Thirty-six two zhang long, from beginning to end are almost the same, arm thickness of the next year old Nan bamboo, lined up in the fire main entrance hall two into the courtyard of the spacious boundary, the little No. 20 male apprentice hand finger length, single-sided blade, knife with rice grains on the blade with a large serration of rice crescent hook knife, one person holding an old Nan bamboo thin scraping the old Nan bamboo on the layer of oily and slippery bamboo skin. Occasionally, when there was a mistake in the depth of the knife, the crescent hook knife with jagged teeth could suddenly scrape out a piercing scream on the old Nan bamboo

Ordinary people erect bird nets to catch birds, almost poke a few bamboo poles with the thickness of three fingers on the mountains, and hang bird nets without restraint.

Speaking of this serious player who likes to play with birds, the bamboo pole with the bird net in his hand can be more or less exquisite, and the length and thickness and the origin of the material are also different. When the season of bird hunting is over, the used bamboo poles have to be carefully oiled and stored, ready to come in handy for the next year.

And in the main gate of the fire, the bamboo poles used to catch birds and open the net in the past are all a piece of golden silk bamboo, and the outer skin is held with a crescent hook knife to slowly cut out the indentations of the depth of rice grains, and the attention is to pay attention to the indentation of the depth of rice grains from beginning to end, each indentation must be of general depth, and it must be coherent, and there can be no wrong line and leakage.

Wait for the bamboo skin to be picked up into this dense appearance with rice grain grooves, and then use a red-hot lead pendant to hang the iron wire, the bamboo slices in the bamboo tube are scalded out of the walnut-sized holes, the position of each hole must be generally neat, after finishing the work, pick up the bamboo pole from this end to the other end, it must be neat and round holes, a little bit is considered to be a fall!

After picking up these two crafts, I burned eight minutes of hot vegetable oil and scooped the melon. People stand on a high place and pour a spoonful evenly on the head of the Nanzhu, and continue to scald the Nanzhu with hot oil for half an hour, so that the Nanzhu that is placed vertically can be dropped one by one, and the procedures will be repeated according to the procedures.

The bamboo was scalded with hot oil, and the thick iron wire of rice grains prepared next to it had already been simmered dark red on the large stove with green bricks. Taking advantage of the fact that the heat of the two objects had not subsided, Tsai carefully branded the iron wire one by one according to the grooves carved on the bamboo. Then quickly wrapped the pestle in cooked taro mud and dried it in a shallow pit dug on the ground.

After staying for three days, gently knock the cooked taro mud wrapped on the bamboo with the back of the knife, all the bamboo is the color of the ink in the gold, and there is a faint sound of gold and stone when beating, the water is not wet, immortal over the years, the weight of a thousand catties is not broken, the power of a leaf and the autumn, it can really be regarded as a family heirloom to survive a family heirloom for future generations!

And in a bright room in the courtyard of the second gate of the main gate of the fire, seven or eight female apprentices in the main gate of the fire were not idle. In front of one person was a spinning wheel that was one size smaller than the ordinary spinning wheel, under the leadership of Nalan, pinching the horsetail and cashmere that had been recovered from the outside at a great price with one hand, babbling and turning the spinning wheel with the other, and quickly spinning the silk threads with black and white in the middle and with three flowers and five picks.

Seeing that there were already a lot of bulging spools on the table next to him, Nalan stopped what he was doing, put those bulging spools in a big dustpan, and walked quickly to the door of the house where Xie Menshen lived, and whispered to the house through the curtain: "Uncle Xie." I've got a lot of silk here, or do I want to leave it at the door?" ”

It was as if he had been waiting for Nalan to send the silk thread for a long time. Standing at the door, Nalan's voice fell, and Xie Menshen had already opened the door, lifted the curtain and said to Nalan: "Nalan, you put the silk thread in the house, and then give me a hand." ”

Glancing at Xie Men God in surprise, Nalan squirmed his lips and wanted to say something. But after a moment of hesitation, he still followed the instructions of Xie Men God, and walked into the house where Xie Men God lived with those colorful silk threads.

Since the daughter-in-law of Xie Menshen's family was killed on the night of the Lantern Festival, several children in Xie Menshen's family have no mother to take care of. But it is still inevitable that there are some dirty clothes, dirt, cold food and drinks, and the room where I live looks a little messy.

Carefully put the big dustpan in his hand on the table of the Eight Immortals in the center of the room, Nalan turned his head to look at the dozens of new jujube wood shuttles placed along the edge of the kang on the somewhat messy kang, lowered his eyes, turned around and whispered to Xie Menshen: "Uncle Xie, you and I heard my father say that the craft of picking up and hunting in the main gate of the fire is to pass on the son but not the daughter, and the inside but not the outside. You're afraid it's not appropriate for me to give you a hand? Why don't I call a few of the kids for you? ”

Sighing heavily, Xie Menshen pinched the newly made jujube wood shuttle in his hand, and said to Nalan in a low voice: "Girl, the craftsmanship in this fire gate was shelved in the prosperous years, there were many people in the door, and the business was prosperous. But now under the way of this world, who knows"

