Chapter Seventy-Eight: Master and Apprentice
Even the face of the dignified county Yada head catcher was so polite, which made Miao Tie and his wife a little unable to react at once, and they were a little stunned in place. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Yin Seventeen stared intently at Zhan Yan's naturally cold and handsome face, and said in his heart, this guy hasn't done anything evil before, right?
Zhan Yan was a little inexplicable by Yin Seventeen's meaningful gaze, and saw that Miao Tie and his wife also looked like they had indigestion, which made his face stink all of a sudden.
Miao Tie and his wife were shocked, and hurriedly ran into the kitchen to copy two more specialty dishes, and one lowered his head to see if his feet could grow a flower.
Yin Seventeen clasped his hands around his chest: "Brother Zhan, have you been to Bianluo Village before?" ”
Zhan Yan didn't understand why Yin Seventeen suddenly asked like this, but he still replied with a half-frown:
"Nope."
Yin Seventeen looked weird and sighed, and pulled the "oh" to a long time, and the aftermath was enough to wrap around the beam.
Then when Zhan Yan opened his posture and wanted to have a deep discussion with her, Yin Seventeen flew into the kitchen of Miao Tie's house:
"Sister-in-law Miao, I'll give you a hand!"
Yin Seventeen ran fast, and she hadn't looked back yet, she didn't know that after Zhan Yan ran into the kitchen, her stinking face turned clear in an instant, and she even smiled faintly.
The final result, of course, was that Yin Seventeen was pushed out by Miao Tie's wife half-politely and half-insistently-where did she really dare to let a bad master give her a hand!
Miao Tie and his wife are both very enthusiastic, and at the same time they are also very cautious, afraid that if they don't answer well, they will have to ask about their crimes.
In fact, Yin Seventeen really wanted to say to the couple of them: You really think too much!
Xu was very approachable because Yin Seventeen found it, and changed the haze that came along the way, and smiled at Miao Tie and his wife from time to time, so the couple answered her questions very smoothly.
When answering the question of showing their faces, the husband and wife were like biting their tongues with their teeth, or their tongues were bumping and bumping like teeth, and they couldn't say all the smooth words.
In the end, he simply closed his mouth tightly, and everything was asked by Yin Seventeen, and he only added one or two questions from time to time.
After asking Miao Tie, he didn't find anything, he didn't know what the iron-striking skills of the three-sided water chestnut were.
Although he is quite famous in these neighboring villages, most of them are also popular with the villagers, and he has not reached the kind of professional iron-striking skills that can be passed down from generation to generation like Tie Shi Niang.
Yin Qiqi looked at some of the iron products in Miao Tie's house, and the half-finished products in the courtyard, which was an iron shelf, high enough to reach her chin.
asked Miao Tie, and he said that it was built from home.
Miao Tie's wife smiled and continued, she asked Miao Tie to beat it, which can be used to dry clothes.
Yin Qiqi and Zhanyan carefully looked at Miao Tie's iron-striking skills, but it was not as Miao Tie himself said, what was not as good as Tie Shi Niang, who had been striking iron for generations for a living, it was simply Miao Tie's modest words.
Even in the eyes of laymen like her and Zhanyan, the iron-striking skills are several times better than Tie Shi Niang's family iron-striking skills.
Later, when asked about Miao Tie's master, Miao Tie said that he was taught by the boss of the famous Zongjia blacksmith shop in the county.
This boss is called Zhao Hongfu, that is, the boss of the Zongjia blacksmith shop, and Miao Tie's mentor when he was desperate.
Miao Tie's feelings for Zhao Hongfu are as respectful and loving as his own biological father.
But in fact, with Zhao Hongfu's age of about 60 years old, he is enough to be Miao Tie's grandparents.
But Miao Tie stubbornly believed that his father was much closer and kinder than his grandfather, and insisted on treating Zhao Hongfu as his father.
Every time he returned to the county, Miao Tie always had to go around to the Zongjia iron shop, or bring some snacks made by Miao Tie's wife, or bring his newly created new iron products for Zhao Hongfu to comment.
Yin Qiqi asked, "Brother Miao, how did you meet Boss Zhao and become his apprentice in his blacksmith?" ”
Miao Tie recalled: "It's also a coincidence......
A few years ago, Miao Tie had not yet married a wife and had children, he was still single, his family was poor since he was a child, and his parents both died at an early age, and his uncles and aunts never took care of him.
On weekdays, in addition to busy the two acres of farmland at home, he has nothing else to do.
Hearing other young people in the village say that there were short-term jobs to do in the county and that they could earn a lot of copper money, Miao Tie thought about it and arrived in the county early the next morning.
After shopping all day, I didn't find a well-paid short-term job as the young people in the same village said.
