Chapter 2 Chapter 1 A Precious Wooden Building

The beginning of this story was not thrilling, but to Song Ziran, it was extremely thrilling. Song Ziran got to know Huang Fangzi by chance. Song Ziran is a young and promising architect, a so-called "professional".Huang Fangzi is a middle school music teacher. The identities of the two are very ordinary. The place where they met was a small city with 300,000 to 400,000 residents, and the life of the citizens was very ordinary.The lack of exciting things is of course because the locals don't know the goods, and they don't know that there is a rare treasure in the city. If you really want to find something weird, you can only say that the relationship between Huang Fangzi and her current mother is a bit unusual, and it can be exaggerated to say that it is very complicated.

Please pay attention to the term "the relationship between the present mother". What is the difference between the present, the past and the future of the mother? And that kind of statement can indeed be established—isn't it a bit weird? Huang Fangzi's father was a very mysterious person. Until his death, no one knew who he was. In this country full of mysteries, he is very rare. It is a long story, but I don't intend to use it as this The beginning of the story, let's talk about it later. This story begins with Song Ziran getting to know Huang Fangzi. Song naturally does not live in this city.There are two reasons why he is here: one reason is that the city is at the beginning of a large-scale development, and there are several grand construction projects, one of which he participated in; the second reason is that the city is An ancient city with many ancient buildings.Moreover, the residents of this city are not limited to one country and one family, so there are buildings of various national styles, ranging from grand to small, which can be said to be an exposition of buildings.

Studying ancient buildings, especially wooden structures, is Song Ziran's biggest professional hobby.There are not many well-preserved wooden structures in the world for more than three hundred years.Most of them are naturally Japan, but they are all listed as first-class protected cultural relics, and an irrelevant person will not be allowed to study them in detail. However, there are several well-known wooden buildings in that city. The construction company that hired Song Ziran originally offered excellent conditions, but Song Ziran refused. After the company sent people to understand Song Ziran's likes and dislikes, they made arrangements and put forward a new condition - to hire A talent requires some scheming.

The new condition is that Song Ziran can live in an ancient wooden structure building while working in that city, and can conduct careful research without destroying the building. The last point may have been brought up by the owner of the building—it is so superfluous, in Song Ziran's mind, every part of the whole building is a priceless treasure, and it is too late to cherish it, how can it be destroyed? Moreover, with the advancement of modern technology, there are many instruments that can inspect the interior of steel, the interior of wood, and the connection method between wood and wood. It is absolutely unnecessary to be stupid enough to disassemble them.

The company even brought a stack of pictures, taking pictures of the wooden building from various angles, inside and out, for Song Ziran's "reference". The company's move worked immediately. Song Ziran's eyes popped out when he saw the photos, and he immediately signed the employment contract and set off immediately. Before he set off, he brought the stack of photos to see me. Song Ziran and I had a strange experience together - he was Wen Baoyu's uncle, that is, the younger brother of the overweight mother Wen. I happened to be at home that day, and he briefly explained the matter to me, and I laughed: "Congratulations, in the next two years, you will definitely be able to satisfy your interests to the utmost."

He flushed with excitement: "Yes, look at this room, how special and outstanding it is!" He handed me the photo.I have no interest in ancient buildings, nor am I an expert, and I don't know the characteristics of wooden structures. In order not to spoil his interest, I took the photos. The photos are quite large. The first one is a bird's-eye view of the whole building. It seems that it was taken by a helicopter in the air. I laughed: "It seems that the company spared no expense to hire you." Song Ziran looked happy: "The main thing is that from this angle, you can clearly see the structure of the cross and two beams. This kind of structure is very rare. From the inside of the building, it looks like there are no beams. According to me We know that architects in the Wei and Jin Dynasties liked to adopt this structure, and the beamless halls in some small-scale temples were built in this way."

I responded casually: "It won't be that old, right?" Song Ziran said: "That depends on the results of the research - the current information is 'unknown origin', I think there must be many, many, too many mysteries that can be explored." When he said this, he even rubbed his hands involuntarily to express the excitement in his heart. I paid a little attention, and then looked at the front of the building. It looked very strange, I couldn't tell what kind of form it was, it was neither Chinese nor Western, and it wasn't all Japanese, but it seemed to have a little bit of everything.It is surrounded by open space, which should be a garden, but it seems to be just an open space, without decorations such as flowers, trees, pavilions and pools, it seems very inconsistent and out of phase.

