Chapter 11: The First Engraving

Looking at the water flowing everywhere on the ground, he quickly swept the tin dustpan with a broom little by little, poured it into the spittoon, and went out to pour it three times before cleaning it up.

When he was done, he sat on the bed and bowed his head in contemplation, and the devil in his heart ran out.

"Widow Qin is too shrewd, try not to touch it if she can, but I didn't give it for nothing, isn't it just an equivalent exchange. However, it is still necessary to be careful not to let everyone catch rape in bed. I don't want to be lost in the streets, so I have to marry Widow Qin, maybe Widow Qin is optimistic about it, maybe she will play an immortal dance with Jia Zhang's family or something.

Even if such an unfavorable situation occurs, it is a big deal to knock out Widow Qin, send her to the secret realm, and then quietly throw her into the toilet to wake her up, flashing people. With my skills and perception, no one wants to see me", Li Guocheng secretly thought, as the soul of future generations, he should not be too familiar with acting on the spot.

"Anyway, it's not the right way, it's okay, but you don't dare to put it into practice. Marrying a daughter-in-law who is being married by Ming Media is the last word", Li Guocheng thought silently.

I picked up the wood and the carving knife that I had just thrown on the bed, sat down by the fire, calmed down, and lifted the knife... Wrong.. It's carving, because it's the first time to actually operate, and there is no master to teach, just understand some basic principles and methods, no matter how talented it is. Fortunately, my hands were so stable that I carved out the rabbit pattern in my mind after a while, and I changed the carving knives several times according to the needs, and now there are 5 carving knives neatly placed on the table.

Pick up the rabbit and look at it for a second, two seconds、。。。 , ten seconds, subconsciously touched the back of the head, it seems that the belly is a little thin and a little long, forget it, change to a puppy, Jingba is good.

Ten minutes later, I looked at it for another second, two seconds、。。。 , ten seconds, the legs are a little long, forget it, change to a donkey.

Ten minutes later, another second, another second, two seconds、。。。 , ten seconds, forget it, change to a camel.

。。。 Forget it, let's change it to a giraffe, it doesn't seem to have such a long neck, what kind of thing is this, the whole thing is not like four.

After looking at it again and again, Li Guocheng suddenly let out a laugh, realized that it was too late, and immediately suppressed his laughter.

"Hey, it seems that he has a good eye and a low hand, and he still boasts of being a genius. You need to go to the library to learn some carving techniques and steps, preferably with pictures and texts," Li Guocheng laughed at himself.

"Forget it, wash and sleep."

After a hasty wash, fall asleep.

After going to work the next day, I told the master about wanting to go to the library, Zhang Tou was very supportive, thinking that he was learning mechanical knowledge, so he immediately put down his work and took Li Guocheng to find the workshop director, and successfully got the letter of introduction.

In the blink of an eye, it was the weekend, and during the period, Widow Qin also knew how to be measured, and did not look for Li Guocheng again.

Today, Zhang Tou is going to bring the master carpenter to the door, so he will stay at home and wait after eating breakfast outside.

Before 9 o'clock in the morning, I heard the three masters shouting Li Guocheng. Hurriedly went out, and saw the third master with a head and a middle-aged man with a thin body and a sad face, and he knew in his heart that he should be a master carpenter.

"Thank you, three masters", smiled and thanked the three masters, and stretched out his hand to indicate that the three of them entered the door.

"You are busy, I have something at home, see you later", the three masters left in a good way.

"You go slowly", Li Guocheng said politely.

"Xiao Li, this is the cousin I told you, your name is Uncle Tang San, your skills are not bad", Zhang Tou introduced first.

"Two uncles, please come into the house and talk in detail", Li Guocheng said politely.

"No, you talk about it yourself, I won't be an eyesore", said frankly, avoiding being stuck in the middle, it is not easy for the two sides to talk.

"Uncle, you go slowly, the second day of the Lunar New Year will give you New Year's greetings", Li Guocheng was not polite, and agreed on the time of New Year's greetings by the way.

"Uncle Tang, please take a seat", took out a large-scale cigarette and helped light it.

"You can also wood carve?" Seeing the four dissimilarities and the carving knife on the table, Uncle Tang asked with a smile.

"Let you laugh, it's okay at night, carve and play, play time, just learned, I don't know what I carved", Li Guocheng was embarrassed, and quickly made up for it.

"In the past, I repaired the house for the eunuchs, and I also learned some carving skills, if you can see it, I will teach you, I see that you are also a person who loves old skills", for the sake of Zhang Tou's face, teaching some simple skills just to get closer to the feelings, I can't say that there will be carpentry work in the future. In addition, now we don't pay attention to carving when making furniture, and pursue simplicity, in order to avoid the loss of skills, we can teach one is one.

