Riveter is "iron tailor", is a kind of metal joining technology, later electric welding hot riveting also introduced to China, so people often say that riveting welding is not separated. In fact, as early as the third millennium B.C., welding technology has appeared in Egypt, and China has also begun to use casting and welding to manufacture weapons in the Yin Shang period of the second millennium B.C. In 200 B.C., China has mastered the forging and welding process of bronze brazing and ironware, and with the development of modern industry, electrical welding was introduced to China from the West.

Otomo's master's surname was Guo, and he was a famous riveter master in North China at that time. After the liberation of Otomo, he was able to work as an eighth-level worker in the factory, and he was called the "eighth master", and it all relied on the craftsmanship taught by this master.

In the old society, apprentices paid attention to three years of learning and two years of help, although they were in charge of food and housing, but what they ate and lived in had to listen to the master. At that time, I could eat at least enough to eat, but the living environment was very poor, and it was very cold in the house in winter, so Otomo often used a stool to assemble the door panel, and slept next to the stove by the residual temperature of the stove.

Generally speaking, apprentices in the master's house usually have to do all kinds of work except learning crafts. Buying groceries, drinking alcohol, sweeping the floor, emptying urine buckets, and coaxing children are the same as crushing urges. If you have heard Mr. Tian Lihe's cross talk, you may have heard Mr. Tian talk about shaving his head as an apprentice and shaving his winter melon hair.

The apprentice's hand is practicing with winter melon, and he is shaving the winter melon hair, and the master is shouting over there, Ah Mao! Sweeping the floor, the apprentice Ah Mao put the razor directly on the winter melon, and it became a habit after a long time. Later, when he shaved his head for the first time, the master called him to coax the child again, but the apprentice Ah Mao used people's heads as winter melons and casually put the razor on the back of the unlucky man's head. This man screamed so badly that his head was unshaved and covered in blood.

It's a joke now, but at the time, learning a trade was like that, and it was the same as signing a deed of sale, and it was not much worse than a servant's servant. But later people who learned the craft and became a teacher would read the master's good, and they would carry things to the master's house to visit the master is mother. This is called master-apprentice affection, also called rules.

Otomo's apprentice was introduced by Master Tuesday, so the master looked at Lord Tuesday's face and treated Otomo quite well. Otomo learns things very quickly and is willing to work hard, so the master also brings Otomo with him when he has work, hoping that Otomo can learn more techniques and practice his hands more.

The average apprentice doesn't have the treatment of the big friend, and the first year and a half of the apprenticeship is all doing odd jobs, and he can't learn any real kung fu. In addition to teaching the craft, the master usually only asks the big friend to sweep the floor, or go to a drink and buy a vegetable or something.

Han Daring ran to the three stones to find the old master's house surnamed Guo. There was a sudden wind on the road, and it rained for a while, and he didn't bring rain gear, so he found a place to hide from the rain for a while, and then he rode to the three stones, and then he came to the three stones.

Santiao Shi is located on the east side of Hongqiao Hebei Street, mostly machine manufacturing and iron casting factories, in the early Republic of China, there are more than 70 manufacturing iron factories here, 36 iron casting factories, is the center of Tianjin's machinery manufacturing industry. In addition to the relatively large Guo Tiancheng Machinery Factory, Chun Fa Tai Machinery Factory and other relatively large machinery factories, many of the rest are small factories that make door bows and fire chopsticks, similar to workshops.

Although Otomo's master's workshop is this kind of small workshop, the craftsmanship is serious and good, and the riveting work outside makes a lot of money. This small factory is not very big, the front is a shop workshop, and the back is a small courtyard for residents.

Han Daring came to the small courtyard of the master's house and saw two apprentice children, one was packing up things, and the other was boiling water.

He hadn't seen his big friend for a few years, and it was only a one-sided relationship last time, and he couldn't recognize which child was at this time, so he stepped forward to ask. Only then did I know that these two children were both the younger brothers of Otomo, and Otomo had just gone out.

