Now there are two days left before the one-month deadline, even if you can't complete the task with all your strength, there are still two days to progress, if you wait until the last day, and carve with all your might, it will really be a great speed of life and death, and the jade carving carved out of it will not be able to complete the task, which means that he has failed this mission.

This task is related to whether the intermediate appraisal technique can be obtained, so Chen Yi must make every effort to prepare, although after this month of study, he has made a lot of progress in jade carving, but he has also carved some jade carvings before, but the distance is slightly valuable, or a little worse, some of which are technical problems, and some are problems with the jade materials used.

"Well, Xiaoyi, in the past month, your progress can be said to be rapid, far beyond our expectations, you should indeed carve a jade artifact as your learning results in the past month." Gu nodded, and said with a sigh on his face.

In the past month, they can be said to have witnessed Chen Yi, from a person who has never been in contact with the jade carving industry, to a person who can carve shallow and complex jade carvings.

When they entered the jade carving industry, it took a year or two to reach the point of Chen Yi, although it was not as good as Chen Yi's current conditions, and they were personally taught by these jade carving masters, but if they were replaced with Chen Yi's conditions, it would be impossible to make the jade carving level to Chen Yi's current level in just one month.

Moreover, over the years, they have also accepted many apprentices, and the learning conditions of Chen Yi are not much different from them, but it took a year to reach Chen Yi's level.

What they lack is not only the identification skills that draw inferences, but also Chen Yi's love for Chinese culture. It is by virtue of these factors. Let Chen Yi within a month. He grew up to be a jade carver, not an apprentice.

These factors are probably also the reason for the rapid improvement of Chen Yi's painting level, he studied painting for less than half a year, but the paintings he painted made Yuan Lao and Qian Lao sigh for it, and even a generation of framing masters Ma Lao had to take the initiative to leave their own appreciation medals on it. It can be seen how good Chen Yi's painting is, and of course, in the study of jade carving, his painting is also a factor in the continuous improvement of his jade carving level.

In the second half of the month, with Chen Yi's level, he can already help them complete some relatively simple jade carving tasks, these are large jade carving ornaments that are different from small utensils, once there is a link wrong, even the simplest link. It will also make the whole jade carving face failure, and Chen Yi can complete it. It's not just their trust, it's the reason for Chen Yi's level.

In addition, when he carved by himself, the jade materials used were basically practice materials, and some valuable jade materials were rarely used, and now, for nearly a month, let Chen Yi carve a utensil with all his might, and see what his true level has reached.

"Well, ancient, I also want to see where my limits are." Chen Yi nodded, a month of study was coming to an end, and he wanted to see if he could carve a jade carving that satisfied him and the ancient.

Gu Gu smiled, "Okay, Xiaoyi, then let's go and choose jade materials now, I don't know what materials you want to use, we bought some good jade materials a few days ago, high-grade jade and Hetian jade, all of which are readily available." ”

If it is an ordinary apprentice, who has studied for a month, and thinks of using high-grade jade materials for carving, they will definitely not agree, because with the skills of these people, these good jade materials will be defiled, good horses with good saddles, good jade with good work, there is no skill that matches the jade materials, it will only reduce the value of this jade material.

And Chen Yi's progress in jade carving these days, they have seen it, even if they use some good jade materials to carve, they will not feel that there is anything wrong.

"Ancient, at my current level, using jade materials that are too good will only be a waste, just use some medium materials, as for the type, just use Hetian jade." Hearing the ancient words, Chen Yi shook his head and said with a smile.

Some jade materials that have not been carved in any way, the price is very cheap compared to the jade that is carved well, even if it is Hetian jade, the best material of mutton fat white jade, a gram is only a few thousand, for ordinary people, the price of this gram is very expensive, but for people with a little wealth, it is nothing at all.

Of course, each piece of jade will have some changes according to its fineness and shape and size, and the price of some better mutton fat white jade can even reach more than tens of thousands, and this is only the price of jade raw materials that have not been carved well, and the price of carved jade can be said to be several times higher than that of raw materials.

Even if Chen Yi uses some mutton fat white jade materials to carve, these materials reach tens of thousands, and it is not a problem, but with too good materials, not to mention the pressure, the skill level cannot be reached, and the task cannot be completed at all.

