The next day, at the beginning of the thirtieth month of the lunar month, a faint white line was wiped on the horizon, and most of the surrounding places were still black.

The clay court was full of people, lined up as they had when they first arrived.

Last night, the five teams called it a day at the same time, covered the finished product they had made with a cloth, buckled the edges to the ground with iron rings, and sent people to guard them.

At the end of the five days, the work is complete, and no further modifications are allowed or destruction.

Four chief judges stood in front, and a junior official was holding a document and reading it.

This is the standard and specific process of today's acceptance assessment, which will be announced to all candidates before the acceptance begins.

The first three are very routine in the acceptance of four criteria, and the most critical is the last one.

After the chief judge scores the first three scores, he will press them but not send them, and then the chief of the campaign will introduce his work and future construction program.

The work that has been completed now inevitably includes their idea of the Palace of Use, and their introduction is based on this, focusing on describing what they think the Palace of Others is like and how they plan to build it.

This item is not scored separately, but the four judges will give a multiplication factor that multiplies the total score of the first three items by this coefficient to arrive at the final total score.

This coefficient can be positive or negative, which means that if the introduction is not satisfactory to the chief judge, even if the first three items are completed well, points may be deducted......

After this rating requirement came out, everyone's faces changed.

Liu Wange was stunned for a moment, his smile disappeared, and he stared at his eyebrows and thought carefully.

Zhu Gantang stroked his palms and smiled, as if he was very appreciative of this request.

Wang Yiding's face has always been a little dark, and even more so at this time, his brows furrowed into a bun.

Li Quan smiled confidently, as if he had already included this item in his consideration a long time ago.

Xu Wen was also stunned for a moment, his gaze swept over the four people in front of him, and finally settled on Lin Xie, and directly saw who was the real proposer of this link.

After realizing this, he was a little surprised, but also a little happy.

The scoring criteria or something, of course, are the final say of the chief judge, and the candidates only have to listen.

Jing Nanhai finally added that when the campaign leader introduced his work and program, the other four candidates were also participants, and they were not allowed to interrupt the candidate's words, but after he had finished speaking, they could raise questions and let them answer.

The process of answering and the elaboration will also be used as a reference for the chief judge's scoring.

This is because we are afraid that the smell of gunpowder is not strong enough......

Xu Wen thought in his heart.

However, except for him, the candidates are all very senior and extremely experienced top masters. In many ways, they may be better than the presiding judge.

Whether they are questioning or answering, they will definitely expand everyone's ideas, which is actually a good thing.

It's just that Xu Wen himself is just a new craftsman who has just passed the apprenticeship test, and this kind of thing is a little embarrassing for him.

It doesn't matter, it's just a graduation defense.

After preaching the rules, Jing Nanhai said: "Then let's start, sort by age, and go to Master Liu of Liu Wange first." ”

"Then let's make a fool of myself first. Liu Wange seemed to have thought about his speech, frowned, and said with a smile.

The group came to the westernmost part of the clay field, where Liu Wange's works are located.

The thing was covered by a linen cloth, and the light was a little dim at this time, making it even more difficult to see.

Xu Wen narrowed his eyes and looked at it curiously, but he could only see that this thing was seven and a half feet tall and four zhang wide, and the thickness seemed to be a little tortuous, which was not easy to judge.

Jing Nanhai signaled, and several soldiers stepped forward, unbuttoned the copper buckle on the ground, and lifted the cloth.

At this time, the sky was already a little brighter than before, and the thin morning light was shining on the objects under the cloth, and Xu Wen could clearly hear the sound of many inhalations around him.

At this time, he didn't have time to look at the expressions of other people, and was attracted by the building in front of him.

Yes, a wall can undoubtedly also be called a building.

It is a stone wall, zigzag forward, and looks a bit like a folding fan.

There are a total of 12 "fans", each of which is covered with carvings, and the entire stone wall is a huge stone carving.

The chief judges stepped forward, and the other three candidates couldn't help but follow, carefully looking at the details of the stone wall carving, only Xu Wen did not move immediately, but stood a little farther away, looking at its whole.

The sky shines on the stone walls, and the light and darkness are intertwined. The ten-meter-long wall brings people a strong sense of oppression and shock.

However, the first thing Xu Wen felt was harmony.

The stone wall is two and a half meters high, and if you count the curved parts, the length is about twenty meters.

That is, twelve walls, each of which is about one meter six, are rectangular in shape.

The walls are covered with exquisite stone carvings, and you can feel the astonishing level of detail when viewed from a distance, which could not have been done by one person.

But it looks so unified, so harmonious, the whole stone wall is a whole.

The sense of shock it gives people is largely due to this.

Xu Wen admired it from afar for a while, and then stepped forward to take a closer look.

Sure enough, just as he thought, the content of the carvings on each of the twelve walls was different, and the style was also clearly different, and it was not the work of the same person.

Where does this sense of wholeness come from?

The carvings on the stone wall are actually a series, and every four of them is a region, depicting the different customs and folklore of the four regions of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Craftsmen will be divided into various places to serve, although Liu Wange's disciples are all taught by him, but the place where they serve is often not in one place. And taking this opportunity, they went to the north and south of the river and saw the different customs of various places.

Now, they drew some of the things they saw and carved them into the wall.

These are all small stories and small scenes, there are girls with curtains to cover their faces, peeking from behind the window to peek at the oil seller downstairs, there are woodcutters carrying firewood, walking down the mountain step by step, there are scholars sitting on the boat, drinking and having fun with friends, and there is a small boat carrying a girl who picks lings passing by, and the scholar takes advantage of his drunkenness to take money from his purse to buy a ling.

Twelve walls, twelve scenes, each of which is full of interest, and it is immediately possible to see which territory of the Great Zhou is depicted.

In addition to the carved scenes, what makes Xu Wen more eye-catching is the craftsmanship of the carving.

Looking at this, Xu Wen thought of one thing.

In this world, Qin Lianying left him a codex, which recorded all the more famous or characteristic carvings of the Great Zhou.

However, many of them only have names, descriptions, and provenances, and no way to do it.

In another world, he learned from Meng Ping the twenty-four carving skills of the Meng family.

This set of carvings brings together all the traditional and modern carving techniques collected by the Meng family from ancient times to the present, and integrates them into a set of systems.

However, Meng Ping said at that time that this set of things did not exist since ancient times, and it was gradually completed in the past three generations.

This was done because of the changes in the world and the loss of many skills, so I had to reintegrate the remaining parts.

In other words, in addition to these twenty-four carvings, there are also some lost skills. Meng Pingping's greatest and unobtainable wish in his life is to find these skills back, reintegrate them, further upgrade the twenty-four carvings of the Meng family, and then pass them on.

Interestingly, some of the accounts he described to Xu Wen of the lost skills are very similar to some of the descriptions in Qin Lianying's Codex.

And now, looking at the stone wall in front of him, Xu Wen seemed to see those descriptions turn into real objects and appear in front of his eyes!