"Don't worry, it's frizzy, you take the 10 yuan and hand it over to the village chief Shi, you can't let people spend money."

"Master, no, we have money."

"Yes, Master, we should have paid for our apprenticeship!"

"What kind of money do you pay, the money you earn is good for your family, take it." Yang Liugen commanded in an unquestionable elder tone.

"Got it, master, master." Shi Yong obediently took it.

"Then we'll go."

"Go, go. And the red candles, don't forget. ”

"Okay, incense, incense, and candles."

The next day, Yang Liufang and Master still got up before 5:30 according to the biological clock and continued to work on their furniture. Shi Yong and Shi Fang also came to help them smear the opened mortise and tenon joints with kraft glue for assembly, and there was a harmonious and busy scene in the factory.

After breakfast, Yang Liufang asked the master to cook a few dishes at noon, blanching a piece of rice (pork belly pieces) with water, and Shi Yong and Shi Fang and the big and small Ga in the spray paint room had to hold an apprenticeship ceremony. After he explained, he continued to lead everyone to work with the master, these days he followed the master to do mortise and tenon, carving, lines and other woodworking techniques, benefited a lot, than according to the book to copy the hard set of much time and effort.

For example, the dovetail tenon, which was invented by Lu Banye "the mother of ten thousand tenons", the book says: "The dovetail tenon is narrow at the root, wide at the end, and is in the shape of a large head, which is called 'Cha' in ancient buildings, and the dovetail tenon is large at the top and small at the bottom, which is called 'slip'." The purpose of putting it is to make the mortise and tenon joint have a tie force; The purpose of retracting is to increase the stability of the node when it is installed in the drop type. Among them, "Cha" and "slip", Yang Liufang still didn't understand in the end, and the furniture he made was just made according to the pattern of Wang Shixiang in the "Ming Style Furniture Record", repeated attempts, and painted gourds in the same way.

After the master came, he told him that the dovetail tenon is a trapezoidal structure connected at right angles, using the swallow's tail-shaped structure, and the force is uniform after synthesis, and the old furniture is used with half of the dovetail tenon and trapezoidal structure mortise and tenon, so as to form a harmonious dovetail tenon, and the furniture will never fall apart, unless you violently disassemble it. The master made and explained at the same time, which not only had easy-to-understand theoretical knowledge, but also combined with practice, and both Yang Liufang and Shi Yong and Shi Fang benefited a lot from it.

After receiving Yang Liufang's assignment, the master prepared the tribute early. While he was busy blanching the meat, he also carefully washed a few large, round tomatoes and placed them on a white plate in place of fruit. Near noon, the village chief of Shi rushed back from the township with incense candles and incense burners, and when it was time to get off work, Yang Liufang took it and brought it back to the bedroom. Let Shi Yong, Shi Fang, Da Ga, and Xiao Ga wait for the master to bathe, and let them wash their heads and faces by themselves and come in together.

By the time they finished washing, Yang Liufang had already prepared incense candles, tributes, and wine on the kang table. He remembered that he had invited his middle school teacher to be a witness when he was apprenticed, and this time he left the stone village chief to witness the ceremony, and explained the process of his apprenticeship to the stone village chief.

"Brother Shi, this time we will be simple, and you will be responsible for letting them offer wine. Three cups per person, first to my ancestor Luban, then to my master, and finally to me. ”

"Okay, I'll make a note of it."

When the master and the four apprentices who were going to apprentice today came in, Yang Liufang stepped forward and said, "Master, everything is ready, you see what else you have to explain." ”

"Go to my bag and ask Master Zu's tablet to come out."

"Yes, Master."

"When I was taking a bath just now, I told you that our carpenters are the inheritance of skills, and your master's family is not here, so I will take the salute for them, and we will hold three prostrations. One worship the ancestral master, two worship the elders, and three worship your master is considered a ceremony. ”

Yang Liufang invited out the tablet, placed it behind the tribute on the kang table, asked the head of the stone village to come forward to light the incense candles, fill the nine cups, follow the master, first toast the ancestor master, bow down, and then the master and Yang Liufang were saluted in turn. Yang Liufang gave the tools he bought for the first time in the supply and marketing cooperative, which was also the handmade tools he started, to the apprentices as a return gift, and the gift was completed. After removing the tribute and putting away the ancestral tablet, everyone sat around and had a reunion dinner, during which the master proposed to return home.

"Ah Fang, the master is very pleased to see your achievements, and he is also happy for your Abba and Aunt, you are almost busy here, I have to hurry back."

"Master, if there is nothing to do at home, please stay longer."

"Oh, it's your sister and sister at home, and the work promised to others hasn't been done yet, so you can't violate the contract."

Yang Liufang kept it again and again, and finally reluctantly agreed to send the master back to Wenzhou tomorrow. In the afternoon, while they were working, Yang Liufang called Li Tongfu and asked Zhang Feng to come tomorrow to pick him up and his master, and he wanted to send his master back to Wenzhou.

"In such a hurry, why don't you stay longer?"

"There are only my sister and my wife at home, and the work I promised others to do is still there."

"Oh, okay, I'll let him know."

"By the way, I also have to buy a sleeper ticket for my master."

"Okay, I'll leave the phone and tell Zhang Feng that it's more convenient for him to be nearby."

"Okay, brother, goodbye."

"Goodbye."

