Chapter 9: Goldfinger
The income from this period was deposited in the bank, which was almost 20,000 yuan. Looking at the deposit in the card, there are more than 60,000 yuan. Don't look at Xie Bin has made a lot of money in the past few days, in fact, in the past few years, he just mixed up with food and clothing, and the money he saved in the past few years was not as much as the income of last Sunday and two days.
Fortunately, the economic situation has developed fairly well in the past two years, and Xie Bin's stall has made some profits, saving 40,000 or 50,000 yuan in two years, so that he will not be helpless when he encounters things. In other words, Xie Bin's health is not bad, he usually has no serious illness, and he went to a small clinic to prescribe some medicine and two injections when he had a headache and brain fever. If Xie Bin had something to do, such as a catastrophe or something, he was afraid that no one would care about him if he died on the street.
Xie Bin has long been accustomed to this kind of life, so he has developed the habit of being cautious and cautious, never doing those more dangerous things when he has nothing to do, and he is also well-behaved when crossing the street. It's not that Xie Bin is civilized, but I'm worried that if something happens, he won't even have anyone to deliver food.
For those behaviors that may be dangerous, Xie Bin resolutely does not stick to them, and avoids them if he can. For another example, Xie Bin was injured this time, which was inevitable, after all, it is common to play with knives every day and be stabbed by knives. However, Xie Bin was quite concerned about this not very serious wound, for fear of leaving a little sequelae. This is not a cut on the finger that is usually made, but it is really pierced into the palm of the hand, almost pierced through.
Xie Bin deposited his earnings in the bank and then went to the hospital for a check-up. A young doctor did an examination, and finally told Xie Bin enthusiastically: "Your wound has completely healed, and it is normal for it to be itchy, but try not to exert force and pay attention to hygiene." ”
Xie Bin nodded and agreed, checked out and left, but muttered secretly in his heart, the last time the female doctor helped him treat the wound, he said that the wound would take more than half a month to heal. But now it only took a week, which is half the time.
No wonder people don't want to come to the hospital, they are all scared by the doctors, nothing is serious, and then you have to let the doctors fiddle with them at will. A wound that can heal in a week can be said to be two weeks, and you can imagine how much water the doctor's words have. Now that the doctor-patient relationship is so tense, it cannot but be said that some doctors are to blame, and when they are trying to squeeze the hard-earned money of patients, I am afraid that they will not expect to be given anything.
People are not stupid, and now that information is so developed, all the things in your hospital can be checked on the Internet.
Of course, Xie Bin only muttered a few words in his heart, and he wouldn't quarrel with the doctor for the three or five hundred yuan. In other words, Xie Bin doesn't have the guts, he is single, and he can't afford to make any trouble if he wants to. If you look at those people on the news, who dare to go to the hospital to make trouble, no matter whether they have money at home or not, they definitely have a lot of relatives and friends, and they also have the confidence to make trouble. If someone like Xie Bin goes to make trouble, a security guard can send him away.
Xie Bin's wound had completely healed, and if it weren't for the extremely fine white mark left on the palm of his hand, Xie Bin might not have been able to find the part of his injury. Shake the five fingers, as flexible as before, without a trace of unusual feeling. Xie Bin was completely relieved, but he still waited for two or three days before starting his official work.
Xie Bin began to work, but instead of dealing with the ordinary wood step by step, he continued to conquer the sandalwood. Since he was a child, Xie Bin has played with more wood, and he has also played with a lot of hardwoods, such as almonds. But it's really rare to get hurt by a knife.
Xie Bin was also a little angry, but he was thinking more about how to deal with this sandalwood carving when the time came.
Sandalwood is more valuable, and the price of the carved finished product can be doubled several times, but someone has to ask for it. Xie Bin is such a small stall, and the customers he faces are ordinary people, and it may be no problem to spend a few hundred yuan to support his face, but it is almost impossible for them to pay tens of thousands.
Even the chairman of the Engraving Association, Mr. Wang, probably has to think about it. In this antique shop, those who can afford to spend a lot of money are officials, businessmen, and those rich second generations who have a few spare money.
One of the biggest problems faced by Xie Bin is that there is no high-level customer, and his piece of sandalwood is not authentic red sandalwood, and his carving skills are not famous, so it is really difficult for him to make a move.
However, Xie Bin had to turn this piece of sandalwood into a finished product first. When he first got this piece of sandalwood, Xie Bin had already decided to carve it in the shape of the horse stepping on the swallow, and after a few days of thinking, this piece of sandalwood has become a stunning ornament in Xie Bin's eyes, and it only needs to be carved by hand.
Needless to say, the hardness of sandalwood is self-evident, otherwise it would not have hurt Xie Bin's little oil. With preparations this time, Xie Bin was not nervous at all, but faintly looked forward to it.
Sandalwood, even if it is not a real red sandalwood, is a rare good thing for a low-level carver like Xie Bin, after all, the price is there. If there is no chance of this accident, Xie Bin wants to come into contact with sandalwood, I am afraid that I don't know what era it is.
The purchase channel of sandalwood is a big problem, and people will not only sell such a small piece, but at least in batches. With Xie Bin's little family background, he can't buy a small piece of bankruptcy.
