"You kid, let you get up early, it's so late!"

Zhong Yue yawned, "Uncle Zhang, it's not too early, it's only five o'clock." ”

"You young people now, five o'clock, if you put it aside, you will all go to work in the fields now, which family doesn't get up at three or four o'clock?"

“……”

Zhong Yue stretched his waist, who is still up at three or four o'clock now, isn't this sick.

"Let's go, let's go to Majiagou. ”

"What are you doing there, isn't it closer to the city?"

Zhang Laifu knocked Zhong Yue on the back of the head, "You kid has not learned the ability to raise the bar with the master, right? If you want to learn how to make a pen, come with me. ”

"Oh......"

"Put that bamboo basket on your back, and I'll tell you about this pen-making skill on the way. ”

Zhong Yue put the somewhat old bamboo basket on his back and followed Zhang Laifu out of the door.

"There are two main types of materials to be used in this pen. The pen barrel is generally made of wooden or bamboo pipes, and those porcelain, jade, etc., are flashy, so I won't go into details. ”

Zhong Yue recalled that the brushes at home were also woodpipes and bamboo pipes, and it shouldn't be too difficult to make this primary brush, "Uncle Zhang, what are we going to buy?"

"Rabbit. ”

"Rabbit?"

Zhang Laifu nodded, "The material of the pen barrel is just the price of a pen, and the real judgment of the quality of a pen is in this millimeter." Now to make a pen, there are two kinds of soft and hard. The wool used in the soft hair, this is not to buy, go to the place where the sheep are killed to ask for some to come, we Xuanbi is the most fine, the best-selling is the Zihao pen. This purple hao is made of rabbit hair. The rabbits in Majiagou are all rabbits bought from Z County, and the Zihao pen made of this rabbit fur can be regarded as a real Xuan pen. ”

"Uncle Zhang, I heard that there are also pens made of the hair on the yellow wolf's tail and the hair of the stone badger, is that more valuable?" Zhong Yue thought to himself, even if the craftsmanship is not up to par, let's win with quality, add a few points, and be able to meet the standard of primary brushes.

Zhang Laifu took a three-jumper and sat down with Zhong Yue, "Compete with me, right? This stone badger and yellow wolf, is it so easy to get? When I was in the pen factory, among these 100 pens, 99 were purple and sheep's hair, and the wolf and badger you said were not mainstream according to the words of those descendants in the township who made their hair like hedgehogs. ”

“……”

Zhong Yue smiled, this is to offend the funeral family.

Zhang Laifu lit a Huangshan, took a puff, and spit out the smoke ring, "Now in addition to Zihao and sheep's hair, there is also Jianhao, which is the rabbit hair and wool mixed together, what nine purple one sheep, seven purple three sheep." ”

Kai Sanjian was also going to Majiagou to buy herbs, and interjected: "Yo, Uncle Zhang, you are preparing to re-emerge from the rivers and lakes." ”

Zhang Laifu smoked the cigarette butt and sparked, "Oh, take the apprentice." This pen-making craft is going to be lost......"

"Who's to say it isn't. Isn't this Zhong Yue, didn't he be admitted to university last year? Why did you come back to learn how to write from Uncle Zhang?"

Zhong Yue is now a little famous in the township, after all, it is not so easy to become a college student.

"Give my father filial piety, take a temporary leave of absence, and wait for three years before going to study. ”

Zhong Yue said that he had been filial piety for three years, but he understood what his father was thinking, because he felt that he was studying in college, and he was afraid that the Zhong family's calligraphy inheritance would be cut off, so he had no choice but to use the statement of keeping filial piety for three years, so that Zhong Yue could study calligraphy in this ravine with peace of mind.

Not to mention how much Zhong Yue can make in the past three years, but at least he can't forget the calligraphy inheritance of the Zhong family. If before, Zhong Yue still felt that his calligraphy attainments of the three-legged cat were afraid that he would embarrass the Zhong family, but now that he has a penmanship system, he is very confident that he can definitely revive the Zhong family's calligraphy!

