There was a young man surnamed Chen who had been learning the craft from a master jade carver for nine years.

At the beginning, the reason why young people wanted to learn from the master was not only because of the master's fame, but also because the master was said to have a family mastery. The young man wants to be like his master and become a master in the jade carving industry, so he must learn the master's skills.

Before the young man, the master also had a few apprentices, but all of them left the master after three or five years of study and set up their own doors. He studied for nine years.

But in the past nine years, he has not felt that the master has any skills to teach him from the master's teaching. From the perspective of choosing jade, the knife technique of opening jade, the strength of the knife, the time of polishing, etc., they are all so ordinary, but the jade carved by the master is better than his carving, and the price is several times higher than his.

He pondered and pondered, and finally understood that the master did have a special skill, but he did not teach him, and he finally began to resentful of the master's conservatism, and felt sorry for the time he had spent nine years.

One day, the master called him to the study and told him that he had newly purchased a piece of jade in Nanshan, and planned to carve a crab basket as a work after he left the master's door. And the master has already made a good price with others, and said the time of delivery. The income is used as the capital for him to open a store.

The jade was sent to the desk of the young man surnamed Chen, and it was a piece of emerald green and superb Xiuyu, and it seemed that the master spent a lot of money to buy it. The young man began to carve jade, and with a lot of energy, he had to carve jade carving works that surpassed those of the masters.

When a person does things and his heart is too high, he will often fall into a blind impulse, which will make people unable to calm down when they need to be calm; When you need to be careful, you can't be fine; When you need inspiration, you can't use it.

The knife in the hand of the young man surnamed Chen was derailed in this state of mind, first crooked when carving a crab at the mouth of the basket, and then the knife scar was deeply cut through the emerald green jade, like a wound that could never be fully healed, reflected in his eyes.

For a moment, the young man surnamed Chen felt like he had collapsed.

Finally, he chose to escape, dropped the piece of jade to be completed, and left the master with a lost heart. Wandering out alone.

In the year that followed, the young man tried to work as a master in several jade carving workshops, but he never carved a decent work himself, except for a little work.

Because as soon as he faced those warm jades, he remembered the knife marks engraved on the emerald jade, and he thought that he was completely finished, because no workshop was willing to raise a master who could not produce works.

The young man surnamed Chen only remembered the master after being dismissed from the tenth workshop.

It was the same morning as many early mornings, and the master got up early to open the door and saw him kneeling in front of the door with a thorn on his back.

The return of the young man seemed to have been expected by the master, and his appearance did not surprise and anger the master, and he still called softly as a year ago: "It's time to start!" ”。

Tears welled up in the eyes of the young man surnamed Chen, and he cautiously followed the master to the study.

The master took a gold-lacquered box from the Bogu shelf, took out something wrapped in red cloth, and said to him, "You, open it."

The young man surnamed Chen stepped forward lightly and opened the red cloth.

Suddenly, the young man's heart chuckled, and in front of him, the deep knife marks of the emerald green jade pierced his eyes.

The master picked up the knife and began to carve it on the deep scar marks, his expression still so peaceful that he could not see the thousands of waves in his chest; The knife technique is still so simple, and every knife is so familiar

When a lively crayfish appeared on the back of the crab, the knife mark inlaid on the emerald green jade was gone, and a beautiful jade carved crab basket appeared in front of the eyes of the young man surnamed Chen.

The young man knelt down in front of the master, his face full of shame, and begged, asking the master to teach this jade carving skill.

The master held the crab basket in his hand and said to him, the master does not have any family heirloom skills, and all he can teach you is one sentence: the mistake engraved on the jade should no longer be engraved in the heart. Only by not engraved in our hearts can we find a way to make amends. Life is all about correcting mistakes, is there a more worthy skill than this?

The young man surnamed Chen finally became a master of jade carving, and after his death, he left a book about jade carving to future generations, called "The Secret Record of Southern Carving".

Many people who are engaged in the jade carving industry dream of the "Secret Record of Southern Carving", and even some people think that as long as they get the strange book that records the secret of the unpassed down, they will definitely become a world-famous jade carver.

But they all thought wrong, only Liu Yuhao and Old Man Qi knew that the book was actually very ordinary, the first half recorded the previous story, and the second half only made some simple descriptions of the jade tools.

If you have to say that there must be a secret technique, then Liu Yuhao can only say that perhaps, in terms of the use of jade "pretty color", Chen Lao is indeed superior, and has his own set of unique opinions.

But that's not all.

Liu Yuhao first chose one of the two pieces of clear material, a piece of dried and astringent bean green material with skin.

Although the water is not good, the master of the calcite is very eye-catching, and he left a lot of red skin when he went under the knife, and the natural skin color is wrapped in green meat as a whole, and there is a hint of brightness in the orange red, and the color is pure and uniform.

After choosing the material, Liu Yuhao did not move the knife immediately, but thought repeatedly after the initial "cutting material".

