The boss of the Jin family didn't squeak, but after all, the second child had seen the owner lady of the Wang family, and he had a good impression of the owner lady. And he also lived in Hepu for two days, and those fatherless and motherless children were taken care of so well that he admired the owner very much, so he thought that eating and offering at the Wang family would not have the same experience as his grandfather.

So, he opened his mouth to refute his father and said: "Grandpa's family that ate and worshipped at the beginning, after all, was dedicated to making tributes, and it was reasonable to be punished if there was such a mistake." Although grandpa should not be punished so severely, we can't keep refusing to eat and worship because of this. If we are always like this, we don't have enough money to support us, so that we can improve our craft. One day, our craft will regress to the point where we can't even make a spinning wheel.

Moreover, the royal family that we are going to eat and worship now has nothing, whether they want a spinning machine, a loom, or a flower picker, no matter what they want, they can only ask us to make it for him. There are no people in the same industry who are competing with us for business, and no one is making trouble with us behind our backs. We can make their offerings, at least more than we do here. And the lady of the proprietor also said that if we can have the ability to figure out a practical new machine, we will also give a huge reward.

And here we are?! Just because of the little errand that grandpa made at the beginning, so many years have passed, no matter how hard our craftsmanship is, but the people who have a good machine still don't dare to ask us to help repair their machine. The ones that can ask us to repair are all old-fashioned and unwanted tatters that others have thrown away. Are we going to go on like this for generations?

Father! Why don't we take this opportunity to reopen a situation where no one else knows about us and spread the word about our family's craftsmanship. Why do you have to suffocate in this place that is heaven in the eyes of others, a place of hell in my eyes? ”

The father of the Jin family listened to this second son, who usually spoke very little. After saying such a big thing, I knew that this kid was determined to leave. However, what the second child said is right, although there is wealth here, there is the saying that 'there is heaven and Suzhou and Hangzhou', but it is for the rich, for them who are poor. But there is not a single corner of heaven in sight.

Scarcity is expensive! Although the second child of the Jin family couldn't say it so clearly, the old man and the eldest of the Jin family still understood. Even children understand this truth, let alone the craftsmen of the Jin family. The boss of the Jin family was originally in favor of leaving here and going to Liuhe County, where there was a shortage of craftsmen. Coupled with such a reasoned and well-founded persuasion from the second child, he was even more determined. Under the persuasion of the second son, the eldest son persuaded him, and he himself could not escape at this last moment, so he had to think about the pros and cons, and in the end he did not die. agreed to a large family to move to Liuhe County in Huizhou.

Their canola fields have just been harvested. was returned to the owner by the boss of the Jin family, but some rapeseed received from the family was not processed. The boss of the Jin family meant to sell for money, and it was best to travel lightly, but he was stopped by the old man.

This old man was reluctant to go to a place that seemed to him to be a poor mountain and bad water, so it seemed a little unreasonable, in fact, this old man still knew how to be sophisticated. He didn't let him sell rapeseed because he wanted to give it away, so he explained to the eldest and second child: "You take it to the oil mill and fry it all into oil." Bring it over to the owner as a welcome gift. The proprietor didn't even know where to open my door, so he gave me a large sum of silver like fifty taels to bring back. We can't be ignorant and go to people empty-handed. ”

"Good Ratcha!" The eldest and second brother responded happily, and without a moment's delay, they took the third brother to pick all the rapeseed to the oil mill.

At this time, the oil pressing method is used. First of all, the rapeseed should be fried again, fried until seven or eight minutes cooked, and then wrapped in a long medium straw, put it in the recess specially squeezed for oil, and then a few big men bare-chested, back and forth pull the thick and heavy log hanging in the air, one end of the big log is aimed at the recess where the rapeseed is placed, and the oil in the rapeseed will be slowly fried out again and again.

The oil that comes out of this way is very fragrant and delicious, but there is one thing that is not good, it is too slow. Unlike the developed science and technology in later generations, the electric heating and rolling pot for frying rapeseed, and the mechanical oil pressing, which is convenient and fast, is a pity! Not to mention that the oil lacks the strong flavor it should have, when cooking, there is always a little green and astringent taste of raw oil.

The Jin family waited for rapeseed oil while packing up their things. Maybe they were making too much fanfare, and within a day, the neighbors knew that they were finally leaving, and the whole family was going to a very distant place to beg for a living. The other clansmen of the Jin family, who have lived together all their lives, rushed over to persuade: "The third child! I've lived here all my life, why do you have to move to a place where you don't know anyone when you're getting old? ”

"Yes! Third brother, if you leave, we old bones are afraid that we won't be able to see each other until we die, right? You're so willing to leave us old guys! "The person who said this was the fourth son of Old Man Jin's third uncle's family, and his fourth cousin, who played together since childhood.

The Zhuangzi where the Jin family is located is very large, but the big family is not the Jin family. More than three-quarters of the residents are descendants of the Tang family, a large textile family that emerged in the last years of the Song Dynasty. The Jin family and the other two surnames were all craftsmen who were attached to the Tang family and ate the offerings of the Tang family.

