Yipin Farmer

Ting Shuang took her family to clean up the ruins of the fire site for nearly a month, and obtained twenty or thirty pieces of gold and silver wares such as gold and silver spoons, silver chopsticks, silver candlesticks, golden bowls, and Jin Ruyi from the fine material storehouse. The shape is changed, but the gold remains gold.

In the jewelry library, I found two gold necklaces inlaid with gemstones, about 20 taels, and dozens of gold and silver jewelry such as gold and silver bracelets, gold hairpins and silver hairpins.She picked more than one bucket of unburnt pearls, but unfortunately none of them were available, Ting Shuang scratched her head and was reluctant to throw them away, planning to turn them into pearl powder for Xiaolan, Dayingzi and the others to wipe their faces.The amber was also burned, so it had to be sold to the pharmacy.However, there are still some jadeite gems and tourmalines left, and there are several pieces of jadeite Ruyi jade decorations, but unfortunately all of them have been destroyed.The top-quality pipa was burnt out, but the jade pipa head was still in good condition. This one was re-polished and sold for other items.

The utensil library has obtained a lot of copper pots, copper foot furnaces, copper plates, copper candlesticks, and tin and iron wares. Some are okay, and some are burnt out.

There are not many intact wooden utensils in the wooden utensil warehouse. Ting Shuang asked Ping An to sort out the red sandalwood, rosewood, nanmu and mahogany, and the rest should be used as firewood.

The fur clothes storehouse is not much better, there is not a single complete piece of clothing left, all of them have been burnt to pieces, the only difference is that some have more and some have less.Ting Shuang had seen Shenjian Zhang wear a very beautiful leather jacket, and asked about it, it was actually made of the fur of the fox's claw heart. For a good cobbler, there is no scrap of any leather, just put together the fur of the fox's leg or the fox's claw heart , the pattern is well put together, and the lines are aligned along the fur and against the fur, so that it looks like a whole piece of leather. A skilled craftsman can sew a piece of leather without a small copper coin into a leather jacket, and it is also very beautiful.

The leftover fur coats burned in the fire, some were fox fur and some were sable. Although they were not intact, Ting Shuang decided to keep them and let skilled craftsmen make fur coats, sell them or wear them by themselves. Used when hunting.

The porcelain warehouse is miserable. In "A Dream of Red Mansions", a kiln bell that can buy a house and land is broken into pieces, and the gold is still gold when it is smashed, but even the best fine porcelain is smashed, leaving only scum.After searching for a long time, I picked out a stack of porcelain plates that were barely intact and usable.

The library of calligraphy and painting is even worse. None of them are intact. Judging from the broken pieces, there are many treasures and historical sites. From the inscriptions, there are also Tang Bohu’s authentic works. , After thinking about it for a long time, I was still reluctant to throw it away, and put away the fragments, hoping that future generations can benefit from it.

Ting Shuang put the gold, silver, gemstone, pearl and bronze wares into boxes by categories, and began to think of ways to develop their added value.With this amount, not only the money owed to the historian can be paid off in one lump sum, but also all the money to open a shop in the city is available.

"Brother..." Xiao Lan flew into Ting Shuang's arms like a bird, "I haven't come home for so many days, do you know how much they miss you? I hate it."

Ting Shuang threw her up and caught her again. After playing with her for a while, she said, "Doesn't Xiaolan want to share the family's worries?"

"Yes, yes." Xiaolan nodded repeatedly.

"I'll find you a job, and you can earn some money." Ting Shuang took out a large bag of things from the basket. The job he found for Xiaolan to make money was stringing beads.

Some jade and jade furnishings in the pawn shop were smashed and burned, and they were no longer usable. He took the broken jade ruyi, jade cabbage, white jade mountain, agate plate, etc. to the jade craftsman, and asked him to grind them into jade bracelets or jade hairpins. Or hat decorations, small fragments are ground into small pendants, such as Fu Lu Shou, lotus, Buddha head, Jade Guanyin, Pixiu, etc., and the smaller ones are ground into beads of different sizes.The pieces of nanmu he picked out were also polished into beads, and he took the beads home for Xiaolan to string together.Xiaolan clapped her hands happily when she saw so many beautiful red and green beads.She has always loved beauty, and she has studied these things quite a bit. That night, she prepared silk threads to braid and string beads.

"I'll pay you ten cents for wearing a string. You can match the size, shape, red and green, so that it will be beautiful." Ting Shuang instructed her.

Those red sandalwood furniture could not be repaired, so he sent them to carpentry craftsmen to carve ruyi or small decorations, and the good wood of rosewood rosewood, which was only half burnt, was pulled over to Tuesday Gen, a carpenter in the city, so that he could assemble it into other furniture. wooden pieces.There is also a set of hardwood carved round tables and stools with marble tops. Some are broken, but the marble tops are still there.Ting Shuang thought about it, and took it home and put it on a wooden pier to use as a table.

The leftover high-end clothing materials were distributed to Aunt Zhou, Aunt Li, Aunt Zhu, and the others, and they could make clothes or small mattresses for children.

