Chapter 244 Ghost Ball

After the two brothers exchanged a few words, Sima Daoji left.

Wang Ge returned the bowl to Sima Chong. After hesitation, he reminded him: "That Mr. Sima just now had a slightly darker complexion." This was not a lie. It was dark, and everyone's face was darker than usual.

Really? When Sima Chong thought about it, it seemed that... his face was not as pale as before, but the eldest brother was often on the road and it was normal for him not to rest well.

Wang Ge continued: "I once saw a person with a black face in a drug store, and I happened to hear the doctor tell that person... taking medicine is useless." Just wash off the dirt on the face.

So serious! Sima Chong was nervous.

"There are doctors here, and it's easy to diagnose your pulse." She finished her sentence, bowed, and returned to the rest area.

Speaking of Sima Daoji, as soon as he returned to the examiner's area, his brother came after him.

The two brothers were more than ten years apart. Sima Chong feared his elder brother more than he respected him. He ran to him and was afraid. Something bad happened. Wang Ge was cunning. Was he playing a trick on him?

"Ah Chong, what's wrong?" Sima Daoji touched his forehead with his big hand. Wasn't it hot again? He tried his own forehead again, and it was fine.

The eldest brother cared about him so much when he was a child! Sima Chong's recklessness came back, he pushed the doctor to wake up, and said urgently: "Outside!" After pressing the doctor's hand on his brother's wrist, the two men understood that what Sima Chong was calling was "diagnose pulse."

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First, choose a side at random and make a circular hole. At this time, be careful not to make it larger at once. If it is small, it can be expanded, but if it is large, it cannot be reduced.

Those who were not remembered left sadly, while those who remained cried with joy.

Wang Ge just set the thickness of the section at three-inch intervals, which just corresponds to the three-inch outer frame.

Three inspection craftsmen came over, including Li Nu. She and the craftsmen on the other side were both holding boxes and baskets. The oldest craftsman among them read the list first.

In the field, the inspection craftsman said: "Your grade assessment will take two days. How can we waste such a great time?"

The suitcase is fully opened, and there are twenty three-inch long and wide cube camphor wood blocks inside.

Wang Ge took the wooden block and went to the tool area to select a carving knife. How to carve a three-inch wooden block to truly express the rules? For craftsmen, rules and regulations are inseparable, and this must be upheld.

Open six holes on the six sides of the cube, and dig out six arched spherical surfaces. Note that the vertical section of the hole cannot be straight up or down, because it is unfavorable to cut out the sphere later. The thinner the section, the harder it is to cut out the sphere.

The craftsmanship of later generations can reach dozens of sets of balls, which shows the astonishing craftsmanship.

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It took basically half an hour to make a hole and cut out the ball arch.

The next day, it was dawn.

Craftsman: "Of course, don't force it. Those who are not good at carving can give up."

Official Li nodded happily to the three female craftsmen, with tears in her eyes as well.

She set the final diameter of the three-inch long and wide surface to be one and a half inches, so it cannot be opened to one and a half inches now. If it were Wang Nanxing, the surface opening of the ghost ball would definitely be very small, but Wang Ge couldn't. Wang Ge's past and performance

The most common ones are bamboo and grass making. The fine wood carving skills are so impressive that they don't show up at all times.

Guigong ball, also called concentric ball, pays attention to the number of inner balls, which are hollowed out layer by layer and can be rotated through one hole. It is called a miraculous craftsmanship. In the Song Dynasty, there were three-layer sets of balls, and in the late Qing Dynasty, there were as many as dozens of layers.

"Huh, huh." She blew the sawdust gently. Without a tool stool, she could only arch her knees and put the wooden block on her knees. She wiped off the chips on her eyelashes and continued to push the arch.

Before carving, the craftsman must be notified to allow her to make her own special carving knife.

It doesn't matter. The blade she removed was the smallest size, very thin. She broke it with a stone, picked out the sharpest part, then selected the appropriate stone piece (there was no shortage of gravel in the examination area), and pulled out the hem of the clothes.

Wrap the twine tightly in one circle and tie the stone pieces and the sharp blade vertically.

