Entomologist in Sichuan Tang Clan Chapter 396

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Yellow Creeper 1

It wasn’t easy to make samples under the sticky gazes of the men, but I somehow persevered and completed the remaining samples.

The samples were not simply surface plated like before, but took time to ensure that the silver plating was thick enough.

Han Da-gyeong, that is, by passing electricity through it for about thirty minutes, the plating film became thicker.

Because I might have scratched it or something.

-Clang.

“Here. This is the finished product.”

I bent a copper bar and made several at once.

So when we finished the last sample and placed it on a wooden tray, the adults again looked at us with sticky eyes in admiration.

This was because the quality of the silver plating was much higher than before.

“This is even more amazing than the first one. I dissolved saltpeter in the stone damjeong, melted silver into it, and then passed the energy of lightning through it, and with that alone, copper became silver.”

“That’s true. It’s also of the highest quality, so I think it can be used in many ways.”

While the adults were excitedly looking at the samples that had been made, the poison maker asked.

“Master Soryong, should we clean this up then?”

Turning my head, I see the Admiral’s master pointing at the silver coin.

He asked me if I should put away the things I had prepared since the sample production was finished, so I quickly took out the pouch that the ironsmith had given me earlier from my bosom.

“Just a moment. There’s still one left.”

-Dalgrak.

When I emptied my pockets on my palm, two shiny gold rings appeared.

It was a plain ring with only the words “Sacheondangga” engraved on it, which was what I had requested.

“What else is there, son-in-law?”

“Yes, just a moment.”

He told them to wait a moment, then added more silver nitrate and potassium cyanide to the bowl, wondering if all the silver dissolved in the silver nitrate had been consumed.

Then he hung the ring on a copper rod and dipped it into the liquid, and quickly shouted towards the island and the wall.

“Guys, I’ll ask you one more time.”

-Why!

Then this time, the wall instead passed the baton to Seomyi and sent the electricity through it. Since there was no need to make the plating film that thick, he waited for about ten minutes and then shouted at Seomyi.

“Alright! Island! Thanks for today!”

-Why!

-Why!

Seom-i and Byeok-i, having finished their work, slowly swim back to the center of the pond.

To check the result, I took out the stick and put the ring in clean water and washed it. The red water disappeared and what appeared was a silver ring sparkling in the light.

A silvery sheen that shines like a mirror.

It was a ring with the words “Sacheondangga” on the outside and my name and Hwa-eun on the inside.

I approached Hwa-eun, who was still pretending to be angry and glancing at me while holding the scented perfume around her body.

“Hwaeun, here.”

“What, what is that···. A, a ring!?”

When I reached out and showed the ring to Hwa-eun, at first I heard a cold voice.

But when she realized that what I gave her was a ring, Hwa-eun’s eyes grew wide.

The moment she saw the ring, Hwa-eun’s ears slowly began to turn red like the water Rang-hyang had just taken out of her bath.

He said with a smile on his face at that sight.

“Yes, it’s a ring.”

“Me, really?”

He had an expression of disbelief, and he nodded his head as he spoke.

“I asked an ironsmith to make it for me. It’s a gold ring, but I thought it would be burdensome for people of low status to wear gold and silver, so I plated the outside with silver. I also chose a design that wasn’t too flashy.

“We engraved our names on the inside of this ring. I will wear the ring with Hwa-eun’s name engraved on it, and Hwa-eun, wear the ring with my name engraved on it.”

“Hey, even your name?”

When I told her that the ring was a gift and that we had each other’s names engraved on it, Hwa-eun froze.

I could hear my mother-in-law’s joyful voice from the side.

“Oh my, you even engraved each of our names? Hwa-eun must be happy. I thought our son-in-law was young and had no family, so he would just pass over it, but I didn’t know you prepared such a proper token of your affection.”

My mother-in-law seemed to think that my giving her a ring was a cultural symbol between lovers, similar to the couple rings I gave her in my past life.

But your family?

Does it mean something else?

I’ve never given anything like a gift before, and I prepared this to appease Torajin Hwa-eun’s feelings, but it feels like it has some other meaning.

