Reborn Craftsman

Chapter 2 Bamboo Craftsmanship
Thinking of this, Liu Xing put down his sister, picked up the sharp hatchet at the door, and walked towards the bamboo forest in the back mountain.

"Brother, why are you going?" Little Peanut hurriedly chased after him with his short legs, but suddenly turned back to the gate, picked up the bamboo basket and chased after him again.

She was afraid that Liu Xing was lying to her, and when the time came when he suddenly disappeared while walking, and went to dig loaches again, it would be no fun for her to be alone at home, but if she had a bamboo basket in her hand, she would not be afraid of anything Yes, because you must use bamboo baskets to catch loach.

Otherwise they will all run away.

Looking back at this scene, Liu Xing couldn't help laughing.

He didn't use the hatchet to catch loaches, but went to the back mountain to cut down bamboo to make bamboo strips and sell them in the market for money.

Bamboo refers to bamboo strips split into strips.

Before he was reborn, in order to make a living, at the age of 16, he first studied carpentry with his uncle for five years, then saw a plasterer contracting a project to make money, and then learned a plasterer and hydropower installation.

After getting married, because of the high pressure of life, I took my family to work in the coastal areas for more than ten years. By chance, I learned crafts such as bamboo craftsman and chef.

In a word, before rebirth, Liu Xing was a craftsman through and through, and there were almost no jobs he could not do in the countryside.

Bamboo craftsman is an ancient profession. After 2000, with the emergence of a large number of plastic products, bamboo products were almost eliminated.

But now it is 1993, and people cannot live without bamboo products such as shauji, dustpan, baskets, baskets, sieves, dustpans, etc. Therefore, it is only appropriate for Liu Xing to use this craft to earn a little money to improve his life.

The most important basic skill of a bamboo craftsman is splitting. To make a whole bamboo into various kinds of bamboo, the bamboo must first be split, and then different parts of it are made into various kinds of bamboo.

For Liu Xing, who has more than ten years of experience as a bamboo craftsman, he is very familiar with it. In half an hour, more than a dozen bamboos turned into bamboo strips in his hands.

But his hands are still a little tender, and under the protection of his fingers without calluses, they will inevitably be scratched by bamboo strips.

Liu Xing didn't care about this injury at all, because it was impossible for craftsmen not to injure their hands.

He remembered that when he was a carpenter, his right index finger was planed off by a planer. If he hadn't been reborn, he would have been disabled for the rest of his life.

"It's better to be reborn!" Liu Xing checked his hands, they were slender and fair, and the scars were almost invisible, which was almost impossible before rebirth.

But right now is not the time to be happy, let's earn some pocket money first.

"It's the beginning of July in the lunar calendar, and the dustpan used to dry beans should be popular in the market." Liu Xing thought to himself.

Therefore, Liu Xing intends to use all the bamboo strips to make dustpans. Although the price is lower than other bamboo products, the production is simple, and it should not be a problem to make twenty or thirty pieces in two to three hours.

If there is a full set of bamboo craftsmen's tools, the time can be reduced by at least half.

When it's finished, take it to the market on a bicycle and buy it. You should get two or three catties of pork money soon.

And the most important point is that he didn't learn the craftsmanship of the bamboo craftsman from the local masters, but learned it from the masters in the factories in southern Fujian.

The bamboo products produced are much more delicate than the local ones, not to mention the shape is also very particular.

However, Liu Xing is a little worried, that is, the dustpan he is making now is made of wet bamboo, that is, bamboo products made from freshly cut bamboo. If the local villagers object to this, they may not be sold.

Because the bamboo products made of wet bamboo will be slightly deformed under the sun exposure, and the bamboo will collapse if the craftsmanship is not good. Of course, if the craftsmanship is good, the bamboo products made of wet bamboo are durable and absolutely not There will be any quality problems, this is the inside story that experts know, and ordinary people don't know.

A dustpan was made quickly under Liu Xing's skillful weaving. He folded it vigorously, and after seeing that there was no problem with the quality, he squatted down and continued to make the second dustpan.

Little Peanut on the side stared intently, her big eyes had a strange color, she really wanted to ask Liu Xing why he made this round dustpan, but she didn't dare to ask, for fear of disturbing Liu Xing's seriousness.

If she can't eat braised pork by noon, she will regret it to death.

For this reason, she threw down the bamboo basket in her little hand, and handed Liu Xing a bamboo basket.

Although Liu Xing didn't need it at all, Little Peanut did it with great joy.

The movement of cutting bamboo to make bamboo strips quickly attracted Liu Dageng. He looked at the seven or eight dustpans that had been made on the ground, and put down the hoe in his hand in surprise: "Liu Xing, you... when will you know how to work as a bamboo strip maker?" gone?"

"I learned from my grandfather!"

Liu Xing turned his head when he heard the voice.

This is what he had thought up a long time ago. Anyway, it is not difficult to make a dustpan, as long as you spend some time deliberately, and my grandfather really knows the simple craft of bamboo craftsman. It is no secret that some daily necessities are needed.

He still remembered that the old man Wang in the neighboring village had learned the craft of bamboo craftsman by himself. Everyone in the surrounding villagers knew it, but the bamboo products he made at the beginning were a bit ugly.

Of course, it's difficult to learn how to be good at it. Bamboo craftsman is a master, and only Liu Xing knows this.

"Brother said that we will sell all these dustpans later and buy meat to eat!" Seeing that his father's eyes were wrong, Little Peanut stood up and quickly protected the dustpan on the ground, fearing that if he disagreed with him, he would snatch it away.

"Buy meat to eat?" Liu Dageng shook his head when he heard the words: "It's a good idea, but isn't it a bit late for you to go to the market to sell it after you've finished it?"

Today is the day to go to the market, the children have to toss, he never cares about it, but he kindly reminded him, after all, he has tried the craftsmanship of the bamboo craftsman, it is not difficult to get started, but if you want to make bamboo products quickly It is a bit difficult to come out and reach the level of exquisiteness that can be sold for money. Otherwise, there are so many bamboos in Qingshi Village, I am afraid that they would have been cut down long ago.

"It's not too late, there is still an hour at most, I can make more than 20 dustpans, and the money for eating meat should be enough!" Liu Xing reached out to wipe the sweat on his forehead, and threw a dustpan into the small Peanut's feet.

Liu Dageng couldn't believe it. He picked it up and took a look. He couldn't help taking a breath. The whole dustpan was airtight, round and delicate, and the distance between the bamboo strips was not bad. , that is, what Liu Xing learned from that fake bamboo craftsman, even if he was killed, he would not believe it.

But what was in front of him was the fact that he had to believe it, and he had to look at his son with admiration.

"Do you want to help?" Liu Dageng wanted to ask what happened, but after thinking about it, he changed his mind.

Liu Xing is so ingenious and able to make money with his hands, he should be happy, not paranoid.

There are many geniuses in this world, and he believes that his son is not short of one.

(End of this chapter)