When Yao Yuan woke up again, the sun was already shining brightly outside.

There was an extra towel on his body. It was probably because Kang Kang woke up and went downstairs to work, watching him sleeping in the living room, secretly covering him.

He took off the towel and quilt and walked slowly outside.

In the yard outside, a man with a blue-ply cabbage dress on Zhongshan, who was about the same age as him, sat on the stone bench next to the stone table and tinted the umbrella on the stone table. There were also a few umbrellas on the stone table, all of which were broken at home.

With the further revitalization of the national economy, more and more people from the south come here to do craftsmanship.

From time to time, there will be shouting "repairing umbrellas" with a strong southern accent from time to time. The language is difficult to understand. If you don't listen carefully, you can't hear what you are calling.

However, there is no need for everyone to understand what he calls. Because those who do this craft work are usually rural people in Ningbo, with a unique accent, and everyone knows what they are doing at first.

In addition, there are also many southerners, such as those who play cotton, those who gather pots and bowls, those who make gold and silver jewelry, and those who rent shops and hair salons in the city.

Yao Yuan slowly walked behind the man, watching him take a pair of pointed-nosed pliers and put iron sheets into the place where the umbrella had broken the keel. The iron sheet was cut from the iron can box, a small strand about five millimeters wide, about fifty millimeters long.

Yao Yuan asked behind him, "Neither Ningbo?"

The man was startled when he heard someone behind him. After seeing Yao Yuan clearly, he then spoke in difficult Mandarin and replied to Yao Yuan, "He is from Zhuji."

Yao Yuan said, "I said, you just don't know how to learn. Look at the iron sheet you use, such a thin tinplate, can it be strong even if you connect the keel? Look at the pliers you use, which are so small that they have no tooth marks. Can the iron sheet be embedded in the groove of the keel? You are just fooling people, and if you connect it like this, it will break in a few times. I said, are you sincere and not doing it well, and you will be thinking about it and then looking for you to repair it if it breaks, right?"

The man was unhappy and said, "Brother, you don't understand. It will only fall off if the iron sheet is thick."

Yao Yuan stopped doing it: "I don't understand? When I was able to repair umbrellas, you were still farming at home. I had never seen such umbrellas look like!"

The man was not convinced: "Brother, you know how to repair umbrellas, so you don't have to ask me to repair them."

"Hey, isn't it?" Yao Yuan was really angry, "Get up and stand aside, and see how I repair it!"

The man was thinner and looked at Yao Yuan's big and thick, and he couldn't argue, so he had to stand up.

Yao Yuan sat on the stone bench he was sitting on just now, picked up his pliers and looked at it, then threw it down and said, "If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools. Do you know what it means? Look at the tool you use, what kind of tricks are all this? Let's see if the tinplate you use is so thin, can it be used? If you fool your business, the business will fool you! Do you understand?

Are you thinking in your heart, I am walking around the streets and alleys, and I repair the umbrella here this time, maybe I will never come here again in my life, and it doesn’t matter whether the quality is good or bad, right?

I tell you, your idea is wrong! If you shoot a shot and change the place, repair a lot of fakes and shoddy products, and destroy the reputation of your peers, your life will not be easy.

Do you think, if you run around like this, it costs a lot, or just stay in one place and accumulate the cost of old customers?

You fight guerrillas everywhere, and you are not familiar with the place, and you may not be able to find cost-effective hotels and restaurants with high cost. The cost will naturally be high. If you don’t have old customers, you will not be popular and it will be difficult to maintain a stable income. Some customers even have fixed workers who often repair umbrellas in this area. If they only recognize them, they will not recognize you. If they are not worried about you, they will not give you work, and your income will be further reduced.

Think about it, are you better to work in a fixed place with quality and quantity, or do you better to fool your customers like now?"

The man made Yao Yuan feel impatient and said, "Brother, are you still practicing? Don't delay my business?"

Yao Yuan shook his head: "Roasted wood cannot be carved, and the wall of dung cannot be dirty. I will tell you these principles to teach you a way to make a living. It is really a child who cannot be taught!"

After saying that, he stood up, went to the restaurant in the east, found a pair of larger pointed-nosed pliers from his tool box, and brought a thicker piece of tin sheet.

He sat back on the stone bench and said to the man: "Look at how I practice well, so I can learn more in the future."

After saying that, he used scissors to hug a thick piece of iron sheet and put it on the broken keel. Using his own pointed-nosed pliers, he slowly inserted the tin sheet into the keel, and the keel bones were connected.

"Did you see?" Yao Yuan said to the man, "If you follow up like this, you will never break from here again in your lifetime."

The man looked at the keel attached to the umbrella, then looked at Yao Yuan, and suddenly bowed his hand and said, "Brother is amazing, I'm convinced."

After saying that, he packed up the military green schoolbag he made his toolkit, left without looking back.

This made Yao Yuan stunned: "Hey, I haven't given you a salary yet!"

As soon as the umbrella repairer left, Aunt Jiang came out of the north room and looked at Yao Yuan and asked, "Where are the umbrella repairers I found?"

Yao Yuan is so upset this time, isn’t it okay to be troubled!

He pointed to the gate of the yard and said, "Has he gone out? Maybe something urgent is happening, maybe he will come back in a while."

Aunt Jiang looked at him suspiciously, then looked at the tools Yao Yuan brought on the stone table, and then smiled.

Yao Yuan opened his mouth and finally said, "I didn't drive him away."

