When Yang Liufang woke up, it was just dawn, and he didn't know how he got into bed? Who sends the guests? At that moment, my head was buzzing, my mouth was dry, and my body was full of the smell of tobacco and alcohol. When the stone village chief who was sleeping on the wooden board next to him heard this, he hurriedly got up and went to pour him water to drink. Yang Liufang also got up, but his head hurt, and he rubbed his temples with his hands.

I wanted to ask Brother Shi what time it was, and remembered that the radio sent by Brother Shi hadn't been turned on yet, so I struggled to open the box and take out the radio, and sure enough, the clock went again, without the sealing of the box and foam, the clock made a slight clicking sound, and the clock hand pointed to 5:30, which was the time when he got up when he was an apprentice. At this time, the stone village chief also poured water and handed it to Yang Liufang.

"Brother Shi, have you woken up?"

"Wake up, it's almost time to pull water."

"Then let's get to work."

"Good! Uh(I) listen to your command, let's go! ”

Yang Liufang asked the village chief to help the stove burn, not too hot, sit on the steamer, add water and put in four potatoes. The stone village chief warmed up yesterday's leftovers again. After Yang Liufang finished arranging, he bowed to the east, which was the direction of the ancestor Luban, and it was also the direction where the master was located.

After the worship, set the alarm clock until 7:00 a.m., when the two of them will have dinner. Only then did he begin to lift the willow segment, measure the ruler, and dot it. After finishing the dots, he took out the ink fountain and poured ink, and after repeatedly pulling the thread and dyeing it, he began to ask the stone village chief to help pull the thread.

After pulling the line, they took out the big saw, and the two began to pull the big saw. I thought that the stone village chief would not, but I didn't expect it to be rusty at first, and slowly pulled it more and more relaxed, and before the alarm clock rang, a willow segment with a diameter of 40 cm and a length of 2m was opened into a stack of 3 cm thick boards. Stone Village has been in the prime of life for many years, and he carries the opened plates by himself, and puts them in a ventilated place for pressing to prevent the plates from cracking and warping. Yang Liufang put away the leftovers, except for the ones that could not be used, the rest were also sawed into small planks and wooden strips by himself with carpenter's hand for use, and as for the waste wood that could not be used, the village chief also took a broom and gathered it up, so that the two of them could cook on the fire in the future.

After opening a willow segment, the two were ready to eat. At the time of eating, Yang Liufang said to the village chief of Shi. "Brother Shi, you help me work here, I will pay you 10 yuan a day, don't be too little. I know you may sell more water than that, but let's just start and take our time. ”

"Brother, where did you come from? When San'er told the Buddha to give money, he refused, what do you want to do for your own work! ”

"It's more or less a brother's heart. The day after tomorrow, I'll be doing joinery, and you can go back for a day and bring water to the village for two more days. ”

"Well, that's what I mean. Just don't delay you. ”

"Don't delay, don't delay!"

The two buried their heads in eating, and after eating, the stone village chief immediately took the bowl and washed it. Yang Liufang wanted to rob it but didn't grab it, so he could only let him wash the dishes. Yang Liufang carried out the second wood dotting, and after the dotting, the two continued to open the board, the third and fourth ...... It's already noon after the fourth root is opened. The two prepared lunch, and Yang Liufang fried celery segments with pork belly and steamed rice, because it was the first time to use a large steamer, I had no experience, and I steamed too much. In addition, the stone village chief was not used to eating rice for the first time, so there was a lot left.

At noon, the sun was just right, and Yang Liufang divided the large piece of pork into small pieces, smeared it with salt, and dried it in the sun. After being busy, I took a break and continued to open wood in the afternoon. Different from opening the board in the morning, opening the square in the afternoon, first open the whole wood into 6 cm thick boards, and then open the dots into 4 cm or 6 cm wood squares, and the leftovers into 3 cm or 2 cm wooden strips. Similarly, the stone village chief bundles and presses the open wooden squares. Opening the wood square is more cumbersome and laborious than opening the plank, so the two of them only opened three logs and couldn't do it.

The two had to stop to drink water and prepare dinner. Yang Liufang turned on the radio by the way, listened to the literary program of the Central People's Radio, and the familiar voice of Mr. Li Yemo came out, it was Lu Yao's "Ordinary World", the story of Sun Shao'an and Sun Shaoping, ordinary farmers on the Loess Plateau, fascinating, the two listened to it with relish, and fried the egg fried rice, because they were tired, so they both ate a lot.

