Chapter 13: The Officials Arrive
Inside Tao Village.
The Wei family became rich by burning porcelain, which is the most enthusiastic topic among the villagers at present.
Thinking that the family that has been as bitter as everyone else for many years is now wearing gold and silver, and eating fine rice and white noodles, the villagers can't help but be curious, wanting to see what is the difference between the porcelain burned by the Wei family and the original pottery......
If you can steal something and make a small fortune, that's the best!
It is with this idea that even if they know that the craftsmen nowadays are taboo to visit their homes casually, the villagers are also cheeky, and from time to time they probe their brains around the Wei family's pottery farm, and find all kinds of excuses to get close.
Although according to Wei Ming's explanation, as long as the family can keep the key to the formula of the transparent glaze, the villagers can look at other processes casually......
Although Wei Youfu Lu Yuehua said yes, how could she honestly do it?
As soon as they entered the pottery field, the door was closed, and they even moved all their work to the shed despite the heat, and they couldn't wait to be seen.
"Running into the house for everything, as if we were afraid that we would steal his teacher-what kind of person!"
"I can't even say a word after calling for a long time, I think the two of them feel that their family is now developed, and they can't look down on our neighbors......"
After most of the day, the villagers, who didn't see any doorways, began to be a little dissatisfied, muttering and complaining about Qi Tian, completely forgetting that if someone else peeped into their secret method or something, they were afraid that they would have to break it.
Just when a group of villagers were indignant, they saw several officials riding tall horses and a person who looked like a shopkeeper coming straight to this side under the leadership of the lieutenant chief.
"Young Master Li, Shopkeeper Lei, this is the pottery field of Wei Youfu's family that you are looking for!"
The lieutenant waited for the officials to dismount with a nod and a bow, and at the same time shouted to open the door in the pottery field with the door closed.
"You wait here, no one is allowed to come in without my orders!"
After the door opened, Li Xiu greeted several entourage officials, and led the shopkeeper Lei into the pottery field together.
"Young craftsman? That's a fourth-grade official! ”
"That Lei shopkeeper looks familiar, could it be the Lei shopkeeper of the pottery workshop?"
A group of villagers talked about it, saying that these people were not enjoying happiness in Chang'an City, but they came to find Wei Youfu and his family in this Tao Village, I am afraid that there is nothing else except the porcelain!
Thinking of this, the villagers couldn't help but start to gloat a little, and said in their hearts that let the two of you hide it, and they are reluctant to let us see anything!
Now that the young craftsman has come to the door, I don't believe that you two still dare to hide it!
In short, when I thought of the two of them trembling in fright when they saw Li Xiu coming to the door, and immediately poured beans into a bamboo tube and didn't dare to hide it, the mood of the villagers was like eating ice cream on a hot day, and they were happy.
The same goes for the Ray shopkeeper.
The baby delivered to the door was thrown out like garbage, and in the end, it was cheaper than the Guo family's shop, and his surname Lei became the biggest joke in the pottery workshop.
What kind of eyes don't know gold and jade, what kind of blind dog's eyes......
In short, in the past two days, Shopkeeper Lei felt that someone was pointing and poking his backbone behind his back because of this incident, and he was so embarrassed that he was thrown to his grandmother's house!
is also for this reason, when he saw Wei Youfu again, the shopkeeper Lei couldn't help but laugh again and again, and said in his heart that you want to fight with me because you are a stinky pottery?
Sell me porcelain without seeing it, right? Deliberately made my surname Lei make a fool of himself in public, right?
You didn't sell it when you gave you money before, but now that a certain family doesn't pay a penny, you have to obediently hand over the secret recipe for porcelain!
Thinking that Wei Youfu had to hand over the secret recipe as if he wanted to cry without tears, Shopkeeper Lei couldn't help but want to laugh out loud!
It's a pity that Wei Youfu and Lu Yuehua are not as unbearable as they thought, and even when Shopkeeper Lei led Li Xiu directly to the shed, they were directly blocked in the yard!
"It's a place to make porcelain, so it's inconvenient to let the two of you in!"
Wei Youfu said: "If you have anything to say about the young craftsman and the Lei shopkeeper, just say it in the courtyard!" ”
"Wei Youfu, you are so bold!"
Hearing this, the shopkeeper Lei scolded sharply, pointed at Li Xiu and said: "Since you know the name of Li Shaojiang, you should know that under the whole world, it is not the king's land, the people of the world, and the king's ministers - your porcelain burning technique is kept secret from your peers, and it is forgivable, but if you dare to keep it secret from the court, it will be a big rebellion, the rod will be punished, and the army will be light, and if you don't make trouble, you will lose your head!" ”
Wei Youfu bowed down, not even daring.
"If you don't know if you don't dare, why don't you give way quickly?"
The shopkeeper snorted proudly, scolded and gave way, and at the same time did not forget to say arrogantly: "I will take the young craftsman in now to see what your porcelain is doing, as for you, hurry up and pack up your things, and wait with me to go back later, and honestly dedicate your porcelain-making law to the court!" ”
Wei Youfu not only didn't move, but didn't even give way!
"You damn thing!"
Seeing that Wei Youfu was unmoved, the shopkeeper Lei jumped angrily, turned back to Li Xiu and said: "You have seen it all young craftsman, this guy is simply disobedient and disrespectful - do you want to take it back directly?" ”
"The fool has no idea of disobeying the imperial court, and I hope that the young craftsman will be clear!"
Wei Youfu didn't pay attention to Lei's shopkeeper, but just turned around and explained to Li Xiu.
"Since you don't dare to hide your personal disobedience, why don't you give way?"
Li Xiu opened his mouth, his tone was flat, and he didn't even glance at Wei Youfu from beginning to end.
After all, in his eyes, Wei Youfu is as small as an antworm, and he can't not give what he wants, and he doesn't dare not give it!
Then he realized he was wrong.
Because Wei Youfu said: "I didn't give way, because I didn't think it was necessary - today my Xiaolang served as a craftsman, and he has asked him to dedicate the method of burning porcelain to the craftsman on behalf of him, if the young craftsman wants to know, he will know when he goes back and asks, there is no need to check in a certain family's workshop!" ”
"Didn't you say that you came to ask for a way to burn porcelain? Why did the young craftsman and the shopkeeper Lei go around the yard and leave? ”
Seeing that Li Xiulei's shopkeeper didn't even enter the shed, he turned around and left with a blue face, and a group of villagers who were waiting to see the joke looked at each other at the same time, and looked at Wei Youfu with a look of shock in their eyes......
Because they didn't expect that Wei Youfu, who usually looked no different from himself and others, would be able to send Li Xiu away in a few words!
That's a young craftsman, a fourth-grade official!
Thinking of this, the dissatisfaction of the villagers with the Wei family in their hearts gradually disappeared, and was replaced by something called awe.