Chapter Twenty-Three: The Chen Family's Blacksmith Shop
I came out to find a venue and worked hard for most of the day, but fortunately, I finally got everything done, and I only needed to go to Shuntianfu in the afternoon to transfer my account. Now there is only the briquette machine made by his father Chen Jianghe, and with the briquette machine, the business of honeycomb coal can be started immediately.
Back at home, to Chen Yue's surprise, it only took half a day for Chen Jianghe to build the blacksmith shop. There are many furnaces, bellows, hammers, anvils, sledgehammers, pliers, grinding stones and other tools used in ironmaking. Chen Jianghe also asked people to bring a cart of good coke, which was piled up in the yard.
Two of the three rooms in the east wing were used as blacksmiths, and the other was used as his bedroom, Chen Jianghe, whose family was becoming more and more populous, and there was a maid, who did not want to be crowded in the same room with his son anymore.
When Chen Yue came back, Chen Jianghe was looking at the drawings of the briquette machine over and over again, and he was even impatient to talk to Chen Yue.
In the past few days, Wu Wan'er has free time, so she went to the bun shop to ask Aunt Zhang and Zhang Xiu'er's mother and daughter for advice on cooking skills. The tragic death of the trafficker Rosacea has long been spread throughout the capital, according to the messengers of Shuntianfu, it seems that the homeless people from other towns broke into the house and robbed and killed, the messengers searched Sijiu City, arrested many homeless scoundrels, and it is said that the real murderer has been captured. Now that Rosacea is dead and the deed of sale was burned by Chen Yue, Wu Wan'er is now a free person, and she doesn't have to worry about someone finding her whereabouts.
After several days of continuous practice, Wu Wan'er's meals became more and more delicious, and Chen Yue praised them repeatedly.
"It's delicious, it's delicious, this bun is exactly the same as Aunt Zhang'er."
"That's Aunt Zhang's buns, okay, Aunt Zhang gave them when I went to the bun shop in the morning." Wu Wan'er said angrily. Chen Ping, Chen Mo and the others squatted on the side and snickered.
"Oh, I'm sorry, you made this soup, it's not bad, it's not mushy at all. It's so delicious. Chen Yue took the soup and drank it all to show that he was not lying.
"Really?" Wu Wan'er was overjoyed, and hurriedly served another bowl to Chen Yue.
"Wan'er, you give Chen Ping and them food first, let me slow down." Chen Yue said with a bitter face.
"No, I don't like soup. Let the young master drink it. Chen Ping hurriedly waved his hand. Chen Mo and Chen Yan buried their heads in the bowl and refused to lift them.
"Finally figured out how to build this briquette machine!" Chen Jianghe sat down at the table with a smile on his face, and took a big sip of the soup bowl on the table.
Wu Wan'er looked at Chen Jianghe expectantly, waiting for his evaluation of her cooking skills.
I saw that Chen Jianghe was stunned all of a sudden, and turned his head with an ugly face, as if it took a lot of effort to swallow the soup in his mouth.
"Doesn't salt cost money? How did you add so much! One sentence made Wu Wan'er blush, covered her face and ran into the kitchen.
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After lunch, Chen Jianghe did not rest and rushed into the east wing. Among the three family members, Chen Mo and Chen Ping took turns pulling up the wind box, and the strong Chen Yan carried a big hammer and was responsible for striking iron with Chen Jianghe.
Chen Yue and Wu Wan'er talked and laughed a few words, then went out of the house to the Shuntian Mansion Yamen by the Drum Tower, and made an appointment to go to Shuntian Mansion with the coal yard owner in the afternoon.
When they arrived at the Shuntian Mansion, the coal yard owner and the tooth man Lao Song were already waiting there. The procedures for the sale and transfer of the house are very simple, the Shuntian Mansion has a special clerk to handle this matter, spent 50 wen transfer money, and stuffed half a tael of loose silver to the clerk, the deed was smoothly transferred, and from then on, the coal yard outside the Xibian Gate and the 100,000 catties of raw coal inside were Chen Yue's.
With his own blacksmith shop, Chen Jianghe was very motivated, and he was busy in the blacksmith all afternoon, not to mention, and even had to fight at night with lights. But the three young family members were languishing and tired like dead dogs. In the end, it is a fourteen or fifteen-year-old teenager, and his physical endurance cannot be compared with that of an adult at all.
Wu Wan'er looked at her younger brother Chen Ping distressedly, and quietly dialed a piece of chicken in her bowl into Chen Ping's bowl. Considering that striking iron is a very laborious task, Chen Yue went home in the afternoon to buy a hen in the market, slaughtered it himself, and boiled a pot of chicken soup by himself. When he was a police officer in his previous life, living alone for a long time made Chen Yue practice good cooking skills. Wu Wan'er was very dissatisfied with Chen Yue's deprivation of her right to cook, but when she tasted the taste of chicken soup, she was surprised and almost lost the bowl in her hand. It's delicious, it's so delicious, but how can he, a big man, cook better than a woman?
"With one more night, I'll be able to make a complete briquette machine for you." Chen Jianghe said to Chen Yue. In the end, it is something that has never appeared in the world, although there are drawings, Chen Jianghe still scrapped it many times, and it was not successful by the time it got dark.
"Daddy, don't be so anxious, don't get tired, it's better to rest for the night, and fight again tomorrow." Chen Yue persuaded.
"It's okay, your dad can afford it!" Chen Jianghe waved his hand.
You can afford it, but I can't bear it, Chen Ping looked at his master with a bitter face, but he couldn't say anything about his grievances.
"Master, I'll fight with you, and I'll never sleep if you don't build this briquette machine!" Chen Mo, who had always been silent, suddenly spoke, and the words he said made Chen Jianghe extremely happy.
"I, I'll go too!" Chen Yan is an honest man, he doesn't have much heart, these days when he came to the Chen family, it is the happiest day in his life, and being able to eat enough every day is no less than being in heaven for him, so he is very grateful to his master, the Chen family, father and son. Since the master has to strike iron overnight, he naturally can't lag behind.
So everyone turned their attention to Chen Ping, and Chen Ping had no choice but to raise his hand with a bitter face and promise to continue.
"Otherwise, forget it, look at your little chicken-like body, don't get tired." Chen Jianghe waved his hand.
"It's okay sir, I'm young, it's nothing to suffer a little." When this happens, Chen Ping can only slap his swollen face and become fat.
Wu Wan'er watched her younger brother enter the east wing with concern, and soon the jingling sound sounded again.
"Don't worry, my father is measured, and he won't be tired of Ah Ping." Chen Yue comforted Wu Wan'er softly.
Wu Wan'er glanced at Chen Yue angrily, meaning that you are strong, why don't you go?
"I'm a young master, how can this kind of work be my turn." Chen Yue approached Wu Wan'er with a smile and smelled the good fragrance on her body. When a beautiful girl of twenty-eight years old stands in front of her, as long as she is a man, she will be attracted and will involuntarily want to get close.
"I'm going to sleep!" Wu Wan'er blushed to the root of her ears and rushed to the inside like a frightened deer.
What if I hadn't burned the deed of sale? She's my maid, so I can do whatever I want. Chen Yue regretfully lay on the bed in the outer room.