This matter is actually easy to understand. Since everyone knows that after passing the craftsman level, taxes and labor can be reduced, ordinary families must want to take the exam, and they must cultivate craftsmanship skills from an early age.

Therefore, the most basic level of "Tong" is not called "Tong" for no reason. It must be mostly young craftsmen! To put it bluntly, when you are older, you can take the exam for "Tong", regardless of whether it is the common people who throw flowers or the examiners.

, won’t even choose! Because those who come to take the exam when they are older will most likely have no talent!

At noon, when my uncle and nephew came back to the post house, there was an old man who was mixing pig food. Wang Ge saw that the fodder he was making was straw, so he asked: "Ah, I know how to knit straw sandals, and they are very strong. You can give me more every time."

Just tie some straw and I will make you a pair of straw sandals for free, how about that?"

Wang Erlang propped his elbow on the door and stroked his forehead. His niece wanted to do business without capital. She was so shameless!

The old man said: "Then you are not at a loss?"

Wang Erlang's elbow slipped.

Wang Ge smiled and said: "Suffering a loss is a blessing."

Early the next morning, my father-in-law happily lent his uncle and nephew a small cart and pulled it full of straw to the craftsmen's competition venue.

The fence door is opened, and each craftsman is allowed to bring one relative in, and they should take their places according to the squares drawn on the ground. If relatives leave the venue, they are not allowed to re-enter.

There must be good and bad exam locations. Last night, all the candidates waiting for the exam lined up outside the fence. She and her second uncle were ranked last, so they were in the most biased position.

From the first beating of the drum, the copper kettle ticks the clock, and the sound is deafening. Just as Liu Xiaolang said, it rings five times a quarter of an hour.

At the same time, the common people entered with flowers. Only one person from each household was allowed to receive flowers. They were not allowed to receive flowers repeatedly and enter the venue, otherwise they would be severely punished. Everyone was viewing from one area to another, and many people were attracted by the ones in the front. Even if they walked to the back, the flowers had already been thrown out.

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This can't go on like this!

"Second uncle, go quickly..." Wang Ge whispered a few words to Wang Erlang, and the latter quickly left the venue.

The drum beat continued, and the big man beating the drum was an executioner who changed his profession. He had an old habit and would laugh like crazy from time to time, which made the children in the competition even more nervous.

Wang Ge glanced around and found that he was among the oldest group.

There were many examiners patrolling the field, and wooden plaques symbolizing the identity of the examiners hung on their belts. Some of them looked like country officials, and some looked like craftsmen.

Two examiners walked up to her side by side, "tsk tsk" twice, and whispered to each other: "The craftsmanship is good, but I am older, so I am afraid my talent is not strong."

"rational."

The two examiners clicked their tongues again and walked away side by side.

Birdman! She is only ten years old, so I think she is like a seventh-year-old or eighty-year-old! Wang Ge was so depressed that he forced himself to suppress his impatience and gradually entered the game state.

This selection of craftsmen quotas really taught her a lesson one after another.

The first lesson is to rely on subjective inference and take it for granted! The project she originally prepared was a sales rack with a woven "animal world" on it, which not only caught people's attention but also showed her extraordinary skills. She ignored the craftsmen.

Since the selection is in the countryside, the needs of the lower class people account for the vast majority, and the craftsmanship learned must be practical.

The second lesson was to underestimate the disadvantages of the remoteness of Jiashe Village and the lag in information! She fully thought that she was the youngest contestant, but she did not expect to become the oldest one lacking talent.

The third lesson was that she didn’t have many hands to prepare the raw materials! She almost caught her off guard when she changed the knitting products temporarily. In order to earn straw to feed her husband, she had been knitting straw sandals for the past two days, and her hands were swollen.

The fourth lesson is the order of entry! When there was no official order, she thought of entering in the order of queuing, but she still underestimated the ancients. The ancients also knew about queuing overnight. She entered the venue at the end, which was more self-righteous than the first three.

Bad, makes her look stupid and lazy.

