Chapter 20: The Officer's Hat Chair
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The so-called 'upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked', Zhao Kuangyin, the Taizu of the Great Song Dynasty, is a very famous gambler. His children and grandchildren are all like this, even today's officials, who are known for their generosity, simplicity and benevolence, can't resist the temptation and often fight with the palace people. But Zhao Zhen's level is not enough, almost nine out of ten wins, and he loses cleanly.
The official family couldn't stop, so he borrowed half of the money he lost from the palace businessman and then pounced, but in the Great Song Dynasty, willing to gamble and lose was the first rule, and the palace people never refused to return the money won to the official family, so he was often very depressed.
The emperor's play is mainly entertainment, and it doesn't matter whether he wins or not. But the small people are focused on winning money, at least both.
When Chen Ke stood on the street thousands of years ago, and saw under the shade of the trees, in front of the stalls, and in the shops, clusters of puffers, piles of pouters, staring wide-eyed, shouting, biting his lip, pinching his nails, and making a nervous appearance, the gambling spirit in his heart was stimulated.
How can a man not gamble? It's just that he is restricted by law and morality, and many times he has to suppress his gambling nature. But looking at the posture of the whole people in the Great Song Dynasty, and the people who looked like officials and soap officials also openly joined in it, he couldn't help but be enthusiastic and eager to try.
But how can any adult play Guan Po with a ten-year-old child? If you win, you won't win, and both sides have to come up with a considerable amount of capital, at least you have to make the other party feel that you don't lose, so that you can make it possible to pounce, where does he get money to bet?
More importantly, in the Great Song Dynasty, the common people gambled almost from birth...... When he was young, he fought grass, fought fish, and rolled dice, and when he was young, he officially entered the Guan Bao army, which can be said to be a veteran gambler. In order to enable the public to pounce with themselves, and not to lose their money, the small traders who are selling are all carefully designed to gamble and ask the other party to buy according to their own methods.
For example, make a three-foot diameter 'red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, purple, black, white, gray' nine-color disc. For a penny, the buyer can shoot a needle arrow with a five-colored feather at the spinning disc. The vendors sang loudly on the side, 'Fish in the white, shrimp in the red, and the rest is not in the middle', such jargon. When the circle stops, the two sides look at the position of the needle and arrow on the disk, if it hits the white red, you can naturally carry the fish and shrimp away, if you shoot other areas, you will naturally sigh, or try again.
This kind of Guan Pu is not much different from the kind of tricks that San Lang saw in his later generations, even if there are not thousands, the main family will win more and lose less. If you want to get rid of poverty and become rich by Guan Pu, it is simply a dream.
But he has his own way. After observation, Chen Ke chose this Pan carpenter shop, and three days ago, he came to the store and proposed to the bored Pan carpenter.
When Carpenter Pan saw that he was a child, he didn't want to deal with him, but he was bored, so he teased: "Child, how do you want to play?" β
"Last night I dreamed of the best chair in the world, and I have already drawn it." Chen Sanlang said with an immature face: "I'll use this drawing to bet with you, betting that you can order at least ten or more within three days." β
"It's not a small tone." Carpenter Pan smiled, although his craftsmanship is good, Qingshen is still young after all, and the furniture of this era is not the same as those of later generations, and it is longer than the life span of people. So sometimes you can't sell a chair in ten days and half a month.
Out of curiosity, he said, "Show me first." β
"That's not good, in case you read it and only keep it in mind, but you don't open a blog with me, or deliberately release water," Chen Sanlang shook his head and said: "What if you bully my child's family?" β
"Hahaha......" Carpenter Pan laughed loudly: "What do you say?" Guan Pu is 'allowed to cheat and not be relied upon', if I am a debtor, how will I mix it up in the future? β
"It's better to find a witness." Chen Sanlang insisted.
It is not difficult to find a witness, this big and small Guan Pu has long attracted the attention of the merchants on the side, and everyone laughed and said: "Child, you just have to rest assured to pounce, if Pan Dalang dares to cheat, we will smash his shop." β
"Then, I'm sure you are." Saburo continued to sell Moe Dao.
"Okay," under the agitation of everyone, Carpenter Pan finally couldn't help but say: "I'll bet this game with you, say, what do you want?" β
"Five." San Lang's tone is really big, and one mouth is most of Pan Carpenter's income for half a month.
"Done!" Carpenter Pan felt that he was even more naΓ―ve, how could such a little boy come up with the 'most perfect chair'?
So the two sides made an agreement, and San Lang took out the drawings, and Carpenter Pan was very casual at first. But the old carpenter's intuition made him more and more serious, and then he got up directly from the chair: "Said inside." β
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What do you say Chen Saburo draws on the picture? In fact, it is a four-out official hat chair.
