According to the past habits of the young couple, after the Qingming Festival, they will close their shops for a while, sometimes stop for ten years, and sometimes they may wait directly until after the Dragon Boat Festival to reopen.

This year's situation is a little different, Chu Li is now studying in a private school in the county, and the days of holidays are fixed every month and various festivals, if you stop the business in the shop and go back to the mountain village, then you have to ask Chu Li for a long vacation, although the family does not expect Chu Li to participate in the imperial examination in the future, and what kind of fame will come back, but the matter of reading and literacy, always ask for leave and miss class, that is not good.

After thinking about it, the little couple decided to wait until around the Dragon Boat Festival, and then go back to the village to live for a while.

Although the shop is open, after all, it has just passed the Qingming Festival, and the trading of both retail and wholesale investors is very deserted, and sometimes a few people can't enter the shop in a day.

As soon as the shop was free, Chu Yi put his mind on teaching the Xue Changshan brothers, from the most basic classification and characteristics of wood, the types of coffins, to the types and uses of tools, and the techniques of joining various woods, etc., when Uncle Chu did not go out to go shopping and play chess, he would also tell a few small ones about what he had seen and heard in the early years.

Or in the shop, or in the west courtyard, or in the study of Chu Li in the east courtyard, during that time, Shen Luzhu could always see them learning everywhere in the house, and at the beginning, he was curious to take Zhengzheng and Tanuki to listen, but he didn't have any talent for being a carpenter, except for some simple and understandable things, and what Uncle Chu said, the others only made her dizzy, and sighed that she was really not a learning material.

For this reason, Chu Xiuxiu also comforted her and said: "My sister-in-law is already very powerful, the most powerful woman I have ever seen, if I learn this carpenter's craft again, how can we ordinary girls live?"

Shen Luzhu rolled his eyebrows, and teased with a smile: "Looks like our Xiuxiu is not for others to live, cousin-in-law, I like it so much, come and let me hug me."

"My sister-in-law used to make fun of me."

Maybe it's because she stays by Shen Luzhu's side all the year round, and the reason why she is exposed to it, today's Chu Xiuxiu is no longer the pitiful, inferior and precocious little girl she was back then, she is still quiet and introverted when there are outsiders, but in front of her family, she will be lively and cheerful, and Shen Luzhu has learned to read and write, although her learning is not as good as Chu Li, who has been studying with Mr., but there are dozens of travelogues and biographies that she has read over the years, and her vision and views are much more than ordinary peasant girls.

The seventeen-year-old girl is now even more slim, with a good personality, good knowledge, cooking skills and female celebrities, just such a good girl, if it weren't for the Chu family's words, saying that they wanted to stay by their side for a few more years, Chu Xiuxiu herself has no idea of getting married at present, and she went out with a few matchmakers who couldn't understand the words.

However, although Shen Luzhu couldn't learn it, he found that someone listened to it with relish, this person was not Xue Changshan, nor Xue Changlin, let alone Chu Li and Chu Xiuxiu, it was actually Chu Chen's child who was hugged by Shen Luzhu to have fun.

Shen Luzhu was the first to find out that Chu Tan was upright, and he was really listening carefully, the reason was that Shen Luzhu was a little sleepy, so he wanted to tease the fat son on the side, and when he turned his head, he saw that he was holding a rattle.

Thinking that he was just as bored as himself, Shen Luzhu went to hug him, planning to lead him back to the inner courtyard to play, and save a while to disturb Chu Yi and them, but Zhengzheng, who was picked up by A-Niang, didn't seem to be willing to leave, and twisted his body to go back, Chu Yi noticed this, thinking that his son still wanted to play in the shop, so he reached out and took it: "Azhu go and rest, I'll just look at it."

Chu Yi hugged Zhengzheng back to Fang Cai's chair and sat down, and was about to put his son aside and tell him to play by himself, but who knew that Zhengzheng went to find a comfortable position by himself, straddled his father's lap, and after sitting down, he raised his head to look at Chu Yi, pointed to the Xue family brothers in front of him and said, "Speak."

As if urging his father to continue, the little couple were a little surprised when they saw it, but Chu Yi didn't dig deeper, such a young child, what can he understand, it is estimated that he just thinks it is funny, so he laughed and continued.

After that, Shen Luzhu found that his fat son was a little strange, likely

Every time he took him to listen to the fun, Zhengzheng listened very attentively, and even if Shen Luzhu didn't go, as long as Zhengzheng heard the sound of Chu Yi's lecture, he would run over by himself.

Zhengzheng is only more than two years old, if he can understand those things that he can't understand, Shen Luzhu doesn't believe it, but if he doesn't understand at all, he can follow from beginning to end without crying or fussing, which is really amazing.

After a long time, seeing that Zhengzheng would not affect Chu Yi and the others, Shen Luzhu became accustomed to it, and no longer tried to figure out what was in his son's little head.

Chu Yi also smiled and teased his wife: "There's nothing wrong with this, I learned a craft since I was a child, and if I can't read in the future, I don't have any skills, at least I won't die of hunger."