Now, what Liu Yuhao has to do is to remove the undesirable and dull parts of the red skin, and at the same time try to preserve the bright skin color, and greatly enhance the color to ensure that the color contrast between the red skin and the green meat is as vivid as possible.

For such a piece of garbage that is hopeless in the eyes of "professionals" like Qi Kang, it is really difficult to make a breakthrough, and after "changing the draft" in his heart, Liu Yuhao decided to conceive the main body of the work as a beast that is about to pounce on the front.

"What is he going to do?"

Xue Haoran wrinkled his nose and looked a little depressed.

He also regretted his impulsiveness very much, but after all, those gambling stones were really attractive before they were unlocked, and Xue Haoran thought that he could create a miracle and unravel a piece of high-end jadeite material.

Of course, there is also a reason why the wool comes from "his own home" jade minerals.

Gambling stones that don't cost money, even if they really collapse, they may not be distressed.

"Shh

Qi Kang didn't think too much about it, put his index finger to his lips and pouted, and explained in the lowest voice: "Brother Liu wants to use waste, and I want to try to see if these materials can make some good objects." ”

"How is that possible?"

Xue Haoran was taken aback and looked at Liu Yuhao like a monster.

He doesn't know the work of jade carving very well, but no matter what industry he does, he has to be a professional who has been immersed in yin for many years, and the jade carving master shook his head again and again when he saw it, can Liu Yuhao do it.

Zhou Xi pursed his lips disdainfully, and took out a beautifully carved flower piece from his neck to show off, "Ya underestimates people again, the fourth child in our family is an all-round talent, and there are almost no things that can't be done." ”

What's your fourth? That's still buddy brother-in-law!

Xue Haoran bared his teeth and raised his middle finger at Zhou Xi, but he didn't say the words in his heart, but he could see clearly the flower in Zhou Xi's hand, it was indeed a rare jade carving boutique.

Liu Yuhao really knows how to make jade? Xue Haoran didn't know much about this matter, which also had something to do with the fact that he was "kicked out of the country" by Liu Yuhao early, but in any case, Zhou Xi said that the flower on his neck was carved out by Liu Yuhao Xue Haoran was suspicious.

Learning jade carving is not something that can be achieved in a day or two, even if Liu Yuhao has a good understanding, he probably won't be able to become a climate in ten or eight years, and it is impossible to reach the sky in one step.

No matter how you look at it, this thing is full of evil nature.

There were a few crooked people standing beside him, if it was an ordinary jade carver, Qi Kang and they would have been driven out of the door a long time ago, but Liu Yuhao was not affected at all, took a deep breath, poured the true qi in the dantian into the right hand holding the carving knife, and the jade material that was stronger than King Kong was like a piece of tofu in his hand, constantly sprinkling stone chips.

"He, he really can carve."

Xue Haoran's face changed suddenly, and he glared fiercely, revealing shocking surprise.

Although Qi Kang's performance was the best among the three, it wasn't really much better, his brows furrowed slightly, and there was a strange look in his eyes.

To be exact, it was a kind of crazy expression.

Liu Yuhao knew that he knew before that those were not the point, the point was that with Qi Kang's professional understanding, even the top jade carving masters would not dare to be arrogant enough to move a knife on a piece of jade without a draft, but Liu Yuhao did that, and it was very natural and smooth.

Half an hour later, the carving in Liu Yuhao's hand finally began to take shape.

Although what he wanted to make in his heart was Pixiu, the inspiration came from Zhang Shanzi's Chinese painting "Xiashan Tiger", Zhang Shanzi is Zhang Daqian's second brother, it is said that painting tigers is crazy, so people are called "tiger idiots", but the talent is not as good as Zhang Daqian.

Liu Yuhao's speed of swinging the carving knife slowly decreased, but his expression was more focused than at the beginning, the ability could make the carving knife in his hand become a magical carving machine, but to carve out the unstoppable and ferocious spirit of the beast descending the mountain, he had to pay full attention.

For more than half an hour, the tip of Liu Yuhao's nose began to slowly ooze beads of sweat.

But at the same time, the carvings in his hands are becoming more and more perfect, and even people like Zhou Xi and Xue Haoran who don't know how to appreciate a jade carving at all can see the mystery of the ancient beast in Liu Yuhao's hands.

The forelimbs of the beast are slightly curved, although the carving is static, but it is still moving, leaving the force in the future, stepping on the ruyi cloud head, stepping on the ingots, and the forward posture seems to be unstoppable, and it is about to come out.

The pretty red skin was also carved by Liu Yuhao as a dragon dance pattern of "Flying Dragon in the Sky", a meaning that the owner of the jade play piece "Flying Dragon in the Sky, Benefit to See the Adult", further in the career, even if there is a slight obstacle, you will have to meet the nobles, turn the danger into a disaster, let people see that there is a comfortable feeling that is not clear in their hearts.