The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 37 I'm Your Second Uncle!

The next night, at the meeting in Yangjiabao, the great grandfather Song Tianbao was the first to stand up when he heard about the issue of errand distribution. He said that his family could gather a team to play dragons.

Playing dragons in the Shehuo team is a big job, and other families will naturally have opinions. The people in charge of the several companies quarreled for a long time, and finally fell on the matter of money.

Playing Shehuo not only requires personnel, but also some funds, which are usually shared equally by the households in the village.Since your Song family at the foot of the mountain wants the whole family to play dragons independently, you will also pay for the dragon costumes in addition to the shared share of the money, and the errands will be shared with your family.If the money is not paid, the work will be distributed to whoever pays the money.

"Grandpa, how much does it cost to pretend to be a dragon?" At this point, Song Yingkui hurriedly asked about the investment. If the investment is small, just fight.If the investment is large, this matter has to be carefully considered.

"Where is the frame of the dragon's body, that is, to repair the skeleton, pull some cloth to mend the dragon's body, and get some flower paper to paste the dragon's head. You know how to carpent, and I guess two or three hundred cash will be enough." Since the grandfather wanted to compete for the job of playing the dragon, he had already expected the money, and stated the budget without hesitation.

"Just agree! Two or three hundred cash is not much, I will pay for it!" Upon hearing that the money was not much, Song Yingkui hurriedly advised the grandpa to settle the matter.The current posture is that when you don't want to fight for steamed buns, you can't lose face here because of a few hundred pennies.

After hearing Song Yingkui's idea, the grandfather hurriedly spoke out to agree to the matter.

On the way back, Song Yingkui felt that it was a bit of a loss when he gave his grandfather the three hundred wen pocket money he had with him.It feels like being taken advantage of for something meaningless, and spending money and effort.Grandpa brought himself here to fight for the leader, didn't he just think that he could repair the keel and pay for it?These two days, why is it so easy to do impulsive things!The money for pretending to be a dragon should be shared equally between the two houses, right?
Forget it, three hundred Wen is not a lot of money, just take it as a thank you to Dafang for helping when the bandits entered the yard.

Entering the twelfth lunar month, Song Yingkui felt that he was even busier. Apart from being busy with shop work, he had to spare an hour to go home early. Under the leadership of his grandfather, the whole family of adult men went out to practice dragon-playing skills.

There are seven brothers from the generation of grandfather and father, plus Song Yingkui, Lao Fang's staff, and two cousins ​​(one of whom is not yet an adult and has just turned 15), making a total of twelve people. This is the entire team of the Song Family Dragon Playing Team.The dragon played in the village is Jiujulong. The grandfather holds a pole against the hydrangea to lead the dragon. The other nine people hold the dragon body, and two are in charge of rotation and substitutes.

Song Yingkui mastered the skill of playing dragon after a few days of learning.This stuff doesn't seem to have much knowledge, it just follows the grandfather who leads the dragon in circles.The dragon head and the dragon tail are a bit difficult. To master the rhythm, the dragon head has to learn to nod and raise its head.Run faster on the side of the dragon's tail. When the dragon's body is turning in circles, maintain the size and roundness of the dragon's body's circle, and when the dragon's head and dragon's tail intersect, let the dragon's head pass through the dragon's tail.

In fact, there is a so-called particularity in going around in circles. According to the grandfather, it is to walk in battle!What about breaking through four doors, passing nine levels, and playing with the lion in the dragon and tiger array!Song Yingkui doesn't need to understand these formations too much, with the leader of the dragon, Grandpa, leading them, just follow his rhythm.

I have to be busy playing dragons, so I can only spend half a day doing things in the shop.Fortunately, in the twelfth lunar month, there is less work in each family, otherwise they must be busy to death?

On the 22nd of the twelfth lunar month, Song Yingkui was busy in the shop until noon, and was preparing to close the shop early in the afternoon if there was no one there, and have a good New Year tomorrow.As a result, a policeman in official uniform led a horse and came into the yard.

"Can you repair car wheels here?" The messenger called out with a loud voice as soon as he entered the door.

"The official wants to repair the wheels? I wonder where the official's car is?" Seeing that the official was three points short, Song Yingkui ran out of the workshop and greeted him cautiously when he saw the visitor in official uniform!
"The wheel is broken, can it be repaired?" The policeman glanced at the young man who came out to meet him, and continued to ask impatiently.

"It can be repaired! Where is the car?" You just asked if it could be repaired, but I didn't see where the car was. What are you yelling in a hurry? Song Yingkui was speechless to the policeman leading the horse.

"Take your car repair guy and follow me! My official Zhaomo's car broke down on the road above, so hurry over and fix it."

It turned out that the car broke down on the road along Yanchuanzi, no wonder I couldn't see the car.Seeing that the messenger was not very polite, Song Yingkui didn't ask any more questions. He went back to the workshop and took a hammer, a small saw, a crowbar and a chisel with him, and called his third brother to go to the road ahead to see the situation.I don't know what happened to the broken wheel. If there are not enough tools with me, I have to ask my third brother to come and get them.

After walking for more than a mile, I arrived at the main road of Yanchuanzi.Seeing several riders standing around a leaning carriage, it seemed that the broken carriage was that.

When I walked in, I found that the wheels were seriously damaged. The outer hubs were directly broken, and two spoke bones inside were also broken. I don’t know how the driver did it.
"The wheel is a bit badly damaged. It will take a long time to remove it and pull it into the shop to replace the spokes. I'm afraid it will take about two hours to repair it." After seeing the extent of the damage, Song Yingkui expressed his judgment to the policeman who called him over.The spokes were all broken and had to be reattached from the bottom bracket, a labor-intensive repair.

"You carpenter, my official came to wait for you to repair the car for two hours? You hurry up and fix it, the official and his wife are still on their way home!" The policeman ignored Song Yingkui's words about the difficulty of maintenance, and kept urging Song Yingkui to fix the car as soon as possible.

"If you want to be quick, there is no other way, that is, replace the two wheels and the big axle together. I happen to have a axle and wheel in my shop that was made for another family. Do you want to change it like this?" Liu's family in Yanchuanzi asked Song Yingkui to make an ox cart these days, and just took the time to finish the axle and wheel.The broken carriage was not a large carriage running on the official road, but a small carriage modified on the basis of the wheelbase of an ox cart suitable for driving on mountain roads.

"Let's change it first, young man, hurry up as much as possible." This time it was not the loud policeman who spoke, but a middle-aged and elderly man in a formal official uniform. He should be the real leader in the team!
"Yingquan, you go to the shop and call the third father over, and ask the third father to push on the spoke wheel made for the Liu family when he comes over." The person in charge agreed to change the wheel, and Song Yingkui ignored the messenger and asked the third brother to get the wheel.

"Yingquan? Junior, whose family do you belong to?" The middle-aged man glanced at Song Yingquan who was running to call someone, turned his head, and asked Song Yingkui.

"I'm from the Song family in Shangzhuangli, Yangjiabao." I don't know why, how did this official find out my last name?What does my last name have to do with repairing your car!

"From the Song family in Yangjiabao? You are Song Yingkui, and your grandfather is Song Tianshun?" When the middle-aged man spoke, he couldn't help but raise his tone.

"I'm Song Yingkui, officer, how do you know my name?" Is my reputation that big?Can an official who has never seen it know?

"You baby, your brothers and your father's brothers are all named by me, how can I not know? I am your second uncle!"

(End of this chapter)