For the first time, zero results appeared in the second examination area!

At this point in the exam, a zero score was too abnormal. The two examiners hurried over and looked at the wooden board, sweating on their foreheads. This candidate Mei was really unlucky. He met the first-class craftsman Wang Ge. This candidate reluctantly went to the two groups with the same focus.

I added a few circles to the circle and tested them with a ruler, but they all failed! Fortunately, there was only one moment in the first half. If it had been more, Wang Ge would have been able to draw more densely.

At midnight in the afternoon, the felt wall on the north side of each examination area was removed, and the fourth assessment area was opened.

Three artifact shed passages appeared vertically in front of one hundred candidates.

"Candidates, listen carefully to the rules. The molds in the three utensil sheds are divided into wooden, bamboo and straw based on the materials. After the timer, the winners will be ranked according to the results of the first three games. The winners will enter the utensil shed first. After that, a sound will be heard.

Drum, enter one person, you and others can choose the utensil shed to enter according to their own abilities. However, when selecting the utensil mold, you can only move forward and cannot go back, otherwise you will be eliminated. You should not stay in front of a utensil mold frame for more than half a moment.

Otherwise, you will be eliminated. Do you understand?"

"Understood!" Just choose a suitable device if you find it. Don't regret it after passing it. You also can't delay the overall exam time for no reason.

"The examinee's hand touching the device model is the selected device model. Others are not allowed to grab it, otherwise it will be treated as disrupting the order of the examination room and the craftsman level will be revoked. After each device is made and the craftsman has passed the test, the candidate can choose the next device.

Model, there are drummers who will beat the drum of fame for you. If an imitation is not up to standard, it will be eliminated, go back and leave. Do you understand?"

"Understood!" This rule must be reversed. If you do not touch the instrument model, even if you are standing in front of the instrument rack, other candidates have the right to choose and leave. You can leave after "passing" the craftsmanship test, in order to shorten the time of the candidates

of waste.

"An artifact shed is only allowed to be entered once and cannot be repeated. After the candidates reach the end of the artifact shed, they need to circle back to the starting point from the outside and choose another shed to enter; of course, they can also choose to end the test and wait for the results to be announced here. You wait

Do you understand?"

"Understood!" So candidates who are good at both wood and bamboo making will benefit most from straw weaving. Of course, it doesn't matter if you are not good at everything. Many mold makers can only be mastered by looking at them, but they will be useless once they get started.

"In addition to the production area, there is also a rest area in the artifact shed. In the production area, lights are lit at night. The duration of this assessment will be completed on the afternoon of the 18th at the latest. If all candidates leave the artifact shed early, it will end early. This

After passing the exam, only sixty people will be left. Do you understand?"

"Understood!" Today is the fifteenth day, almost three days and three nights. Forty people have been eliminated!

"The exam will begin now. Candidates will register according to the inspector's registration requirements!"

Boom! Boom! Boom! After three beats of the timed drum, the patrolman called out.

The first eleven people who entered were all candidates who were under 40 years old and over thirty years old. From the twelfth to the fourteenth, three consecutive people were from Hefang Township. Of these fourteen people, only two entered the straw woven utensils

shed.

After the fifteenth drum beat: "Gu knows the hometown, Wang Ge."

Wang Ge's heart was beating with excitement and he quickly entered the straw utensil shed.

The sixteenth drum was from Hefang Township again... Zheng Que. He entered the wooden utensils shed.

In her previous life, Wang Nanxing was good at wood carving, then bamboo weaving, and her straw weaving skills were the weakest. After traveling to Wang Ge, due to the limitations of materials, she first improved her straw weaving skills. There were wild grasses around Jiashe Village, and whenever she had free time, she would sit in the grass nest.

I practice knitting, sometimes cutting thatch back, and blindly knitting in the dark for a while before going to bed. Many times when I wake up, I will see small fish and shrimps that my sister knitted for him on my pillow.

Blind knitting can best improve the fit between the craftsman and the grass material. The texture of the grass stem, the time of kneading, the identification of each type of grass, and the difference in toughness are much stronger than the feeling during the day. Over time, the weaving speed will increase.

There is a big leap.

