Renzong promised Yun Yan to return and sent the green turtle as a national gift. Yun Yan told Zheng Ling that this is a great opportunity, and you must choose a healthy one with long hair and a beautiful body.
Zheng Ling said in confusion: "A beautiful body...?"
Yun Yan replied: "Well... big."
Zheng Ling nodded, "Okay!"
Now their business is still being released in batches, and they have not yet been sold in large quantities, but a lot of breeding has come out, and they are stocking up. Zheng Ling went back and ordered someone to take an inventory and choose a healthy big green turtle to send as a national gift.
At this time, people from Honglu Temple also came to connect with Yunyan Hui, and they were responsible for preparing the gifts they brought in the past.
"Do we choose the container for the turtle, or do you buy it yourself?" asked the person from Honglu Temple.
Because Zheng Ling is their old colleague, and Zheng Ling has a share of this business, so they also opened a hole. After all, this green-haired turtle is privately provided, maybe they will have their own ideas, and the packaging will be more delicate and distinctive.
After saying this, Yun Yan was reminded to return.
If it is contained in a simple water tank and transported to the Liao Kingdom, it will inevitably lose its color. But how beautiful can a water tank be? How can it not reflect the characteristics of the green-haired turtle.
And if the turtle is fished out, the green algae on its back will not look as good as when it floats in the water.
"I'll prepare, but please allow me to think about it." After Yun Yan returned, he racked his brains and thought about it for a few days, but he couldn't figure out how to pack it. He still wanted to be perfect.
The Liao Kingdom highly advocates Buddhism, and Yun Yanhui even thought about whether to engrave Buddhist scriptures on the water tank, but this seems to be a bit wrong.
Yun Yanhui simply went out.
Shuang Yi was alone in the family, and when he saw him go out, he asked, "Where is Brother Yan going?"
Yun Yan replied, "I'm going to Daxiangguo Temple to find inspiration!"
Yunyan went straight to Daxiangguo Temple, found it, and hugged his thigh, "Master, give me some inspiration!"
Understand: "Huh?"
Yun Yan replied: "Calculate how I should pack the green turtle!"
Understand: "… "
Clear and speechless: "Fortune-telling is not a panacea. You can't rely on calculations for everything, people calculate, can you calculate by the sky?"
Yun Yan stood up with a pouted mouth, "I'm a little stuck, I don't know what to do."
Lingran stroked his head and said, "Let's take a walk in the temple and pay homage to the Buddhas in each hall, maybe it will give you some inspiration."
Yun Yan thought about it too, so he calmly walked around the temple, offering incense to the temples, and greeting the senior brothers in the temple. As soon as he left, he went to his own house.
Yunyan sat back on the verandah, reaching out and brushing Beibei's hair, a breeze blew, and the leaves in the bamboo forest rustled.
A piece of green is reflected in front of us, and bamboo shoots are springing up from the ground, which is the season to eat bamboo shoots...
Yun Yanhui's thoughts quickly pulled back from the roasted bamboo shoots. Looking at the dense bamboo, he suddenly had an idea in his heart, "I know what to do!"
Yun Yan couldn't help but shouted out, but only Bei Bei could hear him and looked at him blankly.
Yun Yan jumped back to the yard, knocked on Bei Bei and gave her a kiss, "Haha, I know how to pack it."
This bamboo forest gave Yun Yan back inspiration. He found a Dashi businessman who helped find dogs and gave manicures before. This Dashi businessman was in the glass business, and Yun Yanhui wanted to fix the glass utensils from him.
Although there are also workshops that make glazed ware in the Song Dynasty, the glazed ware of Dashi is the most transparent.
Yun Yanhui just wanted to create a transparent glass tank. To reflect the green-haired turtle, of course, the glass tank is the best, but it will inevitably be troublesome when transporting.
However, fortunately, the Song Dynasty also had some fragile utensils in the state gifts, so he has always been very careful, and the shockproof has always been well done.
