At the beginning, the whole family fled from famine, and I used a milk bottle as a koi carp

Lao An's house was built first. After the foundation was dug, the green bricks were stacked very quickly. There was no cement at this time, so you still had to find a skilled master to make the glutinous rice and other mixtures as a binding agent.

House-building craftsmen have their own inherited recipes, which may not be the same for every craftsman, but the main materials are the same.

The two brothers also found the wood for the beams from the mountains, and the tiles were bought outside by the craftsman who commissioned the house to be built.

Lao An's family was the first family in the village to build a house, so they had to find out what they needed along the way. The whole village is paying attention. Once Lao An's family is done, others can continue to use it.

For example, there is no need to find a craftsman alone. The village chief can discuss a suitable price together.

Another example is the tiles. Lao An’s family bought them for the same price, so they can just use them directly.

What, carpentry work! There was a young carpenter in the village. He first renovated the house, tidied it up and lived in it, and then slowly tidied it up. As for Lao An's new house, there are 11 rooms. Each room has windows, doors, etc., and they all have to be drilled out. This is a big job!

It’s better to just barely be able to live in it than to pitch a tent in the wilderness!

It’s not like I’ve never lived in the wilderness, so I stopped being pretentious. I moved in and slowly cleaned up.

After Lao An's house was finished, it was the turn of the village chief's house. They asked the strong young men in the village to work and they were paid. The price was the same in the village, but Lao An's house made a sample first.

Boss An followed the little carpenter to make some doors, windows, benches, etc. He didn't know how to do it, but he just helped the carpenters and his son who made it for his own family. Otherwise, other people in the village would line up and they might not be able to do it next year. There are so many live.

After the main body of the house was completed, Old Man An and Mrs. An stopped messing around in other places and started to tidy up the house.

An Ningning looked at the blue bricks exposed on the wall inside the house, blinked her eyes, and found An Lao'er, "Uncle, these exposed bricks look like bricks, and they don't look good!"

An Laoer touched his chin and found the old craftsmen who worked at the village chief's house. He also bought some glutinous rice mixture from them and applied it directly on the outside of the bricks with a tool. This way, the room felt much cleaner and whitened.

But that's all for the main room, study room and peaceful boudoir. Forget about other rooms, without them, it’s too expensive!

No matter what, glutinous rice is used as the main material. It is too expensive for more than a dozen rooms, and it is not needed for other people's rooms.

An Laoer felt it didn't matter, and everyone in the An family felt it didn't matter, but An Ningning was a little embarrassed.

She looked for the bamboo forest near the lake where there were more bamboos, so she called An Laoer and chopped some back. She remembered the wall decoration materials of later generations, including natural bamboo products.

It's just thumb-thick bamboos, placed one by one, covering the walls. This kind of pure natural is very beautiful. But this kind of small bamboo is not the same species as the one by the lake. The kind of bamboo that is by the lake, but it is as thick as the mouth of a bowl, is fine! It can also be used by setting it aside and making it into small strips, then putting them together.

An Laoer was very happy. He gave Mrs. An a room and his own room, which was set aside with bamboo, polished, and laid flat on the wall.

Instantly, the room was decorated in a pastoral style.

Very good. An Laoer likes it very much. It’s just this job. It’s so hard. I simply asked Old Man An to help me cut more bamboo and make small bamboo rafts.

An Ningning looked at the meticulous work they did and became interested. She remembered the hand-weaving technology of those bamboo products.

There are people in the village who can use wicker to weave baskets and various daily necessities. But this place is different from the previous place in Xiushan Village. There are finished bamboo forests here, so it would be a pity not to grow them there.

An Ningning found An Laoer who was still scraping bamboo and said, "Uncle, please wait."

An Laoer was working very hard, stopped and asked: "What's wrong? Do you want to help?"

After speaking, he glanced at An Ningning's little arms and legs, and then at the four babies who were helping nearby. Even the youngest Sambo was polishing them with tools.

An Laoer couldn't bear to be a child laborer like his niece, but others insisted on helping. Of course, if the niece insisted on helping, it was not impossible.

An Ningning rolled her eyes, "Uncle, who in our village can edit that wicker basket!"    "That, your father can do it. Who among the old people in the village can't? Your village chief's grandfather is very good at his craftsmanship. Their baskets Who wouldn’t boast!”

"Uncle, you said we make some bamboo baskets, bamboo baskets, bamboo handicrafts, and some small bamboo rafts to decorate the walls. Do you think anyone will buy them?"

“What’s the price for bamboo handicrafts?”

"It's small benches, small tables, small vases, mats, everything that can be made of bamboo."

An Laoer thought for a while, and it seemed that there were very few products made from bamboo! At this time, there are wood mountains everywhere. Things made of wood are troublesome, but they are strong and durable!

An experienced carpenter can carefully carve wood into various patterns, whatever you want.

This bamboo product, apart from other things, just feels inferior in quality!

"Why did you think of using bamboo to make these? Bamboo is not as useful as wooden ones!"

An Ningning "." It's not that wood products are hard to use, but that bamboo products last longer and are more cost-effective.

"Uncle, everyone has been using wood for a long time. Wood is very good, but wood is heavier. Bamboo is different, it is lighter, and it doesn't hurt to throw it away after use!"

"Okay, let's ask your grandpa to make a few shapes first. Then I'll take them to the city to take a look. There is a special carpentry workshop in the city that sells daily necessities. Darling, I've seen the same thing from afar. You can really Everything that comes to mind is there.

If we could make this with bamboo, would it be called a bamboo workshop? "Thinking about it, I laughed out loud for no reason.

Four babies "."

Tranquility "."

An Ningning found Old Man An who was skimming bamboo, and felt that he really liked this, making the water flow smoothly.

"Grandpa, what you did is really good, much better than what my uncle did." An Ningning pulled An Lao Er irresponsibly.

The old man An was so happy with the praise that he spoke more vigorously, "Of course, your second uncle is like a monkey. He has to get up and jump twice after sitting for a while. Look at what I did, there isn't even a burr."

Seeing that Old Man An was happy, An Ningning hurriedly told Old Man An about what he wanted to do, its general appearance, specifications and process.

When Old Man An heard this, his eyes lit up, "My dear granddaughter, don't you think of it, it sounds good! Grandpa, try it."

An Ningning watched Old Man An continue to immerse himself in the world of handicrafts, nodded and walked away.

It seems that Mr. An is still a fan of craftsmanship! This is the awakening of bloodline talent!

Looking back, I saw a family of men, big and small, sitting in rows and busy in the yard.

oops! What should I do? I feel a little guilty!

This is not okay, her body is still so small, this is not child labor anymore, she is a child laborer if she has to work!

Shaking his head, how could he have such thoughts? Isn't it bad to watch them work?

Note: The timeline of the article is similar to the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. It’s not that there were no bamboo products at that time, it was just that the development was not good and the market penetration rate was a bit low. Unlike wood products that have been developed for thousands of years, the technology has developed more maturely. Of course the price is also higher.