Thousands of sparks

Chapter 16
Minors as young as ten years old need at least nine hours of sleep every day in order to ensure normal body growth.And you have to go to bed early every day, so as to have a better growth condition.

However, Dussand feels that he will probably not grow too tall in this life-and he may go bald early or die suddenly.

After getting up from the bed at six o'clock in the morning, Dusand looked at the forest with leaves gradually falling out of the window, feeling regret and grief in his heart.

Why...why does this empire built on the background of steampunk technology not even have a weekend?
Not to mention weekends, the empire doesn't even have the concept of "rest days".Only the "lords" who have entered the Privy Council or other imperial departments can enjoy about two weeks of paid vacation every year.

So tired, so sleepy, so sleepy... Dusand stood up unsteadily, and then began to change clothes.

Maids usually enter the room at this time and pour hot water into the washbasin for the master to wash.And this habit was changed by Du Sande in the last week.

"Pour ice water in the washbasin in the morning, preferably with ice cubes in it." In order to make himself more awake when he woke up in the morning, Du Sande made a very painful decision . "Also, replace the soft towel with a thicker coarse cloth."

Leaving the warmth of a duvet when it's still pitch dark outside can be quite distressing.And then there were even ice cubes in the wash water, and the pain of leaving the bed was even more unacceptable.

However, Dusand really couldn't think of any other way to wake himself up at six o'clock in the morning.The empire does not have the habit of drinking coffee or similar products, and the price of tea is so expensive that even nobles cannot drink it every morning.

According to Polina, the civilians in Orin would drink some special drinks in order to refresh themselves in the morning.Put half a cup of sugar in a cup of hot milk, mix with hot, smoking hot milk and rum, stir well and swallow in one gulp.

But Newsale doesn't make cheap rum, so their breakfast drinks have been replaced with milk and cream, a lot of sugar and a mother tea mix.

A specialty of Newsale is tea substitute, which is the dried leaves of a native shrub.Different from the taste of tea from Aolin, the taste of surrogate tea is more volatile.It tastes a bit fluffy, and it is easy to be contaminated with various strange flavors.But fortunately, this is a local specialty in Newsail, and the price is cheap.

And the refreshing effect is very good.

After washing his face with bone-chilling water, Dussande wrung out the coarse towel as hard as he could.Stick a slightly damp coarse towel to your face, and start rubbing it up and down quickly.He didn't stop what he was doing until his face felt warm from rubbing.

After wiping his cold red hands on the towel, Lord Dusand pushed open the door of his room energetically.

"Tell the housekeeper to bring me some surrogate tea this afternoon." After seeing the maid, Du Sande immediately put forward his request, "Also, let's replace the washing water with hot water tomorrow."

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Since Dusande couldn't bear it by himself, Dusande specially changed the content of the "teaching" between him and Lorraine to "Physical Education Class" today.And he did it for a very good reason.

"If you squat in the room every day and don't go out, your physical fitness will decline." He said righteously to Lorraine, "For your health, I decided to take you out for a run every three days from today. step."

After 10 minutes, Du Sande was panting and leaning on the tree to crumble.He raised his head in despair and looked at Lorraine, who was running in the distance and laughing like silver bells, gritted his teeth but was helpless.

"It feels so good not to have to wear a corset." Seeing that Dusande couldn't run anymore, Lorraine deliberately ran back to look for him from tens of meters away. "Usually wearing a corset, I feel out of breath after a little running. Now that I remove the corset, I feel like I can run all day!"

Feelings, you usually wear a waistband to count as weight training?Dusande took a breath, and then ran again unconvinced.Are you kidding me, men are not as athletic and durable as women?
Running is a process.At least Dusande experienced this "process" when he was forced to run for exercise every morning in college ten years ago.At the beginning, everyone is in a brave state. As the running continues, people's physical strength will begin to decline rapidly.

Most people would choose to slow down or stop after falling, but Dusand knew that as long as he gritted his teeth and survived this "rapid decline" stage, his physical strength would start to recover after bottoming out, and then let him take a fair Keep going in good shape.

It's just... This state doesn't seem to be reflected in a ten-year-old boy.Dusand, who almost gritted his teeth, finally completed the "Run Around the Lake" competition with a sad result of nearly [-] Joles behind Lorraine.

"I found..." Dusande, who was out of breath, complained to himself with difficulty, "...I seem to have been making trouble for myself recently."

"Do you think it's troublesome to teach me?" Lorraine keenly caught the strange signs in Dusand's words and began to attack, "You promised to teach me."

