How did I become an old artist?

Chapter 42 The next step is to wait for the rain!

Zhao Chen was really waiting for the rain.

After the preparation of the clay, he also completed the processes of iron removal, vacuuming, mud filtering, and aging.

After that, Zhao Chen poured mud into the mold and turntable, and worked in the mud bit by bit with his hands.

Mud killing, mud kneading, billet drawing.
Traditional porcelain crafts are complex and time-consuming.

However, Zhao Chen's craftsmanship is very good.

When he was live broadcasting the preform, the popularity of the live broadcast room was very high.

And all kinds of large gifts continue.

Many people know that he is an art master in the porcelain industry, and many people also hope to reserve a few pieces of porcelain made by Zhao Chen.

Watching Zhao Chen make porcelain live is a kind of enjoyment.

His movements were gentle and slow, and his expression was focused. Although his hands were covered with mud, it seemed that his hands were clean.

Many people are fans of this picture.

Especially some girls, their eyes are full of peach blossoms, and their hearts are throbbing.

[He is too handsome! 】

[It’s okay to be good-looking, but the craftsmanship is so good! 】

【I'm a man, and my heart beats when I see it! 】

[This method is really not a bragging, the mud made is more neat than that made by a machine! 】

The barrage is very lively.

The popularity of the live broadcast room is unprecedented, and the number of viewers has exceeded 20, and it is still growing.

At the same time, in Jinde Town, Jiangxi Province, Taoyuan Villa area.

Liu Xi was also watching Zhao Chen's live broadcast.

This year, Liu Xi has just been admitted to Huaxia Academy of Fine Arts, majoring in traditional Chinese painting.

Most of those who study art have good backgrounds.Liu Xi's grandfather, Liu Hanlin, is a master of Chinese Ru kiln porcelain art, and his father is the chairman of a brand of porcelain, and his family is very wealthy.

Since seeing Zhao Chen at the International Porcelain Exhibition last time, Liu Xi thought he was very interesting, so she followed Zhao Chen's Douyin and watched Zhao Chen's live broadcast from time to time.

Before he knew it, Liu Xi became a fan of Zhao Chen.

After all, Zhao Chen's process of making porcelain is much more eye-catching than her grandfather's process of making porcelain.

"He's actually making Ru Kiln too!"

"Let's see the situation first. Then you can private message him and say that you can come to my grandfather to learn some experience. Maybe you can get to know him in this way."

"Then."

While watching the live broadcast, Liu Xi was thinking wildly, with an inexplicable smile on her face.

In the backyard of the villa, Liu Hanlin was talking on the phone with an old friend.

"You said that group of people came to Jinde Town?" Liu Hanlin's tone was a little heavy.

"That's right, the higher-ups found out about this matter, and everyone is watching closely. They were originally in Panjiayuan, the capital, but there was too much pressure there, so they went to Jinde Town." Another voice rang through the phone.

What Liu Hanlin talked on the phone is almost unknown to everyone in the Huaxia antique industry these days.

There is a professional gang of tomb robbers who robbed a general's tomb from the Yuan Dynasty in Jiangsu Province.There are many precious funeral objects in this general's tomb.

Among them, a well-preserved Southern Song Dynasty official kiln ice-cracked peony plate has attracted the most attention.

In addition to the ice-cracked peony plate, there are also agate cups and jade ring fingers, each of which is very valuable.

A cultural relic is worth tens of millions, not to mention so many pieces.

For this matter, the Huaxia police also set up an inter-provincial task force, which is bound to recover these precious cultural relics.

Jinde Town is the porcelain capital of China. The porcelain industry here is very developed, and there are all kinds of porcelain here.

The Liu family has a lot of energy in Jinde Town, and Liu Hanlin, a powerful collector here, knows almost all of them.

"What are they doing in Jinde Town? Who wants to buy those things?" Liu Hanlin asked suspiciously.

"It may also be that they want to go abroad from Jinde Town. After all, it is an important place for exporting porcelain, and a large amount of porcelain is transferred from there every day."

"okay, I get it."

Liu Hanlin hung up the phone, thinking of this batch of leaked cultural relics, he felt a burst of emotion again.

Things from the Southern Song and Yuan dynasties are all good treasures.

I don't know where these objects will end up.

In the courtyard, Zhao Chen has already made ten porcelain blanks.

