Qin Wan scratched her head. She didn't know why nothing had changed, but she thought about it again. She realized that in her previous life, the fire had indeed started because of a magnifying glass. Then she nodded firmly, "It will definitely work! Didn't our ancestors teach you? We must persevere and persevere. We must be patient."
"Okay! Keep going!"
The little rascals responded in unison.
Children's patience is always used in strange ways. If you ask them to study on weekdays, they can't even last a cup of tea. If they don't have their grandfather watching over them, they can't last more than a quarter of an hour when practicing martial arts and doing horse stance.
Now he is staring at this magnifying glass, silently and honestly.
In the end, they even brought their parents over.
When Wu Meijun and others saw this situation, they also had people move stools and sit in the training ground to wait.
The scene was a bit strange for a moment. It was New Year's Day and a very cold day, and the masters of the Qin family were all gathered in the training ground, watching a round piece of glass and a pile of rags and grass.
Qin Wan was afraid that she wouldn't be able to come up with anything and would disappoint everyone, but seeing that everyone looked very expectant, she didn't say anything.
More than an hour passed like this, the sky darkened, the sun almost disappeared, and the rags did not catch fire.
The children were all disappointed: "Auntie is lying, it's not fun at all."
Qin Wan touched the top of Qin Chengming's head apologetically: "I'm sorry, auntie let you down."
Qin Zhan picked up the cloth on the ground and looked at it over and over again. There was a brown dot on the pure white cotton cloth, which was exactly where the light spot had just condensed.
Qin Zhan smelled the light spot and found a slight burnt smell. He reached out and crushed it, and the spot broke into pieces, revealing a neat fracture on the edge.
Qin Chengming exclaimed, "Wow!" "Grandpa is so amazing! He broke a hole in it in one go!"
Wu Meijun and other adults looked at the hole without saying a word.
Qin Zhan was extremely excited. He waved his hand, took his grandson, and asked someone to call his sons to go to the study together.
Wu Meijun took the children back to change clothes and have dinner together later.
Qin Wan felt a little guilty: "I delayed everyone for most of the day, but didn't see anything."
Qin Zhan shook the rag and said with a smile, "How can there be no results? It's also because it's late today. If it were noon or when it's hot in the summer, it would definitely succeed."
Uncle Qin Bai was still thinking about a better magnifying glass: "I think if this magnifying glass could be made thicker, it could magnify smaller words, and perhaps it would be more effective in starting fires."
Qin Wan nodded thoughtfully: "I'll have someone try it."
Qin Sheng played with the magnifying glass, picked up a book at random, glanced at it with the magnifying glass, and said, "The scholars and historians in the Hanlin Academy will definitely like this thing."
The scholars and historians in the Hanlin Academy loved reading the most. They read day and night, which made their eyesight deteriorate. When they got older, they were almost blind.
Qin Sheng really liked this magnifying glass: "Wan'er, are you selling it? Don't price it too high, as those scholars and historians don't have the money."
Qin Wan thought for a moment and said, "This thing can't be priced too low. How about one or two ounces of silver?"
Qin Sheng originally wanted Qin Wan to set the price at a few dozen coins, but then he thought about how difficult it is to make colored glass, let alone such crystal clear colored glass, and how inappropriate it would be to set the price too low after polishing it into this state.
What's more, those scholars and historians should be able to afford one or two taels of silver, even if it hurts, so let's not talk about it.
Qin Zhan, however, had other ideas: "Don't sell this magnifying glass yet. We'll talk about it later."
Qin Wan wanted to ask, but was stopped by Qin Zhan: "You'll know after tomorrow."
Qin Wan didn't ask any more questions. She guessed that her grandfather wanted to present the magnifying glass to the emperor. She didn't care. After all, the credit would belong to her family. She understood the principle that family members share the same fate.
Whether the credit goes to my grandfather or my father, the ones who benefit will be my family members.
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, married daughters-in-law returned to their parents' homes. Except for Qin Xie's parents' home, which was not in the capital and could not go back, the rest of the Qin family all took their wives back to their parents' homes.
Qin Zhan entered the palace with two magnifying glasses.
It was New Year's Day, and the court had sealed the emperor's affairs. The emperor, who could finally rest after a year, was sleeping soundly at this moment.
For a man of his age to be able to toss and turn until the latter part of the night before going to bed, he was considered very vigorous and energetic. He had expended a lot of energy, so naturally he slept very deeply. Therefore, when Eunuch Zhang woke him up, he was very unhappy and got up cursing, "He better have something important to do!"
The emperor couldn't sleep in as he pleased during the New Year. Of course, he got up in a rage. He walked into the imperial study with dark circles under his eyes. When he saw Qin Zhan, his face became long and he said, "You'd better have something important to do, otherwise I won't forgive you!"
Qin Zhan greeted him with a carefree attitude and said, "I have also called two university scholars and a historian. We will talk after they arrive."
The emperor was unhappy, very unhappy, but he couldn't do anything to Qin Zhan, so he could only put on a sullen face and have breakfast served.
Eunuch Zhang ordered the meal to be served, and then asked Qin Zhan, "Have you had breakfast, Lord Qin?"
"Not yet," Qin Zhan shamelessly asked the emperor for food: "Your Majesty, can I eat with you?"
"Eat, eat, eat!" The emperor waved his hand unhappily.
As expected, Qin Zhan was given a portion of breakfast. The emperor had not slept enough, so he looked at Qin Zhan after every bite. How could this old man eat so happily!
I couldn't help but wonder if I would be in such good health, able to eat and sleep well when I was his age. Thinking of this, my appetite improved a little.
They had only eaten half of their breakfast when the two scholars and the historian arrived.
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