Chapter 334: Striving for Excellence (I)
(Cat Flutter Chinese ) No matter how chaotic the scene in the face and in private of the officials in the Four Nine Cities is, it is really rare to have a few days of clean practice and training things.
Relying on the bucket cart that the nine monkeys and the leopard pondered, the No. 30 apprentices in the main gate of the fire finally had a time to rest in shifts. Although at the end of the day, many little apprentices were so tired that they didn't even want to eat the food that was delivered to their mouths, and they went into the house one by one and fell asleep, but no one was so tired that they couldn't get up, and finally relieved Na Jiuye and others, who were secretly anxious and distressed.
After carefully refining the birds and finches caught from the mountains and forests for seven days, Xie Menshen finally selected twenty or thirty strong, bold and clever things from those birds, and then led a few delicate little apprentices to practice the fine work according to the different temperaments of the birds.
Serving the birds and birds to practice eating flying food, he held a handful of melon seeds and kernels that were slowly fried with fine salt in his hand, and the birds and birds with his other hand stretched out his fingers to be trained stood firm. With a slight whistle in his mouth, a melon seed kernel clamped on the tip of his finger had already been thrown towards the left side of the bird's beak. The bird standing on the finger of the other hand only stretched out its head, and immediately ate the fragrant melon seeds.
Waiting for the bird to taste the sweetness and eat the addiction, the melon seeds thrown out of the other hand will be thrown farther and farther, until the greedy bird can fly up with the whistle and flap its wings to eat in mid-air, which can be regarded as barely adjusted.
Ordinary players who serve birds and sparrows, but if they can make birds and birds swallow melon seeds in mid-air, this is already considered a work to achieve eight points. But it was put in the main gate of the fire, but after practicing that the bird could eat the flying food in mid-air, he replaced the melon seeds and kernels he was holding in his hand with fried mung beans. Only when you get the handful of sesame seeds in your hand at the end can make the birds and birds volley and eat them clean, this is the success of the work!
Femdom thing to shoot missiles. First of all, you have to put a jujube stick with the length of an arm and the thickness of your fingers in front of you, and hold a handful of bean noodles and egg yolks in your left hand, and the bait formed by grasshoppers and millet kernels is teasing and attracting birds to peck at it. When he opened his mouth, he grabbed the brick mill marble the size of a broad bean.
Birds and finches eat, it has always been pecked and swallowed, and the brick mill marble the size of broad beans has just been entered, and the bird with the marble in its mouth immediately wants to stretch its neck and swallow the brick mill marble into the stomach. But the ripple-like lines carved out of the brick grinding marble were stuck in the bird's beak and couldn't swallow it at all.
As soon as I saw that the bird couldn't swallow the brick grinding marble, fluttering its wings and falling straight down, the character who was training the thing next to him immediately had to reach out to answer the bird that couldn't find the jujube stick, and gently shook the bird's body to let the bird slowly spit out the brick grinding marble in his mouth, and the piggyback hand couldn't forget to quickly put the fragrant bait to the frightened bird's mouth. As if a reward, he waited for the bird to eat a few bites, and then put the bird on the jujube stick again to pick up the stubble.
After some effort, the brick grinding marble was slowly replaced with a sand stone only the size of a soybean, and the bird also knew that the sand stone in his mouth could not be swallowed, and he had to be obediently exchanged for bait in the hands of the master, which was also considered kung fu to reach home.
There is also the gossip and the color flag, and the layman only sees the birds and birds can recognize the seven colors of red, orange, yellow, green, green, blue, and purple, and understand the seven colors of Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Li, Gen, and the eight directions. But I don't know that the doorway in this craft is still to eat bait and lure each other, and the smell is driven away, and there is a reward for the right and a punishment for the wrong!
Just like that, a lot of little apprentices who were waiting for the birds and birds to practice their work gathered together in the courtyard of the second entrance. The courtyard of Erjin, which was originally quite spacious, suddenly looked cramped, and only forced the old man Hong, who was about to step up the construction of the objects, back to his own room, wearing a pair of reading glasses that Nalan had recently found, and carefully built the slap box that Xie Men was waiting for in a hurry.
When it comes to the various techniques of training birds, the birds are told to follow their own instructions and shout, open a small wooden box the size of a palm with their beaks and claws, and then fly back to the player from the box with a small bag made of red velvet cloth and gold thread. In the jargon, it's called opening the box. It's not difficult to practice this job, but if you want to practice this job finely and be able to stand out in front of people, there is no one in a thousand miles!
