Jin Yutong

Chapter 179 Prelude to Carving Jade

At ten o'clock in the morning, the gold medal competition and the final of the jade carving competition officially began.

Compared with the aggressive competition, the competition for the gold medal is undoubtedly full of expectations. There is no doubt that this competition in front of you will also be the most intense one in the jade carving competition. It can be seen in the 'color'.

When the voice of Professor Xie announcing the start of the competition reverberated throughout the audience, warm applause and cheers erupted from every corner of the auditorium, and the focus of the audience suddenly shifted to the players' seats superior.

After the audience's eyes swept over the top ten players, they all stopped on Chen Ran. Chen Ran is undoubtedly the biggest variable in this competition. Although in the selection competition, Chen Ran created a miracle , but it is rumored that Chen Ran's carving is mediocre, so can he create miracles again?

"Friends from the audience, let us now welcome the contestants to enter the arena. I don't think I need to introduce the first one to enter the arena. Everyone should know who it is. In this year's competition, Longfengyu is a blockbuster. All the friends in the jade carving world know about his existence, now the competition is about to start, let us wait and see his performance, hope he can create miracles for us again..."

When Professor Xie's excited voice sounded, Chen Ran took a deep breath. At this moment, his eyes were unconsciously filled with anticipation. After waiting for such a long time, finally The moment has come.

Known as a miracle by the jade carving world, the eight-knife split-wave sword technique that has been lost for thousands of years will finally reappear in the world. Chen Ran is looking forward to the moment when he uses the eight-knife divide-wave knife technique, which will give the audience What a shock!

At this moment, Chen Ran seemed a little excited.

After stepping onto the stage, Chen Ran took another deep breath, adjusted his emotions, and calmed down his mentality. As he came on stage, the audience burst into loud cheers again.

At this moment, Guo Hai and Yang Long are the two guys who attract the most attention. I don't know who came up with the idea of ​​"showing off" to put the two chairs together, and the two of them stood tall on the chairs. , and almost yelling at the top of their voices, causing other audiences to look at them frequently.

Seeing this scene, Chen Ran couldn't help but smile, and his mind became more peaceful.

When Li Baoping came on stage, he and Chen Ran looked at each other, and the two of them exchanged eyes for a moment, and then smiled, as if they understood each other's meaning, but Ma Jian didn't even look at Chen Ran. Tianming stared at Chen Ran with a gloomy face. Besides the four of them, there was Jiang Xiaotong... Waiting for six contestants, but these contestants also had different thoughts. Of course, there were three other contestants standing on the stage , these three players are the three players who squeezed into the top ten in the aggressive competition just now.

After going through the preliminaries, the trials, and the enterprising competition, Ah Han has already gotten used to the atmosphere of the competition, especially the encouraging eyes from Chen Ran, which relieved a lot of his nervousness, and even directed at him. Chen Ran smiled.

There were thirteen contestants in total, except for Chen Ran, twelve of them brought their own tools, only Chen Ran was empty-handed, and looked a little unprofessional at first glance, which made the expert judges on the stage couldn't help but frowned. frowned.

Although everyone else brought their own tools, none of them brought jade materials, because in the competition, jade materials are not allowed. In the aggressive competition, the contestants have to carve according to the theme of the lottery, but the competition is different , In the competition, the players are completely free to play, this is also to allow these outstanding players to better use their knife skills and carve the best jade works.

Of course, if the contestants are allowed to bring their own materials, they will be able to carve better jade works. Just imagine this. It would be better to choose the most suitable materials at home according to the carving theme you are best at. .

That’s good, but it’s unfair to the competition itself. Some contestants have chosen the right material, and some contestants have not. Just like what kind of material Lu Tianming wants, with his family's channels, how can he not get it, and it is undoubtedly very difficult for someone like Chen Ran to find the most suitable material, and there is another point, that is, there are The contestants may not be able to afford it, because the cost of carving jade materials is already very high at this stage of the competition.

