Chapter 2: Good luck in opening [Part 2]

The next day, early morning.

Zhang Yuan tried the Shenhe boxing several times in the yard. Not only did his muscles and bones move, but his internal strength increased significantly a little. This feeling of gradually increasing made him very satisfied. He became more diligent in the Shenhe boxing and more serious in his practice.

Five times of the ginseng and fist were opened, and Zhang Yuan closed his fists and feet. At this time, Yuting also prepared breakfast for him. Today's breakfast was a bit special because the rice porridge and pancakes for breakfast were made of rice and flour produced in the copy.

Zhang Yuan sat at the table, took a sip of rice porridge and then a bite of pancakes. I don’t know whether Yuting’s skills are good or the raw materials. Anyway, today’s breakfast was particularly delicious. In the blink of an eye, he ate all the breakfast. Yuting brought him a towel. Zhang Yuan took the towel, wiped his hands and mouth, and then said: “Yuting, from now on, the rice, flour, oil and salt in the kitchen are taken from the cellar. The cellar is full of high-quality goods, so let’s eat it.”

"Yes, young master, I have recorded it." Yuting said.

After breakfast, Zhang Yuan took a carriage to Zhang's mansion, and there was a whole carriage of rice, flour, oil and salt on the carriage... etc., all of them were high-quality goods produced by copies, and these were for the family to enjoy. Although he had left home, his surname was Zhang. He grew up with Zhang's food and could not be ungrateful. He ate the best rice, flour, oil and salt on his own and of course he should be filial to his parents.

In addition, Zhang Yuan also prepared some jewelry for gifts to the aunt, mother, second daughter and Sanniang. These jewelry were found in Santa's red cloth bags, including crystal, fiberglass, and special plastic. They are not considered precious jewelry on earth, but in this world, these jewelry have become rare things and are used to please several mothers. It is really suitable.

The four mothers all had gifts, and of course they could not leave their father Zhang Liang and elder brother Zhang Ren. Zhang Yuan searched in Santa's red cloth bag for a while and selected two gifts. The gift to his father Zhang Liang was a mechanical watch and a box of cigars, and the gift to his elder brother Zhang Ren was a mechanical watch and a large black windbreaker.

Zhang Yuan came to the gate of Zhang Mansion and jumped out of the carriage. When the two guards at the gate saw that it was Zhang Yuan coming, they hurriedly saluted and opened the gate.

"Sihu, please find someone to move the things in the car in. I'll pay my respects to my father and mother." Zhang Yuan gave an order to drive the car, then entered the gate of the Zhang Mansion with a gift, and then went straight to the study room of the main house.

A moment later, Zhang Yuan had just walked near the study room, and there was a sound of conversation inside. It was obvious that Zhang Liang was not alone in the study room. Zhang Yuan walked to the door and was about to knock on the door...

"Who is outside?" Zhang Liang's inquiry sounded in the study.

"Father, it's me." Zhang Yuan responded.

"Come in." Zhang Liang said.

"Yes, father." Zhang Yuan responded, then pushed open the study door, and then found several people sitting in the study, including father Zhang Liang, second uncle Zhang Jiao, eldest brother Zhang Ren, and two others, a middle-aged scholar. At this time, the man was looking at Zhang Yuan with a smile on his face, and the other was a young man in a warrior uniform. The middle-aged scholar Zhang Yuan did not know him, but the young man Zhang Yuan had met General Lu Dakai, who had welcomed the Zhang family convoy into Tizhou.

After Zhang Yuan entered the door, Zhang Liang, Zhang Jiao, and the middle-aged scholar also looked at Zhang Yuan, and there was a little surprise in his eyes. The reason for this surprise was not because of Zhang Yuan's face and outfit, nor because of the large and small gift boxes in Zhang Yuan's arms, but the true energy revealed on Zhang Yuan's body!

Zhang Yuan only retracted his true qi into his dantian yesterday, and then kept replenishing the true qi in his body, which he did not understand, and this situation was as conspicuous as a red cotton jacket in the snow in the eyes of the innate martial artist!

"I have met my father, second uncle, elder brother, this uncle, and General Lu." Zhang Yuan greeted one by one.

"I've seen the young master." Lu Dakai responded first.

"Haha, is this Brother Zhang's fourth son?" the middle-aged scholar asked with a smile.

"Haha, Brother Lu, this is my eldest brother's fourth son. How about it? Are you still satisfied?" Zhang Jiao said.

The middle-aged scholar looked up and down at Zhang Yuan, smiled and nodded, and said, "It turns out that he is a dragon and phoenix among people. He is young and has good internal strength. He will definitely achieve something in the future. He is just right with my Huier."

"..." Zhang Yuan already knew who the middle-aged scholar was in front of him. It must be Lu Heng, the chief adviser under Zhang Jiao, the father of Lu Hui, the girl who was about to get engaged to Zhang Yuan, and Zhang Yuan's future father-in-law.

Zhang Liang was always expressionless and said, "Yuan'er, what are you looking for as a father?"

"Uh." Zhang Yuan was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses, shook the gift boxes of all sizes in his hand, and said, "Father, my shop opened at noon today. Come to my house to report a letter. In addition, the child got a batch of goods shipped from the west, several of which were very exquisite, so I came to offer them to my father."

Before Zhang Liang could speak, Zhang Jiao first asked: "Oh? The goods from the extreme west? What are you talking about? Is the extreme west? Is it the Western Region?"

