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Although Tang Zhi understood why Song Yuyan made such an arrangement, he still asked one more question.

Song Yuyan said: "It's not wrong for their father and son to take care of the vegetable garden in the past few years. Huang Widower is an honest and conscientious person. I entrust the cotton field to him to take care of it. I don't worry that he will spoil my business. But Tu Su is clever. He is also eager to learn, and I believe he will be able to figure out how to grow cotton soon, which will be of great help to me in the future. Also, if someone attacks the clan field, a person as clever as him can handle it."

After arranging the manpower for the cotton field, Tang Zhi hired two more people to take care of the vegetable garden. This time they were a middle-aged couple in their 40s.They are from Xingxianfang, but they are not rich households. Chengguo households are divided into tenth grades. Because they have no deeds and accumulated wealth, their family is ranked seventh.

The couple have children, the eldest son works as a servant in a wealthy family, and the second son works as a punter at the ferry. Although they have wages, they also have a family to support. Because the couple are too old, no one is willing to hire them, so they come out to help Tang Zhi. Doing the vegetable garden.

After Song Yuyan and Tang Zhi properly arranged these matters, Chen Caiqi finished confinement, and the little girl of the Tang family also had a full moon.

Although Tang Haogen didn't place a full moon wine, he still bought some eggs and caramel to distribute to the neighbors. In the evening, he asked Tang Ye to cook a hearty meal for the Song family to eat together.

As Mai's uncle, Song Yuyan - Mai was Yilai's nickname. Although he didn't understand why Tang Haogen couldn't afford Xiaodao, as a name, Song Yuyan still thought that Mai was better.Naturally, she wanted to give Maimai a red envelope, which meant prosperity and good luck.

At the banquet, Tang Zhi also proposed to hand over the one-acre vegetable garden belonging to the Tang family to Chen Caiqi to take care of it.

Chen Caiqi came here with a dowry, and she was pregnant before and didn't want to take care of things, so she didn't care about the Tang family's one-acre vegetable garden.However, Tang Zhi thought that it was the Tang family's vegetable garden after all, and it was not appropriate for her to take care of it all the time, so he raised this matter while Chen Caiqi was recovering.

Tang Haogen said: "Ah Zhi, as agreed at the beginning, you have been taking care of the vegetable garden, so it is your dowry, just take it away."

Tang Zhi rolled his eyes: "Brother, with your little salary, can you afford to support your sister-in-law and Mai Mai? And Xiaoye is growing up, so she should have a share of the dowry."

Tang Ye, who was originally wandering in Taixu, was named, she "ah" for a while, and then continued to wander in Taixu.

Tang Zhi: "..."

Why didn't my sister disappear for a while, and then she started to be autistic like before?

Song Yuyan understood, however, that Tang Ye wasn't very interested in tending the vegetable garden. Ever since she embarked on the road of bamboo carving, she had focused more on the study of art.She has studied bamboo carving with Song Yuyan for three years. Although her skills have not reached Song Yuyan's level, she has reached a certain level.

In addition to bamboo carving, she, like Cake, practiced calligraphy and painting hard.Immersed in the world of art, she is less and less interested in extraneous things like money.

Tang Haogen didn't want the vegetable garden to cause a rift between his brothers and sisters, so he agreed to Tang Zhi's proposal. The half-acre vegetable garden when Tang's mother was alive was left to Tang Haogen, and the one-acre vegetable garden that Tang Zhi bought later was kept. Divided into two, she and Tang Ye are half of each other.

The money for hiring people to take care of the vegetable garden is also paid out of the income from their vegetable garden. As for the accounts, Tang Zhi and Chen Caiqi jointly take care of them.

Tang Zhi didn't let go of things just because she married Song Yuyan, and waited for Song Yuyan to earn money to support her family. Instead, she planned the future well:

First of all, no matter what business Song Yuyan wants to do in the future, she must carry forward the vegetable garden business here; secondly, she also needs to pay attention to the cotton field. Although Song Yuyan knows how to plant, she doesn't want to fall behind Song Yuyan; finally, And the main thing right now—she wants to raise chickens.

Song Yuyan: "..."

She said, "Do you want to open a chicken farm?"

Tang Zhi said: "Do I look like such a high-minded person? I just want to keep a few chickens at home, and I can kill a chicken to eat during the festival."

"Is this... important?"

"Of course it's important." Tang Zhi told her, "What does Ah Yao think is the most important thing? Is it to make a fortune from the vegetable garden or wait for the success of cotton planting? These can only be regarded as long-term careers. As far as the situation is concerned, it is not important. So we can solve the things that are beneficial, even if it is just raising chickens, it is also very important!"

Song Yuyan was speechless, and could only follow Tang Zhi's wishes, dismantled the pond made by the paper industry before, and then used its materials to rebuild a chicken enclosure.

Tang Zhi bought ten chickens that were only two or three months old, including one rooster and two black-bone chickens.

