The two looked at the willow wood section from the humble head, through the joint force to open the board, open the square, boil glue, carve, mortise and tenon combined, into the current girdle horseshoe leg side plus hollow carved tooth board of practical furniture, although not painted, but made of this table of eight immortals beautiful lines and carvings, as well as the tenon and tenon joints, all reflect the delicacy of the furniture and the skills of carpentry. The two were both relieved and excited, circling around the table, looking carefully and touching carefully, like feeling a handicraft.

Yang Liufang remembered something, and asked Brother Shi to help him quickly carry the Eight Immortals Table into the room.

"Brother, why do you carry it in, put it outside, isn't it fast?"

"Brother Shi, the material of this table is now dry on the surface, but there is still moisture inside, and it is easy to crack due to thermal expansion and contraction when placed outside, so we have to put it indoors to dry. Then, before the arrival of winter, all the furniture should be primed and the wood should be sealed with lacquer, and the thermal expansion and contraction will be smaller. ”

The two were about to lift themselves in when they heard a knock on the door. Stone lowered the table and opened the door, and it turned out that the old village chief had walked in with a dry tobacco pouch.

"Yo, Suo (uncle), you are welcome to inspect the work."

"Suo (uncle), just when you came, look, our first piece of furniture is finished."

After Village Chief Zhao came in, his eyes straightened, and he ignored the two of them and went straight to the Eight Immortals table, looked at it silently, and nodded incessantly. It took a long time to say to Yang Liufang: "Good thing! If this is mahogany, isn't it worth it? ”

"Yes, Suo (uncle), in the Ming and Qing dynasties, this kind of furniture was made of hardwood, such as rosewood, red sandalwood, etc., and now it has become a cultural relic, which is very valuable. However, our inexpensive and practical one, when the water is completely dry, we use cinnabar to mix the varnish, and we can also brush the color similar to mahogany, which also looks bright. ”

"Oh, good! Good! Good! All right! Stone baby, the person you recommend is good, the person is good, and the craftsmanship is good! Village Chief Zhao kept praising him.

"Suo (uncle), Emeng (us) should lift the table in the shade to dry, so as not to cause the table to crack due to the heat and contraction outside."

"Well, (I) won't delay your work. Well done stuff wow! The old village chief sighed and left.

The countryside is a closed society, and with inconvenient communication, it is difficult for people to obtain information from the outside world, so the shortcomings of parents have become people's after-dinner conversations. Whoever has something going on, not a meal, the whole village can know about it, and if the rumors are not refuted in time, dozens or even hundreds of versions can be transmitted.

In the afternoon, the news that "Zhao Machuan came to a southern carpenter who can make antique furniture" spread throughout the village. A few years ago, he was criticized for "buying and selling" and was almost arrested by the commune for re-education through labor.

But the son who was about to get married at that time was delayed, and the woman who had already said that he was unwilling to do so, who was willing to push his daughter into the fire pit and marry a "capitalist" in those years? In the past two years of reform and opening up, the policy has been improved, and more and more people are doing business, especially the people from other places are more and more running to the vast Loess Plateau to do business, so he has also shaken off the previous depression and become lively. The people of Shili and Eight Villages knew that he had a lot of savings by selling horses in the past, so he continued to come to the door as a matchmaker for his son. Recently, I just saw one, and the two young people are also in love, and the age has passed early, so I want to welcome the door as soon as possible. And the old man also wanted to take advantage of his son's marriage to sweep away the past grievances and depression, paint the original spacious cave, and get a decent set of furniture for his son.

When he was selling horses, he saw a lot of people from south to north, and with the thoughts of the older generation in that era, he liked the magnificent antique furniture. I heard that Village Chief Zhao found a southern carpenter for his daughter, and he said that he would come and see it. So he took the good dry tobacco and went to the village to find Village Chief Zhao and asked him to bring him over. When they knocked on the door, Yang Liufang and the stone village chief were eating, and the stone village chief put down the bowl and went to open the door.

When Village Chief Zhao and the old man were brought in, they saw that the two of them had a bowl of white rice each, and there were dishes sitting on the stove. Yang Liufang saw the village chief come in with an elderly person, and he also put down the bowl and quickly stood up to greet him.

"You (you) continue to eat, and (I) will take you to see the new furniture."

