Chapter 32: A thief in the shop
Seeing Qing Leng's reaction, Zhou Qi explained: "I know you are reluctant to follow me, here is a silver ticket of one hundred taels, you can ask Liu Sichen to redeem your deed, and you will be free!" β
"Then does this money belong to you or Liu Xiucai?" Qing Leng tilted his head and asked.
Zhou Qi was a little embarrassed and scratched his head: "The wool is out of the sheep, it's almost, this is not important!" β
glanced at him coldly and disdainfully, and closed the door without speaking.
"Hey, this is a closed-door soup for giving people money!" Zhou Qi couldn't help muttering, then went back to the craftsman's room and squeezed it and fell asleep.
He seems to have had a long dream, in which he carried forward the toothbrush shop and exported it abroad, became the first big taxpayer of the Qian Dynasty, lived a vicious local tyrant life, with a group of wives and concubines, thousands of acres of fertile land, and big mansions everywhere, and the most important thing is that he also drove the Maserati in his previous life in this world, blinding this group of ancient people! β¦β¦
The next day, he was awake at the shouts of the craftsmen.
"Shopkeeper, we've been robbed in our shop!"
"What?" Zhou Qi suddenly sat up in shock, and he didn't have time to reminisce about his dream, so he put on his shoes and ran into the shop.
Qing Leng sat at the counter, took out the silver taels and counted them over and over again, not a penny.
The craftsmen also turned over the toothbrushes on the display shelves one by one and found nothing unusual.
"Then why do you say that you have been robbed?" Zhou Qi was a little puzzled.
"This door panel of ours was put like this when it was closed yesterday, but when I opened the door this morning, it was reversed!" Craftsman Li Fu said while gesturing.
He has been a craftsman for more than ten years, and he is extremely sensitive to these things, not to mention that this door panel is the opposite, and even the wood used to make the door panel is male or female, he knows it clearly!
Zhou Qi walked over, stared at the door panel and looked at it, anyway, he couldn't see any flowers, so he frowned and asked, "Then there are few things in your house?" β
"No......"
The craftsmen replied in unison, and Qing Leng shook his head.
"Could it be that you are mistaken?"
Chen San asked, and Li Fu immediately said, "Definitely not!" This door must have been torn down! β
As he spoke, he looked at Zhou Qi and added: "Shopkeeper, let's report to the official!" β
"It's nothing, how can you report to the official?"
Zhou Qi was also very puzzled, but he didn't look into it and said, "It's okay, do business as usual!" β
Then he explained to the craftsman a few times, and led Li Fu out of the door.
Walking on the road, Li Fu was still talking about the door panel, and Zhou Qi was very helpless, so he didn't talk.
"Shopkeeper, don't you believe me?" Li Fu asked with some disappointment when he saw Zhou Qi's reaction.
"No, I went out last night and probably came back with the door panel upside down."
Zhou Qi said with a sincere face, and there was no half-lying appearance at all.
But he is also a little strange, a simple person like Li Fu will most likely not lie, and the most important thing is that what he said in a panic has no meaning.
Either Li Fu is really wrong, or someone must have been here in this shop.
And although Li Fu was naΓ―ve, he was not stupid, so he immediately asked, "Then why didn't you say it just now?" β
"Inconvenient, inconvenient!"
Zhou Qi patted him on the shoulder and continued to walk forward.
Li Fu, who was following behind him, suddenly seemed to understand something when he heard this, and immediately followed with a laugh, and never entangled the door panel again!
When they arrived at their destination, Su Yue and Su Yue's Lang Jun were already waiting at the door.
"Brother-in-law, how much money did you earn yesterday? Is it enough to marry a concubine? β
Su Yue is different from Su Ling, she is much more lively in temperament, and now seeing Zhou Qi, she began to joke again.
"What do you say! I'm the only one in my heart with your sister! β
Zhou Qi immediately straightened himself up, and then also exchanged hello with Su Yue's Lang Jun.
This Su Yue's Lang Jun is named Du Wenhao, and his family's textile shop is also well-known in this city, and he has a share of the sixteen taels of silver that he sold for the first time!
When he saw Zhou Qi at this time, he also wanted to talk happily, but before he could say it, Su Yue said strangely: "I didn't take my sister when the store opened, it turned out that there was a beautiful account girl in the shop!" β
Then he didn't listen to Zhou Qi's explanation, pointed to the room in front of him and said: "This is the workshop of my cousin Langjun's family, in addition to making spinning wheels, he will also do a lot of work!" That's where all the spinning wheels we run come from! β
Then Li Fu's eyes lit up when he heard it!
"This is the Du Family's Craftsman Workshop!?"
"You know this?" Zhou Qi asked.
"The Du family's craftsman workshop, the craftsmen in it are all good craftsmen, we craftsmen can't compare, but who doesn't want to go in and have a look?"
Li Fu's eyes revealed obsession, he never expected to have such a blessing today!
At this time, the happy Hara is about to flow out!
Zhou Qi was a little embarrassed, supported his forehead, and followed Su Yue and Du Wenhao in.
"Today, my cousin's family has a happy event, and the craftsmen have gone to drink, but I have already said hello, you can look at the things here, just don't break them!"
Du Wenhao was also very generous, leading them into the door and waving his hand like the owner of this workshop.
Zhou Qi thanked him and walked around in the courtyard.
He hadn't directly carried away the spinning wheel in Su Ling's house before, first, he wanted to see the production process of this spinning wheel, and secondly, he wanted to come here to find out the way.
But after he came, he also found that there was nothing special.
Doors, tables, chairs, benches, beds, ox carts, carriages, and hand-cranked spinning wheels.
The difference from other small artisan shops is that the things they make in this workshop are better in terms of pattern and style.
Besides, maybe it's a bit bigger...
Zhou Qi stared at the spinning wheel and studied it again, and then beckoned Li Fu over.
"Let's see, can this spinning wheel be transformed?"
"Transformation? How to transform? Li Fu also shook around the spinning wheel.
"Is it possible for this hand-cranked drive to become a foot-driven and this single-strand into a three-strand line?" Zhou Qi asked.
As soon as he said this, Li Fu was stunned.
After thinking about it for a long time, he said, "Shopkeeper, I don't really understand. β
Zhou Qi really wanted Su Ling to be by his side at this time, talk to her and draw a picture, wouldn't this solve everything?
After all, there is a difference between this hand-driven spinning wheel and a foot-driven textile machine in appearance, and he doesn't expect this Li Fu to understand.
He asked Li Fu: "Do you want to become the first craftsman like the craftsmen of the Du family's craftsman workshop?" β
"Of course!"
When Li Fu heard this, he nodded his head like a mallet, but then he laughed again, scratched his head and said, "How can a low-level craftsman like me have such a life......
"Anything is possible!"
Zhou Qi patted him on the shoulder, didn't say anything more, said hello to Du Wenhao and Su Yue, and led Li Fu back to the shop.