More than half an hour later, Li Shaoyang came to the more prosperous area of Sanonda Square, which used to be called Benhe Square, and since it was renovated three years ago, it has become today's Sanonda Square. It's a busy place, with everything you need to eat, sing, and shop. Li Shaoyang walked slowly, looking for the object he wanted. The first one he took a fancy to was a Jinfu jewelry store, which occupied more than 400 square meters.

The red wood carved signboard with large lacquered gold characters looks magnificent, and there is a pleasant-looking welcome lady on each side of the door. Li Shaoyang raised his feet and walked in.

"Welcome!"

In the welcome and warm smiles of the two welcome ladies, Li Shaoyang walked into the jewelry store. At the moment, there are not many people in the jewelry store, and the surrounding walls are mainly black and gray, and the stripes look graceful and atmospheric. It is divided into several small areas. Each area is lined with glass display cases containing various styles of jewelry, from gold and silver to jade and jadeite. There are some different lamps on the top of each area, and the shapes of the lamps are different, but they all look very gorgeous. For this purpose, Li Shaoyang has some understanding that different jewelry needs different lights to match to show the best effect.

Under the illumination of the light, all kinds of jewelry are colorful, so dazzling, so charming. Li Shaoyang walked slowly, looking at the various styles on the counter.

After observing for more than half an hour, Li Shaoyang headed northeast, and he inquired from the salesman that it was the location of the manager. In the surprised eyes of a man in his thirties, Li Shaoyang slowly walked towards him.

"Hello! Are you the manager here? Li Shaoyang said with a dangerous face.

"Hello! I'm He Wenchang, the manager here, what's the matter? Seeing Li Shaoyang's nearly 200-pound body and immature face, He Wenchang didn't know what was going on.

"I'd like to ask if you're looking for jewelry and jade carvers here?" Li Shaoyang's words were amazing.

He Wenchang was stunned for a moment, and then said, "We don't need apprentices here." In his impression, the age of being an engraver is not so young, so the fat boy in front of him wants to come to learn art.

"You misunderstood me, I mean engraver, not apprentice!" Li Shaoyang reiterated it again. In fact, he has little experience in such a job. Later, when he went to Shanghai, he was completely found by others, and at that time he was already a certified Chinese jade carver. However, the first batch of state-sanctioned carvers will not be produced until 2004, and then there will be a biennial evaluation.

Now he can only use this stupid method to try, in the later generations many jewelry companies have their own special resident engraver, so Li Shaoyang will come here to look for opportunities, of course he will not be a resident engraver, although he is more than enough technically, but he still needs to go to school, and he needs to deal with other things.

He Wenchang looked at Li Shaoyang, and then he understood what the other party meant, "I'm sorry, we already have a carver here, and we don't need it anymore." In his heart, he didn't believe that the immature face and fat body could be more exquisite than the craftsmanship of the forty-year-old carver in his shop, so he directly refused.

Seeing He Wenchang's refusal, Li Shaoyang didn't stay anymore, walked towards the outside of the store, and continued to the next one.

One, two, all the way to the fourth, each of them refused, and even Li Shaoyang asked others to give them a chance to try to carve a work and show them. This is no wonder to others, anyone who sees the fat body and immature face has no reason to believe that he will be a skilled carver, after all, in addition to talent, this industry also needs time to practice before it can be baked.

Looking at the jewelry store in front of him, Li Shaoyang cleaned up his mood and regained his energetic attitude, this is the last one here, and it is also a smaller jewelry store compared to several others. It is also the reason why Li Shaoyang finally chose it, if it doesn't work again, then today's trip will be nothing.

Walking into the jewelry store, the first glance is a gentle and delicate feeling, the store is not large, but the decoration is very exquisite. There is no such magnificent atmosphere, but it has a soft feeling of Jiangnan water town. Every trace of decoration is sleek and excessive, and even the display cabinets are not square hardboards, but unfold in an arc, with a soft beauty.

The owner of this shop must be a woman, Li Shaoyang couldn't help but guess in his heart.

After going to several houses, Li Shaoyang didn't expect to meet an acquaintance. At the first glance of her, Li Shaoyang recognized that she was the woman in her thirties who was in the taxi last night.

"Is that you?" When she saw Li Shaoyangyang, the woman looked a little surprised.

"Huh! It's me! When he met the person who was robbed of the taxi by himself, Li Shaoyang looked a little embarrassed.

"How was that girl yesterday?"

"Nothing is a big deal. Thank you yesterday, by the way, I didn't pay for your taxi. Saying that, Li Shaoyang was ready to take out the money from his pocket.

"Forget it! A little thing. Besides, pay me money here, do you think it's good? The woman stopped him.

Li Shaoyang also felt that it was not appropriate, scratched his braincase, and Li Shaoyang smiled awkwardly.

"By the way, I don't know what to call you?"

"My name is Yao Hong, just call me Sister Yao. You're here specifically for me? How did you find this? Yao Hong was a little surprised by Li Shaoyang's arrival.

"No, it was just a coincidence, I actually came here to apply, my name is Li Le." Li Shaoyang only remembered his business at this time.