Xie Bin was holding a brand-new carving knife, which he had specially bought to carve this piece of sandalwood. Hardwood waste knife, this is common sense, ordinary carving knives are scrapped without writing down, this is an alloy knife bought for two thousand yuan, from Xie Bin's experience, although the price is more expensive, but it is indeed very sharp and strong.
Xie Bin held the knife in his right hand, fixed the sandalwood with his left hand, and began to cut according to the image outlined in his mind.
When the sharp carving knife touched the hard sandalwood, Xie Bin's chest was hot, and a stream of heat gushed out, pouring into the carving knife along Xie Bin's arm, and then, under Xie Bin's dumbfounded gaze, the hard sandalwood was cut by the carving knife with a deep scratch, just like a hot knife cutting cream. If Xie Bin hadn't stopped quickly, I am afraid that this piece of sandalwood would have been abolished by Xie Bin.
Xie Bin looked at the scratches on the sandalwood in disbelief, and then looked at the carving knife in his hand, not knowing what was going on at that moment just now! Xie Bin knows the hardness of sandalwood, and Xie Bin also knows the sharpness of this carving knife, but now this incredible phenomenon has happened, which makes Xie Bin's brain a little unable to turn around.
What's going on? Could it be that the heat flow? Xie Bin thought of the moment just now, there seemed to be a stream of heat gushing out of his body, and then poured into the sandalwood along the carving knife. Moreover, there seems to be some unexpected feelings.
Thinking of this, Xie Bin hurriedly picked up the carving knife and carefully touched the sandalwood block that had been cut again.
That feeling appeared again, a warm heat flow gushed out of his chest, and then poured into the carving knife along his arm, and then poured into the sandalwood block, and with the surge of heat, half of Xie Bin's body felt a little numb, as if he drank a cup of warm tea in a cold day, and his whole body was comfortable. And when this hot current poured into the carving knife, it was another feeling, as if it was stroking with his hands, and it was like using his body to experience, and the fine and hard feeling in the carving knife was directly imprinted on Xie Bin's heart.
When the heat pours into the sandalwood block, it is a different feeling, the wood in the sandalwood block is more delicate, and the regular texture and gap are two completely different feelings from the carving knife.
Xie Bin tried to control this inexplicable heat flow, a little intoxicated, the touch after penetrating the surface, made Xie Bin seem to see a different world, very shocking, very magical.
It's just that it didn't take long for Xie Bin to skillfully control the heat current, but it retracted along the carving knife, and then let Xie Bin call, and never came out again.
Was it just an accident? Xie Bin couldn't help but feel a little gloomy, he thought that he had some adventure, and then he could soar into the sky from now on, just like described in a certain novel. Well, although Xie Bin is not a clairvoyant eye, it doesn't seem to be much worse.
But the sudden ability disappeared as quietly as it had appeared.
What's going on? Xie Bin hurriedly turned on the computer and typed in keywords such as "ability", "heat flow", "perspective", "internal force", etc., but what he searched for, except for novels, were some marginal websites, none of which seemed reliable.
After a long time of commotion, Xie Bin still didn't find a clue, so he could only return to his workbench again, hoping for when this mysterious ability would appear again. However, until the evening, Xie Bin's carving work on this piece of sandalwood had come to an end, but this inexplicable ability never appeared again, not even the slightest sign.
After dinner, Xie Bin sat in front of the computer and smiled bitterly, if it weren't for the feeling still deeply imprinted in his mind, he might have thought that he was dreaming.
The sandalwood has been carved into a rough outline, and it doesn't look as delicate as the finished product, but it already has a rather agile feeling. Sandalwood is a natural material for carving, and it doesn't even need to be painted, and although it is only a rough outline now, the heavy and solemn demeanor jumps out.
And the classic shape of the horse stepping on Feiyan looks so smart and expressive, which makes Xie Bin himself feel a little in love.
After all, wood carving is different from bronze, although in bronze, the horse stepping on the swallow is already very exquisite, but it cannot be compared with the wood carving, a delicate work of art. Bronze pays attention to verve, while wood carving can be more vivid and vivid in addition to verve.
At least, in Xie Bin's mind, his horse stepping on Feiyan sandalwood ornament is two completely different works from the bronze shape, the shape of the galloping horse will be more exaggerated, and Feiyan's demeanor will be more agile.
After all, the bronze is bronze, and the charm is enough, but the shape is still slightly restrained after all, because it is necessary to take into account the balance of the object, so the galloping horse seems a little square, although those craftsmen are very clever to adjust the posture of the galloping horse, but it also invisibly restricts the shape of the whole work.
The wood carving is different, Xie Bin can make a greater breakthrough in this galloping horse, it can be more vivid, and the whole work will be more flexible. This is a shackle that bronze works and ancient artists could not break through. Just like those masters of Chinese painting in ancient times, no matter how clever the artistic conception of the works is, compared with the current sketches, the characters are inherently worse.
Those Chinese paintings that pay attention to artistic conception, after all, are not something that ordinary people can appreciate, just like the bottle of bronze horse stepping on Feiyan, in the eyes of ordinary people, they don't even know why it is so valued. The artistic conception is not something that can be understood by others without saying it, and if you don't have enough artistic attainments, that is, playing the piano to the cow.