natural craftsman

Three weeks later, the military training was finally over, and the freshmen finally breathed a sigh of relief.

As Fatty said, in fact, the most difficult part of college is the period of military training. After this period, the days after that can be regarded as enjoyment.

Because the small things sold for a lot of money last time, Xie Lang's life is quite nourishing, but time was too tight during the military training, he didn't have time to continue making those small things, so he didn't continue to sell small toys, but he He actually received a few reservation calls, all from students of Southern University. They were very interested in the things made by Xie Lang, which made Xie Lang see the future market prospects.

So early in the morning, Xie Lang went to the school's forest alone to collect materials.While Fatty and Jiang Shuai were still sleeping, Lin Qiang went to the playground on time to train his muscles.

In addition, these three guys seem to be in estrus, and the topic of almost every day is Beauty and the Beast. Tomorrow, they plan to go to the neighboring school, Southern Normal University, to see if they can hit any good luck.Originally, they also called Xie Lang, but Xie Lang didn't think about love for the time being, because as Fatty said, romance is usually based on waste, but Xie Lang is still worrying about filling his stomach, There is really no spare energy to enjoy the high-level spiritual enjoyment of love.

Southern University is a century-old school. There are many forests in the thousands of acres of campus, and many trees are hundreds of years old. Although they are not as tall as those towering trees in the mountains, they are used to make some A small toy, but it is completely enough.

Luo Xinglin.

Xie Lang looked at the forest in front of him, it seemed that they were all ginkgo trees, because the leaves of ginkgo had begun to turn yellow with the arrival of autumn.

The mist lingers in the forest, the morning light shines in through the gaps in the trees, and spots of light fall in the forest.

There don't seem to be many hardworking students in the university, so there are not many people reading and reading in the forest in the morning, but more birds jumping up and down in the forest, but this makes the forest look quieter.

Xie Lang carefully inspected each tree, and then selected the ones suitable for making materials.This cannot be sloppy at all. If the materials are not selected properly, the finished product may be deformed and cracked in the future, and it will become a failed work.

After searching for a while, Xie Lang finally found a very nice ginkgo tree. Judging from its age, it should be at least three to five hundred years old.

Of course, Xie Lang is not an ecological destroyer, he will not destroy an ancient tree for a little material, in fact he just wants to remove a slightly larger branch from this ancient tree.

Looking around, there seemed to be no one.

Without hesitation, Xie Lang stretched out his arms, jumped up the old tree like an ape, and then perched on a branch.

A refreshing breeze blew over his face, Xie Lang couldn't help taking a deep breath, this kind of refreshing weather is rare in Chengdu.

Sitting on a branch and looking through the gaps between the trees, this height provides a clear view of the school's football field, gymnasium, dining hall...

"Hey, this building can't be—" Xie Lang turned his gaze to the other side, and suddenly found that this building is a bit different, because there are colorful clothes hanging on the small balconies on each floor, and various kinds of women's underwear.

Obviously, this building should be one of the girls' apartments. Unexpectedly, Xie Lang accidentally found such a secret and good peeping position. He subconsciously stood up from the branch.

After a battle between heaven and man, Xie Lang decided to give up. After all, peeping is not a glorious thing, and it would be embarrassing if someone finds out.Besides, even if you have to peep, you have to pull Fatty and the others. They must be very interested, but they don't know if Fatty can climb this tree.

After staring at it for a few seconds, Xie Lang retracted his gaze and prepared to take out a knife to cut off a branch.

"You, come down quickly, or I will call someone!"

A crisp, loud voice shouted tenderly under the tree.

Xie Lang, who was dreaming, was suddenly startled, his body suddenly lost his balance, and he fell down suddenly.

From the branch to the ground, it is at least seven or eight meters high. If it falls headfirst, it will cause a concussion if it does not fall into an idiot.

The girl under the tree was also obviously taken aback. She screamed and her face turned pale with fright. She just wanted to warn the peepers in the tree, but she didn't intend to kill him.

