Counting the days, it was almost a week away from the finals of the Jade Sculpture Competition. For several days, Chen Ran had been practicing the Eight Wave Splitting Sword Technique day and night.
Apart from buying daily necessities, Chen Ran stayed at home and kept practicing every day. However, he still had not broken through the bottleneck of the eight-sword wave-splitting technique.
However, although he has not broken through the bottleneck, his knife skills have been able to reach the throne. Compared with before he obtained the eight-sword splitting knife technique, he has improved a lot. If he talks about knife skills at this moment, he has definitely surpassed the level of most first-level jade carvers.
, even compared to the second-level jade carver, it is better than many people.
Of course, in the world of jade carving masters, there are hidden dragons and crouching tigers, and there are countless masters hidden among the people. At this moment, Chen Ran can only be regarded as a small success, and he is still far behind the masters.
Even people like Lu Tianming are much stronger than Chen Ran. After all, Chen Ran only had the Eight Wave Splitting Sword Technique for a short period of time. If he was given some time, he might be able to surpass them.
Although he has been practicing for so long and has yet to break through the bottleneck, Chen Ran is not discouraged and continues to practice every day.
Chen Ran has long been familiar with the one-blade technique before the Eight-Sword Splitting Wave Sword Technique, and his control over the knife technique has reached an unimaginable level. Whether with his eyes open or closed, he can carve any
Wherever you want to carve, it should be darker, or shallower, absolutely exactly the same.
When Chen Ran practiced, he still practiced with marble. Only when he found the feeling, he would carve with jade. Even so, his room was filled with jade objects of all sizes, which was only consumed by the material cost.
No less than one hundred thousand.
In the room, after practicing without sleep or food for a day with marble, Chen Ran began to try jade carving again.
Chen Ran looked intently at the piece of Dushan Jade in front of him, and with a breath, he exhaled all the air in his chest. The next moment, he was already moving!
But the shadow just flickered, and Chen Ran returned to his original position.
But there was still only a trace left on the jade. Although this trace served as a finishing touch, it was obvious that this was not what Chen Ran wanted.
Try harder!
Chen Ran clenched his fists and told himself this in his heart.
It's a pity that it failed again the second time!
The third time still failed!
The fourth time was still a failure!
…
The sweat on Chen Ran's brow continued to flow down like a broken pearl, soaking his clothes. Although he failed one after another, Chen Ran did not stop and still continued to work.
Moving on, he still doesn't believe this is evil. He is only one step away from success. Is this step so difficult for him?
One day later.
Chen Ran couldn't hide the tired look on his face, and his eyes were bloodshot.
Chen Ran squatted on the ground slumpedly, looking at the pile of failed jades in front of him, and Chen Ran was in a daze.
What exactly went wrong?
Could it be that there was an error somewhere?
Chen Ran frowned and pulled his disheveled hair with his right hand. After pondering painfully for a long time, Chen Ran didn't figure out the reason. Instead, he squatted on the ground and fell asleep against the wall. He slept deeply.
He had hardly slept well for so many days. At this moment, he was really too tired.
Not long after Chen Ran fell asleep, there was a knock on his door. Standing outside and knocking on the door was the landlady, a policewoman.
The landlady, a female police officer, was still wearing the uniform of a criminal police officer. She was standing at the door with a black baggage in her hand, and in the living room behind her, there was a large box with a trolley, as if she was going on a long trip.
After knocking for a long time but no one responded, the female police landlady had a cold and pretty face, opened the door and walked in. After searching for a long time, she found Chen Ran who was squatting and sleeping in the corner, and couldn't help but frown.
He raised his eyebrows.
Seeing Chen Ran sitting on the floor and falling asleep, she turned around and wanted to leave, but just when she stepped out of the room, she turned around again.
Putting the baggage gently by the door, she walked up to Chen Ran with a frown, lowered her head, bit her lip, and glared at Chen Ran with some gritted teeth.
With a snort, she stretched out her foot and lightly kicked Chen Ran, but Chen Ran didn't respond.
After kicking him hard, Chen Ran still didn't respond.
Another hard kick, but Chen Ran still had no reaction.
"What a dead pig!"
The landlady, the policewoman, muttered angrily, then squatted down and carried Chen Ran to the bed.
"Better sleep to death!"
After covering Chen Ran with a quilt, the policewoman and the landlady stared at Chen Ran's sleeping face, gritted her teeth and murmured. Finally, she stretched out her hands and pinched Chen Ran's neck with claws and claws, as if to pinch Chen Ran's neck.
Then strangled him to death in his sleep.
But she soon felt that it was too cheap for Chen Ran to let Chen Ran die in his sleep like this, so she had better find another way.
Chen Ran was lying on the bed when he woke up, which made him a little strange, but he didn't think much about it. After all, his mind was not clear at the time, so it was not impossible that he crawled into bed before going to bed.
He got out of bed, opened the window, and took a deep breath. The chilly air made Chen Ran wake up immediately.
