Zhang Zhaohua came out of the Gongzheng Institute all the way back to the Shizi Institute slowly, and smelled the aroma of rice before entering the courtyard gate, and sure enough, in the courtyard, he saw Gao Chi sitting on the stone bench under the tree to eat, he still held a scroll in his hand, and he didn't find that a yellow, white, yellow and white insect fell from the treetops above his head with the wind, which happened to fall in his bowl. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Zhang Zhaohua stared at Gao Chi and saw that Gao Chi's eyes didn't look into the bowl at all, but just grabbed a chopstick and the rice was about to be stuffed into his mouth, and there was a worm that was still wriggling on the tip of the chopsticks - she couldn't stand it, so she snatched his chopsticks with her hand: "Look at what this is, you can eat the worm!"

Gao Chi moved his eyes to the tips of the chopsticks, and couldn't help laughing: "Grub, haha, grub." ”

Zhang Zhaohua was inexplicable for a while, and he didn't know what he was laughing at, but he heard Gao Chi holding the tip of the chopsticks and said unhurriedly: "It is said that beauty has hands like soft wattles, skin like clotted fat, collars like grubs, and teeth like rhinoceros - if a beauty's neck is like this, it can only be called plump, where can it be called fair-skinned!"

The collar is like a grub is to describe the beautiful woman's neck is good-looking, but the grub is a creature as a larva of the longhorn beetle, it is yellow-white and cylindrical, very round, if it is said that the human neck is plump and barely reasonable, as long as it is not a big neck disease, but the neck color is like a grub, it is very bad, this is a kind of tender lemon-like yellow.

"The pests on the tree have fallen," Zhang Zhaohua said, "You can still think of the beauty going up, hurry up and sit away from this tree." Saying that, he asked Wang An to move the spring stool out: "Next to the spring bonsai in my house, you asked someone to move out, and there is a case, that is, the beech wood on the lower side of the middle hall, all moved out and leaned against the window lattice, and it will get hotter in the future, so I will keep it outside and don't move it back." ”

She drove Gao Chi up, and saw that the dishes Gao Chi ate were not what she wanted to eat, so she told Hanshuang to go to the small kitchen and ask for soup cakes.

"I said how this year's jujube trees are sparse," Zhang Zhaohua also looked up at the tree: "It turns out that there are pests, so shoot them down as soon as possible, lest a nest of pests in this tree be completely rotten next spring." ”

"Is the grub a pest?" Gao Chi disagreed: "The heavenly beetle, like the cicada, is born by drinking wind and dew, where is it considered a pest?"

"The longhorn beetle and the cicada are both pests!" Zhang Zhaohua "oops", incredulously: "They all puncture the skin of the plant, suck the juice in the plant tissue for a living, and the longhorn beetle is more harmful, just suck resin paste, and eat the bark, you see the two big pincers of the longhorn beetle, as sharp as knives and scissors, the new hair of the tree, all bite off, you just need to see the hole in the tree and the place where the yellow water flows, it must be that this pest has made a nest and laid eggs, see this thing and don't quickly eliminate it, it won't be long before the tree withers!"

Gao Chi still refused to believe it, "How is this possible, why don't I know!"

"You also said that you have to go to the countryside every year to ask about the hardships in the fields," Zhang Zhaohua said: "You just go to ask the crops that grow in the fields, this thing is not as harmful to crops as it is to trees, and where there are trees, you don't bite the crops much, so you don't know." In fact, everyone who grows trees knows this thing, and in fact, there are inevitably some on every tree, but if the number appears in piles, that is, it is a nest, then the tree will not work. ”

Zhang Zhaohua said and gave an example, her sister-in-law Zheng married into a small pestle brought by his family, and gave birth to Xiaobao in the year, and suddenly feathered over the bull and flew out, that is, directly broke out of the wood, leaving a hole in the center of the pestle, and people were amazed to see it, how many years have this tree been made into furniture, and it can still fly out of the insects, and it is indeed worthy of the title of "longevity insect" called by the folk, which proves that this thing can live in the tree for a long time, and it is not unusual to say that ten years is not unusual.

