Xie Bin picked up the mobile phone on the table, his heart moved, the mobile phone suddenly disappeared, and then looked at the space in the necklace, the newly bought oppo mobile phone was lying quietly in a corner. Xie Bin grinned silently, this is a baby, a real baby! As Xie Bin's mind flashed, the phone flashed around in the necklace space like a ghost, and could even float in the air, as if there was no gravity.

This chain space is much more fun than the ability, Xie Bin is happy to put all the big and small things in the room and take them out, just like the robot cat in the cartoon, and even the big bed that Xie Bin can't move can put in. Got such a treasure in vain, Xie Bin's heart was really happy, thinking that he could go to the stall empty-handed in the future, and when he arrived at the stall, he waved his hands, and the hula was full, and when he left, he waved his hand, and the hula was finished again.

Of course, Xie Bin is just thinking about it, but he won't really do that. If Xie Bin really dares to do that, he will either be treated as a monkey or a guinea pig by the state.

When I was having fun, the landlord knocked on the door outside, "Xiao Xie, are you there?" ”

Xie Bin hurriedly put his things away, "I'm here," he said, and ran over to open the door.

At the door, in addition to the landlord's eldest sister, there were two young people with cameras around their necks and a folder in their hands. Seeing Xie Bin come out, the landlord's eldest sister smiled and said, "Xiao Xie, come, let these two take a photo and measure the area of the registered house." ”

Xie Bin nodded with a smile and asked, "Is this going to be demolished?" As he spoke, he let the two of them into the house, "Sister, this is demolished, you are millionaires, haha." "Xie Bin is not exaggerating at all, based on the landlord's homestead area and housing area, he can exchange at least two 90-square-meter houses, plus two or three hundred thousand yuan, and he is indeed a millionaire.

The landlord, Sister Liu, seems to be really happy, although living in a building is not as convenient as a bungalow, but it is a great improvement to their family conditions, like a meat pie falling from the sky. However, Sister Liu still shook her head, "I'm a little reluctant, and now it's just a survey and registration, and I don't know when it will be demolished." ”

"Soon," Xie Bin said with a smile, but he was a little envious in his heart, this is just an ordinary two-story house, like those that have built three floors, and can even compensate for three houses plus four or five hundred thousand yuan. The year before last, in a small fishing village near the sea, because of the construction of a military port, those bitter fishermen suddenly became millionaires, and people hated why they were not born in that broken fishing village. In the past few years, major renovations have been carried out everywhere, and when you go to those cities, you are either demolishing or building buildings, or building roads.

Soon the measurement and registration were completed, Sister Liu sent the two staff members away with a smile, and said with a smile to Xie Bin: "Xiao Xie, don't worry, it will take more than half a year to wait for the demolition, and it will not be too late to find a house when the time comes." ”

Xie Bin nodded, "Well, I know, I don't have anything here, and it's easy to move." ”

Watching Sister Liu go back, Xie Bin shook his head with a wry smile, returned to his room, touched the jade necklace on his chest, and his original interest was gone. Xie Bin has lived here for almost ten years, and he almost thinks of himself as a person here.

It's a pity that reality is reality, and he is just a wanderer who rents a house to survive after all.

Cleaning up his mood, Xie Bin turned on the computer, logged in to the island city information network, and looked at the housing information. In the area around the antique street, the urban village has been demolished, and if you want to find a house to live in, you have to run to the suburbs, and the distance is not ordinary.

However, the rent of this building is not ordinarily expensive, in a better place in this kind of location, a two-bedroom house costs about 1,500 a month, or even more expensive, which is a very big burden for Xie Bin. Xie Bin is not enough to live in, and he also needs to place his own groceries and materials, and he also needs a studio.

There are people who want to share a house, but the requirements for sharing a house are relatively high, either only girls and couples, or they require a proper job, etc. Xie Bin smiled bitterly, is this a legitimate job?

After walking around twice and failing to find a suitable house, Xie Bin shook his head helplessly, and carried out the last step of processing and polishing the sandalwood carved horse stepping on Feiyan.

Polishing is a very critical step, directly related to the quality and quality of the work, the requirements for craftsmanship are very high, a little careless, is the result of the previous efforts are lost. Fortunately, Xie Bin is a veteran, and this step is not difficult for him, even when this sandalwood is polished.

Sandalwood carving works, general polishing is the last step of the process, do not need to be colored like other wood, because the color of sandalwood is very tasteful, after coloring it destroys the solemn and solemn feeling, plus sandalwood wood is delicate, it is easier to fall off after painting, so the general sandalwood works are not colored at all, directly in the primary color. It is precisely because of this that you need to be more careful when polishing.

Sandalwood wood is strong and delicate, it is more difficult to polish, and it will destroy the work if you hit it hard, and it will not play the role of polishing if you use less force. Therefore, Xie Bin's last step of the process is very slow, and each step has to be carefully polished repeatedly.

In fact, polishing can also be regarded as a part of polishing, after all, it is all about treating the surface of the work. However, polishing is mainly carried out with a carving knife, while sanding is sandpaper, and in the end, it is even treated with gauze or cotton.

For the first sandalwood work in his life, Xie Bin naturally did not make a fool of himself, but handled it very seriously, and it took two days to polish from coarse sandpaper to fine sandpaper and even gauze.

