Cross-country exchange

It took nearly half a month for Xia Yu to carve a statue of the pig zodiac. Every knife, he tried his best in meditation, carefully and carefully.

In the end, a simple, honest and lovely pig was carved, with two big ears flapping like a fan. Under the pig’s trotters, copper coins of this era were stepped on, and silver bills were carried on its back, like a rich pig who came here with wealth, but The shape is relatively small, originally a palm-sized palm tree, but after Xia Yu carved it carefully, it became a statue as thick as two fingers.

Xia Yu was not too satisfied, because the smaller the wood, the more difficult it would be to carve in the end.If the pig zodiac is like this, what if the dragon zodiac is carved again?

Knowing that Mr. Feng from the handicraft workshop had returned to the county seat, Xia Yu packed up his things a little and rushed to the county seat.

Hearing the news from his servant that Xia Yu was looking for him, Mr. Feng sat in the shop and waited in the morning, drinking the good tea and tasting the jasmine cake bought from Qingshan Dessert Workshop, smiling all over his face. spring breeze.

When Xia Yu came in, he saw that he had been like this all the time, and he seemed to be in a very good mood.After Xia Yu had a few shabby words with him, he took out his finished product of the zodiac, put it on the table and said, "Mr. Feng, to tell you the truth, the set of fancy wooden combs last time is indeed out of stock, but Here is a set of zodiac pictures, I wonder if it can catch Mr. Feng's eyes?"

After all, Xia Yu also took out the drawing, pointed to the pig zodiac in the Chinese zodiac and compared it with the real thing, "This rich pig is just one of them."

Mr. Feng has seen many handmade objects, but he has never seen such a piece that can be carved so that it is more realistic than the one in the portrait.He held the zodiac pig in his hand, played with it, couldn't help but lowered his head and sniffed, and said, "The material is the same as the set of wooden combs last time. If you really can get these twelve combs with different shapes Animals, the material is better than this wood, I think the price can be more than dozens of times. It is a pity to use this material."

Xia Yu muttered in his heart, it's a pity, it's just a pity, besides, these twelve zodiac signs are just appetizers, after he gets the other seven carving knives first, the things he carves will only become more and more exquisite, let alone these Even if he was asked to use jade to carve the little woodcarving of the zodiac signs, it would not be a problem.

As the saying goes, "There is nothing as ingenious as a man, and a guy with seven points in craftsmanship." If you want a good finished product, you have to look at the carving tools.

Mr. Feng weighed it for a while, and then looked at Xia Yu's shining eyes, without beating around the bush, "The things you sent last time saved my face for my son, so I should thank you. If you can really do this for me this time What do you think of the whole set of things, and the last time the price has been doubled by twenty times?"

Twenty times, wouldn't that be almost two or thirty taels of silver.

However, Xia Yu felt that the price was a little less. The patterned wooden comb last time was just a trivial matter, and he could finish it in a few days.Now the twelve zodiac signs are slow work and meticulous work. It will take at least several months to complete, and the number is more than last time. Xia Yu pondered for a moment, "Mr. There's only one set of this thing, I daresay. So at the price—"

Mr. Feng said without blinking, "50 taels."

Xia Yu thought to himself that Mr. Feng was really a local tyrant, and he didn't even blink 50 times.

Mr. Feng thought he was still hesitating, and said, "100 taels."

Xia Yu didn't even think about it, and immediately agreed, "Okay. But there is one more thing I want to ask Mr. Feng to agree to. I only have this one here. You give me three months, no, it is four months, and I will definitely take the other ten. A statue for you."

Mr. Feng also liked this rich pig very much. He played with it in his hand and didn't want to return it. Hearing what Xia Yu said, he immediately agreed.

Xia Yu struggled a bit, and then said, "Mr. Feng, I have a merciless request."

Mr. Feng still has a good impression of Xia Yu, not only because he won the first prize at the appraisal meeting last time, but also Feng Yang has been whispering in his ear that Xia Yu sometimes comes to help when he is away these days, he Looking at the pig statue in his hand, he nodded and said, "Speak directly."

Xia Yu stared at the pig zodiac in his hand for a while, and then said, "Mr. Feng, I'm a little tight recently. I'll leave this statue with you for safekeeping. Can you pay me first—"

Mr. Feng knew something about Xia Yu's family, so he didn't say much, he just ordered, "Feng Yang, go and get 20 taels of silver and give it to Mr. Xia."

"Okay, son."

Xia Yu packed 20 taels of silver in his bag, thinking about the other seven carving knives, so he turned directly to Ruoshu's blacksmith shop on the street.

"Brother Ruoshu."

Tie Ruoshu had a headache when he heard this voice, and he didn't know how many times his father told him about Xia Yu's eight carving knives.When Xia Yu used a tael of silver to get the carving knife back then, he happened to be in time and didn't meet his father, otherwise he really didn't know how it would end.

"Hehehe, little brother met again."

Xia Yu took out five taels of silver, put it on the table of Tie Ruoshu's house, and said with a smile on his face, "Brother Ruoshu, I will pay the five taels of silver as a deposit first, and please do my other seven or eight carving knives as well."

Tie Ruoshu stared at the money on the table in astonishment, neither accepting it nor not accepting it.He also thought that the boy had no money to buy the remaining seven knives, and he secretly rejoiced, so when Xia Yu came to pick up the knives last time, he didn't say anything, he just thought it was his bad luck and made a loss-making business.Now Xia Yu is here again, something he never expected.

Seeing his troubled expression, Xia Yu couldn't help asking, "Brother Ruoshu, what's the trouble?"

