Lu Xingyi is not afraid of heaven and earth, but he is only afraid of Master Cao, who has a black face. Seeing Master Cao sitting opposite him, Lu Xingyi nestled in Yang Shuyi's arms, as well-behaved as a kitten.

Seeing her like this, Song Lanshi couldn't help but tease her, "Xingyi, why are you so well-behaved for dinner today?" ”

Lu Xingyi secretly glanced at Master Cao opposite, puffed out a bun face, and said in a milky voice: "Daddy said, good babies can't talk when they eat." I, I'm obedient, noisy and disobedient. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone present couldn't help but laugh, and even Master Cao on the other side couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth. Seeing this, Lu Xingyi's eyes flashed, as if he was relieved, and buried his face in Yang Shuyi's arms again.

Lu Zhengan and Song Huaishu listened to their daughter's words, funny and helpless, got up and picked up the wine jug on the table and helped a few people fill the wine glasses, "During this time, Uncle Changgen and Master Cao have worked hard. Huaishu and I, I would like to give you two a glass. ”

With that, Lu Zhengan and Song Huaishu picked up the wine cup and drank all the wine in the wine glass.

Seeing this, Lu Changgen hurriedly waved his hand to the two. "It's all my own family, so what kind words do I say. And what you have done is good for the whole village. If you say thank you, it will not be your turn to open your mouth. ”

Since Lu Zheng'an started to repair the house, Master Cao can see that Lu Zheng'an and Song Huaishu are both very good people in their hearts. At present, although some people are unhappy to set up a workshop on an area, in the long run, it is a good thing for themselves and the people. Therefore, even if he loses money and pushes away other people's work, he has to come back to help Lu Zhengan and Song Huaishu.

"We don't want you to thank you for helping you, it's better to do a good job than anything else."

Master Cao's tone of voice was a little rushed, but the meaning of his words was very clear to Lu Zhengan. After thanking Master Cao, Lu Zhengan and Song Huaishu sat back on the stool. Then he told Lu Changgen and Master Cao about the plan he had told Song Huaishu in the afternoon.

After the two listened, they didn't speak for a long time. Just when Lu Zheng'an thought that it must be their plan and was afraid that there was some omission, he only heard Master Cao ask: "Your idea is not bad, but the people in the village are used to being careless, and if there is no one they believe in, I am afraid that it will not work, and maybe it will backfire." ”

"I know this, but at first, I'm not in a hurry, let's find it slowly."

After they had eaten and drunk enough, they all went down the mountain and went home.

Lu Zheng'an thought that Xing'er should be yellow soon, and he was anxious about the workshop and the master on the other, so he barely got up at the end of the night. Seeing that it was still early to make breakfast, Lu Zhengan went down the mountain for a walk first.

At this time, many people had already come to the construction site of the workshop, and when they saw Lu Zheng'an coming, some of them were anxious and asked: "Zheng'an, can we start construction when our workshop is completed?" I've heard that you've invited several masters who know how to make candied fruits, don't you know how to do it, why do you still invite others to come? ”

Lu Zheng'an replied with a smile while helping to lift the bamboo on the ground: "I have a specialization in the art industry, and my three-legged cat's craftsmanship cannot be compared with other professional masters." If we want to make our village's workshop bigger, we have to invite professional masters to come and guide us. However, when the master teaches, it is not a one-time guide for you, when the time comes, you will all have more eyes, read more and memorize, and when you learn the craft, it is all your own. ”

After listening to Lu Zhengan's words, several people were stunned for a moment, and then looked at him thoughtfully, and then continued to work.

Lu Zheng'an leaned over and carried the bamboo on his shoulder, and when he saw Liu Changshan walking towards this side with a shovel, he hurriedly dragged the bamboo aside, and then quickly came to Liu Changshan and said to him: "Uncle Changshan, is there something wrong here?" I have something to discuss with you. ”

"It's okay, if there's something, you can just say hello."

