My Stepbrother Is a Little Pitiful (ChatGPT Translated)

☆ Chapter 76. Hairpin, hairpin.

Chapter 75: Hairpin, Hairpin

"Oh, I didn't expect it. You still have an old lover? Come on, tell us, who is the young widower from?" The woman beside teased with a smile.

The woman being mocked touched the back of her head and laughed, "Oh, isn't it Chunrong from the Yihong Pavilion?"

Upon hearing this, Cheng Songer's mouth twitched slightly. Chunrong. . . wasn't that the little servant the original owner often called for at the Yihong Pavilion?

"I'm just saying, Chunrong is already 26 this year. He's so old now, it's not fun to play with him anymore. It's better to have someone like a top courtesan," the woman continued.

"You think I don't want to? But just listening to a top courtesan play a tune costs over 100 taels of silver. With that money, I could redeem Chunrong and have a good meal. I know it well. Besides, that top courtesan can only be seen but not touched. It's like being caught by a cat for nothing," she replied.

"Exactly, courtesans like him are waiting to be deflowered by wealthy merchants," the woman beside agreed, sighing with disappointment.

Suddenly, she turned her head and noticed Cheng Songer, who had been standing at the door all along.

"What are you doing here?" she asked.

"Who is the boss here?" Cheng Songer looked around.

The woman who claimed to be Chunrong's old lover stood up and said, "It's me. Do you need something?"

When the owner of the blacksmith shop stood up, Cheng Songer noticed that the woman was quite tall and had well-developed arm muscles. Her appearance was not ugly, but rather ordinary. She seemed serious and gloomy when not speaking, but when chatting with others, she showed a straightforward and honest nature.

Cheng Songer handed her the blueprint she had drawn early in the morning and asked, "Can you make this kind of pot here?"

Li Tong, the blacksmith, took the blueprint and examined it for a while.

"Can't you make it?" Cheng Songer worried. She didn't have a background in drawing, so she could only rely on her memory of eating hot pot to depict the copper pot of the old-style hot pot.

Li Tong shook her head, "I can make it, but this thing has a unique shape. I've never seen anything like it before."

The drawing on the blueprint looked like a large pot at first glance, but both the top and bottom of the pot had openings. The opening on the top looked like a chimney, and there was a tray-like object connected to the bottom, with a hole in the middle that resembled a stove.

Li Tong had never seen such a peculiar thing before and found it quite fascinating. She asked, "What is this?"

Cheng Songer replied decisively, "Pot?"

"Pot?" Li Tong was surprised. The pots they had here were the large frying pots used in the earthen stove. "I didn't expect there to be such strange-shaped pots," she exclaimed.

Cheng Songer didn't waste any words, "How much does it cost to make a pot like this? How long does it take?"

Li Tong felt a bit nervous too. After all, it was her first time making this thing, so it was inevitable that she would be unfamiliar with it.

"Give me three days, as for the money. . ." Li Tong thought for a moment. Although the craftsmanship was more complicated than ordinary pots, since it was a copper pot, it shouldn't cost much. "Give me 400 wen, that will do."

Cheng Songer thought for a moment and felt that the price was reasonable. She directly gave her 400 wen and instructed, "If this pot is made well, I will order more than ten from you in the future."