"Apply? We don't recruit male shopping guides here. Hearing Li Shaoyang say that he came to apply, Yao Hong smiled slightly.

"No, I'm here to apply for an engraver."

"What? Engraver? Yao Hong's eyes opened, obviously startled by Li Shaoyang's words.

"Hmmm! Engraver. Seeing Yao Hong's expression, Li Shaoyang also smiled bitterly in his heart, it seemed that everyone's expression when they heard this sentence was like this.

"Did I hear me right, you're applying for a job as an engraver?" In Yao Hong's heart, most of the carvers are older and look rigorous, which is too different from the image in front of them.

To say that Li Shaoyang's original appearance is really a rigorous middle-aged uncle, but the current body is not what he wants, can he say that this is God's arrangement.

"It's true! I kid you not. If you don't believe me, you let me carve a small piece for you to see, it won't take long. ”

Seeing that Li Shaoyang's expression didn't look like he was joking, Yao Hong believed it in her heart.

"In this case, there is a workshop at the back of the store, you and I will come down, if you really have that ability, Sister Yao can really give you a job."

Hearing Yao Hong call herself Sister Yao, Li Shaoyang felt slightly uncomfortable, but now his body is indeed only in his twenties, and it is really entangled.

The back workshop is a small carving workshop, which seems to be the place where the resident carver works, but at the moment there is no one to see, and I don't know what to do.

"No, the tools are here, you can try this piece of jade first." Yao Hong picked up a piece of white jade that seemed to be leftovers, and there was a piece of black impurities mixed with some bands of red in it, which was of little use.

Looking at the irregularly shaped leftovers in his hand, Li Shaoyang fell into the idea. Touching the cold jade in his hand, his whole spirit was all concentrated.

The whole carving tools are also very complete, engraving machines and carving tools, etc., everything.

After about two minutes, Li Shaoyang's frowning brows gradually relaxed. Picked up a pen and drew quickly on the jade. A familiar feeling spread throughout his body, Li Shaoyang's eyes began to become sharper, and Li Shaoyang, the carving madman in his previous life, was back.

When Li Shaoyang started the machine, there was no foreign object in his heart, although it was just a worthless scrap in his hand, but for him it was the first carving of rebirth, which had a special significance.

The billet knife was still a little rusty in Li Shaoyang's hands at first, perhaps because of the discomfort of the body, sometimes two knives or even three knives are needed where one knife is completed. Li Shaoyang also seemed to know this situation, so he simply began to reserve some space to leave something that could be corrected.

With the passage of time, the billet knife gradually seemed to be alive, Li Shaoyang's hand gradually stabilized, and his movements became more and more smooth and faster.

Yao Hong, who was on the side, began to look a little casual, thinking that it was nothing more than that, but slowly she only felt that the fat hands seemed to be getting faster and more flexible. The object in his hand is small, but in Li Shaoyang's hand, it can be quickly formed, with a flat shape, a slightly arched arc on both sides, and a gap that opens and closes, which is a shell.

After the blank was formed, Li Shaoyang did not stop at all, and the carving tools were constantly changing, which made people dazzled. After the blank was formed, Li Shaoyang basically used various tools to carve by hand. Everything is so smooth, so light. Line carving, round carving, relief carving, openwork carving and various techniques seem to come alive in his hands. Looking at the pair of skillful hands that are as flexible as flying flowers, it is really like a dragon.

At this time, Yao Hong still didn't believe that the chubby young man in front of him had some skills that were truly comparable to those of carvers, and even surpassed the carver who was stationed in the store by a lot. At least he had never seen the carver have such nimble hands.

At the moment when it finally took shape, Li Shaoyang's heart was also relieved. This time he didn't think the carving played to his original level, and the new body accounted for a large part of the reason. But he believes that after a period of running-in, he can reach the level of his previous life, and even go further.

Finally, the process of polishing and cleaning, in the highly concentrated spirit suddenly relaxed, Li Shaoyang felt a little tired.

"I can't believe that you have such technology at such an age. If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, Sister Yao would really think that you were a freak who popped out of nowhere. You wait a while, I'll contact the boss, and the final decision is up to her. ”

"Okay! I'll wait here. ”

At this moment, in a café, a woman is talking to a middle-aged man in his forties.

"Lao Wang, you are also an old man in our store, you have been in the store since my father's generation, but why are you in a hurry to leave now?" The woman's tone was a little pleading.

"Xiaoyan, it's not that I don't miss my old love, but my two children are going to college, which is a big expense. As the old saying goes, people go to high places, water flows to low places, and a jewelry store in Wuhan opened me nearly half of the salary compared to yours, I hope you can understand. ”

"Why don't you wait a little longer and wait until I find a new carver here?" The woman still refuses to give up.

"I can't wait, let me go over the day after tomorrow, and you don't make it difficult for me."

"I ......" The woman was just about to speak, when a mobile phone rang, and the woman hung up directly. Now that you're gone, where can I go to find the carver? You can't afford to lose your business! ”

"I really can't wait!"

