"No problem, no problem!

This house is too crowded, there is no way, the house is so big, how many children are there in the family!" The aunt also noticed Zhang Junping's gaze and explained a little embarrassed.

In the eighties such housing conditions were normal.

Like Feng Gong's "Nothing to Steal Fun", a family of six people of two generations lives in two cramped bungalows, which is very common in Beijing.

In the TV series, Feng Gong and his wife slept with a tree in their arms, which many people regarded as a joke.

Only those who have experienced it can appreciate how much bitterness is contained in the bread here.

Without the help of his aunt, Zhang Junping moved the Eight Immortals Table to the courtyard alone.

"Auntie, there are two ways to fix this!

One is what I just said, add a plug, there is no problem with it for one or two decades, you can look at it and give it three cents or two cents!

Again, I will change this position for you, change it to a chuck tenon, to ensure that you will never shake again for the rest of your life!

You'll have to pay at least five cents for this!"

"It's really not bad for a lifetime?" the aunt expressed doubts about Zhang Junping's words.

"Auntie, I'm a college student at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, can I cheat you out of these cents?

Let's put it this way, add a plug and I'll be able to do it in an hour at most, and if I change to a chuck, I'll have to do it for half an afternoon!"

"Oops! You're a college student?

Otherwise, this college student is amazing!

Not only is he good at school, but he can also repair furniture!

Okay, aunt believes you, then you can change it to a chuck for me!" When the aunt heard that Zhang Junping was a college student at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, her attitude immediately changed.

These days, college students are definitely popular, and everyone's trust in college students is also high!

"Okay auntie, do you have any wood at home? I need some wood! Not much, just so much!" Zhang Junping gestured.

"Yes, there are quite a few in the kitchen, well, they are all there, you can pick them yourself!"

The wood that my aunt was talking about was a pile of worn-out furniture that I didn't know where I got it.

It was dismantled by the aunt and burned as firewood.

Zhang Junping was stunned, a little unable to believe his eyes.

Hurriedly walked over, picked up a wooden brace, and observed it carefully.

That's right!

It's the kind of wood I want.

What a wickedness!

Burn the best Hainan Huanghuali furniture as firewood!

I've never seen such a loser!

In a few decades, if my aunt knew that she had burned thousands of catties of Hainan huanghuali as firewood, would she smoke it?

"Auntie, I think this wood is very good, it's a pity to burn the fire!"

"What's the pity of a pile of broken wood, my eldest son works at the thrift station, and they have a lot of wood like this.

These woods are forbidden to be burned, but they are too hard to split!"

The corners of Zhang Junping's mouth twitched when he listened.

Take Hainan Huanghuali as firewood to burn, and the wood is hard and not easy to split?

If Auntie can still say such things after 20 years, Zhang Junping will definitely give Auntie a full score.

This is forced to pretend, and Ma's father also has to pick a thumbs up.

"Auntie, I see that your family has a large population! There must be six people, right?" Zhang Junping asked casually.

"That's six, nine! Two sons, a girl, and two grandchildren!"

Good guys, three generations of grandparents, nine people live in three square miles.

The courtyard houses in Beijing are regulated, and the area of a house is about 11-12 square meters.

With such a small room, there are three people living in an average room, and the living environment can be imagined.

It's okay to say that the child is small, and when the child is older, then ......

Just thinking about it makes you feel suffocating.

Then he laughed dumbly, he was a person who had not yet gained a firm foothold in Beijing, and he was actually worried about other Beijingers.

What a idleness!

"Auntie, do you think this will work, give me these woods, and I will help you repair the Eight Immortals Table for free!

If you have anything else to repair, I'll fix it for you too!" Zhang Junping looked at his aunt with some expectation.

"Gee, how bad is that?

It's just a pile of wood for burning pots, how can you do it for nothing?

Take it if you want!

How much money should be paid for repairing the table, Auntie will give it to you!" Auntie waved her hand very generously, indicating that the wood was taken away, and the money would be given.

"Auntie, these woods are the ingredients for cooking pots in your place, but they are different in my hands!

I'll go back and pick up the house, I can make a maza, and it's convenient for me to sit.

Even if you take it and sell it, you can sell it for seven or eight cents!

So, don't be polite to me, I'll take advantage of you!"

"You little comrade, you are real!

How else can you craftsmen be popular!

We will be the rotten wood of the pot, and it will become a treasure in your hands!"

"I'm used to it, and I feel distressed when I see such a good wood burning fire!

Thank you, Auntie, for your success!

Go back and make Maza, I'll give you one!" Zhang Junping said to his aunt with a smile.

As a traveler, a former carpenter, and an inheritor of intangible culture, it is understandable to pick up leaks with his ability.

But.

Eat and wipe clean, this kind of tasteless thing, he can't do it.

"You Xiao Zhang, you are too real, then the aunt will not be polite to you!

You college students are just different!

Do things atmospherically!

Auntie will pour you water!"

A pile of broken wood for free furniture, and a white Maza, the aunt happily went to pour water for Zhang Junping.

After the matter was said to be good, Zhang Junping was no longer verbose, took an axe, snapped a few times, and dismantled the Eight Immortals Table to pieces.