He carefully observed the furniture placed by Carpenter Pan outside, and found that the chairs of this era were already very complete in structure and style, but he did not find an official hat chair that he completely loved.
This chair, which was popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties, seems to have taken shape in the Southern Song Dynasty. But Chen Ke knows that not appearing does not mean that it is not popular, as a collection of Chinese-style seats, the official hat chair has unparalleled advantages.
First of all, the ancients paid attention to the sitting appearance, and the official hat chair can convey the majesty and dignity of the sitter through the modeling language of the backrest and the curve of the armrest. Secondly, it has no decoration on top and bottom, and the structure is extremely concise, saving time and materials in production. Moreover, its seat supports the buttocks and thighs, the back supports the waist, the armrests support the upper body, and the feet are lined by the footrests, which is very ergonomic, which is the height that the Song Dynasty seat cannot reach.
The most flattering thing is that the head and armrests of this kind of chair are poking out of the head, and its shape is very similar to the black gauze hat on the head of an official, and it is immediately raised to a higher level.
Carpenter Pan was an expert, and after looking at it for a long time, he saw the broad prospect of this kind of chair - this is a kind of chair that can prompt people to renew it. I still blamed myself in my heart: 'Why can't I think of such a chair?' β
At this time, he had forgotten to bet, and all his thoughts were on creating such a four-headed official hat chair according to the diagram.
Under Saburo's guidance, Carpenter Pan spent a day creating a sample and placing it in the most obvious place in front of the shop. Because the bet between the two has spread, people have come to see the excitement and compete to try this new chair, only to know that the cold and hard wood can make people feel gentle and considerate everywhere. Coupled with its flattering official hat shape, even if it is to please the head, everyone has to order a set.
Orders came one after another, and Pan Carpenter blossomed, and he regarded San Lang as the God of Wealth. not only happily fulfilled the gambling contract, but also opened the box for Saburo for free, bent on having a good relationship with him, in the hope that there would be such a good thing in the future.
"That's pretty much it." Under Erlang's questioning, Chen Ke had no choice but to tell the truth: "But what kind of gambling is this?" It's clear that I sold the invention cheaply and let him take advantage of the old man...... Alas, who made us poor.
"You ......" Erlang was speechless, and held back for a long time before saying: "Let Daddy know, I won't care about that, I will definitely beat you." "Not everyone likes to be shut down, and many Taoists are opposed to this kind of 'unemployment', especially minors.
"I can't care so much," San Lang patted the wooden box nonchalantly and said, "If you want to buy such a thing, you need at least two thousand, can we afford it?" β
"This wooden box," Chen Chen had already gotten on his thief ship, so he just habitually said it, and then turned his mind to 'business': "Is it our magic weapon?" β
"Hmm......" San Lang nodded, took Erlang to make purchases along the way, and stopped in front of a two-story restaurant: "This is it!" β
"Third brother, I want to eat." Korokuro smiled and said.
"Well, eat." San Lang nodded and said to Erlang, "It's up to you." β
"Hmm." Erlang took a deep breath and took his brothers into this small restaurant.
Behind the counter, when the guy saw someone coming in, he quickly got up to greet him, but when he saw that the people who came were four children, the eldest was only thirteen or fourteen years old, and he was carrying a basket of vegetables, he was deflated and said, "We don't buy ingredients." He thought that these children were here to sell.
"Who said it was sold to you, we are here to eat." Erlang popped out something in a chic manner, and it was falling into the hands of the guy. When I saw it, it turned out to be ten dollars, and I became enthusiastic and said: "Please come in the guest officer!" β
Welcoming the four brothers upstairs, the guy wiped the table again and again, brought tea and snacks and said, "What do you want to use for the guest officer?" β
"Don't worry, I'll ask you." Erlang pretended to be as calm as possible and said, "It's time for dinner now, why don't you see other guests?" β
"Hey......" the guy smiled bitterly: "There are many people and you can't eat, how good is it if there are fewer people, isn't it clean?" β
"That's not the case." Erlang shook his head and said: "There are fewer people, it means that your food is not good, or the store is bullying, how dare we eat?" β
"Alas......" The guy was obviously depressed: "Does the guest officer still order food?" β
"We have to give it a chance, and we don't want to change places." Erlang said: "Call your boss and serve a few specialty dishes." β
"Done." The guy hung his head down. The customers still have to rely on the pity of others, and this broken store is about to close.
There are fewer people and the food is served quickly, which is really good. However, after the tea effort, the second brother and another young man carried two trays and served eight dishes.
After the food was served, the chubby young man in his twenties did not leave, but waited for the guests to taste it with a look of anticipation.
Under his expectant gaze, Erlang took a piece of chopsticks and meat and sent it to his mouth to taste, and then his face was weird and he couldn't swallow it, and he couldn't spit it out.
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