natural craftsman

It has been a week since the military training.

For Xie Lang, the arduous military training was nothing at all, the key was that the torture of hunger was unbearable, and the few dozen dollars he had on him were finally exhausted, although Xie Lang had tried his best to be frugal.

Finally, at dinner that day, the three people in the dormitory discovered Xie Lang's predicament.During dinner, Xie Lang actually only ate one steamed bun. Of course, Xie Lang spent a lot of time eating steamed buns these days, but the other three didn't notice it all the time.

"Xie Lang, do you only eat a steamed bun at night?" Lin Qiang asked, feeling something was wrong.

"It's okay, I'm not hungry anyway." Xie Lang replied, but his tone was obviously far-fetched.

However, when Lin Qiang asked such a question, Fatty and Jiang Shuai found something was wrong. After repeated questioning, Xie Lang had no choice but to tell the truth.

"Damn, you're too dishonest, what do you think our three brothers are?" The fat man said angrily, "Isn't it just a little money for food? When you are short of money, you can just eat with our three brothers, isn't it? Do you think we are all misers?"

"Yeah, Xie Lang, you went a little too far this time. Since you are brothers, don't alienate us. How about this, we three brothers will take turns to give you your meal money in the future." Jiang Shuai was also a little angry .

Xie Lang couldn't help feeling hot in his heart. Not only did the three roommates not reject him because he was a country bumpkin, but they were so generous to him, which really touched him a little.However, Xie Lang has his own principles. He will not accept help from others for nothing. He said to the three of them: "I know that the three of you are good brothers, but the university life is just beginning now. I can't always rely on the help of others." Do you provide relief? You still have to face and solve the difficulties by yourself. If it weren’t for the tight military training time, I would have gone out to help others to make money. My craftsmanship is actually pretty good. If the three of you really want to help me, Why don't you help me think of ways to make money."

It is better to teach a man to fish than to teach a man to fish. Of course, the three fat people understand this truth.

It's just that Fatty and Jiang Shuai both come from a good family background, and they don't have to worry about food and clothing since they were born, so where did they think about making money to make a living?As for Lin Qiang, although his family background is not as good as that of Fatty and Jiang Shuai, it is still about the same.Therefore, the three of them didn't think of any ideas for a while.

At this moment, the fat man looked at the wooden chicken on the desk, his eyes lit up suddenly, and he said, "I have an idea."

"What idea?" The other three stared at the fat man.

The fat man pointed to the wooden chicken on the desk, "Isn't Xie Lang good at making these small things? Why don't we just make more of them, and then we can buy them in places with a lot of traffic in the school. There must be a market. Not to mention, It’s this wooden chicken alarm clock, if I were to buy it, I’d be willing to spend a hundred.”

"Can this thing sell for a hundred?" Xie Lang seemed a little unconvinced.

Xie Lang used to make toys for the children in the mountains, but they were all free of charge. He never thought that these gadgets could make money, and the people in the mountains don’t have enough money to eat and wear. Where can I get the money to buy toys for the children? Woolen cloth.What Xie Lang can make money is that he often catches some birds and beasts, and these things can be sold for a little money in the county town.

"If you're willing to sell it, I'll give you a hundred—" the fat man said without hesitation, but immediately he felt that his words seemed to be taking advantage of fire, and he explained with some embarrassment: "I mean, if I were A buyer's word."

Jiang Shuai and Lin Qiang also nodded quickly. What Xie Lang made really combined art and craft.If it were them, they would be willing to spend money to buy one or two.

"Fatty, I know you like this wooden chicken alarm clock, so I'll give it to you as a reward for your help with ideas." Xie Lang said generously, if Fatty's proposal is feasible, then I will help him in the future Find a way to make a living.Originally, Xie Lang planned to go to work everywhere after the military training. Anyway, he has a lot of skills, such as repairing furniture, mending shoes, and repairing houses, which he is basically capable of.

There is an old saying in the country that learning a craft gives you another way to survive. Xie Lang agrees with this, so he learned a lot of crafts. Although he didn't learn all 360 lines, he did have seventy or eighty lines.However, although Xie Lang has learned a lot of craftsmanship, Xie Lang has never had a formal master.

"By the way, Xie Lang, how long does it take you to make something like this?" Jiang Shuai asked, he began to care about Xie Lang's efficiency in making things.

