Four-five-six-seven-nine took Xiao Chen out of the venue of the woodwork group competition, planning to go to other museums to take a look, Wu Yue stretched out his fingers as he walked and clicked a few people one by one, as if he found something, and Xiao Chen said: "Xiao Yuanyi, look, Cui Xi Xing Four, my surname is Wu (five), Xiao Lotus surname Lu (six), Xiao Qi Xing Seven, Xiao Jiu Xing Nine, we are four five six seven nine together, and there is a lack of eight in the middle, why don't you call Xiao Ba in the future?"

Crowd: "...... is this okay? and there are people who forcibly arrange it?"

Xiao Chen: "I am an only son at home. "It means that if I want to do it, I can't do eight, but I have to do one.

"But if you want to do one, it's too far away from us, just do eight! Among us, you can do eight!" Wu Yue said.

Yan Qi suspected that the child also had potential obsessive-compulsive disorder tendencies.

So Xiao Chen was forced to go eight, four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine gangs officially merged, and began to turn to the arena to watch the game. I have to say that when the atmosphere of openness and tolerance of new things is the loveliest and most charming place in this era, under such a social environment and humanistic background, there are a large number of imaginative and creative young talents emerging, turning such a big circle, Yan Qi feels that sooner or later these teenagers will come out of three or four Edison, five or six Michelangelo and seven or eight Luban, that pair of skillful hands that turn stones into gold, that one by one to break through the sky of brain holes, that pair of eyes full of wisdom, when you stare at them, you will involuntarily be infected by their dedication and talent, and I can't wait to rush back to the classroom to learn cultural knowledge immediatelyand contribute to the construction and development of feudalism......

Creativity is one thing, artistry is also quite eye-opening, many Yan Qi has never seen the handicraft skills are shown by these talented young people in this competition, such as paper-cutting, beads, bamboo weaving, rope weaving, flower arrangement, firing, decoration These needless to say, there are woodblock prints, ash paintings, paper horses, interior paintings, clay sculptures, face sculptures, sugar sculptures, candy blowers, brick carving, porcelain carving, miniature carving, puppetry, shadow puppetry, batik, embroidery, brocade, kites, masks, masks, hollow eggshells, The inscriptions on the rice grains and so on are all varied.

Many of these handicrafts are used by folk craftsmen to make a living, but in the eyes of the second generation of these special officials and wealthy people, they have become a hobby, pastime and pursuit, so art not only has no borders, but also has no class and no dignity.

Looking at the four to nine gangs are divided due to their different preferences, Wu Yue likes to watch the decoration competition, among which there is a contestant who does push varnish to make works that are particularly beautiful, the so-called push varnish is to dip the palm of the hand in sesame oil and ash, and push and rub the lacquer surface, so that the lacquer surface can achieve the effect of being as bright as a mirror, and the work after pushing the light is smooth, soft and bright, as if it has its own beautification function, making the whole lacquer seem to be injected with a breath of aura.

Lu Lotus likes to watch the embroidery women's red competition, there is a girl embroidered a peacock clothes, won the applause of the house, "with the embroidery technique," Lu Lotus introduced to Yan Qi, who came to join in the fun, "It is to use the green peacock's feather twist to embroider a large piece of embroidery, and the color matching is the three-halo transition method, from shallow to dark, so that the color of the whole dress looks particularly soft......"

Yan Qi thought about it for a while, and remembered that the old lady in "A Dream of Red Mansions" seemed to be made of such a technique, but unfortunately this technique was lost in later generations, and he didn't think that he would be lucky enough to see it today.

Next to the embroidered peacock clothes, there is a girl making a buckle, the button or add copper wire or fill in cotton, skillfully flip between the beautiful buckles were born, what a word buckle, butterfly buckle, goldfish buckle, phoenix buckle, chrysanthemum buckle, pipa buckle, bee buckle, grape buckle, leaf buckle, bud buckle, amphora buckle, etc., etc., exquisite and ingenious people can't take their eyes off, see Lu Lotus in the following to see the focus, this girl also gave her a pair of magnolia buttons.

