Peach Blossom at the Bottom of the Fan

Chapter 210 Fan King Conference
Gu Sixiao has been very nervous ever since she knew that if she won the Fan King Conference, she would be able to participate in the Ghost Festival Sacrificial Conference.

Even at the Fan King Conference, facing countless inquiring eyes, she could still maintain a calm smile on her face, but her heart was already full of fire.

Looking up at the sun above her head, Gu Sixiao narrowed her eyes slightly.

She had heard her elder brother talk about the Fan King Conference, but the stories she had heard couldn't compare to what she felt at the scene.

Looking around, there is a row of workshops in this compound, [-] of them, and each workshop has a sign above it, which also states where it is from.

There are a few of them, which are time-honored brands, except for the place name, they just add a surname, and do not write the name of the fan shop.It's like the words Songjiang Gu's are only written on the shed where she lives.

This year, the Jinan Su family also participated in the competition, and Gu Sixiao, who represented the fortress, also knew him. He was Su's old fan master, Master Wang, and they had greeted each other when they entered the arena before.

Gu Sixiao doesn't even know much about others, except Luo Ji from Songjiang.

"Cough..." Hearing the sound of coughing, Gu Sixiao turned her head, looked at the man who walked into her shed, and raised her eyebrows slightly.

This man, she still remembers.Luo Ji's Shaodong, the man who made people take off the plaque of the Gu family.

When Gu Sixiao saw it, Luo Ziying couldn't help raising her eyebrows, "Little lady, do you know me?" Not only did she know him, but she also seemed a little dissatisfied with him.

"Who doesn't know Songjiang Luochun fan?" Gu Sixiao smiled so brightly that Luo Ziying wondered if he really misread it just now.

It wasn't that he was wrong, the little lady said Luo Chunfan just when she opened her mouth, she clearly looked down on his family.

Although his Luo family started out as a spring fan maker and was famous for its spring fans, they were inferior in the end. What he hated most was those fan makers who contemptuously said "the Luochun fan family".

The most important thing is, it's fine for others to say that. You, the fallen Gu family, what qualifications do you have to say such things?Even the owner's head was beheaded...

Shaking the folding fan in his hand, Luo Ziying snorted coldly: "I said, little lady, are you the Songjiang Gu family? Which Gu family? That Gu family whose head was beheaded?!"

The heart seemed to be pinched hard by someone. Gu Sixiao was in so much pain, but she still had a smile on her face, "Luo Shaodong, I am the Gu family of Songjiang, the leader who once won the fan king meeting and won the golden lacquer The Gu family on the nanmu plaque! It is the Gu family who has the word Fan Wang hanging on the storefront, and has been suppressing your Luo Ji! What? Luo Shaodong felt scared when he saw the word Gu?!"

"I'm afraid?!" Luo Ziying shrugged and laughed.

"I'm afraid of you, little girl? Let alone you, even if Gu Liubai suddenly came back to life and stood in front of me, I'm not afraid!"

"Aren't you afraid?" Gu Sixiao smiled, "Whether you're afraid or not doesn't make sense in words, and you'll have to see the truth in your hands later on. At that time, Luo Shaodong can say whether you're afraid or not."

Luo Ziying snorted coldly, looked at Gu Sixiao coldly, turned around, and suddenly remembered something, "Oh, I forgot to say, you now have my name, Luo Ji, on Gu's shop! Why? ? Because your Gu family lost!"

While talking, he raised his head and laughed, and staggered out of the work shed, not forgetting to say loudly to the people next to him: "I don't know where the little girl came from, she said she belonged to the Gu family! Hmph, I Let’s just say that the Gu family really lost, no, they even introduced an inexplicable little girl to participate in the competition..."

Clenching her fists tightly, Gu Sixiao gritted her teeth, but didn't make a sound.

If the elder brother can suppress the Luo family, so can she. In the end, who will have the last laugh.

Most of the participants were old people who knew each other a lot. Before the competition started, there was a lot of laughter in the field.It's just that there is some scheming in the laughter and cheerful words, everyone wants to ask what unique skills the other party has prepared this year, and they are careful not to be tricked out of their words.

In the entire arena, Gu Sixiao's place is the most deserted. Except for Luo Ziying who came to see the excitement just now, only Su Mei, who she brought to help, is in the shed.

In other sheds, besides the big fan maker, there are also small laborers who do odd jobs, each shed can have two, but here, there is only Su Mei, who can't help her.

However, even so, she still has confidence. When she first learned how to make fans, she started from the bottom.

Today is the first competition, the topic is very simple, the competition is a fast word, within three hours, which fan shop will make the most fans and the best quality.

Although the fan is an elegant object, it is also a commodity. A true fan master may only have a few commendable works in his life, and he is already very honorable.But a fan business has to sell many fans to make a profit.Therefore, this Fan King Conference is not just a competition of individuals, but a competition of fans.

As soon as the topic was announced, Su Mei became a little anxious, "Little lady, do you want me to call two people from Su's side?"

"No need!" Gu Sixiao shook her head, her eyes only on the workers who were distributing the materials to each shed.

"You just need to help me watch the fire. I will do the rest naturally."

Looking at the materials, this is to let the contestants start from the first step. Although the bamboo sent is split, it has not yet been made into pieces, and the paper has not been cut.