Miao Tie was a little listless at that time, and he said in his heart that he was really useless, and he couldn't even find a short-term job.
Soon at dusk, every household in the county lit oil lamps, and big lanterns were hung in front of the shops.
Just when Miao Tie was planning to take advantage of the fact that the gate of the county seat was not closed, he left the county early and returned to his home in Bian Ye Village, and he saw Zhao Hongfu who was bullied and had no power to fight back.
Miao Tiedao: "It was at the gate of the county seat, and the master was beaten all over by the gangsters in the two counties, his face was red and swollen, and the corners of his mouth kept bleeding, but the two gangsters still refused to let go of the master......"
is also young, but also with a passionate impulse at that time.
Miao Tie rushed up and knocked down one of the thugs, and scolded in his mouth: What are you doing here? They're all going to die! There is no royal law anymore!
At that time, the two poor men guarding the gate of the county town were not far away and looked at it with a smile, and they didn't want to care about it at all.
Later, Miao Tiefang learned that one of the two gangsters was the nephew of one of the two poor masters.
Speaking of this, Miao Tie couldn't help but glance at Zhanyan, for fear that he would annoy Zhanyan if he said that the man who guarded the door did not talk about the king's law, and that he would help and do evil.
Zhan Yan naturally realized that he would get Miao Tie's timid little eyes, and he didn't open his mouth for a while, but he just sat and listened quietly, so he had to speak:
"Go on."
Hearing Zhan Yan's three words without the slightest annoyance, Miao Tie finally put his mind at ease and continued to speak.
Yin Seventeen is wondering why Miao Tie is so terrifying?
The result of the gang was unexpectedly a defeat for both sides, or a one-sided defeat on Miao Tie and Zhao Hongfu's side.
Of course, under the ruthlessness of Miao Tie who was young and fearless of tigers, the two gangsters were also full of blue noses and swollen faces, except for snatching the remuneration that Zhao Hongfu had just received in his money bag and the total of five taels of silver that he had originally taken out, he didn't get much benefit.
The two gangsters have been eyeing Zhao Hongfu for a while, they saw that Zhao Hongfu opened an iron shop, and the business was not bad, they thought that they must have made a lot of silver taels, and they couldn't help but blush, and they couldn't help but blush, thinking about robbing this windfall.
Taking advantage of the fact that Zhao Hongfu had just gone with the apprentices in the shop to send customized iron products to the neighboring villages, they must have received a lot of remuneration, so they stopped Zhao Hongfu outside the gate of the county seat.
Yin Seventeen asked, "Didn't you bring an apprentice with you?" Why was Zhao Hongfu the only one left to be beaten by those two thugs? ”
Miao Tiedao: "The apprentice is from our village, I worshiped under the master a few years earlier, it was my senior brother, after the master and the senior brother sent the iron products to the employer's house, it was late, the master asked the senior brother to go home, and there was no need to go back to the county with the master, so he became my master alone." ”
Yin Qiqi said: "Your senior brother is both here and under Boss Zhao's apprentice, so his iron-striking skills must be good, why haven't you heard of his reputation?" This neighboring village is also famous for your and Tie Shi Niang's iron-striking skills, I don't know who your senior brother's surname is? ”
After Miao Tieyong saved Zhao Hongfu, Zhao Hongfu, who no longer accepted apprentices, saw that Miao Tie did not know each other, so he helped him, and he made an exception to accept Miao Tie as the last apprentice.
Such a development is also quite bloody.
has always been a hero who saves a beauty, and then achieves a beautiful marriage.
Unexpectedly, this young man bravely saved the old man, and he could actually achieve a picturesque love story between master and apprentice.
Zhao Hongde accepted two apprentices in his life, one was Miao Tie, and the other had to talk about the thousands of coincidences in this world, or this was the arrangement of fate.
Miao Tiedao: "My senior brother was apprenticed to the master in his early years, but then for some reason, he no longer learned the art of iron-making, and even went to the master's shop anymore......"
In the same way, few people know that there is another blacksmith in Bianye Village who is very good at blacksmithing.
And this person is - Ye Qisheng!
Yin Seventeen and Zhan Yan were both startled by what Miao Tie said, and she repeated in disbelief:
"You're talking about...... Ye Qisheng? ”
Miao Tie nodded and said, "It's Uncle Ye, I heard that Zhan Zhutou and Yin Kuaishou also went to Uncle Ye's house a few days ago to inquire about the situation of Sister Zhu Lan's house, didn't you?" ”
Speaking of Miao's widow Zhu Lan, Miao Tie looked sorry, and Miao Tie's wife was also sad.
Yin Qiqi guessed that the relationship between Widow Miao and Miao Tie and his wife should be good in Bian Ye Village before she got married, and she should have asked some about the situation of the Zhu family's sisters and brothers, but she would be more eager to know why Ye Qisheng gave up the craft of iron-making and became an honest farmer?
