When it comes to the means and tricks of making all kinds of things in Sijiu City, it is really varied!

Like the Lei family, who supervised the construction of the Summer Palace, the old shopkeeper walked in the big garden of the Summer Palace with his eyes closed, went home and closed the door to meditate for three days, and a drawing of the pavilion came out of the crack in the door. How many bricks and tiles should be used, what number of rafters and purlins, and how many feng shui outlets should be left on the girders, all of which are clearly written under the drawings!

Waiting for the craftsmen to repair the pavilions and pavilions according to the drawings and hot samples, and carefully calculate the accounts after completion, it is really called not many tiles and a lot of wood, and the actuarial calculation is to the extreme!

Besides, the glass snuff box made by the treasure source is the size of a child's fist, and the small one is at most the size of an adult's thumb, but the patterns dotted on the snuff box are all drawn in the snuff box with a pen. When the painting is finished, I gently wiped the crystal oil made in the treasure source, and the painting painted in the snuffbox can not fade for fifty years!

Regardless of these already exquisite handicrafts, even those Liba squatting on the big fence have a lot of capable people hidden in them!

The roof of mulberry skin paper paste can withstand rainwater, the stove of the old green brick plate can save firewood, and the big kang that can sleep the seven or eight people can warm most of the night. Even if a layman stands in front of him and watches, he is just staring blind - he can't learn this way just by watching the excitement!

Because of this, after taking the small net bottle that Xiang Youbao brought back, the old man of the Bird Hong Jiahong didn't hide it at all, lit four red candles as thick as a child's arm to illuminate it, and then warmed his hands with hot water, and opened the wooden box containing the eating guy in front of Xiang Youleopard.

The household goods contained in the wooden box are not very unusual, but they are some scissors, hammers, chisels, and files, which are not much different from the household goods in ordinary white iron shops, but the style is much more exquisite, and the small and compact ones are like some children's things.

But when those things were pinched in the hands of Old Man Hong, it was like Old Man Guan picked up the Qinglong Yanyue Knife, and the Overlord of Chu rode on the black horse chasing the wind, which was just a piece of foreign smoke, and the small net bottle that had been twisted away had been gently cut into a piece of copper by Old Man Hong with scissors.

Gently removed the remaining porcelain slag on the copper skin with a file, and then gently hammered the copper skin into a flat and neat shape with a small hammer, and the old man Hong held the copper skin with both hands and put it to his mouth and blew it gently, and a light vibrating sound suddenly came faintly from the copper skin.

Holding the flat copper skin in his hand and gently rubbing it, Old Man Hong shook his head somewhat dissatisfied: "It's a pity...... What this crispy brass is most afraid of is to fold and twist back and forth, and this small net bottle is twisted like this, and the eight-tone whistle made is only afraid that the sound will be a little dumb, and it is not the best grade! ”

His eyes widened, but Xiang Youbao couldn't see what was strange and strange about the copper skin that Old Man Hong was holding in his hand, and couldn't help but ask Old Man Hong who shook his head and sighed regretfully: "I said old man, didn't this copper skin let you pick it up?" Here's ...... What's not to be able to do? ”

Raising his finger and pointing to the tables, chairs and benches in the room, Old Man Hong held the copper skin in his hand and rubbed it repeatedly, and said to Xiang Youbao with a curious look on his face: "This object made of gold, silver, copper and iron is actually like the grass and trees that grow in nature, each of them has its own vein and vitality!" It's like the table, chair and bench made of lumps of wood, which can only take three or five years to crack or break legs! But if you use the household goods made along the wood grain, it will be an idle thing for a few lifetimes! ”

Twisting his brows, he looked at the tables, chairs and benches in the room, and Xiang Youbao pondered for a while, and then said to the old man Hong, who was still rubbing the copper skin: "Then according to what you say, the eight-tone whistle...... Is it because the lines in this crispy brass are the same, so it blows eight times? ”

Glancing at Xiang Youbao in surprise, Old Man Hong nodded hesitantly: "Almost...... That's the truth! I heard the old people say that there was a bell and a chime in the Buddhist hall in the palace back then, and the chime would ring when the bell was struck, even if the chime was moved ten zhang away. Later, a eunuch made a joke, and he had to say that the bell and chime were all treasures of the fairy family, and he found someone to carve a volume of the Diamond Sutra on that bell and chime, but he made sure that the bell and chime would not ring together......"

