Since You Jianguo also has to deliver landscape pines to customers every week, and occasionally attends bonsai exhibitions by invitation, the time is relatively flexible.

In order to let You Yishu learn the basic knowledge of carpentry faster, You Jianguo made a schedule of his arrangements for the past two weeks, and as long as he had free time, he would come over to teach You Yishu a lesson.

Before class, You Jianguo made a list of some missing parts and tools that needed to be completed, and wanted to give it to You Yishu to go to the hardware store to purchase, but then after thinking about it, he still drove to the town to make up for it and brought it back.

"In the past, we had to break down a piece of wood, but it was really hard to break down a piece of wood, and at the end of the day, my back hurt, but now I can put the wood on the chainsaw and solve it in minutes, which is much easier. You Jianguo sighed while transporting the tools to the backyard.

After listening to You, You Yishu was also extremely emotional: "There are new things being produced every day in various industries in this world, and the high-tech made by those 'lazy people' to be lazy makes life extremely convenient, but this also accelerates the elimination of many things, and those time-consuming and laborious things are gradually ignored and become the product of 'survival of the fittest'." ”

In the previous philosophy class, You Yishu also learned the theory of "promoting and abandoning", developing in inheritance, inheriting in development, and carrying forward the positive factors in the old things and discarding the negative factors in the old things in the metabolism of things. And the state is always advocating that it is necessary to carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture and abandon the dross culture.

So is the traditional carpenter work an excellent traditional culture, and how should it be inherited and carried forward?

With this doubt, You Yishu put down a few grinding stones in her hand and looked at You Jianguo: "Second uncle, now that woodworking has become a flowing water job in the workshop, is there still a need for manual carpentry like us to exist?"

You Jianguo was stunned for a moment, but then smiled heartily: "Ling Ling, this question is good, and you should have figured it out before you decided to enter the industry, but have you seen the furniture processed in the workshop?"

"I've seen it, it's exquisite, and it looks beautiful in a hardcover room. ”

"Is there anything else that stands out about these pieces of furniture besides being sophisticated and beautiful?"

You Yishu couldn't answer for a while.

"You only see the outside, but you don't see the inside. This kind of machine-processed solid wood furniture, to be honest, is indeed beautiful, but their various parts are connected with iron nails, but where there is metal, contact with moisture and moisture, it will be corroded, so these objects can be used for a short time, but there is no way to stay for hundreds of thousands of years. ”

You Jianguo beckoned and asked You Yishu to follow him to the hall, where there was also a table of eight immortals left by his grandfather.

"How old do you guess this table is?"

You Yishu shook her head, "Decades, right?"

"This is my grandfather's father made, that is, your great-grandfather made, it has been more than a hundred years now, but you shake it, almost no shaking, this is the biggest advantage of our handmade, and these mortise and tenon structures, you look simple, but only a simple Luban lock, want to do the pattern of private seams so that people can not see the flaws, it is also very difficult. ”

"Our carpenter's work can be passed down from generation to generation, and compared with craftsmanship, the ones that are mass-produced by machines are at best wooden toys. You Jianguo laughed: "Ling Ling, do you want to think about it again, once you really enter the carpenter's door, you have to practice basic skills, and you have to deal with sawdust and noise, which can be said to be tiring and bitter. ”

After hearing this, You Yishu couldn't help laughing, "Second uncle, you have become a philosopher and a poet now." To be honest, I was a little confused just now, it seems to be the general trend for machines to replace manuals, but if manual work is really replaced, I really feel a little regretful, after all, it is left by our ancestors. ”

"Okay, second uncle, I declare that from now on, I will go to the craftsman's door!"

"In that case, I will support you and teach you all the little knowledge I have in my belly. Today is the introductory class, first identify those tools, don't pick up the tools at that time, don't know what they are for. ”

You Jianguo is a man of action, and his uncle and nephew returned to the backyard and started their first course.

The name and use of the tool are not difficult for You Yishu, who has never forgotten it, but You Jianguo still assigned her homework after class, that is, to pick up the tool and practice the feel, in You Jianguo's description, this kind of exercise is like practicing holding a pen, very simple.

After You Jianguo left, You Yishu confidently began to practice after-class homework, at first the arm was still steady, but when he got to the back, his arm began to tremble, and in the end, You Yishu felt even more difficult than holding a brush.

"I still can't reach it with strength!" You Yishu finished her homework and rubbed her arms back to the front yard.

You Wenbin pulled the grass from the vegetable patch again, and was now sitting in the shade of the door looking into the distance.