"Oh, Suo (uncle), Da, please two of you." Wang Shan led the two into the house, and Yang Liufang was worried that he would continue to eat and would not be very polite to the elders, so he also followed into the house.

The old man circled around the table, moved it again, and then grabbed the corner of the table with both hands and shook it, after the mortise and tenon structure was glued, although it was not long ago, the table still did not shake or make a sound on the flat ground.

"Brother Jinchuan, it's a good thing! You sell it to the amount at a high price, can it be done? ”

"Okay (my) brother, this is the person who got the wood and invited the son-in-law's family, if it is (mine), it will definitely be used by our baby first."

"Then you look for the Buddha of the main thing (talk about it), and make a set for us!"

"Xiao Yang, come on, you see that your uncle is a Buddha (said), help him make a set?"

"Suo (uncle), I'm afraid that it will be too late, because it's winter soon, and I have to make a fire when this set is painted."

"What are you afraid of! Let's find a way to make a fire, our room was built temporarily when we entertained the 'Yin Soldiers' scientific investigation cadres, right? ”

"yes, brother."

"It was summer, and I didn't make a kang, so that's it, baby! Let Village Chief Zhao find someone to give you a pankang, the amount of charcoal (I) for the first winter is covered, and you can also give a set, what do you have? You tell me. ”

"Yang Liufang took out a set of drawings, which included two Taishi chairs, a case, four benches, a large bed, a dresser, a boudoir round stool, and a basin rack in addition to this Eight Immortals table."

The old man is a man who has seen the world, and he nodded his head in admiration while watching: "Yes, yes, it's the same as what I saw in Ma Yiguo's house when I was a teenager and a long-term worker." ”

"Who is Ma Yizhu?"

"Ma Bufang." Ma Bufang and Yang Liufang know that it is the great warlord in the northwest mentioned in the history books!

"Oh, he, that's, he's taking advantage of this thing."

"At that time, I thought, if I have money, I can get a set of this. In this way, Gava, how much wood do you need, you can tell E, and you can figure out a way. You can also give the amount of the cost, and the amount will be prepared for you, do you think it can be done? ”

"So, Dada, when are you going to use it?"

"The twenty-eighth silver flower baby of the lunar month is married, and the sixth baby of the first month is married, and you look at the arrangement of the production period."

Yang Liufang took the drawings and looked at them again, although he had calculated many times in his heart, but for the sake of safety, he calculated again.

"So, greatly, this thing should come down. If you want to keep warm in winter, you will be charged 1200 wages for this set of furniture. You only need 8 hardwoods 40-50 cm and 2 meters long. Cinnabar and varnish are wrapped up. ”

"Can you have less?"

"Big, I can't, in front of Uncle E, I won't ask for it blindly, and all I tell you is the reserve price. Brother Eshi is here to help, and Eshi is paid, so Emeng (we) have to be busy day and night for three months. Esu (uncle) knew that Esuo and his son-in-law would make more than enough money by running a business. ”

"Okay, it's done! Jin Chuan, you arrange someone to pan the kang for the babies, and in the past few days, you have arranged for someone to pull a cart of charcoal over, which is not enough to pull. Wood will go to the green onions (villages) to buy these days. ”

"Okay!"

"Jin Chuan, go, don't delay the work of the babies, please drink tonight." The two of them left after talking, and Yang Liufang and Shi Village Chief were sent to the door before returning.

"Brother Shi, this is going to be hard for you, you are like this, you are too busy to do this as a thing, and the work bag of pulling water is given to the people in the village who have donkey carts."

"Oh, it's no problem to help you, it's better to pull the fee (water) by yourself, after all, there are so many things in every household in the village, and you have to go back from time to time to deal with it."

"Okay, let's just say that. Hurry up and eat, no break at noon, let's get to work. In the afternoon, I will make a case. ”

After the two finished eating, as soon as they sat on the kettle on the stove, the two middle-aged people on the kang came to the door, and it didn't take long for the tractor pulling the red bricks to arrive at the door. After all, the village chief's speech is a good word in the relatively underdeveloped countryside.

Yang Liufang and Shi Village Chief went in to pack up their bedding, wrap it, and find plastic sheets to cover the new table, and they began to work on the kang. Yang Liufang and Shi Village Chief continued to lift the plank, saw, and worked until it was dark.