In the tailor's shop, Liao Yucheng heard this, raised his head and looked at Chen Xueru incredulously, his eyes seemed to be as if he didn't know the woman in front of him.

No wonder he felt that way.

Liao Yuwei was only a temporary worker in the Zhengyangmen Street Office, and because he had a good relationship with a deputy director of the Zhengyangmen Street Office, he got the opportunity to work as a public manager in Chen Ji Tailor Shop.

He is already married, but his daughter-in-law is relatively ugly, and his family is relatively poor.

When he entered the tailor's shop and saw the glamorous Chen Xueru, Liao Yucheng suddenly had evil thoughts.

In addition, Chen Xueru was born in a tailor family, and her family has a lot of money.

Although Chen Ji Tailor Shop is a public-private partnership, it will give Chen Xueru dividends every year.

If it is placed in the future generations, Chen Xueru will be a proper little rich woman.

Beautiful and rich, Liao Yucheng decided to pursue Chen Xueru at that time.

He concealed the fact that he was married, and was courteous to Chen Xueru every day, and at that time, Chen Xueru was at a low point in her life because of the departure of her ex-husband.

The two quickly got in and out.

And now this woman who is about to marry herself, is indifferent to watching him get hurt, what is it for?

Liao Yucheng is also a smart person, and he realized that something was wrong in an instant.

He turned his head to look at Li Weidong and said coldly: "You, you know!" ”

Chen Xueru was a little hesitant, but when she heard this, she didn't deny it.

He nodded and said, "This is Director Li of the rolling mill." ”

"Director? I said, Chen Xueru, why don't you ignore me, it turns out that you have taken a fancy to a big director! Liao Yucheng snorted coldly and said. At this time, he could already be sure that this Director Li and Chen Xueru must have had a leg before.

Hearing this, Chen Xueru's face changed greatly, and she explained: "Liao Yucheng, what nonsense are you talking about, I am an old friend with Director Li, and there is no relationship at all that you imagined." ”

Chen Xueru's performance couldn't deceive Liao Yucheng's eyes, and now seeing that Chen Xueru was actually protecting Li Weidong, he was even more angry: "Okay, you pair of dog men and women."

"Oops"

Liao Yucheng was about to scold a few words to express the anger in his heart, but the wound in his head suddenly cracked, and he couldn't help but gasp in pain.

He reached out and touched it, his hand was slimy, and his face turned pale and he almost fainted.

"I'm going to die, I'm going to die."

Liao Yucheng didn't care about arguing with Chen Xueru and Li Weidong, stood up, and staggered out of the house.

After cleaning up the matter of the dog man and woman, he had to find a place to bandage the wounds.

Liao Yucheng's figure disappeared at the door of the store, and the room suddenly fell silent.

Chen Xueru was silent for a moment, and smiled at Li Weidong embarrassedly: "Director Li, I'm sorry, Manager Liao Yucheng's temper is a little bad." I thought you went to the tailor's shop to make trouble, that's why you're angry. ”

"It's not just because of the tailor's shop." Li Weidong saw Chen Xueru's sad expression, and did not continue to ask.

He took out the tiger skin from the sack, handed it to Chen Xueru and said, "Comrade Chen Xueru, I want to sew this tiger skin into a futon, see if you can do it." ”

"What a tiger skin!" Chen Xueru exclaimed, took it with both hands, rubbed her palms on the tiger skin, and said with a slight smile on the corner of her mouth: "I didn't expect that after so many years, I can finally fulfill my father's last wish." ”

Li Weidong was a little puzzled, and asked with a smile: "What's the matter, this tiger skin is useful to you?" ”

"It's so useful." Chen Xueru stood up and picked up the ruler, and while measuring the size of the tiger skin, she said: "Chen ruler near me, others know that he is a famous tailor in the capital, but they don't know that the traditional skills of our Chen family actually sew fur."

After listening to Chen Xueru's explanation, Li Weidong also understood.

Chen Xueru's father, Chen Qizi, is not from the capital, but migrated from the Northeast, and there is an allusion to this.

The Chen family is a family of leather craftsmen, Chen ruler has followed his father to learn how to sew fur since he was a child, he is ingenious, just became an adult and became a famous leathermaker around, and the sewn fur coat has reached the first-class level in terms of style and sturdiness.

With the fame, more and more foreign guests came to ask him to sew leather clothes, what bear skin, fox skin. Chen ruler has been handled.