But Miao Tie said that he didn't know either.
Miao Tie asked Zhao Hongfu curiously, but Zhao Hongfu only said that he was not allowed to ask again.
Miao Tie also asked Ye Qisheng, but Ye Qisheng didn't even let Miao Tie call him a senior brother.
At first, Miao Tie didn't care, and occasionally he would call twice, but every time Ye Qisheng suddenly came up with a fist, he knew that Ye Qisheng really didn't want Miao Tie to call him a senior brother.
Zhan Yan asked: "When did Ye Qisheng no longer go to Zhao Hongfu to be an apprentice?" ”
Miao Tie recalled: "It should have been after I became an apprentice under my master...... A year or so! ”
Yin Seventeen asked, "What's so special about that?" ”
Miao Tie didn't understand what Yin Seventeen meant: "Special thing? ”
Yin Seventeen gave an example: "For example, what did your senior brother and your master quarrel about? Or is there anything about your master who refuses to teach your brother, and your brother gets angry for a while and leaves the blacksmith's shop? ”
Miao Tie shook his head without even thinking about it: "Impossible! My brother respects my master very much, and my master also values my brother's apprentice very much, if it weren't for the fact that I had gone **** luck and met my master, and another blood rushed up, and I ran forward to fight with those two gangsters, my master would definitely not accept me as an apprentice! ”
Zhao Hongfu said a long time ago that he only accepted one apprentice in his life, and taught them with all his might.
So he accepted Miao Tie as an apprentice, which was very unexpected.
However, after hearing that Miao Tieyong saved Zhao Hongfu, he couldn't help but feel that it was reasonable for Zhao Hongfu to take Miao Tie under his door again.
Since there has been no contradiction, why did Ye Qisheng suddenly abandon the iron-striking skills he had learned for many years, and never learn or mention it again, and even Miao Tie would not let him call him a senior brother?
Yin Qiqi felt that there must be a reason for this, but Miao Tie didn't know it.
Zhan Yan also thought so, remembered the water chestnut wire and asked:
"Have you learned all of your master's blacksmithing skills?"
When he took the officials to visit the blacksmith shop in the county, he visited the Zongjia blacksmith shop, and because it was the most famous blacksmith in the county, he was the first to visit.
But after Zhao Hongfu heard Zhanyan say it at that time, he only shook his head lightly and said, he won't and hasn't seen it.
Of course, this does not rule out the possibility that Zhao Hongfu is lying, so Zhan Yan will think that he may be able to ask something from Miao Tiekou.
What Zhan Yan thought in his heart, Yin Seventeen didn't know.
She only remembered that Village Chief Miao had said that Miao Tie's iron-striking skills had reached a point where the blues were better than the blue, so of course Zhao Hongfu's iron-making skills should be learned.
However, Miao Tie's answer was beyond the expectations of Yin Seventeen and Zhan Yan, and he said with a slight bitterness:
"As I said earlier, the master values the senior brother the most, even if the senior brother no longer continues to learn art in the blacksmith shop, the master still keeps the promise he made when he accepted the senior brother as an apprentice......
Zhao Hongfu originally said to Ye Qisheng that he would only accept Ye Qisheng as an apprentice in this life, even if he later broke his promise to accept Miao Tie as the second apprentice because of kindness, he still kept his promise to teach Ye Qisheng only one person in his iron-making skills.
So in the years in the Zongjia blacksmithing shop, Miao Tie could only learn eighty percent of Zhao Hongfu's iron-striking skills, and the remaining two percent Zhao Hongfu and Miao Tieming said that he only passed on Ye Qisheng alone.
Even if Ye Qisheng no longer comes to learn his iron-striking skills, he will no longer pass them on to others.
Yin Qiqi asked: "Then do you think Ye Qisheng has learned Zhao Hongfu's iron-striking skills?" ”
Miao Tie thought for a while and said: "The people in the village say that I have learned the master's ten percent iron skills, but in fact, I have only learned about eighty percent, and my senior brother should have learned eighty percent like me when he left." ”
In fact, Miao Tie is not sure about this eighty percent, but because Zhao Hongfu said that "even if Ye Qisheng doesn't learn the remaining two percent, he will not pass it on to others", Miao Tie speculated by himself.
Zhao Hongfu said to Miao Tie that after he would no longer pass on the remaining two percent of the iron-striking skills to Miao Tie, Miao Tie had the idea of leaving the Zong's blacksmithing shop, but thinking of Zhao Hongfu's kindness to him, he hesitated.
However, Zhao Hongfu saw it, so he drove Miao Tie out of the sect's house to make an iron shop...... (To be continued.) )