"We are old acquaintances, so I will not hide it from you today, Master Tan. The monthly salary of 450 yuan is not a small amount. Even as the general manager, I only have a monthly salary of [-] yuan. , but also go to the construction site to work in person.”

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"And the amount that the young master gave you is already the highest number among the craftsmen who followed him in Luoyang besides me."

Pleading to the old carpenter in a low voice, Wei Xian can be said to have let go of his face now, revealing a little of the conditions that Zhang Yan promised to him before to the old man in front of him.

But after careful consideration, the old carpenter still shook his head slightly, and rejected him with some reluctance.

Is it because the money is not enough?

That is certainly not the case.

After thinking about it secretly in my heart, the monthly salary of 450 yuan can be said to be a very large amount of income.If Zhang Yan really keeps his income during droughts and floods, no matter how much he works, he will provide him with such a stable salary, then in just one year, his total income will exceed any previous year when he was solely responsible for the profit and loss.

As a craftsman, the old carpenter inevitably has a slight desire and expectation for this kind of stable life.

It's just that although the remuneration offered by the other party is already quite generous, it is different from other conditions. It's just that the old carpenter feels a little hesitant when he thinks that the other party wants his family to move to the fiefdom of Wan.

Having lived in the Eastern Han Dynasty for decades, he, who has seen all kinds of people, naturally understands how difficult the word relocation is for people in this era to overcome.

...that's relocation!

Unlike other homeless people in Luoyang City, although the old carpenter is not much better than the other party in terms of poverty, he has lived in Luoyang all his life. It can be said that as a native of Luoyang, the old carpenter still has a lot of things that he cannot let go of. Something in this historic Eastern Han imperial city.

Not to mention his first wife, who was a child of a rich peasant family in Luoyang, or the old carpenter himself, counting up to three generations, they are all well-known craftsmen in the imperial city.

In the good times before, relying on his hard work and wisdom, the old carpenter also had a lot of income and savings. This small courtyard is because he borrowed some money from around at that time, just gritted his teeth buy it.

But now, Zhang Yan said that he wanted to move there with him, and he also said that all the expenses of the relocation would be borne by the other party...

Be darling, how can this move be such a simple matter.

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"Hey, man from the Wei family, you go back."

"This family relocation is too big a matter, old man, I have to think about it..."

He sighed and rejected Wei Xian's invitation. Although he couldn't bear to see the other party's hesitant expression, the old carpenter knew that moving the family was not as simple as the other party said.

……

What about these daily necessities now?

What should we do with this small courtyard?

Where will my big family live after arriving in Wancheng Kingdom?

How should I plan for the cost of food and clothing along the way?

……

A series of questions made the old carpenter feel a little repulsed by the relocation. You must know that many things are not as simple and convenient as the current group of people said in one or two sentences.

In this era when supplies are somewhat scarce, not to mention some large pieces of furniture, even a cup for drinking water and a pottery bowl for eating are not things that ordinary people can easily abandon.

Perhaps for those big families, this set of tableware is a matter of tens of dollars at most, which cannot be said to be too important, but for people like them who live at the bottom, these tens of dollars are their own The big family, the rations for the next month.

The old carpenter still remembers that about ten years ago, he also saw a farmer about his age who had to move from Feng Yi area to Luoyang to make a living because the land in his family was bought by the landlord.

The other party was just a single man in his twenties, and the small family with less than two cents of land borrowed three ox carts to carry all the luggage.

One must know that moving from the wilderness to the east of Feng Yi to Luoyang City is only a distance of two hundred miles, and the farmers have spent a lot of property on this.

If he really wanted to relocate his family to the unknown Wancheng Kingdom, the old carpenter didn't mean that it was completely impossible, but the huge loss really made him a little bit uneasy.

……

"Oh, go back."

Sighing, he sent Wei Xian out of the door. Years of life experience finally made the old carpenter a little cautious, and at the same time he rejected the other party's invitation.

Although the monthly salary of more than [-] yuan is indeed very attractive to his family, this person is like a big tree, no matter how tall it grows and how long it lives, it will eventually have its own roots .

