I went ashore by weaving straw shoes and became a master craftsman

Chapter 128 Big Knockout, Draw a Ruler

"The quasi-craftsman exam...in the second exam area, 25 candidates were eliminated, and there are now more than [-] five candidates. All candidates are staying in place, waiting to replace the giant square wood."

Only eliminate 25 people?Wang Ge eliminated 11 people in the first three rows, but only 14 people were eliminated in so many rows behind!It can be seen that the strong are all in the rear team.

In fact, easy to understand.When queuing up for entry, the more anxious the person in the front line, the more like her, with no background and no idea, subconsciously want to line up to enter the arena first.

The inspectors first compared Wang Ge's luggage wooden sign and carved "Bu, 25, [-]" on the straight wooden board before removing it.Within three days after the exam, those who are not satisfied with the results can appeal, and the materials with these labels are the vouchers for the verification.

Started to change the wood of the square ruler.

The rulers of the Jin Dynasty were generally carved from a single piece of wood, and the horizontal and vertical scales were fixed and could not be moved.

Its appearance is equivalent to connecting the ends of two straightedges horizontally and vertically, and the angle between the joints is a right angle.Horizontally and vertically, there are "minutes, inches, feet" engraved lines.And the initial scale lines are all at the included angle, extending upward and horizontal respectively.

However, the test wood that the inspectors are now replacing is two unconnected straight planks.

A period of more than ten feet long.

The other section is about half a zhang (five feet).

The way of placement: a straight wooden board more than ten feet long, the same as the first test just now, placed vertically and straight in front of the candidates' feet.The short straight planks are far away from the candidates, placed at right angles, vertically, and placed above the end of the long straight planks.

The two planks are more than two feet apart!
After replacing all the board materials of the examinees, the patrolmen came to the front of each row.Still each shouting their own, announced the rules of the exam.

It was too noisy, Wang Ge listened carefully.

"The big elimination competition...the second item...drawing a line with a giant square ruler. This assessment is divided into two trials, the upper and the second. The first half of the assessment will be conducted first. Test your mastery of the 'inch distance', only on the long wooden board You can engrave 'inch distance', you can't engrave 'foot distance', and you can't engrave 'division distance'. Can you understand?"

"understand!"

"The starting position of the engraved line must be the end under your feet. And... there must be a gap between the corners of the short boards! Can you understand?"

"understand!"

That is, when drawing the "inch distance" line segment on a long board, you cannot start counting from the edge, and you have to leave the width of the short board.For example, if the short board is five inches wide, when engraving a line from a long board, the first inch line segment starts at the five-inch position, and then extends two inches, three inches, four inches... until the other end of the long board is less than one inch. .

"The first half of the competition... the timing is two quarters. The width of the short board can only be measured visually! Candidates are not allowed to touch the short board with hands or carving knives, mark the ground, or use the length of foreign objects, such as hair , fingers, headbands, etc.! Repeat, only visual inspection! Violators will be punished as cheating. Can you understand?"

"understand!"

The examinees cursed in their hearts, this is different from what they expected, it can only be seen visually?If the measurement is wrong, then all the engraved lines that will be marked next will be in vain?
"Remember! The 'short plank width' left on the edge of the long plank is only allowed to differ by one 'division' from the width of the real short plank, otherwise it will be eliminated. One zhang is ten feet, and one foot is ten inches. The distance between inches If there are ten wrong lines, they will also be eliminated. Candidates... don't mess with your senses."

All the patrol officers who finished this sentence walked back to both sides of the team.

The examiner at the front: "After the timing drum beats three times, start!"

Boom!
Wang Ge took a deep breath with the sound of the drum: calm down... calm down... must be calm!

Boom!
The vast majority of candidates... can't calm down!The difficulty of this test is not all about engraving at least one hundred "inch-distance" line segments. In fact, the most difficult thing is to visually measure the width of the short wooden board.That's why the exam time was extended to two quarters.

Boom!
Too late to think!

Wang Ge, like all the candidates, rushed to the short board. Whether they were artisan candidates trained by aristocratic families or ordinary backgrounds, they all lay down in front of the short board with their buttocks pouting. Based on their usual accumulated experience, they visually measured its width.

