Rebirth Space Farming

Chapter 51 The National Treasure Master

Someone who is extremely sad, dreamed that he forgot to update the settings in his sleep, and woke up.Climb up and see that it has been set up.Tears run, my beauty sleep~
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"It's Master Li. It's a coincidence. I was looking for you. I have a few silver dollars here, and I want to melt them to make silver jewelry for my little granddaughter, so that I can live a long life," Yezi said. Before he could take a few steps, he stopped running.Zhu Shijun's question came at the right time.

Everyone in the family knew that if Li Quqi didn't get angry, he would die, and if he got angry, it would be useless even if the emperor came.However, there are two ways to curb Li Quqi's volcanic temper. The great wizard Yezi wants to invite is one way, and the invitation from Zhu Shijun to make silver is the second way.

In the past few years, the policy has improved, and Li Quqi is very popular in the surrounding Miao villages and even the whole country, but no one knows that 30 years ago, Li Quqi's family was the poorest family in the southeast Miao village.

During the special period of breaking the Four Olds, Father Li, who was hiding in the mountains, was dragged into the county town to be criticized, and never came back once he went.Mother Li is an illiterate Miao girl who supported her mother-in-law and son with her Miao embroidery hands. Famine and cold coupled with worries about her husband's whereabouts led Mother Li to jump into the White Dragon Pool.When the body was picked up, Li Queqi couldn't even afford a straw mat to cover the body.

At that time, everyone in the village was afraid of being implicated by the Li family, and no one dared to contribute money. It was the great wizard who went to the mountain to find a few good fir trees, and planed them into a coffin.He also hired a bullock cart and went to the county seat to transport Father Li's body back from abroad, and buried the Li family couple together.

Later, the country rehabilitated the Li family, and the great wizard accompanied Li Quqi into the city again. He didn't want any pensions, as long as he returned to the silver workshop left by the ancestors of the Li family and a few pieces of silver in the workshop, silver dollars.Therefore, as long as the great wizard said something, no matter how angry Li Quqi was, it would be like boiling water with water added, without the boiling gas.

Zhu Shijun really came prepared, he came to Miao village today, not only to see the affairs of the Qian family, he really prepared more than a dozen pure silver dollars.These are real guys that you can't buy in the market.

"Who is this?" Li Quqi hasn't met Zhu Shijun yet, seeing the old man's eyes are brighter than stars, and his speech is also advancing and retreating. He is definitely not a character that Gecun should have. After searching in his memory, he remembered. Well, my wife mentioned a few months ago that an agricultural expert came from the next village, and it seems that this old man is the one who said it.

The two men, who were more than 20 years apart in age, looked at each other. Li Queqi put aside the idea of ​​scolding his wife angrily, and took the dozen or so silver dollars from Zhu Shijun.Li Queqi has a few rules for making silver. He does not make imitations of other people's designs, does not make low-quality silver, and does not make black silver of unknown origin.

"I heard from my family that the hundreds of white tea trees in the family are all thanks to Mr. Zhu. The old man wants to make silverware, so follow me to the workshop to see the silver spectrum. The little girl also Come together," Li Queqi wanted to repay this favor, his workshop was not next to the stilted building of Li's house, but built elsewhere.Asking Xiaoxian to go there together is to let the little girl choose a style she likes. As for making it into a bracelet or a longevity lock, it depends on personal preference.

"Abba, I'll go with you, Mom, go home and cook, and make some dishes that Aba likes." Yezi is also smart, knowing that he should calm down Aba, he knows that Aba likes to cook fresh Silverware, and looking at Dad's expression, the few pieces of silver brought by the old man are not bad.

Li Quqi's silver workshop is different from Miao's Diaojiaolou. It is built with mud, which looks like a mound in a mountain depression from a distance.Burning silver is different from metallurgy, and does not require large-scale hydropower, so this workshop is not big, and there are only two or three round-bellied water tanks at the door.

There are two charcoal stoves of different sizes, one is a black stove and the other is an open stove.The temperature of the open furnace is high, and it is built with adobe bricks, and the furnace mouth is open.As long as Li Queqi is at home, the fire in the open furnace will never go out.Beside the stove stood a blackened blowpipe.When the fire is not strong enough, use a torch to add heat.

The most eye-catching thing in the workshop is the large and small silverware placed on the workbench.When Miao people marry their daughters, they will send dozens of catties of silver jewelry as dowry. Although due to travel and other reasons in recent years, Miao silver has also changed from the earliest pure silver to cupronickel, zinc copper and other inferior mixed silver. Those who got Li Cookie were all famous figures from the Miao family or used in provincial, municipal or national competitions, so the silverware here is not vulgar.

After entering the workshop, Li Queqi brewed a few cups of his own white tea, let Zhu Shijun and Xiaoxian sit down, and then took a booklet, which showed the styles that Li Queqi had made over the years.The book that Xiaoxian has in hand is the booklet that Li Cookie just bound after he went to the southeast coast this time.In the past, the silver jewelry brochures were all hand-painted. After a long time of use, they had to be redrawn, which was very troublesome. Now that there are photos and printed albums, it is much more convenient.

"The old man's silver coins are quite old," Li Quqi checked the silver coins given by Zhu Shijun again.Guizhou is not a province that produces silver. The silverware that circulates in the province is from one generation, or even several generations.For the younger generation of women waiting to be married in the Miao Village in the southeast, many of them used the silver ornaments of Demu's mother-in-law's generation.When Li Cookie was young, he often did such work.

Li Queqi tapped Yinyang with his fingers, and heard a melodious echo with satisfaction, then looked at the carver, and nodded.Among the silver oceans of the Zhushi Army, there is Yuan Datou, which is the most circulated in the Chinese market, and there is also an earlier Spanish Eagle Ocean that flowed into China in the 90.00th century.Looking at the fineness, they are all good silver with a silver content of more than [-]%.Li Queqi uses most of the silver now, and it is rare to see such a large amount of silver.

"Are you sure it's time to melt? I still have some silver nuggets with a slightly lower quality, and the elderly can also pick them out." The collection value of this kind of old silver has surpassed the value of the metal itself, Li Cookie He is a real craftsman, and he has a bit of love for such coins.

"It's melted, big brother, it's your luck to make silverware with your hands." Zhu Shijun and Li Quqi even admired his demeanor even though they just met each other. , with intersecting hearts.

Seeing that Zhu Shijun had also made up his mind, Li Quqi stopped persuading, but asked Xiao Xian: "Little girl, have you taken a fancy to the style? If you take a look, I will ask Yezi to pull the bellows for me, and Shangrong Is the furnace on?"

The two children were muttering at the side, Yezi pointed to a bracelet on the brochure and said, "Don't read it, listen to me, it's sure, choose this one."

(End of this chapter)