The film and television city starts from the courtyard

On this day, Zhao Shucheng was lying dead in the yard, when he received a call from Xie Zhiyao, he realized that Xie Heshun's woodcarving workshop was about to reopen, and invited Zhao Shucheng to come with him then.

Zhao Shucheng thought about it for a while, and felt that he really should go, after all, Xie Heshun also helped with the reclining chair.

However, for Xie Heshun's opening, Zhao Shucheng always had to prepare some gifts. Xie Heshun is a woodcarving workshop alone, so ordinary gifts don't matter whether it is appropriate or not, on the contrary, he doesn't care about it.Later, Zhao Shucheng hesitated for a moment, thought about it, and decided to send a ghost ball.

Guigong ball, also known as concentric ball, Guigong ball, was originally an ivory set ball, which means uncanny workmanship.The production is quite complicated and the craftsmanship is extremely demanding.Generally, natural giant bone is used, polished into a spherical shape, with multiple layers inside and outside, each ball has a hundred holes all over the body, and the innermost ball is solid.Use the gold hairpin to undulate from the hole, and the four balls will move in a circle, which is exquisite.

In fact, this kind of craftsmanship was originally on stone carvings, which were the beads in the lion's mouth. Later, it was gradually processed, from solid balls to hollow carvings, interlaced and overlapping, exquisite and exquisite, and various relief patterns are engraved on the surface.

Ivory carving ghost balls only had three layers at first, and then slowly developed to 25 or 28 layers in the late Qing Dynasty, and now it has developed to a maximum of sixty layers.

However, because Zhao Shucheng used wood carvings, the toughness and strength of wood and ivory or horns are different, so it is naturally impossible to carve dozens of layers like ivory carvings, but there is still no problem with seven or eight layers.And such a gift should make Master Xie very satisfied.

Thinking of doing it, Zhao Shucheng went directly to the yard to find a big piece of wood, and then took the wood carving tools that Xie Heshun gave him before and started working in the yard.

Seeing that Zhao Shucheng was carving wood, Ma Qiushan felt that Zhao Shucheng might be a little bored, so he didn't pay much attention.

As time passed, from morning to afternoon, Zhao Shucheng was busy all the time except for lunch, which made others wonder what he was doing.Because they looked around, Zhao Shucheng was just playing with a wooden ball, even if it was carved with patterns, it shouldn't take so much time, right?

Xu Hongdou also came back from the small restaurant. Seeing that Zhao Shucheng was busy, and Damai and Ma Qiushan were sitting in the yard chatting, she walked over and asked, "Damai, what is Zhao Shucheng doing? Why are you keeping your head down?"

"We don't know very well. We heard from Ma Ye that he has been playing with a wooden ball there since the morning, and we don't know what he thinks."

After hearing this, Xu Hongdou walked to Zhao Shucheng curiously, and asked, "Zhao Shucheng, what are you doing?"

Zhao Shucheng raised his head and glanced at Xu Hongdou, and then at the sky, only then did he realize that it was already past five o'clock in the afternoon.

"You're back from get off work. I really didn't notice how time passed so fast. I'm not busy, but Xie Heshun's woodcarving workshop is about to reopen, so I'm going to prepare a gift for Master Xie."

"Really, what is it, let me see."

"Hey, it's not finished yet. You'll see it when it's finished. There's nothing to see now. By the way, it's time for dinner, right? Let's go, I'll cook for you."

After saying that, Zhao Shucheng put away the wooden ball, and then walked towards the small kitchen.

Although Xu Hongdou was a little curious, she also heard that Zhao Shucheng would show it to her in the future, so she didn't worry, and followed Zhao Shucheng to the small kitchen.

Soon, the day when Xie Heshun's woodcarving workshop reopened came, and Zhao Shucheng and Xu Hongdou came to the woodcarving workshop.

After Xie Xiaoxia lit the firecrackers and the woodcarving workshop was unveiled, everyone entered the woodcarving workshop.

The reopened woodcarving workshop was quite different from before. Xie Zhiyao took his own people to take photos and short videos of the woodcarving workshop to facilitate online promotion.

"Uncle, our current transformation of the woodcarving workshop is mainly to strengthen the personal brand and enhance the relationship between customers and woodcarving, rather than just selling woodcarving. When the time comes, the online store will become the main sales channel with short video promotion."

In fact, Xie Heshun had never been exposed to these things before, and he didn't understand them either, so he said, "Okay, anyway, I don't understand them, so I'll leave it to you and listen to you."

Zhao Shucheng said with a smile: "Master Xie, congratulations, the woodcarving workshop has reopened, and I think there are more craftsmen here, and the future will definitely get better and better. A small gift is not a respect."

Xie Heshun said with a smile: "Mr. Zhao is very polite, you can just come, what gifts do you want to bring?"

Xie Zhiyao asked curiously: "Uncle, hurry up and see what Zhao Shucheng sent, I'm really curious."

Xie Heshun hesitated for a moment when he heard it, and lifted the red cloth covered with Zhao Shucheng's gift, and then saw the ghost ball given by Zhao Shucheng.

"This is?"

"Guigong balls were originally made of ivory or horns, but now the sale of ivory is prohibited, and horns can't be found so suitable. Besides, your place is a woodcarving workshop after all, so it's more appropriate to give this as a present."

