There is a proverb that there are three hardships in life: I will sell tofu by storing a boat.

As the "worst" profession in history, the casting of boats, ironsmiths and selling tofu, without exception, are all work that takes effort, takes time, pays attention, and is not profitable.

Those who are on the boat are afraid of drowning people, those who are thugs are afraid of getting rid of the mold, and those who sell tofu are afraid of breaking the goods.

This has almost become an eternal truth.

However, as the long flow of time flows, many "truths" that carry the wisdom of their predecessors have begun to embark on a biased path of no return.

The pain of raising a boat lies in drinking water in the river, living in the boat in the river, coming and going in the wind and rain, and the lonely boat wanders among the rivers and lakes, the pain lies in the body, and even more bitter in the heart.

In ancient times, sailing was a profession that was urgently needed.

If the skills are not good, or the weather is not good and drowns people, the life of the boatman will be over.

In modern times, sailing is a leisure profession.

The chore has long been replaced by well-connected bridges and powered ships.

If you want to find a boatman, you have to go to a number of scenic spots.

Say far away.

Follow Xu Zhimo's poems to Cambridge University to find a boatman to raft on the Kang River.

Go to Venice to find a boatman to support Gondola and think about the past and present of the Water City.

Which one is not an elegant and expensive job?

Let's talk closer.

Whether it is the Wushang boat in Wuzhen or the Nine-curved bamboo raft in Wuyi Mountain.

Which one is not a safe and profitable job?

The three sufferings in life are one of them.

Besides, if you sell tofu, you are afraid of breaking the goods when you get up early and go to bed late, you don’t take modern machinery and plastic packaging seriously at all.

Not to mention the tofu packaging level of a list of soy products companies, there is now a small factory.

As long as there is no strong impact at the level of earthquake, it is impossible to break.

If you really don’t even have a machine, you can only have the ability to make tofu from the ancestors.

In a country where food is the most important thing for people, hand-ground tofu is sold more expensive than meat.

As long as the skills are good enough, no one has ever sold the "ancient tofu" that costs 100 yuan per serving.

More of the gourmets are rushing to eat. Really delicious tofu is not afraid of being expensive or selling.

The three sufferings in life are gone, and the second one is gone.

To be honest, there is still any suffering, from the past to the present, and only the endangered profession of pure handmade ironwork is left.

Without the two bitterness of raising a boat and selling tofu, the "only seedling" of ironwork has already reached a new level of suffering.

I have heard of a hand-fired Danish Copenhagen porcelain bowl that costs thousands of yuan each.

I have also heard of a bag that costs tens of thousands of yuan per bag, purely hand-woven bottega    a.

Have you ever heard of a handmade pressure cooker?

Even if there is really, the quality cannot be comparable to that made by machines.

A little impurity cannot be removed cleanly, a small crack has not been processed, and it explodes as soon as it explodes, without any discussion.

The iron tools that are honed with hard-working hands cannot be compared with the quantity, quality, or safety of the machine.

To this day, most people who still want to make a living by relying on traditional iron-making skills have miserable evenings.

As one of the most "brave" professions in the era of cold weapons, blacksmith firmly occupies the top spot in China's current occupations.

Qi Yu was so brave that he had such a "brave" family background.

Her family counted eight generations, starting from the great-grandfather's grandfather's grandfather, and has been blacksmiths for generations.

And it is the kind of pure handicrafts, ancient methods, and iron-making families that have been inherited very well, such as fake bags.

The eighth generation goes forward, because the genealogy is broken, it is impossible to verify it.

In the family history that began with the word of mouth between eight generations of ancestors, the world's number one sword engraved with the eight-character bird seal inscription [Jiu Qian's sword], the Yue King Goujian sword, originated from the ancestral craftsmanship of the Qi family.

Even historians have not figured out who created the famous sword of King Goujian of Yue. The credibility of the family's unofficial history is comparable to myths and legends in Qi Yu's opinion.

The family history of Qi's "brave" did not leave any blessings for the younger generation. I had to say anything. Grandpa's father used the family's financial resources to send Grandpa Qi's travel overseas in the war years.

With his ancestral ironworking skills, my great-grandfather made a little money in Malaysia and became a non-famous patriotic overseas Chinese.

At the beginning of the founding of New China, when the motherland needed foreign exchange the most, my great-grandfather used overseas remittance to buy a three-story small building with shops in the city center and became a returned overseas Chinese.

The grandmother wrote the four words "Qijia Iron Shop" with her own hands and made a gold-plated plaque.

Every day, my great-grandfather brought his grandfather, who was not yet adult, to make irons in the Qijia iron shop. Because of his outstanding skills, he was deeply loved by neighbors.

At that time, those who had a little extra money at home were willing to use a handmade Qijia knife to come to the kitchen of their own town.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Qi Yu had no idea how the iron shop business was like in other places, but Qijia iron shops were definitely crowded.

That was also the most glorious age in the modern history of Qi Yujia.

