God-level Golden Hand

Chapter 268
The jade plaque that Cheng Lin took out was carved from Hetian white jade. It is about the size of a baby's palm. The overall shape is rectangular, but the corners are very rounded. It is very comfortable to touch and feels good in the hand.

The front of the sign is engraved with four regular characters of "Xu Xu Jing Xing", and a circle of curly cloud patterns is carved around it with the technique of single Yin line. It looks like a jade carver doing it casually, but it also looks like a display of the jade carver's highest skills. Even Xu Jingxing can't match this level of carving skills.

Although Xu Jingxing was not a jade carver, both jade carving and wood carving had a lot in common, so the moment Xu Jingxing got the brand, he could confirm that the creator of this brand was definitely a master jade carver.

His eyes lingered for a moment on the four regular script characters and a circle of curly moiré patterns before turning over to look at the back.

On the back is a simple landscape painting, using the same single Yin line carving technique. The subject matter of the painting is very simple, and the content is not complicated. The background is a high mountain with a waterfall flowing down from the top of the mountain. There are strange rocks and trees beside the waterfall. There is a stone path looming among the trees, and simple railings can be vaguely seen on both sides of the path.

In addition to the mountains, rivers, stones and trees, there is a person on the mountainside. The depiction of the person is very simple. There is only one back, and it is very small. It can be outlined with a few lines, but this small back looks tall and firm. And it is very eye-catching, it is the finishing touch of this small landscape painting, which coincides with the meaning of "Jingxing slowly".

A circle of cloud patterns, four regular script characters, and a landscape painting seem very simple, but they are of great significance to Xu Jingxing, because the four regular script characters have his name on them.

You must know that the four words "Xu Xu Jing Xing" are not idioms, nor are they customary words. Almost no one has used them in this way, but the combination is quite artistic, and his name is even included in it. The landscape paintings even implicitly interpret the meaning of the four characters "Xu Xu Jing Xing", and also entrust the good intentions of the creators of the jade plaques.

The four characters "Xu Xu Jing Xing" should be a combination of "Xu Xing" and "Jing Xing". "Xu Xing" means walking slowly, while "Jing Xing" means road, which is extended to be upright.The combination of these two words meant that Xu Jingxing could move forward step by step in an open and aboveboard manner.

Ordinarily, this is nothing. It is not difficult for a cultured jade carver to create according to the needs. Not to mention that the name "Xu Jingxing" itself has a lot of meaning, and it is easy to extend the creation. Even if you find a popular name, a cultured person can also Introduce some special meanings.

However, according to Xu Jingxing's judgment, this jade tablet is not a modern creation, but existed long before he was born, because the patina on this jade tablet is very moist and deep, and it is definitely not something that can be formed in two or thirty years. , at least over a hundred years.

That is to say, this jade plaque was born first, and Xu Jingxing himself was born later. This is an ancient jade handed down from generation to generation.

Following this judgment, it can be deduced that there are two possibilities for the origin of this jade plaque. One: it was passed down by Xu Jingxing’s family, and the name his parents gave him was based on this jade plaque; two: this jade plaque is his. After being born and named, it was sent by someone else. This other person may be his relatives, elders or friends of his parents, or his parents may have bought it from somewhere.

There are two possibilities, one is inherited from the family, and the other is from the outside world, neither can avoid the iron-clad fact that this jade token is of great value.

Xu Jingxing didn't have a particularly deep research on jade, but after all, he had spent several months on the Antique Street and learned some antique appraisal skills from Lao Yang. Be sure, the material of this jade tablet is very good, it is carved from top-quality Hetian white jade, the quality of the jade is almost close to suet jade, it is oily and delicate without any impurities or cracks, even people who don't understand jade at all can see it , the quality of this jade is very good.

In addition to jade quality, it is carving.

This is Xu Jingxing's strong point. He is a sculptor. Looking at the cloud pattern and landscape painting carved with a single Yin line, he knows that the creator of this jade tablet is a master. Not only that, but he can also tell that this The engraving tools used by the creators of the jade plaques are obviously not modern electrician's knives, but primitive mound knives.

Tuo knife is the so-called Tuo jade machine, which is the original tool used by people to carve jade. Because of the high hardness of jade, it is impossible to carve with pure human power. It can only be carved with the help of machinery. The original Tuo jade machine is also This is where the mound knife comes from.

In fact, the working principle of the mound knife is the same as that of the electric sharpener used by modern people. It uses simple machinery to drive the mound knife to run at high speed to achieve the purpose of cutting, cutting, grinding, etc. It is just that the original human machinery is compared with the modern electric machinery. , the efficiency and effect are too poor, and the cutting marks left are completely different.

The surface of jade cut by modern tools is smooth, delicate and well-proportioned, and there are almost no traces of wear after grinding; however, the original mound knife will leave relatively obvious wear marks, especially the immature polishing skills of the ancients. It can hardly be polished, and the residual wear marks are more obvious.

The cirrus cloud patterns and landscape paintings on this white jade plate are carved with single Yin lines. The single Yin line is the technique of using a single Yin engraved line to outline the picture, and the Yin line is the sunken line. The sunken part is hardly polished when it is polished. They will be taken care of, the thinner the line, the more obvious the remaining wear marks, which may not make much difference in the eyes of a layman, but in Xu Jingxing's eyes, it is as bright as a bright light in the dark.

So when he saw those obvious but smooth remaining wear marks, he could confirm that this jade tablet was the ancient jade that Lao Yang often talked about.

The ancient jade handed down from generation to generation, and it is a masterpiece, and the quality of the jade is so good. Based on a comprehensive judgment, the market price will definitely not be lower than 50 yuan. Even 20 years ago, it would not be lower than 10 yuan. 20 yuan 10 years ago, what does that mean?At that time, commercial housing in the capital was only about 10 yuan, and 100 yuan could buy a house of more than 10 square meters in the second ring road. Now? [-] yuan can't even buy a toilet.

However, it is such a valuable jade card, which he has been playing with around his neck since he was in a hurry, and it seems like a very ordinary toy; what's more, this valuable "toy" is actually played by him like a play It was given to Cheng Lin, who was still a yellow-haired girl.

To be able to afford such an expensive "toy", his family background is obviously unusual, at least, the family is not short of money.

So here comes the question, how did their family, who were not short of money, fall to that point?

(End of this chapter)