Fortunately, Xie Lang was worthy of growing up in the mountains. The moment his body fell down, the insteps of his feet hooked suddenly, and he was actually hanging upside down on the branches firmly.

It seems dangerous and risky, but Xie Lang knew how to play this move when he was five or six years old.

"Huh, why is it you?" Seeing that Xie Lang had turned the corner, the girl couldn't help secretly heaving a sigh of relief. At this time, although Xie Lang's head was down and his feet were in the sky, she still recognized Xie Lang.

So far, in Southern University, Xie Lang has only really known one woman, and that is Su Mu.Xie Lang didn't expect that he would meet Su Mu here.

There was a book at Su Mu's feet. Xie Lang looked at it, and it seemed to be TOEFL words. When Su Mu screamed just now, he made a gesture of covering his eyes with his hands, probably because he couldn't bear to see Xie Lang being thrown into a bloody mess. look like.However, the action of covering his eyes was indeed quite cute, and Xie Lang who was hanging on the branch could see it clearly.

"Student Su, hello, I never expected to meet you here." Xie Lang smiled and made a very friendly expression. Although Xie Lang and her were not even friends, Xie Lang still didn't want to Leave a bad impression on her mind.

Su Mu put away her surprised expression, turned into a contemptuous expression, and said coldly: "Yeah, you didn't expect to be seen by me, don't you think I don't know what you want to do, the direction you looked at just now , it’s our freshman girl’s apartment. I really can’t imagine that such an honest person like you would be so...shameless."

Xie Lang couldn't help feeling hot, but at this time he didn't want to be charged as a "peeping tom", and he didn't intend to peep, so he quickly explained: "No, I'm just here to cut branches, Really, I'll explain it to you when I get down."

Xie Lang swayed, climbed onto the branch, and then took out a copper pipe. After shaking it a few times, a blade emerged from the copper pipe.

Fatty is also very envious of Xie Lang's brass pipe, because compared with Xie Lang's copper pipe, his imported Swiss Army Knife is much inferior in function and sharpness, so Fatty returned it to Xie Lang. Lang's brass pipe took a name - Chinese Pipe Knife, and begged Xie Lang to make one for him no matter what.

The blade was very sharp, and with a turn of Xie Lang's wrist, the branch under him had been cut off, and Xie Lang slipped down the trunk.

Although Su Mu somewhat looked down on Xie Lang's "style", he still had some approval for his tree-climbing ability, showing some appreciation.After Xie Lang came down, Su Mu asked: "Okay, you said you came to prune the branches, but why did you just prune this tree? And why are you blushing, isn't it because of a guilty conscience?"

"Guilty? Why am I guilty? I turned my head and feet upside down just now. Is it normal for my face to blush due to blood congestion? In fact, I came here to find materials for making toys." Xie Lang explained to Su Mu in the future.

Originally, Su Mu thought that Xie Lang was an honest person and would not do any disgusting actions, but after listening to Xie Lang's explanation at this time, he basically believed it.By the way, she was sitting under the tree reading a book before, but it happened to be on the other side of the tree, so Xie Lang didn't notice it.

Seeing that Su Mu's face softened, Xie Lang changed the subject and said, "You wake up so early to read, are you planning to go abroad?"

There was no longing for life abroad on Su Mu’s face, but he just said lightly: “My parents hope that I will go to the United States in the future. By the way, the things you make are very good, and many people in our department like your things more. , I originally wanted to ask you to order a few things, but every time I called your dormitory, you were not there."

"What do you want to do?" Xie Lang asked, and then smiled again, "Actually, Jiang Chengcheng and Wu Feifan from our dormitory have called your dormitory a lot, but it seems that none of them got through."

