Chapter Twenty-Three: A Thousand Years of Rare Demons

Everyone has their own selfishness, just like going to the hospital to find the best doctor, going to dinner and wanting the best chef to cook their favorite dishes, going to the playground, and the most fun items are always the most popular.

Ye Yu is not exempt from vulgarity, with good jade raw materials, he wants to find the best jade carver, and it just so happens that he really knows one.

Chen Yuchi was silent for only a few seconds, and then agreed: "Yes, you can just send me your jadeite raw materials!"

Chen Yuchi didn't even ask Ye Yu what the quality of the materials in his hand was, so he agreed.

This made Ye Yu very surprised, and after asking the address, he greeted the company leaders and went out directly

In addition to being a top jade carving master, Chen Yuchi is also a qualified master, teaching more than 30 apprentices, more than a dozen of whom have reached the master level.

In the jade carving industry, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a peach and plum all over the world.

Chen Yuchi lives in the western suburbs of Shanghai, covering a large area, which itself is a jade carving factory, half of his apprentices work here, and the rest are out of school, either by themselves, or by the jewelry company Gaoxin.

Chen Yuchi was in his studio, and it was his apprentice who specially went out to pick up Ye Yu.

"Xiaoye, come, sit down!"

Chen Yuchi's studio is very large, and there is a set of exquisite mahogany sofas, Ye Yu thanked him and sat next to Chen Yuchi.

Two pieces of bracelet material, all opened and laid out.

"Old Chen, I don't know how much your labor fee is, I carved two bracelets from these two pieces of material, and then two jade plates, what kind of jade plate you can look at, and the labor fee will give you 500,000 yuan, do you think it?"

The handiwork fee of the top master is extremely high, Ye Yu doesn't know the market at all, and he specially asked someone to ask before giving such a price.

Two jade bracelets and two jade plates, a total of 500,000, is basically equivalent to 150,000 bracelets and 100,000 jade plates.

"Yes, Gao Bing Huang Yang Green, I haven't seen such good materials for a long time, you can not only make two bracelets and jade plates, but also seven or eight ring noodles, I'll make them for you together!"

Chen Lao picked up two pieces of jadeite raw materials and praised them again and again, Ye Yu's calculation method is not right, those leftovers can also make things, such as small Ping'an buckles and the like, but none of them are the most practical to ring noodles.

"That's better, Old Chen, thank you, there are 150,000 in this card, I will give you a deposit first, do you think it's okay?" Chen Yuchi's suggestion, how could Ye Yu object.

"Money, I don't want it!"

Chen Yuchi smiled and pushed the card handed over by Ye Yu, but Ye Yu looked at him in a daze, not knowing why.

They just met, and their relationship is not good enough to help with free processing, right?

If something goes wrong, there must be a demon, Chen Lao, what do you want to do?

"I don't do it for you for free, I have a condition, but the condition is very simple, after a month, accompany me to a place!" Chen Yuchi said.

"Where are you going in a month?" Ye Yu was still a little apprehensive in his heart.

"You'll know when the time comes"

Chen Yuchi put down the jade raw materials, stood up, walked out directly, walked in front of a row of Bogu racks, and beckoned Ye Yu to pass.

"What do you think of this jade?"

Chen Yuchi pointed to an ornament with his finger, Kunlun green jade ornament, the jade material is OK, the carving is also good, the market value of such jade is about twenty or thirty thousand, and it is just an extremely ordinary one here.

Ye Yu glanced at it roughly, just this one jade on the Bogu shelf is worth more than one million, this is just a Bogu shelf, in Chen Yuchi's studio, there are five such Bogu shelves full of jade.

"This one is very good, the jade is delicate and clear, and the carved bird shape is vivid and lively!"

This is a jade carving of a hundred birds and a phoenix, but there are not really a hundred birds on it, only twenty or thirty are visible, and the rest are hidden behind, either a wing, or a claw, or a head.

"Be more detailed!" Chen Yuchi said again.

"Details?" Ye Yu was silent.

The jade that can be placed in Chen Yuchi's studio is certainly not ordinary, although this ornament is good at carving, but there are also many mistakes, which are not at all comparable to the real master's work.

According to Ye Yu's observation, this work has been formed for less than five years, and it must not have been made by Chen Yuchi, but it was not made by him here, nor could it be that he bought it for collection, and the biggest possibility is the work of a disciple of Chen Yuchi.

Such a jade carving, let him make a detailed comment, what does he say?

To tell the truth, will Chen Yuchi be angry?

If he didn't say it, it was obvious that Chen Yuchi would not agree, which would make Ye Yu really have a headache.

"Don't worry, say it boldly!" Chen Yuchi didn't know Ye Yu's worries, but he could see that he was hesitating.

With Chen Yuchi's encouragement, Ye Yu made up his mind, raised his head and said: "Since Old Chen, you asked me to say it, then I will say it, first of all, this piece of jade should not be carved with a hundred birds and a phoenix!"

"Why?" Chen Yuchi's eyes lit up.

"You see, the shape of this piece of jade, although large and wide, is suitable for this kind of relief work, but the lower left and upper right parts of this jade are dark and light, these two places are all in the carving range of the big tree, and the two colors appear on the big tree is very peaceful, and now the tree on the jade carving is ugly!"

