"I'll ...... it" Zhang Juncheng pushed Xu Dong, and said with a smile: "What's the hurry, hehe, mom pulls a bar, this money should be regarded as a pocket flower for Miss Mu, what else can I pay back, when the time comes, come and drink the wedding wine of the two of you, can I still get this money?" ”

Zhang Juncheng's business was originally very difficult, but since he collided with Xu Dong once, he has been taken care of a lot by the Mu family, and suddenly, the business is becoming more and more prosperous and more and more convenient, and Zhang Juncheng still keeps this benefit in mind.

Now, Xu Dong doesn't have enough cash in his hand, but it's definitely not that he has no money, and the poor one is only three thousand yuan, which is obviously impossible to do if he goes to visit Mu's house in a proper manner.

However, now Zhang Juncheng generously gave Mu Siqing 3,000 yuan of "pocket money", which not only saved Xu Dong's urgency, but also pushed the boat down the river to pick up a very face-saving favor.

It's much more cost-effective than going directly to the door to thank you - it's just that Zhang Juncheng's account is a bit fine!

Old man Zhao sighed, and he didn't shirk too much, after all, setting up a stall, being exposed to the sun and rain, wearing the stars and the moon, in order to earn a little living expenses.

However, the old man Zhao accepted the money, and he didn't forget to pick up two gadgets for more than ten yuan a piece, which was regarded as an addition and a free gift.

Originally, he was in a hurry to go back to have a reunion dinner with Sang's mother and others, but now, Xu Dong was not in a hurry, packed his things, put them in his pocket, and then took out his mobile phone and dialed the fat man's phone.

At this moment, the fat guy is probably sitting at the dining table with other people, waiting for Xu Dong to go home before starting the meal, so while answering the phone, he also used chopsticks to knock on the bowl to express his dissatisfaction with Xu Dong.

Xu Dong explained very carefully, now, it's not that he doesn't want to come back, and reunite with the "family", this matter is too important, and it is almost something that can affect everyone's well-being in the future.

When the fat man heard that Xu Dong had not been able to go home at this time, and was still running for everyone's well-being, he was very moved in his heart, and conveyed Xu Dong's meaning to everyone, and also said a few good words to Xu Dong's mother.

Sang's mother, Sang Qiuyu, and Sang Qiuxia, although they were a little disappointed, but when they thought of Xu Dong getting up early and feeling dark, they were also thinking about everyone, and they not only expressed their understanding, but also specially instructed Xu Dong that the weather is a little cold at night now, pay attention to your body, don't catch a cold, and so on.

Especially Sang's mother, she took the phone in person and talked to Xu Dong for a while, chattering, really like a mother's love for her own son, so that Xu Dong's eyes couldn't help but moisten a little.

It was easy to hang up the phone, Xu Dong wiped his eyes, and then turned to Old Man Zhao and said that he really wanted to go to Old Man Zhao's house to have a look, and by the way, he had to carve a few gadgets.

There is business to do, of course the old man Zhao is happy, not to mention that it is still a big customer like Xu Dong, at the moment, the old man Zhao hurriedly packed up his things, and closed the stall in advance today.

has just completed Xu Dong's business, and the profits earned can be worth the money that can only be earned in the previous half a month, so Old Man Zhao simply closed the stall and took Xu Dong and others home, anyway, this is also continuing to do business, Xu Dong still needs a few things.

Zhang Juncheng was idle anyway, and insisted on accompanying Xu Dong, but the words were beautiful, but Xu Dong knew that Zhang Juncheng actually wanted to find the master Zhao who could carve to see if he could get one or two "very deep" objects, so that he could go back and give them away, hehe......

Yes, when the old man Zhao packed up his things, Xu Dong, Mu Siqing, and Zhang Juncheng chatted all the way, followed behind the old man Zhao, and passed by the place where there was an ATM.

As for the 3,000 yuan on the post that Zhang Juncheng helped, Xu Dong originally wanted to pay it back, but Zhang Juncheng said a few words "Mom pull a bastard" and "I'll take it" made him lose his momentum, and in the end, he had to think of other ways to repay Zhang Juncheng for his kindness.

Old man Zhao's home, out of this alley, walked for a while, almost to the edge of the north of the city, the house is also a relatively old bungalow, and the sound of power tools cutting stone can be heard from afar.

The old man explained with a bitter smile that because it was a small business, he didn't make much money on weekdays, so he could barely make ends meet, so his son worked day and night.

Xu Dongdong entered the house and found that the lights in the room were a little dim, and there was a workbench on half of the hall, which was full of all kinds of tools; There are a few pieces of gray and low-value raw materials, interspersed, and at first glance it is a real family-style small handicraft workshop.

