The little Taoist priest became Xiao Dajiang's apprentice, and the happiest thing about it was Xiao Hongxia. Hongxia could now stay with the little Taoist priest whom she thought about day and night every day.
Xiao Dajiang is also an honest man. Since he has accepted the little Taoist priest as his apprentice, he has taught him very carefully. Unlike his master back then, who taught a little and hid a little. Just using the saw, sharpening the planer blade, and filing the saw, the master also
I didn't tell you the secret, so I just let you grind hard. It took a lot of effort and a lot of pain, but in the end, you were scolded by the master before the job was done. But you did the menial tasks of carrying water and sweeping the floor very well.
He became more and more familiar with it. Xiao Dajiang spent eleven months doing menial work at his master's house. Finally, his master taught him the correct postures for pulling saws, sharpening planer blades, and filing saws. There is cleverness and skill in this. Just a little bit.
Yes, but this year the master just doesn’t order it.
Xiao Dajiang told the little Taoist the secret from the beginning. The old Taoist looked on with satisfaction. The little Taoist didn't understand the trick here, but he understood it. Who is a craftsman who doesn't know how to make a living at the bottom of the box?
Many of these tips were learned over a lifetime. Craftsmen rely on their crafts to make a living. There are only so many jobs in these ten miles and eight villages, and they can only feed so many craftsmen. After teaching the apprentices, the master will really starve to death.
So, when teaching disciples, you have to save something. When you can no longer move and do manual work in the future, at this time, if you feel that the apprentice is still filial, you can teach the apprentice these things that are at the bottom of the box. Teach him wherever he comes.
The trick?
However, Xiao Dajiang was reluctant to take out the little Taoist priest he was using for practice. He dug out a bunch of unusable tools from a dark wooden box and took them out for the little Taoist priest to practice with, even breaking them.
It’s not heartbreaking either. What new apprentice doesn’t ruin some guys?
The trail leader picked up the rusty planing blades and looked at them. They had been left in the box for too long and were already rusty. There were even chips in some places. It was precisely because of these gaps that these planing blades were discarded.
Here, even if these plane blades are sharpened, they are not of much use. They are perfect for practicing hands.
A good carpenter must have a good set of whetstones, including coarse grindstones and fine grindstones. If you want to sharpen your knife well, you must first put on the coarse grindstone, grind out the gaps, and then replace it with the fine grindstone.
After the blade is sharpened, you can feel the neatness and sharpness of the blade by gently rubbing it with your fingers.
"Brother Daochang, let me help you." Hongxia went to the kitchen and brought out a basin of water in a wooden basin. She had to water the knife while sharpening it. It would save a lot of effort to have someone to help her.
Xiao Dajiang didn't care about his daughter's help, and accompanied Lao Tao to smoke dry cigarettes. After taking one sip, Lao Tao started coughing non-stop.
"Oh, it won't work anymore, I can't smoke anymore." The old Taoist put down the pipe.
After a while, Hongxia came over to report her merits: "Dad, Brother Dao Chang sharpened so fast. He sharpened all the plane blades in one go."
"It's all sharpened, how is it possible? I'm not practical at all. How can I learn the craft in the future?" Xiao Dajiang was very unhappy. He had many damaged planer blades in his hand. Some of them were inherited from his master.
I came here. When my master got old, Xiao Dajiang inherited a wooden box of discarded tools at home. Not to mention that it was impossible to sharpen these plane blades in such a short time, even if it took ten days and a half to sharpen them, it would not be impossible.
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But when Xiao Dajiang saw the planing blades sharpened by Xiaodao, his eyes widened.
Each of the planing blades was polished and polished. Not only the edges were polished, but also the rust on the rest of the plane was polished off and turned white. After these planing blades were sharpened, they were already well oiled.
The cold light was shining, and it seemed to be sharper than the one he was using.
When Xiao Dajiang was about to pick up the planing blade to check whether it was sharp, the Taoist priest quickly reminded him: "Master, this planing blade is very sharp."
Xiao Dajiang couldn't help but laugh. How old was I when I started working as an apprentice? I have been sharpening planer blades for decades. I still don't know how sharp the planer blade is?
Xiao Dajiang pointed the edge of the blade upward, then put the pad of his thumb on the edge and rubbed it. Oops, he only felt a slight pain in the pad of his finger. There was a cut on the pad of his thumb, and scarlet blood came out of the cut.
come out.
"Dad, you are so disobedient. The little Taoist Brother told you that the planer blade is very sharp, but you don't believe it. Now it's better, you've cut your hand, right?" Hongxia said angrily to Xiao Dajiang.
Xiao Dajiang glanced at his daughter and felt very resentful. Is this daughter my biological child? Why is she always looking towards outsiders?
The little Taoist Master quickly grabbed Xiao Dajiang's hand and murmured: "The sun rises a little in the east, and I carry a steel knife to kill four cows. There is Taishang Laojun above, and Qingliu Patriarch below. There is no flow inside, and there is no flow outside. Seven to seven.
Go, Qiqi will not go."
The incision on Xiao Dajiang's thumb stopped bleeding immediately, the stinging pain completely disappeared, and finally the wound began to disappear slowly.
He checked the other planing blades and found that they were all gleaming with cold light, probably all equally sharp. This was really magical. No matter how carefully he sharpened these planing blades, they would never be so sharp.
In this way, I'm afraid it was my disciple who performed the Taoist method.
"The planer blades are almost sharpened, please sharpen those saws." Xiao Dajiang said.
The saw teeth of sawing wood will deform after being used for a long time. It is very difficult to saw the wood, so you need to use a file to flatten the saw teeth. This is not an easy job. There are different sizes and quantities of saws according to different types.
The teeth of the saw must be filed one by one. If an ordinary apprentice comes to grind the saw, it will take a lot of effort. Take a few days to see if you can grind out a saw blade.
But when the saw blade was in the hands of the little Taoist, it was like playing with a toy. When the saw blade was rubbed in the hands of the little Taoist, it immediately lit up, and the saw teeth immediately emitted a cold light. You could tell at a glance that the saw teeth had become sharper.
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Before Xiao Dajiang finished smoking a pack of cigarettes, the Taoist priest had already folded all the saw blades and started sharpening the axe. By the time Xiao Dajiang finished smoking a pack of cigarettes, all the tools in the toolbox were brand new. Even the dust inside the box had been cleaned.
Got to be clean.
"Xing'er does housework at home every day. The hoes, kitchen knives, hatchets, and axes at home are all sharpened by Xing'er," the old Taoist said with a smile.
Xiao Dajiang smoked cigarettes and pretended not to be moved by the performance of his new apprentice. He muttered in his heart: I grind these every day, why can't I grind them so fast?
"Chang Xing, go and sharpen the set of tools I use." Xiao Dajiang put Chang Xing's sharpened planer blade on a piece of material, tried it, and immediately turned around and said.
