Chapter 268 Jia Sidao's carving skills

"Xiao Jia, the owner here, is still a local, and is similar to yours. He is also a person from a small town next to Linhai County and City." Lao Yang saw the smile on the corner of Jia Sidao's mouth, and explained on the side, saying, "Because in recent years, the performance of running a factory has not been very good. So..."

"So, I'm ready to take action, right?" Jia Sidao asked with a smile, "By the way, Lao Yang, this factory should have been used for wood carvings before, right?" Jia Sidao realized that although the room was empty, there was still a lot of wood dust.

"Well, it's used to make root carvings, as well as some simple wooden bowls, grids and other wooden crafts." Lao Yang responded.

"Although the style of the factory is a bit old, it is pretty good, which is more in line with my wishes. Moreover, if the other party sells it, it should be connected to the land in front of it, right?" Jia Sidao looked at the open space in front of the factory.

"That's natural." Lao Yang continued, "I've asked in detail. If Xiao Jia, you are really planning to accept this place, everything surrounded by the wall will be yours. However, the owner here is not in a hurry to sell the land, so in terms of price, it may not be too cheap..."

"Haha, there is not a big problem in terms of price." Jia Sidao pondered for a moment before continuing, "I think I don't really understand this industry. Why not, Lao Yang, please help me with the operation, how about it?"

"Xiao Jia, I think it's better for you to participate in the flow of funds by yourself, otherwise..." Lao Yang's eyes lit up, but there was a little hesitation in the corner of his mouth and refused. Otherwise, Lao Yang didn't say it, but as long as he is a wise man, he will know very well in his heart that if all this is traded by Lao Yang, no kickbacks or something, at least, Lao Yang's benefits are indispensable. Especially what Jia Sidao needs is to buy all such places, which is naturally very different from ordinary rentals.

No wonder Lao Yang didn't dare to agree immediately when he heard Jia Sidao's suggestion.

However, it was precisely because of Lao Yang's hesitation that it obviously gave Jia Sidao a great sense of trust. If Lao Yang agreed immediately, Jia Sidao would need to consider whether his decision was correct. "Haha, that's it. It would be better to find someone who is unfamiliar to come and negotiate with the owner. Let Lao Yang do it, which would make me feel more at ease. Lao Yang, to be honest, I am optimistic about you."

As he said that, Jia Sidao patted Lao Yang on the shoulder.

In terms of Jia Sidao's height, Lao Yang is a few years older than Jia Sidao, and he looks much more serious in appearance. However, in terms of height, Lao Yang and Jia Sidao are still a little different. Jia Sidao's shoulder-pattern action was extremely natural.

If this were the past, Jia Sidao would not have done similar actions. Most of the time he was in the unit, Lao Yang would take care of Jia Sidao. However, the recent experience has caused Jia Sidao to change his words and deeds, and it has changed in a more grand direction. This familiar movement between him and Lao Yang has come naturally.

Lao Yang looked at Jia Sidao in surprise, then, as if he had figured out something in his heart, nodded to Jia Sidao and said, "Okay. Xiao Jia, since you have said that, Lao Yang, I will not do things against my conscience."

That look a bit like slapping your chest to ensure you complete the task yourself.

"But, Xiao Jia, you always give me a briefing in advance. How much can you pay?" Then, Lao Yang carefully looked at the surrounding environment, and also observed the size of the place before he got to Jia Sidao's side and asked in a low voice.

"I think this, it should be within this number." Jia Sidao gestured for a moment and said, "Specific, I think I'd better find a professional to estimate it. Anyway, I definitely don't understand it."

"Well. That's fine." Lao Yang nodded.

"It's the location of this place, which is a bit far from the Antique Street." Jia Sidao looked at the gate and sighed. If it weren't for this, I'm afraid Lao Yang wouldn't have marked this place to the third alternative location before taking Jia Sidao over to take a look?

Compared to the second place, which is a bit far from Antique Street, the third place, located in the northern area of ​​Linhai City, is almost a little close to the back mountain to the north of the city. Speaking of which, the location is still within the Old City, but it is definitely not far from the New City.

However, this is closer to the villa where Jia Sidao lives, isn't it?

The so-called balance of gains and losses is nothing more than that.

After another brief exchange with Lao Yang about the matter of purchasing the factory, Jia Sidao looked at the time and it was getting late. Then, naturally, he took Lao Yang and the younger brothers who were inquiring about the news to the "Xinmingmen" hotel and had a meal. It was not said to be big fish and meat, but it also made everyone have a good time to eat! After that, Jia Sidao also distributed a few packs of cigarettes alone. He was grateful for their help for the past few days.

