novelden Chapter 1016: The Man Comes Riding on a Bamboo Horse (5)
Chapter 1016: The Man Comes Riding on a Bamboo Horse (5)
Compared to the bland dinner of the Xiao family’s father and son, the Ning family’s food was much better.
Ning Yasi came from a wealthy family, and I think his family also had a small workshop.
To put it bluntly, if there hadn't been that natural disaster, Ning Yasi would have been a young master at least, even if he couldn't have been an official.
But that period of escape did indeed smooth out some of the edges of my character.
He knew clearly that he was no longer a young master and would devote all his efforts to completing the work at Jiuhua Tower.
Just work hard to earn money and spend it quickly.
Fortunately, he has good skills, high wages, and plans for his life, otherwise he would still have to rent a house like the Xiao family.
When Ning Yasi got off work in the evening and went home, he went to the restaurant and bought a roast chicken to take home.
When some of the workers saw this, they couldn't help but say - Ning is the master when working, and Ning is the boss when leaving work.
Ning Yasi didn't care at all and walked home happily.
"Snack today!" Ning Yasi called out as he entered the room. "Fang Fei, I brought you roast chicken."
Ning Yasi's wife, Tao Fangfei, was raised in the Ning family since she was a child. She was originally considered Ning Yasi's adopted sister.
When she was fifteen years old and came of age, because they were in love, Ning's father went to the government office to change her household registration information and changed back to her original surname.
Speaking of which, the first two years after their marriage were the happiest time for them. Their parents were still alive, and she became pregnant shortly after their marriage.
Later, their son Ning Xiu was born. His father and his wife loved their grandson very much. That is why during the subsequent escape, the two old people often saved their own food for Ning Xiu.
He was even injured several times while trying to protect his daughter-in-law and grandson.
In the end, he failed to escape to Yanzhou and died on the road.
Ning Yasi endured the grief and walked the most difficult part of the journey with his wife.
When they first entered Jiuhua Tower, Ning Yasi and Xiao Gencai both started as low-level craftsmen. However, within half a year, Ning Yasi was promoted to a mid-level craftsman, and the gap between him and Xiao Gencai widened.
Ning Xiu and Xiao Jianlu were also pulled apart.
The Ning family has good food, so naturally the son they raised is stronger than Xiao Jianlu!
So at this time
Ning Xiu, who was sorting his tools in the house, heard his father's call and almost immediately rushed out: "Dad, is this Li Ji's roast chicken?"
Not hearing his father's answer, Ning Xiu wrinkled his nose and sniffed carefully: "It should be Li Ji's roast chicken. Dad, you got off work late today, and you can still buy it. You are so lucky."
"How can there be so much good luck!" Ning Yasi explained with a smile, "Yesterday, the owner of Li's came to Jiuhualou to ask me to repair something, and I specifically asked him to save a roast chicken for today."
"That's all thanks to Daddy!" Although Ning Yun, the daughter who also loves to eat, didn't sniff around exaggeratedly, it can be seen from her expression that she is in a good mood.
It was at this moment that Tao Fangfei poked her head out of the kitchen. "I told you, I already bought some meat today, but you insisted on buying a roast chicken. You! Can't you just have some money? Have you received your wages? Give it to me!"
"What I get today is not wages. It's a reward from the boss for the good job I did last time!" He said it reluctantly, but Ning Yasi's actions were extremely honest. He handed over the cloth bag containing the reward money.
Ning Xiu and Ning Yun, brother and sister, were laughing secretly on the side.
Tao Fangfei took the silver from the cloth bag without touching a single copper coin. "It's true that you should eat well, but you should also be moderate. Wash your hands and eat!"
"Okay!" The Ning family's three foodie buddies quickly sat down at the dining table.
Unlike the Xiao family's, the Ning family's kitchen was specially renovated. In addition to being able to cook, it also has a long table that can seat eight people.
Except for the extremely hot summer days, the Ning family eats here.
"Sese, here's a chicken leg for you!" Ning Xiu just sat down and broke off a chicken leg and put it in his sister Ning Yun's bowl. "They say eating what you eat nourishes you. I can do it with my hands, so I'll just eat the chicken wings."
Without giving Ning Yun a chance to refute, he picked up a chicken wing and started eating.
Tao Fangfei knew that her son was a sister-con - it was hereditary.
When she was a child and was Ning Yasi's sister, he also ate chicken legs by himself. As he thought of the past, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Just as he was about to pick up his chopsticks, another chicken leg appeared in Tao Fangfei's bowl. They were indeed father and son, and their words were the same.
"Okay, Sese and I will eat chicken legs!" Tao Fangfei said without pretense, "By the way, after dinner, don't go out for a stroll for the time being. It's time to soak your hands in medicine again. I prepared it this afternoon. You can soak them in the yard or in your room."
The Ning family's craft of gold inlaying and jade has been passed down for several generations, and doing this work requires extremely dexterous hands.
However, as a craftsman does more work, his hands will inevitably become rough, and as he gets more calluses, his perception of the material will not be as accurate.
Even though you can make judgments based on feelings and experience, there are still situations where you cannot be sure.
The first thing the Ning family learned when they entered the industry was to never rely too much on your feelings and experience.
So in order to maintain the feeling of the hands, the Ning family has an ancestral medicinal soup, which can protect the craftsmen's hands to a certain extent by soaking them regularly.
Although Ning Yun didn't know how to inlay gold and jade, she could embroider, and women's hands were supposed to be white and tender, so she followed her family in soaking in the medicinal soup.