Even recalling the other party's expression at that time, the old man still doesn't understand why the other party feels so confident in the promise of Mr. Zhang Yan, but Luoyang is his root, the root of his Tan family. It's going to hurt the muscles and bones, and I don't know how long it will take to recover.

Silently doing the work at hand, the old carpenter is sitting in the small courtyard now, and he can't help but recall the series of things that happened when Wei Xian came to look for him that day.

Unlike his resoluteness at that time, when he thought that his family's financial conditions were getting worse day by day, he couldn't help but wonder if the decision he made back then was a little too hasty.

Behind him, looking at her husband's sad face, the old woman also knew what was worrying her husband, so she sighed secretly for a while.

Later, after opening her mouth slightly, she still did not speak out to her husband to persuade her, but chose to silently support the decision made by the other party.

……

"Okay, it's time to eat, the eldest and the second children come over!"

Shouting to the room behind her, the old woman just took a small pot of porridge and put the dishes and chopsticks on a small square table at home.

And not long after that, with a burst of chaotic footsteps, two boys, one big and one small, ran out of the room playfully, then washed their hands carefully at the request of the old woman, and sat obediently on the side of the square table. beside.

I saw that although the two children were not very old, no matter which one they were, they all looked tiger-headed and tiger-headed, and they looked quite healthy and strong.And when they got to the dinner table, although they were very hungry, they didn't move their chopsticks first. Instead, they waited for their father to come over before going to eat together.

Unlike those aristocratic families or merchants, most of the lower-level people in the Eastern Han Dynasty adopted the food-sharing system, but they rarely had the conditions to prepare a table for everyone in the family. The whole family is surrounded by a square table, sitting cross-legged on the ground to eat.

And if there are guests at home, the women and children cannot sit at the table, and can only reserve the seats for the guests at home.

The whole family just sat together in silence, looking at the pot of porridge and several plates of pickled vegetables on the table, the old carpenter himself didn't care much, just looking at the two children who were growing up, inevitably a smile appeared on his face. A worried look appeared on his face.

As for the two children, they are both extremely well-behaved. Even if they feel that the food on the table is not enough to eat, they don't mention it one by one. Instead, they finish the porridge in two or three mouthfuls. After that, they said loudly that they were full, and then they discussed where to go to play.

Just drinking porridge and eating pickles in silence like this, the old carpenter didn't notice the speechless look on his wife's face at this time.

However, he suddenly became interested in what the two children were discussing.

……

"Erba, you just said... the little girl from the blacksmith's house next door is going to move out in a while?"

Seeing the two children bouncing past him, the old carpenter, who was very anxious before, suddenly asked the younger of his two children as if he had discovered something unexpected. .

And even though the child was only five or six years old, he was very clever.Seeing his father asking a question, he immediately started to explain.

"Father, Sister Hongli said that their family will move to live in a far away place after a while, it seems to be called Wan Kingdom or something."

"My eldest brother and I are going to pick some wild flowers and give them to Sister Hongli as a parting gift."

"After all, if we don't go, it won't be so easy for us to see her again after Sister Hongli moves away..."

"Although there are many children around us who are the same age as us, there is no one as good-looking as her, and no one who knows as much knowledge as her."

Anhui, it is Anhui again!

Listening to his child's chattering explanations, the old carpenter was quite familiar with the red carp sister that the other party was talking about.It's just that although he had already guessed the other party's father, the blacksmith surnamed Chen who lived next door to his house would definitely receive the invitation from Mr. Zhang Yan, but the old carpenter did not expect that the other party would really be willing to leave Luoyang with Zhang Yan. Go to Anhui to discuss life.

The blacksmith surnamed Chen was named Chen Ergou. His family was similar to his own. He also had two seven or eight-year-old children. The whole family lived not far from his neighbor.

It's just that Chen Ergou was very lucky, married a woman who had studied in his hometown as his wife, and gave birth to a son and a daughter named Jinli and Hongli, which sounded very nice.

That Chen Hongli is estimated to be eight or nine years old this year, and he grew up with his two children, so the relationship between the three of them can naturally be said to be excellent.