The common people holding flowers gradually came to the middle and rear of the field. Wang Ge was no longer distracted and quickly knitted straw sandals. When he first came into contact with straw weaving in his previous life, making straw sandals was one of the basic skills. In the southern region, straw weaving was mostly used, and in the northern region, more straw weaving was used.

Woven with cattail grass.

Simple straw sandals, common in the southern region, only have soles and laces. Farmers usually wear these straw sandals when going to paddy fields.

Due to the cold weather in the northern region, straw sandals are divided into two layers, the inner and outer layers, with the sole and upper being one piece. The weaving steps are divided into: sole, upper, laces, and bottom seal.

Quzhi Township belongs to the Southern Territory, and all the children there are weaving straw sandals, all of which use the form of soles and laces.

Wang Ge did not dare to be an exception. He only had a unique style at the end of the shoe, with an extra semi-arc heel. Two laces were extended on both sides of the heel to wrap around the ankle. It can be worn more firmly and follow the foot better. Because it was temporarily changed to a braided straw shoe.

, she had no auxiliary tool, a target shoe (a special tool placed in front to hook the straw rope), so she had to sit in a squatting position and use her own feet instead.

Liu Xiaolang, who had come to inspect, stopped in the distance and frowned slightly: It was so indecent and not like a girl.

Wang Ge was engrossed in knitting and didn't pay attention to this scene, so he couldn't see that the other party also had an examiner's wooden sign hanging on his waist.

Boom, boom, boom!

The sound of the drum in the center of the venue is like a whip, whipping time, as if it can speed up the flow of time.

An hour later, outside the fence of the examination room.

"People are poor and have short ambitions! If you give them straw, you can weave it! From tomorrow onwards, we will give you a bunch of straw and a pair of straw sandals, only two hundred pairs! There is no shop like this in this town! If you doubt my girl's skills, please don't hesitate.

But go to her and try it on!" Wang Erlang suppressed his face and said what his niece taught him dryly.

Next to him was the old man who was responsible for feeding the pigs in the post house. After receiving the benefit of a bag of grain, he was willing to be recruited as an advertiser: "I prove that this gentleman is telling the truth. Hey, look at what I am wearing now."

Yes, those are the shoes made by the little girl, okay? Hey, they are the ones made by the little girl farthest away!"

The two advertised outside the venue, and the examiner who was disturbed was helpless.

Most of the people who did not enter the venue were relatives of the contestants. Some people were really angry and complained: "Examiner, don't they think this is cheating?"

"They didn't ask for the flowers directly! Besides, you could have yelled the same thing, so they couldn't hold it in anymore?" After the examiner scolded the accusers, he glared at Wang Erlang and the pig feeder with dissatisfaction, showing no signs of concern.

He walked away without bothering.

The relatives participating in the competition are so useless. They are not so poor and short-minded! They can make two pairs of shoes with just a bunch of straw, and they make a lot of money!

And two hundred pairs of shoes are given as gifts? How many pairs of shoes can be made in total without eating, drinking or sleeping for a day? After working with their children to get the "craftsman quota", they do nothing but make straw sandals for free.

You know, the official "craftsman boy" exam will be in two months!

"Bah! Shameless!"

"I've never seen such a shameless person!"

"Forget it, there are twenty places in total, and we all thought there were only nineteen! We are not like those who have no ambitions."

"Twenty craftsmen will go to the county to take the exam on behalf of our town magistrate, and their face will be ruined by this person! Bah!"

Wang Erlang spat and shuddered. Alas, he really wanted to knit straw sandals so that his niece would be scolded.

Boom!

Boom!

The big drum continued, and someone broke down. After a beat of the drum, a bowl of strong liquor was handed to the big man playing the drum, which reminded the big man of the glorious career of the executioner in the past. He looked up to the sky and sprayed the wine, and hit the hammer three times in a row: fun.

Have fun! What he is beating is not a drum, but a countdown to the life of the condemned prisoner!

For a moment, except Wang Ge, all the children in the audience stopped and were dumbfounded. Why did they beat the drum three times in a row? Does it count as game time?
Chapter completed!