The next day, when the day was still dark, there was still a thin mist between the heavens and the earth and the mountains. Liang Chuan did not go to the mountain to cut down a big tree and come back to practice the axe, but walked further up the mountain and walked into the dense bamboo forest.

The bamboo forest is quieter than the woods, but the rustling of bamboo leaves is quite pleasant, like a symphony of nature.

Liang Chuan came early in the morning, not for anything else, but to cut two bamboos and go back, so that Li Erhua could practice her craft and see what bamboo weaving objects she could do. Bamboo weaving is now no one in Fengshan, and most of them are transported from Yong'an in the west of Fujian Road to Xinghua Qingyuan to sell. And Yi Niang has chatted with Erhua a few times in private, and Li Erhua is Yong'an.

When Liang Chuan went out in the morning, he asked Zhaodi to go to the market to buy the farm tools needed for bamboo weaving, if Fengshan did not sell it, he ran to Xinghua to buy, the road was faster, and when he came back from the bamboo forest, he also happened to arrive home.

The firewood knife was originally bought at home, and it is still a small firewood knife, which is the most suitable for splitting bamboo. Choosing different parts to make different utensils requires a chainsaw, so that the bamboo will not be split. Breaking the sliver needs a cleaver, also known as a sliver, the handle is made of tea oil wood, but the heart is not bad for decades, durable and called hand. There are also flat bamboo strips of the sword door, scraping green scrapers, scissors, strips, etc., these objects will be sold in general grocery stores, really do not go directly to the ironware shop to make, are not large in size of iron, and simple, the blacksmith master will understand when he hears it.

Now it's this bamboo forest, and no one wants to come up and cut it. This bamboo forest has been posted by the government because of notices, there are big insects infested, and many people have been injured, and even the hunters have folded in it. Although there is a lot of popularity in the government, few people have the ability to get this honor. Li Chu doesn't care about the family, he is not afraid, but Liang Chuan can't call him, just recruit his brother, his courage is similar to that of a bamboo rat. Nor can a few women comrades come up and chop bamboo.

The years in the bamboo forest seem to be much slower than the outside world, how much time has passed, the scenery of the bamboo forest is still the same, but the bamboo shoots on the ground have been raised, and the accumulated leaves on the ground have become thicker.

This time on the mountain, Liang Chuan specially asked Li Erhua to do his homework, and Li Erhua introduced the knowledge of bamboo to Liang Chuan in detail. Li Erhua told Liang Chuan that the best bamboo to choose for bamboo weaving is six-year-old bamboo, and the hardness of this year's bamboo is the most suitable.

As far as Liang Chuan knows, the growth rate of bamboo in the past few years has been extremely slow, and some people even use the words of three centimeters in four years and fifteen meters in six weeks to describe the growth rate of bamboo in the first few years. Although this is a bit exaggerated, but in fact, the bamboo did not grow fast in the past few years, generally only a few meters, and the four-year-old bamboo is too tender, and the broken bamboo strips are easy to shrink, and it is not suitable for bamboo weaving.

If the bamboo is too old, more than eight years old, the bamboo age is too large, the bamboo green is too hard and difficult to scrape, and the toughness of the bamboo is also greatly reduced.

Liang Chuan was holding a firewood knife in his hand, singing a little song in his mouth, and the spring breeze blew on his face with a hint of coldness, which made people exceptionally sober.

On the periphery of the bamboo forest, it is easy to find six-year-old bamboo, which can be seen everywhere.

To determine the age and tenderness of bamboo, it can generally be carried out from the appearance of bamboo. Tender bamboo, short exposure to light, bamboo skin emerald green, dull. The old bamboo, the light time is long, the bamboo skin is yellow, even red, the bamboo body is bright, the knots are fine, and even the knots can not be seen due to weathering and loss.

To ensure the quality of the bamboo weaving, can be used for decades is not bad, this is the most basic requirement of every farmer who comes to buy the grateware, this can not be guaranteed, the bamboo weaving is a kind of goods, flashy, deceiving farmers of money.

The choice of materials is not only related to the age of the bamboo, but also closely related to the environment in which the bamboo grows. The bamboos on the sunny side of the mountain have been exposed to the sun for a long time, but they are shorter than the ones on the sunny side. Such a bamboo will have a higher degree of gloss than the bamboo on the shady side, and the toughness will also be good, and the water in the bamboo will not be too much, and it is not easy to have insects.

After all, today is just going to cut two bamboos and go back to let Li Erhua practice his hands, and he has not really started work, Liang Chuan took a turn around the periphery of the bamboo forest, picked two bamboos about six years old, divided by two by two, and cut down the bamboo with a firewood knife. I cut down all the branches on the bamboo.

Liang Chuan didn't cut the bamboo one by one, because he didn't know how long Li Erhua would use, and if it was too short to use, he would have to come back and cut the bamboo. On this trip, I have to go back to chop wood and go back to practice axes, and now I can make up for the time occupied during the day at night, and what I can't do every day is to cut a tree into small wooden strips.

