Chapter 380: Pressing the Bull's Head
Wen Xu is in trouble today, not because others are unhappy with Wen Xu, but because Wen Xu is having trouble making wooden barrels. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Barrels made of hardwood in the space are beautiful and look strong, but unfortunately when placed at normal room temperature, it usually takes only one night for the barrel to either crack or leak where the two planks meet. Wenxu is made of wooden barrels, not funnels, and such wooden barrels obviously do not meet the requirements of Wenxu, let alone the requirements of wine aged barrels.
But Wen Xue was not discouraged, but experimented again and again, but unfortunately, so far, there is no wooden barrel that has survived a night without water, and even if there is, Wen Xue cannot be used, who knows when there will be problems.
Fortunately, Wen Xu has patience, and he has a lot of time in his hands, and constantly comforts himself in his heart, as a novice carpenter, he should learn a lot more, and he has to strengthen his learning in this area, at least for the knowledge of all kinds of wood, Wen Xu does not know much, let alone eat thoroughly.
Early in the morning, Wen Xu and Shi Shangzhen finished their morning run, went home and finished breakfast, and once again looked at the wooden barrel they had put in the yard.
Wen Xu picked one up and turned it around with both hands to carefully inspect each piece of wood to see if it had any seams, and whether the seams were cracked or had a loose bite.
After looking at it for a while, he finally shook his head, picked up the hammer in his hand and knocked the barrel on his hand, and a very conspicuous crack appeared on a wooden board, and the whole barrel was declared scrapped.
After checking all the buckets, Wen Xu began to rub his teeth, none of the buckets were good, and even today there was no need for water, they were all finished.
When Wen Xu was in a daze, an old man's figure walked over, reached out and picked up the wooden planks that Wen Xu threw in the yard one by one, and then hugged them in his arms and put them under the tree opposite Wen Xu's house. The old traitor specially picked up the board that was smashed by Wen over there, and after picking it up, he sat on the wooden board like this, and took out a dry cigarette from his pocket, and smoked it, and the old man looked at Wen Xu and smiled while smoking.
Looking at the old man, Wen Xu asked with a smile: "Ninth Grandpa, you have been watching me at my door for a few days, what are you doing picking up all this wood every day?"
The old man is Wen Xu's grandfather, the only one alive in the village, the largest one, but his brain is a little bad, but the old man is not crazy, not so much like Alzheimer's, the kind of old man who has no IQ, the old man just can't remember many things, and he can't recognize people clearly, but other things are very good, such as life, and they don't need to be taken care of. Of course, at such an age, there will always be a little deterioration in terms of physical functions, which is also normal.
For three days, every day when Wen Xue was inspecting the wood, the old man would pick up a few rotten wooden boards, put them under his buttocks and look at Wen Xu and smile, and he could sit down until noon to eat before going back, and no matter whether Wen Xue was still in the yard or not, the old man would smoke dry cigarettes and rush at Wen Xule, as if he was looking at a fool.
If it was an old man he didn't know, Wen Xu would have been creepy by his laughter, but if Grandpa Nine didn't go crazy and didn't make a fuss, Wen Xu was naturally not afraid.
Back in the kitchen, Wen Xu took out a tea egg from the pot, walked to the old man's side, and bent down to hand the tea egg to Grandpa Jiu's hand: "You eat slowly!"
"Good!" When the old man saw the tea egg, his eyes immediately straightened, and he immediately put the dry tobacco in his hand on the edge of the wooden board where he was sitting, and carefully put the smoke pot empty, so that the heat of the smoke pot could not burn the wooden board.
Grandpa Nine carefully took the tea egg, stretched out his dry hand and began to pluck the tea egg, while plucking, from time to time he also put the peeled eggshell sticky with egg whites into the tweed, and the eggshell with egg whites passed through the old man's mouth, and when it came out, only the smooth and smooth eggshell remained.
The old man's eggshell was not thrown around, just placed it in the palm of his hand, and after the whole egg was peeled, the old man broke the egg with both hands and directly divided it into two, and ate it in such a small bite.
Waiting for a tea egg to be eaten, some egg crumbs fell on the old man's beard, so Wen Xu stretched out and gently brushed the old man's gray beard and dusted off the egg foam.
