Jin Yutong

Chapter 50

There are a total of [-] urban areas in Central Plains Province, and the jade carving competition is also divided into five districts.

Since March [-]rd, the preliminary round of the competition has been launched vigorously in the whole province. It is said that the leaders of the province also attach great importance to this competition. On the opening ceremony of the preliminary round of the competition, a leader of the provincial party committee even came to visit The arena gave a speech, and then the first and second leaders of the cities below also came forward one after another, pushing the competition to the top unanimously. The whole situation was like a burning flame, and in the blink of an eye, the entire Central Plains province was burned up.

Chen Ran didn't know how the rumors went viral outside, but even Chen Ran, who didn't leave home, could feel the popularity of the Jade Carving School. Walking in the Jade Carving School, whenever he met a student, they were almost always talking about the competition things, especially in Yuyuan Building.

And for the students participating in the competition, it gives people a feeling of facing the college entrance examination, both nervous and looking forward to it, or this jade carving competition is more like a star road, if they can get one in the competition If you get a good ranking, then your value will double immediately. Obviously, this is like an opportunity to leap into the dragon's gate.

Everyone was crazy about such an opportunity... As the preliminary round ended with a bang, this atmosphere became more and more obvious.

Chen Ran cherishes this opportunity, but he is not crazy, the waves are rough outside, but he is still calm.

According to his plan, before the start of the competition, he wanted to practice the eight-sword split-wave saber technique to the point where two marks would be left in one stroke, but now he encountered a bottleneck.

This is also the first bottleneck of the Eight Sabers and Waves Saber Technique. If you can't break through, you can only stop here for the rest of your life.

Eight knives divide the wave, one knife goes down, leaving eight marks, and one knife goes down, leaving one mark, which is undoubtedly the easiest, so it is obvious that changing from one to two is a very important step.Today's Chen Ran has become extremely proficient in saber practice, but when he breaks through this step, he always fails.

After practicing for two days without making any progress, he saw that the competition was coming, so he had to give up for the time being and listened to the cram school teacher for two days. He said that he had listened to the class for two days. He read books by himself in the Yuyuan building. In the past two days, he has gained a lot.

In addition to reading almost half of the books in Yuyuanlou, he also has some understanding of the situation of the participating students in the cram school. After all, these participating students may become his competitors in the future.

There are a total of more than 30 people in the cram school. Although there are not many people, there are various forces. Almost every participating student is supported by a large force. Most of them are newcomers trained by various jewelry companies or jade carving workshops. Not only Not only that, there are even many children of the jade carving family.

The children of these jade carving families all have ancestral jade carving skills and jade carving experience handed down from their ancestors. Undoubtedly, all of them are superb carvers. The whole cram school can be described as hidden dragons and crouching tigers, which also made Chen Ran understand the so-called jade carving competition Although it was just a rookie contest, it was actually a contest between major forces.

With the end of the preliminary round, the trials for the competition finally started. Compared with the preliminary rounds, the trials will undoubtedly be more sensational and more intense.

Early this morning, Chen Ran rushed towards the Jade Carving School. He participated in the competition as a student of the Jade Carving School. During the selection, he had to follow the teacher who led the team. Yesterday the school had notified the location and time of the selection competition and some rules.

When Chen Ran arrived outside the cram school classroom, although it was not yet eight o'clock, there were already hundreds of people downstairs in the small building, all of them were neatly dressed, not only the participating members, but also many jewelry companies and jade products company people.

After Chen Ran arrived at the place, he glanced at it and walked towards a little man standing in the corner.

"Ah Han, you came so early!"

Chen Ran walked up to the little dwarf and greeted the little dwarf. The little dwarf looked only about seventeen or eighteen years old.

The little dwarf didn't have a name, so his name was Ah Han. When Chen Ran went to the class, there was only an empty seat next to Ah Han, so the two became the same table, and Ah Han, like him, didn't often attend classes. I always go to Yuyuan Building to read books. While reading, although the two of them don't speak, they sit together in a tacit understanding every time.

Ah Han stretched out his hand to 'touch' his head, and smiled at Chen Ran.

Chen Ran nodded, and then stood quietly in this corner. He just stood here when he heard someone calling him. When he looked up, he found that it was Fatty Luo.

Fatty Luo ran up to Chen Ran panting, glanced at Ah Han, then looked at Chen Ran with a smile: "Brother Chen, how are your preparations going, are you sure?"

Chen Ran smiled noncommittally. This morning was just a written test in the literary test. With his super memory, the written test was naturally no problem.

"Hehe, it's good to have confidence!"

Although Chen Ran didn't answer him, Fatty Luo could tell from Chen Ran's expression that Chen Ran was very confident, but to be honest, he didn't know Chen Ran well. In his mind, Chen Ran was Which family's young master just wants to play with carving jade.

Such things are not uncommon, so he is actually not optimistic about Chen Ran. Of course, on the surface, he naturally wants to flatter him.

"Han!" After saying hello to Chen Ran, Fatty Luo looked at Ah Han with a playful look on his face: "Ah Han, you are going to take the exam too, you want me to say Ah, you still have to abstain automatically, you didn’t pass the written test at school, and taking part in the competition with your little foundation is also discrediting our school, and I don’t know what the school did, but it will allow you to participate!”