Tie Ruoshu scratched his head anxiously, and turned around in his room several times. Compared with the truth and his father's stick, Tie Ruoshu chose the former, "Brother Xia Yu, to tell you the truth, it's not that I don't want to be like you." It's a business, but last time I didn't understand your knife, the method was too complicated, and the price quoted to you was wrong. After I came back, my father beat me up, so there was really no way to accept it. "

Xia Yu was silent for a moment, and then took out two taels of silver from the bag, "Brother Ruoshu, 12 taels of silver is already my limit, so you should consider it a favor for me."

Another two taels of silver was raised, Tie Ruo agreed immediately, and took Xia Yu's deposit of seven taels of silver, feeling very happy. He believed that this time his father would definitely not complain anymore.

Xia Yu also felt a little pained, the money was spent like running water, and the burden that was still bulging in the blink of an eye immediately deflated. 20 When he got the taels of silver, he immediately went to seven taels of silver, and when he got the other seven carving knives, he had to pay another four taels of silver.In his own family, he was not even willing to buy twenty cents a catty of pork to eat.

"Don't come here, I'll call someone if you come here again." A weak voice was mixed with a trembling vibrato.

As soon as Xia Yu turned the corner, he saw five or six burly men surrounding a shorter brother on a remote path, forcing him to the corner.Xia Yu understood that it was because he was forced to rob his brother.

"Boy, I warn you, don't meddle in your own business, get the hell out of here immediately."

As soon as Xia Yu, an outsider, broke in, everyone looked at him, including the besieged little brother.

"Help me—"

Xia Yu saw that the little brother was shaking from fright, his eyes were red but he managed not to shed a tear.He nodded towards the group of county tyrants and backed out again.

Before leaving, he glanced at the little brother, and saw him biting his lip tightly, with a look of despair on his face.

"Stop yelling, if you yell again, no one will come here, my little brother should just obediently let Grandpa have a good time before we talk about it."

"If you come again, I can, but I will die in front of you immediately."

Just when a group of people were anxiously arguing about who should go first, Xia Yu quickly ran towards the corner with a thick stick, one stick at a time, fast and hard, almost beating the surrounding people by surprise, and succeeded He rushed in quickly, grabbed the little brother's hand and ran out.

"Fuck, beat the kid."

Xia Yu had dragged him for quite a while, but this brother couldn't run anymore, and gradually a group of people caught up with him. Facing a group of villains, Xia Yu also stared at the few men in front of him fiercely. One person tightened the stick in his hand and said to the little brother behind him, "When I fight them later, you run to an iron shop on the street and hide for a while before talking."

Xie Yun bit his lips tightly, and said softly, "Then what should you do?"

Xia Yu didn't have time to return to him, so he just said, "Run." He rushed over with his whole body, picking five or six big men by himself.

Xie Yun was so anxious that he was on the verge of crying, he tried to hold back his tears, and in a hurry saw Xia Yu's bag that Xia Yu had lost just now because of saving him, so he ran away with the bag in his arms.

Several people saw Xie Yun run away and wanted to chase them, but Xia Yu beat them back with a stick.Fortunately, Xia Yu had tools in his hands, and he used them skillfully in the fight. He took a few kicks on his body, but there was no skin trauma.

On the contrary, the rest of them fell to the ground and wailed. Xia Yu hit them hard, hitting their joints with each stick, and they screamed in pain.

Xia Yu was also in pain. This fight is definitely different from beating Cao Bingchen in the village.It's just that after he finished the fight, when he looked back, he found that he didn't know where he had lost his luggage. There were more than ten taels of silver in the luggage. He searched around but couldn't find it. .When he got home, Xia Yu lied that he had left the burden in the handicraft workshop, and he would pick it up when he went back to the county next time.

Xie Yun ran all the way, and when he reached the corner of the street, he found that there was no iron shop at all. After asking a lot, he found out that the iron shop was on another street. He had gone astray.When I looked back, no one was there at the place just now. I was a little worried about Xia Yu, but also a little apprehensive. When I was still in shock, I decided to go home first.

Having lost his burden and silver, Xia Yu came back without saying a word, and immediately devoted himself to carving, the second carving was a sheep.In fact, sheep are relatively easy to carve, and the part that needs to be carefully carved is the horn.Xia Yu kept his head buried for several days, and by the time he carved out the outline, his eyes were red and his whole body was smelly.

The grandma of the Xia family took off her clean clothes and pushed him out to take a bath before talking. Then she asked Xia Yu to bring some things to Li Zhuang to visit her little brother who was engaged.

After returning, Xia Yu continued to carve the sheep, but he didn't expect that when he was about to finish carving the sheep, he would be beaten violently.

"You brat, what have you done? I'll beat you to death." The grandmother of the Xia family greeted her kid with a stick, and the stick hit Xia Yu's back, almost knocking him down. go down.

The sheep that Xia Yu finally carved were almost destroyed, and he retorted angrily, "Grandma, you have to give me a reason for beating me."

The grandmother of the Xia family was too angry to speak, she just kept chasing and beating Xia Yu.Xia Yu wanted to resist, but he thought that the other party was his grandma, so he could only hide, and was beaten several times on his hands and legs.

"Grandma, what are you doing, put it down quickly, you see that my little brother is about to be beaten to death by you." Xia Bing didn't know what happened. early.

The grandma of the Xia family was stopped before she regained consciousness a little bit. She dropped the stick and sat on the ground crying loudly, "What crime did I do to raise such a worthless kid?"

Xia Yu was beaten for no reason, and stood aside with a sullen face, thinking that something serious must have happened, and wanted to comfort Grandma, but felt that his going up like this would only add fuel to the flames, so he gave him a wink.

After Xia Bing coaxed her for a long time, she managed to coax Xia's grandma down. After asking, she found out that Li's brother was pregnant! ! !