Chapter 856: You Don’t Need to Inherit My Family’s Golden Finger (22)
"Don't try to force the issue." Qu Shichu looked at Qi Yuanjiu meaningfully. "Bringing weapons that don't belong to your era back home may bring you unexpected victories at first, but once you lose control, it will cause irreversible consequences. For example, the killing power will be too strong, and too many people will die in the war. The subsequent population cannot make up for it. Over time, humanity may really perish."
"You have to know that in my world, when hot weapons appeared, the total population was much larger than that of your world, and the survival rate of newborns after birth was also much higher than that of your world. So even if a lot of population was lost in the war, it could recover quickly. But your world is different. It is difficult for the people to feed themselves, and the infant mortality rate is frighteningly high. After the population loss, it will not take a few years or even more than ten years to recover. The negative impact may last for hundreds of years." Qu Shichu continued to explain.
Qi Yuanjiu seemed to be thinking about something. "But what if I just bring back a simple wooden cannon? I don't need weapons that are too advanced from your time. I just need the first-generation wooden cannon, which seems to be called a fire gun..."
Qu Shichu glanced at him and said, "Maybe it's possible. After all, with the level of technological development in your world, even if you want to mass-produce and improve the wooden cannon, it's impossible. But do you really want to bring this weapon back? You will be regarded as a heinous criminal."
After hearing her words, Qi Yuanjiu fell silent. Even he could not bear such a responsibility.
Qu Shichu didn't ask him any more questions. He handed him some medicine formulas that he had found earlier and said, "These are for you."
Qi Yuanjiu took the thick stack of papers and his hands began to tremble with excitement. He knew that these were precious treasures that could save lives and were of great value.
"Thank you..." Qi Yuanjiu said to Qu Shichu with great gratitude.
Qu Shichu just waved his hand.
Qi Yuanjiu left the next night and never mentioned the matter of hot weapons before he left. Qu Shichu certainly wouldn't mention it either. In China, where she now lives, the wooden bow and arrow is a banned item that ordinary people cannot legally own. Even if she had it in her companion space, she would not give it to him.
"Qiansu, why are you so absent-minded? Are you still thinking about Qu Shichu's house?" After Zhou Liwen came back from lunch, she saw Li Qiansu sitting in front of the desk in a daze, so she walked over and asked.
Li Qiansu finally came back to her senses, shook her head and said, "No, although I was really dizzy before and didn't know why I had to buy someone else's house, but after leaving there, my strong desire to own it became weaker and weaker. The longer time passed, the weaker the feeling became. Now I hardly think about it. Sometimes I even wonder why I was so obsessed with taking someone else's house for myself, like I was crazy. Fortunately, you pulled me away in time, otherwise I don't know what unforeseen consequences would have happened."
Li Qiansu was still frightened. She had pestered Qu Shichu and insisted on taking his house and even offered a high price for it. If Zhou Liwen hadn't pulled her away, she couldn't imagine the consequences of her actions. Although the house was indeed beautifully designed, it was just a country house after all. It had no room for appreciation and no chance to be rented out. If she had really bought it at a high price, she would definitely lose everything. When she calmed down, she would regret it terribly, not to mention that she also had a house in a big city that required a 30-year mortgage.
Zhou Liwen looked at Li Qiansu's expression carefully and found that she was sincere and not just being polite, so she breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "It's good that you realize that something is wrong. I was afraid that you would blame me for meddling in your affairs and stopping you after you came back, but I didn't expect you to figure it out yourself."
Li Qiansu held her hand and said gratefully: "You are doing this for my own good. How could I be so ungrateful as to blame you? I should thank you."
"Thank you for what? Aren't we good friends?" Zhou Liwen said with a smile. She frowned when she remembered that Li Qiansu was almost crazy at that time. "I thought something was wrong with you at the beginning. With your rationality, you couldn't have bought someone else's house, but you did this irrational thing. It made me think about it for a long time and I couldn't figure it out..."
Li Qiansu paused, then laughed dryly and said, "I can't figure it out myself. Hey, maybe the Feng Shui there is a hindrance to me. I won't dare to go there anymore."
"If you don't want to go, then don't go. There's nothing fun there." Zhou Liwen didn't care. She rarely went back to her hometown.
Li Qiansu did not tell Zhou Liwen that after she came back from there, she went directly to the most famous temple in the local area to worship Buddha, donated a lot of incense money, and bought a lot of amulets to wear on her body.
She even found a way to meet the abbot of the temple, told him what was wrong with her in Tong Village, and asked him if she was controlled by something unknown.
The host said some mysterious words to her, which confused her and made her even more confused. In the end, no problems were solved and her wallet became much thinner.
Li Qiansu went to other temples and Taoist temples, and even to a Western church, but still couldn't find anyone who could answer his questions.
Fortunately, the longer she stayed back, the weaker her obsession with the strange house became. In the end, only a faint shadow remained in her heart, which no longer affected her at all. So she slowly let go of her worries. But for some reason, there was always a feeling of loss lingering in her heart, as if she had lost something that belonged to her alone.
But is there anything that belongs to her alone? Li Qiansu thought about it again and again, but she couldn't get the answer. In the end, she just let it go. After all, she didn't lose anything in real life.
Qu Shichu had no idea that Li Qiansu still had so many entanglements after she left. After she sent Qi Yuanjiu away, she had some free time and returned to her companion space.
The branch of the Piya tree that Qingzhi gave her had been grafted for several days. During these days, the leaves of the branch did not turn yellow and fall off. Instead, they became greener and more vigorous. Qu Shichu knew that this branch could indeed survive by grafting.
She touched the branch and lowered her head to carefully feel the vitality of the branch. She could clearly feel that it had begun to take root, so she stood up with satisfaction and began to prepare fertilizer suitable for its growth.
After pouring the prepared fertilizer around the branches, Qu Shichu can slowly wait for it to grow. As for whether a Piya tree man will grow in the end, she doesn't know. But even if it can grow, it will take thousands of years.
(End of this chapter)
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