Parents are busy farming

Ye Zifen left, leaving the two brothers looking at each other. Their eyes were full of excitement, excitement, and hope for the future.

The two sisters also returned home laughing. The eldest daughter-in-law divided the things that Ye Zifen brought in half and gave the basket to her brother and his wife.

The second daughter-in-law just took a few random things from each item and pushed the remaining ones back to the elder sister-in-law.

Said: "Sister-in-law, you have many children at home, I think this thing is suitable for making snacks. Let me take some from home, and we will have a taste. The rest will be given to the children, and we will make it ourselves in the future. This thing is still good Can it be less?”

As the eldest sister-in-law, what the eldest daughter-in-law envied the most was none other than her own sister-in-law. She was so smart.

When she got married, she had a mother-in-law above her and parents-in-law below. The great-grandmother is a shrewd person, and the mother-in-law has to give way to her.

Not to mention her mother-in-law, who comes from a good background and has great rules. From time to time, she would do things that only a grandma would do.

Originally, the family was relatively well off, but later as the father-in-law became addicted to gambling, the family situation plummeted, and in the end, he even lost his mother-in-law's dowry.

It wasn't until my mother-in-law divorced that life at home got better. But the father-in-law and the great-grandmother were kicked out. As children and grandchildren, they couldn't just watch them fend for themselves, so they naturally had to provide some subsidies.

After her mother-in-law died, she was able to take charge of the family, but her family only had so little money, so she didn't dare to spend too much money and lived a tight life every day.

Almost none of the above siblings have experienced it, but she can understand her suffering and never compete with his family for anything. How can she not like it and feel lucky!

The two brothers didn't know what they said outside the door. After a while, the second brother came in and called his wife to go home.

After Ye Zifen left, she went to the county town because she remembered her grandma once said that this sealed pot for making popcorn was made by a blacksmith in the county.

She just didn't know if this person was still alive. She wanted to find out. If not, then she would need to find someone to research it.

Fortunately, there are physical references, and although there are difficulties, they can be overcome.

After arriving in the county town, she visited all the blacksmith shops, but no one knew how to make sealed pots.

Just when she was dejected, the blacksmith from the last blacksmith shop suddenly said to her: "There is an old blacksmith in the county. He should be able to hit this thing, because I once heard him bragging that he was the best hitter in his life. There’s a powerful thing called a sealed pot, you can ask him about it, he’s at the one at the end of Xiangliu Hutong.”

The mountains are poor and the water is full of doubts, and there is another village.

Perhaps only this sentence could express Ye Zifen's mood at this moment.

After thanking the blacksmith, she went to Xiangliu Hutong and went straight to the house at the end.

Ye Zifen stood outside the door and knocked on the door, but there was no response.

Unwilling to give up, she knocked again, but no one came out to open the door.

A house next to me opened the door and a woman walked out and looked over.

Then he enthusiastically said to Ye Zifen: "Just open his door and go in. The old blacksmith is deaf and can't hear you knocking on the door."

Ye Zifen nodded gratefully, then gently opened the door of the house and walked in.

This is a small courtyard, about the size of a room, but the courtyard is not big, but there are a lot of things on display.

There are some things Ye Zifen has seen at Ma Fengchun's house.

She stood at a loss in the yard. She had never entered someone else's home without saying hello.

Just then, an old man walked out.

When the old man saw that there was an extra person in the house, he was not surprised. Instead, he asked her, "Who are you? Why did you come to see me?"

The old man's voice was a bit loud, and he almost shouted a few words.

Ye Zifen quickly took out a piece of paper from his arms, which looked exactly like what he had drawn and sealed last night.

She handed the paper to the old man.

The old man reached out and took it, looking at it. It seemed that he couldn't see clearly, so he held it farther away and squinted to look at it.

Then he raised his head and asked Ye Zifen: "Where did this thing come from? Where have you seen it before?"

Ye Zifen said loudly with all her strength: "This thing is in my house now. This is what my grandma once asked someone to beat. Now I need more, so I asked the person who used to beat this thing to beat us a few more." .”

"Your home? Your grandma? What does your grandma look like? What's her name?" The old man had a vague memory of people in the past and asked.

"My grandma's name is Lu Yunduo." As for what she looks like, how can I say this.

Besides, in Zi Zifen’s memory, Lu Yunduo always looks like a middle-aged person. What was she like when she was young? Ye Zifen doesn’t know at all.

But the old man nodded, "Well, it's called this person. The person who hit this thing is called this person."

Finally, he asked: "How is your grandma doing now?"

Ye Zifen organized her words and said, "My grandma went there a year ago."

Hearing that someone had died seemed to affect the old man's mood, so he just said 'oh'.

After a long time, he sighed: "As for people, it's only a matter of time!"

Ye Zifen doesn’t know how to answer it now? But she thought, no matter how long you live in this world, as long as you live in every moment, that is enough. There is no need to fear anything.

"You need this, do you think I can still give you a shot now?" the old man said to Ye Zifen after sighing.

Ye Zifen looked at the old man's age and knew that he might not be able to hold his head anymore, but she suggested: "Are you willing to teach others the technique of making this thing? If you are willing to hand it over to someone you trust, then Let him buy a few for me. The price is not a problem. But I know that this thing was made by my grandma, and you two have a confidentiality agreement. So the person you taught also has to write a confidentiality agreement for me, and only I will do it. This thing can only be made when it is made to order.”

The old man was really alert after hearing this. He couldn't make iron at his age, and his savings were getting less and less. If you teach someone what you have in hand, the other person will definitely give him some money, so that his life will be easier.

As for who to hand it over to, he first thought of his brother's nephew, but he quickly rejected this idea.

Because his nephew is related to him, it is very likely that he will not give him money. It is better to give this thing to an outsider. After all, talking about love will hurt money.

So he said: "Little girl, you find someone you trust to come and learn from me, and I will teach him step by step. But I have a request. If you want to learn the technique I have, you must give me ten taels of silver."

Ten taels of silver is actually a bit too much.

If a blacksmith studies it from scratch, it won't cost so much money, but if the old man teaches it directly to someone, the time it takes him will be much shorter.

After careful consideration, Ye Zifen agreed.

Time may not mean much to him, but to the two brothers, taking advantage of the slack time to earn a little more is a big deal.

"Okay, I'll find someone to learn from you soon, and I'll give you the money after I finish the lesson. Don't worry, I'm not the kind of person who doesn't keep his word."