Shen Luzhu didn't think about what Zhengzheng would do when he grew up, after all, he was still too young at the moment, and she didn't care whether to be a carpenter or open a teahouse, but she really couldn't imagine what the son in front of her, who was as soft and cute as a meat bun, would look like when he picked up tools to make a coffin in the future.

The carpenter class of the Chu family lasted until the end of April, when the family planned to go back to the mountain village for the Dragon Boat Festival, and only stopped temporarily.

Dragon Boat Festival, the private school in the county to students who do not participate in the current imperial examination, have a five-day holiday, Chu Yi for Chu Li before and after a few days to make up for a decade, the last day of April, the family closed the shop, with a little luggage, back to the mountain village in a carriage.

Naturally, there are Xue Changshan and Xue Changlin, originally these two brothers didn't want to follow Chu Yi's family back to the old house, saying that the two of them would stay in the county town and wait for the master's family to come back, cleaning and scrubbing, lighting a fire and cooking, both of them did it, so that Chu Yi and Shen Luzhu don't have to worry, and said that the shop doesn't need to be closed, and the two of them may be able to sell some silver in ten years.

For the proposal of the two brothers, the little couple couldn't agree, the big holiday, and the person who became the master and the mother, how could they leave the two children alone in the shop, what did this become, the brothers couldn't resist the little couple in this matter, and finally happily followed back to the Chu family's old house.

Chu Yi went back to the old house this time, in addition to coming back for the Dragon Boat Festival and seeing relatives and friends, he still wanted to take the Xue Changshan brothers to the mountains near the village to go around, see all kinds of wood with their own eyes, and go to the blacksmith's house at the head of the village by the way, and customize a pair of carpenter tools for each of the two apprentices.

Although the two of them have just begun to learn, they only know some skins, and they can't even get started, and they are still early to start making things by themselves, but Chu Yi feels that if he just listens to some theories all day long, and can't feel it with his own hands, even if the two brothers are still interested now, their enthusiasm will be wiped out sooner or later.

Since he plans to reopen the coffin shop, he has to start preparing now, he can also make coffins while looking for some ordinary wood, and take the brothers to practice their feelings, learn while doing, and better understand and accept.

When it comes to opening a coffin shop and making a coffin, the most important thing at the moment is wood, with a stable supply of wood, the Chu family can make enough coffins for display and selection when it opens, when there was no separation earlier, most of the wood used by the Chu family to make coffins was found from the nearby mountains, and now Chu Yi still plans to do so, but sending wood from the mountain village to the county seat is more troublesome than sending paper money, and they have to discuss this matter with Jiang Quan and Lin Ji again.

As soon as the carriage of the Chu family drove into the boundary of the mountain village, it still attracted a lot of onlookers, although now the people in the village no longer feel as novel as before, but they still can't help but come forward to inquire, ask about the recent situation of the Chu family, and the chatter of other villages in the future is also a bragging capital.

After some greetings and small talk, everyone got some news that shocked them.

"Have you heard of her, Aunt Liu? This Chu family is really amazing, the carriage was rented last time I came back, and it was used by some people in the village to talk about it, it's only been a few months, you see, this has already bought its own carriage and horses!"

was replaced by Aunt Liu, who was sitting by the big stone by the river at the moment to wash clothes, it has been two days since the Chu family came back, how could she not know about this, so she and Gang hugged the clothes

Aunt Ma came and chatted.

"How could I not know, on the day the Chu family returned to the village, I happened to see it on the village road, and I also talked to Chu Yi, the second son of the Chu family! You don't know, I saw that there were two half-grown children in his family who had never seen before, and I thought it was strange and asked, guess what? Those two are actually the apprentices he accepted, tsk tsk, you talk about this Chu family, it's really different now!"

What Aunt Liu said has long been spread in the village, but Aunt Ma's focus is a little different: "Why do you still call people Chu Yi the second son of the Chu family, be careful to make people unhappy."

"What's so unhappy about this, isn't he the second boy of the Chu family."

Aunt Ma shook her head and said, "Why don't you understand her Aunt Liu, look at who in the village still mentions Boss Chu's family, and when it comes to the Chu family, they are all excluded, isn't it because they are afraid that the Chu family will dislike it."

"I screamed like this that day, and I didn't see anything unhappy about Chu Yi, people are generous, no."

"Anyway, you just pay attention to it in the future, don't talk about this, I also heard a big gossip, do you know the Tang family in Hexi Village opposite, his family has a big joke......

Just when the village was still discussing Chu Yi's acceptance of apprentices with great interest, the little couple was sitting in the courtyard of the grandfather's house next door with the family, drinking herbal tea and eating pastries to enjoy the cool chat, which was also about the Tang family in Hexi Village.

Speaking of this, it's not just for gossip like others, it is said that this matter has something to do with Chu Ping's family, this Tang family is the Tang family who had discussed with Chu Ping earlier, and then caught up with the little couple who were implicated in the silver ticket case and retreated in fear, the Tang family who sold fish in Hexi Village.

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