When the Tang family ruled the Central Plains by foreigners, the textile industry stagnated. Because the aliens do not know how to farm, and Jiangnan is a land of fish and rice, most of the people here, whether they are merchants, landlords, or craftsmen, have been left as slaves for farming, and there is not one out of ten who have been slaughtered like elsewhere.

Although the lives of these people in the Jin family have been preserved, the life of the slaves is not easy, except for the New Year's holiday, they are usually not even allowed to take out kitchen knives, let alone use them to make machine qì, so sharp tool knives. For decades, the children and grandchildren of the Jin family did not have the opportunity to learn skills from their predecessors, and the skills were gradually abandoned by their juniors. But this does not include Old Man Jin's father.

Old man Jin's father is the second oldest in the family, and some ghosts are smart and a little lazy. According to the locals, it is called floating but not true. He didn't want to do farm work, so he wanted to learn the craftsmanship of his ancestors. In the future, he fled to a place in the south where there was no foreign jurisdiction, and took refuge in a large textile family to eat and worship.

He also had the perseverance to secretly learn all the skills of his grandfather, but before he could prepare for his escape, the court ruled by the aliens was overthrown by the rebels. The new imperial court was established, and the Tang family's textiles were also to be rebuilt, and the old man Jin's father could imagine a great shine.

The Tang family's textiles were able to reopen. Old man Jin's father can be said to have played an eighty percent role. Therefore, the old man Jin's father was praised by the Tang family as a little arrogant, and the other two families held a grudge, and he did tricks and feet on his newly made floral satin loom. If it's a tribute. When the Tang family shipped, they had to carefully and carefully inspect it again and again, until they really didn't find anything wrong, and then they dared to report it to the top. Fortunately, the Tang family is cautious. It was only before the flower-picking satin that was going to be paid tribute was found out before he went out.

There was a part on the loom called a weft knife. I don't know who made a little burr in one of the sticks. It is this burr that causes problems with satin, which cannot be seen without careful inspection, but once it is made into clothes, the problem will soon be exposed due to tearing, picking heads, etc. The Tang family can be said to have taken a turn around the ghost gate, as for the real reason, they may investigate slowly, but they are directly responsible. They will not delay the punishment. So the father of the old man of the Jin family was beaten to a dying death, and finally he was kicked out of the Tang family along with the old and young.

After that, the Jin family's life was not easy. has been tightly surviving these decades. Although he has survived here, this is also the place where Old Man Jin has lived since his grandfather. Now that he wants to leave here, he can't come back until he dies, and he just wants to cry when he dies. But for the sake of his children and grandchildren's future future, he had to endure his heartache and go with his children and grandchildren.

The old man of the Jin family sighed and said to the fourth brother: "I have always been reluctant to go, no, I have been suffering from it since years ago." It's just that my family, both big and young, are encouraged by the second child to leave regardless of whether they want to leave, can I really let the children go by themselves and leave me an old bone here? Shouldn't others scold my children and grandchildren for being unfilial? ”

A younger nephew of the Jin family said: "Third uncle! I heard from the second brother that the Wang family is very good and kind, and has adopted hundreds of orphans, if you do a good job over there, I think the main family will let you come back from time to time. Listening to the second brother, he followed the guards who sent him back, and he arrived home in seven or eight days. ”

Old man Jin could only comfort himself: "Hey! If you can really do well, then I will come back to see you often in the future. ”

The other is also a descendant of the Jin family, and he asked weakly in the back: "Third uncle! After my sister gave birth to her little son, my mother was worried that my little nephew would not survive, so she took it over with my niece and raised her carefully. But after my brother-in-law married another woman, he didn't want to take my niece and nephew back. I heard the second brother say, the family you are going to to specifically adopt orphans, can you ask the third uncle to bring my niece and little nephew over, so that they can also live a good and down-to-earth life? ”

After he said this, some people despised it! What makes them go to live a good life is nothing more than his mother-in-law's trouble, and he just wants to send the trouble away. But there are also people who praise him, saying that he is very kind, and if he meets a ruthless person, he will throw the two children back to his father's house. It's not from his Jin family, he doesn't care if you live or die. But when he was not doing well, he still wanted to find a good place for the two children.

Old man Jin also knows his difficulties, these two children are still young, if there is really no one to take care of them, it will be a dead end. It's just that he sympathizes with him, but he doesn't know anything about the Wang family over there, so he can't agree to him casually. can only say: "You wait for my second child to come back, I will ask him, if he says he can bring it, then I will bring them then." But shouldn't you ask the father of these two children? ”

The man shook his head and said, "No, when I sent them back, they had already let them go, saying that they didn't care about them." Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to worry so much about these two children! ”

When the old man Jin heard his nephew say this, he nodded and said, "Then if the second child of my family says it's okay, you can send it over when the time comes, and we'll take it with us!" (To be continued......)