"You want to make up a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace?"

Tang Entai asked: "Is it in the form of screens, murals, or what?" ”

"Three-dimensional, of course."

Li Yi smiled: "If you make a screen, then what's the difficulty?" ”

“……”

Tang Entai was a little speechless.

Even if you weave a screen, it's not something that ordinary people can weave?

But if you can really make up a three-dimensional [Havoc in Heaven], how shocking will the final product be?

Tang Entai couldn't help but think of the memories of his childhood when he watched the havoc in the Heavenly Palace.

At that time, why didn't he fantasize about becoming a Monkey King and making trouble in the Heavenly Palace?

"After you make it up, I must appreciate it."

Tang Entai was hung up and interested.

"Okay, I'll let you know when it's ready."

Li Yi said with a smile, and then looked down at the golden bamboo in front of him.

When he asked Tang Entai to purchase the solid color golden bamboo, he already had the idea of fabricating a single immortal statue.

At that time, he wanted to make a statue of Maitreya, or Emperor Zhenwu.

If this kind of single god idol is compiled, then these golden bamboos will not be enough.

But after last night, he was suddenly a little less satisfied with the single god statue.

Although the single idol should be enough for him to complete the task of [Heirloom Work], it is a bit mediocre after all.

If he wants to do it, then why doesn't he do it to the extreme?

Spend 90 points of effort to make a 90 point work.

It takes 100 points of effort to produce a work of 100 points.

Li Yi would rather choose the latter.

It's also hard work, so why not maximize the benefits?

If he really made up the [Havoc in the Heavenly Palace] in his mind, then what he made would not be a [hand-me-down], but a [world-shaking work].

Therefore, after realizing this, Li Yi completely denied his previous ideas, and only the idea of [Havoc in the Heavenly Palace] was left in his mind.

The Jade Emperor, Tai Bai Xing, Taishang Laojun, Dragon King of the East China Sea, Erlang God, Li Jing, Tota Heavenly King, Nezha Third Prince, Giant Spirit God, Wang Lingguan, Jiuyao Xingjun, Thirty-six Lei Generals, 100,000 Heavenly Soldiers...

The images of the gods kept hovering, changing, and floating in Li Yi's mind.

But what occupies Li Yi's mind the most is the Monkey King who turned the entire fairy world upside down with one monkey and one stick.

In his mind, Li Yi had already devised dozens of plans, but it was difficult to decide.

Under the impact of the flood of inspiration, his hands were itchy and he wanted to start editing immediately.

As soon as he thought of it, he directly took off his backpack and took out the set of bamboo weaving tools from it.

"Mr. Tang, I'll try the quality of bamboo first, and I won't greet you."

Li Yi said with a smile and began to deal with the golden bamboo.

"You feel free."

Tang Entai looked at his movements with interest, very curious.

After he started to do it, Li Yi became much more serious.

After installing the wire saw, he first cut it along the knots of the golden bamboo and found the bamboo head.

He then smoothed the bamboo with a spatula to make the bamboo smooth as a whole.

He took the knife and slashed it in the center of the cross-section of the golden bamboo.

This step is called a folio.

Only cutting into the depth of about two blades, Li Yi pulled out the knife.

Then, he grabbed the two ends of the cut bamboo body with his hands, broke it hard, and pulled it to both sides.

Click!

A series of crisp sounds like firecrackers came from the bamboo knots one after another, and the whole golden bamboo was broken in half by him from the middle.

Seeing this scene, Tang Entai's eyes couldn't help but widen, and he asked in surprise: "Why can you break it directly?" Aren't you afraid of crookedness? And how does it seem so easy? It feels like you're not pushing too hard. ”

"As long as the knife is cut in the middle, it will not be crooked."

Li Yi casually explained: "The texture of bamboo is vertically long, as long as it is broken, it will break to the end, so it is called like breaking bamboo." ”

"That's what you mean?"

Tang Entai suddenly realized, smiled and praised: "It's a little interesting." ”

As he spoke, he held his knees and watched Li Yi's operation, becoming more and more curious.

After breaking the bamboo in half, Li Yi continued to open the strip with a knife.

Soon, Li Yi broke a whole golden bamboo into a chopstick-thick strip.

After breaking the strips, Li Yi began to split the strips.

Splitting is the key to the fineness of bamboo weaving.

A mature bamboo craftsman can split a strip into eight layers.

And Li Yi's highest record is eleven floors.

The slices, which are split into eleven layers, are thinner than paper, and can even be blown up by the wind, making them extremely light.

Holding a strip in his hand, Li Yi pressed his thumb against the blade of the knife, pressed it less than a millimeter below the skin of the strip, and gently cut the knife.

Then, he cut the blade under the skin of the strip and removed the entire layer of skin.

This layer of skin has a smooth surface and a rather hard texture.

Bamboo craftsmen used to call this layer of skin green slivers.

The green sliver is the layer of the outer skin of the bamboo surface that is relatively hard, and this layer of sliver is the strongest.

The softer bamboo meat below is called Huangxiao, which has a soft texture and is easy to break, and it is the Huangxiao bamboo meat that the giant panda eats in this position.

The reason why it is called green slivers is because most bamboo craftsmen take fresh and tender green bamboo when they take bamboo.

When the bamboo is broken, the bamboo still maintains a fresh emerald green color, so it is called green sliver.

But what Li Yi used this time was all green bamboo, and the surface color was golden, which should be called golden strips according to the color.

Extracting silk from gold strips is also the key to his bamboo weaving.

Although it is convenient to break the sliver, the upper limit is limited, and the hardness and toughness of the broken sliver are also unsatisfactory.

Therefore, if you want to weave silk and bamboo weaving, you have to use gold to get silk.

After taking off the golden sliver, Li Yi put the yellow sliver aside.

These yellow strips can be used as the skeleton and filling of woven works, and they are not wasteful.

Splitting out all the green slivers, Li Yi took out the teeth in his bag.

It is a unique tool of a bamboo craftsman, like a spatula with a handle.

It can be fixed in a specific place, form a specific angle, scrape the strip finely, scrape the edges clean, and scrape evenly.

If you talk about how to use the knife, it determines the lower limit of a bamboo craftsman.

So how to use the degree of tooth determination determines the upper limit of a bamboo craftsman.

The degree of tooth is the bottom of the box that Li Yi has honed for 30 years in the bamboo tablet space.

The kind of silk that he used to weave was as thin as a hair, and it was scraped out with his teeth.

After fixing the teeth on the box on the side, Li Yi began to scrape the bamboo wires.

His movements were gentle, and the force of pulling the green sliver was just right.

The edges of the green strip are very sharp, and if you are not careful, you will be cut.

The tooth was placed at an oblique angle by Li Yi, just at an angle of 45 degrees to the tooth.

As Li Yi pulled, the two ends of the slices were also scraped by the sharp tooth blades, and two strands about the thickness of a hair were scraped out.

Looking at Li Yi's operation, Tang Entai's eyes had already straightened.

Just now, Li Yi broke a piece of bamboo into dozens of slender strips, which had already opened his eyes.

But this operation of scraping bamboo wire with a scraper still made him feel a little shocked.

Is this kind of operation possible in reality?

Could it be that the fish basket that Li Yi gave him with bamboo silk was made in this way?

Tang Entai suddenly felt that the price of one million he gave Li Yi seemed to be a little lower.

No wonder Li Yi didn't ask for the million, but chose to make friends with him.

It seems a bit taken for granted to buy such ingenious craftsmanship for just one million!

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