Was she spoiled by her nanny?

Tong Huan was moved, this is a good thing. She has been looking for suitable projects for Tong Dachui, wanting him to start a business, but she didn't expect it to be here. Doesn't it mean that Tong Dachui can do wood carving business in the future?

Tong Huan agreed on behalf of Tong Dachui on the spot.

The family returned to the inner hall of Huaxiu Villa, and Tong Huan carefully asked Mr. Ye about the operation of the wood carving gallery.

Because when Mr. Ye makes root carvings, he doesn't really care about whether it makes a profit or not. But if Tong Dachui wants to make furniture wood carvings, he must make a profit as the purpose. From this point of view, there is still a big difference between the two.

But Mr. Ye is an artist. Many of his works are displayed in museums, cultural centers, and even at the front desk of some buildings as treasures. He is also a visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts. All of his works are auctioned, with prices starting at eight figures. Therefore, if one piece is sold, it is enough for ordinary people to live on for several years.

Tong Hua thought that if Tong Dachui really wanted to do wood carving, he would have to follow the path of Grandpa Ye. But Tong Dachui only had a junior high school diploma and was not well educated, so it would be extremely difficult for him to follow such a path.

For the sake of friendship with her cousin, Tong Huan shamelessly asked Mr. Ye if he was still accepting students and if he could make an exception and accept Tong Dachui as a student.

Mr. Ye himself still admires the folk style of Shuangxi furniture wood carvings, but every time he went to Zhuoyixuan, he saw others carving while Tong Dachui was helping out.

Old Master Ye said, "I can ask everyone in Zhuoyixuan to carve an object, and I will put it in the store of Huaxiu Pavilion. I will see whose work sells first. Then I will make an exception and accept that person as my student."

So, Tong Huan returned to the villa halfway up the mountain and told Tong Dachui and the others about the agreement she had made with Mr. Ye.

Tong Dachui was reluctant to give it up. "We have been busy for almost three months and finally made the furniture. All that is left is painting. Now that we have given it to Mr. Ye, we have to make it again for you. When will you have furniture in your villa?"

Tong Hua said, "It's not for Mr. Ye, it's just put in his exhibition hall for display. This is to promote our Shuangxi wood carvings. After it becomes well-known, you cousins ​​can do business in this field. Isn't this better than moving bricks on a construction site?"

Tong Dachui said: "But nowadays, few people buy this kind of woodcarving furniture. Even if you are well-known, it will be useless."

Tong Hua knocked him twice, "Do you know that a root carving by Mr. Ye can be auctioned for an eight-digit price? This kind of thing is not meant to be sold in large quantities, but as a luxury product."

At the scene, Tong Hongmei and Wang Xiuling were already counting on their fingers to calculate how much the eight-digit number was.

Tong Hongmei exclaimed, "Oh my god, an 8-digit number is more than 8?"

Wang Xiuling was still counting on her fingers, "It takes more than 8 to get to the eight-digit number------"

Tong Honggui: "------"

Tong Dachui: “------”

Women have never been able to hide eight-digit money. It’s their men’s fault that they can’t count eight-digit money!

Tong Hua said: "Eight digits means starting from 8 million."

The next day, Mr. Ye came to Zhuoyixuan again, because he promised Tong Huan to make an exception and accept a wood carving student from this group of semi-illiterate people, so he came to see how they carved.

Tong Hongmei also joined the woodcarving army with great interest, because she also wanted to earn 10 million yuan to use as a dowry for Tong Huan.

A group of more than a dozen people laid out their wood carving knives, chisels, wire saws and other tools and began their own carvings.

Tong Hongmei was the first to finish her carving. She carved a figure and said it was Tong Huan.

Tong Huan took the portrait and took a look at it, and was almost pissed to death by Tong Hongmei.

This is too-------ugly. It's simply a sculpture of a primitive man. The style is very "wild". The eyes are big, the nose is big, the mouth is big, and they are all single negative lines. The corners are stiff. In short, it is very ugly.

If Tong Hongmei had not told her in advance that the sculpture was of Tong Huan, Tong Huan would have thought that it was a sculpture of a pig-shaped person.

I don't want to call her mom anymore, I'm really tired.

When Mr. Ye saw it, he also smiled and said, "This carving is very unique."

Tong Hongmei believed it and said, "Really? Everyone in Xikou Village knows how to carve. In fact, Huanhuan can do it too."

Tong Huan: “------”, No, she won’t!

The others also made exquisite carvings, and the themes of the carvings were all folk stories: Xu Xian and White Snake, Dream of the Red Chamber, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Hundred Years of Longevity and so on. After the carving was completed, they were polished, waxed and then painted.

Two days later, on the agreed day, everyone had finished the work except Tong Dachui.

Tong Dachui was used to managing workers and couldn't help but help them. As a result, he only carved half of his own figure.

The character he carved was Xu Chu from the Three Kingdoms period. He was not wearing armor and was bare-chested, revealing bulging muscles. He was holding a large sword. The carved part showed bulging eyes and a fierce face, which was very vivid. It should be depicting a great battle with Ma Chao.

But only the front half of the body was carved, and only that half was painted in the end.

Tong Huan almost vomited blood. She begged Mr. Ye for Tong Dachui, but Tong Dachui gave her an unfinished work!

It seems that Tong Dachui has no chance to become Master Ye's disciple.

However, Tong Huan changed her mind and realized that all the people here were from Xikou Village. She should be happy no matter who Grandpa Ye accepted as his disciple.

Afterwards, Mr. Ye really took this batch of wood carvings and placed them in the store in front of the Academy of Fine Arts.

But unexpectedly, just half an hour later, the store manager called and said that a work had been sold.

Mr. Ye asked which piece it was, and to everyone's surprise, the result was the ugliest one carved by Tong Hongmei.

The buyer of this work is a foreigner. He was astounded when he saw it. He thought it was too mysterious and primitive. He believed it was an antique and was sold as an ordinary commodity by the store owner, so he offered a high five-digit price for it.

Tong Hongmei laughed to death, "I told you I can carve. I am a master who was held back by poverty."

Mr. Ye: "-------"

Tong Hua: “-------”

Everyone: "------"

Old Master Ye's face turned green. He had said it himself that whoever's work was sold first would be accepted as his disciple. But Tong Hongmei obviously had no foundation in sculpture. Could he really accept Tong Hongmei as his disciple?

Mr. Ye no longer cared about credit or not and regretted his decision on the spot.

Who cares? He is old anyway, so what if he is willful for once?

Two days later, Tong Dachui's work was noticed by a museum. Because his work was only half carved, it unexpectedly gave people a sense of breaking free. In addition, the image of the carved part was very vivid, and the contrast between the two halves was very strong. It was obvious at first glance that he was a master of carving.

These works were placed in Mr. Ye’s showroom, and he thought they were Mr. Ye’s works.