Chapter 316: Life is not easy

Li Zhenbang looked at Lu Lianggong suspiciously. If he hadn't seen Lu Lianggong's expression of enjoyment, he would have doubted whether Lu Lianggong hated him and did it deliberately.
"I'm not afraid of everyone's jokes, it's this kind of tea. If it weren't for the distinguished guests, I wouldn't take it out. I don't want to drink it at all. I drink boiled water." Lu Lianggong's expression was very indifferent.
"Master, don't you mean that you don't even have money to drink tea?" Li Zhenbang looked at Lu Lianggong with shock.
"Let's tell you, I've quit drinking now. If it weren't for the monthly filial piety of the disciples, I'm afraid my family would be hungry. Where can I have spare money to drink tea, haha!" Lu Lianggong Smiled heartily.
"Uh..." Li Zhenbang looked at each other, and it was hard for Li Zhenbang to calm down. It's a bit ironic that a generation of master craftsmen can't fill their stomachs.
"Master, just take out one or two of the things in your house is enough for you to spend?" Li Zhenbang asked puzzledly.
"You really don't understand my teacher. These items are master’s painstaking efforts. He doesn’t want them to be buried. These are all made of larch, and the nobles disdain them. Even if they are bought by nobles, they are all It's some declining nobles, and the craftsmanship of my seniors is enough to deal with. One of the teachers does not want gold to be sold as cabbage, and the other is that he does not want these hard work to be stained with the smell of copper." The disciple who has been busy for everyone answered tactfully. Tao.
Only then did Li Zhenbang discover that the disciple who was wearing loose white clothes and serving tea to everyone was a woman. It's not that this disciple looks like a man, but that she has always been wearing a hat and wearing loose clothes. She can't see men and women at all. At most, she feels that walking is a bit silly.
This is not his own territory, and Li Zhenbang can't explore it mentally, which is very rude to the owner. And Li Zhenbang came here to talk about cooperation with Lu Lianggong, and he didn't come to see his disciple, so naturally his attention was not on this disciple.
But Li Zhenbang doesn't care, doesn't mean that others don't care. Since seeing this disciple, Long Miaomiao felt an inexplicable sense of crisis in his heart, and was always vigilant. When she saw that Li Zhenbang hadn't paid attention to this person, her heart was somewhat calmer, but at this moment after the disciple talked to Li Zhenbang, Long Miaomiao's sense of crisis became stronger and stronger.
"Oh! Understandable." Li Zhenbang smiled at the female disciple, nodded to express his gratitude, sighed and continued to look at Lu Lianggong. Although Li Zhenbang had a familiar feeling for this female disciple in his heart, he didn't take it to heart. He could be sure that he had not seen her.
"Master, I take the liberty to ask, you don't need to answer, just hope you think about it. How many people in your family, how many children. Does your child have the same risk of hungry as you in the future? Does he have I have the opportunity to receive a group of outstanding disciples, and then help him. Of course, if you are alone and the whole family is not hungry, then treat it as I did not say." Li Zhenbang smiled and looked at Lu Lianggong.
Li Zhenbang has already investigated clearly that Lu Lianggong is not only a bachelor, but also has two wives, four children, three sons and one daughter. The oldest of the four children is only eight years old, and the youngest has not yet been weaned.
"My housework still doesn't bother you. Maybe you don't have my skills or ingenuity, but when you can distinguish the quality of the work and say those things, I have already assumed that you and I are at the same level Exists. That’s why I will allow you to come here and sit across from me."
"Master, since you don't want me to discuss your housework, let's talk about your ideals. You won't refuse me anymore, right?" Li Zhenbang was not at all annoyed by Lu Lianggong's rejection, still smiling Look at him.
"Ideal? It's been a long time since no one mentioned the ideal to me. How do you want to talk to me?" Lu Lianggong looked at Li Zhenbang with weird eyes. Apprentices have always talked about ideals with him, but he didn't expect that one day he would talk about ideals with a layman.
"You are too rude. You haven't introduced yourself until now. You are not going to just talk about it like this?" The female disciple heard that Li Zhenbang was ready to talk about her ideals with the teacher, but she hadn't even introduced her meaning at all. Angrily, said dissatisfied.
"Lin'er, it's okay, how can you care about these rituals as a teacher, haha!" Lu Lianggong looked at the female apprentice with love in his eyes. After so many years, I finally found a successor. His other apprentices are also very good, but if nothing else, he can only be an extraordinary craftsman, not a craftsman. Only the disciple in front of him can become a craftsman.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! After seeing the master, I was so excited and disrespectful. I hope that the master and this...female gentleman will forgive me!" Li Zhenbang hurriedly got up, clasped his fists in his hands, and bent over to salute.
