This is my friend Gui and sent me a piece of toon wood, twenty-four centimeters long, eighteen centimeters wide, ten centimeters thick. We have the **** same hobby - wood carving, this is the first time he sent me something, a few days ago the thing came back, because of the epidemic, I did not go out to pick up, he sent me a message, want to make this toon wood quickly into an object, so that we will have more to talk about.
The two of us met in the winter of two thousand and three, Gui and just came to Wuhai, unfamiliar with the place, in order to rent a suitable house, begging around. It's a good thing that my friend's neighbor has a house for rent, so I contacted him to be the middleman. The house rental brother character straight, said a year a rent, but the hands of only half a year's rent, things look to be yellow, I will give you and the rest of the half-yearly rent, things have been successful into.
The two rooms are very clean, with a yard where you can grow your own vegetables and plants. The owner pointed to the trees in the corner and said, "Don't cut down the trees, they are toon trees, and in spring, you can pick toon buds, and the scrambled eggs are especially delicious.
The owner of the house is particularly righteous, because I gave the advance half a year's rent, after a special find me, returned to me a month's rent money. Later, in the spring, Gui and picked the toon buds fried eggs, specially invited me and the homeowner brother to drink together. Over time, the three of us became friends. The homeowner brother likes to play carving, often talk about this knowledge, my this three feet cat kung fu, is with the homeowner brother learned, brother counted my open hand master.
One year, the yard of a toon tree died, Gui and I discussed ready to cut it, where planted a peach tree. Luckily, I thought of one more step and was praised by the big brother of the house owner. It turned out that the tree looked dead, but the roots were still alive. The three of us worked together to cut the tree off. Big brother took a ruler and measured it, then sawed the tree carefully into several sections. Big brother looked at the two of us that puzzled look, and finally explained, said this toon wood is very good wood, second only to walnut, with it carved out of the ornaments and so on, will emit a fragrance.
The owner of the house warmly invited us to go to his other home, said that we can drink and chat. I'm not interested in drinking, but I'd like to see the wood carvings that my big brother is talking about, and Gui and I don't know about the wood carvings, but I'm interested in drinking. So we followed Big Brother to his place.
The entrance living room is ancient, everything has a classical flavor, especially a set of crimson chaise lounge bed, looking at people envy. Big brother saw me staring at the place did not move, asked with a smile: "literacy? This is mahogany furniture, not imitation mahogany, just this set, more than a while I have no money, casually sell a piece is enough to live!"
The living room and then how luxurious or ancient, after all, we have seen, is still considered normal. And so through the corridor to the back, to his "bedroom and studio", so I was surprised, as he said, messy mess. Although the one meter five bed is very neat and clean, but the opposite window under the two meters long and one meter wide case, there is everything. This side is carved out of the pot-bellied Maitreya Buddha, there is an unknown carving is which the ancients, a pile of carving knives and sanding tools, crushed wood shavings messy everywhere, a seemingly still in the conception of the wood carving works in the center, next to the lamp, it seems that there are on the "night shift" time.
The case is piled under the pile of small and large wood, which he picked good we just sawed down the toon wood. After the "visit", we went back to the living room, the big brother from the back of the recliner out of the three particularly beautiful and exquisite small chairs, out of a few dishes, opened a bottle of Wuhai Erguotou, the three of us around the coffee table on the side of chatting and drinking open.
Taking advantage of my brother's good mood, I cautiously proposed to let him use the sawn toon wood to carve a tiger Luohan for me, because I like Luohan that kind of spirit. I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to get out of this, but I'm sure I'll be able to get out of it, so I'll be able to get out of it.
Three years later, the noble and bought his own house, I also because the work has changed and become more and more busy, and gradually do not drink together, and even to see on a side is also in a hurry. In 2015, Gui and Henan hometown's own brother opened the company got rich, a phone call to drag him back to Henan, we have never seen each other on this, the phone information is only a symbolic New Year's holiday to say hello.
Last winter, you and suddenly sent a video chat, looks like the old home in Henan mixed well, a look of complacency. The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal of money from the government, and then you have to pay a lot of money for it. Gui and also specifically asked me, the last big brother to give me no carving voodoo Luohan. Then told me that he has a lot of toon wood there, there is time to send me a piece of mail. Said may forget, until this winter, we both chat, he just reacted, said also owed me a piece of toon head it.
In fact, I don't have any carving skills, just like hands, used to kill time. A few days ago, we chatted, I simply do not believe that he will mail me the toon wood, only he sent a moment in the courier point weighing, a moment to send the location of the toon wood map, I just believe him.
Toon wood is placed in front of me, delayed, I was thinking of what pattern can express the friendship between the three of us. Time goes by, people will be old, toon wood may also rot, and the emotions in our hearts, no matter where and when, will not change.