"I'm still old, I planned it well, and I had plenty of time, but now"

Hearing Li Yi ask about the jade watermelon exhibition, Hu Zhiyuan shook his head, as if he was a little regretful, Li Yi hurriedly persuaded:

"It's okay, this kind of jewelry show is held every year, and I can't make it this time to participate in the next time."

"Who sues sù you kid can't catch up with last night, it's finished, but"

Can't you stop panting when you talk all the time, I haven't seen you have this problem before, Li Yi decided not to interject. Hu Zhiyuan glared at him, making the old man proud, will you lose a hair

"But just like the newly baked porcelain will have a fire, this newly carved work will also have a kind of edge, and it will take time to precipitate, so this time I plan to only exhibit and not trade, what do you think?"

Wouldn't it be better to have a sharp edge, it is a treasure, and it is more eye-catching when the edge is exposed, not Li Yi said that he understood or not. As for only exhibiting and not trading, he thinks it's okay, participate in a few more exhibitions, it's best to participate in a competition, and then get a gold award, and you can make more money when you sell.

"In the afternoon, someone will come over to get something, and then send it to Hanwu, from there Feipeng City, you go with them"

Li Yi touched his forehead, forgetting that there are few flights from Pengcheng to Hong Kong, but there are many flights to Pengcheng and Yangcheng

"I'll go to Hanwu with them first, Master, can you let me enjoy your old and new works first?"

Hu Zhiyuan nodded and walked directly into the workshop with him.

The room is still the same room, there seems to be no difference from the last time Li Yi came, the dozen or so real watermelons on the windowsill and the ground have not been cleared, and the few stone carvings are still there, but the semi-finished products that were placed on the workbench last time are gone, and the jade watermelons are gone

Li Yi looked around, suddenly his heart moved, walked to the window quickly, his eyes swept over a few watermelons placed on the windowsill, and then bent down to look at the watermelons on the ground one by one, turned to look at the master, you are too naughty, obviously not here, you still let me look here.

Hu Zhiyuan was very satisfied with Li Yi's expression, he walked past Li Yi slowly, and patted a few watermelons on the windowsill with his hand,

"If you can't find it, you can see it at the fair anyway. Are you waiting for them here with me or will you go home first and come back then?"

Li Yi couldn't help but smile in his heart when he looked at his master's smug expression, but on the surface, he had a depressed expression,

"I haven't packed up yet, Master, are you sure the jade watermelon is really in this room?"

"Of course"

Li Yi looked like he would not give up until he reached his goal, first searched a few corners and corners that were out of sight, and then his eyes jumped, staring at a few watermelons in the master's hand.

The first time, Li Yi really didn't find out where the jade watermelons were, but when Hu Zhiyuan walked to the window to shoot those watermelons, he understood that he was negligent, and the jade watermelons should be in those watermelons.

Next, on the one hand, I sincerely admire the craftsmanship of the old man, and the other half is to accompany the old man to act, after all, no matter who it is, it is a very proud thing to carve a jade watermelon mixed into the real watermelon and not be found out.

Sure enough, the jade watermelon was in the watermelons on the windowsill, and Li Yi gently stroked the cold skin of the jade watermelon, looking forward to when he would be able to reach this level

"If you put it for another ten days and half a month, Baoguang is introverted, and it will be even more difficult to distinguish. Okay, it's useless to tell you this now, you go back and pack your things first, hurry up, I'm afraid they'll arrive early. ”

Li Yi didn't go home, but called the fifth uncle, knowing that he happened to be in his small factory, so he drove the car directly.

The factory is actually open, but as long as the opening ceremony has not yet taken place, it is not too late to give gifts. Li Yi really wanted to throw down his schoolbag and leave, because he knew that the things he gave were too valuable, and the fifth uncle would probably not accept them. But for so many years, the relationship between the two families has been good, and the craft he learned with the fifth uncle when he was a child also brought him a predator-level master, and this gift must be given out anyway.

Sure enough, the fifth uncle's face changed when he saw the gift, and let Li Yi say it anyway, there were only three words, and after taking it back, Li Yi had no choice but to change his strategy.

"This emerald green, you cut a pair of bracelets for my mother and five aunts, and ask the fifth uncle to do it yourself, and then you carve a pendant for me and my father, and the rest is the salary, if it is more, it will be regarded as a congratulatory gift for you."

The fifth uncle was silent for a while, but nodded and agreed, saying that in the early days of the business, he really needed these top-notch materials too much.

After the matter is done, Li Yi is going to visit, even if he is not dedicated to this business in the future, he doesn't have to think about it to know that he will have no less opportunities to deal with various opportunities.

The fifth uncle's jade factory is very small, about the size of two detached houses, but the various machines are very well equipped, and a few of the workers still look familiar, they should be carvers brought from the jade factory.

The main equipment of jade cutting is the jade cutting machine, followed by cutting, punching machine, etc. In ancient times, jade was carved by stepping on the jade plate to make it rotate, and the jade was cut with jade sand, and then carved with tools such as drills with high hardness, and in modern times, these have been replaced by new jade cutting machines and various special equipment.

"Although the new equipment can improve work efficiency, enhance the ability of jade carving art, and solve the difficult technical problems in the past, the jade operation technology mainly relies on manual labor, and modernization cannot replace people's superb ideas and skills, so in the end, it depends on the level of people."

"Jade, jade, only finely carved can jade be called a tool. Xiaoyi, according to written records, there is no doubt that Duyu was already mined in the Han Dynasty, and recent archaeological excavations have pushed the date of mining to before the late Shang Dynasty. But do you know why you can't sell jadeite for so many years?"

The fifth uncle pointed to each kind of jade cutting machinery, and while introducing it to Li Yi, he sighed, and finally suddenly threw out a question.

"It should be that jadeite is more beautiful and more in line with people's aesthetics."

"Yes, this is one of the main reasons, but there is another reason that cannot be ignored, that is, most of the people who run Duyu are short-sighted, and there are too many shoddy works."

Li Yi thought about it, it seems to be the case, almost every store has a lot of beautiful Dushan jade carvings, but the workmanship is really a flower from afar, and the tofu dregs are not only rough knife work, but also poor creativity, and even many defective products are put on the counter in a grand manner

"Civilian jade for us practitioners, this is really a merciless sarcasm Xiaoyi, the reason why the fifth uncle opened this factory, originally just didn't want his own craftsmanship to be wasted, and then by the way to make some money, to support the family, but as soon as the factory opened, after running a few businesses, my thoughts suddenly changed, it became very unrealistic but uncontrollable, I want to make a boutique I want to justify the name of Duyu"

Li Yi's eyes flashed, and the fifth uncle suddenly said what does this mean, and he still wants me to help him, fifth uncle, your old man really thinks too highly of me, although I have an outstanding temperament in Yushu, I really don't have that much ambition

For the sake of Li Yi's contribution to a big gift, the glasses man, the director of Yangnan Jade Factory, who had been accompanying him to the visit, looked at the fifth uncle's image suddenly becoming extremely tall and tall, and couldn't help complaining in his heart:

"I'll take it, Li Lao Wu, what kind of nerves are you kid, didn't we talk about it, open a factory, bleached all the money that was black before, and live happily from now on, what are you going to do?"