Push chisel.

Let’s get started.

Caution is a life-saving medicine!

Another hour passed, and when she moved her shoulders and neck again, she found a dozen dead ants beside the cake. For a moment, she was confused.

Push chisel.

When carving the sphere at the hole, just use a small-sized flat chisel and push out the round arch little by little. Don't worry about rough chisel marks. According to Wang Ge's craftsmanship, it is abnormal if there are no obvious chisel marks.

By the time all six sides were cut, she had already missed lunch time. Who placed a wheat cake next to her? Place it directly on the ground. Wang Ge stiffened his neck and looked around. Miss Li was not there, so Wang Ge did not dare to eat the cake.

, not that the cake is dirty.

However, Wang Ge also has one thing that is better than Wang Nanxing, that is, he has perfected his control of proportion. When opening surface holes in his previous life, Wang Nanxing had to draw lines, but Wang Ge did not.

Ordinary carving knives have straight handles. If the inner sphere is hollowed out and carved, the handle must be perpendicular to the blade when cutting out materials. In addition, there was no sandpaper in this era, and there was no horsetail or fur in the tools to replace the grinding effect.

For a sphere, you can only use the tip of a knife to slowly dig out and round it; to separate from the outer frame step by step; and the size of the outer frame hole, these three points are all tests.

The sick doctor was old, and he was woken up just after he went to sleep, and he was very angry.

There are a total of forty junior craftsmen. Counting Wang Ge, there are only three craftswomen, less than one-tenth. Isn't that few? In this era, it is quite a lot.

Candidates stepped forward one by one. It's now time. Who is stupid enough to give up? Even if you are not good at carving, you can always carve the words "rules, rules" on the wooden block. Furthermore, everyone has worked hard to practice craftsmanship for many years, and now they have finally become

A master craftsman can use a carving knife to carve many feelings and feelings into the wood.

Sitting in the production area, Wang Ge took a deep breath, put the wooden block aside for a while, and modified the tools first. In her previous life, Wang Nanxing was well-known in the wood carving world because she was good at carving ghost balls.

Li Nvli kept telling her: "The craftsman must leave his name when making the utensils."

Outside the court, it's better to drum loudly and continuously.

Make a hole and dig a sphere.

"Don't be nervous, haha. You must have known that the craftsman competition is the last test of the control of 'rules'. Over the years, how have you engraved the 'rules' bit by bit in your heart and held them in your hands? You all have your own ideas.

It’s hard work and emotion. In these two days, you can carve the various experiences of the ‘rules’ into wooden molds.”

If big holes are dug on the six outer sides of the cube, how can we talk about miraculous craftsmanship?

The craftsman allowed Wang Ge to modify the knife but did not provide him with the tools to modify it.

When it comes to ghost balls, many people only know about ivory carvings. In fact, there are many ghost balls made of wood. If you want to embody the regularity and connection of large and clumsy, there is nothing better than imitating ghost balls, which are carved from the whole wood and are square on the outside and round on the inside.

It can be rotated freely and cannot be taken out.

Following these words, the forty candidates all looked at the two baskets in surprise: Are there any more test items?

Sima Daoji was also embarrassed. Just as he was about to comfort the sick doctor, the latter's sleepiness suddenly disappeared and he said solemnly: "Don't move!"

Poison?

Examiner area.

The Jinshang doctor, disease doctor, and food doctor together identified the poisonous cake and concluded: "It is poisonous. Whether it can kill people is another matter. It is another matter. This person must be a concubine who often cooks. She has accumulated moldy food for a long time.

If the mold on the surface is stained on one side of the cake. If the mold is dirty, the person will put the cake surface on the ground and try to hide it." In the Jin Dynasty, the control of toxic herbal medicines was extremely strict, and ordinary medicine shops were not allowed to operate, even if the noble family needed it.

Purchases require a guarantee from an official agency.

But bad guys always have vicious ways. Fortunately, the color of the mold is different, and Wang Ge was careful, otherwise he might get seriously ill if he got it into his mouth.
Chapter completed!