The ancient life of a master craftsman

Brother Xue and the others packed up their things and put them in the storage room, and they didn't dare to keep them any longer. After all, the three of them were still unmarried brothers, so they went home after talking to Yunli.

Brother Qing returned home humming an untuned song with a little joy, "Mom, I'm back!"

Mrs. Liu responded, "I'm back, there are marinated eggs on the pot, mother will get you two."

"Hey, mother, why do you still make marinated eggs?"

Brother Qing followed him into the kitchen. His family was not too hard-pressed before, but because there were three older brothers in the family, a large sum of money was needed to get married, and the family had already saved money for three or four years. Marry a wife.

Brother Qing's eldest brother is in his twenties, but he has only been engaged to someone, and has never married because the family has no house. The second and third brothers are also for this reason, and they don't even have a betrothed person.

Brother Qing worked so hard to sell hair accessories before, because he wanted to save money for his brothers to marry wives.But when his three elder brothers all joined the Liu family's factory, he would not feel so urgent.

There was a relaxed smile on Mrs. Liu's face, "Hey, isn't it because your father is tired after going to the ground, so he just wants to eat this one? I was thinking about making a pot and serving it to Lao Yun's family, Li Zi's family, and Lao Wu Both the family and the Zhang family will send some."

Brother Qing smelled the fragrance coming out of the pot, and his mouth watered so much, "Mother, hurry up and serve me two, it's so delicious."

Mrs. Liu scooped up two of the most delicious stewed eggs, put them in a small bowl, and filled them with half a spoonful of stewed soup, "Take it, eat slowly, there is still more."

"Hey!" Brother Qing happily took the bowl and ate it.

Mrs. Liu looked at the sky, set up another pot, and prepared to cook some porridge, "Brother Qing, after you finish eating, help your mother deliver the eggs. Are you staying at home or going to Lizi's place today?"

Brother Qing bit the egg, and the white had turned brown, with a salty aroma. He soaked the yolk in the soup and ate it later. The yolk also infiltrated the flavor of the stewed soup, so he didn't choke at all.

"I'm staying at home. There are guests at Lizi's house. Brother Xue and Brother Yu and I will go home and live there. We will talk about it after the guests leave." Brother Qing replied while eating deliciously.

Mrs. Liu, who was serving the porridge, was a little worried, "Why don't you ask brother Xue and the two to come and live with us, his eldest daughter-in-law is having trouble recently."

"Come on, brother Yu is not afraid of her, just knows that she is making trouble, brother Yu will definitely go back and deal with her." Brother Qing said nonchalantly.

Although the little brother is not as good as a woman in terms of childbearing, he is stronger than a woman. Brother Yu is not a spoiled child, and he has no problem dealing with a lazy woman like his sister-in-law.

Brother Yu actually came home every day recently. His sister-in-law made a lot of trouble, and if he didn't treat her, he didn't even know his last name.

As soon as Mrs. Liu thought that Brother Yu was already engaged, Zhang Song was very concerned that Brother Yu was so special, and it would be fine if Brother Yu was a bit more powerful, so he didn't worry about it.

"Is there another visitor from Lizi's house? Is it Boss Liu?" Mrs. Liu looked at the pot, opened it, sprinkled a handful of millet, and quickly copied and opened it.

"Well, Boss Liu came with his uncle and a friend. I saw that something was going on at his friend's house, so I took the initiative to say that I want to go home so that they can live in Lizi's house."

Brother Qing asked for a coincidence, "Mother, I am smart!"

"Smart, my brother Qing is the smartest." Liu immediately boasted that her little brother was clever and sensible since she was a child, and she was very proud of her. right."

"Hey, it's good to be taught by my mother, otherwise I wouldn't be so smart~" Brother Qing finished eating two eggs, and his stomach was full, "Mother, I'm done eating, you can fill it up for me, I to deliver."

"Well, let's rest for a while, and then stew it for more flavor." Liu lifted the pot of marinated eggs and took a look, and asked Brother Qing to rest for a while.

His family is quite quiet now, the three older brothers are living in the factory and come back only once every six days, and his father loves to run in the fields during the day, so he hasn't come back yet.

Only their mother and son were left, and Brother Qing moved a bench and sat near Mrs. Liu, talking about recent events with his mother.

On the other side, Zhao Ping'an and Li Enbai got to know each other after being polite to each other. Because he was very interested in Huaimu Village, Li Enbai took him around the village.

Everyone in the village knew Liu Mingxi's appearance. When the four of them appeared together, the passing villagers all enthusiastically joined in.

"Boss Liu, come over to play again? Come to our house for dinner when you have time. There are several chickens in the house, waiting for you to come and taste it!" Go over there!" "Boss Liu..."

Everyone is very enthusiastic about Liu Mingxi, but they are not obsequious, and some people bring eggs, fish, and vegetables from home and stuff them directly to him.