"Okay, Zhong Hetian Yu, Xiaoyi, you know very well what you need, this is very good, let's go, come in with us and pick up a piece of material." Gu said with relief, with their understanding of Chen Yi, even if it is to choose high-grade jade materials, it is not impossible, but Chen Yi took the initiative to ask for medium materials, which is not unconfident, but has a clear understanding of his current level.

Of course, if you want to use some jade materials of low value to carve some jade objects of amazing value, it is also a huge test for jade carving masters.

Chen Yi nodded, and followed the ancient piece into the room where the work jade materials were stored, and those practice materials that were not of high value were all placed in this workshop.

Entering the room, there are not many jade materials in it, some are large and some are small, Gu Gu pointed to a few boxes in a position and said: "Xiaoyi, what is placed in this place is medium Hetian jade, there are white jade, there are green jade, and there are few topazes, you can choose." ”

Chen Yi looked around the room a few times, in addition to the jade, there are also some jade objects in this room, after all, some high-value jade objects cannot be placed in the workshop at will, once there is any mistake, they will lose more than money.

Although there are not many jade materials in this room, they are enough to support the normal production of jade carving factories for a period of time, and with the skills of ancient people, the jade carved into them can be exchanged for money, and more jade materials can be purchased.

This is the accumulation of their decades of experience in jade carving, many people are because they can't bear the hardships of the early days of jade carving learning, so they give up this industry, jade carving, no years or even more than ten years of carving learning, carved out of things, no one cares at all.

Through this month's jade carving study, he has a deeper understanding of jade, and Hetian jade is naturally most famous for white jade, but there will also be other colors of jade.

It's just that, compared with the colorful jadeite, the color of Hetian jade is not too much, and most of them are mainly blue and white.

Chen Yi slowly leaned down and selected among the Hetian white jade, there are as many as half a box of practice materials in the workshop, but this medium Hetian white jade looks like it is only a few dozen pieces, one gram is even a hundred, so these dozens of jade of different sizes, plus one, the purchase price may have reached hundreds of thousands, this is the preciousness of jade.

These Hetian white jade are basically at the level of ivory white jade, with some other yellow or cyan on top of the white.

Chen Yi carefully picked it in the box, there was no doubt about the authenticity of these Hetian jades, with the ancient people's understanding of jade, it was impossible for those jade merchants to deceive these old men.

Dozens of pieces of jade don't seem to be effortless, but every time Chen Yi picks up a piece, he will look at its shape and color distribution, and then imagine in his mind the subject matter and appearance suitable for these jade materials.

If he feels that his idea is not perfect, or that he cannot realize it, he will put the jade in it and continue to select.

Suddenly, Chen Yi saw a round piece of jade material placed in the bottom of the box, his eyes couldn't help but light up, and then he took out this piece of jade material.

Although this piece of jade is round, it is not regular, but there are some protrusions and microcracks in the jade, which makes a natural animal shape appear on this jade.

Chen Yi picked up this piece of jade material, touched the protrusions and cracks on it with his hand, and some jade appearances imagined based on this jade material kept appearing in his mind.

And the ancient people next to them also saw Chen Yi holding this piece of jade, constantly thinking, it seemed that they attached great importance to the jade, they glanced at the jade, nodded, and frowned, this piece of jade can't be said to be bad, but thinking of carving a perfect jade, it's not so easy, compared to others, some other jade materials that don't have particularly outstanding features, when carving, don't have to worry too much.

This round material, the length and width should be about eight centimeters, almost the same size as a half No. 5 battery, on such a small jade material, the animal shape on this jade material is carved, it is very difficult to achieve vividness.

Chen Yi thought about it in his mind for a while, but he felt that it was indeed a little difficult to carve this characteristic jade into a perfect jade, or it was because his idea was immature, he shook his head, and was about to put this jade into the box, when he suddenly saw a jade bracelet on the table next to him, which suddenly made him think of something, and his eyes lit up.

He took back the hand that was put in the box, looked at the jade in his hand, and kept imagining the epiphany he had just now, the image was getting more and more perfect, and the smile on his face was getting deeper and deeper.

"It's ancient, I'll use this piece of material to carve." The image in his mind finally became perfect, Chen Yi came back to his senses, took this piece of jade, and said to the ancient. (To be continued......)