"According to the merchant, this extreme west land is even more west than the Western Regions. You have to take a big ship and cross the sea to reach it." Zhang Yuanhu edited.

"Where is that businessman?" Zhang Jiao asked again.

"This... the second uncle and nephew promised that they would not tell their situation, so don't make things difficult for nephew. If you scare them away, my wealth will be broken." Zhang Yuan said with a tough bullet.

Zhang Jiao frowned, then smiled and said, "Haha, then forget it."

"Thank you, Uncle II. When my nephew makes money, I will pay more taxes." Zhang Yuan quickly said.

"Hahaha..." Zhang Yuan's words caused laughter from several people, and Zhang Yuan's own secret sweat. If Zhang Jiao insisted on pursuing the merchants coming from the west, he really didn't know how to deal with it, and that would be troublesome.

After everyone laughed, Lu Heng said, "Lu likes to collect all kinds of rare treasures by nature. He has also collected a lot of strange and ingenious things in the Western Regions, but he doesn't know where there is west of the Western Regions? What kind of ingenious things are there?"

Lu Heng’s meaning was very obvious, just to see the ingenious things from the extreme west contained in Zhang Yuan’s gift box.

"Yuan'er, take out the gift and let everyone appreciate it." Zhang Liang ordered.

"Yes, father." Zhang Yuan walked to the desk with gift boxes of all sizes, placed the gift boxes on the desk, took out the two largest boxes separately, and opened them separately. The box on the left was prepared for Zhang Liang, with a mechanical watch and a box of cigars inside; the box on the right was prepared for Zhang Ren, and this box was the largest among all boxes, containing a large black windbreaker and a mechanical watch.

Everyone looked at the things inside the two boxes, their faces were silent, obviously they didn't understand what was strange about the things inside.

Zhang Yuan picked up a mechanical watch and introduced: "This thing is called a watch, which is used to count the time. Like the function of the watch, it is to distinguish the time within a day. However, the watch is used to distinguish the time by the sun and shadow. The watch in my hand is to identify the time according to the accurate scale. The watch is divided into twelve scales, one scale is one hour, that is, half an hour. These three small forks are the hour hand, minute hand and second hand. The second hand can turn around for sixty times, that is, one minute, and one minute beating sixty times, which is one hour..."

Zhang Yuan talked a lot, and made everyone confused. Only Lu Heng listened to Zhang Yuan's explanation with interest, and took out the watch in another box without asking, carefully distinguishing the dial on the watch...

"How can the things in it move... Could it be a mechanism?" Lu Heng asked.

"Mechanism?" Zhang Yuan was stunned at first, and then suddenly realized that in the present world, mechanical engineering is called mechanism technology, so he said: "It is indeed mechanism technology. This little thing is full of extremely small gears and springs. Do you know gears?"

"Naturally, I know that it is shaped like a wheel, with teeth on the outside, and gears on it." Lu Heng said.

"It's good to say that you know. There are gears, springs, spring forces, gears jump little by little, and the second hand jumps little by little. Do you have the small button on the outside of the watch? That small button can rotate and can continuously force the spring. As long as the force is once a few days, the watch will never stop. It's basically that. As for the specifics, I don't know." Zhang Yuan said.

Lu Heng nodded, looked at the watch with interest, then looked up at Zhang Yuan and asked, "Which point is the starting point in this circle of twelve scales?"

"In this way, stand up, and the small button is facing the right, and the scale on the top is the starting point, which is 0 or 12 o'clock." Zhang Yuan said in demonstration.

Lu Heng looked at Zhang Yuan's demonstration, then learned to raise his watch, checked the hour and minute hands, calculated with his right hand, and then asked Zhang Yuan: "It's 8:40 minutes now, is it right?"

"..." Zhang Yuan was stunned at first. He really didn't expect that Lu Heng had such a strong ability to accept new things. He just gave an introduction and could accurately tell the time. Then he replied: "It's indeed eight forty."

"Haha, this thing is interesting! Unfortunately, this scale is somewhat different from the timing method of our Ming Dynasty. If the scale is changed to the twelve earthly branches, it will be much more convenient." Lu Heng smiled.

"..." Zhang Yuan was speechless for a moment and said to himself: "If the dial is changed to the twelve earthly branches, it will be inconvenient for me."

After introducing the mechanical watch, other items were nothing strange. The black windbreaker was regarded as folk clothing in the extreme west, the cigar was regarded as special tobacco in the extreme west, and the other four boxes of gifts were jewelry. The big men in the room were disdainful of women's jewelry.

After a while, Zhang Liang said, "We have something to discuss. Go to the backyard to pay tribute to your mother." After that, Zhang Yuan left two gift boxes for Zhang Liang and Zhang Ren, and was "exposed" from the study. Before leaving, the second uncle Zhang Jiao stole the Libra watch from his wrist, which made Zhang Yuan very depressed.

Zhang Yuan left the study room and took the gift to the backyard, and gave the gifts to the aunt, mother, second and third girls. He stayed in the backyard for a while and chatted with his mother for a while. When it was almost noon, he left the Zhang Mansion.

At noon, Zhang Yuan returned to his grocery store. Qiu Zhizhang had everything ready and just waited for Zhang Yuan to arrive...

"Hang the sign!" Zhang Yuan shouted lightly, and the two clerks stepped on the ladder to hang the sign. Then Qiu Zhizhang put a string of firecrackers in front of the store, and Zhang Yuan walked over with a lit incense, which ignited the firecrackers...

Crack... Crack...
Chapter completed!