Nongmen splendid, the master craftsman is three and a half years old

Chapter 187 Gezhou Dam

"Yes!" Manman lifted her hat and held the rail of the boat, looked at the smoky waves and nodded with a smile, "The water is blue and the mountains are green, which makes my mood much more peaceful."

Mrs. Li seldom goes out recently. Since she was born in Zhinu Village, she is used to taking wooden boats and small boats. Whenever she is free, she takes out the embroidery shed to thread needles. When she is tired, she stands outside on the deck and gazes at the beautiful scenery to relax her eyes.

Manman persuaded her many times, but her mother gently shook her head and refused. She also knew that her parents were worried that the burden in Jinling would be too heavy in the future, so they wanted to take advantage of the time to improve embroidery and subsidize the family.

Seeing such a beautiful scenery, I felt much more cheerful. With a smile on my lips, I jumped back to the cabin lightly, "Mother, as I said before, I can only embroider for an hour and a half a day."

Pointing to the time-telling bird next to her, "It's time today, even if you want to polish your embroidery skills, you should combine work and rest!" Man Man picked up the ball of thread and put away the scissors, and looked at Mrs. Li with a face of shame and refusal.

Mrs. Li smiled lightly, without arguing, "Okay, okay, I won't embroider today." Put down the needle and thread and put it in the basket, "Why didn't you go fishing today?"

Although Manman is patient, she is tired of fishing for so many days. Even with Dafu, it is impossible to return with a full load every time. "Just enough to eat, mother, go. The mountains and rivers by the river today are magnificent."

Manman assigns homework to her younger brother every day, and asks to write down what she saw and heard along the way. The rhetoric does not need to be gorgeous, but the sentences are fluent and just write down the current mood.

When Mrs. Li walked to the deck, she saw a monkey and a man scratching their ears and cheeks with a book, and couldn't help but raise their hands to hide their smiles.

"Sister, you finally came out. How do you write the thickness of the tulle?" The little finger pointed to the wet and erratic mist on the river, "Look at them floating around like the cloud gauze on the attic in the house." Touching his arm, "It's like a fairy's ribbon in a book, like a dream!"

"The young master's description of the beautiful things is very concrete, and the next time I hear it, I think it is the same." Le Kui likes Manman the most in this family, and the second must be Xiaohe. Except for Manman, the focus is basically on Xiaohe. He.

Now Mrs. Li can also have more energy to improve her embroidery skills, just because she can rest assured that Le Kui will take care of her.

Mrs. Li looked at the cloudy and misty mountains in front of her. It might be the reason for the dusk. With the singing of birds, she stretched out her fingers unconsciously to draw in the air, "Stunning! Magnificent!"

Turning her head and hurried back to the house, she took out the paper and ink, "Manman give mother a kiss, I want to write it down and carve it on the embroidered cloth!"

Looking at the excited mother, Manman laughed and teased, "Now I know that you really love embroidery."

I silently asked Dafu to take a picture of it, and looked at the mother who had begun to concentrate and tirelessly, "It seems that the first-class embroidered mother is already in my pocket."

The promotion of a second-class embroiderer to a first-class embroiderer is like leading a cow down a well for ordinary people, and it is even more difficult to be promoted to a first-class embroiderer. I have never doubted my mother's efforts, and the super-class should not be a dream!
"Of course!" Dafu circled around Li Shi while playing with bubbles, "With the hundreds of color threads you developed, coupled with your mother's skilled embroidery skills day after day, no matter how complex and magnificent the landscape can be Rendered in place!"

"It's nothing more than a hundred kinds. It's not a problem to have thousands of kinds when I have time. I want to collect all the colors produced in nature."

"When my mother learns more embroidery techniques in Jinling, it will be easy for my mother to embroider pictures of hundreds of butterflies, birds, and flowers!"

Looking at the front, Cao Chen is obviously an ordinary peasant woman. Her painting skills are not superb, and the lines and background are only a few strokes, but the whole picture is consistent with the mood of the scenery in front of her. The painting is not in form but in spirit, full of charm.

Manman looked proudly at the people who surrounded her curiously, "My mother's embroidery is always better than the ones she draws."

"These compositions are just to retain the memory. When the stitches are made, they will wake up the scenery I saw with my own eyes at that time, and then fill and render. It is definitely everyone's work!"

"Of course I believe it!" Cao Chen nodded with a smile, "I'm about to go to Gezhou Dam in Yichang County, do you want to go down and have a look? This dam has been built for hundreds of years, but its vastness is relatively well-known among Dajing Dams. It's gone."

Manman was really excited when she heard that, "Go!" Since entering the gorge, Xiaobai didn't know where to jump with the help of the sails on the river, and wild beasts cried from time to time on the cliffs on both sides. I like mountains and forests.

Not to mention that Xiaobai couldn't bear to stay on the water for more than ten days. He must be eager to agree with him when he heard about the spectacle.

Hearing the helmsman's reminder, she turned back to the cabin and was fully equipped. Manman looked at the docking port, jumped off the ship lumberingly, turned around and put Xiaohe on the ground, "Oh, it feels good to have your feet on the ground!"

Looking back at the crowds of people coming and going in the port, Lifu, street vendors, and boats shuttle back and forth, there is an endless stream. The dense crowd can't see the edge, which is enough to make people feel the spaciousness of the end of the port.

Looking sideways at Cao Chen, who was admiring with his hands behind his back, and looking at the dam blocking the water flow in the distance, "It took a lot of manpower to move these stones, let alone build such a huge dam."

Manman rubbed her chin and walked around the embankment to look around, only to see that the other side was the direction of the pouring water. The height of thousands of feet was so high that the water power of the flood discharge during the rainy season was unimaginable.

"It took two generations of people to build this scale." Cao Chen looked up at the dark sky, "But as long as it is properly maintained, it will not be a problem to irrigate the thousand-year-old fields in Jingzhou!"

Manman knew that Cao Chen was the sacrificed person during the construction, "Every great building will inevitably have countless painstaking efforts. What we have to do is to minimize such losses, especially those purely labor-intensive tasks."

The heroic little hand waved, "As long as there are materials, these buildings will have large-scale machinery instead of manpower in the future, so as to avoid accidents and save labor, it is not a dream."

"Then I'll wait and see." Cao Chen smiled sideways and looked at the heroic Manman, his eyes were smiling but not joking, his expression was full of expectation and trust.

Yu Changsi raised his hand and lifted the hat to press the wind-torn hair inside, and hurriedly ran to the two of them, "Aren't you cold, the sky is not blue, and the cold wind is biting, people thought you couldn't think about it."

After hearing this, Manman closed her cloak tightly, sucked her snot, and looked back at her little brother who was waving at her in the shelter, "Oh, it's so cold."

Rubbing his face and making a naughty face at his father, he ran away, stepped forward and pinched the rabbit ears on Yu Wenhe's hat, "You actually bought delicious food behind my sister's back!"

"Sister, I bought it for you too. Didn't I see you chatting happily with Uncle Chen?" Turning his head and pointing at the street vendor next to him, "This spicy soup is delicious, try it quickly, you will feel sick all over after drinking it." It's warm."

(End of this chapter)