At night, the lantern was lit, and Yang Liufang began to study the production process and details of the Eight Immortals Table. This time, he used a comparative method to compare the insights of An Siyuan and Wang Shixiang to find the best solution. Yang Liufang became more and more interested in the comparison, until the stone village chief urged him to sleep, saying that he would have to work the next day, so he put down the book, turned off the light, and fell into a deep sleep.

The next day was still 5:30 in the morning, and the two still worked together to open the wooden square. After breakfast, Yang Liufang used the embers to light the sawdust and broken wood strips that he had collected, sprinkled with water smoke, and hung the pork that had dried the day before to smoke, and the aroma of direct smoke overflowed, and the fat flowed, and the grease helped to burn the sawdust, and the open flame was immediately sprinkled with water, and it was smoked until the two of them finished work, and then the fire was extinguished.

Yang Liufang took out two pieces and handed them to the village chief of Shishi, asking him to give one to his father-in-law's family on the way back and keep one for his own family. He also gave him a portion of celery, asked him to take it back, and asked his sister-in-law to stir-fry Gawa to eat. The village chief changed into new shoes and caught the donkey cart back to Shiyi Village.

In the evening, Yang Liufang listened to the radio and cooked and ate by himself, and after eating, he felt that the weather was gradually getting colder, so he got into the quilt early, read a book and continued to study the furniture making process, and fell asleep unconsciously.

When I woke up the next day, I found that the book had fallen to the floor. Pick it up, clean it up a little, and start making the Eight Immortals Table. Yang Liufang combined the summary of the Eight Immortals Table by An Siyuan and Wang Shixiang, two furniture masters, and decided to make a tunic horseshoe leg foot Luo pot style paneled square table.

He first selected two 6*6 wooden squares to sawed out 74*74 table legs, and then made tenons at both ends of the table legs, sawed out 12*12 wooden squares, carved horseshoe-shaped table legs, and made Mao above the table legs. Then make the side fir, tooth plate, carved waist, and so on by the time these parts were finished, Yang Liufang found that it was already evening, and he had not eaten for a day when he had been working for a day.

Yang Liufang steamed a bowl of rice, cut a few pieces of bacon and some celery segments, steamed a potato, ate it haphazardly, lit a lantern, and continued to work. I finished the tenon of the side and tooth board, only to feel a sore back, I didn't take off my clothes, climbed into bed, covered the quilt and slew.

He was woken up by the knock on the door of the stone village chief, and it seemed that he had rushed here in the middle of the night. Yang Liufang got up and saw the tools and components scattered on the ground, it seemed that he was too sleepy yesterday. The head of the stone village tied his hands, and he didn't know how to clean it up, for fear of messing up Yang Liufang. After Yang Liufang finished washing, he asked Brother Shi to boil kraft glue in the morning and cut the table board in the afternoon.

He first asked the village chief of the stone village to go to the village to help buy a rotten iron pot, and after the rotten iron pot was bought, he mixed the raw cowhide and kraft rubber particles bought by the supply and marketing cooperative, added a small amount of water, and then used waste wood chips and sawdust to make a fire, boil, and stir while boiling until the cowhide was completely melted. This glue is pure and natural, without a trace of formaldehyde at all.

After boiling the glue and the two had breakfast, the stone village chief hurried overnight and was smoked by the smell of boiling glue and had no appetite, Yang Liufang worked too late the first day, and he was also sleepy and ate very little. At noon, both of them had no strength, but they worked together to combine the horseshoe base and the table legs, and connected the side and tooth plate with mortise and tenon for the first time, and connected them with the table legs with mortise and tenon, and the general outline of a table of eight immortals came out.

The two were ecstatic to see the semi-finished product of the trial assembly. The stone village chief is because it is the first time to see such delicate furniture without nails, and Yang Liufang is because this is the first time he has made such complex antique furniture, and it is completely relying on book knowledge, a little bit of thinking and groping.

Because the semi-finished products came out, the two of them ate a lot of food at noon, and after they were full, they became sleepy, and the two fell asleep before starting their afternoon work. In the afternoon, it is much easier to open the table work, open the board splicing and grinding, and then use the mortise and tenon to add glue to connect, squeeze, and wait for the glue to dry, tightly seam like a whole board.

Yang Liufang used a planer to plane out the size of the tooth plate socket around the tabletop, and then let the stone village chief grind it with sandpaper, and then disassemble the original combined table frame, insert the desktop into the tooth plate, and combine the table frame together.