Five-colored jade? Still want to discuss with him?

Li Yi was a little strange, although his level was still good now, but in front of a great grandmaster......

"Don't you dare to discuss, Master, if you have any orders, just say it directly."

Hu Zhiyuan glanced at him strangely, then came to his senses, shook his head with a smile, and said:

"I mean, you're the owner of things, so what to do with this piece of jade in the end, I should ask for your opinion, you kid, where do you want to go?"

Li Yi scratched his scalp in embarrassment, I'll just say......

Hu Zhiyuan ignored him, touched his beard and groaned, and said:

"It's easy to carve this piece of jade into a fruit bowl or a flower basket, but I don't want to do that because it's too cheesy. I want to use it to carve a Peking Opera character, but in this way, it is bound to waste some materials, so I have to get your consent beforehand. ”

"Peking Opera character modeling?"

Li Yi repeated in a low voice, he didn't understand too much.

"Well, it's like Yue Fei, Xue Rengui, and Yang Liulang. I studied the material carefully, and you see, if the yellow in this position is the golden helmet, then this part of the white is exactly the face of the character, the black is the beard, and the most amazing thing is this reddish-brown band, which is like a blood-stained spear, and I saw this and had this idea. ”

Hu Zhiyuan took the design drawings on the table, pointed to the schematic diagram drawn according to the jade material, and told Li Yi little by little what he was going to do with these places.

"If you want to leave more material in this place, you can also design it as a horse, this bit of variegation is just the saddle, but because of the proportions, it will be a little difficult, and it depends on the situation of the knife, if it is not suitable, you still have to cut off the ......"

Li Yi followed Hu Zhiyuan's guidance and looked all the way, and at the same time, a heroic image of a golden helmet on his head, a white face and a black beard, wearing a colorful robe, and holding a blood-stained spear slowly formed in his mind.

Immediately, he secretly gasped, no wonder this plan asked the owner of his material to make the decision, because if Hu Zhiyuan designed it like this, it was likely that there would not be even two-thirds of this material left!

Moreover, if the horse is cut again because of the proportions, then the utilization rate of this piece of material is not even half!

A piece of superb five-color Hetian jade was actually killed by the jade carver in the carving process!

This kind of thing, don't think about it, even if the jade carver has enough reasons and enough fame, if he does it directly without communication, the owner of the thing will probably fight with him in the end.

Because the weight of the best material is a very important factor that affects its value, half of it is gone, even if it is a master of the cow, who dares to guarantee that your handiwork will be able to fill back this half of the value?

Besides, handing over the best materials to the master for processing is to use the master's craftsmanship to add icing on the cake, but now he has to bear the risk of loss, how many people will do this?

"Your piece of material, even if it is sold as a raw material, it is estimated that it can be sold for 100 million, and if it is carved into a plate or a flower basket, it is easy to more than double the value. And my plan will not only waste nearly half of the jade material, but also may fail, you can figure it out for yourself. ”

Li Yi nodded, thought for a while, and asked:

"Master, if I wanted to carve it into a fruit bowl, would you still do it?"

"Yes, I am just a jade carver, although I have my own opinions, but respecting the reasonable choice of the owner is the most basic principle of being a jade carver."

"Well, I see! Master, then carve according to your ideas, and in the end you will carve what you want, because you are the expert. ”

Hu Zhiyuan stared at Li Yi tightly, Li Yi also looked at each other calmly, and after a while, Hu Zhiyuan suddenly laughed,

"Okay, I'm just fighting for this old life, and I won't let this piece of material be wasted! Thank you, Li Yi! ”

Seeing that the master thanked him so solemnly, Li Yi was suddenly a little at a loss, and waved his hands and said no.

"This is not my Hu Zhiyuan's hypocrisy, you will know when you reach my height in the future. As a jade carver, I always encounter some excellent materials, but in the end, I often can't carve according to my own will...... Can you understand what a sadness this is? ”

Hu Zhiyuan looked up to the sky and sighed,

"It's not just me, you can just look at the award-winning jade carvings in the past, many of them are not the best materials, and even many of them are simply leftovers after taking the bracelet or ring face! Don't they know that good materials can make better things? But no, because almost all people must consider profit first when they weigh this issue! ”

"So, you can give me such a precious piece of material, and you can also allow me to carve exactly what I want, you say, should I thank you?"

"But, Master......"

"This has nothing to do with whether I am your master or not!"

Hu Zhiyuan waved his hand,

"Now that it's decided, let's go, I'm going to start the retreat, this should be my real sealing work!"

"Don't mind, Master, you haven't dealt with that dragon stone yet!"

