Chapter 35: The First Test of the Calving

Early in the morning of the second day, Xi Yizheng took Xi Yixiao's car to the largest real estate in the western suburbs of Beijing: Shili Manor. Along the way, Xi Yixiao explained to her about the power of Ten Mile Manor. The developer originally launched this property for those who did not want to live in the center of the city. As the name suggests: there are about 10 households in a radius of dozens of miles, each covering an area of several miles. Of course, the security measures are also quite well developed: every other stretch of road, there are probes connected to the nearby police station. Infrared sensors and alarm systems are also installed on the courtyard walls of each house, and once touched, the police will appear within 3 minutes.

Xi Yizheng was dumbfounded, the courtyard that looked so lonely and even desolate turned out to be so amazing. No wonder when he left that piece of aura-filled wool there yesterday and was worried in his heart, Huo Jun showed that he didn't have to worry at all, and even said: "If someone will come here to steal, then there will be no safe place." ”

This time, she brought the only few cans of the best Tieguanyin left in the bracelet as a thank you gift to Dongfang Luming, and at the same time there were a few baskets of fresh fruits that she had always liked to make hand gifts. However, these baskets of fruits are all picked from the fruit grove in the backyard of Xi's house, and at the end of summer, many fruits are ripe one after another: cherries, pears, apples, lychees, bayberry, longan, guava, melon, etc. After going back yesterday evening, Sister-in-law Fang helped fill several baskets and brought them.

As soon as Tieguanyin arrived, Dongfang Luming immediately boiled a pot, and was full of praise after tasting it. "I didn't expect me to take in a good apprentice! Even such a superb Tieguanyin can be fried by itself! Dongfang Luming squinted his eyes and praised contentmently.

"Teacher, if you think it's delicious, I'll fry more and send it to you next year." Xi Yizheng saw that he was so happy, he couldn't help but smile, his family loves to drink, which means that the tea is good and his own craftsmanship is good, since it is an affirmation of himself, of course he must continue to fry it. The best wild tea tree kings in the horizontal and vertical bracelets can be picked at any time.

Dongfang Luming smiled when he heard her answer, "Cheng! Anyway, Huo Jun, this kid doesn't know how many high-grade Tieguanyin have been scraped from me, and he can't let him snatch it this time no matter what. ”

After sipping a pot of tea, "Let's go, let's go to the studio and start today's lesson." Dongfang Luming locked Tieguanyin in the tea cabinet and beckoned Xi Yizheng to go to the left ear room.

"Teacher, is it really a matter of feeling to cut the stone?" Xi Yizheng asked curiously. I found some information, although there is talk about what to look at, pine flowers, and then follow the rubbing, cutting, and grinding of calcite. But I'm still confused.

"Gambling on the stone itself is based on personal experience and feelings. Although there are many ways to observe wool in the book, those are dead knowledge. Otherwise, there would be no saying that "immortals are difficult to break an inch of jade". "Dongfang Luming has never liked bookism. With his years of experience in carving and several gambling stones, he can't match the knowledge points mentioned in the book.

Xi Yizheng listened to his unique rhetoric as if he didn't understand it, and followed him into a small studio that was used to solve stones.

Dongfang Luming pointed to Xi Yizheng's only piece of jade wool and asked, "First of all, how did you choose this piece of wool in the first place?" Dongfang Luming asked curiously. He had inspected it several times after Huo Jun moved into the room, but judging from various external points, this piece of wool did not have the information to produce good materials. So he was curious about how Xi Yizheng chose it.

"Well, I just feel it." Xi Yizheng changed into a full-body overalls and replied with a shy smile. What can be said? With the special function of the bracelet? "It's because I don't understand that I want to learn about it." She added.

"Well, it's honest." Dongfang Luming praised. Today's children are all very arrogant.

"Teacher, why don't you tell me how to judge the quality of wool?"

"Well, okay." Dongfang Luming took a sip of tea and began to talk endlessly, explaining to her the formation of jadeite rough, as well as the characteristics and textures of the two kinds of rough, and listed the 11 types of jade and their characteristics according to the source of wool. Xi Yizheng listened with relish. Although she has read countless similar articles on the Internet about some of these knowledge points, combined with Dongfang Luming's explanations and examples, she has a deeper memory.

The short 3 hours of the morning ended with Dongfang Luming's vivid lecture, and lunch was cooked under Xi Yizheng. She really doesn't want to eat fast food like takeaway pizza and fried chicken, and prefers to take the time to make it herself. It's just that she rummaged through the refrigerator, and found a few tomatoes and eggs, so she had to make two tomatoes and egg noodles to pass the lunch, fortunately, Dongfang Luming is not a picky eater, he is not good at cooking, and almost every day is a take-out solution. Xi Yizheng was speechless for a while. It seems that I will have to bring some vegetables, rice and noodles and other food when I come over in the future. The eating habits of the Oriental teacher are really hard to compliment.

In the afternoon, it was time for the calcite practice class. Dongfang Luming briefly explained the matters that need to be paid attention to to understand the stone, especially the technique and strength when the knife is used. Then Xi Yizheng was under the guidance of Dongfang Luming, and after secretly checking the strength of the aura, he easily drew the first knife line on the wool.

"The first knife is generally rubbing, of course, if you can tell through the instrument that there is no possibility of green coming out of the skin, then use the cutting technique directly." Dongfang Luming explained while telling her the posture of the knife.

After Xi Yizheng turned on the destoner, he gently wiped off a thin layer of wool skin along the line.

"You see that the inside of the surface layer that has been wiped off does not have the possibility of forming the eleven kinds of jadeite that I listed for you in the morning, which means that even if this piece of wool is green, it must be some distance from this surface layer and can be cut directly.

"Teacher, how do you master the depth?" After cutting a few millimeters into the line drawn by Xi Yizheng, he couldn't help but stop and asked sideways. Before watching the calcite master calcify the stone, he was very sure to go down with a knife, and he didn't stop until he got green, but at the same time as the knife, the debris of the wool would cover the gap, and it was easy for people to miss the moment when the first green came out.

"Then it depends on each person's grasp of calcite. Some people use the knife too much and it is easy to damage the material, and some people stop to look, which is too wasteful of time and easy to move the positioning of the calcite knife. Dongfang carefully explained to her, "Generally speaking, we will rely on the feel after feeding, usually, even under the knife, until the green will feel a little difficult, we should immediately stop, pour water to wash the debris, and check the situation in the gaps." If you go out of the green and just pull aside, you will continue to cut until everything is in the end. If the jadeite is in the center position, the line should be re-drawn to determine the position of the knife, so as not to destroy the overall sense of the jadeite material. ”

Xi Yizheng nodded clearly and continued his movements. Slowly penetrate deep into the wool and delicately feel the strength on your hands. Sure enough, 10 centimeters away from the entrance, the knife was much heavier than before, she stopped, scooped a bowl of water in the sink on the side, slightly drizzled some on the wool, washed off the debris covered on it, and looked through the gap with a flashlight, and sure enough, a touch of extremely bright green came straight to her eyes.