Dress to be a celebrity

In front of his little nephew, Song Shi scraped off half a bowl of soap, cut a small piece of beeswax, melted it slowly on the stove in a small casserole, and went to the study to get some paints of madder, indigo, and gamboge. , put them in the same way, and stir them into molten colored wax.

The wax liquid is poured into a multi-compartment box with a flat bottom while it is hot, and then pried out after it solidifies, cut into the shape of a crayon, wrapped in a layer of paper, and ready for children to play with.

The colors of the pens are not quite right, but children don't know how to distinguish them. What I love is watching him make crayons.

Brother Xiao has been so excited since his uncle ignited the fire to melt soap and beeswax, and when he saw him pouring paint into the bowl and mixing the bright and smooth wax liquid, he didn't want to tell him again.In the evening, after the family had finished eating, Song Shi delivered a packaged box of crayons to him, and immediately became the object of the child's worship, even his own father was a step behind.

His father dare not play with fire!

His father can't even write a pen!

His father doesn't know how to draw for him with a stack of paper!

Brother Xiao first picked the brightest bright red, held it as if in Song Shijiao's gesture, and stroked lightly on the paper, leaving a brilliant color.His third uncle took advantage of the child's gift and was only trying to paint with joy, so he rubbed his little bald head a few times, and even pulled the corners of the little girls on both sides.

Having played enough with the little nephew, he stretched out his magic palm to the two older nephews, pulled them over, hugged him in his arms to watch his younger brother test his colors, and instructed them to try to draw with a pen.

The eldest nephew picked up the black pen and wiped the bamboo twice in a face-saving way. The second nephew put down the pen after swipe twice, shook his sleeve and said, "My nephews are going to read and write at Mr. Painting in the room is really boring, third uncle can get us some fun things."

This is true, children sit at home all day writing and drawing, which is not good for the eyes and cervical spine.

If it is in the spring of February and March, just take them to fly kites.Now that the weather is getting hotter and the wind is less, I can't keep it at home... But playing table tennis and badminton can also exercise eyesight.

Table tennis can be played with only a small table, which is naturally suitable for children to exercise after school. Unfortunately, there are no plastic balls in this era, and he does not know what kind of ball can have such elasticity.But badminton is easy to make. Use cork to insert some goose feathers to make a ball. Find a woodworker to carve a few racket frames.

As for the net in the middle of the field, it is enough to use the net they usually play football in.

Song Shi was also a practical man, so he immediately asked his mother for Mei Dai, tied it to a circle to draw an arc, and slowly repaired the smooth oval shape that a badminton racket should have, and then attached a thin and straight racket body, with a slightly thicker one. The handle seems to be no worse than the one he used before!

Their family usually repairs houses and builds furniture, and often invites Master Luo, an old carpenter from Xicheng, but they do big jobs, so it should be enough to call his apprentice to do these small things.

He asked Shuxiang to invite apprentices for him, but it was the master who invited him back. Even Carpenter Luo's old father, who had already enjoyed family happiness at home, came, and said in front of Song Shi with trepidation: "How can the things that Zhuangyuan is going to do What are you doing with a sloppy kid? The old man must do it himself, and watch the kid make the best things for the champion."

Song Shi quickly thanked him, asked someone to serve some refreshments, brought over the pictures of badminton and rackets he had drawn, and asked if they could make them.

The two old craftsmen glanced at the picture, then showed a self-confident smile, and assured him: "It's easy to make this, but I don't know how many pairs you want, and what size? Don't worry, the champion. The old man and his son smashed the door of the store by themselves, and quit this business!"

The sitting and lying tables of Song Shi’s family were all made by their father and son. The carvings and mortise and tenon structures are extremely delicate. When people sit on them, the waist, hips, back and neck are naturally supported and very comfortable. It can be seen that their skills are excellent and beyond doubt.

Song Shi immediately made a decision: "Then I will order ten pairs of rackets for children and twenty pairs of rackets for adults, a hundred balls, the handles of which are glued with a layer of soft deerskin, threaded like this on the side, and knotted in the racket circle. into a net..."

Although he is not a professional athlete, he has bought several badminton rackets at home, and he has changed the strings of badminton rackets by himself. He still remembers how to thread the strings on the rackets.The two old carpenters were skillful, and they knew the tricks after listening to him, so they took the thread and fiddled with it on the table to show him.

Song Shi saw that he was right and nodded his head: "That's it. This racket doesn't need to use any good wood, it just needs to be light. The badminton is best cut from cork, which is also light. The feathers tied on the side are hard and long. The goose wings and flight feathers should be tied evenly and firmly."

The two teachers and fathers agreed, saying that they would send him a pair for trial tomorrow.

In the Song Dynasty, they were asked to make a pair of small fishes for the children to play with first. If they still had time, they would order a set of small wooden fishes with a magnet embedded in their mouths. Put on the iron hook, and let the children play fishing.

He remembered that the old Mr. Mei Lanfang trained his eyesight by watching pigeons and swimming fish, so it is good for his eyesight.Pigeons have been replaced with badmintons, and some wooden ones should be used for swimming fish. There is no pool in their house, and Baoding is so arid.