"That piece, you can polish it yourself, and you can solve it as the best."

Seeing Li Yi's eyes blinking and blinking, he seemed to be a little incomprehensible, Hu Zhiyuan pointed to the elven eye in Lu Ningshuang's hand,

"It's like this thing, if you hadn't told me how many more there were, I wouldn't have chosen to use the knife. For the best materials, if they are large, it may not look good if they are not treated. But for some small materials, we should try to keep it in its original shape. Jade is the essence of heaven and earth, and we are often painting snakes! ”

Seeing Hu Zhiyuan's emotional appearance, although Li Yi didn't dare to agree with his opinion in his heart, he didn't dare to say anything. glanced at Lu Ningshuang, who was still studying the Manjushri pendant, and was about to take her away, when suddenly, Hu Zhiyuan stopped him again.

"If you have time, it's best to go to Wutai Mountain, there is a nameless small temple on the mountainside of Yedoufeng in Beitai, you go to a Zen master named Huiming, let him enlighten that bead, I guess it should be of some use."

"Oh? Master, does consecration really work? ”

"I don't know if someone else's light is open, but it should be useful for you to find him."

At this time, Lu Ningshuang was also interested, and came over and interjected,

"Uncle Hu, will it be difficult for him to ask for it?"

Hu Zhiyuan smiled and shook his head,

"It's definitely hard for others to ask for it, and most of them can't even see it, but you're different, the bead in your hand is the pass!"

Li Yi nodded, but he was still a little confused in his heart, although most of the Zen Master Huiming was a friend of the master, but after knowing him for so long, he really didn't know that the master still believed in this!

If the enlightenment really works, will there be so many disasters in this world?

After asking about the specific address and characteristics of the small temple, Li Yi and the others said goodbye to Hu Zhiyuan, but they didn't expect that as soon as they walked out of the courtyard gate, Lu Ningshuang suddenly stopped.

"Li Yi, I've decided, refund the ticket for the night, I'm going to Wutai Mountain!"

"Huh?"

"I know you don't believe it, and many people don't believe it, but my mother once told me a very miraculous thing, that is, it is related to the opening of the light, a Maitreya Buddha jasper pendant that a high monk has opened the light, which saved her friend's life!"

And this kind of thing? Li Yi's face was full of disbelief.

Seeing his expression, Lu Ningshuang lightly punched him and began to tell the story that Lu's mother had told her.

"When my mother was young, she went to Lingyin Temple with her friends and met a fat monk, and when the monk saw them, she asked her if her friend was wearing anything like jade, and he could help her open the light for free."

"It just so happened that her friend wore a small jasper hanging Buddha that day, but she didn't expect that after taking it out, the monk said that his consecration was different from others, and that things needed to be put there for half a month, and let her friend come to pick up things at the same time and place half a month later."

"Cut, such a clumsy trick!"

"Don't interrupt! Originally, my mother didn't believe it, but then her friend thought that things were not worth much anyway, so she gave the Buddha to the monk, and in the end she even forgot to ask his Dharma name! Half a month later, she remembered about it and rushed to that place at about the same time, and guess what happened? ”

Li Yi wanted to say that there was no one, but suddenly remembered that Lu Ningshuang seemed to say that the light was very spiritual, and couldn't help but hesitate:

"The monk returned the Buddha that had been opened to her?"

Lu Ningshuang nodded,

"Well, it took about half a month after she got back the hanging Buddha, there was a car accident when she went out to travel, and the bus overturned over a cliff more than 30 meters deep, and there were 32 people on the bus at that time, more than half of them died, and the rest were seriously injured, but she was alone, unscathed!"

Li Yi raised her eyebrows, knowing that she wanted to say that it was because of the blessing of the Buddha, but although the probability of this kind of thing was very small, it was not impossible.

"What, people haven't talked about it yet, right? She was also very strange at the time, but she was so frightened the moment she fell off the cliff that she couldn't remember anything. It's just that when she was sorting out the Kun bag, she suddenly found a small handful of broken stones, and next to the broken stones was the rope she usually used to hang the Buddha! ”

Li Yi pursed his lips, revealing a disapproving look,

"How did you hear this story, my hair stood on end, just like listening to a ghost story?"

"Oh, it's true! Because it had just rained that day and the weather in the mountains was cold, she took off the hanging Buddha and put it in the kun bag, otherwise, it was really hard to be sure! ”

Li Yigang wanted to ask her if Mother Lu really saw those scraps or listened to what her friend said, but suddenly remembered the secret on her body, and couldn't help but shudder, maybe, it was really possible! (To be continued.) )