The owner of the lantern shop is a middle-aged uncle with a gentle face. Seeing Shu Ying's eyes keeping looking at the lanterns hanging on the walls in the shop, she immediately smiled again, and said happily: "Miss, you can take a look slowly... The lanterns in my shop are made by myself, and every workmanship is exquisite..."

"Yeah!" Shu Ying was really attracted by the various lanterns that were vividly seen on the wall. While nodding at the owner of the lantern shop, he stood up and stood under the wall and looked at them one by one. After a long time, he stopped under the extremely exquisite lotus lantern.

The owner of the lantern shop stopped when he saw Shu Chang and quickly introduced him to her: "Miss, do you like this lotus lantern?"

Shu Yan nodded: "How much does this lantern cost?"

"If you like it, just give five taels of silver." The owner of the lantern shop quickly smiled and quoted a price. Seeing Shu Ying looking at him in a little surprised, he quickly said, "Does Miss think this price is expensive?"

Shu Yan nodded immediately. Five taels of silver, the price is not cheap!

"Miss, this is not expensive!" The owner of the lantern shop smiled with a clear face. While taking the lotus lantern from the wall and handing it to Shu Ying, he said to her: "If it is an ordinary lantern, my workmanship is 20% more expensive than others, one or two silver dollars per one, the price is also extremely reasonable!"

Shu Ying picked up the lantern and looked at it, nodding in agreement. The lantern was indeed vivid and from a distance, it looked like a real lotus!

"As for the remaining four taels of silver, it is mainly spent on the lamp oil of the lantern!" The owner of the lantern shop said, stretching out his hand and gently pushing away the petals in the middle of the lotus lantern, revealing a green lotus pod. The lotus pod is made of very realistic, and each lotus seed can be taken off or put back!

The owner of the lantern shop smiled, gently removed a lotus seed in the center of the lotus pod with his fingers, and then pulled out a thin copper wire. At the end of the copper wire, a wick was connected.

"Miss, please see!" The owner of the lantern shop pulled out the wick a little and introduced to Shu Ying: "As long as you take out the lotus seed, you can pull out the wick and light it up, and the lantern will light up! When the lady doesn't need the wick, put the copper wire and the lotus seed back..."

Shu Yan nodded, looking surprised.

"I went to find a blacksmith who made three layers of thin iron with thin iron. There was a gap between each layer. This way, even if the lanterns were lit for too long, it would be guaranteed that the lantern would not be too hot..." The owner of the lantern shop said to Shu Ying with a proud look on his face, "It is because of this that in the end, there are not many places in the lantern that can be used to hold lamp oil! So, if we use the lamp oil we usually use, this lantern will not burn for much time..."

Shu Ying weighed the lantern, which was not too heavy, and the workmanship was indeed very well designed: "Then, what kind of lamp oil is used for this lamp?"

The owner of the lantern shop smiled mysteriously, looked at the shop sideways, and saw that no other guests had entered, then lowered his voice and said to Shu Ying: "Miss, do you know that there are marshy fishes outside that place?"

"Markfish?" Shu Qing was stunned for a moment, and instantly realized that the boss of the lantern shop was probably talking about the legendary mermaid.

"Legendary, the marsh fish is like a human, but it has fish fin-like ears, fish scales on the face, and a big mouth full of sharp teeth..." The owner of the lantern shop said seriously, and when he was excited, he couldn't help but gesture twice, "This marsh fish has infinite power, and it swims into the water as fast as the wind..."

Shu Ying looked at the owner of the lantern shop in front of him with some amusement. Hearing that he praised and demoted the samurai fish in a magical way, he couldn't help but interrupt, "Shopkeeper, you said so much, don't you want to tell me that the lamp oil you used in the lantern is the samurai fish?"

"Ahem!" The owner of the lantern shop was stunned for a moment, and smiled awkwardly, then said to Shu Ying: "The fish oil on this shark fish is a good thing! Miss has heard of the eternal light? The eternal light will never die for a hundred years, and it is the fish oil of this shark fish..."

"So what?" Shu Ying asked with a smile as he looked at the owner of the lantern shop in front of him.

"My lamp oil... is said to be made from the fish oil of the marshy fish!" The owner of the lantern shop seemed to see Shu Ying not easy to deceive, so he stopped talking about the meaning of the marshy fish again, and said something a little.

"Made from the fish oil of the marmoset fish?" Shu Ying raised his eyebrows immediately after hearing this, and looked into the lotus pod with some suspicion.

"Miss, don't believe it!" The owner of the lantern shop had a silhouette expression and quickly said to her: "A few years ago, there was a small country near the sea in the vassal state. A team of warriors came to sea and encountered the marshal fish. After fighting with it for a few days and nights, the marshal fish died out... and the marshal fish was left in the end... After that, the marshal fish was presented to the king of the small country, and then the king of the small country personally guarded it and made a lot of things... The marshal fish oil was the one who came to our court from the small country at that time."

"But, the marsh fish is hard to come by, and the marsh fish oil is extremely precious. Therefore, the merchants who bought marsh fish oil found a way to configure the marsh fish oil with some other things, made different things and sold them everywhere!" The owner of the lantern shop had a serious expression and said to Shu Ying: "This is how my marsh oil came from. However, I don't know how many times I have added the marsh oil to make it look like now. However, this marsh oil is extremely durable! Just a piece of thumb soaked in tung oil can burn for at least twenty-four hours!"

Twenty-four hours, that's two days!

Shu Ying looked at the lotus lantern in his hand in a little surprised, then looked at Ji Yang, then turned around and asked, "Who is the shopkeeper, how long can the lamp oil in my lantern burn?"

"Twenty-four hours are definitely not bad!" The owner of the lantern shop patted Shu Ying's chest with a confident look on his face, "If it's less than this time, the lady can come to me to argue with him at will!"
Chapter completed!