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Xiao Shulin learned to carve walnuts because of his interest at the beginning, but he is not without practical considerations. What will happen after he learns to carve walnuts? Do the carved walnuts have been kept in his home and enjoyed alone?That definitely won't work, no matter how much passion you have after a long time, it will be exhausted.

Of course Xiao Shulin also wants to achieve results, and also wants to be recognized by others. Although it is definitely a little early for his current skills, but the route is set like this, and he does not like to play high-level games.

This time, Xiao Shulin selected more than 20 small walnuts of uniform size, round shape and fine grain from a pile of walnuts at home, and planned to make an eighteen-piece Buddhist beads bracelet.

Xiao Shulin didn't know much about Buddhism, so he searched the Internet to find out what kind of engravings would be suitable for Buddhist bead bracelets, and finally decided to engrave the most widely accepted words "Amitabha".

He first wrote down these four characters in seal script, and then practiced on the paper many times, until he memorized the stroke structure of each character by heart, then he took out the walnut, and followed the lines on the surface of the walnut, The four characters are slowly carved up.

When Xiao Shulin carved out the first walnut, Luo Meng was also a little surprised, because this walnut was very good in terms of overall beauty and details. There are some.

There are not many deep-processed parts of this walnut carving. Except for grinding off the head and tail, the processing of other parts is not obvious. In some places, the texture of the walnut surface is even slightly modified to make it coincide with the strokes of the seal script.

People who are not often exposed to these things may not be able to easily see the patterns on this walnut at first glance. If you look carefully, you can find out what kind of charm is hidden in the seemingly natural texture of this walnut. Delicate work.

Perhaps for experts, Xiao Shulin's two strikes are still not enough to see, but as far as this walnut is concerned, the two points of naturalness and meticulousness alone are already eye-catching.

From Lao Zhou's point of view, their Xiao Shulin is simply too talented!This girl took the walnut and looked at it again and again, even boasting endlessly.

"Why are you so patient?" How much time and thought did it take to make this small walnut like this?

"Hey." Xiao Shulin was a little embarrassed by his praise.

"This character is also good, when did you practice it?" If you haven't practiced it, you will definitely not be able to reach this level.

"Once upon a time." Xiao Shulin said.

"When was it before?" Old Zhou asked again.

"..." Xiao Shulin scratched his neck, and after a while, he grinned and said, "During class."

"In class..." Luo Meng just wanted to ask how he could still practice calligraphy in class, but after thinking about it, he understood that the two of them are in different situations. Back then, Luo Meng was a good student, so naturally he had to listen carefully in class, Xiao Shulin It's different. For students who don't like reading, which one doesn't change their ways during class?

"I don't know who our little monkey will look like when he grows up." Liu Chunlan, who was working beside her, couldn't help but laugh when she heard their conversation.

The space in the kitchen is limited. Recently, the old couple often take the work of making biscuits to the dining table. After the reconciliation noodles are pressed one by one with a mold, the whole plate is brought to the oven in the kitchen to bake. After baking, the trays were placed on the stove to cool. Sometimes the two of them sent the finished biscuits to Luo Xingyou's house by themselves, and sometimes Luo Xingyou rode a tricycle to pick them up.

"Probably...not like me." Lao Zhou thought about the image of his son, studying hard to make progress every day, it seems that it doesn't fit his style, rubbing walnuts and staring out the window in a daze is his style .

"Houwazi, do you like reading?" Old man Luo asked Houwazi.

"I don't like it." Monkey Boy said without even thinking about it. Although it's not time to study yet, the scene of Luo Meihui and Luo Meiling, the two sisters holding the textbook and looking bitter and bitter, has already left an indelible impression on him. .

"It's over, it's over, there will be no one who can read in their group from now on." Luo Meihui didn't like reading and they already knew that, that girl Luo Meiling looked at Wenwen quietly, and originally expected her to study hard, but she went to After going to kindergarten for a few months, it seems that the symptoms are not right. In Luo Hongfeng's words, it is not as good as her sister.

"What's the matter if you don't like reading? You see, the woods are not very good now, and there are three girls in Ayun's family. The eldest girl is only in high school, and the money she makes is enough to support the whole family." Liu Chunlan said.

"Just say it nicely. If that girl Meihui can get back two hundred points one day, let's see if you will be happy." After living together for decades, who can I don't know who.

"That's not true." Liu Chunlan smiled, but did not deny it.

When Xiao Shulin carved out a pair of walnuts, the bracelet that Luo Meng and Houwazi put together before was just enough, and the rest was to adjust the colors of the dozen or so walnuts to make them as uniform as possible. The monkey boy came to do it, and Romon couldn't help, so he just spared time to make a picture of the pair of walnuts carved in the woods.

During this time, the weather was getting colder every day. When Xiao Shulin went to the town to practice martial arts every morning, Luo Meng and Houwazi didn't follow him. He didn't get up until six or seven in the morning. Before brushing his teeth and washing his face, he let the pigeon Come out, feed some corn kernels, and then pick up the pigeon eggs of the day.