Watching the old man finish eating the eggs, Wen Xu stood up and prepared to go back to his yard.
"Renting!"
Grandpa Nine spoke up at this time and stopped Wen Xu, who was leaving. There is no way, the old man has always recognized Wen Xu as Wen Xu's grandfather, and he also shouted the name of Wen Xu's grandfather.
"What else do you have to do? I want to drink water, I'll go and bring you a bowl," Wen Xu said as he walked into the courtyard, ready to fetch water for the old man.
Who knows that Grandpa Nine shook his head and asked the other side: "Are you stupid, kid? Since you were a child, I thought you were very good at studying, why did you become a stumbling force?"
Wen Xu was a little confused by the old man's training, so he asked the old man: "Ninth grandfather, which one of your trainings are you, why did I end up?"
"Come here!" Grandpa Nine beckoned to Wen Xu, then patted the plank under his buttocks, motioned for Wen Xu to come and sit down, and without waiting for Wen Xue to come over, he took out a piece of the plank that was originally padded together under his buttocks, and then put it on the pile of planks that were stacked at the root of the tree and the few planks he was sitting on.
Wen Xu walked over, sat on the wooden board set by the old man, looked at the old man with a blank eye, and looked humbly asking for advice: "You say, I'm listening here!"
For Wen Xu, the old man's brain is not very good, as long as the old man is not too much, as a junior, just follow his words.
"How about sitting?"
"It's good!" Wen Xu deliberately turned it over after speaking, indicating that he was sitting quite comfortably now.
When the old man heard this, he picked up the smoking pot in his hand, and then gently knocked on the door of Wen Xu's head: "You also bring this wood to the hoop bucket? Are you going to drink water according to the bull's head, such a hard and oily wood, and there is not much water, what do you think?
Wen Xu didn't expect the old man and himself to say about the hoop bucket, and when he heard the old man talk about it, he couldn't help but be a little stunned.
Grandpa Nine continued to smoke the dry tobacco here, and continued while smoking: "If you want to make a barrel, the first choice of wood is fir wood, willing to absorb water, the more you use the barrel and the more you use the wooden basin, the tighter it becomes, where do you use this wood, you can't even choose a material well, you still learn from others to make barrels! The tricks passed down by the ancestors for hundreds of thousands of years are not as good as you?"
Wen Xu, who listened to it, suddenly felt a sudden realization.
After speaking, the old man's head was a little teased: "Renting, why don't you study, don't you go to the county for the exam?"
At this time, Wen Xu was like a lightning bolt in his head, splitting the dark clouds in his head, and said in his heart: "Yes, I have nothing to do, why do I have to use the wood in my own space instead of oak barrels?
At this moment, Wen Xu suddenly understood, nothing can be taken for granted! Honestly planting oak on his side, making oak barrels is the right way, what kind of gimmicks to do, what kind of personality to play. As for these hardwoods, let's make a small bed for Zhao Defang and Sun Anan's unborn baby.
"Thanks, Grandpa Nine, I know how to do it," Wen Xu said.
Hearing Wen Xu say this, the old man continued to smoke as if he hadn't heard it, without saying a word, and suddenly returned to his old self.
Wen Xu looked at the old man, turned back to the house, and brought the old man a bowl of water, not that Wen Xu was reluctant to drink the mineral water in the refrigerator, but that the old man didn't drink that at all, he only drank the water in the bowl, like some kind of plastic bottle, and the old man didn't touch it.
Back in the house, Wen Xu went online to buy oak saplings, and after buying a hundred and making people anxious, Wen Xu began to prepare to make a small bed.
Wen Xue has never designed a small bed, and he doesn't know what function he wants, so Wen Xu's first small bed can only be plagiarized, at this point, Wen Xu is a little self-aware, and wrote the children's bed in Du Niang's search bar without a sound, and then clicked enter, and after waiting for a while, countless pictures appeared.
Since it was a gift for his good brother Zhao Defang and his wife, Wen Xu couldn't pick up those simple ones, so he naturally had to find a bed that looked quite sturdy and beautiful, or he couldn't help it.
