Li Rou has not returned to his hometown for a long time, but he still remembers the jackfruit tree. The oldest man in the town said that his grandfather told him that the jackfruit tree was here when his grandfather was a child.
When Li Rou just learned to use the method of counting the tree rings to distinguish the age of the tree, he once wanted to cut down the jackfruit tree and count it. Unfortunately, it was beyond his ability after all, let alone living on the jackfruit tree.
The trunk of the jackfruit tree is extraordinarily hard and strong. After all, a large jackfruit often weighs more than ten or twenty kilograms, or even dozens of kilograms. Hanging such a huge fruit, the branches are naturally super strong, and the trunk is tough and dense.
Li Rou took the dark green material, not sure if it was the trunk of a jackfruit tree, so he asked Fo Nishang for a magnifying glass and looked at it carefully.
Li Rou looked at it for a while, and finally confirmed that those faint lines were indeed the fine annual rings of the jackfruit tree, and nodded, "This is indeed the trunk of the jackfruit tree, and it should have been formed after experiencing certain extreme conditions. Such a jackfruit tree should be at least a few hundred years old because of its smooth surface."
An Zhishui also took it over to have a look, not very interested, "What kind of material is suitable for carving?"
"Signatures, hairpins, fan bones and other things that require hardness, unfortunately there is only this one, and it is not easy to collect a large amount of such materials. The limit conditions mentioned by Li Rou may be instantaneous high pressure, from extreme From high temperature conditions to low temperature, etc., we don't know how it is formed, and it is difficult to manufacture the same material." Fo Nishang introduced.
"How much is this?" Li Rou planned to ask for this. Compared with An Zhishui, An Nanxiu only cared about the meaning of birthday presents. In this world, apart from the limited delicious food such as white sugar popsicles, An Nanxiu didn't care too much at all. what. As for jewelry and jade jewelry, it is even more meaningless. The value of An Nanxiu's necklace in Tianyun God Realm is equivalent to the total gd produced by the entire earth in a year.
"Since it's just jackfruit tree trunk wood, it won't sell much, three hundred yuan." Fo Nishang said indifferently.
This price is within the acceptable range of Li Rou. Although it is more expensive to buy a palm-sized piece of wood for 300 yuan, Li Rou really wants it, because An Nanxiu always says that the jackfruit tree is the tree of life. This is made into a pendant for her, so that An Nanxiu can feel comforted and intimate when touching it.
"You haven't bargained yet." An Zhishui reminded Li Rou in a low voice, and was eager to try.
So Li Rou gave An Zhishui an encouraging look.
"30% off!" An Zhishui stretched out three white fingers, as if he would not buy it if it was the price.
"Whatever you want." Fo Nishang nodded.
An Zhishui pouted, but the other party didn't even bargain with her, so there was no sense of accomplishment in such a bargain.
Li Rou took a one-hundred-yuan one, and Fo Nishang didn't bother to ask him for money, "It's the money you borrowed tools."
Of course, Li Rou had to process it, so he took the wood and went to the workbench of Fo Nishang to get busy.
Fo Nishang introduced the jade in the store to An Zhishui, and wanted to do more business, but An Zhishui couldn't see anything else anymore. What did Fo Nishang say about a piece of jade that is the treasure of the store? An Zhishui Didn't even look twice.
An Zhishui is still more interested in watching Li Rou's carvings. She wants to see how Li Rou makes these things, because she certainly doesn't know how to do them. An Zhishui doesn't understand those tools with different functions.
"Boys are amazing at doing these things. Li Rou has never learned anything about it, but he knows it." An Zhishui said enviously and proudly. He was envious because he didn't know it, and he was proud because it was Li who knew it. routing.
"Girls are also good at things, and they can't do female red knitting." Fo Nishang smiled slightly, "What do you usually like to do?"
"I know how to play the piano and the violin, but I haven't practiced for a long time, and I don't know anything else." An Zhishui was a little embarrassed. What girls should know about red knitting in Fo Nishang's mouth, An Zhishui No way, she took the needle and thread, but only remembered to prick her finger.
"These are for you, they are quite simple, learn to play by yourself." Fo Nishang gave An Zhishui a pair of cross stitch.
"How much?" An Zhishui was a little interested. He saw a female student embroidering this in class. An Zhishui also wanted to try it, but he always felt that he was clumsy and never bought these things. Now because he learned from Li Rou I am a little more confident in making rattan and grass crafts, and feel that I may be able to learn it.
"No need, just treat it as a gift from you for buying jade. If you earned three million yuan, it's really nothing to give some gadgets." Fo Nishang shook his head.
"Thank you then." An Zhishui accepted, because she often got gifts when she was shopping in the mall.
After a while, Li Rou, who is surprisingly strong and far more efficient than ordinary people, finished making the birthday present.
