Chapter 37 Root Carving
For a new home, little things are curious. Many things in the human world are so new to her that she has to touch everything.
An inkstone attracted her attention, she walked over, climbed onto the inkstone and looked left and right, and accidentally fell into the ink pool, and when she came out again, she was completely dark.
Tang Jie laughed out loud, the little thing got a little angry, shook his head, and the next moment, the whole room was covered with ink.
"...Okay, you're ruthless!" Looking at the room full of black spots, Tang Jie was speechless and took the little guy out of the inkstone. He was about to fetch water for her to take a bath, but saw the little guy just waved his hand, and his whole body All the ink has dissipated automatically, leaving only the white and tender cute face, looking at Tang Jie with a giggle.
"Although the fighting power is a bit weaker, there are quite a lot of tricks." Tang Jie touched her face and said with a smile: "I see you are babbling, I will call you Yiyi from now on, okay?"
When the little thing heard that he had a name, he turned his head excitedly, and then nodded again and again.
"Okay, stay here honestly." Tang Jie said and went out.
"Yi Yi Ya Ya!" Seeing that Tang Jie was about to leave, Yi Yi cried out anxiously.
Tang Jie smiled and said: "Don't worry, I'm not leaving, I'm just going to make a nest for you, I guess you don't like to live in a flower pot honestly."
A moment later, Tang Jie entered the house with a large piece of wood in his arms.
He hollowed out the wood, stuffed it with cotton, sewed a small pillow and a small quilt with cloth, and hung a door curtain on the hole, thus becoming a log cabin.
Patting the quilt, Tang Jie said: "Okay, from now on this is your nest, you can sleep here if you have nothing to do, you can play in the house when I'm not around, but you can't go out casually. If someone comes, you You have to turn into a flower and stay in a flowerpot so that no one can find you, you know?"
The little guy nodded and turned into a small white flower, standing quietly in the pot.
"That's it!" Tang Jie laughed.
In the next moment, the little thing has turned back into a human form, and he threw himself into Tang Jie's arms, and became intimate with him.
After playing around for a while, the little guy seemed a little tired, and fell asleep directly in Tang Jie's hands. Tang Jie carefully put Lu'e into the hut, and covered her with a quilt.
Then Tang Jie sat alone by the bed and began to reflect on what had happened.
When meeting Lue for the first time, Tang Jieguang thought about coaxing her into his hands. When he actually got her, Tang Jie realized that with the appearance of this little thing, there might be many troubles in the future.
After carefully sorting out the possible problems, Tang Jie calculated in his mind and gradually came up with an idea. Seeing that it was getting late, Tang Jie looked at the little guy who was sleeping peacefully, said "good night" softly, and fell asleep.
The next morning, Tang Jie got up early. After finishing the work in the garden, Tang Jie found some old tree roots, took a small knife and started cutting on the roots. Draw on the roots of the tree.
A young servant was curious and asked Tang Jie what it was for, and Tang Jie answered Gen Diao.
The days of relying on gardening to attract attention are long, and Wei Tianchong's interest in gardening is not as high as before. Now Tang Jie plans to use this eagle to attract Wei Tianchong's attention again.
But the most important thing is that with the fame of this carving, Tang Jie can move a lot of wood into his house in the future. In this way, he can well cover up the nest made for small things and make it less obtrusive. up. Although it is said that there are few guests in Tang Jie's hut, one has to be careful of accidents, and it will also help Tang Jie to enroll in the future.
After going to the academy, Tang Jie would no longer be able to be a gardener, which meant that he would lose the position he was good at, so Tang Jie had to find a new way out for himself.
Root carving is a good choice, this thing can be used wherever you go, just dig a few pieces of wood as the material.
If you do a good job, you can sell some money to support your family, and if you do a good job, you can also give it to others as a gift-people with special skills are always more popular.
In addition, root carving is also useful for cultivating immortals. In cultivating immortals, there is a miscellaneous science called puppet art. Through the cooperation of puppet making and formation formation, a mechanism capable of fighting is formed.
Among them, engraving is used.
In fact, art has always had practical value in cultivating immortals. Whether it is calligraphy, painting, sound, or sculpture, they can all find their value in the realm of cultivating immortals.
For example, Xu Muyang drew a horse with just a few strokes at the beginning, and then cast magic to make it come alive, which reflects his superb painting skills.
If the one who can't even draw a picture well, the horse he draws is like a donkey, and even if he comes back to life, it is just a joke.
As for the characters, they are the basic needs of drawing characters. If you write legal characters, the characters on it will be crooked and appear out of thin air. A grinning "kill" character, I am afraid that the effect has not yet been exerted, and the big teeth will be laughed off.
Therefore, in the academies under the major immortal sects, in addition to basic immortal arts, the content about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting also exists, and has practical significance-everything in the world of cultivating immortals, except for the illiterate.
Tang Jie has been in the Wei Mansion for more than a year. Apart from the Dao, he practiced calligraphy and painting when he had nothing to do. It is said that some students in the college were unable to graduate after entering the fairy gate because of their poor liberal arts.
Tang Jie didn't want to fail to graduate because of the ugly handwriting.
As for the current root carving, Tang Jie is thinking about learning puppet art in the future, and also for integrating his knowledge of formations into it.
