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"What is this?" Jiang Wanbai asked as she opened the brocade box. There is a thin booklet inside the brocade box, and the title page of the booklet reads, "The Dong family's ink treasure book, the descendants of the Dong family should remember that it must not be passed on as a last resort." ”
It's the skill of making ink, Jiang Wanbai suddenly thought of partnering with the Zeng family to make ink, isn't this someone giving a pillow when you are sleepy. It's just that taking this booklet like this is a bit of a danger to others.
Putting the booklet back in the brocade box, she said, "Dong County Ling just wants to get this booklet." ”
Dong Qirong nodded, "My Dong family was originally an ink-making family, and 'Shi Xue' and 'Feng Hao' are all from our family. It's a pity that the world is impermanent, and when I come here, the craft of making ink is about to be lost. Speaking of this, he was very emotional.
The prosperity and decline of a family always have many stories and twists and turns, and if you really want to talk about it, I am afraid that you will not be able to finish it in three days and three nights.
"You know how to make ink?" Jiang Wanbai said happily.
Her expression was too obvious, Dong Qirong was a little surprised, "The ancestral ink-making technique has not been used for a long time." ”
"Great. I have one thing I want to tell you right now. Then, Jiang Wanbai told her that she was going to join forces with Mrs. Zeng's son and Master Lin to make ink, and said that they urgently needed an ink-making master now, and asked him if he would like to join them.
Jiang Wanbai is okay, she is just a well-known village woman, but Mrs. Zeng is different from Bachelor Lin, one of them is a veteran of the Three Dynasties, the other is a leader in the academic world, Dong Qirong is a scholar, and he can't be more familiar with these two.
Being able to make ink with these two, Dong Qi Rongjue's happiness came a little suddenly, and he was a little skeptical that Jiang Wanbai had lied to him.
"This, this ......" His excited face turned red, his body trembled slightly, and he looked like he might fall down at any moment.
"Daddy." Dong Yanya hurriedly poured him a glass of water, patted his chest, wiped his back, and tossed for a while, Dong Qirong relieved his breath and said excitedly, "Of course I do." I just don't know ......."
"You can wait for you to get better, and then we can discuss it together. Speaking of which, Master Lin should have been on the road now, and it is estimated that he will be able to reach Yancheng in a few days. ”
Being able to see Master Lin, Dong Qirong suddenly had great hope, and he couldn't wait for his illness to be cured immediately.
"The imperial doctor I want to invite you is also related to Old Lady Zeng." Jiang Wanbai threw out another bomb.
Dong Qirong didn't know what to say, and in the end, he laughed, and the tears of laughter were about to stay, "I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, I came to this Yancheng, I thought I was cornered, but I didn't expect to have such a great opportunity." ”
Reaching out to pick up the clams on the table, he continued, "Okay, even if I borrow this clams." I'll give it back to you when I'm well. ”
If she doesn't pay it back, Jiang Wanbai doesn't care at all, but if he can say that, he is full of hope for the future, which makes her happy.
"By the way, Dong Xianling can't get what he wants, will he come to you for trouble?" Jiang Wanbai suddenly remembered this.
Dong Qirong laughed, "Not for the time being." In order to get out, I lied to him that the ink-making book was not in my hands at all, and it had long been lost.
The reason why I said that I had that treasure book was completely to trick him into taking me and my daughter in.
After my daughter gets married, I will be a rotten life, let him dispose of it at will, and make him angry half to death. Otherwise, how could we have left him so easily. ”
Thinking of Dong Xianling's angry appearance, Jiang Wanbai also smiled, "That's good." However, he is angry now, and may believe your words, and when he calms down, he may come back to pester. ”
"At that time, weren't there old ladies Zeng and Master Lin? Leaning against the big tree to enjoy the shade, I follow you to make ink, I don't believe that he dares to touch me. Dong Qirong laughed.
That's right, Jiang Wanbai was completely relieved, and left a sentence, "If there is anything in the future, you can come to me." And he departed.
Early the next morning, Dong Yanya came to Tian's house early to work, and Jiang Wanbai asked Tian Lao Er to ask Dr. Nie to treat Dong Qirong.
Tian Lao Er came back and said that Dr. Nie said that Dong Qirong's disease had dragged on for too long, and it was definitely impossible to cure it immediately, so he could only recuperate slowly. Fortunately, seeing that he is in good spirits, the disease is half cured.
He prescribed another pair of medicines, with the clams, I believe that in less than half a month, although he can't do any physical work, but he should be helpless to walk on the ground.
Jiang Wanbai listened, and she felt unusually happy. The matter of making ink is now ready, and only the east wind is owed.
While waiting for this shareholder wind, two more things happened.
One thing is about Yu Ji, after a turmoil, the Zizhi sauce made finally won't go bad after two days. But in the hearts of the people of Yancheng, it has long been equated with counterfeit and fake goods, so everyone would rather pay a high price to buy Tian's Zizhi sauce than buy his family's.
Yu Ji was disappointed, but also began to look for a new way out, such as selling these Zizhi sauce to the capital. At the beginning, they took a fancy to the business of Zizhi sauce, and they also had this idea.