Unfortunately, Qi Yu's great-grandfather lacked brand awareness and failed to grasp the pulse of the times, making [Qijia Iron Shop] a national brand like Zhang Xiaoquan.

If you persist in some crafts, there will always be times when you shine. However, if you have to cherish your own clothes, insist on family inheritance and use purely handmade ancient ironwork, you will never have the chance to burn.

In the 1980s, neighbors and neighbors gradually began to have brand awareness and gradually used the Double Happiness Knife, Zhang Xiaoquan Knife, and Golden Gate Knife. Some families with better conditions even started using German Double Hinge Knife.

The neighbors used to praise Qijia iron shop for good skills, but at this time they began to dislike the vulgarity of iron and disturb the people.

In the eyes of the city people, Qijia Iron Shop gradually became out of place, so it was deserted.

The once glorious Qijia iron shop has become a broken house in disrepair in the hands of Grandpa Qi Yu, who is unwilling to keep up with the times.

Occasionally, people who come to make knives or other tools are old people who have had a relationship with their great-grandfather back then and want to be nostalgic.

Grandpa Qi wanted to support a family and also to support his father in school. In addition, it was not easy to make money in that era. Until his death, his grandfather could not do a thorough renovation of his already dilapidated house.

Grandpa Qi died in hatred. The only thing that made him feel relieved was that he trained father Qi to become a college student and assigned to work in a metallurgical factory in the city.

In Grandpa Qi's view, metallurgy is a higher-level ironwork, and it can be regarded as a son who inherits his father's business. He can also have the honor to go on to meet the ancestors of the Qi family.

However, things went against my wishes. In a highly mechanized metallurgical factory, it was simply a fantasy to find a job of hitting irons with a hammer.

Qi's father worked in a metallurgical factory for ten years, while Qi's grandfather showed off his college student son to his neighbors for ten years.

But there was never a smile on Qi's father's face, so dark that he didn't even want a wife.

After Grandpa Qi passed away, Dad Qi began to re-engage in the iron ancestral business.

The iron-making gene that has penetrated deep into the bone marrow and has been influenced by since childhood, Qi’s father’s iron-making skills are better than others.

Unfortunately, when the times want to eliminate a profession, it is unsustainable to rely solely on family legends and personal craftsmanship.

If the Qijia iron shop in Grandpa Qi's hand is deserted, then the Qijia iron shop in Dad Qi's hand is no longer caring about it.

If you don’t have a job, you will have no money to make money.

Dad Qi, who was unable to make ends meet and could only make ends meet, had much more smiles on his face than when he was in a metallurgical factory.

I don’t know if it was because of Ai Xiao that made Qi’s father look more meticulous or because he had a three-story building in the city center. After a year of hard work, Qi’s father completed the first step of getting married and starting a business.

That year, Qi's father was already a thirty-two-year-old man, and Qi's mother was only twenty-two years old. Not only was she in her prime, she was still a recognized beauty in a radius of ten miles.

Neighbors who have moved away due to demolition all say that this is the blessing that dad Qi has accumulated in his previous life.

Dad Qi deeply agrees.

The first thing that Mama Qi did when she got married was to think about how to sell this three-story building and then buy a house with an elevator in a high-end community that was about to be built nearby.

A house that lasted nearly fifty years, whether it was repaired or rebuilt, required a large amount of money that Dad Qi could not afford at the time.

In Qi's mother's opinion, selling a house that is both worldly and earthly but is extremely dilapidated and buying a "more suitable for living" next to it is a happy solution.

Especially when Qi Yu's mother got pregnant with Qi Yu as soon as she got married.

"The Qi family's ancestral home cannot be sold!" Qi's father rejected Qi's mother's proposal.

"Why can't you sell it? Look at the side, the ones sold, the ones moved away, the demolition and demolition are almost in ruins. Who still lives in a house like ours? To put it nicely, it's a small foreign house, and to put it badly, it's a dangerous house." Qi's mother couldn't understand it very much.

"If it really becomes a dilapidated house, it will be demolished and rebuilt. I will find a way to make money. I will definitely not be able to sell it." Dad Qi refused to let him go.

"Don't sell it? Do you think you can stay there if you don't sell it?"

"Thank you, few people, look down on your ironworking skills, occasionally giving you the opportunity to knock on me twice."

"If you beat you all day long and leave a few neighbors and don't look for you, the Environmental Protection Bureau will fine you."

When Qi's mother married Qi's father, she heard that the Qi family's house was about to be demolished, and she also heard that Grandma Qi's agricultural household was a compensation of three yuan, and even if it was not effective, the demolition compensation would be worth millions.

Seeing that the nearby houses were almost demolished, but the Qi family's "dangerous house" showed no sign of being pushed down, Qi's mother began to be anxious.

"The house was passed on to my father by my grandfather. When my father left, he only told me that he could not sell the house. I could not make a mistake, but I could not sell the house left by my grandfather." Qi's father's grandfather was Qi Yu's great-grandfather.

Since marrying the "Ten Miles Flower", Qi's father has always been obedient. It is the first time that he is so stubborn.
To be continued...