Candidate A, silently recite one inch, two inches... Hiss!Because he was too close to the plank, his eyeballs had to flicker at the transition from one inch to two inches.With a flash, the position of two inches immediately drifted.

This method does not work!
Candidate B is smarter than Candidate A, and knows that it is impossible to observe too close.As soon as he lay down, his face was more than a foot away from the short board.However, when visually measuring the distance, the eyeballs will involuntarily exert force, coupled with the need to control the eyeballs not to drift, at the third distance, his eyes began to cry, and at the fourth distance, he had to blink.

This method does not work!
Someone got up.

Someone got up again.

And, and again...

How did they check it out?How dare you be sure that the visual measurement is accurate?How big is a "separation distance"?Only the width of a "longitudinal millet"!
More than half of the candidates were constantly wiping tears, blinking, and adjusting the distance between their faces and the short board.It can be said that any candidate has practiced visual inspection ability, but this is an exam, and there is no chance to do it again if you make a mistake.If the initial positioning is all wrong, all "inch-distance line segments" will be engraved in vain.

At this time, Wang Ge had carved twenty inch line segments.

She is the first to get up!
Six inches and two cents was the width of the short plank as measured by her eyes, and she determined it in one breath of her gaze, so there was no need to repeat observations.

This confidence does not come out of thin air, but comes from hard work.

After returning to Nanshan from Weiting, she set aside at least one hour every day to improve her visual ability.Later, she practiced at least two hours a day, and formulated an advanced visual inspection assessment, that is, wherever she went, she would first visually measure the length and height of any small utensils she saw, and then measure them with a wooden ruler to check for errors.

The degree of error in the inspection was terrible at first, and it was completely different from carving lines with a carving knife.At first, she visually measured the side length of the book case, but she was wrong by more than an inch!The desk is her most commonly used utensil, and she can make mistakes to such an extent, which shows how difficult it is to visually detect.

There is no shortcut for ordinary people to improve their visual inspection ability except for those who are gifted.You can only try again and again, check again and again.After two or three breaths, the eyes can't stand it, they will cry and hurt, and they have to take a few breaths.

Sometimes when she was wrong, she recalled the ink-making method that Xie had heard about, and encouraged herself: the worst pine smoke ink should be pounded in the iron mortar for at least [-] times, the more the better.

If she wants to become a craftsman, she must master the measure, and she must be tempered, and she must be far stronger than a craftsman.

Standard engraved lines are the basic skills of craftsmen.

Standard visual inspection is the basic skill of a craftsman!

Boom!
The hour-long timer drum sounded.

At this time, all candidates are engraving "inch distance" line segments.

Wang Ge had finished and stood for a while. Although the rules did not say that candidates could not turn back, she got used to it cautiously and did not glance around. She only knew that the first two rows were not completed... Yes, one person put down the carving knife and stood in place .

The craftsmen and tour officers in this row patrolled to the middle position and suddenly cleared their throats.

coming!Following Wang Ge's thoughts, sure enough, the craftsman shouted first: "Although the structure of Mo is simple, it has the same meaning as the radical 'Ju' in this character, and its meaning is all-encompassing. Can you understand?"

"understand!"

You Yan: "The ruler can measure land, measure height, measure length...what else can it do? Candidates, you answer." He stopped in front of a candidate.

What a pity!There was a villain in the examinee's heart who was cursing wildly with his hands on his hips. He put down the carving knife with a serious face, and replied, "You can still draw lines..."

"What else can we do?" You Yan signaled to the candidate that it was all right, and walked to the next candidate to ask questions.

Dog officer! "You can also draw right angles and squares..." He didn't ask him to stop, so he had to continue to reply: "Check whether the structure of the utensil is vertical..."

"Okay." You Yan nodded in satisfaction.

Suddenly, he turned back to several people and looked at Wang Ge. "What else can we do?"

Wang Ge: "It can also be used to measure whether the edge of the utensil is at right angles, and it can be used as a yardstick to measure the straightness of the utensil."

"it is good."

(End of this chapter)