As I was slightly confused, the craftsman’s voice continued.

[Does this guy not know what the ring means?]

[Yes, Master. Does it mean something?]

[Somehow. Then, you will unconditionally answer yes to everything I ask.]

[Oh, I see.]

I guess he saw my embarrassed expression and wanted to help me.

I quickly answered in a voice, and the craftsman smiled and began to speak.

“It was prepared as a standard for Moon Jae-in.”

“Yes, that’s right, Master.”

‘What is Moon Jae-in?’

A word I’m hearing for the first time.

He looked at his father-in-law with eyes that seemed to ask for an explanation of what Moonjeong was.

Then the craftsman continued to speak to me as if explaining to me.

“If he wasn’t my son-in-law, I would have had a formality before the wedding, where both families would acknowledge that we were meant to be married. Thank you for thinking of Hwa-eun.”

“Rice, don’t mention it. Ahaha.”

‘Oh, so it’s something like an engagement?’

Roughly speaking, it seems like Moonjeong means engagement.

So it seemed like everyone thought my ring was an engagement gift.

That’s probably why Hwa-eun had an expression of disbelief.

I thought we would go straight into the wedding since he was my son-in-law, but I was so touched that I took such good care of him.

As I was awkwardly smiling and scratching my head, I heard my grandfather and father-in-law talking.

“It’s gold, but it seems to have been covered in silver to make it easy to wear on a daily basis. As expected of a deep-thinking Soryong.”

“Hwa-eun, what are you doing? Why don’t you pick it up quickly? Little Dragon’s arms are going to fall off.”

Grandfather and father-in-law urging me to receive it quickly.

When Hwa-eun reached out for the ring, he said with a smile.

“I’ll put it in for you.”

I took the ring with my name written on it and held out my left hand to Hwa-eun.

Then, the craftsman next to me spoke in a playful, adult voice.

“You know, son-in-law, that an unmarried woman can’t wear a ring carelessly, right? So once you put one on, you can’t take it off.”

Since it was hard to find women wearing rings in the Central Plains, I thought it was because gold was expensive, but then I realized that all the women I saw wearing rings were married.

In my previous life, rings didn’t have such a heavy meaning, but I never thought that in ancient China, rings would have such a great meaning.

But since I was planning to get married anyway, I held Hwa-eun’s hand and tried to put a ring on it.

Then Hwa-eun sticks out her middle finger as if swearing.

At that moment, the craftsman’s voice was heard again.

[The ring worn to signify that you have completed the civil service examination is worn on the middle finger. Is the size of the ring the right size?]

I looked at Hyang-i, who was wrapped around Hwa-eun, with a start.

This ring was made after measuring the thickness of Hwa-eun’s finger through Hyang-i yesterday.

It was because the scent told me to bite my mother’s fourth finger with my mouth and tell the ironsmith to come and tell me.

‘I’m screwed.’

The craftsman tried to help me, but I gave up and moved my hand, thinking that I might get caught if I didn’t stop.

But strangely enough, the ring is sucked into Hwa-eun’s finger.

I opened my eyes wide in surprise and looked at Hyang-i.

Then, Hyang-i spoke as if asking for praise in her heart.

‘-tsururu ‘Dad, is the fourth one just right?”

‘The fourth?’

‘-Tsurut. ‘Yeah. The fourth.’

When Hyang-i confidently answered that her third finger was the fourth, I realized that I had never taught her math.

No, I remembered that I had taught her clockwise once before, but Hyang-i had not done it well even then.

‘Our Hyang-i is a water blisters!’

I was so touched that my daughter was already a water buffalo.

He saved his dad with it, so he was a good loser.

‘Yeah, well done fourth scent!’

When I praised Hyang-i in my heart, Hwa-eun said with tears in her eyes.

“I will never forget this moment for the rest of my life, Little Dragon.”

The stop was still pointed towards me.

***

“How have you been?”

“I thought you’d come tomorrow?”

“You have to be able to endure curiosity.”

In the afternoon, the old man showed up with another beggar.