However, we have to admit that in the Jin Dynasty, although the categories of carpenters included straw weaving, wattle weaving, and rattan weaving, after reaching the level of craftsman, the paths of these three categories have indeed become narrower, and they are far inferior to wood and bamboo making.

After Wang Ge entered the utensil shed, he no longer had distracting thoughts. Each utensil rack was blocked by two separate wooden boards. Standing in front of the first utensil rack, he could not see the utensil rack in front.

The first straw knitting mold is a pair of winter shoes, with miscanthus as the warp and straw as the weft. The material basket below does not provide a shoe rake tool. The four candidates who came in first did not choose it, nor did Wang Ge. The straw shoes were not made.

Difficult, but time consuming.

The second utensil shelf is empty, and the candidates who chose this model are already busy in the production area.

On the third utensil shelf was a plate of straw rope made of cattails. It was twisted into three strands, and each strand turned out to be seven braids! It was more labor-intensive and time-consuming than straw sandals. Wang Ge stopped and regretted that he might as well have chosen straw sandals just now.

In fact, it is not difficult to twist the cattail braid by picking and pressing it. Her technique of braiding the straw braid is very fast. But this is a rope, which is at least ten feet long after unfolding. Moreover, the burrs of the straw rope are trimmed off by the mold.

, there are also scissors in the material basket, which proves that she also has to clean the thorns after knitting.

Boom!

Following the sound of the drum, another candidate came in. He hesitated for a moment in front of the straw sandals and had no choice. Wang Ge did not dare to waste time anymore and quickly gave up the straw rope and moved forward, swearing that no matter what the next mold was, as long as she knew how to...

ah!

The fourth mold turned out to be a hollow smoker cage woven from rushes, densely packed with equal diamond-shaped patterns, with a round belly (as big as two fists), gathered upwards, and edged with lotus petals.

The candidates at the back also looked depressed and did not consider the smoke cage at all. They ignored Wang Ge and rushed to the front.

The rush weaving that Wang Nanxing learned in her previous life belongs to the lineage of linggen grass weaving in Linhai, Zhejiang, and is similar to the weaving method of this fumigation cage. She can weave diamond-shaped hollows, but this is too... more troublesome than straw rope!

Or... forget about the oath you just made?

Another candidate came in and directly chose straw sandals.

Alas! Wang Ge sighed, no longer walking forward, no longer hesitating, and chose the fumigation cage. Are there any simple ones ahead? There may be, there probably are! But her heart will skip each one.

She has become more and more impetuous. Among the candidates in the second area, her score is only ranked fifteenth. Once her mentality collapses, she will definitely be eliminated from this assessment.

The stems of rushes are thin, round, very straight, and the skin is thin and soft. Turn the smoker over and look at the base. This is the starting point of weaving. Regardless of warp or weft, there are four rushes in a group, and the first group is pressed and picked.

One, the second group is the opposite, and the third group is pressed one by one, so that the warp and weft are interlaced. After each two groups are knitted, they must be flattened with small wooden blocks in the material, otherwise the bottom will be slightly concave after knitting.

There were many patrols in the production area, and only the famous drums were erected three feet apart. After Wang Ge started making, more candidates passed in front of her, between the production area and the utensil rack, but there was still no candidate for the straw rope.

After two moments, she imitated the bottom of the smoke cage and began to weave a diamond-shaped pattern. The weaving method of this pattern is not difficult, but the difficulty is that each diamond shape is consistent, and the surface of the cage cannot look lumpy.

"Huh..." After knitting two circles, she let out a long breath. Don't be impatient. Stay calm, Wang Ge. Stay calm...stable...stable...stable!

"Huh..." Continue to weave diamond patterns.

Rush weaving, among all straw weaving techniques, is almost the most delicate! Impatient people cannot learn this technique. This fumigation cage is not big, and every straw used is integrated. There is no extra straw in the provided materials.

There are no stems. The two ends of its abdomen are gathered together and the middle is round. When braiding, be careful not to break the grass stems, because the mold is smooth as a whole and there is no sign of breaking or stuffing the grass roots.

Each rhombus pattern is like the window lattice in her monastery, and time passes in each rhombus grid.

Outside, all the candidates have entered the artifact shed.

Woodworking shed: sixty-seven people.

Bamboo shed making: twenty-one people.

Straw shed: twelve people.
Chapter completed!