Hearing Mr. Li Zhenbang's female name, the female disciple named Lin'er made a sigh of joy.
Li Zhenbang smiled and introduced his group to Lu Lianggong. The others only introduced their names. When introducing themselves, they brought the direct descendants of the Red Maple Leaf family.
Hearing that Li Zhenbang was a member of the Red Maple Leaf family, Lu Lianggong's eyes widened, but he quickly recovered.
However, in his heart he thought to himself that the Red Maple Leaf Family is a big family of the Carlo Empire. If the Red Maple Leaf Family can see and know the bead, then these incompetent disciples of his will have realized their ideals!
"Let's talk about the ideals of your disciples first!"
"My disciples? Don't you want to understand my ideals?" Lu Lianggong looked at Li Zhenbang inexplicably, wondering what medicine he sold in the gourd.
"Yes, it's the so-called famous teacher producing high apprentices. I want to first understand how your disciples plan for their future, and what is their ideal?"
Hearing the words of Li Zhenbang's famous teacher and disciple, Lu Lianggong showed embarrassment on his face. Although he was proficient in his skills, and his fame was the same in Luoye Town, but after he left Luoye Town, he was still a famous teacher.
"Alas! Ashamed, there are actually only three of my disciples who are really keen on carpenters, the eldest disciple Zhengde, the second disciple Dao Scar, and this female disciple Lin'er, who has just started in less than two years." Lu Liang Gongmian Ashamed, he shook his head helplessly.
"What about your other disciples?"
"Others have their own ideas when learning skills with me. Some people want to become a celebrity like me. But how do they know that I am a celebrity after I am out of Luoye Town. At most it is just a person's name. How come there are those of us who use larch." Lu Lianggong smiled lightly, but Li Zhenbang saw a trace of helplessness and sorrow in his eyes.
"There are still some disciples who use this as a craft to feed their families. If it weren’t shameful, if it weren’t for their financial aid and the offerings of those named disciples Yueyue, I’m afraid we, the big ones, would have broken up long ago. Now." Lu Lianggong shook his head, as if laughing at himself.
Li Zhenbang knew it well, no wonder that Wu Cai had average craftsmanship and could become a named disciple. It turned out that this named disciple was easy to handle as long as he had money.
Judging from this situation, the named disciple should be better than these beginner disciples among ordinary people. The works of entry disciples must be more expensive than the works of registered disciples. There are fewer opportunities for ordinary civilians and more opportunities for small nobles.
A named disciple is equivalent to a businessman with ordinary skills, and things are not necessarily very good. As long as they are famous, they will definitely be more expensive than ordinary carpenters.
Human nature is actually willing to show off, so the more affluent civilians at hand will put some of the works of registered disciples in the most conspicuous place of their homes as capital to show off to their neighbors.
"Master, I want to ask you, do you think it is shameful to sell your work?"
"It's not shameful to sell a work, it's shameful to sell it for money to people who don't know the goods." Lu Lianggong gritted his teeth, and he remembered the shameful history.
Once his child became seriously ill, and the doctors in Ping'an Town were at a loss and could only visit other larger towns. Lu Lianggong's life was already struggling. He really couldn't raise money for a while, and the money collected by his disciples was only a drop in the bucket.
In desperation, he took a jewelry box that he was quite satisfied with to a rich man's house in Linzhen. When this rich man once married his twelfth concubine, he wanted to buy his own dragon and phoenix bed with a lot of money, but he refused. He felt that he was insulting himself.
Lu Lianggong was helpless and desperate, and had to beg the rich man for the sake of the child. The rich man saw him warmly received, and he told the rich man that the child was ill and needed money urgently. Who knows that the rich man was very generous after hearing this, and without a word, he directly took out five gold coins.
Originally, he only wanted to sell the jewelry box for two gold coins in an emergency. The rich man's behavior moved him greatly. At the same time, he regretted not selling the bed before. After a lot of gratitude, he took two gold coins and left. .
After the child recovered from his illness, Lu Lianggong led his disciples carrying a dragon and phoenix bed to the door to thank him, only to find that the rich man had fed the chicken with his elaborate jewelry box, and he mocked his group in public.
In a fit of anger, Lu Lianggong shredded the dragon and phoenix beds, vowing that he would no longer make beds and jewelry boxes for the rest of his life, would no longer easily sell his own efforts, would never step into the town where the rich man was, and would not be at odds with the rich family.
"Then what do you think is a person who knows the goods? Is it to buy your work and reluctantly use it every day? The expression can tell that this is a wounded person.