Naturally, the biggest gambling stone has to be put at the end.
When processing, Zhou Yan first used an angle grinder to grind away the "white mist" on the outside bit by bit, and finally revealed the "jade flesh" inside.
From the outside, the entire piece of jadeite has quite a water head, and most areas are filled with ice or even high-ice species. Of course, the most pleasing thing is the color of the entire piece of jadeite, which is red, green, yellow, and purple.
Blended together.
However, what is rare is that the color of jadeite appears irregularly, which means that there is no place with all four colors on the whole piece of jadeite.
If you cannot achieve perfection, you will naturally have to settle for the next best thing.
In order to allow the jade to show as many colors as possible, Zhou Yan used a strong flashlight to shine around the jadeite for a long time before deciding on the cutting plan.
Take a piece of jadeite the size of a basin, cut off a "basin bottom", and cut out an inch-thick colored "glass plate" in the upper middle where the colors converge.
"This is the most essential part of this rough stone." Zhou Yan turned around and glanced at Qin Ruoshu, who was watching with goggles. "Such a big piece can cut out three pairs of bracelets. First come, first served. You choose first."
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"Well..." Qin Ruoshu smiled slightly, "I think we should let our mother choose first!"
When Zhou Yan came to my mother with the colored "frosted glass plate" with the bracelet positions drawn on it, my mother was a little surprised: "Is this the stone you spent hundreds of thousands to bring back from the Magic City?"
"How about it? I plan to dig out three pairs of bracelets, and Ruoshu asked you to pick first..."
Zhou Lao Niang glanced at the colorful jade and shook her head: "I am already so old, and I still wear red and green. If word spreads that people will laugh, give it to Ruoshu!"
"There are also a few pieces of inferior materials, the colors are not so colorful, they are all solid colors, some are green, some are purple..."
"forget it!"
Qin Ruoshu, who was standing aside, glanced at her mother-in-law's wrist, and a different look flashed in her eyes.
When they returned to Zhou Yan's small studio, Qin Ruoshu quietly stopped Zhou Yan: "Husband, my mother gave me the bracelet, and I'm just doing this, isn't it good?"
"So?" Zhou Yan stared at Qin Ruoshu with curiosity, "What are you going to do?"
"Don't we also have a jewelry shop in our house?" Qin Ruoshu thought for a while, "I want to pay for my mother-in-law to buy a pair of bracelets, preferably platinum. They don't look as rustic as gold, but they are also elegant and elegant.
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Zhou Yan nodded with satisfaction: "It's up to you!"
"That's not possible. You need to design the pattern..."
Under Qin Ruoshu's repeated begging, Zhou Yan had to temporarily give up the jade bracelet, returned to the study, drew a peony pattern, and then sent it to little Alfred, asking to make it as soon as possible.
The cutting process of jade bracelets is relatively simple, especially if you have power tools.
After completing the three pairs of bracelets, Zhou Yan used the remaining materials to select a reasonably good bracelet location, took out two bracelet embryos, and transferred them to Lin Shengfei through the logistics system of Anxin Mall...
The weather had been gloomy and rainy for several days in a row, which made Miss Qin, who was planning to celebrate her twenty-fourth birthday, in a bad mood.
Just when Zhou Yan was worried about how to coax his girlfriend, my mother came to the new house with a basket in her arms.
"I heard that fungi are growing on the mountain, Xiao Qin, would you like to go and have a look together?"
"OK!"
The rain in July comes and goes quickly.
When the fungus-collecting army set out, the weather had begun to clear up, and the Fuyun Mountainside in the distance began to release smoke effects as usual.
Zhou Yan wanted to take a nap at home, but as soon as he lay down, his father's phone call came in.
"Why don't you get up quickly and come with me to see the reservoir!"
Continuous rainy days caused the water level of the reservoir to rise sharply. In order to ensure that the reservoir could survive the summer safely, Mr. Zhou, who also served as the reservoir manager, took advantage of his free time and rushed to the dam with free labor.
"We're still a little short of reaching the warning line!"
