Moreover, Qiu Ji has been able to open a shop in the county town for so many years, and his business has been prosperous. He is also quite skillful in many things.
When Niu Er saw this, he took half a step back and laughed twice.
Then, he smeared oil on the soles of his feet and scurried away without a trace like a mouse.
"Disgusting thing." The clerk spat on the ground and told the others, "Next time you encounter this kind of person, just throw him out. Don't dirty our Qiu Ji's place!"
Jiang Chunshi didn't know what was going on outside. At this moment, he was following Chang Yong'an to select the unloaded wood and got busy.
Niu Er ran away in a panic until Qiu Ji could no longer be seen. Then he breathed a sigh of relief and held on to a tree to catch his breath.
"Jiang Chunshi, this bastard..."
Before he could even finish his words, there was a "clang" sound, and a big branch of the tree that Niu Er was holding suddenly fell down.
It hit him directly on the top of his foot.
Faintly hearing a sound like a "click" of broken bones, Niu Er was stunned for a moment, and then screamed like a slaughtered pig.
This street is getting more and more lively.
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Jiang Michia has also been quite busy recently.
Busy drawing puppet patterns for Qiu Ji Na.
In line with the principle of service first, Jiang Michia planned to use clay to make the three-dimensional shapes of these drawings to facilitate the carving by Qiu Jina's carpenter master.
But making a clay puppet is not that simple.
The quality of the soil and the amount of water added will all have an impact on the final product.
Jiang Michia dug some soil from the ground, then tried to dig some soil from under the tree roots in front of her house, and even dug some from the small slope to try, but the results were not satisfactory.
Just when he was worried, Jiang Chunyu came, carrying a small bamboo basket and happily entered the yard, "Sixth Sister, I found a treasure for you, look."
Jiang Michia stretched out his head to take a look.
The bamboo basket was filled with soil.
But the color looks different from ordinary soil, more yellowish, and the feel is also different from ordinary soil.
"This is..." Jiang Michia looked and touched, and nodded affirmatively, "This should be clay."
"Where did you dig this soil?"
"On the wasteland near the river, we used to dig this soil and play with it. The clay figures we made were tougher than the soil from other places. I thought that if Six Sisters used this soil to make clay figures, I took advantage of it and dug some out." Jiang Chunyu replied with a smile.
"Then you are really helpful. I am worried about not being able to find suitable soil."
Clay is a soil with few sand grains and strong viscosity. Because water cannot easily pass through it, it has good plasticity. The clay used for making pottery and porcelain is basically all kinds of clay.
Jiang Michia didn't know much about professional matters, but the clay was enough to make clay figures for Qiu Ji to display.
"You have really made a great contribution." Jiang Michia praised Jiang Chunyu, "When I go back and send the drawings to Qiu Ji, I will buy you the red bean cake from the county town."
"Thank you Sixth Sister."
After digging a basket of soil, you can get red bean cakes to eat. Jiang Chunyu smiled and narrowed his eyes into thin slits.
Now that he had clay, Jiang Michia didn't stop. He mixed the clay with water and started making clay dolls.
Jiang Chunyu felt that he had dug a basket of soil and got red bean cake, which was too much of an advantage to Jiang Mixia, so he helped mix the clay.
The mud made of clay felt much better than ordinary mud. Jiang Michia followed the pattern and pinched the cute little tiger with a big head and a small body.
There are a set of tiger designs. Some are smiling, some are furious, some are dozing off with their eyes closed, and some are acting coquettishly and cute...
Because of the different micro-expressions and movements, it is not easy to make these clay puppets and make them vivid.
Even though Jiang Michia often made clay dolls to relieve stress in modern times and was quite familiar with these things, making these clay dolls still felt quite labor-intensive.
After working for an hour, I just finished a finished product.
Because I was too tired to concentrate on one thing, I had to stop to drink tea and take a rest.
Jiang Michia poured a glass for Jiang Chunyu and extended her hand to greet him, "Come and have a rest and have a sip of tea."
"Okay." Jiang Chunyu put the completely shapeless clay embryo in his hand on the ground, washed his hands, and then came to drink tea.
When doing this series of movements, the whole person looked downcast and without any energy, as if he were an old man.
"What's wrong, you're so lethargic." Jiang Michia took the fruit for him to eat.
Song Jingyun is greedy, and his family is now well off, so Jiang Michia bought a lot of dried fruit preserves in the town and prepared them. What he is eating now is dried apricots, which are sour and sweet.
Jiang Chunyu took it, but didn't eat either. He just sighed, "This clay puppet is really difficult to make. I tinkered for an hour and nothing came out. It's really annoying."
"Is it difficult to make clay dolls?" Song Jingyun had just finished weaving a small bamboo basket. When he saw Jiang Mixia and Jiang Chunyu talking here, he leaned over.
"It's very difficult to do." Jiang Chunyu bit into a dried apricot, looking bitter. "I think it's even harder than spearing a fish."
"But spearing fish is very simple..." Song Jingyun tilted his head.
Jiang Chunyu, "..."
He didn't want to accept this as he had never hooked a fish before.
"How about the sixth brother-in-law give it a try?" Jiang Chunyu suggested.
Song Jingyun is very good at spearing fish, hunting rabbits, and weaving baskets...
It seemed like nothing could trouble him.
I wonder if making clay puppets would be awesome.
Jiang Chunyu was really curious and wanted to see if Song Jingyun could really learn everything quickly, so he dragged Song Jingyun over and said, "Sixth brother-in-law, why don't you give it a try? Maybe you can do well?"
"Then let me give it a try." Song Jingyun was not sure and hesitated when he sat down.
After carefully looking at the drawings drawn by Jiang Michia, as well as the clay puppet she had made, and then trying the feel of the clay, Song Jingyun began to knead it.
After a cup of tea, Song Jingyun held the clay puppet in his hands and showed it to Jiang Michia and Jiang Chunyu, "Is this okay?"
It was modeled after the little tiger that Jiang Michia pinched just now.
The appearance and demeanor cannot be described as exactly the same, but they are the same. Even where Jiang Michia thinks the finishing touch is, Song Jingyun can make it vivid according to the one she pinched out.
The only difference is that it is one size smaller than the one Jiang Michia pinched just now.
"Not bad." Jiang Michia looked at it carefully and gave Song Jingyun a thumbs up, "Very good!"
"It looks like you can help me make clay dolls in the future."
