Chapter 169: Woodworking
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"What? Longshan is your hometown? Isn't your home from Shanxi?"
I was stunned.
"Everyone said it was my hometown." Zhang Chuanliu said: "My grandparents' homes are all in Longshan. When I was a child, I was in the elementary school in Longshan. I moved to Shanxi with my parents in the second year of junior high school."
I said oh, then asked, "Then what are you doing in Yueyang?"
"Fun." Zhang Chuanliu gave me a blank look: "Of course I will go back to my hometown for the New Year during the winter vacation. Now there are still a few days before New Year's Eve. My parents' company has not even had a holiday yet, so I am the only one in Longshan. I have nothing to do these days, so I have followed my friends from my hometown around. I went to Changsha the day before yesterday. I came to Yueyang yesterday and planned to see Dongting Lake."
"You are really leisurely." I smiled slightly.
"What's the leisure? If you don't have leisure, you'll be idle. By the way, I really didn't expect that you actually opened a little here and sold it-" He glanced at the shop behind: "Well, these things, aren't you from Luoyang? When you come here to open a store, your grandfather and your dad are also coming to Yueyang? You came with you."
A classmate in the dormitory is all big men, so he naturally talks about everything. The other party knows a little about his family and my family's situation, so he also knows about my family and knows that I was raised by my grandfather and my father.
But when he mentioned my grandfather and my dad, I was worried. Half a year ago, Lu Qiu said on Bagua Island that my grandfather gave him news and asked him to send me back from the island. Later, what happened happened. I came back, but Lu Qiu disappeared, and grandfather had no news, let alone father.
Although Zhang Chuanliu is not serious, he is not bad. When he saw my expression, he stopped asking and said, "Forget it, I won't say this anymore. What are you doing in Longshan? And seeing that you all have to use crutches to walk with bruised noses and swollen faces, why are you going out?
"Well--" I don't know what to say. After all, I can't tell him about the female ghost, but I thought about it. Although I can't tell him about the female ghost, since he is from Longshan, he might have an understanding of purple clay pottery. After all, Longshan is just such a big place, and not everyone makes purple clay pottery. If you can make a statue of a celestial girl, it must be a more famous workshop in the local area.
So I took out a piece of purple clay pottery that I carried with me from my pocket.
"Rogue, do you know this?"
Zhang Chuanliu shouted at the sight, "This is purple clay pottery, why don't you know me? I have a lot of them at home. Why, are you going to Longshan to buy purple clay pottery?"
I thought about it and said, "It's almost the same, but it's not an ordinary purple clay pottery."
I told him that we had a purple clay pottery statue that we needed to use, but it was accidentally broken. The purple clay pottery was an antique produced in Longshan. I heard that it was made by a very famous local craftsman at that time, so we wanted to go to Longshan to find out if we could find the same one, or find the craftsman's workshop, or make another one.
When Zhang Chuanliu heard this, he patted his chest and said that he would wrap it around him and let us go back with him.
"Although I don't know each other, my second cousin's family is a purple clay pottery. They have been made for several generations and are quite famous in Longshan. If anyone can find the craftsman you mentioned, it must be my second cousin."
Then he said, "We'll go back after lunch. Let's go together. Should you drive or take a bus?"
I smiled bitterly and said, "I originally wanted to drive, but you see, all three of us who can drive here are here, but we two can't drive."
"Hey, that's all right. I just took the driver's license in the second half of the year. Let's go together. I'll drive. If it doesn't work, my cousin is here, they are all old drivers." Zhang Chuanliu waved his hand and said indifferently.
When I heard this, I was so happy that someone gave me a pillow when I was sleepy. I was so worried about how to go to Longshan just now. I might not be able to find clues about the girl statue in that day. Now my classmate is here to my door.
"But--" Zhang Chuanliu changed his words: "Although we shouldn't ask you for helping you a little, my buddy is a bit difficult now. Yiming, you have to help me."
"Help you? OK, just say anything." I responded without saying a word.
Zhang Chuanliu smiled and said, "Actually, this is the case. Some time ago, he had a younger brother at my grandfather's house, and one of my uncles died. It was nothing. When I arrived at my grandfather's house, the funeral had been completed. And I was not very familiar with this uncle. But during this period, my grandfather's family always dreamed of my uncle. I don't know much about what happened. In short, the whole family dreamed of my uncle's soul-showing things at all times."