"You have to know, I'm only ten years old." Dusande didn't care whether there was a pile of soot or dust accumulated in the fallen leaves on the ground, he lay directly in the shape of a "big" in the pile of golden fallen leaves . "In order to ensure that what I teach you is correct, I have to get up at six o'clock every morning and start reviewing!"

"Ladies wake up at five o'clock every morning, and then start to put on makeup and hair." Lorraine glanced at Dusand, and then said, "Then it takes us at least an hour to put on layer after layer. Petticoats, the maids will spend three quarters of an hour fighting with the ladies' hairstyles with bristle combs..."

Du Sande was stunned and didn't even know what to say.

"If you don't understand what I teach me every day...you can go to Paulina with me." As if feeling that what she said was not appropriate, Lorraine suddenly changed the subject, "Let's go to class together Isn't it pretty good too?"

"The real problem is not that I don't know how to do it." Du Sande came back to his senses and began to complain, "Do you know how outrageous the history of the empire is..."

It took a quarter of an hour for Dusande to explain the outrageousness of "the seraphim descended on the stables with steam, and the first emperor possessed unparalleled personal force at the age of three", and then complained, "If I want to teach you knowledge , I must ensure that the knowledge itself is correct—at least it must be the closest to the correct knowledge. Only in this way can it be worth imparting!"

"Women don't need knowledge." Lorraine turned her head to Dusand and said, "Actually, you don't need to work so hard, as long as you are about the same."

"How can that be done!" Dusand jumped up from the pile of fallen leaves, waving his hands and yelled at Lorraine, "I have to spend time and energy preparing lessons, and you also need to spend time and energy studying. Such an important thing, How can it be 'almost enough'?! It's just that I have to be responsible for your time and energy!"

Lorraine's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Then, let's take a rest every two days from now on?" Lorraine carefully lifted the hem of her skirt, and suggested a step closer to Dusande, "This way I can sleep until six o'clock occasionally."

A sense of sacred mission suddenly surged in Dusand's heart.

Anyway, it seems that the mother must be a congressman, so why not take the opportunity to do something beneficial to the people.

For example... At least it is stipulated that children should enjoy more than eight hours of sleep every day, right?

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"Assembly started this afternoon." In the workshop, Polina, who hadn't had a good rest for almost a week, was wearing one-piece overalls, with traces of engine oil on her face and hands.After Du Sande entered the workshop, Polina was very excited to explain the current work progress to her students and investors.

Polina can only show the maturity and stability of a "big technician" in mechanical engineering.Anyway, Du Sande was very sure that her teacher probably forgot that the 500 gold pounds were bought for her patent.

After the 500 gold pound note was mortgaged and 450 gold pound cash came out, he first bought a steam machine tool, and then bought a bunch of metal ingots for processing.According to Dusand's estimate, Polina probably still has more than 200 gold pounds left, which is not bad.

Strictly speaking, the money is Polina's personal property.As a result, now... more than half of it has been used.

Forget it, she'll be happy.

"By the way, there is one more thing." Dusande was comforting his inner morality, but Paulina suddenly wiped her hands on her body and handed Dusande a letter, "This is Rosento gave it to you."

Rosen?Du Sande took the letter with some hesitation.He remembered that this child Rosen should have never been to school, he...can write?

"He said that he asked the company's accountant to write this letter." Polina said, "The company is making good progress and now has more than a dozen employees."

Dusand opened his mouth wide.

Feeling that this illiterate brother who is about the same age as me is already far ahead on the road to starting a company?

The handwriting in the letter is not very neat, and there are many spelling mistakes.But at least the content can be read and understood, and the content... is very shocking.

The letter first expressed warm and even flattering greetings to Dusand, and then began to mention some content that Dusand did not expect.

The official name of the company established by Lawson is "In the Name of His Majesty the Emperor, Lawson Metal Industry and Comprehensive Security Company", and currently employs a total of 15 employees.Except for the old accountant who wrote the letter and Rosen himself, the remaining 20 people were all nice guys in their early [-]s.

Rosen now has two main businesses.Receive orders and carry out casting processing - this business is currently Polina's orders.The other is to provide "safety protection" for many individuals and companies in industrial areas that have purchased security services.

Fifteen young men armed with hard wooden clubs and wearing trench coats walk through the streets of the industrial area every day, chasing beggars and thieves away.

Dusande put down the letter, and after a long silence, he asked Polina, "Is there any relevant provisions in the imperial law to combat criminal gangs of the underworld?"

(End of this chapter)