Bai Zihang looked at him seriously, and said with a straight face: "Mr. Lu, please accept it, this is what my grandfather meant." ”

"Is the old man awake?" Lu Zi'an thought for a moment, trying to be as tactful as possible: "To be honest, I don't need this, it's a waste to give it to me." ”

"Yes, I woke up in the early hours of this morning, and I was out of danger. Bai Zihang looked at him steadily, his eyes were full of guilt and sincerity: "I know that Mr. Lu's skills are so superb that there is no need for the Bai family's stunts, but we really can't come up with a better gift, we can't do it in the snow, so we can only add icing on the cake." ”

He paused, and smiled a little helplessly: "We all know what this means, but this is the decision of our whole family, with my grandfather's character, if you refuse to accept it, it is really impossible for Shuhang to stay in the Bai family......"

This is an apology and compensation, the Bai family is already weak, and this is already the best gift they can give.

Lu Zi'an pondered for a moment, and really couldn't think of a reason to refuse, so he had to nod and accept.

Bai Zihang left happily, Lu Zi'an sighed, picked up a few books and flipped through them.

Sure enough, it is worthy of being a family of wood carving in Dongyang, after all, the family has a thick foundation, and the wood carving skills are very comprehensive from micro to fine.

Shen Mange poured him a cup of tea, handed it to him, sat on the arm of the sofa, and said softly: "Brother Zi'an, I don't think you should accept these books, this is obviously a hot potato!"

"I know it's hot. Lu Zi'an took a sip of tea, and his eyes lit up: "Hmm? honey grapefruit tea?"

"yes, I did it myself. Shen Mange took a sip with a smile, sweet and sour and very comfortable: "How is it, it's delicious, right?"

"It's delicious, better than anything I bought outside. Lu Zi'an took a big sip and said "If you have this technology, you can open a bubble tea shop in the summer." ”

Shen Mange didn't know what he remembered, his eyes were deep, and he sneered: "Forget it, it won't be open for a few days." ”

Lu Zi'an heard that her voice was wrong, and looked at her suspiciously.

"It's fine. Shen Mange picked up a book casually and looked at it, and said lightly: "It's just that I didn't have money before, so I went to work for others, and the Duan family can always make peace with me, after all, I am not an adult, so in the end, I didn't even pay my salary in many places, and then I didn't do it." ”

Otherwise, she wouldn't have been so miserable, and she could only clean and wash dishes in the Internet café.

This Duan family......

Lu Zi'an lowered his eyes and took a sip: "Don't worry, I will get you back the losses that the Duan family has suffered for you." ”

As if he didn't expect him to say this, Shen Mange looked at him for a few seconds before smiling slightly: "Okay, I'll wait." ”

Lu Zi'an had nothing to do anyway, someone happened to come to repair the windows, and he couldn't do wood carving, so he simply nestled in the sofa and read those books.

In the morning, he basically flipped through the books, and he didn't even move when the workers were leaving.

"Why do you feel so unhappy?" Shen Mange looked at him strangely while eating.

Lu Zi'an came back to his senses, but he didn't intend to hide it from her: "There is a problem with the Bai family's book collection. ”

"Huh?"

"Missing pages. There happened to be a copy next to it, Lu Zi'an picked it up casually and turned to a certain page: "Look at this, it is written on it with high relief technology, although high relief is more realistic, but it will also need to integrate the basic skills of thin relief, but there is no such thing at all, there is a page missing here, and then it is time for the polishing skills of thick relief......

Shen Mange looked at it carefully, frowned, and said, "If you don't say it, I can't see it, because it's still cohesive in words." ”

"Yes, the problem is here!" Lu Zi'an tapped his finger on the desktop: "Every book has such a problem, it is basically the most essential place, one is missing, but the position is very interesting, even if it is missing, the text paragraph can still be connected......"

He felt as if he had discovered the real reason for the Bai family's growing decline.

The Bai family's generation has no successor, it is not that there is a shortage of people, judging from the Bai family's family style, the last thing they lack is a suitable successor.

What they lack is skill.

The Bai family's stunt is really amazing, and it was artificially truncated in Bai Zihang's generation......

No, maybe earlier, if Old Man Bai knew, he should have been able to bring one or two apprentices out, but he didn't, which means that he probably didn't know either......

"Hurry up and eat. Lu Zi'an hurriedly picked up a few mouthfuls of food and got up: "We'll go to the hospital later." ”

Seeing him enter the room, Shen Mange called him repeatedly: "You remember to call Bai Zihang, I seem to have heard someone say that they are going back to their hometown!"

"Got it!"

Lu Zian called Bai Zihang and asked them to wait for him in the hospital, although Bai Zihang didn't understand what was going on, he still agreed, and then refunded the ticket without the slightest hesitation.

After hanging up the phone, Lu Zi'an sat down at the table, took a piece of wood casually, and waved his knife.

Dongyang wood carving is artistic, it is mainly based on relief skills, the design adopts scattered perspective, bird's-eye perspective and other compositions, the layout is plump, scattered but not loose, more but not chaotic, the layers are clear, the theme is prominent, the story plot is strong, so it is deeply loved by collectors.

The Bai family's stunt lies in the combination of hollow carving, relief carving, yin hollow carving and other techniques, especially hollowing.

Dongyang wood carving generally adopts the way of flexible modeling, that is, the use of sensual, dynamic lines and surfaces, as far as possible to avoid the appearance of static, rigid straight lines and geometric planes, with arcs, curves and the shape of the throwing surface and curved surface produced by them, with a kind of rhythm and rhythm of beauty.

And the missing pages of the Bai family's collection are precisely the essence of these details.

Without these, no matter how good the foundation of the Bai family is, they can only make ordinary wood carvings, and they are more than skilled and lack aura.

Unless the Bai family can produce a person who is extremely smart and can still focus on breakthroughs while accepting the knowledge of his predecessors.

Judging by the current state of affairs, it is clear that this person did not appear.

Lu Zi'an took a deep breath, and the tip of the knife slashed across the wood like a floating light.

This piece of wood is a piece of wenge, the wood is relatively ordinary, and the texture is not smooth enough, but it is enough for demonstration.

He cut the wood into a full-fledged shape, with a different carving technique for each face.

The knife is deep and simple, and it adopts a variety of techniques such as hollow carving, relief carving, bas-relief, round carving, and yin hollow carving, and the carving is just a koi.

Each koi fish is alive and well, with different twists and turns, and the only thing they have in common is that they don't have eyes.

When the last side was carved, Lu Zi'an took a long breath, didn't polish it, and directly put it into the bag: "Let's go." ”

Shen Mange was already ready, and when he saw him rushing out, he walked out of the door, and hurriedly grabbed him: "You put on a down jacket, it's warm inside the house but it's cold outside!

"Ah, I forgot. Lu Zi'an patted his head and handed her the bag: "By the way, I also want to bring a carving knife." ”