"This isn't like the time when we couldn't get food. There are plenty of wontons in the kitchen, and you can eat as much as you want.
"Old Four specially took the time to accompany you to find a store, so stop looking for trouble."
Hearing what Third Sister Ye said, Fourth Brother Ye, who had already buried his head in eating wontons, quickly looked up and said, "Third Sister Ye, it's okay, Third Brother was just joking with me!"
Mrs. Ye San was relieved to see that Ye Lao Si was still the same as before and was not unhappy about what Ye Lao San said.
After all, he is already a captain of the sixth rank, so it is inevitable that he will change his temper.
Fortunately, Ye Laosi is a good-natured child and remains the same as before in front of his family.
The two brothers had big appetites and each ate two bowls of wontons. They didn't feel satisfied until they felt hot all over and sweat on their foreheads.
The two of them didn't waste any time. After eating and drinking their fill, they put down their chopsticks and went out to do their business.
The two brothers rode their horses directly to Luban Hutong. When they looked inside the entrance of the hutong, they saw densely packed signs of woodworking workshops.
"That's right, it's here. It seems we've come to the right place." Ye Laosi said as he turned over and got off his horse.
Ye Laosan also dismounted.
The two brothers led the horses into the alley.
When the people from the various woodworking workshops saw them, they thought they were guests and greeted them warmly.
But after greeting them for a long time and seeing that they were unmoved, someone couldn't help but ask, "What brings you two gentlemen here?"
Seeing someone approaching him, Ye Laosi bowed and politely asked, "Excuse me, are there any vacant houses for rent in this alley?"
When the people in the other woodworking workshops heard that the people who came were not customers but new competitors, they immediately turned around and went back, not bothering to pay attention to the two of them.
Ye Lao San and Ye Lao Si could only continue to move forward.
When passing by a carpentry workshop, I suddenly heard an argument in the yard.
"Even if you ask me a hundred times, I'll still say the same thing: it's absolutely impossible to make it according to what you've drawn on the blueprint.
"Either you change the blueprints, or you go find someone else and stop bothering me!"
Ye Laosan listened with great interest, wondering in his heart whether the person who drew the picture was too imaginative or the boss was limited in ability?
As he was thinking, he passed by the door and subconsciously turned his head to take a look inside.
Unexpectedly, this casual glance made him stop in his tracks.
"Master Liu, why are you here?"
It turned out that the person who gave the carpenter a headache was actually Master Liu, the supervisor of the work.
Ye Laosan had helped Master Liu make things before, and the two got along pretty well at the time. He was very surprised to meet him here by chance after not seeing each other for such a long time.
Unexpectedly, the person who drew the picture turned out to be Master Liu. It seems that he is going to give the carpenter another difficult problem.
Master Liu was overjoyed when he suddenly saw Ye Lao San. He quickly ran to the door, pulled him in, and said, "Lao San, come here and give me your opinion. Is it true that this drawing I drew cannot be made?"
As he spoke, he pulled Ye Laosan to the table and asked him to look at the map spread out on the table.
When Ye Laosan was living outside the Great Wall, he learned carpentry skills from his master through oral instruction and practical instruction. There were no pictures to look at at that time.
The little skill he has now in reading drawings was learned from Master Liu when he was in the Chief Designer position.
So he leaned over the table, looked at it for a long time with some effort, and then frowned slightly.
The wood carving that Master Liu wanted to make this time was very complicated. At first glance, it was hard to tell what shape it was. It looked like something made up of several ribbons wrapped together.
It would be very difficult to express this using wood carving!
The main thing is that Master Liu requires the wooden strips in all positions to be very thin and slender, and to give them a lively and flowing feeling.
It is easy to make a single line like this, but if you want to show several lines entangled together but separated from each other, the difficulty is not just a few times, it increases by dozens or even hundreds of times.
No wonder even the most experienced carpenter in this carpentry workshop shook his head after seeing it.
Seeing that Ye Lao San looked at him for a long time without saying anything, the master craftsman in the carpentry workshop had not said anything yet, but the several new apprentices brought by Master Liu could not help but exchange glances with each other.
The master-disciple inheritance of the commander's position is somewhat different from that in the outside world.
After all, those who can enter the Ministry of Works are all officials who belong to the imperial court.
Therefore, Master Liu has the obligation to take apprentices, and these apprentices are not static.
The group of apprentices he had previously brought in to help Ye Lao San make building blocks have all graduated and been assigned to different places.
The ones he is with now are newly assigned to him.
Of course, those who can enter the General Works Bureau are not newcomers with a blank slate. They have all learned the basics long ago and have passed layers of selection before they can enter.
So when they saw Master Liu asking for advice from a person who was dressed very ordinary, they all looked puzzled.
There were even some people who were overconfident. Not only did they look down on Ye Laosan, they were even puzzled as to why Master Liu had to come to the carpentry workshop to ask about this matter.
This kind of place is full of people who do carpentry work, how can they be compared with these people who make art?
You know, in order to make what is shown in this picture, Master Liu has already led them to try many times.
He didn't believe that anyone in this ordinary carpentry workshop could come up with a way to make something that even the chief engineer couldn't.
This person even thought that Ye Laosan was just a carpenter from another woodworking workshop who came here to join in the fun.
Ye Laosan spent a long while at his desk studying the blueprints. He stood up and said to Master Liu with a smile, "Master Liu, are you going to challenge yourself again?"
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