The next day, Jia Sidao found A San and asked about the land price in the area near the back mountain.

A San was curious for a while and thought about it, "Xiao Jia, aren't you going to buy a house there?..." As he said that, he looked at Jia Sidao with some disbelief and muttered, "It shouldn't be?"

Suddenly, Jia Sidao shook his head speechlessly and said, "I said A San, what are you muttering about? I just asked this. Could it be that I have to have the intention to buy a house before I can come over and ask again?"

"Otherwise, who do you think you'll have nothing to do? I'll ask about the land price there." A San also made a speechless expression, but then he turned his eyes, blinked a few times, and said, "Xiao Jia, I said, you've fallen in love with a suitable storage room there, right?"

Seeing Jia Sidao nodded, A San smiled happily and said, "Good boy, you really have it. It's such a good idea. Uncle Zhou's factory is in the east of the city. Although the environment is pretty good, the land price is too high, and the distance is still very far. Therefore, he can only rent it. However, the land price in the back mountain area to the north is relatively much lower, and transportation is quite reasonable. I said, Xiao Jia, why did you think of it there?"

"I'll find someone to help me find it. Do you think I designed it from the beginning?" Jia Sidao muttered angrily.

Later, A San understood the reason why Jia Sidao came up with him this time. He immediately took Jia Sidao to find a real estate agent and introduced the manager to Jia Sidao to know. The three of them went to the factory where Jia Sidao liked and checked it on the spot. The middle-aged manager gave Jia Sidao an acceptable market reference price.

It's a little lower than Jia Sidao's psychological price.

Jia Sidao didn't care. After calling Lao Yang to notify him, the choice of the storage room was temporarily completed. Even Jia Sidao even explained that if he couldn't negotiate there, he could go to the first house he had checked to trade. After all, although he needed to make a big change after buying the house, he could still make do with it.

What's more, it's even closer to Antique Street.

"By the way, Xiao Jia, do you have any arrangements next?" Asan saw Jia Sidao's phone call and orders, he looked at the sky. It was less than noon, so he asked, "I heard that those people who went to Beijing have all returned to Linhai. Should I get together?"

"Do they still have the heart to go back to Linhai?" Jia Sidao touched his nose and said, "I thought they were just staying in Beijing and wouldn't come back." Speaking of which, most of those friends have gone to Beijing for nearly a month.

"Hehe, I thought they wouldn't go back to Linhai anymore." Asan joked and said, "When the time comes, if they know that Xiao Jia, you actually open a jade shop on the Antique Street, what kind of expression do you think they will have?"

"Well, it's worth looking forward to!" Jia Sidao nodded and began to imagine, feeling a little laughing. Seeing A San on the side, he also had such an expression, and said, "But, A San, I think I'll wait for two or three days to settle my storage room and get the decoration done. Otherwise, I really don't have much intentions and go out for a while."

"That's natural. I thought about it, just wait until your store is ready to be prepared before telling them. At that time, I'll take a look at their surprised expressions. Hehe..." A San nodded with a smile and said, "What's next? Go and cut the stone? The day before yesterday, I and Xiao Xu cut out a piece of blue jade with them. The color is so beautiful... By the way, Xiao Jia, I haven't said to you yet, you're really notified. I didn't even inform me of the blood jade jade cut yesterday. Fortunately, I went to the factory last night. Otherwise, I'd missed it."

"Did you miss it?" Jia Sidao said with some amusement, "Even if you think, you probably won't have a chance to miss it. Can you still not see the blood jade jadeite after it was carved?" However, since A San mentioned cutting stones, then in the next time, Jia Sidao was naturally pulled by A San to Zhou Fugui's factory.

Zhou Fugui himself is still away. Xu Zhiguo is concentrating on carving jade jewelry, and other workers in the factory are also working very enthusiastically. Jia Sidao has almost become very used to this scene in recent days. He immediately came behind Xu Zhiguo and continued to watch his carving process.

A San touched Jia Sidao's elbow and handed him a questioning look.

Jia Sidao said what he wanted to learn about carving. As a result, A San naturally wanted to learn it. However, the key points of jade carving were not very interesting to explain. In addition, Xu Zhiguo's explanation was even more like a little bit of knowledge. If he hadn't had some skills, he wouldn't really understand it. So, A San felt that he was learning the carving of jade ornaments here, which was completely useless. So, he just picked a piece of jadeite rough stone and cut the stone on the side.

How can I cut stones directly when learning jade carving skills? It’s so nervous and exciting?

Jia Sidao couldn't help but smile at A San's figure, shook his head slightly, and then his eyes continued to change with the change of the carving movements in Xu Zhiguo's hands. Last night, Jia Sidao tried to carve himself with an ordinary piece of jade material in the basement.