After polishing, the hair lines were supplemented, and then the sandalwood carved horse stepping Feiyan was placed on the table, Xie Bin tilted his head and looked at it carefully, but the more he looked at it, the more pleasing it was to the eye, and he even thought that he would keep it. But thinking of the shriveled wallet and the future life, Xie Bin could only sigh, find a suitable packaging box, wrap it in yellow silk and put it away.

This sandalwood carved horse stepping on Feiyan can be said to be the most attentive work since Xie Bin entered the industry. In the past, although those works were also very attentive, after all, they were for money, and the pursuit was speed, and some things that could be ignored were ignored. But this piece of horse stepping on Feiyan is different, it can be regarded as Xie Bin's meticulous work, if it weren't for Xie Bin's assistance, I'm afraid this work would have been completed for almost two weeks.

After putting the sandalwood carved horse and stepping on Feiyan, Xie Bin began to carve her custom-made transformers for Xue Yuying. Transformers started from animation, until the current live-action version 3, which is indeed very popular, and many fans even spend their own money to assemble Transformers, and they also travel around. However, turning Transformers into wood carvings, Xie Bin really hasn't seen it, and he's never even heard of it. However, this does not prevent Xie Bin from continuing to make money and do business, and he can carve people, horses, flowers, plants, birds and beasts, why can't he carve Transformers? At best, it will take some time.

To say that Xie Bin has followed his grandfather since he was a child, and the carvings are all traditional themes, and it was not until the past two years that he carved a few modern elements such as Barbie dolls for Xiao Wang Zi, and as for Transformers, he really hasn't tried it.

For these elements, which he has never been exposed to, Xie Bin can only start with the most basic drawing. If you really make a drawing, Xie Bin will not be able to, but you can find some models as a reference. To this end, Xie Bin turned on the computer, found out all the characters in the Transformers, and found the pictures of their front, side and back, and Xie Bin even re-studied the Transformers, which can be regarded as cultivating a feeling.

As for the material, Xie Bin chose almonds. Almond is also a type of hardwood, but the price is relatively popular, it is a very commonly used one, and it is very cost-effective. Presumably, the beautiful female city manager who is not short of money should be willing to pay for it.

As for the subject matter, Xie Bin decided to choose Bumblebee and Optimus Prime, after all, these are the two most popular and well-known characters. After making a draft in his mind, designing the shape and layout, Xie Bin began to use the knife.

To put it mildly, such a theme does not have high requirements for knife skills, it is simpler than the traditional maid carving, the main surface is relatively broken, and there is no experience to learn from, so you can only explore a little bit.

With the help of the ability, the embryo was quickly laid, and the repair of the light was simpler than that of the Buddha statue and the maid statue, because the overall shape of the Transformers was more straight lines, fewer arcs, and more planes, which was a little cumbersome.

After the completion of the two Transformers ornaments, Xie Bin was quite satisfied, but he felt a little monotonous, after all, compared to the huge Autobot family, these two can only be regarded as two of them, and there are a few characters that the audience loves very much, and it is a pity to give up.

After thinking about it, Xie Bin decided to carve another pen holder and carve a few more characters on the pen holder.

Compared with wood carving, bamboo carving has higher requirements for personal artistic literacy. Because most people prefer to engrave words on the pen holder. Words are not written well, how can they be engraved well? Even if it is carved out according to the cat and the tiger, in the eyes of those insiders, it can be seen at a glance.

Fortunately, Xie Bin is not afraid, Xie Bin has followed his grandfather to write and paint since he was a child, and he is quite skilled. Compared with wood carving, the process of bamboo carving is relatively simple, but it is more of a test of knife skills, and the requirements for the author's layout ability and detail processing ability are also relatively high. However, under Xie Bin, these things are nothing, and the most troublesome thing is only when engraving.

Transformers, naturally, have to engrave the title, that is, the artistic word before the movie starts. Xie Bin's English level is average, but carving a few artistic words is much simpler than writing Chinese characters, and it is mainly rare to use the knife technique when carving.

Xie Bin uses the green knife method, that is, he carves the pattern with a layer of green skin on the surface of the bamboo, and shovels away the green skin outside the pattern to expose the bamboo muscles. The bamboo can only be used after drying, and the epidermis has turned from green to white. The so-called "traces are like pastel", which coincides with the pattern of leaving green. In this knife method, one or two years after carving, the epidermis will be pale yellow, but there will be little change since then. The bamboo muscle changes from light yellow to dark yellow, from dark yellow to red purple, so the color difference between bamboo skin and bamboo muscle will become more and more obvious. This carving method is not only exquisite, but also the appearance of the bamboo is shiny and lush, often caress the palm to play, the older the age, the deeper the color of the bamboo muscle, smooth as fat, warm as jade, the color is similar to amber, and the pattern part is more clear and prominent.

But it's good-looking, but it's more troublesome, and the requirements for knife skills are also very high.

By Sunday, two weeks had passed, and it was June. The island city is close to the sea, the wind is strong and the clouds are few, and the sun is very poisonous, which can roast people to death. Xie Bin specially got a large parasol for this purpose and wore a pair of sunglasses.

By the time Xie Bin arrived at the antique street crookedly, Xue Yuying, the chengguan, had already arrived early, with a whistle in his mouth, and was managing order.

Looking at the full street of people, Xie Bin was a little stunned, saying that there were not so many people shopping at this time in previous years. It's just half past eight, where are so many people? But Xie Bin is not afraid of many people, the more people the better, all like to carve better.