Young Master Yan Jiu stopped in the competition hall of the painting art group, the painting art here is not an ordinary painting made on paper or wall with a pen, but a painting made in a variety of unusual ways, such as the ash painting, which is to burn the willow into ashes and make charcoal strips, which are used to start the line drawing, and then spread the painting paper on the line drawing, you can copy the line drawing paper to the drawing paper, a line drawing can print several paintings, and then hand-paint, such as hooking the line, powder face, finishing touch, and then coloring, dyeing, shabu-shabu, knocking flowers, painting pastel gold, covering oil, Brush trimming...... It takes more than 20 processes to produce a complete painting.

There is also an inner painting, this one is even more powerful, is to use a special deformed fine pen in glass, amber, crystal this transparent or translucent material of the container hand painted in detail, before painting with small steel balls, quartz sand and a small amount of water poured into the container to shake, the inner wall grinding out fine lines, so that the pigment is easier to adhere, and then with a hook of bamboo pen dipped in color, on the inner wall of the reverse painting, from the outside looks elegant, the brushstrokes are exquisite, beautiful.

There is also a painting method called hot painting, also known as hot painting or hot brush painting, which is to use fire to heat the soldering iron and iron out the brand marks on the object to paint, which can not only burn out rich layers and tones, but also have a strong three-dimensional sense.

Cui Xi lazily followed Yan Qi everywhere, Yan Qi was interested in him and looked seriously, Yan Qi was not interested in him and ignored it, but when he passed by the competition hall of the gold and stone art group, he took the initiative to go forward and talk to a contestant who was eliminated in the first round, this specialty is the gold silk, the gold silk is a kind of traditional handicraft that uses pure natural materials such as lacquer, color paint, gold powder and tile ash to repair broken utensils, which can be used to repair porcelain, purple sandware, bamboo, jade, Ivory and small pieces of wood can regenerate the remnants and take on a new and different beauty.

But because the gold thread belongs to a craft that takes a long time, this can only take his own finished product, the audience did not see the scene to show the craftsmanship, who knows if this thing is really made by yourself or someone else, so the scene is not coincidental, and the yarn flowers are very few.

"Can you do me a favor?" Cui Xi said with a smile.

This person is dejected, and when he hears the words, he is about to make a big fuss—how unsightly is this! Lao Tzu is frustrated in the arena, and you come to ask Lao Tzu to help you, does Lao Tzu know you? What a big face, what a face? As a result, when he looked up and saw Cui Xi's smiling face, he couldn't help but be stunned, and the resentment couldn't be released, and he coughed dryly, and said in high spirits: "What are you busy with?"

"I see that your gold silk craftsmanship is very good, can you help me fix this thing?" Cui Xi said as he took off his gloves and took out a piece of Supa, wrapped in something, and unfolded the handkerchief, containing a few pieces of broken jade.

The man glanced at the handkerchief and said, "This is not a jade of the highest quality, why should I spend so much effort to repair it? ”

"If you can fix it, I'll buy the work you just entered. Cui Xi said.

Entries are also eligible for the charity sale, and the higher the price they sell, the higher the score the original author will get in the end-of-semester evaluation.

Only then did the man cheer up, took the broken jade in Cui Xi's hand, looked at it carefully, and said, "It will take about twenty days, you leave your name, and I will repair it and let someone send it to you." ”

Cui Xi reported his name and address, turned his head and went to buy this person's work, Yan Qi looked at the broken jade for a while, and felt familiar, and when Cui Xi came back from shopping, he suddenly remembered: "This seems to be the piece of jade pendant I crushed during the Shangsi Festival?"

Xiao Chen next to him looked sideways when he heard this: Are you so awesome? You can even crush the jade pendant?

Cui Xi smiled: "It's that piece." ”

Yan Qi remembered that Cui Xi had asked for those pieces of broken jade at that time, and thought that he was going to throw them away for her, but he didn't expect to keep them until now, let alone carry them with him, let alone think about repairing them.

"Why bother, I like the new and the old so much. "Yan Qidao.

