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Chapter 24 Yan Laojiao and Yan Shihua

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Since he handed over the ice fishing technique to Zhao Lu, Zhu Lang has been completely liberated. He slept until midnight every day, and after he had enough, he got up and ate. After he finished his meal, he leaned on the chair, baked on the fire and lay on the chair and watched a bunch of people in the yard working.

Zhu Lang, I invited a pair of grandparents and grandchildren to my home to buy furniture. You should know that the bed where Zhu Lang's family slept is not the bed from the Ming Dynasty. The bed from the Ming Dynasty was mostly a kind of shelf bed.

There are columns at all four corners of the shelf bed. The typical Ming Dynasty characteristic bed surface is thin in front and thick in the back, and the fences are installed on the left and back parts of the bed. The fences are mostly assembled with small wood as a mortise to form straight lines. There are three large panels on the front of the bed, called "Yuedong Bed". There are covers on the top, commonly known as "Chengchen". There are two columns on the front of the bed with a roof rack on the upper part of the bed, so it is called "Shelf Bed".

This type of shelf is very expensive and ordinary people cannot afford it.

In the Ming Dynasty, the people in the north sleep in kangs and in the south, the place where they sleep is a mat. The difference from the bed is that the so-called mat does not have a wooden structure, and the mat is made of hay under the mat. A layer of mat is laid on the grass, which is where the farmers sleep.

But now that he has money, Zhu Lang wants to sleep on a bed, and there is nothing to do during this period, so Zhu Lang talks about his desire to make furniture to Aunt Wang. The furniture construction made Aunt Wang frown slightly because Aunt Wang is relatively unique and has no special interaction with the surrounding villagers. Otherwise, Aunt Wang would not have gone out to borrow money after his grandson's head was smashed.

However, although Aunt Wang is a little unique, Erxiang is different. Erxiang used to be ground and sold tofu. This is the businessman. If you want to do business, you must go through the villages and counties. Therefore, Erxiang is very familiar with the villages around the foot of the green mountain.

As soon as she heard that Zhu Lang wanted to build furniture, she immediately told her that a pair of grandparents came from Yanjia Village. The grandfather was named Yan Laojue, the granddaughter was named Yan Shihua, the grandfather was fifty-five, and the granddaughter was fourteen... Five years ago, there was a famine in Yanjia Village. The old man's wife starved to death, and the granddaughter's parents also starved to death. Now Yan Laojue and his granddaughter Yan Shihua depend on each other for life.

Erxiang used to give the remaining tofu to two people, and Yan Laojue often helped Erxiang. Yan Shihua, Dagou and Ergou were also playmates before. This time, as soon as Zhu Lang said he wanted to find someone to make furniture, Erxiang immediately thought of these two people.

With Erxiang's introduction, Yan Laojue and Yan Shihua soon arrived at the Zhu family. However, what Yan Laojue and Yan Shihua couldn't believe was that when they arrived at the Zhu family, they had nothing to talk about, and the Zhu family brought out two bowls of steaming noodles.

The noodles are made of white noodles, each of which is crystal clear. A handful of tender green chopped green onions are sprinkled on top of the noodles. As the noodles are heated, the fragrance of chopped green onions is also stimulated.

The fragrance directly made Yan Laojue and Yan Shihua, the grandson, swallowed the overflowing saliva in their mouths. You know, Yan Laojue and Yan Shihua have not eaten white noodles for about four or five years. Why... because carpenter skills are useless in the village. In this year when there is no food, how many people can have free money to make furniture.

This grandfather and grandson usually rely on odd jobs for others to work. Maybe you will say, why not farm? Zhu Yuanzhang encouraged farming, but an old man and a little girl, you tell me how to farm. Farming is physical work, requires livestock, rice seeds, and more importantly, it also needs fields... Yan Laojue also assigned the fields, but the fields he assigned were land at the foot of the green mountains. Those lands were poor land and could not grow grain at all. He would keep his heart in this field without eating or drinking for a year. The final result was that the grain planted was not even enough to pay taxes, so what kind of planting?

In order to survive, Yan Laojue and his granddaughter Yan Shihua have been buying rice bran to eat. Many people should not know what rice bran is. This rice bran is the shell of the grain. It is very sharp and rough, and has no nutrition. It is difficult for the human stomach to digest. Now, even if you give it to the pig, you have to crush it before feeding it. You can't imagine how they swallow it.

Apart from eating rice bran, they are digging wild vegetables. Do you think cabbage can be afforded by everyone?

Don’t joke, most poor people in the Ming Dynasty went to the mountains to dig bracken... In "Compendium of Materia Medica", this plant contains a lot of starch and can be eaten as food. It is what we call wild vegetables, but it has a bitter taste.

Of course, for Yan Laojue and Yan Shihua at that time, some of them were good to eat, and they didn’t pay attention to various seasonings at all. How delicious it was, as long as you could eat enough, many of them were cooked directly from the white water and wild vegetables.

So when the grandfather and grandson saw Aunt Wang and Erxiang bring noodles to their grandfather and grandson all night, they really showed an expression of incredible belief.

"Child...eat...eat...eat...the mutton was eaten yesterday, and today I will give you a bowl of clear noodle soup. However, I lie two poached eggs in it. After eating, my grandson will tell you what furniture to make and how much money to give you.

Okay, okay... eat quickly...!" Aunt Wang smiled.

Finally, the grandfather and grandson started to eat the noodles in the bowl in a total shock. It was really delicious. The first time the grandson and grandson felt that the food they ate was so delicious. Although it was just clear soup noodles, there were two poached eggs in each lie.

If you let yourself die directly after eating this bowl of noodles, then Yan Laojue and Yan Shihua might have agreed without hesitation.

"Delicious, delicious..." Yan Laojue said it was delicious while eating the noodles. When he was eating the poached eggs, he also picked up one of the two poached eggs from his bowl and put them in his granddaughter's bowl.

However, Yan Shihua, who was on the other side, was immersed in the noodles and poached eggs. The grandfather and grandson finished eating the noodles and poached eggs in one breath. After each of them burped in satisfaction, they smiled happily together.

However, this is not the end. Later, when the grandfather and grandson came to Zhu Lang, Zhu Lang asked what kind of furniture they would make, and directly ordered six shelves, three dressing tables, two desks and ten chairs from them... These things were all provided by Zhu Lang, and Yan Laojue and Yan Shihua worked. Yan Laojue and Yan Shihua were temporarily living in Zhu Lang's house, three meals a day, with rice and meat every meal.

After all the furniture is finished, I will give this grandfather and grandson a total of 3,000 texts...!

Both Yan Laojue and his grandson were very happy and immediately bent down to express their gratitude to Zhu Lang. Yan Laojue kept making a promise and said that he would definitely make the best furniture for Mr. Zhu. Zhu Lang also thanked him.

This thank you made Yan Laojue so happy. Then, Yan Laojue took his granddaughter to get busy at the Zhu family. After three days of hard work, Zhu Lang and Wang Xue's beds had been replaced with shelf beds. To be honest, the carpenter skills of the Yan family's grandfather and grandson are really good.

The frame made of this made rack can be assembled and disassembled, it is very light and completely used a mortise and tenon structure. There is no sound at all when sleeping on it. Zhu Lang likes it very much. Because of this, Zhu Lang added 1,000 yuan to the Yan family's grandson.

Yan Laojue and Yan Shihua were so grateful to Zhu Lang.
Chapter completed!
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