Black-bone chickens are still very rare these days, and are generally only bred in Jiangxi and Guangnan areas. Tang Zhi happened to meet a merchant from Guangnan, who was carrying several cages of black-bone chickens for sale.She remembered that when she was studying gynecological medical books, she said in the "Diet Therapy Book" of the Tang Dynasty that black-bone chickens have certain curative effects on postpartum diseases of new mothers, so she bought them. Learned.

And ever since Tang Zhi raised chickens, Binger always swallowed at the chicken rings, and always asked Tang Zhi how long it would take to eat them.

Tang Zhi said: "It takes at least half a year for a chicken to eat meat."

He asked her again: "How long has it been since you had chicken?"

"Sister Tang ate it once two months before she and her elder brother got married, and it was just one meal. The last time I ate it was when the wheat was full moon."

This frequency is quite normal. After all, some people’s chickens are used to lay eggs, and they are always reluctant to kill them. It’s not uncommon for them to taste a piece of chicken in half a year.However, Tang Zhi was particularly concerned about Song Yuyan's thin body, and felt that it would not be enough for the Song family to eat chicken once every two months, so he became more determined to raise chickens.

Song Yuyan never thought that Tang Zhi raised chickens for her. She thought that since she wanted to raise chickens, she had to pay attention to hygiene issues, and the smell was second. The main thing was to prevent chicken plague.

It's a pity that except for her manual skills, her skills in farming and livestock are not lit up... Although she doesn't understand, it doesn't matter, as long as there is an answer in "Qi Min Yao Shu".

Song Yuyan also has to admire the author of "Qi Min Yao Shu". He wrote this comprehensive agricultural book. Although there are some flaws, it has made a great contribution to the inheritance of production technology.

Thinking of this, she also developed a lofty ambition, wanting to compile a book on handicraft skills for future generations to learn, so as not to make many traditional handicraft skills decline.

However, she just thought about it, let alone that she is not famous, even if she wrote it, no one would buy it, and secondly, she didn't have so much time to toss about it.

Not long after, Song Yuyan, who thought he was not famous, suddenly received a "challenge letter" - an invitation letter from the Bamboo Carving Guild.

As for why it is called a challenge letter, because this invitation letter is not simply an invitation to Song Yuyan to participate in some meeting, but to invite her to participate in a competition.

"What competition?" Tang Zhi was a little nervous, the invitation from the guild was no small matter.

"In the year of [-], there will be a workshop for masters of jade carving, bamboo and wood carving. This is a workshop jointly organized by bamboo carving firms, jade carving firms, stone carving firms, and woodcarving firms. If you say it more elegantly, it's a competition, and if you're more utilitarian, it's a competition, and the winner will be determined."

"We've never heard of any competitions in previous years, what's going on this year..." Tang Zhi couldn't figure it out.

Song Yuyan couldn't figure it out either, but it didn't matter, she had a lot of friends, so she could go and inquire to see if there were any other secrets behind the invitation.

After inquiring, she got a lot of related news, for example, the root cause of this incident was actually still on her body, because her green bamboo carving somehow spread to Yuezhou.Everyone in the Yuezhou Bamboo Carving Shop has heard that there is a woman named Lufang in Mingzhou who sold her bamboo carvings at a high price of [-] yuan.

This made the colleagues very envious and jealous. It is already considered a high price for a piece of bamboo carving to sell for [-] yuan, while those famous masters in the bamboo carving industry can't sell it for [-] yuan.How could that bamboo carving called Lufang sell for such a high price?Is her bamboo carving golden bamboo?

Although they are also curious about Lufang's bamboo carving works, they are more concerned about whether Lufang is really of a high standard, or is it just marketing, not worthy of the name?

They tended to the latter. After all, I heard that the recording party was only in his teens. It is impossible for such a young person to be able to raise the price to [-] yuan.

So someone from Yuezhou's bamboo carving industry came to Mingzhou and asked to challenge Lufang by name.

The elder of the Mingzhou Bamboo Carving Guild said that the recording party did not join the bamboo carving guild at all, because the recording party was not a registered craftsman who made a living from bamboo and wood carving.

Hearing that the other party was still an amateur, the bamboo carving craftsmen in Yuezhou became even more unwilling.Not to mention that they are unwilling, even the local bamboo carving craftsmen in Mingzhou have been unwilling for many years.It's just that Liu Chuo was in office a few years ago, and the failure of their works to catch Liu Chuo's eyes is enough to show that they will not end well if they touch Fang's bad luck, so everyone can only watch her bamboo carvings being raised to high prices.

Now that Liu Chuo is gone, the newly appointed Zhizhou is not a good bamboo carving person, so he will not become Lufang's new backer, and the craftsmen of the bamboo carving shop are also eager to make trouble.

When the two sides think together, it is necessary to make troubles, but the key is how to do it?Lufang's eldest brother-in-law is the magistrate of Cixi County, so retaliation is definitely not acceptable.

Someone came up with the idea of ​​directly challenging the recorder, asking everyone to pick whose bamboo carving is more advanced.

This proposal was unanimously approved. As long as none of the craftsmen in the bamboo carving industry recognize Lufang's bamboo carvings, then those people who have no appreciation level will definitely think that Lufang's name is not worthy of the name, and its reputation will become bad. Not a threat anymore.