"Isn't it new if it's repaired?" Cui Xi smiled.

"It's a guy who can live. Yan Qi praised him.

The four to nine gangs did not go in vain this morning, and when they gathered at noon, in addition to a gold-threaded celadon bowl bought by Cui Xi, Wu Yue also bought a few imitation mini kittens made of cat hair, Lu Lotus bought eight pairs of buckles, Yan Qi bought a knife that can cut apples into eight petals at once, and Xiao Chen bought a grain of rice engraved with the Diamond Sutra- This person probably just bought something casually to make a contribution to charity, put it in his pocket casually, and when Wu Yue asked him to see it, he didn't know where it had fallen, Young Master Yan Jiu bought a glass gourd ornament with an inner painting, and a group of people came out of Dongxi Academy in a mighty way, found a restaurant nearby and prepared for lunch, and after eating, he had to go back and let Cui Xi prepare for the sixteen-in-four competition in the afternoon.

The sixteen-in-four competition was still carried out in that Xuan Pavilion, Yan Qiyi and the others grabbed the front row position again, Cui Xi was still divided into the first group, a total of four people, the time became a quarter of an hour, and a finished product was made of wood within a quarter of an hour, and then to see who got more yarn flowers, only one person could advance to the final finals.

A quarter of an hour, what can be done in such a short time? The audience stared at the knives and wood in the hands of the four players on the stage, these four people were selected from the ten teams of people in the preliminaries, the knife work was much more powerful than in the preliminaries, and they couldn't do complex things in a quarter of an hour, so everyone chose the simplest tricks, and the simpler things were, the more real work, not only the workmanship should be fine, but also the difficulty should be reflected.

The players on the field were engaged and selfless in making their works, but the audience in the audience was amazed - these hands were so dexterous that the lifeless wooden bumps seemed full of spirituality, and the vitality of life was constantly radiated in these hands.

Especially Cui Xi's hands, which are already good-looking, fair-skinned, slender, thin but round, soft but not lacking in strength, ten fingers can give people a sense of color, smart and jumpy, soft and decisive.

At the end of a quarter of an hour, the audience already had a candidate to vote for.

The first contestant made a folding fan with a hollow pattern, the hollow pattern is very delicate and beautiful, and it can be made in just a moment to make such a folding fan, which shows the good knife work and speed.

The second contestant made a wooden horse ornament, and even the horse's mane was visible and detailed.

The third contestant made a book, the pages of which were all thin as cicada's wings, and the binding of these pieces of wood was not a thread, but it was made of wooden nails, and the whole book was not made of any other material except wood, the size of a palm, and it was very delicate.

Cui Xi made a flower, seven or eight flower bones on the flower branch, which was not unusual, and the other three contestants could also make such flower branches, but when he plucked a small machine spring on the flower branch, those flower bones actually bloomed layer by layer with the downward plucking of the machine spring! The audience present was stunned, and it took a while to come back to their senses, and immediately broke out into a deafening exclamation- How clever and painstaking the design and painstaking calculation of the mechanism inside the branch must be to control the opening of seven or eight flowers on different branches at once! Moreover, such a complex and subtle process can be made in just a quarter of an hour, how fast and how skillful it must be to make it?!

"He grew up playing with this. Yan Qi looked at Wu Yue, who looked at her with a bronze bell-shaped face and explained, "Practice makes perfect, he may have played this trick at home many times, not to mention that he is a genius." ”

…… Needless to say, a sentence of "genius" is enough to explain it...... Wu Yue continued to turn his head in amazement, and then found something: "His knife looks good, sharpening iron like clay, otherwise where can he cut wood so fast!"

"That knife was bought for him by Cui Xuan from overseas, a mixed metal, and it is indeed sharpened like clay. "Yan Qidao.

"Suddenly I feel that Cui Si is not good to provoke......" Wu Yue muttered, "I shouldn't have offended him before, right?"

Cui Xi's work was bought at a high price on the spot, and he deservedly became the only player in this group to advance to the finals, and the other three groups of players quickly completed the competition in turn, and finally a total of four players entered the final finals.

