Chapter Twenty-Five: Engraving
At the foot of Jishimen Mountain...
The sky was slightly bright, and on the path on the edge of the city, Fan Chu pulled a cart of wood and rushed back on the road. Uncle Gong sat in a car full of wood, which Uncle Gong had taken to a stream by the city to soak in.
In the past two days, Fan Chu learned the craft with Uncle Gong, at first Uncle Gong thought that Fan Chu's fine skin and tender meat would really be able to endure hardships and take a little time to adapt, but what I didn't expect was that Fan Chu looked thin when he was an hour, but he had great strength, not only great strength, but he never said he was tired of working, and he could throw a hundred pounds of one hand casually, right, where to throw it...
At first, Uncle Gong thought that these delicate tasks were useless just by relying on strength, and they also needed patience, skills, etc., but in the past two days, patience is needless to say, this Uncle Gong has been nagging with Fan Chu all day, but he didn't see Fan Chu disgusted, but he said it himself, he can remember, if you don't have patience, let alone the work on your hands, just disturb Uncle Gong's nagging, and you can't bear it all morning.
And the skill is also to say what to understand, which makes it difficult for Uncle Gong to pick a thorn in the past two days, after all, there has been no one to accompany him for so long, and he wants to call something or something, and he still has the heart to complain for so many years, but Fan Chu Bian Bian is absolutely amazing, and he has not been able to give him a chance to wear the tip of the horns. Uncle Gong was very embarrassed when he faced Fanchu later. After all, he just wanted to give Fan Chu a try in the past two days, and now that Fan Chu was polite to him, he felt that he was at a loss. Besides, this is also taken care of by his benefactor Yu Jintuo, and Uncle Gong regrets what he has done to Fanchu in the past few days.
Fan Chu pulled a cart of wood to the door, and then gently set up the car to open the door, and after opening the door, he went to the side of the car and said, "Master, it's here." I'll help you get out of the car. ”
After Fan Chu finished speaking, Uncle Gong felt a little panicked in his heart. But now I can't pull my face, so I can only follow my own temperament in the past two days.
"Fanchu, you will put this cart of wood aside, and then go back to the kitchen to make some breakfast. When you're done eating, I'll start getting you started today. After saying that, Uncle Gong went straight to the door.
Fan Chu listened to Uncle Gong's words and replied, "Okay master, then you go to rest first, and I'll call you early." ”
In the past few days, with Uncle Gong, when Uncle Gong was making breakfast, Uncle Gong gave Fanchu instructions on what to do, and then let Fanchu do it. I thought I could get myself off the stage now, but who would have thought that this kid would do everything like this. Uncle Gong thinks that there is something wrong with this kid in Fanchu, and he must pretend not to understand. But he also tried it, he didn't understand, he really didn't understand, and it didn't seem like he was pretending to be crazy and stupid, Yu Jin also told himself before he came, and he couldn't use such a ridiculous thing as an excuse to step down.
Uncle Gong's heart is not bad, it's just because of his loneliness all these years, so he wants to find some fault for Fanchu and let him eat and suffocate. After all, I want Fanchu to know that young people should not deliberately get carried away. Think about learning the trade from my father when I was younger, and it was like crawling through the sticks.
At 7 o'clock in the morning, it was already dawn, and the busy people who went out were walking on the road one after another.
After making breakfast, Fan Chu went into the house and asked Uncle Gong to come out for breakfast.
Uncle Gong sat down, his eyes glanced, the wood he pulled back in the morning was all put away, and it had been classified, and no problem was found.
Then he asked, "Do you remember what I told you yesterday?" After speaking, he picked up a bowl of gruel and blew it in front of him, and sat back and waited for the beginning of the Buddha to answer.
Fanchu didn't know what the master wanted to ask himself, after all, he said a lot yesterday, and after thinking about it, he said, "Master, yesterday you talked about the choice of wood, the time of soaking, the type and usage of carving tools, and also said, said... Call me to do hand work today. When the last sentence was spoken, he didn't dare to be so loud, because usually the master asked about carving knowledge, so I didn't know if I shouldn't say it.
After listening to this, Uncle Gong paused for a moment, thinking that he didn't have much bottom in his heart about what he said yesterday, but this guy recalled it to himself, and he wanted to talk about teaching him hand work today.
"Well, just remember, eat, I'll teach you what to carve wood after eating. Uncle Gong drank the gruel that had just been blown in his hand.
The two began to eat breakfast, at this time, although Fanchu did not eat as much as he had just arrived at Jishimen for the first time, but this palm-sized bowl of porridge was also capable of being drained, which was not to mention the steamed bun with his fist, if he was not afraid of being said, he could eat one bite at a time, but now he can only eat one in two bites. Usually, I didn't eat so much at the beginning of the season, but I found that I could eat some of it when I did physical work these days. Uncle Gong didn't care, the children of poor families ate like this.
After eating and cleaning up, Uncle Gong picked up a rectangular wooden block, which was ten inches long, more than seven inches wide, and more than three inches thick.
