Three or two small wines, an old face slightly red.

Lighting a tower mountain, Liu Changgen took a breath, and then looked at Xia Jie with straight eyes and said.

"Xiaojie, the old village chief wants to ask you something, can you?"

"Old village chief, you are an elder, just say something if you have something, what do you ask for. ”

Xia Changjiang also lit a cigarette gun and waved his hand.

"Yes, old village chief, you can say it, if there is anything that can be done, I will definitely do it for you. ”

Xia Jie immediately said.

If I can't do it, then I'll just say I'm sorry.

"Hehe, it's not a big deal, I just want to ask, what kind of root carving do you have, is it easy to learn?

"Uh...... This is not too difficult, the key is to have a certain art foundation, or be very interested in this area, and have a little talent!"

Xia Jie thought for a while and said, after all, not everyone can have an open life like themselves!

"Then if someone in our village wants to learn, can you teach it?"

Liu Changgen asked expectantly.

Thinking that a tree root was sold for hundreds of thousands, he felt very shocked, went back and tossed, thought about it for a few nights, and felt that this was a good opportunity to drive the villagers to get rich.

"Okay, this is no problem, I can take the time to teach, but I can't guarantee whether I can learn it, just like Zhu Dayong, he is a little perceptive, so he can get started quickly." ”

Xia Jie said very cheerfully.

"Hehe, it's good to be taught, it's good to be taught. ”

Liu Changgen was very relieved.

"By the way, the materials you use are all found in the mountains, are they worth it?"

The old village chief followed.

"Not necessarily. ”

Xia Jie shook his head and said very truthfully: "If it is the roots of the cypress, or the mahogany, rosewood, and rosewood, it is more valuable, and if it is just the wood of the ordinary roots, it is not very valuable." ”

"And it also depends on the size of the material, whether there are insects, whether it is intact and other specific conditions!"

"Well, that means that as long as it is the root of good wood, it can be sold for a good price, and ordinary wood can be sold for some money depending on the situation, right?"

The old village chief understood very well.

"Yes, basically. ”

Xia Jie gave an affirmative reply.

"Then the people of our village, if you get those tree roots down, will you collect them here? Or can you ask Mr. Yao if you want them?"

The old village chief took a hard puff of his cigarette and said with a more excited expression.

He clearly remembered that Mr. Yao wanted to spend 200,000 yuan to buy Xia Jie's root carving that day, but he didn't buy it, and then said that he wanted to find a good root material and ask Xia Jie to process it!

"Accept it, as long as it's a good material, I'll accept it, no need to ask Mr. Yao. ”

Xia Jie said directly.

When people are strong and poor, even if they go to the mountains to dig every day, how many good roots can they find?

Besides, I have to make porcelain myself, and I have other things to do, so I can find one a few times a month.

Zhu Dayong, a cheap apprentice, has already entered the practice period, and he doesn't have time to look for materials every day.

At present, since the old village chief is willing to mobilize everyone to look for it together, it just saves trouble.

"But the old village chief, you have to explain to everyone clearly, first, you can't cut down trees indiscriminately, for the roots, and second, when you want to collect the roots of the cypress, everything must be safe, and it is best to go with several people. ”

Xia Jie followed and advised.

"Of course, that's of course. ”

Liu Changgen is full of promises.

"I kind of have asked about this, Xiaojie, if anyone wants to learn in the future, I will let them go to you. ”

"Brother Xia, you talk slowly, I'll leave first. ”

His heart was satisfactorily answered here, and his old face was smiling so hard that he peeled off the orange.

He couldn't sit still at the moment, he had to hurry back to the village committee and think about how to seize this opportunity and use the resources on the mountain behind him to make the idle people in the village have a head.

"Xiaojie, if the people in the village really want to learn, you have to teach it well!"

After Liu Changgen left, Xia Changjiang explained to his grandson.

No one in the village came to him to learn carpentry, and if he did, he would be happy to teach.

"Don't worry, grandpa, since I agreed, I will definitely say that I will do it, Zhu Dayong will not learn from me!"

Xia Jie said with a smile.

"Xiaodong, you're not idle, why don't you also learn from your brother Jie?"

Xia Changjiang looked at Song Xiaodong, who was picking his teeth with a toothpick and teasing the dog with a bone while picking his teeth.

"Ahh

Song Xiaodong's head immediately shook like a rattle.

How boring and boring this craft is, it's better to learn to fight soft-shelled turtles and fish for yellow eels, can't you make money!

......

In the afternoon, when he returned home, Xia Jie began to prepare for the stone grinding.

Although he has never done it and has not inherited this craft, he has seen the master in the village fight before, so he is very impressed.

He also remembered the relevant steps very clearly, and searched the Internet, so he was ready to try it himself.

"Hello everyone, I just came back from my grandfather's house, and now I'm ready to start stone grinding, this is my first attempt, I hope to do it all at once!"

Seeing the anchor go online, the audience immediately flocked to it.

"Yo, Dali Jie is very modest, it doesn't matter, everyone has the first time, just do it slowly, don't be too anxious. ”

"Hehe, Craftsman, don't tease us, your first time is more brilliant than us a dozen times!"

"I think the live broadcast is very practical, basically I do everything by myself, and I have a strong hands-on ability!"

"Dalijie, come on, my watermelon has been cut, just waiting for you to do it!"

"First, let's cut this stone into squares. ”

The cutting machine is available at home, and it was bought when I was doing root carving, so I can use it directly.

Cut up and down, left and right, left and right, and the two stones, which were originally irregular oval, became rectangular.

"Now, let's draw a circle on this stone and set the shape. ”

As he spoke, Xia Jie took out a black pen and drew a circle directly on the stone.

It's really round, as round as the moon on the fifteenth.

I didn't use the compass, I just relied on the feel, the young "old" craftsman, it's so awesome!

"I'll go, the anchor's drawing circle is too magical, I'm going to watch it ten times!"

"Dalijie, how many circles have you drawn before you can practice it, awesome!"

"Just rush to this circle, I shout 666, plus a bottle of juice for reward!"

"Okay, the shape is decided, let's cut the extra stone, we have to see it when we cut it, if it is off, we have to redo it. ”

Soon, two stone mill prototypes came out.

"Next, we should polish the eye in the stone grinding center, which is used to put the material, and then open a grinding crutch on the opposite side of the grinding eye, so that it is convenient to rotate the grinding crutch with one hand and feed with the other hand. ”

"These two steps are completed, we only need to lay the teeth on the grinding disc, which is related to the thickness of the finished product, so we must do it fine. ”

Xia Jie was doing it while doing it, and with the sound of clanging, a few hours later, two traditional grinding discs with simple shapes were presented in front of everyone.