Chapter 118

At least in this world, there was no white phosphorus.

These white phosphorus were refined by Shen Lang. Last time when he played the trick of ghost fire against the Song enterprise, he used white phosphorus.

At this time, it was already late autumn. The temperature at night was at most ten degrees, so the white phosphorus would not be in danger of burning.

Of course, the temperature in this adytum was very high, because Shen Lang was very hot.

Why was it very hot?

He deliberately built the table not high, and there were no chairs, so Mulan had to slightly bend her delicate body and carefully pour the white phosphorus into the cocoon.

In order to facilitate the movement, Shen Lang asked her to wear a tight leather suit.

Such a hot woman bent over there and worked seriously. Imagine that posture.

That back curve that could make one explode, those two super long legs.

Did you feel hot after seeing it?

Yes or no? Yes or no?

Yes, yes, yes, yes …

Shen Lang was panting and did not dare to breathe.

Because he was afraid that he would spit out flames and ignite the white phosphorus.

"Wife, you've done really well. You're much faster than me and much more accurate than me." Shen Lang praised.

He was simply spouting nonsense. Although his martial arts skills were terrible, he was still a surgeon. He could still do this kind of detailed work quickly and well.

Mulan said, "Thank you for your praise, Husband."

Shen Lang said, "In this case, capable people should do more work. The next more than a thousand cocoons are all yours."

Mulan pursed her lips and gritted her teeth.

Then, the rogue Shen Lang really let go.

He picked up a stool and sat behind Mulan's buttocks, one foot away from her. He drank tea happily and looked at his wife's back.

His eyes were so roguish, as if he wanted to melt his wife's pants.

He wanted his eyeballs to fly out and drill into …

"Wife, it's not that I'm slacking off, it's just that I have to keep drinking water to extinguish the fire in my heart!"

"There's nothing I can do about it. My wife, you're just too beautiful. You're even more beautiful when you show your face, and even more beautiful when you cover it up."

"Every time I see your back, I feel like I'm burning up."

"Baby, why do I love you so much? Every time I see your face, my heart feels like it's going to jump out of my chest. When I saw the back, my heart felt like it was going to explode. "

Shen Lang's words of love made Mulan blush and gnash her teeth in anger.

A man who could casually say his love was a scumbag. Every word of the beautiful man behind her couldn't be trusted, not even a punctuation mark.

But … Mulan still enjoyed listening to them.

But after a while, she felt that something was wrong.

From the corner of his eyes, he saw that the hooligan had already pressed his face against hers.

A murderous aura flashed through his eyes.

Shen Lang smiled awkwardly and quickly retracted his face.

Honey, look at you. I want to press my hot face against your cold butt, but you are not happy about it.

"Honey, I saw a mosquito on your butt just now. I was going to bite it to death," Shen Lang said.

Then, he slapped the man's face.

In that instant, he felt like he was about to be drunk.

It felt so wonderful.

Mulan couldn't take it anymore. She suddenly stood up straight and stared at Shen Lang coldly.

'Pretty boy, you're getting ahead of yourself.'

"Honey, be careful. This is white phosphorus, which is very, very dangerous. You will burn with the slightest impact. Don't move, don't move." Shen Lang said seriously, "The ignition point of this thing is only 40 degrees. This is not a joke."

Mulan still didn't move.

Shen Lang said, "Honey, let's get to work. Don't tell me you want to give me these more than a thousand cocoons? This is related to the life and death of 100,000 people, it's related to the hundred-year foundation of our Kim Clan. "

At her wit's end, Mu Lan angrily lay back down and continued to work.

Shen Lang stepped forward, put his arms around her waist, and gently kissed her face. He kissed her earlobe and said softly, "All right, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have provoked you. Don't be angry, baby."

Mulan's body stiffened, but she didn't break free.

Shen Lang kissed the corner of her mouth again.

"You're so annoying …" Mulan said angrily.

"Honey, you're so nice. I'll leave all the work here to you. I'm a little sleepy. I'm going back to rest," Shen Lang said.

Then, he turned around and left.

Mulan said through gritted teeth.

She really wanted to beat this man to death.

Shen Lang quickly went out.

Just then, Mulan's voice came from behind.

