Chapter 11 There are a lot of weirdos and strange things in Wang Mang's family this year (I)
The residents of Xindu City woke up early in the morning and suddenly found that Lao Huang, the porter of Wang Mang's house, did not stand at the door in a proper manner after opening the door as usual, but sat on a wooden seat. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Info looked at everyone's curious eyes, Lao Huang glanced at it with disdain, and then said: "This is the chair that our second son asked someone to build, have you seen it, with this chair, not only are your legs not sore, but also the miracle doctor Dr. Gao also said that you won't get sick if you sit on a chair." When everyone wanted to try to sit down, Lao Huang said that this chair was very expensive, and he would never dare to let others sit on it. When the others wanted to ask something, he snorted in his nostrils, gave everyone a blank look, and then began to squint and doze.
Lao Huang is just a porter, but he is also a person who has served Wang Mang for most of his life, but because of his old age, Wang Mang let him be the porter and the pensioner, but Wang Mang's family is respectful to him when they go in and out. So even if those onlookers are angry with Lao Huang, at most they can only draw a fork in their hearts and curse him, and they don't dare to show what they say on their faces.
However, what made the onlookers the most angry was not Lao Huang, but Rhubarb, the guard dog in Wang Mang's house. I saw that the dog was dragging from inside the door, and made a thing made of wood, and then stretched his waist, and yawned a big yawn, and then changed the habit of snorting at everyone in the past, turned around and got into the thing it had just taken out, and like Lao Huang, he also squinted his eyes, and everyone realized that it turned out to be a kennel. Maybe it was because the sound of everyone's discussion was too loud and disturbed Rhubarb's dream, who knew that after this thing opened his eyes, it was exactly the same as Lao Huang, and he also glanced at everyone, so he buried his head in his body and no longer paid attention to everyone.
In this way, the onlookers were really angry, not only looked down on by a gatekeeper, but also despised by a watchdog. But no matter how angry he is, no matter how he says it, this dog is also the watchdog of the Xindu Hou family, so everyone can only unanimously decide to forget about being despised by the dog, and then look at the chair under the old yellow buttocks, and discuss what is good about this chair with a word.
Just when people were talking, I saw Cangsan, the follower of the second son of the new capital Hou, with his nostrils facing the sky, and he went out with a high-spirited appearance. What made everyone speechless was that not only Lao Huang was no longer squinting and napping, but greeted Cang San with a smile, and even Rhubarb crawled out of the kennel and wagged his tail around him. (Sorry, the net somehow is wrong, it's very stuck, so write a little bit and pass it a little)
Today's Cangsan has simply taken the* luck, not only has become a foreign manager, but also partnered with Lai Wu and Huang Guang, carpenters from the original Xindu Hou's family, and set up a carpentry workshop in the east market in the northeast corner of the new capital, specializing in making and selling some new-style furniture that has never been seen and heard of before. The day before yesterday, we only saw a wooden plaque covered with red silk cloth hanging above the door of the wooden workshop ready to open, who knew that when it opened yesterday, Wang Shu dragged down the red silk cloth, and everyone saw that the wooden plaque was actually Wang Mang's handwritten inscription: Xinmei woodware. This is something that no one can imagine, you must know that the national policy of the Han Dynasty is to emphasize agriculture and suppress business, and it is natural for Wang Mang, who is the new marquis of the capital, to do this.
It wasn't until someone said that this was the reward of the Marquis of Xindu for Lai Wu and Huang Guang for making a rocking chair for the Empress Dowager, that everyone suddenly realized. As for why the three owners of Xinmei Wood only saw two, and never saw Huang Guang, it was naturally specially escorted to Beijing for the rocking chair. Not to mention, since the opening of Xinmei woodware, all kinds of furniture that look strange but extremely practical have won the attention of Xindu people.
The person who partnered with Lai Wu and Huang Guang to do business was actually Wang Shu, but the policy of the Western Han Dynasty at this time was that businessmen were not allowed to enter the office, and Wang Shu naturally did not dare to put this matter on the surface, so he could only push Cangsan to the front desk and act as Wang Shu's agent. As for why Wang Shu remembered to do business, it was naturally related to his lack of money, since he asked a craftsman to make the eight filial piety drawings and knew the production cost, he understood, if you want to make some inventions and creations in the Western Han Dynasty, the money you need to spend is not half a star.
