wind and rain scissors shop

Chapter 16 - 16. Being ridiculed for unsuccessful apprenticeship

Zheng Yuanxin saw Tian Erya throwing the newly forged scissors into the melting furnace, and was furious: "Tian Erya, are you crazy? The scissors you just made were ruined because of someone else's words? The scissors you just made Are you working hard for nothing? Even if you are willing to do useless work, you can't waste Zheng's iron like this!"

Tian Erya looked at the old man adoringly: "Young master, this old man is right. Compared with his old man's scissors, the scissors I made are waste products and garbage. Since they are defective products, they should be returned to the furnace and reworked." forging."

The old man raised his chin: "You're right, you still have a little self-knowledge, so you're not too stupid."

Tian Erya plopped and knelt down at him: "Senior, please accept me as an apprentice. I will study hard and take good care of you, old man. Please accept me as an apprentice."

The old man sneered: "My old man doesn't reveal his identity, you really think that I am a blacksmith here! You still want to worship me as a teacher? I am not a coolie who can only blacksmith, but the master of this house. I am... ..."

Zheng Yuanxin hurriedly spoke to stop him: "Second Uncle, please be careful with your words and deeds."

"Huh? You are not satisfied with taking care of the Zheng family's affairs now, but you still want to take care of me?"

"I don't want to control you, but please think carefully and think about your identity."

Tian Erya was confused and looked up at them.

The old man blew his beard and stared: "What's wrong with my identity? Shame? I've been working here like the Zheng family who made mistakes all these years, but I'm different from them. I'm too lazy to go out by myself, and no one in the Zheng family cares." If you don't care about me, neither can your father, let alone your kid!"

Zheng Yuanxin was very helpless. Seeing that the master lost his temper again, he could only persuade him: "Second uncle, I don't want to control you, but just remind you that Tian Erya was temporarily arranged by my father to work here, but she After all, she is not a member of the Zheng family, so she can leave at any time. If she spreads what she knows after she goes out, it will be bad for you and the Zheng family."

Tian Erya expressed her sincerity: "Eldest young master, senior, I will not tell the outside world what happened here."

"I don't care if she will tell it or not, I'm happy to say it!" The old man raised his voice, "Tian Erya, please listen to me. I am the owner of this place. You call this kid's father my lord, and I am His father's younger brother Zheng Yide, the second master of the Zheng family!"

Zheng Yuanxin yelled angrily: "Tian Erya, don't listen to his nonsense. The Zheng family's second master has long since passed away, and my grandfather was bedridden because of this pain. My father is looking for people who are similar to my second uncle to lie to me. Grandpa is at ease. It just so happened that this person was rescued by my father while he was wandering. My father saw that he looked very similar to my second uncle, so he asked him to pretend to be my second uncle and take him here. In the long run, he regarded himself as real The second master of the Zheng family."

"Hey! What I just said is false. I'm not the real second master of the Zheng family. You don't need to be angry and anxious." Zheng Yide said coolly.

"Aren't you looking for trouble on purpose?" Zheng Yuanxin left in a huff.

Zheng Yide sneered, and shouted loudly: "I am the real and fake Mr. Zheng, the world always has a conclusion. Tell your father Zheng Zongde later, so that he doesn't feel that everything has been arranged, and everything in the world is under his control." Among them. Lao Tzu is a human being, so he can’t handle it casually.”

Zheng Yuanxin was gasping for breath, turned his head around, and stood there staring at him angrily.

Zheng Yide quacked indifferently.

Zheng Yuanxin's daughter-in-law, who was resting in the house, saw this scene from the window and ran out quickly: "Yuanxin, what's wrong?"

Zheng Yuanxin pointed angrily at Zheng Yide who was in the distance: "The old man leaked the details of his identity to Tian Erya."

Zheng Yuanxin's daughter-in-law gritted her teeth, then forced a smile, and said in a low voice, "Don't be angry, Second Uncle is just like that. Don't everyone who comes to the iron yard hear him explain his identity? The publicity has gone out, the second master of the Zheng family has long passed away, and this one is a counterfeit picked up inside, Zheng Jiarenyi, after sending grandpa away, saw that the counterfeit had nowhere to go, so he took him in."

"I'm not worried about criticism from outsiders. I have a headache for Second Uncle. He is afraid that the world will not be chaotic and wants to expose his identity."

"You should also think more about his feelings. He is a young master from a rich family. Because he liked the widow of the Qin family, he was almost soaked in a pig cage, and his father was kept here for more than ten years. He is quite old, and he has never married a wife and had children. How aggrieved. His mind and thoughts have become different from normal people. As a nephew, you should bear more."