"Show me." An Zhishui wanted to see the difference from his own.
Li Rou handed it to her, An Zhishui looked at it, maybe because of the material, this pendant looked more primitive, but the main figure engraved on the front was a magic staff, An Zhishui showed it in many pop-up windows I have seen it in the advertisement. It is used by spellcasting characters in the game. Against the dark green background, the deep engravings are full of mysterious power. A princess crown surrounds the body of the staff, and the back of the pendant is Rows of mottled and complicated fonts, like the talismans in Lin Zhengying's zombie movies, An Zhishui didn't think those things really had any meaning, but thought they were written by Li Rou randomly.
Open the pendant, just like An Zhishui's, you can also put photos, but with An Nanxiu's narcissism, An Zhishui thinks that An Nanxiu is most likely to put her own headshot.
"Better than mine." An Zhishui had some opinions on this point.
"This is wood. Although it is very hard, it is still easier to carve than jade. I am not a master, so don't worry about it." Li Rou explained.
"Just talk about it, it's for Princess Xiu, of course it has to be carved better, otherwise she will definitely scold you." An Zhishui didn't really care, smiled, and touched the cloth hidden under the collar. Every time I touch the jade pendant, there is always a feeling that Li Rou is being held in his hand.
"Let's go back." Li Rou looked at An Zhishui's belly, "Are you hungry?"
When the two of them walked out of the shop, An Zhishui blushed and blamed, "You asked me if I'm hungry, why do you want to look at me?"
"I remembered the time we ate in my classmate's shop." Li Rou was referring to that time Li Rou hugged An Zhishui from behind.
"Don't watch it in the future." An Zhishui demanded very hesitantly. From that day on, An Zhishui dared to let Li Rou hold hands for a while outside the school.
"Did you get fatter, your belly fatter?" Li Rou said with concern, "It's okay, I won't laugh at you when I see it."
"Li Rou!" An Zhishui blushed in embarrassment, "I haven't gotten fat, anyway, you are not allowed to see it, so it's not the reason for your mess."
"Didn't you really get fat? Let's go swimming together. If you get fat, you can lose weight." Li Rou said expectantly. Although he had seen more, he always felt that he hadn't seen An Zhishui in a swimsuit. Pity.
"If you weigh yourself, you will know if you have gained weight. Boys who like to go swimming are not good people, so you are not allowed to go." An Zhishui didn't know what Li Rou was thinking, and wanted to act angry, but felt that Li Rou was dismissed. This idea is more important. If we go to a swimming pool together, Li Rou will not only see An Zhishui in a swimsuit, but also other girls in swimsuits!
"It's true. There are too many people taking swimming classes. No matter how many swimming pools the school digs, it won't be enough." The hormones of youth are terrifying. The swimming pools of national universities are always overcrowded, but there are more and more boys, and girls go there. Instead, there are fewer and fewer.
"I never go to the school's swimming pool, nor to other places, nor to the beach." An Zhishui really can't understand one thing. If a girl is wearing a skirt and is blown by the wind, she will be naked. Screaming, but obviously wearing less clothes in the swimming pool, why can you just let others see it? An Zhishui has never broken through this psychological barrier, so she doesn't go to the swimming pool.
Of course, there are other reasons, such as sanitation, safety, and so on. Once in Hawaii with Aunt Tang, a black man dipped in the big swimming pool in front of the hotel, and he spat in it. An Zhishui always It felt very disgusting, but it was okay, it was Aunt Tang who went down, she was just wearing a skirt and sitting under the palm tree by the pool basking in the sun.
"I'm finally relieved, otherwise I would definitely be jealous. I haven't even seen it, but someone else saw it." Li Rou said with some relief while being angry.
An Zhishui stared at him, blushing angrily, then looked at his playful smile, turned his head involuntarily, glanced at him after thinking for a while, pouted and complained: "Li Rou, you talk more and more to me. ?? Rogue?? "
"Angry?" Li Rou restrained his smile, and said worriedly and apologetically.
"I'm angry with myself." As soon as Li Rou was a little worried, An Zhishui felt that he shouldn't be like this, making him think he was a stingy person, An Zhishui quickly explained in a low voice, the faint blush dyed the shyness to the softness In his eyes, "I am angry with myself, because when you said these words to me, I wanted to be angry with you...but...but I was not angry..."
"Do you still like it a little bit?" Li Rou was a little carried away.
"I hate it, I'm angry now!" An Zhishui hit Li Rou with his fist, Li Rou was too bad, he seemed unhappy if he didn't make Shuishui angry.
Li Rou grabbed An Zhishui's fist, looked at her coquettish, shy and angry face that was still beautiful and heart-stopping, and hugged her into his arms.
"I hate it, hug me again." An Zhishui lowered her head and pushed him. The weather was very hot and her cheeks were hot, but she couldn't leave his embrace.