The best fox fur coat was burnt and there was only half of it left. I asked Zhang Daquan's wife to put the fur together and sew some leather muffs or padded fur hats for Xiaolan and the others.

Of course, these are small things, and Ting Shuang's most important thing is the gold and gems.Take it out at night and browse and scrub under the lamp, thinking about how to maximize their value.

Baoqi got up from the kang: "Why don't you sleep? Are you not tired after busy these days?"

Ting Shuang looked at a piece of fine jadeite to the light, and said: "I won't be tired when I touch the gold. Now I can completely understand why Grandet's eyes are shining like a tiger jumping on a sleeping baby, and he is about to die." It can also burst out with amazing power.”

"Who is Grandet?"

"You don't know this man. He loves gold, plunders desperately, and is good at management, so he became a multi-millionaire, and a house is filled with gold." Ting Shuang continued to ponder with the emerald in his hand. "It's a pity that this jade bracelet is broken into three pieces. I'll find someone to inlay it with silver. It's also very beautiful, so I can sell it for money."

Baoqi glanced at the things in his hand, and said: "Fool, that is the best green jadeite. It's a pity to set it with silver. It should be set with gold to be more valuable."

"Oh yes, Xiaobao, you're quite an expert in jewelry." Ting Shuang was very surprised, and took out another ruby, which was blackened by smoke. He washed it many times before it barely revealed its luster, "What do you think this is suitable for?" ?”

Baoqi took it over and looked at it: "It can be inlaid into pearl flowers. Didn't you pick pearls?"

"There are pearls, but it's a pity that they are all blackened. I plan to give them to the third child. He likes to pound powder. Let him make pearl powder and make it into face cream for Dayingzi and the others. The second child thinks that Dayingzi looks mediocre. In fact, Dayingzi Yingzi is a nice person, but she just has some pimples on her face, she is still very beautiful after treatment, the second child is too picky."

Baoqi became interested and asked him: "This time you have collected at least six or seventy taels of gold, right? I think you even stripped off the gilded and gold-plated utensils."

Thinking of Ting Shuang's bright eyes and scraping the golden skin with a knife, Baoqi smiled slightly.

"It's enough to build a house and open a shop in the city. Even if it's not enough, there are still some precious stones, copper and silverware that can be sold." Baoqi calculated the accounts for him.

Ting Shuang showed contempt: "How can gold be priced by weight?"

"If you don't weigh by two pounds, what else do you want?"

"In addition to the value of gold itself, there is added value, understand? Do you know what added value is? You can tell from your bewildered look that you don't understand." Ting Shuang took out two gold bracelets, one in the shape of a garlic stick , about two taels in weight, and one is a shrimp whisker bracelet, which weighs less than seven coins.

"These two bracelets are light and heavy, but the light one is more valuable. Why do you say?"

"Of course this light one is finely crafted." Baoqi replied without thinking.

"Yes." Ting Shuang looked carefully at the shrimp whisker bracelet in her hand again. She had read in old metallurgical documents that ancient goldsmiths could press gold extremely thin, down to one half a millionth of a millimeter.It is also possible to draw a penny of gold into a filament 50 meters long.Now he has seen the real thing with his own eyes. This shrimp whisker bracelet is woven with gold threads as thin as shrimp whiskers into the style of double dragons playing beads. The dragon heads are held together, and there is a bead in the middle. extreme.It fully embodies the superb craftsmanship of ancient Chinese craftsmen.

In terms of large-scale industry, modern people are stronger, but compared with handicrafts, modern people whose hands-on ability is getting worse and worse are not as good as ancient craftsmen. Girls who can't even mend their socks can only stare blankly.

This shrimp whisker bracelet was the only gold artifact that survived the fire. It was wrapped in an exquisite box, and it was not damaged. The beads were also crystal clear, shaking slightly in the mouth of the dragon.The more Ting Shuang looked at it, the more she fell in love with it, and said: "This bracelet weighs seven coins, but it is worth at least seven taels of gold, because apart from the gold itself, the artistic value contained in the handwork is more precious, and this is the added value of the item."

Baoqi curled her lips: "Isn't it just that the ones with fine workmanship are more expensive, and the ones with ordinary workmanship are cheaper, and those with no added value."

"The red sandalwood cabinet is burnt out, you have to throw it away as firewood, but it is worth a little money to polish the unburned part into Ruyi and small ornaments, and those copper utensils are not as good as making copper pieces." Bronze wares are valuable, which is also called added value."

Ting Shuang held the bracelet and admired it endlessly: "This bracelet is so exquisite, I really don't want to sell it. It's not bad to keep it as a token of love when I marry my wife."

Huh?Why is it so cold?

Oh, Baoqi exudes the cold air that freezes people to death.Well, he did a lot of work digging through the garbage this time, but it didn't pay off. No wonder he was angry.Ting Shuang hurriedly said: "When you marry a wife, I have already made money, and I will make you a more beautiful bracelet for your daughter-in-law."

