Chapter 109: A few books are not as good as twenty

It's actually quite cold by the river in winter, but the water is the clearest and calmest.

The water body is really like a large piece of green crystal, wrapped in the green grass at the bottom of the river, swaying softly.

The clouds in the sky are reflected in it, and a few waterbirds fly between the skylight and cloud shadows, creating a strange illusion of flying in the glass space.

Thinking about Jiang's name, Su You was still curious, did the Song Dynasty have glass?

Well, whether there is one or not, it will be there soon. Glass River will always make you live up to its name.

Walking along the riverside, Su You saw clusters of withered yellow nandi, and then Su You remembered that the driftwood he had collected was ready for use.

Now that we have all the tools, we can make a long tail float.

Return home and look for drifting materials from the warehouse.

The things are not valuable, but you are really particular about choosing them.

Every year in February and March, after several consecutive sunny days, we choose the Ogi wood that matured last year in the valley where the wind and the sun are blowing.

The nandi growing in these places are straight, straight, round and strong. But when the nandi grows in the wind outlet, the roundness cannot be guaranteed.

Selecting on continuous sunny days is to obtain sufficiently dry materials.

Take healthy Nandi with a flower segment length of more than half a meter, and cut off the second and third segments for use. The skin of Nandi will be too thick for further use.

Then select materials that are light yellow in color, shiny, mildew-free, round in body, straight in texture, able to withstand a certain amount of pressure at the joints, full of wadding, with fine white fibers, no holes, and no insects.

After collection, cut them into long sections of forearm length, bundle them together every few dozen, and place them in a dry and ventilated place. Firstly, they can continue to remove moisture. Secondly, there is the greatest benefit. You can use this method to treat Nandi poles.

Perform natural straightening.

After another summer, the buoy can be made.

The key to making the buoy is to remove the excess part of the buoy, so that the remaining four tines on the top can be combined into a short arc-shaped cone, and the two long tines on the bottom can be combined into a long arc-shaped cone.

This all depends on the exquisite technique, and also involves the conversion of plane geometry to solid geometry, as well as the use of extremely thin blades and sandpaper.

This thing was taught to him by a later lacquer master.

Back then, he asked the master to teach him two tricks. The master smiled slightly and handed him a buoy: "You can build this thing well, which means you are a talented person. I will teach you other tricks when the time comes."

A small buoy combines many techniques and techniques of lacquer art. The most important one is wiping paint, which means wiping it with the belly of your fingers and feeling the uniformity and thickness of the paint surface with your fingers. A buoy requires

Painted and polished over a dozen times.

The master selects Ogi materials and makes hundreds of buoys every year to train his hand. This process has been made for more than 50 years.

Even after becoming a national master of arts and crafts, he still worked hard every day. Of course, by this time, the small buoys that came out from under his hands had become high-quality products sought after by fishing friends, with each selling for hundreds to thousands.

Yuan does not vary.

Su You was extremely impressed by this spirit. He had cut thousands of buoys under his hands, so his technique was quite proficient.

After the buoy is cut, a benchmark needs to be made.

This can be made with a bamboo skewer, but to ensure the roundness of the bamboo skewer, you need to clamp it on the grinder and rotate it. Pull the bamboo skewer with your left hand to reduce shaking. Fold the sandpaper with your right hand and grind it with the bamboo skewer.

After the bamboo stick is made, open the center of Nandi, insert the bamboo stick, and check the concentricity. If it is suitable, put it on a conical copper tube, and bake it with alcohol and light to shape it.

After setting the shape, remove the copper tube, Nandi will open a small opening again, just apply isinglass, and wrap the silk thread to fix it.

Finally, take a thin copper wire, cut off a small section, fold it in half, and glue it together with the floating foot. You will get a very small copper circle at the bottom of the floating foot, and then wrap the silk thread around the floating foot with copper wire.

Apply glue to reinforce.

Clamp the floating tail with a clip and hang it indoors to dry in the shade. This takes a whole day, and today's process ends here.

Su You had been busy for most of the day, making dozens of floats of various sizes and hanging them in the house. He cut up the Nandi poles and discarded them, but he lost a whole big vat.

The sound of people gradually came from the entrance of the village, and the villagers who went to the city to go to the market came back.

Su You stepped out of the small courtyard, and sure enough he saw smiling villagers surrounding a mule cart heading this way.

Hachiko was sitting in the car, and the two carts were full of New Year's goods.

Surrounded by villagers carrying baskets on their backs and carrying picks, there were also children who came from the Tutu Temple, and among them there was a tall and fat child, Su Shi.

