Chapter 143 Carving
The village is busy, and those villagers who are hesitant and have not planted strawberries are extremely envious.
Trucks transported the strawberries away one after another, and many offline fruit merchants also came to the village chief to purchase and wholesale.
What can the village chief do?
Of course, we will arrange to sell them all!
Some villagers were smart and saw the huge business opportunity, so they cleaned their homes tidyly. If foreign customers arrived late, they could stay in their homes.
The problem of eating is even simpler. There are enough vegetables in the vegetable garden and they are fresh enough. Just tell us what you want to eat. You can pull them out of the garden with dirt on them and wash them and cook them in the next moment!
There is also meat, and you can eat whatever you like from the local chickens and ducks raised at home.
I'm used to eating chickens, ducks, rabbits, and big fat pigs.
Aquatic products are more convenient now. The river is clean and there are plenty of fish. There are shrimps, crabs, snails and eels in our own ponds. If you are interested, the villagers can take you to visit the lotus pond!
Now is even more of a coincidence. July and August are the season for mushrooms in the mountains. If you want to pick mushrooms yourself and bring them back, you just need to find two experienced locals to lead you up the mountain, and you don’t have to worry about picking poisonous mushrooms.
The mushrooms have been picked and the wild fruits are ripe!
There are so many wax gourds, pears, wild persimmons and wild grapes in the mountains!
The locals don’t like to pick the fruits, so the children just climb up the mountain to pick and eat them, leaving them with plenty of fruit at home.
People are coming and going in the village. Another crop of strawberries has been harvested and the next crop has already been booked as the village chief.
The village chief knew exactly how much money he had earned in these days, and his heart was pounding.
Oh my god! He was so excited that he couldn't sleep in the middle of the night.
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The village chief's joy Ye Zhen didn't know, she is busy now!
The jadeite dug out from the deep pit is beautiful, but she doesn’t know who to find to process it!
In the past, the family’s living conditions were not even up to that level, let alone buying jade to wear. It was lucky for Ye Ma and her family to have some gold jewelry.
Ye Zhen gritted her teeth. Hey! How could she be stumped?
She can carve talismans, so she should be able to carve jade as well, right?
The facts prove that it is indeed different!
Talismans are drawn with a single burst of spiritual energy and with a calm and focused mind.
The materials vary. Some low-level runes are made of ordinary spiritual wood and spiritual objects, while the materials used for higher-level runes are more precious.
Ye Zhen was not idle. He bought a set of engraving tools online. When he saw the small cutting machine, he bought them all without blinking.
Now that the tools have arrived, she is ready to test the waters.
I found a piece of light green jade and cut it down. Unexpectedly, the sound was so loud that it attracted Ye's father and the others.
"Ye Zi, what are you doing?" Dad Ye had just sent away some villagers who had come to reserve seeds. Several families had come this morning, all of them to buy seeds.
Other people in the village don’t know exactly how much money they earn, but those who are interested can roughly estimate it. They are afraid that there won’t be enough seeds next year, so they secretly come to Ye’s father to buy seeds in advance.
This time, no one complains that the seeds are too expensive. In order to make more money, some villagers even reclaimed the wasteland that had been left at home for years.
They knew to prepare for a rainy day. Since there was no fertilizer on the wasteland, they piled the manure from the livestock on it and scattered some alfalfa to fatten the land.
I will try to plant all the vacant land next year and join some planting team organized by the village chief to make money together.
Look, people are coming to order seeds one after another, and Dad Ye has several pages of orders in his hands!
I had just sat down and had a few sips of water when I was startled by a loud noise coming from the utility room.
When Dad Ye opened the door, he saw Ye Zhen pushing a stone and cutting it on the cutting machine.
Sparks and stones were flying everywhere, and I was afraid that they would hit my face.
After cutting open a piece of stone, Ye Zhen took off his mask and laughed:
"I just want to see if I can cut and carve the jade myself!"
Anyway, she has experience in carving, so what does it matter what she carves?
Father Ye was shocked: "You can do this?"
Ye Zhen turned his head and touched his nose. "Well, how difficult can it be to carve this thing? Just use the machine according to the instructions and cut it open, right?"
