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

Chapter 6 Carpenter Ding came to find a helper!

When Song Yingkui said that making tofu was not difficult, his grandfather, father, and two uncles retorted repeatedly.They all thought it was whimsical.No one in the whole family, relatives and friends knows how to do this job, how can you do it?Do you think you can make tofu after seeing and eating tofu?Just don't be too funny.

Everyone has heard of ordering tofu in brine, but who has seen how to order it?

Faced with doubts from the elders of the family, Song Yingkui was too lazy to talk to them. Skills such as making tofu and yuba are rotten in time-travel novels, okay?And this thing is not like glass, it is difficult to get started and operate by yourself.You can question it now. After waiting for it, soak the soybeans at home, make it directly and use the facts to prove it?

After paying taxes and returning home, busy farm work followed.Plowing, plowing, and harvesting autumn grains such as millet and millet, I was so busy until the beginning of October that I had no time to make tofu.Song Yingkui was not too anxious about this. Originally, in his plan, the business would only be done in winter.When the farming season is busy, there is no way to free up manpower to do this work.It is not that the family members will not agree to waste labor on business matters, and delay the important matter of grain collection.

Finally, on the sixth day of October, even the millet was crushed into the barn, and the autumn fields were plowed.Now is the time to officially get down to business with tofu.Song Yingkui planned to soak soybeans the next day and try to make tofu at home, so that they could see what they could do.

But just as he was about to start his big money-making plan, an unexpected visitor came to his family.

Ding Degui, the only carpenter in Yangjiabao Village (in fact, the only carpenter available in several nearby villages), approached him.What is he doing at his home?Song Yingkui felt that it should have nothing to do with him.

However, he never expected that he actually came for himself.Ding Degui told Song Tianshun that he took over the job of making coffins at Liu Sanye's house in Liujiaying Village on the other side of the mountain, and wanted to ask Song Tianshun's grandson Song Yingkui to follow him as a helper.

It's also strange, there are so many young men in Yangjiabao Village, why did Carpenter Ding come to find him as a helper?A helper is not for nothing, not only can he have a meal with Carpenter Ding at the master's house, but he can also be paid three Wen a day.

Although this treatment is quite low even in this time and space.But for a boy of fifteen or sixteen years old, he can have a place to make a living when he has nothing to do in winter, and he may also learn some crafts from a carpenter, which is really attractive.No, Song Tianshun agreed to work for his grandson without even thinking about it, and promised that his grandson would follow him to work the next day.

"Although Ding Degui is short-tempered, he also knows how to care about favors. He was thinking about the fact that I lent him two liters of wheat behind his back when he was leading his wife, so he intends to pull out our family." After Ding Degui left, Song Tianshun told his family the whole story in the main room.

In the entire Yangjiabao Village, there are only five families with the Yang family, Song family, Ding family, Zhang family and Wang family.The Song family and the Ding family are in the upper ditch, the Yang family is in the middle ditch, and the Zhang and Wang families are in the lower ditch near Yanchuanzi.The Ding family is considered to be a common surname in the village, but their family has many branches.Before Ding Degui became a carpenter, his family was quite poor.It was only later that he learned carpentry from his uncle's family, became an apprentice, and became a master carpenter before his family turned around.This is also the reason why he and Song Yingkui's family have two liters of wheat friendship.

"Da, doesn't he bring two sons with him when he does all the work? How can he think of taking Kuiwa? Could it be that he wants to make Kuiwa an apprentice? If so, do we have to prepare a teacher gift for Kuiwa? If Kuiwa can become a carpenter in the future, it will be a great thing." After hearing what his father said, Song Xueqin hurriedly asked.If the son can learn carpentry, it will be an opportunity for the whole family.

Carpentry was a very popular and valuable technology in ancient times.With this technology, not only is it easy to make money, but the status is also quite good, and they are very respected in the countryside.Take Ding Degui as an example, although he is short-tempered and has a weird temper, no one dares to show him any shame in the surrounding tens of miles.In ancient times, the carpenter was the head of all craftsmen.Because the two major tasks of rural people, building houses and making coffins, are inseparable from carpenters.A real great carpenter not only knows how to make furniture, but the most important thing is that he can preside over such a big event as building a house. To be precise, he is a civil engineer.

A carpenter who can only make furniture is just a small carpenter.And Ding Degui is a great carpenter who can preside over building a house.

"It's just a coincidence that the boss of his family sprained his foot when collecting grain, so he couldn't work. It happened that Mr. Liu was in a hurry to make a coffin, so he thought of our Kuiwa. As for whether he could be an apprentice, he didn't say anything. I guess he wanted to take Kuiwa to work first, and then see if the doll is successful! In short, this is a good thing, Kuiwa, you have to have some snacks. When working with your Ding's father, you must be diligent and don't be annoying!"

The friendship between the two liters of wheat was not enough to allow Ding Degui to directly accept his grandson as an apprentice and give his grandson a mouthful of food as a craftsman. Song Tianshun still knew this in his heart.So he turned his head and told his grandson to treat this opportunity well, maybe it will be a good thing.

The uninvited guest Carpenter Ding's visit interrupts Song Yingkui's plan.The thing about making tofu can only be pushed back.The plan to suspend the tofu business, on the one hand, is that the elders in the family have already set the tone, and I can't shirk it.On the other hand, Song Yingkui also felt that this was indeed an opportunity for him.

Before time-traveling, I was serious about mechanical work. Although carpentry and mechanical manufacturing are not the same thing, this technology has a strong commonality with machinery.Working with Carpenter Ding for a period of time will help him understand and get started with the technical profession of the current era.As a mechanical engineer who has also done the first-line work of mechanical processing and maintenance, Song Yingkui does not feel that there is any barrier to mastering woodworking skills.

To live well in this time and space, you need not only business acumen, but also skills.Making tofu is not a technical job. Mastering carpentry skills can give you an additional means of survival and development. Now there is an opportunity to deliver it to your door, so you can't miss it.

In addition, to work as a helper for carpenter Ding, you can earn three Wen a day.If you want to start a tofu business by yourself, you need a little capital more or less.With the current family situation, the meaning of an extra penny is different.In view of this, first follow Carpenter Ding to do the coffin for Liu Sanye in Liujiaying, and it will not be too late to start the tofu business.

As the saying goes, plans can’t keep up with changes, and I plan to sell tofu, but in the end I have to work as a helper for others. Fate is so changeable, who can explain clearly?
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