"Knock knock." Someone knocked on the door. "Is Sister Yiyao here?"
Shui Yiyao closed the computer page and asked casually, "Who?"
"It's me, Xiao Zheng."
Xiao Zheng?
Shui Yiyao thought about it and realized that Xiao Zheng was the assistant that Agent Zhang found for her.
When we signed the contract for this live show, we agreed that we couldn't bring assistants. So the artist assistants are all outside the village, and now the production team must have asked her to come over.
Shui Yiyao closed her notebook, stood up and opened the door.
"Sister Yiyao, have you changed your clothes?" Xiao Zheng outside the door looked at Shui Yiyao. Seeing that she was already dressed neatly and her hair was dried, he was a little surprised.
This princess syndrome had already dealt with itself before she even arrived.
Shui Yiyao: "Come in."
"The production team told me to take good care of you." Xiao Zheng walked into the house, holding a vegetable basket. "Then I'll make you a bowl of ginger sugar water. Don't catch a cold."
She, a mermaid, just soaked in water, would catch a cold?
joke.
"Don't bother. I've taken my medicine." Shui Yiyao saw Xiao Zheng's basket and asked, "What time is it now? Is it time for dinner?"
Without waiting for Xiao Zheng to answer, she raised her eyes and continued, "Wait a minute, I'll go to the vegetable garden and get some vegetables to eat. The onions outside are so fresh."
She took the basket, walked into the kitchen, poured everything on the stove, and walked out of the room with the basket on her shoulder.
Onions, she just saw them in the soil.
The production team has booked the entire village, and during the show, you can pick anything you want from the soil.
Five tears equal fifty million, and the boss also said that within ten million, the payment would be settled on the spot. She had to find some spicy onions, as a hundred tears wouldn't be easy.
After a while, she picked some big onions and some other vegetables from the field and brought them back to the house. Xiao Zheng was helping her pack up.
Shui Yiyao greeted him, "Just sit down. I'll clean up those things myself later."
It's not that she is considerate. After her grandfather passed away when she was fifteen, she was left alone.
Grandfather, a jade carver, left behind a wealth of artifacts. These jade carvings, both old and new, were all incredibly coveted. She was overwhelmed, so she hired an assistant.
Later, the assistant was bribed, drugged, and stole a valuable jade ornament from her home. Although the item was later recovered, she was afraid to let others take care of the things in her home.
Only yourself can be relied upon.
That time it was just a drug, but who knows what it might be next time.
Shui Yiyao washed and arranged the vegetables neatly. Finally, she took the onion, washed it, picked up the kitchen knife and split it in half with one stroke.
A unique spicy and pungent smell of onion spread.
Slightly irritating to the nose, but not enough to make you cry.
Is it because it’s not tasty enough?
She picked up the onion and put it in front of her eyes, waiting for the golden beans to fall, but there was no reaction.
She thought about it, hardened her heart, pulled off the innermost layer of onion flesh, and put it on her eyelids.
Hiss... sour and refreshing.
Tears flowed as expected.
She took off the onion flesh and reached out to wipe away her tears.
But the tears were just tears, they did not condense into golden beads.
What went wrong?
She tried again, but found that her tears still couldn't condense. They flowed down and spread out on the ground.
She wiped her tears and continued to prepare dinner absentmindedly.
She prepared all the dishes one by one, boiling what needed to be boiled and stir-frying what needed to be stir-fried.
Half an hour later, all four dishes were ready.
Shui Yiyao brought the dishes to the courtyard and placed them on the stone table in the middle.
As she untied her apron, she looked up and called into the house, "Xiao Zheng, dinner is ready."
"I'm here!" Xiao Zheng, who was packing up, came out of the house, rolled up his sleeves and helped to set the table.
"Serve the rice and start eating." Shui Yiyao held the bowl of rice and spoke to the camera that was filming. As she spoke, she walked towards the rice pot and opened the lid.
“…”
There was a long silence.
The camera followed Shui Yiyao and moved over.
The rice cooker is empty.
The camera moved to Shui Yiyao's face.
Shui Yiyao didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She put down the bowl and rubbed her temples: "I... forgot to cook."
Xiao Zheng came over: "I forgot too."
Shui Yiyao cooked again.
After the rice was put into the pot, she checked the time: "At least fifteen minutes. There's nothing I can do but wait."
She then looked at the camera, staring at each other. She then turned to look at the chopping board, where some leftover white radish heads were.
Her eyes lit up: "I'll show you a trick."
I walked to the chopping board and picked up the largest piece, which was about the size of a bottle cap.
She looked at the knife rack next to her and chose the smallest fruit knife.
“Guess what I’m going to perform?”
She took out her cell phone, turned on the program team's live broadcast channel, and opened the barrage.
-Chopping carrots?
-Those thinly shredded radishes?
-We know your knife skills are just average, no need to put on a show.
Shui Yiyao raised an eyebrow: "Very good, you have caught my attention, woman, you are the first one to say that my knife skills are average."
The barrage was full of comments, hahaha.
