Chapter 289: Making Kites

Continue to chat with the two hawkers for a while, but today is really full of tourists, just a car of tourists soon after a group of tourists came, the business of the two hawkers is also quite prosperous, the old Li who sells cold powder has been smiling from ear to ear, originally planned to sell out the stall in the morning, he has been sold out after two groups of tourists sweeping, is packing up the stall and planning to go back.

After chatting just now, the vendor who sells cold noodles is surnamed Wang, and Liu Yi also calls him Lao Wang, and now the situation is similar to Lao Li, Liu Yi observed that there was not much cold noodles left in his burden, and it would be a matter of minutes to sell them out according to this situation.

Liu Yi didn't bother them when he saw them busy just now, and he was equally happy to see them doing so well at this time, there are no less than a thousand tourists who come here today, plus the old tourists who have been staying here are almost close to 2,000 people, even if they have to go back half in the afternoon, then there are thousands of tourists who want to stay overnight.

Saying hello to the two masters, Liu Yi also walked back leisurely with his hands behind his back, thinking about the location of the hawker stalls in the future, one is the reservoir farmhouse, and the other is to set up one on the orchard side, both sides are now the main places for tourists to play, and it will not be wrong to come to the hawkers to buy and sell in these two places.

However, when the time comes, it will be necessary to charge a certain fee to the hawkers, this is not Liu Yi's hard work, these hawkers will definitely have a negative impact on the entire environment in hygiene or food boxes, and they will have to increase cleaning staff in the future.

Besides, it also costs a lot of money to set up a fixed booth for them, so that they can't get the wind to blow, the rain to get in, and the sun to shine. It's much better than them carrying a burden to fight guerrillas.

Alas, these are the next steps, and Liu Yi only thought about it roughly in his heart, and then continued to speed up his pace and walk home.

Walking on the side of the highway that has been played for a while, many workers saw Liu Yi greeted enthusiastically, and Liu Yi also nodded and smiled in response, among which Liu Yi also saw the master of the excavator last time, he has nothing to do now is squatting on the side of the highway and smoking.

Liu Yi went over and took out a cigarette and handed it to him and said with a smile: "Why, there is nothing you have to do, running here to be idle!" ”

The excavator master looked up and said, "Oh. It's Boss Koyanagi. I'm just going to transport them the materials, and now they're busy I'm smoking a cigarette on the side, and I'll pull some for them when they're almost done. ”

"If this situation continues smoothly, how long will it take to complete this whole road?" Liu Yi has always been concerned about the construction progress of this project.

The excavator master smiled and said, "Boss Xiaoliu, you can rest assured." The road can be completed in a maximum of 3 days. You see, we just started pouring the pavement yesterday. Now that it's about a quarter of its length, it's still 3 days to go. However, after the road surface is completed, it is necessary to pave sidewalks and transplant flowers and trees, and set up tables and chairs in the open air a little slower. But I think I can do it in half a month, and I'm sure you'll be scared when the time comes. ”

"Hehe, I hope so, I just hope that you can build this road as soon as possible, no matter what we do in the future, it will be convenient, and many large materials from the farmhouse over there are waiting to be transported in, and you can build the farmhouse a day earlier than that!"

"Boss Xiaoliu, don't worry, we are all in a hurry every day, okay, I should follow them." Master Excavator and Liu Yi chatted for a day, and they had been paying attention to the road construction over there, and saw that the construction workers over there were waving to him, so they hurriedly ran over.

Liu Yi reconfirmed that the completion of this section of the road is full of joy, and in a few days, the road can also be opened here, all vehicles can go straight to the orchard and the reservoir farmhouse, and a lot of parking lots have been repaired on both sides, and tourists will not worry about what accidents will happen in the roadside courtyard.

After lunch, Liu Yi was ready to go upstairs for a lunch break, and the pace of life was relatively slow every day, and Liu Yi was very satisfied with this lifestyle.

However, his lunch break today was interrupted by Wang Jingqian, on weekdays, Wang Jingqian and they all have classes, so they don't have much time to entangle with Liu Yi, isn't it the weekend today, they also have to have a weekend here.

"Brother Liu, where did you run away in the morning, and now we can catch you." Wang Jingqian said with a happy face.

Liu Yi scratched his head and pretended to be puzzled and said, "What are you looking for me, I'm ready to take a nap." ”

"Don't sleep, we really have something to do with you today, you see the weather is good today, we plan to fly kites on the top of the orchard, the last time we chatted with my aunt, I knew that you flew kites by yourself when you were a child, now take some time to come out and make a few for us, okay?" Wang Jingqian came over and pulled Liu Yi's arm and shook it, the sound was too tired.

