At two o'clock in the fifth watch, on the city tower of Chengtianmen, the main gate of Taiji Palace, with the first sound of the dawn drum, the drum towers on the north-south street followed in turn.

With the sound of drums from the inside out, the gates of the palace, the gates of Chang'an, and the doors of each square were opened in turn, and the temples in Chang'an City also rang the big bell in the temple, and the loud bells and drums woke up the greatest and most magnificent capital in the world at that time, and the people of Chang'an also began a day's hard work in the sound of bells and drums.

When the second wave of bells and drums rang, Liu Yuan, accompanied by Xiao Niang and Du Sanniang, slowly swallowed breakfast, including noodle soup, soup cakes, spring rolls, steamed buns, goat milk and other things, which was very rich.

Du Sanniang took a meat bun to Liu Yuan, and said with a little pity: "Liu Yuan, you haven't slept well lately, why don't you sleep for a while today?" ”

There was a hint of grievance in the words, Liu Yuan came back with the pastries presented by Cui Mengyao last night, and the women dispersed after eating, Du Sanniang secretly gave Liu Yuan a look, hinting that he had left the door for him, but they all waited until they fell asleep, Liu Yuan did not steal jade and incense, Sanniang waited alone in the boudoir, and was unspeakably depressed.

In fact, Liu Yuan is also very excited, but the feeling with Cui Mengyao just now is still there, still reminiscing, Liu Yuan doesn't want to be with Du Sanniang, but what he thinks about is Cui Mengyao, this is unfair to him, although he is very angry, but he still can't help it, anyway, he is about to visit the church, and it is not bad for a moment.

Of course, as soon as I got up, I saw Sanniang's sad gaze.

Xiao Niang also echoed: "Yes, senior brother, as soon as you come back, you will be running around like this, and you will have more time to rest." ”

Liu Yuan shook his head and said, "No, I suddenly set out to conquer Tibet, and it will take four months to leave." A lot of things have fallen behind, and I have to try to catch up with time. ”

Chasing time?

Xiao Niang and Du Sanniang looked at each other: this statement is really fresh.

Dai Qisi said happily on the side: "Young Master, do you want to go back to the Jinyu family with me in a while?" ”

"No, then I have assigned a task to this apprentice, and it will take at least three or five days to complete, with their current level, they don't need to teach by hand, they just need to point out a direction." Liu Yuan looked at the girls and announced his decision with a smile: "I'm not going anywhere today, I'm at home." ”

"At home? Brother. Do you want to play with me? Xiao Niang said happily.

Liu Yuan shook his head and said, "No, I want to make the queen's jewelry today, after all, it has been four months since I put it here before the Chinese New Year, and I had to ask Princess Changle to urge last time." I really don't want to go, so. Take advantage of the busy time today. Get the task done. ”

"Well, the queen's jewelry is very important, Liu Yuan, you have to be careful."

Needless to say? Liu Yuan nodded as he stuffed the last bun into his mouth.

After finishing the hearty breakfast, Liu Yuan was not in a hurry to enter the independent studio immediately and asked the little lady to help him make some preparations. Then I walked to the bamboo forest in the back garden and took a turn, and after eating, I walked and lived to ninety-nine, which can help digestion and relax my mood.

"Senior brother. It's all set. The little lady saw Liu Yuan coming back and whispered.

Liu Yuan smiled, didn't speak, just touched her head gently, pushed the door in alone, and then closed it casually, ready to fight alone, while Xiao Niang took an embroidery and sat at the door, smiling and embroidering, although the time and place have changed, but this scene is so familiar, everything is like yesterday again.

The room was cleaned spotlessly, all the tools were wiped clean, placed neatly, a brand-new combination magnifying glass was placed in the corner very conspicuously, Xiao Niang was familiar with it, she knew a lot of things, it was not a vase, in fact, her ability was not bad, but she habitually relied on others, so she has rarely made a move, Liu Yuan's independent private studio was handed over to her to manage, naturally it was the most suitable.

To make the best jewelry, not only the craftsman is very demanding, but the environment is also very important, such as doing some very fine work, the process can not sweat, once sweating, the hand will become sticky, the material becomes slippery, in the shape and polishing, it will become difficult, affecting the rhythm, disturbing the mood, the most can not guarantee the quality, so when making jewelry in later generations, most of them are to seal the space, install air conditioning, and work in a comfortable environment.

This is Datang, naturally there is no air conditioning, but with the method of saltpeter ice, Liu Mansion has never been short of ice, Xiao Niang asked people to prepare four large buckets of ice, which were placed in the four corners of the room, as soon as Liu Yuan entered the room, he felt that his body was cold, and the temperature in the room was obviously three or four degrees lower than the outside, which was good.

After not picking up these tools for four months, Liu Yuan sat down, gently touched the delicate tools in front of him, and felt an inexplicable sense of intimacy in his heart, picked up a small rounded edge cutting knife, and turned a few knife flowers in his hand.