Lu Zhengan turned his head to look at the villagers around him, and took Liu Changshan to a secluded place. Looking at Liu Changshan's face full of ravines, Lu Zhengan wanted to explain to him again about buying land. However, after thinking about it, he felt that it was not necessary, so he simply went straight to the point and said: "Uncle Changshan, our workshop will start soon, and Uncle Changgen is afraid that he will be too busy at that time." So, I want to wait until the start of work, I would like to ask you to help take care of the orchard, pick the fruits, and let you arrange everything. ”

Because of the previous occupation of land, Liu Changshan once blushed with Lu Zhengan. When Liu Changshan heard Lu Zhengan call himself alone, he was still uneasy in his heart. However, after hearing Lu Zhengan's words, Liu Changshan was suddenly speechless in surprise.

Lu Zheng'an saw that his eyes widened and he didn't speak, and when he had a heart to get over it, he continued: "I know about the occupation of land, and you may be a little reluctant in your heart. But you know better than me about the terrain around our village, and there is nothing more suitable than the dwarf slope. You ......"

Liu Changshan, who had already figured it out, saw that Lu Zhengan had mentioned the situation again, and hurriedly waved his hand at him.

"No, I was really unhappy at first, but then I figured it out. You put so much effort into opening a workshop, and it's not all for you. And even though you have taken my land, you have not done me any wrong. This matter is because my uncle wanted to leave the left, and I originally wanted to compensate you for it, but I never found a chance. I just didn't expect you to be willing to use me when I slapped the table with you like that before. ”

Hearing this, Lu Zhengan couldn't help but smile and said: "Look at what you said, we have been working together for several years, I still don't know what kind of person you are?" The past is in the past, and we don't need to keep it in our hearts. Now is the most important time for our workshop, and I hope Uncle Changshan can help me. ”

"Cheng, Cheng, as long as I can do it, I will definitely do a good job for you."

Hearing Liu Changshan say this, Lu Zhengan was relieved. Thinking of his family's down-to-earth and capable Liu An, Lu Zhengan mentioned it. "When the workshop starts, I plan to let your brother Liu An go to the workshop to help. You go back and arrange for him to be there, and then you let him liven up his eyelids in front of the master, and I can count on him in the future." ”

As soon as Lu Zheng'an's words came out, Liu Changshan was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood Lu Zhengan's voice. When he turned around and saw that no one was passing by, he swallowed his saliva to suppress his excitement, and solemnly nodded to Lu Zhengan.

"Don't worry about this, if he dares to be lazy, I will break his legs!"

Liu Changshan's words made Lu Zhengan laugh, and seeing that the eastern sky was already white, he said a word to Liu Changshan and walked home.

By the time Lu Zheng'an returned to the mountain, Song Lan had already put breakfast into the pot. Seeing Lu Zheng'an, who had pushed the door in, he hurriedly patted the grass clippings on his apron and stood up from the stool in front of the stove.

"You've been running for a few days, why don't you get a good rest at home?"

Lu Zhengan looked at his mother-in-law, whose temples were a little white, and rarely showed sorrow. "The weather is hot day by day, and the apricots in Moling estimate that they should be picked in three or four days. Masters, if you don't get a day, I can't let go of my heart for a day. ”

Song Lan stood at the door, looking at Lu Zheng'an with a sad face, and couldn't help but feel distressed. "It's useless for you to be anxious about this, now that the workshop has just been completed, it will take a few days to support the pot and level the drying field in the past two days. Moreover, it took three or four days to return from the Moling to transport the fruits. There are still so many days to go, and the masters will finally be able to arrive. ”

Lu Zhengan listened to Song Lan's comfort and nodded slowly. lowered his head and added a handful of firewood to the stove, and when he heard the voice of Song Huaishu in the back room, he knew that Lu Xingyi had woken up. So he got up from the wooden bench and, as he walked out, said to his mother-in-law, "Xingyi is awake, I'll go and take a look." ”

