The two masters said that they would start to draw standards, and they started to talk in a long and long way.

"You two are here with preparation." When the two said a paragraph, the magistrate of Tang smiled.

"After receiving the call, I have been thinking about this, haha." Master Qin said with a smile, and Master Song nodded slightly.

Being prepared is always better than not being prepared. After the two masters expressed their opinions, Zhu Gantang thought for a moment and also talked about his own opinions. The three of them began to discuss.

County Magistrate Tang just listened from beginning to end, never interrupting his mouth. As he listened, his expression kept changing. Finally, his eyes were looking at the two masters, with deep thought, which was completely different from before.

The three of them discussed in a harmonious manner and quickly came to a conclusion, with a total of twenty items listed.

No matter what category, there are essentially similar parts. These twenty items include all the ten major categories of apprenticeship tests, and all categories can be applied.

"Yes, now it's time to start." Zhu Gantang said with a smile.

This time, the two masters had no comments.

The three of them officially began rating and judging the paper.

The three of them lived in one place. The clerk sent the cloth bags to them in order. They opened them and read them with their own hands, and then put them back after evaluating the scores, and sent them to another place for another examiner to see.

The total score is 100 points, and points will be added and subtracted in order according to the twenty items determined previously.

However, according to the standards set before the exam, the full score is not only 100.

On the wooden bench, every complete and practical use of a mortise and tenon structure can be added to five points.

There is no upper limit for this bonus, it can be increased infinitely.

Of course, the apprentices who are taking exams here today are all apprentices. They have limited abilities and can master more than four mortise and tenon structures. They are already geniuses among geniuses. Ordinary apprentices usually have one to two basic and simplest ones, and even this way, they can get a little extra points.

Of course, the premise of these five points is "complete and practical".

This completeness depends on the production skills of the mortise and tenon itself, and on the other hand, it depends on the results it achieves.

The most basic function of mortise and tenon is to connect. Whether the connection is firm or not is the most intuitive standard.

Tang County Magistrate was a serious scholar and was the first time in charge of local vocational responsibilities. He was actually quite curious about the related process.

Moreover, the two masters actually gave him a warning invisibly, allowing him to see the craftsman, which was not as simple as he imagined.

Now that the official rating begins, he walked to Master Song and sat down, staring at his every move.

A soap-clothed squid official came forward with a sack bag of original color. The magistrate of Tang remembered that this original color represented the works of woodworkers.

Master Song untied the knot on the pocket and opened it to reveal a wooden stool inside.

When the magistrate Tang saw the wooden bench, he immediately frowned.

"You dare to take the apprenticeship exam with this skill?"

What appeared in front of him was a square wooden stool with square faces and square legs. The beam between the two legs was also square, without any tricks.

Even before becoming the county magistrate, the family was relatively wealthy. Even if the family was a simple bench, he would make all kinds of tricks. He had never seen such a "simple" and clumsy stool.

Master Song didn't say anything. He touched the stool from beginning to end, then stood up, lifted it up, and smashed it hard on the ground!

His action was so sudden that he scared the magistrate of County Tang.

He stood up suddenly, took a step back, and asked in surprise: "What's wrong?"

Master Song was always taciturn, but still didn't say anything at this time. He picked up the wooden bench, looked at its number, and wrote on the paper: "No. 13, 85 minutes."

"Eighty-five? Such a high score?" County Magistrate Tang saw it with sharp eyes and asked in surprise.

"The shape is square, the length and length of the four legs are appropriate, the thickness is consistent, and straight and without bent. The stool is flat and smooth, without burrs, strong and load-bearing, and the ground is not damaged. There are two complete and practical tenons, plus ten."

Master Song rarely said such a long sentence, put the stool aside and waved to the next one.

The Tang County Magistrate was stunned when he heard this. At this time, another minor official came forward and wanted to take the stool back into the cloth bag. The Tang County Magistrate waved his hand to stop it and picked it up and savored it carefully.

He could vaguely feel why Master Song gave this simple stool so high, but he still couldn't understand it.

Finally, the wooden bench was put back into a cloth bag and sent to Master Qin. County Magistrate Tang pretended to be innocent and walked over to see his opinion.

The steps of Master Qin's inspection were similar to those of Master Song, but in the end he did not smash it straightforwardly, but held a stool leg and pulled it hard to both sides.

It's not moving at all, very strong.

Master Qin nodded with satisfaction and wrote down the score on the paper in front of him.

Eighty-five points.

Exactly the same as Master Song.

"Is this score a little high?" County Magistrate Tang couldn't help asking again.

When asked questions on the top, Master Qin's attitude was much better than Master Song. He took the wooden bench to explain it carefully.

