Chapter Ninety-Four: The Jade Carving Competition

Early the next morning, Zhang Wei, Wang Haomin and Gu Lao went to the meeting, and Sima Lin took Li Yang and other members of the association for a good day. Sima Lin basically didn't participate in this kind of boring meeting, and even with Li Yang, they could avoid this boring meeting.

Although the bureaucracy is not good, it finally gave Li Yang and their first time to participate in this kind of gathering a time to rest and adapt, in just one day, Li Yang and they have been familiar with several places of this event, and Li Yang and several people are full of admiration for the jade culture that has been inherited by Nanyang for thousands of years.

After a good night's sleep, the next morning, all the people from the Mingyang Jade Association got up and prepared to watch the jade carving competition.

The Nanyang jade carving competition venue was set up in Nanyang Liberation Square, when Li Yang and a few people arrived here, the square had become a sea of people, and several people wasted a lot of energy and took the certificate of their jade association members to squeeze in, as the opening of this gathering, all the members of the jade association can go to the innermost place.

"Look, this is one of the four major events in our jade world, Nanyang Jushi, this is just the beginning, and there will be more people in the later stage, last year's incomplete statistics, during the Nanyang Jushi period, there are more than 40,000 gambling stone players and merchants from all over the country in Nanyang, and there may be more this year!"

After squeezing inside, Zheng Kaida sighed very much, this year's feeling for Zheng Kaida is that there are more people, more than last year.

"Brother Zheng, what are the four major events? What's going on in Nanyang Jushi? ”

Wu Xiaoli suddenly asked, Li Yang also looked at Zheng Kaida curiously, it was the first time Li Yang had heard the words the four major events in the jade world.

"The four major events are sealed by our domestic jade peers, namely Nanyang Jushi, Pingzhou Gongpan, Hetian Kaishi, and Ruili Gambling, because Nanyang is a market caused by the party, so it is called Nanyang Jushi!"

Zheng Kaida slowly explained, Li Yang and Wu Xiaoli kept nodding, Wu Xiaoli is not interested in gambling stones, and it is normal not to know about the four major events in the jade world, these four major events are all related to gambling stones, among which Pingzhou Public Market and Ruili Gambling Market are all related to gambling stones.

As for the Nanyang market they are participating in, the last week is all the time for gambling stones, which shows how much influence gambling stones have in the jade industry.

Zheng Kaida introduced Li Yang, the host has begun to talk about the purpose of the event, there are several old people sitting on the rostrum, are the leaders of the Nanyang Jade Association and the Henan Jade Association, I heard that the headquarters of the Jade Association also sent people to participate in this event.

The presenter's introduction ended quickly, and fifty master carvers of various ages immediately entered the center of the square with their tools. They had to spend two hours in full view of the crowd to complete their most proud work, then sell it at cost price, and then compete in the afternoon to judge the king of jade carving.

As the president of the Provincial Jade Association announced the start of the competition, fifty carvers immediately brandished the knives in their hands on the body of the jade and kept sketching everything that had been envisioned before, and the crowd of onlookers also became more lively as the competition began, and many people even looked inside with binoculars.

"Li Yang, we were notified just now, this time we have two bidding indicators in Mingyang, these two indicators will let you and Gu Lao, Li Yang, it depends on your luck!"

Zhang Wei hurriedly ran over, Li Yang was slightly stunned, he still needs indicators to buy this jade carving, this is the first time he has heard this statement.

"I believe in Brother Li's luck!"

Sima Lin smiled faintly, Zhang Wei slowly breathed a sigh of relief, the two indicators are not easy to divide, he thought twice before dividing them between Li Yang and Gu Lao, the old and the young. Gu Lao is an old man of the Jade Association, and no one will have an opinion if he is given an indicator, that is, when he gives it to Li Yang, he is afraid that others will have ideas, but as long as Sima Lin's opinion is not big, other people have ideas Zhang Wei also has a way to resolve it.

Li Yang also understood what was going on with this indicator at this time, when he first arrived the day before yesterday, Zheng Kaida told him that it takes luck to buy the best jade carving in the jade carving activity, and there are only fifty jade carvings on the scene, and being able to obtain the qualification to buy is a kind of luck in itself.

"Okay, Brother Li, you must look carefully, you have to act quickly in a while, find the best one and buy it immediately, this time it depends on you whether we can get the first prize in Mingyang!"

Zhang Wei turned around and said to Li Yang again, to be honest, he was not so optimistic about Li Yang's eyesight, but the most important thing in this result was not eyesight, but luck, if Li Yang's luck didn't work, there was really no way.

In this competition, the carvers are the best people, until the last moment it is difficult to tell who is better, that is, in the end, it is necessary to repeatedly compare to know which is the best, as soon as the carving is good, luck really accounts for a lot of ingredients.