When Lu Zhengan pushed open the door, Lu Xingyi, who was playing with Song Huaishu on the bed, immediately got into the thin quilt behind Song Huaishu. Pouting his round little buttocks, he asked Song Huaishu in a voice that he thought was very small: "Daddy, has my father probed me?" ”

Looking at his daughter's stupid appearance, Lu Zhengan walked to the bed with a smile, lowered his head and kissed Song Huaishu who was leaning on the bed rail, and pretended to be surprised: "Oh, where is my beautiful girl, why can't I find her?" ”

After hearing Lu Zhengan's words, Lu Xingyi, who thought he had hidden it well, twisted his little ass excitedly and couldn't help laughing.

Song Huaishu looked at the 'childish game' of the father and daughter and shook his head with a smile, and was about to lift the thin quilt covering his daughter, but was stopped by Lu Zhengan. Immediately, Lu Zhengan sat down on the edge of the bed and picked him up from the bed with a quilt.

In an instant, Lu Xingyi's laughter resounded in the room.

After the father and daughter played for a while, Song Huaishu touched Lu Xingyi's back, which was already a little sweaty, and hurriedly picked him up from Lu Zhengan.

"I can't play anymore, if I sweat and get blown by the wind again, I will have to take bitter medicine."

As soon as he heard that he was taking bitter medicine, Lu Xingyi immediately gagged his mouth with his chubby little hands, and his little head shook like a rattle. "Don't eat, don't eat."

"If you don't eat, don't go crazy, hurry up and put on your clothes, let's get out of bed and wash up and get ready to eat."

After sleeping all night, Lu Xingyi's stomach was already empty, and as soon as she heard about eating, she immediately raised her hand and let Song Huaishu help her put on her clothes, and then she slid onto the ground by herself on the edge of the bed.

Today, I have gone to the roof of the last workshop, and Lu Zhengan went down the mountain after breakfast.

When Lu Zheng'an was about to go up and take a look at the tile next to the workshop, he suddenly heard someone shouting his name. Lu Zhengan subconsciously looked towards the source of the sound, and saw Li Erwang standing on the wheel with his burden on his back and waving his hand excitedly to him, while behind him was a dusty carriage.

The moment Lu Zhengan saw Li Erwang, the smile couldn't help but crawl from the corner of his mouth to his face, and the heart that had been hanging in his heart for many days finally fell at this moment......

Chapter 122

Ever since Li Erwang worshipped Master Cao as his teacher, he has been following him as a layman. However, they are just ordinary craftsmen, and they are always given priority in terms of income, and they cannot stay in guest houses all the time. Therefore, they often rent the empty houses of the lonely elderly in the surrounding villages to live.

Li Erwang is a sincere and kind person, and he really feels pitiful when he looks at these lonely old people who have no children and no daughters. So in my free time, I also help to do some physical work that I can. Over time, Li Erwang also became familiar with these people.

When chatting with them, these old men inevitably talked about the past, and knew that some of them were craftsmen.

When they were young, they worked for the Lord's family, but when they got older, most of the Lord's family felt that they were a burden and stopped providing for them. If these people have no children to rely on, they can only pack up and go home, and talk about the rest of their lives.

When Li Erwang came back to visit his parents, he learned that Lu Zhengan wanted to build a workshop and wanted to hire some craftsmen who could make candied fruits, so Li Erwang naturally remembered those old people in the village.

Previously, in order to thank Li Erwang for helping them with their work, several of the old people who knew how to do this craft had brought out the dry goods they had made to entertain him. Knowing that these veteran craftsmen should all have real skills, Li Erwang remembered that Lu Zhengan had done all kinds of good things to him in the past, so he decided to give it a try.

At first, Lu Zhengan did not really pin his hopes on Li Erwang, but after Lu Zhengan came into contact with several masters, he found that most of these craftsmen were supported by the main family, and he had no choice but to give up after he could not easily dig them up.

