farmhouse ditty

Chapter 203
A clerk took a washboard to the second floor, greeted at the door of Erye Yang's study, waited for the inside to let in, and then took the board in.

He walked into the room and watched the people put the board on the table, "Master, shopkeeper, this is a model made in the workshop, please take a look."

Second Master Yang picked up the board and looked at it carefully, flicked his wrist on the table, and said with a sullen face, "Yesterday, I asked Master Zhao to make the board alone. Is it possible that this is the case? Even I have seen it this time." But at a glance, can those people from the palace want our board!"

That guy made Second Master Yang shrink his neck and break out in a cold sweat, hey, no wonder no one wanted to come up to this job just now.

Second Master Yang stared and said, "Take this board down and let Master Zhao redo it. Remember, use good wood to make it!"

The guy hurriedly took the board over, retreated outside in response, and ran downstairs in a hurry.

Shopkeeper Wang stood by the window, watched the guy leave, and started talking, "Master, just now I heard from Che Laoguai that someone brought a dozen carts of wood to the Chu family wood workshop yesterday."

Second Master Yang raised the teacup to his lips, put it down again after hearing what shopkeeper Wang said, and thought for a while, "Who is it? Could it be the guy from the lumberyard in Beimianshan?"

Shopkeeper Wang shook his head, "I don't know, yesterday there was a guy in the cabinet who went to buy inkstones, and he looked at the leader of our town, let's talk about it, then I also went to the Beimianshan family. The shopkeeper of the wood shop said hello, and asked them not to buy and sell wood to the Chu family wood shop, and he agreed."

Second Master Yang snorted coldly, "Does he dare not agree? Half of the wood in their woodyard is what we want. If he sells the wood to the Chu family woodwork, then we won't buy wood from him... Besides, as far as Chu’s wooden workshop is concerned, other wooden workshops don’t care much about it.”

Shopkeeper Wang nodded repeatedly and smiled, "What the master said is true, what the master said is true..."

Second Master Yang thought about it, picked up his teacup, took a sip, and said with a smile, "Hmph, no wonder I told that little shopkeeper of the Chu family the other day that I wanted to buy his shop shop, and he would slap me in front of me. , It turns out that they have already saved their own money."

Shopkeeper Wang looked at Erye Yang and smiled to himself, he thought for a while, and then said, "Uh, but master, if the Chu family wooden workshop has a dozen or so carts of wood, then they can share with us." It’s a big deal, those woods, it’s not a problem to make [-] washboards.”

Second Master Yang glanced at Shopkeeper Wang with a sullen face, "A challenge? Just rely on those two old folks from the countryside?"

Shopkeeper Wang looked at Second Master Yang, thinking that he was angry, so he quickly changed his words, "Hey, that's right, that's right, those two old country guys, they don't even look at what you mean, Master, so they dare to challenge you, they At best, they are messing with us."

Second Master Yang raised his eyes and looked at him, as if he was in a good mood and said, "Old Wang, this businessman is not a troublemaker."

Shopkeeper Wang heard Erye Yang say it, didn't you understand at first, why is this master talking to that small workshop?

Second Master Yang put down the teacup and said to shopkeeper Wang, "Old Wang, I asked you to ask when the people from the palace will come over."

Shopkeeper Wang thought about it and said, "Master, it's only two days away, either tomorrow or later."

Second Master Yang nodded, "Well, before that, Manager Qing mentioned in his letter that he has an apprentice, did you come with him this time?"

Shopkeeper Wang thought for a while, then suddenly realized something, and said with a smile, "Hey, yes, sir, he also came along, I heard that he is the new helper in charge."

Second Master Yang twitched his lips, and also smiled, "Okay, wait until later, send a guy and ask him to come to us..."

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Chu Ge came in from the shop, holding two slips in his hand, found Chu Fu, and handed the slip to him, "Brother, this is a new slip just received on the cabinet, you ask the guys to drive it out, the shopkeepers are Those who want to go a long way, they..."

Chu Fu looked at Chu Ge and smiled, "I know brother, are they going to go back before August [-]th? San'er and I will work on these two first."

Chu Ge responded with a smile, and watched as Chu Fu finished speaking and went to Old Man Li, gesticulating with the list. He looked at his big brother, who was much better than when he was in Xiayang Village. Those who are not timid, are also happy in their hearts.

Wen Shi came over with a basket of washed cabbage this time, looked at Chu Ge, and pointed at the back door, "Hey, I said second brother, why don't you go and see the second younger brother and sister?" Chu Ge Looking in the direction she pointed, Wen said again, "For the past two days, your daughter-in-law doesn't know what's wrong, I don't even mention the work in the stove, even this morning, I didn't send Anzi and Xiang My son is in private school..."

She cleared her throat as she spoke, and looked at Chu Ge, "Second Brother, you also know that these two little ones don't get close to me at all, they keep away from me all the way, and they don't talk, people on the road, Seeing me following the two little babies, I thought I was a matchmaker."

Chu Ge kept staring at Xiu Niang, not listening to Wen's words, but only responded to his sister-in-law lightly.

