Chapter 112 The little licking cat and the spirit fox worship the moon (please subscribe, please vote)
This erhu owned by my grandpa is quite old. The tube has come apart and cracked. It was originally covered with a piece of python skin, but now it is very soft and has small holes. Didn't Li Xiang bring two little wild boars when it snowed heavily? His grandfather felt that the little wild boar skin was quite good, so he peeled it off, processed it, and dried it. Now he was going to cover the little wild boar skin.
When Li Xiang heard this, he said: "Grandpa, I still have some yellow cowhide at home. How about I go back and get the cowhide."
Grandpa waved his hands repeatedly: "No, no, this wild boar skin is very good. The texture of this little wild boar skin is lighter and softer, and it can produce a purer sound. The sound made with cowhide is too thick."
"Oh, that's it." Since grandpa said this, Li Xiang gave up and then assisted his grandpa to help with the skinning.
Different skins naturally produce different timbres, which depends on personal preference. In fact, it is best to use wild python skin, but it is not possible to get such large python skin now. The "spicy strips" Li Xiang caught before were relatively small and could not hide the erhu.
After covering the boar skin, I tried it and found that the sound quality was not good. Grandpa checked it and found that there were cracks on the tube. It had been glued before, but the effect was obviously not satisfactory.
The erhu that my grandpa owned seemed to have a barrel made of rosewood. The wood was originally very good, but it was old and still had signs of insect and rat bites. It was time to replace it.
"I have some red eucalyptus at home. I'll get some for you."
Li Xiang went back this time despite his grandfather's objections.
He also has golden nanmu, but golden nanmu is light and not suitable for erhu. Red eucalyptus is harder and heavier, will last for a hundred years, and has greater durability and resonance.
Moreover, when knocked, the red oak wood is as "clangy" and crisp as metal, without that "stuffy" feeling. A lot of wood feels dull when knocked, and the quality of the erhu made is not much higher.
Li Xiang's system warehouse had red eucalyptus wood, but it was not easy to perform a show of changing things out of thin air, so he went back honestly and sawed two large pieces. After thinking about it, he took a piece of tanned cowhide and put it together. Send it to grandpa.
Grandpa also likes these traditional musical instruments. Although the yellow cowhide used to make the erhu may make the sound a little "rich", it can still be used to make drums. Li Xiang remembered that when he was a child, he stayed at his grandfather's house during holidays. It seemed that his grandfather made a small waist drum for a minority dancer.
The reason why Li Xiang makes his own drums is because he can do it in one go. In addition to reading information on the Internet, he also learned about it when he was a child and knows the general process. Furthermore, as an extraordinary person, he has relatively strong hands-on ability.
Grandpa was very happy when he saw the fine red oak wood and yellow cowhide that Li Xiang had brought. He was even happier than before when he received new clothes.
Making erhu is actually not complicated. My grandfather is a veteran and there are ready-made tools at home. Li Xiang helps with the work and learns the craft. At noon, grandma comes back to cook. After the meal, the grandfather and grandson continue to work, and grandma rushes to the door. I haven't finished dressing yet, so I changed my clothes again and went out to play.
At about three o'clock in the afternoon, a brand new small boar skin erhu was completed!
This little wild boar skin may not be durable, but it doesn't matter. There will be a lot of wild boars in the future, so I'll replace it.
The texture of the red eucalyptus wood is very beautiful. Grandpa slowly sanded and polished it with fine emery cloth. He said that the erhu does not need to be painted. The piano rod can be lightly varnished. As for the piano barrel, some wax can be used in the future, or it can be used to wipe hands and feet in winter. Just apply some anti-freeze cracking snake oil ointment.
Some brands of this kind of snake oil ointment are quite cheap, only a few yuan each. The main ingredient in it is glycerin, and there may be a little snake oil. Anyway, people in rural areas are not so particular about it, and the erhu is not a particularly expensive instrument.
Snake oil ointment is mainly used to smear wild boar skin to make it smooth and moist, ensuring soft and pleasant sound quality.
This little wild boar didn't get this kind of treatment when he was alive. After he died, he could still be rubbed with human snake oil, which was pretty good.
Grandpa played a song called "The Moon Reflected in Two Springs" and another classic song "The Burial of Flowers", which was poignant and plaintive, as if weeping and complaining. Li Xiang was beating the beat beside him, secretly praising his grandfather and saying in his heart that he was a folk song. As a folk artist, the level of Erhu is not much worse than those performed on TV. You can go to big cities and blow up the streets.
Then my grandma happened to come back, and she couldn't help but complain: "The Chinese New Year is coming soon. Is it unlucky for you to do such an ugly thing?"
Grandpa changed the song style and changed to "Dream of Spring River". Although it was a lot more cheerful, it still felt a bit sad.
