Chapter 316 Life Is Not Easy

Li Zhenbang looked at Lu Lianggong suspiciously. If he hadn't seen Lu Lianggong enjoying his face, he would have wondered if Lu Lianggong hated him and did it deliberately.

"I'm not afraid of your jokes. It's just this kind of tea. I wouldn't take it out if it wasn't for a distinguished guest. Usually, I don't want to drink it at all. I always drink plain water." Lu Lianggong's expression was very indifferent.

"Master, you don't mean that you don't even have money for tea?" Li Zhenbang looked at Lu Lianggong in shock.

"To tell you the truth, I have given up even drinking now. If it weren't for the filial piety of my disciples every month, I'm afraid my whole family would be starving. How can I have spare money to drink tea, haha!" Lu Lianggong He laughed heartily.

"Uh..." The four of Li Zhenbang looked at each other in blank dismay, Li Zhenbang's heart was really hard to calm down. It's a bit ironic that a generation of master craftsmen can't fill their stomachs.

"Master, taking out one or two of the things in your house will be enough for you to spend, right?" Li Zhenbang asked puzzled.

"You really don't understand my teacher. These items are the master's painstaking efforts. He doesn't want them to be buried. These are all made of larch, and the nobles are dismissive. They are some declining aristocrats, and the skills of my brothers are enough to deal with them. One is that the teacher does not want gold to be sold as cabbage, and the other is that he does not want these hard work to be contaminated with the smell of copper." The disciple who has been busy before and after everyone replied in a tactful voice. road.

Only then did Li Zhenbang realize that the disciple who was wearing loose white clothes and serving tea and water for everyone turned out to be a woman. It's not that this disciple looks like a man, but that she has been covering her face with a bamboo hat and her clothes are loose, so she can't tell the difference between a man and a woman. At most, she feels that walking is a bit girly.

This is not his own territory, and Li Zhenbang can't use his mental power to investigate, which is very rude to the master. Moreover, Li Zhenbang came here to discuss cooperation with Lu Lianggong, not to see his disciple, so the attention was naturally not on this disciple.

But Li Zhenbang doesn't care, it doesn't mean others don't care. Ever since Long Miaomiao saw this disciple, she felt an inexplicable sense of crisis in her heart and was always on guard. When she saw that Li Zhenbang didn't pay attention to this person, she felt a little calmer, but now after this disciple talked to Li Zhenbang, Long Miaomiao's sense of crisis became more and more intense.

"Oh! I can understand." Li Zhenbang smiled at the female disciple, nodded his thanks, sighed and continued to look at Lu Lianggong. Although Li Zhenbang felt familiar with this female disciple in his heart, he didn't take it seriously. He could be sure that he had never seen her before.

"Master, I take the liberty to ask. You don't need to answer. I just hope you think about it. How many people and children do you have in your family? Does your child have the same risk of starvation as you do in the future? Opportunity will receive a group of outstanding disciples, and then help him. Of course, if you can feed yourself and the whole family is not hungry, then ignore me." Li Zhenbang looked at Lu Lianggong with a smile.

Li Zhenbang has already investigated and found out that Lu Lianggong is not only not a bachelor, but also has two wives, four children, three sons and a daughter. The oldest of the four children is only eight years old, and the youngest has not yet been weaned.

"I don't need to bother you about my housework. Maybe you don't have my skills and ingenuity, but when you can distinguish the good from the bad and say those words, I have already assumed that you are at the same level as me existence. That's why I will allow you to come here and sit opposite me."

"Master, since you don't want me to discuss your family affairs, let's talk about your ideals. You won't reject me now, will you?" Li Zhenbang was not annoyed by Lu Lianggong's rejection at all, and was still smiling look at him.

"Ideals? No one has mentioned ideals to me for a long time, what do you want to talk about with me?" Lu Lianggong looked at Li Zhenbang with strange eyes.

His apprentices always talked about his ideals with him, but he never thought that one day he would talk about his ideals with a layman.

"You are too rude. You haven't introduced yourself until now. You don't plan to just talk like this?" The female disciple heard that Li Zhenbang was ready to talk about his ideals with the teacher, but he didn't even have the slightest intention to introduce himself. Angry, said dissatisfied.

"Lin'er, it's okay, as a teacher, how can you care about these common etiquette, ha ha!" Lu Lianggong looked at the female apprentice with loving eyes. After so many years, I finally found a successor. My other apprentices are also very good, but if there is no accident, I can only be an extraordinary craftsman, not a craftsman. Only the disciple in front of me can become a craftsman.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! After seeing the master, I was too excited and I was rude. I hope the master and this...female lady will forgive me!" Li Zhenbang hurriedly got up, fisted with both hands, and bowed to salute.

