In ancient times, Qiaose carving was the most basic operation for jade carvers.
After all, in ancient times when the mining industry was underdeveloped, the output of raw jade ores was pitifully low. Jade carvers affiliated with the Ministry of Industry or under wealthy businessmen were fine. They selected materials directly from the mines; while the most ordinary jade carvers at the bottom could
Most of the jade materials obtained are low-grade goods that have been carefully screened.
How to carve colors out of ordinary materials has become a problem that all low-level jade carvers need to face.
Thus, there is Qise Carving: using ingenious ideas to transform the flaws or variegated colors of jade into outstanding features.
Later, as the industrialization process spread to the mining industry, the output of jade increased, and jade carvers were no longer too lazy to waste time on inferior materials. As a result, "qiaose carving" unknowingly turned into an advanced carving technique...
Zhou Yan is no stranger to Qise. The source of his jade carving skills, Lu Zigang, is the master of Qise carving.
Once the material is as big as a child's palm, it is easy to carve it with little effort. Moreover, the carving knives Deng Zhuo bought for Zhou Yan are all high-end goods. When carving Hetian jade with relatively low hardness, it is almost like peeling clay...
After the carving, there was still polishing: the carving only took two hours, and the polishing took a full afternoon.
After the work was completed, Zhou Yan looked at it for a long time, then wrapped it in bubbles, put it in a box, and sent it to Xinhai by express: Goddess Day is coming soon.
After the gifts were sent out, Zhou Yan carved the remaining small, defective pieces of seed material into pendants in the shapes of golden monkeys and red pandas in pretty colors.
After practicing his skills for a week, Zhou Yan carved out most of the seeds he purchased a while ago, except for an oversized seed about the size of an adult's fist.
The reason why Zhou Yan saved it until the end is not because this piece of seed material has the best texture, but because this piece of seed material is too messy: the matrix should be infected by graphite, and the overall color is gray, with some white spots on the surface.
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After struggling for a while, Zhou Yan decided to peel off the skin first to see if the gray color had really penetrated into the inside.
However, when he used a sander to remove a layer of leather, he found that the gray color was still there, and the white spots were even larger...
Zhou Yan looked at it carefully, and when he was about to give up, he accidentally discovered the seed material under the light, which looked a bit like a curled up cat.
cat?
Zhou Yan's mind was running wildly, and finally, an ugly and cute image appeared in his mind.
Rabbit!
If the red panda and the golden monkey are celebrities who have become popular due to their appearance and strength, then the rabbit with its cute and silly appearance is undoubtedly a super Internet celebrity, and the tragic life experience of this Internet celebrity is enough to earn it another
Enough fans' attention...
Creativity is coming and nothing can stop it.
Zhou Yan quickly picked up the pencil and sketched the shape of the rabbit on the document, then picked up the carving knife and started carving...
Zhou Yan was busy all day and finally carved out the rabbit.
The same pretty color, the rabbit cat is undoubtedly a lot more troublesome than the red panda. Just the gray fur on the back took an entire afternoon, and the ferocious yet cute face is also more time-consuming.
Looking at the polished Jade Rabbit, Zhou Yan nodded with satisfaction, reached out to pick it up, and placed it on the table in the living room...
"Ding……"
The system's monotonous prompt tone, which has remained unchanged for thousands of years, sounded.
[Jade Master Badge Task: Carve the national jade seal according to the drawings and drawings provided by the system.
Mission reward one: five thousand points.
Mission reward two: Xi Town Jiuzhou.]
When he saw the mission, Zhou Yan was confused: "Xi Zhen Jiuzhou, what does this mean?"
【A flower planting layout will appear in the virtual space.】
My aerospace career is finally coming to fruition!
Although he is just a flower grower, with the map of the flower grower, is he still far away from locating the earth?
Zhou Yan quickly took out the Lantian jade that was shipped with the jade carving tools a while ago...
Although the imperial jade seal of the Qin Dynasty sounds very domineering, in fact the shape is relatively simple, the seal pad is square, and the seal button is a little more complicated, with five intertwined chilongs, and it is also hollowed out.
In the evening, Zhou Yan worked overtime and drove Chuan Guo Yuxi out.
After finishing, the sullen Zhou Yan dipped some Longquan ink pads he found on the National Day and stamped the title page of his notebook with the words "Ordered by God, he will live forever"...
After stamping the seal, Zhou Yan looked at it happily and nodded: "Not bad..."
The system is very pleasant and rewards are distributed immediately.
Zhou Yan immediately got into the virtual space.
During the period before his rebirth, the "metaverse" that Xiao Mazha used to cultivate and cut leeks was very popular. During that time, Zhou Yan rarely "wake up in the world" and didn't even bother to touch it.
After owning the virtual space, Zhou Yan also imagined what it would be like to introduce everything in reality into the virtual space, but he did not expect that the fantasy would soon come true...
However, when Zhou Yan entered the virtual space, he found that the "ceiling" in the space was still the same as before, but the metallic ground was replaced by soil.
There are no trees, no rivers, no flowers, birds, fish or insects.
Am I expecting loneliness?
"System, come out!"
A line of big words floated in the sky: [The ecosystem in the virtual space will appear in subsequent mission rewards! 】
Zhou Yan fiercely pointed his middle finger towards the sky...
On March 6, Qin Ruoshu’s Goddess’ Day gift arrived at its destination.
After Goddess Qin received the gift, she did not call Zhou Yan immediately. Instead, she took a photo with her mobile phone and sent it to "Moments" - posted it in the school space: [Hehe, it was a gift from my boyfriend.
Goddess’ Day gift, so cute!]
What Qin Ruoshu didn't know was that as soon as there was movement in her space, Zhou Yan's space prompts would immediately be fed back to Zhou Yan's mobile phone.
After seeing his girlfriend's way of showing off gifts, Zhou Yan felt a little speechless: his girlfriend is too simple and doesn't know how to do something like Versailles.
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Zhou Yan took out his notebook, found a blank page, and wrote "Shangxie" on it: "Shangxie! I want to know you, and live forever. The mountains have no tombs, the rivers are exhausted, and the winter thunder shakes.
Summer rain and snow, heaven and earth are harmonious, so I dare to be with you."
In the blank space below the poem "Shangxie" is the large seal of the national jade seal "Ordered by heaven, live forever". When taking pictures, Zhou Yan also pressed the jade-carved rabbit on the other side as a paperweight.
After taking the photo, Zhou Yan also uploaded it to the space and attached the text: "Qin Ruoshu, what do you think of the quality of the reading notes your boyfriend made?"
A few minutes later, Qin Ruoshu's call came: "Old Zhou, are you too good at pretending?"
"so so!"
Qin Ruoshu chuckled: "Tell me how you took the photo!"
"Isn't this simple?" Zhou Yan smiled slightly, "To take photos, you find a book to open, use a red panda paperweight, put brewed coffee on the side, adjust the light of the desk lamp to be brighter, it is best to wait
Shine on the red panda carving."
Qin Ruoshu asked: "What then?"
"The accompanying words are the key," Zhou Yan smiled slyly, "Bright spring days are more suitable for reading..."
A few minutes later, Qin Ruoshu deleted the photo she just posted and replaced it with another photo: "Bright spring days are more suitable for reading..."
In the evening, when Zhou Yan was surfing the Internet, he found that the school's circle of friends was full of Versailles-style posts.
Among them, Yan Wentao, who has the most artistic and 213 atmosphere, posted a photo of a guitar in his circle of friends: "I haven't played the guitar for a long time, I'm a bit rusty..."