Now that the other party was going to move away, the old carpenter naturally understood why the two children were in such a hurry to leave the house shortly after eating.

"Second baby, do you want to study?"

Sighing slightly, seeing the longing look in his child's eyes, the old carpenter couldn't hold back in the end, and asked his child aloud.

And then, the child naturally nodded vigorously to his father, and the immature voice made the old carpenter feel inexplicably uncomfortable.

……

"Of course I did!"

"Father, Sister Hongli said that when we grow up and my eldest brother and I can study well, she will marry whoever is my wife."

"I don't want to give up and admit defeat before I grow up!"

……

Bounced and slipped away from the door, when the old carpenter came back to his senses, he found that his child had already gone out, and only his first wife was left by the dining table to accompany him.

And then, thinking of the light in his child's eyes when he was about to leave, thinking of the rice, flour, oil and salt at home, and thinking of his thin body but silently supporting his wife, the old carpenter suddenly felt that leaving Luoyang would not be easy. Not necessarily a bad thing.

"Hehe, the child now..."

He muttered a few words silently, recalling the date mentioned when Wei Xian came to look for him at home a few days ago, the old carpenter found that today seemed to be just enough time for him to make some changes.

Not long after, on the day when everyone set off, when Wei Xian was feeling a little overwhelmed by the integration and management of those thousands of craftsmen, he suddenly discovered that a somewhat hunched but extremely familiar figure seemed to be carrying a Two figures, big and small, appeared at the end of his migration team.

Chapter 5 Babies go first

"Father and mother, the child is going to take a step first."

"I will use my actions to prove that the Four Books and Five Classics are not the only way out for literati..."

……

It was still early in the morning of this day, when the old carpenter of the Tan family was carrying a bunch of parcels, big and small, and leading his child on the road going south, a handsome ten-year-old in the Fufeng area not far to the east of Luoyang City The boy also quietly picked up his luggage and sneaked out from near the back door of his home.

The sky is not completely bright at this moment, and the sun in the early morning is far from being as hot as in the daytime.The pale golden light shone through the shade of the trees on the dew on the grass blades on the roadside, refracting bursts of dazzling brilliance.

I saw that the boy was wearing a clean cloth robe, and the bag on the back was bulging, and he didn't know what was in it. Compared with his thin body at this moment, he seemed a bit bulky and unbearable.

And looking at the young man's clothes, it can be seen that although the blue and white intertwined cloth robe has been washed clean, but on the somewhat rough cloth, it inevitably gives off a subtle worn texture.

Glancing at the tightly closed door in front of him, Ma Jun just recalled a series of things that happened in the past, and recalled bits and pieces of his childhood.

Thinking of his parents are now in their early 40s, considered very old in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ma Jun inevitably felt a little bit of reluctance in his heart.

Sighing slightly, Ma Jun also knew the truth of "parents are here, don't travel far away", and at the same time he was a little worried about his parents, but when he thought of what happened in the past few days, he couldn't help but gritted his teeth, Then he turned around and left without thinking about it.

Just judging from the hasty steps, deep down in his heart, he naturally didn't want to be as decisive as he appeared on the outside.

You know, after coming back a few days ago, after carefully studying the book "Scientific Experiments and Recording Methods" presented by Zhang Yan, he was immediately surprised by some of the knowledge recorded in this book, and was even surprised by the knowledge presented by Chisa. Zhang Yan of the book is quite a bit surprised.

And after trying to apply some of the knowledge to some tools experiments he had done before, Ma Jun deepened his idea that he must follow Zhang Yan this time and strive to make a breakthrough .

If it was said that he wanted to follow Zhang Yan before, it was inevitable that Ma Jun was coveting all kinds of fame and fortune promised by the other party, and at the same time, there were some factors that were greedy for the huge assets of the other party.

So in his current view, Zhang Yan really let this young man who is a bit young and stubborn at the same time see a glimmer of possibility to realize his dream.

Thinking that in the near future, he would also have the opportunity to make all kinds of ingenious tools that were only in his dreams under Zhang Yan's command in the near future, and Ma Jun couldn't help but feel a trace of the gradually expanding youthful spirit in his heart.

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