Chapter 1088: Homemade fishing rod

Sun Pengcheng was also helpless when he met Xiao Peng. Such a high-level exchange forum made him "to accompany the old man to pull the calf". But he couldn't help it, let Xiao Peng's temperament come.
Isn't it just fishing gear? This can't be troublesome for Xiao Peng. How did our ancestors fish when there was no plastic? Bamboo!
But the process of finding bamboo in Cuba made Xiao Peng dumbfounded, and he finally understood why people in Cuba use plastic fishing rods or hand lines.
This country is not without bamboo, but the quantity is really small. They almost chopped down the bamboo to grow other plants, such as bananas, tobacco leaves, cassava and the like.
Here, bamboo is only used to make furniture and handicrafts, and there is no culture of using bamboo at all. They don’t even know that bamboo shoots can be eaten ------ eat trees? What international joke?
The climate here is really suitable for the growth of bamboo, but in the eyes of Cubans, this bamboo is very tasteless, and a large piece of it is useless. At this exchange meeting, bamboo plant experts from China and people from the Cuban Agricultural and Forestry Technology Association introduced their experience in promoting bamboo.
This bamboo is actually a good thing, one of the fastest growing countries in the world. It can be widely used in construction, fiber paper and pulp industry, medical and pharmaceutical industry, production of new equipment, food and security products and used as renewable energy, but Xiao Peng can't take care of those now, he just wants to find suitable bamboo to make It's just a fishing rod.
Bamboo has been used to the extreme by Huaxia people! Since ancient times, China has loved bamboo. It is ‘preferably eating meatless than living without bamboo’. From south to north, there are various kinds of bamboo.
The most famous chicken soup text in China also writes bamboo, which roughly means:'A kind of bamboo grows in the east of China, where farmers plant seeds everywhere and cultivate them carefully every day, even if the farmers have been taking care of the bamboo for several years. , Moso bamboo is only three centimeters long in four years. When other people see this scene, they shake their heads and express incomprehension, they will think like this: What does it take to grow it for so long? Waste of time and energy! ’
‘But five years later, the bamboo is growing at a rate of 30 centimeters a day, so that it can grow to 15 meters in only six weeks, and it can instantly become a lush bamboo forest. In the first four years of growth, bamboo has grown hundreds of meters of roots under the ground, just for the fifth year of the outbreak. ’
All day long, there are so-called successful mentors who use this story to inspire people to do things, telling them that when doing things, even if you work hard and you can’t see the results, you have to persevere, because this is taking root and waiting for the time to come will be far away. And the pinnacle. Especially when employees are dissatisfied with salary and cannot see the hope of preparing to change jobs, they often hear stories like this.
For this chicken soup text, Xiao Peng has one word: Bah!
Who says who is silly X, who believes who is silly X! The person who wrote this chicken soup article must have never seen bamboo shoots, right? There are really four-year bamboo shoots that are three centimeters long, and Xiao Peng eats them raw!
It also ‘sows everywhere’. There are many methods for planting bamboo, such as moving bamboo afforestation, whipping afforestation, cutting stalks and moving pocket afforestation, seedling afforestation, and whipping seedling afforestation. Who uses sowing to plant bamboo? Even if you plant bamboo, you can grow to ten centimeters in three months! As for roots that grow hundreds of meters underground. . . . . . Dude, how can a root hundreds of meters grow without photosynthesis? They grew up eating meat?
Although this is a bowl of ‘rotten chicken soup’, it also shows the Chinese people’s love for bamboo - you take a look, and even write a chicken soup article about bamboo.
But it is not easy to find bamboo suitable for fishing rods.
There are also many kinds of bamboo. In China alone, there are Ruozhu, Guanyin bamboo, Phoenix-tailed bamboo, Huaxiaoshun bamboo, green-skin bamboo, fishing line single bamboo, pink single bamboo, Buddha belly bamboo, golden bizhu, tea pole bamboo, long-sown bamboo, bamboo, steel Bamboo, moso bamboo, tortoiseshell bamboo, purple bamboo, bitter bamboo, etc. hundreds of kinds of bamboos, each of which has different thickness and hardness, but not all bamboos can be used as fishing rods.
The best bamboo to make fishing rods is tea stalk bamboo. Because of its resistance to insects and corrosion, this kind of bamboo has the reputation of ‘steel bamboo’ and is a very slender bamboo. It mainly lives in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions, but due to its resistance to cold and drought, it can be seen almost everywhere.
This kind of bamboo has always been the favorite of literati and inkmen since ancient times. In ancient times, flower stands, penholders, fishing rods, bamboo carvings, etc. were all made with this tea pole bamboo as the top quality! And this thing grows fast enough, so many Chinese people will go to a treasure to buy a few trees to plant in their own garden, and a large piece of it will grow in three years.
However, although this tea stem bamboo belongs to the ‘North American arrow bamboo family’, it is a plant of the genus Centipede. There are more than 30 kinds of bamboos in the genus Centipede, all of which are distributed in East Asia. There is really nothing in Cuba!
The hard work paid off, and finally Xiao Peng really found Chaganzhu here, in the suburbs of Havana! It was in a cemetery. The name of the cemetery is very domineering-the five Chinese characters "Zhong Yishan" are written on the door. At first glance, it is a Chinese cemetery.
