Rebirth 1982 Be the stubborn master

Chapter 16 Matryoshka
After carving the Valkyrie, Du Kang continued to carve. He made a partition in the middle of the three rooms with a bogus shelf. Now it is bare, without a single ornament. Just in time, he made two sculptures for display.

Seeing that the furniture made for Director Yang had been finished, Du Kang asked Wang Hao to take someone to deliver it to him, and sent two Luban tables to the cafeteria of the machinery factory by the way.

Of course, the textile factory where my mother works also sent two Luban tables to the cafeteria.

This is what he asked his mother to tell the cafeteria. Although his mother is in the textile factory, she is not a deputy director like his father, but an ordinary worker.

But it's not easy to give people things for free. How can someone refuse something that doesn't cost money?

When the workers of the two factories saw this magical Luban table, they thought of the narrow space in their homes and ensured that the orders would keep coming.

After dinner, Du Kang began to make small cars, which are also wood carvings of course, but different from the integrally formed wood carvings, he made them more delicately.

The doors, front cover, and rear compartment can all be opened, and there are exquisite steering wheels, seats, and even the engine in the front cover are carved.

It is very good as a handicraft to be placed on a bogu shelf.

A girl in her twenties walked in, looked left and right, and looked curiously at the car he made.

"To order furniture?"

"That's right, I'm going to make a set of furniture at home, can you visit it?"

"no problem."

Seeing that the business came, Du Kang enthusiastically led her into the house for a tour and let her see his exquisite craftsmanship.

The girl took a look around, but didn't have much reaction. Instead, she was a little surprised to see the wood carving of the Valkyrie, so she picked it up to check.

"You made this? You're a good carver."

"good."

Seeing a duck next to it, I picked it up to check.

The duck was made of wood and it was not small in size. She thought it was very heavy, but unexpectedly it hit the wooden board on the upper floor of the bogu rack with a bang. When she looked carefully, she was surprised to find that it was empty, and there was a little duck underneath.

Pick up one and another, pick up one and another.

I took a few in a row, and there are ducklings below.

This is fun, I took seven or eight of them in a row, and put them on the table, one by one, the biggest one was the size of a hen, and the smallest one was only the size of a broad bean, which was very peculiar.

"What is this, you can play."

"Russian dolls, haven't seen it, do you want it? If you want it, I can help make it."

"Give me a set, I'll go home and play for my brother."

The girl played with the duck, and the more she looked at it, the more curious she became. She never thought that an ordinary toy could be divided into so many layers.

"The furniture..."

Cough cough cough, the girl was a little embarrassed, she suddenly realized that she had forgotten the main purpose of her visit.

"I'll talk about the furniture later. I came here this time because I heard that you are proficient in various skills and can also make horn lamps. I came here specially to visit."

Du Kang was taken aback for a moment and realized that he thought it was a business trip, so he specially accompanied him for an introduction, but it turned out that he had another purpose.

I didn't introduce to her anymore, went back to the table and sat down, took a sip of tea, and said, "Old Luo asked you to come."

"What old Luo, I don't know him."

The girl rolled her eyes and refused to admit it.

"I know how to make ram horn lamps. I only told Mr. Luo that even the apprentices under my command don't know. How do you know?"

Isn't this embarrassing, the girl raised her chin slightly, and said proudly, "So what, it's just a little craftsmanship, what are you proud of?"

Du Kang cast her a glance, beauty, I'm not proud, I'm taking your vitals, knowing that you are here to ask for help.

It's okay if you don't want to ask me, if you have the ability, go find someone else to repair the lamp.

Seeing that Du Kang ignored her, the girl rolled her eyes and said, "Stop pretending there, I am proficient in various crafts such as horn lamps, clay sculptures, dough figurines, wood carvings, stone carvings, bamboo weaving, and rattan weaving. .

I also said that all craftsmen in the world can make it. "

Without arguing, Du Kang opened the cabinet and took out a horn lamp.

The ram horn lamp is not a ram horn style lamp, let alone decorated with two ram horns on it, but a lamp made of ram horn.

The lamp he took out was made after returning from the Forbidden City. He specially lit up the craftsmanship of the horn lamp and took out tools from the space.

Chowder = lamp?
No matter how you look at it, it is impossible. How big can a sheep’s horn be, how can it be made into a lamp?
However, the skilled craftsmen in ancient times were able to make the hard horns into translucent lampshades.

Near Shichahai, there is still an alley called Yangjiaodeng Hutong, which shows the prevalence of Yangjiaodeng in those days.

It's a pity that after years of war, the sheep horn lamps that were popular back then have been lost. Otherwise, Luo Lao would not have asked him for it.

The girl was speechless for a moment, took the horn lamp and looked it over carefully. It was a lampshade with a diameter of more than ten centimeters.

I saw that the lampshade was only one millimeter thick, and it was so thin that it was almost transparent. When placed in the sun, only a faint shadow could be seen, and there was no seam to be found. It was very delicate.

Du Kang found candles and lit them, and covered them with lampshades. The lights were full and beautiful.

"Not bad, how much is it, I bought it."

"Not for sale, this is the Lantern Lantern I made for my sister."

The girl is powerless to complain, the Lantern Festival has only passed two months, you tell me this is a Lantern Lantern, who are you kidding.

But if they didn't sell it, she couldn't buy or sell it by force, and she was playing with the horn lamp there.

Du Kang waited for a long time to see that she did not respond, and asked, "I said, what's the matter with you, Miss?"

"Actually, one of my pair of horn lamps is broken. I wonder if you can help fix it."

"No time."

The girl was so angry that she almost threw the table, thinking that she is also the baby of the family, she is cared for by the family, and after work, she is under the care of her grandpa. When did she suffer from such grievances?

Immediately, he turned around and prepared to leave, took two steps, stopped suddenly, came back angrily, sat opposite Du Kang and stared at him.

I can't come back.

After the pair of horn lamps were damaged, they searched for a long time, but they couldn't find anyone who could make lamps to restore them.

I got the method of making the horn lamp from some fragments, but there are different opinions.

Some say that the horns are cut into cylinders, put in a pot of boiling water, boiled together with shredded radish, stuffed into them with a spindle-shaped last, and cooked repeatedly until the whole horn is deformed into thin and Transparent lampshade.

Some say that the lampshade is made by decocting ram horns into a transparent liquid and condensing them into sheets.

In addition, the horns are shaved into thin slices, and then the slices are glued together with a red-hot iron and ironed out into an oval shape.

This day is so different!

Which do you say is correct?

Du Kang was embarrassed by her stare, coughed, changed the subject and said, "If I didn't guess, my horn lamp should be from the Forbidden City, right?"

"So what?"

"Let him come to me by himself, he won't even ask for help, he's still the deputy curator. How could he think of letting you come here?"

"He is my grandfather. He said you are greedy for money and lustful. You must agree to my coming."

Du Kang almost spit out a mouthful of water, he was greedy for money, he believed that anyway, he cheated Luo Lao ten dollars.

Luo Lao felt uncomfortable, and could say that he was greedy for money.

But where does lust come from, he just painted a portrait of Irina, and she gave me money to do something, a serious transaction, how could it become lust.

He glanced at her with a strange face: "So Lao Luo asked you to come here to seduce?"

(End of this chapter)