However, I could clearly think of how to carve in my mind, but after the knife in my hand went down, the effect was completely different from what I imagined in my mind. Not to mention that it was consistent, there was no similarity at all. Jia Sidao could only give up carving in helplessness and depression.

Today, Jia Sidao naturally came to ask Xu Zhiguo for advice with such questions.

After hearing this, Xu Zhiguo smiled and said, "Boss, if you really want to learn carving, it is useless to be impatient. It's better to do it step by step. For example, the knife is very particular, regardless of strength, angle, or tool. In addition, there are different requirements for different jade materials. Just like practicing calligraphy, the pen and brush characters are completely two concepts. In addition, no matter whether you want to write brush characters or brush characters, you can only combine them into a complete font after writing one stroke and one stroke...."

After saying this, Jia Sidao understood a lot. Although Xu Zhiguo was in the process of carving a jade bracelet, he changed from drastic to the careful carving at the back, and the transformation was very natural and smooth, but how much sweat has flowed through it and how many failures he experienced cannot be fully understood and guessed based on his imagination...

Of course, what surprised Jia Sidao the most was when Xu Zhiguo, who had always been based on rough explanations, could he have made an exact and appropriate metaphor?

Maybe he saw Jia Sidao's surprised expression. Xu Zhiguo scratched the back of his head with his dirty hands, regardless of how much dust was stuck on his hair, and even the dirty cuffs of his clothes were not taken seriously. He smiled embarrassedly and explained: "Boss, don't look at me like this, always making me think I don't pinch it. In fact, this metaphor was told to me by my master when I was just learning to carve."

"Oh, so when you first started learning, you also encountered the problem I am now?" Jia Sidao's mouth curled up with a beautiful arc!

"That's natural." Xu Zhiguo said, "I just learned it for a while and didn't care about anything. Just looking at the master carving, I thought, carving this thing is quite simple. Then, I took a stone to test it. As a result, when I was cutting it, I didn't master the strength and almost cut my fingers." As he said that, Xu Zhiguo's expression still felt a little scared.

Jia Sidao was also sighing when he heard this. Jia Sidao was even more concerned about some basic skills of carving. Fortunately, it seemed that in order to help Jia Sidao specifically, Xu Zhiguo was doing some initial carvings when he carved. For example, if a jade pendant was used to be the usual, Xu Zhiguo would carve it to the end until the whole piece of material was almost finished and revealed a complete and vivid form, so he would take the lead to carving some other jade materials. However, at this moment, Xu Zhiguo was doing some rough and rough carvings on the same piece of material with different knife techniques, and then he converted a piece of jade material, which was still roughly carving. In this way, Jia Sidao naturally understood that Xu Zhiguo wanted Jia Sidao to master the initial skill of carving as much as possible.

In the afternoon, let’s not talk about the excitement that Ah San cuts the stones, or what kind of jade material they have cut out. As for Jia Sidao, he began to carve some jade materials of average texture under Xu Zhiguo’s inspection.

To put it bluntly, let Jia Sidao give it a try!

Of course, such an attempt is naturally impossible to completely carve it carefully, and it is impossible to be the same as the jade carvings that Jia Sidao imagined last night. With such a simple knife, it is as realistic and moving as you imagined. It is entirely because after checking the jade material, what kind of jade jewelry shape appears in your mind, and then slowly polish it in according to this shape.

When taking the knife, you must not be in a hurry. In addition, in the beginner stage, you should not pay attention to one-slash, so you must be in place.

In Xu Zhiguo's words, it is better to carve jade slowly. When cutting, it is also targeted, so it is better to be careful. It is better to be slower and polish it a little thinner than to cut it deeper with one knife.

After all, if the knife is thin, you can use the second and third knifes to make up for it. But if it is cut deep, it is undoubtedly a pity for the whole piece of jade material!

"However, why do I feel that the jade carved looks a bit awkward when I make up for it with this knife?" Jia Sidao looked at the first jade jewelry in his hand. Oh no, it was the first piece of jade material, and said, "How come he looks, why doesn't he look like it."

"Haha, that's natural." Xu Zhiguo was happy and said, "Have you ever seen a person who writes calligraphy constantly describes and repairs the same words and makes them look good?"

Jia Sidao thought a little, and the corners of his mouth cracked, and said, "That's right. If you have the skill, you can take into account the next knife afterwards, which is linked together and the carving is smooth. The whole piece of jade material looks like a carved finished product. Otherwise, no matter how you modify it, there will always be some dissatisfaction."

"That's not the case." Xu Zhiguo sighed and said, "Sometimes, it's better to be faster than to be slow. But sometimes, it's better to be slow than to be faster than to be faster..."