Formation Dao is actually a wide-ranging field of knowledge. Apart from military formations and mountain defense formations, formations are almost all required for alchemy, tool making, and puppet organs, but the directions and characteristics are different.
What Xu Muyang is good at is mainly the big formation of heaven and earth, and he is not very good at other types, but the reason is the same, Tang Jie can learn and research by himself.
Tang Jie is not interested in puppet art, but the basic carving ability it needs is currently the only thing that has something to do with gardening. Others, such as practicing calligraphy and painting, have nothing to do with gardening. If you want to do this at work, The Wei family would never praise him for being self-motivated.
In addition, puppet art and the technology system of later generations are also relatively similar in form. For Tang Jie, this means that he may have more development possibilities in this area.
Although he doesn't know how to root carving now, there are still two years before he enters school, and two years is enough for him to roughly master this craft.
The new pattern really attracted Wei Tianchong's attention again—there are stone carvings in Qixia Realm, but root carvings are rare.
Watching Tang Jie toss and fiddle with the tree trunk full of roots in his hands, making shapes one after another, Wei Tianchong felt so fresh that he even picked up an old tree root and started to imitate it.
Tang Jie taught him how to deal with these tree roots.
Different from stone carvings, root carvings have higher requirements on the selection of materials, and the sculptors need to skillfully use the natural forms of the materials themselves to make them, paying attention to "three parts of artificial, seven parts of nature". In addition, the real root carvings pursue strange shapes. Generally, the roots that grow in the plains are rich in nutrients, grow fast, and have loose wood fibers, so it is difficult to form strange shapes. Only roots that grow in harsh environments, such as those that grow in the back of the sun or in the crevices of cliffs and cliffs, and have survived tenaciously through lightning, fire, ant erosion, stone pressure, human stepping, and knife cutting, due to insufficient light Lack of soil, water, and nutrients, it will gradually deform after a long time. In addition, even before engraving, various treatments are required on the material.
But what Tang Jie pursues is not art but practicality, so he doesn't need to pay attention to all these. In his eyes, the root carving is "seven parts artificial, three parts natural".
What art pays attention to is weird shape and rich imagination, but what puppet pays attention to is simulation and realism, and it needs to reserve space for the engraving of formations. The two are similar in shape but different in quality.
But no matter which one, it is actually not easy to do.
Sculpture itself is a very comprehensive art, which not only requires the artist to have strong carving skills and art appreciation ability, but also requires a certain painting background.
Tang Jie's artistic ability is obviously very limited, and he can't meet any of the above conditions. He held a piece of wood and looked at it for a long time, but he didn't see any tricks. Finally, after a long time with the knife, he finally dug out a small wooden figure with a head. Occupying more than a third of it, the two slender legs made of roots are ugly no matter how you look at them. If this thing is activated with a training array so that it can walk freely, it is probably a deformity, and it is estimated that it will fall to the ground within two steps.
Regarding this, Tang Jie could only sigh helplessly, comforting himself that there is still a preference for Zhendao, and he cannot be expected to be loved by everyone in the world, but this plan seems to be going bankrupt. Sure enough, no matter how well-crafted some plans are, lack of effective means of execution will cause them to suffer. Can not be done.
Looking back to the side, I saw that the young master Wei Tianchong was cutting like flying with a knife, holding a flying block of tree roots with disc-shaped protrusions, and not long after, a little turtle appeared in the palm of his hand. The little turtle has a lot of flaws, but at least its structure is complete and it doesn't look too out of shape.
Tang Jie was stunned: "Have you learned it before?"
He was so surprised that he didn't even call out the young master.
"No, this is the first time, it's very interesting." Wei Tianchong looked at his work and admired it.
"Genius..." Tang Jie moaned weakly.
Never dreamed that Wei Tianchong would have such a talent.
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From this day on, Wei Tianchong played root carving with Tang Jie every day.
Different from Tang Jie's "being favored by the Daoist", this young master really loves carving, which is completely in line with Xu Muyang's saying that where there is love, there is talent.
At first Wei Tianchong was a little worried that his mother would teach him to play with things and lose his mind after knowing this. Later, he heard Tang Jie said that this is also one of the foundations of cultivating immortals, so he indulged in root carving every day without fear.
Sure enough, after my wife heard about this, she went to ask that Master Lu Ling for advice, and after confirming that it was correct, she just said "don't miss other classes", and never cared about her son.
To her, it doesn't matter which path her son takes to cultivate immortality, the important thing is that he finally has his own pursuit and works hard for it, so she appreciates Tang Jie even more.
Those who can make their children progress are good people!
Tang Jie's mood during this time is getting more and more depressed.
With the increase of carving time together, Wei Tianchong's level of root carving has improved by leaps and bounds. At first he could only carve some small wooden gadgets, but after only a few months, Wei Tianchong had already started to carve the whole section. The trunk is as tall as a man.
A few months later, Wei Tianchong completed his first large-scale wood carving, which was a huge white-fronted tiger with hanging eyes, and the carving was lifelike.
Tang Jie had no doubt that if matched with a suitable training formation, it would become a real man-eating tiger.
Seeing Wei Tianchong put his first large-scale work on the flowerbed and adorned it with petals, proudly letting others watch it, Tang Jie quietly crushed the big-headed doll-like puppet in his hand.
My heart is broken.