God-level Golden Hand

Chapter 3
Xu Jingxing planned to try another one, but just as he turned around, he suddenly saw a little old man in a security uniform dragging a basket of leftovers into the concierge from the factory yard.

He thought for a while, then turned around and went to the nearby canteen, gritted his teeth, bought two packs of Yunyan, put them in his pocket, and returned to Tianxing Furniture Factory. Seeing that the little old man was alone in the concierge, he took a deep breath, rubbed his face, feeling uneasy knocked on the glass of the door.

"What are you doing?" The little old man looked up at him.

Xu Jingxing tried his best to make himself smile more harmlessly, "Master, I want to ask you something," he said, quickly took out a cigarette and handed it to the old man to light it, and conveniently put the whole box on the table.

"Let's talk," the old man glanced at, with a smile on his face.

"I would like to ask, how are the leftovers in this factory handled?"

"Scrap, sell it as scrap, it's not worth much anyway, why, do you want it?"

"Well, I'd like to pick some, but it's not for nothing. You can spend as much as you want, but the quantity is not that big," Xu Jingxing hastily explained his needs.

"Well, it's a bit difficult. If you don't pick and choose, you can pull it casually for 200 yuan, and the director of the factory can take care of it. But if you go in and pick it slowly, it's not good for the boss to see. I want to eat and hang up," the old man said, taking a puff on his cigarette and frowning.

Xu Jingxing was a little disappointed, but he didn't give up. He asked tentatively, "It's really inconvenient for me to be an outsider, but you are from the factory. If you pick some suitable ones, there won't be any problem, right?"

"Naturally," the old man said, pointing to the basket of leftovers in the corner, "I picked this one, take it back and set it on fire."

There is a door!

Seeing this, Xu Jingxing was secretly happy, and asked tentatively: "Then do you think this is okay? You can pick some out for me when you have time," and quickly added: "Don't worry, I won't treat you badly, as much as you want , let’s pay with one hand and deliver with the other, and you can negotiate a price,” he said, taking out another pack of cigarettes and stuffing it into the old man’s pocket.

"This, isn't it good?" The old man was obviously moved.

"What's wrong with that, it's just a little leftovers, I don't use much, I just need to pick and choose, and I won't let you and the factory suffer, don't you think so?" Xu Jingxing struck while the iron was hot.

"...Okay, what do you want?" The old man touched Yunyan in his pocket and finally nodded.

Xu Jingxing was overjoyed, and hastily explained his needs, and picked out a few items from the old man's box to make gestures for a while.

In fact, his requirements are not too strict. It is nothing more than that there should be no cracks, not too small, not too thin, and not too thin. It is best to use thicker strips and thicker sheets.

After hearing this, the old man patted his chest to make sure he wouldn't fool him, and then asked cautiously, "One dollar a catty, is it acceptable?"

If calculated according to the wholesale price, one catty and one ton is 2000 yuan, which is several times the market price.But he was buying at retail, and he had to make a selection, so Xu Jingxing didn't lower the price, and gritted his teeth to agree to the price.

Seeing that Xu Jingxing agreed, the old man grinned from ear to ear, "Wait, I'll help you get a car out," he added, "By the way, if someone finds out, you can say you are my nephew. , is for carving, so don’t let your mouth slip, check your name first, what’s your name?”

"Xu Jingxing, Lin Zexu's Xu, Ri Jingjing, walking on foot, how about you, sir? What's your surname?"

"Hey, we were a family 500 years ago, and my surname is Xu, hehe, okay, push your tricycle over here, and I'll get it for you," the old man chuckled, and pushed Xu Jingxing's tricycle directly into the car. .

After a while, the old man pretended to come out for one or three rounds, all of which were dense and good materials, the old man kept his word and didn't fool people.

"One hundred and six catties, hehe," the old man said with a smile.

Xu Jingxing glanced at it and thought it was about the same, so he didn't care about the scale, it was too troublesome, and it would make the old man feel distrustful, so he took out 160 yuan and handed it to the old man without hesitation, and then entrusted: "Master, on weekdays Please keep an eye out for me again, if you have any larger waste, please keep it for me, I want as much as I have, and when you have it, call me."

"You young man is pleasing to the eye, okay, I'll help you pay attention," the old man smiled and smoked, and waved his hand, indicating that Xu Jingxing could leave.

Xu Jingxing didn't linger, left his phone number and returned home after three rounds.

Everything is ready, just need to start.

Now is the time to test his woodcarving skills. If he can't get his skills back, then all this is just a dream.

Thinking that his younger sister's operation fee was entrusted to his own hands, Xu Jingxing was so nervous that he didn't dare to use the knife. It took him a long time to calm down and dig out a piece of cypress wood.This cypress board is square, 30 centimeters square, but it is a bit thin, only 0.4 centimeters thick, but it is flat and straight without even a single crack.

This kind of sheet can only be used as sheet decorations, such as flower pieces on doors and windows, decorations hanging inside the house and so on.

It was Xu Jingxing's first time to use a knife after many years, and he didn't intend to make anything too complicated. After a little thought, he drew a "Fu" character in the center of the board, and a circle of ten thousand bat patterns around the "Frame".Drawing is one of the basic skills of woodcarving. If you can't even do drawing, how can you create exquisite woodcarving works?
In fact, not only wood carving, jade carving, stone carving and sculpture, but also ceramics, lacquerware, woodware and other related handicrafts, drawing is a basic skill, without the most basic art creation ability, what kind of handicraft art creation is there?
Therefore, Xu Jingxing's art skills are quite solid, and it is no worse than ordinary art students when taken alone. It is more than enough to make a sketch on the board.

Conception, drawing, rough blank, smoothing, polishing, and coloring are the basic steps of woodcarving creation, no matter what genre or style, it is roughly the same.The rough blank is the simplest. Generally, a chisel is used to cut it drastically, and a prototype is chiseled out according to the sketch.

Therefore, making rough billets seems drastic, but drastic is not the same as carelessness, because wood has texture, if you chisel indiscriminately, it is very likely that the good material will be divided into two.

Xu Jingxing didn't grasp the strength in his hand just now, as soon as the chisel went down, the sheet material split a thin crack.

Fortunately, this thin slit is not long, and it is exactly at the position that needs to be hollowed out, so it does not affect the overall layout. Otherwise, this piece of board can be thrown into the kitchen and set on fire.

(End of this chapter)