Listening to Old Man Hong's chatter without saying a word, Xiang Youbao watched Old Man Hong cut the copper piece that had been rubbing in his hand for a long time into more than a dozen pieces of exactly the same size, and thought quietly.

Just like what Old Man Hong said, everything in the world has its own vein of growth, gold, silver, copper and iron, and even more so those spiritual creatures!

According to the words of the master who taught him a lot of crafts, there will always be a fateful eye in those birds and beasts. Even if it is a tiger and a bear in the mountains and forests, as long as it is aimed at the position of the fatal eye, it can immediately make the tiger a sick cat!

But how to find this fateful way, but even the master is unknown. If you ask a few more questions, the master can only say that it is a saying handed down by the elders in the main gate of the fire, how to find the life gate qi eyes of those creatures, maybe only after gathering the map of the beast, and then find a gentleman who can know Xiang Guowen, this can be figured out?

Perhaps it was because he could see that Xiang Youbao was a little absent-minded, and Old Man Hong no longer chattered, but was just busy with the work in his hands. It was almost the time of a meal, and eight eight-tone whistles of the same size, like a Go chess piece, had been placed in front of Xiang Youbao's eyes.

Twisted up an eight-tone whistle that was only the size of a chess piece and put it into his mouth, Old Man Hong reached out and grabbed the other seven eight-tone whistles and walked around the second courtyard, and placed the other seven eight-tone whistles in different positions in the second courtyard, and then walked back to the side of the leopard, and blew the whistle contained in his mouth with his back to the seven eight-tone whistles that had just been placed in the second courtyard.

Starting from a crisp and melodious cry of a yellow oriole, the chirping of larks, wrens, starlings, cloud swallows, cuckoos and other birds poured out of the whistle in the mouth of Old Man Hong one after another. Accompanied by the whistle of Old Man Hong, the other seven eight-tone whistles placed in the courtyard of Erjin also resonated almost at the same moment.

Listening attentively to the echo from the seven eight-tone whistles placed in the courtyard of Erjin, Old Man Hong grabbed the wooden box containing the food in his hand and walked around the courtyard of Erjin again.

Almost every eight-tone whistle was placed, and Old Man Hong would stop and listen repeatedly to whether the sound coming from the resonance of those eight-tone whistles was exactly the same. But whenever there was a slight difference, Old Man Hong would quickly open the wooden box containing the food and utensils, and use the appropriate tools to make some small changes to the eight-tone whistle.

I don't know when, Na Jiuye, who was wearing a piece of clothing, was also summoned to Xiang Youbao's side by the constant sound of birds chirping in the yard, and looked fixedly at the old man Hong who was adjusting the eight-tone whistle, and muttered to Xiang Youbao: "But there are years...... I haven't heard of this anymore! Back then, the things made by the Hongjia family in Fengwei Hutong were blown out in a series of thirty-six mouths...... There is a name called Hundred Birds and Phoenix, the only one in the city! ”

Also listening to the almost indistinguishable, one after another birdsong, Xiang Youbao also nodded silently: "This is really ...... Unique! ”

As if he had heard the praise of Na Jiu Ye and Xiang Youbao, Old Man Hong, who was already white, rushed towards the spacious second courtyard, and the birdsong from the eight-tone whistle in his mouth was even more refurbished. It's just that I ran around the courtyard twice, and the birdsong that came and went had already summoned all the people living in the courtyard to walk out of the door!

I don't know who it is, in this heavenly birdsong, he suddenly shouted loudly: "Good! ”

"Amazing job!"