"Husband, you can rest, but if you want to fool around with Xiao Bing, you can try."

Shen Lang squatted down and his heart instantly turned cold.

He couldn't go on like this.

His wife's mind-reading skills were getting better and better.

Women were really fickle. You were the one who wanted to sleep with Xiao Bing before, and now you're the one who won't let me sleep with Xiao Bing.

What on earth do you want?

Then, the scumbag Shen Lang really asked Mulan to pour the white phosphorus into more than a thousand cocoons.

Mulan was busy all night.

Then, she personally put the more than a thousand cocoons filled with white phosphorus into hundreds of baskets of cocoons.

There were at most two or three in each basket.

The cocoons were divided into three grades: high, middle, and low.

Shen Lang collected all the three grades, and there were cocoons in every basket.

…

The next day!

There were already seven or eight thousand civilians outside Xuan Wu Mansion.

Shen Lang walked out with a haggard face and a haggard appearance.

Anyway, don't ask him how he got into this state. You can just turn on some movies and vent your anger.

Seeing Shen Lang come out.

The seven or eight thousand people outside knelt down neatly.

"Young master, please save us."

"If we don't sell the cocoons, the insects will really fly out."

"We're still waiting for money to buy food. We're running out of food!"

Shen Lang said with grief and indignation, "Everyone, I'll go and beg the Xu family. No matter what conditions they have, no matter how they humiliate me, I'll agree. As long as everyone has food to eat, as long as everyone can make money. "

Immediately, the seven or eight thousand people kowtowed neatly and looked at Shen Lang with gratitude.

"Thank you, young master. I'll set up a memorial tablet for you when I get home."

"Thank you for your great kindness, son-in-law!"

Jin Mucong saw this scene and couldn't help but say, "Father, isn't brother-in-law using these kind people?"

Xuanwu hesitated for a moment and said, "It's right to love the people, but it's also right to have people's hearts be like water, and it's also right to have people move like smoke. Those in power need to have a sense of propriety."

Jin Mucong was a little confused and didn't understand.

Xuanwu sighed in his heart, but he couldn't explain too much.

If Shen Lang was here, he would tell Jin Mucong the truth.

You have to love the people, but at the same time, you have to treat them like fools.

Jin Mucong said weakly, "Isn't brother-in-law a little heartless to these people?"

Xuanwu said, "Only the heartless can be affectionate, and the affectionate are the real heartless."

After saying that, Xuanwu sighed softly.

His silly son was destined not to understand the profound mysteries within.

…

Shen Lang entered the Xu family with an incomparably miserable appearance, as if his soul left his body.

His eyes were lifeless, and his limbs were trembling.

"I admit defeat." Shen Lang handed over three pieces of paper and said, "These are the three dye recipes, the first is the upgraded golden dye, the second is the purple dye, and the third is the rainbow dye."

Xu Qianqian stretched out her lily-white hand and took the three pieces of paper. She carefully read them and memorized them.

Shen Lang said, "Are you satisfied now? Can you buy the cocoons of our fief's people? "

Xu Qianqian was very happy.

"Shen Lang, if you knew this would happen, why did you do it in the first place?"

Shen Lang said in a sorrowful voice, "I've already admitted defeat, what more do you want? There are already eight thousand people outside the Count House, I've already given you the recipe, what else do you want? What else do you want? "

In the end, his voice became hoarse.

Xu Qianqian said, "This … is not enough."

Shen Lang said in a trembling voice, "Xu Qianqian, don't push your luck."

Xu Qianqian said, "Shen Lang, I learned this from you."

Shen Lang said miserably, "I don't have anything except for these fifty kilograms. You only have one life, nothing else."

Xu Qianqian said, "Apologize to us, for the harm you've done to us in the past, apologize to us!"

Shen Lang bowed and said, "Qianqian, I was wrong, I was really wrong! I beg you, for the sake of our past friendship, forgive me this time, please let me go! "

Huh?

These words sound a bit familiar!

But this was the first time Xu Qianqian heard it.

How refreshing!

What a wonderful feeling.

Shen Lang, who was so awesome before, was now apologizing to him in such a pitiful manner.