"It doesn't take much time to carve an alarm clock like this, but the structure inside is a bit complicated. It will take about two days."

"It takes two days to make one, so how much inventory and materials do you have?" Jiang Shuai asked, he considered it carefully.

There were some stocks and materials. Xie Lang took his wooden box out of the cabinet and put it on the desk.

"Hey, why do you put everything in this wooden box?" Lin Qiang lived in Xie Lang's upper bunk, and he found that Xie Lang seemed to put everything in this box, clothes, books, tools... in short, a lot It was hard for him to imagine that so many things could be put in a box.

"I only have one suitcase, of course everything is put in it." Xie Lang didn't understand the meaning of Lin Qiang's words, and turned the finger-sized copper buckle on the side of the wooden box with his hand.

"Crack!~"

The copper buckle seemed to touch some mechanism, and the whole wooden box suddenly "stretched" on its own in a very regular way, forming a seven-story cargo rack. That's right, after it was stretched out, the box looked like a cargo Stand up.The shelves inside are forged from black steel, but they look very tough, and each shelf is full of things.

Xie Lang took out the gadgets he made before from the shelf, and then the shelf was compressed and overlapped again, returning to the old wooden box from before.

The three of Fatty were stunned and thought to themselves: "Hey, there is something inside this broken box. The space structure inside the box is comparable to the high-tech password boxes used by CIA agents seen in movies." .”

Xie Lang brought out quite a few gadgets, a set of twelve zodiac signs, and other things like beetles and dragonflies, but none of them were repeated. In fact, many of them were toys that Xie Lang made himself when he was young. I want to keep it for myself, but considering the current livelihood problem, it seems that these things can only change hands.

Just when Xie Lang was lamenting the future fate of these little toys he had made with his own hands, the fat man was still focusing on Xie Lang's box.I am really not afraid of comparing people with others, but I am afraid of comparing goods. The fat man feels terribly wronged, because he feels that the leather box with the code that he bought for nearly 1000 yuan is nothing compared to Xie Lang's wooden box. Flashy.

Like Xie Lang, the fat man touched the copper button on the side of the wooden box, but unfortunately there was no response. The fat man jokingly asked: "Xie Lang, how do you open this wooden box? Could it be that there is a password?"

"Where is the password, it's just a small trick, you turn the copper buckle [-] degrees to the left, then [-] degrees to the right, and pull it out slightly, it will be fine." Xie Lang explained .

"Turn left thirty degrees...turn right sixty degrees, isn't this the password?" The fat man finally opened the wooden box under Xie Lang's prompt.

"Xie Lang, it seems that I, Wu Feifan, don't even want to admire you." The fat man said nothing but admiration.

Fortunately, the fat man was only surprised by the peculiar structure inside the box, but he didn't ask other questions, such as why such a box can hold so many things.The fat man didn't ask, so Xie Lang didn't take the initiative to explain, and he didn't know how to explain it to the fat man, because there were some things that ordinary people couldn't understand.

In the afternoon of the second day, the military training was suspended, and the freshmen got a rare half-day leisure.

But for Xie Lang, this was not the time to steal half a day's leisure. There was no time to eat lunch, so Xie Lang set up a small stall under a big tree at the entrance of the school cafeteria according to Fatty's suggestion.

A piece of clinker cloth with more than a dozen gadgets made by Xie Lang placed on it.

Fatty, Jiang Shuai, and Lin Qiang were righteous and sat on the grass with Xie Lang waiting for the buyer.

However, Xie Lang is not the only one who set up a street stall here. After all, the school cafeteria is the place with the largest flow of people. Many students' old books, second-hand computers, and old clothes are sold here.

Originally, these gadgets made by Xie Lang were very delicate, and according to Fatty's thinking, they would definitely be sold out, but the fact was unexpected. Only a few people noticed these things, and those who asked about the price were even more so. not enough.

"It doesn't make sense..." Fatty said in a low voice, "There's no reason why they wouldn't snap up these good things."

"Yeah, if it were me, I would pay for these things." Jiang Shuai also felt puzzled, and after thinking for a while, Jiang Shuai suddenly said: "I see, others must think that these little things from Xie Lang They were all bought from the wholesale market, and there was nothing special about them, after all, the rest of the people didn’t know that these things were all handcrafted.”