Chen Ran frowned slightly, but he didn't say anything. What Fatty Luo said was the truth. Although he was new here, he had heard about Ah Han. Ah Han had been in school for four years, and he was at the bottom of every exam. , the bottom is fine, the key is that the score in the written test is extremely low.

Fatty Luo's words were a bit heavy, but Ah Han was not angry, just 'touched' his head and smiled honestly.

"Forget it, I don't bother to talk about you anymore!" Fatty Luo was a little annoyed when he saw Ah Han's foolishness. He glanced at Chen Ran, and saw that Chen Ran was looking in one direction, so he turned around and looked.

There were more than 30 students participating in the competition, but at this time, almost all of them came. Except for Chen Ran and Ah Han, almost every other student was surrounded by some people, and one of them was the most dazzling.

This student is a young man in his 20s. The young man is wearing a black suit. His thick eyebrows are rebelliously raised upwards. Under the long and slightly curly eyelashes, there is a pair of general It is the eyes that give people a bad smile, especially the dazzling diamond earrings on the left ear, adding a touch of unruly to his sunny handsomeness...Of course, this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is this As soon as the young man stood in the field, he immediately became the focus of the audience.

Whether it was other students or people from various companies, they immediately surrounded him. The students all greeted him kindly. , It’s an apology and a business card.

"Brother Chen, you should know who this is?" Fatty Luo curled his lips in disdain, but his face was full of envy and jealousy.

Chen Ran shook his head, but he had never seen this person before.

Seeing Chen Ran shaking his head, Fatty Luo was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Chen Ran with a face of surprise, as if to say, you are also the youngest of some family, and you don’t even know the youngest, who are you lying to? .

Fatty Luo was obviously a person who couldn't hide his words. Chen Ran shook his head to express that he didn't know him, but it happened to give him a topic, and soon he told Chen Ran clearly about this person's background.

In ancient times, whether it was a jade carver or other craftsmen, when imparting skills, most of them were undoubtedly inherited from the family. This is also the reason why many carving techniques were lost, but not all carving techniques They are all lost, and some families have been passed down slowly like this, like Master Miao's family is actually like this, but Master Miao's family is a family of chefs.

The Lu family in the Central Plains is also such a family, but the Lu family is a jade carving family.

The origin of the Lu family also comes from the Qianlong period.

When it comes to jade, we have to talk about Qianlong. Qianlong loved jade wares. Most of the [-] pieces of jade wares in the Palace Museum are now in his collection. Qianlong named his son Yong Yan, who was later Emperor Jiaqing, and Yan is the name of beautiful jade; Yongyan's sixteen brothers were also named after jade wares, and Qianlong himself was called Yu Chi by later generations.

Most of the jade carvings in the Qianlong period were large and thick, with neat and symmetrical shapes, which created a unique royal style and created another peak in Chinese jade craftsmanship. It is said that Qianlong asked three or four court jade carvers to carve jade for him every day. The court jade carvers of this period were called Qianlong workers, and the jade wares were also called Qianlong jade.

A lot of Qianlong jade has been handed down, but most of the jade carving skills of the court jade carvers who created these works of art have been lost. Of course, there are not none that have been truly passed down, such as the Lu family in the Central Plains.

His family's jade carving technique has a unique royal style and is very popular.

And now the Lu family even has a fifth-level jade carver sitting in charge.

Lu Tianming was born in a jade carving family, and at a young age, he is already a third-level jade carving master. Even if he doesn't look at the jade carving family behind him, he is undoubtedly the target of major jewelry companies, not to mention that there is a fifth-level jade carving master behind him. The jade carving family where the master sits.

"This student is also a student participating in the competition, right? Zhao Wuyong, this is my business card, please keep it!" Fatty Luo just finished speaking, and a jovial young man gave Chen Ran a business card, and Chen Ran just After receiving it, the young man gave out a business card to the next student.

"It looks like a small company at first glance, don't worry about him!" Fatty Luo glanced at the young man, then curled his lips in disdain.

Chen Ran looked up silently, and found that this young man had issued business cards to almost all the students present, but most of the students just glanced at them and then threw them away. Soon after, many companies issued business cards to Chen Ran. Obviously, these companies are small companies with little strength, and everyone has a business card, which is completely luck.

"Okay, Brother Chen, I won't talk to you anymore. I'm off to work. Let's talk in the car later!" Fatty Luo greeted Chen Ran and left. According to him, he will also talk to Chen Ran this time. He was one of the teachers who led the team to the exam site, but in Chen Ran's opinion, Fatty Luo was actually doing logistical errands.

Not long after Fatty Luo left, he ran over again out of breath, smiled at Chen Ran, and looked at Ah Han: "Ah Han, come and help me move something!"

Ah Han was taken aback for a moment, then smiled honestly, and followed behind Fatty Luo.

Chen Ran frowned again. Fatty Luo was obviously bullying Ah Han for his good temper. Thinking so, he couldn't say anything.

Soon it was 08:30, and 08:30 was the time for everyone to set off.

When the time came, the teachers who led the team also showed up. They first greeted people from various companies, and after a short chat, they set off. Those who had a car took their own car, and those who didn’t have a car took the school’s shuttle bus. In this way, a group of vehicles rushed towards the branch of the Jade Association...