"You boy, let you get up early, it's still so late!"

Zhong Yue yawned, "Uncle Zhang, this is not too early, it's only five o'clock."

"You young people nowadays, at five o'clock? If they had gone to the fields to work now, which one would not have gotten up at three or four o'clock?"

“…”

Zhong Yue stretched out. Now who is still getting up at three or four o'clock? Isn't he sick?

"Let's go, let's go to Majiagou."

"What are you doing there? Are you not getting closer to the city?"

Zhang Laifu's cigarette pot struck the back of Zhong Yue's head, "You kid is arguing with the master before you learn skills, right? If you want to put it in the past, the master dares to interrupt when he speaks. If you want to learn to make a pen, just follow me."

"oh……"

"Bring the bamboo basket on my back, I will tell you about the skills of making pens on the way."

Zhong Yue carried the somewhat old bamboo basket on his back and followed Zhang Laifu out.

"There are two main types of materials to use for making a pen. The pen holder is usually made of wood pipes or bamboo pipes, such as porcelain, jade, etc., which are flashy and unreal, so I won't go into detail."

Zhong Yue recalled that the brushes at home were all made of wood and bamboo tubes. It shouldn’t be too difficult to make this primary brush. “Uncle Zhang, what are we going to buy?”

"rabbit."

"rabbit?"

Zhang Laifu nodded, "The material of the pen holder is just the price of a pen. The one who really judges the quality of a pen is on this pen. Now, it is divided into soft hair and hard hair. You don't need to buy the wool used for soft hair. Just go to the place where sheep kills. The most exquisite and best-selling one of our Xuan pens is the purple hair pen. This purple hair is used for rabbit hair. The rabbits in Majiagou are all rabbits bought from Z County. Only the purple hair pen made of this rabbit hair can be considered a real Xuan pen."

"Brother Zhang, I heard that there are also pens made of hair from yellow wolf's tail and stone badger's hair. Is that more valuable?" Zhong Yue thought to himself, even if the skills are not up to standard, we can win with quality, add points to the standard of primary brushes.

Zhang Laifu took a three-bouncer and sat on with Zhong Yue, "Without competing with me, right? Is this stone badger and yellow wolf so easy to get? When I was in the pen making factory, ninety-nine of these hundred pens were made of purple hair and sheep hair. The wolf hair and badger hair you mentioned were non-mainstream according to the younger generations in the village who made their hair look like hedgehogs."

“…”

Zhong Yue smiled, this is to offend the Zangai family.

Zhang Laifu lit a Huangshan rod, took a sip, and spit out the smoke ring, "Now, besides purple hair and sheep hair, there are also mixed hairs, which are rabbit hair and wool, such as nine purple and one sheep, seven purple and three sheep."

The person who drove the three-bangzi was also preparing to go to Majiagou to buy herbs, and interrupted, "Yeah, Uncle Zhang, you are planning to go out again."

Zhang Laifu sucked cigarette butts and sparks were rising, "Hey, I'm taking my apprentice. This pen-making skills are going to be lost..."

"Who said no? Isn't this Zhong Yue? Didn't he get into college last year? Why did he come back to learn to write with Uncle Zhang?"

Zhong Yue is now a little famous in the village. After all, it is not that easy to become a college student.

"I'm filial to my father, I'm temporarily off from school, and I'll go to study after three years."

Zhong Yue said that he had been filial for three years, but he understood what his father was thinking. He felt that he was in college and was afraid that the Zhong family's calligraphy inheritance would be cut off. He had no choice but to use the theory of filial for three years to let Zhong Yue study calligraphy in this valley with peace of mind.

Not to mention how great it has been achieved in the past three years, but at least we cannot forget the calligraphy heritage of the Zhong family. If Zhong Yue had thought that his three-legged calligraphy accomplishments would be a shame to the Zhong family. But now with the brushwork system, he is very confident and will definitely revive the calligraphy of the Zhong family!

"Oh, Lao Zhong is so lucky to have such a filial son."