"If the brothers and sisters are still like this tomorrow, then I will call the mother-in-law of the second Wang family and send the two young ones to a private school." Wen raised his neck, said something, and went into the stove with the cabbage.

Chu Ge thought, Xiu Niang is also a little weird these two days, she doesn't care about anything, it seems that she has been like this since she received Gui Xi's letter that day, earlier Xiu Niang called Gui Xi to help inquire about Gongli Huan About the clothing bureau, Guixi asked about the matter, but the family couldn't get away because of something, so I asked someone in the village to bring the letter to them when they came to town.

But Chu Ge has read the letter himself, it’s nothing special, it’s just some trivial things, those women who do laundry are doing laundry for someone in the palace, why is this Xiu Niang finished reading it, I just stuck my head in the backyard and couldn't come out.

Chu Ge looked at Xiu Niang, and didn't know what she wanted to do, so he simply went over and asked, it was better than his own wife ignoring him all day long.

At the moment, Xiuniang is stacking wood in the backyard. She is looking for a suitable piece of wood. Now that it is already August, it is estimated that the people in the palace are about to come. She has to Get out such a board, okay? When the day comes, Chu Ge will take it to show the steward in the palace.

She looked back and forth between the two piles of wood, but she still wasn't sure which one to take. After all, she didn't know much about wood, so how could she know what was good and what was bad.

Chu Ge walked behind Xiu Niang, watched her poking around, picking and choosing, "Xiu Niang, what are you looking for?"

Xiu Niang turned her head when she heard the sound, looked at Chu Ge and said, "Chu Ge, you came just in time, help me figure out which piece of wood we should pick as a model."

Chugo asked, "Model? What kind of model?"

Xiu Niang said, "Is it just a washboard for the people in the palace? Why don't we choose a better wood, make a board and show it to others first?"

Originally, this fir tree was pretty good, but Liu's brothers felled the tree and took it to the kiln factory for them to burn the kiln. They would never use such a good wood, and Xiu Niang and the others didn't dare to take it. , because the price is too expensive, so the wood blocks in the yard are all miscellaneous, which are not bad wood.

What Xiuniang meant was to choose the best wood among these woods, and ask old man Li to make a board as a model.

Chu Ge looked at Xiu Niang, gave a dumb reply, and then wandered around in front of the two piles of wood. Even the guy who came to fetch the wood had to be read by Chu Ge before he could take it away.

In this way, Chu Ge followed Xiu Niang for a long time, but in the end he still couldn't get himself, oh no, it was the material that Xiu Niang was satisfied with.

Chu Ge looked at Xiu Niang, and said, "Xiu Niang, let's just take a piece of wood, why bother?"

Xiu Niang wiped off her sweat, and said unwillingly, "No, I just want to find a good material and snatch this order from that old boy from Yuanmuhang."

After hearing this, Chu Ge understood, he said, this Xiuniang didn't work so hard before, she would take it when there was a deal, and didn't take it seriously if there was no deal, but since she is so motivated this time, it was He Yuanmu. Yes, Mr. Yang is competing.

He thought so, and didn't say anything, but he looked at Xiu Niang, and said, "Xiu Niang, don't worry about it, even if you pick it until August [-]th, you still can't pick a piece." OK."

Xiu Niang listened for a while, then turned her head and looked at him angrily, "If you don't help, go back to the shop, don't let this throw me cold water!"

Chu Ge blinked, "Xiu Niang, I didn't pour cold water on you."

Xiu Niang was furious, "You still say it!"

Chu Ge said dumbly, "If you don't say it, it can't be done. The texture of our wood is almost the same, and there is nothing very good."

Xiu Niang listened to this, and thinking about it, it seems that this is really the case. There is no good material in the yard of her house, so what is the reason for this?

Seeing Xiu Niang's disappointed look, Chu Ge didn't know what to say, so he thought about it and said, "Hey, Xiu Niang, isn't it almost the fifteenth day of the eighth month? sheet."

Xiu Niang pursed her lips, sat aside, and just responded lightly, "Oh."

Chu Ge looked at her, thought about it, and said, "Hey, Xiu Niang, the next two lists in the morning, they are all from other places, they are rushing back, and we have to make them for them first... "

Xiu Niang knew that Chu Ge wanted to make her feel better, but she just couldn't make the point. Seeing Chu Ge like this, she smiled, put her hands on her head, and listened to him.

Chu Ge said, "At that time, I thought about it. If they are in a hurry, then we have to be quick, but if we are quick, we have to do the work really well..."

He saw that Xiuniang's face was not so ugly, and he smiled himself, "But it's okay, the material that Second Brother Liu brought us are all good materials, the texture is neither soft nor hard. I just took those two lists because I thought our yard was full of materials like this..."

Seeing that Chu Ge had finished speaking, Xiu Niang laughed out loud, thinking of something out of the ordinary to coax her because of nothing else.

Chu Ge looked at Xiu Niang, his heart skipped a beat, and he laughed out loud, even though he didn't know what Xiu Niang was laughing at.

Thinking about Chu Ge's words, Xiu Niang smiled, and suddenly a thought flashed in her mind, she hurriedly grabbed Chu Ge's hand, "Chu Ge, tell me what you just said... "

(End of this chapter)