpen mirrors, you can sharpen swords even more.

No problem.

Li Mengxi saw the most complicated sword-sharpening method. The old man used feldspar to sharpen the iron sword a little. After grinding away the rust, the old man began to polish it again and again like a mirror, using various small stones to polish the sword body.

Polish it once, change a stone, polish it again, change a stone. This process lasted for more than ten rounds, and the stone was changed to more than a dozen kinds. In the process, the iron sword became brighter and brighter at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Bright.

Li Mengxi was getting hungry from waiting. Looking at the sky, it was already afternoon.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The old man polished the sword with a stone, and the sword was shiny. This was not the end yet. The old man pulled a new piece of linen cloth and wrapped the stone with it.

Continue grinding, then the stone is wrapped in fur, and finally a ball of silk.

Mirror grinding is just a few steps.

Li Mengxi thought it was finally over.

But he saw that the old man took something from the basket again. The old man took out a gourd and poured out some silvery things from the gourd. Li Mengxi looked at it carefully. He felt that the thing was suspected to be mercury, but he didn't know if it was.

Li Mengxi wondered whether mercury was needed to sharpen a sword.

The old man rubbed something that looked like mercury on the sword bit by bit. After coating the entire blade of the sword, he began to sharpen it again.

The stone was ground three times, the linen was ground once, then the fur, and then the silk.

Finally, Old Mojing polished the iron sword. He held the sword to Li Mengxi with a cloth in his hand. When Li Mengxi took the sword, his eyes were dazzled by the light reflected from the sword.

Li Mengxi saw the reflection of his own face on the shining silver sword. Li Mengxi was shocked. For the first time, he saw that the sword could really reflect people's shadows. The light that can identify people is not an adjective, but a descriptor.

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Li Mengxi's mouth grew into an O shape. He put the sword in front of his eyes as a mirror. He could clearly see his eyes, even his eyelashes, and even his pupils. He was filled with worry.

He raised his head and looked at the old man sharpening his sword. The old man stood there quietly with a peaceful smile on his face.

Li Mengxi closed the sword with a click, bowed his hands to the old man, and praised from the bottom of his heart, "The skills of the seniors are so superb that the juniors are amazed.

It is a pity that skills like those of our predecessors are buried in the countryside.

The junior wants to invite the senior to be a guest at my Julu, I wonder if the senior might give me a favor?"

Li Mengxi only had one thought left in his mind, no matter how much money it would cost to bring him back, to bring such an awesome person back.

Li Mengxi wanted to abduct the old man, but the old man kidnapped him instead. The old man invited Li Mengxi to visit his home.

If you can't let go of your children, you won't catch the wolf. If you don't enter the tiger's den, you won't get the tiger's cubs. If you don't pay, there will be no reward. Courtesy to the virtuous is worth the price. Horses with thousands of miles of horses are often found but poor people are not. In short, after weighing all kinds of reasons, Li Mengxi decided to go.

The old man Mojing was from a well-off family, and he entertained her with good wine and delicious food. Li Mengxi didn't usually drink. For the sake of etiquette, he gritted his teeth and took a sip. After one sip, he frowned because the wine was so spicy. He felt so sick. This was a huge mistake.

Deer's spirits must have been bought from Julu Inn.

I originally wanted to drink a little bit for the sake of etiquette, but I forgot about it. Distilled liquor will hit your head after just two sips.

Li Mengxi excused himself on the grounds that he was not good at drinking. The old man also knew that the wine was strong, so he stopped trying.

During the banquet, Li Mengxi talked about recruitment again, but the old man did not agree. He introduced his second son to Li Mengxi.

Li Mengxi was worried. He saw the old man sharpening his sword with extremely cumbersome craftsmanship and complicated techniques. He was afraid that the old man's son was of average skill and Julu was short of top craftsmen, not ordinary craftsmen.

Li Mengxi asked insinuatingly, "I wonder what your master's skills are like? How many seniors can you master?"

As soon as the old man heard Li Mengxi's question, he knew what Li Mengxi was thinking. The old man patted his chest and assured that his boy's skills were not as good as those in Luoyang.

Li Mengxi smiled, looked at the old man's second son and said, "Then it's settled! When you come to my house from now on, you won't dare to say anything else. You can still have a half-official position, and you can still have a salary of hundreds of dollars a year.

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After the matter was settled, Li Mengxi wanted to find talents, and the old man also happened to have the opportunity and wanted to find a way out for his son, so they hit it off.

Li Mengxi still had something to do and couldn't delay any longer. He left a piece of voucher and asked the old man's son to go directly to Julu Commercial Store when he was ready.

The old man was no stranger to the Julu Merchant Store. The old man bought the jar of spirits from the Julu Merchant Store. Knowing that Li Mengxi was from the merchant store, the old man felt more at ease.
To be continued...