At this time, the door of the main house was pushed open, and a man in his forties and less than fifty came out of the house, and when he saw that a deputy master had come to his small courtyard, he didn't know what was going on, so he quickly put on a smile on his face, and stepped forward to talk:

"This vice-master! Who are you looking for? What's the matter? ”

In the old days, the people were afraid of officials, and these deputy masters in black skins were also not many good people, and there were many bad people, and the patrol officers on the street ate, beaten, checked, slashed, and demanded, slandering people all day long, and they were more than ruffians and rotten dogs.

The common people are even more afraid, and they are polite when they meet, for fear that they will not be able to say a word, so that they can find a way to slander people, at least they will be beaten by a few mouths, or they will be beaten fat.

Han Daring saw that the other party was a little frightened, and hurriedly said:

"Rest assured! It's nothing, I know Otomo's kid, I'm just looking for him to ask something! ”

The old master saw that this deputy master was a little different, although he was tall and mighty, he could talk very well, unlike other stinky foot patrols, one by one he was like those who owed them money, and he spoke poorly. If you look closely, this deputy master seems to have seen it.

"Oops! Isn't this the Jinmen Detective, Han Ye! Here's how to say it, you're in the house quickly, please! ”

When Han Daring was a patrol officer on the street, he really made a lot of ruffians and stinky dogs, and once he saw two bad dogs on the street, Han Daring gave these two boys a good meal to clean up, when the old master happened to pass by, and when he asked, he knew that this was the famous policeman Han Daring in Tianjin.

Han Daring has repeatedly solved strange cases, and the mouths of the people of Jinmen have been expressed, and the shadow of the famous tree of the person, this one is not far from the house. Moreover, the old master knew that this Han Ye was different from those policemen, and he was a really good person, so he beckoned his wife to make tea, and invited Han Daring to the house, which made Han Daring really flattered.

He came today to talk to Dayou, so he quickly thanked the master for his kindness, excused himself a few words, and asked where Dayou went. Han Daring didn't enter the house, so he said goodbye and left quickly, and went directly to the pot that sold wine.

Fortunately, Han Daring went to find Otomo, because Otomo was outside at this time and happened to encounter some danger.

Every time the master finishes his work, he first goes to the small bathhouse to take a bath, and then asks the guy to go to the side of the two meat shops to order a soft slice of pork, and then bring some tiger beans and fried nuts, and come to two taels of white wine and a bowl of white skimming. After eating, squint for a while, get up and make a pot of high crushing, cut a sand nest green radish, and go to Sanzhi to go shopping after resting beautifully, listen to cross talk, fall or something.

The two daughters of the master's family have no son, and he also likes the boy the most, so he often takes Dayou with him, at that time Dayou is not very old, and he came from the countryside, and at that time there was a lack of cultural life, and he went to Nanshi once and was attracted by all kinds of strange things, so he came and went with the same people as Tianjin, and was keen to visit the three regardless of the things.

Today, the master took Dayou and two apprentices who had gone out of the apprenticeship to take on a big job, and after finishing it, he paid a lot of wages. The two apprentices took their share and went back to their lodgings.

The master was in a good mood, he wanted to take a bath, go to the next restaurant after going to Hou's house, and then go to Nanshi Sanzhi to see something. Who knows that the heavens are not beautiful, just about to go to Nanshi, suddenly there was a strong wind and a light rain, the storm was mixed with raindrops, and it was a mud spot on the body.

Nanshi performs things, tells stories, talks about cross talk, sings the lotus flowers of the big drum, etc., basically all of them are left on the ground. It was half the wind and no rain, because no one would brave the wind and rain and stand in the street listening to stuff. So when the weather was bad, Nanshi San was also very deserted, and now it was windy and rainy, and the master could only take Dayou home in disappointment.

The old master and the big friend were holding umbrellas, stepping on muddy water, the front foot had just arrived home, the wind outside the back foot was light, and the rain had stopped. The master is so angry, but he is too lazy to run to Nanshi when he gets home, but fortunately, there are leeks and cabbage bought yesterday at home, as well as some sauce meat. The master urged the master to fry a leek egg, boil a shrimp cabbage, and let the eldest friend go to the wine shop to make half a catty of wine.

In fact, there is a wine shop at the door of the house, which is a second meat shop, and the wine was originally good, but after the old shopkeeper died, his son took over the wine shop, and always mixed water into the wine, and the wine became thinner. The master has a shallow amount of wine, and he usually makes do with some wine in the second meat shop, but if he didn't go to Chengsan today, it would have been quite disappointing, and he didn't make some good wine and drink two sips. So he asked Dayou to take the money and go to the liquor store in Dongxing Market to play half a catty of "Zhigu Roast".