Looking back at the pile of jade articles, Chen Ran sighed softly. Although there were only two days left before the jade carving competition, the eight-wave splitting sword technique still had not made a breakthrough, but it had reached this point, no matter what
Anyway, let's take a rest first.
If this continues, even if he can persist, his body will collapse.
Speaking of physical matters, Chen Ran suddenly thought of Master Miao. Since he returned to Zhongdu, he has not been to Master Miao's place once. Until now, he has not figured out why Master Miao treated him so specially.
Although he was confused, Chen Ran felt that Master Miao would not harm him. He knew very well that if he had not been practicing the eight-sword wave dividing technique for a long time, his body would have collapsed long ago if it were not for the soup that Master Miao asked him to drink.
Every time he drank the decoction Master Miao asked him to drink, he could feel that his body was getting stronger.
At this point, I feel the most profoundly when practicing the Eight-Sword Splitting Wave Sword Technique.
Since the Eight Sword Wave Dividing Sword Technique still couldn't break through, Chen Ran decided to go out for a walk. After all, he might have to rush to Huadu tomorrow, and some things in Zhongdu should be dealt with.
Go out for a walk, you might even find some inspiration.
Chen Ran rummaged through boxes and cabinets for a long time before finding his cell phone. In the past few days, his cell phone had been turned off. When he turned it on, he received a series of text messages.
Most of the text messages were reminders to receive calls. Chen Ran checked and found that these calls were from Uncle Huang, Ning Wei, Guo Hai, Yang Long, Bai Lao, and Wang Zhiqing.
Here comes another unknown number.
In addition to the reminder to receive the phone call, there were five messages, three of which were sent by Chen Xiaowen and Chen Xiaomei respectively, but the fourth was a message from a scammer, the kind that sent a bank account number and asked someone to send money.
This kind of message was no longer fresh at all, so Chen Ran deleted it directly. The last one was sent by an unknown account.
"Lang, Lang, after saying goodbye, I had a lot of thoughts and thoughts, and I was helpless. I finally left. I only hope to meet again in a year. Ah Ran, give me one year. After one year, I will abandon everything and come back.
Wait for me by your side, wait for me..."
This message was sent by an unknown account. Chen Ran scanned the beginning and end, thinking it was someone who sent the blessing message, so he deleted it directly.
He didn't notice the title in the text message.
It was just such an oversight on his part, but it changed a lot.
After Chen Ran read the text message, he immediately called Guo Hai and Yang Long respectively. Guo Hai had nothing to do. He just said that he would drive to Zhongdu tomorrow. When he arrived in Zhongdu, Chen Ran would go there together.
Huadu.
Yang Long had nothing to do. He just asked Chen Ran if he was back and was going to come over to fight the local tyrants. Chen Ran told him that he had been back for a few days, which immediately made him complain.
When Chen Ran said that he was leaving tomorrow, he immediately said that he would come over in the evening. When he learned that Chen Ran was going to Huadu to participate in the jade carving competition tomorrow, he also became interested and said that he would wait until he had time tomorrow.
, also went with Chen Ran.
After hanging up Yang Long's call, Chen Ran was originally going to call Bai Lao, but after thinking about it for a while, he decided to go directly to Bai Lao's shop.
Stepping into Beihuan Antique City again, Chen Ran's mood was a little different. Chen Ran walked and observed. He observed not only the antiques on the stalls, but also the people coming and going.
In the past, Chen Ran would not pay attention to pedestrians, but now he pays attention to them. While paying attention, he ponders, and what he ponders is naturally the human heart.
Chen Ran didn't find anything good, and Chen Ran wasn't disappointed either.
After not seeing Bai Lao in Bai Lao's ceramics shop, Chen Ran came to Bai Lao's tea shop.
"Xiaoran, where have you been during this time? It's really not easy to meet you."
Mr. Bai was originally in the box. When he heard that Chen Ran was coming, he immediately ran out of the box. When he saw Chen Ran, he laughed heartily, but there was a lot of complaining in his mouth.
Chen Ran could only smile bitterly and keep apologizing.
Bai Lao complained about Chen Ran for a while, and then enthusiastically pulled Chen Ran into the box.
The guests in the tea shop who saw this scene couldn't help but be surprised and asked who this young man was. After all, Bai Lao had a high status in the antique city, but he treated such a young man so enthusiastically.
After learning Chen Ran's identity, everyone suddenly realized it, which also led to Chen Ran being surrounded by people when he left Bai Lao's box.
At noon, Chen Ran had lunch with Mr. Bai. Before leaving, Mr. Bai told Chen Ran that he should have time to go to his home to see the good things he had collected.
Chen Ran agreed wholeheartedly.
When he returned to the apartment, he took out the key, opened the door and walked in. Chen Ran frowned.
[Depressed, I'm really sorry. I set up the automatic update, but when I was surfing the Internet on my mobile phone, I suddenly saw that the update hadn't come out yet. I quickly went to the Internet cafe to update it. 】