However, the fruit trees have been planted, and the workshop is bound to open. Lu Zheng'an's original plan was that the masters couldn't find it, so they groped for it themselves, and it didn't matter if it was slower. However, Li Erwang sent back messages one after another, so that Lu Zhengan could not help but hold on to a glimmer of hope.

However, as time went by, Lu Zhengan couldn't help but start beating the drum in his heart when he saw that Li Erwang and these masters had not been there, and at the same time, he had already prepared for the worst.

Just when Lu Zhengan decided to give up, Li Erwang really invited someone!

Looking at the carriage that was getting closer and closer, Lu Zhengan ran towards them for the first time. And all the people present saw Lu Zhengan like this, and they all strode up to follow.

Li Erwang, who was on the wheel, looked at Lu Zhengan coming over, and smiled with crooked eyebrows. "Brother Xiaoan, fortunately not disgraced."

Hearing this, Lu Zhengan clenched his fist and gently slapped it on his shoulder. "You kid, it's okay to drag me something!"

Seeing this, the people around couldn't help but laugh. When the masters in the carriage heard the laughter, they couldn't help but open the curtain and poke their heads out to look out.

Lu Zhengan looked at the teachers in the car, went directly to the front of the car, and saluted a few people.

"The masters have worked hard all the way, so let's go to the cold house to rest first."

Li Erwang invited a total of four masters this time, and although they were all old, they were still in good spirits. Although he had been in the carriage for two or three days, his face was not tired.

Coupled with the fact that Li Erwang kept showing off to them the goodness of landing Zheng'an, the new owner, although several masters were looking forward to it, they felt that Li Erwang's praise was full of water.

"Then thank you to this son."

The master, surnamed Huang, felt that it was somewhat rude for several people to stand on the car and talk to Lu Zhengan. However, the other party did not care, and asked the rest of the people to wait for them to return to continue their work, and he instructed the handlebar to turn the head of the car and go to the side mountain road.

Li Erwang followed the carriage with Lu Zheng'an, looked at the unnaturalness on the faces of several masters, and hurriedly smiled and comforted: "Brother Xiao'an's family is on Hualong Mountain, and he still has to climb a mountain road. As he spoke, Li Erwang pointed to the small courtyard with white walls and gray tiles halfway up the mountainside, and said to the piled up: "Well, that is Brother Xiao'an's house, and he is very good, so you can rest assured." ”

When Lu Changgen heard that Li Erwang had taken his masters to Lu Zheng'an's house, he was very excited, and he got up and walked out with the half-eaten steamed buns.

Yang Shuyi had just come out of the stove house with millet porridge, and saw Lu Changgen walking out with Lu Tieniu, and hurriedly asked, "This meal hasn't been eaten yet, what are you going to do?" ”

Hearing this, Lu Changgen shouted without looking back: "Erwang has invited the masters, and they have already gone to Zheng'an's house." I'll go over and take a look and ask how these masters are placed. ”

Hearing Lu Changgen's reply, Yang Shuyi was stunned for a moment, and her heart became excited. After all, Lu Zhengan has been worried about this for a long time, and now that he has finally looked forward to it, how can Yang Shuyi not be excited. Ben also wanted to go with him, but he thought that the stove house had not been cleaned up yet, and the chickens, ducks and sheep in the pen had not been fed, so he had no choice but to give up.

When Lu Changgen came to Lu Zheng'an's house, several old masters were looking at the peach trees stretching on the three hills with surprised expressions, and they couldn't believe it for a while.

"This, this is all yours?"

Hearing Master Song's words, Lu Zhengan nodded. "Yes, the surrounding hills are not high, and it feels a pity that they are barren, so I simply planted peach trees. The fruit tree has been in the tree for more than two years now, and it is estimated that it will be able to bear fruit next year. ”

"It's strange that you want to set up a workshop, if all the fruits of these three mountains come down, I am afraid that there will be a headache just selling fresh fruits. It is much cheaper to make dried fruit preserves. Moreover, the price of dry goods is high, and as long as there is a market, there is no need to worry about not making money. ”

Hearing this, Lu Zhengan looked at the lush orchards around him with his hands on the side, and shook his head with a smile. "Master Zhang is right."

