"No, the original blood amber stone is not that big. I can see faint growth ring-shaped stone patterns inside the stone. There is no doubt that this thing is agate, but why does Alxa agate have such a color? It's strange."
"There are so many people, let's go in and talk," Zou Xiaotong said, looking at the stone and attracting the attention of the crowd, and immediately led us into the inner room of the exhibition hall.
"The troublesome stone is giving me a look," he said after sitting down.
Bean sprouts handed it to him.
Back and forth, left and right, his eyes became more and more radiant.
"This red color is so rare that I already have inspiration in my mind."
"I made this stone." Zou Xiaotong said touching the stone fondly.
Just now, he looked down on Alxa Agate, but his attitude changed too quickly. Dou Sprout was stunned and said: "Master, your salary is..."
Zou Xiaotong nodded and said: "My wages in the industry have always been very stable. For such a large carving, the price is around 8."
"What?" Bean Sprout stared: "The salary is 80,000!"
"No, no, we won't do it. It's too expensive."
Zou Xiaotong said anxiously: "This stone is very special. I can give you a friend's price. How about 70,000 yuan for the labor?"
Forget it, Douyazai shook his head and said it was still too expensive.
At that time, Zou Xiaotong was a very popular craftsman in the jade industry. Others would always ask him to carve his work, and those who could afford it would not care how much the wages were, unlike Dou Sprout.
He said: "Tell me how much you want to pay. The salary is not an issue. The main thing is that I got inspiration for this stone."
Dou Sprout thought for two minutes and stretched out three fingers.
"Thirty thousand?" Zou Xiaotong shook his head with a serious expression: "It's too low. This will lower the average price in the industry that I have maintained in recent years. Please please respect my craftsmanship and set a new price."
Douyazai was a little embarrassed. He said, Master, you made a mistake again. I didn't say thirty thousand, I said three thousand. I think it is already very high.
"What!"
"Three thousand!?" Zou Xiaotong's face changed drastically.
This is not the price of a master craftsman, but the price of an apprentice.
I think Bean Sprouts is a bit too much, and I feel that around 30,000 is more appropriate.
Just as I was about to speak, Bean Sprout Zai was already wrapping the rocks in his hands.
"Why are you panicking? We haven't reached an agreement yet!" Zou Xiaotong held down the stone.
Later we reached a secret agreement.
The reason why it is called a secret agreement is because Zou Xiaotong said that three thousand is three thousand, but we must keep this price strictly confidential and cannot disclose it to outsiders. Even Zhao Qiang cannot let him know.
I was still puzzled at the time, and I only found out the reason later.
It turns out that the most authoritative award in the domestic jade carving industry at that time was the Hundred Flowers Award of the China Treasures Association (hereinafter referred to as the China Treasures Association). He had already won this award once, but it was also in this year that the China Treasures Association held a new large-scale competition.
Competition, this is the first Tiangong Collection and the first Tiangong Award.
Zou Xiaotong himself won the gold medal of the World Expo and the China Treasures Association Hundred Flowers Sculpture Competition. He originally did not plan to participate in the first Tiangong Award that was about to be held this year, but he changed his mind when he saw this Alxa blood agate.
The results of it.
He is the first craft carving master of Ten Thousand Kingdoms, Hundred Flowers, Tiangong, and Three Gold Grand Slam. This kind of craftsmanship is very difficult, especially in the selection of materials, which is similar to the ancient Lianzhong Sanyuan.
It was with this piece of agate that he completed the three-prize grand slam and became famous on the list of top talents.
This piece of blood agate has transformed from an ugly duckling into a black swan through the hands of a craftsman, which is why it was named by Zou Xiaotong.
