After buying the ingredients at the vegetable market, Bai Xiaobai returned to Xiaobai Restaurant on the original road.

There were no customers in the store for the time being, and Gao Chao was sitting on a chair in the hall playing with his mobile phone.

Bai Xiaobai took the ingredients back to the glass kitchen and began to practice the fish and insect carving on the third floor of the ghost axe carving work.

He already knows the content of the trick.

I picked up a carrot in my left hand and a carving knife in my right hand, and my mind began to conceive.

Before you cut the knife, you must know what you are carving.

The first thing Bai Xiaobai carved was a carp.

Food carving requires chefs to have solid basic skills, skillful techniques, and meticulous work attitude.

Bai Xiaobai has been proficient in lettering and flower carving before, so he is already very handy in the use of carving knives.

The appearance of a carp had already appeared in his mind, Bai Xiaobai picked up the carving knife, first used the horizontal knife method to peel off the carrot skin, and then switched to the vertical knife method to scratch, pick, cut and dig on the carrot.

The hand moves at will, and the knife is like a god.

In just a few minutes, the contour of a carp has been trimmed and gradually taken shape.

Bai Xiaobai switched to the knife insertion method, poked and shoveled the prototype, carried out fine carving and decoration, and then carefully carved the fish scales.

Only the last part of the eye is missing.

The biggest difference between fish and insect carving and previous engraving carving and flower carving is 'god'.

According to the content of the system's tricks.

Fish and insects have eyes, and the eyes are the window of the soul, and the same is true for animals, so fish and insect carvings want to carve vividly, and the most important thing is to put the finishing touch.

After carefully carving his eyes, Bai Xiaobaizai looked at the fluorescent tube and took a closer look at the finished product.

I'll it.

The other parts are fine, but the eyes are too dull, carved too much like a dead fish's eyes, and like a cross-eyed, anyway, it's not smart at all, it's really not interesting.

Bai Xiaobai didn't give up, took another carrot, and continued to carve carp.

I'll go!

The second engraving is even more exaggerated, or there is a problem with the eye.

It directly became a big and small eye.

Bai Xiaobai was not discouraged, and practiced several times in a row, and the result was without exception, in the fish carving part, all of them were eye carving parts.

In the end, Bai Xiaobai began to doubt life.

Is it that hard to put the finishing touch?

The ghost axe carving is really more difficult than the layer, and the first two layers of Bai Xiaobai are basically mastered on the spot or after a while.

But the current fish and insect carving is the first to encounter the threshold in the fish carving part.

He didn't believe in evil and continued to practice several times, but the result was still not good.

Don't know what went wrong?

If you ask the system, it's too much, Bai Xiaobai plans to solve it by himself.

Grabbing a few carrots, he simply walked out of the glass kitchen and sat on the dining chair outside the hall to continue practicing.

Anyway, it's not a meal now, every customer in the store is wooden, and Bai Xiaobai is also idle and panicked, so if it doesn't work once, he will try it a second time.

There are already a lot of carved carp on the table, which are actually very good, but the eye part lacks charm no matter how they are carved.

Gao Chao didn't go upstairs, he was also sitting on the dining chair, standing on the dining table with his hands, and was writing with the mobile phone writer assistant APP code words, after he wrote almost, he saw a lot of 'fish radish' on Bai Xiaobai's desktop, so he asked casually:

"Bai Xiaobai, why are you carving so many fish with carrots?"

Bai Xiaobai said frankly, "I'm practicing food carving, and now I'm carving carp, but the eye part is not carved well." ”

After listening to this, Gao Chao walked to Bai Xiaobai's side, picked up a fish carrot carving on his table, and took a closer look.

The other parts are very delicately carved and the knife is neat, but the eye part is a bit problematic.

It's okay to look at it from a distance, but when you look closely, you can find that the eye part of the fish eagle is not carved enough, a bit rigid, or a little deliberate, not smart and natural enough.

"Bai Xiaobai, do you want to carve a good fish, I'll take you somewhere. ”

Gao Chao put down the fish eagle in his hand, and suddenly said this.

Bai Xiaobai was puzzled, "Where are you going?"

Gao Chao sold a pass, and said, "You will know when you go, in short, it should be very good for you to carve fish." ”

Although I don't know what medicine is sold in Gao Chao's gourd, it shouldn't be a joke to listen to his swear.

Anyway, there is nothing to do in the store, and it will not help to practice blindly like this all the time, just see what Gao Chao has to do.

Immediately, Bai Xiaobai closed the door of the store, rode a shared bicycle with Gao Chao, and went out of Chaotianmen Street.

The reason why Bai Xiaobai doesn't ride his own bicycle is because his parents bought it for him as a birthday gift on his birthday several years ago.

This car has been from the third year of junior high school to high school, and then to now, it has accompanied Bai Xiaobai for seven years, in fact, it is very old, so it is more difficult to ride, and generally Bai Xiaobai will not ride unless it is close.

Now I ride a shared bicycle with Gao Chao, so after all, it is more comfortable and labor-saving.

Bai Xiaobai rode behind, and Gao Chao rode in front to lead the way.

The two of them rode out of Chaotianmen Street, then to Haichuan Road, bypassing several main roads, about fifteen or sixteen minutes, and came to Jianghai Water Park.

