Ye Cheng

The people in the village don't have any pastime, they like to gather together and gossip when they have nothing to do, and recently they started talking about Ye Cheng's family.

"Hey, did you hear that Ye Cheng came back, the child arrived in the village in the middle of the night, and went back to sleep in his own yard without saying a word, this child with no parents, come back, even a hot meal I don’t even have to eat, you say it’s pitiful or not.”

"Aunt Jinzhi only found out the next afternoon. Hey, those two dolls closed the door to sleep. Who would have known that they came back. Have you ever seen the doll brought back by Ye Cheng? It was the child brought back by Qian Xingliang the winter before last. Ye Cheng was brought back this time, and I don't know how to support him in the future, Qian Shouwan and his family are probably worried."

"That doll looks pretty good, but she keeps a straight face all day long and doesn't like to talk to people, but that doll can repair shoes, both Ye Cheng and Ye Cheng can do it. I heard that she learned it from a master in the city, and her skills are not bad. Quite tall, I helped Daqiang repair a pair of shoes a few days ago, and he repaired his rotten pair of shoes abruptly."

"My kid wears shoes and heels like eating cakes. It's very fast. I'll go over to try their skills tomorrow."

In this way, the two small shoe repairers became famous in the village. At the beginning, everyone was new. They took two pairs of broken shoes and repaired them for fun.

But Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan didn't know it at the beginning. Because the people in the village didn't believe in their craftsmanship, they deliberately took broken shoes that were not good enough to mend them. They thought that shoe repairing in the village was like this. A pair of shoes After repairing it, it is almost like a renovation. I just feel that it is indeed much more difficult to make money in this village than when I was with old man Wu.

If you want to say that the rural people are suffering, in fact, the rural people are also idle. Most people in the south don’t have much land. When the farming is busy, some people do some side jobs. Those who don’t have a side job play sweaters and play cards. .But everyone still has a common hobby, which is chatting. In the yard and in the house, those who are working are not working, and people from different villages in the same village can chat for a long time with just a few heads.

Naturally, the news about Ye Cheng and the others spread, and later, all villages from ten miles and eight villages knew that these two dolls could repair shoes.

However, if you know how to repair shoes, you can repair shoes. Everyone basically disagrees with the fact that Ye Cheng brought a child back from the city.Some people were also full, and used these things to joke with Qian Shouwan, only to be scolded by Qian Shouwan.

"If he wants to bring it back, he will bring it back. Why are you telling me about this matter? I can't keep five mouths in my own house, and I can raise those cats and dogs for others? If you like to meddle in this business, you can take care of it. Don't drag it on me!"

Usually at this time, Cai Jinzhi doesn't say a word, and he can let him go if he wants to scold or yell.It's not that Cai Jinzhi didn't want to send that doll named Lu Mingyuan away, but where would he send it?A big living person can't be thrown on the mountain to feed the wolves, right?If there was a place to go, they would have sent Ye Cheng out a long time ago, how could they let him live alone in that small courtyard.

What others say outside, Ye Cheng and the others naturally don't know, he just closes the door to live his life, Cai Jinzhi doesn't come here recently, he himself has grown up now, he doesn't burn a meal like before .

Taking advantage of the warm weather at the moment, Ye Cheng took Lu Mingyuan to dig out the vegetable bed in his yard, and asked Cai Jinzhi to help him get some rapeseed and shallots. The ground was planted.That kid Lu Mingyuan couldn't help at all, except for pulling out a few weeds, other times he just squatted by Huizi and watched.

Qian Xingliang actually came to Ye Cheng's house once, took a few pairs of old shoes for Ye Cheng and the others to patch up, took a look at the shoes after mending, and said that they are doing well now, that old man Wu is really nice.After a few casual gossips, he said that when Zhigao and Zhiyuan started school, he would have to go out to work again.

Later Qian Xingliang told them that since they have crafts, they should stop staying at home, buy a bicycle, go for a run in the nearby villages, earn some money for food, and don't always rely on Uncle Ye Cheng's family to support them.After talking, he said forget it, let me take you to the town, you two little poor children can know what kind of bicycle to buy.

So early the next morning, Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan followed Qian Xingliang to the town. Because the two children were young, they picked a women's bicycle. The wheels were much smaller than the men's bicycles. There are fewer horizontal bars in between, and there are fewer restrictions on height.

Ye Cheng and the others went to the proprietress's store where they bought gloves last time. Her store is large and has all kinds of groceries. Ye Cheng and the others searched around. Except for tire threads, everything else is easy to buy.The proprietress also said that things like tire threads are rarely used by people in the local area, so she didn't buy them, and it is estimated that other stores will not have them.

