Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 9
Dad is like this, present the facts and make sense, and if you want to convince him, you have to come up with your reasons and reasons.

If your reasons and reasons are better than his, he will follow suit, such as getting immunity from naps by reciting poems; but if your reasons and reasons themselves are nonsense, then sorry.

But now Zhou Zhi really couldn't come up with any facts or reasons to convince his father.

Forget it, before the time came, Zhou Zhi had no choice but to nod: "Understood."

"It's good if you understand." Dad breathed a sigh of relief, but immediately said: "But even if you are divided into classes, you still can't lose the things that your fourth cousin and godfather taught you, and it will be good for you for the rest of your life." , understand?"

"Ah."

The tricycle passed by the north gate, and an old voice came from a small shop: "Master Zhou, please stay."

Zhou Zhi suddenly remembered something: "Dad, wait for me, I have two things to pick up."

Dad stopped the car, and simply got off with him: "It's not appropriate to ask the master to wait, he is still working hard."

After paying the fare, Dad turned around and asked Zhou Zhi, "What do you want to pick up?"

The North Gate used to be the largest wharf in Laojiachuan, but it has now been replaced by a larger new road wharf.

At the current North Gate, on the side facing the river under the slope is the Bamboo and Wood Grain Market transformed from the former Hexian Market. On the opposite side of the road is Zhangjiagou, now the largest new market in Jiachuan.

Zhou Zhi took his father to a bamboo shop.

There is an old shopkeeper in the bamboo shop, and all the fishing gear sold here are made of bamboo.

In Zhou Zhi's impression, this fishing tackle shop disappeared with the passing of the old shopkeeper within a few years, but after another 20 years, the price of this kind of intangible cultural heritage handmade products...

The old man's skill is quite powerful, but in this era, it is a bright pearl, because bamboo ware has its limitations after all.

"Old Ma, have I finished what I want?" Zhou Zhi's attitude now is exactly the same as that kind of second-year middle school boy who doesn't understand anything but thinks he can do everything, when he came here to order things half a year ago.

Lao Ma ignored Zhou Zhi, stood up, took a long cloth bag from the counter, and handed it to Dad directly: "Both things are ready, sir, please take a look."

Daddy looked confused, took two bags and opened them, one bag contained two sticks, and the other bag contained one stick.

"What is this?"

Zhou Zhi took the two sticks together, opened the plug at the bottom, took out two sticks from the inside, and spliced ​​them together to form a crystal-clear fishing rod.

Shaking twice to test the strength and toughness of the waist, Zhou Zhi felt very satisfied, and carefully took them off and put them away.

From another bag, a purple bamboo joint was shaken out. Both ends of the bamboo joint were sealed with cupronickel, and then the two parts poured out of the bag were put on the cupronickel plug, but it turned out to be a bamboo with eyes full of eyes. A purple bamboo stick with a stick head.

Different from the thicker crutches nowadays, the Zili bamboo used in this crutch is delicate and light.

Both things are very delicate, and they are a little different from other things in the store.

"what is this?"

"Gifts, one is a fishing rod for Uncle Jingcheng; the other is a crutch for Uncle Yao, to be precise, it is called Civilization Staff."

They were all prepared for the elders, so Dad couldn't say anything, so he asked the old horse, "How much?"

"Chenghui eighty." Lao Ma felt that he was showing off all his pretty eyes to the blind man, so his attitude was a bit bad.

"How much?" Dad was shocked: "You are made of bamboo. Can you make two big beds at eighty?"

"This is custom-made by your son. It uses white and purple lilies. The roe is full of purple jade bamboo roots. If it weren't for your son's famous name, I wouldn't take it with you. How much did you charge?" Ten years baby!"

"What?" Dad felt that it was too nonsense, did this deceive consumers to the head of the Bureau of Industry and Commerce? !

"Not expensive, not expensive..." Zhou Zhi hurriedly smoothed things over: "Dad, don't underestimate these two items. This is a skill that Mr. Ma doesn't show. The varnish has at least sixteen layers of paint! Otherwise, the amber light will be released." effect?"

"Have you ever seen Amber?" Dad glared at Zhou Zhi.

"Nineteen Ways." The old horse still said coldly: "It took me more than half a year to push the light. I thought you knew this, sir, but unexpectedly you are not as good as your son."

"It's really worth the price!" Zhou Zhi said, "If you want to prepare something for the elders, wouldn't it be better? I'm going to ask the eldest cousin in Jingcheng to make a wheelchair for grandma, why don't you bribe the third uncle with a fishing rod!"

The third aunt was still the director of the Jingcheng Labor Bureau at that time, and the third lady was the director of the police station in the third living area of ​​Jingcheng Dongfang Electric Machinery Factory. Logically speaking, it was easy to arrange a job, but the eldest cousin Xu Anran turned out to be the auto repairer of the electric factory. Workers in the workshop.

Zhou Zhi has countless cousins, several of whom are his idols.

Xu Anran doesn't study very well, but he is very proficient in mechanics. After working, he has created countless inventions and applied for several national patents.