In this way, it is naturally easier to do it with more people. The big fan master doesn't need to worry about the most basic ones, but only needs to care about the final steps.But here, she is the only one.

Squinting his eyes, Gu Sixiao opened the box at hand and took out his usual knife.This knife has been with her for several years, and today it is really going to show its power.

As soon as the incense burnt, Gu Sixiao had already grabbed the chopped bamboo, first chopped it with a big knife, and then used a small blade to cut it into pieces, and the Su Mei on the other end was also in charge of the cauldron according to Gu Sixiao's wishes.

Seeing that the fire in the cauldron had boiled away, Gu Sixiao put down the knife in his hand, took out a small bag from the box, and poured it directly into the cauldron under the cover of his body.

Su Mei saw it clearly, but just pretended not to see it.

Gu Sixiao turned around, picked up the cut bamboo, threw it into the pot to cook, and loudly ordered Su Mei to burn another pot.

Su Mei turned her head and looked to the side. The other sheds indeed had two pots, but they used them to cook bamboo so that they could ensure enough materials for making fans.

Thinking that Gu Sixiao would cook another mouthful, he had to carry water, but was stopped by Gu Sixiao, "That pot needs to be boiled dry!"

"Dry burning?" Su Mei was startled slightly, still feeling puzzled, but after a while, she would know Gu Sixiao's intentions.

Don't use two pots to cook bamboo mites, and spread the cooked bamboo mites directly in front of the shed to dry.

Gu Sixiao put the boiled bamboo shoots on another pot and smoked them to dry.In this way, the drying speed will undoubtedly be faster.

It's just, "What a fool, that little lady must not know how to do it, she actually smoked it in a pot, don't be afraid of over-smoking it, the bamboo is too brittle, it's easy to break."

Su Mei's ears are sharp, so she naturally heard the jokes from the people next to her, "Little lady, did you hear that? This method..."

"You just listen to me, and don't pay attention to what others say." Gu Sixiao raised his head, his eyes were cold, with a force that could not be refuted.

At this moment, Su Mei suddenly felt that Gu Sixiao looked a little like his son.

Pursing the corners of her lips, Su Mei didn't say anything else, and just followed Gu Sixiao's words.

Keeping in her hands, Gu Sixiao took a piece of bamboo all over the place, which will be boiled and smoked by Su Mei, but she counted the horn nails and cut the paper, and when Su Mei dried the bamboo, she Just take it and make a hole.The work was done neatly, with the small hammer that was specially used for hammering, and each hit was accurate, without even looking at it, it can be seen that I have done this kind of work countless times.

Su Mei blinked and couldn't help thinking.Although the Su family also started with fans, the young master of his family has never learned the skill of making fans. On the contrary, the mistress, who has never been trained, has a good skill of making fans.

It's just strange, why she didn't play in the name of the Su family, but in the name of the already defeated Gu family?what a miracle
Who knows what Su Mei is thinking, once she starts working, Gu Sixiao only sees these contempt, and can't see others at all.

She didn't cut too much bamboo, a fan master needs help, but there are too many steps in it, and it is basically impossible to do too much in just three hours.

Calculating her own speed, she only cut enough bamboo for twenty fans. The hole was made at one end, and without moving her body, she took the horn nail with one hand and divided it into pieces when the hole was made just now. The pieces of bamboo are gathered together, nailed and closed together, and a handful of fan bones are made.

Two hours have passed since the twenty fan bones were finished, and this is not even half completed.

Pursing the corner of her mouth, Gu Sixiao didn't care to take a sip of water, took the cut fan, and started to paste the fan directly.She is even more familiar with the job of pasting fan noodles, and she doesn't have to wait like cooking and drying bamboo noodles before. In less than half an hour, she has pasted twenty fan noodles.

Drawing twenty fans in half an hour is too urgent, and it is simply impossible to complete the task.

In a hurry, Gu Sixiao opened the Four Treasures of the Study, and did not mix the paint, but just used ink. When he picked up the brush, he drew two ink bamboos.

The ink bamboo is clear, the branches are oblique and horizontal, and the veins are connected.

After painting the two sticks of black bamboo, it is already an excellent fan.

Gu Sixiao thought for a while, and recorded another poem on it: "The autumn wind crossed Xiaoxiang last night, touching rocks and piercing the forest, and used to be crazy. Only the bamboo branches are not afraid of being muddy, and they fight each other for a thousand battles." Note: Quoted from Zheng Banqiao

There is no need to adjust the paint, just painting with ink is much simpler, and the more you paint, the more familiar you are, and you can finish the painting with a few strokes. Gu Sixiao kept writing, without even raising his head. She just dropped the last stroke.

It was hard to close the fan, so she turned her head to look at it, and she didn't know how many times she did it, so she couldn't help feeling a little anxious.

But at this time, the steward had already come to close the fan, and she couldn't continue painting, so she could only ask Su Mei to close the fan together. From the very beginning, the collection was extremely slow, and she only hoped that she could do more. Don't destroy the fan as soon as you close the fan.

As soon as the fan was handed over, people seemed to relax. Gu Sixiao was sitting in the shed, listening to the laughter in the shed next to her, but her heart was tense.

(End of this chapter)