"Ask for ......" Another ringtone came, and the woman answered the phone, "Hey! I'll talk about that later! ”

The woman's tone was a little cold, and it was clear that she was a little angry that an important conversation had been interrupted twice.

"Swallow, I've found the carver."

"What? You repeat. The message on the phone surprised the woman a little, and then gestured to Lao Wang opposite, signaling that she would answer the phone, and then got up and walked aside.

"I said I found the carver, would you like to come back and have a look?"

"Found the engraver?" The woman was a little stunned, she didn't expect to be worried about this matter just now, so it was solved in a blink of an eye.

After the two talked a few words on the phone, the woman decided to go back to the store to have a look, turned around and just wanted to say hello to Lao Wang, but saw that Lao Wang had already left his seat, leaving only a back and left.

The woman frowned slightly, a little displeased with Lao Wang's behavior. Thinking that there was still a new carver waiting in the shop, he didn't stay any longer and turned around and rushed back.

The first moment she saw Yao Hong, the woman took her hand and hurriedly asked, "Where is the carver of the new trick you said?" Take me to meet me. The woman had been troubled by this lately, so when she returned to the shop, she was anxious to meet the new carver.

"Look at you, this urgency can't be changed, and people won't run, waiting for you in the studio in the back."

As soon as the woman heard this, she went directly to the studio in the back room, and as soon as she entered the door, she was stunned, only to see a chubby young man cleaning a small piece.

Li Shaoyang was also a little stunned when he saw the woman, but he didn't expect that he really guessed correctly, he was really a female boss, and a beautiful female boss. The woman in front of her, Gu Yaohong, revealed that she was twenty-six years old and had a child, but at the moment, she didn't look like a person who had given birth to a child. The slender curves, the fullness of the fullness, the stiffness of the uprightness, a red coat draped over the body reveals a ripe taste, like a ripe peach. With a slender and white neck and a ruddy and clean face, curved eyebrows like the moon, and eyes like stars, this is a beautiful young woman.

Li Shaoyang retracted his gaze after a slight look, then got up and smiled at the woman and said, "Hello, my name is Li Le, and I am here to apply for an engraver."

The woman looked at Yao Hong behind her, with a questioning expression.

"Don't look at me like that, I know you don't believe it, I was the same at first, but after seeing him sculpt it, I didn't think that way anymore. No, the jade carving he was holding in his hand was the one he had just carved, you can understand it when you look at it. Yao Hong called the woman's expression, and understood what she was thinking, and then quickly explained.

Li Shaoyang smiled and handed the object in his hand to the woman, and when she saw the jade carved shell after cleaning, the woman's eyes could no longer be removed.

The slightly open shells take on a beautiful posture under the light. Soft corners, without a trace of stiff curves, the pattern texture on the back of the shell is meticulous, the lines are soft as if natural, without a trace of flaws, some reddish colors are integrated into the texture of the back of the shell, which is the original red ribbon-like impurities. The slightly open shell uses openwork techniques to perfectly present the white flesh, and there are a few translucent black pearls lying quietly on it, which is also made of the black impurities. Perfect structure, perfect carving, perfect artistic conception, the woman's heart suddenly has a feeling of love, although I don't know the original appearance of this piece of material, but she can also see that this piece of jade shell is urgent with impurities ingenuity.

"Is this really what you carved?" The woman didn't believe that the little fat man in front of her would have such skills and thoughts.

"It's like a fake." Li Shaoyang responded neither humbly nor arrogantly.

"Oh, I said swallow, I just watched him carve it, and this can be fake. Okay, you can give me a word. ”

"Okay, that's great. If you can't do this, then there are really few things to do in Jingzhou. Your name is Li Le, right, and from now on, you are the official engraver of the skillful jewelry store. My name is Zhen Yan, and I welcome you to join us. ”

Seeing Zhen Yan so formal, Li Shaoyang felt a little overwhelmed, and gently shook her, and a soft and slippery touch came from his hand.

"Well, can I tell me what I want?" Li Shaoyang thought about seeing if he could prepay some wages urgently, after all, there was still a big gap between Liu Yunyao's 20,000 yuan.

"You mean the problem of treatment, the original resident carver has changed jobs, his salary is 5,000 a month, and I will give you 5,000 if you say it. If you do well, you can also give you a commission according to the situation, do you think it's okay? If we can, we'll settle down. ”

Five thousand in 2002 was already very valuable, and the general wages of workers at this time were about seven or eight hundred a month.

"Boss, that's right, I've just started college, so it's impossible to stay here regularly, I can only guarantee that I have free time to come back here, and of course, if I'm busy with work, I can also come and work overtime at night. If you want to pay your salary, you can also reduce it or calculate it by piece. ”

"You're a student?" Li Shaoyang's words were one, not only Zhen Yan, but even Yao Hong was shocked again, in their hearts, I am afraid that the master of the master who has such carving skills has such an achievement. But I've never heard of a college student with such carving skills.

"Yes! I am a freshman in Information Technology, Class X0201 at cJ University. Li Shaoyang said very seriously, he was very depressed, why would others not believe every word he said.

Seeing that what Li Shaoyang said was serious, the two had to believe it.