Super quality mind

Chapter 168 Looks Like an Expert
Shi Lei walked around in front of the cabinet, pretending to look at it, while secretly looking at Master Cao.No matter where Shi Lei stayed, Master Cao's eyes seemed to never change.

This range is too big, Shi Lei didn't expect that there are more than 100 works in Master Cao's collection room, he thought that one or twenty works would be great.

Yifan looked at it very seriously, starting from the first piece and looking at it one by one. The time to look at each piece was as long as 10 minutes or as little as half a minute.At his speed, it would take less than an hour, absolutely impossible.

Shi Lei decided to cheat anyway, no matter how he looked at it, he couldn't tell which was good and which was bad.In his opinion, these works are very beautiful, but he prefers the unicorn carved from black jade, which seems to be a paperweight or something.There is no reason, just because it is made of Moyu, and it is also a unicorn.

Before Yifan finished watching, Shi Lei couldn't say anything.So he simply began to appreciate these works, from left to right, and from right to left.Going back and forth, I was fascinated by watching it a few times, and almost ran into Yifan.

Master Cao frowned, does this kid really understand jade carving?Why does it feel like he is wandering around the vegetable market aimlessly.

After more than an hour, Yifan nodded to Master Cao, indicating that he had finished reading.

"Young man, have you finished reading it? Do you already know what it is?"

Shi Lei came over and smiled mysteriously at Master Cao: "Of course I know what I'm talking about, but what if you don't admit it after I tell you which work you are most satisfied with and why?"

The sullen look on Master Cao's face flashed across, and he thought to himself: That ink jade and unicorn paperweight has a special meaning to me, and it is a watershed in my carving skills.Since I sculpted it, I have entered the hall and entered the ranks of domestic masters.There is nothing to admit about this.

"Hmph, the young man is too suspicious. If I don't want to admit it, why should I let you in?"

Yifan also said in a bad tone: "That's right, my brother said that, it's a bit too much. Who is my master, he keeps his promises. You are using the heart of a villain to save the belly of a gentleman. But I think you don't know anything at all. I don’t understand, it was purely blind reading just now, if you are fooled by anyone, and then say that my master is lying, don’t blame me for being rude.”

"Yifan? How did I teach you? If you want to become a master sculptor, you must master calmness of mind. If you are not calm and calm, your hands will be unstable. How can you still carve good works?"

"I'm sorry, Master."

Master Cao turned to Shi Lei: "Young man, should you speak first, or should my disciple speak first?"

Shi Lei thought for a while, and showed a confident look: "Master Cao, I remember you said that if I am not sure about a work, you can take it out of the cabinet and show it to me. I just have some doubts. Please Master Cao open the cabinet first and take out this pair of earrings for me to see."

Shi Lei thought that pair of emerald earrings were very beautiful just now, and she must be happy to buy this back and give it to Fang Xuan.

Seeing that Shi Lei asked Master to take out the pair of jade earrings, Yifan couldn't help feeling a little contemptuous.The pair of earrings are not the best in carving, the style is not the best, the material is not the best, and the price is not the highest. How could it be the work that Master is most satisfied with?
Hmph, I don't know anything, I just know I'm blind. If I lose to someone like you, I'm not worthy of being a disciple of the master.

"Master, please take out this bloodstone seal and let me have a look."

Master Cao waited for Shi Lei to finish reading the pair of earrings, put them back in the cabinet and locked them, and then came over to give the bloodstone seal to disciple Yifan.

The engraving on the seal is a lion, but when you pick it up, there is no writing on it, so it is considered a semi-finished product.Yifan showed some disappointment on his face, and then handed both hands to Master, asking Master to take down the dragon-carved jade cup.

After carefully watching it again for 10 minutes, Yifan nodded at Master Cao, he had made his choice.

"Young man, I've finished choosing my disciple, do you want to choose this jade cup too?" Master Cao looked at Shi Lei with a smile.

Shi Lei shook his head, pointed to the black jade unicorn paperweight and said, "Master Cao, please take this down and let me have a look, I'm already three-point sure."

Master Cao took a deep look at Shi Lei, then opened the cabinet, took out the ink jade unicorn paperweight, and placed it on the table.Yifan took a look at the ink jade unicorn paperweight, heck~~ The front carving is very good, but there is obviously a wrong knife on the tail, this is a defective product, and the carving techniques on the head and tail are slightly different, It was done by two people, right?
Yifan once heard from his master that most of the works in this collection room are master's works, but there are also three or five pieces that are other people's works. This black jade unicorn paperweight should belong to others.

Shi Lei looked at this ink jade unicorn paperweight pretendingly, and he also found that the ink jade unicorn seemed to give people a feeling of incongruity. Looking at the light, it seemed that there was a scale that was not right, especially an eyesore.

"Master Cao, I have chosen, this is it, Moyu Qilin Paperweight."

"Cough cough cough~~ What do you think this is?" Yifan almost choked to death on his own saliva.This TM is a town house Feng Shui ornament, not the paperweight used by ancient literati to hold down the foot of rice paper when writing and painting.

Shi Lei also found out that he seemed to have made a joke, he asked weakly: "Paperweight, what's the problem?"

Yifan shook his head at Shi Lei, he didn't understand anything at all, and he pretended to read it for a long time, which was simply an art of insulting the master.

"Master, let me tell you first. This dragon-carved jade cup should be an imitation of the Nine-Dragon Cup in the reign of Emperor Kangxi. It is carved in white jade and is rectangular, six centimeters long, four centimeters wide, and three centimeters high. A dragon. If this jade cup is filled with wine, you will clearly see nine tumbling dragons... So I think this is the work that Master is most satisfied with, and it is also the most precious work."

Yifan talked for 5 minutes, Shi Lei didn't know, just looking at such a jade cup, he was able to say so many things, and even quoted scriptures, it seemed that he was very knowledgeable.

After listening to what Yifan said, Master Cao had no joy or sorrow on his face, he just nodded slightly, then turned around and looked at Shi Lei.

"It's up to me? I said that this black jade unicorn is the most satisfactory to Master Cao. Look, there are flaws in the carving of this black jade unicorn, but the overall look is still so energetic. And the head and tail knife work seems to be a bit wrong. It's the same, I boldly guess that this is a watershed in Master Cao's carving skills, and it has a special meaning to Master Cao. I'm done."

Shi Lei didn't say it was a paperweight this time, but he really didn't know what to say, this black jade unicorn, he was right.The reason why he said so little is because Shi Lei doesn't know how to quote scriptures at all, the only ink unicorn he remembers is the mount of Wen Taishi in "Fengshen Yanyi".

When Yifan heard Shi Lei say that this is the watershed of Master Cao's carving skills, his eyes widened immediately, why didn't he think of it.Master once said that his favorite work is the work that has a long-term impact on his sculpting path.Please recommend, thank you

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