Tang Chen was a little surprised and asked, "Is this ...... The shop sells brushes?"

Zeng Lao said with a smile: "That's right, it is a brush that sells it, and it is a handmade brush, the output is not high, and the starting price is expensive...... However, in the entire Tumen Street, only this shop has a good business. ”

Seeing Tang Chen's look of disbelief, Zeng Lao seemed to have guessed Tang Chen's thoughts: "Master Tang, this person can't be good-looking, and the shop is the same." Isn't your shop in Panzhou the same size? But the monthly income is higher than that of those high-end stores, right?"

Tang Chen thought about it, it seemed to be the same. Since he opened the shop, the converted monthly income is nearly one million. With such a "unpretentious" shop and such a high income, it is estimated that no one would have thought of it, right? This is faster than grabbing it! Perhaps it is because of this that Tang Chen is determined to take the road he wants to take. He once thought like this: "No wonder the powerful feng shui masters in ancient times were regarded as national teachers and enjoyed extraordinary treatment, it turned out that the secret art of feng shui changed the way of fortune and the national situation, and it was really magical! It is no wonder that the big families in ancient times had to treat the feng shui master as a guest, with good food and drink, and a lot of remuneration......

Tang Chen only thought that feng shui was like this, but he didn't even think that it would be like this for making brushes.

"Is the brush here so powerful?"

Tang Chen has also written calligraphy since elementary school, as a feng shui master, he can't draw characters if he doesn't know how to write calligraphy, and calligraphy is a must. Maybe it's because of the beautiful handwriting that Tang Chen used to be the highest in all subjects when he was in the college entrance examination. It is precisely because of the Chinese language that Tang Chen can go to the university of the second book.

"Of course, the brush of this 'pen village', the people who write brushes and paint Chinese paintings in Quanzhou (Quan) Prefecture, which one doesn't know?" Zeng Lao said with a smile, "Don't look at the expensive brushes here, in fact, there are other people's reasons for being expensive." To make a good brush, according to the traditional pen-making process, it can be subdivided into more than 120 processes, and can also be roughly divided into more than 20 processes. The first is the production of the pen, the first step is to scratch the hair, the clump of wool is grabbed and then inverted on the table to make its hair roots together, make it into a bunch, then soak in water to clean, and finally soak in lime water overnight to remove fat. Then, after combing, hair, pressing, mixed hair, and clear front, add the hair with good stiffness, and use a thin knife to clean the wool without edge and deformation.

Next is the round pen, the selected ** thin flat out of the required amount of a brush, with the thumb slowly rolled into the pen column, so that the hair roots are neat, the pen column is dense and full. After completion, the process of attaching hair and straw ash to play in the water will be carried out. Finally, after the pen barrel is dry, the terminal head is put in the mouth and bites, and the pen is tied with the live mouth and the pen root is equal with the playing board, and then placed in the sun and waited for it to be fully dried.

It takes more than a dozen processes to make the pen barrel from the selection of materials to the completion of production. First of all, the selected bamboo is cut and cut according to the length, and is used as the production of the pen cover and the pen barrel; secondly, the tool is used to dig out a hole about three centimeters deep in the bamboo segment to glue into the brush head; then select different pen heads according to different brushes, carry out the process of inlaying, gluing, combing, removing residual glue, etc., and finally remove the miscellaneous hairs and wait for drying. In general, natural air drying usually takes three to seven days.

The last process is the pen barrel lettering, the lettering teacher will carve and engrave the pen barrel, and finally after a simple decoration, a good brush will be made. Master Tang, think about it, is it not expensive to make a handmade brush? If it is made by machine, it is estimated that it is not a problem to produce hundreds of brushes a day. But the problem is that the hand-made brushes can only feel the feeling of writing and painting! If you are a beginner, it is naturally no problem to buy some machine-made brushes, but the Chinese painting and calligraphy everyone must use the brush, so that you can have the help of God. ”

Tang Chen nodded: "'If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools', the truth is the same." ”

Zeng Lao smiled: "Actually, I also heard what the second brother said, he has insisted on practicing calligraphy for decades, don't look at him on crutches." But once you start writing, the power of the pen is straight through the back of the paper. In fact, the owner of this 'pen village' is familiar with my second brother, they have been friends for more than 30 years, they often drink tea together, and later I met him, and it was also when they drank tea together......"

Tang Chen understood, and asked puzzledly, "Then how can there be 'Eight Treasure Seal Clay' for sale here?"

Zeng Lao smiled bitterly: "Isn't it advocating diversification now! Don't say it's 'Eight Treasures Seal Clay', but all pigments, rice paper, ink strips, inkstones...... The four treasures of the study are all complete, as long as they are related to calligraphy and painting, they can be found here, and they are guaranteed to be genuine, and they are not deceiving. Of course, the main business here is still the brush. ”

Tang Chen said with a smile: "No wonder you didn't let me buy a brush just now, it turned out that this is the reason!"

"Why not use this good thing?"

Zeng Lao said with a smile, "Only by doing enough preparation can you improve the success rate!"

After a pause, Zeng Lao said, "Let's stop standing here and talking, let's go in and have a look!" Tang Chen nodded and followed Zeng Lao into this "pen village".

As soon as he stepped into the threshold of "Bizhuang", Tang Chen found that there were more than a dozen customers crowded into this small shop of more than ten square meters. Interestingly, the elderly have half of their children.

"Lao Guo, I'm coming to see you!" As soon as Zeng Lao entered the door, he went straight to an old man with half-gray hair, patted him on the shoulder and said.

The man named Lao Guo looked back and exclaimed in surprise: "Is it Ah Jiu?" After finishing speaking, he looked around awkwardly and said, "Why don't you sit down first......?"

Zeng Lao smiled and said: "It's okay, you do business first, I'll take a look at ......"

This old Guo smiled embarrassedly, and then turned his head and introduced himself to the customer.

Tang Chen was an eye-opener, there were really any brushes here. What small, medium, large, soft, hard, and so on. The most here is the sheep's hair pen, there are large block pen, Jingti (lifting pen), Lianfeng, Pingfeng, Dingfeng, Gaifeng, banner, jade shoots, magnolia rui, Jing Hawthorn and so on. In addition to the sheep's hair pen is the purple hair pen, I heard Zeng Lao say, this is made of rabbit hair. As for the pen, it is made of two kinds of animal hair with different rigidity and softness. There are sheep and wolves, sheep and purple, such as five purple and five sheep, seven purple and three sheep and so on.

What made Tang Chen even more speechless was that according to the length of the pen, there was a difference between a long edge, a center forward, and a short edge. After strolling through the whole store, Tang Chen was already dizzy, and his eyes were full of brushes.

"Master Tang, come and have a look......" Elder Zeng suddenly greeted Tang Chen.

(End of chapter)