Chapter Twenty-Three: Turning Decay into Magic
The middle-aged man's words made Qin Chuan a little surprised, but in that film and television drama, this clay figure Zhang was played as a god, and it seemed that it was still a bit exaggerated. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ ο½ο½ο½ο½
Qin Chuan thought in his heart, and his face couldn't help but show it.
The child on the side couldn't help but say: "Mr. Hugh wants to underestimate the craftsmanship of our Zhang family, my father can't pinch it, but my grandfather can't pinch it." β
Qin Chuan couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard it, he had long thought that this clay figure Zhang was much younger than the one in the play, and he now knew that this middle-aged man should be Zhang Yuting, the son of Zhang Mingshan, the clay man.
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The middle-aged man's face was embarrassed: "My father has just restedγγγγγγ β
"Something."
Before the middle-aged man could finish speaking, an old voice sounded from behind the wooden frame, and with the voice, an old man in his sixties with a ruddy face, tall and thin body, and wearing a plain gray robe walked out.
As soon as the old man appeared, the middle-aged man immediately stood up.
"Father, that's right, this gentleman didn't want me to make the clay figure he looks like now, he asked me to make it according to the portrait he gave, this γγγγγγ"
The old man glanced at Qin Chuan with two dimly dazed eyes, walked to the table, and while reaching out to take out a large piece of cement from under the table, he looked at the plausible picture drawn by Qin Chuan on the table for a moment, raised his head and asked.
"This gentleman, the character in your painting is a soldier dressed in the uniform of a Western general?"
Qin Chuan wanted to take a closer look at how this legendary strange man used his skills, so he nodded again and again and said to the clay man: "That's right, it's just that the general wants to change into my appearance." β
"The color of the costume and the epaulettes and the straps on the hat?"
"The military uniform is blue-gray, the epaulettes are red, and the straps on the hat are gold."
"What are the requirements for war horses?"
"Black, preferably white."
Qin Chuan forgot that he didn't know which book he had seen a war horse described like this, it seemed to be named Oolong Ju.
During the questioning process, a pair of eyes were always fixed on Qin Chuan's face, and in order to show respect, Qin Chuan did not dare to look elsewhere.
Seeing that the clay figure Zhang no longer asked, and was thinking about whether this clay figure Zhang could pinch it out, Chu Yunfei beside him exclaimed, which made Qin Chuan wake up, but just now he saw the clay figure Zhang take a piece of clay from under the table and put it in his hand.
Qin Chuan said in his heart: "In film and television dramas, it is said that this clay figure pinched the clay figure, just need to sit opposite the person and talk to the person, fight the soil in his hands, and be silent and instantaneous." Although the face is small, it can be shaped and vivid. β
Qin Chuan thought in his heart, and hurriedly looked down, but only saw the clay figure moving his fingers like flying, and the slender fingers could hardly see how to move, as if layers were sliding quickly from the piece of clay. When Qin Chuan lowered his head, a vivid war horse with hoofs raised and hunting neighing had already jumped out, and the dexterous hands of the clay man Zhang were pinching the faces of the soldiers on the horse rapidly, but the clay man Zhang had been looking directly at Qin Chuan's expression during the whole process of kneading, and his eyes never looked away for a moment.
After another moment, the clay figure Zhang sighed softly and carefully placed a complete clay statue on the table.
When Qin Chuan took a closer look, not to mention that the momentum of the hunting neighing war horse was undoubtedly revealed on the battlefield, although the general's face was between millimeters and inches, but the face, eyebrows, and the corners of his mouth that drooped slightly were not only almost carved out according to his Qin Chuan own mold, but even the trace of rebelliousness that was faintly revealed under his neither humble nor arrogant demeanor could also be felt.
"God-man! God! Sir is indeed a man of God who can transform decay into magic. β
Qin Chuan was so excited that he complimented the clay figure Zhang a little incoherently, and at the same time he gave the clay figure Zhang a deep snort.
