The ups and downs of life in the Siheyuan

While having breakfast, Li Yuan completed the sign-in.

He was indifferent at first, but suddenly he sat up straight because he signed another skill book today.

Clicking on the skill book, a few big words appeared in my mind, "Junior Carpentry".

Li Yuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry. What kind of trouble was this? This was to "arm him into an all-powerful warrior."

He no longer complained like before. He was lucky enough to get the skill book and he didn't dare to be picky anymore.

Click to learn, and some woodworking knowledge instantly comes to mind.

In just an instant, he mastered the basic skills of carpentry, as well as the steps and techniques for making common furniture.

What interested him most were the common mortise and tenon components.

There are 24 crafts including straight, oblique, insertion, clamping, stuffy, stuck, mutual; leaning, crossing, hugging, locking, fighting and knotting, etc. Li Yuan can't help but admire the wisdom of his ancestors.

The mortise and tenon structure does not require a needle or a nail, and uses a concave and convex connection method.

This combination not only reflects the cleverness and wisdom of ancient craftsmen, but also expresses the Taoist creation thought of "the unity of nature and man, and the complementarity of yin and yang" in a deeper level.

This impressed Li Yuan, who studied Xuanzhen Li Style Tai Chi, and he immediately fell in love with this skill.

As for traditional tools: saws, planers, chisels, rulers, files, drills, etc., you can buy them at the flea market.

After eating, Li Yuan rode straight to the flea market.

In order to avoid embarrassment, I avoided the usual Gulou flea market and rode to a flea market near the front door.

This market is obviously larger and has more people than the Drum Tower.

There are many old objects inside, including dishes, bowls, plates, vases, calligraphy and paintings, etc. The furniture and hardware are even larger.

Some old men squatted there and kept rummaging.

This made Li Yuan puzzled. Who said that everyone is too hungry to buy antiques now? There are shadows of these people in every dynasty.

Li Yuan bent down to watch the excitement with interest. The old man in front of him turned back and glanced at Li Yuan. He put down his things, smiled at Li Yuan, stood up and walked away.

Feeling bored, he walked away.

He doesn't understand these and has no interest in spending money to buy them. The same money can buy more in the future.

Coming to the calligraphy and painting area, Li Yuan looked with interest.

As a result of practicing sculpture, he has discovered that he lacks aesthetic accomplishment.

I had no time to spare before, but now I am forced to take some time off, and recently started practicing sketching again.

I found these calligraphy and paintings today, and I suddenly had an enlightenment.

These are ancient treasures and masterpieces of artists. They are a good opportunity to learn for free.

Of course, there are probably not many originals here, and more are imitations that have aged well.

But if it can be passed down, the imitators must have some skills.

He squatted in front of the paintings and calligraphy, and it seemed that the staff in the stall looked like young men, but they were too lazy to pay attention to them and continued to wear sweaters.

Some of these paintings are rich in ink and color; some have only a few strokes; some have mountains, mist, and trees; some have clumsy lines but are powerful.

The density is scattered and ordered, and the density is appropriate for dryness and wetness. The picture is extremely profound and mysterious, and there is a kind of exuberant aura in it.

There are landscapes, figures, flowers, birds, insects, fish, and historical changes.

As a science student, I couldn't understand these things in the past and looked down on them.

Since arriving here, he found that he gradually fell in love with art.

In particular, I studied many aesthetic classics in the library, took morning classes every day, practiced carving, and gained the elementary carpentry skills today.

Let him discover that products and aesthetics are not contradictory.

Give the product aesthetics and at least make it look comfortable to customers.

If it can rise to the level of art, it will add more added value to the product.

While he was wandering in the ocean of art, he was suddenly awakened by a loud shout.

"Do not move!"

Li Yuan's hand paused in the air, and an inch from his fingertips was an old scroll.

"The one who is older and doesn't understand can easily break him."

The staff member who saw his displeasure finally couldn't bear it any longer and spoke out to stop him.

I have read so many works for free, yes, now Li Yuan calls everything here a work.

Feeling embarrassed, he glanced at the scroll on his fingertips and smiled at the staff.

"How much did I buy?"

"Are you sure you haven't read the content yet?"

The staff member felt that he had met a fool. Some of the paintings he had just seen were authentic and dated.

He has no nostalgia, and now he is interested in an old and broken scroll, which is enough to prove that he is an expert in calligraphy and painting.

And this scroll was randomly inserted in the outermost vase, which shows their disregard for it.

"Young man, although this scroll is framed with multiple layers, the center of the painting is somewhat damaged, and it's not that old. Are you sure you want it?"

No matter how much he dislikes seeing Li Yuan, he still has the courtesy that he should have. This is also the quality of old Kyoto people.

"I just like this style, please help me, I bought it."

"Come on, I'm willing to buy it if you have money. You can take it for 1 yuan." He wrote the ticket and handed it to Li Yuan.

Li Yuan went to a special counter to hand over the ticket and money. He came back with the bill stamped with a red stamp, took the scroll, and tucked it under his arm.

The staff looked at it and curled their lips, knowing that they had met a good-looking second-hand man today.

Li Yuan didn't pay attention to the staff, left here and walked to the furniture area.

Looking at the pieces of furniture and cabinets, I suddenly lost the desire to buy them.

It has just been censored, and now I come to buy big items, and then these big items suddenly disappear. If you ask casually, you will think of a treasure chest.

Living in modern society, one cannot be too cautious.

Went to the hardware section and bought various woodworking tools of different sizes.

I unexpectedly found a tool box commonly used by carpenters and bought it together.

Insert all the tools into the box, wrap the scroll in newspaper, and put them into the tool box together.

Strap the toolbox to the frame, walk out of the market, and ride to the lumber station.

There was no other way. If I wanted to get the wood now, I had to rely on Zhao Xiuqin's face again.

Fortunately, Captain Chen still had an impression of him, so he was polite and inadvertently left two bottles of Fenjiu behind.

I know that the higher-ups now have different opinions on large-scale production, and there seems to be signs of braking, so the control of wood is no longer as strict as before.

I heard that he wanted to make some furniture, but the other party didn't feel embarrassed and happily approved 5 square meters of wood.

Because they are acquaintances, the wood materials chosen are walnut catalpa wood and manchurian ash, which are unique to Northeast China.

These two types of wood are hard, dense, and have beautiful textures, making them excellent choices for making furniture.

Hire three flatbed trucks to haul the wood back to the courtyard.

The eaves that had seemed empty before were filled with wood.

His behavior inevitably required another explanation. Although the neighbors were surprised by his energy and mischief, no one meddle in his business anymore.

After all, it's just some wood and not worth much.

At this time, Yan Jiecheng's role was revealed. Now everyone in the compound knew that Li Yuan was doing well in the unit and had a bright future.

It's too late to curry favor, so why bother to offend?

After a brief lunch, Li Yuan started making his first carpentry work with great interest.

It was very windy outside the house and it was difficult to operate. Otherwise, the neighbors would be annoyed by the sawdust flying everywhere in the yard, so I had to work at home.

Fortunately, there is space. The dust in every corner of the house has long been dealt with using space, which is easier to use than a vacuum cleaner.

Just a thought and everything is clean.

It is even more comfortable to deal with the wood chips generated by processing.