"You also know that this kind of thing is nonsense, purely psychological factors, but my grandparents are old and superstitious, and this has scared the two old men very much. After this trip, my second uncle and uncle said that we could find out if we could buy some Buddha statues or something, or go to Talin Temple to ask for something, and give it to my grandparents to the town, so that they can rest assured."
Speaking of this, I almost understood what Zhang Chuanliu meant. Zhang Chuanliu said that they went to Changsha before and came to Yueyang yesterday and went to several famous temples, but now everyone understands that they are more and more pitfalls than others. It is a scary price to pay for Buddha statues.
The young men did not bring a lot of money when they went out to play. They basically spent almost the same amount of money. They would not have the money to buy Buddha statues and consecrate them. So Zhang Chuanliu thought about buying some talisman paper and wooden swords to make up the numbers. Anyway, his uncle and his uncle were all the same mentality, thinking that the old man had died and his relatives were too much of a blow, and psychological factors were caused by them. As long as you get something casually, no matter whether it was really effective or not, as long as you could calm down.
The most unabashed thing in the tourist area is these things, and there are a lot of them on the street stalls, but Zhang Chuanliu felt that the street stalls were too shoddy, and he probably couldn't fool his eight-year-old nephew, let alone his eighty-year-old grandparents. So when he asked casually, he heard that there was a store here that was very effective and cheap, so he ran over to see it. Then he met me, a classmate who had been missing for half a year.
When I heard this, no wonder this kid happened to run to my store, it turned out that it was because of this.
Nowadays, large items such as wreaths in my store are basically not allowed to be sold in a week, but the gadgets I tied out when I was free to practice and many things I carved when I practice carving are very popular among young people.
However, although it is just a few small things for practicing, the skills that Mr. Feng taught me are not fake. In addition, the paper and wood I use are not ordinary goods. Although the things sold in the store are not evil spirits, the effect is a little bit effective.
And nowadays, wherever I go to find so many monsters, most of them are suspicious. Just like Zhang Chuanliu's grandparents, it is purely psychological factors. Occasionally, people who really hit dirty things, and most of them are yin energy or residual souls in some places. Even a healthy adult ordinary man can't do anything to me, let alone my things. After a while, the things in my store have become a bit famous in half a year.
Thinking of this, I also slapped my chest: "So that's it. What's the matter? What do you want? Even if you take it, there are no valuable things in the store anyway."
Zhang Chuanliu thought for a while and said, "The things in the store look good, but they are all small items. Are there any bigger ones?"
"Big?" I thought for a while: "No problem, wait a minute, I'll do it for you now."
"Do it now?" Zhang Chuanliu was startled: "You did all of them? What do you want to do? How long will it take?"
"Don't worry, it will be fine soon. Go and call your cousin and let's go when I finish it."
As I said that, I picked out a piece of high-quality mahogany from the yard, then picked up a saw, chisel, and plane, and worked hard.
While I was busy, Zhang Chuanliu also called three people, two men and one woman, the woman was her cousin, Zhang Xin, and the man was his cousin Zhang Yu and his cousin Zhang Xuebing.
Zhang Chuanliu introduced it to us one by one, but I didn't bother to greet them and worked hard. But Tan Jin naturally started to talk nonsense with them and chatted in a few minutes.
However, they questioned me at the same time.
"Chuanliu, you are as old as you, right? I heard that old carpenters have to practice for many years, and carving is even more difficult. What can he do on site? I think you should not be embarrassed by others, just choose a few in the store. I think that the statue of the Bodhisattva of Pear Wood is good. Although it is a little small, it is exquisite." Zhang Chuanliu's cousin Zhang Xin looked at me with some doubts.
Zhang Chuanliu shrugged: "It was what he said he wanted to do. Just look at it. Speaking of it, Yiming, why haven't I heard that you can still do sculpting before? You won't tell me that you learned it in the past six months, right?"
I ignored him and buried my head in the wood.
Time passed minute by minute, and after half an hour, the first sight of a portrait was revealed.
At this time, the few people were already stunned.
"Damn, what is this doing? Guan Gong?"
"What Guan Gong? Do you see a knife and a hat? How can Guan Gong be like this? I think it is Guan Yin Bodhisattva."
"Nonsense, your Guanyin Bodhisattva has a beard?"
"Hey, three eyes, it's Erlang Shen!"
"No, Erlang Shen used a three-pointed two-edged gun? This is a mace. I think it should be Prince Ma."
I didn't respond to their comments. After another half an hour, I blew away the wood chips on the statue, looked at the newly completed work in front of me, and nodded with satisfaction. This is the best I have made during this period.
Chapter completed!