Because the erhu is an instrument with only two strings that depend on each other. The sun and moon are opposite each other, but they cannot embrace each other. No matter how you play it, it will inevitably sound sad.
Li Xiang suggested: "Let's play a dance of golden snakes or horse racing!"
Grandpa did his best, worked up his emotions for a while, and then started.
This is considered impassioned and sounds better.
I played with my grandpa all afternoon, and when making dinner, I helped my grandma, washing vegetables, adding firewood to the stove, chatting for a while, and even roasted a fragrant sweet potato for my little cousin for dinner. Naturally, I stayed at my grandparents’ house, and it was already dark when I returned.
Grandpa’s house had a lot of chestnuts, so he gave Li Xiang a big bag of chestnuts. Grandpa also gave him two newly made bamboo flutes, saying they were just toys. Li Xiang was not polite when he took them back to play with.
His hometown is rich in bamboo, and there are many people who can make bamboo flutes and play bamboo flutes, and his grandfather is an expert. In addition, bamboo is used to make baskets, dustpans, dustpans, dustpans, bamboo chairs, bamboo beds, etc.
I used to take some and sell them on the street, but many families make these handmade products themselves and cannot sell them at a high price, so they can barely support their families.
The little cousin didn't come with him. Although he was in elementary school, he had a lot of homework during the winter vacation. Li Xiang asked him to keep the difficult ones and give them guidance when he and his sister went to his home to play together.
My little cousin only had a holiday yesterday. Today is the 18th day of the twelfth lunar month. The primary school holiday is a little earlier, and the high school holiday doesn’t start until the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month.
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On the 19th day of the twelfth lunar month, Li Xiang went to the street and bought a lot of large grass carp and cheap high-quality liquor, and came back to make cured carp.
Sichuan Province is a "land of abundance" with many rivers and rich fishery resources.
Li Xiang bought a total of eighteen large grass carps, all weighing more than ten kilograms. The largest one weighed twenty kilograms.
Naturally, this kind of large grass carp should be used for pickling cured fish. It is large in size, has thin skin, thick meat and delicious taste. The pickled cured fish has bright color, strong cured flavor and good taste. It can also keep the meat full for a long time and tastes particularly fragrant. .
Fish like silver carp and fat-headed fish look quite big, but after being salted and dried, there is basically only a "thin shell" left. There is no meat to eat, so it is a pity to discard them.
Li Xiang was removing the scales and disemboweling the big grass carps by the Dieshui Waterfall. The mother cat and the five little ones were playing far away, but now they smelled the fishy smell and ran over.
The mother cat and the five little ones are fed elixir porridge by Li Xiang every day. After eating all the spicy sticks he caught before, they now eat meat porridge with small dried fish. They are all strong and healthy, and they can run "quickly". Tigers and tigers create wind."
Xiaobai is the biggest. Although he looks honest and honest, he gradually develops an unspeakable domineering attitude. Even cows and cats don’t dare to bully him. When the neighbors came to visit, they all praised how good these cats were.
Grandma said privately that when she gave birth to five cats in a litter before, she was worried that she would not be able to keep them alive and that some of them would die, because too many cats in a litter would cause some cats to be born with deficiencies and die easily. She did not expect that they are all growing up so well now.
Li Xiang couldn't help but chuckle to himself. He was eating enough elixir porridge every day, eating wild boar meat, snakes, and dried small fish as snacks. How could he not grow well? The kittens meowed when they came over. The cow cat was more "tiger" and bit the 20 kilogram big grass carp with its mouth, trying to drag it away. Li Xiang and grandma both laughed to death.
"Are you biting? Is this a little licking cat?"
Licking and licking won't hurt it at all. If the big grass carp hadn't been killed by Li Xiang, he would have probably swallowed it in one gulp.
Li Xiang washed his hands, took out his mobile phone, recorded a video of the kittens trying to drag the big fish, and sent it to his self-media account.
The mother cat was smarter and knew the rules better. She didn't touch the big fish. She just took two fish bubbles in her mouth, hid aside, and called the kittens to come over and eat.
Fish bubbles are actually a good thing, and they are also isinglass. They have nutritional values such as beautifying the skin, enhancing immunity, promoting brain development, protecting eyesight, and increasing appetite. But grandma is too old to bite. As for Li Xiang, he dotes on these kittens so much that he is willing to feed them whole fish, not to mention fish bubbles.
Sure enough, Li Xiang chopped off a meaty fish tail. He was afraid that the kittens' mouths would be too small to bite, so he specially scratched it several times with a knife, and then placed it on a large stone slab not far away. The mother cat said "Meow" "Woo", he brought the little guys over.
As for the fish soak just now, I had already finished it.