There are even some rare furs, some of which even Chen Qizi's father didn't dare to do rashly.

You know, sewing fur is completely different from sewing satin clothes, because fur is born with animals, and the quality of each skin is different, and it is easy to have problems in the process of sewing.

Seeing that Chen Qizi was a little floating, the comer did not refuse, Chen Qizi's father could only remind him beside him, let him have a little heart, and don't accept that kind of precious fur.

But Chen Qizi thought that he was the most famous master leathersmith in Na Yan, and he wanted to do a great job, so he didn't listen to his father's words at all.

In the following time, instead of reining in, he also played the title of Chen Yi Needle, the needle here is not a sewing needle, but a large needle used to sew the skin.

There is no first, there is no second, and among the leathermen, there is no so-called first place, and Chen Qizi's arrogance has also attracted the dissatisfaction of some peers.

One day, a merchant from the capital came to Chen's leather shop with a piece of tiger skin, and wanted Chen to sew the tiger skin into a shoulder.

In those days, although the tiger skin was a valuable fur, it was not uncommon, but the merchant's skin was a white tiger skin.

And the identity of the merchant is not ordinary, he is the housekeeper of a palace in the capital, and this Pikan shoulder is a birthday gift from the prince to the old lady of the palace.

Seeing the white tiger skin and learning the identity of the merchant, Chen's father's first reaction was that he couldn't take the job.

For this reason, while throwing the work in the leather store to entertain the merchants, he invited Chen Qizi to the wing room in the backyard.

"Son, this leather goods are too valuable, and the origin is also very large, if something goes wrong, then we will definitely get into big trouble." Chen's father advised Chen Qizi and said.

Chen Qizi disagreed: "Dad, don't worry, I have checked the white tiger skin just now, it is a high-grade skin, there is no problem with both flexibility and firmness, there will be absolutely no problem." Besides, I've been looking forward to meeting such a rare fur for a long time. Every famous cobbler has a famous work, like the leatherman in Dongshan, he once sewed a red fox skin for the county officials in the government, and the leatherman Liu in the west once sewed a white bear skin.

If I don't become famous, no matter how much leather I sew, I won't be able to become a master leatherman, and I won't be able to win glory for our Chen family. ”

"But this time the skin"

Chen's father also wanted to advise, but Chen Qizi was already impatient: "Dad, your sewing skills are actually very good, but why have you not made a name for yourself after so many years, it is because you are too timid."

Look at me, I've only been in the industry for seven or eight years, and my reputation surpasses yours.

Do you think you should give me advice? ”

When Chen's father heard this, he knew that Chen Qizi had made up his mind, and he could only give up.

However, he was not unprepared, but took advantage of the time when Chen Qi was sewing the leather, took out two hundred taels of silver from the cash cabinet of the store, put it in a jar, and buried it next to the ancestral grave of the Chen family.

He always felt that something might happen to Chen Qizi, and this feeling had no basis, but the old leatherman had it based on decades of life experience.

Facts have proved that Chen's father's premonition is very accurate.

After Chen Qizi took this job, he locked himself in the shop and began to concentrate on sewing the skin.

Chen Qizi suddenly became excited, he had already begun to imagine what he would be like after becoming a master cobbler, sewing wages could be increased by five times, and wherever he went, others would give him a thumbs up.

At this moment, with a slight tearing sound, the whole skin cracked in the middle.

Chen Qizi was shocked, and he squatted on the ground in fright, and shouted that it was impossible.

As if he had gone mad, he picked up the tattered skins, and soon found the clues, put the skins to his nose, and sniffed them carefully, and he smelled a strong smell of potion.

And this potion Chen ruler is all too familiar, it can stick a few broken skins together, enough to fool other people's eyes.

It's just that the skin has been torn apart, and as long as it shakes a little harder, the skin will be separated.

Generally speaking, those shops that sell leather goods will use this method to cut out the good skins from the inferior skins and stick them together and sell them to customers as a good skin.

After the customer returns with the skin, they will find out that they have been fooled, and the leather store will refuse the customer's request to return the product on the basis that the leather leaves the counter and is not responsible.

This method is not difficult to identify, after all, the smell of that potion is very strong, as long as you smell it lightly, you can find it.

But the skin was sprinkled with perfume, and the smell of the fragrance believed the smell of the potion.

At first, Chen Qizi also felt strange and asked the merchant why he sprinkled spices on the skin.