Raising his finger and pointing to the jujube wood shuttles resting on the edge of the kang, Xie Menshen said with red eyes: "In the past, I used to weave some bird nets for catching birds, although your aunt is not a person from the main gate of the fire, it can be seen that I have practiced those skills a lot, and I have seen a little bit of everything, so I can give me a start." But just such a fire, I am thinking in private, some of the crafts in the main gate of this fire, if you use those rules to restrain and manage, it is not good to run into natural and man-made disasters again, and those unique skills will be extinct! Today, I asked you to fight this for me, and you will not talk to your father, just look at it in your eyes and remember it in your heart! ”

was originally silent in his temperament, and after saying such a long series of words in one breath, Xie Menshen's face flushed. Stretched out his hand and pulled a chair to sit next to the edge of the kang, Xie Menshen reached out and took a few jujube wood shuttles that had been worn with three flowers and five silk threads, and shouted to Nalan in a sullen voice: "Sensei stunned, take five shuttles, three on the left and two on the right, and hold them in the hands of yin and yang!" ”

Listening to Xie Menshen's categorical words, Nalan really didn't dare to say anything more, but silently grabbed five jujube wood shuttles with silk threads according to Xie Menshen's instructions, and followed the gestures of the yin and yang hands and learned the appearance of Xie Menshen's hands.

Slowly crossing the jujube wood shuttle between the fingers of his hands into a grid, Xie Menshen, who was originally not good at words, seemed to be a different person at this moment, and while slowing down his movements as much as possible so that Nalan could understand, he muttered to himself: "Ordinary people weave bird nets, and they can never do without the frame wooden support. And I weave a bird net in the main gate of the fire, but I pay attention to a person who comes out of thin air and goes away, one is right and one is strange, and it is a good match."

Seeing Xie Menshen's thick fingers shaking up and down flexibly like a musician knocking on the piano on the stage, circling and weaving the jujube wood shuttles between his fingers, Nalan stared at Xie Menshen's every move between his fingers, and only after a bowl of tea did he pick up the jujube wood shuttle in his hand according to the gourd-like plate.

Just fiddling with the jujube wood shuttle in his hand for two circles, the jujube wood shuttle that Nalan was holding with only two fingers in the middle of his left hand was already unstable, and fell to the ground with a click, and the silk threads that were so tired that they were already intertwined became a thread knot.

As if he hadn't seen Nalan's red-eared embarrassed appearance at all, Xie Menshen just slowly coiled the jujube shuttle in his hand by himself, but he still chattered as if talking to himself: "It looks like a breeze blowing willows in my eyes, and my hands look like wild bees wearing flowers." There are many Ganges sand in my heart, and thousands of strands are one! ”

With these song-like words in his mouth, the movement of weaving a bird's net in the hand of Xie Men God changed several reincarnations from slow to fast, and then from fast to slow. In just a few changes, a palm-sized bird net had already fallen lightly under the five jujube wood shuttles in Xie Menshen's hand, trembling and trembling with Xie Menshen's movements.

Frowning slightly, Nalan simply stopped the movements in his hand, put the jujube wood shuttle in his hand back on the edge of the kang, stared at the movements in Xie Menshen's hands for a long time, and his hands also learned the movements on Xie Menshen's fingers and made a slight comparison. Almost after two bowls of hot tea, Nalan grabbed a few jujube wood shuttles on the edge of the kang again, and quickly learned the movements of Xie Menshen to weave a bird net.

Raising his eyes and looking at Nalan's obviously much faster movements, Xie Menshen nodded with some relief, and muttered in a deep voice again: "The left longitude and right latitude are clearly distinguished, and the upper and lower are lightly buckled." There are seven points for both obedience and disobedience, and reincarnation is all the same! ”

As soon as the words fell, the jujube shuttle in Nalan's hand fell to the ground again, and the slap that was so easy to weave was a large bird net, and it was even entangled into a messy ball of thread. Sighing a little frustrated, Nalan had to put down a few jujube wood shuttles in his hand again, pick up the silk threads that were entangled, and carefully rub the threads with his nails to straighten out the silk threads again.

Still as if he hadn't seen Nalan make a mistake, Xie Menshen just took care of himself and weaved the bird net in his hand, but the movements in his hands slowed down again

It was easy to untie the silk thread that was entwined in his hand, and as soon as Nalan looked up, he saw a bird net the size of a dustpan that Xie Men God had already woven, shaking gently like a wave of water blown by the breeze. Maybe it was a blessing to the soul, or maybe it was an epiphany, Nalan grabbed a chair and sat down steadily, and then grabbed a few jujube wood shuttles on the edge of the kang, shook his shoulders slightly with the strength on his waist, and gently swayed his body back and forth to weave a bird net. It was only a moment of effort, and Nalan also weaved a palm-sized bird net under his hands. And the bird net that had just been made was actually like a bird net woven by the god Xie Men, rippling like water waves

Grinning silently, Xie Menshen buried his head in looking at the five jujube wood shuttles in his hand, and silently sped up the movements in his hands (to be continued......