Chapter 2 The Extraordinary Way
"Teacher Yang, it's not good, it's a fight......"
Hearing this urgent shout, Yang Xin reluctantly stopped from the homework pile and hurried to the "crime scene".
Seeing Yang Xin, the two boys who were inseparable just now quickly separated.
"What's wrong?" Yang Xin frowned, "Why don't you fight?" ”
The two sixth-graders, who were slightly half a head taller than Yang Xin, stood up with their hands behind their backs in an orderly manner, lowered their heads and muttered, "We...... Didn't fight......"
"Didn't fight?" Yang Xin looked at their flushed faces and raised her voice.
The two children were startled, and one of them, who was a little fair-skinned, still said in a bold whisper: "We didn't fight, we sparred!" ”
"Sparring!" Yang Xin couldn't hold back, she burst out laughing, and when she saw the teacher laughing, the two children breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly said, "Teacher, let's learn martial arts!" ”
"Originally, we used the way of driving horses in the Chu River and Han realms, but who knew that he was unruly and had to regret chess, so we learned martial arts......"
The two children scrambled to restore the facts, Yang Xin only felt dizzy in her head, these little cubs were spoiled by her lawlessly, they loved to fight and fight, but they put what she said, "Bringing the context of ancient literature into daily life, that is the highest level of literature" to learn and put it into practice. The two who were still fighting just now will have a tacit understanding to excuse each other. Looking at the two ghost elves, Yang Xin couldn't bear to expose them, pretended to be something, and hurriedly ran back to the office.
When I walked in the door, I heard Bai and Yu, two math teachers, arguing over a classic math problem "chickens and rabbits in the same cage". Listen to the frequent "Suppose it's all chickens, then how many chicken feet are there...... Assuming it's all rabbits, how many ...... rabbit's feet are there" Yang Xin only felt that her mind was getting more and more dizzy, and suddenly said, "What's there to fight for!" Breaking the noise, "This math is boring!" What is mathematical thinking? Isn't it cultivating people's ability to turn poverty into evil calculations! ”
Everyone was shocked by this remark, and Yang Xin hurriedly asked, "What is the transformation of poverty into evil?" ”
"Pick!" Mr. Liang, an art teacher, continued passionately: "Chickens and rabbits are in a cage, and chickens and rabbits can't be distinguished, which is treating children as fools!" Besides, can't you buy an extra cage? You have to stuff a cage, it's not a pick......"
Teacher Liang's words woke everyone up, and everyone couldn't help laughing, sweeping away the irritability just now, and sure enough, the artist's thinking was indeed different, and the small office of the four finally calmed down.
"Why don't we go to the kiln in the afternoon?" Teacher Liang looked at everyone with a wicked smile on his face.
"Go to the kiln!" The three of them were shocked again.
Teacher Liang explained slowly with a smile: "Our professor's house, there is a clay kiln studio, we go to knead the mud, and then go to the cave to burn it ourselves, don't worry about the problem of chickens, ducks and rabbits, you have to like it, and you can go and burn a chicken, duck and rabbit to eat by the way!" ”
Only then did everyone understand that this kiln was not the "kiln", so they smiled awkwardly and agreed.
Mr. Liang is a university professor, and his kiln is actually a pottery studio. The studio is built at the foot of Kunshan Mountain in Yexian County, covering an area of more than 10 acres, with a large area of green weeds, although it is neglected, it is also close to nature. The vestibule is a pottery area, with a few rooms scattered and stacked with raw materials and tools. The backyard is a firing area, stacked with red bricks, and as far as the eye can see, it looks like a small European-style house inhabited by hobbits. There are several ginkgo trees outside the pottery studio, and if it is autumn, the ground is full of golden apricot leaves, don't be a splendid. In the studio, on the left and right, there are two rows of wooden cabinets on the top of the wall, which are filled with various forms of teapots, tea pets, and sculptures made by Professor Li himself. There are Dai style bamboo building pottery pots, Japanese style tea pet cats, and incense burners that bring together 12 zodiac shapes: the ox is angry, the incense burner is lit, and the smoke is spewed out of the cow's nostrils; The incense burner was lit, and the smoke erupted from the tiger's wide open mouth...... The most unique is a set of puppet sculptures of 56 nationalities, the villain is only 10 centimeters, but the facial features are extremely exquisite, the demeanor is different, and none of them are repeated. Even if you are smiling, there are also those who purse their lips and smile, those who smile, those who smile...... The costumes are even more remarkable, the details of the national costumes, the thin tassels of the belts, the silver pieces of the clothes, the earrings and the buckles, all of which are lifelike. The brick-red clay works, but in a variety of forms, made Yang Xin, Bai, and Yu three people marvel and wow. Listening to the admiration of the three of them, Professor Li just calmly stroked his goatee, without any smugness, on the other hand, Mr. Liang looked at the professor happily throughout the whole process, and the two looked at each other and smiled, their eyes full of love.