That feeling was really like the feeling of entering a new world after reading his book, Boundless Romance of the Golden X Plum Blossoms.

Sigh! Humans are so complicated, to think that there are so many new worlds.

Xu Qianqian said, "Shen Lang, didn't you feel good when you forced Zhu Wenhua to burn his Mandarin Duck Dreams? Didn't it feel good to burn thousands of books at once, to burn your own blood and sweat? "

Yes, it felt better to kill hundreds of millions of his blood and sweat at once.

Shen Lang said, trembling, "Xu Qianqian, what are you trying to do?"

Xu Qianqian said, "Didn't you write a book to slander me? How many copies of Boundless Romance are there now? Take them all out and pile them into a mountain, then burn them publicly. "

"No, no!" Shen Lang said hoarsely, "That's my blood and sweat, I can't burn it, I can't burn it!"

Xu Qianqian said, "Then you can go back, I won't collect your cocoons. Let those hundred thousand people starve to death, let them besiege your Count House. "

Shen Lang staggered back a step.

After a long while, he gritted his teeth and said in despair, "I can publicly burn my Boundless Romance of the Golden X Plum Blossoms, but you have to collect the cocoons at full price."

"Impossible." Xu Qianqian said.

Shen Lang said, "Then let's go all out. We, the Count House, will buy these cocoons with our own money, boil them, and spin them ourselves."

Then, Shen Lang left.

Xu Qianqian's voice came from behind, she sneered, "Do you have workers? Do you have workshops? Do you have money? "

"60% of the original price, sell it or not!"

Shen Lang gritted his teeth and said, "Sell, sell, sell!"

…

Then, Shen Lang piled up thousands of copies of Boundless Romance of the Golden X Plum Blossoms in the Xu family's courtyard and personally burned them.

In the fire, Xu Qianqian's face was almost twisted with excitement.

Today was the most enjoyable day of her life.

So it turned out that the feeling of slapping someone's face was so pleasurable. No wonder Shen Lang was so addicted to it.

Through the fire, she looked at Shen Lang's figure and couldn't help but think of another sentence.

He looks like a dog!

Even in broad daylight, Xu Guangyun was still drinking happily.

He got back all the face he lost before, all of it.

Shen Lang, you deserve this!

Hahaha!

At this time, Shen Lang suddenly roared, "People of Xuanwu City, you see, I did this for you, for you!"

Then, Shen Lang directly leaned back and fainted.

He didn't deliberately overdo it, but because after he fainted, Xu Guangyun and Xu Qianqian would instinctively relax a lot.

As long as he opened his eyes, the father and daughter would instinctively be alert.

…

The Xu family finally began to buy the cocoons of the farmers of Xuan Wu Mansion.

Although it was only 60% of the original price.

But these farmers could only sell with tears in their eyes.

However, at this critical moment, Xu Qianqian still made a move.

She suddenly made a decision.

Only 300,000 kilograms, and the rest could be discussed later.

Hearing this, everyone suddenly panicked!

Only 300,000 kilograms?

The whole Xuanwu City produced more than 3 million kilograms of cocoons.

300,000 kilograms was just a cup of water on a burning cart of firewood.

Xu Qianqian said, "Don't worry, we will also buy the rest of the cocoons, but we still have to discuss it with Son-in-law Shen Lang."

What she meant was very clear. She wanted Shen Lang to further compromise and agree to her more excessive demands, so that she could continue to buy the cocoons of Xuan Wu Mansion.

Take advantage of your weakness and kill you.

This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Of course, Xu Qianqian wanted to torture Shen Lang. She must make him wish he was dead!

Shen Lang, who was pretending to be unconscious, smiled inwardly.

Alas!

What a wonderful situation.

This situation not only made the Xu family bankrupt, but also made a windfall for the Count House.

If I can't check Xu Qianqian's pulse, I, Shen Lang, won't call myself the Great Imperial Uncle.

…

300,000 kilograms of cocoons were bought.

He got it at a 40% discount.

Xu Guangyun was really happy.

Not only did he trample on Shen Lang and slap the face of Xuan Wu Mansion, but he also made a fortune.

Next, Xu Guangyun planned to buy the remaining 3 million kilograms of cocoons of Xuan Wu Mansion at a 30% discount.

