Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1679 Study Room

"Brother Elbow, stop joking." Ah Zi said with a smile, "You are the first in the college entrance examination, which is much better than those of me who are the first."

Zhou Zhi looked at the wall of award certificates and said, "What I said is true. It was just that one time. People like you are really amazing."

In Zhou Zhi's opinion, the real academic masters are people like Jike Azi and He Shiqing among his classmates. Their output has been very stable since childhood, and they are always the first in any class.

They may be affected by the environment. For example, they may be admitted to a good school and a good class. However, because of the previous teaching level, although they were the best in the old school, they may only be ranked average in the new school.

But it should be noted that the reason why the top students are top students is that after receiving the same teaching staff, they will quickly stand out among their classmates, become the first again, and then continue to produce steadily.

I don’t know how these people learned it, but they are just so awesome.

But there is also a problem with this type of people, that is, their knowledge system is completely confined to the classroom, resulting in an extreme lack of extracurricular knowledge.

This is normal. Everyone's energy is limited. You can't expect He Shiqing and Zhou Zhi to become one, who can dominate every exam in the school for a long time, learn a lot of extracurricular knowledge they like, and achieve deep expertise.

Zhou Zhi regrets that he cannot become He Shiqing in this life. People like Jike Azi don’t know that there are many other people who regret that they cannot become him.

Lao Chiri's family is one of the most sophisticated in the village. Although their bedding is old, they have newly replaced clean sheets and quilt covers.

"Sister Shama, please sleep with me tonight." Jike Azi said, inadvertently breaking the secret plans of some people.

"Come to my room and play?" Zhou Zhi said, "I sleep in the same room with Renzhong now, and I have turned my room into a study."

When Shama Ricong came to the study, he was surprised: "This room is so beautiful! Elbow, you really never let yourself down wherever you go!"

It has been a week since I came to Lianhe Township from Zhouzhi. I wandered around Lianhe Township and found many good things.

There used to be a big chieftain here, and his family wealth was actually very substantial. But later on, when the local tyrants were fought over and their lands were divided, a lot of their wealth was scattered around.

There is nothing left of these things now, except for some big and clumsy ones, or those covered with oil and mud and unrecognizable, which are still left in the kitchens, fire pits, firewood houses and other places of each household.

Zhou Zhi got these things at low prices. They are basically made of cherry wood, apple wood, walnut wood, and ash wood. After cleaning the oil mud on the surface, the original wood color after years of aging is revealed.

These types of wood are all very high-grade woods. Cherry and walnut are suitable for making panels, facings, and high-grade joinery for solid wood furniture and cabinets. They are excellent boards.

Applewood and ash wood are very hard and are particularly suitable for making floors, carvings, capitals, woodworking tools, etc.

In fact, before the advent of woodworking lathes, the processing of apple wood and ash wood was very labor-intensive. However, what is least lacking here is labor, so there are many furniture made of these two types of wood, and they are particularly sturdy and durable.

Including wooden bowls and wooden plates. It is one thing for the Yi people to use them to drink corn porridge, but it is another thing to put them here as decorations.

The colors of these woods are all different. Cherry wood is reddish brown, walnut wood is dark brown, apple wood is dark brown, and oak wood is brown with black hair lines. The natural color of the wood is very beautiful. Because they have been used for a long time, these things were not as good as they are now when they first arrived. It was only after Zhouzhi organized the kids to tie a kind of grass called horsetail into a handle and polish it that it became the current aging patina effect after applying wood wax oil, which gives people a different visual experience.

There was a small wooden square table, a writing desk, a bookshelf, a few chairs and some decorations in the room.

The small wooden square table is a small octagonal table, and like the chair, it is a traditional Han furniture style. The panels of the small wooden square table and the chairs are both made of walnut wood, and the legs are made of qinggang wood. There is a large pottery plate on the table, and in the middle of the pottery plate is a small iron stove, on which is placed an iron net and a copper pot.

The desk is made of Qinggang wood. It took a lot of effort for the craftsmen to make this piece of furniture. It is also one of the pieces of furniture left over from the Tusi building. The metal parts used for drawers and corners are all white copper, engraved with exquisite curling grass patterns.

There is a desk lamp, a laptop and a pile of documents on the desk.

There is also a wooden tube on the table, which was originally a chopstick holder, but now Zhou Zhi uses it as a pen holder, with some brushes of different sizes inserted in it.

The remaining bookshelf was actually two cupboards at first. Since they were almost the same size, they are now stacked together. There are some books inside, as well as some wooden bowls and plates, which have been polished with horsetail grass to a shine. They are then paired with wooden shelves to become decorations, and all sizes look very nice.

There are also some very interesting things, things that are unique to the Yi people - lacquerware.

The Yi ethnic group's lacquerware is made of natural lacquer, and its main colors are black, red and yellow.

In Yi culture, colors have very important meanings. Different colors can represent the four directions of heaven and earth, various vital energies, and various philosophical concepts. This is the same as the five-color culture in the Central Plains Chinese civilization.

Three of the colors are particularly highly respected: black representing heaven and earth, gold representing the sun and moon, and red representing fire.

At the same time, black also implies solemnity and majesty; yellow symbolizes light and the future; and red represents passion, boldness and bravery.

The patterns are mostly abstract and deformed patterns of the sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, astronomy, geography, animals, plants, myths and legends. The symmetry of the decoration is very particular, and the use of points, lines and surfaces is concise and appropriate.

Different from the tourism products produced by the Second Light Industry Bureau of the Autonomous Prefecture, the lacquerware collected by Zhou Zhi in Lianhe Township is full of "ancient" flavor. It does not simply pursue good looks, but contains a strong mysterious religious atmosphere.

There is also a scroll of couplets on the wall with very elegant calligraphy. The axis is made of apple burl wood and is simply decorated. The calligraphy paper is ordinary rice paper dyed a light dark red with water boiled with Japanese knotweed. The mounting paper is still rice paper, but dyed a dark yellow with turmeric and gallnut.

There is a trick to this method of dyeing the mounting edge. Dip a towel roll in the dye, wring out some of it, and push it on the rice paper. The dyed mounting paper will have a natural pattern, and it will look very beautiful when made into a scroll.

The content of the couplet is two sentences of seven words: "When work is busy, I will read books in pieces, when the time comes, flowers will bloom in full bloom."

The signature is just two words "Zhouzhi" and two seals.

There is a small high stool under the couplet, and under the stool is a string-patterned earthen bowl with green glaze from a wood-fired kiln, which is common in the countryside. It is now covered with fine cypress charcoal ash and traces of burned incense.

Zhou Zhi took out a thin incense stick from the bookcase, lit it and inserted it into the earthenware incense burner. He then added water to the ceramic plate on the table, added charcoal to the stove, boiled bitter gourd tea in the copper stove, and took out some melon seeds and peanuts from the ceramic jar on the bookshelf and placed them on the stove, preparing to start making tea around the stove.