"This craft...... Stand out! ”

In the applause that gradually converged into a wave of applause, the birdsong that came out of the mouth of the old man Hong, who was running faster and faster, suddenly changed his tone!

The wailing of the cold trumpet bird, the lonely trumpet of the autumn geese, the clear chirp of the red-crowned crane, and the birdsong that permeated the strong smell of sadness, almost made all the people standing in the courtyard of Erjin couldn't help but close their mouths and tighten the clothes that were tightly draped over their shoulders......

Shaking his head slightly, Na Jiu Ye sighed softly: "Old Man Hong has really done it this time!" The eight-tone whistle that can blow out the 'sad autumn tune' has also come out in the Tongzhi years. It was a treasure that was kept in the palace, and there was no shadow until the Eight-Nation Alliance entered Beiping! ”

Listening to the birdsong that was obviously sad, Xiang Youbao turned his head to look at Na Jiuye with some puzzlement: "Uncle Shi, what is this 'sad autumn tune'?" ”

Smashing his lips, Na Jiuye nodded at the old man Hong, who was running faster and faster around the second courtyard: "This is also the unique job of the Bird Hong family, in autumn, it will blow according to the wild forest and reeds, so that the birds and finches hidden in the wild forest and reeds can listen to this 'sad autumn tune' and run out and fly around the head, and they can't go away!" Some people who have read the book say that the meaning of this 'sad autumn tune' is that the bird is about to die and its song is also mourning; The General of Man...... Oh no, it's going to happen!! ”

Before the words fell, the old man Hong, who was running faster and faster, stumbled under his feet, and the whole person fell down to the ink and blue brick floor paved in the courtyard of Erjin in a daze, and the wooden box in his hand also flew away!

With a slam of effort under his feet, Xiang Youbao, who was standing beside Na Jiuye, had already pounced towards the old man Hong who was scattered, and reached out to clamp the old man Hong's body, and let the old man Hong half lie down on his knees.

Although there was not much light in the courtyard of the second entry, when he looked at Old Man Hong's face that was emitting a pale golden light, Xiang Youbao suddenly turned his head and shouted at the elementary school apprentices standing around the courtyard: "Get water!" If you have two legs and feet, hurry up and find a doctor! ”

stretched out a slap, and the old man Hong, who was leaning on the arms of the leopard, shook his slap weakly and shouted, "Sensei...... It's a hassle! I'm here...... I'm going to have to sue you! Originally, I should have gone to the street like this, why shouldn't I make such a fuss in the hall of your main gate...... But I ...... I can't leave behind my little bit of craftsmanship...... You can't get rid of my little thing......"

With great discernment, he picked up the wooden box that Old Man Hong had dropped off, and the nine monkeys grabbed the wooden box with one hand, and with the other hand they came to Old Man Hong's side with a bowl of tea, and carefully put the tea bowl to Old Man Hong's lips: "Old man, what you say is really narrow!" If you say anything else, drink your saliva first......"

took two sips of water from the tea bowl handed to his lips by the nine monkeys, and the old man Hong reluctantly showed a smile to the nine monkeys, but turned his head to Na Jiuye, who was also squatting beside him, and said, "Na Jiuye, you ...... You should know what I'm thinking! I'll take this eight-tone whistle that can blow the 'sad autumn tune', and I'll ask you for a coffin with a shy face......"

Grabbing Old Man Hong's slap heavily, Na Jiu Ye hurriedly shook his head at Old Man Hong and shouted: "Brother, don't worry, I will save it for you in the main gate of the fire." When will you be in good shape, and I'm counting on you to make me a few more things to eat in the main gate of the fire?! ”

Looking at Old Man Hong, whose pale golden expression was getting thicker and thicker, Na Jiuye raised his head and shouted to the nine monkeys who were holding a tea bowl: "Do you still have the eyesight to see?!" From this moment on, the old man Hong of the Hong family in Fengwei Hutong is worshiped in the main gate of my fire, eating raw and long-term salary, and dying with incense! From now on, you are the attendant of Old Man Hong's side! ”