Starting from the sculpture of Buddha statues in Lanruo Temple

Chapter 58

Li Fengning and Wang Bo were strolling around the market, before looking at jade and wood, they saw a tailor shop.

Li Fengning and Wang Bo were pregnant with hundreds of taels of silver, no matter how they are considered rich in Jinhua City.

But they were still wearing their previous clothes, which made them look a bit shabby.

Moreover, they are also planning to go to various Buddhist temples to discuss business.

As the saying goes: first respect clothes and then respect others, and monks are no exception.

If they go to Buddhist temples to discuss business in the current coarse linen clothes, maybe the supervisor or abbot of the Buddhist temple will have doubts about the level of their carving skills and the authenticity of their carving materials.

So, they entered the clothing store and each bought several styles of clothing.

They changed their original coarse linen clothes and put on one of the beautiful new clothes.

Wang Bo put on a goose-yellow robe with gold trim, a gold belt around his waist, and white buckskin boots...

Immediately, he looked like a nouveau riche.

And Li Fengning.

Wearing a tunic of Tsing Yi, her long black hair was gently tied up with a hoop, and she was wearing gold-rimmed cloud boots.

It looks as gentle as jade, rich and handsome.

If you have a folding fan in your hand, you are a handsome young man in troubled times.

As soon as these two people stepped out of the shop and walked to the street, they immediately attracted the attention of many men and women.

All the women looked at Li Fengning, and most of the men looked at Wang Bo.

"Boss Wang, you are dressed so beautifully, be careful with your money when you go home." Li Fengning reminded.

Wang Bo was quite complacent at first, but when he heard Li Fengning say this, he immediately shrank back, froze down, and secretly scolded himself for being confused.

There is a saying that "wealth is not revealed". With his current appearance, if he had no accompanying guards, he would be like a fat sheep wandering the streets, waiting to be slaughtered.

He secretly thought, after buying jade and other items, he will change into a more low-key clothes.

Li Fengning and Wang Bo continued walking on the street, when suddenly, Wang Bo said:

"Isn't that your friend from Qingfengguan?"

Li Fengning walked out of a casino when he saw Zhiqiu Yiye with a proud expression on his face.

"It turns out that your friend still likes to play two hands, but that casino belongs to the city bully Guo Tony.

"He had a very bad reputation, and if someone won too much money, he would send someone to ask for it back.

"Although he changed places recently, the casino was transferred from the north of the city to the east of this city, but I overheard news that this casino belongs to him."

It turned out to be Tony's casino, no wonder Brother Wufly would go in... Li Fengning remembered the scene where Tony called "Thank you, Brother Wufly".

Li Fengning used to be strong and tall, but now he was dressed in brand new clothes. Zhi Qiuyi glanced around and saw Li Fengning.

"Brother Feng Ning." Zhi Qiu Yiye came over: "You even put on a new outfit, what are you doing here, shouldn't you be watching the statue in Qingfeng?"

"Boss Wang and I plan to buy some jade and precious wood to carve Avalokitesvara and sell it to the Buddhist temple in Jinhua City." Li Fengning said:
"I don't know if Brother Zhiqiu is interested in joining our business."

Knowing that Qiu Yiye is a practitioner, Li Fengning should win a lot of money when he sees him going in and out of the casino.

If he knows that Qiu Yiye is willing to join the business, the business will grow even bigger, and he can also control the risk of business failure accordingly.

When Zhiqiu Yiye was called "brother" at the beginning, he was quite angry, but later he and Li Fengning called each other "brother", which is no surprise.

When he heard Li Fengning's invitation to join the gang, his eyes lit up and he became interested:

"How much do I have to pay, and how much can I earn?"

If there is no accident, it should be several times the profit, but it is also possible to lose everything...

Li Fengning felt that the reasoning was too complicated for a layman like Zhiqiu Yiye to understand, so he directly drew a big cake for him.

What's more, knowing that Qiu Yiye is a cultivator, money is something outside of him, even if he loses money, it is still helping him in his cultivation.

Zhiqiu Yiye decided to give 100 taels of support.

The three of Li Fengning, while walking, discussed how to share profits in the future.

The three of them only bought some raw materials for carving in the market.

Because the price is expensive, I don't buy many, only enough to engrave the sample.

The jade is Hetian jade, the wood is sandalwood, and the stone is olive stone.

Because these three raw materials can be used to make high-end sculptures, their prices also rise and fall from time to time. Some rich people can make huge profits just by hoarding these raw materials and adding a certain amount of speculation, selling high and buying low.

Of course, with the money and business level of the three of Li Fengning, they still dare not try this method of profit.

……

Li Fengning separated from the two, took the raw materials for carving home, and immediately began to carve.

The bought Hetian jade is used to carve jade pendants; the sandalwood is mainly used to carve wood carvings; the processed olive stones are used to carve kernel carvings.

When carving large Buddha statues, Avalokitesvara also has to carve out a thousand hands.

However, when carving these small sculptures, it is not necessary to carve a thousand hands. Generally, it is enough to carve at most five hands on the left and right sides behind the Guanyin.

Li Fengning concentrated his attention, recalling the feeling and charm when manifesting the [Thousand-Handed Avalokitesvara], and used a small carving knife specially designed to carve small carvings to carve carefully on the raw material.

When night fell, Li Fengning let out a breath, collected his mind, and finally carved several styles of jade pendants, rosary beads, and nuclear carvings.

……

The next morning, Li Fengning met Zhiqiu Yiye and Wang Bo in a restaurant for breakfast.

They sat on the second floor, overlooking the street market that gradually became lively in the morning.

They planned to go to Tianfo Temple to discuss business after breakfast.

After all, Tianfo Temple is the largest temple in Jinhua City, and it accounts for [-]% of the incense in Jinhua City.

Because the Thousand-Handed Avalokitesvara appeared in Tianfo Temple, many believers from counties and townships near Jinhua Mansion, as well as tourists passing through Jinhua City, made a special trip to Tianfo Temple to pray to Thousand-handed Avalokitesvara.

Li Fengning also saw from the power of the incense that flowed to him that most of the believers who prayed to the large thousand-handed Avalokitesvara Buddha statue did so in the Tianfo Temple.

Li Fengning was putting a shrimp dumpling dipped in sauce into his mouth when he suddenly heard the sound of chanting sutras on the street from afar.

Intermittent, ethereal.

After a while, Zhiqiu Yiye also had a different expression, obviously he also heard the sound of chanting.

When Li Fengning finished the three cages of shrimp dumplings, Wang Bo also heard the sound of chanting.

The three of them put down their chopsticks and looked downstairs.

Then I saw more than a dozen monks and nuns chanting scriptures, surrounded by four monks.

The four monks carried a big sedan chair, the white curtain of the sedan chair was pulled open and tied up, so that others could see who was sitting in the sedan chair.

Li Fengning looked at the person in the sedan chair, it was a nun, wearing a scarf, wearing white clothes, red lips and fair complexion.

It had to be said that the nun's appearance was [-]-[-]% similar to the Guanyin Bodhisattva he had seen in the portrait.

(End of this chapter)