Chapter Seventy-Seven: A Tasting of Carved Jade and Wood
Li Jingjing listened to Xie Bin's words, slapped his chest hard, and snorted: "You are generous, do you have any thoughts about others?" Without waiting for Xie Bin to argue, he asked again: "How much money do you have now?" I'll give you some first. ”
Xie Bin's heart was warm, and he quickly waved his hand, "Don't worry, wife, your husband is not really hungry, by the way, I want to open an online store, what do you think?" ”
Li Jingjing lay in Xie Bin's arms, pinched his waist, and said coquettishly: "Who is your wife," said and thought for a while: "The online store can also be used, but it will definitely be very busy, can you do it alone?" ”
Xie Bin smiled, "If I open an online store, I won't sell those things that cost 100 or 10 yuan, didn't your father say that my standard is already very high?" My price will naturally keep up with my level, and when the time comes, I won't have to worry about being too busy. ”
Li Jingjing was still a little worried, "But what if no one wants to buy it?" ”
Xie Bin shrugged, "It's okay, anyway, I'm just passing the time and finding something to do for myself, and I don't really want to make money from this?" If you want to make money, your husband and I have a way. ”
"Bragging!" Li Jingjing slapped Xie Bin again, but didn't say anything more. Two people who are just in love are full of unlimited trust in each other, and what the other party says feels very reasonable. No matter how smart Li Jingjing is, she is just a girl who has just fallen in love, since ancient times, I don't know how many smart and intelligent women have fallen on the word "love".
In fact, Xie Bin wants to open a physical store, but he has no money and no one now, so he really can't open it, and the physical store takes a lot of time, Xie Bin is really afraid that he can't be busy. However, whether it is a physical store or an online store, it is not possible to get it right now, and it takes a long time just to feed and process.
But now Xie Bin is trying to find a way to deal with the material that he bought at a high price. The market value of this piece of material that Xie Bin looked at was about 8 million, but Xie Bin bought it back for 16 million, which was twice the price. Xie Bin naturally had his intentions in spending so much money, maybe some of it was out of guilt for looking at himself, but after all, there were some other intentions.
And now Xie Bin needs to give full play to the maximum value of this piece of material. Such a material, if it is cut into a decent bracelet, beads, earrings or something, the overall value cannot even exceed 10 million. And if you want to turn this ordinary material into magic, you can only do it by carving it into an ornament.
It's just that such materials are made into ornaments, one is more difficult, and the other is that the difficulty of shooting is relatively increased. I don't know how many people are willing to spend more than 10 million yuan to buy such a large piece of ornament that can only be placed in the house.
Xie Bin has never done jade carving, let alone jade carving. The hardness of jadeite is very high, and the general carver needs to use a professional carving knife and machine when carving jadeite, and there is no certain experience at all. However, Xie Bin is not worried, because he has an ability. Xie Bin had already experimented, even with an ordinary carving knife, with the blessing of his ability, he could cut and carve jadeite.
Therefore, Xie Bin did not plan to buy any jade carving machine at all, but planned to carve by pure hand, presumably this carving method can add a lot of color to this ornament. When the carvers found out that someone could carve by hand, they wondered what their expressions would be.
Thinking of the smugness, Xie Bin couldn't help but laugh secretly. Simple hand-carving is more flexible than carving with mechanical tools, and there are more ways to carve, more styles, and more diverse forms of expression.
It's just that Xie Bin does carving, which is generally carved at will, and does not design drawings and design layouts like others, so in this regard, he either carves with reference to traditional themes, or he has an idea to design a more imaginative work. It's just that this imagination obviously doesn't come just as he wants, sometimes Xie Bin doesn't even know how to grasp it, this is his hard injury, no way, he has not experienced systematic teaching, and his skills in this area are almost zero.
The distressed Xie Bin opened Du Niang and searched for pictures of other people's works to see if there were any better designs that he could learn from. It's just that the jade ornaments are not too much, and such a big one is even rarer, and Xie Bin can't get the essentials after turning it over for a long time.
Flipping through the pages, Xie Bin flipped to the collection of fine ink paintings, which are all fine ink paintings from ancient times to the present, the collection is quite complete, and there are detailed explanations. Xie Bin has a taste for it, after all, he is also playing this, and the wonders of it can naturally be experienced, especially some painters who are not well-known, but the level is not bad at all, and some are even very wonderful, so that Xie Bin can't put it down.
However, when he saw an ink painting, Xie Bin's eyes lit up and he seemed to have found inspiration. As soon as he thought of it, Xie Bin copied the picture, then made some adjustments himself, and finally drew a very messy structural drawing. Well, the structure was drawn blindly, and he could see it himself, because he had never learned to draw it.
Subsequently, Xie Bin took out a set of carving knives given to him by his future father-in-law and ran to the basement with the drawings. Now this basement is used as a warehouse by Xie Bin, and the piece of jadeite that relies on green skin is placed in it.
After measuring the jadeite for a while, he drew some more lines, but it was only a rough outline. This is a piece of jadeite material is relatively large, the proportion and structure are not easy to grasp, if it is a little smaller, Xie Bin does not need to draw a drawing line. Now this line can only be regarded as a vague line, so as not to make Xie Bin too outrageous.
Subsequently, Xie Bin took out the largest carving knife, which has a long handle and a thicker back, that is, it can be used as a blank.
