When Zhang Chengyuan got home, no matter how his parents asked who he was bullied, how he got wet, and how the wound was scratched, he just shook his head. The smart mother saw that the child seemed to have something on her mind, so she didn't continue to ask more, but carefully helped Zhang Chengyuan bandage the wound, change into dry clothes, and eat together as usual, the two parents watched TV, and Zhang Chengyuan reviewed his homework. But this night, Zhang Chengyuan really couldn't read the book, and a beautiful image always appeared in his mind, a little fairy wearing a pink dress and bare feet lost her temper with him and played with him...... And the wax model, because of the reason he splashed water, the girl accidentally fell down and broke the wax model, she must be sad, she must have carved that wax model for a long time, right? Will she hate me? But she accidentally scratched my hand, does she care about me? What's her name? Her father called her Xixi, was she Xixi?

"Son, do you want to talk?" Zhang Chengyuan's mother walked into Zhang Chengyuan's room, looked at the child in a daze, and asked gently.

Although Zhang Chengyuan has never seen a pig run, he has eaten pork. Eight or nine-year-old children are ignorant, whether they have a favorite person, they are still very clear. Having a girl you like is not something worth showing off to your parents for a boy, so Zhang Chengyuan will not tell his mother about it.

"Mom, I have a good friend, he's a boy, he likes to do carving. I accidentally broke his handicraft today, and I don't know what to do. "Zhang Chengyuan has quite a set of nonsense.

"When did your generation start carving?" Mother looked a little surprised.

"It's not popular, he likes it." Zhang Chengyuan replied.

"It depends on what kind of material he uses to make the embryo." Mother thought about it and said casually.

"Wax mold embryos." Zhang Chengyuan said.

"The wax mold embryo will be easy to do." The mother smiled confidently, like a long-lost sense of pride.

"Mom, do you know what to do?" Zhang Chengyuan's eyes widened, as if he saw some hope.

"Your mother and I used to be connoisseurs of carving, of course I know!" The mother looked at her son with a smile.

"Mom, take me as an apprentice! I want to learn! Zhang Chengyuan looked very excited, as if he had never wanted to learn anything so voluntarily, but this time he really wanted to learn from the bottom of his heart.

"Husband! I'm going to take in apprentices! Mother showed pride and summoned her father to watch TV in the next room.

Zhang Chengyuan's father came over from the next room, looked at his daughter-in-law with a depressed face and said, "Wife, we can't be strong, can we?" Let's just this one son, don't force him to learn your little crafts, okay? ”

"Cut!" The mother said proudly, "Husband, but our son volunteered to apprentice, so I didn't ask him to learn, did I?" The mother said, turning her head to look at her son.

Zhang Chengyuan nodded desperately.

Dad was stunned for a moment, nodded and said, "Okay, okay!" It's really your own son! ”

"Don't just nod your head!" My mother proudly ordered, "Take out all my teaching aids!" ”

Dad nodded helplessly, went back to the bedroom and rummaged under the bed for a long time, took out a sorting box, hugged it, and said to his son seriously: "Son! If your mother forces you to learn, you can come to me to complain! ”

When my mother heard this, she was angry and whispered to my father, "All right! It's none of your business here, you can go back to the house! ”

In the next few days, Zhang Chengyuan came home from school every night and pestered his mother to teach him to carve after finishing his homework.

My mother is a teacher of electrical automation in college, but I never thought that when she talked about carving, she was also the first to go. Two days ago, I first reviewed the types of carving, which are divided into carving, carving and plastic according to the process method, and soft carving and hard carving according to the processed materials. Soft carvings include plaster, resin, clay, paraffin, etc.; It should be carved including jade, agate, metal, etc. It turned out that carving used to be a big hobby of my mother, but I don't know when it started, my life became busier and busier, and I never did it again. Now I open the craft box carved by my mother, and there are raw gypsum, clay, resin, paraffin and other embryos, as well as a set of exquisite handmade knives decorated with black jade.

Out of the expectation of the bottom of his heart, Zhang Chengyuan wanted to learn wax carving first, but his mother refused to let him. My mother said that clay carving is an introduction, and you have to carve clay well before you can teach anything else.

Zhang Chengyuan used the excuse of repairing his buddy's broken wax model, but his mother said that it was impossible to repair it with his current skills, but he could take it home and let his mother help repair it.

But of course, Zhang Chengyuan couldn't take the girl's wax model home, so he had to be patient and start with clay carving.

From the posture of holding the sword, the direction of the force, to the method, speed, and strength of the carving, it is all knowledge. The mother carved a large seal out of clay with Zhang Chengyuan's name engraved on it. Zhang Chengyuan also practiced according to the cat and the tiger. But three hundred and sixty lines, Xing Xing has his own knowledge, a seemingly simple carving, and only when you really learn it does you know that there are such and such difficulties.

When filling the soil on the embryo, Zhang Chengyuan's grasp of the amount and strength of the soil is far less than that of his mother......

If this was placed in normal times, Zhang Chengyuan felt that this knowledge was not suitable for him, so he would definitely give up, but this time he didn't know where he came from, so he kept practicing. It took him about a week to finally master the art of carving clay.

