AWB Chapter 345 Xie Ying: You're so cunning
Chapter 345 Xie Ying: You're so cunning
Xie Ying has grown a lot now, speaks more fluently than before, and can even stand.
But walking is still a little difficult, and I can only walk for a while with the help of something.
She was not in a hurry. The weather was getting colder and the floor heating was not yet arranged, so she didn't want to walk at all.
When Situ Yuan came, she was sitting lazily in the hanging basket, holding a small hot water bottle in her hands.
Tu Jiaojiao was already used to the two of them discussing things together, so every time Situ Yuan came, she would send the others away and leave space for them.
Xie Ying looked at the child in Situ Yuan's hands, her eyes lit up: "What is this?"
In order to practice pronunciation and articulation, she now tries to speak as much as possible whenever she wants to say something.
I will only say it in my heart if I have too much to say.
Situ Yuan teased her with a smile: "Guess?"
Xie Ying glanced at him sideways and refused to guess at all.
She didn't want to waste her energy.
Seeing that she was unwilling to cooperate, Situ Yuan had no choice but to continue, "This time, we can make a lot of money."
Xie Ying glanced at him suspiciously, but still refused to guess.
Situ Yuan had no choice but to give in. He reached out to open the box, took out the things inside, and put them directly in Xie Ying's face.
Xie Ying looked at the chubby face in front of her in surprise, then her eyes widened and her whole face quickly turned red!
"Mirror!"
Situ Yuan actually made a mirror and deliberately put it in her face!
Also, is there something wrong with this mirror? How can her face be that round?
She looked at Situ Yuan suspiciously, suspecting that the boy was doing it on purpose: "Funny mirror?"
Situ Yuan said sternly, "It's just an ordinary mirror. It's your face that's chubby, it has nothing to do with the mirror."
Xie Ying glared at him unhappily and continued to look at the mirror in front of her.
She soon discovered the problem and frowned, saying, "Not high definition."
Situ Yuan smiled brightly: "It's indeed not enough, because this is a tin mirror made of tin, neither an aluminum mirror nor a silver mirror."
Xie Ying's eyes widened in surprise. She only knew what silver, tin, and aluminum mirrors were. Could tin and aluminum also be used to make mirrors?
Situ Yuan smiled and explained to her, "The mirrors we look at have a layer of bright silver metal on the back of the glass, and then a layer of opaque paint is applied to seal it.
Tin, aluminum, and silver are all silvery-white metals, so they can all be used to make mirrors. However, tin's reflective power isn't as good as aluminum and silver, so the resulting mirrors are less clear.
But it's not without its advantages. Compared to silver, tin is much cheaper. Nowadays, it's impossible to refine metallic aluminum, so we can only make tin and silver mirrors."
Xie Ying understood immediately after hearing what he said.
Her eyes grew brighter and brighter, and she looked at Situ Yuan with a look full of ridicule: "How cunning! You've made the tin mirror now, are you planning to launch it first, sell it at a high price, and then release the better quality silver mirror, selling it at a high price while lowering the price of the tin mirror?"
People in this world still use copper mirrors, but copper is also a precious metal, so the copper mirrors made from it are naturally not cheap.
Mirrors are different from coal. People will not die if they don't look in the mirror.
Therefore, poor families would not afford to buy bronze mirrors and would just use water to look at their faces.
Another problem with bronze mirrors is that their surfaces oxidize easily. Once oxidized, the mirror becomes blurry and requires a professional mirror grinder to polish it.
It costs money every time you hire someone to polish your mirror. Those families who are not well-off naturally cannot afford to hire someone to polish their bronze mirrors frequently. They will wait until the mirror can no longer reflect people before polishing it.
Therefore, in general, the clarity of bronze mirrors is not as good as that of glass mirrors.
Xie Ying had a bronze mirror at home, and she had used it herself. Because of the lack of clarity, the faces in the mirror looked like they were filtered through a soft light and blur, which was quite interesting to look at.
She was just used to the high-definition mirrors of later generations, so she didn't like this bronze mirror that couldn't clearly reflect facial details.
It's nice to use it as a filter, but if you want to see clearly, this mirror can't do it.
Xie Ying picked up the tin mirror that Situ Yuan brought and looked at it carefully. The more she looked, the more satisfied she felt.
Although it is not as clear as a silver mirror, its clarity is far superior to that of a bronze mirror.
The key is that after buying it, you don’t have to worry about oxidation and blurring, nor do you have to hire someone to polish it, which saves a lot of money.
Xie Ying looked at the frame again.
The mirror frame is made of wood, has a handle, and the back is carved with patterns, which is very exquisite.
It is very light in the hand, not as heavy as a bronze mirror.
She looked at the handle, and her eyes began to shine again: [You can put more effort into the frame, using wood, gold, silver, copper, tin, jade, ivory, and you can also inlay gemstones, agate, pearls, and jade, and design different patterns to make it a luxury product.
It is divided into high-end market and mid-end market. Before the New Year, we will first slaughter a wave of big dog owners. When they have almost slaughtered them all, we will launch the Silver Mirror and continue to slaughter them.
Then we launched some cheap tin mirrors, using bamboo and cheap wood as frames to tap into the low-end market.
Situ Yuan: “…”
How could he tell Xie Ying that he just made the tin mirror first and didn't mean to take advantage of her?
After hesitating for a moment, he decided not to say anything, fearing that Xie Ying would get angry and embarrassed.
So he said, "I have already had different frames made in advance."
Upon hearing this, Xie Ying immediately smiled deviously, and looked at Situ Yuan with a look that said, "You're so cunning!" "I knew it, you're definitely a born profiteer!"
Situ Yuan: “…”
But soon, she remembered the glass window and asked quickly, "Where is the window?"
Situ Yuan took out another box and opened it, revealing a piece of cut flat glass.
Because it was a sample, it was only the size of Situ Yuan's palm, and the edge cuts had been processed so it wouldn't cut people's hands.
Xie Ying took it in her hand and looked at it. The thickness of this piece of glass was about three millimeters, not very thick, but it was made very flat and there were no bubbles.
Just a slight green tint.
But if you don't look closely, it's not that obvious.
She asked Situ Yuan with some concern: "Can this thickness be used to make windows?"
The glass windows she had seen in the apocalypse were all thicker than this.
Situ Yuan nodded. "This thickness is fine. It can be made into a window. Glass is quite heavy. If it's too thick, the wooden window frame and the joints won't be able to bear the weight."
Xie Ying agreed as she thought. The materials used in later generations are much stronger than ordinary wood, and have greater load-bearing capacity and lifespan. Naturally, there is no need to worry about the glass being too heavy.
This was different in ancient times.
She then asked Situ Yuan, "How's the production volume? Can you replace all my family's products?"
Situ Yuan shook his head. "The current production of this quality flat glass is not high. I can only replace a few rooms for your family first. The rest will have to be sent to the palace."
Although Xie Ying was a little disappointed, she knew that this was the only way.
If the emperor and the empress dowager in the palace didn't have glass windows, but her house had all of them, what would others think?