No matter what craftsmen make, the first step is to select materials. For this exam, the county will provide bamboo materials uniformly, which saves the step of "selecting bamboo".

So now the first step is to "saw bamboo". This does not mean sawing the bamboo stalk directly into sections, but only sawing the two ends. The purpose is to remove the places where the bamboo root nodes are too short (referring to the end of the underground stem) and the bamboo stems.

The tips that are too thin, especially the tips of Ci bamboo, are mostly curved and must be sawed off.

The second step is "rolling bamboo knots". Use a knife to flatten all the knots of the bamboo. Because during this process, the hand has to keep turning the bamboo body, so it is called rolling bamboo knots.

The third step is to "break the bamboo". Start from the middle of the top of the bamboo and break one section. You don't need to use the knife anymore. Stand up and press down on the bamboo body with your hands, and you can use the inertia of the natural cracking of the bamboo to break the bamboo.

If you find asymmetry during the breaking process, turn the smaller half of the bamboo stem to the top. When the last two sections are broken, put down the bamboo stalk, step on the bottom half with your feet, and hold the other half of the bamboo stem toward the top.

Lift it up and it will be completely divided into two.

The fourth step is "layering". The key points are: symmetrical and equal divisions. Because symmetry can make the best use of the inertia of the splitting of the bamboo itself, you can split the bamboo stalks in half, in half, and in half again without spending a lot of effort. This is

This is also the reason why people compare successive victories to "unstoppable momentum".

There is no requirement for the thickness of the strips after layering. It only depends on the requirements of the items the craftsman wants to weave. However, every time you split, the blade must always be perpendicular to the bamboo surface!

Wang Ge was very attentive in chopping, and unknowingly, the unaccustomed feeling of handling the Mi Knife gradually disappeared. After getting used to this knife, it followed the "click" sound of the bamboo body splitting every time.

Begins to awaken its owner's craftsman genes.

Wang Nanxing...

In her previous life, she was Wang Nanxing, a master bamboo weaver!

Click! The bamboo body split.

Click! The bamboo body splits again.

As the sun accumulated on the bamboo strips on the ground, it gradually moved to the center. The temperature rose sharply. Wang Ge was sweating profusely on her back and face, but she didn't notice it.

Click!

Click!

It is this crisp sound of the bamboo that is so sweet. Every sound can arouse the excitement in the bones and speed up the blood flow of the craftsman!

Click! Click! Click!

The crisp sound of the bamboo not only represents the craftsman’s subsequent hard work, but also means that the bamboo is about to reach Phoenix Nirvana!

The bamboo craftsman and the bamboo are by no means the butcher and the lamb, but the perfection of each other!

The concubine who distributed lunch silently placed the food basket in Wang Ge's area. Only then did she realize that it was already noon.

Lunch consisted of a piece of steamed cake and a bamboo pot filled with water. The bamboo basket and bamboo pot were given to the craftsmen and could be recycled. If you were thirsty, you could go to Li Chen's concubine to add water.

After eating, she went to the hut on the way to add water. Perhaps because she was young, the hut was not dirty, but there were two suspicious bamboo splinters standing on the wall. Wang Ge cursed, who is this? He only took half a day to poop.

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After coming back, I continued to work on the bamboo. This is the characteristic of bamboo weaving craftsmanship. In the first two days, I almost made bamboo silk. Each piece had to be polished several times with a scraper to make the bamboo silk more even and smooth.

At dusk, the drum sounded to eliminate the craftsmen, which was the first "not as good as the drum" sound in this exam.

The hearts of all the craftsmen jumped violently with the sound of the drum, which proved that the examiner had entered the site to inspect!

Boom! The second drum sounds.

It was less than half a moment before the elimination just now!

What was the reason for the elimination? Didn't at least three examiners give "lower" scores at the same time? Were the examiners so decisive in their assessment of grades?

Wang Ge couldn't help but have random thoughts. There were no examiners in the area where she was. She could only see the ministers and concubines pushing the wheelbarrow and starting to deliver dinner.

She no longer disdained bamboo silk, picked out some thin bamboo tubes, and made her second work for this exam: a continuous double-row snap tube!

In previous lives, in places where bamboo was abundant, many children would make their own toys like poppers. After understanding the principle of air pressure, making them didn't even require any skills.

