Chapter Twenty-Four: Climb the Dongfeng Tea Farm and learn the carpenter's trade
The old man's face was clear, and his hair was like withered grass.
"Are you...... , Uncle Qin?", Li Changqing said in surprise.
"Don't get close to me, you can't go up the mountain anyway!", the old man said excitedly.
"Uncle Qin, it's me, Changqing, do you remember?", Li Changqing approached the old man and asked.
"No matter who it is, you can't go up the mountain!", the old man didn't listen at all and continued.
"Li Jiaao, the one who smoked your hookah!", Li Changqing gestured.
"It's you!!", the old man finally calmed down.
"Hehe, it's been fifteen or six years, of course I've grown up!", Li Changqing said with a smile.
"What are you doing in the tea factory, are you also here to find antiques?", Uncle Qin still asked vigilantly.
"Antiques, no, I contracted a barren mountain, and I want to transplant a few tea trees to the past!" replied Li Changqing.
"Now this tea area behind the house still grows new tea every year, and other places don't grow anymore!"
When Uncle Qin heard that he was here to transplant tea, he relaxed a lot and said to Li Changqing.
"Okay, thank you, Uncle Qin!", Li Changqing said with a smile.
"Remember to only stay in this tea area behind the house, don't go to other areas!", Uncle Qin admonished with a serious expression.
"Eun, can you ask what the reason is?", Li Changqing asked curiously.
"There are snakes!"
After Uncle Qin finished speaking, he returned to the dilapidated guard room and ignored Li Changqing.
Although Li Changqing felt that Uncle Qin's performance was very strange, he didn't think about it.
After all, Uncle Qin's previous personality was like that, and it seems that more than ten years have passed, and it has not changed.
Li Changqing stood on the tea mountain behind the factory house and looked in all directions, and the mountains were covered with dark blue tea trees.
There used to be his innocent childhood, laughter, chasing and fighting!
Nowadays, the passage between the mountains has been deserted, and many unknown weeds and shrubs have grown, and the scene of the past is no longer the same.
The soil in the tea area behind the factory house is relatively loose, and Li Changqing can easily dig up a tea tree with a hoe.
Li Changwu's tricycle could only hold five tea trees, and Li Changqing made five trips back and forth to transplant 25 tea trees.
The tea trees were planted on the hillside near the wooden house, and in order to ensure the survival rate of the tea trees, Li Changqing watered a lot of spiritual water on each tea tree.
In two days, the leeks planted in the field had grown to the size of a thumb, and two tender green leaves were extracted.
Passing by the village, Li Changqing bought some vegetables, and when he went to Li Changwu's house to return the tricycle, he called him to eat by the way.
"I heard Uncle Qin say that someone went to the Dongfeng Tea Factory to look for antiques?", Li Changqing asked curiously as he remembered today's events.
"Two months ago, you hadn't come back yet! I don't know who spread the word that there was an ancient tomb of Han Dynasty nobles in Dongfeng Tea Field, and some people were blinded by lard and ran to the mountains like crazy to find antiques!", Li Changwu said with a drink.
"Even if there is, tomb robbery is a crime, and it must be handed over to the state!", Li Dahai said very seriously.
"Where did the antiques come from on the mountain, they are all snakes!I heard that many people have been bitten, Qingwa, don't go again!", Liu Cui'e said worriedly.
"It's okay, I'm in the tea area behind the factory!", Li Changqing replied.
After chatting, Li Changqing returned to the cabin at the foot of Zhong Nan Mountain and entered the bamboo forest of the hundred families of Zhuzi.
In addition to practicing basic strokes, Li Changqing began to learn Chinese painting.
Most people like to worship the past and ignore the present, but Li Changqing feels that the present may not be inferior to the ancient.
The times are advancing, and all skills are also developing, after reading a lot of theoretical knowledge, even if there are Gu Kaizhi's "Painting Yuntai Mountain" in the bamboo forest, "Tianwang Sending His Son" to Saint Wu Daozi, and "Shuimu Qinghua Picture" of Bada Shanren, etc., Li Changqing still chose Shi Tao's "Bitter Melon Monk Painting Quotations".
Although Shi Tao is not as famous as Gu Kaizhi, Wu Daozi, Bada Shanren, etc., his "Quotations on the Painting of Bitter Melon Monks" is the pinnacle of Chinese painting theory.
The book consists of 18 chapters, first explaining the principles, then describing the wrists, and finally leading to theoretical propositions, constituting a complete and organic theoretical system of landscape painting.
In this system, Shi Tao raised the understanding of painting theory and painting method to the height of cosmology, exhausted its original changes, has a strong theoretical and systematic nature, and has sufficient logical power.
He advocated 'brush and ink should be with the times', 'search all the peaks to make drafts', and advocated the painter's personality and creative freedom.
Li Changqing hasn't started to practice painting yet, but he has already seen many painting theories, and he can't be regarded as a novice.
Although 400 years have passed, there is a feeling that I can't wait to be a confidant!
"The method of painting is self-reliance. ”
"Get the meeting of pen and ink, solve the confusion, and make a hand to dispel chaos. ”
"Those who have the reason for the future are also the quality of the mountains and rivers. Those who get the law of pen and ink, the decoration of mountains and rivers. ”
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Li Changqing was obsessed with it, and he didn't know how many times he read it repeatedly, and he was familiar with the deep meaning of it before he began to practice.
Early in the morning, after Li Changqing finished reading, he carried a kettle to water tea trees and leeks, and then came to Li Dajiang's wooden workshop.
"What, you're going to be my helper and learn the carpenter's trade?"
Li Dajiang put down the work in his hand and asked in surprise.
"Yes, I want to build a chicken coop and raise some chickens by myself!", Li Changqing nodded.
"What do you think, when I'm done with this batch of work, I'll show you, can a family need two carpenters?", Li Dajiang said disapprerovingly.
"Second uncle, I planted four acres of leeks and transplanted some tea trees a few days ago, and I just have time to be free!
"Haha, my physics teacher taught me this craft!", Li Dajiang said with a smile.
"I've only heard that mathematics is taught by physical education teachers, and carpentry is taught by physics teachers, but it's the first time I've heard of it!" Li Changqing said with a smile.
"It was a special period, and there was a high school physics teacher who was sent to our Li Jiaao, although he had never learned carpentry, but he would do carpentry work when he got the carpenter tools in his hands! ”
Li Dajiang remembered the past, opened the chatterbox, and continued.
"The teacher saw that I was clever, so he accepted me as an apprentice! But he just let me watch myself understand and teach me to write mathematics and physics in my spare time. Then I started working on my own, and I was able to do whatever I hadn't done before, and I was able to do it with some time, which was better than those who learned from traditional carpenters!"
Speaking of this, Li Dajiang's face was full of nostalgia for the past years.
"Second uncle, then you're busy, I'll just watch from the side!"
"Qingwa, you are smart and knowledgeable, you will definitely be able to learn it soon!", Li Changjiang said with a smile.