Chapter 102: Raising Hope
Such a beautiful drum would definitely not work on the ground, so Li Xiang made two more special stands for it. This time he did not use the precious red eucalyptus wood, but chose ordinary birch wood, and there were some in the woodshed. Suitable wood.
One is shorter, so you can put the drum flat, and the other is taller, you can put the drum upright. You can beat the drum in both ways. In order to prevent rain, a pavilion was specially built and a simple plaque was added, called "War Drum" pavilion".
The plaque was a flat piece of polished wood. He bought a large writing brush and wrote three Chinese characters on it. After thinking about it, he carved a small carrot seal and stamped a red seal on it.
They are all works of practice. Except for the big cowhide drum and the elegant calligraphy written by one hand, other parts such as drum stands, pavilions, plaques and carrot seals all look rough. Even the upper and lower edges of some pillars and plaques still have uncut bark. Clean, with a primitive tribal feel.
But this is the style I want.
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Li Xiang took out a small piece of red eucalyptus wood. This wood is relatively hard, so he carved another red eucalyptus wood seal. Although it was hard, it was still wood, so it could not be used a few times.
He was thinking about when he could find a good piece of jade and carve a serious seal. In fact, you can also buy it online, but it’s not as interesting.
Seeing that it was really crude, Li Xiang decided to renovate the "War Drum Pavilion" appropriately, such as hardening the floor, making steps, adding a few hooks to the drum stand, and placing the large and small drumsticks in pairs. , tied with ropes respectively and hung on them. In this way, when others want to play the drum, they can choose the drumsticks they like.
He has very high hopes for this backyard. After spring comes, he will replant some flowers and plants, and then build a coffee shop and milk tea shop. He wants to make it an internet celebrity tourist attraction, but the place is too remote, so he doesn’t know if it will. Someone will come to your door.
But there are also many wealthy people in Sichuan Province. County towns, provincial capitals, and even provincial capitals are actually not that far away from here, more than 200 kilometers, and only two or three hours of driving.
The area near Lijia Village has beautiful scenery and can be filmed everywhere, so it has potential tourism natural resources.
In some rural areas in the south, there are many Internet celebrity coffee shops like this located in the countryside. It is said that they are running very well, making millions a year.
For example, there is a store in rural Zhejiang Province that once sold 8,818 cups in a single day. A cup of coffee usually sells for about 30 yuan, which means that the sales volume in a single day is as high as about 260,000 yuan.
As for the cost of coffee, haha, it is naturally not worth mentioning. At that time, Li Xiang can cooperate with He Zhixiang, a coffee merchant in Yunnan Province, and get first-hand coffee beans from the manor, which are directly accessible to the origin and are of high quality and low price.
The quality of domestically produced coffee beans from Dian Province is not inferior to that of imported coffee beans. Many well-known brands, such as Nestlé, Starbucks, and Luckin, use beans from Yunnan Province.
If the diversion is successful and there are many tourists, it will also bring some traffic to the village and increase the income of the villagers.
In addition to coffee and milk tea, you can also have other snacks prepared by the villagers, local specialties, authentic farm dishes, etc.
Although the village election meeting has to wait until the Chinese New Year "drinking wine", Li Xiang is still a little confident that he can win the position of village chief.
Even if he is not the village chief, as an Internet celebrity with more than 2 million fans and a pastoral blogger, it is unjustifiable that the backyard he lives in is too weak.
In modern society, if you want to quickly "raise your popularity", you can only take the road of internet celebrity. Everything else is too slow.
In ancient times, when people wanted to raise an army or carry out other major events, such as political reform or entering the center of the imperial court, they had to "raise their hopes." Once they had a good reputation, they could raise their arms and gather followers.
If no one knows you, who will come to support you when something big happens?
Therefore, what he does is never without purpose. He comes from a poor background and has no foundation at all. Even if he takes the public examination and enters the system, he will not be able to fly. Many people remain clerks throughout their lives. The only way is to follow the example of the ancients and find a new way.
As for the underground shelter, he does not plan to build it so soon because there will be a super flood in a few years. The end of the world is approaching, and the fate of the future will become more and more miserable every year. This year's heavy snow is just an appetizer.
If we build an underground base now, isn’t it just waiting to be flooded?
But after the great flood, there were basically no super floods, especially near the end of the world and after the end of the world. It was dark, cold, and most places were frozen. Even the sea was covered with thick ice, so it was impossible to have one. There was a flood.
"To deal with floods, it is best to hide in the mountains. When you are free another day, go to the mountains and see if there are any ready-made caves that can be expanded and renovated."
Although Sichuan Province is a basin, the lowest "basin bottom" altitude is 200-750 meters. The terrain is much higher than some provinces in the east or south, such as Yangcheng. If measured from the "Yue Zi No. 1" landmark, the average The altitude is only 6.6 meters.
Sichuan Province is mountainous, with a high average altitude. There is also Kuimen, a "precipitous cliff thousands of feet tall, like an ax chopping and cutting with a knife", which serves as the "mouth of the sea" (it is said that Dayu controlled the water and dug Kuimen to drain the sea of Bashu). In fact, it is not necessary We are too worried about floods, but the super flood that happened a few years later was very rare. Even in Sichuan Province, many places were flooded. Even Dujiangyan failed to stop it.
The plains are in dire straits, especially in the north, which has always had little rain and little experience in dealing with major floods.
"Well, let's take it one step at a time." In fact, as a reborn person, Li Xiang really had no good solution when facing the power of nature.
Li Xiang gathered his spirits, regrouped, moved out the big red cowhide war drum, two drum stands and drumsticks, temporarily stored them in a corner of the corridor, and started the renovation project of the "War Drum Pavilion".
The workload of these projects was not large, so he did them all by himself. There was still some red bricks, cement, yellow sand, etc. used to build the wall, so Li Xiang took out some more and started mixing cement himself to harden the ground.
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The War Drum Pavilion was only eight or nine square meters, and at his speed, it could be completed in half a day.
He also used a high-density knife to cut out smooth sections of the two fir pillars in front of the War Drum Pavilion, and wrote a couplet: "Thousands of valleys, pines and waves beat the war drum, and a majestic peak holds a banner."
The handwriting is elegant and penetrating.
In fact, Li Xiang's calligraphy was just average before, but after becoming an extraordinary person, his fingers became more nimble, his mind became clearer, and many of his abilities, such as calligraphy and dancing, were greatly improved.
Calligraphy is nothing more than the control of the pen and the understanding of the structure of the characters.
The soft brush in Li Xiang's hand can be lifted, paused, stopped, applied, frustrated, grabbed... the turns are as desired, and it is more flexible than the human tongue. It is difficult to write ugly words.
Of course, his calligraphy only looks good. In terms of calligraphy skills, he still lacks his own style and cannot stand alone. To be precise, it is a "jianghu system", and the laws are not rigorous enough.
Li Xiang originally wanted to use cinnabar red ink, because the alchemy master kills, which matches the "war" of the war drum. How can there be no death in a battle? Only those with murderous intent deserved this pavilion, but grandma said it was unlucky to use red ink. In ancient times, red ink was used when decapitating people, so Li Xiang changed it to black ink.
In fact, red ink is really only used on special occasions: decapitating prisoners to insert marks, drawing cinnabar charms to ward off evil spirits and suppressing monsters, biting fingers to write blood letters in extreme grievance and anger, the emperor's imperial ink writing, red-headed documents for important notices, teachers correcting homework...
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