Chapter 42 Mortise and tenon joints

I glanced at him lightly, didn't speak, walked to the edge of the fir wood, selected the thickest piece of fir wood as the bottom plate of the coffin, touched the fir wood again, and shouted at Su Xiaoman, "Ink bucket!" ”

Although Su Xiaoman said that she didn't understand carpenters, she lived in the countryside, and she was very familiar with carpenter's tools, so she didn't hesitate, and immediately handed over the ink fountain.

I took the cedar plank out, took the ink fountain again, cut my index finger and dripped a few drops of blood into the ink fountain, muttered a few more words of the engineer's words, and stirred a few times in the ink fountain.

After getting this, I was stunned, pulled out the thread from the ink fountain and handed it to Su Xiaoman, who pulled the thread and stood at the other end of the fir tree, and I walked to the other end with the ink fountain and played a straight line on the fir wood.

After playing this straight line, I looked at the black line that popped up a little, and then played a black line again next to the position of six centimeters to the left of the black line.

It took about three minutes, and I had already played sixteen black lines on this cedar board, so Su Xiaoman asked me why I played so many black lines.

I said, the evil qi on Wu Lao's body is heavy, and only by playing more ink fountain lines can the evil qi in his body be released as soon as possible.

Of course, what I said to Su Xiaoman was more official. Actually, I play these ink fountains with my own intentions.

The reason is that this fir is cloudy and moth-eaten, and I, as a ghost craftsman and a child, my blood yang energy is extremely heavy, once mixed with the ink in the ink fountain, the ink can be full of yang energy, plus the fir wood is moth-eaten, there are many sand holes in the wood, and there are more ink fountain lines, these inks will seep into the wood, thereby improving the texture of the whole fir wood, making it a coffin floor full of yang.

And my idea is no longer to use the coffin to disperse the evil qi on Wu Lao's body, but to create a coffin with extremely heavy yang energy, so that the yang energy and Wu Lao's evil qi can reach a balance point, which is often called neutralization by folks.

Our ghost craftsman's interpretation of this is a poem, which says that there is a root cause for the change of all things, the five elements of yin and yang are turbid, the five elements of yin and yang are thorough, and the six evils are neutralized by the army.

This is the only way I can come up with at the moment, and only in this way can I turn Wu Lao's corpse into a corpse without any evil qi in the first place.

With this in mind, I flicked all the fir planks onto the ink fountain line.

I just finished playing the ink fountain line here, and Huang Jinshan over there has almost put together the coffin, and Su Xiaoman is anxious on the side, like an ant on my hot pot, and asks me vigorously, why don't you fight the coffin.

Without speaking, I laid the fir planks on the ground, and used a saw and chisel to make some suns and joints out of the fir planks. (Digression: tenon is also called tenon, tenon, in the current words to explain that the two utensils use the principle of concave and convex combination, the protruding part is called tenon, the concave part is called the mouth, most of the ancient Chinese wood art is used in this way of mortise and tenon combination, especially some bridges, the whole bridge down, do not need to use nails, and such as the relationship between the lock and the key, is also derived from the mortise and tenon of a product.) )

To be honest, this tenon and joint are extremely difficult to get and it takes a lot of time, but if you want to create a coffin with extremely strong yang energy, you must use the combination of mortise and tenon to firmly put all the coffin boards together, only in this way can the yang energy in the coffin not leak out.

Of course, you can also choose to use rivets or strong glue to assemble the coffin board into a coffin, which is more time-saving. But in this case, one is disrespectful to the deceased, the other is that the yang energy in the coffin will leak out, and the third is that our ghost craftsmen beat the coffin in a combination of mortise and tenon joints, and only the carpenter will use rivets and strong glue to hit the coffin.

When the old carpenter saw that I was making the mortise and tenon and the joint, he got up, stared at me incredulously, and said, "Little brother, are you going to make a coffin out of a combination of mortise and tenon?" ”

I hummed and said, "As a ghost craftsman, if you can't make coffins with a combination of mortise and tenon joints, what qualifications do you have to be called a ghost craftsman?" ”

When I said this, my tone was very light, and the old carpenter smiled slightly, and said with satisfaction: "Yes, some young people nowadays have long forgotten the way of mortise and tenon joint for convenience, but they don't know that this mortise and tenon joint is the soul of the world's craftsmen. ”

After finishing speaking, he looked at Huang Jinshan and said in a deep voice: "Huang Jinshan, as a ghost craftsman, should the coffin be re-opened?" ”

When the golden man heard this, his brows tightened, and he looked at me, and I saw a trace of gloom in his eyes, but I don't know why he didn't say it, but said respectfully to the old carpenter: "What you always said is that I immediately made a tenon and a joint." ”

Hearing this, I breathed a sigh of relief, the third master asked me to delay the time, as long as the mortise and tenon joint is made, this time will definitely be very long. After all, the tenon, the joint is extremely time-consuming, and the ghost craftsman's perception of the size, if the tenon is bigger, can not be plugged into the joint, you have to re-make the tenon smaller, once the tenon is smaller, and for the stake to stuff into the mouth, so that the aesthetics have to be greatly discounted.

At that moment, I glanced at Huang Jinshan, and I found that he didn't seem to know much about mortise and tenon, but the middle-aged man next to him knew a lot.

Seeing this, I didn't speak, I was stuffy and tinkered with the tenon and the joint, while Su Xiaoman kept handing me tools on the side.

It took me about six hours to get the tenons and joints on a few coffin boards, and I had already done it, but the gold was probably less than two-thirds of the way out.

I took a deep breath, and I was not in a hurry, and I took a Luban ruler and measured all the tenons and the centimeters of the joints, almost all of which matched the size.

Although this is the first time I have made such a large coffin, when I was learning from my brother, I had made countless palm-sized coffins, and I was already familiar with the control of size and mortise and tenon joints.

To tell you a word from the heart, even if I take the Luban ruler to measure the centimeter of the tenon and the joint, I just have a strange mentality, in the words of my senior brother, "Chuanzi, you are talented, especially the control of size, and you have a sensitivity that is different from ordinary people." ”

Therefore, I have absolute confidence in the mortise and tenon joint, and when I found that there was no accident, I asked Su Xiaoman to move two wooden benches over, and asked her to put the coffin bottom plate on the wooden bench by hand, and then put all the coffin boards together.

Because the tenon and the size of the joint are exactly the same, this coffin is extremely simple, and it only took half an hour before a coffin appeared.

Supposedly, in this case, I should be able to win the gold and goodness, but I don't have a smile on my face, because I understand too well that this coffin is just an appetizer, and the real place to look at the ability is in the back, that is, how to make this coffin full of yang.