Chapter 47: Recruiting a Disciple
Seeing how happy she was, Cui Qingyi could only sigh, she is truly a true southerner.
Then she stretched her hands under the quilt, and the unique warmth of the kang with the smell of smoke spread from her hands to her limbs. Cui Qingyi felt so comfortable that she just wanted to sigh.
It’s this feeling, the homesickness of northerners, which I haven’t felt for a long time.
That night, the two of them slept on the kang. Before going to sleep, they added new charcoal to the kang hole and blocked the kang door. Cui Qingyi slept exceptionally well that night. Even Konjac, who always got up on time every day, overslept.
Wangcai waited outside for a long time but his owner didn't come out, so he pulled hard on the wooden door and finally woke them up.
Konjac suddenly woke up, looked up and saw that it was bright outside. She hurriedly tried to get up, but Cui Qingyi pulled her back and she finally realized what was happening. She breathed a sigh of relief. This was not the Chen family anymore. Even if she woke up late, she wouldn't go hungry because she missed breakfast.
Konjac lay back in bed and licked his dry lips: "Girl, this kang is really good. I slept so soundly last night, and it's still warm after a whole night, just a little dry."
Cui Qingyi also felt a little dry, but this little discomfort was nothing compared to the warm bed that stayed warm all night long.
"You'll get used to it after a few days of sleeping. If you're still not used to it, put a basin of water in the room at night."
Konjac nodded. She also felt that it was okay to do a little work. She always had cold hands and feet in winter. She liked to curl up in a ball when she slept at night. This always caused back pain after a long time. Last night was the most comfortable sleep she had ever had.
The two of them lay down for a while before getting up and packing up. They had to go out and buy a kang table today.
"Whatever the girl wants for breakfast, I'll make it."
Konjac quickly cleaned up and prepared to make breakfast. Cui Qingyi thought for a moment and said, "Let's have some pancakes, some rice porridge, and some scrambled eggs with some pickles."
"Hey, I'll do it right away."
Konjac learned most of his skills in making pasta from Cui Qingyi, and also inherited Cui Qingyi's habits. He likes to put more soybean oil when making pancakes, and the golden crust he makes makes people drool just by looking at it.
Cui Qingyi took a pancake and wrapped it with some scrambled eggs and pickles. The delicious taste was so delicious that she almost swallowed her tongue. Then she took a sip of hot rice porridge and felt very comfortable.
Konjac followed Cui Qingyi's example and rolled a pancake for himself. After taking a bite, he felt that his life now was the most comfortable it could be.
Cui Qingyi had eaten a lot of delicious food when she was in the Cui family and the Chen family, especially in her first year in the Chen family. The breakfast was also varied and tasted different.
But she always remembered the simplest food she had eaten as a child, like this freshly baked pancake with scrambled eggs, which seemed to be more delicious than anything else.
The two people and the dog ate up more than a dozen pancakes and dishes. It was probably the first time for Wangcai to eat such food. After he finished eating, he lay on the side and licked his lips, which made Konjac laugh a lot.
After they finished cleaning up, they told Wangcai to take good care of the house, and then they went out to buy a kang table. Cui Qingyi also planned to buy a piece of oil paper to make the bed.
In the north, in order to prevent the bedding from getting dirty, a layer of oilcloth is laid on the kang during the day and removed at night when sleeping.
Nowadays, oilcloth is often used to make raincoats and oil-paper umbrellas. The material is slightly different from the oilcloth of later generations, but the effect is not much different. It is just that unlike later generations, a piece of oilcloth can not be made into complicated patterns.
Qi Moxuan was thinking about letting Xiaoyuan learn embroidery from Konjac, but he didn't want to go to her house rashly. These days, he was looking forward to Cui Qingyi and her servant coming to the bookstore.
But he hadn't seen the two of them for several days, so he thought that if things didn't work out, he would ask Hui Niang to prepare some gifts, and he and Xiao Yuan would go to Cui's house.
Just as I was thinking about it, I saw the master and servant wearing cloaks.
Cui Qingyi came with Konjac to deliver the doll. As soon as she entered the door, she saw Qi Moxuan looking at them with burning eyes.
Cui Qingyi quickly lowered her voice: "The rest of the story will have to wait a few days."
In fact, Cui Qingyi has already completed the middle volume of Qingtian Ji, but she plans to give it to Qi Moxuan before the agreed deadline. Don't ask why, it is to avoid someone urging her to submit the manuscript in the future.
Qi Moxuan knew that he was being a little too eager, so he smiled innocently and waited for Cui Qingyi and the other two to walk around the bookstore before mustering up the courage to leave.
"Miss Cui, Miss Konjac, Qi has an unwelcome request~"
Cui Qingyi thought to herself: Since it’s an unwanted request, I might as well not say it.
On the surface: "Shopkeeper Qi, please feel free to speak up. If there is anything I can do to help, I will do my best.
Qi Moxuan: "It's like this. I have an eldest daughter named Qi Yuan. Hui Niang and I want Xiao Yuan to become Miss Konjac's apprentice and learn embroidery skills from her. I wonder if she would accept Xiao Yuan as her disciple."
After saying that, Qi Moxuan bowed towards Konjac.
Konjac was taken aback by his seriousness before she could even grasp his meaning. She immediately waved her hand and refused, "No, no, no, I can't. I don't know how to teach students."
Qi Moxuan: There’s hope!
"Miss Konjac, just let her study with you. Don't worry too much about her."
Konjac still refused. She didn't think that embroidery was a great skill worth such a serious request from Shopkeeper Qi.
"My skills are far from those of my young lady. I'm afraid it would be a waste of Miss Xiaoyuan's time if she were to learn from me." After all, everyone can embroider, but only her young lady can draw those novel patterns.
Hearing this, Qi Moxuan looked at Cui Qingyi expectantly again.
Cui Qingyi understood that it was probably because Mrs. Fan had seen the konjac embroidery picture at home before, which gave her the idea of letting her daughter learn konjac embroidery.
In other words, Konjac herself was stupid. She was involved in the embroidery but didn't realize that the embroidery skills she learned were something that ordinary people could never get access to.
Cui Qingyi thought that it was not impossible for Konjac to accept this disciple.
She smiled and said, "I haven't held an embroidery needle for many years, and my skills are already rusty. So, tomorrow, Shopkeeper Qi and Sister Fan will bring Xiaoyuan to my house. If Xiaoyuan has talent in this area, I will arrange for Konjac to accept this little apprentice. Does Shopkeeper Qi think this is feasible?"
Okay, that’s great.
"Okay, okay, Qi will definitely come to visit you tomorrow with his family."
He bowed to Konjac and Cui Qingyi and said, "Thank you for your care, young lady."
Konjac had never thought that she could accept an apprentice. After leaving the bookstore, she approached Cui Qingyi and said, "Miss, how can I be someone's master?"
In a hurry, he brought out all the names he claimed to have in the Chen family.
Cui Qingyi gathered her cloak and said, "Why can't you? As long as she has talent in this area and is willing to accept you as her master, you can teach her everything you know. It's not difficult."
The master-disciple relationship nowadays is not like that in later generations. The saying "Once a teacher, always a father" is not just a saying.
If Konjac has the ability to take on a few apprentices, then whether she gets married or not, she'll have someone to take care of her in her old age. While it's a little early to say this now, it's never a bad idea to plan ahead.
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