Chapter 8 Skilled Craftsmen

"This thing is a child's plaything, you can't eat it, you can't drink it, and it still takes up space at home, what do you want him to do? The last time I hit the two iron rings, it cost me ten copper plates, and you have to pay for them yourself." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

An He was at a loss for a while. After thinking about it, he said:

"Yishan, don't forget, we are in response to the order of which Liu County and Huang Zhutou, which rubble will be transported in twenty days, I bought these things to complete which errand, if it is completed on time, we can get ten hanging money, in addition to the four hangings I promised Huang Zhutou, there are six hanging money, six hanging money!

That's 6,000 copper plates, what are these ten copper plates spent on?

Besides, if you can't complete the errand because of this, how can you and I explain to which Liu County Ling and Huang Zhutou? ”

As soon as Lin Yishan thought of his promise to Liuxian Ling and Huang Dahai, the courage just now slowly deflated like a ball pricked by a needle.

"Don't you want to send these four bamboos to Carpenter Tan, what about the bamboo returned in the car, can't you buy it back?"

Lin Yishan said weakly.

Seeing that Lin Yishan agreed, An He was very happy in his heart, pushed the wooden cart by himself, and under the guidance of Lin Yishan, he finally pushed it to the Tan carpenter shop in the south of the city on the crowded street.

Carpenter Tan was squinting at the straightness of a poplar tree, preparing to saw open a cabinet, and when he saw that business was coming, he hurriedly and enthusiastically beckoned the two guys who were pulling ink money to stop the work in their hands and help Lin Yishan and An He unload the bamboo pole.

An He said: "Shopkeeper Tan, these four bamboos, we will store them here for you first, and we will go back and pull the willow stakes at home, and then make two things according to my requirements."

"Guest, don't worry, you just need to give you a rough idea of what you want to do, and make sure it is made as you say."

Carpenter Tan is very confident in his craft, but he does have the capital to brag about.

Not to mention other places, in Yongcheng County, his craftsmanship is absolutely first-class.

Carpenter Tan has followed his father through the streets and alleys to help others do carpentry since he was a child, and he has practiced a carpentry that turns decay into magic. If you use the same material to make the same thing, you just don't have the rhyme he made, and you don't have the essence he made.

The willow wood, which was twisted like a snake, quickly turned into a delicate stool and chair in his hands, and the locust wood, which was mixed with lumps, made a bookcase carved with peonies in one meal.

The new bed made for the groom and the bride is strong and generous, with red paint brushes and varnishes, and a pair of mouth-to-mouth mandarin ducks are carved at the head of the bed, which mandarin ducks are lifelike, as if they can swim down from the bed at any time.

The screen made of the pine tree on the mountain, the landscape map carved by the knife, which tree seems to grow out of the screen, which water injury Buddha is smooth, and when you get closer, you can seem to hear the mountain wind whistling, the rustling of leaves, and the ding dong of spring water.

Yongcheng County's slightly prevalent characters, if they don't put two pieces of authentic Tan carpenter's furniture at home, they are embarrassed to take the guests home.

Whoever marries the deceased mother, if you marry a few pieces of furniture made by Carpenter Tan, which man will definitely carry the furniture on the street for a while, so that everyone can see it, see it, the bride's family is married to authentic Carpenter Tan's furniture.

So the bridegroom looked more face-saving, more and more proud, and rode on the horse with a straight waist, like a general who had just won a battle.

Other carpenters said that this piece of wood was wasted, and it was pimple, crooked, and not in shape.

But he can carve a white-bearded Antarctic fairy with one hand holding a peach, crutches in the other, hunched over, and a forehead leaning forward. Move to the bedroom of the eunuch's house to use as a clothes hanger, hat hanging, not to mention a hundred copper plates for you.

Everything in his shop is more expensive than other places for more than a dozen copper plates, but people just flock to it, he sells fame and craftsmanship. People are looking for faces, and they are showing off.

There is a legend in Yongcheng County that when Tan Carpenter first started to learn woodworking, his father asked him to use an adzes to practice adzes on the gourds.

He once boasted that he could shave his head with an adze, provided you were lying on the ground, face down, showing your head, and he would shave you bald with a three-foot-long adze. If there is half a point of harm, he is willing to accompany you for ten dollars.

Although everyone knows that he is highly skilled, and no one doubts his skills, which stunned young man is willing to risk his life to test him with his own head.

The skin of the body is affected by the parents of the body, and outsiders are not allowed to be harmed.

Besides, the Han people in the Tang Dynasty all wore long braids, and if they were sharded, they would not become monks in any temple.

Although he has been boasting about Haikou for several years, because no one has taken the exam, Carpenter Tan is secretly sad, and when he is making wood, he often looks at the heads of the guys in the shop with a distraction, studying the hair trend, and seeing where to cut it clean.

Once, he said to an apprentice who had just arrived, "Can I cut your hair for you?" ”

What apprentice was shocked and thought that he would have to take the risk of learning a trade? I didn't dare to do such a life-threatening thing, so I grabbed the door and didn't dare to come again.

At a glance, he really itched, pressed his son Tan Xiaojiang to the ground, took the adze, and the adze, which adze had not fallen, Tan Xiaojiang cried and shouted for help.

When his mother-in-law heard the sound, she rushed over, grabbed the adze, picked up the child, scolded her, and greeted the ancestor of Carpenter Tan with eight bags.

And he did not sleep with him for a month, and cut off his desires as a punishment.

From then on, Carpenter Tan broke off this thought, knelt on the mother-in-law's bed and swore that he would never do the stupid thing of shaving his head with a shovel, so the mother-in-law broke into tears and laughed, and had a good time with which Tan carpenter that night.

It's just that Tan Xiaojiang fell ill and couldn't see Tan Carpenter lifting a shovel, and when he saw it, his soul flew away, or he closed the door, or fled like a lost dog.

Later, which Tan carpenter all classes of carpentry have to be Tan carpenter's true inheritance, but the art of adzewood is not learned, Tan carpenter is deeply guilty, often regretting his reckless behavior.

An He walked into the shop and looked at the furniture made by Carpenter Tan, which was really unique and ingenious.

Which cases, without a nail, only connected with a tenon, will be strong and abnormal, and the foot will not be broken.

No bed is as smooth as ice and as bright as a mirror, even if it is made by a machine in later generations, it will not reach such a perfect degree.

An He couldn't help but secretly marvel that Chinese carpentry was already as fine as it was in the Tang Dynasty, which was really breathtaking.

An He thought to himself: His subordinates are trying to make an object, and one day hand over the locust stick that he specially took back last time to him and make it into a handful of things for hunting.

Lin Yishan's bow and arrow are too hard, and he can't pull them at all.