After graduation, I went home to keep bees

"Brother Sun, you're too dark, aren't you?" Jiang Xiaoman was furious on the spot.

"Why don't I ask you to come forward and call Uncle Arita to persuade him? I'm also thinking about the development of our town!"

"It's good for you, you just want my dad to make bamboo carvings for you after doing such a small thing?"

"My father is so old, how many years has it been since he held a bamboo knife? No, no, no! I don't agree!"

"Don't worry, it's okay, can I ask your father's opinion first?"

Sun Zheyuan knew that Jiang Xiaoman had the deepest relationship with his father, and that he had made money now, so he didn't want his father to suffer anymore, but on the way here, he had already thought about how to persuade Jiang Xiaoman——

"Didn't you always feel that your father was too lonely living alone in the mountains?"

"In my opinion, doing bamboo carving at home is just right for your father."

"Bamboo carving is a meticulous job, and there is no need to rush the construction period. After finishing the farm work at home every day, watching TV and carving a few knives at the same time, it is very easy to produce one or two works a month."

"And don't worry, I've helped you find buyers for this work. Our county is about to build a number of road service stations on provincial and county roads. The leaders above said that this station should serve people who come and go Drivers and tourists must show the unique cultural heritage of our county."

"I have a classmate in the County Cultural Bureau. I told him that we plan to excavate a bamboo carving intangible cultural heritage. When the time comes, let them also purchase a batch of bamboo carving ornaments and put them in the station as a characteristic cultural display..."

"Our family is not short of this little money..." Jiang Xiaoman still didn't want his father to work too hard.

Moreover, the upstairs guest room of their house will be open for business next year. He has already made plans. From now on, the guest room at home, as well as the beehive barrels in the mountains, the pigs, chickens and ducks at home, are all his father’s work. I still have to take care of the land at home, how can I have time to make bamboo carvings for you?

Besides, bamboo carving is hard work. If you have to keep your eyes on the bamboo, if you sit for a long time, your waist will be exhausted.

He would rather work harder by himself and make more short videos than let his father go through this kind of hardship at such an old age.

"It's not about money. Oh, I can't tell you clearly. I'll go tell your father!"

Sun Zheyuan decided to give up Jiang Xiaoman, an unreliable lobbyist.

Others are fathers protecting the calf, but he is better, protecting his own father is more precious than his own son!

Jiang Youliang really knows how to make bamboo carvings. When he heard that these bamboo carvings would be displayed in the post station for tourists to see, and that they might represent Langshan Town to participate in the county's intangible cultural heritage exhibition, his eyes lit up. The collective sense of honor of a lifetime is filled at once.

Jiang Xiaoman saw his father's expression, what else did he not understand?

have to!Just do what you want!

Anyway, their family doesn't expect to make a lot of money doing this bamboo carving, so it's an extra hobby for him to be his father.

However, in order to prevent his father from hurting his hands while doing bamboo carving, Jiang Xiaoman quickly placed an order online and bought a complete set of professional carving knives, a magnifying glass that can be worn on the head, and brighter incandescent lamps.

"Why are you buying a lamp? The bamboo carvings are not worth a lot of money. It's so wasteful to do it with a lamp on at night! I'll just do it in the sun during the day." Jiang Youliang asked him to put the incandescent The lights are removed.

After the task was completed, Sun Zheyuan took out the newspapers he had collected.

These were published one after another after the interview team came to Langshan last time. Jiang Xiaoman could only find the electronic version on the Internet. Sun Zheyuan didn't know what to do, but he actually found all those newspapers and returned them to Jiang Xiaoman for preparation. ordered one.

It’s not easy to collect this stuff. After all, you can’t even find a newsstand in the city now, and many people don’t order newspapers anymore. Paper publications are getting harder and harder to buy. If you can find so many, it seems that Director Sun also has a lot of them. well-connected.

"Hey! When I went to the party school for training the year before last, the leader of the Postal Service sat with me." Sun Zheyuan explained, and asked Jiang Youliang to work hard. It would be best to get him two bamboo carvings next month. Only when he got the real thing, he could report the project.

Jiang Xiaoman originally thought that this was another political mission in the town, so he would just mess around and it would be over. Unexpectedly, after more than a month, Sun Zheyuan excitedly called him to announce the good news——

"Xiaoman! Hurry up! Tell Uncle Youliang to pack his luggage quickly. I'll pick him up tomorrow morning!"

What the hell?

Where do you want to take my dad?

Sun Zheyuan was so happy that it took him a long time to explain the ins and outs of the matter clearly on the other end of the phone.

It turned out that Jiang Youliang made two bamboo carvings for Sun Zheyuan last time. After he took them back, he filled out a form and sent them to the County Cultural Bureau.

Sun Zheyuan had never been in contact with bamboo carving art before, and he didn't know how to appreciate it, but he felt that the two bamboo carvings Jiang Youliang gave him looked very beautiful.

Unexpectedly, after these two works were sent to the County Cultural Bureau, they immediately caused a small sensation!

They thought that the traditional bamboo carving craft on Langshan had long been lost.

After all, young people in the mountains have gone to work in the city these days. Who would want to learn bamboo carving skills from the master?

It takes three to five years to learn this thing, and there is no way to become a teacher. Even if you learn it, if you don't have the talent to do this, the hard-working bamboo carving art may not be sold and thrown in your hands.

On the one hand, young people do not like to learn; on the other hand, the impact of industrial assembly lines on the cost of bamboo carving handicrafts is the most fatal.

For example, if the bamboo carving artwork with the same pattern is purely hand-carved, it will cost at least one or two thousand to pay back the cost, but if it is replaced by machine carving, the cost may be less than 100 yuan!

