Chapter 61: The Red Copper Hand Stove
Chen Qing walked out of the hall quickly, kicking the steps embarrassedly, the first time he accepted a gift (of the opposite sex?) was actually this feeling? Thinking that Liang Zijun said that he would give him a gift for the first time, he didn't want to brush his heart, but doesn't accepting the streamer mean that he recognized the identity of the little brother? Obviously, he just wants to be a daughter-in-law for a long time, but how can he develop more and more in the direction of a real daughter-in-law?
What's going on with this weird development? If you really get stuck and wait for Liang Zijun to marry again, how will you get out?
Chen Qing pounded his head hard, so he wouldn't really like that bastard! Yes! Liang Zijun is a bastard, or a bastard with a bad personality, bad habits, and a super grudge!
After Chen Qing hypnotized himself, he turned around and walked out of the courtyard, he still chatted with Brother Yang to change his mood!
The layout of each courtyard of the Liang family is the same, there are three main rooms, there are half ear rooms on both sides, Liang Baida and his wife live in the main room, and the two children have an ear room, after Liang Zitong got married, it became the boudoir of Liang Zixian's daughter Liang Miao, and after Liang Miao got married, this ear room was vacant.
After Chen Qing arrived, he first greeted his uncle and aunt before going to Brother Yang's room to chat. Brother Yang burned a charcoal basin in the house, and the whole room was warm, and the two of them were eating snacks while discussing what to prepare for the Winter Solstice Festival.
The Liang family is only busy for more than two months throughout the year, and the rest are idle, and Brother Yiyang has long been raised into a delicate and expensive rich body. Before the winter solstice arrived, he had already put on a thick jacket and held a stove on the couch.
Hand stoves evolved from stoves, which were made of coals in a copper stove to heat the fire. However, the copper stove is expensive, and most eunuchs or wealthy families can use it, and most farmers light a brazier to keep warm, and the effect is the same.
Hand stoves are smaller, also made of copper, in the shape of a square box or round. This one in Brother Yang's hand is a square box-shaped, made of brass, a cover with floral patterns, and a handle that can be carried by hand, and the size is just right to hold in his hand for warmth.
Brother Yang took the copper fire chopstick, pulled out the ashes in the stove, and added a piece of white charcoal to cover the lid and stuff it into Chen Qing's hand. The first time Chen Qing saw this thing, he couldn't help but be curious, holding it in his hand and looking left and right.
Brother Yang smiled and said, "I remember that Zijun has a more beautiful one, you go back and look for it, it's getting colder and colder, hold it in your hand to warm it so as not to frostbite your hands"
Chen Qing nodded, and went back to find it for the owner to hold, but he didn't need it himself.
Every winter, several farmers will burn charcoal together, and a cellar of black charcoal is enough to heat in winter. The charcoal burned by the Liang family is the best white charcoal bought, which is different from the firing method of black charcoal, not only has a higher hardness, but also has residual white ash powder on the surface, and the weight is relatively light, so the price is slightly more expensive than black charcoal. Ten taels and five dollars per thousand catties of white charcoal, and three taels and three cents per thousand catties of black charcoal.
The farmer is reluctant to spend money to buy charcoal, most of them cut down the wood and pile it in the cellar to burn together, the Liang family does not hesitate to pay this money, and the black charcoal ignites the smoke in the house, and it chokes people when it burns too much, although the price of white charcoal is expensive, but it is less smoke and resistant to burning.
Chen Qing would cut wood and burn charcoal every year because he was deeply ashamed of the Liang family's wasteful behavior. However, if you burn too much, you will also feel the benefits, not only can you resist burning, but you are not afraid of smoke.
Liang Zijun laughed enough in the house, so he went to the kitchen and brought a cup of tonic soup to drink slowly. His winter tonic is not nonsense, he is the old son of his father, he has been pampered since he was a child, and he prepares soup for him every day on the stove in this winter.
As soon as Chen Qing entered the winter, he was taught by Shao Fengzhi how to make a lot of supplements, which was that as long as Liang Zijun was at home, the small stove stewed supplements every day, mostly based on food supplements, and some white fungus, angelica, codonopsis and other medicinal supplements every three or five days.