The old man's son, in his thirties, thin, wearing a pair of glasses, with a somewhat tattered apron tied around his waist, was polishing a small pendant with an electric motor polisher under a desk lamp, and when he saw someone coming, he turned off the motor, put down the work at hand, and humbly nodded and smiled at Xu Dong and others.

However, because one leg was inconvenient, Old Man Zhao's son didn't stand up.

There is no need for Xu Dong to explain his intentions, the old man roughly said that the three people who came, all of them were the God of Wealth, not only did a good business, but also unfinished, and they all came to order things.

Old man Zhao's son smiled innocently, while asking his daughter-in-law to give a few people camellia, while letting Xu Dong choose the material first, saying that it was to let Xu Dong choose the material, in fact, there is no choice, the whole child is placed on the workbench so a few pieces are not much bigger than a fist, the quality of the jade raw material, it is estimated that this is not directly with gambling stones, or directly from the origin of the rough stone, but a low price brought back semi-finished products, in this way, the cost price is much cheaper, according to Xu Dong's estimate, these raw materials, together, It won't be more than two thousand, so how much choice can there be!

Xu Dong sighed for a while, chose a piece of raw material that had been cut with a slight yellow color in white, and asked how much this piece cost.

However, Xu Dong asked, there are some laymen, generally speaking, carved objects, that can only be a price, to a piece, just give a piece of money, a whole piece of raw materials, and ordinary people do not know how many things can be made, so, this question, in fact, is to expose their own understanding of design and carving.

However, Master Xiao Zhao doesn't care, for jade carving, really knowing, and is a very knowledgeable person, how many can there be, because jade raw materials, compared to ordinary stones, no matter what the texture, what the variety, how to say that it is bought back with money, do not know how to do it, naturally it is a horizontal straight stroke, do not know how to save materials, often cut down with a knife, resulting in some waste, if it is just like these varieties of texture is not very good, that's it, if it is a gem-grade raw material, how to cut, then you have to be an experienced masterAfter careful calculation, otherwise, even if a large piece of beans is discarded, it will be a loss of millions or even tens of millions.

Xu Dong didn't understand, but Master Xiao Zhao didn't hide it, and replied that this piece of raw material, according to estimates, can be cut into about four to five pieces, and the price is five hundred yuan a piece.

Xu Dong didn't bargain, he directly took out a stack of loose money that was prepared on the road, counted one thousand eight, and handed it to Master Xiao Zhao.

And said that he needed the style, and asked again, if Master Xiao Zhao designed and made these more ordinary styles, is it possible to go directly to the assembly line and form a large-scale production.

Master Xiao Zhao smiled, and waited for his daughter-in-law to serve tea to everyone, then said with a smile: "I have read some books on this subject, and the patterns I designed are still very lacking, but it depends on what kind of style is needed, simple, of course, large-scale production, complex, and can also be scaled to most of them." ”

Xu Dong smiled, and immediately asked Master Zhao to demonstrate, so let's start with a simple pendant, and then a slightly more complicated one.

Master Xiao Zhao smiled, took the piece of raw material from Xu Dong's hand at the moment, and then began to mark it.

A good carving, first of all, do a good job of the above mark, just this, ordinary people may practice for a few years to achieve a little achievement, but in Xu Dong's view, Xiao Zhao master to make a mark on the map, but it is not a difficult thing, the piece of raw material in the hands of Xiao Zhao master kept flipping, less than a moment, the stone is full of marks, see a few people dazzled, only feel that Xiao Zhao master in this process is extremely skilled.

You must know that a good carving, even if the carver has a ready-made blueprint in mind, the above mark is also a thing that must not be taken lightly, which will be directly related to the next rough embryo modeling.

Rough embryo shape is to remove the excess part of the material, this inside is too exquisite, a gem-level material, almost must be accurate to the slightest, you know, waste a large piece of rice, that is, hundreds of thousands of dollars of loss, what's more, a mark wrong, will lead to the failure of the whole plan, so that the original value of the whole material happens from time to time, so, a good carving, the most important steps, most of them are concentrated in the front of a few processes, Especially for the step marked above, most people have to think carefully before they dare to write.

Master Xiao Zhao did not have such concerns, in addition to the low value of this raw material, Master Xiao Zhao's skillful craftsmanship also had to occupy a considerable part of the grasp, less than half an hour, the marks on the raw materials were completely made, and then looked at it for a few minutes, slightly changed the two marks, and Master Xiao Zhao nodded with satisfaction.

To make a mark in such a short time, just this one step, a few people who saw it were dazzled and shocked, especially Xu Dong and Mu Siyi, who actually had an impulse to watch Master Zhao finish carving this piece of material no matter what.