"Xiao Jia, the owner of the house here, speaking of which, is still a local, similar to your form, and is also from a small town on the edge of Linhai County. Lao Yang saw the smile on the corner of Jia Yidao's mouth, so he explained on the side and said, "Because in recent years, the performance of the factory has not been very good." So ......"

"So, I'm ready to make a move, isn't it?" Jia Rudao asked with a smile. "By the way, Lao Yang, this factory should have been used to make wood carvings before, right?" Jia Rudao noticed that although the room was empty, there was still a lot of wood dust.

"Well, it's for root carving, and some simple wooden bowls, lattices and other wooden crafts. Lao Yang responded.

"The style of the factory, although it is a little old, is good, and it is more in line with my heart. Moreover, if the other party sells it, it should be connected to the land in front of him, right?" Jia Rudao glanced at the vacant land in front of the factory.

"That's natural. Lao Yang continued, "I have already inquired in detail, if Xiao Jia is really ready to accept this place, everything that is surrounded by a wall will be yours." However, the homeowners here are not in a hurry to sell their land because they are mainly in the mood to sell the land, so in terms of price, I am afraid it will not be too cheap......"

"Hehe, in terms of price, it's not a big problem. Jia Rudao groaned slightly. Then he said, "I see, I don't really understand this line of work, so it's better for you to help with the operation, how about it?"

"Xiao Jia, such a large transaction, the flow of funds, I think, it is better for you to participate in it yourself, otherwise it will ......" Lao Yang's eyes lit up, but the corners of his mouth were a little hesitant and refused. Otherwise, Lao Yang didn't say it, but as long as he understands people, he knows very well in his heart that if this is all traded by Lao Yang, not to mention rebates or anything, at least, Lao Yang's benefits are indispensable. In particular, what Jia Yidao needs is to buy all such a place, which is naturally very different from ordinary rentals.

It's no wonder that as soon as Lao Yang heard Jia Nidao's suggestion, even if he had a good relationship with Jia Nidao, he didn't dare to accept it immediately.

However, it is precisely because Lao Yang has such a hesitation that he obviously gives Jia Yidao a great sense of trust. If Lao Yang agreed, Jia Rudao would need to consider whether his decision was correct. "Hehe, that's it. Find someone you are not familiar with to negotiate with the landlord, it is better to let Lao Yang you operate, it is more reassuring for me. Lao Yang, to be honest, I'm still more optimistic about you. ”

As he spoke, Jia Rudao also patted Lao Yang's shoulder.

In terms of Jia Nidao's height, Lao Yang is a few years older than Jia Nidao, and he looks a lot older, but in terms of height, there is still a little gap between Lao Yang and Jia Nidao. Jia Yidao's action of patting the shoulder was extremely natural.

If this had been before, Jia Rudao would naturally not have made similar moves. In the days in the unit, most of the time, it was Lao Yang who took care of Jia Yidao. However, the experience of the recent days has made Jia Yidao somewhat change in his words and deeds, and he is changing in a more atmospheric direction. This is a familiar action with Lao Yang, and it comes naturally.

Lao Yang first glanced at Jia Yidao in surprise. Immediately, as if he had figured out something in his heart, he nodded at Jia Yidao and said, "Okay." Xiao Jia, since you have said so, Lao Yang and I will not act with a clear conscience. ”

It looked a bit like patting his chest to ensure that he completed the task.

"However, Xiao Jia, you always give me the bottom in advance, how much price can you probably pay?" Then, Lao Yang carefully looked at the surrounding environment, and also visually measured the size of the place, before he came to the side of Jia Yidao and asked in a low voice.

"This, I thought, should be within this number. Jia Rudao gestured. said, "Specifically, I think, I'd better find a professional to estimate it, anyway, I definitely don't understand it myself." ”

"Hmm. That's fine. Lao Yang nodded.

"It's the location of this place, it's still a little far from the antique street. Jia Yidao looked at the gate and sighed. If this weren't the case, I'm afraid, Lao Yang wouldn't have put this place in three alternative positions, and then brought Jia Yidao over to have a look, right?

