I went ashore by weaving straw shoes and became a master craftsman

Chapter 9 Lessons Learned

This matter is actually easy to understand.Since everyone knows that after obtaining the rank of craftsman, you can reduce taxes and reduce labor, ordinary people must want to take the test, and must cultivate craftsman skills since childhood.

Therefore, the most basic level of "craftsman boy" is not called "children" for no reason, it must be mostly young craftsmen!To put it bluntly, if you take the examination of Jiang Tong when you are older, neither the people throwing flowers nor the examiners will be selected!Because those who come to take the exam when they are old, nine out of ten are not talented!
At noon, when the uncle and nephew came back to the post house, an old man was mixing pig food. Wang Ge saw that the forage he was cutting was straw, so he asked, "Ah Weng, I know how to weave straw sandals, and they are strong. Every time you give me more I'll weave a pair of straw sandals for you for free, how about that?"

Wang Erlang supported the door with his elbows and stroked his forehead. My niece is trying to do business without money, she is so thick-skinned!

The old man said: "Then you are not at a loss?"

Wang Erlang's elbow slipped.

Wang Ge said with a smile: "A loss is a blessing."

Early in the morning of the next day, the old man happily lent a small cart to the uncle and nephew, and pulled it full of straw to the craftsmen's competition field.

The gate of the fence was opened, and each craftsman was allowed to bring a relative to enter, and each took his place according to the square frame drawn on the ground.If relatives leave, they are not allowed to re-enter.

There must be good and bad locations for the exam. Last night, all the test takers lined up outside the fence. She and her second uncle were at the bottom of the line, so the seats were the most biased.

From the first beating of the drum, the copper pot dripped the clock, and the sound was deafening, exactly as Liu Xiaolang said, five times in a quarter of an hour.

At the same time, the common people receive flowers and enter, and only one person from each household is allowed to receive flowers, and they are not allowed to receive flowers and enter the venue repeatedly, otherwise they will be severely punished.Everyone watched from one area to another, and many were attracted by the ones in the front, even if they walked to the back, the flowers had already been thrown out.

It can't go on like this!

"Second Uncle, hurry up..." Wang Ge whispered a few words to Wang Erlang, and the latter left the venue quickly.

The drumbeat continued, and the big man who beat the drum was an executioner who had changed his career. He had an old problem and laughed madly from time to time, which made the children in the competition even more nervous.

Wang Ge glanced around and found that he belonged to the oldest group.

There are quite a few examiners patrolling the field, and wooden plaques symbolizing the identity of the examiners are hung on the belt.Some of them look like country officials, some like craftsmen.

Two examiners walked up to her side by side, "tsk tsk" and exchanged in a low voice: "The craftsmanship is good, but I am old, I am afraid that the talent is not strong."

"rational."

The two examiners "tsk tsk" and walked side by side.

Birdman!She's only ten years old, so make her sound like she's seven or eighty years old!Wang Ge was so depressed that he forced himself to suppress his impetuosity and gradually entered the game state.

The selection of craftsmen this time really taught her lessons one after another.

The first lesson is to rely on subjective inference, take it for granted!The project she originally prepared was a shopkeeper's rack with a woven "animal world" on it, which not only attracts people's attention, but also shows extraordinary skills.She ignored that since the craftsmen are selected in the village, the needs of the bottom-level people account for the vast majority, and the craftsmen must pay attention to practicality.

The second lesson is to underestimate the disadvantages of Jiashe Village's remoteness and lagging information!She thought she was the youngest contestant, but unexpectedly became the oldest under-talented.

The third lesson is that the raw materials are not prepared with many hands!Changing the knitting temporarily, she was almost caught off guard. In order to earn straw to feed the old pig, she has been knitting straw sandals for the past two days, and her hands are swollen from rubbing.

The fourth lesson is the order of entry!When there was no official order, she thought of entering the arena in line order, but she still underestimated the ancients, who also knew to line up overnight.She comes in at the end, worse than the self-righteousness of the first three, making her seem stupid and lazy.