The two old carpenters fully agreed, and after a day they both came to the door, bringing a pair of rackets, ten badmintons, and a set of ten small fishes that were made as delicate as raw.The fish somehow controlled its weight, it was light up and down, and it floated vertically when it entered the water, and it would not move horizontally on the water surface!

Master Luo and his son also sent two small fishing rods polished by poplar wood, which are only as thick as fingers, light and flexible, just right for children to play with.

Song Shi repeatedly praised the craftsmanship of the two old craftsmen and accepted the goods with satisfaction.Master Luo and his son also went out satisfied. On the way home, they found a writing booth and asked the calligraphy sellers to write out what Song Sanyuan praised them for, so that the framers could frame them and hang them in front of the hall.

The scholar's eyes lit up when he heard Song Shi's name, and with a wave of his pen, he wrote down the words he wanted to write in a swift and swift manner, and then he would rather not pay for his writing, just look at what he made for Song Sanyuan.

Although Carpenter Luo and his son wanted to show off, they were afraid that people would learn what they made, so they reasoned that they hadn't asked Song Sanyuan, and they couldn't show his three-yuan ball and three-yuan fish first.But their father and son will be able to make it in a few days, and then send it to the Song Mansion first, and show him the ones they make in the future.

Three-yuan ball...is that the same as the usual balloon?But he was also looking for a carpenter to do it, and he must bring a wooden accessory. Could it be chuiwan, polo, donkey ball or something like that?What is the ternary fish made of wood?Wouldn't Song Sanyuan's family want to carve a wooden fish and serve it on a plate like a poor family?

The scholar was so restless, he hurried home before night and talked about the "three-yuan ball" and "three-yuan fish" with his classmates and friends.

Song Sanyuan personally asked a carpenter to make it, which was not available in the world. What kind of ball is it and how to play it?When the Lord Fuzun invites him to preside over the literary meeting, he must ask him face to face, and see the wonderful things this romantic champion has produced!

Scholars spread rumors about the Sanyuan series of wooden products outside, and Song Shi played ball with his nephew at home.

They didn't pull the net either, and just played with a racket in the main courtyard, playing casually with a racket.The child might not be able to hit the head accurately, but Song Shi had good skills, and he could always pick it up by rushing forward and back. He explained the skills to the little girls next to him while beating.

After playing for a while, the girls in the old lady's courtyard had almost watched it, so they asked them to play with brother Xiao, picking up the ball if they didn't play.

Song Shi pulled his mother and sister-in-law to watch from the side, and said proudly: "This ball is flying in the air. It is the most eye-catching. Mother is getting old, and sisters-in-law are going to do needlework again. It is easy to hurt the eyes. Play more badminton to hurt the neck." The eyes are fine."

The two sister-in-laws were embarrassed to snatch the child's little shot, and they only said that they would wait for the new one from Carpenter Luo's house - when they closed the courtyard door, they would fight with the maid if they wanted to fight, and they would fight with the husband if they wanted to fight. Husband hit.His mother also smiled and said to Mimi: "Mother, what's the matter with this old bone, you youngsters just play around."

It doesn't matter if you are older, just make a round-headed racket, loosen the string, ask the craftsman to cut a round wooden ball, and it can be used as a Tai Chi ball for the elderly to exercise.Song Shi wrote another note and handed it to Luo's family, asking them to make a perfect round racket first, and pair it with a light wooden ball for his parents to exercise.

After a few days, the Luo family delivered the rackets ordered by the Song family one after another, attracting frequent attention.There are still many idlers standing outside Carpenter Luo's house, wanting to peek at what the three-yuan ball looks like, so that they can sell the news for a good price.It's a pity that Luo's family runs a large carpentry shop. There are apprentices, craftsmen, and children in the family, and they are strictly guarded when they come in and out.

Scholars outside also became more and more speculative about Sanyuan's wood products, but they thought they were not knowledgeable enough to get into Sanyuan's door, so they dared not go to his house to ask in person.The friends of the two elder brothers of the Song family had some questions, but the two brothers laughed and did not answer, and said in embarrassment: "We will definitely bring them to the literary meeting on April [-], so that all the sages will be full." Blessed eyes."

The more they hid it like this, the more famous Sanyuanqiu and Sanyuanyu became. Even Brother Xiao and Brother Ting's teachers couldn't help asking.

The two children had never heard of the name from outside, they shook their heads and said: "I have never heard of three-yuan balls. My uncle only asked people to make a kind of badminton, which is to hit the badminton into the sky with a racket."

Hit a feathered ball into the sky with a racket?

After the news spread, many carpenters made rackets made of wood and leather balls stuffed with feathers, pretending to be "three-yuan balls" and selling them. Many people were really fooled.But the solid wood board and the leather ball stuffed with fur are really overwhelming, and ordinary scholars can't hit a few times with both hands. I can only sigh that Song Sanyuan is different from them. A two-handed game?

I heard that this style of play is still popular in the army, and only warriors play this way to show their strength and legs.

On April [-]th, the day of the poetry meeting, the three brothers of the Song family took ten pairs of badminton rackets and fifty new unused balls to the Daci Pavilion outside the city in a car sent by Mr. Liu Fuzun.

