104. Persian carpet?
Unfortunately, the mistake had already been made. She was trapped in her own web and lost the opportunity to join the senior team. She was also unable to observe and learn, and could only sweep the toilet here.
It's really hard to accept.
While I was sobbing, a few tissues were handed to me.
"Forget it this time. The Chairman has shown mercy and agreed to let you and Qin Guan return to the team."
After Su Liu finished speaking, Julia looked up in disbelief.
"What did you say?"
Su Liu stood up and patted her skirt.
"I say, the chairman is a good man and is willing to give you one chance. Since you cleaned the toilet fairly well, the previous incident will be written off. Change into your uniform and come back. You're going to be busy as hell."
She left after saying that, leaving Julia stunned for a long time.
After a long time, Julia looked at the direction where she was going away and murmured, "Thank you, thank you..."
In the next few days, Su Liu didn't even have time to return to the castle. He traveled back and forth between the laboratory, database, ruins garden and other places 24 hours a day.
Julia and Qin Guan, who returned to the team, also worked very hard. Even though they were very busy every day, they put all their energy into dealing with the tasks and completed them perfectly.
Thanks to everyone's joint efforts, the whole-day symposium finally came to a successful conclusion a week later.
As soon as the dusty Su Liu returned to the castle, he met Ansel who was under house arrest.
"Damn it, woman, you haven't showered in days, your hair is all greasy in clumps," Ansel said, covering his nose in disgust. "It stinks, it stinks so bad! You've even soiled the antique Persian carpet I bought at auction for a fortune!"
Su Liu looked down and saw that the living room had indeed been replaced with a retro and gorgeous carpet.
only?
Persian carpet?
She sneered and stomped her feet hard, making Ansel's heart beat fast with pain.
Amidst Ansel's impotent rants, she scoffed, "Persian carpets are hand-woven from wool, silk, or cotton, using mineral pigments or plant sap as natural dyes. Their colors are bright and vibrant, lasting forever."
She poked the carpet repeatedly with her toes and said, "This carpet of yours is indeed ornate and intricate, but it's definitely not woven from silk, and the dye is definitely not naturally derived. It's 100% fake."
Ansel: “…”
He should have scolded Su Liu harshly for pretending to know everything.
But why are you so lacking in confidence?
Su Liu walked straight past him and went back to his room to take a shower.
In the bathtub, Su Liu was soaking comfortably, and thought of the carpet again.
In fact, it’s not that Ansel is simply easily deceived.
Take natural dyes for example, they are basically extinct in the world today.
Plants are inherently dangerous. Apart from basic edible and medicinal uses, ornamental flowers are only found in large public places or in the homes of wealthy people.
Mulberry, comfrey, safflower, turmeric, etc., which were once frequently used as dyes, have either become extinct or only their essences were extracted and then destroyed.
The interstellar people have never seen plant dyes, so how can they tell them apart?
Silk is generally extracted from mulberry silk cocoons and made through the silk reeling process. Even in the Earth Age, it is a very expensive and rare natural fiber.
Nowadays, even silkworms are extinct or mutated in the interstellar space. How can we get mulberry silk to make real silk?
Those on the market are nothing more than imitation silk counterfeits.
Su Liu almost laughed out loud when he thought of Ansel auctioning fake goods at a sky-high price.
But at dinner time, she couldn't laugh anymore.
Noticing that the living room carpet had been replaced again, Huo Jie casually asked, "Where's your priceless Persian carpet?"
"They threw it on the black market," Ansel said nonchalantly. "They gave it a name, saying it was blessed by the ancient Greek god of love, and made up a gorgeous, romantic love story. They then sold it for twenty times the price. A bunch of idiots really rushed to buy it."
Su Liu's silver fork fell onto the plate with a clang.
"Twenty times?"
Ansel pondered, "At this price, even if a legendary god came to bless me, I wouldn't be able to afford it. And those idiot nobles grabbed it without blinking an eye. What does this prove? It proves that if you're truly rich, you don't care about the price."
Huo Jie saw Su Liu's face had turned pale and asked with great interest, "How much did you sell?"
Ansel answered every question his second brother asked, holding up five fingers: "Five hundred billion."
Su Liu: “…”
Jealousy can completely change a person, and she finally understood Julia's feelings.
After the meal, Ansel came to Su Liu to express his gratitude.
"If it weren't for you, I would have put a fake carpet in my living room as a treasure, and people who really knew the value of it would secretly sneer at me. Fortunately, you saw it, so I could sell it for twenty times the price."
Su Liu knew that he was actually trying to provoke her, but she couldn't help but say, "Well, since I contributed to this, why don't you give me some of the auction proceeds?"
Even if it was divided into one twentieth, she would not have to worry about anything in her life.
However, Ansel said with a smile: "Shall I give it to you? Maybe in the next life."
Su Liu: “…” Punching and kicking the air!
Lying in bed at night, Su Liu was still angry and couldn't sleep.
Isn't it just a Persian carpet?
Since Ansel couldn't buy the real thing, she made one herself and blinded Ansel's eyes!
Immediately, she called Yan Ziyan.
Yan Ziyan was still asleep, drooling like a mentally retarded person.
"Ah? The baby sheep and its mother are traveling to heaven together?"
"...I said, help me collect some wool and wash it for later use."
"Oh, the little frog and the prince will go to Happy Planet to live forever together?"
“…”
Su Liu hung up the laptop and went to sleep.
During the day, as soon as she arrived at the Ruins Garden, Yan Ziyan called her.
When she told Yan Ziyan what had happened, she became very interested. "A Persian carpet? My family has one that was passed down from our ancestors. It's said to be made of pure silk. It's really exquisite and gorgeous. My grandfather kept it in a box like a treasure, and no one could touch it."
Since it is inherited from my ancestors, it is 100% authentic.
Su Liu said, "Next time I go exploring with the seniors, I'll try to find any mutated silkworms. I'll purify them, raise them, and spin silk. Then I'll get real silk. As for pure wool, we have it everywhere in our own country, and it doesn't cost a penny."
"What about natural dyes?" Yan Ziyan said, "The process for extracting plant dyes has been lost in the interstellar world. Mineral dyes are not available on the market, so you can't get them without some connections."
Could the dyeing process be lost?
Su Liu said, "The dye is fine, I'll find a way. You should collect more wool, the more the better. After all, it may not work in one go."
Yan Ziyan agreed and reported the situation of the farm to her before going to collect wool.
After ending the call, Su Liu realized that he had been a little reckless.
She is already very busy, and she still has to find energy to weave carpets.
Forget it, instead of trying to save face, the most important thing is to make Ansel lose face.
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