The final was a long one, starting from now until 6 p.m., and the four contestants were still doing it at will, this time using not only wood, but also something else.

The four contestants all put their toolboxes on the table, which contained rulers, ink lines, nails, hammers and other various tools, and even some people took paper and pen out to write and draw to do all kinds of calculations, this process was boring and long, many viewers couldn't bear to leave, only Yan Qi and a few of them were still standing with their heads down and waiting steadily, Wu Yue inadvertently turned his head, and saw Yan Wu girl standing alone in an inconspicuous place, her eyes were full of fascination, and she looked at it, and saw that she was obsessed with it, it was Cui Xi.

Wu Yue was frightened, and her eyes widened in horror - how could this be?! Yan Wu, she obviously knew that Cui Si was with Xiao Qi! Didn't she hate Xiao Qi? How could she be tempted by Xiao Qi's friend!

Wu Yue quietly dragged Yan Qi in a panic, and then desperately mouthed at Yan Wu's girl, Yan Qi glanced at the room, retracted his gaze, and Wu Yue asked her quietly: "What should I do?"

"What are you worried about?" Yan Qi asked.

"Cui Si! Look at Yan Wu like this! If she really thinks about him, then Cui Si is not a flower ...... it" In the end, because Yan Wu is Yan Qi's cousin, Wu Yue is not good at talking about the unpleasant words in the back.

"Don't think too much, it's easy to get old. Yan Qidao, "Besides, Xiao Si is not a wooden man, let others fiddle with it, don't forget that he has a knife that sharpens iron like clay." ”

“…… Do you mean to let Cui Si kill people?" Wu Yue glanced at her.

"I wouldn't advise him to kill someone," Yan Qidao said, "but if he kills someone, I will be on his side." ”

Wu Yue thought that Yan Qi was talking nonsense, so he deliberately asked, "Then what if he kills Yan Wu? Yan Wu is your uncle's child." ”

"He wouldn't do anything to embarrass me, and if he had to give such an example, even if he did kill someone, it would prove that people should be killed, and they had to be killed. Yan Qi said calmly, "I will still be on his side." ”

Wu Yue looked at Yan Qi for a while, and then exhaled softly: "Okay, I was originally worried about Cui Si coming, but looking at your face, I don't know why I don't worry." ”

"Do you feel the charm of my appearance?" Yan Qidao.

"...... "Where is the charm of the wooden face, you tell me?!" Wu Yue looked at him left and right, "What is Cui Si doing, guess?"

Yan Qi looked at the small parts on the table in front of Cui Xi, and felt that he was witnessing the birth of a mechanic or inventor, and saw that those small parts had gears, crankshafts, connecting rods, rollers, magnets, pulleys, steel strips, and spring blades...... Cui Xi would not be surprised even if he made a mechanical watch this time.

When the timing incense burned out and the four contestants put their finished products on the table to present them in front of the audience, the audience was both excited and eager to take out. Then came the moment for the contestants to show off the characteristics of their works, and all eyes were on the first contestant's work.

These four contestants are the leaders of the Quanjing government students in the field of handicraft wood art machinery, and their works will certainly not be at the same level as those works in the preliminaries, and the works of the outstanding ones must be the most elite and high-end things. The first contestant's work is called "欹器" , like a cup of wine, this cup has a very interesting feature, its ears can be tied to a rope and hung on a shelf, the cup is suspended in the air, when the cup is empty it is tilted, if it is straightened, as soon as you let go it will be crooked to the side, if you pour half of the water into the cup, the cup can hang vertically in the air, but if the water in the cup is full, the cup will automatically flip and pour out all the water, and then return to a slightly inclined appearance.

欹 is the meaning of tilt, the reason why such a seemingly simple thing will be used as a killer weapon by this player to do in the finals, is because the weapon has been in the official history of the Zhou Dynasty, Lu Guojun regarded it as a national treasure, but it was lost in the Han Dynasty. Later, in the Wei and Jin dynasties, it was remade again, and then it was lost, and then in the Sui and Tang dynasties, it was successfully remade, and then later...... Lost again......