Aunt Jiang smiled again: "If he doesn't come back, all these umbrellas will be repaired by you! After repairing them, I will check them. If there is one that cannot be used, you should not come out of this yard today!"

Yao Yuan really hates that he is so mean now. Why do you say you are doing nothing and eat enough to do this little thing? If you want to teach someone a way to make a living, they don’t appreciate you at all. Maybe they still scold you in their hearts. It’s really thankless to do your best!

Under Aunt Jiang's strict gaze, he had to sit down and start his own umbrella repair journey.

In his previous life, his father could build umbrellas, and he learned this skill from his father.

After traveling through time, I happened to catch up with those arduous years. Aunt Jiang’s umbrella broke and he repaired it. Of course, the stronger the things in his home, the better, and it was much better than these umbrella repairers who fooled the poor.

Aunt Jiang knew that he could repair umbrellas, but she saw that he was busy and had no nerve to waste his time and asked him to repair it.

This time, Aunt Jiang found an umbrella repairman and let him run away with nothing to do. Now, I have to do it if I don’t want to do it.

If you are really busy, do you still have the time to anger the umbrella repairman here? Or not.

Yao Yuan muttered while repairing the umbrella: "I am a big company boss. You ask me to repair the umbrella. You are not useless to kill chickens. Do you use a beef knife to hold a bean bag as dry food? Do you know how much benefit I can produce when I work one day? It's enough to buy you hundreds of umbrellas!"

Aunt Jiang said, "Don't talk nonsense. Who told you to get rid of the umbrella repairman? If the umbrella repairman runs away, you have to repair it. If it doesn't work well, don't think about going out! I don't care whether you are big boss or big boss!"

I worked until lunch, and Yao Yuan had only half repaired the umbrella. Not only did the broken keel bones, but there were also those that could not be opened and those that could not be held open. Some of them had to be disassembled and then put them on a little bit.

At that time, a folding umbrella cost more than ten yuan, which was still very expensive based on the income of ordinary people at that time. In other words, families like Yao Yuan did not take this thing seriously and bought a new one if it was broken.

Aunt Jiang is used to hard life, and she is reluctant to throw away such expensive things.

It’s also a blessing that Aunt Jiang has the habit of being thrifty and always looks at them with the standards of ordinary people and is not allowed to steal the mouth and eat too good things. Otherwise, this family still doesn’t know how fat they are.

Following Yao Yuan, I knew a lot of truths after resisting this life. Diet reasonably, maintaining body shape, facial care, and fitness exercise are all concepts that have been ahead of this era for a whole forty years. They made Yao Yuan mumble in her ears all day long. She listened to it and saw the benefits of doing according to Yao Yuan's words.

Now, at the age of thirty-five, the mother of two children still maintains a perfect body shape and delicate skin. She is still at the age of 27 or 28, and she can't tell that she is old at all.

It’s beautiful, her skin is better than resistance to darkness, and she doesn’t pay attention to it, so she gains a lot of weight when she is pregnant.

The two sisters stood together, and they didn't know each other, and they would never have thought that Kangkang would be a three-year-old sister.

Kang Kang came downstairs to cook at noon and saw Yao Yuan sitting in the shade of the yard repairing an umbrella, without saying anything.

When she finished cooking, she called Yao Yuan to go to dinner. Yao Yuan said, "Mom said, I can't fix the umbrella well, so I'm not allowed to eat."

Aunt Jiang came out of the small building in the north and fought and said, "Don't listen to him nonsense. If I asked him to repair the umbrella, he wouldn't do it. He was angry with me. What did you say? Killing a chicken with a ox knife, what else would you do? Anyway, it was a set of things. He said that he was delayed from working for a day and there were hundreds of umbrellas left. I was scared, but I just didn't want to repair it.

I didn't plan to ask him to repair it. I found an umbrella repairer. He thought that he was not good at living and couldn't stand it, so he drove him away. You said that he drove him away and repaired the umbrella. Who would he repair this umbrella if he didn't repair it?"

Kang Kang kept laughing as he heard this. Yao Dasha, he was idle and had nothing to do, and was teasing his mother-in-law at home.

She deliberately raised her face and shouted at Yao Yuan: "Yao Dasha, I'll say it again, eat! Have you heard it?"

Yao Yuan looked at Kang Kang and was amused: "My mother hasn't taken Yaoyao and Yuanyuan yet. I will repair this one more time. After repairing this one, it will be a good time to have a meal."

At noon, the couple didn't come back and both ate in the company cafeteria. After dinner, Kang Kang went upstairs. Looking at Yaoyao and Yuanyuan's lunch break, Aunt Jiang didn't know where to go.

Aunt Jiang said that after living here for the past two years, she has made many new friends around her. In addition to picking up and dropping off children to and from school, she just visits her friends and chats, and then goes to the vegetable market to buy vegetables back.

Yao Yuan had lunch and didn't rest, so he continued his umbrella repair work. He was also thinking about going to the company after finishing the umbrella repair, checking the statistical data of the research department and the human resources department, and then going to see Liu Ergan, chatting with him for a few words, and then going home.

He does not participate in the company's specific affairs, so he rarely goes to the company and works from home.

I worked until 2:30 in the afternoon and finally repaired the last umbrella. I looked at the umbrella opened in the yard with some pride. These are all his achievements!

Just as he was about to collect the tools and go out, Aunt Jiang sent the child to school, holding a bunch of umbrellas in his hand and said, "You're so stupid, look, our neighbors in the alley have many broken umbrellas, should you repair them together?"
Chapter completed!