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Uncle Chen's rules
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Uncle Chen, who is fat and stocky, is an old smith who sells bamboo steaks on the streets of Yuxing. Although he only sells bamboo steaks, he does not hide his confidence in his craft at all - do you see other people selling them too? It's all from me! He said.
I asked about the price, and Uncle Chen's bamboo steak is really not expensive: 10 yuan for the big one, 8 yuan for the smaller one, and 5 yuan for the smaller one. However, the smallest kind is obviously the tender bamboo hand-knitted, a little bit of corner material is not wasted meaning, I am worried that the pickpocket will not be able to pick up the firewood for a few days, the original bent teeth will be like five fingers stretched out. An old lady who was well dressed and was not a farmer came over, looked at the small one, looked at it for a while, cut the price with her mouth, and said, 4 pieces is not OK?
Uncle Chen said that it would work!
I stood by and coaxed — or you guys each took a step back, how about 4 blocks 5?
They all laughed.
The old lady still paid 5 bucks. I asked the old lady why she was so happy, and the old lady smiled and said, look at him so old.
Uncle Chen looks old, actually only 70 years old, in the present, in the streets of Yuxing, this age is actually impossible to get his hands on.
I asked Uncle Chen how many years he had made bamboo steaks. Originally, I expected him to be able to answer the question for a lifetime, so that it seemed to have a greater sense of history, vicissitudes, and a kind of flow of years, and as a result, his answer made me greatly disappointed - I? I've been making it up for almost four years.
Four years? What does four years mean?
However, immediately after that, he added: In our line, only when the master dies, the apprentice can make it up and sell it.
I took a big detour in my head, and I understood, which means that four years ago, Uncle Chen's master was only old, and it wasn't until he was 66 years old that Uncle Chen was officially discharged.
The uncle who sold brooms next to him said that Lao Chen has been a smith since he was a child, which one will not? When he was young, his family was poor, he learned to weave baskets and make some pocket money to the commune, the first one was set as inferior, the second pair of baskets became medium, and the third pair was superior - Old Chen This person is smart, see what will happen, weaving bamboo steak is pediatrics.
Oh, you young people don't understand, Uncle Chen said, weaving bamboo pickpocketing this line, is really the church apprentice starved to death master, so there is an ancestral rule: the master does not die, the apprentice is not allowed to go to the street to do this - no matter how good the weaving is!
Uncle Chen's ordinary words suddenly shocked me -- although every industry has its own rules, however, the industry of weaving bamboo pickpockets, which is too small to be small, actually has rules, and it is also observed so strictly. In the folk, in ordinary life, some invisible rules are still silently followed.
Source: Sichuan Provincial Local History Work Office
Author: Yang Qingshu (Director of the Cultural, Cultural History and Learning Committee of the Deyang Municipal CPPCC)
Contributed by: Deyang City Local History Office
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