Courtyard House: Starting in a Ceramics Factory

Chapter 230 Li Feng felt the sense of mission on his shoulders
At this moment, Li Feng and his companions were all completely disoriented by the chili peppers.

Li Feng felt that even Sichuan cuisine wasn't this spicy.

Li Feng only recovered after drinking a lot of cold water.

At the hotel, it wasn't just Li Feng who was so spicy; everyone else was the same. After all, most of the workers who came here from the ceramics factory were from the north, and it was the first time they had ever encountered such spicy food.

Although it wasn't summer yet, large beads of sweat were already forming on Li Feng and the others' heads from the heat.

After regaining his composure, Li Feng realized that if people ate such spicy food every day, there would definitely be fewer people suffering from rheumatism.

Just as Li Feng was thinking about these things, Wang Liu wiped the sweat from his forehead and then said to Li Feng and Zhou Jianjun.

"It took me almost ten minutes to recover."

"I forced down two bowls of cold water while eating this meal. We've never drunk so much cold water while eating in the capital."

Zhou Jianjun nodded in agreement.

"yes!".

"I originally thought that only the dishes from Sichuan, Chongqing and southern Hunan were spicy, but I didn't expect that Jiangxi cuisine would be so spicy."

"This feels like I'm going to die."

"Now my nose is burning from the spiciness."

"I didn't think the food at lunch was that spicy."

"Who ordered this dish?"

Zhou Jianjun couldn't help but become curious.

Wang Liu and Li Feng both shook their heads at Zhou Jianjun.

"I don't know."

"However, judging from the level of spiciness, I think the other dishes are definitely not much worse."

"These vegetarian dishes all have chili peppers in them, it's so addictive, even though it's spicy!"

"But I don't know why, I still want to eat it."

Li Feng nodded in agreement.

"That's right!"

"It feels really addictive, but it's also delicious."

After saying that, Li Feng started eating again. This time, he finished all the rice in front of him, but there was still some left over from the side dishes.

Seeing that Li Feng was eating again, Wang Liu and Zhou Jianjun also started eating.

About twenty minutes later, after Li Feng and the others finished their meal, they returned to their assigned rooms at the hotel.

Meanwhile, the group of them were filling the room with water.

After filling the tank with water, Li Feng felt as if he had been freed. At this moment, Wang Liu, who had caught his breath, suddenly remembered the task that Deputy Director Zhu had assigned him today. So he looked at Li Feng and Zhou Jianjun.

He then told Li Feng and Zhou Jianjun about the tasks assigned by Deputy Factory Director Zhu.

After hearing Wang Liu's words, Li Feng simply waved his hand slightly in response.

"What's the big deal? I'm sure I can finish writing it today."

After Li Feng finished speaking, he took out paper and pen from his bag. Just as Li Feng was about to start writing, he couldn't help but ask Wang Liu and Zhou Jianjun.

"That's right!"

"How many words are required to write a reflection?"

However, Li Feng's question really stumped the two of them.

Zhou Jianjun then replied to Li Feng with some hesitation.

"It should be several hundred words."

"Should it be three hundred?"

At this moment, Wang Liu shook his head at Zhou Jianjun.

"three hundred?".

"I think it should be five hundred."

"Can you call it an experience if it's less than 500 words?"

Zhou Jianjun said to Wang Liudao, somewhat speechless.

"Five hundred words?"

"Isn't this just like writing an essay?"

"I haven't even written 500 words in my essay yet!"

"never mind!".

"I'll just write three hundred words. I don't think Deputy Factory Director Zhu will have time to read them word by word. Once it's almost finished, that's enough."

Wang Liu thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.

"Then I'll write three hundred words too."

Seeing that Zhou Jianjun and Wang Liu had both written 300 characters, Li Feng decided to write 300 characters himself as well.

Next, Li Feng spent about thirty minutes writing a reflection on his visit to the August 1st Uprising Memorial Hall that afternoon. Li Feng had no problem writing about these things.

After all, Li Feng had written a lot of materials at the factory before, so writing this was just a matter of spending some time.

As for Zhou Jianjun and Wang Liu, they were scratching their heads in bewilderment.

They don't really want to write these things.

About an hour later, they finally managed to squeeze out three hundred words of their reflections.

Looking at them, Li Feng realized that they were really being put in a difficult position.

However, this was a task assigned by Deputy Factory Director Zhu, and they dared not fail to complete it.

After writing their reflections, Li Feng and the other two quickly went to sleep.