"What do you want to carve?"

"Rabbit," Li Guocheng said ashamedly.

Uncle Tang San was dumbfounded, came back to his senses, and said with a smile: "This... Then I'll carve a rabbit, you see."

Uncle Tang San explained while operating, starting from the line composition, rough embryo production, fine embryo, polishing, polishing, hair carving, ornamentation, glazing and other steps, explained in detail.

Engraving pays attention to from top to bottom, from front to back, from the surface to the inside, from shallow to deep, first from the overall point of view, adjust the proportion and various layouts. While watching, listening, while corresponding to the eight carvings in the memory, what "leave the fat can be changed small, but the spine is thin and difficult to fat", "the inner distance should be small should not be played, remember that carving is subtraction"... And so on. Slowly, the words in my mind became pictures, and I understood them. Now that Li Guocheng has been opened to carving, the next step is to keep practicing, and slowly elevate imitation to art.

"Finish the work, gentlemen, you have long eyes", Uncle Tang San completed the carving, the rabbit is the true image of the carving, the only deficiency is that it is not smart enough, it is a dead thing. Look, before you even hit the road, you start to float.

"It's so good, it's vivid, it's like you're living", you're not happy.

Uncle Tang San didn't bother with it, just just just take a thing, and after the emotional investment is completed, it's time to get down to business.

Li Guocheng told Uncle Tang San about his thoughts, 2 meters high, 1 meter above the ground is a locker with double doors, and the top is made into a bookcase, without a door. Uncle Tang San was a little disappointed, according to his age, he thought it was to buy wedding furniture, no matter how small the mosquito was, it was meat, and now it was difficult to find a job, so it was a good transition.

"Contracted work, or contracted labor and materials", Uncle Tang San hopes that it is contracted labor and materials, so that he can earn more.

"Contractor and material", too lazy to bother.

"There are poplars and old mahogany, you choose".

"Old material, use it for a longer time."

"You see, I'm going to use the best materials for you, and I'll send you three generations later, and I'll send it to you in a week", the carpenters of this era are not talking big, saying that they will be passed on for three generations.

Third Uncle Tang didn't stay to eat, and left in a hurry.

Li Guo has become one thing, and today is just the time to paint the house white.

Put the large items in the house and the objects that are not easy to take care of into the secret realm, prepare the big white water, according to the unknown proportion, according to the thick water in the memory, adjust it with the washbasin, the big white only used up a quarter, try to paint a foot square on the wall near the stove, and then go to an uncle to borrow a ladder, the wall can not be like pasting newspapers, you need to carefully smear the inside of the secret.

It happened that there was a ladder at the house, so he said a few polite words and returned home with the ladder. Uncle Yi was not at ease, so he followed together.

"Uncle Yi, look here, I tried it just now, and now this piece is almost dry near the stove", Li Guocheng was not hypocritical, pointing to the wall he had just tried to paint, and asked Uncle Yi to help take a look.

"Yes, but do you paint walls?"

"It's okay, I've cleaned up the house with my dad in the past, and I've also painted the walls", inexplicably a little lost, it should still be the memory influence of the predecessor.

"Then I'll see how you are", Uncle Yi is still not at ease.

"Uncle Yi, you can see it", Li Guocheng cleaned up his mood, put the basin on the north wall, dipped it in white water, and started by the wall, from top to bottom, in one go, because his hands were too stable, the traces of the brush were the same in depth, width and narrowness, straight down.

"Yes, it is worthy of being a fitter, the hand is stable, and the eye is accurate", an uncle walked away with confidence, and muttered while walking: "My eighth-level fitter can't brush him like this, it seems that he is really old", an uncle is a little doubtful of life. Because Uncle Yi's attention was all on brushing the wall, and he was stimulated by Li Guocheng's achievements, he didn't pay attention to the fact that there were a lot of things missing at home, otherwise Li Guocheng would have to make up reasons to prevaricate.

"I like to brush, wash and brush..." The more you work, the more energetic you are, and you don't get tired, and of course you can't get tired of this little work.

I didn't care about lunch, I worked until more than 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and the whole house was painted from top to bottom, because it was not dry, and the color seemed a little dull. With excitement, he returned the brush and ladder to the uncle, and was so shocked that the uncle shouted, "I'm still a young man, and the action is so fast."

gave the remaining one-third of Dabai to the three masters, and received a wave of gratitude that was not sincere. It's not easy, don't worry too much, anyway, by the end of next year, the big white will turn yellow, and you will have to buy a new one.