Yun Yanhui had also thought about it before, it would be better to use a glass tank, but the empty tank is not as good as the simple water tank in line with the aesthetics at this time.
But now, Yun Yanhui has an idea, that is, aquatic plants landscaping.
He was going to build a landscape in a glass tank. A colleague of Yun Yanhui used to like to play with aquatic plants to create landscapes. In the water tank, he used wooden roots, aquatic plants, sand, stones and other things to display natural scenery. Canyons, forests, mountains... all kinds of scenery can be presented.
For decoration and to clean up unsightly algae, various fish are raised. At first, Yunyan went back to his house and saw a large group of fish in the tank, as well as crabs, snails, etc. He thought he liked raising fish, but after understanding it, he realized that he was actually playing in a water plant tank.
If you build such a water plant tank and put the green turtle in it, it will complement each other.
Moreover, in the future, you can also design more and sell them with green turtles.
Yun Yanhui chatted with the food merchant for a long time, and learned that it would take a long time for him to order, but, as Yun Yanhui said, it is of high purity and there is no fancy cylinder-shaped glassware in shape. Their craftsmen have burned them out of practice on weekdays, and they never thought about selling them.
Yunyan returned to the rejoicing and bought the glass jar. Although it was not as pure as the modern one, it was still very good, so he agreed to order a batch.
The food businessman did not expect that the good relationship he forged in the past would still be found, and he was very happy.
The time is not enough. If you are serious about creating a landscape, you have to wait for the water plants to grow up. Fortunately, Yunyan recalls the scene that he created. It is very simple and does not take long. .
Yunyan fiddled with it for a few days, finished the scene, and put the green-haired turtle selected by Zheng Ling into it. It turned out to be very good.
Zheng Ling was shocked when he saw it, "Brother Yan, this is really... Really..."
There is no way to describe it as beautiful, this scene is actually very simple, but he was just shocked.
And I've never seen a decoration method like this before. It's a bit like putting the real estate model made by Brother Yan before into the water tank - this can also be used!
Ask Zheng Ling to say that this and the green-haired turtle they sell are a natural pair, they set off each other and raise each other's worth!
If such a packaging method is used, the price of selling green turtles will inevitably increase in the future.
"You think it's not bad, right? That's good, I'll show it to the officials." After all, this was Yun Yan's application to Renzong, and he went to show Renzong's eyes to prove that his products were not just for the embassy. , also plays its role.
Yun Yanhui moved the glass jar to the palace and showed it to Renzong.
He also specially asked Kaifeng Mansion F4 to help, and then he moved the glass jar smoothly into the palace.
Yun Yanhui put the glass jar on a table, the sunlight came in from outside the door, and strands of light were reflected in the jar.
Renzong came in from the back of the hall, saw the front of the glass jar at a glance, and his footsteps stopped involuntarily.
"..." Renzong stared at the water tank intently, and after a while he slowly said two words, "Miaozai."
The scenery in this water tank is very simple. The back wall of the tank is pasted with a dark green background cloth. You can see through the transparent tank walls on the front and both sides. The bottom of the tank is a layer of sand and stone, with some green on it. small aquatic plants.
In the background, dense bamboo poles stand in the gravel, like a little bamboo forest - the upper part that is exposed to the outside of the tank is also fixed by steel wires to prevent them from falling. Occasionally there are spots on the bamboo body, adding a sense of simplicity and vicissitudes.
In the foreground, is a Buddha statue covered in moss, sitting on sand and stone, with his back to the "bamboo forest", his hands clasped together, his eyes low, and his face showing a state of compassion.
A green-haired tortoise swam lightly in the water, bringing up layers of water waves, shuttled through the bamboo forest and Buddha statues, and the green hair on its back swayed in the water...
If you just look at the part in this vat, it will be like a world full of Zen, the green turtle swimming in the bamboo forest, its posture is soothing, the Buddha statue is neither sad nor happy, wonderful and shocking, which calms the viewer's heart. .
