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

Chapter 166 Strenuous Task

Wang Ge went back to the courtyard. Miss Chen, who was rubbing her candle light last night, was busy in the production area. The two exchanged glances and nodded, as a greeting.

After entering the house, she wrapped a double layer of cloth around her right wrist and tied it tightly to prevent the pain from being exacerbated by excessive activities.Then drag the back basket to the production area, the place farthest from Miss Chen, so as not to affect each other.

Before Wang Ge left home, he made tool stool parts, which are very strong after mortise and tenon joints.Take out the bamboo strips that have been made before and have a suitable width, cut them into five sections, and then polish them.

Take the lead in making the arms of the "creature beast".Each bamboo arm is two inches long, three minutes wide, and one minute thick.She couldn't use her right hand, so she held a bamboo knife between her feet and polished it with a bamboo stick in her left hand.

Remake the legs of the beast.The standard is about the same as the arms, not so strict, but the legs should be scraped with a curve, so that it can be distinguished from the arms at a glance.

Then there is the torso of the minion and the head of the monkey.What the task requires is "smartness", so you don't have to ask for trouble to pursue a lifelike macaque appearance.That's a waste of money.

As he made the device step by step, Wang Ge believed more and more in his speculation.

This luck task tests creativity and imagination, not exquisite and elegant appearance.

The five bamboo strips are ready, and it is assembled.Pick out a Changci bamboo stick from the basket and cut it off in the middle. The length and thickness of the two sticks are about the same as chopsticks (chopsticks).Take two wide bamboo slices with curvature, and buckle them firmly on the tool stool.

After selecting them, tie two hemp ropes to fix them, and use the narrowest flat chisel to drill holes in the middle of them.Bamboo has the inertia of splitting. When drilling, the movement should be light. It is better to drill small first than to drill big.

Put the two long bamboo sticks into the two curved bamboo slices, and put them aside temporarily.

Next, drill holes in the first five bamboo strips.She definitely can't use a flat chisel. There are moso bamboo strips in her luggage, but she still clamps the bamboo knife between her feet and grinds the thinnest moso bamboo strip into a bamboo needle.

Moso bamboo is hard, so use the tip of a bamboo needle to slowly grind holes in the bamboo strips until the twine can be penetrated.

The arms of the two creeping beasts have three holes drilled in each.

Each of the two bamboo legs has a hole drilled in the uppermost position.

The upper and lower ends of the torso should also be drilled: from the left shoulder to the right shoulder, from the left crotch to the right crotch.

Because the trunk is thick, the sharpness of the bamboo needles has to be replaced, and after a while, the tips become blunt and need to be sharpened again and again.

When polishing the bamboo needles, the two feet squeeze the strip knife to cooperate with the left hand.

To drill the holes, you have to fix the bamboo strips on the tool stool and tie the hemp rope tightly.

This step is cyclically switched, and she cannot use force below her right wrist, so the process of making the device is very slow.

Fortunately, there is no limit to the duration of the task.Wang Ge held his breath, and drilled little by little, blowing away the bamboo chips every few times.

After more than an hour, a craftsman returned to the courtyard, and Wang Ge also drilled all the holes.

Final step: Assemble them with twine.

There are three eyelets on the arms of the dragon, the top one is installed on both sides of the shoulders of the torso.First thread the hemp rope into the torso, then through each arm, tie knots on both sides, and cut off the excess rope.

The crotch of the torso is also first crossed into the hemp rope, and then both sides are pierced through the holes on the top of the bamboo legs, the knot is tied, and the excess rope is cut off.

The eyelets in the middle and below the two arms are crossed with a long hemp rope.Where are the two ends of the two long hemp ropes tied?It is the two vertical bamboo sticks that have been placed on the ground for use.

After the two long hemp ropes are fastened, they should be parallel, and the upper rope should be at the top of the vertical stick, with a distance of one inch from the bottom parallel rope.

At this time, the prototype of an absolutely "smart" bamboo dragon... came out.

All that's left is to rub a tail with the twine.cough!Wang Ge scanned the courtyard, but no one was staring at her, so she quickly dabbed a little bit of her snot on the "tail root" and pressed it on the "monkey butt" while it was hot.

After a few breaths, it's stuck.

And finally, between the hemp ropes between the eyelets at the bottom of both arms, cough!Then use snot to stain a small piece of hemp rope, and make the rope thicker, so that the arms will not be close together to the inside.