He was going to make a fortune! He was going to make a fortune!

This was so cool!

Everything he had lost in the past was all back. He could still make money!

Hahahaha!

"Check every basket of cocoons carefully. Shen Lang is a very insidious person. Be careful."

"Check 10 cocoons randomly in each basket. Don't let go of any clues. Be especially careful if the surface of the cocoons is coated with poison."

Then, hundreds of workers carefully checked the cocoons bought from the Count House.

There were thousands of cocoons in each basket, but only two or three had white phosphorus. The probability of being selected was really very small.

Okay.

Even if you were selected, could you find anything?

The cocoons were intact. There was nothing on the surface, not to mention the poison.

"Take out 100 cocoons randomly and open them for examination."

Following Xu Guangyun's order.

A hundred cocoons were cut open.

They were still normal inside. There was no poison, nothing but a worm.

That was the cocoon that was about to turn into a butterfly.

Not to mention that the cocoons with white phosphorus were not selected, even if they were selected, they still couldn't find anything.

Because Shen Lang and Mulan had poured white phosphorus into the cocoons.

Xu Guangyun and the others thought about poison and never knew about white phosphorus. No matter how smart they were, they couldn't find anything wrong with it at all.

They couldn't find anything at all. Shen Lang, the toy boy, did things very carefully.

"Master, there is nothing wrong with these cocoons," the craftsman said.

Xu Guangyun said, "Send them all to the big workshop outside the city. Scatter them in different storage rooms according to the level of the cocoons."

"Yes!"

Then thousands of cocoons were all transported to the big workshop of the Xu family outside the city and scattered to different storage rooms according to the level of the cocoons.

… …

The Xu family's big workshop covered more than 100 mu.

There were millions of kilograms of silkworm cocoons, as well as countless silks and silks.

A kilogram of fresh cocoons cost about 17 or 18 yuan on modern Earth. It was even more expensive in ancient times.

In short, the total value of all the raw silk, cocoons, and silks in the Xu family's big workshop was more than 100,000 gold coins.

Converted to Earth's currency, it was more than a few hundred million.

This was almost half of the Xu family's wealth, not to mention the big workshop that covered more than 100 mu.

The thousands of cocoons from the Xuan Wu Mansion were piled up in dozens of storage rooms according to the level of the cocoons.

More than a thousand silkworm cocoons with white phosphorous inside were also quietly lying within. At this moment, there was no need to mention how obedient they were.

The whole big workshop was in full swing.

The fire was burning.

The big pot of water was boiling.

Hundreds of workers were busy day and night.

These were the two busiest times of the year, once in spring and once in autumn.

They had to hurry.

The schedule was very tight.

They had to cook the cocoons in the shortest time possible, spin them into silk, and then dye them.

It wouldn't be long before merchants from all over the world would gather in Xuanwu City to buy silk.

From the south to the north, from the west to the east.

Even merchants from thousands of miles away from the Western Regions would come.

Time is money was vividly displayed here.

The whole workshop was shrouded in mist.

Although it was late autumn night, the whole workshop was still as hot as a steamer.

Almost all the artificial humans were bare-chested.

The temperature here was more than 50 degrees Celsius, and most places were more than 40 degrees Celsius.

The temperature was gradually transmitted to the storage room.

Gradually, it was transmitted to every cocoon.

Among them were the cocoons that Shen Lang and Mulan had poured white phosphorus into.

The whole workshop was still bustling with activity.

But one corner of the storage room seemed particularly quiet.

It was like the moment before a bomb exploded.

And then …

The temperature inside one of the cocoons exceeded 40 degrees Celsius.

The humid environment made the white phosphorus more likely to burn.

"Puff …"

Inside one of the cocoons, the white phosphorus had exceeded the ignition point.

Suddenly, a ball of green flame burst forth.

The most terrifying will-o '-the-wisp!

"Boom …"

The will-o '-the-wisp ignited!

The white phosphorus burned to a terrifying degree, far exceeding that of gasoline.

In an instant, the entire cocoon was set ablaze.

Then, the entire basket of cocoons was set ablaze.

Then, the entire storage room, tens of thousands of kilograms of cocoons, all burned!

The destruction had begun!

…