"No wonder, when I was watching you carving, the speed was fast and slow." Jia Sidao nodded.

However, at this moment, Xu Zhiguo did not continue to talk about where to be fast and where to be slow. I am afraid that for the commentator, Xu Zhiguo also felt like he had lost all his talents. Some things that he could understand may not be able to speak out well.

Could it be that this is only understood but not expressed in words?

Jia Sidao was muttering in his heart: It would be great if Xu Zhiguo’s master was here. In this way, if Jia Sidao encounters a difficult problem and the other party can explain it in an image metaphor, then the carving skills of this jade will not be too boring.

Looking at this time, A San was still cutting the stone with great enthusiasm.

Jia Sidao looked back at the jade jewelry in his hand. For the time being, call it jade jewelry. After Jia Sidao's one, two, three, and many swords, the shape is still not very clear. I'm afraid that Jia Sidao was a little suspicious at this moment. When he saw this material, why did he clearly think about what kind of pendant to carve it into?

Fortunately, Jia Sidao did not give up and continued to compete with the jade materials in his hands in a new round!

After about half an hour, A San suddenly came to Jia Sidao's side. On his face, which was originally a little smiling, he laughed out loud and asked: "Xiao Jia, what are you carving? Is it a Guanyin pendant? That one, doesn't look like Maitreya Buddha? It's even more like... By the way, is it a bat?..."

"Asan, can't you really see it at all?" Jia Sidao ignored Asan's jokes and asked in his spare time. The expression on his face also tried his best to pretend to be calm.

"Uh, is it really a bat? But just one bat is not suitable, right? Moreover, I don't look like this shape." After hearing this, Ah San began to lower his head and think deeply. The more he thought, the deeper his brows frowned.

Jia Sidao said angrily: "How can it be said to be a bat? I want to carve it, but a jade pendant made by a monkey stealing peaches. How about it? I can make do with it? This is my first time carving a jade pendant." In this last sentence, "the first time carving", Jia Sidao bit his voice hard.

However, A San's attention was obviously not focused on this stress part.

"Monkey steals peaches?" Asan was stunned at first, then looked at Jia Si with a smile and said, "Well, let's not talk about monkeys for now. You have left such a small piece of material, size, etc., and you have reserved it well. But, I'll ask carefully, where is the peach?"

"It's right here, didn't you see it?" Jia Sidao pointed to the tiny protruding point on the jade material.

"No? This can be considered a peach?" A San was speechless, shrugged his shoulders and said, "Anyway, I have never seen such a small peach. It's not this material. You didn't design it well. It was not suitable for carving monkeys and stealing peaches. Do you have to make such a shape?"

"No, no." Jia Sidao was hesitating, when Xu Zhiguo next to him said with a smile, "I cut this piece of material before. Originally, I planned to carve it into a monkey stealing peaches."

"Uh, why is this peach so small?" A San said in confusion, "I have seen the jade pendants you carved in your previous days. Among them, there were monkeys stealing peaches. The monkeys have different shapes, so I won't say it. Moreover, although the peach has some changes in shape and proportion, its size is not too small. Especially the cartoon monkey in the exaggerated form, the big peach, gave me a deep impression. No matter how many days after Xiao Jia's jade shop opened, I will go and support it and get this pendant."

"Asan, you have you. You have chosen your own goal." Jia Sidao turned around and hit Asan's shoulder. Although Jia Sidao knew very well that on the day he opened, Asan would definitely buy one or two jade jewelry, but now he said it so directly, Jia Sidao was quite moved. "But I tell you that if you are really ready to support it, a jade pendant that monkey steals peaches is not enough."

"What should you do if you want me?" A San spread his hands and said, "I don't have as much money as you do. Otherwise, you can get a discount and sell it to me? Then I will try my best to buy all my property and buy all your jade."

"You think it's so beautiful. It's still a discount." Jia Sidao smiled bitterly and said, "When the time comes, I think it's about the same price as you 99.9% off."

"You unscrupulous businessman. Before this store opened, I was thinking about exploiting consumers." Ah San said, "But don't talk about the topic. Where is the 'peach' of jade pendant?" As I asked, Ah San looked at Xu Zhiguo specifically.

"Hehe, I've reserved the material to carve peaches anyway." Xu Zhiguo smiled strangely, and after he finished speaking, he turned his head aside.

"Uh, that means, Xiao Jia, have you carved this material that was originally made of peach?" Asan looked at Jia Sidao's shrugging expression, and felt a moment of condolence in his heart, and sighed speechlessly, "It seems that I have not learned the carving of jade, and I am indeed foresighted."
Chapter completed!