From the door, you can see a hill with ups and downs, and now the mountain is so green that it seems to be dripping water, which is very eye-catching. Except for the mountain where her house is located, You Yishu has really never been to those hills, because the vegetation on the mountain is too dense, and there are occasional snakes.

Even on the hottest dog days, the mountain air is slightly moist and cool. When he was a child, You Yishu couldn't stand the heat, so he would take his grandfather to the mountains under the big trees to escape the heat.

When you think about it this way, life in the mountains is really interesting.

"Didi!" came the sound of a car horn outside the door, which frightened Yu Wenbin.

Immediately after, You Yishu's mobile phone rang. As soon as I answered, I heard the other party say that the home appliances I bought arrived at the door, You Yishu remembered that the other party called yesterday to make an appointment for today's door-to-door delivery, so that You Yishu could keep someone at home.

Thinking of You Wenbin's eagerly waiting these days, You Yishu couldn't help but shake her mobile phone in front of You Wenbin happily, "Our air conditioner has arrived!"

"Hey, hey, hey!" You Wenbin grinned, glanced at You Yishu quickly, and then lowered his head and went to steal the fun.

Although it looks silly, You Yishu unexpectedly saw her brother's cuteness, this little friend is really easy to satisfy.

The person in charge of delivering the appliances was a man who was not very tall, followed by a young boy. The man forcefully pulled up a piece of the packing strap that bound the shell of the household appliance, carried the big refrigerator on his shoulders like a schoolbag, and hunched himself to carry the refrigerator all the way into the kitchen.

The thin strap was strangled on the shoulder, and the flesh on the shoulder was obviously sunken, and the man stuffed his thumb into the place where the strap met his body, so that the shoulder would not be strangled and painful.

Although he was carrying a heavy refrigerator on his back, the man's footsteps were so fast that even You Yishu, who was empty, had to trot to keep up.

The boy also followed behind the man, wanting to reach out to help, but he didn't know where to start, so he could only frown with a stubborn face.

After seeing that the man put down the refrigerator smoothly, You Yishu was very reluctant and hurriedly poured a glass of warm boiled water for the man.

But the man smiled and declined, he wiped the sweat on his forehead slightly, and quickly transported the air conditioner and the external unit to the hospital, and finally the only brisk flat-screen TV, the man moved meticulously, carefully placed all the electrical appliances in the designated place, and cooperated with You Yishu to inspect the goods.

After making sure that there was no problem, he washed his hands, brought his own water cup, and poured a glass of water from You Yishu's kettle.

Seeing the boy on the side standing beside the man slightly embarrassed, You Yishu hurriedly brought a glass of water and handed it to him, and the boy looked up at the man as if asking.

"Sister will give it to you, I've been delivering goods with me for a day today, and I guess you're tired. The man touched the boy's head lovingly.

"Uncle, this is your son, right?" You Yishu couldn't help but ask when she saw this.

"Yes, isn't this a summer vacation, he said that the school has assigned summer vacation homework, and he wants to come and experience life with me, you say that this day is so hot, he has to follow me to suffer, hey, this child is just embarrassed!" The man said this, but his eyes were full of love.

"I didn't expect you to be so tired from this job, I want to help you and you won't let me!" the boy whispered, his eyes already red.

"Then what kind of work do you think is not tiring?" You Yishu asked rhetorically.

"I don't know, it's tiring anyway. The boy's words revealed the unique youthful atmosphere of this age, half arrogant and half childish.

"Your job is tiring, but it's okay for you to go to school. You start your third year of high school, get admitted to a good university, and find a job in an office after graduation, your mother and I are happy no matter how tired we are. When men talk about their children's learning, they have a feeling of hating iron but not steel.

"I know, I know, I say every day, I'm not a child anymore......"

Listening to the conversation between the two of them, You Yishu laughed out loud, she looked at the boy in front of her, Bai Jing was slightly thin, probably because he was less exposed to the sun, and his skin was now slightly red, this was a boy who was well cared for.

"Uncle is right, studying hard and going to a good university is the way out for our ordinary children. You Yishu said earnestly.

"Sister, you don't look like the rest of the village, are you also in college?" the boy asked.

"It's been many years since I graduated from Modu University. ”

"Is that school good, my classmates also want to apply there, but I haven't decided on my goals yet. ”

Seeing the serious expressions of the boy and his father, You Yishu couldn't help but say a few more words.

"The universities in the magic capital are very good, but if you have the ability, you must choose 211 and 985 universities, there are a lot of excellent students there, and you can learn more from them. And only when you go out and have a broad vision, you will gain more. Although You Yishu said it was very simple, she didn't expect that it was because of her words that she changed a boy's life.

"Uh-huh, I see, thank you, sister!" the boy nodded repeatedly.