Chapter 48: Blessings

Two days later, Jiang Chunshi packed up and set off for Qiuji in the county town.

There wasn’t much stuff, so I just packed one bag.

A mattress, a thin quilt, two sets of clothes, and other small items for daily use, which I planned to buy there. I also planned to buy a thick quilt for when the weather gets cold, and some clothes. I thought it would not be too late to ask my family to send them to me or come back to get them after I settle down in Qiuji.

In short, when you go to work, you must not appear to be too talkative or too unable to endure hardship.

Jiang Youfu and his family saw Jiang Chunshi off from the village and watched him get on the carriage to the county town.

Jiang Chunshi wandered all the way to the county town, asked around, and found Qiu Ji.

The head manager of Qiu Ji was named Ge. He had received instructions from Zheng earlier. When he saw Jiang Chunshi coming, he took him to a place to settle down and arranged for a master to guide him.

Now Jiang Chunshi is alone, and his residence is temporarily settled in the backyard of Qiu Ji. The master assigned to Jiang Chunshi is named Chang Yongan.

Chang Yongan is in his forties and has worked at Qiu Ji for more than ten years. He is experienced and has impeccable skills. More importantly, he has a gentle temper and is patient. He is willing to spare no effort to train his apprentices.

"Thank you for your trouble in arranging the arrangements, boss." Jiang Chunshi thanked him repeatedly.

Seeing that Jiang Chunshi was also a polite person, Manager Ge just laughed and said, "You will be Qiu's employee in the future. I am the head manager of Qiu's. Isn't it normal for a head manager to care about his employees?"

"But although there are few rules in Qiu Ji and people's minds are not so complicated, there is still one thing: you need to have the ability to do things and have a clear mind."

This is obviously also a reminder and a warning.

Jiang Chunshi understood and nodded repeatedly, "Don't worry, boss, I will do my job well."

Shopkeeper Ge said nothing more. He just patted Jiang Chunshi on the shoulder, told Chang Yongan to take good care of him, and then went to the front to get busy.

"From now on, you will follow me and do the work." Chang Yongan said with a smile.

"Yes, Master, I will have to trouble you to take care of me and give me advice in the future." Jiang Chunshi poured a cup of tea, knelt in front of Chang Yongan, bowed to him upright, and raised the tea above his head, "Master, please have some tea."

This action was clearly a ceremony of paying homage to one's teacher.

Chang Yongan reached out to help, "I don't have so many rules here, and you don't have to do the same."

"Master, you are kind because you have few rules here. But as a disciple, I respect you from the bottom of my heart. This is the duty of a disciple and it must be done."

Jiang Chunshi knelt on the ground, motionless.

Seeing that his new disciple was a well-behaved one, Chang Yongan smiled a little more, "He's a good kid, so I'll accept your gift of apprenticeship."

After that, he reached out to take the tea and took a sip, "Get up quickly."

"Hey." Jiang Chunshi finally stood up, feeling a little awkward. "I'm a little dumb, but I'm strong and not afraid of hardship. Master can assign any work to me."

"There really is work for you." Chang Yongan said, "Mr. Qian wants to make a full set of furniture for his family. He doesn't care about the money, but he is very picky about the wood and texture. New wood will arrive at the shop at midnight. Follow me and do some lifting work."

Being a carpenter requires not only the skills to do the work, but also the knowledge of wood, how to choose the right wood to make what kind of furniture, and how much wood to use for furniture of what size.

Chang Yongan wants to guide him from the basics, which shows that he is very dedicated.

Jiang Chunshi felt that he had met a good master and nodded excitedly, "Yes!"

"It's still early now, so hurry up and have some lunch, then go out to buy some daily necessities. Once you get busy, you won't have time to spare." Chang Yongan said.

"Okay." Jiang Chunshi agreed, "Master, you go ahead and do your work. I'll be back soon."

"Go, go." Chang Yongan looked at Jiang Chunshi leaving the backyard with a kind face.

The shop provides meals, and three meals a day are prepared by dedicated people.

Moreover, because the guys who do the work often cannot eat on time due to the rush of work, in order to allow the guys to work without being hungry, they can go at any time and have food at any time.

Jiang Chunshi took the waiter's card distributed by Manager Ge and went to the canteen to get his meal.

White flour buns, big pot dishes, with meat, large portions and plenty of it.

After finishing his meal and cleaning up a bit, Jiang Chunshi roughly figured out what he needed to buy, then left Qiu's from the backyard and went to the street to buy some face towels, toothbrush salt and other things he needed.

There were many shops nearby, so it was easy to buy what he needed. In just a cup of tea, Jiang Chunshi took the things and walked to Qiu Ji.

When passing by the main entrance of Qiuji, Jiang Chunshi saw a familiar person, Niu Er.

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The carpenter that Jiang Chunshi had previously learned carpentry from in town.

Niu Er was whispering something with a waiter from Qiu Ji. Perhaps what the other party said was not to his liking, so he had a stern face at the moment, and finally shook his sleeves and left the door of Qiu Ji.

On the other hand, he was cursing, "You are such a big store that bullies customers. You look down on people. I can't afford anything made by Qiu Ji. You are guarding against thieves like a thief..."

As he was talking, he looked up and saw Jiang Chunshi not far away. He was stunned at first, then he laughed and said, "What a coincidence."

It just so happened that when he was full of anger and had no place to vent it, some people happened to appear right in front of him.

"It's quite a coincidence." Jiang Chunshi responded indifferently.

Ever since he had a falling out with this unworthy master over learning carpentry skills, Jiang Chunshi had no good feelings towards Niu Er and didn't want to talk to him much at the moment.

Niu Er saw this and thought that Jiang Chunshi had no job after making a fuss, and was thinking of running away because he felt ashamed and couldn't raise his head, so he stopped him and said, "I saw you selling benches on the west street of the town market before. What's the matter? You can't find a good job after leaving here, so you can only make things like this to sell for money to make a living?"

"I don't know what to say about you. You're not very skillful, and your hands are clumsy. If you were to go out and want to be an apprentice, no one would want you. I took you in as my apprentice out of kindness, so that you could learn some skills and have a future. But you, on the other hand, despise me for not teaching you, and despise me for assigning you too many tasks, and you insist on quitting."

"Now you know, it's not that easy to make a living, and I don't even have any skills. I'll just have to starve in the future."

After talking a lot, Niu Er saw Jiang Chunshi holding some things in his hands and sneered, "What are you going to do with these things? You can't do carpentry work anymore, so you have to do errands?"

"I'm going to Qiu Ji." Jiang Chunshi replied.

"Go to Qiuji to run errands and deliver things?" Niu Er touched his nose and laughed even louder. "Yes, it is a blessing for you to be able to run errands at Qiuji."

There is only one update on Saturday and Sunday, and more will be added next week~ 　　 　 (End of this chapter)