Compared with the two places that are a little far away from the antique street, the factories in these three places are located in the northern area of Linhai City, and they are almost a little close to the back mountain in the north of the city. Speaking of which, the location is still within the range of the old city, but it is definitely not far from the new city.

However, this is also closer to the villa where Jia Yidao lives, isn't it?

The so-called balance between gains and losses is nothing more than that.

Then I made some simple exchanges with Lao Yang about the purchase of the plant, Jia Rudao looked at the time, it was not early, and then, naturally, he took Lao Yang, and the little brothers who followed Lao Yang to inquire about the news, went to the "New Mingmen" hotel and rubbed it. It can't be said to be a big fish and big meat, but it also makes everyone eat more happily! Over, Jia Rudao also shared a few packs of cigarettes by himself, which can be regarded as a thank you for their help for a while.

The second day, Jia Rudao found Ah San and asked about the land price in the area near Houshan.

Ah San was curious for a while, pondering and saying, "Xiao Jia, aren't you going to buy a house over there?......" As he spoke, he looked at Jia Yidao with some disbelief, and muttered, "Shouldn't it?"

Suddenly, Jia Rudao shook his head speechlessly and said, "I said Ah San, what are you muttering, don't I just ask like this." Do I have to be willing to buy a house before I can come back and ask?"

"Otherwise, who do you think will be idle and have nothing to do, and ask about the land price over there. Ah San also made a very speechless expression, but then his eyes rolled, blinked a few times, and said, "Xiao Jia, I said, didn't you have a suitable storage room over there, right?"

Seeing Jia Yidao nodded, Ah San also smiled happily and said, "Good boy, it's really a good idea to have you." Uncle Zhou's factory is in the east of the city, although the environment is not bad, but the land price is too high, not to mention, the distance is still very far. Therefore, he can only use rent. However, in the area of Houshan in the north, the land price is relatively much lower, and the transportation is quite okay. I said, Xiao Jia, why did you think of it there?"

"Find someone to help you find it, do you think I designed it from the beginning?" Jia Rudao muttered angrily.

Subsequently, Ah San understood the reason why Jia Nidao came out of this trip, and immediately took Jia Nidao to find a real estate agent, introduced the manager inside to Jia Nidao, and the three of them went to the factory in Jia Nidao's photo together, checked it on the spot, and the middle-aged manager gave Jia Nidao an acceptable market reference price.

It's a little lower than Jia Yidao's psychological price.

Jia Rudao didn't care, and after calling Lao Yang, the choice of this storage room was temporary, even if it was completed. Even, Jia Rudao also explained that if you can't negotiate over there, you can also find a house that has been inspected to trade. After all, although the house needs to be overhauled after being bought, it can still be used improvised.

What's more, it's even closer to the antique street.

"By the way, Xiao Jia, what arrangements do you have next?" Ah San saw that Jia Yidao finished the phone call, and after ordering to go down, he looked at the sky, and it was not yet noon, so he asked, "I heard that those people who went to Beijing are all back to Linhai, do you want to get together?"

"Do they still have the heart to go back to Linhai?" Jia Rudao touched his nose and said, "I thought they would just stay in Beijing and not come back." Speaking of which, the vast majority of those fox friends have been to Beijing for nearly a month.

"Hehe, I thought they weren't going back to Linhai. Ah San joked and said. "At that time, if they knew that Xiao Jia and you actually opened a jade shop on the side of the antique street, what kind of expressions would they have?"

