Windy: The leisurely life of the village owner

Chapter 53 Wood Carving Workshop

Seeing the eyes of the two women gradually becoming somewhat adoring, Xie Linfeng felt secretly happy.

However, Xie Linfeng remained calm on the surface and asked with a gentle smile:
"It seems that you have discovered it, so what do you think of my carving skills?"

When Chen Nanxing heard this, he still replied first:

"That's awesome, Xie the Headmaster! I didn't expect you to hide such a skill?"

When Xie Linfeng heard this, he chuckled and said, "How could I hide it? It's just that you don't know!"

"I remember that when I was studying, I carved a lot of baubles to give away."

"Logically speaking, many people in the school should know that I have such a skill, right?"

"You yourself don't know, but it seems that my reputation in school was still a bit insufficient!"

What Xie Linfeng said was true. At first, it was thought that a lot of Xie Linfeng's sculptures were leaked because of his dorm roommate.

Therefore, many people in the school know that Xie Linfeng can carve.

Only Xu Hongdou and Chen Nanxing were a bit geeky and didn't pay much attention to the existence of gossip in the school.

Why don't you know this?
This isn't right either. Xu Hongdou is a bit of a homebody and spent most of her time in the library during school.

But not Chen Nanxing. She is a famous gossip contestant in the school.

Logically speaking, it should be impossible for her not to know about this.

Sure enough, after thinking for a while, Chen Nanxing suddenly said with some enlightenment:
"Ah, yes, yes! I remember that this incident was indeed reported in school."

"But we were not familiar with Xie Dajun at that time, so we didn't take it to heart."

"If you hadn't mentioned it now, I would have almost forgotten about it. After all, it has been several years!"

Xie Linfeng nodded when he heard this. He indeed remembered that when his sculptures became famous, he didn't know the two women.

Xie Linfeng met the two girls in the second half of his sophomore year.

The first person I met was Xu Hongdou, and then I met Chen Nanxing because Chen Nanxing and Xu Hongdou were best friends.

"Are you interested in wood carving? How about we go to the wood carving workshop first?"

Now that the topic of carving had been brought up, Xie Linfeng simply smiled at the two women and asked.

Sure enough, upon hearing Xie Linfeng's question, the two women couldn't help but nodded.

"Okay, we haven't seen real handmade wood carvings yet, so we might as well go take a look!"

It was Chen Nanxing who still answered, and this had become a tacit understanding between the two women.

When appearing with Chen Nanxing, Xu Hongdou talked much less than usual.

If you didn't know better, you would have thought that Xu Hongdou has a very introverted personality and doesn't like to talk much.

Only people who are familiar with her know that Xu Hongdou is actually quite funny and likes to joke around.

What's more important is that Xu Hongdou is capable of making jokes and she won't get angry at anything you say to her.

Unless it involves insulting her personality, she is quite easy to talk to.

Of course, Xu Hongdou's voice is also very gentle and soft-spoken.

People will have a good impression as soon as they hear it. This may be the result of many years of working in the hotel industry.

The woodcarving workshop happens to be closest to the entrance of the village, and it is right next to the main road of the village.

Xie Linfeng took the two girls along the village road for dozens of meters and came to a wide field.

This is a small square located in the center of the entire village. There are several spacious old-fashioned wooden houses scattered around the square.

These wooden houses used to be warehouses in the village, used to store items such as mission rations.

After the country canceled the mission grain, the warehouse here fell into disuse.

Until now, it has been vacant for many years and the house has become somewhat dilapidated.

The three of them went directly to one of the warehouses, and then followed Xie Linfeng into the "warehouse".Compared with the dilapidated appearance of other warehouses, this warehouse is in good repair.
After walking inside, the first thing you see is a wide courtyard.

There are many wooden materials placed in categories in the yard, all of which are solid wood materials collected from the surrounding area.

After the two women entered the courtyard, they looked around curiously.

There is a lot of wood in the yard, and of course it is mostly worthless scraps.

There were also some discarded cutting boards and the like, which made the two women quite disappointed.

Xie Linfeng seemed to notice the disappointment of the two women and chuckled:

"Why, do you think it's a little different from what you imagined?"

Chen Nanxing nodded when he heard this and said, "Why are there all scraps like used cutting boards here?"

"I thought there would be a lot of carved art here, but this is it?"

"Haha!" When Xie Linfeng heard this, he immediately became happy and said with a smile:

"The ones placed here are just some raw materials, because it is difficult to harvest wood due to national conditions."

"So, a lot of it is recycled waste. After all, these waste materials can still be used to train apprentices."

"If you use good materials to practice, the cost will be high. Where can the wood carving workshop get so much money?"

After listening to Xie Linfeng's explanation, Chen Nanxing nodded suddenly.

This makes sense, it turns out that these scraps are used for apprentices to practice!

Indeed, people in the village are not rich, even in this wood carving workshop that has been open for many years.

Nowadays, machine carving is popular outside, which has severely squeezed the development space of hand carving.

In the past, Master Heshun could easily support his family and save a lot by relying on his carving skills.

But now, carved items are hard to sell.

Even with Master Heshun's many years of experience, he could still barely support his family.

This is not to mention those apprentices who have just studied carving for a few years.

They may spend several years or more than ten years learning to become masters of carving.

It is still difficult to rely on the craft of carving to support the family.

If you have this kind of time, you might as well go out and work outside, maybe you can earn a little more.

Therefore, there have been fewer and fewer apprentices in the wood carving workshop in recent years, and now only Xia Xia is the permanent one.

Although there were a few apprentices from surrounding villages, they spent three days fishing and two days drying nets.

Some even come to the woodcarving workshop to study, treating it as just a formality and a time for fooling around.

When he was old enough and obtained his ID card as an adult, he left the wood carving workshop and went to work outside.

In this regard, Master Heshun was so angry that he gritted his teeth more than once, but unfortunately there was nothing he could do.

Back to the topic, maybe he heard the noise coming from the yard.

Soon, a little head carefully appeared at the door of the main house, looking towards the yard.

Xu Hongdou's sharp eyes happened to be looking at that person from a distance.

After smiling slightly and nodding towards the man, Xu Hongdou couldn't help but reach out and pull Xie Linfeng's arm.

Xie Linfeng felt something strange about Xu Hongdou and couldn't help but turn his head and glance at Xu Hongdou.

Seeing Xie Linfeng turn his head and look over, Xu Hongdou licked his lips at Xie Linfeng.

Following Xu Hongdou's gaze, Xie Linfeng couldn't help but smile when he saw the owner of that little head.

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