Mountain Miscellaneous

Chapter 24 Climb to the Dongfeng Tea Plantation and Learn the Craftsmanship of Carpentry
The old man's face was pale and his hair was like dry grass.

"You are... Uncle Qin?" Li Changqing asked in surprise.

"Don't get close to me, you can't go up the mountain anyway!" The old man said excitedly.

"Uncle Qin, it's me, Changqing, do you remember?" Li Changqing approached the old man and asked.

"No matter who it is, you can't go up the mountain!" The old man continued without listening.

"Li Jia'ao, the one who secretly smoked your hookah!" Li Changqing gestured.

"It's you! You've grown so big!" The old man finally calmed down.

"Hehe, it's been fifteen or sixteen years, so of course I've grown up!" Li Changqing laughed.

"What did you come to the tea factory to find antiques?" Uncle Qin still asked cautiously.

"Antique? No, I contracted a barren hill and wanted to transplant a few tea trees there!" Li Changqing replied.

"Now the tea area behind the house still grows new tea every year, and the other places don't grow any more!"

When Uncle Qin heard that he was here to transplant tea leaves, he relaxed a lot and said to Li Changqing.

"Okay, thank you, Uncle Qin!" Li Changqing smiled.

"Remember, you can only stay in the tea area behind the house, and don't go to other areas!" Uncle Qin urged with a serious expression.

"Enen, can I ask why?" Li Changqing asked curiously.

"There are snakes!"

After Uncle Qin finished speaking, he returned to the dilapidated guard room and ignored Li Changqing.

Although Li Changqing felt that Uncle Qin's behavior was weird, he didn't think about it.

After all, Uncle Qin's character was like that before, and it seems that it has not changed after more than ten years.

Standing on the tea mountain behind the factory building, Li Changqing raised his eyes in all directions, and the mountains and plains were covered with dark blue tea trees.

There used to be his innocent childhood, laughing, chasing and playing!
Now the passage between the mountains has been abandoned, and many unknown weeds and shrubs have grown, which is no longer what it used to be.

The soil in the tea area behind the factory building is relatively loose, and Li Changqing easily dug up a tea tree with a hoe.

Li Changwu's tricycle can only hold five tea trees, and Li Changqing only transplanted 25 tea trees after traveling five times.

The tea trees were planted on the hillside near the wooden house. In order to ensure the survival rate of the tea trees, Li Changqing poured a lot of spiritual water on each tea tree.

The leeks planted in the field have grown to the size of a thumb in two days, and two tender green leaves have emerged.

Passing the village, Li Changqing bought some vegetables, and when he returned the tricycle to Li Changwu's house, he asked him to eat.

"I heard from Uncle Qin that someone went to Dongfeng Tea Factory to find antiques?" Li Changqing asked curiously remembering what happened today.

"Two months ago, you hadn't come back at that time! I don't know who spread the news that there was an ancient tomb of a nobleman in the Han Dynasty in Dongfeng Tea Farm. Some people were blinded by lard and ran like crazy to the mountains to find antiques. !”, Li Changwu said while drinking.

"Even if there is, tomb robbery is still illegal, and it must be handed over to the state!" Li Dahai said seriously.

"Where did the antiques come from on the mountain? They are all snakes! I heard that many people have been bitten, so don't go there again, Qingwa!" Liu Cuie said worriedly.

"It's okay, I'm in the tea area behind the factory building!" Li Changqing replied.

After chatting, Li Changqing went back to the small wooden house under Zhongnan Mountain and entered the bamboo forest of various schools of thought.

In addition to practicing basic strokes, Li Changqing began to learn Chinese painting.

Most people like to respect the past and despise the present, but Li Changqing feels that the present may not be as good as the past.

The times are progressing and all kinds of skills are also developing. After reading a lot of theoretical knowledge, even in the bamboo forest, there are Gu Kaizhi's "Painting Yuntai Mountain Story", the painting saint Wu Daozi's "Heavenly King Sending a Son", and Bada Shanren's "Shuimu Qinghua Li Changqing still chose Shi Tao's "Quotes on Paintings of Bitter Gourd Monk".

Although Shi Tao is not as famous as Gu Kaizhi, Wu Daozi, Bada Shanren, etc., his "Bitter Melon Monk Painting Quotations" is the pinnacle of Chinese painting theory.

The book consists of [-] chapters, firstly explaining the principles, secondly discussing the artifice, and finally leading to theoretical propositions, forming a complete and organic theoretical system of landscape painting.

In this system, Shi Tao raises the understanding of painting theory and painting method to the height of cosmology, which is strong in theory and system, and has sufficient logical power, regardless of the changes in the reasons.

Advocate 'pen and ink should be at any time', 'search all the peaks to make a draft', and advocate the artist's individuality and freedom of creation.

Li Changqing hasn't started to practice painting yet, but he has seen many painting theories, so he can't be regarded as a novice.

Even though it's been 400 years, I still have a feeling that I can't wait to be my confidant!
"The method of one painting is self-reliance."

"Get the meeting of brush and ink, unravel the division of ambiguity, and be the hand to break the chaos."

"Those who know the principles of the universe are the quality of mountains and rivers. Those who know the law of brush and ink are also the decorations of mountains and rivers."

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Li Changqing was obsessed with it, and he didn't know how many times he read it over and over again until he was familiar with the deep meaning in it before he started to practice writing.

In the early morning, after Li Changqing finished reading, he took the kettle to water the tea trees and leeks, and then came to the carpentry workshop of Li Dajiang's home.

"What, you want to be my helper and learn carpentry?"

Li Dajiang put down his work and asked in surprise.

"Yes, I want to build a chicken coop and raise some chickens!" Li Changqing nodded.

"What do you think? I'll show you after I finish this batch of work. Do the family need two carpenters?" Li Dajiang said disapprovingly.

"Second Uncle, I planted four acres of leeks and transplanted some tea trees a few days ago. I just have free time! I'm not free, so I might as well come and learn from you!" Li Changqing continued.

"Haha, my physics teacher taught me this craft!" Li Dajiang said with a smile.

"I've only heard that mathematics is taught by a physical education teacher, Chinese is taught by a chemistry teacher, and carpentry is taught by a physics teacher. This is the first time I've heard it!" Li Changqing said with a smile.

"It was a special period back then. A high school physics teacher was transferred to our Lijiaao. Although he had never learned carpentry, he could do carpentry work when he got the carpenter's tools! Moreover, the work was better than those decades-old carpenters. If it is even better, the team will let him do carpentry work."

Li Dajiang remembered the past, and the conversation started, and he continued.

"The teacher saw that I was clever, so he accepted me as an apprentice! But he just let me watch myself comprehend, and taught me some mathematics and physics knowledge in my spare time. Later, I started to work by myself, no matter what I did or not, It can be done with some time, and it is better than those who learn from traditional carpenters!"

Speaking of this, Li Dajiang's face is full of nostalgia for the past.

"Second uncle, then you are busy with your work, I will just watch from the side!" Li Changqing said.

"Qingwa, you are smart and knowledgeable, you will definitely learn it quickly!" Li Changjiang said with a smile.

　Thanks for not pretending, Wenren ^ no words, Brother Piao vs. for the reward~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)