Ordinary people play this craft, and the left is just to take the miscellaneous wood to make a box the size of a child's fist, and a small wooden board is used as the lid of the box. Stuff it with a small empty baggage, trained so that the birds can fly over and pull the lid aside with their paws, and then come back with the baggage and it's done. Although they can be regarded as crafts that can be seen in the past, they are rough and rough, and they can't withstand careful aftertaste and pondering again and again.
And those who really want to practice this job to be provocative have to spend a lot of thought on the box first. According to the set of tricks in Prince Gong's palace in the early years, the palm-sized small box must first make seven kinds of wood - red sandalwood as the base, mahogany as the frame, pear, pineapple, sour branches, teak splicing to make the board, the box cover is carefully carved with purple wood, and it is a seven-colored treasure combined into one, and the world's wealth is inexhaustible.
Resting on this palm-sized, wooden box that can be replaced with a set of small courtyard houses, silver as rings, gold as buckles, and a small key of mutton fat jade and toothpicks hanging next to the jade lock the size of a fingernail. The small baggage made of red velvet cloth in the box is filled with golden melon seeds, broken pearls, agate crumbs, tourmaline slag, and rests in the attention of large families, which is called a house full of gold and jade, and a treasure surplus box!
In front of many dignitaries and nobles who watched the excitement, the trained birds had to fly to the box designated by the master first, stabbed the jade lock the size of a fingernail with a beak and a key, and then picked open the ring buckle on the box with their claws, so that they could push the lid of the box with their beaks and take out the heavy little burden in the box.
Waiting for the bird with the small burden to fly back to the top of the master's head, he shook his head in mid-air and shook off the burden tied with gold wire rope, and sprinkled the golden melon seeds, broken pearls, agate crumbs, and tourmaline slag in the small burden on the master's face.
Although it is not possible to create those luxurious things in the main gate of the fire now, they can be put in the hands of Old Man Hong, a few scraps found from the carpenter's shop are carefully polished, and the wind-milled copper with green hair that is not well preserved is carefully scrubbed, and a few small objects that can press the bottom of the box are found from the hands of Na Jiuye and Hu Qianli, but it is just two hours of hard work, and the nine slap boxes that train the skills of birds and birds to open boxes have been at the mercy of Old Man Hong's side according to the formation of the Nine Palaces Gossip!
With a few gold threads, he carefully put the few things at the bottom of the box that he found from Na Jiu Ye and Hu Qianli into the baggage, and the nine monkeys pinched the freshly tied gold thread with two fingers and shook it gently, but he didn't see the live buckle tied by the gold thread loose for a long time, and he couldn't help but reach out and scratch his scalp in annoyance, and muttered to the old man Hong who was squinting at the slap boxes: "Old man Hong, this job is really hard!" The gold thread is originally thin and soft, and it can't be opened when it is tied tightly, and it will fall apart when it is loosened. ”
With one hand behind his back and the other hand twisting his long beard, Old Man Hong looked left and right at the slap box that had formed a nine-palace formation beside him, shaking his head and sighing from time to time, obviously not very satisfied with the slap boxes that had just been made. Almost looking at the slap boxes with a bowl of tea, Old Man Hong suddenly raised his foot and smashed seven of the slap boxes on the ground three times and five by two!
Looking at Old Man Hong's actions dumbfounded, Nine Monkeys couldn't help but cry out in distress: "I said Old Man Hong, what are you ....... Even if you feel that these things are out of your eyes, you leave ....... Even if it's for the little apprentice next to him to play with? ”
Shaking his head vigorously, Old Man Hong rarely showed a stubborn look in front of the Nine Monkeys: "Nine Monkeys, if this is a matter of eating, drinking, and playing, then it can be done by temperament." But in this craft, I don't dare to be a little careless, let alone prevaricate! Otherwise....... Today is a millimeter, tomorrow is missing half a point, less than a year or two of effort, the century-old inheritance of time-honored craftsmanship, can not stand such a toss, have to be called the collapse of the brand, the name of the annihilation! ”
As soon as the words fell, Old Man Hong raised his legs and feet again, and trampled on the only two remaining slap boxes, and then he picked up the only remaining slap box and held it in his hand, nodded slightly, and whispered as if talking to himself: "Originally, it was interlaced like a mountain, if you don't weigh it carefully and handle it carefully, the thing you make will really be called a joke for experts......
Seeing that the old man Hong took the other materials with a serious face, and made the slap box without saying a word, the nine monkeys gently stuck out their tongues, reached out and untied the red flannel cloth in front of him, and carefully re-kneaded the thin and cotton gold threads. (To be continued.) Cat flutter Chinese