Chapter 54 A Bowl of Scallion Noodles with Poached Eggs
Zhang Junping sent everyone the detailed structural drawings and asked them to think about the method first.
"Hingzi, we can't understand your drawing!" The eldest brother-in-law held the drawing with a confused look on his face.
"Yeah, what kind of drawing is this? Why is it different from what we did before?" The third brother scratched his head while holding the drawing.
Several other people were the same, holding the drawings and staring with confusion on their faces.
"This is the rendering. You can compare it and look at it. If you don't understand, I will explain it to you later!" Zhang Junping found the corresponding rendering and handed it to them.
Yang Mingde has said before that they are not carpenters, they are carpenters at best.
This is the truth. If you can't draw or understand the drawings, you can only draw the gourd.
Give them a piece of furniture and ask them to compare making it, and they can make it. But if you give them a drawing directly and ask them to make it, they all end up like this.
The meeting was held in confusion, and everyone was confused!
"Oh! That's it! You should have taken out this drawing earlier!
If you had taken out this drawing earlier, we would have understood it clearly!" Looking at the renderings, the eldest brother-in-law, third brother and others all looked astonished.
Everyone is gearing up and eager to get started right away.
"You compare it and look at it. Don't just look at the renderings. Just look at the renderings. Can you make it?"
"Isn't this simple?
Pingzi, you really didn’t go to college in vain!
The furniture you drew is so beautiful!
I want it after seeing it, and it’s so easy to do!” The eldest brother-in-law praised Zhang Junping with the renderings.
"Brother-in-law, you can see clearly that there is not a single nail in the entire furniture except for the hinges!
Are you sure you can do it?" Zhang Junping shook his head speechlessly, and then asked.
"No nails?
Pingzi, aren't you kidding me?
How can you make furniture without nails?" Before the eldest brother-in-law could say anything, the fifth brother over there started shouting.
"Why not?
Not to mention the old furniture in our house, just this table, if you can find a nail, I will eat the table!" Zhang Junping slapped the table and retorted.
“That…that’s old furniture!
What we are making now is new furniture!
Is there any new furniture that doesn’t use nails? If you don’t use nails, it will start to wobble within a few days. Isn’t that fooling people?” Fifth Brother retorted bravely.
“Fifth Brother, in the past, the ancients did not use nails to make furniture, and it would not shake or break after being used for decades or hundreds of years!
Why can't we do it?" Zhang Junping asked rhetorically.
After asking, before Fifth Brother could speak, he waved his hand directly and continued: "It doesn't matter if you can't do it, we can learn if we can't do it!
I’m afraid that I can’t do it and I’m not willing to learn!
I know that you have all learned the carpentry craft from my master for several years, and you can do the most basic marking and cutting of materials, and you can also process simple mortise and tenon structures!"
"What is the mortise and tenon structure?" Brother Wu raised his hand and asked.
"Insert the mortise and tenon into the mortise, and the whole structure is a mortise and tenon structure!" Zhang Junping shook his head helplessly and explained, and then continued: "As before, don't think about whether furniture can be made without nails.
Compare the renderings to understand the structural drawings!
Then I will explain to you how to make it!
At the beginning, I will lead you to make several sets of furniture by yourself!
You all have the basics, as long as you make a few sets of furniture, you will be able to do it naturally!"
"Pingzi, the noodles are ready. Come over and eat. I'll be embarrassed soon..." The eldest sister finished the noodles and came over to call Zhang Junping.
"You guys look at the drawings first, I'm going to have dinner!" After Zhang Junping finished speaking, he came to the backyard.
A large bowl full of noodles, with a few oil flowers floating on it, some green scallions embellished in it, and two poached eggs pressed on the noodles.
Just smelling the fragrance made Zhang Junping's mouth start to water.
"Bah!" Zhang Junping took a big bite.
“It smells so good!
Sister, I haven’t eaten your noodles in a while!”
"If you like it, I'll give it to you every day!"
"Okay, I won't be bothered by the noodles that my eldest sister ordered for the rest of my life..." Zhang Junping became silent as he spoke, lowering his head and sipping the noodles.
Tears were welling up in his eyes.
yes!
He will never get tired of eating noodles all his life, but he will never be able to eat the noodles made by his mother again!
In his previous life, when he was a child, his family was in dire straits due to fines imposed on him who had more than one child, and he could not eat eggs more than once a year.
The happiest time is birthdays, because on your birthdays you can eat noodles made by my mother and have a poached egg.
"Hingzi, what's wrong with you?"
"It's okay, I'm happy! I think of the past, when my eldest sister would secretly save a few eggs and lay poached eggs for us on our birthdays!
I was so ignorant at that time, I never thought about when my eldest sister’s birthday would be..." Zhang Junping wiped the corners of his eyes and grinned.
"What are you talking about?" The eldest sister was also saddened by Zhang Junping, wiped the corners of her eyes and said with a smile.
"If I can't make it this year, I will give my eldest sister a glorious birthday next year!" Zhang Junping solemnly promised.
"Okay! Sister, I'm waiting for you to celebrate my birthday!"
"I want it too, I want to celebrate my birthday too!"
"I want········"
Two little nieces ran out, shouting that they wanted to celebrate their birthdays too.
Although they may not know what a birthday is, they can tell from the expressions of their uncle and mother that celebrating a birthday is a good thing.
"Okay! When it's your birthday, uncle will celebrate your birthday and buy you a big cake!" Zhang Junping lovingly touched the heads of his two nieces.
"Uncle is so kind!"
"What is uncle's cake? Is it made of eggs? Is it delicious?" Niu Niu asked, staring at the eggs in Zhang Junping's bowl and swallowing her saliva.
“It’s made with eggs, flour and milk. It’s delicious!
Come on, open your mouth, eat an egg first, and then let’s eat cake when it’s your birthday!” Zhang Junping held the bowl, opened the egg, and fed it to his two nieces.
"You two little gluttons, haven't you just eaten? Go and play, don't disturb uncle's meal!"
"Sister, don't be reluctant to spend money. When Niuniu Nini is growing, she must ensure the nutrition of one egg a day!
By the way, I forgot to give it to you yesterday!
Take the money and the tickets!" Zhang Junping took out the money and tickets given by Section Chief Sun yesterday and handed them to the elder sister.
Qian Zhang Junping kept ten yuan for himself and gave the rest to his eldest sister, as well as about 40 kilograms of food stamps, two kilograms of oil stamps, five kilograms of meat stamps, and other life stamps.
This is enough for the eldest sister and the eight of them to survive for a month.
"Why are you giving me so much? You can keep it for yourself, you can't do it if you don't have any money on you outside!" The eldest sister pushed back half of the money and tickets.
"Sister, put it away! You followed me to Beijing. Regardless of whether you make money or not, I have to feed you, right?"