Liang Zijun drank the tonic and found that the charcoal basin was almost burned, so he lifted the curtain and went to the firewood room to get charcoal. As soon as he opened the door, Liang Zijun couldn't help muttering in his heart, no wonder Chen Qingri refused to come out of the firewood room, it turned out that he had built a new nest here.
Reaching under the futon, I found that there was still residual warmth in my hand, thinking that it had just burned in the morning. The whole firewood house was divided into two pieces by Chen Qing, half of which was built with a soil kang, and the other half was stacked with farm tools and neatly stacked firewood, grass and charcoal. There is also a rough wooden box that serves as a low table on the edge of the earthen kang, which contains a cloth bag and a few old clothes.
Liang Zijun took out the cloth bag with his hand, and found that it was a few bundles of green silk threads, plus a two-meter square silk cloth, which had been embroidered with most of the patterns, and only the remaining one-third of the corner was left blank, which was estimated to be the payment and some grass plants, and it could be seen from the cloth that it was probably a screen embroidery such as a spring * color garden.
Looking closely, I feel more and more that this embroidery is exquisite, the stitches are fine, ingenious and subtle, and even the wild things walking in the forest are lifelike. The whole embroidery atmosphere is full of aura, the green mountains and green waters reflect a little bit of new green, the courtyard of the ancient house is scattered and chic, and the buds with buds to be put poke out of the branches, hanging on the wall to spread the branches shyly. It's really a little green, and the moving spring color doesn't need to be much.
Liang Zijun is doing this cloth embroidery business, because he knows more about it, and his vision is more vicious. The more he looked at it, the more pleased he became, and the corners of his mouth became bigger and bigger, he didn't know that there was a skilled embroiderer hidden in the room, and this person was still a pillow person. is a good Chen Qing, who can hide from the world and cross the sea, and secretly embroider under his nose without revealing the slightest horse's feet.
Naturally, this fertilizer water can't be left in the fields of outsiders, and there are a bunch of embroiderers in his shop, but he has never heard of a high-quality little brother embroiderer.
Liang Zijun rolled his eyes and was boiling with bad water, he wanted it to be easy for people to change jobs, but it was even more difficult to be willing, especially Chen Qing was still hiding for fear of being seen, afraid that he didn't want people to know that he could embroider. After all, the little brother has few good skills, and Chen Qing boasts of his own nature, if he doesn't do this exquisitely, he is afraid that he will be annoyed and angry.
Chen Qing's twisted temperament Liang Zijun has a deep understanding that this matter cannot be made clear, and it must be pretended to be someone else's hand, so that he will automatically abandon his work, and then Liang Ji will come forward to take it over. In this way, not only can he dig up the best embroiderers, but also make him grateful, and he can take care of people in front of him!
The more Liang Zijun thought about it, the more excited he became, he picked up the scissors at the moment, reluctantly picked out a silk thread on the silk, and picked an inconspicuous position, and secretly cut it by covering it with the embroidery thread.
Liang Zijun did it secretly, if it weren't for the long time, it would be difficult to find the mystery, and it would be inconspicuous to hold it in his hand, but he could immediately see the flaws when he framed it and flattened it. Silk is not better than the side, once the jumper is flattened immediately to open a big mouth, and the bigger it opens, the remedy can not be remedied, so it has to be abandoned and re-embroidered.
Liang Zijun's trick can be described as a salary draw from the bottom of the kettle, seeing that the embroidery is about to be completed, and the construction period is approaching, even if it is re-embroidered, this large piece will not be completed in a month and a half.
After doing the destruction like a thief, Liang Zijun packed it as it was and put it back in the wooden box, and saw that there was a small burden under the wooden box that was pressed under the old clothes, and just wanted to take it out to take a look, he heard a creak at the courtyard door.
This firewood room was at the door, Liang Zijun hurriedly closed the wooden box at the moment, and put the oil lamp back to its original state, and hurriedly broke out in a cold sweat. Although this is not the first time that the bad has happened, the object is changed to Chen Qing, and there is inevitably a trace of weakness in his heart.
After taking the charcoal, he peeked into the stove room and saw Chen Qing sneak into the stove room, so he secretly breathed a sigh of relief and slipped out of the firewood room on tiptoe. Walking to the door of the stove room, Liang Zijun hit a rake, "Why did you go? If you want to add charcoal, you have to go to the firewood room to get it."
