Chapter 67 Tourmaline Bracelet
Su Shengsheng took a long time to find her voice, "Thank you for today, General."
Although she didn't understand why he asked whether her family knew about her trip to the Red Mansion, she couldn't help feeling uneasy, fearing that she would be exposed, so she chose to remain silent.
The cold wind was so sharp that it felt like a knife cutting her face. Su Shengsheng couldn't help but stagger back two steps, almost losing her balance.
But Xie Xuan asked quietly, "Does Old Master Su approve of your business venture?"
When Su Shengsheng heard this, alarm bells immediately rang in her heart, fearing that he would hold on to what happened today and report it to her grandfather so that she could learn a lesson.
She hurriedly raised her hand and swore, her tone firm: "This is just this once, and I will never do it again."
God knows, if my grandfather knew what happened today, I would be sent back to my grandmother's house overnight with no room for maneuver.
Just as she raised her hand to swear, a cool feeling suddenly came from her wrist. As Xie Xuan leaned over, a pungent fragrance of agarwood swept over.
A bracelet was gently wrapped around her fair wrist, as warm as jade and like a flowing rainbow, swaying gently in the night breeze, sparkling with charming light.
"Some people say it looks like a rainbow left in the world..." Xie Xuan withdrew his gaze from the bracelet and fell on Su Shengsheng's stunned face.
Red like flames, green like emerald, blue like the deep sea, interwoven together, like nature's most magnificent palette.
It really does look like a rainbow.
But why did he give her this?
Su Shengsheng turned her gaze away from the bracelet, only to see that Xie Xuan had turned his horse's head, his figure gradually blending into the night.
"General..." Su Shengsheng was completely confused by the situation.
"...It suits you very well."
In the long wind, only Xie Xuan's faint words were left, and then he rode away.
Su Shengsheng looked at the figure walking in the wind and snow, her eyes completely confused.
Could it be that he gave this to her and asked her to pawn it because he heard her say that she had no money and had no silver on hand?
But soon, Su Shengsheng shook his head and denied this idea.
There are only seven pieces of glass on this bracelet, which can be worth at most seven taels of silver.
Any item on Xie Xuan's body is worth far more than this.
How could he be so stingy as to only give seven taels of silver?
Su Shengsheng looked at the icy bracelet on her wrist again.
Could it be that General Mu asked General Xie for this?
"Or is it that they really have so much in the general's mansion that they like to give it away?" She shook the necklace, but felt that the weight seemed a little off.
She took a closer look in the dim lantern light, her eyes gradually widening. "This... why does this look like tourmaline?"
Su Shengsheng was confused, and became even more confused when she stepped into the courtyard in a daze.
How did he know this was her house?
She was pressed under the robe all the way and didn't have time to point the way.
Then, Su Shengsheng suddenly realized, "It must have been Qing Ning and Mu Ze who told him."
With Mu Ze around, Qing Ning must have been sent to Shixianglou by An Ran.
The cold wind was howling outside, and Su Shengsheng was already chilled to the bone by the cold wind. Not wanting to think about it anymore, she quickly went into the house to avoid the cold.
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"Have you finished calculating everything?" Su Shengsheng asked during the math class.
Unexpectedly, the students' answers were surprisingly consistent: "There is no arable land at the natural barrier."
Good boy, this time we finally know how to unite.
However, she really wanted to know who the source of the answer was.
After asking around, Cheng Ruicheng stood up and said, "My father asked General Xie, and General Xie said this."
General Xie?
Su Shengsheng was stunned for a moment before realizing that he was probably talking about Xie Xuan.
But seeing Cheng Ruicheng's look as if he wanted to make things difficult for us, but he didn't expect that he would fail, Su Shengsheng just sighed.
Having said that, what General Xie said is not wrong.
But she was giving a math problem, why did they treat it as a brain teaser?
Su Shengsheng coughed lightly, but didn't refute. Instead, she asked, "If the Tianqian Pass can really grow crops, how many years will it take?"
"We can't grow crops at the Natural Moat Pass? There's not even any inferior farmland?" Several little fat boys shouted in dissatisfaction.
Su Shengsheng gently patted his forehead, looked around at these motivated students, and asked helplessly, "If you were an official sent here by the imperial court, facing the problem of lack of arable land in the local area, how would you address it?"
After she asked this question, the class fell silent.
Just as Su Shengsheng was about to answer the question herself, Ji Yanli stepped forward and said, "After returning home, I carefully studied the local county annals and discovered that a volcanic eruption had caused geological anomalies in this area, making it impossible for crops to grow."
Su Shengsheng nodded slightly and waited for his next words.
Ji Yanli paused for a moment before continuing, "Nanyuan Prefecture also encountered a similar predicament. According to records, the fields there were uncultivable for two hundred years after the volcanic eruption."
Although Su Shengsheng was not familiar with Nanyuan Prefecture, she nodded to show her understanding.
Ji Yanli continued, "In addition, the climate here has become abnormal after the volcanic eruption, so crop rotation is impossible."
At this point, his words were very clear: both the climate and the soil would require a long time to recover, which was beyond human power.
Even though he already knew the answer, he still took the initiative to collect information. This attitude is already commendable.
Su Shengsheng gestured for him to sit down, then turned to the other students, "I think everyone has garlic sprouts at home, right?"
The students looked puzzled but answered honestly. But then they raised more questions. "Garlic sprouts can survive in a house with a heater, but we can't install heaters or build houses for all the crops in the field, right?"
Su Shengsheng smiled and asked, "What if I had something that could not only allow crops to get sunlight, but also keep them warm and improve the soil environment?"
A young man from a wealthy family quickly responded, "Even if you have such a method, with so many fields, it's impossible to cover all the land in the Tianqian Pass with a blanket, right?"
"Yes, yes!" The other students also echoed.
Su Shengsheng smiled and said, "What if I really want to cover the earth with a quilt, and every household must cover it with it?"
As soon as she finished speaking, some students couldn't help laughing, "Sir, you are just bragging."
Su Shengsheng shook his head and smiled, then said solemnly, "Then this question will be my final project. All students will be responsible for supervision."
Upon hearing this, the students began to make requests, asking what would happen if Su Shengsheng couldn't do it.
Su Shengsheng smiled and let these little southern kids act up, and she agreed to everything they did.
With natural gas, making plastic greenhouses is a piece of cake.
Afterwards, Su Shengsheng finished explaining the leverage solution and ended the course.
However, many of the arguments were not supported, and the students were drowsy after listening to them. Su Shengsheng was not in a hurry. He just went through the lecture in a simple and easy-to-understand way and then ended the class.
Unexpectedly, when she went to Shixianglou, she unexpectedly learned that the Red Mansion had been closed.
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