Although Li Feng and his two companions slept in sleeper berths, they were still quite tired after all this commotion.

The three of them basically finished writing their reflections and went to sleep today.

The next day
Eight in the morning
Li Feng and the others were awakened by a knocking sound.

The person knocking on the door was Xiao Zhou, who worked alongside Deputy Factory Director Zhu.

When Li Feng opened the door and saw Xiao Zhou, he couldn't help but greet her with a smile.

"Commissioner Zhou, is there something you need?"

Xiao Zhou nodded to Li Feng, and then replied to Li Feng.

"Deputy Factory Director Zhu asked me to inform you to have breakfast, and then we will be heading to Comrade Fang Memorial Park and the former sites of the Fourth and Twentieth Armies."

When Li Feng heard Xiao Zhou's answer, he immediately nodded to Xiao Zhou.

"Okay, okay!"

"We'll go right away."

Seeing that Li Feng understood, Xiao Zhou began to notify the others.

Li Feng was the first person Xiao Zhou notified, because Li Feng was a level four painter in the factory, and among these people, Li Feng's professional level was the highest, so he notified Li Feng first.

After receiving the notification, Li Feng quickly woke up the two people who were half-awake.

At this moment, Zhou Jianjun and Wang Liu, who had been woken up by Li Feng, heard Li Feng repeat what Xiao Zhou had just said. So the two of them rubbed their sleepy eyes and said.

"Why".

"Do we have to go so early? But I still want to sleep."

"Is it going to be like yesterday, where I have to write a reflection again?"

"I don't want to write these things anymore."

Li Feng listened to their words and said with some helplessness.

"You don't want to write, but do you dare not write?"

"This is a task assigned by Deputy Factory Director Zhu."

Zhou Jianjun sighed at this moment.

"We only wrote it because it was a task assigned by Deputy Factory Director Zhu; otherwise, we would have delayed it for a while."

Wang Liu didn't dare to do what Zhou Jianjun did, but he still nodded and said.

"I wouldn't dare to delay it."

"I can only try my best to write." Next...

Li Feng and the other two quickly went to wash up.

morning
It's still the hotel's dining area; the breakfast here is mostly rice noodles.

And it's mixed rice noodles.

I must say, it tastes really good.

At least it's not as spicy as what I ate last night.

Li Feng, Wang Liu, and Zhou Jianjun all ate several bowls of the mixed rice noodles this morning.

When Li Feng and the others had almost finished eating, Xiao Zhou announced the time for them to gather.

of course!

The meeting place was not at the hotel entrance, but in an open space to the side.

After the assembly was announced, Li Feng and the others quickly assembled.

Next

Deputy Factory Director Zhu began announcing today's task: to go to Comrade Fang's Memorial Park. Since the journey to the memorial park was quite long, they had to set off early.

This time, you can take a bus.

So Deputy Factory Director Zhu led the team to take the bus.

This time, we're heading to a place called Xinjian.

When Li Feng heard the name of the place, he suddenly realized that this was the place where the late sage had been sent down to the countryside.

No wonder Li Feng felt so familiar when he heard the place name.

However, when Li Feng heard Deputy Factory Director Zhu say that it would take more than an hour by bus, Li Feng couldn't help but sigh, "That really is quite far."

After about an hour, Li Feng and the others finally arrived at Comrade Fang's memorial hall.

Mr. Fang left a deep impression on Li Feng, perhaps because Li Feng learned about it in his textbooks later in life.

Li Feng learned about Mr. Fang's deeds and admired Mr. Fang's sacrifice for the cause of China. When Li Feng saw Mr. Fang's simple former residence, he felt a mix of emotions and was very sad.

However, Li Feng felt very lucky to be able to come here this time.

In his previous life, he had not come here, but in this era, he was able to come here to mourn Mr. Fang, which was something Li Feng had never expected.

When the other people in the factory visited Mr. Fang's former residence, they kept discussing Mr. Fang's spirit of not being afraid of powerful people.

Li Feng looked at the hillside not far away and let out a soft breath.

At this moment, Li Feng wondered if he could help China develop rapidly in this era.
Yesterday and today

Li Feng saw that his predecessors had practically rebuilt China for future generations.

Therefore, Li Feng really wanted to contribute to the construction of his motherland.

If you want to contribute to your country, you must have a suitable identity.

When Li Feng thought of this, he couldn't help but take a deep breath.

Currently, the only thing Li Feng can think of is using his status as a college student to gradually extract the advanced information he has obtained.