Two ten-meter-long bamboos, Liang Chuan did not feel burdened on his shoulders. In the blink of an eye, it was carried to the bottom of the mountain. When passing through Xinzhi, Zhao Dafa saw that Liang Chuan also went into the mountains to do farm work by himself, and couldn't help but look at Liang Chuan with admiration.

Zhaodi also purchased a series of bamboo weaving utensils, these things are small objects, although unpopular, but this era of heavy agriculture and heavy craftsmanship is still relatively common.

In the yard, Yi Niang, Ye Xiaochai, Yang Xiu, and Li Erhua are all there, they know that today Zhang Tian will go to the mountain to cut bamboo and come back to let Li Erhua make bamboo weaving, they are all women, and they are all curious about Li Erhua's family craftsmanship, if it is done well, several women will learn together, and when the time comes, a team will be pulled up to make this bamboo weaving to sell.

Although Yang Xiu's craftsmanship is also very good, pickles are to process the dishes and put them in the pickling vat, so you don't have to guard them at any time, just put them in the marinade and wait. In my spare time, I can learn bamboo weaving together.

Liang Chuan and Zhaodi placed the bamboo and tools in the courtyard in turn, and then invited Erhua to a chair and asked Erhua to sit. A group of people widened their eyes and were ready to see how Erhua made bamboo weaving.

Li Erhua was pressed on the chair by Yi Niang, originally she was an introverted and gentle woman, for a while, the eyes of five or six people were all staring at her, she said timidly: "You are all busy, you are guarding me like this and looking at me, I can't think of how to tie it." ”

This is embarrassing, Liang Chuan coughed, and drove everyone to do what to do, Yi Niang knew that this Erhua's temperament was introverted, and comforted Erhua with a few words, telling everyone not to look at it. Everyone twisted their heads to the side, pretending to be busy with their own affairs, but the corner of their eyes was still glancing at the second flower, just think about it, and see if this bamboo is still braided into flowers.

Li Erhua waited for everyone to stop looking at her, and began to pick up bamboo and prepare to split it to make bamboo weaving. The length of the bamboo strip does not need to be measured, the length is estimated by touching the hand, the fine material is used with a slight head, and the solid knitting tool is used to make a basket head, and the knife must be thought out before the knife, otherwise the knife will not have to be reworked.

If bamboo weaving is to make wall-mounted screens, flower baskets, flowers, flowers, bird cages and other fine patterns, it is necessary to choose a little bit of good material with a thin section head, and the bamboo weaving device that comes out of this way has no knots, and the overall look will be smooth and smooth.

It is said that Oriental handicrafts such as baskets made of bamboo can be regarded as the best quality, and our country's excellent bamboo masters have long learned these crafts, and they can even make bamboo into the shape of various animals!

Erhua carefully scraped the raised bamboo knots on the bamboo, and the usual Li Erhua looked at people fascinated, as if she didn't care about anything, and when she talked to her, there was a sentence, no sentence, giving people a feeling of absent-mindedness. And after experiencing the incident in Da Shushan, her world completely collapsed, and every day was like a hard time, that is, a group of people in the Liang Chuan family were sunny and happy people, and the atmosphere infected her and gradually pulled her out of the dark abyss.

Today, Li Erhua sat quietly in the yard, carefully tending to the bamboo in her hand, the sun shining on her body, inexplicably giving people a feeling of quiet years. She was immersed in her own world, with a smile on her face, and several bamboo tools in her hand kept changing.

The brand-new knife is several sizes smaller than the chai knife, and the handle is wrapped in tea oil wood, which can be used for decades. Erhua uses a knife to split the whole bamboo in half, and then uses a knife to outline the width it needs, which is called "opening strips", and then slowly breaks the bamboo strips one by one and divides them into the required number of strips.

After the two flowers bloom the bamboo strips, one hand holds the bamboo strips, the other hand holds the knife, and slowly scrapes the bamboo compartment of the bamboo core in the same direction, and then begins to break, layer by layer from the bamboo pair.

At this time, the bamboo strips at this time passed the sword gate again, that is, the width of the bamboo strips was trimmed, and the ideal width was basically reached. Finally, scrape the green strips with a scraper, first the front and then the back, from the outside to the inside, and slowly scrape the fiber density of the bamboo strips.

Li Erhua's hands were very light, as gentle as stroking the skin of a baby, and her technique was quite skillful, and white powder was scraped out of the ground, and she didn't throw these powders at will. It is said that these powders have the effect of stopping bleeding and can be used as medicine, and when the farmer is working, if he accidentally breaks the wound and sprinkles a little white powder on the wound, he can stop the bleeding.

The scraped bamboo strips are neatly placed on the side like thin skewers, and the two flowers have followed the family since childhood to do this line when they are now, and the bamboo strips are a little head or a basket head to touch to know. Everyone quietly stood in the yard and watched Erhua chopping bamboo strips. It is said that people can't be too idle, and the spirit must have a little sustenance, and no matter how good the life is, people will get sick without any sustenance.

Everyone looked at Li Erhua with a smile on her face, a woman who had experienced hardship, as if she had found her own world at this moment. There is no going back to the old days, and it is a very tragic thing for a woman to die of her husband in this era, and it is not easy to live in peace, so the three women cherish the comfort of the moment very much.