Don't look at it as just a cup, but to achieve the effect of virtual and full, without accurate calculations and exquisite structures, it is very difficult to do it at the current level of science and technology of the ancients - I didn't expect it to be remade by a student in this era, isn't this high-end enough and not awesome enough?!

After listening to this student's introduction to his work, the audience who was popularized by science gave out an exclamation and applause, Wu Yue slapped his hands while whispering to Yan Qilu Lotus: "Although it is powerful, what is the use of making this thing?"

"You can control yourself not to drink too much at a time," Yan Qidao, "Go back and buy it and send it to Uncle Wu, so that he can only drink half a cup at a time." ”

“…… My dad will probably change to a big bowl to drink, such as the kind of half a cup on top of a cup......" Wu Yue said.

“…… The wisdom of an alcoholic is boundless. "Yan Qidao.

The second contestant's work is a small Qibao mirror table, with a total of more than a dozen large and small drawer opening fans, which can be used to hold comb grates, fat powder, Jewelry and other kinds of women's toiletries, and as long as you press any of the drawers or open the fan, all the drawers will open or pop out in turn, all kinds of objects are presented in front of you, there is a keyhole on one side of the mirror table, there is a key inserted on it, if the key is pulled out, all drawers and fans will be closed again, unless the key is inserted into the keyhole, there is no way to open the mirror table with bare hands, which is convenient and practical and can be anti-theft.

Many girls watching the game on the field saw this thing, and even several of them were already discussing how to vote for the yarn flower for a while, Wu Yue heard it with his ears, and couldn't help but feel anxious for Cui Xi: "Xiao Qi, what did Cui Si do?"

"Don't worry, I'll leave the words here, Xiao Si can't get the head today, I'll eat wood live. "Yan Qidao.

"He's in a hurry. Young Master Yan Jiu floated over beside him.

“……”

Wu Yue didn't care to ask Yan Qi what "live broadcast" was, his eyes had already fallen on the work of the third contestant, and what the third contestant did was...... A house with a building and a bungalow and a courtyard wall, placed on the table upright, looking at the audience with a look of "you ride a horse to tease me?" The contestant picked up the house in a hurry, and then broke left and right closed, or folded or turned or buckled or spelled, after a dazzling drumming, just the house was gone, and what reappeared in front of everyone was a building ship, a gorgeous ship with floors on the deck!

Yan Qi really wants to kneel down for this player - the focus is on the brain hole! This brain hole has crossed time, space and national borders!

However, the audience's reaction was, "You ride a horse and tease me x2": What is the use of this thing?!Whose house is made of wood from head to toe?!Whose house is made of wood from head to toe?!Who has nothing to do, and plays with the house into a boat in the middle of the neighborhood?!What if you fold the house into the bedroom?!

"It can be used as a toy. Yan Qi cheered for his newly recognized idol.

"Oh......" Everyone thought too, it's fun for this thing to change around...... That's probably what it's used for......

"I'm going to buy it back for my family's little ten to play. Yan Qi had already taken out the silver.

Wu Yue's side eyes: Fan の preference.

The last contestant, Cui Xi, did not display his works on the table, bent down and placed them on the ground of the competition platform, and saw that it was a wood-carved puppet, the shirt was soft and realistic, fluttering, and the whole body was colored with pastel, white jade-like cheeks, black hair and eyebrows, elegant clothes, holding a small whisk in his hand, and stepping on a soft and fluffy white cloud under his feet.

"There's nothing unusual about this," a male audience member in the audience said disdainfully, "Those who were eliminated in the preliminaries can do it." ”

"Can they make it so realistic and beautiful?!" Wu Yue replied dissatisfied.

"No matter how beautiful it is, there's nothing new. The male audience member snorted.

Wu Yue was about to say more, but he was pulled by Lu Rong, pointed to the stage and said, "Look!"

Wu Yue hurriedly looked to the stage, and saw Cui Xi holding the key-like thing and inserting it behind the doll and twisting it for a long time - is this going to use the key to pull out the doll's intestines?