Ye Yu pointed to two places, there is a big tree on the relief of the hundred birds towards the phoenix, and the phoenix stands on the top of the big tree and accepts the worship of the hundred birds.

"Secondly, the top of the jade is slightly yellowed, and the master carved this yellowed part into a part of the wings of a phoenix, which at first glance looks like a phoenix feather, and his idea is very good, but he is still wrong. The wings of the phoenix should not appear in this place, and it should not change the shape of the phoenix just for this piece of yellow, because of this action, the power of the phoenix of this jade carving has been reduced by at least three percent, and the power is not enough, not enough to suppress the birds!"

Ye Yu is talking about the phoenix shape of the jade carving, and most of the phoenixes in the general bird are spreading their wings, or calmly retracting their wings, standing on the tree, looking down on the birds. But in front of him, the jade carving of a hundred birds and a phoenix, the wings of the phoenix seem to scratch themselves again, lazy, and the prestige has indeed decreased a lot.

Correspondingly, the carvings of several eagles are good, but it makes people feel that this phoenix is just ears and ears, and his subordinates can make it anti-ordinary.

"Not bad, not bad!" Chen Yuchi's eyes brightened and he nodded again and again.

"Let's talk about carving, the level of this master is very high, but it is only very high, and the handling of some details is not good, such as this bird's head, normally speaking, he should go up and down first, and then go up and right, but he is first down and then up, first right and then up, the order is just the opposite, and the result is that the bird's head looks like looking back, which should not be on the bird!"

Ye Yu pointed to a bird's head and said, this time, Chen Yuchi was stunned, and hurriedly looked at the bird's head that Ye Yu pointed at.

Ye Yu said two points before, he can also see that Ye Yu guessed correctly, this is indeed the work of one of his disciples, or a disciple with good talent, five years ago he was not in Huhai, the disciple got this piece of raw material on a whim, carved this piece of birds and phoenix.

When he saw it, he knew that the disciple carved it wrong, and he could see the two points that Ye Yu said, but even he didn't see the order in which the disciple carved the bird's head.

After Chen Yuchi took a closer look, the carving of this bird's head was indeed a little different, but even if Ye Yu specifically pointed it out, he couldn't see the true order of the carving.

"Wang Yuan, you come to me, come here now!"

Chen Yuchi took out his mobile phone and dialed a number, and after a while, a man came running outside, in his thirties, not tall, about 1.65 meters.

"Master, what do you call me?" the man asked anxiously, still sweating a little.

"There are knives and materials, you take your bird's head, and re-carve it for me here!"

Chen Yuchi didn't ask him about the order of the bird's head, it had been five years, and Wang Yuan himself didn't necessarily say it, so he asked Wang Yuan to re-carve it in front of him.

I can't say it, but there are some habits that can't be changed.

"This, I'll come back later!" Wang Yuan wiped his sweat, and the master's words put a lot of pressure on him.

"No, you just get started, just carve this bird's head, and follow it!"

Chen Yuchi vetoed his suggestion to rest, Chen Yuchi wanted to see the order of his knife, not what kind of thing he carved, no matter how bad the carving was.

Wang Yuan didn't dare to disobey the master's words, so he immediately picked up the electric drill knife and a piece of waste pointed out by the master, sat in front of the work he had carved before, carefully compared the bird's head on it, and began to carve.

Chen Yuchi looked at his hand tightly, after Wang Yuan's bird head was formed, it was indeed in the order of first going down and then up, first right and then up, exactly the same as what Ye Yu said.

This time, Chen Yuchi was stunned.

He knew that Ye Yu had good eyesight, ability, and strength, so it was a deliberate little test just now, and Ye Yu was able to say the two things before, which had already shocked him, but he didn't think that he still underestimated Ye Yu, he could even see the order of the knife?

This can't be faked at all, the work belongs to his apprentice, even he doesn't know the true order of the knife, and Ye Yu can't even know.

This can only show that the young man in front of him has reached the pinnacle in terms of jade and even jade carving, far beyond ordinary people.

After a while, Wang Yuan's bird head carving was completed, and it looked more agile than the jade carving, after all, his strength had increased a lot in the past five years, but the feeling that the bird was going to turn back still existed.

"Wang Yuan, do it again, but this time you do it in reverse order, first up and then down, and then up and right!"

Chen Yuchi gave another order to Wang Yuan, this time let Wang Yuan use the correct method that Ye Yu said before, Wang Yuan didn't know what was going on, but he had to do what the master told him, and he didn't dare to disobey it at all.

Re-stabbing the knife, although the order is a little awkward, but Wang Yuan is an experienced jade carver, and he quickly made this bird's head again.

At this time, the bird's head is still lifelike, but it is completely different from the feeling just now, this bird's head looks straight ahead, and it still has that solemn sense of worship.

Ye Yu was right, just by changing the order, there was such a big change, which made Chen Yuchi even more shocked.

In terms of jade carving eyesight alone, Ye Yu's ability is far from being comparable to him. He used to think that Ye Yu was a genius, but now he felt that he was wrong again, the genius completely underestimated Ye Yu, Ye Yu was a demon, at least in terms of jade carving, it was a demon that was rare in a thousand years.