"There are a lot of harassing calls in our dormitory, so we simply unplugged the cable." Su Mu's tone seemed to reveal a kind of disdain and contempt for Jiang Shuai and Fatty.She took out a pen from her pocket, and wrote a string of numbers on a piece of paper, "This is my mobile phone number, you can contact me, but don't give it to your bad friends again. "

For some reason, Xie Lang felt a little happy when he heard Su Mu's disdain for Fatty and Jiang Shuai in his tone, he took Su Mu's note, nodded and said: "Okay, but you haven't said you What do you want me to do for you?"

"It's this thing." Su Mu took out a drawing from his backpack.

Xie Lang unfolded the drawing and took a look. It was a sketch. In the painting was a long-lived fairy riding a sika deer. Both the deer and the fairy were full of charm. It could be seen that the painter put a lot of effort into it.

"Did you draw this?" Xie Lang asked.

"Hmm." Su Mu nodded, and asked tentatively, "I would like to ask you to carve it like this, but I don't know if it will work? Of course, I will definitely pay you enough."

"There is no problem with carving it out, but it seems that you are going to give this thing away, so I think some good materials should be used for the material, but I don't have a very suitable material in hand right now."

"There is a piece of ebony in my dormitory. I don't know what kind of material is that?" Su Mu asked. Only after you have experienced your craft can you know that you are the most suitable person."

"Ebony?" Xie Lang couldn't help being surprised.Ebony is also called gloomy wood, which is unique in Sichuan, and is known as "the spirit of ten thousand trees" and "Oriental sacred wood". In ancient times, only the royal family could use ebony products.

There has long been a folk saying that "finding ebony is worth a box of jewels". Although Xie Lang has seen ebony, he has no chance to find one.

"If there is ebony, of course it is an excellent material." Xie Lang said quickly, he also wanted to feel the feeling of making things with ebony.

For Xie Lang, creating things with spiritual materials is both a challenge and an enjoyment.

"Then I'll bring it to you at noon, in the school cafeteria." Seeing Xie Lang agreeing, Su Mu looked a little happy, "I'll give you one month, is that enough?"

"That's enough, see you in the cafeteria at noon." Xie Lang replied.

"Thank you, I'm going to attend a training class later, see you at noon." Su Mu smiled sweetly at Xie Lang, then turned and walked out of the forest.

Seeing Su Mu's petite body disappear outside the forest, Xie Lang was slightly stunned, the smile she had just now remained in his mind.

"Oh, why do I think so much? I'm not as handsome as Jiang Shuai, nor as rich as they and Fatty..." Xie Lang thought to himself, knowing that the gap between himself and people like Su Mu was too great, so he could only imagine That's all.

Xie Lang divided the cut branches into several pieces, then peeled and rested them, and finally put them all into the cloth bag on his back.

Although the material of these woods is a bit poor, Xie Lang naturally has a way to make up for the shortcomings, and it is more than enough to make toys for a living.

Just as Xie Lang was about to leave the Luo Xinglin, an old wooden building in a corner of the forest caught his attention.Although only a corner of it can be seen through the gaps in the forest, it seems that the wooden building is in the forest.

After Xie Lang walked a few steps forward, an ancient wooden building came into Xie Lang's field of vision:

The wooden building was dilapidated and old. It seemed to be at least a hundred years old, and it seemed that no one had cleaned it for a long time. The roof of the wooden building was covered with ginkgo leaves, and the surrounding area was dirty and messy.The wooden building is divided into three floors, and there is a small attic on the top, which looks a bit like the former Bell and Drum Tower.There are many shrubs and weeds around the wooden building, and there is a warning sign beside it, which reads: Dangerous building, please do not approach!

But at this time, Xie Lang suddenly had a strange feeling in his heart, as if there was something in this wooden building that attracted him.

There was a slight heat on his chest. Xie Lang touched the pendant with his hand. The heat was not transmitted from the Tyrannosaurus, but from the finger-sized pebble. Xie Lang had worn this thing for more than ten years, but it was the first time found it to be hot.

"Could it be that there is something mysterious inside this wooden building?" Xie Lang really felt strange in his heart, and was going to visit him.

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Flowers, flowers, tickets, tickets... resentment!