Is this possible?
Father Ye asked doubtfully, "What do you want to carve?"
Speaking of this, Ye Zhen had an idea. She found many beautiful pictures of finished jade products and many carvings on the Internet. After understanding them, she tried to draw them with a pen.
Unfortunately, when she was excitedly preparing to use the computer software to draw, she forgot how to use the tools while playing with the ball.
Ye Zhen was ashamed. Although she studied fashion design, she had also learned various design software. However, when it came to using a computer, her hands were out of control and the results she produced could not keep up with her ideas. Just half a year after graduation, she had already lost all her knowledge of software application to her teacher.
I am ashamed of my poor skills.
There was no other way, Ye Zhen started to operate directly, not afraid of wasting materials, as he could just carry them back next time anyway.
This time, what was cut out was a large piece of jadeite with a gradient from light green to dark green.
The color is pure and spicy, very distinctive.
It looks like an ordinary stone, but I didn't expect it to be so beautiful when cut.
More attractive than the other solid colors that Ye Zhen brought back.
It was a wrong decision. Ye Zhen only felt that there was jade inside. It looked so ordinary on the outside, but he didn't expect it to be so confident inside!
Ye Zhen thought it would be better to make a big ornament, and told his father so.
Ye's father came over curiously. The cut stone had not been polished or ground yet. It was just divided into two large surfaces. But after Ye Zhen rinsed it with water, it looked like a mirror with several green shades, changing from light to dark, and felt smooth and warm to the touch.
Father Ye nodded: "It's good to make it into a decoration, otherwise it will be incomplete if it is cut into small pieces."
Dad Ye didn't know much about jadeite, and Ye Zhen knew even less. So the father and daughter squatted on the ground, comparing the pictures that Ye Zhen found one by one, and choosing which ornament looked better.
Try not to destroy the integrity of the jade and allow it to retain its gradient color.
The father and daughter did not know the value of the jade. If they had put the jade in the raw stone market and cut it, it would only take a moment for the poor boy to become a rich man.
The father and daughter decided on the style of the ornament in such a hasty manner. The jadeite raw stone was quite large, and Ye Zhen left a piece as wide as a knuckle.
The big one was placed there, and Ye Zhen tried the small cut first. He picked a dark green area and used a machine to press out several round strips of both large and small sizes. After taking out the small round strips, Ye Zhen sat in front of another polishing machine and polished them carefully.
Time passed quickly, and Ye Zhen looked at the little gadgets on the table with satisfaction.
Look! That's what she said. What could possibly stump Fairy Ye?
A total of four bracelets were polished on the table, and one little rabbit and two kittens were carved.
The rabbit looks very cute, sitting or lying down, and Ye Zhen has carved a small carrot in its paw.
The two cats are chubby, one is sitting and licking its paws, and the other is lying down, with a fat body and quite cute.
The models for these two emerald cats are the big orange and big black cats lying in the yard, but their color has turned green.
The bracelets are all very beautiful. When you hold them up to the sunlight, they look like a ball of solidified green waves, clear and transparent.
Ye Zhen picked two for Ye's mother and two darker ones for Ye's grandmother.
Picking up the bracelet, Ye Zhen prepared to present the treasure to Ye Ma and the others!
Several dogs were playing in the yard, jumping and fluttering among the flowers and plants, their fat bellies shaking, showing how chubby they were.
Mother Ye was watering the flowers and plants and clearing the weeds, while Grandma Ye and Grandpa Ye were enjoying the cool under the grape trellis.
"Tap, tap, tap! Look what this is!"
Ye Ma turned around, and before she could speak, her eyes lit up, "What is this? A bracelet?"
Ye Zhen: "Yes, I cut the jade in half and polished it myself. Isn't it beautiful?"
Ye's mother nodded happily: "Beautiful, really beautiful!"
Ye Zhen was very proud and put the bracelet on Ye Ma and the others. The bracelet fit perfectly on their wrists. Although it was quite conspicuous on their darker arms, they didn't care.
Grandma Ye smiled like a sunflower and kept touching the bracelet on her hand.
I didn’t expect that I would enjoy the blessing of a granddaughter at my age!
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