"Oh, why did you dismantle it?" The aunt came out with water, and was startled by Zhang Junping's bold movements, and almost threw away the ceramic jar in her hand.

"Auntie, there's no way to fix it if you don't open it!

This is furniture made by old craftsmanship, and you won't damage the furniture if you disassemble it!" Zhang Junping explained with a smile.

The chuck tenon is divided into four parts: leg and foot, tooth head, tooth strip and panel.

The legs are the table legs.

The panel is the table top.

It only needs to be processed to make four other strips and four heads.

It's easy to say, it's easy to make, but it's not easy at all.

After measuring the size, Zhang Junping picked up the saw and sawed off the tenons of the four table legs.

Zhang Junping's movements were very crisp, and the aunt was trembling when she watched from the side, "Xiao Zhang, why did you saw it off?"

"Auntie, this tenon does not match the modified chuck tenon!"

"Then if you saw it like this, wouldn't the table be short?"

"It's okay, I'll pick you up later!"

"One piece, how can it be strong?

I'll tell you, you broke the table for me, and you'll have to pay for it!"

"Auntie, after I pick it up, you check it yourself, if it is not strong, I will compensate you for a new Eight Immortals table!"

"Okay, what you said, it's not strong, you pay me a new one!" the aunt admonished again.

Zhang Junping explained to his aunt that the work in his hands did not stop.

Find four pieces of wood and use the saw to cut them to the length you need.

The wood was then trimmed to the same size as the legs with a planer.

Then start drawing lines on it.

Zhang Junping's movements were fast, as if by magic, sawing off half of the table leg and one end of the wood, and then using a chisel to cut the tooth socket on it.

In the end, Zhang Junping put the two pieces of wood together, took out a freshly made wooden deed nail, and threaded it into the hole left by the wood after it was put together.

Two pieces of wood turned into one.

"Auntie, try it and see if it's strong!" Zhang Junping said as he slammed the ground a few times.

The aunt took the table leg with some disbelief, and also followed Zhang Junping's example, and beat it on the ground a few times.

There is nothing wrong with the splicing place!

"It's really sturdy, it's the same as the whole one!

Unexpectedly, Xiao Zhang, you look very young, and your ability is really not small, much more powerful than those two boys in my family!"

"Haha, aunt, some people used to say that carpenters are not afraid of long, blacksmiths are not afraid of short!

Actually, this is all the words of the layman!

We carpenters are also not afraid of shortness!

The process I use is called the nail tenon, not to mention your table legs, the columns in the courtyard in the past are spliced in this way!

For hundreds of years, nothing has happened!"

"This pillar is also connected?" the aunt asked with a look of disbelief as she looked at the pillar in the hallway.

"Of course, you think! How many courtyard houses do we have in Beijing?

How many of these columns must there be?

The eunuchs are okay, but the average family, where can they get so many thick, long and straight pillars?

You can only use spliced columns!"

"Then why can't you see it at all?"

"Auntie, the pillars you see are all treated with special technology, and you can't see it from the outside!"

"Master Zhang, you know so much!" sighed the aunt.

After the table leg splicing, then the tooth head and tooth strip were processed.

It took more than two hours to get it right.

The table of the Eight Immortals was reassembled, and a plug was added to the falcon's eye with its legs and feet crossed, and the work was completed.

"Auntie, this table has been repaired for you, you can check it and see if it works!"

"Okay, the young man is very quick to work, so soon to get it done?" The aunt looked around, shook the table with her hand, and smiled with satisfaction: "It's good, it's not shaking at all!"

It's just that...... Why do I look at it, it's a little awkward?"

"Haha, auntie, you feel awkward because of here!

I added a tooth strip and a tooth plate, which don't match the color of the original table, so it looks awkward!"

The original Eight Immortals table was brushed with a layer of jujube red paint, and the tooth strips and tooth plates added later were all primary colors, which naturally looked a little awkward.

"As soon as you say it, it's true!"

"Actually, this is easy to solve, you can buy some paint and brush it!

You have to have ready-made paint in your house, I'll scrape all the tables for you, repaint them all the way, and it's exactly like new!"

"Paint? Yes, there is paint at home, you wait, I'll get it for you!" said the aunt as she turned to look for paint.

Zhang Junping just said it casually, but he didn't expect that there was really paint in his aunt's house.

Gotcha, let's do it!

Who let himself pick up so many old mahogany materials and Hainan huanghuali materials for nothing?

It's scraps, but it's worth a lot of money.

Even if it is cut into beads, it can be sold for millions in future generations.

With his own craftsmanship, carved into hand-held pieces, small ornaments, that tens of millions of hundreds of millions of dollars have no problem at all.

What's more, although Zhang Junping didn't look carefully, he had already determined through a simple sweep that many of these piles of broken furniture could be repaired.

Disassemble the table again, use a planer to gouge all the components, and remove the paint on it.

Then use sandpaper to polish the various components of the Eight Immortals Table.

If it weren't for the scraps of old mahogany and Hainan huanghuali, Zhang Junping's business would have lost a lot.

A piece of sandpaper alone is more than five cents.

It's not that easy to buy yet.