Siheyuan, a comfortable life under Zhengyang Gate

"Xiaohua, your antique porcelain studio is well organized. Were all these items collected by you over the years?"

"Yes, Grandpa."

The various porcelain objects displayed in the Ancient Porcelain Studio were all collected by Yang Feng from places such as Liulichang and Panjiayuan over the years.

He had been preparing to open his own antique shop several years ago.

"good."

Under the leadership of Yang Feng, Yang Yukun and others toured the ancient porcelain studio inside and out.

The shop has two floors, with business downstairs and living upstairs. The shop is not small, about 150 to 160 square meters, and there is a small courtyard of 40 to 50 square meters at the back.

"These pen holders are great. They're perfect for little Zongzi, Pingping, and Xiao Yumi."

Yang Yukun and Xu Jingping bought three Wang Bingrong ceramic pen holders as a token of support for the opening of Yang Feng's Ancient Porcelain Studio.

Now Xiao Zongzi, Pingping and Xiao Yumi have all gone to school, and these three pen holders are just the right size to give them to store their school supplies.

"Grandpa, Grandma, Lord Hou, Boss Han... Let's go have breakfast first."

"it is good."

"Let's go, everyone. Shopkeeper Yang is inviting us to a restaurant."

"Master Marquis, please."

"Walk."

"Great grandfather, great grandmother..., over here, the restaurant is over there."

After asking the waiter to look after the store, Yang Feng took the guests to a nearby restaurant to have breakfast.

After eating and drinking, some guests who came to attend the opening of Guci Zhai said goodbye and left, while Yang Yukun and others returned to Guci Zhai to drink tea.

"Fengzi, I have something else to do later. I have to go to Simatai. This is the red envelope given to you by your great-grandfather and great-grandmother. I wish you a prosperous opening of the Ancient Porcelain House."

Yang Yukun will have to send Chen Qingming's parents to Simatai soon, so he can't stay here for long.

Gucizhai opened today. As elders, Yang Yukun and Xu Jingping gave Yang Feng a big red envelope.

Yang Feng said: "Thank you, great grandpa and great grandma."

Yang Yukun asked his master: "Master, do you want to go with us, or stay here with Fengzi and drink tea?"

"You guys go ahead and do your work. I'll stay here with the bees for a while."

Han Chunming said, "I will take the Marquis back later."

"Okay, wife, let's go."

Yang Yukun and Xu Jingping left with the three ceramic pen holders they bought at Gucizhai. They first went home to put the things down, and then sent Xu Jingping to Zhiweilou Catering Company.

After leaving Zhiweilou Catering Company, Yang Yukun went to Nanbei Changjie again.

Yesterday I promised Master Lu and Master Lei that I would prepare some good tea and wine for them, so I naturally cannot go back on my word.

"Master Lu."

"Director Yang is here."

"I brought you some tea, a pound of Zhiwei tea."

Yang Yukun handed a box of tea to Master Lu. This pound of Zhiwei tea was enough for Master Lu to drink for a long time.

"That's the taste, Mr. Yang. I won't be polite with you."

It was the Zhiwei tea that he had been dreaming about, so Master Lu accepted the tea.

"Master Lu, you go ahead and do your work. I'll go see Master Lei."

"Is this old guy greedy for your old wine?"

"You and Master Lei have good tea and good wine, and I have already given you tea. If I don't give Master Lei two jars of good wine, he will definitely blame me later."

"Then he must be talking about you."

"Master Lu, you are busy, I will leave first."

"Row."

"Let's go."

After coming out of the courtyard on South Chang Street, Yang Yukun went to the courtyard on North Chang Street.

Master Lei has a hotter temper than Master Lu. When Yang Yukun came over, he happened to see Master Lei scolding his apprentice.

"Master Lei, calm down, what's wrong?" Yang Yukun stepped forward and pulled Master Lei.

"He doesn't do things seriously. I've told him many times not to do this, but he still can't remember."

"Don't be angry. As a young man, you naturally don't have as much experience as the old master."

"When we were learning from him, we treated him like our own father. Now I am teaching him step by step, but he is still lazy and not serious about learning. He even said he wanted to go to the south to work and make a lot of money. It makes me so angry."

Master Lei's little apprentice is his nephew. It was the boy's parents who asked him to take the boy to learn skills.

This kid has been learning from him for more than three years, but he still doesn't understand anything. He doesn't listen in one ear and lets it go out the other, and his attitude is not correct at all.

Several of his other apprentices who learned the craft at the same time as this kid are now able to work independently.

He is always thinking about going to the south to make a lot of money. If this guy was not his nephew, he would have kicked him out long ago.

"I quit." The young man threw the inkstone to the ground, and ink splashed everywhere.

"What exactly do you want to do?"

"I'm quitting this job. I'm exhausted like a dog every day. I want to go to the south to work and make a lot of money."

"Get the hell out of here. I'll send you back to your parents in a little while. You can do whatever you want in the future. But don't ever say you learned martial arts from me. I can't afford to be embarrassed by this person."

"You don't need to send me off. I can walk by myself."

"I brought you up here. It's fine if you don't want to continue studying, but I have to send you back to your parents."

Master Lei quickly chased after him and grabbed the boy.

It doesn’t matter if the kid doesn’t want to continue learning from him, but he can’t just let the kid leave like that.

He should bring this kid back in the same way he brought him out.

If he let this kid run away, when his parents asked him for him, where would he find him?
"Master Lei, your wine."