"Well, it's worth looking forward to!" Jia Rudao nodded as he began to imagine, feeling a little unbearable. Seeing Ah San on the side, he also had such an expression, so he said. "But, Ah San, I think it will take two or three days to get together with them, and the storage room over there will be settled and the decoration will be completed. Otherwise, I really don't have any thoughts, and I will go out and make trouble for a while. ”

"That's natural, I thought, just wait until your store is ready, and then tell them. When the time comes, it's good to look at their surprised expressions. Hehe...... Ah San nodded with a smile and said, "Then what's next? Go and cut the stone? The day before yesterday, I also worked with Xiao Xu to cut out a piece of blue jadeite." The colors are so beautiful...... That's right. Xiao Jia, I haven't said you yet, you are really not interesting, you cut out the blood jade jade yesterday, and you didn't even notify me. Luckily, I went to the factory last night. Otherwise, I'd miss it. ”

"Did you miss it?" Jia Rudao said with some amusement, "Even if you want to, I guess, there is no chance to miss it." Could it be that after the blood jade jade is carved, you can't see it?" However, since Ah San has mentioned cutting stones. Then, in the next time, Jia Rudao was naturally dragged by Ah San to Zhou Fugui's factory.

Zhou Fugui himself is still not there, Xu Zhiguo is concentrating on carving jade jewelry, and the other workers in the factory are also in full swing. This kind of scene, Jia Rudao has almost been very accustomed to in recent days. Immediately came behind Xu Zhiguo and continued to watch his carving process.

Ah San touched Jia Rudao's elbow and handed over an inquiring look.

Jia Rudao said that he wanted to learn carving. As a result, Ah San naturally wanted to learn along. It's just that the key points of jade carving and the like, explaining it, is not a very interesting thing, plus Xu Zhiguo's explanation, it is a combination on the left and a sentence on the right, if you don't have a little skill, I'm afraid I really can't understand it. So, Ah San didn't listen for a while, and felt that he was learning the carving of jadeite ornaments here, which was completely boring, so he simply went to pick a piece of jadeite rough and cut the stone on the side.

This learning the craft of jadeite carving, how can there be direct stone cutting, to be nervous and exciting?

Jia Rudao couldn't help but smile at Ah San's figure, shook his head slightly, and turned his eyes to continue to follow the change of the carving action on Xu Zhiguo's hand. Last night, Jia Rudao was in the basement, using an ordinary piece of jadeite material, and tried to carve it himself.

It's just that I can clearly think of how and how to carve in my mind, but after the knife in my hand goes down, the effect is completely different from what I imagined in my mind, not to mention the same, there is no similarity at all. Jia Rudao could only give up carving in helplessness and depression.

Today, Jia Rudao naturally came to ask Xu Zhiguo with such and such questions.

After Xu Zhiguo heard this, he smiled and said, "Boss, if you really want to learn carving, if you are anxious, it is useless." It's better to take it one step at a time and take it slowly. For example, this knife, whether it is force, angle, tool. They are all very particular, and in addition, there are different particularities for different jadeite materials. It's like practicing calligraphy, pen words and brush words are completely two concepts. In addition, whether you want to write brush words or pen words, only when you write them all well, can you combine them into a complete font to ......"

In this way, Jia Rudao also understood a lot. Don't look at Xu Zhiguo, when carving a jade bracelet, from the bold cut to the meticulous carving at the back, the conversion is very natural and smooth. However, how much sweat has flowed and how many failures have been experienced cannot be fully understood and speculated by one person's imagination alone.

Of course, what surprised Jia Yidao the most was that Xu Zhiguo, who has always been based on rough explanations, when would he be able to come up with an accurate and appropriate analogy?

Xu Zhiguo scratched the back of his head with his dirty hands, regardless of how much dust was stuck on his head, and even the dirt on the cuffs of his clothes was not put in his eyes, the corners of his mouth smiled, and explained: "Boss, don't look at me like that, always make me feel like not pinching." Actually, this parable was told to me by my master when I was just learning to carve. ”

"Oh, so when you first started learning art, you also encountered the same problem as I have now?"

"That's natural. Xu Zhiguo didn't hide it either, and said, "When I first learned, I didn't care about anything, just watching the master carve." I thought about it, carving this thing is not very simple, and then, I took a stone to test, and as a result, when I went under the knife, I didn't grasp the strength well, and I cut off a mistake, and almost cut my fingers. As he spoke, Xu Zhiguo's expression still had a slight feeling of fear.

