Leisurely Cultivation Time

Chapter 127 Carving Craft
The three walked and chatted, and it didn't take long before they saw Gao Jiancheng and his wife, who were plowing the land with a cultivator.

"Father, the two big brothers are looking for you." Came to the edge of the field, Gao Meifang shouted to Gao Jiancheng in local dialect.

Gao Jiancheng handed over the cultivator to his wife and asked her to plow for a while, and then washed his hands a little in the ditch beside the field.

"Meifang, why don't you take someone home to make tea, just ask your brother to come and call me." Gao Jiancheng said to Gao Meifang as he walked over.

"Yes, just now Shiqiang asked me to drink tea, it's nothing serious, I just want to ask you a few words." Ye Fei said with a smile.

"What is it?"

"Didn't I just see the mountain temple yesterday? I want to rearrange it. I don't know if I need the consent of someone in the village?"

"This...?" Gao Jiancheng thought for a while and said, "Although the temple has been abandoned and no one in the village takes care of it, if people from other villages are asked to tidy up the temple, people in the village will definitely not let it go. "

"Why not? Anyway, your village doesn't care, why don't others take care of it?" Xiao Yi said somewhat incomprehensibly.

"Some people feel that it's hard to save face, just like you can scold your alma mater whatever you want, but if someone else scolds your alma mater, they will try their best to go back. This is probably the reason." Ye Fei explained.

Gao Jiancheng nodded awkwardly, agreeing with what Ye Fei said.

"Then what should we do?" Xiao Yi asked.

"You must reorganize the mountain temple? Why?" Gao Jiancheng asked.

"We have received the favor of the mountain god, so yesterday I heard you said that the mountain temple has been abandoned for a long time, and I couldn't sleep last night, so I decided to come here today to see if I can tidy it up again." Ye Fei lied .But then again, the Mountain God Jade Card really helped him a lot.

"The favor of the mountain god?" Gao Jiancheng was full of question marks?Does the mountain god really exist?

Ye Fei explained again: "You misunderstood. It's not the kind of favor you thought. It has nothing to do with the mountain god, but has something to do with his temple. If you want to count it, it can be regarded as the help of the mountain god."

"It's like this." Gao Jiancheng hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Well, I'll take you to tidy up the mountain temple. When someone asks you, just say that I asked you to help tidy up the mountain temple. That way, no one else has anything to say."

"Didn't that interrupt your work?" Ye Fei said a little embarrassedly.

"It's all right, and it's not too late. I'll talk to my mother-in-law, and then I'll go with you."

"Then trouble you."

"No trouble, no trouble." Gao Jiancheng waved his hand, then turned and walked along the field ridge, went to talk to Meifang's mother, and came back again.

Then the four of them walked back together. After returning home, Gao Jiancheng took a shower and changed his clothes.

Then let the son and daughter, and Xiao Yi and Ye Fei take the cleaning tools, and walked towards the mountain temple.

"Jiancheng, what are you and your family planning to do? You bring a broom and a rag." As soon as he was walking on the road, someone suddenly greeted Gao Jiancheng.

"I didn't go there for any reason, but I was going to clean up the mountain temple." Gao Jiancheng replied with a smile.

"Clean up the mountain temple." The man said strangely.

"Yeah, the mountain god temple has been abandoned for a long time. I thought I'd be free today, so I'll clean it up for him, so that the mountain god master won't get angry one day."

"Oh." The other party nodded.

There were also two or three people not far away, and when they saw Gao Jiancheng saying that he was going to clean up the mountain temple, they had strange eyes.

However, Gao Jiancheng didn't mind. He greeted each other as usual, and the group continued to head towards the mountain temple.

The mountain temple is made of stone, and the roof is covered with tiles. The internal area is not large, about the same as the mountain temple in Yulan Village.

The inside is also very simple. On the altar is a wooden statue of a mountain god with a benevolent look. The statue looks like it has been around for many years, but it is still alive.

One can tell at a glance that the master who carved the statue back then was definitely a master. Ye Fei asked Gao Jiancheng curiously: "Brother, who carved this statue? It's very good."

Gao Jiancheng glanced at it, and then said proudly while cleaning: "This is carved by Uncle De at the east end of the village. His craftsmanship back then, let alone, no one in the entire county, or even the entire city, could match him." .”

"Then how is this master now? Has he passed on this craft?" Xiao Yi asked.

At this time, Gao Jiancheng said with some regret: "No, people from all over the world wanted to learn crafts from Uncle De, but none of them could pass Uncle De's test."

"Later, everyone felt that Uncle De was too strict, and they didn't have the confidence to pass his test, so they didn't come to learn from him."

"Uncle De himself has no children. Now that he is old, his eyesight is failing, and his hands are shaking. It is estimated that this skill will be lost."

"It's like this? That's really a pity." Ye Fei shook his head and said.

"Then if I go to learn from him now, will he still accept apprentices?" Xiao Yi asked curiously.

"Accept, but his test criteria for accepting apprentices has not changed. Only after passing his test will he be willing to teach him all his skills."

"That's a pity." Xiao Yi also felt a little pity, and then he asked: "Then what kind of test did the old man set up? No one has passed it for so many years."

"Uncle De set up two difficult problems. One is to find the center point on an irregular piece of wood within one second."

"The second is to draw two straight lines that are as straight as the measuring stick without using a measuring stick, and the length of the two straight lines must be the same without any deviation."

"Within one second? Isn't that the same as finding the center point at a glance?" Xiao Yi said.

"Yeah, so many people have failed, and it's easier to find it in a regular strip, but it's several times more difficult to find the center point in an irregular strip. .” Gao Jiancheng nodded and said:
"There is also the drawing of two straight lines of the same length. Without continuous practice, ordinary people can't do it. But Uncle De said that the three most important points in carving skills are the speed of the knife, the accuracy of the knife, and the accuracy of the force. Only Talented people can achieve these three points, so that their skills will not be buried."

Suddenly Xiao Yi turned to Ye Fei and said, "Why don't you try it."

"Me?" Ye Fei shook his head and said, "I can't do it now, but I can try it later."

"What? Ye Fei, you also have research on sculpture?" Gao Jiancheng asked curiously.

"That's not true. It's just that I have some experience in the test you mentioned. I can try it. It would be a good thing if I could learn one more skill."

Gao Jiancheng agreed: "That's true, I hope you can pass, otherwise it will be a pity for Uncle De's skills."

(End of this chapter)