In a secluded river of the Santai River, a waterwheel on the bank is constantly turning, scooping up the river water and pouring it into the water tank erected high in the manor next to it, and the water in the box flows out through the bottom opening and falls on a water wheel, which is driven by the water wheel through the connecting shaft to drive several rollers to rotate. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The sound of rattling echoed over the manor, and its source was the drums the size of rice bowls, which sounded like there were many stones rolling in the drums, constantly hitting each other, making an unbearable crashing sound.

The door of the small courtyard was pushed open, and several men came in with wooden barrels, dressed in ordinary clothes and wearing earmuffs on their heads, and moved a gate next to the water wheel, and the drum then stopped turning.

Coming to the side of the drum, opening the side lids, and tilting the drum with a moving machine, many stones and fine sand of various sizes rolled out and landed in the barrel.

"Check the drums, prepare the materials, and continue tomorrow morning."

One person answered, stayed to check the drum and related equipment, the others walked out with wooden barrels, and the noise that had been ringing for more than twenty days stopped, and the manor finally returned to a rare calm.

In the courtyard next door, the men sat on the beds and picked up stones from the barrels in front of them, small as the size of pigeon's eggs and as large as two fists, of different colors and shapes.

In addition to the stones, there is also gray-black fine sand, which is the iron sand selected from digging sand in Ba Shui, mixed with some clean sand, and put into the drum together with the stones picked up by the river, and polished day and night for more than 20 days.

The stones, which were originally slightly angular or broken, are now smooth and smooth, as smooth as the pebbles that can be seen in the river, and there is no trace of artificial polishing.

The stones are put in a wooden basin with water on the side, the iron sand on them is washed off, and then they are put into a dustpan and brought to the room to be oiled.

The so-called oil naturally cannot be lard, this smell is easy to smell, so the use of rapeseed oil-based, additional ingredients of "blended oil", these blended oil has been poured in advance in the porcelain basin, and then the stones are immersed in it.

Several basins of freshly polished stones were soaked in oil and placed neatly in one corner of the house, a piece of paper pressed under one of the porcelain basins, on which the date of the day was written, and several porcelain basins were placed in the other corner, which were brought out of the room.

More than 20 days ago, the oil-soaked stones were taken out in turn, cleaned with a special liquid to remove oil stains and smells, wiped clean and picked up to look at the sun, the stone skin was delicate and moisturized, as bright as washed with water.

There are many lines on these stones, but there is no special meaning, they can be said to be like flowers and trees, or birds and animals, or what kind of font, each stone is wrapped in a cloth and carefully placed in a box covered with straw.

"Packed and ready to ship!"

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In a manor on the outskirts of Xiyang City, a horse-drawn carriage slowly stopped, several wooden boxes were unloaded, and then they were carried into a small courtyard, and after being counted, they were carried into the house and picked out and placed on the dustpan.

By the brightly lit window, several people sat beside the desk, took out the smooth and smooth stone from the dustpan, and carefully observed it in the sunlight, and after a while, someone beckoned, and the young man who had been waiting for a long time stepped forward.

"Look at this pattern, what does it look like?"

"Uh... Like a donkey. ”

"I think you're like a donkey, a stupid donkey, look closely, this pattern is like a horse, a galloping horse."

The young man took a closer look and felt that when the other party said this, it was true that the lines looked like horses, but they were more like donkeys, and of course he didn't dare to say this.

"Do you think there's something missing?"

"Uh... Missing a tail? ”

"yes, you know how?"

"You know, draw the tail... Carved up. ”

"Remember, don't carve too similarly, just have that meaning, too similar is to add to the snake... You know what it means to be a snake, right? ”

"Yes."

The young man took the stone and sat down by a well-lit window, beside which lay a bookcase with many tools lined up, as well as pots and jars, which were his carving tools.

A stone caught in the river, if you want to sell it at a sky-high price, it depends on the lines on it, flowers and trees, birds and animals, the rarer the more valuable.

In order to meet this requirement, someone needs to "come forward", but the artificially carved lines are not even hidden from fools.

There are many fools in the world, but there are also many fools who think they are smart, and there are naturally flaws in artificial carving, but as long as you can fool smart fools, that's fine.

The young man, like his other companions, practiced his craft with many stones, and it took less than half a year to go from being unsightly at the beginning to being "natural" now, and this depended not only on hard work, but also on all kinds of strange tools.

First of all, there is a "magnifying glass" worn on one eye, then a thin, sharp and hard carving knife, with more than ten styles, and then there are brushes and matching small porcelain bottles.

The small porcelain bottle contains a strange smelling liquid potion, which looks colorful and has nothing abnormal, but it cannot be stained on the skin, and it can itch or ulcerate, so you need to wear muslin gloves.

After the young man was ready, he looked at the stone in his hand, tried to imagine that the pattern was a horse and not a donkey, and a galloping tailless horse came to mind, and then he had an idea in his heart.

A wisp of carved marks appeared on the donkey like a horse's tail... At the end of the horse-shaped pattern, the young man kept carving and brushing the potion, so that the shallow carving marks merged into the original texture of the stone, but the color was a little different.

After tossing and turning for a long time, he was sure that it had been completed, and after handing it over to the master to get affirmation, he made a record and put the stone in a medicine jar.

The medicine jar contained a red liquid that looked so viscous that it smelled like, making the young man feel sick to his stomach, and after making sure that the stone was completely submerged, he closed the lid with a note with the date written in it.

The original texture of the stone is slightly different from the color of the texture of the later miniature carving, which needs to be covered by soaking in this liquid, and the stone is soaked in this liquid for more than a month.

However, the subtle nicks are still there, so when the time comes, you need to use "sandpaper" to sand, this kind of paper has fine particles on one side that can no longer be fine, and you can't feel the difference by hand after polishing it over and over again.

The lines that have been dyed with those medicines, not to mention with water, cannot be washed off with pancreas or vinegar, and will never fade, which is enough to be fake.

Then soak it in special oil for a while, and then a strange stone that is accidentally fished out of the river will appear, and many clever fools will pay a lot of money to buy it, and happily offer it as a treasure at home.

The cost of production should be less than the usual one, and the price of selling... I don't know.

The young man only knows how to carve lines in the stones and process them, and where these stones come from, they do not know; I don't know where it's going to be shipped, I don't know how it's going to be sold.

Where do the potions and tools come from? I don't know; Who is the owner? I don't know.

What he knows is that this job pays well, and the monthly income is worth ordinary people farming, working as coolies for half a year, and also including food and lodging, and the only disadvantage is that he can't leave this manor at will.

There are also several companions of similar age, who are engaged in this promising job together, and they divide their labor, according to the master's instructions, according to the grain on the stone, add various new lines according to the grain, and form the required pattern.

Some are responsible for carving birds and animals on stones, and some are responsible for carving flowers and trees. Others can be carved with some simple handwriting, such as the word "heart" in the seal body.

Highly skilled and can carve landscapes, such as lakeside woods with reflections, which are all completed works.

Of course, this is a natural strange stone, according to the master's words, it is "nature's magic"! (To be continued.) )