Chen Qing was so frightened that he even fell into the pot with a rice shovel, and asked in horror, "Have you ever entered the firewood room?"
"Hmph~ Is there a place where you can't go to this house? Just your little bit of caution, can you still be unclear? Usually just be stupid, if you dare not go back to the bedroom to sleep at night, the master will go and pick up your little kang!" Liang Zijun floated past the stove room with his nostrils on his back when he finished speaking, and just after passing the door, he bent his neck and stuck out his tongue. Damn, I'm really getting more and more damaged, no wonder Liao Fanzhi scolds him for being cunning every day~
Chen Qing took out the spatula and wiped his hands, and immediately removed the firewood from the stove and ran to the firewood room to look through it. Seeing that everything was the same as it was, Chen Qing secretly breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately Liang Zijun didn't move the wooden box, otherwise he really didn't know how to explain it.
It seems that next time it is safe to hide the embroidery in the pyre, this screen embroidery is easy to say, if he is seen in those two embarrassing belly pockets, he can not tell even if he has a hundred mouths.
After eating, Liang Zijun knew that he was at a loss, and he didn't dare to instruct Chen Qing to beat his legs and pinch his shoulders again.
Chen Qing found that Liang Zijun was extremely honest, and thought that the ribbon was the fault, and he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed in his heart...... Do you have a hand stove too? I'll go find it and warm your hands when it's cold."
"Yo~ You don't say that I forgot about jì stubble, who did you listen to?" Liang Zijun patted his forehead, and hurriedly got up and went into the study to rummage.
Chen Qing followed behind and looked, he didn't know how many times he had cleaned this study, why didn't he find such a precious object at home?"
"Oh...... Found it!" Liang Zijun rummaged like a monkey, and finally took out the red copper hand stove from a small rattan box.
Chen Qing frowned and put the messy objects back in place before taking over the hand stove to scrub. The round hand stove and charcoal are just right in the hand, and this style is much more exquisite than Brother Yang's square box. He made it of brass, but this one was made of fine red copper, which was different from the inlay and welding process, and only used a hammer to knock it out little by little.
With such fine workmanship, the copper furnace produced is very strong and durable, and will not crack even if it is used for a long time. And no matter how strong the charcoal fire inside is, the outer wall will not be hot.
The whole hand stove is small and exquisite, delicate and beautiful, there are many floral textures on the cover, there are leaf patterns, floral patterns, the middle is a zigzag road pattern, and there are famous withdrawals at the bottom of the hand stove.
The status of contemporary craftsmen is low, and not all utensils can see the name of the maker, and most of the nominees are some famous artists, and the red copper hand stove of Liang Zijun should be a famous family, which is very precious.
"This is still when I was in the capital, my eldest brother bought it for me, do you like it?
Chen Qing glanced at him in a little surprise, and slightly reluctantly stuffed it into his hand, "My hand is not afraid of cold, so I should hold it by the owner, so as not to hurt my hand and the second sister-in-law will blame me again."
"Who has the final say in this family? The second sister-in-law can't manage my courtyard even if she wants to take care of it, I'm afraid that she will do something?
Chen Qing saw that he insisted on this, and he was not ambiguous, so he took a closer look at the stove at the moment, and the more he looked at this delicate thing, the more he liked it, and the crooked appearance of his eyebrows and eyes stunned Liang Zijun's eyes.
This puppet who doesn't smile often shows a smile, which is comparable to the spring flowers, and it is charming. Liang Zijun snorted coldly, closed his eyes, and covered his spring heart.
Before going to bed at night, Chen Qing handed over another bill, and Liang Zijun secretly calculated that in less than 4 months, more than 700 taels of debts would be exempted, and it would not be possible to maintain it if he could not go in and out, so he had to find a way to increase his income in order to control this person for a long time.
That night, Liang Zijun rarely had a clear heart and a little desire to sleep dryly with someone in his arms. Chen Qing was able to rest on the second day, and he was refreshed, but someone had a lot of resentment, and Chen Qing, who was looking at him at a glance, was inexplicable.