Xie Bin hesitated, but walked to Old Man Liu's stall, and did not disturb the old man, but smiled at the girl, and then carefully looked at the objects on the table in front of the booth.

These objects in front of Mr. Liu's stage, like Xie Bin's, are mainly bamboo and wood carvings. There are more than 100 large and small ornaments, and they are placed in a staggered manner. Xie Bin gently picked up a maid carving, and when he looked closely, it was an ordinary cypress. However, this ordinary cypress wood is extremely beautifully polished, and with the grain of cypress, it reveals a natural beauty. Coupled with the unusually smooth lines and flowing clothes and hair, the whole wood carving looks charming and delicate.

Xie Bin shook his head while watching, but he admired this old man Liu's sword skills very much, and he himself would not be able to reach this level no matter what. Not to mention anything else, this knife work, without more than ten years of accumulation, is simply unattainable. It's not about how intelligent or perceptive you are, but it's simply a state that takes a long time to achieve.

In addition, Old Man Liu's methods are very peculiar, although he doesn't know the details, but in the eyes of insiders like Xie Bin, he can get a glimpse of the difference. To be specific, it is that Old Man Liu's knife style is different from others.

Whether it is carving or painting, ordinary people always have their own characteristics, although sometimes they will slowly change over time, but the style on which he personally relies has rarely changed, and at most he has carried forward it on this basis.

Just like people say that drafting a book, the first thing that comes to mind is Zhang Xu, why? Because only Zhang Xu can bring the hearty feeling of cursive to the extreme. Others may be able to copy and imitate, but in the eyes of connoisseurs, it is easy to see at a glance which is true and which is fake.

In the same way, the same is true of Mr. Liu's knife work, in each work, you can see the smooth and natural characteristics, under a closer look, every hair or line on the clothes, is a stroke of outline, quite a natural feeling. It seems that the old man is not doing carving, but painting.

Ordinary people do carving, and each knife must be very cautious, so it will be very stable when the knife is made. However, judging from these works of Mr. Liu, the knife is very fast, and even if it is completed with a knife, he never repairs or changes the knife. However, this seemingly reckless or rash method contains Old Man Liu's unparalleled confidence and absolutely stable knife work. Otherwise, where do ordinary people dare to go under the knife like this? Not to mention young people like Xie Bin, even some famous masters dare not be like Old Man Liu.

Xie Bin thought to himself, but found that if he wanted to carve like Old Man Liu, there was one thing that was very important, that is, wrist strength. Must have a very strong wrist strength, in order to do smooth and natural sketching when carving, presumably Mr. Liu's wrist strength is not generally strong, otherwise it is easy to have a bias or wrong knife when the knife is made.

Xie Bin took this maid carving, but he remembered his sword skills and suddenly thought of his own abilities. Xie Bin was a little excited and thought that if he had enough abilities, he might be able to become a knife like Old Man Liu.

Every time he carves, Xie Bin's knife seems to become much sharper with the help of his ability, and it looks extremely easy when carving, even if it is a hard wood like sandalwood, under the carving knife infused by the ability, it is no different from tofu. It's a pity that there are so few abilities in the necklace, and the amount of growth is also very meager, and it only lasts a little more than five minutes a day, which really doesn't make much difference.

This maid carving is deceptively simple, it does not require too much skill to carve, and there are no too complicated process requirements, and beginners can quickly master it. However, it is this kind of simple work that can test a person's craftsmanship more, Xie Bin hesitated, looked up at the girl and asked, "Girl, what is the price of seeing the cypress maid carving?" ”

The pretty girl looked at it and said, "Eight thousand yuan." ”

Xie Bin naturally knew that the prices of Mr. Liu's works here were very high, but he didn't expect them to be so outrageously high, this is still the work with the simplest process and the most ordinary materials selected by Xie Bin.

Of course, the craftsmanship of the old man is here, and it is normal to be a little higher, but Xie Bin naturally will not pay like this, no matter how much, he must always bargain, otherwise the stall has not been practiced in vain all these years? !

At that moment, Xie Bin shook his head with a smile, "Girl, this is just an ordinary cypress, although the craftsmanship is very good, but it is too high, right, to say a sincere price, I am very sincere." ”

The girl raised her voice and said, "You also know that this craft is very good, and it was originally a craft for sale, otherwise go and cut a piece of wood and put it at home." ”

Well, although this girl's words are a little mean, they are reasonable, but Xie Bin will not surrender like this, and cut half of it at once, "Four thousand, four thousand, I'll take it." ”

This is the old man Liu on the side who put down the newspaper, looked at Xie Bin, and touched his head suspiciously, "Hey, young man, have we met somewhere?" ”

Xie Bin quickly stood up and said with a smile: "Liu Lao has a good memory, we met once on the antique street, and you also picked out two gadgets from me." ”

The old man said "oh" and nodded, "I said that it looks quite familiar, so, you also came to join in the fun?" ”

Xie Bin nodded, pointing to his booth not far away, "Elder Wang helped to register his name, so he brought his belongings to see the big scene, otherwise I don't know what to do to be able to see Elder Liu's works," said and raised the cypress maid carving in his hand.