Even if people double the retail price, the price is more advantageous than pure hand-carving.

The cycle of learning art is long, there are few people who appreciate it, the industry is too unpopular, and it does not make money. The traditional bamboo carving craft has come to the modern age, and it is almost like a concubine who is old and decrepit in the harem and put into the cold palace!

and many more!

At least the abandoned concubine of the Lenggong still takes care of food and shelter.

If the bamboo carvings can't be sold, drinking the northwest wind can't keep up with the heat!

Thinking about it this way, this industry will be eliminated in the tide of the times, so that even today, it still needs to be "digged" by the grassroots and archaeologists to dig out this craft from the corners. also normal...

It's just that Jiang Xiaoman's son doesn't even know that his father is actually a "bamboo carving inheritor"?

It feels like something written in a novel, when the protagonist returns home one day, he is suddenly told by his father: My son, in fact, our family has a throne that we want to pass on to you...

cough!Although their house is not a royal throne, it is quite amazing.

What really surprised him was——

"Father, when did you learn bamboo carving? Why don't I know?"

"How could you know?" Jiang Youliang rolled his eyes, "When I was learning crafts from my master, you didn't know where I was."

When Jiang Youliang was young, not many people went out to work in Langshan. Our ancestors lived in the mountains, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, such as basket weaving, iron making, tofu grinding, bamboo mat making, Furniture... There are all kinds of craftsmen.

At that time, to judge whether a young man was promising or not, whether he could marry his daughter, was not based on whether there was a house in the city (of course not), nor how much dowry could be given (basically not much), most of the What to see is whether this young man has any other skills besides farming.

Because craftsmen are popular, there are many rules for apprenticeship in those days.

Generally, apprentices have to work in the master's house for two years for nothing, and then fight with the master, which is commonly known as a test of character.

After passing this test, the master will lead you in and teach you some real skills... Jiang Youliang is simple and honest, and he is especially favored by the master. He became a teacher at the age of 14, and started making some gadgets with the master at the age of 16.

Although the bamboo carving business is unpopular, once you learn the craft well, you will receive orders from wealthy families, especially those from wealthy local families who marry their daughters and daughters-in-law. Usually, the master is invited to the home to take care of food and drink. Sometimes there are many things, and it takes one or two years to finish all of them. It is the real "three years without opening, and three years after opening."

It's a pity that Jiang Youliang was unlucky, and he learned a good craft in vain. Before he could take over the mantle of his master, rely on this craft to earn money to support his family, and live a good life, the kind of factory-made crafts became popular outside. new furniture.

Young people want to buy European-style or French-style furniture when they get married. The old-fashioned carving techniques are too rustic, and the price is several times that of new-style furniture. Who would invite a few masters to raise them at home for a few months just to make a few? What about furniture?

Jiang Youliang lost his job immediately after leaving his teacher. He has spent so many years in vain, and the skills he learned are useless at all!

If the hard-earned skills can't be realized, you can't make money.

If you don't have money, you can't marry a wife.

In this way, Jiang Youliang, who was from a poor family, wasted half his life, and finally picked up Jiang Xiaoman who had been discarded in the corner of the market on a market morning.

He had a son, and he also had hope and support for the rest of his life.

……

Closer to home, after having a son, Jiang Youliang tried his best to make money in order to support his son and pay for his son to go to college. He was willing to do any job that could make money.Bamboo carving, a hobby that does not make money and may lose money, was naturally thrown aside.

Therefore, from childhood, Jiang Xiaoman only knew that his father was ingenious and could do all kinds of carpentry and bamboo craftsman's work, but he didn't know that his father was not only a craftsman, but also a serious inheritor of bamboo carving culture.

I heard that the old master who took him back then was once well-known in the county, and many wealthy families were willing to ask him to make furniture. Today, there are many "famous people's former residences" in the county. Master's work.

Because of this, the County Cultural Bureau guessed from Jiang Youliang's carving skills and hometown that this person might be the successor of that old master, so he hoped to invite him to the county.

If it is confirmed that it is me, I will just stay in the county and help to renew this broken cultural inheritance.

"The main thing is to ask Uncle Liang to dictate the life of the old master, and to find out if there are other fellows here. Let's work together to dig out the bamboo carving culture of our Langshan and carry it forward!" Sun Zheyuan explained.

"Then, dad, what do you mean?" Jiang Xiaoman decided to respect his dad's decision.

"Go ahead, and take a look at the things your ancestor left behind. I haven't seen them myself." Jiang Youliang said melancholy.

Jiang Xiaoman: "..."

What patriarch?

I don't want to learn bamboo carving!

"If you want to learn from Lao Tzu, why don't you teach me? Just you, a skinny monkey who can't sit still, but still want to learn bamboo carving? Don't blame our ancestor's craftsmanship." Jiang Youliang scolded his son, feeling a little worried in his heart .

These days, everyone likes to buy ready-made furniture, or buy planks and ask a carpenter to make them themselves, which are beautiful and cheap!

When the family was building a house and buying furniture, he actually wanted to make two sets himself, but firstly, the handmade bamboo and wood furniture was too time-consuming to make, and secondly, there was really no new style of furniture that was beautiful and practical. , So in the end, I didn't even mention it at all. Even though my son found a style on the Internet, my family hired a carpenter to make two sets.

I heard that the County Cultural Bureau also collected a batch of master's works from that year, even if they didn't invite them, Jiang Youliang wanted to see them.

"Okay, I'll make arrangements at home and go with you."

Jiang Xiaoman was worried about letting his father go by himself!

With his father's kind personality, if someone sold him, he would even boast that the price was good!