Moreover, it has to look like something you figured out entirely from scratch.

Therefore, a lot of verification information is required.

At this moment, Li Feng seemed to feel a sense of mission. After visiting the Comrade Fang Memorial Hall, Li Feng and his group went to...

The former sites of the Fourth Army and the Twentieth Army.

Here, Li Feng seemed to see the soldiers of his motherland who fought bloody battles here back then.

At this moment, Li Feng knew he had to make some efforts and changes.

Around 6 p.m.
Li Feng and his group returned to the hotel.

Having basically finished visiting the old revolutionary sites, Li Feng now had a deeper understanding of them.

Today, after taking the group photo, Deputy Factory Director Zhu still assigned the task of writing reflections.

So after finishing his meal, Li Feng quickly wrote down his thoughts and reflections in 500 words.

As for Zhou Jianjun and Wang Liu, they still wrote 300 words each.

This time, Li Feng didn't intentionally write 500 words; it was simply that he had too much to express.

But it doesn’t matter.

Anyway, this is just my personal opinion on a certain matter.

They had been walking all day, so Li Feng, Zhou Jianjun, and the other two were all very tired and fell asleep quickly.

Day Three

Today's itinerary is very simple.

The trip was to Hongdu Ceramics Street for a visit and learning experience. Deputy Factory Director Zhu didn't specify which factory everyone should visit.

In the ceramics street, there are many workshops that make ceramics. Due to policy reasons, these workshops belong to some collectives, but they are not state-owned enterprises like ceramic factories. The workshops in the ceramics street are more like village enterprises.

It's essentially a business model similar to state ownership, but Li Feng doesn't quite understand the situation.

Zhou Jianjun and Wang Liu then went directly to the pottery workshop to visit and learn.

As for Li Feng, he initially followed Zhang Jiefang and Jiang Fei.

But Zhang Jiefang and Jiang Fei soon went into a porcelain portrait museum.

As for the porcelain portrait museum, Li Feng did not go in because he had now basically mastered the art of portrait painting, and the methods for painting porcelain portraits were almost identical to those for painting human portraits.

So Li Feng didn't go in this time.

At that moment, a shop selling landscape porcelain paintings with a sign that read "Listening to the Rain Pavilion" caught Li Feng's attention and drew him inside.

When Li Feng went inside, he found that the porcelain pieces displayed there were mostly famille rose landscapes.

However, when Li Feng looked at them more closely, he realized that they did not appear to be famille rose landscape porcelain plaques, but rather other types of paintings.

This made Li Feng curious.

Li Feng was quite familiar with the painting techniques and pigments used in pastel art.

At this moment, Li Feng saw an elderly man with glasses and gray hair drawing with a paintbrush at the counter.

So Li Feng couldn't help but ask the master a question out of curiosity.

"Master craftsman."

"Excuse me, what type of landscape painting is this porcelain slab?"

"When I first looked at it, it looked like pastel, but now that I look closely it doesn't."

The old man, who was painting at the time, only realized someone had entered after hearing Li Feng's words.

When he saw that Li Feng was just a young man, he put down his writing brush and then asked Li Feng with a half-smile.

"Are you sure it's not pastel?"

"You understand this?"

Li Feng then began to introduce himself.

When he heard that Li Feng was a fourth-level painter at the ceramics factory, a look of surprise appeared on his face.

But it recovered quickly.

At this point, the old gentleman realized that Li Feng was a knowledgeable person, so he began to introduce the products in his shop.

After the old gentleman's explanation, Li Feng realized that the old gentleman's shop sold only light-colored porcelain.

According to the old man's description.

Light ochre is also a type of overglaze enamel. The concept of light ochre comes from traditional Chinese painting. It is a landscape painting in which the outline is drawn with ink and then slightly textured, and light ochre and indigo are used as the main colors for rendering. Huang Gongwang is a representative figure in this style.

The characteristic of this light-colored enamel is that, compared to the rich colors of famille rose, light-colored enamel is much rougher.

Therefore, this flavor is quite distinctive and can express something quickly and concisely.

In other words, light-colored porcelain can vividly express what the craftsman or painter wants to express. Compared with the complex process of famille rose, light-colored porcelain is more like a spontaneous painting.

Through Li Feng's own observation, this light crimson color...

Regardless of the subject matter, the brushwork techniques involved are not necessarily less than those in famille rose, but the transition of colors in famille rose is much more difficult than in light ochre.

After all, most light ochre paintings do not require color transitions.

(End of this chapter)