Liu Mingxi could only thank you one by one, and politely refused if he couldn't take it down. Thank you for your kindness. After sending the things and talking to Liu Mingxi, the villagers didn't bother, but let Liu Mingxi and Li Enbai can wander around smoothly.

Some ten-year-old children are very clever. Seeing that they are holding too many things in their hands and it is difficult to walk, they boldly ran over and said, "Boss Liu, let's take you to Brother Li's house." Bar!"

Liu Mingxi was worrying about what to do with these things, and the children's initiative was a solution for him, "Then thank you all, after sending them over, let Liu Chong give each of you two pieces of snacks to eat."

The children quickly shook their heads, "No, no, Boss Liu, my brother is working in the factory. When I grow up, I will go too!"

Liu Mingxi looked into their expectant eyes and could only say, "Then you have to work hard, just like your brothers, and you can come to work in the factory when you pass the selection when you are old."

"Hey!" The children seemed to have received some praise, and they took their things and ran away happily.

Zhao Pingan was thoughtful, "It seems that Chang Le is very admired here, is it because of that factory? I haven't seen it before, can you show me around?"

Liu Mingxi glanced at Li Enbai, "Of course, let's go, I just haven't visited for a long time."

After the completion of the pencil factory, Liu Chuncheng only saw the pencils produced and the profit books.

When they arrived at the factory, Liu Mingxi found that the factory seemed to have expanded a bit, about one-third larger than before.

Li Enbai knocked on the door, and there was a special person on duty at the door, seeing him, "Guard Li, are you here today?"

"Well, Uncle Jiang, I'll bring the boss over to have a look, please open the door."

Because Li Enbai had to provide technology and often came to check the quality of the workers' work, he assumed the title of a supervisor in the factory.

The people who guard the gate are specially looking for old people without children in the village, and there are also a few old beggars who have raised small beggars in the town.

They were more grateful to Li Enbai who offered to recruit him than to Liu Mingxi, but they were also very excited to see the boss.

He hurriedly opened the door and stretched out his clothes uncomfortably, wanting to impress the boss, Liu Mingxi took a look, the overalls were neatly dressed, and the person looked clean and neat, he couldn't help showing a satisfied expression.

Li Enbai led them to the busy workshop. The first one was for processing wood, breaking down the whole wood into suitable sizes and lengths, and then entering the second process.

The second room is for mixing lead cores, and there are people outside the door. The workers in this room wear a piece of cloth to cover their mouths and noses, stirring the dark things, and the lead cores are dried in the inner room.

The dried lead cores will be uniformly sent to the third room after a period of time, where the lead cores and lead rods will be assembled together to become the final finished product.

Before leaving work every day, everyone has to wait until the finished products in the house are taken away and put into the warehouse before going to work for dinner.

This was the initial process. Later, Li Enbai expanded the factory a bit, subdivided each step into two steps, and recruited some workers in the village. Now it looks more rigorous and orderly, and everyone is responsible for their own process. very skilled.

It was the first time for Zhao Pingan to see what his father called the 'assembly line'. It was indeed much easier to manage and very orderly.

"Is this the management method that Linfeng came up with?" Zhao Pingan picked out a pencil and compared it with the other, and found that the two pencils were exactly the same no matter what angle they looked at, and those with flaws were picked out come out.

"Chang Le and I figured it out. Fortunately, the result was okay, so we kept using it." Li Enbai did not forget to bring Liu Mingxi along.

Liu Mingxi said generously, "Actually, it's Linfeng's idea, I just try it with him."

Zhao Pingan put down his pencil, "You two don't have to be modest, you two are young talents who can come up with such a good idea."

I don't know if it's because he followed his father and king to meet all kinds of ghosts and snakes since he was a child, Zhao Pingan unconsciously revealed a distant and official tone when speaking.

That's why Liu Mingxi didn't like him. Although it's natural for him to be the grandson of the great emperor, Zhao Pingan's tone of voice when he said that we should be friends makes people very uncomfortable.

Zhao Pingan also knew that he had made a slip of the tongue, but he didn't know what to say to make up for it, so he glanced at Liu Mingxi with a little bewilderment in his eyes.

Li Enbai is older and has seen more things than them. He will not be unhappy with Zhao Ping'an's tone, and joked, "Young talents can't be called, after all, I have already married, and you two Teenagers are different."

Liu Ming beat him angrily, "Are you still proud?!"

Zhao Pingan also laughed, "It's true, Linfeng has completed his family and career, which makes people really envious."

Liu Mingxi spat, "Bah! It means that Lizi didn't see his true face, otherwise, it would be very difficult for him to hug her husband back."

"Hey, hey, hey! The blood is spitting out."

The atmosphere eased as they joked with each other, and Zhao Ping'an also relaxed a lot, and he also had a good impression of Li Enbai.