Zhang Zhaohua takes care of his mulberry, cotton and hemp trees in the countryside, and is used to seeing this thing, and the popular "moxibustion tree" in his hometown is actually moxibustion of these pests, so it is the first thing to say.

She and Gao Chi sat on the spring stool, put the rice on the table, and the posture was just right, much better than Gao Chi lying on the stone table with half of his body just now, so she preached to Gao Chi: "The grub, that is, the larvae, generally eats under the skin first, and can't eat into the tree, only gnaws two bites under the skin. But it doesn't prevent this thing from making holes, digging out all kinds of tunnels, up or down, left or right, bent or straight, digging out tunnels as pupal chambers, and pupating in them. When it grows up, it eats everything from the bark, branches, leaves, roots, sap, and fruits. ”

"In our hometown, when we saw a hole in a tree, we used a wire to stick into the hole and hook the larvae. Zhang Zhaohua said: "But didn't I just say, this thing digging pit is not necessarily straight, if it hits a bend, it will not work, and the wire is stretched in, and the tree is also harmful, so the general use of hot water moxibustion trees, but it is not better than cooked tung oil, we have a lacquer craftsman there, specializing in cooked tung oil to sell, buy a can and pour it into the hole, insert it with firecracker wire, and burn it directly. ”

Zhang Zhaohua thought of the basin rack that fell in the main house of Ancheng County as she spoke, it was precisely because she had seen the scene of insects flying out of the wood with her own eyes, and she had wondered in her heart whether this shelf would also be because the larvae of the longhorn beetle turned into adults and flew out, but this idea was quickly ruled out by her, because she carefully looked at the three fir trees that remained stable, and the cross-section was cut by about one-third each, and it was impossible to leave a place for insects.

It's not an accident or it's man-made, Zhang Zhaohua was also convinced of this, she took the basin rack to the Gongzheng Institute to find someone to ask, is the oldest carpenter, people looked at this style and said: "It's the craft of Suzhou, and it's made in Suzhou." ”

This Zhang Zhaohua naturally knows, because the yellow pear is not produced in Beiping, the rosewood is south of the Yangtze River and even more southern, at this time the rosewood is also divided into Haihuang and Yuehuang, this batch of Hainan rosewood to Suzhou is already the limit, it is impossible to transport the wood to Beiping, so in Suzhou or on the spot to make furniture, that is, as mentioned earlier, at this time the furniture can almost be disassembled, the small pieces of furniture are transported as they are, and the large pieces of furniture are split and transported to Beiping.

"The craftsmanship in the south, especially in Suzhou, is still not quite the same as in the north," the carpenter pointed to Zhang Zhaohua's most hesitant place and said: "For example, where the fir is connected, there is a dark tenon, and it is not uncommon for us to add this in the north, or because of the climate." ”

According to this carpenter, the dark tenon is not visible on the surface of the furniture, and its characteristic is to avoid the cross-sectional fiber at the top of the tenon from being exposed to the surface, which affects the beauty of the product. In order to resist the invasion of external dampness and dry changes, the dark tenon is made in some places to improve the firmness.

"This dark tenon," said the carpenter, "is stuck under the mortise, and when snapped, it cannot be pulled away from a straight direction." But move it a little and buckle it diagonally, and you can drop it with one button. ”

Sure enough, there is still a mystery.

If the first dark tenon is under the basin, and it is understandable that the basin is accidentally touched every day, then the second dark tenon is categorically impossible to be easily touched, because the position of the fir is at the lower end of the person's knee, who will be idle and bend down to touch that place!

The mechanism of the two fiefs was touched, according to the old carpenter: "If the dark tenon is opened for a while and a half, there will be something immediately, and it will only be done overnight until the tenon of the fir can not be jointed." ”

There is still a period of time in the process of touching the mechanism and activating it, and it is a very interesting time.