Shui Yiyao returned to her seat, radish in hand. She wanted to try carving something, using her body. Without muscle memory, she wanted to see if she could still carve. However, carving was ingrained in her soul; she didn't think she would ever forget.
White radish is different from jade. It is soft, easy to shape, flexible, and not easy to break. It is relatively easy to carve.
She got into position and sat on the small chair at the door, holding a knife in her right hand and a white radish in her left.
He looked at the camera and said, "Boss, let me carve something for you to see. I'm really good at it. But words are not enough, so let me show you. By the way, if you want to learn, you can sign up with me."
She glanced at the barrage of reactions again.
-Watching.
- A Guan Gong statue? That's not that easy to carve.
-Picked up the white radish at home. I want to learn this!
Shui Yiyao: "As for jade carving, it will eventually turn into the carving of figures. Including but not limited to Guan Gong, Zhong Kui, Bodhisattvas and Arhats, etc. Today I will show you Guan Gong."
"Of course, it was only fifteen minutes, so the result is only the workmanship of fifteen minutes. Please forgive me."
"First, you need to shape the entire material, visually estimate the range, and cut off the excess material."
As she spoke, she cut off two small pieces with two clicks, turning the originally cylindrical radish head into an irregular rectangular block.
"The second step is to draft out the overall shape."
She held the knife and began to paint on the carrot, using the tip of the knife to carve out the general outline of the portrait, and then trimmed off the excess edges along the carved outline.
"Is the general shape now?" She raised the carrot in her hand. The shape was very rough, with only the general outline. "Finally, let's add some details."
"Eyes, nose, mouth, hair, ears, eyebrows... Take your time, add a cut here, a cut there too. Oh, it's barely okay."
After two sentences, she stopped talking and kept carving with her head down.
Very serious.
Moreover, she was very skillful with the knife. She would cut a line from beginning to end with one cut, without making a second cut.
The lines under her knife are very smooth.
Xiao Zheng sat beside her, watching her cut the knife intently.
How come she didn't know this princess could carve? She looked so professional, so serious, and even a little handsome.
Fifteen minutes later, Shui Yiyao put the knife aside, took the white radish in her hand to the basin of water, soaked it in the water, and the excess debris scattered in the water, and the appearance of the human figure was completely revealed.
It’s Guan Gong.
A three-dimensional bust of Guan Gong, holding a long sword, looks very majestic.
The knife grip is also hollowed out, and the fingers are clearly visible. The craftsmanship is impeccable.
The ingredients are small but domineering.
She placed the white radish carving in front of the camera and said with some dissatisfaction, "It took me fifteen minutes to carve this much."
"This is my first time carving a white radish, but it looks translucent and looks quite like white jade, doesn't it?"
Shui Yiyao took out her cell phone and saw a barrage of “666” and “???” on it.
-Is it only possible to carve it like this? Is that what people say?
-Brain: I can. Hand: No, you can't.
-It's not easy at all!
-I didn't learn it... Am I too stupid?
Shui Yiyao sneered: "If you can learn something so simple, how will we, the craftsmen, make a living?"
This took exactly fifteen minutes to carve.
Shui Yiyao placed the statue of Guan Gong on the table and went to bring out the meal.
Since she was no longer in the entertainment industry, she could eat as much as she wanted. She filled a large bowl with rice and sat in front of the camera: "Eat."
She looked down at the comments on the phone screens on the table. Everyone's attention was still on the Guan Gong statue.
-Do you have a screen recording? I need a 15-minute screen recording!
-Don't beg me, you won't be able to do it even if you see it.
-But it looks like Shui Yiyao did it easily.
-I don’t believe that if Yao Huaping can do it, how can I not do it?
Shui Yiyao found it funny. She had been holding a knife since she was six years old, and it had been 17 years now. If she could learn it in just fifteen minutes, then all her years of hard work would have been for nothing.
She said, "My carving is pretty average. This is not my specialty. My specialty is jade carving. If you have good materials, feel free to come to me. I guarantee you'll be satisfied!"
Her workmanship is calculated by the gram, which is 1,000 yuan per gram and upwards. Anything she makes will cost tens of thousands of yuan, which is the highest wage in the industry.
But that also requires someone to recognize the value of her craftsmanship. Like now, no one knows her and cannot trust the quality of the things she makes, so she can't charge such a high price.
She picked up the Guan Gong from the plate, placed it in front of the camera, and tried to sell it: "Boss, look at the craftsmanship and the level of detail. If it were made of jade, it would look much better than this."
Although many people admit that her sculpture is good, the majority still mock her.
-What's this? Is it worth showing off?
-Hahaha, are artists better than carved radishes?
-Then my Daedong Cooking School also wants to debut as a group.
-I am a level 10 player, and I’m looking for debut experience!
Shui Yiyao took a look, still ignoring the ridicule, and advertised: "Sincerely accepting orders, bosses, please look at me, and feel free to contact me if you need anything."
If selling tears doesn't work, then I have to go back to my old job.
Moreover, she still wants to find an apprentice to pass on this craft.
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