ghost craftsman

Chapter 159 Mortise and tenon joint
I glanced at him lightly, didn't say a word, walked to the side of the fir tree, chose the thickest piece of fir wood as the bottom board of the coffin, touched the fir wood again, and called out to Su Xiaoman, "Mo Dou!"

Although Su Xiaoman didn't know carpentry, but she lived in the countryside, she was very familiar with carpenter's tools, and without hesitation, she immediately handed over the ink fountain.

I moved the fir board out, took the ink fountain again, cut my index finger and dripped a few drops of blood into the ink fountain, chanted a few words of Gongshili language in my mouth, and stirred it a few times in the ink fountain.

After finishing all this, I stared blankly, pulled out the end of thread from the ink fountain and handed it to Su Xiaoman. Su Xiaoman pulled the end of thread and stood at the other end of the fir tree, while I walked to the other end with the ink fountain and played a straight line on the fir tree.

After playing this straight line, I took a little look at the black line that came out, and then played another black line six centimeters to the left of the black line.

It took about 3 minutes, and I had played sixteen black lines on this fir board, so Su Xiaoman asked me why I played so many black lines.

I said, Mr. Wu has a lot of evil spirits, and the only way to dissipate the evil spirits from his body as soon as possible is to play more ink fountain lines.

Of course, what I said to Su Xiaoman was more official.In fact, I play these ink fountain lines with my intentions in it.

The reason is that this fir tree is shady and has a lot of moths, and as a ghost craftsman and I am still a child, my blood is very yang, once it is mixed with the ink in the ink fountain, it can make the ink full of yang, and then add it There are many moths in the fir wood, and there are many sand holes in the wood. If there are too many ink fountain lines, the ink will penetrate into the wood, thereby improving the texture of the whole fir wood and turning it into a coffin floor full of yang.

And my idea is no longer to use the coffin to dissipate the evil spirit from Mr. Wu's body, but to create a coffin with extremely strong yang energy, so that the yang energy and the evil spirit on Mr. Wu can reach a balance point, which is commonly used by the people. Said to be neutralized.

Our ghost craftsman's explanation of this is a poem, which says that there is a root cause for the change of all things.

This is the only way I can think of at the moment, and only in this way can the corpse of Mr. Wu be turned into a corpse without any evil spirit in the first place.

Having made up my mind, I popped all the fir boards onto the ink fountain line.

I just finished playing the ink fountain thread here, and Jinshan over there has almost put together the coffin, and Su Xiaoman was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, asking me why I didn't put together the coffin.

Without saying a word, I placed the fir boards on the ground, and used a saw and chisel to make some tenon (sun) heads and sockets on the fir boards. (Digression: tenon is also called tenon and tenon. In today’s words, it is the combination of two utensils using the principle of concave and convex. The protruding part is called tenon, and the concave part is called mortise. Most ancient Chinese wood arts They all use this mortise and tenon combination, especially for some bridges. The entire bridge does not need to use nails, and the relationship between the lock and the key is also a product derived from the mortise and tenon.)
To be honest, the mortise and tenon joints are extremely difficult to make, and it takes a lot of time, but if you want to create a very positive coffin, you must use the mortise and tenon joint method to firmly put all the coffin boards together. Together, only in this way can the yang energy in the coffin not leak out.

Of course, you can also choose to use rivets or strong glue to assemble the coffin boards into a coffin, which saves time.But in this case, firstly, it will disrespect the deceased, secondly, it will leak the yang energy in the coffin, and thirdly, our ghost craftsmen will make coffins with mortise and tenon joints, only carpenters will use rivets and strong Glue goes to the coffin.

When the old carpenter saw that I was working on the tenon and tenon, he stood up abruptly, stared at me in disbelief, and said, "Little brother, are you going to use tenon and tenon joints to make a coffin?"

I grunted and said, "As a ghost craftsman, if you can't make a coffin with mortise and tenon joints, what qualifications do you have to be called a ghost craftsman?"

When I said this, my tone was very light, and the old carpenter smiled slightly and said with satisfaction: "Yes, some young people nowadays have forgotten the way of mortise and tenon joint for convenience, but they don't know it. Mortise and tenon joints are the soul of craftsmen all over the world, if you don’t know this tenon and tenon joint, how can you be called a craftsman.”

After finishing speaking, he looked at Huang Jinshan, and said in a deep voice, "Jin Jinshan, as a ghost craftsman, shouldn't the coffin be taken down again?"

When Jin Jinshan heard this, he frowned and looked at me. I saw a hint of sternness in his eyes, but for some reason, he didn't say it out, but respectfully said to the old carpenter: "Your old man!" That is, I immediately make the tenon and tenon."

Hearing this, I breathed a sigh of relief, the third master told me to delay the time, as long as the mortise and tenon joints were done, it would definitely take a long time.After all, mortise and mortise consume a lot of time and test the craftsman's perception of size. If the mortise is too big to fit into the mortise, the mortise must be made smaller again. The pile is stuffed into the socket, so that the aesthetics will be greatly reduced.

At that moment, I glanced at Huang Jinshan and found that he didn't seem to know much about mortise and tenon joints, but the middle-aged man next to him did.

Seeing this, I didn't say a word, just fiddled with the mortise and tenon, while Su Xiaoman kept handing me the tools.

It took about six hours to fix the tenons and mortises of several coffin boards, but the gold was probably less than two-thirds finished.

I took a deep breath and was not in a hurry. I took a Luban ruler and measured the centimeters of all the tenons and mortises, and almost all of them matched the size.

Although this is my first time making such a large coffin, I have made countless palm-sized coffins when I was learning the art from my senior brother.

Let me tell you something from the bottom of my heart, even with a Luban ruler to measure the centimeters of the mortise and mortise, I just went there with the mentality of not being surprised. In a word from my senior brother, it is, "Chuanzi, you are talented. Extraordinary talent, especially in the control of size, it has a keenness that is different from ordinary people."

Therefore, I have absolute confidence in mortise and tenon joints. When I found out that there was no accident, I asked Su Xiaoman to move two long wooden benches over, and asked her to help put the coffin bottom board on the long wooden benches, and then put all the coffins together. boards together.

Since the dimensions of the mortise and the mortise were exactly the same, the coffin assembly was extremely simple. It only took half an hour before a coffin appeared.

Ordinarily, in this situation, I should be able to win Jinshan steadily, but I didn't smile on my face, because I understood too well that this coffin fight is just an appetizer, and the real trick lies in the back, and that is how to make this coffin fight. The coffin is full of yang.

(End of this chapter)