Just use clay balls as the small balls that serve as "pipazi". You don't have to worry about picking them back up after you hit them.

Nine examiners gathered around him, seven men and two women, all of whom were "masters" of wood skills. Some of them were good at carpentry and some were good at bamboo weaving. When they came to Zhang Qingxiaolang's area, most of them nodded and smiled, and praised him a little.

Zhang Qing’s works are quite satisfactory: Bamboo Mat.

But the more regular an object is, the better it can be compared to the level of craftsmanship, and the inheritance of skills!

The examiner's craftsman level is "medium craftsman" and he is well-informed. He recognized Zhang Qing's weaving technique and told the other craftsman examiners: "This is the unique mirror weaving method of the Zhao family in Kuaiji Mountain.

The silk is extremely thin, and after the bamboo mat is woven, it will be as smooth as a mirror."

When Zhang Qing heard the examiner mention the inheritance sect, he immediately put down what he was doing and stood up.

The examiner smiled happily: "You go on. Let's go, let's look at something else."

When they came to Wang Ge, it was already dark.

Wang Ge stacked the bamboo silk neatly, and all the examiners were jealous. They could see at once how fast this craftsman was tearing the bamboo silk! Moreover, the bamboo silk was of the same thickness, so it would take many years to do it.

experience of!

Some examiners even said "Eh" slightly, showing how surprised they were!

The examiner touched the bamboo silk from the front and back, and found that it was smooth and without bamboo thorns, which further proved that this craftsman was not a superficial artist!

"What's the candidate's name?"

Wang Ge had just stood aside obediently, and immediately replied: "Candidate Wang Ge."

"What do you have in your hand?"

I've been waiting for this question for a long time! She held the pipe in both hands and replied: "It's used to scare mice. It's something I thought about randomly."

"Is it used to scare mice? Demonstrate."

In fact, at this time, only three examiners, including the chief examiner, were interested in this bamboo tube bracket that looked like a "well".

"Yes." Wang Ge had already stuffed the mud pills at the front end of the tube, stuffed a few mud pills into each of the double rows of vertical pipes (the channels for leaking mud pills), then held the lower row of vertical pipes with his left hand, facing the open space on the side.

, push the double-row piston hard with your right hand.

Two loud sounds in no particular order: Bang!

The two mud balls hit the ground at a speed that was invisible to the naked eye, making two small craters.

Examiners...

"Ahem, please ask the candidate to demonstrate again."

The next day the "rat trap" was presented to Magistrate Huan County.

Magistrate Huan tried a few and said: "The truth contained in this thing is actually not difficult. The difficulty lies in who thinks about it first and applies it! This craftsman records it. As long as the other products reach the average level, he will be recorded as a craftsman."

The clerk under the sect, who was promoted after Huan County magistrate took office, gave a meaningful smile and added a reminder: "This clerk is a little girl, her surname is Wang and her name is Ge, and she comes from Jiashe Village, Quzhi Township.

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"Wang Ge of Jia She Village? Is it the one who A Zhen secretly found the master craftsman and cheated on the admission?"

"Yes." Fu Shi quickly added: "My subordinates have sent the master craftsman away from our Cuiyi County. Now the examiner in this examination room is named Zheng, so there is no problem."

"What I want is fairness and justice in the examination! Because of A-Zhen, a person with insufficient craftsmanship skills will not be allowed to make amends, nor will a person with talent in craftsmanship be buried in the countryside because of A-Zhen."

"Yes, I will inform Examiner Zheng now."

"Wait!" He leaned on the table, frowned slightly, and thought slowly: "Wang Ge knew that the rules of the craftsman examination had been changed and there were three competitions, so why did she choose to compete in the first one...

To make such a clever thing that will definitely attract the examiner? Could it be... Haha, tell Examiner Zheng to let him reveal his intention to eliminate the examinee in front of this candidate. I want to see if she can still make it

Come up with something even better than this...!"

"My subordinate understands, let's go now."

Magistrate Huan tried to play with a few more, and it was rare that he evoked a bit of childlike interest: "The rat-hunting tube is too unpleasant to hear. This thing should be pushed and hit according to its sound, and it should be called... a rat-beating tube."
Chapter completed!