"Okay, you let go quickly, I'll make one of you a good person, how old you are, I get goosebumps all over your body." Liu Yi agreed with a wry smile helplessly.

"Yes, Brother Liu, I know that you are the best." Wang Jingqian screamed loudly, causing her mother and aunt, who were still cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, to look at her, causing several other girls to laugh too.

Liu Yi ignored Wang Jingqian's shouting, went into the house and took some tools for making kites, which were mainly an axe and a sharp kitchen knife and said to a few girls who were still in the courtyard: "Are you waiting for me here, or are you going to take a look with me?" ”

The girls looked at each other and said, "Why don't we all go and see how Brother Liu makes kites." ”

When he came to his own bamboo forest, Liu Yi put the knife aside, picked up the axe and walked around the bamboo forest. Wang Jingqian, who didn't know why, asked with curiosity on her face: "Brother Liu, this bamboo forest is full of bamboo, what are you looking for?" ”

"You don't understand this, making a kite skeleton is not something that can be made of any kind of bamboo." Liu Yi continued to search.

"What kind of bamboo does it take to make the skeleton of a kite?" Wang Jingqian looked like a curious baby and followed behind Liu Yi.

At this time, Liu Yi found a bamboo with a somewhat yellowish appearance, pointed to the bamboo and said: "First of all, the bamboo must grow to a certain year, the usual bamboo stems are emerald green, but you look at the appearance of this plant has begun to yellow, which means that it has grown for at least several years." ”

"Then why do you want to make a kite skeleton out of bamboo like this?" Wang Jingqian still can't pay attention to the inevitable relationship between the age of the bamboo tree and the production of kite skeletons.

"Hehe, do you know that when the kite is put in the sky, it still has to have a certain ability to resist the wind, the wind itself is relatively strong in the mountains here, if the kite skeleton made of bamboo in less than a year has low wind resistance, it is easy to be broken, the kite skeleton made of this old bamboo is much better, and it is stronger and more wind-resistant."

"Oh, I can't imagine that a small kite has so much knowledge." Wang Jingqian said abruptly.

"Get out of the way, I'm ready to chop bamboo." There are many branches at the end of the bamboo, and it will not be fun if it sweeps people, Liu Yi reminded him in advance.

Seeing that they were busy moving away from time to time, Liu Yi swung the axe and cut the bamboo from the root with a few strokes, now that he had a lot of strength, it would be impossible to cut off a vintage bamboo in a few strokes before he practiced the nameless exercises.

The next thing is relatively simple, cut the cut bamboo, divide it into small sections, and then take these small pieces back to the yard dam.

"Brother Liu, why did you make the bamboo into such short pieces?" Curious baby Wang Jingqian chased after Liu Yi and asked.

It seems that if you don't explain the relationship between them clearly today, Wang Jingqian will always be very entangled.

"You've seen how big the biggest kite is, and the small piece I've made now is enough to make the skeleton of a normal kite, so you'll see later!"

The bamboo is divided into a white inner pulp on the inside and a cyan skin on the outside, and after Liu Yi took these bamboo segments back to the courtyard dam, he cut them all next to each other again, making bamboo strips that are the thickness of chopsticks, but they are much longer than chopsticks.

Pick up the sharp knife with one hand again, take the bamboo strips with chopsticks thickness in the other hand, remove the inner pulp on the bamboo strips one by one, and look at the thickness and shape of the bamboo strips to be satisfied.

"Brother Liu, is the skeleton of the kite ready?" Wang Jingqian stood aside, and when she saw Liu Yi put down the last bamboo stick, she asked.

"Well, the preliminary work is done, and it will be adjusted according to the specific shape and size of the kite, and now we will find some string, glue, and paper to put them together."

When Liu Yi was a child, all the paper used to make kites was homework books, and his parents learned a lot of lessons for this.

The first kite Liu Yi only plans to make a king-shaped simplest, this is easier to get, directly put a few bamboo strips according to a king-shaped, and use a thin rope, that is, the cotton thread used to sew quilts at home or the fishing line used for fishing. Tie them according to the word king, cover them with a layer of silk cloth cut out according to the size of the kite, tie the silk cloth tightly and fix it on the kite skeleton that is done, and make some silk strips on the tail of the kite, and a simple kite is ready.

"Brother Liu, can your kite fly into the sky?" Wang Jingqian said with a worried face when she saw Liu Yi's simple kite.

"Why not, the kites we made when we were children were even more rudimentary, and there was no silk cloth back then, and it was much better than what was sold in the market outside."

said to Wang Jingqian with an oath, and then found a balance between the skeleton of the kite, and after tying the fishing line there, he took the kite to Wang Jingqian: "Don't look at it, I promise it can fly." If you're interested, try it at the mountain pass, I'm doing a few other styles! (To be continued......)