1443.The Glass Man (3/5)
After watching the aurora outside the door of the Ice and Snow Hotel for a while, it was not until the gorgeous aurora swept across the entire sky that Qin Shiou saw that Winnie felt a little cold, so he took her hand and returned to the hall.
A young white man dressed as a waiter saw the two walking in together and smiled, "The aurora is beautiful, isn't it?" ”
Qin Shiou exclaimed: "It's so beautiful, man, I have to admit it, I've never seen such a beautiful light!" But I don't think you're interested? ”
The young man shrugged his shoulders and said, "Even if it's as delicious as king crab, you will get tired of eating too much, right?" ”
Qin Shiou laughed, the young man was obviously a local, and it was estimated that for him, the aurora was like a fisherman to the waves, it was too common.
He wanted to agree, but Winnie suddenly turned her head to stare at him, Qin Daguan's little heart jumped, and he understood Winnie's thoughts as soon as he had an idea, so he quickly hugged her and said to the young man seriously: "No, young man, what you said is not right, if the king crab is really delicious, how can you get tired of eating it?" It's like if you really love a woman, no matter how long you've been with her, you won't get tired of it! ”
Winnie smiled with satisfaction, she sweetly hugged Qin Shiou's arm and said, "My dear, I'm glad you have such an awareness. ”
The young man said, "Well, maybe you're right, I love my mother very much, we've been together for more than twenty years, and I really haven't gotten tired of it. ”
Qin Shiou nodded and left, and the young man quietly added: "My mother does my laundry and cooks, so I don't get tired, what about your wife?" ”
"That's more you can do for me." Qin Daguan said triumphantly, "For example, on such a cold day, my wife can help me warm my bed." ”
The young man was suddenly overwhelmed with envy, and muttered, "Damn, why can't I have a wife like this?" ”
The next day was still close to noon. The sun just appeared, but the weather was starting to pick up, and the sun was a little weak, but bright.
The little doorman came to them again and asked expectantly, "Where do you want to go today?" ”
Qin Shiou and Winnie have discussed, and today they will go to the beautiful and famous Ilulissat Glacier Fjord.
After the result is on the road on a sled. They found a handicraft shop, and the doorman told them that it was one of Greenland's fledgling industries, the Glass Bird Shop.
"It's said that a lot of cities in Northern Europe do this, and we just have someone here who has just opened a shop like this, haha, but it's very interesting, they can make very beautiful glass birds and glass fish, glass dogs and so on, if you want to bring gifts back. That's it. The little doorman said happily.
Qin Shiou and Winnie entered the store and said that it was a store, but in fact, the store was very large, like a workshop, and there were many machines buzzing in it.
After the group walked in, a waiter came to receive them and asked them what they needed.
Qin Shiou looked at it, and it was different from what he understood. He thought that the so-called glass bird, glass fish. It's like a glass handicraft made by domestic craftsmen, through grinding and carving glass. Make some critters.
In fact, it is not so simple, the color of glass animals is almost the same as that of living creatures, and it is not painted after carving, but carved with different colors of glass, and finally matched.
That is, if you want to make a parrot. It requires green glass to carve feathers, white glass to make the body, yellow glass to make the beak, and black glass to make the eyes.
It's a real tech job!
"It's beautiful, it's so realistic." Winnie exclaimed.
The waiter smiled proudly. Then he picked up the little seal that Qin Shiou was looking at and put it into a glass tank, and with the rippling water, the little seal seemed to be alive inside.
"It's just ingenious!" Qin Shiou also praised it, and then he had an idea and asked, "You guys are all made on the spot, right?" For example, I want a hummingbird or a dog, do you do it on the spot? ”
The waiter said, "Yes, it can be done on site, but it's more expensive, and it's longer, and if you want to buy the finished product, there's a lot of it, and the animals -- especially birds, are almost complete." ”
Qin Shiou opened the door and asked the waiter to look at the tigers, leopards, bears and wolves outside, and said, "Can you make one according to their appearance?" ”
The waiter looked at it and smiled in amazement: "Oh God, you actually use a bear to pull a sled?" That's pretty cool! Oh, sorry, I digress - I can, but it may take more than you expect. ”
"How long?" Qin Shiou asked with interest.
The waiter told them to wait a moment, and then found a middle-aged man wearing glasses and work clothes.
The man shook hands with Qin Shiou, saying that he was the owner of this glass handicraft shop, and then asked, "I heard from my buddy, you want to make a model of a pet?" How many to do? ”
Qin Shiou said: "Yes, we want to do this, but we don't know how long we have to wait." ”
The man thought about it for a moment and said, "Look at the price you give, the ordinary price, then each one only costs four hundred yuan, and the time is one and a half to make one; If willing to give expedited price ......"
"OK, that's enough time, we're going to be here for a few days. Look at the little ones out there, do you need pictures of them or what? Pinch one of them each. Winnie said simply, not giving the boss a chance to fool.
Qin Shiou added: "Then can you make a glass man?" Me and my wife. ”
The boss nodded and said, "This can be fine, but it's expensive, because you know man, it takes a while to carve a piece of glass into a human being." ”
"How much?"
"One person is a thousand hundred dollars."
"Five hundred pieces each, we're going to carve thirty people." Winnie haggled happily.
The boss shook his head and said firmly: "This is a big order, beautiful lady, I really want to take it, but the price you give is too outrageous, let's be honest, carve a glass man......"
"That's six hundred!"
"No, it's not a matter of price, it's just ...... amount of labor."
"What about eight hundred? One person, thirty people, is twenty-four thousand! ”
"Hurry up, ma'am, deal!"
The boss is not fooling around to make money, making these glass handicrafts is indeed quite complicated, and he needs to command the design and cooperate with multiple production lines.
Making tigers, leopards, bears and wolves is simple, they have a single color, only the black-footed ferret is a little more complicated, such as the little white wolf has only two colors on the whole body, black eyes and a white body.
But the statue of the producer, it is troublesome, using Qin Shiou as an example, hair, skin color, lips, clothes, pants, shoes, as long as the color is different, then you have to choose and put together one by one.
Of course, the final production is really realistic, Qin Shiou feels that this set of craftsmanship is too awesome, if someone says that this is a wax figure, he will also believe it. (To be continued......)