Zheng Yuanxin felt aggrieved: "I don't want to be angry with him either. However, as soon as I saw him, he would start nagging me about the heir to the Zheng family's forging scissors. I was so annoyed. Now Tian Erya is here He did not know how to expose his identity. He clearly knew how Tian Erya came to our Zheng family, and his father and the fourth child were worrying about how to clear Tian Erya out of the Zheng family. If a man from the family can get together with a widow, he will definitely have other thoughts, and think that it is okay for her to marry the fourth child, so won't the fourth child be harmed?"

"Okay! I know you are a good brother, and you are very considerate of the fourth child, but that may not be the case! Tian Erya may think that the iron yard is too dark, and the work here is too tiring, so I will find an excuse not to come tomorrow If you don't, you won't inquire about the second uncle."

Zheng Yuanxin snorted: "It's impossible for her not to come, what do you want to do when she kneels in front of Second Uncle?"

"What do you want to do?"

"Uncle Bai learned how to forge scissors."

Yuan Xin's daughter-in-law was surprised: "Huh? Tian Erya is not tired of working hard, and still wants to worship the second uncle as a master?"

"I asked Tian Erya why she was willing to do blacksmithing. She said that this is a job for money, and others can't do it if they want to. She cherishes this craft. I guess her life was too hard before. So, I don’t feel tired from blacksmithing.”

"Oh, it's not easy for a girl from a poor family. Will Second Uncle accept her as an apprentice?"

Zheng Yuanxin pouted: "Definitely not. The Zheng family has rules, and the skills are passed on to men and not to women, let alone to outsiders. It is impossible for the second uncle to violate the rules of the ancestors and accept her as an apprentice."

"In this case, let people get up quickly. It's getting cold today, and the green bricks on the ground are very hard. It's uncomfortable to kneel." Yuanxin's daughter-in-law hurried over.

Zheng Yuanxin knew that his daughter-in-law was soft-hearted, so he didn't stop her. He took off his coat, put on an apron, walked to the iron stove, and began to forge scissors.

When Zheng Yide saw it, he was a little surprised, raised his eyelids, and played with the whetstone slowly, completely ignoring Tian Erya who was kneeling next to him.

Yuanxin's daughter-in-law came over with a smile on her face: "Second uncle, what do you want to eat at noon, I will arrange it."

"casual."

Yuanxin's daughter-in-law kicked Tian Erya who was kneeling: "What are you doing? Still not getting up?"

Tian Erya replied honestly: "I want to worship Erye Zheng as my master, but I can't get up because he hasn't spoken."

Zheng Yide enjoyed the feeling of being bowed down by others, and sighed: "After all these years, a sensible person has finally come to the Iron Institute. Next time I send someone over, you should train them well first, and you must kowtow to the master when you enter the door."

Yuanxin's daughter-in-law accompanied her carefully: "Second Uncle, since you don't accept her as an apprentice, you might as well tell her the truth, don't make this girl hopeful and disappointed."

"I told her that I'm not the coolie master blacksmith in this yard, I'm the master of the Zheng family. If she wants to kneel, you can let her kneel. I'm a master, and I can't let a country girl give me Kneel for a while longer?"

Tian Erya asked stupidly: "Second Master, are you unwilling to accept me as an apprentice? What are you dissatisfied with me? Tell me, and I will change."

Zheng Yide asked back: "How do you change it? Our Zheng family's skills are not passed on to outsiders. Did you change your surname to our Zheng family's?"

"This……"

"What, what, if you want to change it to our Zheng family's surname, our Zheng family won't accept you. Do you think that if you have a foundation in blacksmithing, I'm willing to accept you as an apprentice? You don't even look at what you look like Like, a young girl, tall and thick, with a dark face, not like a girl, look at our Zheng family, the men are three points fairer than you. Look at your reaction You are stupid and clumsy, and your voice is ugly. We women in Jiangnan speak soft Yiyu. I am tired of hearing your thick voice and seeing your stupid appearance. Get out of here quickly, and don’t block my eyes. "

Tian Erya was belittled and ridiculed by him, and she didn't know what to do. Under the prompt of Yuan Xin's daughter-in-law, she quickly stood up and hid aside.

Seeing her leave, Yuanxin's daughter-in-law complained: "Second uncle, it's fine if you don't accept her as an apprentice, why bother to mock her?"

Zheng Yide stared at her and shouted loudly: "I don't like her. What the hell? Lying on the bed with our fourth child for a night, I don't know how to be the wife of the fourth child. Our fourth child will be the number one scholar in the future." , Guangzong Yaozu, the daughter-in-law to marry must be a rich lady from a wealthy family. She is a country girl who wants to rely on her fourth child, and she has no way! She is a stinky toad who wants to eat swan meat every day. She ran to me and wanted to learn from me The Zheng family's unique craft of forging scissors is wishful thinking!"

(End of this chapter)