"Director Yang, I have to send this kid back first. I'll be back in the afternoon. Please leave the wine here first. I'll come back to get it in the afternoon."

"Okay." Yang Yukun didn't expect to encounter such a thing, so he had to give the wine for Master Lei to Master Lei's other apprentices.

"Director Yang, I'll give the wine to Master when he comes back this afternoon."

"Your junior fellow disciple wants to leave the sect, won't you try to persuade him?"

“His heart is not in it.”

"If this kid wasn't Master's nephew, I would have beaten him up long ago. Master was so good to him, but he actually spoke to Master like this. What an ungrateful person."

"That's right, this kid likes to be alone and doesn't play with us. He's very arrogant."

"He didn't treat us as fellow disciples, and we didn't treat him as a fellow disciple."

Master Lei's other disciples didn't think highly of the so-called junior brother.

When this kid first joined the school, they never ignored him. They always took him with them when they went out to play and even bought him a lot of food.

As for this kid, he was overconfident, slacking off in his studies and had a bad attitude. After a long time, they were too lazy to pay attention to him.

It is just right that this kid is gone now, otherwise he will not learn the skills well and tarnish the reputation of his master, Yangshi Lei's successor, and bring disgrace to his master.

"Masters, please continue with your work. I will leave now."

"Slow down, Director Yang."

"it is good."

Yang Yukun had no interest in the matters between Master Lei and his apprentice; it was not his turn to take care of them.

As long as the matter of Master Lei and his apprentice does not affect the renovation progress of his courtyard houses, it will be fine.

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"Uncle Chen, aunt."

"Xiao Kun, you're here."

"Let's go. I'll take you to Simatai."

After returning from the North-South Long Street, Yang Yukun went straight to the tavern to pick up Chen Qingming's parents.

The old couple wanted to go to Simatai to visit their relatives, and Yang Yukun was responsible for sending them there.

"Xiao Kun, I'm sorry to bother you."

"Uncle Chen, look at what you said. We are all family. Let's not talk about different things."

After picking up Chen Qingming's parents, Yang Yukun called He Xiaoxia and asked the girl to prepare lunch.

Before 11:30 in the morning, Yang Yukun parked the car in the yard of He Xiaoxia's house.

Before, the road did not lead to He Xiaoxia’s house, and one had to walk along a dirt road.

It was He Xiaoxia who took over the road when she returned to the village to build a farm stay.

"Uncle, aunt, you are here, hehe... Third brother-in-law."

He Xiaoxia ran out of the house, followed by He Yongqiang and Xu Huizhi.

"In-laws, you are here, come in quickly."

"Xiao Kun, come inside and sit down."

"it is good."

"Brother-in-law will have lunch soon. I'll take you to see my farm."

"Okay."

"Chunyan, is lunch ready?"

"It'll be ready soon."

"It's Chunyan who is cooking." Yang Yukun followed He Xiaoxia to the kitchen and found that He Chunyan was the chef.

"Director Yang, you are here."

"My third brother-in-law, Chunyan, you are also called third brother-in-law. You are no longer working in my third sister's company. You are the general manager of our Xiaoxia Villa."

Yang Yukun said: "Just call her the same as Xiao Xia."

"Third brother-in-law."

"Chunyan's cooking skills are pretty good."

"Thank you for the compliment, brother-in-law. I learned this skill from the chef in the kitchen when I was working at the Wangfujing branch of Zhiweilou Restaurant."

He Chunyan worked at the Wangfujing branch of Zhiweilou Restaurant for more than three years, rising from a waiter in the Shandong cuisine restaurant to the deputy manager of the restaurant.

When she had nothing to do, she would ask the chefs in the kitchen for some cooking techniques and learned a little bit of cooking skills.

He Xiaoxia invited her to come back and start a business together, but He Chunyan hesitated for a long time.

The salary and benefits of Zhiweilou Catering Company are very good, and there are profit dividends to be received. Moreover, she will be promoted to manager of the Shandong cuisine restaurant soon, and it is not impossible for her to be promoted to general manager of the store and enter the company's senior management in the future.

It was really hard for her to give up her job at Zhiweilou Catering Company.

But she finally chose to resign from Zhiweilou Catering Company and come back to start a business with He Xiaoxia.

She was able to work at Zhiweilou Catering Company because of He Xiaoxia. Now that He Xiaoxia needed her to come back, she naturally couldn't refuse.

"The food is ready, Xiao Xia, call aunt and uncle to eat."

"Dad, Mom, Uncle, Aunt, it's time to eat." He Xiaoxia ran to call her parents and her fourth sister's parents-in-law to have lunch.

After lunch, Yang Yukun followed He Xiaoxia and He Chunyan to Xiaoxia Villa.

He Xiaoxia has contracted more than 50 acres of land in her hometown. The villa is currently under intensive construction and is expected to be open for business around March or April next year.

"Xiao Xia, from now on I should call you Boss Xia."

"Hehe..., Third brother-in-law, compared to you, I am at most a small boss."

"The young boss is also the boss. Okay, I'll go back first. Tell my aunt and uncle that I won't go home to say goodbye to them."

"Brother-in-law, please have dinner before going back."

"I won't have dinner. I have to go back and make dinner for Xiao Zongzi and the others."

After taking a tour around He Xiaoxia’s villa, Yang Yukun set out to return to Sijiu City.

It would take quite a while to get back to Sijiucheng from Simatai, so he had to go back early to make roast duck for Xiao Zongzi and the others. (End of this chapter)