Hearing Mr. Li Zhenbang's address, the female disciple named Lin'er burst into laughter.

Li Zhenbang smiled and introduced his group to Lu Lianggong. The others only introduced their names, and when they introduced themselves, they brought the direct descendants of the Red Maple Leaf family.

Hearing that Li Zhenbang was from the Red Maple Leaf family, Lu Lianggong's eyes obviously widened, but he recovered quickly.

However, he was secretly thinking in his heart that the Red Maple Leaf family is a big family in the Carlo Empire. If the Red Maple Leaf family can see things clearly, these incompetent disciples of his would be considered to have realized their ideals!

"Let's talk about the ideals of your disciples first!"

"My disciples? Don't you want to know my ideal?" Lu Lianggong looked at Li Zhenbang inexplicably, wondering what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd.

"Yes, as the saying goes, a famous teacher produces a good apprentice. I want to know how your disciples plan for their future. What are their ideals?"

Hearing the words of Li Zhenbang's famous teacher who produced a high-ranking apprentice, Lu Lianggong's face showed an embarrassing expression. Although he is proficient in skills and famous in Luoye Town for a while, but after leaving Luoye Town, he can't be regarded as a famous teacher.

"Alas! I'm ashamed to say that among my apprentices, there are actually only three who are really passionate about carpentry, the first disciple Zhengde, the second disciple Dao Scar, and this female disciple Lin'er who has just started for less than two years." Lu Lianggong faced Showing shame, he shook his head helplessly.

"What about your other disciples?"

"Other people who follow me to learn skills have their own ideas. Some people hope to become a celebrity like me. But how do they know that I am still a celebrity after I leave Fallen Leaf Town. At most, I am just a person's name. In the eyes of the nobles How can there be people like us who use larch." Lu Lianggong smiled indifferently, but Li Zhenbang saw a trace of helplessness and sadness in his eyes.

"There are still some disciples who regard this as a craft and use it to support their families. To put it bluntly, if it weren't for their donations and the monthly offerings of those named disciples, I am afraid that our big family would have stopped working. Yes." Lu Lianggong shook his head, as if laughing at himself.

Li Zhenbang understood in his heart, no wonder that Wu Cai was so skilled, he could also become a registered disciple. It turned out that as long as he had money, the registered disciple would be easy to manage.

Judging from this situation, registered disciples should be more popular among ordinary people than these beginner disciples. The works of entry-level disciples are definitely more expensive than the works of named disciples, and there are fewer opportunities for ordinary civilians, and more opportunities for minor nobles.

Registered disciples are equivalent to businessmen with average skills who are famous. The things they make may not be particularly 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 common people who are a little richer will get some works of named disciples and place them in the most conspicuous places in their homes, as a capital to show off to their neighbors.

"Master, I want to ask you, do you think it is shameful to sell your own work?"

"It's not shameful to sell works. What's shameful is to sell them to people who don't know the goods for money." Lu Lianggong said through gritted teeth. He remembered the history of shame.

Once his child suddenly became seriously ill, and the doctors in Ping'an Town were at a loss what to do, so they had to go to other bigger towns to see. Lu Lianggong's life was already tight, he had no way to raise money for a while, and the money his disciples raised was just a drop in the bucket.

In desperation, he took a jewelry box that he was quite satisfied with and went to the home of a rich man in Linzhen. When this rich man married his twelfth concubine, he wanted to buy a dragon and phoenix bed for himself with a lot of money, but he refused. He felt that it was an insult to himself.

Lu Lianggong had no choice but to beg the rich man for his child. Seeing that the rich man received him warmly, he told the rich man that the child was sick and needed money urgently. Who knew that the rich man was very generous after hearing this, and without saying a word, he took out five gold coins directly.

Originally, he only wanted to sell the jewelry box for two gold coins as an emergency. He was greatly moved by the rich man's behavior, and at the same time, he also regretted that he didn't sell the bed before. After being grateful, he left with two gold coins .

After the child recovered from illness, Lu Lianggong led his disciples to visit the door carrying a dragon and phoenix bed to thank him, only to find that the rich man even fed the chickens with his carefully crafted jewelry box, and mocked his group in public.

In a rage, Lu Lianggong smashed the dragon and phoenix bed into pieces, and vowed that he would never make beds and jewelry boxes, never sell his hard work easily, never set foot in the town where the rich man lived, and was at odds with the rich man's family.

"Then what do you think is a person who knows the goods? Do you buy your works and hang them up every day for worship, or do you buy them and use them every day?" Although Li Zhenbang didn't know what he was thinking, but from his It can be seen from the expression that this is a wounded person.