Yang Jingzong also lives with his parents and brother, although the courtyard of the Yang family is also a grass house, but the scale is quite large, and there are two pigs and a few sheep in the backyard, which looks solid.

The Yang family entertained Chen Xian very warmly, and even killed a chicken for him.

Chen Xian was a little surprised by the enthusiasm of the Yang family, in his habitual concept, the vast majority of parents in China are extremely disgusted with their children's dancing with guns and sticks, and the Yang family gave him the feeling that he wished he could accept Yang Jingzong as an apprentice.

If you think about it carefully, this is not surprising, in this era, Shandong and North China have fallen to the rule of the Jin people for a hundred years, these hundred years, the northern Han people have struggled to survive, and they can only rely on martial arts and swords and guns in their hands, and I am afraid that the idea of emphasizing literature and light on military force has long been thrown into Java.

During the banquet, Chen Xian proposed to compensate for the crops of those few acres of land, but the Yang family resolutely refused again.

At this time, Chen Xiancai proposed to accept Yang Jingzong as a disciple.

As soon as Chen Xian's words came out, Yang Jingzong couldn't wait to kneel on the ground, kowtowing again and again, the father of the Yang family and Da Lang were overjoyed.

After accepting the disciples, Chen Xian told the Yang family father and son that Yang Yuanwai gave him the new land in the north, and the Yang family father and son could get ten acres there and plant it first.

In return, the father and son of the Yang family proposed to transfer all the farmland with a total of more than five acres that was designated as Chen Xian's blacksmith shop to Chen Xian......

Everyone is happy to eat a meal.

In the next few days, Chen Xian was busy on the construction site of the blacksmith shop, constantly communicating with Chen Laojia, and striving to build this courtyard according to his own ideas.

Chen Xinjia and several other stewards accepted Chen Xian's money, and they were all very happy to do things.

According to the rules, this blacksmith shop was given to Chen Xian by Yang Yuanwai, and when the shop was built, the food of the craftsmen and helpers gathered should be taken care of by the Yang family.

But Chen Xian saw the food sent by the Yang family on the first day, and immediately found Chen Xinjia, claiming that he had received too much kindness from Yang Yuanwai, and he was very ashamed, and he couldn't rely on Yang Yuanwai for everything, and he was willing to be responsible for the food of the craftsmen's helpers.

Although it sounds good, the fact is that Chen Xian found that the food sent by the Yang family was really bad, the gruel made of wheat was scarce, and there was a swishing smell, and the dish was a pot of black rotten sauerkraut, which also smelled spoiled.

Eating such a meal, not to mention that you don't have the strength to work, even if you have the strength, no one wants to use it.

For the safety of his house and for the early completion of the project, Chen Xian took over the food of the craftsman's helpers.

Chen Xian found two disciples, Wu Liang and Yang Jingzong, and a group of registered disciples, bought fine millet and flour from the rice grain shop, borrowed the kitchen of Yang Jingzong and Wu Liang's second brother, and hired the female relatives of the two families to cook.

Chen Xian also bought a fat pig from Yang Jingzong's family, and after slaughtering, part of it was salted and hung on the fire pit to smoke it, and part of it was made into a whistle.

The people of the Song Dynasty looked down on pork, and they all took mutton as the top quality, so naturally they were not very good at making pork.

Su Dongpo once had a poem that vividly illustrated this situation, Huangzhou is good pork, and the price is as cheap as dung. The rich refuse to eat, and the poor do not understand how to cook.

Chen Xian taught the Wu family and the Yang family several classic pork practices, such as bacon, whistle, back pot meat, braised pork, stewed pork ribs with radish, etc.

After Chen Xian took care of the meal, not only did he have enough millet porridge and Hu cakes for every meal, but also delicious pork dishes that he had never eaten.

These artisan helpers have never been treated so kindly.

The improvement of food has given the craftsmen and helpers strength, and the second is gratitude, and the enthusiasm for labor has increased exponentially.

Chen Xian also promised that if the yard could be repaired within half a month and he was satisfied, he would give each craftsman a reward of 100 yuan and each helper 50 yuan.

Although there is not much money, it is the difference between having and not having it.

In this way, there are stewards Yang who give the green light, there are stewards who have collected money to seriously supervise, there are craftsmen and helpers who are well fed and fed, and there are craftsmen and helpers who are rewarded with money to work hard, and Chen Xian's blacksmith workshop project is amazingly fast.

Even so, Chen Xian was not at ease, he had to keep an eye on the construction site during the day, and he didn't want to sleep in a dangerous house in the future.

Every afternoon, the craftsman finishes work, and Chen Xian teaches a group of young people to practice guns and sticks and cultivate feelings at Yang's house or Wu Liang's house.

In just half a month, he had his own foundation in Dongzhuangzi, and no one dared to despise him as an outsider.

Through Wu Liang and other young people, Chen Xian recruited a group of more than 20 poor teenagers aged 14 or 5 in Zhuangzi as apprentices in the future blacksmith shop.

These twenty or so teenagers were all left behind after being screened by Chen Xian personally.

Chen Xian actually wanted to recruit some children from a craftsman's family.

It's a pity that he promised excellent conditions, and only recruited three young people from craftsmen's families.

To tell the truth, no matter when, no matter how high or low the status, people with craftsmanship have a better life than ordinary people.

Craftsmen have their own craftsmanship inheritance, and it is not uncommon for them to be apprentices to others.

The three craftsmen he recruited, one was the youngest son of an old mason under Chen Laojia, Lao Tzu was seriously ill and had been bedridden for a long time.

As the saying goes, half the size of the child, eat the poor, the fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy is not very old, but the amount of food is huge, the craft is not fully learned, the strength is not enough, can not go to the construction site, the family really can't afford to support, is for Chen Xian's apprentice to manage the condition of full.

The other two are the children of carpenters, speaking of this carpenter, he is also a legend in Zhuangzi, this guy has no other skills, that is, he can give birth to sons, he gave birth to nine, raised six, and was also eaten by a group of bone-turning dragons at home can't stand it, so he sent the two older ones to eat in the mix.

Chen Xian is also a man of his word, once these teenagers are confirmed by him, they will be able to eat with the working artisan helpers immediately.

Of course, Chen Xian couldn't let these teenagers eat and drink in vain, so he divided the twenty-six teenagers into two teams, appointed the older ones as captains, and took the teenagers to dig some thorny bushes outside the Zhuangzi and came back, planted them on the periphery of the future blacksmith shop, surrounded them into a large courtyard, and enclosed all the acres of land that the Yang family transferred to him.

When he first crossed over, Lujiazhuang's experience made Chen Xian clearly realize that compared with the modern society before the crossing, this time was basically a lawless era.

The corpses all over the ground in Lujiazhuang that day filled his heart with a sense of crisis, so he was very concerned about the defensive function of this courtyard where he was going to settle down.

Chen Xian planned to wrap the entire courtyard with thorny shrubs, leaving only one gate for entry and exit on the side facing the street.

He also plans to hang bells in the outer bush belt as an early warning line in the future.

In the design of the courtyard, Chen Xian reserved four protruding open spaces at the four corners of the courtyard wall, and when he established himself in the future, he would build four defensive towers on the four corners of the wall.

Behind the quadrangle, a large area of farmland surrounded by thorns and shrubs was planned to be leveled and used as a training ground.

Of the twenty-six young apprentices recruited, Chen Xian not only wanted to teach them to strike iron, but also planned to teach them martial arts, literacy, and most importantly, to brainwash them, trying to train these teenagers to become his own team to survive in this troubled world.