The cold air was getting worse, Baoqi's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, like a high-power air conditioner radiating cold air, Ting Shuang shrank her neck, put away the gold, silver and precious stones and slept under the quilt.

The family was very happy to know that Ting Shuang had dug through the trash to find the funds to open the store.Qi Chongyu sent servants to send driving stickers, which brought the family's joy to the climax.

Qi Chongyu wrote a manuscript to the province and reported the fire on the Lantern Festival. Fortunately, only the house was burned and there were no major casualties. Ninth grade official title.He also engraved his name gorgeously on the Jeongseon Pavilion of the county government to commend his good deeds.

Ting Hui was overjoyed, and sent the servants a sum of money for running errands, and said to his family: "Look, Dad used to complain that we were not up to date, that we couldn't get an official position to honor our ancestors, no, big brother is now an official, let's The family is no longer white."

Ting Shuang was not as happy as he was, and said, "Ninth Rank Official seems... oh, it is indeed the smallest official position."

Ting Zhi smiled and said, "Brother, how much higher position do you want? Below the seventh rank is a miscellaneous official, and above the seventh rank is a Zhengyin official. It is for those who have studied hard in the poor window and got the honor. If you want it, you have to Only the imperial court will issue a decree to reward you. Big brother, if you work harder, if your deeds can reach the heavens, you will be able to get the official position of Zhengyin."

Tingzhi wrote four characters with a pen in high spirits: "Nine Grade Farmer".I plan to find a piece of good wood, carve it out and hang it on the lintel to show off in the village.

Ting Shuang looked at the four characters and curled her lips: "You'd better wait until I become a first-class farmer before engraving the plaque."

It is said that people are refreshed on happy occasions, Ting Shuang is a person who has gold and is refreshed, and he is not too tired. He makes plans and draws drawings under the lamp at night, and goes to the city to find silver craftsmen in the city during the day to remelt the waste gold and silver into various pieces. Gold and silver jewellery, inlaid with precious stone beads.And Xiaoye went to buy saplings from fruit tree growers, as well as the pear saplings grown at home last year, and let Xiaoye take these saplings to the river and they planted them in front of the house, behind the house and in the gaps in the field. Willows are best planted alive. What to do, Ting Shuang inserted willow sticks in the middle of the deer fence outside the house to form a circle, planning to expand the deer fence.He also asked Pingan and Tingqiu to ask the price of chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep, and then they went to buy them.

After the gold and silver jewelry was laid, they were sent to the Honghuo store to sell. The money was used to open the shop. The ruins of the pawn shop had been cleaned up. Ting Shuang ran to find craftsmen to build a house. Shi Jie also asked acquaintances to contact cheaper bricks Tile and a skilled painter.The carpentry work was outsourced to Zhou Ergen, and he found a trusted carpenter to be responsible for the carpentry work of the house.It was very exciting for Tue Gen to take over the work, which was a huge amount of income. He ran around immediately, worked as a supervisor and worked very hard.

The days of counting gold passed quickly, and the house was built quickly when he had money. Ting Shuang was so happy that he couldn't sleep. He was busy building a house in the city and supervising the construction. Seeing that the house was about to be built, something serious happened in the village.

Since the beginning of spring, there has been a severe drought in the village. The tributaries of the Wei River flow through several villages in Changping County, Shanggang Village, Weishui Village, Tongbai Village, Sanhua Village and Dazhuang Village. Because there has been no rain for a long time, all The green has lost its vitality.

The wasteland opened by Meng’s family was low-lying, and there were still some water in a few puddles. Tinghui and Xiaoye carried the water to the field with their shoulders. The crops were still fresh, and the crops on other dry land in the village began yellowing.The villagers were so anxious that their hearts were on fire. Out of habit and instinct, they still worked hard on the dying crops. This is the life they watered with blood and sweat. If they don't water them, these lives will be in danger.

No one in the village had a smile on their faces, including the children who used pots, jars and even eating bowls to scoop water from the river that was about to dry up and pour it into the ground. This was not only saving crops, but also saving lives...

The people in the village became angry in anxiety and helplessness. They hated the upstream villages for intercepting the water that sustains them, and then turned this anger on the county magistrate. As the head of a county, what did he do? Why did he let these water tyrants as.The county magistrate was too far away, and people's anger turned to Li Zheng Li Changfu. His family has been the head of Sanhua Village for four generations. What is he doing?Isn't he a rare strongman in the village?When I was young, I dared to go out of the village and go to a strange place to work hard to earn money. On weekdays, I taught my juniors a set of tricks. Now I pretend to be a grandson. Why don’t I settle accounts with the people in the upstream village, why don’t I ask the county magistrate?

An unknown fire started and burned on Ting Shuang's head. This kid has studied and is the only person in the village with an official title. He can also talk to the county magistrate, but at this juncture, he only cares about building his family in the city. Anyway, most of his land is low-lying irrigated land, and he can still keep a little harvest, but he doesn't care about the lives of others.

Selfish guy.