The third master moved a chair by himself, sat opposite Cousin Song, listened to his cousin ask about the Juchang, and said: "Why don't you have to wait for the snow to melt, besides, your cousin's body, it's not good to make her work harder, and when she gives birth to a child, she will get April and May."

Cousin Song propped up the bed with one hand, leaned over and said, "Don't say it, after reading my cousin's planning diagram and some suggestions, I found that my cousin is more thoughtful than we thought."

As soon as the third master heard him say this, he remembered a question and answer paper he was carrying, took it out and handed it to his cousin, and said, "Look at this, this is all your cousin-in-law asked me to ask you, you know how to do this, you look at it, I will reply to your cousin-in-law when the time comes."

Then he said: "You look back and take a closer look, I am looking for you today to ask you, where is there a good carving, wood is fine, large one"

Cousin Song looked down at those questions, and asked without raising his head, "Why are you asking this?"

The third old man said: "Isn't it my cousin's birthday in two days, I want to go and see if I can find a strange object."

Cousin Song said: "There is a house in Dongmen Street, all of them are wood carvings, I have only been there once, or my family Da Lang Yu I went to pay for him, he values a flower platform, good guy, the price is expensive enough, isn't it a broken wood carving?"

The third old man sneered at him and said: "You don't understand this, what kind of wood is this wood, where is the wood, which part of the wood, I also saw in the book, an ancient tree, thousands of years old, or a pear tree, the gall wood in the root of the tree carved a wood Ruyi, the Ruyi head is the reddest and most distorted part of the carving, that is the more you touch it with your hands, the smoother, the more moist, and it also emits a faint fragrance, and finally the former dynasty supplied the queen mother in the palace." Pen % fun % pavilion www.biquge.info it's a pity not to see"

Cousin Song said curiously, "When did you become interested in that thing?"

The third old man waved his hand and said: "Where am I interested, I once watched your cousin-in-law read miscellaneous books, just look at that paragraph, your cousin-in-law also said when I will also find a pear gall wood carving object for her, even if it is mahogany gall, Nanmu gall, I also said where I can find this thing, and then I took the book back to the study to see"

Cousin Song was also curious, got up and said, "Let's go, I'll take you there, bring enough silver, I've been penniless lately, damn it, I've lived this day."

The third master said: "When I don't go out with money, don't talk nonsense."

Cousin Song smiled: "I will tell you a word in vain"

The two took the little guy and went straight to the East Gate Street.

Dongmen Street is a main road that extends to the center of the east gate of the capital, the shops on the street belong to the high-end shopping area of the capital, gold shops, jade shops, satin rouge gouache, etc., are only sold exquisitely, the price is also high, all the dignitaries who come here are high-ranking officials and nobles, etc., either rich or expensive kinds, there is a background behind the shop, otherwise which gentleman comes to take it for nothing, and the store can not afford to accompany it.

The shop that Cousin Song said, next to a bookstore, has a simple door plaque that reads--- Gu Yun Xuan, with a brown wooden bottom, and the three characters Gu Yun Xuan are written in black seals, simple and simple.

The shop is large enough to display many large and small wood carvings, brown, black, and dark red. There is a staircase on the side of the shop, and there are some more elaborate wood carvings upstairs, which are only allowed to be entered by knowledgeable people and distinguished customers. The average guest is only entertained downstairs. There is also a back door behind the shop that leads to a courtyard with houses to the left, right and behind the yard.

At this time, on the second floor, the fifth master of Xuanping Houfu was sitting with a middle-aged man looking at a set of wood carvings, which were three old people of Fu Lushou.

This middle-aged man in a dark blue cloth robe, with an ordinary appearance, a few forehead lines on his forehead, and his hair tied up with a jet-black wooden hairpin, he picked up the birthday star in it and said to the fifth master: " You see, the forehead of this birthday star, and the fairy peach in the hand, are all needed to be cleaned, when I bought this Longyan root with longan gall wood, I wanted to carve this Fu Lu birthday star at a glance, pondered for almost a year before starting, Fu Xing is mostly holding a baby, but, how to compose, can not put the child in front of the hold, with Fu Xing's material this piece is the wood texture deformation, but, I found that there is a small piece of fast luster behind it, so I changed it to Fu Xing carrying a baby, and then look, the whole wood carving, unlike the regular Fu Lu Shou Xing, casual, the body is arched, the belly is straight, this Lu Xing hat has long wings, one high and one low, are conceived according to the characteristics of the log”

The fifth master followed the man's explanation, staring at it without turning his eyes.

The man sighed and said: "I bought a log, almost a year to start carving, and it took more than half a year to carve it, last year it was not my father who forced me to come to the capital to take the exam, I don't want to take the test for this Laoshzi, even if I was admitted, my temperament is not suitable for being an official, why bother? It's a pity that it is difficult to resist my father's life."

The fifth master looked at the middle-aged man with a sympathetic look in his eyes.

The middle-aged man smiled and patted him, "Stinky boy, don't sympathize with me, I see that you have some talent, so I am willing to guide you, but if you want to learn to learn well, you must also find a master to learn carefully, let you see this Fu Lu Shou today, I am going to sell it, if you sell it, you will not be able to see it, let you come and see it before selling." I have been in Beijing for almost two years, although I eat and drink at my relatives' house, but there are always times when I am shy in my pocket, but it is a pity that I am blessed with longevity, and it cost me nearly a thousand taels to buy logs, which is not handmade, and it is always okay to give me a thousand after selling."

After speaking, he reluctantly touched the wood carving.

The fifth master wanted to say something, but hesitated again and didn't squeak, this is his classmate's uncle, Cai Bingdong from Fujian, the fifth master has been learning wood carving with him for more than a year.

This Cai Bingdong is also a strange person, since childhood love wood carving, when he was a child, he studied with an old monk in the temple for a while, and then was forced by his family to be admitted to Xiucai, and then traveled everywhere, other Xiucai traveled to be long and knowledgeable, but this Cai Bingdong is going to wood carving, where there are well-known carvers, where there is good wood, he has to run to see, and so on the money to buy wood, penniless home, married his cousin, gave birth to a son, he ran away again, this time he went out and came back for a few years, and after coming back, he was locked up by his family for a few years, and after giving birth to three children, he was forced to come to the capital to take the exam。 With the help of his relatives, he couldn't carve anymore, and only brought a little bit of his favorite wood carving, not because of the shortage of money, and he was reluctant to sell the most valuable Fu Lu Shou Samsung. This shop was opened in Beijing by the descendants of the lay relatives of the old monks in the temple that he learned when he was a child, and he often came to sit in this shop after he arrived in Beijing, and sometimes he also appreciated the carvings in the shop.

The fifth master wanted to buy it himself, and he was afraid that it would hit Master Cai, so he wanted to wait a few days and let the eldest brother come over to buy it back, so that the master would not know, although he wanted to help the master, but he really liked this carving very much.