Retrograde for thousands of years

Chapter 177 Helen
A month later.

Zhou Huan was leaning on a recliner and reading a book while waiting for his bookstore to open.His attitude gave the waiter not far away an ominous premonition. Which store owner would be so indifferent to the opening of a new store?

There was a loud bang in the distance, rattling the window paper, and the shopkeeper on the side cursed angrily, but this did not affect Zhou Huan.

This place was originally a cloth store, but due to poor business and poor management by the owner, it was sold to Zhou Huan a month ago.After Zhou Huan got rid of all the cloth, he opened a bookstore here.

And near the bookstore is the sub-helm of the well-known Thunderbolt Hall Jingshi.

However, this branch is not in the capital, but in a town thirty miles away from the capital.

The Lei family of Perak Hall, but this Lei family is not the Lei family of Middle-earth.

The empire has been established for 300 years and has expanded a lot. In particular, Chen Yunying's westward expansion further accelerated the exchanges between the East and the West. Countless people of various skin colors and hair colors came to the empire.

When there are more people, organizations will naturally form. In Guangdong, a large number of foreigners also formed an organization, Perak Hall. They also gave themselves the Chinese surname Lei.

Those barbarians do not understand the principle of neutrality and peace, and the use of softness to overcome hardness. They believe that martial arts need to be both hard and fierce. At the same time, they like to yell when making moves and overwhelm the opponent with their momentum. They think that the thunder and thunderbolts in the sky are the most powerful things, so they start It's called Perak Hall.

The Thunderbolt Hall has been established for more than 100 years and has always been a second- or third-rate organization in the world. Although there are amazing masters among the barbarians, their accumulation is not as good as that of the six major sects.

However, in the past 20 years or so, someone among them has developed a powerful weapon called the Thunderbolt. It is very powerful when thrown. With the addition of poisonous needles and other things, it can kill masters.

The crackling sound next door now was the effect of thunderbolts. Zhou Huan sighed slightly when he heard the sound.When Zhou Huan serialized the science and technology chapter of the Three-Point Scripture in the Beijing Times, although Zhou Huan did not release the detailed formula of gunpowder, he did mention the most basic thing, which is the gunpowder refined by the ancients' alchemy. If you study it carefully, you will have great achievements. But I didn't expect that the gunpowder that could actually be used was discovered by a group of foreigners.

But think about it, the smartest and most capable people in the world are studying Qi and controlling the strongest power. Even if these foreigners have obtained the secret book, they will not be able to learn the Chinese culture in it for a while. Obviously, there are always some problems in understanding the so-called unity of man and nature and the five elements and eight trigrams by local people who are not natives.

Therefore, these barbarians embarked on different paths. Some of them used magic modification, adding local martial arts to their religion, legends and other things to form their own system of inviting gods. Others used external objects to create a system of their own. Just like armor and weapons, it is unknown who discovered the secret recipe for purifying gunpowder and promoted it.

Zhou Huan opened a bookstore here for two reasons. First, after being away from the empire for so many years, he needed to learn some knowledge, and reading books was the best choice. However, it was too troublesome to go into the empire library to borrow and return books, and it was not possible to He can't read a lot of books at once while eating, and he has money now. In this case, why not open a bookstore and buy many books that he likes and read them all?
Second, he wanted to know what Perak Hall made of firearms. Was it gunpowder or explosives? Would there be any better applications?
When hundreds of rivers flow into the sea, tolerance is great. The emergence of the Perak Gate is not a bad thing in Zhou Huan's opinion.

By the way, the weights and measures of this era have changed. 70 years ago, Chen Yunying restructured the system and replaced hours with hours. Meters, centimeters, etc. became units of length. One pound was [-] grams, and one kilogram was the quantitative unit.

"Boss, if you open your business like this, you won't have the excitement of the surrounding neighbors, and you won't place an advertisement in the Beijing Times. Your business..."

"It's okay. I don't open the bookstore to make money. Of course it won't prevent you from making money. Every month you get one month's salary in advance, and you can go home and take care of your children after being open for half a day. Isn't this better?" The store clerk had two questions. They are both 27 widows with children from the same street - Zhou Huan feels that they need a job more than hiring those strong men. These two women have good hearts and are also very hard-working. And it is also very convenient when receiving female guests.

The two female clerks stopped talking. When the boss hired them, he made it very clear that the wages would be paid in advance and generously, but they must not ask the boss too much about what he does, what he wants, or make random ideas.

Not long after the opening, a carriage passed by the bookstore. A girl opened the curtain on the carriage and looked at the bookstore's sign.

After a long time, the girl covered in black veil got out of the car. Her steps were very careful, as if the outside world was full of wild beasts, and she walked very cautiously, like a wounded kitten.

"Don't call her, let her find a book to read by herself."

Zhou Huan glanced at the girl. He had seen this kind of girl before. She had social phobia or physical contact phobia. To put it simply, she was a very timid girl. Look at her hands, which had burn marks on them. Why.

"You can read as many books as you like in the store. It's free. There are chairs next to it. You can read as much as you want."

There are no idle books in Zhou Huan's bookstore such as Legend of the Condor Heroes, Legend of the Condor Heroes, and Swordsman - because Zhou Huan felt that they were not to his taste. After the scholar who wrote about the rebirth of Zhao Xingjing died in the war, it was really It's a pity that Zhou Huan specifically wanted to keep him.

The bookstore mostly contains reference books, knowledge books and some travel notes. Zhou Huan feels that the people who can read these books in the bookstore are good people.

After the girl took two books from the bookstore, she came to the counter to check out. Zhou Huan looked at the titles of the books, then looked at the scattered money she took out, and shook her head.

"You can rent books for ten copper coins a day. Do you really understand this kind of book?"

This is a mechanical book written by a Tang Sect master. The contents are very deep and cannot be understood without a basic foundation. The price is also very expensive.

The girl nodded, then shook her head.

"If you can understand it, I have many books on this subject here. They cost a lot of money in total. How many do you have enough money to buy? You'd better rent it back and read it slowly. Not many people can understand this kind of book, especially women. Shao, you are amazing."

Zhou Huan waved his hand and asked the girl to leave. Perhaps because his attitude was too firm, the girl did not dare to argue. After bowing to Zhou Huan, she turned and left.

Speaking of which, people who can understand this kind of book are really amazing.

(End of this chapter)