"The mortise and tenon joint is divided into bright tenon and dark tenon. ”

Everything on the table was moved aside, and only this square stool remained.

Master Song carefully dismantled the wooden strips on the bench surface one by one, and Master Qin gave him a hand next to him while explaining to Zhu Gantang.

It was getting late, and they planned to end today's judgment here, and spend the rest of the time on this wooden bench.

"After the furniture is done, the tenon that can be seen on the surface is called the open tenon, and the tenon that cannot be seen without showing the tenon is called the dark tenon, which is also called the stuffy tenon or half tenon. The dark tenon is short, the hole is not pierced, and there is no trace of the tenon on the perforated outside. If you can't see it, you have to fit it tightly, which is very difficult. ”

The dark tenon can't see the internal structure, and it is not easy to disassemble it.

Master Song dismantled while pondering, and discussed a few sentences with Master Qin from time to time.

"Dragon and phoenix tenon. The tenon is made a little dovetail, so that it is more firmly stuck. ”

Master Song removed one, and Master Qin showed it to Zhu Gantang, pointing to the tenon and explaining to him.

"The craftsmanship is good, you can see that these small jobs are very good. Such a small tenon is not done poorly, which is rare. ”

This stick of wood is an inch thick, but only three points wide, that is, it is slender and long. To cut the tenon and tenon on such a narrow side is really not ordinarily delicate.

But this candidate did a very good job, and it can be seen that the two masters can't feel the traces.

As soon as Master Qin explained here, Master Song got stuck over there.

The first stick of wood he easily made

It was removed, but the second wooden strip he pondered for a long time, and it was still firmly fixed on the bench surface, and he couldn't see the slightest possibility of dismantling it!

"I'll try. Master Qin said unexpectedly.

But it was clear that he couldn't try. After a quarter of an hour of tinkering, he officially declared defeat.

"No, you can't unravel it without destroying the structure. ”

"What is the reason for this?" asked Zhu Gantang.

"Most of them are equipped with dark broken head wedges on the dark tenon to reinforce. Master Song said with a deep groan.

"Possibly. Master Qin nodded.

They jumped over the stick and tried to disassemble the next joint.

If this place was the same as the previous one, they wouldn't be able to disassemble it, so they just gave it a try.

It turned out to be a structure they were familiar with: the tenon.

After seeing its structure, they dismantled it with just a small hammer.

"Sure enough, it's a hand tenon—huh?" Master Qin breathed a sigh of relief at first, but the meaning of the sentence quickly took a turn and went up.

"Guessed wrong. Master Song shook his head.

Zhu Gantang always thought that although he didn't know how to practice, his vision and eyesight in this area were fine. But now that he heard the two of them talking, he could only ask in confusion: "What do you mean? What did you guess wrong?"

"The structure in front of us that can't be cracked, we thought it was fixed with a broken wedge, but it wasn't like this. Master Qin smiled bitterly and said, "He is more ingenious than we thought, you see here, he pierced the second wooden strip, and hooked it with a cross to form a fix." In this way, it can be reinforced, but it will not be like a broken wedge, which cannot be unbroken without destruction. Really ingenious. ”

He said twice in a row, really admiring this unknown candidate.

Master Song also said, "You should guess." This is an apprenticeship test, and there are additional points for each tenon. ”

Master Qin and Zhu Gantang nodded together. That's right, if you don't show it clearly to the examiner, how can you get extra points?

With such a certainty, the two masters of Qin and Song continued to disassemble the wooden strips on the bench surface, stopped and discussed when they encountered difficult points, and jumped over to disassemble the next one if the discussion was not clear.

Before I knew it, it was late at night, and the two masters were so focused that they completely forgot where they were, when they were, and what they were going to do tomorrow.

Zhu Gantang didn't urge, he kept watching them do things carefully, listening to their explanations, and took the initiative to stand up halfway through and add new tea to the two masters.

There were forty-one sticks in total, and finally all of them were dismantled and placed on the table one by one.

In order to prevent confusion, Master Song also numbered each wooden strip and marked the location of it extraordinarily.

At this time, the two masters took a long breath at the same time, sat down on the stool, rubbed their necks, and wiped the sweat from their foreheads.