Yun Yanhui's colleague likes the aquarium with Buddhist elements very much, and has made a few. It can be complicated or very complicated, such as an ancient temple in a deep mountain. At present, this kind of bamboo is relatively simple, but it is very suitable for the current needs, so Yun Yanhui reproduced it.
Sure enough, everyone who has seen it so far has highly recognized it.
Renzong admired it for a long time before he said, "I'm a little reluctant to ask you to send this out."
Although this water plant tank is easy to copy, the second copy of the national gift sent out is obviously not so precious, and it does not conform to the style of Song people.
"Because the Liao Kingdom worships Buddha, I created such a scene. I plan to sell green turtles to match such aquariums in the future. I have already ordered a lot of glass water tanks. When that time comes, I will build a few more unique ones for officials. Let’s make decorations at home.” Yun Yanhui would naturally not miss the opportunity to advertise, he wanted to send back a few green-haired turtles to Renzong, but Renzong refused to accept them.
Renzong nodded this time, "Very good."
Yun Yan replied: "It's just that it may take a little longer. I want to create a big scene, and I need to make the plants in the tank grow."
And this is not the same as modern times, which have a lot of tools to help build the biosphere in the aquarium, so it will probably take longer. Yun Yanhui also does not have such high aesthetics. In addition to drawing on the successful experience of modern times, the design of the entire scene will still depend on Zheng Ling's art.
Renzong knew that good things had to be waited for, "It's okay, you can do it slowly." He was still thinking in his heart that he could also reward some courtiers who valued them to show his love. This kind of thing, elegant, novel, can show his mind.
When Yunyan goes back there, of course, he will also use the advertisements on Renzong's side... ah no, the demand is the most important, and he will start launching new products after he has done it.
Yunyan returned to this water plant tank, only a few people saw it, so it was not widely circulated later. The shock of hearing it and seeing it in person was still different, and it was even considered to be a real estate model, similar to what children play. Therefore, there were no major waves.
This tank was given a name by Renzong himself, called "Zhulin Listening to Zen".
The delegation from the Song Dynasty went to Liao, and they also specially learned how to feed green turtles, clean up the water weed tank, and took care of them when they arrived in Liao, and presented the gift list.
When Emperor Liao saw it, he didn't notice the bamboo forest listening to the Zen jar at first, and thought it was a utensil, but when he saw that there was a "green-haired turtle, a specialty of Bianliang" written inside, he thought it was very funny, how can a green-haired turtle become a Bian Is Liang a specialty? Do you think the Liao people don't keep turtles
The courtier introduced Emperor Liao, "I heard that there was a small official in Bianliang who got a green-haired turtle from the palace. After returning, he raised it with other turtles in the family. Unexpectedly, the other turtles also grew green hair. , the turtles put in later will also be assimilated and grow green hair. Presumably because of this, they call it a special product of Bianliang."
The green-haired turtle is not a special product of Bianliang, but the green-haired turtle grown in this strange way is of course a special product of Bianliang, and it is unique.
After hearing the story, Emperor Liao wanted to see this unusual green-haired turtle, so the palace servants moved to the bamboo forest to listen to the Zen jar.
Emperor Liao, as well as the other courtiers and palace servants who were serving him, saw a green-haired turtle swimming leisurely in the Zen jar in the bamboo forest, with a compassionate ancient Buddha behind him. shock.
The introduced courtier said: "This is another realization. Bamboo forest listening to the Zen jar is one with the green-haired turtle."
Two separate objects, yet one, both are precious.
Emperor Liao was very close, looking at the heaven and earth in the tank, he was amazed, and sincerely said: "Song people are really smart, and we can't get out of Liao for such things."
This very thoughtful and very innovative gift made Emperor Liao like it very much, and he immediately ordered it to be placed in his bedroom.
Because of the love of the Liao Emperor, the Liao Kingdom has also developed a wind of opening tanks and landscaping and raising turtles.