Originally, Wang Shou made the Taishi chair just to make the elderly at home and himself more comfortable, and he didn't want to do any furniture business. It's just that when the fourth brother Wang Lin pestered him every day, he had to find a way to get a smaller chair for himself, Wang Shu was forced to be helpless, so he asked two craftsmen to make a small horse for the fourth brother. Who knew that the fourth brother had Maza, and his sister Wang Yan quit again, so Wang Shu had to compare and paint, plus two craftsmen, a total of three people worked all day to make a wooden stroller. In this way, Wang Mang's family first enjoyed the benefits brought by Wang Yu's crossing.
Who knew that since Wang Shu showed his "amazing talent" for furniture design in front of Lai Wu and Huang Guang, these two craftsmen were almost about to bow to him, and they also obeyed all kinds of requirements for him, which gave Wang Shu the idea of doing business in partnership. Later, when Wang was asked to write the name of the store, Wang Mang stared at him silently for a long time, and then sighed before he picked up the pen and wrote the four words of Xinmei woodware. When Wang Wei heard someone explain the reason for Wang Mang's inscription at the opening of his furniture store, he really realized how old and spicy his father was.
In order to promote his own products, Wang Shu asked Lai Wu to build a stool for Lao Huang, the concierge, and let Lao Huang sit at the door every day as a live advertisement. Who knows, the stool has just been made, as if the snot can never be wiped off, the fourth brother Wang Lin saw it, and actually pointed to this stool and said: "Brother is really good, made a big chair for my eldest mother and grandmother, and gave me a small chair, and now I have made a second chair." Hearing Wang Lin say this, Wang Shu sprayed him with the water he had just drunk in his mouth. If it weren't for Tong Yan's unscrupulous, Wang Xu really wanted to ask the fourth brother Wang Lin, if you were a tease invited by the monkey.
In order to prevent his younger brother from naming the square stool indiscriminately, Wang Shu had to rename these good things. Considering that the chair is already a new term, and then make a stool and a maza, it is estimated that the Han Dynasty people will not be able to digest it in a short time, so he said to his younger brother: "This is a square chair, not a second chair, and your one is not a small chair, but a children's chair." You must remember, but don't scream anymore" Seeing Wang Lin's obedient nodding yes, he was a little relieved.
Today is a big day for Wang Xuke, because he wants to personally bring the two newly made Taishi chairs and a table of eight immortals to Kong Xiu, the minister of the new capital. To say that Kong Xiu has treated him well since he said that he wanted to accept Wang Shu as a student, even after he suffered from "soul loss", Kong Xiu has ordered his family to visit him several times in succession while feeling great regret. Later, when he heard that Wang was going to start over, he sent someone to give him a special Analects to encourage him to study hard.
Considering that he has now become a star-level figure in Xindu, he will always attract a large number of onlookers wherever he goes, if it is to his own furniture store, it would be fine, but now that he is at Kong Xiu's house, he doesn't want to follow a group of people all the time, otherwise it will be disrespectful to Kong Xiu no matter what, Wang Shu asked Cangsan to go to the door to temporarily drive away the long-term onlookers.
In fact, Wang Shu had already come to the door to thank him once since he received the Analects presented by Kong Xiu, but he didn't even say a few words at that time. There is no way, you must know that he is still in the stage of knowing words, but he does not know words, and he is not familiar with the way of language of the Han Dynasty, so it is very difficult to communicate. Now that I have barely known three or five hundred words, it is at least not as difficult to communicate with the ancients as it is to talk to foreigners in later generations, and I am also familiar with the Analects.
In fact, in Wang Shu's heart, he didn't feel where Kong Xiuniu was, nor did he think that the apprenticeship that his father had been thinking about was very important, after all, he didn't know how much effect this matter would have on his future from later generations. However, after Daddy Wang Mang heard that he was going to give Kong Xiu a Taishi chair, he said that he had lost his mind with some playthings recently, and it was the right thing to have more contact with characters like Kong Xiu. In fact, Wang Shu knew in his heart that his father actually wanted to have a good relationship with Kong Xiu, but Kong Xiu had always had an indispensable attitude, and the two of them couldn't pee in the same pot at all. Finally, Kong Xiu wanted to accept his son as a disciple, but Wang Shu lost his soul again, and now his father saw that although his memory had not recovered, he was much less embarrassed than before, and he was usually considered motivated, so he started to use Wang Shu's friendship with Kong Xiu again.
After Cang San drove away the onlookers outside the door, Wang Shu sat in the carriage equipped with the Taishi chair and the Eight Immortals table, and went out of the house with Cang Ba's "rack". Who knew that as soon as he got out of the house, he saw a piece of red silk hanging on the door of the house that sold for 40,000 yuan diagonally, and only after asking Cangsan did he know that this was a new neighbor preparing to move in. [Holding Han Dynasty Exchange Group: 577833544, welcome exchanges, irrigation.] ]