Erhuang and Little Fox looked on with disgust. These two little things were now "spirits" and no longer wanted to eat raw, bloody things. And they are very particular now and will not eat if the dog bowl is dirty.
If the owner doesn't wash it, Erhuang will, at the urging of the little fox, take the dog bowl to Dieshui Falls to rinse it.
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Although the little fox is a red fox, it looks like a cloud of fire from a distance, but if you look closely, you can see that there are some black or white fur of other colors in its ears, around the nose, paws, chin and belly. of.
But more than 90% of the body is covered with red hair, which is very rare and precious.
The appearance is secondary, the most important thing is that it is very spiritual, even better than Erhuang.
Li Xiang found a breathing method in the system that was suitable for the demon clan, called "Linghu Moon Worship Technique". Foxes, wolves, dogs, etc. can practice it. It is much simpler than Li Xiang's own "Shen Nong's Secret of Immortality". Every night Teach them quietly in your backyard.
According to the description of this breathing method of the demon clan, when the moon is big, breathing towards the moon will be more effective. However, there are no extraordinary particles now, and the moon is just an ordinary moon. It still needs the help of elixir.
In the dark age of the last days, although the moon in the sky is gone, the particles of the lunar attribute are very strong and can still be practiced. "Worshiping the moon or not" is actually just a metaphysical thing and is not important.
As for kittens, their spirituality is relatively poor, and there is currently no way to teach breathing techniques. Li Xiang tried several times, but they didn't react at all and didn't follow suit.
Xiao Sanhua followed suit, but it was just out of pure "gasp"! Unable to understand the profound and mysterious changes in the breathing method.
Erhuang is actually a little worse, but he has found a good wife. The little fox may understand "foreign languages" or "dog language". There are some things that Erhuang doesn't understand and can't do well. The little fox will "step in" "Teacher teaches apprentice", I used the fox paw to assist it, pressed it back and forth on its belly, and said "chirp, chirp, chirp~" in its mouth, as if explaining.
Whenever he sees this situation, Li Xiang feels that this dog is really lucky and a bit high.
Therefore, Li Xiang became more and more friendly to the little fox. He was afraid that the little fox would dislike the dog and kick his own dog.
Then at night, Li Xiang's backyard becomes weirder.
Li Xiang was sitting on a big rock in the Bloodstone Jungle, holding a big wine gourd. While drinking, he was preaching and demonstrating like a good old master.
Below, the little fox and the dog stood upright, like obedient primary school students. The fox's eyes and the dog's eyes shone when they heard it, and they followed suit step by step.
Occasionally, Li Xiang would perform a magic trick, conjuring a small white porcelain cup and pouring out a little spirit wine for the little fox and the dog to taste.
The little fox is very good at drinking, and he likes to drink it. He knows that there is strong medicinal power in it, and his eyes shine when he drinks it.
Erhuang's alcohol capacity is much worse. He sticks out his tongue after licking it, which makes him extremely spicy.
Li Xiang scolded it, saying it was worse than a girl. The little fox also followed Li Xiang and laughed at Erhuang. Erhuang was not convinced and licked him several times, and then he was drunk and unsteady.
Li Xiang is very happy when he is accompanied by them.
These two little things can barely speak.
But occasionally, Li Xiang misses rhubarb very much. He would have died miserably and earlier, otherwise...well, I can only say that everyone has his or her own destiny.
He decided that in the future he would hunt wild boars without using hounds, and would go directly to radar and drones.
The drone he bought before was too small and only equipped with an infrared camera, but now many drones, including civilian versions, are also equipped with active phased array radars. He has money now and can afford it.
A separate civilian version of the radar is also available on the market, and it is a gallium nitride active phased array.
This is rather abnormal.
You know, some foreign warships, even the Aegis of the United States, still use passive phased array radars.
The bloodstones in his yard were all of very poor quality. They were just large pieces of ordinary stone with some dark red or yellowish veins or spots on them. They looked colorful, but that was all they were and not valuable.
Neighbors came over to visit. When they saw the stones, they thought they were very good. When asked where they dug them, Li Xiang just made nonsense about which hilltop they dug. The neighbors were old, and even if they knew about it, they didn't have the energy to get these stones. .
If you can't dig it out, you won't be able to move it back even if you dig it down.
Neighbors naturally won't dig, even if it's a mountain very close to the house, they don't have the energy to dig. They just envy Grandma Li Xiang, who has her grandchildren at home to accompany her, and who keeps the house so well-kept, unlike her own home. The two elders, children and grandchildren all have to go out to work to earn money.
Whenever this happens, Grandma Li Xiang smiles from ear to ear, not to mention how happy she is.
Li Xiangxin got two flutes and tried to play them.
(End of chapter)