It just so happened that Lu Jianfeng brought Lu Hao over to pay New Year's greetings, and Lu Jianwei went to open the door, and he hesitated a little when he saw them.

"Hello. Bai Mu Yugui bowed to him politely, and handed over a letter of worship with both hands: "I am Bai Mu Yugui, this is my prayer post, please help me transfer it to Master Lu, thank you." ”

This is an off-white envelope, with the words "Lu Zi'an Exhibition" written in pen on the front.

There is a cherry blossom attached to the seal, and the whole looks very elegant.

"This is my New Year's gift to Master Lu, I wish you a blessed New Year. ”

Lu Jianwei thanked him before taking the wooden box handed over by the man next to him, and his hand was slightly heavy.

It's just that when Lu Jianwei invited them in, they refused, and only said that they would make a special trip to visit tomorrow.

Seeing them go away, Lu Jianfeng couldn't help but look at the wooden box in Lu Jianwei's hand with some envy: "Hey, big brother, I said that this can't be the jade building of Brother An'er, do you want me to help you get it?"

"No, the Jade Building is not so small. Lu Jianwei frowned slightly, and walked inside holding the wooden box: "You sit down first, and I'll send the things upstairs." ”

Lu Hao looked around, and saw that the yard was quite empty, and there were no rare plants, so he couldn't help but be a little disappointed.

Sitting down on the couch, he was still a little nervous.

Lu's mother came over with tea: "I peeled the grapefruit, there is still sugar, ah, I'll go turn on the TV and take a look!"

Lu Jianfeng chatted with her for a while, but Lu Hao's eyes involuntarily followed Lu Jianwei upstairs.

It wasn't until the door of the study was gently closed that he withdrew his gaze in disappointment.

Seeing Lu Jianwei coming in, Lu Zi'an couldn't help but feel a little strange, and his eyes were fixed on the wooden box he was holding in his hand: "Dad, what is this?"

"This is a message sent by a puppet from Yuki Shiraki, saying that he will come to visit tomorrow. Lu Jianwei handed him the letter and carefully placed the wooden box on the table: "What do you mean by this?"

President Liu and Director Danqing next to him glanced at each other, both a little inexplicable.

Lu Zi'an was also a little strange, thought about it, opened the envelope, and took out a very neatly folded piece of stationery.

The words are very simple, but the tone is very sincere, saying that it is inconvenient for him to disturb the guests today, and he will visit Yunyun at nine o'clock tomorrow, which seems very sincere.

Lu Zi'an raised his eyebrows, put down the letter paper, and opened the wooden box.

The wooden box is dark red throughout, silky to the touch, and the paint is very even, without any variegation.

When you open it, there is only one very beautiful box inside.

The whole body is pitch black, and the golden pine pattern is made with fine drawing, which is delicate and detailed.

When I opened it up, I was greeted by a very delicate fountain pen.

Three-tailed goldfish, two large and one small, swim in the darkness or in the shimmering golden pen.

The craftsman skillfully arranges them in various parts of the pen body, and the narrow pen body forms a small square and elegant underwater world.

The three goldfish, each with their own ease and leisure.

The bottom of the water, where the goldfish are swaying, is a patchwork of stones and swaggering grass.

In the gap between the water stones, there is the name of the master who made this pen: Chiaki Takaoka.

So cautious, the result is just a pen?

Lu Jianwei said he couldn't understand: "This fountain pen ...... It's pretty good to look at. ”

"It's not the pen that's important. Lu Zi'an picked up the fountain pen and observed it carefully: "This is Maki-e." ”

What is Maki-e?

Maki-e is one of the lacquer art techniques "halo gold", and the puppet country called it "powdered maki-e".

In fact, all of Maki-e crafts belong to lacquerware.

And these techniques were also transmitted to the puppet country from Huaxia, but this technique was carried forward in the puppet country and passed down.

It has a history of more than 1,500 years, and the name of the puppet country Japan, which means lacquerware.

Europeans call porcelain "China" and lacquerware "Japan", which shows the status of puppet lacquerware.

"If it is made by hand, it takes at least three months for a craftsman to make such a pen. Lu Zi'an narrowed his eyes slightly, admiring carefully.

However, after Chairman Liu carefully looked at the payment, he exclaimed in a low voice: "Takaoka Chiming......? I once saw the price of a pen, which seemed to be more than 80,000 ...... Renminbi. ”

More than 80,000!

Lu Jianwei's eyes widened, looking at this small fountain pen.

This gift seems to be inadvertent, but it really takes a lot of thought.

Lu Zi'an didn't care about the price, he just rubbed the pen slowly: "This is the top and most difficult [meat research out maki-e] in maki-e, it makes the raised lacquer surface form a gentle slope, making the expression of the painted surface more vivid and realistic." ”

Paint, paint, depict, grind.

Every step requires extreme precision.

Tu is lacquered, and the body of the pen is painted with traditional puppet lacquer.

Drawing is a drawing, and the subject is outlined on the lacquer surface with a variety of different specifications of mouse brushes.

Maki is a maki-e that is sprinkled with gold dust on the lacquered surface with a bamboo utensil called a powder bucket.

After more than 130 coats of lacquer and curing, the grinding is meticulously polished with charcoal until the pattern is bright and clear.