"I think this stool is too simple and not very beautiful, and it doesn't deserve this score, right? Actually, it's not the case. The master has the standards of the master, and the apprentice has the standards of the apprentice. When we make various furniture, the first thing we require is practicality, and the second thing we require is modification. No matter how beautiful the stool is, it will collapse when it sits on it. What's the use of that?"

"Take this stool as an example, its basic skills are very solid and not very beautiful, but they are indeed useful. Look at the wooden thread here, which is straight and straight, and has no use to practice it. This skill has never been done with time. There is also a knot scar on the surface of the stool here, which is the most difficult to deal with, but it is made evenly. You see, it can't even touch it, right? The whole stool is very strong and will not break even after sitting for ten years. With this manual effort alone, you will definitely not worry about eating."

He also told the magistrate Tang about several places, how to deal with a certain detail, how this person did it, and how he did it properly.

County Magistrate Tang had never studied these before, and he suddenly realized it and sighed: "This kind of small thing actually has so much knowledge!"

"After ten years of hard work, we craftsmen are like this. We have already worked hard to learn this level in the three years of being an apprentice. Going up, carving, digging teeth, three bent legs, and inlaying gold... There is no end to learn, and there is so much to practice."

The Tang County Magistrate didn't say anything for a moment, and the minor official presented another work by the candidate.

Master Qin frowned as soon as he got it, "What's the matter! Even the wire of the ink can't be cut straight, so why are you doing carpenter work!"

This stool is indeed, and it is also a square stool. Its four legs look different, and there are traces of ink lines on it. Compared with this, the magistrate of Tang knew how standard and accurate the square stool in front was made.

This time, Master Qin didn't even test whether it was solid or not, and directly scored a two-point score on the paper. These two points were because the candidate barely used a kind of mortise and tenon to connect, but the sides were not neat and could only barely match it. The space left in the middle was enough to stuff a chopstick...

Next, the magistrate of Tang opened his eyes and saw various stools of all sizes next to Master Qin.

Most candidates are like the first one, making a very standard square stool without waists. Their level is similar to this one, with solid basic skills, and the wooden stools they make are flat and sturdy, and very practical.

Master Qin usually gives this kind of wooden bench eighty to eighty-five points, which will not be low, but will not go up any further.

If you know this kind of apprenticeship, it is not just wooden stools, but other furniture. It is enough to be a master in a serious situation. It is not a problem to help an ordinary farmer to make a whole-house furniture set.

But what apprentices tried was not the average.

Only thirty people were selected for the apprentice's woodworking test. With this level alone, it was impossible to stand out and be on the list of apprentice's jobs in Shui County.

Some of them are also relatively poor.

Like the one who only got two points just now, it was not the worst that County Magistrate Tang had ever seen.

After all, when Master Qin got this one, it was still in the shape of a complete wooden stool, but it was made relatively roughly.

The one he got later, when he was still in the bag, he felt something was wrong. When he poured it out, he was covered with scattered pieces of wood, and the shape of the wooden bench was not visible at all!

The most important thing is that this stool was the first to get, and it was not tortured by Master Song.

Master Qin was speechless, and County Magistrate Tang was speechless. He saw Master Qin write a zero point on the paper, and he wanted to write a memorandum to report to the apprentice, asking him to give a negative point!

At this time, another cloth bag was sent to Master Qin.

He started to touch it, and before he could untie the knot, he let out a light "huh" and his eyes lit up.

"What?" County Magistrate Tang was looking at it and asked quickly.

"This is interesting." Master Qin untied the knot and held the stool in his hand.

This time, even the magistrate of County Tang's eyes lit up.

The test question for this round of apprenticeship test is a wooden stool. Although the picture shows a square stool, it actually does not stipulate that it must be round or square.

In contrast, square stools are much less difficult than round stools, and the exam time is only one day. Most candidates are still illiterate, so of course they chose square stools to make them.

But what appeared in front of the Tang County Magistrate now was a round stool and a carved round stool.

Its stool has two circles in total, with a round outer ring, while the inner ring carved a picture of plum blossoms. Between the rugged rocks, a plum blossom emerges ruggedly and blooms on the branches.

Below the branches and beside the rocks, a deer lies peacefully, with patterns on her body, as if petals on the branches fell on her body.

The carvings on the entire stool are hollowed out. The thick part is about as thick as chopsticks, and the thin part is only as thick as a toothpick. It is exquisite and complex, and it is so beautiful!

County Magistrate Tang stared at the carving and was stunned. After a while, he kept saying: "Good paintings, artistic conception!"

Then he asked incrediblely, "Is this really done in one day?"
Chapter completed!