Even, they also approached Cui Jingtang and offered to sell him their Zizhi sauce at a price thirty percent lower than that of the Tian family, and asked him to help sell it in the north and south grocery stores.
But Cui Jingtang immediately refused. How could a far-sighted businessman like him not see which was beneficial to him in the long run, and which would bring him good returns.
There is no way, Yu Ji can only sell it by himself.
However, there are north and south grocery stores all over the country, which is equivalent to the Tian family's Zizhi sauce being sold all over the country. Tianjia is preconceived, the quality is good, the big cake of the market has been divided into almost, it is a new brand, where can it compete for Tianjia.
Only price reduction, win by price. However, the Tian family only produces Zizhi sauce, and the sales in the back do not cost at all, but he has to use people, and the cost has risen a lot all of a sudden.
The two sides were offset, and they found that they were not making money at all by selling Zizhi sauce like this.
After some twists and turns, Yu Ji Zizhi sauce slowly stopped production and faded out of everyone's field of vision, and those people that Yu Ji dug from the Tian family naturally lost their jobs.
Most of these people are embarrassed to go back to Tian's house, but some of them have the mentality of giving it a try, and go back to Tian's house to apologize, saying that they were so obsessed with it at the beginning, and now they know that they are wrong, and they hope to return to work.
For such a person, the Tian family naturally categorically refused.
There are some unreasonable bastards among these people, and they even want to make trouble in the Tian family, forcing the Tian family to accept them as workers, otherwise they will not leave.
The Tian family is now united, so naturally they will not be afraid of this kind of thing. If these people don't make a lot of trouble, they just think these people are stinky shit and don't look at them.
If these people make a big fuss, they let the workers beat them out.
Those workers did not look down on the behavior of these people who had gone and returned, and the other point was, if they came back, the number of people in the field family was limited, where should they go? Based on these two points, they are not merciless at all, and they specifically hit those painful places on people's bodies.
After fighting like this a few times, those people also knew that it was impossible to go back to Tian's house again, so they slowly extinguished this thought, and this fake Zizhi sauce matter was really calmed down.
The second thing is that these people from the Tian family finally set off to return to Pingyang County.
It has been more than a month since they came to Yancheng, and they really can't rest assured about things at home, and they haven't gone back until now, which is already unexpected.
It's just that when they came, there was no shortage of a family, and they were happy, but when they left, there was one less, Tian Liu stayed in this Yancheng forever, and the taste in their hearts can be imagined.
"Mother, Liu'er will take care of you. New Year's festival ......" When Tian Liu was mentioned, Zhang's wept silently.
It stands to reason that although Tian Liu is married to the Yin family, she has already married to the Zeng family, so her worship should also be handled by the Zeng family. But pity the parents of the world, Zhang always feels sorry for Tian Liu, so he always wants to compensate her.
Jiang Wanbai naturally understood, and quickly nodded and agreed.
Zhang was in a better mood at this time, looked in the direction of Tianliu's tomb, shed a handful of tears, and turned around and got into the carriage.
The Tian family stayed in Yancheng not only Tian Liu, but also Tian Laosi. It's just that Tian Laosi is not as lucky as Tian Liu, and he can enter the ancestral tomb of the Zeng family and be worshiped by the Zeng family for generations. His grave is not far from the Tian family factory.
A lonely small grave, surrounded by weeds, unusually desolate.
Zhao looked in the direction of the small tomb, and the corners of his eyes were moist. She thought that she would live with Tian Laosi until she was old, she thought that this time she came just to make trouble with him, but she didn't expect that now heaven and man will be separated forever.
Now, she has almost forgotten what Tian Laosi did to be sorry for her, and only remembered that if it weren't for him, maybe she would have starved to death at home with Tian Chengbao and Tian Miao.
If it weren't for him, she wouldn't have lived so well in the Tian family. In the past, she thought she didn't remember those bits and pieces at all, but now that she thinks about it, it is very clear.
She will always remember him, she believes.
Jiang Wanbai saw Zhao's tears, and remembered what happened last night again.
Yesterday, she thought about it for a long time before she quietly called Zhao into the room and talked to her about her thoughtfully.
First assured Zhao not to think too much, she said: "The fourth child is gone, you are only less than thirty years old now, the best time in a woman's life, if you want to marry in the future, or ......"
Before he finished speaking, Zhao stood up with raised eyebrows, "Mother, what are you talking about?" My sons are all married, how can I think about this anymore. Didn't you slap me in the face when you said that? ”
"You sit down, I don't mean anything else." Jiang Wanbai knew at a glance that what she had just said for a long time was in vain, and hurriedly said, "You will always be the daughter-in-law of the Tian family, I am not testing you, or whatever."
You know, I don't care about names. I just want you to have a good time. Young couples and old companions, I am afraid that you will meet the right person one day, but I dare not fight for it. ”
Zhao thought carefully about Jiang Wanbai's personality, and then he half-believed her words, only to feel that this matter was really weird and embarrassing. The mother-in-law not only did not persuade her daughter-in-law to keep the festival, but persuaded her to marry someone or something, which she really couldn't accept.
After thinking for a long time, she suddenly asked, "Mother, will you still get married?" ”