The folks holding flowers gradually came to the middle and rear of the venue, Wang Ge stopped being distracted and quickly weaved straw sandals.When I first came into contact with straw weaving in my previous life, making straw sandals was one of the basic skills.The southern region is mostly woven with straw, and the northern region is mostly woven with cattail grass.

Simple straw sandals are common in southern regions, with only soles and heel straps. Farmers usually wear this kind of straw sandals to go to the paddy fields.

Because of the cold weather in the northern region, straw sandals are divided into two layers, the bottom and the upper are connected. The weaving steps are divided into: sole, upper, lace, and back cover.

Buzhi Township belongs to the South Region, and all the children weaving straw sandals in the place are all in the form of soles and laces.

Wang Ge did not dare to be an exception. He only had a unique style at the end of the shoe. There was an extra semi-curved heel, and two laces were extended from both sides of the heel to wrap around the ankle, making it more solid and more heeled.Since it was temporarily changed to straw sandals, she had no auxiliary tool, the shoe target head (a special tool placed in front to hook the straw rope), so she had to sit in a squatting position and use her own feet instead.

It turned out that Liu Xiaolang who came to inspect stopped in the distance, frowning slightly: "It's so indecent, I really don't look like a girl."

Wang Ge was so engrossed in knitting that he didn't pay attention to this scene, so he couldn't see the examiner's wooden sign hanging on the opponent's waist.

Boom, boom, boom!

The sound of the drum in the center of the venue was like a whip, whipping time, as if it could speed up the flow of time.

An hour later, outside the fence of the examination room.

"People are poor and short-sighted! If you give straw, you can weave it! Starting tomorrow, I will give you a bundle of straw and a pair of straw sandals, and only two hundred pairs will be given away! There is no such shop in this town! If you doubt my daughter's craftsmanship, please But go to her and try it on!" Wang Erlang blushed, dryly talking about what his niece taught him.

Next to him is the old man in charge of feeding the pigs in the post house. He received a bag of grain benefits and was willing to be pulled as an advertiser: "I can prove that this gentleman is telling the truth. Hey, look, I'm wearing it now." Yes, it’s the shoes made by the little girl, okay? Well, it’s the little girl farthest away!”

The two advertised outside the venue, and the examiner who was quarreled over was helpless.

Most of the people who did not enter the venue were relatives of the contestants. Some people were really angry and said: "Master examiner, are they cheating?"

"They didn't ask for the flowers directly! Besides, you can also say the same thing, can't they hold back?" The examiner finished reprimanding the complainant, and then gave Wang Erlang and the pig weng a dissatisfied look. I left without bothering.

The participating relatives are useless, they are not "poor and short-sighted" to such a degree!You can make two pairs of shoes with just one bundle of straw, what a waste of money!
And give two hundred pairs of shoes?How many pairs of shoes can you make in total without eating, drinking or sleeping for a day?After cooperating with their children to win the "craftsman quota", they did nothing but weave straw sandals for others.You know, the official "Craftsman" exam will be in two months!
"Bah! Shameless!"

"I've never seen such a shameless person!"

"Forget it, there are a total of [-] places, and we all think there are only [-]! Don't be as knowledgeable as a 'no ambition'."

"Twenty craftsmen will go to the county to take the exam on behalf of our prefects, and this person will spoil their faces! Bah!"

With a sound of "bah", Wang Erlang, who was spitting, trembled and trembled.Alas, he really wanted to weave straw sandals and get scolded for his niece.

Boom!
Boom!
The big drum continued, and someone broke it. After a drumbeat, a bowl of spirits was handed to the big man who was beating the drum, which reminded the big man of the glorious career of the executioner in the past. Have fun!What he is beating is not a drum, but a countdown to the death row prisoner's life!
For a moment, except for Wang Ge, all the children in the audience stopped, dumbfounded.Why beat three drums in a row?Does that count as game time?
(End of this chapter)