Qin Chuan did not do anything at all, but deeply admired the clay man Zhang's unparalleled skills in transforming decay into magic from the bottom of his heart.
The northwest of Tianjin City is backed by the Haihe River, and now it is simply Tianjin's grain CEO, where grain stacks are everywhere, and transactions can easily cost millions of stones. From Li Mingfang's introduction, Qin Chuan knew that it was here that the first batch of millionaires in Tianjin Wei was born, and the famous Tianjin Weiba family, who started with food, all went out from here.
Although Li Mingfang has no fame, Li Mingfang is very intelligent, and he has dabbled a lot in the four books and five classics, and he is more knowledgeable and memorable, and he knows everything about historical anecdotes, wild history miscellaneous records, and interesting anecdotes, and has lived in Tianjin for a long time, and the ins and outs of all places can be clearly explained.
Qin Chuan had never been to Tianjin in his previous life, and he listened to Li Mingfang's narration all the way and thought all the way, these ancient alleys and buildings with a strong historical atmosphere, after experiencing the sack of the Gengzi Incident and the changes of the Eight-Nation Alliance Army in the next hundred years, I don't know how much can be preserved for future generations to remember, as soon as he thought of this, Qin Chuan couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
Chu Yunfei, who was following behind the two, didn't have the heart to listen to Li Mingfang talk about these old yellow calendars, under the warm and bright sun, Chu Yunfei, who was hot, had already unbuttoned the front of his blue short coat, revealing the dazzling white shirt inside, which attracted a lot of attention in the bustling crowd.
Chu Yunfei's shirt, but it was treated with Qin Chuan's fluorescent brightener, which was far brighter than the white cloth that was somewhat yellowish at the moment. It's just that Chu Yunfei, a seventeen-year-old hairy young man who has not yet opened his love, was unaware of the hot eyes on the street, and just followed closely behind Qin Chuan and Li Mingfang in the flow of people, holding the sugar-fried chestnuts in the straw paper tube that Qin Chuan was afraid that he would get tired of wandering around and buying for him in one hand, and couldn't help but take out the sweet and greasy chestnuts from the paper tube and put them in his mouth with the other.
Along the way, all the historical anecdotes could not arouse his interest, only a few juggling and trick-style performances made him unable to move, or was reprimanded by Li Mingfang several times before he reluctantly left, otherwise, Qin Chuan would probably not be able to find Chu Yunfei a long time ago.
Seeing that the sun was approaching the top of their heads, Qin Chuan and the three of them also turned to the east gate, Qin Chuan was planning to break up with Li Mingfang here, and let Li Mingfang go back to the dyeing factory to take care of it first. Now that the dyeing factory is watched by Xu Xifang, Qin Chuan is still not at ease.
Aurora dyeing factory is now very busy, not only those cloth shop shopkeepers come to pick up the goods in groups every three or five, but also many foreign cloth merchants who are waiting in line in the East Asia dyeing factory to buy goods have also heard the news, and they are full of praise for the Aurora brand color cloth, Li Mingfang's account room has already recorded a thick pile of colored cloth, and the deposit alone has received more than 300,000 yuan.
Although the dyeing factory is not crowded in front of the door every day, there is a constant flow of people who come to order and cloth. Li Mingfang has long been struggling to be busy alone, it just so happens that this Xu Xifang is not only literate, but also in charge of the wine shop in his hometown, and has some experience, so Qin Chuan arranged for Xu Xifang to be Li Mingfang's deputy.
Qin Chuan thought in his heart that he wanted Li Mingfang to hurry back to the dyeing factory to take care of it, but before he could speak, the strange scene in the crowd in front of him made him suddenly taken aback.
As soon as Qin Chuan stopped, Chu Yunfei, who was following closely behind him, almost bumped into Qin Chuan, Chu Yunfei, who didn't know what was going on, hurriedly stretched out his head to look over Qin Chuan's shoulder, and the scene in front of him made Chu Yunfei stunned for a moment.