Song Ziran saw how I felt. He said: "The garden was originally arranged, but I don't know why it was all cancelled. It may be because the residents don't like flowers and trees." I felt very abrupt: "What? There are still people living in the house?" Song Ziran smiled: "The house was built for people to live in, as long as it can still live in people, people will naturally live in it." After thinking about it, I realized why I felt so abrupt when I heard that the house was occupied.I said: "The house has a history of hundreds of years. The lifestyle of modern people is very different. Living in an ancient house...isn't it convenient!"

Song Ziran took a deep breath: "The inconvenient parts can be improved and added. Although this will destroy the building, we can't let modern people live the life they lived hundreds of years ago." When I said this, I also agreed, and it was only later that I realized that the facts were by no means what he "taken for granted". There are a few photos, all of which are the interior of the house. The furnishings in the room are very simple and clean. I didn't pay attention to it at the time, I just said: "Are you going to live? Be careful, there are house monsters in old houses."

Song Ziran didn't care about it: "The most common house demon is the fox fairy. Perhaps there were flower demons in the past, but now there is no flower, and the flower demon is naturally gone." After looking at the photos, I have no opinion to express. Song Ziran and I chatted for a while before leaving. Before leaving, he said: "Tell Xiaobao my whereabouts - I haven't seen him for a long time." I agreed to his request, and the next day he set out for the city. That city is about to build a new airport. The old airport is poorly equipped. After the aircraft unloads their luggage, there is no processing device and they are just piled up on the open space.When Song Ziran found his luggage, a jeep stopped near him, and someone in the car called his name. It was an employee sent by the company to pick him up.