Li Yang nodded and said, "Okay, I understand, Mr. Zhang, don't worry, I will try my best to pick the best one out and shoot as fast as possible!" ”

Zhang Wei left in a hurry, Gu Lao didn't need him to arrange more, with Gu Lao's eyesight, the best carvers may not be able to see, but which carvers are better can almost be seen, even if you can't get the best one, you won't buy the worst, it's an insurance.

Not long after Zhang Wei left, some people began to enter the square from outside the crowd line, but these people did not enter the venue of the carving competition, but stopped outside the line next to the field, carefully observing the work that each carver was doing.

"Li Yang, you can also go in, they are all people who have to bid for indicators, and it is convenient for them to bid for a while by observing them closely!"

Sima Lin said to Li Yang with a light smile, Li Yang was slightly stunned, immediately nodded with a smile, and ran in through the security guard with the certificate given to him by Zhang Wei, as soon as Li Yang entered, two people chased after him, Wu Xiaoli and Liu Gang actually slipped in.

"Why are you here too?"

Li Yang couldn't laugh or cry, he went to bid for jade carvings, and he didn't run in to play.

"Follow you and see, don't worry, we will never make trouble for you!" Liu Gang replied with a smile, and Wu Xiaoli hurriedly nodded violently.

"Well, as long as no one drives you away, just follow it!" Li Yang smiled bitterly and shook his head, these two people are now like ass worms.

The place of close observation is only more than three meters away from the nearest carver, and if you look in a circle, the farthest carver is only seven or eight meters away, and you can see the progress and appearance of their carving.

Experienced people know that there will be a scramble at the beginning of the bidding, and others you like may also take a fancy to it, and it depends on who makes the fastest move. Buying it early can not only bring honor to your side, but also make a small profit for yourself, and the jade carving works that have been rated as the best over the years will change hands more than tenfold in value.

Leaning so close, Li Yang was slightly stunned, this was already the range that his special ability could cover, and using a three-dimensional map to observe it was more intuitive than seeing it with the naked eye.

With this convenience, Li Yang was not polite, and directly activated his special ability, and in front of him, there were eight carvers who were immediately shrouded in a three-dimensional picture, filtering out all other things, and finally there were only eight jade carving semi-finished products that were constantly changing.

This intuitive comparison immediately allowed Li Yang to distinguish the good from the bad, and some small mistakes and small flaws in the carvings that could not be observed by the naked eye were also exposed under Li Yang's three-dimensional picture.

Li Yang was stunned for a moment again, even he didn't expect that the special ability could bring him such an intuitive feeling, and suddenly Li Yang could tell which of the eight jade carvings was the best and which was the worst.

Li Yang turned his head to look at the other people, these people were still struggling to observe one by one, Li Yang silently circled around the competition venue, Wu Xiaoli followed closely behind Li Yang, Liu Gang was a little farther away, but the three of them had been acting as a whole.

In less than ten minutes, Li Yang observed all the fifty jade carvings, and he already had a score in his heart, and when the game was about to end, he would observe it again, and basically there should be a result at that time.

What Li Yang didn't know was that in the middle of the peripheral crowd, in the position where the representative of the Zhengzhou Jade Association was located, there was a young man looking at him and Wu Xiaoli with resentful eyes, if Li Yang saw this young man, he would definitely recognize this Shen Hao who had a two-sided relationship with him.

"Well, do you see which one is better?"

Wu Xiaoli took Li Yang's arm and asked a little eagerly, Wu Xiaoli is also a person in the jewelry industry, but she doesn't know how to tell which one is the best when she sees these jade carving semi-finished products.

Li Yang nodded lightly: "It's a little sure!" ”

In fact, Li Yang already has three goals in his heart, and these three current performances are a little better than others, and he will observe them again when the end is almost over, and then go and grab the best one.

Time passed slowly, the jade in the hands of the carvers began to become a variety of vivid small things, due to the relationship of time, the competition carved are some relatively small things, animals, Buddha statues, character carvings.

In the end, there were ten minutes left, Li Yang observed in a circle again, and at this time there were more people rotating around, and when Li Yang finished turning this circle, there were already a few carvers who put down the carving knives in their hands and stretched their waists with a smile.

"This is it!"

A minute before the end of the day, Li Yang selected the best one through intuitive comparison, and moved his body to the position closest to the master carver. In this position, Li Yang found that there were two other people looking at the person he had chosen, not knowing if they really had eyesight or luck.

At the end of the competition, as soon as the host announced, before he could say the next sentence, Li Yang was the first to run out, and then the entire square looked at Li Yang who rushed into the carving competition venue alone.

(To be continued)