I smiled bitterly twice, and waited for Huang Lin's emotions to calm down before I spoke, " Brother Huang, you are smart but clever mistaken, jade is strong, since you have learned the craft of jade carving, you must also understand the history of jade carving, from the Han Dynasty Han Eight Knife, to the back of the broken knife, the skill of jumping the knife, all because the jade quality is too strong, have to compromise on it, even today, the quality of the jade knife has far exceeded the old times, still can not be done everywhere exquisite, Brother Huang, your work, is not a bad carving, but the carving is too good, not like artificial. ”

Huang Lin smoked his pipe in a muffled voice, and he didn't say anything, I met him for the first time, and after saying so much, it was already unconventional, I saw that he was not ready to continue to deal with me, so he got up and said goodbye, and Huang Lin didn't keep me.

I am very idle in this line of work on weekdays, after the day I guard the store during the day, in the afternoon to see the sky is dark I went to Huang Lin to chat, after a long time, the two of us from drinking tea and chatting to drinking and bragging relationship, the more you talk more and more, the more you talk about it, the deeper the feelings, Huang Lin I asked him to do things and not go, he gave me a small lesson to the customer, said that the money was returned to him.

Don't talk about the customer feeling grateful to me, I have to thank Huang Lin, just after a few more drinks, there is Tianma Lao Er brought me two wild Wang Ba, I hurried to find Huang Lin, Huang Lin is still the same, lying at the door of the store to listen to the commentary, I shouted hello, said with a smile, "Brother Huang, look at what I brought here? ”

Huang Lin got up from the recliner, looked at me, and then looked at Wang Ba I was carrying, his eyes were very complicated, he didn't come to pick him up, and he didn't speak, I also wondered, what's the matter, Wang Ba committed his taboo?

Thinking about it like this, I hesitated a little, we have too many Chinese folk sayings, for example, a man's wife ran away with someone else, others will say that this man is a green-haired king, I haven't been in contact with Huang Lin for a long time, I don't know what experience he had before, in case he really had a wife who ran away with someone else, I would be self-defeating and hateful.

Just thinking about it, Huang Lin suddenly strode towards me, pulled me into his broken jeep, the door of the store was not closed, and the car rumbled away, he didn't speak and I didn't dare to ask, I was still a little apprehensive, the car drove to the door of the restaurant where we frequented and stopped, Huang Lin took Wang Ba from my hand and shouted at the boss, the boss was a middle-aged greasy man, and hurriedly ran out, Huang Lin threw Wang Ba over, and shouted, "Do a good job, make the fire enough, and have you a bowl of wine to drink at night!"

How sharp are the eyes of the restaurant owner, Wang Ba just started to see that it was wild, as soon as he heard that he could rub the wine at night, his eyes narrowed into a slit, and shouted at the top of his voice to rest assured, the broken jeep drove away in the boss's reassuring voice, and took me around to a dilapidated courtyard, Huang Lin jumped out of the car and walked towards the courtyard, I hurriedly followed his footsteps, opened the door and entered the courtyard into the house, I saw clearly what this place was at a glance, the house was full of jade rough stones, as well as furnaces and workbenches, and there were several semi-finished jade carvings on the platform, this is Huang Lin's studio。

This time it's my turn to be dumbfounded, I never thought that Huang Lin would suddenly bring me to his studio, for him such a self-produced jade carving dealer, the location of the studio is the most confidential thing, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the root of life, I usually look for him to drink and save his thoughts to make friends with him, but I never thought that Huang Lin would show me his deepest privacy, to put it mildly, from today on, I want to destroy him Huang Lin, but it is just a gesture.

I opened my mouth, but I didn't know what to say, what kind of trust this is, Huang Lin saw my emotion, and grinned, " Xiao Wu, brother, I don't have any friends in my life, I don't even have a temper on weekdays, these days I have you with my brother, my brother is happy, I haven't been so happy for many years, from now on, you are my brother Huang Lin's own brother, don't say that I will take you to see the place where my brother is working, as long as you open your mouth, it doesn't hurt for your brother to give you, okay, don't open your mouth like a fool, don't always be curious about how I can carve jade like that, you go and see for yourself, see if you can see it. ”

I hugged Huang Lin's hand, it would be superfluous to say anything at the moment, this kind of feeling can only be put in my heart, because it is heavy, I put my breath down, slowly walked around and observed everything in the room, Huang Lin leaned on the door frame and smoked a pipe, I should want to try if I have the ability to see through.

Everything in the room is nothing special, all kinds of jade rough stones are things that I look rotten, I picked up Huang Lin's jade knife from the workbench, weighed it a few times, and randomly picked a piece of jade material to move, the jade knife is good, it's just good, I frowned and looked at it a few times, there are things in this room that are no different from ordinary jade workers' studios, is it true that Huang Lin's skills are not successful?

I was about to admit defeat and go to ask Huang Lin for advice, when I turned around, I was attracted by the furnace in the corner, and it is not to make jade carving, what is it to make a furnace?

