After Xu Wen finished eating the noodles, he felt lazy. Obviously, I just woke up not long ago, and I felt a little sleepy.

Lian Linlin was specially waiting here to cook breakfast for him, and after he finished eating, she was busy cooking for Lian Tianqing and the other senior brothers.

The slender figure was busy in the bright kitchen, and Xu Wen tried to give her a hand, but she was driven out by stuffing two firewood into the stove.

"It's not time to add fire...... Okay, okay, I don't need your help here, add to the chaos! The firewood is almost finished, you can go and help me chop some bit. ”

Xu Wen was pushed out of the kitchen door by her, and innocently looked at the sudden fierce flames, as well as Lian Linlin's action of hurriedly lifting the pot, and felt that he was a little wronged.

A single dog like him also has to do housework when he lives alone, but he really hasn't used a firewood stove much, so he can't grasp the firepower......

What he had just stuffed into the stove was pine wood scraps? By the way, pine wood was loose and burned fast, and he should have imagined it.

It's really a slept in the head.

Xu Wen slapped his head with his fist and turned to walk in the direction of the firewood shed.

Now there is a thin line of fish belly white on the horizon, the sky and the earth are glowing with blue light, the surrounding scenery is hazy, and the cool breath of autumn dew fills the surroundings.

As he approached just now, he immediately heard the sound of chopping wood from there, crisp and neat, full of rhythm.

Who gets up so early?

Xu Wen walked over, and the other party had just finished splitting a batch, and was tying up the wooden blocks with brown ropes and stacking them next to them.

"Dongfang Lei?" Xu Wen saw his face and called his name unexpectedly.

"Xu ...... Master. Dongfang Lei was a little surprised to see him, and hesitated for a long time, as if he didn't know what to call it.

"You're older than me, just call me Xiaoxu. Xu Wen walked over, checked the firewood he had just split, and praised, "The basic skills are very solid." ”

There is a lot of wood in the old wood yard, and there is definitely no shortage of firewood.

But it is precisely because of this that it adds a lot of trouble to things like chopping wood.

Of course, the materials that can be reused cannot be burned as firewood, and the materials that are collected here are usually scraps.

But even if it is a waste material, there are many types of wood, with different hardness, different degrees of density, and different sizes and shapes.

To split such wood into firewood, it is first necessary to identify it, and after identification, it must be processed according to its characteristics and actual conditions.

Unlike the firewood house of Yao's woodhouse, the firewood in the old woodyard must be chopped by basic disciples.

Xu Wen didn't know if Dongfang Lei's job was arranged or found by himself, but now it seems that he has done it quite well.

Different timbers are treated differently, hardwoods are split into fine wood, softwoods are split into coarse wood, and they are neatly bundled in separate categories.

"I used to do this kind of work at home?" asked Xu Wen.

His so-called home, of course, does not refer to Dongfang Lei's own home, but his former workshop Luojiafang.

"Uh-huh. In the past, all the firewood of the Luo family was chopped by me. Dongfang Lei wiped his sweat, picked up a piece of wood and looked at it, picked it out of the pile, and put it aside alone.

His eyes are very small, and he always looks like he can't wake up in a fog, and he looks very lazy. But Xu Wen noticed that when he picked up the wood to look at it, his eyes instantly opened much wider than before, and he suddenly became much more energetic.

Xu Wen thought this guy was quite interesting, so he asked for something to talk to him: "Is there anything wrong with this wood?"

"It's interesting. Dongfang Lei was concise and to the point.

"What's interesting?"

"It's a pity when the wood burns. ”

Dongfang Lei has to answer all questions, and he will shut up after speaking, making Xu Wen a little helpless.

But he was like this when he was taking the exam, and he could do his best to do the things that were arranged for him, but he didn't know what to do.

Such a person came over to "touch porcelain" to stop the carriage to change the door to learn the arts, and I don't know how long it has been brewing......

"Show it to me. Xu Wen liked this kind of person very much, and patiently told him.

Dongfang Lei commanded one action at a time, and quickly handed the piece of wood to his hand.

This piece of wood is very small, cypress, about four inches and five inches long and eight minutes wide, wrapped in a thick layer of mud, but it can still be seen that its shape is very irregular, even a little bizarre.

Xu Wen was a little far away before, and the light was a little dim, but he didn't see it too clearly. At this time, as soon as the thing was in his hands, his expression became a little strange.

This is a complete part of Kashiwagi Qiao, which is his practice.

Kashiwagi Qiao was the first eighteen kinds of Qiao he learned, and he practiced for more than half a year at that time, and practiced countless finished and semi-finished products.

Most of these things were burned as firewood, and now this one in his hand is one of his later practice works, and I don't know why only part of it is left, and it fell into the mud and was wrapped so that he didn't even recognize it right away.

However, how did Dongfang Lei discover such a thing, and also saw its specialness?

"What's interesting about this thing?" Xu Wen asked as he handed the thing back to Dongfang Lei.

"It's interesting. Here it is planed out with a circular planer, and here it is a straight saw. And here, I can't see it, I have to think about it. ”

With Dongfang Lei's expression ability, he can only talk about this, but Xu Wen was a little surprised, he did see the most critical place of Kashiwa Muqiao!

"Didn't you come here to apprentice, why haven't you been seen for a while?" Xu Wen changed the subject.

Xu Wen has been in retreat for the past few days, but he remembers that Dongfang Lei didn't have any sense of existence before this.

"I'm thinking about something. Dongfang Lei said.

"Why, are you hesitating to apprentice?" Xu asked, half-jokingly.

"Pretty much. Dongfang Lei replied unexpectedly.

"Huh?" Xu asked in surprise.

"Not really. I was wondering who I should be a teacher from. Dongfang Lei thought about it and corrected his statement.

Dongfang Lei said very seriously, but Xu Wen didn't understand it at all.

In this old wood yard, is there anyone stronger than Lian Tianqing?

In addition to him, who else can Dongfang Lei recognize as a master?

After Dongfang Lei finished chopping this pile of firewood, he seemed to have finally made up his mind.

He wiped his sweat, turned around, suddenly bowed his hand to Xu Wen, and bowed deeply: "Xu ...... Master, I thought about it, what I want to learn more is your things, I want to worship you as a teacher - please take me as an apprentice!"

"Huh?" Xu Wen was stunned. Then he said a little crying and laughing, "You have made a mistake, I am still an apprentice, and I can't be someone else's master." And all the things I know are what my master taught me. If you learn from me, how can you learn from him directly?"

Xu Wen felt that he had made it very clear, but Dongfang Lei was still shaking his head: "No." I know you taught Master Lian, but that's not what I want to learn...... No, I want to learn those too, but I want to learn your stuff even more!"

Dongfang Lei's ability to express himself is really limited, and he didn't understand his words at all, but he only understood that his attitude was indeed very resolute.

Xu Wen didn't know what to say, so he could only shake his head and say, "I think you have made a mistake." But I don't care about this matter, let my master decide. ”

"Well, I'll finish chopping the firewood first. Dongfang Lei answered, turned his head and went back to work.