Chapter 17 Chapter 17 "After Shen Xuan got married, her heart was...
"After Shen Xuan got married, her heart became wild, and she even wanted to go to the city to set up a stall."
"He went to the city to buy things every day a few days ago. He saw a lot of things in the city, so he became more thoughtful."
"Do you think he can be successful if he sets up a stall?"
"How can it be that easy to set up a stall? So many men in the village go to the city to sell grain every season, and how much money do they make? What about him, a boy?"
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The fact that Shen Xuan was setting up a stall immediately became the focus of heated discussion among the bored villagers of Yunshui Village, but most of the villagers thought that Shen Xuan was just messing around.
Before, it’s not that no one in the village wanted to go to the city to make money, but except for one or two capable people, most of them didn’t make much money, and some even lost their principal.
In addition, the villagers are conservative and always think that boys are definitely not as good as men.
They felt that their brother certainly couldn't do something that men couldn't do, and they were all waiting to see Shen Xuan make a fool of himself.
At noon, the Wang family members ate around the table and talked about the gossip they had heard in the past few days.
They first discussed Zhong Ge'er's disappearance, and then talked about Shen Xuan.
Wang Xiaolian was the most excited. She held the steamed bun in one hand and waved her chopsticks in the other. She imitated Carpenter Yang's tone and said excitedly, "I've never heard of a street stall, but Chen Xuan insisted that Carpenter Yang make one, which made Carpenter Yang angry. Don't you think it's ridiculous?"
Everyone at the table was delighted when they heard this. Wang Dalang said sarcastically, "What does he know? He's still setting up a stall. It would cost at least two taels of silver to find a carpenter to make a stall cart, right?"
"We went to the city to sell grain. It took us three days to sell a hundred kilograms of rice, but we only got six hundred coins. How long will it take to get back the money we put in? Besides, he doesn't even have land, so what can he use to set up a stall? Could it be wild vegetables from the mountains?"
Everyone in the Wang family laughed again when they heard this, but Nanny Wang thought for a moment and said, "Don't laugh too early. Don't forget that he has a husband backing him up. I think that man is different from the villagers in our village. He seems to be a capable person."
After all, Nanny Wang had worked in the Duke's Mansion and had more experience than others. After seeing Xue Fenglin that day, I felt that this person had an unusual temperament.
When Wang Xiaolian heard that even her own mother praised Shen Xuan's man, she was unhappy and rolled her eyes and said, "What ability does that man have? No matter how good he looks, he is still a cripple. Can he pass the imperial examination and become an official?"
"Yes, no matter how good-looking or how much money he makes, he is not as capable as your husband." Second wife Luo said in a somewhat gloomy tone: "After all, Mr. Sun is a scholar, and we are just ordinary people."
"That's right, Mr. Sun is so good, Xiaolian, you should hurry up and marry him and become his husband, rather than staying at home and feeling proud." Mrs. Li also chimed in.
These days, the king Xiaolian has been bragging about Mr. Sun's fame and achievements at home. She has exaggerated it so much that she has even put down her own brother and sister-in-law. Coupled with the issue of dowry and gift, Mrs. Luo and Mrs. Li were becoming more and more intolerant of their brother-in-law.
Wang Xiaolian also heard the sarcasm from her sisters-in-law, but she did not take it seriously. Instead, she felt that they were all jealous of her.
He said even more proudly: "Of course, in a few days the Sun family will take me in. When the time comes, I will definitely get married with a bang, making everyone in the village envious."
The villagers here were gossiping about Shen Xuan's stall, and over there Shen Xuan had just returned from the city riding a blue and white mule with a bundle of kraft paper on his back.
Carpenter Yang was too stubborn to make a stall cart for him, so Shen Xuan naturally had to find someone else. So he went to the city and bought some charcoal sticks and kraft paper for carpenters.
Having learned from his last experience with Carpenter Yang, Shen Xuan decided to first draw the stall cart he wanted with charcoal sticks.
He unfolded the kraft paper and spread it out, then picked up a charcoal stick and started to sketch it in proportion. Soon, the outline of a street stall appeared on the paper.
After the drawing was completed, Shen Xuan marked some key points and numbers in small characters, so that the entire drawing became clear and it was easy to produce according to the drawing.
Xue Fenglin came over to take a look and was a little surprised. He didn't expect that Shen Xuan could not only write but also draw pictures.
He knew that Shen Xuan had gone to the city to write a petition a few days ago. Although he didn't know how much money he had earned, the fact that he could write the petition according to the format was better than many of the famous ladies and gentlemen in the capital.
You should know that although the noble families in the capital would also train their daughters and sons to read and write, most of them did so for appearances.
There are many women and men who are good at writing, and some of them can compose a few poems. However, girls and boys do not know how to write tool-type articles such as memorials, so they cannot write them.
Shen Xuan clearly lives in the countryside, but he can write skillfully and make money from it, which is better than most people!
Cartography is related to manufacturing. In the capital, except for the adults and carpenters in the Ministry of Works, most men don't know how to learn it. I wonder where Shen Xuan learned it?
"How is it? Is this drawing clear enough?" Seeing Xue Fenglin coming over, Shen Xuan showed him the drawing he had drawn with some pride.
"It's quite clear now." Xue Fenglin nodded, and then asked, "How come you know everything? This map-making skill is a unique skill of carpenters."