Previously, Luo Meng listened to Yan Yunkai's grandfather's suggestion and kept a few pairs of pigeon eggs for the big pigeons to hatch. Now there are several pairs of young pigeons in the loft, and a few more are hatching. The temperature has been low recently. It takes a long time to hatch the young pigeons. The earliest pair has been around for almost half a month and hasn't come out yet.

When his own pigeon eggs can't be eaten, Luo Meng will also sell some of them. Wang Dasheng and Hu Qunfeng have bought them. Originally, Luo Meng didn't plan to take money from them. It is true that there are not many pigeon eggs in Luo Meng's family. If they don't give money, it will be hard to say whether they will be able to eat next time.

When the father and son finally washed up and were ready to eat, Xiao Shulin had already returned home with breakfast, and the old man Liu Chunlan and Luo also came to work.

If the weather is cold and cloudy, the fireplace of the old Zhou's house will come in handy. I brought some wood from the courtyard and lit the fireplace to warm up. Sometimes they don't like to go out.

It's just that if the fire burns too much, it's easy to get angry. Xiao Shulin is okay. When he stays in the house, he mostly sits by the window and carves walnuts. Romon and Houwazi can't do it. There were two bubbles in the house, and Houwazi had a nosebleed once, so this morning, old man Luo didn't ask them to stay in the house to warm up, and went outside to freeze.

Lao Zhou took his son all the way to the hill. There was a vegetable field that had just been harvested and needed to be replanted. Erlang was also called to plow the field.

Old Zhou and his son were squatting on the upper ridge, watching them work, and asking everyone about their work and life in Niuwangzhuang recently. They asked Lao Zhou whether to kill pigs on the winter solstice, and Lao Zhou said they would , so everyone is very happy.

Erlang took the big iron plow and walked in the field one after another. It didn't take long for the vegetable field to be plowed. Thinking about it, when this guy first came to Niuwangzhuang, he was probably bigger than his current size. One point, now that he has grown to such a big size, Romon can't help but feel a little emotional, time flies.

After plowing, someone brought some cauliflower heads for it. After eating one, Erlang refused to eat any more, and walked slowly down the mountain, wagging his tail.

"Why don't you eat?" Lao Zhou looked at it and felt distressed. After doing so much work, how can you not eat?

"You're tired of eating." People who often deal with Erlang know that many fields in Niuwangzhuang are plowed by it now. Every time after plowing the land, it is necessary to feed some cucumbers, tomatoes and other leaves. Erlang just At first I liked it, but gradually I lost interest in it.

Lao Zhou followed Erlang with his monkey all the way, and saw him looking for tender grass to eat on the side of the road as he walked, but in this season, where can there be any tender grass on the mountain, even if there are one or two, it will be eaten by the passing cattle. I ate a lot.

"Boy, do you want to eat grass?" Romon walked over and patted the cow's neck.

"Moo!" Erlang called out and snorted again.

"Succeed, for the sake of your son's diligence recently, I will make it for you."

So, on this day, Luo Meng and Houwazi took a sickle and went to the village stream to dig thatch roots on the ridge of the field. They dug back a basket of thatch roots and transported some soil. Come out in one piece.

The father and son dug shallow ditches in the ground, buried the thatch roots, sprinkled some spiritual spring water, and then built a frame to pull the film, and built a simple greenhouse on it.

People in the village heard that Luo Meng planted thatch for Erlang, and they all agreed with him. They often came to help with watering. Let's take a look at the temperature. Basically, out of all the vegetable fields in the whole village, only this thatched shed by the reservoir has the warmest temperature.

Under the careful care of everyone, the temperature and humidity in the shed are kept in the best condition for the germination and growth of thatch. Within a few days, small green shoots appeared in the field, and after a few days, they bloomed again. Bunches of coriander flowers.

It was so easy, the thatch grew to the height of Luo Meng's knees. On this day, Lao Zhou and his son drove a tricycle to the greenhouse to mow grass. They cut a load of buckets and transported them to Niuwangzhuang. Along the way, the sweet grass fragrance attracted a group of birds. The children fell on the haystack in the cart and pecked.

"Moo!!!" Erlang yelled on the hillside, then kicked off his hooves and ran towards this side, startling the birds flying around.

"Aww!" Huahua got out of Houwazi's arms and took a look, seeing that it was Erlang, she nestled in the padded jacket and fell asleep in peace.

Erlang loves to eat the fresh and tender thatched grass, and happily circled around Luo Meng's tricycle, jumping happily from time to time, leaving a series of deep and shallow pits on the road.

"How can you be so idle? You still have time to make snacks for the buffalo." Hu Qunfeng and the others commented when they heard that Luo Meng was planting grass for Erlang.

Recently, the supermarket of Lao Zhou’s family has become very popular. Niuwangzhuang can sell any kind of vegetables without worrying about selling them. He is not afraid of selling as much as he wants. In his big shed, he can grow any kind of vegetables, which is also an income. Ah just planted grass.