Life in a quiet village in Xianshan

Seeing that the old men didn't pay attention to him, Gu Siwei leaned over while holding the leek box and chewing on it. He thought to himself: What are a bunch of old men doing together? Is it gambling?

I walked over and took a look and found that my guess was wrong. These old men were not gambling together, and they had no money to gamble.

Several people squatted together around a piece of wood and looked at it.

"What's there to see?"

Gu Siwei opened his mouth and said.

"Yo!"

Gu Siwei made a sound, which startled old man Li. He turned his head and looked up and saw that it was Gu Siwei and asked, "When did you come here?"

"I called you all over, but you didn't hear me when I called you to eat. What are you guys looking at around a log? Are there flowers?" Gu Siwei stretched his head and looked at the log that the old men were staring at.

Old Man Li said: "What do you know? This is a good thing."

"No matter how good the food is, you can't skip eating it. Let's wait and see when we come back after dinner. What we are making today is a leek box. It is delicious when it is hot. If you wait for it to cool down, it will not taste as good," Gu Siwei said.

Leek boxes must be eaten when they are hot. When is the best time to eat them right after they are baked? Take them out of the pot and eat them. The taste is the best. Therefore, at home, you usually eat the leek boxes while they are being baked. , by the time the baking is finished, the family will be full.

Lu Yan smiled and said at this time: "Let's go, let's go eat first, this piece of wood won't run away anyway."

Gu Siwei became even more curious after hearing this. He squatted down with everyone else and looked at the wood in front of him. He stretched out his hand and touched it, and then asked: "It's nothing strange. Isn't it just a big piece of wood?"

"What do you know? This is Nanmu"

Old man Zhou, who had never spoken much, suddenly said something at this time.

This made Gu Siwei couldn't help but take another look at him. You must know that this old man couldn't beat a dull fart with eight sticks. Today, he could actually say something about a piece of wood, which was a bit surprising.

Gu Siwei didn't say anything, he just glanced at the old man, then put his eyes on the tree again, stretched out his hand to touch it and said, "Is the nanmu weird? It's not golden nanmu."

Ordinary nanmu is not unusual. There are a lot of nanmu here, but they are not big or thick enough. There are also a lot of nanmu furniture among the people at this time.

Most of the local products are purple nan.

Um!

At this point, Gu Siwei's eyes lit up, and his hand touching the wood suddenly felt energetic. He asked the old men: "Is this... Jinsunan?"

"You are quite knowledgeable, and you actually know about Jinsnan." Old Man Yu didn't know whether he was praising Siwei or hurting Siwei when he said this.

"Since you know Jinsnan, please tell me what Jinsnan is," Mr. Yu said with a smile.

Gu Siwei scratched his head in embarrassment after hearing this: "Well, I really don't know very well, but is this plant actually Golden Phoebe?"

"Golden nanmu is not a species. The main types of nanmu include frame nanmu, Fujian nanmu and purple nanmu. This one is purple nanmu, but the wood grain has gold threads, so it can also be called golden nanmu," explained Lu Yan said.

Gu Siwei was in high spirits. When he heard Lu Yan's explanation, half of the joy in his heart was immediately gone: "In other words, this thing is not very valuable?"

Lu Yan listened and laughed and said: "It's valuable, but it's not the most expensive. The best nanmu is several frames of nanmu, which is used in many palace buildings."

"Then why have you been looking at it for so long? Okay, stop looking at it and go to eat quickly. What did I think? If the food is not top-notch, can we stop being so inexperienced?"

Gu Siwei stood up as he spoke.

Old Man Li said: "You know nothing."

"You know? Then you tell me, I'm listening."

Gu Siwei guessed that Old Man Li didn't know about it at all, because through this period of contact, Gu Siwei knew that Old Man Li was a pure soldier with a straightforward character. If you want to say that Lu Yan knows the difference between these woods, then Gu Siwei has no doubt at all. , those who play calligraphy and painting art must know something about these things, but Mr. Li, you said that he cherishes these precious trees, Gu Siwei doesn't believe it.

Gu Siwei really guessed it. Old Man Li really didn’t know that he was just a co-conspirator here to listen to Lu Yan’s talk about how rare this wood was, but in his heart he was not interested in these things. If it weren’t for him now After being transformed, he had already gone to train a soldier with a gun, so he was not in the mood to listen to this stuff.

"It's very valuable, you know?" Old Man Li said directly, then turned away and ignored Gu Siwei.

Gu Siwei ignored him and turned to Lu Yan, who he knew was an expert at a glance.

Lu Yan was indeed a man who knew the goods, and he opened his mouth and said: "This material looks like purple nan to me. Zinan with gold threads is very rare, and do you think it still has this kind of landscape pattern, does it look like the gold sprinkled on the fan?"

Sprinkle gold? Gu Siwei was a little confused when he heard this. How could he know about sprinkling gold? If you tell him about the workmanship of the parts, he will understand.

"It's just dots of gold on the paper. This technique is called sprinkling gold." Old man Yu knew that Gu Siwei was confused at the first glance, so he explained it.

