If he could, Zhao Tianming also wanted to see the jade carving process in Gusu, but unfortunately, jade carving was a more time-consuming work than Zhou Lao's calligraphy and painting restoration and mounting, so he could only save one side.

Outside Guo's shopkeeper's shop, there is Jade Factory Street, many of which are ancestral small workshops, with shops in front and workshops behind. Under the dim street lamps, there are not many people coming and going, and many of the people who come here are familiar people.

Walking to the end of the street, Zhao Tianming and the two found that there were some people gathered in a somewhat dilapidated shop, and they could hear the hustle and bustle from a distance.

Some curious people walked in, listened to everyone's discussions, and realized that this store was not ready to continue, and the inventory was being cleared, and the customers went in, picked at random, and then paid, and it had been going on for several days.

For such a long time, there are good things, and they are almost picked up, and the rest are some miscellaneous things, which are scattered everywhere and turned over for people, similar to garbage heaps.

However, there are some young tourists from other places, out of curiosity, who want to go in and see what the jade workshop in Gusu is like, so there are some people one after another. If it weren't for the shopkeeper's straight face, it is estimated that someone would have asked him to demonstrate how jade is carved.

"It is said that this shop has a history of hundreds of years and has been handed down from the Ming Dynasty, so why can't it be done?"

"Even if you can't do it, there's no reason for people to pick up those jade and workshop tools, right?

"You don't know, I heard that the earliest owner of this workshop was a sinister villain named Wang Xiaoxi, and the people who took over this shop would be very unlucky in the end, almost every one of them was in a slump of business and lost all their money. Therefore, everyone said that this shop was very ominous, and there was Lu Zigang's unjust soul at work. ”

"Is it so evil? Why did you get involved with Lu Zigang again?"

"Don't you know? Wang Xiaoxi was the one who killed Lu Zigang, and it was because he reported it to the emperor that he found out that Lu Zigang had carved words on the dragon's head, and he was killed because of it. ”

"That's right! Even the things in his shop, Gusu's peers are reluctant to take over, for fear of bringing bad luck. ”

Zhao Tianming has also heard a lot about Lu Zigang and Wang Xiaoxi.

It is said that he does not love beauty and loves beautiful jade, and is obsessed with playing jade all his life, and when he got married, the family told him a family affair, and the other party was a young lady, but he ran away from home and went to a jade workshop in Gusu to learn jade carving skills, and he learned at the same time, there were Wang Xiaoxi, He Si and others.

Soon after he came out of school, he swept the world with his superb and ingenious jade cutting skills, and was regarded as a guest by the literati and scholars, and countless dignitaries and nobles came to seek jade, and his skills were called "Wuzhong stunts".

In the feudal era, the social status of "scholars, farmers, industrialists, and merchants" and handicraftsmen was not high, but Lu Zigang was regarded as a guest by dignitaries from all walks of life.

Lu Zigang has a habit that all his works must be signed, in the hierarchical feudal era, ancient craftsmen are rarely signed, after the payment, it will devalue the value of the work.

Lu Zigang, on the other hand, did the opposite, which was a rebellion against the social ideology of the time, however, this practice not only made him pass down through the ages, but also laid the root of his later encounters.

His works are all engraved, there are yang and yin texts, mainly seal script and official script, there are three kinds of "Zigang", "Zigang", "Zigang system". The carved part is also very particular, mostly in the bottom, back, handle, cover and other inconspicuous places, will not affect the overall feeling of the work.

Lu Zigang's fame is getting bigger and bigger, and when the emperor heard about it, he summoned him into the palace to carve jade, and specially ordered him to carve a hundred horses on the jade wrench.

He was not stumped, but it took him only a few days to complete it, carving on the small jade wrench the atmosphere of the mountains and a wide open gate, and only three horses were carved, one galloping through the city, one galloping towards the gate, and one just peeking out of the valley.

That's it, but it gives people the feeling that there are countless horses galloping out, and he expresses the meaning of a hundred horses in a virtual way, which is wonderful.

The emperor liked him very much and rewarded him greatly, and even his partner Wang Xiaoxi and others when he was studying art also entered the royal workshop to work. Since then, his jade carvings have become the exclusive favor of the royal family.

However, he would never have thought that the person who would kill him was Wang Xiaoxi, who once learned his craft in the jade workshop with him to make a living.

Lu Zigang's repeated rewards made Wang Xiaoxi, who was also a court jade master, jealous, and he pointed out that Lu Zigang secretly engraved his name on the jade dedicated to the emperor, which almost cost Lu Zigang his life.

Fortunately, the emperor at that time greatly appreciated and loved his works, so he escaped and did not punish him.

However, Lu Zigang still did not change his habits, and every time he carved jade for the emperor, he would keep his name until he paid the price of his life. It can only be said that throughout the ages, the thoughts and deeds of those geniuses are not understandable to ordinary people, only those who are also geniuses.

It is said that Xu Wei was Lu Zigang's bosom friend, he had a bleak evening and died in a slump, only a Shiba Inu was accompanied before his death, and there was not even a bed straw mat on the bed.

This may be the reason why so many art masters later said that they were willing to be a lackey under the Qingteng Gate, right?

When Lu Zigang heard about it, he sighed, and it happened that Emperor Wanli summoned him to the palace to carve the jade dragon. Lu Zigang remembered the many injustices Xu Wei suffered in the officialdom, and in order to vent his anger, he engraved his name in the dragon's mouth.

His move was discovered and denounced by Wang Xiaoxi again, and Emperor Long Yan of Wanli was furious and finally beheaded him for "treason".

There are many folk legends about Lu Zigang, among which it is even said that he and Tang Bohu teamed up to save people. However, when Tang Bohu died, Xu Wei was only four years old, and with Lu Zigang's behavior and style, it seemed that he could not live so long.

Besides, Xu Wei lived to be seventy-three years old before he died, how could Lu Zigang appear in the lives of two people at the same time?

It can be known that many rumors are made up by later generations, probably just to express some good wishes!

As for Wang Xiaoxi, in the eyes of the Gusu people, it is probably no different from Qin Yu on the edge of the West Lake, right?

If the shop in front of him was really spread by Wang Xiaoxi, it is estimated that it would have been demolished long ago, how could it have been spread to the present? Zhao Tianming guessed that this was probably also the result of false rumors.

However, the effect is also very bad.