I put down the copper pot, walked to Huang Lin, stared into his eyes and said, "It is recorded in an ancient book in the Jin Dynasty that there is a kind of foreign grass produced in Goryeo, which can be turned into jade juice, and then enter the Han Emperor, and the Han Emperor ordered people to try it, as he said, the Han Emperor then ordered Goryeo to make a long offering, and the Han Emperor himself also set the drinking jade juice to be available for every meal, 'two or three hundred catties a year', Brother Huang, don't you use this method?"

Huang Lin showed an appreciative look on his face, nodded, shook his head again, and said, "It's almost, but it's not the same, after all, this method has been lost for more than a thousand years, and the different grasses produced in Goryeo have long been extinct, and I just reproduce according to my own understanding according to the ancient method, Xiao Wu, you also said, my carving is not like artificial, in fact, to put it bluntly, I just boiled the jade thoroughly, the slurry was reshaped, the jade had no firmness, and the carving was not like dough, but unfortunately, the ancient method was difficult to reproduce, and my method was not small. ”

"Xiao Wu, you once said that my jade carving light transmittance is wrong, I understand what is going on, after I boiled the jade into a pulp, when the jade pulp cooled and then became jade, I don't know why it was mixed with some strange impurities, it does not affect the quality of the finished product, but it greatly weakens the light transmittance, I have tried many methods, but can not solve this problem, so I let it go. ”

"And I found something to replace the different grass in the record, and the ability to melt jade was also discounted, it can only melt some inferior jade with relatively low density, and cannot dissolve good jade with high density, as my brother said, these factors are accumulated together, even if the carving is mellow, it can't enter the eyes of the insiders, and the old brother has to give the newcomer some eye medicine with a clear conscience, and the whole two wine money, talk to get by. ”

After listening to Huang Lin's story, I sighed with emotion, "Brother Huang, you treat me sincerely, you can learn from the sun and the moon, how can Xiao Wu De, Brother Huang, I have an idea, maybe I can add a stable income to us, and I don't have a conscience, but let's not mention this matter today, let's go drink first, and stay until tomorrow, let's talk about this matter in detail." ”

Since Huang Lin is willing to bring me here, he has already recognized me as a brother in his heart, and he also happily replied, "Cheng, my brother will give you two bottles of good wine today, lest you complain that my brother is stingy, go!"

Or the broken jeep, drove to the door of the hotel, Huang Lin took out the good wine, or Tanghe, this Tanghe can be different from what we drink on weekdays, the shell of the wine is full of mildew, Huang Lin knocked off the shell, I took it and looked, good guy, eight or nine years of Tanghe, you must know that Tanghe Distillery was established in eight or four years, the wine in the bottle has precipitated into yellow, this wine is drunk, wild Wang Ba with aged old wine, I drank directly to amnesia, the next day at noon when I woke up from the sofa full of only three question sentences, where is this? Who am I? What happened yesterday?

Fragments to fragments, really not a headache, I got up and looked, the surrounding furnishings are Huanglin's shop, it seems that after drinking too much yesterday, the restaurant owner sent us back to Huanglin's storefront, I went to the bathroom to wash my face with cold water, shouted to wake up Huang Lin, and after finding a place to drink a bowl of mutton soup, Huang Lin drove his broken jeep, and we returned to his studio courtyard.

I asked Huang Lin to show me his work process, Huang Lin nodded, since he revealed the bottom for me, he was not afraid of me to see, Huang Lin lit the furnace, put his mixed liquid in advance into the pot, put in a piece of jade and began to cook, and then he went to mix the plants and trees used to boil the jade, put it into a bag with a strainer and threw it into the pot that had been boiling jade for half a day, and then stared at the thermometer, constantly adjusting the flame through the intake valve, I stood next to me, and as time passed, I watched a palm-sized piece of jade slump in the water like ice cream。

When the jade material was boiled to the time when it was about to be scattered, Huang Lin quickly fished out the jade pulp with a colander, he poured the jade pulp into a mold on the table next to him, sealed the lid and picked up the bottle containing liquid nitrogen and poured it on, and then put the mold on the workbench with pliers, disassemble the fixing parts of the mold, take out the jade mold that had just solidified and began to carve, at this time the jade mold was like a red-hot glass, plasticity and still very soft, not a lot of effort, Huang Lin even carved the belt to make a birthday statue, he picked up the liquid nitrogen and stood in the distance and poured it again, and after the cold air dissipated, he motioned me to watch。

I picked up the birthday statue, the coolness of liquid nitrogen in the jade, started to lubricate, I looked at the carving carefully, in fact, I don't have to look, the whole round carving is impeccable, the national first-class master has to bow down, no way, because Huang Lin is not carved jade at all, it is not good to say, he is simply the process of pinching glass, and it is not a very powerful glassworker, to paraphrase a cross talk that has been circulated for a long time, Huang Lin is a jade carving world glass pinched best, the best craftsman in the glass world.