Chapter 81 Feng Mingxu

The man has a straight face, the blue shirt he wears is of unusual material, and the hair crown on his head is also made of jasper. At first glance, he looks like a noble son from a wealthy family.

　　Your Lord, Ye Anyian was startled and tried to ask: "May I ask, Lord, did you order some Yan Jitu and Lu Ban Suo from me before?"

　　"Exactly." The young master replied, "I have been waiting for you in this Clay Figurine Lane for several days in a row, but no one has been seen. I thought you just took my deposit and ran away."

　　"Not ten days later?" Ye Anyian was surprised.

　　The young man smiled helplessly: "How many days are you counting today?"

　　Ye Anyian folded his hands and counted them. It didn't matter. It seemed that two or three days had passed.

　　I'm afraid I was busy with Ye Xiaomei's marriage during this period, so I forgot about this matter.

　　"I'm sorry, I have something to do at home, so I was delayed." Ye Anyian was a little embarrassed.

　　The young master was not a fussy person. He waved his hand and said, "That's all. Have you done everything I want?"

　　"It's done." Ye Annian said, showing the Yan Jitu and Lu Ban Suo to the young master for inspection.

The young master opened the things and inspected them one by one, and nodded with satisfaction: "You are good at your craftsmanship."

　　"These two are relatively simple, just polish the edges and corners finely."

　　Hearing what Ye Anyian said, the young man's eyes lit up: "So, you will do something more complicated?"

　　Ye Anyian nodded: "I wonder what else you want?"

　　"Just a small toy like this to enlighten your mind." Young Master pointed at Yan Jitu and Lu Bansuo in front of him.

　　Ye Anyian became a little curious: "May I ask if your family owns a grocery store?"

　　Otherwise, the average family, with only seven or eight children, would not buy ten or twenty at a time.

　　"That's not true." Since he still planned to place an order, the young master did not hide it, "You know the Hongfu Academy in this town."

　　There is only one academy in Tianshui Town. Ye Annian naturally knew that Chen Xiucai taught at Hongfu Academy, so he nodded.

　　"My name is Feng Mingxu, and my father's name is Feng Leshan. My father opened this academy. Now that he is old, I have taken over it."

　　Feng Mingxu said: "These little toys are bought for the students of the academy."

　　"The gentlemen of your academy still...teach these things?"

　　No wonder Ye Annian was surprised. Scholars in ancient times went to academies to study. They studied the Four Books and Five Classics, hundreds of schools of thought, and wrote eight-legged essays for examinations. When did they study things like Yan Jitu and Lu Ban Suo?

　　"I knew you would misunderstand." Feng Mingxu smiled, "The academy has recently opened an elementary school, which accepts children around four to ten years old. Children who first enter the academy have unstable temperaments and lively natures. They need to be exposed to more enlightened students. Small toys are also good."

　　Feng Mingxu's words really surprised Ye Anyian. Are the scholars here so open-minded and with such advanced ideas?

　　"So, what is the more complicated toy you just mentioned?" Feng Mingxu asked.

　　Ye Anyian came back to his senses: "It's a toy called a Rubik's Cube, but Mr. Feng may not have seen it before. I just figured it out recently."

　　"Oh?" Feng Mingxu was very interested in this, "Then did you bring the finished product?"

　　There is a finished product, but he gave it to Jiang Zhu that day, and I don't know if Jiang Zhu took it with him.

　　"Next time." Ye Annian said, "Next time I will make a few more and bring them with you so you can take a look."

　　"When will you come next time?"

　　When he came to town, he would basically buy everything he had made in a few days. Ye Anyian counted the days he spent rushing to work and replied: "It will take two or three days anyway."

　　"This is too long." Feng Mingxu was impatient to wait.

　　The main reason is that the little toys made by Ye Anyian are very novel, such as the Luban lock with ingenious structure and the Yanji picture painted in different colors. Feng Mingxu likes them very much.

　　When I heard Ye Anyian talk about the new intelligent toy that he had come up with, I couldn't wait to see it.

　　"Let's do this," Ye Annian thought for a while, "Go to Minfeng Street tomorrow and find Dr. Jiang Zhujiang who sets up a stall for medical treatment. He is my husband, and I will ask him to bring you the Rubik's Cube."

Feng Mingxu was satisfied: "Then I'll trouble you."

　　After settling the amount of money this time, he gave Ye Anyian another two taels of silver separately.

　　"I don't know how your Rubik's Cube is priced. I'll give it to you first. I'll see it tomorrow. I'll tell Dr. Jiang how many I want. I'll ask him to tell you then."

　　"Okay." Ye Anyian took the money and sent Feng Mingxu away.

　　After a while, more and more people came to visit the clay figurine alley, and the items on Ye Anian's stall were also decreasing.

　　By noon, more than half of them had been sold.

　　Taking advantage of the lack of people, Ye Annian roughly counted the copper coins and broken silver in the money bag. In the past half day, not counting the two taels of silver deposited by Feng Mingxu, he had already sold one or two half.

　　Not long after, Jiang Zhu came to him carrying a food box.

　　Seeing him counting money here, he took out five taels of silver from the money bag at his waist and stuffed it into his money bag: "I earned it in one morning."

　　Ye Anyian raised his eyebrows: "You make a lot of money."

　　Jiang Zhu smiled: "This is all possible. Today I met a wealthy businessman who had a headache and a stubborn disease. From the prescriptions and medicines I prescribed, I made some money. Common illnesses I only charge ten cents for any medical consultation."

　　"I know you are a good doctor." Ye Annian gave him a piece of beef with soy sauce, "Eat it quickly."

　　The two meat patties, a plate of soy sauce beef and two bowls of millet porridge for lunch were bought by Xiao Erniang from Xiaoyun Restaurant.