When Jia Rudao heard this, he also sighed. In this regard, for some basic skills of carving, Jia Rudao is more concerned. Fortunately, it seems that in order to help Jia Yidao, Xu Zhiguo was carrying out some initial carvings when he carved next. For example, a jadeite pendant, if it is usual, Xu Zhiguo will carve it to the end, until the whole piece of material is almost carved, revealing a complete and vivid form, and then he will continue to carve some other jadeite materials. However, at this time, Xu Zhiguo was on the same piece of material, with different knife techniques, some rough carving, and then, he converted a piece of jade material, which was still roughly carved, so that Jia Rudao naturally understood that Xu Zhiguo wanted Jia Nidao to master as much as possible the initial kung fu of this carving.

In the afternoon, not to mention the excitement of Ah San's stone cutting, or what kind of jade material was cut. As far as Jia Rudao is concerned, under the control of Xu Zhiguo, he began to carve some jadeite materials with ordinary texture.

To put it bluntly, let Jia Yidao try his hand!

Of course, such an attempt, it is naturally impossible to completely carry out a meticulous carving, and it is impossible to be the same as the jade carving that Jia Yidao imagined last night, such a simple knife down, it is necessary to carve out the jadeite material as realistic and moving as he imagined, completely after viewing the jadeite material, what kind of jadeite jewelry form appeared in his mind, and then according to this form, slowly polish it little by little.

When going under the knife, you must not be in a hurry, and in addition, in the beginner stage, you can't pay attention to the knife, you have to be in place.

In Xu Zhiguo's words, that is, the carving of jadeite is better to be slower. When going under the knife, it is also targeted, so it is better to be careful. It's better to be slower and thinner, and you can't go down with a knife and cut deeper.

After all, if the knife is thin, you can also use two or three knives to make up for it, but if it is cut deeply, it is undoubtedly a pity as far as the whole piece of jade material is concerned!

"However, how do I think that this knife makes up for it, and the carved jade form looks a little awkward?" Jia Yidao looked at a jade ornament in his hand, oh no, it was a piece of jade material, and said, "How do you look at it, how don't you look like it." ”

"Hehe, that's natural. Xu Zhiguo was happy and said, "Have you ever seen a person who writes calligraphy, on the same stroke of the same word, constantly tracing and repairing, will the words written still look good?"

Jia Rudao pondered slightly, the corners of his mouth cracked, and said, "That's right." If the kung fu is in place, this knife will go down, and you will be able to take care of the back knife, which is interlocking, and the carving is smooth, and the whole piece of jadeite material looks like the finished product carved out of it is much more natural. Otherwise, no matter how you decorate it, there will always be something you don't like. ”

"That's not quite true. Xu Zhiguo sighed and said, "Sometimes, it's better to be fast than slow." Sometimes, however, it is better to be slow than to be fast. ”

"No wonder, when I was looking at your carving, there were fast and slow degrees. Jia Rudao nodded.

However, at this point, Xu Zhiguo did not continue to talk about where to be fast and where to be slow, to be specific. I'm afraid that for the commentary, Xu Zhiguo also has a feeling that Jiang Lang is exhausted. There are some things that I can understand. Not necessarily, you can say it well.

Could it be that this can only be understood, but not spoken?

Jia Rudao was in his heart, but he was muttering: If it was Xu Zhiguo's master, it would be good to be here. In this way, if Jia Yidao encounters a difficult problem, the other party can explain it with a figurative metaphor, then, the carving skills of this jadeite, it will not be too boring to learn.

Looking at Ah San at this time, he was still cutting stones with great interest.

Jia Rudao looked back at the jade jewelry in his hand, and for the time being, call it a jade jewelry. After Jia Yidao's one, two, and three knives, after the carving of many knives, its shape is still not very clear, I'm afraid, Jia Yidao at this time, he is a little suspicious, just now when he saw this material, how could he clearly think of what form of pendant to carve into?