Therefore, in the gold medal competition, contestants were not allowed to bring their own jade materials. Therefore, after the thirteen contestants entered the field, they all came to the front of the field, under the judges' seats.

Here, there are three tables about three to four meters long, and on each table are neatly placed two rows of various jade materials, the small ones are only the size of a finger, the big ones are the size of a fist, and there are even more. Big ones, but generally speaking, the bigger the body, the worse the grade of the jade, and there is a small sign in front of each piece of jade, with a number on the sign and a line of numbers, representing the quality of the piece of jade. the value of.

These jade materials are all sponsored by major companies. Of course, they are not sponsored for free. After the works are carved out, evaluated and sold by experts, the cost price will be deducted directly.

The contestants who can reach this stage, generally speaking, the carved jade works are at least higher than the cost price. Therefore, those jewelry companies are willing to provide sponsorship, they will not pay or say, and they can also get the favor of the Jewelry Association. And the Jewelry Association will also compensate them in other ways, so why not do it.

Huang Shang's Golden Dragon Jewelry Company was able to get several competition indicators because of the sponsorship. If he didn't give up the indicators to Zhu Feng, the bidding just now would have almost earned back the jade materials he sponsored. Of course, he had to get Chen Ran's guidance.

The thirteen contestants walked towards the long table, but they had different expressions. Some walked around the long table while watching, some bent over and stared at a piece of jade in a daze, and some just glanced at the front of the long table. He immediately left. Lu Tianming and Ma Jian were among such players.

Although the competition is as fair as possible, there is no real fairness in the world. Just like Lu Tianming and Ma Jian, they can't bring their own materials, but their Lu family or Hanhai can take the materials they have selected before the competition. The materials are passed on to them through sponsorship, which is no different from bringing their own materials.

Neither Chen Ran nor Li Baoping started to act immediately. Their eyes fell on the pile of jade materials. They seemed to be thinking and observing... For a real jade carver, carving a piece of jade For jade wares, it is not the jade carver who chooses the material, but the jade carver who chooses the material.

No matter what kind of jade material is placed in front of you, you can carve the best work you can. This is the real jade carver.

Like Chen Ran, like Li Baoping... They didn't think about choosing materials at all. For them, they can carve the best of any piece of material in front of them, so naturally they don't need to choose.

The first piece of material that caught his eye was the material that Chen Ran wanted to choose. He didn't even look at the other materials. He just stared at the material in front of him, thinking intently, what kind of jade should be carved... Lu Both Tianming and Ma Jian picked out the materials they had chosen long ago, and they looked a little excited. They glanced at the other people who were still choosing, curled their lips in disdain, and immediately stood at their work table holding the materials impatiently. forward.

Seeing this scene, Lu Daosen finally showed a smile on his face, but several judges couldn't help but shook their heads secretly. How could they not see the tricks in it? When he focused his eyes, he couldn't help but nodded silently. This kind of eyes is what a real jade carver has. The finest jade work.

After staring at it for a while, Li Baoping seemed to realize something, suddenly smiled slightly, picked up the materials in front of him, turned around and left, while leaving, he also glanced at Chen Ran who was still in a daze, his eyes flickered.

With the passage of time, one after another, all the contestants have selected the materials that suit them, even Ah Han has also selected a piece, and returned to the workbench, only Chen Ran is still watching...Chen Ran has naturally After choosing, he was just thinking about what to carve and how to carve. For him who has practiced the eight-sword and split-wave knife technique, this is the key point. Seeing the piece of material the size of a football in front of him came to the work table.

At this moment, Lu Tianming, Ma Jian, Li Baoping, Ah Han... have already started to move.

Seeing that Chen Ran came to the work table, all the people present turned their expectant eyes to Chen Ran. Although the huge square was crowded with people, at this moment, it was silent, and no one made a sound. At this moment, everyone seemed to hold back their breath on purpose, looking at Chen Ran who was about to carve jade with a bit of curiosity and anticipation...