Liu Lao looked at the maid carving in Xie Bin's hand, and laughed rarely, "It's hard for you to take a fancy to my things here, you can just take it if you like it, and talk about money." ”

Xie Bin shook his head, "This is not good, what should I do, otherwise others will say that I am a little Xie and a little cheap." ”

"Hehe, too, let's do it, you pick two more things you like, I'll count you a thousand yuan, how about it," Old Man Liu probably remembered that he only spent two hundred yuan from Xie Bin last time to get two gadgets, so he was also very generous.

Xie Bin thought for a while and said, "Since this is the case, the juniors are not welcome," but Xie Bin didn't dare to really let go of his hand, and chose a simple basswood statue of Guanyin, and after speaking, he took out a thousand yuan and handed it to the girl.

Old Man Liu smiled, "Xiao Xie, right, only choose these two pieces, I have taken a big advantage, and I won't pick two more?" ”

Xie Bin smiled and waved his hand, "There, it's true that the younger generation takes a big advantage, and I must hide these two works as treasures when I go back." ”

Old Man Liu laughed when he heard this, suddenly remembered something, and asked: "Xiao Xie, your sandalwood carved horse stepping on Feiyan is not bad, I also looked at it two days ago, it is very good, very creative." ”

"Hehe, it's just an accident, the main thing is that the wood is good," Xie Bin didn't dare to pretend to be big in front of this old man, and said modestly.

"By the way, where did you get the material? I don't usually see sandalwood," the old man asked, remembering something.

"This," Xie Bin was a little hesitant, not knowing whether to tell the old man the real situation, after all, this matter can be big or big, small or small, if someone is more serious, it will still be very troublesome, but after thinking about it, he still said it. "Liu Lao, to put it mildly, this piece of material can be regarded as picking up a small leak, a few days ago there was a guy selling around on the antique street, saying that it was red sandalwood, but most people didn't believe it, so I bought it cheaply, and I bought it for eight hundred yuan."

This is not much different from the truth, but after Xie Bin changed it slightly, it sounds much more pleasant. Old Man Liu didn't comment much after listening to it, but just smiled faintly: "So that's the case, good luck, if there are any good objects in the future, don't forget to inform my old man, even if you can't afford it, you can open your eyes." ”

Xie Bin nodded hurriedly, how can you do this relationship if you don't catch it? The first time they met on the antique street, Old Man Liu obviously didn't take Xie Bin as a hawker too seriously, otherwise he wouldn't have recognized it at a glance. However, I believe that with this second meeting, the old man will be much more impressed by Xie Bin.

Later, Xie Bin went around other stalls, but obviously most of them are not comparable to Mr. Liu, whether it is technology or price, they are worse than Mr. Liu, and some are inferior to Xie Bin.

However, Xie Bin still learned a lot from it, after all, most of these people are still formal apprentices, and their basic knowledge is stronger than Xie Bin.

The third floor went around, and then Xie Bin went directly down to the first floor.

The first floor is obviously much more lively than the second and third floors, especially the calligraphy and painting exhibition. Xie Bin squeezed into the crowd and looked, these calligraphy and painting artists were all relatively old, and none of them were under the age of forty. Think about it, in this era, there are really not too many young people who will work hard to practice calligraphy and painting, and even if there are, most of them are just cramming for the university entrance examination. There are really not too many children like Xie Bin who can start cultivating calligraphy and painting skills from an early age, and even if there are, they have only started in the past few years.

In the nearly ten years since Xie Bin was in his teens and twenties, a large number of people in China have left traditional culture behind, and they have vigorously touted mathematics, physics, chemistry and foreign languages, almost to a blind level, which has caused a cultural fault line in the middle. When Xie Bin was in elementary school, the school also offered calligraphy and art classes, but when Xie Bin went to junior high school, even music and physical education were canceled. It was not until the past two years, under the appeal of scholars from all walks of life, that traditional culture was once again valued, and these newborn children had the opportunity to have time to receive basic education in traditional culture. One of the most obvious is the popular Children's Cultural Palace, which allows a large number of children to choose some extracurricular courses based on their own interests.

Of course, Xie Bin just sighed for himself, in fact, this is the case, not something that Xie Bin can change. Strictly speaking, some families with better family conditions or strict family education will still receive more traditional cultural education.

Xie Bin, a 10,000-year-old diving party, although he is not bubbling, often sees others complain. In this era of Internet popularization, people don't use pens to write much, and many people are used to using keyboards, and even forget how to write some words.

This made Xie Bin really unimaginable what the world would become in the future.

Xie Bin looked at the impromptu performance of a few old men who were splashing ink, sighed in his heart, and walked towards the other side.

In the corner of the hall, there is a jade carved booth, where there is also a lot of heat, and there are more than a dozen security guards vigilantly watching the crowd, it seems that there are indeed some valuable things inside.

Xie Bin just walked over, and suddenly heard an exclamation from a corner of the crowd, and the sound of random quotations was more than 500,000, and by the time Xie Bin squeezed in, it was already as high as more than 800,000. ―――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――― (ps: I just stayed up late to watch the Champions League, so let's pass it on in advance today.) Well, the Champions League is over, and the book has been signed, so you can concentrate on coding words in the future, everyone, read the book and vote to save character, hehe, let's work together! ）