"That's right, others must have thought it was a defective product from the Hehuachi Wholesale Market." The fat man said, beating his chest, "Why didn't I think of that before. By the way, Xie Lang, why don't you just go back to the dormitory and bring your belongings over. If we perform live, they will definitely be interested.”

Although Xie Lang was simple by nature, he was not stupid. He immediately understood Fatty's thoughts and said, "I don't need to go back to get my outfit if I want to perform live. I carry a small knife with me, so I can carve some small things out."

With that said, Xie Lang took out a two-inch-long copper pipe from his trouser pocket, and then shook it lightly, and a [-]-inch-long knife tip emerged from the copper pipe, which looked very suitable for carving.

Then, Xie Lang bent down and picked up a rotten branch from the ground. After checking it, he had a score in his mind and started to do it.

"Hey, hand-carved on site...exquisite handmade artworks are for sale, come and see if you don't want to buy!"

Fatty spared no effort to help Xie Lang, and actually shouted at the top of his voice.

But in this way, it really had an effect. Sure enough, many people surrounded Xie Lang's booth, and some students were holding lunch boxes in their hands, enjoying Xie Lang's performance while eating.

Fine sawdust kept flying, Xie Lang cut the branches in his hands one by one, without showing any fancy movements, and without the slightest affectation, some only had a serious expression.

No matter what he does, as long as he starts, Xie Lang will be very serious, because he himself is very devoted, even if it is a rotten branch, he will treat it as a great work.

"It's a dragon!"

Someone in the onlookers said that they had roughly figured out what Xie Lang was going to carve, and there were more and more onlookers.

After more than ten minutes, the prototype of a dragon has emerged, and what is needed at this time is to carve it carefully.

Fatty originally thought that the finely crafted part should take more time, but he guessed completely wrong, because Xie Lang only took 5 minutes, and the dragon's claws, scales, beard... have been presented one by one , and then a wooden dragon appeared in front of everyone.

"Turn rot into magic!" Fatty exclaimed, his face full of admiration.

A burst of applause and cheers erupted from the crowd of onlookers. Although Xie Lang's appearance was unattractive, his craftsmanship undoubtedly won everyone's admiration.

"These are the works of classmate Xie Lang. Let's take a look. It's a purely handmade work of art. It would be great to buy one and use it as a decoration or a toy!" Lin Qiang lost no time in attracting business, and then fiddled with the movable little ones. Toy.

This time it really worked, and the students in the surrounding area have started to pay for it one after another.

Su Mu rinsed her hair in the dormitory, so she came a little late for dinner today. On the way, she ran into Lu Hui, who was in the same dormitory.

"Lu Hui, what are you holding in your hand?" Su Mu looked at the wooden puppy in Lu Hui's hand, and she was a little surprised by the carving on the outside, "Where did you buy it? That's nice, but a good thing."

"Isn't it? This thing is a purely handcrafted handicraft, and this puppy can still bark?" Lu Hui said happily, then supported the little wooden dog with her palm, and touched it gently with her hand a few times. Sure enough, he uttered a cry of "Wow~" and stuck out his tongue, which was playful and cute.

"It's so cute, where did you buy it?" Su Mu also touched the puppy's head with his fingers.

"It's made by a student at the entrance of the cafeteria. It looks like a poor student from the countryside. But with this craftsmanship, I think even those who study sculpture in our department are far inferior to others. And the price is quite cheap. It’s only one hundred yuan each, if I didn’t bring so much money, I really want to buy the rest.” Lu Hui said, it turns out that she and Su Mu are both from the Department of Fine Arts, so they are better than the rest. Humans are more appreciative, and think that buying a puppy for [-] yuan is very cheap.

Maybe other people think that it is too expensive to sell a wooden puppy for one hundred yuan, but in all honesty, Su Mu feels that this is simply a cheap sale. Because of his family background, Su Mu has seen a lot of dogs since childhood. Carving by famous artists, she felt that the carving of this wooden puppy was not inferior to those of those famous artists, and it would be even more amazing if it had a little more childishness and ingenuity.

Generally speaking, fame is tiring, and it is difficult for famous artists to maintain a normal mind, so their works will always be somewhat domineering.In contrast, Su Mu prefers such childish things.

"Oh, I have to go there quickly to see if I can buy one or two good things!" Su Mu hurriedly ran to the cafeteria.

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