Shui Yiyao reached out and rubbed his head: "Good morning."
Jiang Luo straightened up and looked up at Shui Yiyao with bright eyes: "Teacher, what are we going to learn today?"
Shui Yiyao looked towards the classroom. It was not small and was fully equipped with tools, including two sets of cutting machines and polishing machines.
“What do you think a class should be?”
Jiang Luo was a little excited: "I know machines, I don't need to learn this. I can start carving directly!"
Shui Yiyao smiled and said, "Do you know how to use a lathe? Why don't you just start carving?"
There are hundreds of types and sizes of lathes, and there are about ten commonly used types.
Jiang Luo hesitated a bit, looked at the machines, and finally walked towards the jade carving machine. On the workbench next to it was a storage box with various burrs and grinding heads.
"Is this it?" Jiang Luo looked at it. "It looks like a nail. Are we going to learn this today?"
Shui Yiyao shook her head: "We are only learning one thing today——"
"draw."
Drawing is the foundation. If you want to master jade carving, you must lay a solid foundation.
Jiang Luo's tone was very disappointed: "Ah?"
Shui Yiyao walked towards her workbench and placed her bag on the table.
She took out a painting from inside and handed it to Jiang Luo beside her.
Jiang Luo followed over, took the picture book, opened it and took a look.
This is a copybook, which is mostly filled with flowers, plants and trees.
"Once you master jade carving, it's a skill you can use to make a living. It's a long process, so let's take our time and don't rush."
"It's a long time."
Jiang Luo walked to the table with a sketchbook and a pencil, spread out the notebook and started drawing.
Shui Yiyao also took out her own design draft, sat next to Jiang Luo, and started drawing.
The seed materials she had purchased this time were all rare, high-quality stones, and they were quite large. The white seed alone weighed 206 grams. With her design and carving skills, she could guarantee a profit of 200,000 yuan.
She spent 20 million on air purifiers, and already has four. Once she has five, she can consider terminating the contract, which would cost her 10 million in liquidated damages.
She didn't want to spend a single cent of the 10 million.
Whether she wanted to or not was one thing, whether she should or not was another. She should pay for it.
The pattern drawn by Shui Yiyao gradually took shape, it was a auspicious beast Pixiu.
Pixiu feeds on wealth, it only eats and never spits out, it is a living piggy bank.
This is also the mainstream subject matter in jade carving.
Shui Yiyao finished the painting and turned to look at Jiang Luo beside her.
The child drew two strokes, looked up at the jade carving machine, drew two more strokes, and looked up at the jade carving machine again.
Three lifts for one stroke.
Shui Yiyao: “…”
"You really want to get on the plane?"
Jiang Luo looked up at Shui Yiyao and blinked his big eyes, looking pitiful.
Shui Yiyao: "Then you try it."
She stood up and walked to the jade carving machine, turned it on, and took out a piece of quartzite jade from her bag and placed it on the table.
This thing is not valuable. She bought a piece from the market outside when she went to the Jade Bazaar this time for Jiang Luo to practice with.
Jiang Luo walked over and looked at the pale yellow jade on the table. He couldn't wait to grab it in his hand and looked at it again and again: "Is this golden jade?"
Golden silk jade, as identified by appraisal agencies, is quartzite jade.
It is also divided into mountain material and seed material. Because the quality varies greatly, its price gap is more exaggerated than that between the mountain material and seed material of Hetian jade.
The piece in Jiang Luo's hand is made from mountain materials, with a cost price of 1 yuan.
The authoritative identification result of the seed material of golden silk jade is also quartzite jade, but the price can be as high as hundreds of thousands.
"Yes." Shui Yiyao turned on the overhead grinder and selected a small drill bit from the grinding head storage box next to it. It was also the safest one. She installed it on the engraving pen and handed the pen to Jiang Luo: "Try it."
Jiang Luo carefully took the carving pen, looked at the golden jade in his other hand, tilted his head and thought: "What should I carve?"
Shui Yiyao also picked up a piece of gold jade and turned on her own hanging grinder.
"I'm starting."
Jiang Luo watched her start, pursed his lips, and started to operate the knife.
After nearly half an hour, Shui Yiyao turned off the grinding machine. She took the gold-thread jade carving in her hand, walked to Xiao Jiang Luo and placed it on his desk.
It was a Pixiu with simple lines.
Jiang Luo looked at it, then looked at the thing in his hand, pouted, and felt a little disappointed.
Shui Yiyao looked at him: "How is it?"
Jiang Luo lowered his head, put down the engraving pen, and said dejectedly: "I wanted to engrave my parents at first, but failed. Then I wanted to change it to their names... but it didn't work either."
He looked at the jade with messy lines on his hand and said in a low voice: "I'm really useless."
Shui Yiyao patted his head and said, "Figure carving is the most difficult part of jade carving. It takes at least three or four years of study to get good at it. It's normal that you can't do it now."
"You're not useless. You're willing to learn, which is great. And you know so much about jade, right? That's impressive."
Jiang Luo raised his head and looked at Shui Yiyao: "But... when the teacher was my age, he had already participated in the competition, right?"
This is what Shui Yiyao said to Jiang Luo at the Craftsman Awards last time.
Shui Yiyao: "But the teacher had already studied painting and sculpture for several years before that. It's not like he just learned it out of thin air."
