Shen Ding, a carpenter, is a middle-aged man with a small stature and a thin appearance, a native of Guantai Town, Cizhou, and his perennial work makes him look more than fifty. He was hired to work in the prison, and he said that he would be paid a consistent salary of half a month, but he couldn't get enough to eat, let alone marry a Hun family. Usually he doesn't say much, but only when he picks up an axe and chisels an ink bucket, or picks up wood and puts it in front of his eyes, does his eyes show a convincing confidence. But once he blends into the crowd, Shen Ding is still a lowly and cowardly poor people. He himself knew that he was like an ant that had just emerged from the ground, a little person who was not even a small person.

Shen Ding has been in his wooden workshop these days, working with chisels, axes and saws for several days, and when he eats, he goes to the soldiers of the Hujia Society to eat some indiscriminately, and after eating, he doesn't say much, and then returns to the wooden workshop to continue his work. Although these craftsmen live together, they still strictly abide by their old rules when they do their work, and they do their own work, and they never look at or inquire about other people's affairs. So Shen Ding is doing it alone.

Since their eleven craftsmen lived in Sanssouci Village, they spent the first period of anxiety, and found that the people in this cottage not only did not bully them, but also respected them very much. It put them at ease all at once. After asking Gao Yuan, eleven people started together, in the northeast corner of the village, on a mountain opposite the public field, first built the house where they lived, and then set up a craftsman room to do their own skills, although there was no work for them to do in the cottage at that time, but they decided to build this workshop is to contribute to the cottage in the future.

A few days ago, the owner of Dazhai, the young man surnamed Zhou, personally found himself and took himself to Dr. Zheng, and the two of them made a gesture, asking him to make something like a pot, higher than a pot, like a bucket and one more layer of pot than a bucket. He has been doing woodwork all his life, although he has seen this thing every time, from the explanation of the master of the village and the doctor Zheng, he has heard what is going on. In addition, the owner of the village directly told him the purpose of this thing, which made him know more about how to do it, and he was even more moved.

Craftsmen naturally know how to hide their secrets in order to maintain the rarity and preciousness of their skills, which is a means for craftsmen to ensure their livelihood. But the owner of the village let him understand the production of steamed wine without reservation. Although he still doesn't know what steamed wine is, Dr. Zheng is a well-informed person, and he is not the same as a secret skill?

Shen Ding didn't say much, he thought to himself that only by doing a good job could he repay the kindness of the lord of Dazhai. For several days in a row, he worked hard in the workshop. If you eat other people's food, you must do their work well; People respect his craft, and he wants to use his craft to repay others.

This is how he behaves as a small person.

Now Shen Ding stood in front of the "steamer" that he had only heard of and had never seen, looking at this large barrel pot that was three feet high and two feet square, and at the bottom was a round-bottomed barrel, the bottom of the barrel was the half-inch thick barrel bottom that he had cut with a whole oak tree of more than two feet, and the barrel wall was the board he sawed with the body of this oak tree, and the barrel wall was spliced together to form the barrel wall, and then it was tied with a wooden hoop on the outside. Three feet high from the bottom of the barrel, there is a barrel lid with a square opening in the middle, and above the opening in the center of the barrel lid, there is a small wooden barrel like a pot buckled backwards, and the small wooden barrel is buckled on the part of the large barrel lid, making a circle of concave wooden troughs, and the wooden trough has a small opening, and a bamboo pipe is connected, so that the wine flowing from the inner wall of the small wooden barrel drip into the wine jar along the bamboo pipe at the opening. There is also a small opening at the bottom of the barrel, which is followed by a bamboo pipe, which passes through a water tank, so that the excess water vapor can be cooled and turned into wine dripping into another jar, waiting to be used for steaming.

He looked at this steamer, he didn't understand what the owner of the village said when it was cold, he just strictly followed the requirements of the owner of the village, and made the steamer airtight, and it was convenient for the wine to flow out. He compared the steamer he made with the requirements of the master of the village, and thought about it several times in his heart, until he felt that there would be no mistakes, and then he stopped. It was already done yesterday, but he was worried that something would go wrong, so this morning the master of the village came over, and he didn't report it to the owner of the village, but came back silently to continue to verify.

When Shen Dingzheng looked at the steamer intently, two people came in from outside, Shen Ding felt strange, and when he looked back, it was the master of the village and the doctor Zheng. Shen Ding hurriedly stepped forward to salute, Zhou Nan hurriedly stopped, Shen Ding said to Zhou Nan: "It was completed yesterday, but I don't know if there was any mistake, so I didn't have time to report to the owner of Dazhai this morning." Shen Dingfei deliberately concealed it. ”

Zhou Nan smiled indifferently and said, "Shen Zhizhao is serious and hard. Shen Ding saw that Zhou Nan was not to blame, so he was relieved, and asked Zhou Nan and Lao Zheng Tou to check whether the steamer was suitable.

Zhou Nan opened the steaming barrel and steamer, looked at them one by one, especially the concave sink, was very satisfied, and said to Shen Ding: "Now find someone to move the steamer to Dr. Zheng, you can steam wine tonight." ”

As soon as Lao Zheng heard that he could steam wine tonight, Le's mouth didn't know how to close, and he hurriedly said, "I'll go find someone to move over." He said to Shen Ding again: "Shen Zhizhao should be credited this time." When the deed is done, I will send you two bottles of steamed wine. Hahaha. ”

Shen Ding hurriedly thanked him, and he was even more relieved in his heart, and sighed even more: Why do all the people in this village respect and love each other so much?

Eight catties is also a small person who is not even a small person, he is in the palace of the great prince, he is not even qualified to stand at the gate, he is only the slave of the palace guard Hu Dugu, he is originally a native of Youzhou, in order to avoid service, he voluntarily put into the family of Hu Dugu, the head of the guard in the palace of the great prince, as a slave. The eldest prince and the princess hunted mandarin ducks with the emperor two months ago, and there were naturally people left in the house to take care of them, and his master Hu Dugu was one of the guards.

Unexpectedly, the emperor was so anxious that he would even kill his own flesh and blood, and even the princess was scared away later. Everyone in the house knows this news, and they are all gloomy, maybe any royal relatives and nobles will say a word, and they will become slaves of another family. Even his master used wine every day to drown his sorrows.

Who would have thought that the day before yesterday, he and his partner went to Ganquanfang for dinner, and met the princess of Shu who lived in a reclusive restaurant, and after being sure that the princess would settle in Hongyan Restaurant, he immediately told his master Hu Dugu. The lord immediately rewarded him with two pennies and told him to keep an eye on the princess.

Since then, he has gone to Hongyan Restaurant every day, hiding in the corner of the street, staring at the people inside, but the princess rarely goes out, at most she sits in the restaurant, and then goes back inside.

He only hoped that he would find out something more, so that he could go back and report it to his master, so that he could get a reward.