Fortunately, Jia Rudao did not give up, and continued to make a new round of comparison with the jade material in his hands!

About half an hour later, Ah San suddenly came to Jia Nidao's side, and his face, which was still a little smiling, laughed out loud after seeing the "jade jewelry" in Jia Nidao's hand, and asked: "Xiao Jia, what are you carving? Is it a Guanyin pendant? That, not too similar." …… Maitreya Buddha is not quite like that. By the way, could it be a bat?......"

"Ah San, don't you really see it at all?" Jia seemed to ignore Ah San's jokes, as if he had asked casually, and the expression on his face was also trying to pretend to be light.

"Well, is it really a bat? But a bat alone isn't quite suitable, is it? Besides, I don't look at this form very much. After hearing this, Ah San began to bow his head and ponder. The more I thought about it, the deeper my brow wrinkled.

Jia Rudao said angrily: "How can it be said that it is a bat." What I want to carve is a jade pendant of a monkey stealing a peach. How's that, can you make do with it? This is the first time I've carved a jade pendant. This last sentence "once carved", Jia Rudao bit his voice hard.

However, Ah San's attention was obviously not focused on this accented part.

"Monkey stealing peaches?" Ah San was stunned for a moment, and then, looking at Jia Yidao with some embarrassment, said, "That, let's not talk about monkeys for the time being." It's even if you left such a piece of material that is not obvious, the size or something, it can be considered that you still have a good reservation. But, let me ask carefully, what about the peaches?"

"Right here, don't you see?" Jia Rudao pointed to the tiny protrusion on the jade material.

"Isn't it? This can also be considered a peach?" Ah San was speechless, shrugged his shoulders, and said, "Anyway, I've never seen such a small peach." Shouldn't it be this material, you didn't design it well, it was not suitable for carving monkeys to steal peaches, you have to make such a form, right?"

"No, no. Jia Rudao was hesitating, and Xu Zhiguo on the side said with a smile, "This piece of material was cut by me before, and originally, it was indeed intended to be carved into a monkey stealing peaches." ”

"Well, then why is this peach so small?" Ah San wondered, and said, "I have seen the jade pendants you carved out in the previous days, and among them, there was a monkey stealing peaches. The monkeys have different shapes, so I won't talk about it, and the peach, although there are some changes in the shape and proportions, its size is not too small. In particular, the cartoon monkey in its exaggerated form, the big peach, gave me a very deep impression. I can't say, after Xiao Jia's jade shop opens in a few days, I will go to the market and take this pendant. ”

"Ah San, with you, you have chosen your own goals. Jia Rudao turned around and slapped Ah San's shoulder. Although in his heart, Jia Nidao knew very well that on the day he opened, Ah San would definitely buy one or two pieces of jade jewelry, but now saying it so directly still made Jia Nidao quite moved. "However, I can tell you, if you are really ready to make a show, a jade pendant of a monkey stealing a peach is not enough. ”

"Then what do you want me to do?" Ah San spread his hands and said, "I don't have that much money from you." Otherwise, you can make it cheaper, give me a discount, and sell it to me? Then I will do my best to buy all your jadeite. ”

"You think it's beautiful, but it's a fold. Jia Rudao smiled bitterly and said, "When the time comes, if you can get a 9.99% discount, I think it's about the same." ”

"You unscrupulous businessman, this shop hasn't opened yet, and you're thinking about exploiting consumers. Ah San said, "However, don't open the topic, what about the 'peach' of this jade pendant?"

"Hehe, anyway, I've set aside the material for carving peaches. Xu Zhiguo smiled strangely at the corner of his mouth, and after finishing speaking, he tilted his head to the side.

"Uh, that means that, Xiao Jia, you carved this material that was originally made into a peach?" Ah San looked at Jia Rudao's shrugging demeanor, his heart was mournful, and he sighed speechlessly, "It seems that I didn't learn jadeite carving, and I was really prescient." ”

After saying that, he burst out laughing!