Anti-theft alarms for motorcycles, iron rocking chairs in parks, wire locks for bicycles... The most powerful thing is the most common anti-theft door lock in later generations.

That kind of door lock key is flat on both sides, with a groove in the middle, and the key teeth are on the groove.

The rotten street things in later generations were definitely inventions that could amaze everyone at that time, and they were conceived by cousin An Ran.

In another time and space, Xu Anran has been guarding his invention for more than ten years, and no manufacturer is willing to cooperate with him. In the last act of pique, he simply refused to pay the annual protection fee of more than 100 yuan.

In the second year after the patent protection expires, the whole world is full of anti-theft doors with that kind of door lock. Other manufacturers have been waiting for this moment!

As for my cousin, apart from being stunned, he didn't get any money!
Many years later, my cousin still laughed at himself at the dinner table, saying that he once told others that that kind of door lock was his invention, and the result was ridiculed: "Just you, Xu Anran?!"

I don't know if this patent is out now.

But Cousin An Ran is absolutely ingenious. Using the machine tools in the workshop and using some waste materials to build a wheelchair for grandma is nothing serious.

Hearing Zhou Zhi's words, my dad couldn't keep pestering me here anymore, so he opened the purse distressedly, took out the wallet from inside, counted out 80 yuan and put it on the counter.

Zhou Zhi happily put away his things: "Thank you, old horse! From now on..."

"No, there is no future." The old horse accepted the money bluntly, without bothering to lift his eyelids: "Young master, don't come here in the future, the shop can't afford it."

Zhou Zhi and his father walked out of the small shop one after the other, and his father couldn't help but look back at the small shop: "This master is weird."

Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "It's all like this, an expert."

"His address is also weird." Dad meant that Lao Ma called him Mr. Zhou Zhi, young master.

There is no such talk in this year.

"That's the rule of the old Jiachuan Wharf." Zhou Zhi explained: "The one before liberation."

"Oh." Dad finally understood, and looked at the two cloth bags in Zhou Zhi's hand: "This must be more than 30 catties of meat, and a month's salary... Forget it, it's rare that you have the heart, and everything is for the elders. Just spend a little bit."

"Ah."

"But this year, your lucky money is gone."

"..."

When I got home, my mother came back and was cleaning the house.

Seeing that the Chinese New Year is coming, the family lost a strong laborer, which made my mother a little frizzy.

There is no doubt that the big boy from the city is also useful.

For example, I have to go to the grain station to carry rice and buy oil every month; for example, I make sauerkraut and pickled mustard at home, or I carry a bucket to beat bean curd and glutinous rice, and then bring the pulp back...

Grandma talked about it during the meal, and making glutinous rice balls at the end of the year is a big event in the hearts of the elderly every year.

"It's okay to be a few days late." Zhou Zhi said, "When the foreign monk comes, let him help."

"Good monk." Grandma nodded, "Better than my good grandson."

Zhou Zhi drank the boiled porridge with yellow spicy diced soup prepared by his grandmother in two gulps: "I'll go to my aunt's house to see."

"Then we have to go." Mom said: "You go to grandma's house and pick some suitable gifts."

Grandma is from the youngest family of the Su family in Gujing Township. As the saying goes, "the elders come from a single family", all the people from Jiachuan County, Shuangxi Township, Hongshui County on the edge, and Su family from Gujing Township, when they pass through Jiachuan, all Come and see.

Therefore, Zhou Zhi's family has a lot of guests coming and going all year round, and there are many gifts piled up in grandma's room, so they don't need so many.

Zhou Zhi picked out a box of snacks, and took four packs of sugar: "Mom, do you think this is about the same?"

The mother reduced the sugar to two packs: "Silly boy, your aunt will return the gift in two days, so it's not good to give so much."

"Yes." Zhou Zhi looked at the things in his hand: "Now the hen is getting old."

Mom smiled and patted Zhou Zhi: "Take three rounds back and forth. Hurry up and come back early. Just let her see that you are fine."

The tricycle passed the new road all the way, passed the Liushuigou, and arrived at the Zaoling Bridge before stopping at the entrance of a small alley.

Next to the alley is a big stinking ditch, pouring domestic sewage into the Yangtze River.

It's okay in winter, but in summer, the smell of the ditch is actually quite strong.

Walk down the small alley for a while, and there are houses with green tiles and board houses on the side.

Here you can see the riverside, turn backwards here, pass a big tallow tree, and go on the old Jiachuan Riverside Road.

There is a large yard next to the Chinese tallow tree, but now apart from the surrounding houses, briquettes and chicken coops have been piled up in the middle of the yard, and the remaining fields are also planted with shallots, lettuce, etc., making it very crowded.

Go along the wall and the door to the left end of the yard, where there are two small houses, which are my aunt's house.

The house is still rented.

The door was unlocked, Zhou Zhi pushed the wooden door open, and inside was a small house with two rooms.

The house is very tidy. Compared with the noisy and messy environment outside, it can be described as "spotless".

(End of this chapter)