But the proprietress is very nice. She heard that the two children were going to buy them for shoe repairs, so she said that if Ye Cheng and the others wanted them, she would look for them the next time she went to the city to buy, and if she could find them, she would give them. Bring a little back.Hearing what she said, Qian Xingliang quickly asked the two children to thank him.

Back in the village, Qian Xingliang sent Ye Cheng and the others back to the yard with their bicycles, and went home by himself.But people in the village knew that Qian Xingliang bought bicycles with his two children, and later let them go to the village to repair shoes, and it became lively again. Many people even went to Ye Cheng and his yard to watch the excitement.

"Ye Cheng, do you know how to ride a bicycle?" Someone asked.

"I can't ride, but I can push." ​​Qian Xingliang said that they just need to know how to push. Now most of the villages have dirt roads, and they can put tools on the back of the bicycle and push to get in.

"I need to put tools later? Then I need to nail a shelf." There is a carpenter in their village, who is now giving Ye Cheng and the others advice.

"Aren't you a carpenter? Nail one for someone else's child." The person next to him quickly answered.

"I'll go home and look for materials." Carpenter Zhang was also very straightforward, and walked out of the yard after speaking.

"Hey, Da Gongzi, didn't you have two more fir boards when you made a cabinet last time? Take it out." The people in the yard continued to boo.

"You know all about this?" The big archer was not annoyed, and walked out of the courtyard with a smile.

After a while, when Carpenter Zhang came over with tools and materials, the cedar boards also arrived: "This is better, my pine board is too heavy."

Carpenter Zhang jingled, jingled, jingled, and the people around him also helped to pull a saw or something. After a while, two wooden boxes were ready, with flip-tops and a lock on the lids. Put the padlock on.Carpenter Zhang measured the width of the back seat of the bicycle, and then fixed two wooden boxes on both sides of the back seat of the bicycle with two strong wooden sticks.Carpenter Zhang's craftsmanship is quite good, and the wooden box he made is also strong and beautiful in just a short while.

"This box is fine for storing tools, but it's too heavy to bear." Master Zhang said while packing the tools.

"What heavy things can the two children have? They can't push it too heavy." Da Gongzi touched the two wooden boxes, wondering if there was still some cedar wood boards that cared about him.

"Hey, Ye Cheng, how about this box made by the master?"

"it is good."

"Then Master Zhang will come to repair shoes, will you still charge money?"

"No more." Ye Cheng said.

"The big arch will come to repair the shoes in the future, will you still charge money?"

"I won't take it anymore." A good fir board may take several repairs to make it worth it.

"Then how about auntie come to repair shoes?"

"No more." Ye Cheng had been in the vegetable market before, so he knew that he was right.

"Hey, Aunt Qiugui, you really know how to get cheap." The people beside him laughed.

"Go, go, how can I not give money to Ye Cheng? Ye Cheng, my aunt is joking with you. In the evening, my aunt cooks pumpkin at home, and I will bring you a bowl later. Don't listen to those people talking nonsense, ah."

"Aunt Qiugui cooks pumpkin at home in the evening, shall we all go?"

"go."

"Go, why don't you go?"

"..." There was another commotion in the courtyard.

"Ye Cheng, when are you going to start running the village?" the man named Daqiang asked.

"Tomorrow." Ye Cheng pushed the bicycle down under the eaves, and then packed all the tools in the yard into the box on the back of the bicycle. Lu Mingyuan was not good at farming, so he was very comfortable with the shoe repair machine. The shoe repair machine was separated from the tripod.

"Hey, this doll is really good at work." Everyone thought it was very fresh after seeing it. Children in ordinary families, who are seven or eight years old, can't do such fine work. If they can help gather pigweed and pick up firewood, they are considered well-behaved.

"Ah Qing is going back to her mother's house tomorrow, shall I ask her to take you two to their village?" Ah Qing is a strong wife, as her name suggests, she is quite handsome, and she is a handsome daughter-in-law in the village.

"Eighteen Ridges? That's far enough."

"There are quite a few villages nearby. I heard that there are still Hakka people living there. They are far from the town, and they don't come out often. I think there is business." The village is very familiar.

"I think it's okay. Isn't there a tractor? I'll take the tractor there tomorrow and stay with Ah Qing in Shibaling for two days."

Everyone was so chattering, so they helped Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan plan their itinerary for the next two days. Cai Jinzhi didn't know until later, but he didn't have any objections. He said he would go to Shibaling Eighteen Ridges, Hui Zi stays at home, and she will come over to feed her in the past two days.