On the third day, Cai Hongming came to Yu Feihong's house by appointment.

rang the doorbell at the door, and it was a middle-aged woman who came out to open the door, like Yu Feihong's wife.

"Hello Auntie, I'm here to find Master Yu, and I have made an appointment with him the day before yesterday."

The woman looked at him for a moment and said, "You are the young man who carved the gourd for Lao Yu with the ink jade!" ”

"Yes, Auntie."

"Come in! I heard Lao Yu talk about you yesterday. After hearing that it was him, Yu Feihong's wife let him in and took him to the living room, "You sit down here first, and I'll call Lao Yu out." ”

"I'm sorry for you, Auntie."

"No, it won't." After saying that, she walked in and called her husband.

The living room was full of all kinds of uncarved jade rough stones and carved ornaments, Cai Hongming had never seen so many jade, so he walked over and took a closer look.

After a while, Yu Feihong walked out of it with a carved gourd, followed by an old man.

"Hongming is here, sit. This is a carved gourd, you see. Yu Feihong handed the gourd to Cai Hongming, sat down at the table to make tea, and introduced to him: "This is my father, the old jade master." Dad, Hongming is the owner of that piece of black jade. ”

"Hello uncle." Cai Hongming politely shouted to the old man.

"Okay, okay." The old man nodded in response and said, "Young man, it's a pity that you use such a good jade carved gourd." ”

"Uh" Cai Hongming didn't know what to do.

His piece of jade was dug up from the mountain, and it didn't cost much, so he didn't feel any pity. But the old man is different, he has been engaged in the jade industry for so many years, and he knows the price of these things well. Good quality ink jade has always been very rare on the market, especially this kind of black as pure lacquer, fine as condensed fat of the best ink jade, is even more rare. The price is also amazingly high, and the pendant made of black jade like this on the market is amazingly expensive. If his piece of black jade was made into jewelry, the price would be terrifyingly high.

"Actually, I feel that this gourd carved by Master Yu is good." Cai Hongming glanced at Yu Feihong and said.

The carved gourd looks crystal clear, like a dew grape, full and dripping, smooth and smooth to the touch, as delicate as skin, so he is very satisfied.

"It's good, it's not creative at all."

The old man blew his beard and glared, and then said to Yu Feihong, who was making tea: "I was a mess when I saw this gourd, and I told you a long time ago, we must have our own thoughts and visions in this business, and you can carve whatever you want." Look at your gourd, it's a gourd-like, and there is no artistic imagination at all. Fortunately, the young man didn't care, if it was someone else, he would have thrown it away a long time ago. ”

Yu Feihong pulled his cheeks and wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything.

Anyway, the old man was right for everything. If this gourd is carved by him, it is back to the basics, and to him is to copy other people's ordinary goods. In the past, if you talked to him about art, he would say to you, "The art of bullshit, what they do is to eat and art." Now I'm starting to talk about art in style.

Cai Hongming looked at the gourd, he felt good, it was not as serious as the old man said, he opened the gourd and saw that it was hollowed out, and there was enough space to put the jade toad liquid, which was very in line with his wishes.

Hearing that the old man said that Yu Feihong was useless, he hurriedly said to the side: "Uncle, I feel that this gourd carving is okay."

Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by the old man waving his hand, "What can it be, it's just a mess." It's not that I said that he didn't carve well, if he wanted to carve a gourd, it would be okay, but what he wanted to carve was a bunch of gourds, if they were all like this, it would be too unlevel, how to say that he was also a person who had obtained master qualifications, how could he be so shallow? Carved gourd, one can be like this, but more is different, two should be carved into a dragon and phoenix or yin and yang gourd, in pairs; The three are the three talents of heaven, earth and man, and three different patterns should be carved on it; The four have to carve a plum, orchid, bamboo chrysanthemum, four gentlemen, or four beauties, four divine beasts, and the like; Five to carve a blessing Lu Shou Xi Cai five blessings, and so on, carved out of the things will be good-looking, will not make people feel abrupt, and the complete set of things is also more valuable. ”

The old man said, and then said to Yu Feihong: "Look at what you carve, do you think that if you get the master certificate, you think that you are a master?" You think that your master certificate was really obtained by your ability, no, it was given to you by someone who sold my old man face. Look at the things you have carved in the past few years, there is no decent work, if it is still like this in the future, you should not mix well in this industry, so as not to lose my people. ”

The old man said a lot angrily, and his mouth was inevitably dry. Yu Feihong hurriedly handed over a cup of tea.

