Chapter 108: The best material for making bracelets
After finishing this freehand painting connecting the future, I looked at the time and it only took more than an hour.
Zhang Junping made himself a cup of tea.
The tea is Pu'er tea left by the original owner Guan Jiaming, which is said to have a history of more than 30 years and is the same age as the Republic of China.
It's just the tea set that Zhang Junping used to make tea. If a tea lover looks at it, they will definitely have the urge to strangle him to death.
A white enamel jar with the words "Learn from Uncle **" and **'s face printed on it.
This large enamel jar is 14 cm high and 8 cm in diameter. Making tea in this jar will definitely quench your thirst.
Thirty-year-old Pu'er, which is more expensive than gold, is drunk from an enamel jar, and Zhang Junping is the only one to drink it.
In fact, Zhang Junping drank like this not to show his independence, but because he really didn't have the right tea set.
There was originally a set of purple clay tea sets left in this study, and it was also a masterpiece by Huang Yulin.
But I don’t know how many years the tea set has been there, and I don’t know who has used it. It’s good to keep it, but to use it for drinking tea or telling fortunes, Zhang Junping really can’t muster the courage.
It's better to drink from my own enamel jar, which is safe and enjoyable.
After drinking tea for a while, Zhang Junping started to create again.
This time he painted the past, old Beijing before liberation.
The streets are still the same streets, and the courtyards are still those courtyards, but under the rendering of pen and ink, the whole city looks so desolate.
There were only a few pedestrians on the street. One was selling vegetables with a load, and the other was selling water with a wheelbarrow.
Under the overpass, there were entertainers performing on the ground, performing hard there, but there were only two children and a scrawny old dog standing in front of the stall.
As the sun sets, the red, black, and gray colors in the sky are mixed together, giving people an extremely depressing and desolate feeling.
Zhang Junping has never experienced the old society before liberation, so this painting is completely imaginary.
However, maybe he was too involved and was a little lost in the drama. After Zhang Junping finished painting, he felt depressed and had a feeling of anger in his heart.
Zhang Junping did not stop writing there, but waited for the ink to dry, then replaced it with a piece of rice paper and a large brush with wolf hair.
After dipping enough ink, filling up the pen, waving your wrist, the pen moves like a dragon and a snake, brushing, brushing, and a line of words appears on the paper with flying dragons and phoenixes.
"The ancients have never been seen before, and the newcomers have never been seen since. Thinking of the long journey of heaven and earth, I shed tears with sadness!"
After finishing writing, Zhang Junping let out a long breath. These twenty-two words vented all the depression, depression, and loneliness caused by painting just now.
All negative emotions are left on paper.
Putting down his pen, Zhang Junping put his hands behind his back and admired his handwriting. This handwriting was undoubtedly the best he had ever written.
However, this picture is too depressing and dark, so it is probably not very popular.
After the ink dried, Zhang Junping collected the words and put them away.
Then I washed out the brush, cleaned the inkstone, wiped it clean with a soft dry cloth, and then turned around and left the study after keeping everything in order.
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Wangfujing Street Neighborhood Committee.
"Good leader, thank you for your support, we will continue to work hard..." Secretary Gao stood behind the desk, slightly hunched over, holding the phone in his hand.
After hanging up the phone, Secretary Gao called Aunt Wang and Fat Aunt to the office.
"Sister Lin, Sister Wang, come on, please take a seat.
Didn’t classmate Xiao Zhang say before that he wanted us to help solve the woodworking machine problem?
The leader just called and helped us arrange a band saw, five electric saws, and five electric planes.
Now is the time for him to help us solve the employment problem of unemployed young people. You are familiar with Xiao Zhang, so this task will be left to you.
Our goal is to solve the employment problem of thirty unemployed young people, and you must rush them in before the Liulichang people react."
"Okay, leave this matter to us sisters, secretary, don't worry!" Aunt Wang said happily, patting her chest.
"Secretary, Master Zhang is a real person and an honest person. Since I told you at the beginning, I think there should be no problem.
It's just that he originally only had seven people, but now he has thirty people crammed in, and I'm afraid he won't be able to take care of it." Aunt Lin thought about the problem more carefully than Aunt Wang.
"What Sister Lin said makes sense. When the time comes, we will try our best to arrange for him unemployed young people who know carpentry skills.
If it doesn't work, we can solve it in batches, solving part of it before the end of the year and part of it after the year." Secretary Gao quite agreed with Fat Auntie's words.
A small workshop with seven or eight people, and thirty people were crammed into it all at once. Really, he didn't worry whether others would agree or not.
If the small workshop is overwhelmed all of a sudden, it will be like killing the goose that lays the goose.
Even the eggs may not be available.
After coming out of Secretary Gao's office, Fat Aunt and Wang went straight to Zhang Junping's furniture store in Wangfujing.
Naturally, it all came to nothing.
The two people found out where Zhang Junping was going and took a bus to Liulichang.
At this time, Zhang Junping was playing with ancient furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
This is an elm four-corner cabinet from the Ming Dynasty.
In this Ming Dynasty elm four-corner cabinet, two of the four lower legs are missing, one of the cabinet doors is missing, and the back and bottom panels of the cabinet are also missing.
The highest state of repairing ancient furniture is to restore it to its original state.
It's just that this piece of furniture is missing too many parts. The back panel is okay, it can be made do, and other boards can be used.
The backboard and bottom board were later covered with linen and ash to prevent moisture. Therefore, the materials used in these two parts of furniture during the Ming and Qing Dynasties were generally relatively poor.
The ancients were still very adaptable. They knew that when powder is applied on the face, good materials should be used for the exposed parts to reflect the value of the furniture. The texture of the wood is beautiful. On the back and the invisible areas, use inferior materials to save costs.
This piece of furniture was just a piece of furniture that Zhang Junping moved here. Whether it needs to be repaired or not depends on whether it can be equipped with a suitable cupboard door.
This is the key. If it doesn’t fit the cupboard door, it can only be dismantled and used as materials.
After Zhang Junping checked and determined the repair plan, he started rummaging through the pile of wood.
Some of the ancient furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties had just been shipped over, and the broken pieces of furniture and wood that had fallen apart were piled together, making it very troublesome to rummage through.
Zhang Junping could only search slowly.
I sighed secretly, because there were still not enough manpower, otherwise I would have sorted all the broken furniture parts myself.
Classify and store according to material and component type.
That way, when you need to find old materials, it will be easier to find them.
After searching for a long time, I still couldn't find suitable parts or suitable materials.
Zhang Junping simply gave up and continued rummaging, sat on the pile of wood, picked up a piece of wood and played with it in his hand.
This is an old piece of small-leaf red sandalwood. The material is not big, only about the size of two palms. It has water ripples with fish scales and densely packed gold stars on it. This is definitely a top-quality piece of material, a top-quality material for making bracelets.