Daci Pavilion is a famous temple built in the Jin Dynasty. It has been standing for more than a hundred times, and the incense is not fading, and there are many tourists.But today was organized by officials at the prefecture and county levels. Sanyuan and Song Zhuangyuan came to give pointers to the Wenhui. Walnuts, melon seeds, torreya, and kumquats, for the tea of ​​famous scholars and scholars.

Everyone sat down, and without mentioning writing poems, Liu Fuzun went straight to the ground and asked: "I heard that Song Xiandi made people make 'three yuan balls', 'three yuan coins' and other things, and now some people imitate them on the market, but I feel That imitation racket is rough in shape, it was not written by you Song Zhuangyuan, can you share with everyone the one you made yourself?"

Song Shi was as dumbfounded as his nephews when they heard the teacher's question - back then, his brothers told him that outsiders were curious about badminton, and asked him to show it at the literature meeting to amaze everyone, but they didn't tell him that the badminton was all badminton. Named Sanyuan!

Why don't you tell people it's called badminton?If this is widely spread, it is called the three-yuan ball... Then in the history textbooks of this time and space in the future, the sentence "Zheng Dynasty and Song Dynasty invented the three-yuan ball" will have to be added?

But his invention of badminton can also enter the history of sports, which is more serious than the triple ball!

He glanced at his brothers resentfully, and said with a smile to the officials of Liu Fuzun and the two teams of the prefecture and county: "My lord, you are joking. Why is this ball called a three-yuan ball? When I made this ball, I was afraid that the ball would be too light. It is not stable when playing, so people put a circle of feathers on it, so it is named badminton.”

A row of feathers on the ball?Not the feather stuffed in the ball?

A scholar who bought the "three-yuan ball" sighed: "I was fooled by that store, thinking it was a ball stuffed with duck feathers. No wonder! I said such a clumsy ball and racket, how can a romantic boy like Song Sanyuan do it?" will use!"

He was so angry that he wanted to rush back and tear up the seller on the spot.The older scribes around persuaded him, and said with a wry smile: "To tell you the truth, I was also fooled. I bought it and couldn't even lift the board. I thought Song Sanyuan was a strong man!"

Song Shi was a little curious, and while asking someone to fetch badminton rackets and balls from the car, he asked the deceived consumers: "I don't know which virtuous brother brought the ball, can you let me have a look?" Look at the level of the ancient carpenter's cottage , to satisfy the gossip mentality.

However, Yue Juzi, a civil and military double-jur from Tang County, carried a "three-yuan ball" with him, and wanted to show him himself, so he asked someone to bring it, and opened the package in front of everyone: there was a big head inside. The top is slightly curved, a solid wooden racket that looks as thick as a paddle, and it is equipped with a round leather ball the size of a fist.

—Isn’t this cricket?Although it is not an Olympic event, this kind of ball is quite similar to baseball. He also learned a little about baseball when he watched it, and it seems to be a sport with a wide audience.

Song Shi tried his best to recall how to play cricket, but the scholar who was about to return his racket just stretched his neck to look at the cricket in the boy's hand, and said "Hey": "Why is this different from the one I bought? I bought it That one has a round head and a thin rod."

However, the ones bought by others are also different. The only difference is that the head is round, the shaft is thin, and the ball is a leather ball filled with bird feathers.

After comparing with each other, they found that although they were all fooled, the ones bought by others still had outlines, but the one who brought them was the most fooled.Both Liu Fuzun and Xu county magistrate dared to believe that the carpenter who lied to him directly used oar embryos to pretend to be balls and auctioned them to him.

Yue Juzi was angry and ashamed, blushing, wishing he could snatch the cricket and throw it on the ground and fall.Song Shi moved faster than him, and took the board in his hand before his fingers touched it. He looked at the board and said confidently: "This cricket can be fun if you really play it, but it takes two people far away." Stand far away, one person throws the ball, the other swings the cricket, hits the cricket into the goal far away, and the winner is judged by the score."

These rules are really not the rules of cricket, but there are crickets and balls, why can't they play lively?It's better than waiting for this essay meeting to end, and the participating scholars will bring people to the carpenter's shop to make trouble.

He picked up the ball and shook it in his hands, and said with a smile: "This cricket is also a ball for strong men to exercise, but my badminton is a ball for health and fitness. I brought ten sets of rackets and some tennis balls. I will have a poetry meeting later. It's over, if you officials and talents are not tired, why not play ball together for leisure?"

He has a chic and confident demeanor, and he is not worried that everyone will reject him.

It’s not that he swelled up when he became a Sanyuan, thinking that others would listen to what he said, but because of his self-confidence in studying social customs and writing small papers for many years——

The more romantic and famous, the richer and freer they are, and they love health care and leisure sports.With a football, this group of scholars can take turns to play for an afternoon. With so many rackets and balls, they don't worry if they don't get involved in sports.

By the way, you can observe the sports and leisure situation of the monks in the monastery, and write a short article on popular science. If you can pass the manuscript and earn a few Jinjiang coins, it will be even better.