The silly and sweet spring of crossing

A large "Fairy Lantern" was released at the entrance of Jinxiu Lantern Shop, which quickly attracted everyone's attention. After spreading the word, people gathered around the entrance of Jinxiu Lantern Shop.Can the people in this lamp run?Everyone looked at the fairy lantern that kept turning at the door, and there was a lot of discussion.

Everyone looked at the big ones, and then saw the small ones, and heard from the shopkeeper that the small ones were still on sale, and they were not too expensive, so everyone went into the store to see these magical "fairy lanterns".

"Shopkeeper Cao, why does your fairy lamp work?" One person asked Boss Cao, and a group of people gathered around, wanting to hear his explanation.

Boss Cao actually didn't know the principle of this fairy lamp, and he couldn't ask Qiu Baichen about it, it was his unique craft.But Qiu Baichen had already told him how to explain to others why the fairy lamp could move, so Boss Cao put on a confident look and looked at the people around him curiously asking him.

"This fairy lamp is the unique craftsmanship of our new master." Boss Cao said, "The candles in this lamp are only used to worship the gods. After the worship, the gods will leave a breath of fairy spirit in this lamp. The horse will turn naturally, so it is called Xiandeng."

Boss Cao played tricks according to what Qiu Baichen taught.Originally, when Qiu Baichen made up his reasoning, he was afraid that everyone would not believe this pretender, but when he told Boss Cao like this, Boss Cao did not question him, and now Boss Cao told everyone that he was not questioned.

Thank you that people in this world still believe in ghosts and gods. After listening to Boss Cao’s explanation, everyone found it very interesting and agreed with him. After all, such a magical phenomenon can only be created by gods.This lamp is called Xiandeng, it is also very auspicious, and it is not expensive, so everyone paid for it and took it home.

The people who bought it were ordinary people. They bought fairy lanterns and returned home. Ordinary lanterns would still be bought at Fuyuan Lantern Shop.But those big families sent their servants to buy the finished small fairy lanterns, and they also ordered big fairy lanterns to be displayed in the yard.Boss Cao led them to see other lanterns in the shop.

The other lanterns were all made by Qiu Baichen according to the style of Fuyuan Lantern Shop, but with some additions. Overall, they are much more exquisite than Fuyuan Lantern Shop, and the price is a little more expensive.Those servants came over to look at these lanterns and thought they were very beautiful.

Fuyuan Lantern Shop uses ordinary lanterns to cut prices to compete, and the lanterns for big households are still at the original price.Besides, for big families, besides being practical, using these is just to save face, what they want is to look good, and they don't care about the price.

So they also bought or planned to buy lanterns from Jinxiu Lantern Shop. Boss Cao took the opportunity to explain to them that the new masters in the shop will also make many kinds of lanterns. Mind.

The fairy lanterns made by Qiu Baichen attracted almost everyone in the county to see them. Ordinary people bought fairy lanterns, and many rich families no longer bought lanterns from Fuyuan Lamp Shop, but went to Jinxiu Lamp Shop.This time, Boss Cao not only sold the fairy lanterns, but also attracted the wealthy households who gave the most money to the Jinxiu Lantern Shop, earning a lot of money.

Compared with the previous situation where there were few people, Boss Cao was elated and smiled.And Qiu Baichen was also very happy, because all the money earned from selling fairy lanterns included half of his dividends. With this money, he could have the capital to visit bigger places.

"Master, let's go back together." Wang Xian and Li Chen followed Qiu Baichen and got rewards for selling so many lamps this time.Now Wang Xian and Qiu Baichen live together, He Lanyu lives in another room of the main room, and Wang Xian lives in the place where He Lanyu used to live.

"En." Qiu Baichen packed up his things and went home with his two apprentices.

Nowadays, the use of fairy lanterns has become popular in the entire county. If someone does not have them, children will not have the confidence to go out and play with their friends.And in the East Alley, children already have one for free.

"Brother, don't you think this is fun?" He Lin has already gone to the school in the county to study, and he studies with his husband in the house every day, and doesn't go out to play very much. His skin has turned paler, and he looks fair. Like a little scholar.

Little Chuliu is fat and fat, with small arms like small lotus root segments. Qiu Baichen always wants to take a bite, but he can't say anything to his son, so he can only kiss him, which makes Xiao Chuliu giggle .

He Lin was holding a little fairy lantern with a few little people drawn on it, and when the candle was lit, the little people seemed to be playing together.Xiao Chuliu wanted to reach out to grab these little people when he saw these little people, but his hands were too short to catch them at all, so he was a little unhappy, but before he was ready to cry, he was bouncing around. The villain was completely attracted and watched intently.

He Lanyuzhi was practicing martial arts outside, listening to Xiao Chuliu's movement, Qiu Baichen should have already left work at this time, but he hasn't come back yet, and no one has asked anyone to come back and say what's the matter...