After making the call, he quietly filled the bottom of Master's bag with a thousand yuan. I can't find it now, but I can find it when I go back and when the master or the master finishes the bag.

The next day, he didn't let the master work, but guided them on the sidelines. After breakfast, Zhang Feng's car also arrived, and after the master said goodbye to everyone, he got in the car with Yang Liufang and went to Xizhou.

"Boss Yang, uncle's train ticket is five o'clock in the afternoon, let's wait for seven or eight hours now, see if you take your uncle to Xizhou to see the Yellow River."

"Look at the Yellow River, okay. I've been here for two years, and I'm just busy, so I haven't seen it yet. Master, do you think this is the way to go? ”

"Okay, look at the big river in the north, the Yellow River is the mother river of our Chinese."

"Well, let's take a look, the first bridge of the Yellow River, Baitashan Park are very spectacular, in the past two years, the government has built a trail on the Yellow River beach, with stone pillars and iron cables as guardrails, walking on it and watching the Yellow River waves, making people feel excited."

"Hey, Brother Feng, the more you say it, the more I want to see it, so be it. At noon, we will have dinner by the river. ”

"Well, then let's take the Zhaomagou River Beach Road for a while, and that road can lead directly to the bank of the Yellow River."

"Well, you're familiar with the road and listen to you."

Arrived at the three-way intersection, the car turned over and drove to the direction of Hongtuzhuang, crossed the Zhaomagou, walked on the river beach road, the river beach road after nearly a year of repair, smooth and wide, the widening and deepening of the Zhao Ma ditch is now more water than before, although it is still turbid, but the flow rate has accelerated. There are many new broken willows on both sides of the river, and although they have begun to lose their leaves, they still look green. There are no tractors on the road that transport sand back and forth, and it looks much cleaner.

"Master, this is newly repaired by the government. In the past, there were dirt roads covered with yellow sand, and the villages in front of it were collecting sand on the spot, and trucks carrying sand came and went. ”

"Well, the government is paying more and more attention to the western region, and the news doesn't also say that it will focus on the construction of the "Three West Project"! ”

"Yes, Master, the three wests mentioned on the news: Dingxi City, Hexi District, and Xihaigu District, are among the poorest areas in China. This is one of the Hexi regions. The year before last, Wang Shan, who worked in our supply and marketing cooperative, and I went out to sell goods for the first time, and we encountered a sandstorm on this road, and we hid under the carriage for half a day and a night. It was terrifying. ”

"It's much better now that the transformation is complete, and a lot of afforestation is also being planted in Xihaigu, which will get better and better."

The three of them arrived at the confluence of Zhaomagou and the Yellow River, on a forked road, the car went to the Yellow River Bridge in Chengguan, Xizhou, Zhang Feng deliberately parked the car on the side of the bridge, and asked them to get off the station to see the Yellow River on the bridge.

"This is the Yellow River Iron Bridge?"

"This is not it, this is the first highway bridge we built ten years ago, connecting South Binhe Road in the south and North Yellow River Bridge Road in the north, which is an important transportation hub in Xizhou urban area and a traffic throat road leading to Baiyin, Ningxia and other places. The Yellow River Iron Bridge has now been renamed Zhongshan Bridge, which has become a tourist attraction and cannot be opened to traffic. ”

"Oh, the Yellow River is so fast. You see, it's still whirlpooling. ”

"This is the upper reaches of the Yellow River, the flow rate is very fast, now the weather is cold, it is about to come to the dry season, you can't see it, if you can still see the sheepskin raft in the first half of the month, the old saying 'sheepskin raft race warship'. It is said that the sheepskin raft on the Yellow River in Xizhou floated by, faster than the warships. ”

"Sheepskin rafts, when I was planning to set up a tannery, Ah Fu once told me that the sheepskins and cowhides in Qinghai and Xinjiang were transported to Inner Mongolia through sheepskin rafts, and then transported to Hebei and other places."

"I don't know, there are a lot of sheepskin rafts here, and there are also a lot of goods."

The three of them drove down from the Chengguan Yellow River Bridge, drove a distance, and saw a huge arched bridge connected with steel structure on the Yellow River from a distance, and the tourists on the bridge lay on the railing to look at the Yellow River below.

"This is the Zhongshan Bridge, the first bridge of the Yellow River. You and your uncle get out of the car and walk to the bridge first, and I'll find a place to park the car and go over to look for you. ”

"Okay, Master, let's get out of the car."

After getting out of the car, the master and apprentice walked towards the Zhongshan Bridge, and after a while, they arrived at the iron bridge across the Yellow River that was separated by stone piers blocking vehicles.

"From the perspective of structure and shape, Zhongshan Bridge is more similar to Shanghai's Waibaidu Bridge, both of which are arched steel structure bridges."

"Oh, Master, you've been to Shanghai."

"Yes, when I just got married to your sister, and when we didn't have your sister, we were going out to work after the autumn harvest, and we saw this kind of bridge in Shanghai."

As they spoke, the two walked to the arched steel structure in the middle of the bridge, and the bridge was full of tourists holding on to the railing to look down at the rolling Yellow River water. They also found two open spaces without tourists and crowded to the side, standing in the middle of the bridge and leaning on the railing to look down, the yellow mud soup of the river tumbling, hitting the stone piers under the bridge, as if they were on a big ship trying to move forward.