The next step is the process of drying and trimming, including flower patting, spinning, bottom spinning and so on.

The handcraft that a piece of porcelain goes through is very complex.

Moreover, after the porcelain body is dried, it must maintain a certain temperature and humidity to ensure that there will be no problems in subsequent glazing and firing.

After three days of busy work like this, Zhao Chen finally finished making the porcelain blank.

If you count the process of making agate glaze and clay, it took about seven days for this batch of Ru kiln porcelain.

"All is ready except for the opportunity."

"The next step is to wait for a rain."

"When the rain is about to fall, the mountains are full of mist, and I start to glaze and fire."

"For the first time, the porcelain body was dried at a temperature of 800 degrees, then it was taken out and glazed, and then fired at a high temperature of 1280 degrees."

"In this way, the azure-colored Ru kiln porcelain will be finished!"

Zhao Chen told the netizens.

"I read from the weather forecast that there will be rain in two days."

"It's time to live broadcast the firing of authentic Ru kiln porcelain."

"Hope it works!"

After hearing Zhao Chen's words, the fans in the live broadcast room cheered him up one after another:

[Anchor come on! 】

[Looking forward to a wave! 】

[Contemporary art masters, just one-handed preforms can blow up the sky, this hand is too clever! 】

【We wait for the rain with you! 】

[Waiting for the rain with the anchor, haha, it feels so romantic! 】

Not long after that, Zhao Chen turned off the live broadcast.

After the broadcast was closed, netizens didn't know that Zhao Chen took out the [high-quality clay] and started busying on the turntable again.

The glazes he ordered last time included not only the azure agate glazes for Ru kilns, but also dark glazes for furniture and light glazes for official kiln porcelain.

He also wants to make some ancient judge kiln porcelain.

On the one hand, it is sold to the official kiln museum to earn some extra money.

On the other hand, Zhao Chen remembered the photo that Yan Erye Ning Mu gave him, and thought of the ice-cracked peony plate he had received as a birthday present.

Zhao Chen intends to make a peony plate as a commemoration of the past.

Piece by piece of porcelain blanks slowly took shape in Zhao Chen's hands.

Before I knew it, the sky outside the courtyard was full of stars and moons.

The little fox hugged each other and fell asleep.

Two big geese were hanging out.

Xiao Hei lay on his back outside the door of the working room, with his head resting on the threshold, staring at Zhao Chen in a daze.

Under the illumination of the lights, a craftsman living in a mountain village is busy with concentration.

The greatest happiness of a person is to spend his life in his favorite way.

His life is still peaceful and beautiful.

The next day, Zhao Chen looked up at the sky.

The weather was clear and cloudless.

Then Zhao Chen looked at the weather forecast again. It was sunny in the morning and cloudy in the afternoon, but there was no rain.

Ru kiln porcelain cannot be fired, and the porcelain blanks of official kilns have not been completely dried, so they cannot be fired.

Zhao Chen glanced at the wooden classical furniture hanging in the shade.

Taking advantage of the good weather, it was just possible to glaze the tables and chairs.

So, Zhao Chen started to get busy again.

At noon, Zhao Chen had nothing to do. He planned to go to the village to buy some things, and then went to the mountains to live broadcast some scenery in the mountains.

After all, Nuwa Mountain belongs to the branch of Tianmu Mountain. Tianmu Mountain is rich in species, and there are many weird and magical animals.

Netizens are also looking forward to it.

Zhao Chen walked on the mountain road with the puppy, and the roadside was full of lilac flowers, Zhao Chen turned his head and saw a few bees gathering honey on the flowers.

Seeing the bees, Zhao Chen thought of some interesting things.

So, he smiled and said to the netizens in the live broadcast room:
"Everyone knows that bees are generally a symbol of hard work, and people always say hardworking bees."

"But does anyone know when the bees go off work?"

Facing Zhao Chen's question, the netizens in the live broadcast room all gave a meal.

When do bees leave work?
What a strange question.

Netizens immediately became interested.

Then, Zhao Chen said in a leisurely manner:

"When I was in school, I observed bees in the flowers of the school. During the day, there were many bees in the flowers, but around five o'clock in the afternoon, there was not a single bee in sight."

"That is to say, the hard-working bees, known by people, get off work at five o'clock every day."

"Many working people are just about to start working overtime at this time."

"So, in fact, people are much more miserable than bees."

(End of this chapter)