"What do they mean by giving such a fountain pen?" After knowing the value of this fountain pen, Lu Jianwei felt even more strange.

Lu Zi'an smiled faintly and put the pen back in the box: "The meaning is very simple, although I came to ask for advice, I also made my attitude clear." ”

Humility, but neither humble nor arrogant.

This Yuki Shiraki is a little interesting.

"But they shouldn't choose maki-e, if I want to choose, I'll choose a craft that is unique to the puppet country and that Huaxia doesn't have, and the effect is better. Lu Zi'an smiled, gently covered the wooden box, and said in an indifferent and calm tone: "After all, Maki-e is a skill developed from the traditional Chinese gold lacquer painting process. ”

President Liu hesitated: "Painting gold paint ......"

"That's right. Lu Zi'an smiled slightly, his eyes were far away: "It's just gold paint, it seems that they don't know enough about me." ”

After all, the "Reincarnation" he made for Dunhuang, although it was not painted with gold lacquer, it was made of lacquer line soil.

With his current skills, the lacquer line clay craft will naturally only become more proficient.

"Maki-e ......" The corners of Lu Zi'an's lips curved slightly, and his fingertips gently tapped on the wooden box: "I didn't remember it if I didn't remind me, this craft is originally from China." ”

Is the blue out of the blue, and better than the blue?

In the old days, it was passed from Huaxia to the puppet country, carried forward in the puppet country, and then raised a step in his hands, and then pressed its beauty.

Well, that's great.

After sending off President Liu and the others, he was about to turn back upstairs to study, but was stopped.

"Ango'er. Lu Jianfeng looked at him with a smile and said kindly: "Oh, you can't be idle for the New Year, it's too hard, come on, sit down and rest." ”

"Nope. Lu Zi'an glanced at his father: "Uncle Feng, sit down, I'm sorry I have something to do, so I won't accompany you first." ”

Lu Jianwei received the signal and hurriedly grabbed Lu Jianfeng: "Come on, let's have a drink, it's been a long time since we had a good drink......

Lu Hao, who was about to get up, could only sit back hesitantly, and ate a petal of orange in silence, well, it's really sour.

Back in the study, Lu Zi'an turned on the system and looked at the merit value.

Because of the turmoil for a while, his fame has risen a lot, and Yulou has attracted the attention of many people from the Eagle Country to the Puppet Kingdom, and the merit value has risen to almost 50,000.

And "One Leaf Bodhi" has been systematically rated as a fifth-level work, well, it's only a fifth-level work......

Lu Zi'an frowned not very satisfied, but he was quite happy when he saw the faith point.

Faith points have risen to 32 points......

He thought about it, flipped to the lacquer art item, and directly exchanged the faith points for ten points.

At present, he is only at the entry level, and he will first upgrade the lacquer art to the beginner.

He didn't think about looking for the paint himself, and exchanged the raw paint directly in the system.

This lacquer is called urushi, and it is only born in southern China, Korea, Vietnam, and the puppet country.

It can only be harvested once a year, and it needs to be left for 3-5 years after collection to be processed into a wear-resistant, honey-like lacquer, which is extremely rare.

He rummaged through the box and picked out a small boxy piece of wood.

Slowly cutting in with a flat knife, he slowly dug it out and carved it into two hollowed-out small drawers.

Coupled with a small mechanism with a mortise and tenon structure, it becomes a delicate and exquisite small box when it is closed up and down.

Lu Zi'an thought about it and slowly carved according to its lines.

The bas-relief carving technique is now used to be particularly proficient, and he simply used five layers of carving on it to carve out an elegant and clear plum.

The stems of this plum blossom are slender and slender, and the layers of repeated petals will feel enchanting if they are replaced by other flowers, but the plum under Lu Zi'an's knife has a sense of arrogance and coldness.

If you look closely, you will find that the lines on the petals are delicate, and there are even shallow fluff on the edges, which is extremely realistic.

Lu Zi'an stopped after carving the plum blossoms, picked up the sandpaper and polished it finely.

Repeated over and over again, it is finally polished smooth and delicate, and it feels excellent to the touch.

Then he took the paint and slowly brushed the entire wooden box inside and out.

The mixture of black and bright red, with the addition of gold powder paint, was smeared as he wanted between Lu Zi'an's fingers, and the overall pitch black occasionally flashed a touch of dark red.

Floating on the wood, you can faintly see the delicate lines of the wood through the paint, which has a thrilling beauty.

It's a pity that this is not porcelain, Lu Zi'an smeared it over and over again, while thinking about it, if it is replaced with porcelain, it will definitely be more beautiful.

Let's take this first......

After the paint was dry, he repeated the brush several times, until there was no omission in the entire wooden box, and the whole was as dark and transparent as a piece of inky jade, and then he stopped.

Then he picked up the white, silver-powdered lacquer and slowly and delicately dotted it on the plum blossom petals.

When he was painting before, he noticed that the paint on the petals was extremely thin.

At this time, layer by layer, a trace of charm has been added to the delicacy, and the plum blossoms are trembling but very stylish.

Like a very proud woman, a pair of beautiful eyes squint at you, the neck is snow-white, and the exposed collarbone is also suffocatingly beautiful.

By the time the paint was dry, it was already dark.

Shen Mange knocked on the door and came in: "Brother Zi'an, it's time to eat...... Wow, what is this?"