Hachiko jumped out of the car and shouted happily: "Don't panic, don't panic, families are coming. Tie up the bad boy and take the butcher to drive the pigs first. If the dog is left, you take your younger brothers and sisters to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables and prepare to cook."

, Xiaoyou, come over quickly and help distribute the things, each house has a note, you have to read it!"

Su Shi raised his hand: "I'm coming too, I'm coming too, it's serious to finish the cooking quickly!"

Su You looked at Su Shi and was amused: "Are you really here? You're not home yet on the 27th of the twelfth lunar month?!"

Su Shi said: "I will go back early tomorrow morning. There will be no delay. Look!"

When Su You saw that Su Shi's beloved little donkey was still hanging on the back of the mule cart, he couldn't help but shake his head: "You worked too hard for this meal!"

The folks are also having fun. They don’t know what to buy before entering the city, but they want to buy everything after entering the city.

Red paper, firecrackers, paper money, incense candles, cloth.

Some ruthless people actually bought porcelain! Some ruthless people also bought a piece of silk and divided it up!

Most people still have simple things to eat, including camellia, rice, wheat, salt, various beans, farm tools, and cast iron pots.

After having a taste of cooking, cast iron pots became very popular in Kelong. I finally had a lot of money this year, so I quickly bought one and passed it down to my family in the future!

There is actually nothing wrong with this idea. Even in the early 21st century, it was common for wooden barrels and porcelain bowls to be passed down from family to family in rural areas.

But how much does a cast iron pot in Shitong cost? How come the folks can afford it?

It's not easy to inquire about this matter now, so Su You can only call the number first and let each family move their belongings back first.

After the excitement was over, the two big pigs were also killed, and two hundred coins were thrown to the butcher: "Hard work, hard work."

The butcher felt embarrassed: "I don't dare to accept this money. From now on, Xiaoyou and your pigs will be owned by me and the little butcher! You are the last in the whole village, a rare big fat pig! Let's go!"

"

Su You had no choice but to pick up a piece of sliver of meat and said, "Okay, I won't give you the money. You can take this piece of meat back and try it. If it tastes good, you can learn how to pick flowers over the next year."

Butcher couldn't resist and went away with a smile on his face.

Su You turned around and said happily: "Purchase pig soup, let's start!"

The more children came, the faster things were done. Su You couldn't get involved, so he led Su Shi around.

When he moved to the study room, Su Shi saw the calligraphy and paintings on the table, and his eyes lit up: "Mingrun, can you draw?"

Su You quickly wanted to put it away: "Oh, my painting is shameful..."

Su Shi grabbed him and said, "Don't, don't, don't let me take a look again. It's not bad! If you can use calligraphy to paint, you have already entered the hall... Huh? Phoenix leaves are carved on cold stone, dragon roots are green moss. The fragrance of nature is self-contained, it is not waiting for you.

Did you write the solution?"

Su You rubbed his hands. He didn't dare to show off in front of a great writer, even a great writer, Developer Edition, and said anxiously: "I...I wrote randomly for fun..."

Su Shi rolled up the orchid stone picture carefully and took out a piece of rice paper and said: "Yes, I will take this painting away and go to Meishan City to make it famous for you."

Su You was surprised and said: "Am I not famous enough? In the past six months, I still feel that I have produced too many things."

Su Shi curled his lips in disdain and said meaningfully: "Have any scholar-bureaucrats visited you in the past six months?"

Su You scratched his forehead: "Uh... not really."

Su Shi patted him on the shoulder and said sincerely: "Mingrun, there is a child prodigy in Yin County, Zhejiang, named Wang Zhu..."

Su You put his hand on his forehead: "The prodigy of the Song Dynasty is too much..."

Su Shi waved his hand: "This is not important. What is important is that you have to listen to the poem he just wrote: 'The emperor values ​​heroes, articles teach you. Everything is inferior, only reading is good.'"

"Look at how people do it. Since I was a child, I have sung my poems among the scholar-bureaucrats, and countless people are vying to spread the word and become famous. Look at you, indulged in various arts and crafts all day long, busy with children's food and clothing, and you really responded to the words in your poem.

This sentence goes like this: 'The fragrance of nature is inherent in itself, it does not need to be understood by others.'"

"Indifferent is certainly a good thing, but since you can write such a poem, why do you still hide it? Take it out early!"

Su You once again had a black line on his forehead. I have done so many things that you all can’t see? Do you think I am indifferent just because of these twenty words?

Su Shi was still minding his own business and brainwashing Su You: "Even if you invent thousands and hundreds of things that benefit several towns and cities, such as geometry, physics, chemistry, and even if you publish a hundred books of those things, they won't be as good as these twenty words of yours."

Believe it or not?"
Chapter completed!