It's just that before they came to Song Yuyan, the elder of Mingzhou Bamboo Carving Company intervened in this matter. He said: "You are provoking others in the name of our guild. If this gets out, our guild's reputation will be damaged. It's time to sweep the floor! What's more, you guys are trying to join forces to suppress others...You guys are shameless, and I have shame!"

Xing Lao is the boss of this industry, and if many craftsmen want to sell bamboo carvings in Mingzhou in the future, they can only be controlled by Xing Lao and the industry regulations.Of course, craftsmen don't have to join the guild, but in this way, the craftsman will not be able to survive in Mingzhou, because the purpose of the guild's existence is to reconcile various conflicts among colleagues, safeguard their interests, and At the same time, he is also responsible for dealing with the government.

Craftsmen who do not join the guild are usually pushed out, or are directly charged various protection fees by the subordinate staff in the name of paying taxes.

The reason why Song Yuyan was able to thrive without joining the guild was that she had a wide range of friends, and no one would be so short-sighted to collect her protection money.In addition, she does not make a living from bamboo carving, so there is no such thing as being excluded.

Of course, Xing Lao did not completely stop this matter, he just said: "We can invite famous experts from all sides to come and compete with each other in the name of learning from each other. In this way, it will be clear at a glance which of you has the better bamboo carving."

When all the craftsmen heard this, they all agreed and praised Xinglao for his wisdom.

Xing Lao was flattered by everyone and returned home.His daughter came over to ask him the result, and he smiled and said: "Zhi'er's idea is naturally brilliant, so what should I do next? What if the recording party doesn't accept it?"

The old daughter smiled confidently: "Father, please invite the jade carving company and the wood carving company to hold this seminar together. No matter how you look at it, it's just a skill exchange, so Song Lu won't think about it. Even if he sees It doesn't matter if you don't mind the problem, because he has to participate. If he doesn't participate, then his bamboo carvings will have no place in Mingzhou in the future."

Xing Laole said: "That's right. No matter what, holding this seminar will be extremely beneficial to our guild. As long as this seminar is publicized, many literati who love bamboo carving will surely be gathered Yake and ordinary people, not to mention Song Lufang as a gimmick, will definitely attract the attention of many people..."

In any case, more and more people pay attention to bamboo carving.Of course, Xinglao is not a bamboo carver, but a real businessman, so everything must be done from the perspective of profit.

The jade carving, stone carving and wood carving firms naturally also fell in love with the benefits brought by this opportunity, so they quickly agreed.

So Song Yuyan received this invitation letter.

Song Yuyan didn't care much about the benefits her bamboo carving could bring her, but she also understood that if she was invited but didn't participate, there would inevitably be many unfavorable rumors about her.

Such as "The invitations for this discussion are all masters and famous experts. Song Lufang is on the list and is already a recognized famous expert, but she didn't participate. Could it be that she has a false name?" and so on.

Even those fans who think that her bamboo carving skills are really good may slowly change their minds after being brainwashed by many rumors.

It's one thing for her not to make a living from bamboo carvings, but she can't make her bamboo carvings worthless because of this incident, so she will definitely accept this invitation.

The competition meeting is in May, which means that Song Yuyan still has two or three months to prepare.Of course, the rule is that at that time, you can directly bring your sculpted works to the place of the competition meeting, and let the judges comment on it.The judges are bamboo carving experts invited to participate in the competition, and of course there are also some famous literati.

Tang Zhi was a little worried: "What if those people unite against their will and say that your bamboo carving is not good?"

Song Yuyan said: "Since it is said that everything is in the name of advice, then the rules are definitely not that simple. In addition, there are some people with a level of appreciation, so it is not easy to turn a deer into a horse. And we might as well think in a better way—in case Those famous people are all big-hearted people!"

Tang Zhi sighed, then smiled and said: "At that time, the chickens at home will be raised. If you win, I will kill a chicken to reward you."

Song Yuyan let out an "ah", with some regrets: "If you lose, will you have no chicken?"

Tang Zhi said: "If you lose, kill two to make up for your injured soul."

Song Yuyan took her hand and said bluntly: "But I want to eat you more."

Tang Zhi's eyes changed, and he suddenly became charming: "Then I'll wait."

There was a hint of provocation in her coquettishness, as if she was teasing Song Yuyan.Song Yuyan narrowed her eyes, ready to seriously let her know that her martial arts has also improved, but Binger called them outside the door: "Brother, Sister Tang, what are you doing with the door closed in broad daylight?"

Song Yuyan came out, frowned and said to her: "Go to Tang's house and let Xiaoye prepare. I will take her to the bamboo carving workshop in May."

Cake got the order and ran to Tang's house. Song Yuyan turned her head and saw Tang Zhi smiling like a cunning fox: "The duck with its mouth flew away."

Song Yuyan: "..."

"Is it really good for the lady to compare herself to a duck?"

With a restrained smile, Tang Zhi glared at her, knowing that she didn't eat enough to eat, so he deliberately said something angry!Tang Zhi ignored her and turned to see how her chickens were doing.