"Alas, Lao Zhong is really blessed to have such a filial son. ”

"Uncle Luo, don't say that, my father didn't enjoy happiness before his death, it's already my guilt as a son, as for this filial piety, that is, I can fulfill my father's wishes, as for other aspects, I haven't thought much about it. ”

Zhang Laifu lit a new cigarette and patted Zhong Yue on the shoulder, "Okay, let's not talk about this." ”

"I said Lao Zhang, the pen factory in Xuancheng is still open?"

"Well, it's on. But business is sluggish, and now they are all doing some handicrafts, after all, they are not that era, in addition to practicing calligraphy, who still uses a brush?"

Lao Luo, who opened three jumps, took the cigarette handed by Zhang Laifu, docked with the cigarette butt in his mouth, smoked two ends, and spit the cigarette butt aside, "Also, you said that the profit of this brush is not high, who will go back and hire someone to make a pen by hand." ”

"Some work can only be done by hand, now the brushes on the market, most of them are defective, those that are really expensive, easy to use, or those in the factory hand-made pens. You learn from me for three or five years, and when you become a teacher in the future, you will also have a craft to support your family. ”

"Three years, five years ......"

"Why, it's a long time? It's not that easy to do. ”

The car braked and stopped on the side of the road, Lao Luo locked the car with a chain, "Lao Zhang, I'll go and grab the decoction that my mother-in-law drank first, and we'll meet here in two hours." ”

"Well, Ah Yue, come with me. ”

Zhong Yue followed Lao Zhang and walked around the market.

"Fresh apricots, buy some and try them?"

"The freshly picked rape, which is carrying the dew, is delicious, eaten at home, without pesticides. ”

“……”

Zhong Yue liked such a lively market scene very much, looking around.

"Keep up, don't get lost!"

Zhang Laifu put his hands behind his back and shouted behind him.

The two of them went to a place where poultry was sold.

"Yo, isn't this Uncle Zhang, I haven't seen you for a long time. ”

"Qiangzi, there are rabbits for sale. ”

The man wearing a sweat vest wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with a smile: "You are in a hurry." This old rabbit meat firewood, generally not sold, yesterday just received a pair, oh, where is it, you see, what?

Zhang Laifu smiled and picked up a rabbit from the rabbit cage.

"It's fat. ”

"No, but it's so big, the meat is all firewood, it's not delicious, you want it, two, a hundred yuan to take away, how about it? ”

Zhang Laifu put the rabbit back in the rabbit cage and threw over a Huangshan cigarette, "You and I are sloppy, two, eighty." ”

"Ouch, Uncle Zhang, you really can't give eighty, a small business, how can you bargain so much?"

"When I was picking grass and hunting rabbits in Z County, you kid was still catching loaches in the river. What is the price of this old rabbit, I don't know?"

Zhong Yue squatted down, took some toon leaves and fed the rabbit, and listened to the two bargain.

"You were last year's old calendar. Now the rabbit is not better than before, the cost is large, the sales are not good, this rabbit, is also from the hands of retail investors, so, you, also compete with me, ninety, ninety, don't you? ”

"Ah Yue, give money. ”

Qiangzi glanced at Zhong Yue, who was squatting on the ground to feed the rabbits, and said with a smile: "Yo, this is a newly recruited apprentice?"

"Brother Qiang, good. Zhong Yue handed a hundred-yuan bill to Qiangzi.

"Follow Lao Zhang to study hard, young people nowadays are too impetuous, and they want to make a lot of money at every turn, where is this money so easy to make, find you ten yuan, and collect it. ”

"Hadron, the rabbit has been slaughtered for me, remember, don't stain this hair for me. ”

"Okay, processing fee, ten yuan ......"

"I'll hammer you melon baby!"

Hadron dodged and smiled: "Just kidding, kidding." Where do I dare to collect your old money, rest assured, keep it for you. ”

"Ah Yue, let's go buy some green onions, ginger and garlic, and I'll show you a hand today so that you can taste my craftsmanship. ”

“……”

said that the pen was good, but the rabbit was stewed first......