Xie Heshun looked at the Guigong Ball, fiddled with the inner layer with his hands, saw the carvings on it, and said, "Okay, okay, this craftsmanship is really ingenious."

"Master Xie, it's amazing. In fact, your craftsmanship can also make such things, but you may not have touched it before, so you find it novel. In fact, I gave this for another purpose, which is to let your apprentices I know, skills are endless. Although machine carving is very popular now, such carvings may not be able to be done by machine carving for a long time. On the contrary, if you are so skilled in craftsmanship, it is nothing to make such a thing Not only that, but it also helps to attract customers and build a personal brand.”

Xie Heshun nodded and said, "You put your heart into it. I like this gift very much. I will definitely put it there for all the disciples to see."

Xie Zhiyao also looked at Gui Gongqiu curiously, and said, "It must have cost a lot of money, right?"

"It's nothing, I carved it myself, but it takes a lot of time. Ordinary carvings don't take too long, but this must be planned in advance, and even be careful. Don't make any mistakes, or the whole thing will be ruined."

It was also the first time for Xu Hongdou to really see the gift from Zhao Shucheng. After looking it over carefully, he felt that it was indeed very distinctive and exquisite.

After several people came to the yard and sat down, Xie Zhiyao called Xie Xiaoxia to arrange his future work.

After Xie Xiaoxia sat down, she saw the ghost ball in the master's hand at a glance, and looked at it curiously.

Xie Heshun handed it to Xie Xiaoxia when he saw it, and said, "This is a magic ball made by Zhao Shucheng himself. Let's take a look. If you can make something like this sometime, you will learn all the skills."

Xie Xiaoxia looked at the Guigong Ball in his hand. As for the carvings on the outside, he can actually make them now, but he still has a little strength to do the inner layers.I thought I was at the same level, but now it seems that I am still far behind.

But if I really make such a work, I will definitely become a little famous person, and earning money by then should not be a problem.

Sunzi is the promotional video shooter of Xie Zhiyao's company. When he saw Xie Xiaoxia coming, he asked, "Xia Xia, are you still doing the live broadcast?"

Xie Xiaoxia said with some embarrassment: "It's still being done, but no one is watching."

"It doesn't matter, we all started from nobody."

Xie Zhiyao said: "I have discussed with my uncle that you will continue to do this live broadcast, and Xiaoyue has also opened accounts for wood carving workshops on various platforms, and often comes to shoot some short videos of wood carving workshops. In addition, she will give you And Uncle specially designed a short video with the theme of mentoring, that is, you shoot your master."

Xie Heshun quickly waved his hands when he heard it, and said, "No, no, no, I won't shoot, I won't shoot, what are you shooting?"

"Master Xie, don't be nervous, just take pictures of your daily life."

Xie Heshun still said nervously: "But I can't speak?"

Zhao Shucheng said with a smile: "Master Xie, you don't have to worry, you don't need to talk much, Xia Xia will take videos for you, ask you occasionally, and just say what you have. At other times, you can just do your own things, like How to teach apprentices, sculpt new works and so on. You don’t have to worry about anything, you can also just pretend that Xie Xiaoxia and the camera don’t exist, and the videos you shoot will be edited later.”

"I don't shoot, why should I shoot that?" Xie Heshun turned his head and saw that Xie Xiaoxia had already started filming, and said anxiously, "What are you filming? Don't shoot! You shut it down for me!"

Then he complained to Xie Zhiyao: "Look at this kid, he gets excited as soon as he gets into shooting things, you say you put this energy into work, are you still at the level you are today?"

Xie Xiaoxia said: "Master, I love you!" '

These words made Xie Heshun stunned, and then he kicked Xie Xiaoxia directly, saying: "You still shoot, you shut it down for me."

Zhao Shucheng smiled when he saw it, and said, "I think the effect is very good now, Sunzi, please watch the video effect."

Sunzi walked over to Xie Xiaoxia and looked at it, and said: "Oh, really, this effect is very good, I will add text later, add some effects and fancy words, the theme of your video is called Master, hit me again .”

Xie Heshun couldn't help laughing when he heard it, and watched his apprentice go in with his grandson to discuss the video, and said, "Oh, look at them."

Xie Zhiyao received a call here, and said to Xie Heshun: "Uncle, I still have something to go to the police station, so I'm leaving first. Lao Zhao, I won't accompany you, you can do your own work."

"it is good!"

Zhao Shucheng said to Xie Heshun: "Master Xie, in fact, if Xiaoxia is willing to do such a thing, you can let him do it. This is also for the benefit of your woodcarving workshop. If there are more people watching the short video, I will order from you online at that time." There are more woodcarvers, so it can be regarded as an increase in income for others, isn't it?"

"I know that too, but what can I shoot like this?"

"Anything is fine. It's very interesting just like this. Besides, you are an inheritor of non-inheritance. You can't just think about passing on this skill to your disciples. You also have to leave a video, in case the disciples don't live up to it. , but your video is here to stay, and when the time comes, the disciples and grandchildren will have outstanding talents, and watching the video will be regarded as learning from you, isn't it?"

"I hope so." (End of this chapter)