Copied a drawing of a children's bed, found the picture against himself, Wen Xu began to estimate the size of each part, while estimating while drawing his own drawings, of course, simple drawings, after drawing, he took the drawings into his workshop and began to work.
The first time the material used is cork, because Wen Xu is afraid that the estimated drawings are not good-looking, people who have not done the work may not understand, sometimes the things on the paper are very good when they are drawn on the paper, but after they are made, they are often not so satisfying.
After cutting the cork down to the length he wanted, Wen Xu put on his goggles and began to stand next to the chainsaw and start cutting the material, first the four pillars, then the main guards, the wooden ladder to the second floor, and then some guards and some guards with cartoon images drawn.
Wen Xu's carpentry skills are average, and now it is a big one, so it is inevitable that it is a little ugly, the surface of the wooden pillar and the wooden board is not polished, and even the interface is not mortise and tenon, and it is directly on the hammer and nail, that is, more than an hour, Wen Xu will set up the general shelf.
This match was really like what Wen Xu thought, the four main pillars were too coarse, and the lining of other parts was a little small, and it didn't look visually strong enough, so Wen Xu remade the four pillars, and compared them back and forth about five or six times, and then he was satisfied.
"Warm and warm!"
Just when Wen Xu was holding his arms and looking satisfied, Shi Shangzhen's voice came from the door. So he went over and opened the door and let her in.
When Shi Shangzhen arrived in the room, he saw the children's wooden bed in the open space in the middle of the studio at first glance, and couldn't help but say: "Yes, it's beautiful!"
After speaking, Shi Shangzhen reached out and touched it.
"Don't move!"
Wen Xu immediately spoke out to stop it, who knows if it was still a step too late, Shi Shangzhen reached out and pushed it on the main pillar, it was connected with a nail, how strong can you expect it to be? Shi Shangzhen pushed lightly on this side, and it fell!
"What did you do?"
At this moment, he almost threw Shi Shangzhen into the mud, and after retracting his figure, he looked at the pile of wooden poles on the ground and asked Wen Xu.
Wen Xu replied: "I was already making proofs, I want to see what the size of the small bed I estimated is the best, who knows if you touch it, I have to nail them up again! Hey, what are you doing touching them?"
"If the things you make yourself are not strong, you blame me!" Shi Shangzhen muttered quietly.
The small bed collapsed, and Wen Xu and Shi Shangzhen squatted next to the wooden pile of the small bed, reaching out to pick up the materials.
"Wen Xu, the day after tomorrow, you go to pick up your uncle's family, I may not be able to go with you," Shi Shangzhen said.
Wen Xu asked, "What's wrong?"
"I have to go to the provincial capital for a meeting, for four days in a row, several village directors in the province who have particularly good grades and some village directors from poor villages exchange and study together, and it will take at least six days to come and go, so I can't pick you up, I'm sorry!" Shi Shangzhen said with an apologetic face.
Wen Xu smiled: "It's okay, you go to your meeting, by the way, isn't it to praise you again this time?"
"I can't talk about praise, this achievement is okay in the city, but it's nothing compared to the industrial towns in the province and the south, and the village has borrowed so many accounts, this time I went to really study!" Shi Shangzhen said.
The development momentum of Wenjia Village is good, but now the books are not enough to see, there are really too many debts, but everyone knows that these are basic investments, if the development is good, these are the driving force for Wenjia Village's economic take-off, and if the development is not good, it is the mountain that Wenjia Village is pressing on the brain. But as a village director, Shi Shang's courage is still affirmed, reform, such a courageous and capable village director, everyone is still very concerned.
As for borrowing so much money at once, it also reflects Shi Shangzhen's ability in a certain aspect, where will someone lend you money if you don't have the ability to do so now?
So this time, Shi Shangzhen really didn't show his face, but listened to some developed villages in the south tell about their successful experiences, the so-called no work is not rich, almost all the villages in the south follow the same path, except for opening a factory is opening a factory, there is almost no second way to go.
Now, Shi Shangzhen has formulated a development policy for Wenjia Village, which is based on high-end tourism and planting and cultivation industry. The main reason for her visit this time was to see the power of these village chiefs, in fact, she also wanted to see her future path.