Zhang Feng took out a few pieces of the worst nephrite, because nephrite has low hardness and is suitable for beginners to practice, and it is best to use these Hetian jade scraps to practice skills.

Although jade carving and wood carving although the material of carving is different, there are many similarities, before carving must be done a good draft, to be very familiar with the jade or wood in the hand, to design the things to be carved according to their shape cracks or scars, so as to be confident, will not be unfamiliar with the material and cause the failure of carving.

Then Zhang Feng picked up a piece of jade and began to design, ready to carve a Guanyin first, so Zhang Feng took a pen to write and draw on the jade, tracing the general appearance of Guanyin, and finally picked up the carving knife and began to carve carefully.

Jade carving Guanyin is the most common subject in jade, Guanyin, the world called the sound of the Bodhisattva's name and rescued, so there is Guanyin, the person who is at ease, the world and the meaning of self-extrication from suffering and happiness.

Guanyin Bodhisattva, one of the three sages of the West, is a symbol of compassion that can be liberated by reciting his name when sentient beings are suffering. He also takes into account the causes and conditions of sentient beings and their various identities, so he has various nicknames, totaling about 33 different images.

Zhang Feng wants to carve the most common Water Moon Guanyin,

"Water Moon Guanyin" has no origin in the early Buddhist classics, it can be said that it is a Buddhist deity created by the ancients, as the product of the integration of Buddhism and Chinese local culture, the Water Moon Guanyin naturally entered the "pantheon" of Buddhism after being widely respected.

The jade carving Guanyin pendant of this theme symbolizes people's longing for happiness and a happy life. The image of Guanyin's great compassion admonishes people to have compassion.

With the progress of carving, Zhang Feng's technology became more and more proficient, and soon adapted to the carving of jade carving, so his speed became fast, the carving knife is like a pen up and down, left and right, a knife carving is like flowing water, about half an hour, a piece of jade is finally carved to complete, although it still looks very rough, but as long as it is carefully polished a few times, it is a piece of exquisite water moon Guanyin jade pendant.

Don't be busy polishing first, Zhang Feng is ready to carve another piece of Maitreya Buddha, remember that there is a couplet that describes Maitreya Buddha:

A big belly can tolerate the intolerable things in the world, and laugh at the ridiculous people in the world when they open their mouths.

Thinking about Maitreya Buddha's big-bellied and smiling appearance, Zhang Feng smiled slightly,

Big belly means that we should be magnanimous, more tolerant, and less calculating, and smiling is that we should face life with a smile.

These two aspects will inevitably complement each other, a virtuous circle, as long as we are magnanimous, more tolerant, and think openly, we will not be sad, smile at life every day, and be optimistic.

So Zhang Feng decided to carve a piece of Maitreya Buddha, hoping that everyone would be healthy and happy.

About an hour later, two shining and lifelike Buddha jade pendants appeared on the stone table, looking at the fruits of his labor, Zhang Feng smiled with satisfaction, and then put them in the jewelry box.

"Big brother, what are you doing!" At this moment, Zhang Yi walked in with a smile.

"I just carved two jade pendants, didn't you go to the market today??" Zhang Feng turned around and saw that it was his cousin, so he smiled and said.

"No" walked over and saw two exquisite jade pendants, Zhang Yi couldn't help but exclaim: "Wow, big brother, you're too good, the jade pendant you carved is so beautiful, what else do you say you can't?"

"Hehe, I don't know how to have a lot of things!" Thinking about so many skills in the system, I only learned a few, and they were all ordinary skills, so Zhang Feng smiled and shook his head and said.

"Brother, when did you become so modest?" Zhang Yi asked with a smile.

"Your brother and I have always been so modest, right?" Zhang Feng said cheekily.

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"By the way, big brother, how about I go catch crabs??" Zhang Yi suddenly proposed to Zhang Feng.

"Catching crabs?" Hearing his cousin's words, Zhang Feng thought that autumn is here, autumn is high and crabs are fat, and autumn is the best season to eat crabs.

It is said that "the autumn wind rises, the crab feet are itchy, the chrysanthemum blooms, and the crab smells coming", every year in September and October of the lunar calendar, it is the time when the crab roe is full of oil, so the foodies will eat at this time.

The reason why crabs in autumn are delicious is because the season has a great relationship with the growth quality of crabs, autumn is the best period for crabs to grow, their meat is thick and fat, and the taste is beautiful and fragrant, which is the most delicious in the year. What cream crabs, meat crabs, hairy crabs, etc., all grow best in autumn.

The crab meat in autumn is the most tender, as a rural baby who grew up by the river since childhood, he is very familiar with the great god of the river - the river crab.

I remember when I was a child, every autumn, Zhang Feng's gluttonous skin monkeys would go to the river to catch crabs, that was the family was poor and had no oil, so they boiled it directly with water and ate it, the taste was like a delicious taste in the sky, and it was a gluttonous feast for the friends.

"You don't know, Uncle Xiaoqi got five or six catties last night, and as soon as he took it out just now, he was immediately bought by a tourist, and he sold it for forty yuan a catty. Zhang Yi said enviously.

"Uncle Xiaoqi caught so much?" Zhang Feng was also surprised, it seems that the ecology of Moon Lake is getting better and better, everyone used to be desperate to get it from the lake, so more than ten years ago, there were few fish and shrimp in Moon Lake, and even the crabs were almost not caught and extinct by everyone.

"It's not a lot, Uncle Yu is good at it, and he made a full ten catties the day before yesterday. Zhang Yi also said in amazement.

"They're in the cage, right?" Zhang Feng was surprised for a while, and then he reacted, if he didn't go to the cage and catch it by hand, he would definitely not be able to catch so much.

"Of course, every day they put a couple of cages in the lake. Zhang Yi nodded.

"Leave them alone, let's just catch some and try them, and just catch them on the river beach at night. Zhang Feng said with a smile, now he is not short of money, he just wants to experience the fun of catching crabs.

Then Zhang Feng and the two made an appointment to gather here after dinner in the evening, of course, they had to call Uncle Erniu and Liu Yiyi to them, and the activity of catching crabs was more interesting only for everyone.

The crabs of Moon Lake are all river crabs, also called Chinese mitten crabs, although small but the meat is delicate and nutritious, it is the favorite of the gourmets, every year in autumn, the tourists in the city will come here to buy a pound or two of beating the tooth sacrifice, not only braised or steamed, the river crabs are extremely delicious.

River crabs usually live in burrows near the river, and every night after nightfall, they will leave their burrows to start feeding, looking for the rotting carcasses of small fish, small shrimp or large fish.

So at this time, when the villagers attack, they take flashlights and buckets, and as long as they look carefully, they will definitely gain a lot.