Jiang Luo nodded, glanced at the gold jade in his hand, put it down without saying a word, sat down at the table, picked up the pencil on the table, and opened the sketchbook.
Shui Yiyao saw that he looked like a frost-bitten eggplant. She walked over, bent down, and asked him, "Do you have a photo of your parents? I'll carve one for you."
Jiang Luo immediately looked up at her, his eyes bright, and immediately replied, "Thank you, teacher!"
He took out his schoolbag from the table and took out a book from an inner pocket.
When Shui Yiyao saw the book, she raised her eyebrows in surprise.
Organic chemistry?
Jiang Luo is ten years old this year and is only in the fifth grade. Has he started learning this?
"You studied chemistry?"
"No, this is Mom and Dad's book." Jiang Luo flipped through the book, carefully took out a photo from inside, held it up and handed it to Shui Yiyao.
"These are my mom and dad."
Shui Yiyao took the photo. It was a picture of a couple. They were standing under a tall silver building, leaning against each other, smiling sweetly.
Next to it are the names of the couple, Jiang Mingyue and Su Luoyue.
Both of them look gentle and refined, and they both look like cultured people.
Also, Jiang Luo's name comes from the names of the couple, so the couple must have a very good relationship.
But why did she feel that these two people looked familiar? But she couldn't remember what was familiar about them.
Shui Yiyao didn't think about it anymore. After taking a look, she took her pen and drew the person in the photo on the jade with just a few strokes.
After finishing the painting, she returned the photo to Jiang Luo: "Keep it."
Jiang Luo carefully put the photo away again, tucked it between a book and put it in his schoolbag.
Shui Yiyao took the stone and started working again. This time, Jiang Luo was no longer dejected. He sat upright and began to copy seriously.
The class time is from nine in the morning to four in the afternoon. At four o'clock, Ao Li appeared at the classroom door on time to pick up Jiang Luo from school.
In the classroom, Jiang Luo had just packed his schoolbag.
Seeing Ao Li at the door, he put on his schoolbag and trotted over to Ao Li: "Uncle Ao!"
Shui Yiyao also packed her bag and walked to the door.
As she walked over, she smelled a slightly bitter smell, the same as the last time she saw Ao Li, the smell of some chemical on him.
But Jiang Luo pounced on him without noticing, as if he was used to it.
Ao Li took Jiang Luo's hand and saw that his other hand was holding something. He asked, "What is it?"
Jiang Luo raised the thing in his hand and said happily: "Teacher carved it for me!"
Ao Li was stunned when he saw the two lifelike portraits on it, but then his expression softened a lot: "Have you thanked the teacher?"
Jiang Luo raised his chin: "Of course!"
Ao Li also looked at Shui Yiyao, with a gentle smile on his face, and thanked her politely: "Thank you for your trouble, sir."
Shui Yiyao was also polite: "You're welcome, it's my duty."
"Jiang Luo performed well today. Keep it up tomorrow."
Shui Yiyao: "See you tomorrow then."
She waved to Jiang Luo and said, "Goodbye."
"Goodbye, teacher." Jiang Luo let go of Ao Li and waved his hand deliberately.
Ao Li: "Sir, do you want me to give you a ride? I drove here."
Shui Yiyao: "No need. It's early now, I can go back by myself."
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The two air purifiers she ordered online arrived, along with the self-defense gear she bought.
The purifier was delivered to the door. After Shui Yiyao signed for it, she moved the item from the door into the house.
It was still as heavy as last time, so she took it apart to check.
She flipped the switch first, and the purifier started up normally. It was intact.
This thing doesn't require electricity, and I don't know what kind of braking system it is. Shui Yiyao checked the other one again, and there was no problem either.
She also checked the after-sales service card and quality inspection certificate and found nothing wrong with them.
There is also an instruction manual, which is too thick. Last time, she only read the simplified version of the manual at the front and just flipped through the rest without looking through it carefully.
She flipped through it again and found detailed instructions at the back.
She skimmed through it until she reached the last few pages.
-Proposal for marine environmental protection.
-Introduction to the R&D team.
There were a dozen or so names and bios of researchers, with a photo of the R&D team members below. Shui Yiyao wanted to skip ahead, but stumbled upon two familiar names. She took a closer look.
——Jiang Mingyue, Su Luoyue.
She was a little surprised and looked at the picture below.
There were indeed two familiar people, the couple she had carved today. In the photo, they were standing together.
She frowned and looked at the introduction again.
Jiang Mingyue, PhD in Chemistry, was a researcher at the New Town Research Institute. He participated in seawater purification experiments, analyzing and purifying pollutants. He tragically died from prolonged exposure to radioactive substances during these experiments.
Su Luoyue, PhD in Chemistry, was a researcher at the New Town Research Institute. He participated in seawater purification experiments, analyzing and purifying pollutants. He tragically died from prolonged overexposure to radioactive substances during these experiments.
It's not just these two people. In a team of seventeen or eighteen people, the profiles of five or six people have these four words behind them - unfortunate sacrifice.
Shui Yiyao's hand holding the instruction manual trembled and she took a deep breath.
So... Jiang Luo's parents are gone like this?
In order to research the purifier, they sacrificed their lives... Not only Jiang Luo's parents, but in this list alone, there are six scientific researchers whose names have the same four words written behind them - unfortunately sacrificed.
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