"Uncle Luo, don't say that. It's because my son was guilty of being a son when I was not able to enjoy my father's happiness. As for filial piety, it means that I can fulfill my father's wishes. As for other aspects, I haven't thought much about it."

Zhang Laifu lit a new cigarette and patted Zhong Yue on the shoulder, "Okay, let's not talk about this."

"I said Lao Zhang, the pen making factory in Xuancheng is still open now?"

"Well, it's still open. But the business is in a downturn. Now I'm making some handicrafts. After all, it's not that era. Apart from practicing calligraphy, who can use a brush?"

Lao Luo, who was driving a three-bouncer, took the cigarette handed over by Zhang Laifu, and docked it with the cigarette butt in his mouth. He sucked two ends and spitted it aside. "Yes, you said that the profit of this brush is not high now, so who would go back and hire someone to make a pen by hand?"

"Some work can only be done by hand. Most of the brushes on the market are defective. Those that are really expensive and easy to use are the pens handmade by masters in the factory. If you learn from me for three or five years, you will have a skill to support your family when you become a teacher in the future."

"Three years and five years..."

"Why, I think it's a long time? This is not that easy to do."

The car braked and stopped on the side of the road to the market. Lao Luo locked it in the car with a chain, "Lao Zhang, I'll catch the soup and medicine that my wife drank first. We'll meet here in two hours."

"Well, Ayue, come with me."

Zhong Yue followed Lao Zhang and was walking in the market.

"Buy some fresh apricots to try?"

"The rapeseed I just picked, this one with dew on my back is delicious, it's eaten by my own home, and it's not made with pesticides."

“…”

Zhong Yue likes such a lively market scene and looks around.

"Follow closely, don't get lost!"

Zhang Laifu carried his hands on his back and shouted behind him.

The two came to a place where poultry was sold.

"Yeah, this is not Uncle Zhang, it's been a long time since I saw you."

"Qianzi, is there any old rabbits selling them?"

The man wearing a sweat vest wiped the sweat from his forehead and smiled, "You're a coincidence. This old rabbit meat firewood is usually not sold. I just collected a pair yesterday. Look, what's there? You're doing your old job again?"

Zhang Laifu smiled and picked up a rabbit from the rabbit cage.

"It's fat enough."

"No, but it's so big, the meat is so dirty, it's not delicious. You want it, take two, and take it away for 100 yuan. How about it? It's so righteous."

Zhang Laifu put the rabbit back into the rabbit cage and threw a piece of Huangshan smoke over, "You are so careless with me, two, eighty."

"Oh, Uncle Zhang, I really can't give it to you eighty. How can you bargain with small books like this?"

"When I was catching rabbits in County Z, you kid was still catching loaches in the river. What is the price of this old rabbit? I don't know?"

Zhong Yue squatted down, took some Chinese toon leaves and fed the rabbit, and listened to the two of them bargaining.

"You're the old calendar of last year. Rabbits are no longer as expensive as before. The cost is high and the sales are not good. This rabbit is also collected from retail investors. In this way, you don't have to compete with me. Ninety, only ninety, will it be? I've also reduced my capital, so I can't let me lose too much."

"Ayue, give the money."

Qiangzi glanced at Zhong Yue who was squatting on the ground and feeding rabbits, and smiled and said, "Oh, is this the newly accepted apprentice?"

"Hello, Brother Qiang." Zhong Yue handed a hundred-dollar bill to Qiangzi.

"Follow Lao Zhang to study hard. Young people nowadays are too impetuous and always want to make big money. This money is not so easy to make. I'll ask you for ten dollars and keep it."

"Qianzi, the rabbit was slaughtered for me. Remember, don't dirty this hair."

"Okay, the processing fee is ten yuan..."

"I'll beat you, a baby!"

Qiangzi hid away and said with a smile: "Just, kidding. How dare I collect your old money? Don't worry, keep it for you to clean up."

"Ayue, let's buy some onions, ginger and garlic. Today I will show you my skills and let you taste my skills."

“…”
Chapter completed!