Lu Yan said with a smile: "This is generally said, but gold sprinkling is a paint base with dots and gold flakes covered with a layer of paint. This is called sprinkling gold technology, which allows gold dots or gold threads to scatter in a beautiful way. On rice paper or other materials, the patterns formed include clouds, drifting clouds, distant mountains, etc..."

"You educated people are really capable of talking nonsense." Old Man Li was a little confused when he heard this. He understood the truth, but he didn't know that just sprinkling something like this on something could lead to so many things.

At this moment, Gu Siwei agreed very much with Old Man Li and gave him a thumbs up to express his good evaluation.

As a result, instead of getting praise from Old Man Li, he got a big roll of his eyes.

"The most rare thing is, what do the lines on this material look like?" Lu Yan touched the material in front of him.

The material was sawed open a little, revealing a section about thirty to forty centimeters square.

"Kind of like what?"

Gu Siwei looked at it for a long time without understanding what it looked like. In the end, he simply stopped looking and asked directly.

Lu Yan said: "Is there a starry sky like Van Gogh's?"

"you……".

Gu Siwei originally wanted to say that you are really good at it, but when he thought of Van Gogh's famous painting, he looked at it together and found that it was indeed a little bit interesting. The texture of the wood was a bit curly, plus the stars The little bits of gold thread really look so seventy-eight.

Although Gu Siwei is not an art major, he still knows about Van Gogh. Anyone who has gone to school will be familiar with Van Gogh's paintings. He is so famous.

"Do you know who Van Gogh is?"

Seeing Gu Siwei nodding like a yes-man, Old Man Yu doubted whether he knew who Van Gogh was.

Old Man Yu naturally knew that. He was a person who had drank foreign ink. He had studied in school and would not have known who Van Gogh was. What Old Man Yu doesn’t know is that in the era when Gu Siweilai came, the word Van Gogh was almost synonymous with the art of painting. If you tell ordinary people about Pan Tianshou, Huang Zhou and others will most likely not know it, but if you tell them Van Gogh, most people know.

"The Dutch artist who cut off his own ear was a little fan of Gauguin, and he was probably a fan..." Gu Siwei said.

"You really know." Old Man Yu laughed after hearing this.

"But, I still have some artistic instincts."

Gu Siwei felt a little complacent when others praised him.

Just as she was looking beautiful, the voice of her brother-in-law Hu Yanping came from behind.

"It's time to eat. The grandpas have gone home to eat. Brother-in-law, what are you doing? I asked you to come over and call people to eat. When you get ready, you won't go back here and you asked me..." Hu Yanping said to everyone.

"Let's go and eat."

Old man Yu stood up and smiled.

So everyone stood up and walked towards the big house together, listening to Lu Yan talking about Zinan material as they walked.

When they were approaching the big house, Gu Siwei said, "What should I do with this material?"

"Of course I'm making furniture," Lu Yan said.

Gu Siwei nodded without thinking, and then said: "Then let's make the ingredients tomorrow."

At this time, Gu Siwei remembered that the big bed in his space had arrived. He felt a little uncomfortable using other people's things. Now that he had good materials, he could just make one himself. Anyway, he seemed to have nothing to do.

"Okay, let's cut it into materials tomorrow and store it first. When we find a good craftsman, we can make it into furniture," Lu Yan said.

"Still looking for a craftsman?" Gu Siwei was stunned for a moment.

Lu Yan said: "With such good materials, wouldn't it be useless if the craftsmanship is not good? Of course I need to find someone with good craftsmanship. It's a pity. I know the person, but I don't know where he was assigned to at this time. If I can If they get it here, that'll be fine."

"This matter...just think about it," Gu Siwei said.

It's easy for Gu Siwei to kill people, but if you ask him to move a person from one place to his side and make furniture for himself, how can he have this ability?

Zhao Minglan was more capable than Gu Siwei in this matter.

After chatting, we returned to the door of the big house.

Hu Yanqiu had already taken out the rice bowls for everyone, filled the porridge and placed it on the table. In the middle of the table was a large round wooden basin filled with boxes of leeks.

There was nothing to be polite about, everyone washed their hands and started eating.

While eating, everyone continued to talk about the ingredients.

"How about this? Let's build a dressing table for Xiao Hu."

Old man Yu suddenly said this.

When Old Man Li heard this, he immediately nodded in agreement: "This is a good idea. If Xiao Hu marries a boy like Xiao Gu, Xiao Gu will have to make a dressing table for her."

Gu Siwei didn't understand the cause and effect relationship, but he couldn't express his opinion. He was making a dressing table for his wife and not for others. How could Gu Siwei be reluctant to part with the piece of material just now.

Old Man Li and Old Man Yu both like Hu Yanqiu. Don't misunderstand that it's the kind of love that elders look at juniors. They are both from the army. They are particularly attracted to the cheerful and diligent Hu Yanqiu, but they are a little attracted to Gu Siwei who seems to be cunning at first glance. No, it's not that they don't like him. After getting to know each other, the two old men also like Gu Siwei, but not as much as they like Hu Yanqiu, that's for sure.

Hu Yanqiu was confused after hearing this, and asked, "What dressing table?"

Lu Yan said: "We found a good material in the wood pile, and the master said that I can make a dressing table for you."

"What do I want that thing for? Don't bother." Hu Yanqiu declined with a smile: "It's useless, it's just a decoration."