Don't ask why there is snot in this season, this thing is there, regardless of season.

She tried turning the creature upside down with its head down and its feet up.

let go.

Affected by the elasticity of the hemp rope, the beast immediately looks like a horizontal bar athlete, flying up and down between the hemp ropes, such as pull-ups, 360-degree mid-air rotation, abdominal circle around the bar... and other difficult movements are all nothing to worry about!
If this toy is not smart, what dares to call it smart?
Mrs. Meng also came back. At the same time as Mrs. Xu saw Wang Ge pulling the bamboo monkey, they all came over and were amazed.

"Is this your task?" Lady Meng asked.

"Ah."

Xu Niangzi was lucky for her: "You are so lucky, the one carved is a monkey, not a crane."

Wang Ge smiled and didn't explain.

Lady Meng asked, "Did your hand hurt?"

Wang Ge happened to be slowly getting tired, so he briefly talked about being dragged down in the morning.

Miss Chen came back after handing in the task, and said: "It turned out that you were the one who was pushed down, don't worry, that person was driven away, and many people saw it."

Mrs. Meng said with a look of fear: "That's great. If you keep such dishonest people around, if you harm Master Wang Zhun today, you will definitely harm us tomorrow."

Miss Xu and Miss Chen both nodded: "That's right."

Wang Ge smiled gratefully at Mrs. Meng. As soon as the words spread, no one thought she was aggressive, and used this "small matter" to force a craftsman away.

Miss Chen asked: "Are you going to hand in the task now? Do you want me to help you? Shouldn't it be a violation of the rules to help you get this utensil?"

"I'm only halfway done, and I still have to keep working." Wang Ge rested and began to make the character "蜼".

The rest don't bother her anymore.

There are several characters written on the task materials, but the character "蜼" is Xiaozhuan, which is different from other official characters.This is also one of the reasons why Wang Ge guessed that there is another way to solve the mission.

Carving characters is more difficult than making bamboo monkeys.Especially the radical of "worm", which is more distorted than live worms.

The task allows the use of both bamboo and wood. Wang Ge abandoned Ci bamboo to camphor wood.Put the wooden block on the tool bench, stand up, ride on it, fix the wooden block with your legs, and cut it with the wooden handle copper saw rewarded earlier.

After cutting enough materials, it is more difficult to carve.

You can no longer use hemp rope to fix the wood, because no matter how tight the tie is, the wood will move when the iron knife is hard.

No matter how difficult it is, there is a way.

If the wrist is twisted, press the block with the forearm above the wrist, and start!
Concentrate on doing it all in one go.

Carving the "worm" part, carving the "隹" part, and the "隹" in Xiaozhuan are combined, but it is better to carve even if there are twists and turns.

It must be noted that no matter "worm" or "隹", neither can be rigid, but must be able to move.

The trick of the activity is to add hollow chains at every other position, and connect sections of strokes with chain buckles.It is one of the basic skills of a woodcarver to carve a movable chain button with the whole wood.

"Huh..." He kept blowing away the sawdust, so that he could see the shape of the carving clearly.

Lady Meng brought her lunch and filled her with water.

After Wang Ge thanked him, he neither ate nor drank.She is used to being defensive in her bones, and the mission rules do not allow anyone to assist, what if the help of food and drink is also counted?Then he must die unjustly.

Although carving characters is troublesome, it takes a little less time than carving monkeys.Of course, if her right hand hadn't been injured, the total duration of this mission could have been shortened by more than half.

The eye of the chain buckle is just used to wear the hemp rope.

The effect is the same as that of the bamboo monkey, the character "蜼" is tossing and jumping between the two hemp ropes, and when the ropes are stabilized, they combine into a character "蜼" with an elongated effect.

After Wang Gequan finished his busy work, he found that Meng's female official was already standing in the courtyard.

"Craftsman Meng, this is my task." She handed over the task bamboo slips.

"I know about this task. I have passed both of these tools. Ladies and craftsmen, come over and pass it on to learn how Master Wang Zhun solved this problem. This form of task will not appear again in the future." The last sentence, divided Stern on the outside, it was actually said to Mrs. Zheng, who failed yesterday to carve a crane.

The attitude of Meng's female official puzzled the already depressed Mrs. Zheng.What can I learn?If she were a carved monkey, she would do it too!
(End of this chapter)