After dinner, while there was still some sunset in the courtyard, Zhang Wusi pulled Wang Qiao out and asked Wang Qiao to tell him how their tents were connected, how they were very different from the connection methods he had seen before, and the military tents in the army.

And it can be done so quickly, without preliminary preparation, it can be completed in a day or two, and he has to see clearly what he says about such efficiency.

Mama Jin, Mama Liu and the maids and daughters-in-law were cleaning up the pots and pans after dinner, Qi Jia was in the yard, following Mama Jin for a while and asking this and that, and then running to Wang Qiao and listening to Wang Qiao say something he didn't understand.

Ye Xinyan chatted with Qi Younian in the house.

"Your third uncle was not idle, he has a job in his hands. It's just that your fourth grandfather received a letter from me, thinking that if your third uncle followed a small water and wood work in Haozhou," Speaking of this, Qi Younian glanced at Ye Xinyan and explained, "It's the construction line you said." ”

Ye Xinyan hurriedly smiled: "Grandpa just follows his own jargon, I am all nonsense and nonsense from a layman." ”

Before she bought the classic book "Construction Regulations", she really didn't know that the ancient construction industry was called "construction", and the name of the ancient engineering team was even more interesting, called Shuimuzuo. This is like the name of a construction team, and it looks like a small wooden house between mountains and rivers.

Also, a mason like grandpa, in the construction industry, people are not called masons, people call them water works, carpenters are called wood works, as well as tile works, bamboo works, paintings, etc., knowledge points.

"Grandpa, go on." Ye Xinyan is very interested in the self-taught and talented Wang Qiao.

Ancient times are not as good as modern times, because individuals have gone to school and know how to read. To put it mildly, no matter when, as long as a person wants to forge ahead and has the perseverance to never retreat, then he can basically succeed.

In ancient times, it was different, the factors such as expensive education, expensive paper, expensive pen and ink, lack of educational resources, etc., added up, and children without a certain family background could not know words at all. Not to mention self-taught, that's a fantasy and impossible.

But Wang Qiao did it, his family was poor and he had never gone to school, but he not only knew how to read, but also learned a lot of skills. It's simply an inspirational model.

Qi Younian continued: "Your fourth grandfather thinks that even if Ah Qiao has a smart talent that others don't have, in that environment, even if he lives his whole life, he can only be a craftsman who listens to people's orders and earns money for other families. If you are old, there will be no big improvement.

If you follow your uncle, not only will Aqiao's talent not be buried, but it will also be able to effectively help us make the construction industry bigger, and it will also earn him a lot of money for himself. Ah Qiao is also in his twenties, and he is already old enough to start a family. ”

Qi Younian summed up with a smile: "So, Ah Qiao followed your fourth grandfather to our place." ”

Ye Xinyan was speechless and said: "Third Uncle Wang is amazing, such qualifications, if there is a serious general to carry it, I am afraid that the future is limitless." "Isn't it going to be a Luban-like character? A new era of handmade construction?

Qi Younian was pleased with Ye Xin's praise for Wang Qiao, but sighed: "Alas, it's just a craftsman who eats by hand, no matter how good he is, what can he do?" We are now doing construction, and what we eat is not artisan rice, but in essence, it is business and trading, but the things we buy and sell are different. ”

What the old man Qi Younian said is the truth, throughout the entire imperial dynasty, no matter which dynasty, how much it has gone through, almost everyone's cognition is: everything is inferior, only reading is high.

Except for reading and being a professional, the rest of the industries are not respected. The so-called emphasis on farmers is nothing more than what they have to do under the iron-clad fact that food is the sky.

The handicraftsmen are even worse, although the status of the merchants is not high, but the people have money and can live a good life. And the handicraftsmen eat by their own crafts, and earn a penny by doing a job, which is not a good idea at all. Even if you do it for a lifetime, there may not be any big ups and downs in the life of the family.

Ye Xinyan explained Qi Younian and said: "When we do the construction industry, we can earn our own belongings." When we earn silver, we will pay high wages to hire skilled craftsmen to come to us to do things, and with good craftsmen, we will strive to make the most exquisite houses, gardens, and palaces in the world. Not only do we earn silver ourselves, but also let the craftsmen with craftsmanship earn a lot of silver, so that people do not underestimate our craftsmen. ”

Qi Younian smiled: "Our Ye Zi is really ambitious, and what he actually wants is to make a good future for these many craftsmen." ”

The next day, Qi Younian and Zhang Wusi led people to build a house on the foundation that had been made on the side of the second landlord of the Qi family.

Wang Qiao led two craftsmen and small workers to set up tents, while Ye Xinyan and Liu Mama and others put the finishing touches on the tent tarpaulins and tarpaulins.

Before the sun set, a tent the size of half a house was built in a vacant lot near the west wall in the courtyard of the Qi family. In addition, the tent covered with two layers of tarpaulin looks extremely warm and warm.

Qi Younian and Zhang Wusi got into the tent, tested the height, and sat on the low bunk that had been mated, Zhang Wusi smiled and said: "This tent is not inferior to the shed, and it is very comfortable." Let's live here today, dinner is also here, the province is only such a big house, let's sit on the kang, the leaves and they have no place to stay. ”

Qi Younian pushed him with a smile and motioned him to go out: "How much time can you spend eating." From then on, we all settled down in the tent to talk, ate and went to the room to eat, and then went back to the tent to rest. It doesn't take a lot of time for them.

If you tell Ye Zi and Mama Jin, we will be in this tent in the future, and we will not go into the upper room. They won't say yes, and they'll have to talk a lot. ”

Sure enough, before the two of them got out of the tent, Mama Jin outside called the two of them to have dinner.

After dinner, the three adults of Qi Younian, together with Qi Jia, who was coaxing, went back to the tent to rest together.

The maids and ladies cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and Mama Liu asked Ye Xinyan: "When it's okay next morning, we have already washed out the stone mill." What's next? If you want to grind noodles or beans, if you are in a hurry, we can make some in the evening. ”

"I'm not in a hurry, but I'm going to try it and see if I can grind the dried milk residue and milk lump into powder. It's okay a little sooner or a little later. ”

Ye Xinyan smiled and continued: "In the past few days, you have also been tired, doing so much heavy work every day, plus the yards in our house are all small, and there is no place to rest. Let's clean up today, rest early, and talk about grinding powder tomorrow. ”

She also had to hurry up to write out the plan for the dairy store that Flicker Jinrong had invested, and when people chased after her, she didn't, so it wouldn't be good.