He knows his own Lao Tzu's temper, anyway, if he doesn't scold him for a day, he will feel uncomfortable all over his body, and he is used to it.

After drinking tea, the old man said to Cai Hongming again: "Young man, you shouldn't be looking for him to carve, you want to find me, my craftsmanship is much better than his, and I have ruined your baby." ”

Yu Feihong grinned, and said this in his heart, why did he desperately pull himself down to raise himself and hit people. He Lao Tzu had already taught him a lesson when Cai Hongming came, and it was nothing more than seeing the best ink jade and seeing the good material, he wanted to do it himself. This is all the fault of the elderly, they can't see good things, and they are greedy.

"No! I think Master Yu's craftsmanship is very good. Cai Hongming failed to understand the meaning of the old man, and said ignorantly.

"Far from it." The old man looked disdainful, and asked again: "By the way, young man, what are you carving so many gourds for?" It's a pity that a large piece of jade is carved into a gourd, and it is best to carve it into a large ornament, so that it can also be sold at a good price. ”

Yu Feihong listened, and also looked at Cai Hongming, he was also curious why Cai Hongming carved all the black jade into a gourd.

You must know that such a large piece of superb ink jade, whether it is divided and carved into ornaments, or made into ornaments, is very valuable.

Cai Hongming couldn't tell them that he carved a gourd to see if it could be used to hold jade toad liquid, so he could only lie: "Actually, it's nothing, I found that the taste of jade wine will be particularly mellow, and it is better than what we use in ordinary bottles, so I want to use it to carve into a gourd." ”

"That's it?" The old man stared at him.

"Hmm." Cai Hongming was a little frustrated by him.

"Then you don't need so much, young man, listen to my advice, it's a pity that the jade is all carved into a gourd." The old man persuaded bitterly.

"Hongming, in fact, you don't need so many gourds if you want to fill wine, if you want it, I still have some jade here, you can use those jade carvings as much as you want, and let my dad carve an ornament for you for the rest, what do you think." After speaking, he was afraid that Cai Hongming would not be at ease, so he continued: "You can rest assured, my father is a national treasure-level carver, and his craftsmanship is much better than mine." ”

"Hmph"

His dad was obviously not happy with his explanation, did he still need his craft?

The two fathers and sons took turns bombing here, and Cai Hongming couldn't nod if he didn't want to. In fact, the gourd he used to hold the jade toad liquid didn't need so much, but he still had to see if this gourd could hold the jade toad liquid. If you can, continue to carve the gourd, if not, there is no point in continuing to carve.

Cai Hongming thought for a moment and said, "Let me think about it, I'll give you an answer tomorrow." ”

"Okay, okay, you think slowly, come and drink tea."

The old man was very happy to hear that Cai Hongming was willing to consider it. As long as he doesn't attack that piece of black jade, it will be difficult to carve it into a large ornament if he cuts it again. You must know that this kind of fine ink jade with delicate texture, fine texture, and pitch black like ink, which is comparable to Hetian mutton fat white jade, is very rare, especially such a large one. If he is allowed to carve a gourd, then he is really old and confused.

After drinking tea, Cai Hongming came out of Yu Feihong's house. At night, I took some out of the jade tripod that condensed the jade toad liquid and put it in the gourd to see if the black jade gourd could preserve the jade toad liquid.

When he got up the next day, he found that the jade toad liquid in the black jade gourd was still intact, and there was no phenomenon at all that it stinked overnight when he was placed in a bottle before, so he hurriedly called Master Yu and asked him to continue carving the gourd. However, he didn't carve as many as he did at first, only five. He thought about it for a while, and felt that what Yu Feihong and his father said was not unreasonable, not to mention that there was a large amount of income, and it would be a bastard if he didn't make money.

Although the matter had been agreed on the phone, Yu Feihong still asked him to go to his home. So, he went out and drove over.