"Forty tenons, two hundred. Master Song made a brief judgment.

"There is also a dovetail between the stool leg and the stool surface, and the forty-first one, you have to add another five points. Master Qin reminded.

"The wooden bench is impeccable from the form to the structure, and the bench surface is spliced into a landscape painting with wooden texture, which has a far-reaching artistic conception and can be of the highest quality, and can get full marks. Zhu Gantang added.

The three looked at each other and shook their heads with a wry smile.

The basic score is 100 points, 41 mortise and tenon joints, 5 points each, a total of 205 points.

With this wooden bench alone, this candidate got a high score of three hundred and five.

Although their "papers" have not yet been judged, it is basically certain that no one can surpass him, and he has won the first place in the first round of exams today!

"Forty-one mortise and tenon joints, all kinds of differences, this ...... Which master trained the apprentice?" Master Qin looked at the wooden strips on the bench on the table, and the shock in his heart still remained in his heart.

When they found out about this just now, each of the three of them was extremely shocked.

The examinee had forty-one wooden bars of the same width and width to build the wooden bench, and the wooden bars were all connected by mortise and tenon joints, and each kind of mortise and tenon was different!

Seeing the back, even the two masters felt a little speechless - this candidate is clearly showing off his skills!

"Are there really so many kinds of mortise and tenon?"

This night made Zhu Gantang recognize a fact.

He is far from being an insider, and most of them are still outsiders. However, he is not hypocritical, he asks questions when he has them, and he is very humble.

"Ordinary carpenters know ten kinds of mortise and tenon joints, which is already very sophisticated. Twenty-four to thirty-six types of master carpenters are enough to support a fifth-level carpenter. However, the changes in mortise and tenon joints can be said to be countless, but the masters have their own secrets, and they are easy not to declare to the public. Master Qin said with emotion.

"It seems that this candidate's master is indeed quite extraordinary. However, it is not easy for this candidate to learn so many things during the apprenticeship stage. Zhu Gantang said.

"Yes, I didn't expect that we still have this kind of talent in Yushui County, and the future hospital examination and government examination are really good-looking. Master Qin said.

Zhu Gantang and Master Song nodded together.

Although they only completed the first of the three exams, they had no doubts about the candidate's future results.

Not to mention passing the county test, most of this year's heads will also be included in his bag!

It was late at night, Xu Wen lay in the stable, holding his head in his hands, looking up at the starry sky through the gap in the roof of the shed, unable to fall asleep.

The sky without light pollution was clear, and a Milky Way hung down, as if injecting starlight into his eyes.

He was reminiscing about today's daytime exams.

After today's exam, Lu Cheng asked him how many kinds of tenons he used, and he said he didn't remember.

Looking at Lu Cheng's eyes, he knew that the other party thought he was casually perfunctory, but what he said was actually true, he really didn't remember.

In today's exam, he entered a very wonderful state.

When he found that the paulownia wood was too hollow and there was no whole wood available, he immediately thought of a way to put together the wood into a surface.

As a result, as soon as he started working, he found that the texture of this paulownia wood was very interesting, with different shades, sparse and dense, and a little piecing could be made into a painting.

Of course, there is no other way to assemble wooden strips except mortise and tenon, but what kind of structure to use and how many kinds to use are problems, but they are not a problem.

Lian Tianqing said that the mortise and tenon structure comes from nature, and there are as many kinds of mortise and tenon structures as there are in the world.

So he only taught the simplest and most basic ones, and left the rest to the disciples to think for themselves.

What Lu Cheng said may be right, Lian Tianqing may really be just lazy, but in Xu Wen's opinion, this is undoubtedly the best teaching method.

Today, the whole world seems to fall into his head in the whole process of making wooden stools, and countless inspirations come to him, and the only thing he has to do is to distinguish these ideas and see which of them can be applied to the work at hand.

He was like a child, fiddling with the toys in his hands, thinking about how to make them more interesting and alternative.

He was addicted to the feeling.

He had never had such pleasure at work.

What he was doing in his hand was a small wooden stool, and it was as if he were holding a whole world in his heart!

It's a great feeling!