Looking at such a remarkable work, the three of them couldn't wait to sit in front of the pottery cart and put the clay that had been rubbed for half a day under the guidance of Professor Li on the pottery cart. As the roulette wheel turned, the three of them held the clay tightly with both hands and carefully pulled the embryo. Professor Li was busy pointing back and forth between the three of them.
Yang Xin wanted to make a simple lotus incense burner, burn incense at midnight, read a book, and feel uncomfortable. Teacher Bai wanted to make a fish-shaped flower pot, but before she could make it, she began to calculate how many fish scales should be pinched in each row. Teacher Yu is the most delicate person, she wants to be a mermaid, just like her, how to swing the fishtail, how to shape the hairstyle, how to bend the eyebrows, how to curl the corners of the mouth......
The three beginners had no idea how difficult this pottery sculpture was, and this whimsical idea was too busy for Professor Li. The back and forth of this side and there, without a moment of pause in the mouth and hands.
Seeing his professors working hard to make a good impression on his colleagues, Mr. Liang's face was full of happiness. I had nothing to do, picked up a piece of white cover cloth that had fallen on the ground, shook off the dust, spread the cloth on the long table, thought for a moment, took the paint from the corner of the table, squeezed it in the palette, picked up the paint brushes of different lengths, and started painting on the white covercloth. In a short time, a landscape painting of the south of the Yangtze River has been completed, bluestone slab path, clear water stone arch bridge, white wall gray glazed tile, sunset in the west, sunset sky, golden, orange, crimson, light yellow...... It's intoxicating. Teacher Liang looked up at the few people who were still pinching the mud, secretly gave Professor Li a few smiles, thought about it, turned out the knife in the drawer, and neatly slashed down the edge of the white cloth......
Several people are immersed in their own worlds, and before they know it, the sun has sunk in the west. Mr. Liang touched the stomach of the protester, waited for a long time, and finally completed the work one after another.
"What to eat?" Mr. Liang didn't have time to ask questions. Teacher Bai said excitedly: "Professor Li, can you take us to feel the firing process and burn it yourself?" ”
The good-natured Professor Li didn't know how to refuse, his forehead and clothes were already soaked with sweat, although it was early summer, the weather was not too hot, but the whole day of busyness and tossing made the great artist a little unbearable, he thought that he could finally call it a day, who knew that this sudden proposal made the professor at a loss.
"Let's go another day! It's too late today, not to mention that I haven't eaten yet! Although Yang Xin was also curious about firing, she saw Professor Li's embarrassment, so she stopped it.
"Let's take a look and put things in the stove, it won't take long, Professor?" Teacher Bai insisted.
"Uh......, if you don't wait for it to come out of the stove, it really won't take long." The professor grabbed the hair of his shawl and said yes.
Teacher Liang was very helpless, and beat his spirit, "Let's go, let's fight quickly!" With that, he took the lead and walked out.
There is a hole behind the hobbit house I saw in the vestibule just now, and there are rows of large and small caves, which are very spectacular. Professor Li introduced the dragon kiln, the class kiln, and the egg-shaped kiln one by one...... In fact, they are all caves that have been handed down in the Han Dynasty, and now they have become cultural relics protection sites, only for visiting and learning.
Professor Li led the group to stop in front of a large "container", and more than a dozen liquefied gas tanks taller than people were lined up in the corner, and the liquefied gas pipes were connected to the kiln box. Before he could be introduced, Mr. Liang couldn't wait to say, "This big microwave oven is fine!" You can start a food group and easily contract the meals of the whole school!" The crowd laughed again.
Professor Li carefully put the mold that the three people had just made into the box, came to the electric switch, and just put his hand on the switch, a gust of wind suddenly blew, and the sky was completely dark in an instant, and a lightning bolt went straight down to the liquefaction tank, only to hear a boom, a huge explosion sound resounded through the sky, and an extremely strong light broke through the clouds. In this electric light, the location of the five people instantly turned into dust, and the caves, red bricks, and houses were completely flat. Only the charred black dust and the smell of burnt paste that permeated the valley!