"Weather forecast, there will be heavy rain in the next few days, I think..." Zhou Yan glanced at the still gloomy sky, "It's better to waterproof it first..."
Reservoir cultivation dates back to a relatively long time ago. The gate of the reservoir is a scissor type, and the opening and closing are all done by pulling the iron chain tied to the gate.
After a little effort, the two men finally opened the gate.
"I'm watching from here, you go take a look at the cage!"
It had been confiscated for several days, and the cages used to catch lobsters were naturally overcrowded with "shrimps". There were so many crayfish that it would make patients with trypophobia dizzy.
If you have a lot of stuff, you can pick and choose.
Zhou Yan opened the underground cage and picked out the big crayfish. He picked out the others from the underground cage and threw them directly back into the reservoir.
After harvesting the crayfish, there are still fish in the reservoir spillway.
Every time the reservoir is opened to release water, there are always some unsightly fish that get sucked into the gate because they are too close to the gate, and are eventually stunned and drift into the stream downstream of the dam.
"Shitou, there's a big grass carp over there!"
“There’s also a tuantou!”
By the time the two men returned home with the big fish they had harvested, Zhou Ma and Qin Ruoshu were already back and were processing the collected fungi in the yard.
Fungus, shiitake mushroom, yellow mushroom, and pine mushroom are basically the most common fungi in Dongyang area.
The yellow capped porcini mushrooms are the most delicious. Whether stir-fried or souped, the delicious memory can make people addicted.
Of course, it’s also troublesome to get good food.
The reason why the yellow sticky cap boletus is called "sticky cap" is because the cap is covered with a layer of mucus, which is easy to stain leaves and soil.
However, the real trouble in handling yellow sticky cap porcini mushrooms is that they are not easy to store, so it is best to cook them immediately after harvesting them.
You can sun-dry them like shiitake mushrooms, but you have to keep an eye on them: delicious shiitake mushrooms are not only popular with humans, but also easily favored by "stewardesses", and they are also very perishable.
Unfortunately, this year's mountain mushroom harvest has been bumper again.
Zhou Yan and his father looked at the two big baskets full of mountain fungi and had no choice but to join the army of dealing with the mountain fungus.
Fortunately, all that needs to be dealt with is the yellow sticky cap. Although the process is simple, it requires patience: peel off the mucous membrane on the yellow sticky cap.
The four of them were busy for a while, and Mrs. Zhou Yan suddenly remembered that her son seemed to be in the food business: "Son, do you have any ideas to keep the fungi fresh?"
"Keep it fresh for a short time, use low temperature and vacuum!" Zhou Yan is very familiar with food processing. "Keep it fresh for a long time, dry it, or vacuum freeze-dry it!"
"You pick a batch, process it, and bring it to Ruoshu's parents." Mrs. Zhou Yan glanced at the harvest in front of her, "We'll eat part of it tonight, and you'll dry the rest... By the way, you
How do you plan to dry it?”
"Don't you know yet?" Zhou Yan was a little surprised, "The large oven in the new house has a low-temperature drying function!"
"Your dad bought that thing..." Mrs. Zhou Yan raised her head and glared at Mr. Zhou.
"Can you blame me for this?" Father Zhou looked aggrieved and looked back at Zhou Yan, "It's not this little bastard who asked me to buy it for him!"
After dealing with the mountain fungi, Mrs. Zhou Yan picked out a lot of relatively good-looking ones and handed them to Zhou Yan: "Son, your chance to show off has come. Take care of them and let Ruoshu take them home!"
Dinner is, of course, a banquet of delicacies from the mountains and aquatic products, including stir-fried yellow chives, boiled fish, steamed Wuchang fish, and fresh pine mushroom vegetable soup.
After tasting the yellow sticky cap, Qin Ruoshu suddenly tilted his head and approached Zhou Yan: "Brother, are these fungi only found in Fuyun Mountain?"
Zhou Yan smiled and looked up at his mother: "Mom, Ruoshu wants to go collecting mountain mushrooms with you tomorrow..."