As soon as Zhang Chengyuan got started, he clamored to learn to carve paraffin. And the carving of paraffin is really much more complicated than that of clay. His mother told him that the paraffin wax material is brittle, although soft, but fragile, and if you want to ensure accuracy when carving, you must carve it hot.

The so-called hot carving is that every time a knife is carved, the handmade knife is first heated with fire, and then in contact with the wax model, the wax model will become soft when heated, and it will not become brittle and broken. However, the heat of heating should also be mastered, and overheating will also melt the wax mold directly.

In addition, there is another mystery, which is the water sculpture. In some cases, water is needed to preserve the wax in its melted state.

It took her three days to carve a beautiful doll out of wax molds, and finally she used a few pieces of crushed wax to heat it into a liquid state, drip it on the doll's neck like a column of water, and then quickly spray it with a watering can, and the paraffin wax solidified on the doll's neck in the form of water droplets, turning into a beautiful necklace.

These beautiful things are actually not easy to operate, although Zhang Chengyuan has a clever mother, but boys are always stupid. He can't grasp the heat of the utility knife just by heating it, and when he hesitates when he puts down the knife, the heat of the knife is not enough, and the contact time between the knife and the wax model is long, and the wax model will melt away.

It took him about two weeks to finally master the introductory skills of hot carving.

As for the method of repairing the wax model, it is first melted with crushed wax, standing on the surface of the fracture, and then inserting a heated metal needle into the fracture to inject liquid wax, and finally the fracture needs to be melted on the fire and then cooled, and then the surface is repaired and cleaned.

Zhang Chengyuan is not a clever boy, but as long as a boy does one thing with heart and concentration, it is difficult to do it.

Zhang Chengyuan practiced wax carving every day, never stopping. It took him another month to finally make the wax sculpture look decent, although it could not catch up with his mother's delicacy, but compared to the girl's work, it should be better. Because the girl didn't have a mother as ingenious as him, and she didn't know the tricks of hot and water carving.

This Tuesday night, Zhang Chengyuan couldn't sleep, his mind was full of plans for tomorrow. Tomorrow is Wednesday, early in the afternoon, and he wants to show off his skills that he has studied so hard for so long in front of the girls.

With a sweet imagination, Zhang Chengyuan fell asleep.

The soft sunset shone into the backyard of the girl's house, Zhang Chengyuan and the girl sat by the pool, and Cheng Yuan was using his newly learned technique to repair the girl's wax model.

The girl's face was filled with a look of surprise and adoration.

Zhang Chengyuan was excited and nervous, and felt his heart pounding.

"Who taught you to carve?" The girl suddenly asked in an ethereal, cold voice.

A smile tugged at the girl's face, replaced by a serious, cold interrogation.

"Me, my mother...... What's wrong? ”

"This carving knife in your hand belongs to your mother?" The girl's voice was deeper and more ethereal.

Zhang Chengyuan looked down at the carving knife in his hand, the outline of the knife changed from blurry to clear, and the handle of the knife was inlaid with black jade, yes, he was sure that this carving knife was one of the sets of carving knives that his mother gave him.

Zhang Chengyuan raised his head again, but the girl in front of him had disappeared.

"You can't carve!" An ethereal voice sounded behind Zhang Chengyuan.

Zhang Chengyuan felt the cold wind blowing behind him, he turned around suddenly, and found that behind him was the door of the terrifying health center, the stone sealed in the door had collapsed, the door slowly opened, and the yin wind poured out from inside.

"Again, you can't carve!"

A surging wind blew Zhang Chengyuan's light body up, drifting him rapidly and flying him to the bed.

Zhang Chengyuan woke up from his dream.

His nerves were in a trance, he remembered that he had just had a dream, and there seemed to be people in the dream who disagreed with some of his practices, but he couldn't remember the specific dream.

In a daze, Zhang Chengyuan fell asleep again, and woke up the next morning, the sun was shining, and everything was so beautiful.

After school that afternoon, the partners of the Excellence Alliance met to go to the playground of the high school district to play, Zhang Chengyuan hurriedly said to Leng Changhe after school: "I have something to do today, help me talk to Brother Zhu." He turned around and ran home with his bag on his back.

Leng Changhe felt that Zhang Chengyuan's behavior was strange, which made him scratch his head.

In fact, not only Leng Changhe felt that Zhang Chengyuan was strange, but also the partners of the Excellence Alliance felt strange. First of all, Zhang Chengyuan has a legendary pick-up of football, which is what everyone has ever thought of; Then there is his usual performance, when everyone plays together, he is always out of shape, and he is in a daze when he plays; When I go to school on campus on weekdays, I look around when I have nothing to do, as if I am looking for someone; And he rarely participates in the Excellence League activities after school, saying that he has something to do every day and goes home, and he doesn't know what he is busy with at home.

Zhang Chengyuan ran home in one breath, seeing that the time was only three o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Chengyuan screamed with joy, and then poured out all the books in the schoolbag, put matches, alcohol lamps, small watering cans, a complete set of utility knives and a large piece of wax mold into the schoolbag, and ran out with the bag on his back.

Where did he go?