As a result, the intestines didn't come out, Cui Xi had already pulled out the key, and then let go of the hand holding the puppet, and saw that the puppet was walking around on its own!

"Ahh

Said to be walking, but in fact stepping on the cloud was moving, slowly, the clothes fluttered straight forward, walking and walking The puppet suddenly turned around on the cloud, as if dancing, and then a burst of music sounded out of nowhere!

"Ahhhh

Everyone's eyes were glued to this magical puppet, which would turn around the clouds every time it took a short distance, and the music never stopped, listening to only a few simple notes, repeating a small piece of the same melody back and forth, this situation was like an immortal walking on the clouds and swimming in the blue sky, singing and dancing to the fullest.

The immortal drove the cloud and slowly walked in front of Yan Qi, who was standing in the first row next to the stage, and suddenly stopped there, and the dust whisk in his hand stood up, slowly bloomed, and became a blooming acacia flower.

Hearing the sound of "collapse" in the abdomen of this immortal, the music stopped suddenly, and the puppet no longer moved, just looking at Yan Qi with a persistent smile.

"Wow-" The audience exploded: "It's amazing—how did you do it?!" It's incredible! It's amazing! Can you sell this now? I'll buy it, I'll buy it! I'll buy it as much as I want!" A crowd of people scrambled to get the money out of their purses.

"Not for sale. Cui Xi said with a smile, strolled to the side of the stage, bent down to pick up the doll, and handed it directly to Yan Qi, "Give it away." ”

Yan Qi received a lot of envy, jealousy and hatred in one second, and the hatred was full, feeling that if he didn't leave, he would be besieged by everyone, so he immediately put the puppet in his arms: "Four to nine, let's withdraw!"

It took a lot of effort for everyone to squeeze out of the Xuan Pavilion, and Wu Yue and Yan Qi discussed: "Can you borrow me to play?"

"Take it, remember to rinse your mouth with incense and flower dew before playing. Yan Qi handed the doll to Wu Yue.

"It's amazing!" Wu Yue hugged it carefully, and then asked Cui Xi, "What is this thing? Did you come up with it yourself?

"There are a lot of anecdotes about puppets who can sing and dance, such as being able to drink wine, being able to hold a bowl, being able to act on stage, entering the water to fish, holding a lamp and being blind, etc., I think it's interesting, and I try to do it when I have nothing to do," Cui Xi looked at Yan Qi with a smile: "As for what it's called, Xiao Qi will name it." ”

"Then it's called a music box. "Yan Qidao.

"Where's the box? This is obviously a person, and what is the eight tones?" Wu Yue said.

“…… That's called a five-tone person?" Yan Qidao.

Wu Yue: "It's called a singing and dancing puppet!"

Yan Qi: "There is a kind of haunted rush." ”

Lu Rong: "It's called Xianren Qu?"

Wu Yue: "It's called Qu Xianren, the focus is on this 'person'." ”

Yan Qi: "Xiao Chen, what do you say?"

Xiao Chen: "It's called ......"

Yan Qi: "Didn't come up with it?" What about Xiao Jiu?"

Young Master Yan Jiu: "What." ”

Yan Qi: "......"

Xiao Chen: "A puppet that can sing and dance." ”

Yan Qi: "Okay, Ah Yue, you can take this singing and dancing puppet back, just give it to me if you don't play anymore." ”

Wu Yue: "Okay, I will treat this puppet who can sing and dance kindly, Cui Si, your skill in making a puppet that can sing and dance is really amazing!"

Lu Rong: "Hey, we've all forgotten about the big thing—who is the leader?

Yan Qi: "It must be our Cui Xiaosi who made this puppet who can sing and dance." ”

Wu Yue: "If this singing and dancing puppet is sold, it will definitely be the highest price among all the works today!"

Yan Qi: "Singing and dancing dolls have opened up a new field of handicraft, and from this point of view, dolls that can sing and dance are priceless. ”

Wu Yue: "Dolls who can sing and dance are so magical!"

Xiao Chen: "......" doesn't want to pay attention to these bear children anymore. 166 Reading Network