Cuba is also of Chinese descent, and is divided into the'new generation' and the'old generation'.
In fact, the largest Chinese district in the entire Latin American region was in Havana. In those days, tens of thousands of Chinese participated in the Cuban Liberation War and overthrew the Spanish colonial rule in Cuba. Today there is a black marble monument in Havana, which reads'Assistance by Overseas Chinese in Ancient China. Monument to the Independence of Cuba'.
However, since the nationalization of the old card, because most of the Chinese were operating small businesses and shops, their private property was confiscated and no private economy was allowed. Foreign exchange control also prevented the Chinese from sending money to their hometowns. So a large number of Chinese left Cuba and arrived. Today, there are not many who can speak Chinese, this is the'old generation'.
Later in the 1990s, some Chinese came to live in a place called Medragnescu in Old Havana. There is also a tall archway with the words "Chinese Street" on it. These Chinese came here to do catering and tourism in 1995 in response to the leadership's call from Magic City. This is the ‘new generation’.
There are more than 130 overseas Chinese in Cuba. . . . . .
And the cemetery of "Zongyi Mountain of China" is a cemetery of overseas Chinese with a history of over a century in Cuba.
However, this cemetery was also taken over to Cuba and left unattended at all. In addition to the departure of the old overseas Chinese, the cemetery of the ancestors was no longer taken care of, so the cemetery is now devastated and desolate. In addition, Cuba has a tropical climate, with thunderstorms in summer, the tombstones here are windy and sun-dried in the rainforest, and many tombstones have collapsed.
However, Xiao Peng saw a large piece of tea stem bamboo here. Because there is no one to take care of it, this tea-stalk bamboo grows unusually lush.
Chopping bamboo from the cemetery was nothing like that. Xiao Peng thought for a while and hired a group of people to clean the cemetery. He went to buy a bunch of fruits and paid homage to all the tombstones inside. This wasted a lot of Xiao Peng's time. By the time Xiao Peng carried the bamboo to the repair shop of Dana's house, it was almost afternoon-----he wanted to use Dana's tools to make fishing rods.
Today I saw Dana's father: the old mechanic Yumika Armas, where he is directing people to repair the car. Xiao Peng went over and looked at it curiously, um, very good, a Chery engine just ran into the engine compartment of the classic Pontiac car.
Yumika was also very happy. He thought Xiao Peng didn't understand Spanish, so he gave Xiao Peng a thumbs up: "China Engine! Good! Good!"
Isn't it good? Much better than your original diesel engine! These old zombie cars are replaced with new engines and can live at least another fifty years.
Garcia took a plastic bag and walked over: "Mr. Xiao, take a look, is this what you need?"
Xiao Peng opened the bag. It contained shoe mending thread, tung oil sandpaper and the like, and a long screw with a nut more than ten centimeters long: "Yes, that's them! Start work!"
They were also curious about what Xiao Peng would do.
I saw that Xiao Peng first chose three bamboos of suitable thickness and better roundness, and then roasted them on the fire. After roasting for a while, pour cold water on them and roast them again.
"Mr. Xiao, what are you doing?" Garcia asked puzzledly.
Xiao Peng said while roasting the bamboo: "Straighten, this bamboo is not straight. To use it smoothly, you have to roast these bamboo joints. In fact, this is a repeated process. Generally, after the straightening is done, it should be at the front of the bamboo. Hanging a heavy object for a month can ensure that it is truly straight, and the natural air-dried bamboo is more resistant, but I don’t have that much time, so I can only bake it with a high temperature. Anyway, just use it once, and the meaning will be enough. ."
After the three bamboos were straightened, Xiao Peng used a cylinder to cover the joint of the fishing rod with sandpaper and began to polish from the inside of the bamboo rod. This is called "grinding the jade mouth", which is a delicate task: to ensure that the fish are fished The connecting part of the rod can bear enough strength, so the "jade mouth" should be ground into a V shape, the connecting part should be thinner, and the inner part should be thicker.
And the bamboo pole of the inserted jade mouth has to be "wrapped around the jade mouth", that is, a silk thread is wound around the joint to increase friction.
Some people were surprised when they dropped their fishing rods for freshwater fish. They all use silk thread to "wrap the jade mouth", but it’s hard to find silk thread in Cuba, so Xiao Peng asked Garcia to find a thinner shoe repair thread for himself. This thing is "wrapped around the jade mouth", the friction is the lever drop!
Next, after grinding eight pieces of wrench-like shapes with wide bamboo pieces, Xiao Peng grinds away some of the lines on the long screw. These wrench-like pieces of bamboo, long screws and several wide bamboo tubes directly constitute the fish. Fishing reel on the rod. Then use bamboo to make a wire loop and stick it on the fishing rod. After fixing the long screw of the fishing reel on the widest part of the fishing rod, Xiao Peng brushes the fishing rod with tung oil. After observing for a while, he sighed: "Oh, I'm very dissatisfied, let's make do with it first..."
There was a sound of people falling directly behind him.
Sun Pengcheng's voice came slowly: "Brother Peng, we are still good friends without pretending to be X..."