Chapter 110 Carpentry

[This is pure a cappella, without post-production tuning or accompaniment. This is Kong Wei's true level. Who said before that Kong Wei has no singing skills at all? ]

[Does anyone really believe these news on the Internet? I can only say that you are stupid. How can an ordinary person without any real skills get second place in a talent show? ]

[The second place is because a certain resourceful person bought the ticket, otherwise he would be the first, the first in singing and dancing! ]

[Wow, in the past, some people on the Internet slandered our Wei Zai for lip-syncing or poor singing skills, and no one believed us fans no matter how we explained! Today, we finally cleared our name, thank you Miss Liruan. 】

Many people came to thank you.

More than two hours later, the bamboo raft finally reached the shore. The two carried their luggage and Liruan carried the fish basket in her hand. After walking for a while, they met a few villagers chatting and asked for directions. "Auntie, we want to go to Tianju Village. Which way should we go?"

Seeing that she was good-looking and sweet-spoken, the old lady enthusiastically gave directions to the two of them, "Follow this road and walk west for another kilometer and you will be there."

Liruan and Kong Wei thanked them and continued on their way. They happened to catch a tricycle from the village going to Tianju Village and they got a ride.

The program crew’s follow-up filming: …Whoever wants to follow this crappy show can follow next time, he won’t come even if you kill him. Liruan and Kong Wei rode deer and he walked somewhere else. Liruan and Kong Wei took a bamboo raft and he chased them for half a mile along the shore before he caught up with them on a boat found by his colleagues. Liruan and Kong Wei took a tricycle and he hired a car to chase them, as if he was going through a calamity.

The tricycle bumped the two of them all the way to Tianju Village. They thanked the owner politely. After leaving, Kong Nan said, "Although we are just an ordinary family, this is the first time I've ridden a tricycle. It's too bumpy."

"It's good to have a car to ride. The villagers are simple and honest. They didn't even ask us for fare. Let's go. I'm afraid we won't have such a good thing in the future."

Liruan looked at the camera again, "You guys are talking about completing a mission, so you don't want us to ask each one of us one by one, right?"

He shook the camera in his hand up and down to follow the shot.

"If we're unlucky, we probably won't be able to find the person who issued the task for a long time. Director Wang is probably using his brain to figure out how to mess with people." After saying that, Li Ruan smiled again, "But there are also advantages. If people who come early can't complete the first task, they may be able to get the next task. So, we really have to rely on our luck this time."

Kong Wei, "How about this, we two go separately, find the person who issued the task, and then reunite. This will save some time."

Li Ruan: "Okay, then I'll start from the north, and you start from the south, and ask for the phone number."

After the two men agreed, they ran away and went door to door to find the villagers and knock on their doors to ask.

The production team should have made advance arrangements with the villagers. The villagers were well-intentioned and were not surprised to be disturbed. They would patiently chat with them. After searching for more than half an hour, Liruan's watch rang and she immediately pressed the answer button: "Sister Ruan, I found out that the owner's bed is broken and they need us to make a new one for him."

"Where are you?"

"It's the third row from the south, the seventh household from the east. The owner's surname is Chen. I'll be waiting for you at the door."

Five minutes later, the two met again.

"Sister Ruan, this task is too difficult. Let's just give up. I don't know how to do carpentry."

The male owner of the Chen family stood at the door and looked at the two of them with a smile, "It doesn't matter if you don't know how to do it. There is a carpenter in our village. You can learn from him and then make the bed."

Kong Wei: Their program lasts only five days in total, and two and a half days have passed. By the time they learn how to make the bed, the program will be over.

Liruan understood that the program team wanted to promote craftsmen, and the effect might be debatable, but the intention was good. "How do you know that you can do another task?"

Kong Wei: …Based on Director Wang’s torturous temper, I guess the other two tasks won’t be easy to complete. “What should we do then?”

Li Ruan looked at Brother Chen who had just spoken, "Can you take us to the carpenter's house?"

"Okay, okay, I'll take you there right away."

The carpenter's house is in the west of the village, not too far from Brother Chen's house, and we arrived there in a few minutes.

The carpenter was a man in his fifties with a dark complexion. The deepest wrinkles were at the corners of his eyes and mouth, and he seemed to love to smile.

"Lao Zhang, this is a celebrity who came to our village to record a show. He wants to learn how to make a bed from you. You have to teach him well later."

Liruan: ...

Uncle Zhang said with a smile: "No problem, no problem. I will definitely teach them with all my heart. I can't say that they can become real carpenters, but it should be no problem for them to make small items."

After saying that, he took Li Ruan and the other person to the room where he stored his tools.

Liruan asked Brother Chen: "Does the production team want us to do everything ourselves, starting from preparing the wood? Are there any requirements for the style?"

Brother Chen said, "Old Zhang has some ready-made wood here, just the normal style will do. You just need to follow Old Zhang's instructions, but it will take a long time, at least half a day to finish."

Kong Wei exclaimed: "Will it take so long?"

"Be content. If the style is specific, it will take more than half a day to finish." Li Ruan said as she rolled up her sleeves. "Uncle Zhang, I know how to use these tools, but I have never made a bed myself. Please tell us carefully about the precautions in the production process, and let's get started."

Nowadays, carpenters use electric tools, so they can cut wooden boards very quickly. Under the guidance of Uncle Zhang, Li Ruan quickly cut the wood according to size, with Kong Wei helping him. The Zhang family's courtyard was filled with flying sawdust and sweat.

Seeing Liruan skillfully cutting the wooden boards and then putting them together into a standard double bed according to Uncle Zhang's instructions, Uncle Zhang praised her from the side, "Girl, have you really never learned this before? My apprentice has been with me for three years, but he is still not as skillful as you."

Liruan shook her head, "I would like to learn, but I don't have the chance."

Before, she was so busy studying that how could she have the chance to learn anything else?
Later, she went to the world of cultivation and learned a lot of things, but no matter how many things she learned, she would not learn carpentry.

There is still a lot of serious stuff to learn.

Seeing that their beds were almost ready, Zhang Yifeng and Fan Mingye also arrived at Tianju Village. They entered the village from the west. They were lucky. They found the person who issued the task after searching only four houses. Fan Mingye was stunned, "Weaving fish baskets? Can this thing be learned in a day or two?"

"Sure, sure. As long as you two can weave a one-meter-high fish basket, you'll be successful. If you study hard, you can do it quickly."

They knew clearly that this job would not be easy, but they could not resist, so the two grown men carried a bunch of thorns and started the arduous task of weaving baskets, neither of them saying a word while they were weaving - so depressing!

"Hiss~", Fan Mingye's middle finger was cut by the bamboo and blood gushed out.

"What happened, Brother Fan?"

Fan Mingye looked at the aunt who was teaching them how to weave fish baskets with a sour face and said, "My hand is injured."

(End of this chapter)