This Zhigu roast is a special product of Tianjin, also called "burning pot", it is the sorghum wine brewed in the Zhigu burning pot factory in the Xianfeng period at the end of the Qing Dynasty. At the beginning of the thirties, when Tianjin Wei pot was at its peak, it reached as many as 72, of which the most famous brand was "Yongfeng Yu", followed by "Tongyuanyong", "Tonghuayong", "Tongxingyong" and so on. At that time, Tianjin directly sold sorghum wine, rose dew and Wujiapi to the whole country, and could be sold as far as Hong Kong, Japan and Nanyang. To this day, Zhigu sorghum is still the most common liquor in Tianjin.

At that time, although Zhigu Yaki was a good wine, it was actually not expensive, but the master was used to saving it, and the master drank a shallow amount of wine, so he rarely bought it. I'm in a good mood today, so I hurriedly urged Dayou to go out for a drink. I kept telling him to go and come back quickly, and don't play on the side of the road.

Dayou and Master Fu were very tired when they came home from work, in fact, the boss in his heart was unwilling, but he didn't dare not go when Master asked him to go. The masters and apprentices of the past are not like the teachers and students of today, they cannot be touched. At that time, the master and apprentice were like father and son, and it was natural for Lao Tzu to beat his son, although the master loved this apprentice, but if he was really disobedient, the master would really raise his hand and beat him. Otomo went out with the money and went to Dongxing Market with his head twisted.

It was just dark when I went out, and after the rain there were insects and frogs chirping everywhere, and the clouds in the western sky were covered by the night that was gradually creeping up, dyed from crimson to lilac. I thought that when I went to Dongxing Market to play back and forth, it would not be completely dark.

When Otomo went out, he only carried a tin wine jug in his hand, and he didn't mention a water moon lantern, but after going out for a while, the sky quickly turned from purple to purple blue. Relying on the fact that it was not completely dark, I wanted to take a shortcut to burn the pot, hurry back quickly, and maybe I could rush back before it was completely dark. He quickened his pace and walked along the Jiudaowan Hutong in the direction of Dongxing Market.

Since Han Dada'er broke the branch altar of the Sanyang Sect in the Nine Bends, the organs in the alley were demolished and restored to their original state, and the number of people living in the house gradually increased. There are usually people coming and going in the alley, although the alley itself is still a bit winding, and you may have to get lost if you don't come often, but after all, it is not as lonely and mysterious as when the Sanyang Sect was in turmoil before.

But after Oyou walked into the alley, he saw two or three people at first, but as he walked, the alley became more and more deserted. I feel that the longer this alley is traversed, the darker it gets, and the road is getting farther and farther.

He rushed straight forward, and just as the last glimmer of golden light in the west did not enter the horizon, suddenly a strong wind arose in front of him, and the dust was billowing in front of him, and the smell of earth was all in his mouth and nose, and the sky was completely dark. He was stopped by the wind and sand, and the whirlwind blew so that he couldn't open his eyes, and at the moment when he opened his eyes, he saw two green lights suddenly lit up in front of him, and he shook his body slightly, but he suddenly found that he was standing at a crossroads.

At this time, the wind also stopped, and the surroundings were wrapped in velvety darkness, except for the faint dim street lamps at the intersection. There was a dead silence all around, and even the sound of frogs and insects after the rain disappeared.

This intersection is very unfamiliar, and Otomo often walks the Jiudaowan Hutong, but he has never seen this road at all. Otomo stands in the middle of the crossroads, and the straight road in front of him and behind him is a white gravel road, and the road on the left and right sides is a pure black dirt road. Otomo and his master often go to Nanshi Sanzhi to listen to books. Mr. Storyteller once talked about Zhai, and said that there is such a road connecting the two worlds of yin and yang, called "Yin and Yang Road". The white one is the path of the underworld, and the black one is the path of the underworld. The living must not take the road of hell, for if they go wrong, they will not be able to come back.

At this moment, I suddenly heard a voice behind me say:

"Look back, what is it!"