　　Jiang Zhu met Xiao Erniang on the street today. After Ye Xiaomei's incident, the two became acquainted. Xiao Erniang was worried that she had no drinking friends, so she insisted on dragging Jiang Zhu to Xiaoyun Restaurant for a drink.

　　Jiang Zhu, however, was thinking about making an appointment with Ye Anyian to have lunch together at noon, so she still put it off.

　　But now that he had met her, he had suffered from the occupational disease of being a doctor again, so he took the opportunity to check on Xiao Erniang's symptoms of liver-fire depression and gave her some medicine.

　　Unexpectedly, Xiao Erniang turned around and handed a food box to Jiang Zhu, asking him to take it to eat with Ye Anian.

　　It was difficult to evade this kind intention, so Jiang Zhu accepted it.

　　After dinner, when the streets started to get crowded in the afternoon, Jiang Zhu went back to his stall.

　　The afternoon passed quickly, and all the gadgets Ye Annian brought today were sold out.

　　During this period, a grocery store owner wanted to place an order with him, but he refused.

　　In ancient times, there were no specialized toy stores. Most of these children's toys were placed in grocery stores or sold at stalls in places like Daji and Clay Figure Lane.

　　The owner of the grocery store asked for thirty wooden spinning tops, wooden frogs, rattles, Yan Jitu and Luban locks each.

　　If you want such a large amount of goods, the price will definitely be lowered, which is equivalent to wholesale.

　　Not to mention that he couldn't do it alone, Ye Annian didn't want to consider selling it to a grocery store in bulk.

If it was based on quantity, then he would definitely need to hire a carpenter, and most of the carpenters here were making tables, chairs, benches and other furniture. The craftsmanship in making these gadgets might not necessarily be precise, and the things they made might not be up to his standards.

At present, he just wants to follow the path of a craftsman, selling some bulk goods, and at most supplying Feng Mingxu's academy.

　　When the time comes later, he wants to open a special toy shop, and then recruit one or two talented apprentices to help. He can teach slowly without going through batches, but these gadgets must be exquisite and vivid. , so that children will like it.

　　In the evening, Jiang Zhu closed the stall in advance and came to see him.

　　Ye Anian had almost finished cleaning up, and the two of them walked hand in hand to Zhou Liang's oxcart. Xu Xu talked about what they had encountered today.

　　Ye Annian remembered the screams of the broken mud when setting up the stall this morning, and said, "I have to go to Carpenter Ge's house to sell some good wood another day."

　　"Have you used up all the stuff I brought back last time?" Jiang Zhu asked.

　　Ye Annian shook his head: "I want to make a big box, the kind with wheels."

　　"Box?" Jiang Zhu was slightly startled, "Is it used to hold those little toys you made?"

　　"Yes," Ye Anyian said as he thought about it, "It needs to be foldable and able to hold the things I make. When I leave the stall, it can be pulled out and used as a display cabinet. There is no need to spread cloth on the ground."

　　"If you install wheels, you can push and pull it, and you can save some effort."

　　Jiang Zhu followed his thoughts and imagined it, and it seemed that it was indeed much more convenient.

　　He said, "Then when you want to go, I'll go with you. I'm afraid it will take a lot of wood to make the box, and it won't be easy for you to move it alone."

　　"Yeah." Ye Anyian responded.

　　When the two returned home in a bullock cart, it was just dark.

　　As soon as he entered the door, Ye Anyian saw two shadows in the courtyard, one tall and one short.

　　Fu Zai stood up straight, holding a small branch in his hand. In front of him sat the withered copper coin, being scolded.

　　Ye Annian found it interesting and walked over and asked, "Fu Zai, what mistake did you make with the copper coin?"

　　As soon as he saw Ye Anyian coming back, Fu Zai couldn't hold it any longer and quickly complained to Ye Anyian: "Brother, you've learned bad things about copper coins!"

　　"It ran out in the afternoon while Brother Qiu and I were taking a nap. It came back in the evening with injuries all over its body. It even learned to fight!"

　　Fu Zai was so angry that he slapped the ground with a tree branch, saying that he was disobedient with copper coins, but he was not willing to hit him at all.

　　Ye Annian squatted down and took a look, and found that there was indeed a scratch on Tongqian's nose, and there were also several injuries where the fur on his body was spread out. It looked like he had really gone out to fight.

　　Jiang Zhu, who heard the conversation between the two, came over with a medicine box. He squatted down and broke off the copper coin's dog's head: "Let me see where it is injured?"

　　Jiang Zhu looked at the wound on Tong Qian's nose and was immediately sure that it was scratched by a cat.

I'm afraid Tongqian secretly went to find the kitten that Fu Zai and the others rescued, and was beaten by the kitten.

　　He held Copper Coin's face, looked at it carefully, and turned over the hair on its body to check if there were any other injuries. Then he took out a bottle of trauma medicine and applied it on Copper Coin.

　　"The injury is not serious. Apply medicine for two days and it will be fine."

　　Afraid that Fu Zai would doubt them and that Ding Qiuneiying's identity would be exposed, Jiang Zhu didn't mention the kitten at all.

　　"Thank you, Brother Jiang!"

　　Fu Zai thanked him sweetly, then turned around and turned to the copper coins with a serious face: "Next time you go out to fight, I'm really going to beat you up!"

　　"Wow~"

　　Tong Qian lay on the ground in aggrieved manner and rubbed Fu Zai's feet with his black dog head.

　　This pitiful look immediately softened Fu Zai's heart. He squatted down, touched Tong Qian's head and said, "Take good care of yourself, but don't go out to be naughty again."

　　"Woof woof!"

　　Copper Coin barked twice, and his tail was almost wagging. His attitude of admitting his mistake was very good.

　　"Good dog." Fu Zai patted its head with satisfaction.