Chapter 11 Apprenticeship

After the decay of Fang Xing Tang, there were several empty rooms for the servants who originally lived, so Hua Ling also got a single room as an apprentice, and after putting the package, the owner of Fang Xing Tang pushed a thin small book in front of her: "First memorize the first five pages of this book, and then I will teach you." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

He didn't really intend to accept this girl as an apprentice, for the sake of the other party's equivalent of paying money, he couldn't teach the other party to do laundry and cooking and other chores like ordinary apprentices - no matter how insignificant the apprentices themselves were, there were still several classes among them, like the ordinary apprentices who Ah Rong and Ah Gui were familiar with and had to sign the "three regardless" (fire to death, water drowning, and the master was not responsible for the death by mistake) agreement, and the paid apprentice that "Hua Ling" was now acting as a fee, was completely different. Unless ordinary apprentices are lucky enough to be recognized by the master, they have to do three years of day work for the master, not only to clean the workplace, run errands for the master, cook for the master's family, wash clothes and watch the children are very common things, and being beaten is even more commonplace, and almost no skills can be learned during the three-year apprenticeship. Paid apprentices, on the other hand, are at most only doing chores such as cleaning the workplace, and they can start learning the craft on the first day, and if they are beaten, they also do something wrong, so they can be symbolically beaten twice by the master, and they are actually closer to those students in private schools than ordinary apprentices.

Of course, there are always pros and cons to things, and although fee-paying apprentices can learn skills from day one, and do not have to do three years of free labor for their masters like ordinary apprentices, the masters rarely teach them the skills of real housekeeping. The true skills of the master, in addition to teaching to his own children and nephews, will only be taught to the most diligent and capable apprentices, and the disciples who have obtained the true inheritance of the master are sometimes even more valued by the master than their own sons, and the fee-paying apprentices with relatively superior family backgrounds are difficult to treat the master so hard-working like the fee-paying apprentices, and it is difficult to get the true inheritance of the master.

The owner of Fang Xingtang didn't think about teaching Hua Ling anything "real" at all, of course, if he didn't teach anything, the Pingjiao Gang wouldn't be able to explain it, so he planned to embarrass this new apprentice for a while, and after the other party admitted that he was not talented enough, he would slowly fool her with miscellaneous things such as cutting medicine, and extend her apprenticeship period as much as possible. She still has to teach part of it, but it will take much more time to teach than it will take to teach his own grandson, and the owner of Fang Xingtang thinks that this will not arouse anyone's suspicion, and girls are not suitable for apprenticeship in the first place.

Don't look at such an introductory book, he hasn't even shown his own granddaughter! Now that he has shown it to Hua Ling, he is already very worthy of those eye drops of the Flat Foot Gang!

Hua Ling took the book, put it in his hand and flipped through it, more than 20 pages of yellowed paper, all handwritten, with pictures and words, recorded forty or fifty of the most common medicinal herbs, after turning the last page, he asked the master of Fang Xingtang who was trembling away: "I have finished memorizing, can I start teaching?"

"......" The owner of Fang Xingtang felt that he must have had auditory hallucinations.

It must have been that this girl had already learned it somewhere! Thinking of the medicine sent by the Flat Foot Gang, it was not impossible, and the master of Fang Xingtang quickly regained his senses, and he warned the young apprentice: "Since you have memorized it, I will test you." ”

He casually pulled out a few drawers: "Give me the names of these medicines." ”

Hua Ling reported them one by one, there was no mistake at all, this is not surprising, it must have been learned by her in advance - the master of Fang Xingtang tried not to think that his grandson must be much older than Hua Ling when he learned this level, he thought for a while, and said: "These medicines, you grab five yuan to show me." ”

"Five cents?"

"This is the ability that every apprentice must know," said the owner of Fang Xingtang: "It is true that there are scales on the counter, but knowing the weight of medicinal materials, grasping eight or nine without leaving ten, is the basic skill of the pharmacy guys. "The severity of each medicinal material is different, this skill is much more difficult to practice than other trades, and he can also see how much this girl has learned.

Hua Ling nodded and stretched out his hand.

"You still make fried tofu?" said Yu Gui in the back kitchen, Hua Ling brought his "younger brother" Ah Xing to Fang Xing Tang to live for a few days, Ah Xing was the child who had a bad eye with his mother, and after being cured, he temporarily lived in Fang Xing Tang as a cheap brother of the "boss", one is to do all kinds of chores for him, and the other is to act as the eyeliner of the remote control flat foot gang during his apprenticeship, Hua Lin does not want to be the time when he is in Fang Xingtang, the flat foot gang will degenerate back to the previous state. Because he is younger than Agui and has a shop guarantee, even Yugui, the granddaughter of the owner of Fang Xingtang, can be alone with him, such as cooking in the kitchen together.

Ah Xing nodded when he heard this, he didn't understand what Yu Gui was surprised about, every child in the gang would do it! He skillfully poured the whole piece of tofu he had just bought on the board, washed the kitchen knife with the well water he had just brought up, and washed it with his left and right hands in turn, holding the knife in one hand, and lightly touching the side of the knife with one finger knuckle, the knife was fast and steady. The measuring spoon measured the oil and salt, lit the fire, and after a while, the tofu was fried, and with a wave of his hand, he just drizzled a little green onion on each piece of tofu, and Yu Gui was dumbfounded: "Can fried tofu still do this?"

"Isn't that how fried tofu is made?" Ah Xing asked rhetorically.

"Uh......" Cinnamon asked again, "what else are you going to do?"

"Fried fish, roast meat," Ah Xing thought for a moment: "The boss also took us pickles." ”

A gang that pan-fried tofu, fried fish, grilled meat, and pickled vegetables from top to bottom...... She is not a pampered young lady in the deep boudoir, and she is backward in the family, and she can afford almost all the housework, but her knife skills are completely incomparable to the child in front of her, which makes her begin to doubt life.