Shen Xuan was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that he thought drawing was simple because he had grown up in the modern world and had learned knowledge of mathematics, physics, chemistry, art, etc. since childhood.
However, for the people of Dajin who value liberal arts over technical subjects, they rarely come into contact with the knowledge of modern elementary and junior high school students.
It was really a display of genius that Shen Xuan could so easily master the drafting skills passed down from generation to generation by carpenters.
"I..." Shen Xuan thought about it, but didn't know how to solve this bug, so he just said, "I just think this thing is very simple, especially after I fell on my head, I can do it after looking at the carpenter's drawings. Maybe God saw that I had suffered so much before, so he blessed me."
Since it can't be explained clearly anyway, let's just use metaphysics and blame everything on God. No one will be able to say anything.
Sure enough, after hearing this, Xue Fenglin felt sorry for the suffering Shen Xuan had endured before. I thought that God should be kind to Shen Xuan. He was such a good brother and he shouldn't suffer. He should be held in the palm of everyone's hand.
After making the blueprints, Shen Xuan went to the city again the next day.
There is more than one carpenter shop in Lezhou City, but most of them are concentrated in the south of the city.
Along the way, Shen Xuan asked for the name of an experienced carpenter named Liu and headed towards his shop.
Carpenter Liu was already in his early fifties. He had started doing carpentry work since he was a teenager and had even participated in the construction of the residence of the prefect of Lezhou. Now he has opened a shop in the south of the city. Business is good and he has accumulated quite a bit of wealth.
Such an experienced old carpenter is definitely better than Carpenter Yang in Yunshui Village. In addition, Shen Xuan brought the blueprints this time, so he was not afraid that he would not understand them, and he was quite confident in making a street stall vehicle.
Sure enough, when Shen Xuan showed Liu the blueprint he had drawn, Liu's eyes immediately lit up. He took the blueprint and studied it with great surprise. While studying it, he asked, "Little brother, where did you get this blueprint? This car is really well designed. It's perfect for setting up a stall."
Every time Shen Xuan went into the city, for safety reasons, he would cover his pregnancy mole with a headband, and Carpenter Liu also thought he was a man, so he called him that.
"I drew it myself." Shen Xuan didn't hide it. Since he wanted to make something, he needed to communicate with the carpenter in person on many things, so it would be more convenient to be straightforward.
Carpenter Liu's eyes lit up again after hearing this, and then he looked him up and down, with a strange look of admiration on his face.
Then he politely invited Shen Xuan to sit in the backyard, and then said to him: “Little brother, I don’t have anything good here, but I have a cup of coarse tea, please moisten your throat, please don’t despise it.”
Shen Xuan was a little confused by Carpenter Liu's attitude. He just came to him to make something. This carpenter's attitude is a little too enthusiastic...
Just when Shen Xuan was confused, Carpenter Liu shouted a few times towards the house in the backyard, and then a handsome young man came out with a pot of tea.
The guy wore a little makeup and had a tall figure. He looks to be about the same age as Zhong Ge'er, only about fifteen or sixteen years old, and he also looks a bit like Carpenter Liu. They look like father and son at first glance.
When the guy came over, Carpenter Liu asked him to pour tea for Shen Xuan himself.
The boy glanced at Shen Xuan and blushed. Then he poured him a cup of tea with a red face and left shyly.
After he left, Carpenter Liu spoke to Shen Xuan again, "Little brother, what do you think of my brother's appearance and temperament?"
Shen Xuan was stunned, and didn't know why Carpenter Liu asked him this. He only smiled politely and praised: "She has a pretty face and a quiet temperament."
When Carpenter Liu heard him praising his brother, he laughed and said with satisfaction: "Little brother, I see that you are young and probably not married yet, and you have a talent for the art of craftsmanship. I want to recruit you as my son-in-law. What do you think?"
Shen Xuan: “…”
He never expected that he just came to the city to find a carpenter, but someone would take a fancy to him and invite him to marry into the family!
Then Carpenter Liu said, "Brother, don't rush to refuse the word 'son-in-law'. Listen to me first..."
Afterwards, he told Shen Xuan all the conditions of his family, and said that if Shen Xuan was willing to marry into the family, one of the sons born could take the father's surname, and other conditions would be easier to negotiate.
It turned out that Carpenter Liu now ran a carpentry shop, with an annual profit of over a hundred taels, which made him quite wealthy in the city.
But he had no son, he was the only child in the family, and there was no one to inherit his skills.
Carpenter Liu felt sorry for his brother and was worried that he would suffer after getting married. He also wanted someone to inherit the family business, so he decided to find a son-in-law.
But in this world, how many ambitious and good men are willing to marry into a woman's family?
Carpenter Liu asked a matchmaker to look for someone, but those who were willing to come to the house all had ulterior motives and he couldn't find a single good one.
When he met Shen Xuan today, he felt that he had a good impression of him.
So he found Shen Xuan to discuss the matter in detail, saying that as long as he was willing to marry his brother and treat him well, he could pass on his carpentry skills and shop to him.
After Shen Xuan heard what he said, he sighed in his heart. After thinking about it, he reached out and took off the headband.
A mole on his forehead was immediately revealed. Although it was dark in color, it clearly told Carpenter Liu that he was a boy.
Carpenter Liu was stunned, completely dumbfounded. He didn't expect that he would cause such a big mistake.
The "little brother" in front of him was not a man, but a boy. It was a pity that he had been talking to this boy for such a long time.
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