The clerk said: "Mr. Song, I'm really sorry. There is an important meeting being held. I hope you can attend it immediately. After the meeting is over, you can go to your residence again. You have no objection?" Of course Song Ziran didn't object, so he went directly to the company. The meeting was very lengthy and it was already dark when it ended. After dinner, Song Ziran drove the car given to him by the company alone, and went to the building according to the address. After asking for directions several times, it was already midnight when we arrived. Although the appearance of the house was nondescript, in Song Ziran's eyes, it was the most beautiful in the world. Among other things, Song Ziran was dumbfounded and amazed by the fence surrounding the open space outside the house. Since the study of wooden structures is Song Ziran's greatest hobby, he has naturally come into contact with many wooden structures before this, but at this time, he felt that he had really opened his eyes. That circle of fences is entirely surrounded by two-meter-high wooden pillars with a diameter of twenty centimeters. Under the moonlight, each wooden pillar emits a strange dark red color, almost Ocher radiance——If metals have radiance, it is easy to understand, but wood can also emit radiance, which reveals a layer of mystery.In fact, if the solid wood is carefully polished or touched by hands for many years, it will also have a layer of light on the surface.Of course, only the finest wood can do this. And experienced people can know what kind of wood it is just by looking at the kind of light that the wood emits. Song Ziran happened to be an expert in this field, so when he saw the ochre-red luster, he held his breath, and for a moment, he could hardly believe his eyes. He recognized at a glance that it was purple jujube wood. Jujube wood is a high-quality wood, and there are many kinds: yellow jujube wood and gray jujube wood. These are inferior in jujube wood, but they are also high-quality wood. They are used to make delicate utensils or furniture, and their value is extremely high. Red jujube wood is a rare good wood, and purple jujube wood ranks the highest among all jujube trees. It is generally used to make noble furniture and is a gift from wealthy people. Song Ziran once saw a rich man's mansion, the study floor was paved with purple jujube wood, the rich man was proud of it, old and new acquaintances, once he came to his mansion, he would definitely be taken into the study for a visit —— Regal specially prepares soft shoes, and visitors are required to change them outside the study door to avoid damaging the floor. once.A wood expert told the rich man that purple jujube wood is extremely hard and is not afraid of being trampled on. The rich man replied: "I know, but I am not willing to let hard shoes step on it." Such a rare and rare wood has become a fence here. Looking around, there are at least 200 wooden pillars of the same length and thickness, and the distance between each pillar is about 20 centimeters.Every wooden pillar is so straight. If it has been buried for hundreds of years, the quality of the wood is really amazing! It's really hard to imagine, how to collect so many purple jujube woods of the same thickness - another use of this kind of purple jujube wood, Song naturally knows, is to build "plum blossom piles", which are used by martial artists It is used for martial arts, probably because of the rarity of purple jujube wood, and the martial art of plum blossom pile is about to be lost. Song Tianran's heartbeat increased. He put his hand on the wooden pillar and moved it slowly. The feeling in his hand was like touching a piece of jade, warm and smooth. This kind of wood is also the essence of heaven and earth, and it was once alive , maybe now, there are still alienated lives inside, which makes it so attractive. Song Tianran took a deep breath. He knew that this time, he definitely did not discover an ordinary wooden structure building, but encountered a treasure of inestimable value. The fence outside the open space is so expensive, the architecture and interior decoration of the house can be imagined. After a long time, Song Ziran's eyes reluctantly left those jujube pillars and looked at the room. He immediately recognized that the main building materials of the house were all huge juniper wood - juniper wood has the reputation of "a century-old juniper tree". The diameter of a hundred-year-old juniper tree can reach one foot, and every hundred years, it increases one foot.A tree with a diameter of three feet is already a precious wood, a tree with a diameter of four feet is a rare thing, and a tree with a diameter of five feet is naturally a treasure. But at this time, looking around, there is no piece of wood that has been cut down that is less than four feet. Song Tianran couldn't help himself, and closed his eyes for a while. In front of his eyes, the scene of two or three people hugging the towering sacred tree was cut down. In his ears, there seemed to be a loud bang when the giant tree fell to the ground. , Even the heaven and the earth trembled for it, and ghosts and gods wept for it. Most of these hundreds-of-year-old giant junipers grow in the deep mountains and wild ridges. Even if they are found and felled, it is extremely difficult to transport them out of the deep mountains.The usual way to deal with it is to saw it in the deep mountains and then transport it out. Therefore, although the cypress wood is large, there are few huge materials. The most common way is to cut it into large pictures with a thickness of several inches for screens and decorations. Use as a desktop. But the building of this house is all huge wood - even if Song Ziran saw a house made entirely of gold, I'm afraid he would not be more surprised. Under the moonlight, juniper wood presents different shades of gray, and the gray of the wood grain is darker, but it is equally soft and eye-catching. Although the distance between them is quite far (about 20 meters), Song Ziran can still see the joints of the wood, and the joints are absolutely invisible, like a whole board.But every four feet, there are bright red crescent-shaped patterns. From top to bottom, there is one every one foot. The crescent-shaped decorative patterns are about 30 centimeters long. Seeing those decorative patterns, Song Ziran couldn't help but let out several sounds of admiration. This kind of red lacquer decoration, in the eyes of people who don't understand the research, at most thinks it is a bit "earthy" style, and will never think it is anything strange, let alone not worthy of admiration. But Song Ziran is a great expert in wood crafting. He knew it was the supreme wood joining method: crescent tenon. Woodcraft has a long history in China, and there have been great craftsmen in all dynasties. When it came to Master Lu Ban, he carried forward the woodcraft, making him the god of woodcraft, and raised the woodcraft to the level of uncanny craftsmanship. The tall pagodas made by people, the palaces in groups, the trees and pillars, the tables and chairs, and even the carvings on small wooden boxes have all reached the pinnacle! (Unfortunately, since the invention of