On the Seven Towers

Outer city of Suero.

The spring break after the Qingxin Festival has just passed, and the stalls in the outer city are already bustling.

Chen Hansheng and Karanda were wandering from stall to stall. After watching the New Year's Day party at school, the two of them set off with the caravan to Suero.

Chen Hansheng does not need to sell goods frequently now, but as the deputy leader of the business team, it is still necessary to keep abreast of market conditions at all times. So he would visit Suero and other major trading cities every once in a while.

If you are lucky, you can find some good things that the locals think are of low value, but the school has the means to process. A month ago, in this market, Chen Hansheng found a brown glue block, which was said to be a kind of gum produced in the southern forests. The locals couldn't think of any great use for this thing, so they made it elastic. Things like insoles, toy balls and small bowls. At that time, he felt that this thing looked like rubber. After he bought it and examined it, he found that it was indeed a polymer compound very close to rubber. So they immediately contacted the businessman to supply goods and established a new trade route.

After the New Year, some new faces often appear in the market. Chen Hansheng is like a hunter looking for prey, wandering around in the forest happily.

Although the weather has just warmed up, the atmosphere in the market is already in full swing.

Chen Hansheng looked around and chatted with the stall owners if nothing happened. Calanda had no such interest. She just hummed a little tune and followed Chen Hansheng.

The song Karanda hummed was "Moonlight over the Lotus Pond". Old Chen taught her this song and then sang it at the New Year's Day party. Every time she thought of the scene when they sang this song together on the stage that day, she couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth.

Originally, Lao Chen was assigned the task of singing by the party organizing committee, and he just wanted to deal with it. He picked a song at random. I taught her twice and then went to work. But Calanda took the appearance seriously. Even she herself didn't know why she had the determination and motivation to practice fighting spirit to practice such a song.

In order to practice singing well, she went to find Liu Wan as her teacher, calibrating the pronunciation word by word, and singing the correct pitch sentence by sentence.

This song is very different from their traditional style songs. She practiced secretly for two weeks before she fully mastered it. When she sang this song loudly during rehearsal, everyone was shocked.

She still remembers Chen Hansheng, how happy and proud she was when she heard his singing.

"Okay, stop singing. Let's take a break. I'll teach you some other songs when I have time. My ears are getting calluses when I keep repeating the single." Chen Hansheng put a piece of ore back into the stall and turned around. and Calanda joked.

Then he got kicked in the leg.

"Hehe, your team members will be shocked if they see you showing off your temper now."

"What do you mean?" Karanda clasped his hands on his chest and looked at Old Chen sideways.

"Of course it's just for fun. Only I can see you acting like this. They only deserve to see you acting like a woman with a straight face."

Karanda bit her lip, trying to imitate those girls and say "I hate it." But there were teeth marks on her lips, so she still couldn't say it. In the end, I had to kick Lao Chen again.

Chen Hansheng held Calanda's hand, and the two of them wandered around the market for a while as if they were shopping. Chen Hansheng suddenly let out a sigh, walked over to a stall, picked up a cup, and looked at it carefully.

"What's wrong? What's so good about a cup." Kalanda took a look and found that the cup was made of iron. It looked very similar to the enamel cups commonly seen in school, but the quality was much worse. And there isn’t that colorful, slippery layer on the outside.

Chen Hansheng didn't answer, but picked up the bowls, pots and basins on the stall and looked at them.

Seeing that Chen Hansheng was looking at it carefully, the stall owner quickly introduced him: "This guest, the ironware produced here is very good. You see, this style is particularly popular among discerning nobles. If you sell it to other The place will definitely sell well.”

Chen Hansheng put down a teapot in his hand. Pointing to his face, "Can you see where I come from?"

"I know. You must be from Montenegro. Suero, who doesn't know that gentlemen and ladies from Montenegro have black hair and black eyes." The stall owner said with a bit of flattery.

"Then don't you know that our merchants from Montenegro only buy raw materials?" Chen Hansheng asked.

"I've heard of this too, but these are good. I've never seen such iron pots and pans sold in Montenegro. You probably haven't seen this style over there, right?" the stall owner said. .

Chen Hansheng picked up another basin, pointed at the two small swords crossed on it and said, "What does this mean?"

"Ah, this is their... brand. For future use, just look for the ironware of the Double Sword brand."

"Hey, there's even a sign."

"How about it? Do you want to buy it?"

"Buy one first and try it out to see if it's durable. If it works well, I'll come to you tomorrow." Chen Hansheng spent ten copper shields on the cup.

"No problem, I have a fixed stall here, and I'm here every day. You're welcome to come back tomorrow," the stall owner said.

After the two of them walked away, Calanda asked, "What's going on?"

"Don't you think this cup looks similar to the cups in school?" Chen Hansheng.

"So what? This doesn't look difficult. It's normal if someone sees it and imitates it."

"That means this style leaked out of the school. The problem is, we have never sold products like this to the outside world. It doesn't matter if one or two leak out, but whether it's a cup or a pot, it adds up to ten Several products are so similar, there is something wrong behind them. This kind of appearance design cannot be made casually," said Chen Hansheng.

"Then should we ask the shop owner for details."

"Wait a minute. I'm going back to the caravan to confirm another matter."

Chen Hansheng returned to Suero's office and waited until night before finally seeing a young man from the industrial group return. His name is Cai Xuetao. He came here with the caravan to select ore, and he knows a lot about metal processing.

"Xiao Cai, come and take a look at this cup."

"Hey, Lao Chen, where did this cup come from? We have never made anything with such a file."

"Bought at the market. Will it be made by locals?"

Cai Xuetao looked at it for a while and said: "No, this surface treatment does not look like their method. It does look like the standard treatment method in our factory. It just seems that the conditions are a little worse and it is not done properly."

"Are you sure?"

"I'm sure. I've also seen local people's iron tools. That's not the same thing. Old Chen, what's going on?"

"Don't make any noise about this matter for now. I still want to investigate it carefully."