He thought about it, and finally suppressed the urge to go to Qiu Baichen, and continued to wait for him to come back.

But Qiu Baichen did encounter something that he never expected.

He and Li Chen and Wang Xian walked to an alley with few people, and saw a few strong men standing in front of them.The three of them have thin arms and legs, they can't beat this group of strong men at all, and there is no one around, so they can only follow them.

"Take it easy." Qiu Baichen struggled a little bit in pain from being caught by them, and took the opportunity to draw on the wall with the carbon stick that he usually kept in his sleeve.

The strong men were indeed a little lighter, but Qiu Baichen had no chance to make a mark, so he was escorted to the place.

"Let go of Master Qiu!" Fang the shopkeeper of the Fuyuan Lamp shop said hypocritically when he saw the two strong men still twisting Qiu Baichen's arms.Qiu Baichen is a dead dog, but now his situation is not optimistic, and Li Chen and Wang Xian, who can give him courage, have also been taken to other places, leaving him alone to face shopkeeper Fang and a few strong men.

Qiu Baichen was let go, so he sat down according to Shopkeeper Fang's wishes, and looked at him, but he didn't speak when Shopkeeper Fang didn't speak.

"Master Qiu, we Ming people don't talk dark words. Whatever conditions Jinxiu Lantern Shop offers you, our Fuyuan Lantern Shop will give you [-]% bonus, as long as you are willing to come." The Lantern Master is also like this, and the convenience is attracted to him.

"What if I refuse?" Qiu Baichen asked along the way.

"If you don't agree, we'll let you go, but before you go." Shopkeeper Fang waved, and two strong men came over and stood on both sides of Qiu Baichen's back.

"Master Qiu's skillful hands are here to stay."

Qiu Baichen clenched his fists, still looking at Shopkeeper Fang, this man is really interesting, he gave a stick to a sweet date.For a craftsman, hands are the most important thing.He didn't harm people's lives, he just crippled people's hands. Even if the trouble got to the county government, it was just a fine of some money.

Qiu Baichen was a little flustered. As a good boy who obeyed the law, he had never experienced this kind of thing, and he didn't think of any way to deal with it.If it is up to the plan, Shopkeeper Fang will definitely let him sign the contract, which is tantamount to letting him succeed.If he refuses to obey, he may only end up in a dead end, and he can no longer make lamps, so the Jinxiu lamp shop will have to close down in the end.

So Qiu Baichen had only one solution, procrastinating.

"There are only two lamp shops in our Yanglin County. The Fuyuan lamp shop is bigger than the Jinxiu lamp shop, and the business has always been better than the Jinxiu lamp shop. Why does the shopkeeper Fang insist on crowding the Jinxiu lamp shop?" Qiu Baichen said, "They are all folks. , I can't see you when you look up, why bother tearing your face?"

He asked, he didn't expect to get an answer from shopkeeper Fang, but he didn't expect shopkeeper Fang to play cards out of common sense.Maybe he felt that there was nothing to hide about this matter, so he even told Qiu Baichen.

"Yanglin County is just a small county, and a lamp shop is enough." He replied, "Master Qiu's craftsmanship is really good. I showed the lamp you made to our shopkeeper, and he also thought it was good. If Qiu If the master is willing to come to Fuyuan Lantern Shop, I can recommend you to be a lantern master in the shop in Xinfang City."

After hearing what he said, Qiu Baichen sorted out the cause and effect of this incident.It turned out that the Fuyuan Lamp Shop was related to the lamp shop in Xinfang City, maybe it was merged by others, so with financial support, they wanted to squeeze out the Jinxiu Lamp Shop and monopolize the business in Yanglin County.

Qiu Baichen thought that his goal was to open a shop in Xinfang City, not to work for others, but of course he couldn't say such things, so he kept silent.Shopkeeper Fang was older than Boss Cao, and he was not good-looking. After looking at it for a long time, he felt a little hot-eyed, so Qiu Baichen looked around.

It was half an hour since he came.

Qiu Baichen lowered his head, looked at his hands, and thought that if there was really no turning point, he would sign the contract if it really didn't work out, and maybe the next thing could still work.However, even thinking this way, he still couldn't convince himself, so he could only keep silent.

"Master Qiu, I've given it to you for a long time, so you should think it over." After waiting for an hour, shopkeeper Fang couldn't wait any longer, so he waved his hand and let the two strong men do it.

Those two strong men were tall, and their muscles almost tore through their clothes. Qiu Baichen had already experienced their strength just now, and he had no doubt that they would crush themselves if they exerted force.

A strong man took out a dagger and was about to stab Qiu Baichen's hand.Qiu Baichen closed his eyes, thinking whether to compromise, or would rather die than surrender, the dagger touched his hand coldly, making him shiver.

It hurts a little, he thought, or else he'd sign it.Just as he thought this way, he suddenly heard a scream, and when he opened his eyes, the strong man had already rolled his eyes and lay on the ground.

"He Nan..."