Well, yes, it feels pretty good, and the hands are quite flexible.

Liu Yuan took out the unfinished work of Empress Changsun from the cabinet: Danfeng Dynasty.

A colorful phoenix, with a huge superb ruby in its mouth, is like soaring into the sky, after Liu Yuan's processing, lifelike, living dragon, very auspicious.

The preliminary work has been almost done, but there are still three processes that have not yet been completed: the chamfered refraction treatment of the ruby, the continuous inlay of the seven-colored gemstone fragments on the wings of the phoenix with the technique of micro-carving, to complete the dazzling effect of the seven colors, and the last process is polishing, including light and dark treatment.

After a little thought, Liu Yuan decided to deal with the superb ruby first.

In the treatment of jewelry, like diamonds, will be cut into multiple facets according to local conditions, the more facets, the better the refraction effect, and gems and jade, mostly pecked it into a circle, like a bead in general, this is a cultural difference, but also the innovation of handicrafts: the Chinese people have always believed that the sky is round and the earth, the sky, is sacred, majestic, worship the sky, is the king of the high, also called himself the Son of Heaven, so the beautiful things peck into a round bead shape, understandable, As far as ancient crafts and techniques are concerned, the circle is also a good light refraction.

The development of the recent development, the development of science and technology, the new technology to give the jeweler new inspiration and creative conditions, with the angular treatment, light treatment technology, scientifically speaking, the circle can be refracted, but the refraction is only one point, and the diamond after the angular treatment, and there is a face, the refraction of a surface is naturally more dazzling than a point, if there are multiple groups of refractions to match, complement each other, the effect is even better.

Like the jewelry worn by those celebrities, a large diamond, and then with thousands of diamond fragments, after angle and light treatment, refracted layer by layer, under the lamp, it looks extremely flashing, not how good the material of those jewelry is, but how ingenious the designer designs.

Tradition and habit have formed a mindset, which is the reason why gemstones like to be carved into circles, and diamonds, which are only popular in modern times and are considered to be the new riches in the material, like to use technology to treat them into edges and chamfers.

Attitude and details determine success or failure.

What I have to do now is to make a refractive mirror in the gem inlay place, as well as in the phoenix's mouth, and interlace the mountains, others will look confused, but for Liu Yuan, it is just a pediatric, take the jewelry and a small frustration knife to the light of the window, and change the angle from time to time while frustrating, and it will be dealt with in less than half an hour.

"NICE", Liu Yuan snapped his fingers, whistled, and smug smile on the corner of his mouth: another step was completed.

Although it has been four months since he put down the tools, he still has the experience to feel that Liu Yuan is young and strong now, so he is naturally handy to do it.

I stretched my waist, drank a cup of tea, rested for a while, and started the next process, which is also the most troublesome process: micro-inlay.

Colorful phoenix, naturally seven colors, in order to collect the fragments of these seven kinds of gems, Liu Yuan didn't know how much effort it took to deal with these fragments, and those apprentices almost tortured them to cry in order to deal with these fragments, this is no way, Liu Yuan refused to lower his requirements, and the Tang Dynasty did not have a laser to accurately cut those gems, so they could only use the old method and stupid method to polish them piece by piece, fortunately, they heard that this was done for the eldest grandson queen, and they were willing to work hard.

However, Liu Yuan felt terrible pain in his heart when he thought of the terrifying loss and the processing fee of the five taels of silver paid by Li Li, there is no doubt that this is the most loss-making transaction since Liu Yuan arrived in Datang.

This is good, it can be regarded as a tribute to the future generations, and secondly, it is also an investment.

Liu Yuan took a large piece of fire paint to fix the jewelry, then exhaled deeply, picked up the magnifying glass, and prepared to start.

At this time, the back of the phoenix, as if painted densely packed with latitude and longitude, depicted into a small grid of small grids, each grid represents a small piece of gem fragments, it can be said that accurate to the millimeter, a small phoenix, to be inlaid with hundreds of gem fragments, this is a very meticulous, very rigorous work, in advance to think carefully, carefully layout, and then completed step by step.

"I'm X, who did this?" Liu Yuan just picked up a piece of fragment and couldn't help but burst into a rough sentence.

This piece of fragment is well treated by the mirror, but the thickness is almost half as thick as normal, how can this work? It must be which guy is lazy, and he sent it up without handling it well, cutting corners nakedly, fortunately, things are dead, people are alive, Liu Yuan shook his head, took out a sharp carving knife, and gently scraped a layer at that position, digging a little deeper, so that the fragments are thicker, and they also maintain a whole with other fragments.

There will be no advanced cutting tools, so you can only make up for it in other places.

Soon, Liu Yuan devoted himself to the passion of creation without distraction, and the pieces of gemstones, under Liu Yuan's skillful hands, were perfectly combined. (To be continued......)

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