Pick it up and put it in front of Fanchu and say, "Carving wood, when I first learned, I would use a pen to draw the shape I wanted to carve on the wood, and the master I could use my eyes to cut at will." You're just learning now, so you need to draw on this piece of material, so that you can ensure that there is no accuracy when removing the scraps. ”
"Do you remember the knives that told you about the scraping before?" asked Uncle Gong.
The first return of the Van "Weng tube knife." ”
"Well, it's good," Uncle Gong continued, "After removing the corners, there is basically a style, and then use the drill knife to build the shape, and the figures, beasts, and gods must have a demeanor when building the shape." This facial demeanor generally has strictness, roaring, condensation, etc. The characters are often strict, the beasts are often roaring, and the gods are condensed. ”
After listening, Fanchu nodded knowingly.
Uncle Gong saw that Fanchu would understand, so he said, "The last step of carving is to polish and apply wax and oil, and the types of magic stones we have here also have levels, and the magic stones are to polish the smoothness of the carvings, and the magic stones are thick and fine." If it is too polished, it is necessary to pay attention to the order of the cloth used. The amount of oil is also very important, not too much, and not too much. ”
After hearing this, Fanchu replied, "I understand, master." ”
Uncle Gong nodded and said, "This is just some basics, and when you are really skilled in life, you can get your hands on large items such as stele carving." For now, it's better to start with an animal-based carve, such as poultry, which is a bit easier. So you start, if there is anything you don't understand, you can ask me. ”
After listening to Uncle Gong's words, Fan Chu nodded, and began to look at this piece of wood, such a piece of wood, what the master gave must not be so simple, what is appropriate, poultry, poultry, poultry... After thinking about it, he felt that there was no poultry suitable for this piece of wood.
Uncle Gong looked at Fanchu's appearance of a monk who couldn't touch his head, and began to secretly rejoice in his heart. If you can't fix it, it's time for you to step down.
After a while, Fan Chu seemed to think of something, so he roughly drew a pattern on the wood that looked like a dog and a wolf. (Since there was no painting in the early days, the painting style is not so good now.) )
Uncle Gong, who was sitting on the side drinking tea, looked at it, what does this guy want to paint? Okay, I'll see what you want to carve.
It didn't take long for Weixing to come out, and although he had just finished getting the cut, he didn't look like a dog or a wolf. The more Uncle Gong looked, the more he felt that he could find a step, but he could wait and see, after all, Fanchu had just started learning carving, so he couldn't just come hard.
Fan Chu picked up the drill bar cutter and began to eliminate the remaining material, little by little, the body, head, back, tail, and limbs gradually formed.
Uncle Gong sat on the side and couldn't help it, and said, "What are you carving, a dog is not like a dog, a wolf is not like a wolf... You're wasting wood. ”
Fan Chu was a little timid when Uncle Gong asked him this, and he said "This, this, I carved my good friend, Xiaohui." ”
After Uncle Gong heard this, what is "Xiaohui?"
Then he asked, "You mean Thundertooth?"
Fanchu nodded...
Uncle Gong didn't know whether to play or not, this dog is not like a dog, a wolf is not like a wolf, it is a thunder tooth? I have never seen a demon beast, let alone a thunder tooth, so I can't say anything, Uncle Gong himself made himself speechless. gasped, suppressed the buoyancy in his heart, and sat down to drink tea again.
From time to time, I look at Fanchu's actions, and I feel that I am quite proficient in everything this hour. I had carved it for him before, but I didn't let her actually do it, it was only two days of hard work, and it was impossible to listen to what I said and see what I did, and I could do it to this extent. Thinking about how many years I was forced by my father at the time, I was not as good as him. If it weren't for later...
If it weren't for the fact that his father was about to put the carving knife on his neck, he might not have forced himself into this matter, Uncle Gong's ambition when he was a child was not this wood carving job. It's about cultivating the truth and then going to break through, after all, when you are young, who doesn't have the enthusiasm to break through. It's just that the family doesn't have much money, and his father is also against it, so he was forced to inherit his father's business since he was a child. In fact, he also went to the entrance exam at that time, but he was not admitted for various reasons, and when he came back, he almost broke his leg by his father. Since then, he has been immersed in carving, and his father has gradually become better to himself, but before he can marry his daughter-in-law, his father died. Because I made a living from this carved wood, I didn't have time to make a few friends when I was younger. Forget that others don't like it, and there are some people who are bad and have been alone. If the father is here, if you can't get it, you can rely on the father to introduce a daughter-in-law.
That's it, Uncle Gong repeats his misery in his memory, and then look at this young man's serious appearance. The taste in my heart is complicated, how can I bear to let him work hard here for a lifetime. He should go to his own world, Uncle Gong can't help but think of Fan Chu as what he longed to do when he was young.
Swords and swords, drifting with the flow, seeing death as home, chivalrous and courageous, nine deaths and one life, death and then life, etc., etc... This is the plot he thought about for himself when he was young, and this should be the story that this teenager should have.
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