Shi Lei walked around in front of the cabinet, pretending to look at Master Cao with his eyes while secretly looking at him. No matter where Shi Lei stayed, Master Cao's eyes never seemed to change.

This range is too big, Shi Lei didn't expect that there were more than 100 works in Master Cao's collection room, and he thought that 10 or 20 pieces would be great.

Yifan looked very seriously, starting from the first piece, looking back one by one, and the time to look at each piece was more than ten minutes, and as little as half a minute. At his pace, it is absolutely impossible to read it in less than an hour.

Shi Lei made up his mind to cheat anyway, no matter how much he looked at it, he couldn't tell which was good and which was bad. To him, these works are beautiful, but he prefers the black jade carved unicorn, which seems to be a paperweight or something. There is no reason, just because it is made of black jade, and it is also a unicorn.

Before Yifan finished reading it, Shi Lei couldn't say it yet. So he simply began to appreciate these works, from left to right, and from right to left. Back and forth, I was fascinated by it a few times, and almost collided with Yifan.

Master Cao frowned, does this kid really understand jade carving? How did it feel like he was wandering around the vegetable market, aimlessly.

More than an hour passed, and Yifan nodded at Master Cao, indicating that he had finished reading.

"Young man, have you finished reading it, do you already know it?"

Shi Lei walked over and smiled mysteriously at Master Cao: "Of course I know it in my heart, but I said that you are most satisfied with the work, and why after you are satisfied, what if you don't admit it?" ”

The gloomy color on Master Cao's face flashed, and he thought to himself: That black jade unicorn paperweight, for me, has a special meaning, and it is a watershed in my carving skills. Since I carved it, I have entered the house and entered the ranks of domestic masters. There is nothing to admit about this matter.

"Well, the young man is too suspicious. If I don't want to admit it, why let you in? ”

Yifan also said in an unkind tone: "That's it, my brother said this, it's a bit excessive." Who is my master, every word. You are living the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain. But I see that you don't understand anything at all, just now you are purely blind, if you are blinded by any of them, and then you will say that my master is lying, don't blame me for being unkind. ”

"Yifan? How I educate you. If you want to become a master carver, you must master calmness. If the heart is not quiet, the breath is uneven, the hand is not stable, how can you still carve a good work? ”

"I'm sorry, Master."

Master Cao turned to Shi Lei: "Young man, do you say it first, or do my disciples say it first?" ”

Shi Lei thought for a while, revealing a look of bamboo in his chest: "Master Cao, I remember you said that if I can't see any work, you can take it out of the cabinet and show it to me." I just happened to be a little unsure, so I asked Master Cao to open the cabinet first and take out the pair of earrings to show me. ”

Shi Lei felt that the pair of jade earrings were very beautiful just now, and she must be happy to buy this back and give it to Fang Xuan.

Yifan saw Shi Lei asking the master to take out the pair of jade earrings, and he couldn't help but feel a little disdainful in his heart. The pair of earring carvers are not the best, the style is not the best, the materials are not the best, and the price is not the highest, how can it be the most satisfactory work of the master?

Hmph, if you don't understand anything, you know that if you lose to someone like you, I am not worthy of being a disciple of the master.

"Master, please take out this bloodstone seal and let me take a look."

Master Cao waited for Shi Lei to finish reading the pair of earrings, put them back in the cabinet and locked them, and then came over to take the bloodstone seal to his disciple Yifan.

The seal is engraved with a lion, but when you pick it up, there is no word underneath, and it is considered a semi-finished product. Yifan showed some disappointment on his face, then handed it to the master with both hands, and asked the master to take down the carved dragon jade cup.

After carefully looking at it again for ten minutes, Yifan nodded at Master Cao, and he made a good choice.

"Young man, my disciple has finished choosing, do you want to choose this jade cup too?" Master Cao looked at Shi Lei with a smile.

Shi Lei shook his head, pointed to the black jade unicorn paperweight and said, "Please take this down Master Cao and let me take a look, I have already affirmed three points." ”

Master Cao took a deep look at Shi Lei, then opened the cabinet and took out the Moyu Qilin paperweight on the table in the house. Yifan looked at the black jade unicorn paperweight, sigh~~ The front carving is very good, but there is obviously a wrong knife in the tail, this is a defective product, and the head and tail carving techniques are slightly different, it was done by two people, right?

Yifan once heard Master say that most of the works in this collection room are Master's works, but there are also three or five pieces, which are other people's works, and this Moyu Qilin paperweight should be someone else's.

Shi Lei pretended to look at this black jade unicorn paperweight, and he also found that it seemed that this black jade unicorn gave people a feeling of incongruity, and when he looked at the light, there seemed to be a piece of scale that was not quite right, which was particularly eye-catching.

"Master Cao, I have chosen, this is it, the Moyu Qilin Paperweight."

"Ahem, cough~~ What do you say is this?" Yifan almost choked to death with his own saliva. This TM is a town house feng shui ornament, but it is not a paperweight used by literati to hold down a foot of rice paper when writing and painting in ancient times.

Shi Lei also found that it seemed that he had made a joke, and he asked weakly: "Paperweight, is there anything wrong?" ”

Yifan shook his head at Shi Lei, he didn't understand anything at all, and he pretended to watch it for a long time, which was simply an insult to the master's art.

"Master, let me start with that. This carved dragon jade cup should be an imitation of the Nine Dragons Cup in the Kangxi period. White jade carving, rectangular, six centimeters long, four centimeters wide, three centimeters high, each with two dragons playing with pearls at the four corners, the handle is also a dragon. If this jade cup is filled with wine, you will clearly see nine churning dragons...... Therefore, I think this is Master's most satisfying work, and it is also the most precious work. ”

Yifan said for five minutes, Shi Lei didn't know, just looking at such a jade cup, he could say so many things, and he also quoted scriptures, it seemed that he was very knowledgeable.

After listening to what Yifan said, Master Cao had no joy or sadness on his face, he just nodded slightly, and then turned around and looked at Shi Lei.

"Is it me? I said that it was this black jade unicorn that satisfied Master Cao the most. Look, there are flaws in the carving of this black jade unicorn, but the overall look is still so spirited. And the head and tail knife work seems to be a little different, I boldly guess that this is a watershed in Master Cao's carving skills, for Master Cao, has a special significance. I'm done. ”

Shi Lei didn't say that this was a paperweight this time, but he really didn't know what to say, this ink jade unicorn, he didn't admit it. The reason why he said so little was because Shi Lei didn't know how to quote scriptures at all, and the only ink qilin he remembered was the mount of Zhongwen Taishi.

When Yifan heard Shi Lei say that this was a watershed in Master Cao's carving skills, his eyes widened suddenly, why didn't he expect it. Master once said that his old man's favorite work was the one that had a long-term impact on his carving path. Ask for a recommendation, thank you