Hearing Lu Zheng'an say this, several masters also felt a little curious, and turned their heads to look at Lu Zheng'an.

Seeing this, Lu Zhengan explained: "A few years ago, I went into the dry goods shop in the town and found that the prices inside were so high that ordinary people could not afford to eat them. My family also had a peach orchard of one or twenty acres before, and no one wanted the fruit, so I found a way to make a batch of dried peaches and sell them in Linzhou City. Because the price is much lower than the price of the shop, the sales are excellent. So, I had the idea to make some dry food preserves that ordinary people can eat. ”

Lu Zheng'an's words shocked several old men, who looked at the small workshop at the foot of the mountain, and the hesitant old men glanced at each other and saw the answer in each other's eyes.

"The owner's idea is good, but there is only one kind of peach, which is a bit too simple, right?"

Hearing that Master Huang had changed his name, Lu Zhengan knew that there was a way to stay with this group of old men, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Naturally, I have ordered a lot of apricots, plums, plums and other fruits from elsewhere, and I will be able to ship them over in a few days."

As the sun grew bigger and bigger, Lu Zhengan hurriedly welcomed several masters into his home. After a cup of tea and snacks, Lu Zhengan asked where these old people had worked before and what they were best at.

Since it is invited to do things, the proprietor of these things must naturally be clear. Several old men did not hide it, and happily told Lu Zhengan about the workshop he had worked in when he was young.

At the end of the day, one of them, Master Huang, touched his goatee and said to Lu Zhengan with a proud face: "I won't tell you anything, the largest dry goods shop in Linzhou is Xiangju right now, and many of the dry goods in Yue Enlou are all used in my recipes." ”

Hearing Master Huang say this, Lu Zhengan couldn't help but be stunned. Lu Zheng'an, the last supplier of these two shops, had also asked Ji Yuexian to inquire before, and the master in them was extremely tightly covered. Not to mention poaching, it is extremely difficult for outsiders to know their identities.

Hearing Master Huang say this, Lu Zheng'an couldn't help but have some doubts in his heart.

Master Huang looked at Lu Zhengan's expression and knew that he might be a little unconvinced, so he raised his right arm and shook it, exposing the remaining half of his palm in front of everyone.

"When we were three years old, there was an unexpected fire in our workshop. I was in the barn and didn't know what was going on outside. By the time the fire reached the barn, there was still half a bucket of water left in the house, and I soaked my clothes and draped them over my body. However, the fire was so great that the burned beam was smashed, and although my life was saved, my right hand could not be saved. After the young proprietor took charge, he felt that we were all a burden, so he released us all. ”

As he spoke, Master Huang pointed to the rest of the people, and the smile on his face was somewhat bitter. "These old guys were all released by the master by accident in the previous workshop. However, although we all have disabilities, we are still able to do our work normally. If the proprietor feels that he has doubts, he can try our skills, and if the proprietor is not satisfied, it doesn't matter if we go home. ”

Since he can generously let them test their skills, Lu Zheng's peace of mind has a rough bottom. After lunch, I wanted to let a few old people rest and go to the workshop first. However, several masters were also curious about how large a workshop could be built in the small village of Lu Zheng'an.

However, when everyone followed Lu Zhengan to the workshop that was about to be completed, several masters couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. When he looked at Lu Zhengan again, his eyes were different from before.

"The scale of the owner's workshop is really not small, and it will cost a lot of money just to build it."

Hearing this, Lu Zhengan couldn't help but smile. "The workers who built the houses were all from our village, and they knew that I was short of money to set up a workshop, and the wages I wanted were very low. It was Erwang's master who helped with the planning, and he didn't ask for money. In other words, our workshop did not spend much money except for the raw materials, which were bought with money. ”