I thought you would come tomorrow since I sent someone to say that the sample was finished, but you showed up just a few hours after I sent you.

“Who is that person?”

When he asked with an expression asking him to introduce the beggar he had brought, the old man looked at him and smiled.

“Ah, this guy is the one who inspected the dignity of Ma Je-eun and Yong-eun at the coffin. I brought him here to inspect the dignity of your silver. Say hello. This is Dangga’s son-in-law, So-ryong.”

“Nice to meet you. Sohyeop. I’m Sogeulgui.”

“Nice to meet you, Great Swordsman.”

I guess he brought me here to check the quality of my fake silver, and just as I was finishing the lottery, I heard Elder Geulhwang’s voice.

[Don’t say that Eun-i is fake.]

Perhaps he wanted to hide the fact that the silver I had made was fake, as he wanted to check more thoroughly, so I decided to answer in a voicemail and guide the two of them to the main hall.

Because the fake silver was there now.

“Go to Gajujeon. Eun is there.”

“Okay, I understand.”

The family that arrived with the two of them.

“Master, the great master has come to see you.”

“okay?”

The door opens and the craftsman runs out in a hurry.

When the craftsman came out in person to greet Elder Geulhwang, Elder Geulhwang said with an apologetic expression.

“You come here so often that it’s a bit burdensome to show this kind of behavior.”

Perhaps he felt burdened by the courtesy of visiting so often and greeting me in person.

“If you come a hundred times, I will hit you a hundred times. Aren’t you a great adult in the martial arts world?”

“Haha. If you say so, I will accept the favor without any shame. Thank you.”

“Then please go in.”

At the craftsman’s polite greeting, the old man, with a satisfied expression, entered the house.

As we followed in and sat down on the chair, the craftsman took the tray containing the dragon that was on the desk and placed it in the middle of the table.

A dragon sparkling in the light streaming in through an open window.

“Here it is.”

“Oh, is this it?”

“Yes, that···. Please take a look.”

It seems he was about to say, “It’s probably fake, but isn’t it amazing?” But as if the old man had sent a signal, the father-in-law’s words were cut off ambiguously and then flowed out.

“Okay, let’s check it out.”

“yes.”

At the words of the old man, Sogeulgui takes out something wrapped in cloth from her chest.

When the cloth was spread out, what appeared were a scale and a needle.

He first measured the weight of the dragon and gently poked it with a needle, and after examining it for a while, he nodded his head.

“This is a top-class dragon of the highest quality.”

It seemed as if I had been completely fooled, but at those words, the old man smiled and threw a silver dragon into the air.

-Crunch.

The capital of the old man, Geulhwang, passed by at a speed that was invisible to the eye.

The dragon split in half and fell onto the table.

-Dalgrak.

What is revealed on the surface of the dragon cut in half is a thin layer of silver, copper, and clay.

Then Sogeulgui made a face of disbelief.

“No, how did you divide it into layers like this!? If you try to coat copper with silver, it will not only run off, but the copper will also tend to melt···.”

The expression on his face was one of disbelief at the silver plating on copper.

Because it is not the technology of this era.

“Will this do?”

When I asked Geul-Hwang with a smile, he nodded with a very satisfied expression.

“Although Sogeulgwi is now a beggar, he was once one of the top three inspectors in the Central Plains. He is definitely worth a try.”

Now we just have to mass produce them and send them to their destination.

‘You damn fools. Take the bomb this little dragon drops!’

As I was lost in happy thoughts about what would happen next, Elder Geulhwang asked me in a cautious voice.

“By the way, Little Dragon, do you happen to know anything about locusts?”

I thought you were done, but it seemed like you wanted to ask me something else.

The question is about grasshoppers.

You were asking if I knew much about locusts, but if it’s yellow crickets, it’s not just any locust, it’s a locust that has appeared in large numbers.

He nodded and answered nonchalantly.

“Yes, of course. I know how to do it and I can make it.”

“You’re making a yellow bug!?”

“Make a yellow bug!?”

At my answer, the old man and the craftsman looked at me with wide eyes.

It was a voice that said it was unbelievable.