synthetic wood, woodcraft has declined rapidly. However, the invention of synthetic wood and various plywood is indeed an inevitable product of the progress of the times!) (Human progress has a price, something is gained and something is lost at the same time.) Among Chinese wood crafts, the most outstanding is the use of "mortise and tenon", also known as mortise and tenon, for the joint of wood.Join different woods closely together to form arbitrary combinations, ranging from palaces to drawers, which are all satisfactory. According to legend, Lu Ban, the founder of Luban, carried forward the craft of tenon and summed it up into seventy-two tenon joint methods. (Chinese people like numbers with "nine" as the base. Such as thirty-six celestial gangs, seventy-two dishas and so on. In the eyes of Westerners, the number "seventy-two" is singular, but Chinese people naturally Treat this number as an integer.) (Master Luban's woodworking method also has seventy-two methods, and tenon joint is one of them.) (There are seventy-two methods for tenon joints alone.) Among the seventy-two tenoning methods, they are divided into upper, middle and lower groups, with twenty-four types in each group.Each group is divided into upper, middle, and lower—this is the traditional Chinese classification method. There are eight types of upper and upper tenon joints, and the crescent tenon ranks third among the upper and upper joints. Its process is to first cut a crescent-shaped curved hole on the edge of the wood to be joined.The size of the hole depends on the size of the wood to be joined.Then, make a tenon with hard wood, first insert it into one side of the wood, and then pick up the other side of the wood to push it together, and with a decisive blow, the two pieces of wood are joined together. Since the tenon is curved, it is particularly strong and durable after joining, and it will not loosen over time.The joints are also tightly stitched, which is extremely beautiful. With this crescent tenon, the most difficult procedure is the last blow.Pay attention to it and connect it without making a second effort. Experts call it "one hit and one hit". If the first blow fails, or if the combination is not ideal enough, and another blow is needed, not only will the effect not be good, but the craftsman will also be laughed at, regarded as a shame, and will be hated for life.Quite a few skilled carpenters were ruined because they failed to "snap it together". Therefore, the "crescent tenon" method is also called "crossing the gate of ghosts" by carpenters, and is rarely used. Generally speaking, they are all master craftsmen who have confidence in their craftsmanship. They are used as a performance, and they are used once or twice to win a lot of attention and increase their value.In order to achieve "one-shot fit", the things made naturally will not be too big-it is already very remarkable to make a suitcase of ordinary size. In order to show that this is made with a crescent tenon - the tenon is inside the wood and cannot be seen from the outside - the craftsman will trace the position of the tenon with red paint on the outside as a sign. Naturally, with such a marked finished product, the price is a hundred times higher, and the unusual wood is comparable. Song Ziran, who knew the ins and outs, saw that the huge timber of this house was actually made of crescent tenons, and his astonishment was almost the same as suddenly seeing Master Lu Pan appearing in front of his eyes! He stood there in a daze for a while before slowly walking forward.As he walked forward, he was in a state of reverence, almost as if on a pilgrimage. Until his hands could touch the wood, gently stroking it, like stroking a girl's hair.The gentle way he used was naturally due to his sense of touch, as if he was stroking a girl's hair. Song Ziran's rich knowledge of wooden handicrafts played a role at this time, which made him breathe at an extremely abnormal rhythm for the next time, and he held his breath most of the time of. The feeling brought by his palm told him that the lacquer painted on the cypress wood was extremely precious, and that was also the reason why the cypress wood had a faint luster like pearls under the moonlight. The method of making that kind of paint has long been lost, and it is only recorded in special ancient books. The legendary natural lacquer is the sap of the lacquer tree. After a large bucket of lacquer is subjected to many complicated processes such as precipitation and screening, a transparent glue will be produced, which is called lacquer essence.Ten tans of lacquer can't produce one liter of lacquer essence. It is known for its value—this kind of paint has been lost as early as thousands of years ago. It can be seen that the combination of high-quality wood and lacquer essence is a match made in heaven, which is simply amazing. In the process of studying woodware, Song Ziran once studied a sandalwood makeup box painted with fine lacquer (I don't know what kind of boudoir it was in, what kind of women's supplies), he once scraped off A little testing, the result is not very unexpected, the magical paint called "lacquer essence", the composition is "lacquer acid" - C14H18O2. Lacquer acid has strong anti-corrosion and anti-corrosion properties, which can protect wood and be immortal for thousands of years. Moreover, it can penetrate into the texture of wood, fill all the gaps in wood, and integrate with wood. Painted wood is more resistant to corrosion than metal. Since lacquer essence is rare and has been lost for thousands of years, it is natural to imagine how precious it is.But at this time, Song Ziran looked around, it seemed that all the building wood in this house had been treated with lacquer. That is really impossible! Under his irregular breathing, he didn't know how many times he said to himself: "Impossible! Impossible! There is no such treasure in the world... I must have entered the realm of dreams, unrealistic, unrealistic! " He really put his finger in his mouth, and bit it hard, the pain made him gasp, and while throwing his hands, he admitted that everything in front of him was indeed the truth. He walked around the house first, which took him a full hour. If he used his normal walking speed, it would take at most five minutes, but if Song Ziran wanted it, a month would not be too much. Then, when he came to the door, he saw that there was a very special knocker on the door—it was a ring with a small mallet attached, it was dark, it didn't look like metal, and on the door where the mallet could hit, There is one thing of black, too. Song Ziran tapped it with the small mallet, making a very crisp sound like hitting a stone chime. This time, even Song naturally didn't know - he knew that the black one was also wood, but he couldn't tell what kind of wood it was. After knocking ten or so times, I heard someone answer from the door: "Here we come!" The voice is very pleasant, and one can tell it is the voice of a young girl, but it is very calm, which can be described as "otherworldly", or "indifferent". When the door opened, the first thing that made Song Ziran stunned was that what he saw was a lamp, a lamp that only ancient people used.