Chapter 9: Skillful Craftsman Guo Feiyan

After breakfast the next day, Yang Dazhui took Jia Lao and the three brothers through the village and walked straight to a bamboo forest in the north of the village. Yang Dazhui said that Guo Feiyan's family also has more than 100 lacquer trees.

In front of the bamboo forest is a simple wooden house, the front and back of the house are made of bamboo fences, the big bamboo forest behind the house, stretching to the foot of the mountain, the breeze blows, a burst of rustling, to this quiet cottage brings infinite vitality.

"Xiaoyan'er, are you at home?" Yang Dazhui shouted as he pushed open the courtyard door.

A crisp answer came from the bamboo forest, and soon a young woman wearing a sleeve and a girdle walked out.

"Uncle Village Chief, what are you looking for us? Sit down, sit down! The young woman named Xiao Yan'er kicked aside the messy shards in the yard, picked up a few small bamboo stools, and beckoned Yang Da Hammer and the two strangers.

"Beautiful! It's so beautiful! Looking at the small stool made of bamboo, Jia Xiaonong couldn't bear to sit down, and he was stunned to see that the craftsmanship was so exquisite, and bamboo could be woven into such a beautiful little stool!

The young woman named Xiao Yan'er smiled slightly and took over the conversation: "This little brother also seems to like slicing work?" This stool is all made up of nonsense. ”

"Yes, what is this, in the town, who doesn't know the name of Guo Feiyan, the daughter-in-law of our Peach Blossom Village? A handful of craftsman's work, but it was passed down from his mother's ancestor. Yang Dazhui simply boasted: "The most difficult thing in the work is not to weave stools, but chairs and flower baskets, isn't it, you see the flower baskets under the eaves over there, shaped, semi-finished, which one is not made by skillful hands?" ”

"Uncle Village Chief has won the prize." Guo Feiyan's face flew with a burst of red glow, and he said in a deep voice: "Uncle Village Chief, they ......"

"Ao, they are lacquer craftsmen from Guizhou!" Yang Dazhui introduced: "Jia Laosan, Jia Xiaonong." ”

After a pause, Yang Dazhui began to chatter again: "Two, you don't know, our nephew and daughter-in-law Guo Feiyan are the pillars of this family, and my nephew is away all the year round, doing hard work, and he can't earn money." It is her skillful hands, leaning on the bamboo forest behind the house, weaving some flower baskets and baskets to sell in the town, and it is not a problem to support her family, because the craftsmanship is good, especially the flower basket is very exquisite, and the people in the town call her the flower basket sister-in-law. ”

"Sister-in-law Flower Basket, these bamboo products you weave are so beautiful, they can be sold for a lot of money in the town, right?" Jia Xiaonong had been carefully observing the bamboo semi-finished products in the yard and under the eaves, and suddenly said.

"This little brother, how much can we sell it for? Raising a family is a problem, our village chief uncle deliberately blew me into the sky, these things are worthless. Guo Feiyan replied.

"Is it a big sale?" Jia Xiaonong asked again.

"Sales?" Guo Feiyan didn't seem to be sensitive to such words, smiled innocently, and said: "Who knows, it's all made up when I'm idle, anyway, it's all sold out in the end, and there are many bamboo products sold in the town, but they don't sell as fast as me." Sales? God knows! ”

"Okay, no more nonsense." Yang Dazhui interrupted the conversation between the two and said, "Xiao Yan'er, in fact, looking for you is just two things. ”

"Uncle Village Chief, please speak." Guo Feiyan nodded.

"First, your sumac tree, contract it out, cut it for them, I told Jia Laosan, the cost price is not low, thirty yuan a tree, how many are in your family?"

"About a hundred!"

"Look, it's about three thousand at once, and you don't have to do any work, it's enough for you to fiddle with the slices for months, right?" Yang Dazhui smiled and said: "There are so many lacquer trees in the village, Master Jia and they can't cut them all, just about 300 trees, when I think of the difficult conditions of your family, I want to take care of them first." ”

"Thank you so much, Uncle Village Chief." Guo Feiyan said excitedly.

"Your own family, you're welcome, by the way, your bamboo forest is the largest in the village, they need to do a lot of waste work before cutting paint, and they have to use a lot of bamboo to tie up the way up and down the tree, so the necessary slices will be taken from you, right?" Yang Dazhui paused, turned around and asked Jia Laosan: "How much do you need?" ”

"This, I don't know, I'll know when I'm done with it." Jia Laosan said.

"It's okay to use as much as you want, the strips used for binding have to be cut separately, and my slivers are very small, not strenuous, and they are divided into several layers. I'll cut it for you again the next day, by the way, it's the original strip that doesn't have a layer, right? Guo Feiyan said briskly.

"Eh, let's just do it ourselves, how dare we bother you?" Jia Laosan stood up, picked up the scimitar on the ground, and walked towards a bamboo pole in the corner of the courtyard.

Snap, the scimitar in his hand slashed down towards the cross-section of the bamboo, and with a flick of his wrist, the bamboo with a thick wrist broke in half, and the hole suddenly extended far away.

"Wait!" Guo Feiyan was anxious: "Master Jia, it's not right for you to cut the slices like this." ”

Guo Feiyan couldn't stand it anymore, ran over and took the scimitar and bamboo pole, and said: "The strips that bind the Daozi are very heavy, and when you go down with this knife, it will be uneven at the end." ”

Pulling out the scimitar that was caught by the bamboo piece, Guo Feiyan asked, "Master Jia, the thickness of your little finger is about the same, right?" ”

Seeing Jia Laosan nodding, the scimitar in Guo Feiyan's hand snapped with a crisp sound, and she cut four openings on the cross-section of the bamboo pole.

Putting down the scimitar, Guo Feiyan picked up the bamboo-splitting gadget on the ground and inserted it into the freshly cut opening, crisscrossing and criss-crossing, forming a rice-shaped shape at once.

Holding the rice-shaped bamboo divider in his right hand, Guo Feiyan's left hand pinched the bamboo pole and kept sending it forward, only to hear the crackling sound of the bamboo cracking, and a bamboo pole with the thickness of a wrist suddenly became eight strips of the same thickness!

With skillful techniques and quick operation, a bamboo pole turned into eight strips, and it did not take more than ten seconds before and after. Not to mention anything else, this unique skill alone opened the eyes of Jia Xiaonong and others at the scene.

"Awesome!" Jia Laosan has been a lacquer maker for several years, and he has to draw a lot of strips every year, and he thinks that he has some experience in cutting strips, but in front of this young woman, he is so small.

"I'm sorry, Master Jia, I see that you have to divide the bamboo pole into two, then two into four, and then four into eight, a bamboo pole down, it takes a lot of knives, and the time is not even, so ......" Guo Feiyan said seriously: "If you don't dislike it, I'll do it for you." ”

"So what's so embarrassing? You see, you have to use your bamboo again......" Jia Laosan said.

"I think I've learned this!" Jia Xiaonong stood up at this time and said loudly: "Why don't you let me try!" ”