After the two parked their cars, they went into the park together.

Jianghai Water Park is a very famous park in Jianghai City, especially the artificial lake here, which was dug as early as the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China.

Later, after expansion, the water area of the park has increased a lot, and now it is mainly composed of three artificial lakes in the east, west and south and 16 artificial islands scattered in the lake, so it is called a water park.

Between the lake and the island, it is connected by arch bridges, curved bridges, flat stone bridges and Taoliu embankments, crisscrossing each other.

Lotus flowers are widely planted in the lake, the blue waves are rippling, visitors can roam the lake by boat, and the lake water reflects the vermilion pavilion buildings, which is beautiful, constituting the unique water world of this park.

On weekends, this park is the most populous place in Jianghai City.

In summer, it is a wonderful summer resort, with boundless beauty and cool water vapor, so that visitors will not want to return.

Bai Xiaobai didn't know what Gao Chao brought him to this park for, could it be to enjoy the scenery in the park and spend a good time together?

I'm going, and it's not a couple, two big men go to the park together, it's ......

It turns out that Bai Xiaobai's little head really thinks too much.

Gao Chao led the way in front until he reached the largest arched bridge in the park.

There are already a lot of tourists standing on the bridge, and tourists are holding bread in their hands, tearing up the bread crumbs little by little and feeding them to the koi in the lake.

Gao Chao turned back to Bai Xiaobai and said, "This is it, there are hundreds of koi under the water of this lake, and some are said to have lived for almost a hundred years." ”

Bai Xiaobai looked at the lake, and sure enough, there were many koi fish grabbing bread crumbs.

Koi fish come in red, white, yellow, and black colors, and even a variety of colors are mixed together, and the size is not exactly the same.

Bai Xiaobai used to hear the old people in the countryside say that koi fish have a long lifespan, and some can even live for hundreds of years, and this animal is a very spiritual creature, which can understand human language, and it is said that if they want to kill them, they will even shed tears, and they can enrich their lives and cultivate their sentiments.

Therefore, in ancient times, rich and noble families liked to draw water from their mansions to build lakes and raise koi.

These koi fish raised in the water park do not want the fish to be slaughtered in the vegetable market to be lifeless, their eyes are particularly smart and full of life.

Bai Xiaobai kept his eyes on it, constantly observing the eyes of each koi.

One, two......

Seeing the smart eyes of the koi carp, he suddenly had inspiration in his heart.

This feeling is really subtle, every look of the fish seems to be engraved in the heart, indelible, and now with your eyes closed, you can completely reproduce this scene.

Bai Xiaobai finally knew why Gao Chao brought him here.

Blindly nesting in the store behind closed doors, even if you have the feeling of fish in your heart, you can't carve that kind of smart and full of charm.

It is necessary to return to nature and regain a sense of tranquility.

To be honest, after participating in the cooking competition recently, the number of customers has skyrocketed, overloaded with work every day, and rarely goes out, Bai Xiaobai has actually been in a sub-healthy state.

At this moment, breathing in the fresh air and watching the koi fish swim freely under the infinite green lotus leaves, Bai Xiaobai's heart was a little more tranquil, and the fatigue accumulated over the past few days was dissipated little by little at this moment.

The lotus petals in the lake have all withered, only the lotus leaves remain, and occasionally a few dragonflies stand on the lotus leaves, or lightly touch the water, wash up a trace of the lake surface, which is quite wonderful.

You can see not only the fish, but also the worms, and it's really the right place.

In this way, Bai Xiaobai and Gao Chao played in the water park for an hour, walked around most of the park, observed the fish and insects in the park, and completely relaxed.

It was half past four in the afternoon when they returned to the Little White Restaurant.

Bai Xiaobai, who was full of energy, returned to the glass kitchen, picked up the carving knife, and re-carved the fish.

This time is completely different from the previous state, he carved extremely easily, and there is no obstacle to carving the eye.

Not only that, but he was able to carve lifelike dragonflies out of carrots.

In this way, Bai Xiaobai carved it handy, he not only initially mastered the fish and insect carving, but also used the existing ingredients for the first time to carve a summer beauty picture food carving.

Carve several pieces of green lotus leaves with watermelon skin, lotus leaves are old and young, there are closed leaves, there are open leaves, and the veins on each lotus leaf are the same as the real lotus leaves.

The koi carp carved with carrots is placed under the lotus leaf, the fish's eyes are smart, and the tail swing is also carved elegantly and naturally, which has far surpassed the previous carving work.

Then use a cucumber to carve a dragonfly standing on the lotus leaf, the dragonfly is lifelike, even the wings are cut as thin as cicada wings, there are dragonfly wings unique textures, blow a breath, the wings of the eagle can even vibrate slightly, just like the real general, it is really a ghostly eagle kung fu.

Bai Xiaobai carved every detail of the food carving in great detail, fully showing the uniqueness of each ingredient, and the overall shape is also exquisite and natural, without any cumbersome brush, which is very the style of the top food carving master.

The artistic conception of this food sculpture is far-reaching, and it can't help but remind people of the famous sentences of Tang poetry:

"The little lotus has only shown its sharp corners, and there are dragonflies standing on its heads"