The ability activates and slowly seeps into the carving knife. The material of this carving knife is fine and tight, with few impurities, and it is obviously made of high-quality materials, which is much better than the knife used by Xie Bin before. Obviously, the future father-in-law is still very attentive and did not fool Xie Bin.
Holding a knife in both hands, as if holding a big shovel, he scraped a knife on the jadeite, and the sound of "snort" sounded, and a scratch appeared on the surface of the jadeite. The effect of the ability is not to be said, the blessed carving knife is not worse than those mechanical heads, but the rigidity of the jade is relatively strong, the toughness is insufficient, and there are many small fragments that break when the knife goes down.
Xie Bin changed to a smaller carving knife again, this time the force was lighter, and the knife was slower, but the effect was very good, and there were no traces of cracking.
Xie Bin breathed a sigh of relief, he could carve with a carving knife, otherwise, his Xie Bin's biggest advantage would not come in handy, and the carved object was no different from others, and it was really difficult to sell it at a high price. However, what gave Xie Bin a headache was that when carving jadeite, the ability was consumed very quickly, more than twice as much as when carving wood, and if he continued like this, he would not be able to work for an hour a day.
Fortunately, Xie Bin is not in a hurry, and it can be completed in an hour a day, in about 20 days. Thinking of the amazing scene after the completion of this gambling jadeite, Xie Bin's heart was very comfortable.
However, Xie Bin still found some knowledge about jadeite carving, especially about grinding and polishing, after all, the material properties of jadeite are completely different from wood and bamboo, and the materials and processes required for grinding and polishing are also different.
An hour passed quickly, and this piece of jadeite was made out of a rough model by Xie Bin's "click-click-", after all, when making a rough embryo, you can rest assured that you can move the knife boldly, and you don't have to carefully and gently cut the knife. However, the subsequent carving, it needs to come little by little, if you accidentally break a piece, maybe the previous work will be wasted.
Then Xie Bin contacted the wood factory and got a batch of materials back, mainly almond teak and other materials, these materials are the best for carving, and they are also Xie Bin's favorite wood, of course, this price is also slightly more expensive, although it is not as good as sandalwood boxwood and other mahogany, but it is still a little more expensive than ordinary wood.
At the same time, Xie Bin also registered a small shop on the Internet, the name is "Carved Jade and Wood Tasting", this name was obtained by Li Jingjing, Xie Bin doesn't care, just be able to understand it anyway. It's not a very elegant name, but at least it's a quick indication of what it's about. In the introduction, Xie Bin wrote that "selling and processing all kinds of high-end bamboo, wood and jade carving handicrafts", and then took a few photos and put them on it, which can be regarded as a good business. For this reason, I specially made a delicious meal at night, well, naturally there was no shortage of Zou Xintong, a woman. This woman's communication skills really don't have to be said, it's only been a long time, and Li Jingjing is like a good sister, and it is said that the two of them sleep together at night.
Well, this topic hurt Xie Bin a lot. After the two of them broke through the first line of defense between men and women, Xie Bin wanted to move forward all the time, but unfortunately Li Jingjing defended very tightly and cautiously, and never gave Xie Bin too many opportunities. On the night of the opening of the shop, Xie Bin saw the opportunity and caught Li Jingjing to make love fiercely, but after all, he failed to break through the bottom line and was pinched by Li Jingjing and slipped away.
However, the two of them still appeared in front of everyone openly as boyfriend and girlfriend, and they were tired of being together when they were fine, of course, most of the time Li Jingjing watched Xie Bin do carving, or asked Xie Bin to teach her to draw or something.
However, when Xie Bin's jadeite was about to be completed, Li Xiaojun actually called him, "Xiao Xie, what are you busy with?" Out to play? ”
Xie Bin tugged at the corners of his mouth: "If you have something, just say something." ”
Li Xiaojun smiled disappreciatively: "Okay, then I won't talk nonsense, do you have any intention of spending 16 million to buy the materials?" How about I give thirteen million? ”
Xie Bin sneered: "I'll keep it for myself, don't bother!" ”
Li Xiaojun smiled and said: "Xiao Xie, do business, don't be like this, how about I add another million?" ”
Xie Bin shook his head, "I've already made it into an ornament, and it will be auctioned at Bomei in a few days, if you still want it, you can go there," he breathed a sigh of relief, "Okay, I still have something to do, hang up!" He hung up the phone.
Xie Bin thought about Li Xiaojun's face, and smiled coldly, he was so anxious to put down his face and come to buy materials for himself, there was only one possibility, and there were not many materials in his house. Although Xie Bin's piece of material is a gamble, the surface layer can be cut to make a lot of high-end jewelry. Li Xiaojun is willing to pay a high price to buy it, which shows that their current situation is quite serious, could it be that the piece of material they made before has been used up? Xie Bin remembered that Li Xiaojun's family still had a lot of inventory.
However, no matter what situation he Li Xiaojun encounters now, he has nothing to do with Xie Bin. What's more, this piece of material Xie Bin has already been carved and formed, just waiting to be polished and polished, and even the market has been found. After Li Jingjing saw Xie Bin's idea, she took a lot of photos to show her father, Li Guohui was overjoyed after seeing it, and went to Xie Bin to see it in person, and then left an auction place for Xie Bin, and it was used as the finale. (PS: Three chapters today, plus more at ten o'clock in the evening!) Thank you for your support! Thank you also for mentioning some technical details of the error! )