The merchant lied that this was the hobby of the old lady of the palace, and Chen Qizi was a leathermaker in a small place, so he didn't care if he knew the life in the palace.

That's how you get deceived.

Chen Qizi expected at that time that the merchant must have planned a lot for such a big game.

Therefore, holding on to the last glimmer of hope, he took the skin to the merchant, but he did not expect that the merchant was actually guarding him at the door, and the merchant was followed by several family members.

When the merchant saw Chen Qizi coming out, he sneered for a while and asked, "Chen Qizi, what's the matter, is my old lady's Pikan shoulder sewn up?" ”

Chen Qizi smiled bitterly and said: "Uncle Bai, the skin you gave me is a broken skin, even if I have great ability, I can't make it into a leather shoulder." ”

The merchant's face became serious when he heard this: "Chen Qizi, you can eat indiscriminately, you can't talk nonsense, when I handed over the white tiger skin to you, you personally inspected the goods, it was a complete fur, there was no damage at all, but you now claim that it was a broken skin, is it that you accidentally broke the skin in the process of sewing!" ”

Hearing this, Chen Qizi knew that the other party was going to blackmail him, so he didn't say much: "Uncle Bai, this time your hands and feet are clean, I admit it, this white tiger skin is indeed rare, so let's do it, I will give you two thousand taels of silver, which is considered to be the money to compensate for the white tiger skin." ”

Two thousand taels of silver is equivalent to more than one million in the later life, which is almost equal to all the savings of the Chen family, and Chen Qizi is already very sincere.

It's a pity that the other party laid out such a big game, not entirely for the silver two.

The white housekeeper looked at Chen Qizi coldly and said: "That's right, the average white tiger skin is indeed worth two thousand taels of silver, but this white tiger skin is taken from the white tiger that my prince hunted on the mountain with his own hands, which represents our prince's filial piety to the old lady."

You want to send me away with two thousand taels of silver, and I can't explain to the prince when I return to the capital. ”

When Chen Qizi heard this, his face changed greatly, and he asked with a cold face, "How much do you want!" ”

"Twenty thousand taels!" The white butler stretched out two fingers and sneered: "This is still for the sake of your youth and promising future, if it were someone else, I would have already notified the government to arrest someone, and if you dare to damage the beloved things of our prince, you are simply tired and crooked!" ”

Twenty thousand taels. Chen Qizi's eyes were dark, and his body shook and he almost fainted to the ground.

He also understood at this time that this white butler wanted to kill him!

He regretted in his heart that he had not listened to his father, but he had nothing to do.

The design of the white butler is so strict that even if he wants to play tricks, there is no way.

In the end, there was really no way, Chen Qizi could only delay time.

"Twenty thousand taels is too much, can you give me a little time to raise it."

"Absolutely! But I warn you, don't try to escape. "The white butler is obviously prepared. The dozen or so family members he brought surrounded Chen Ji's leather goods shop, and even flies couldn't fly out.

Although Chen Qizi bought time, there was no way to escape.

Just when Chen Qizi thought of seeking death, Chen's father, who had not shown up all day, suddenly climbed in through the window of the shop next door.

When Chen Qizi saw his father, he knelt on the ground with a puff: "Dad, the child didn't listen to you, and caused a big trouble to our family, don't worry, I won't drag you down, now I will find a white silk to kill myself and give those people an explanation." ’

Chen Qizi knew that those people were coming at him, and as long as he died, those people might not embarrass Chen's father.

Although Chen's father was angry that Chen Qizi was disobedient, he also thanked him for his filial piety, helped him up and said, "Son, my father has buried two hundred taels of silver in the ancestral grave, and after you escape, take the silver and escape." ”

Chen Qizi was overjoyed when he heard this, but his expression immediately became solemn: "Dad, why don't you run away?" ”

Father Chen smiled bitterly: "The old man is over seventy years old this year, even if he wants to escape, he can't run, and besides, this leather shop is handed down by his ancestors, I lost the things of my ancestors, even if I go to Jiuquan, there is no way to explain to my ancestors, so let me accompany the shop to disappear from this world." ”

Chen Qizi looked at the oil barrel on the ground, and immediately understood Chen's father's intentions.

The goal of those people is Chen Ruler, and they will not give up if they don't take Chen Ruler, and Chen's father wants to replace Chen Ruler.

(End of chapter)