Otherworldly Carver

"Wildflowers bloom by the path,

A little bit of fluorescent light, slightly grassy fragrance.

Under the starry sky,

With you, with me.

Leaning gently on your shoulder,

It seems that the next moment will last forever.

Let's walk together my dear,

Even wandering around the world.

The road is too long, don't walk alone,

Let me accompany you to the distance.

Ice flowers hang on the north window,

Plenty of frost, light sunlight.

In the snowflakes flying all over the sky,

With you, with me.

Secretly hold your fingertips tightly,

It seems that the next second is heaven.

Let's walk together my dear,

Even if wandering around the world,

The road is too long, don't walk alone,

Let me accompany you to the distance.

Let's walk together my love,

Fill my heart with love,

The road is too long, don't walk alone,

Let me accompany you to the distance..."

The peaceful and distant singing voice slowly rippled, and the two sang one, listened quietly, and cuddled up to each other.

"Just like this, two people, accompanying each other," Wen Yu said while staring at Ye Ling quietly, "It's great."

"Aren't you afraid of trouble?" Ye Ling asked with a smile.

"Not afraid." Wen Yu said without thinking.

After a moment of silence, Ye Ling said, "People from the Tong family will not let it go."

"The Tong family really won't let it go, but fortunately, they are still honest." Wen Yu slightly pursed his lips and thought for a while, "I'm worried about other families, especially the Lan family."

"The more people involved, the more they can restrain each other, and things may become much easier." Ye Ling smiled, "Can they still kill me?"

"I won't kill you, but they will ruin your sculpting career." Wen Yu looked worried, "You also know that the sculpting world is controlled by several big families, and they will not allow exceptions like you. "

Hearing this sentence, Ye Ling blinked and suddenly understood what was going on.

"Can I understand what you mean?" Ye Ling analyzed, "Those families control the entire carving industry and restrict and control all carvers through certain rules. In this way, they can And the market for carved pieces, so as to ensure that the truly powerful orcs are all from or attached to their families, right?"

Wen Yu opened his eyes slightly, paused for a moment, sighed and said: "You are right, it is true."

"That is to say, whoever they want to be strong, they can make strong!" Ye Ling frowned and said, "On the surface they give the market a certain degree of freedom, but this degree of freedom is completely in their hands! No wonder you heard me propose The concept of the personal studio was so amazing, and now I finally understand..."

"The concept of a personal studio is very good, but it means that you, as a high-level sculptor, will be completely out of their control." Wen Yu said with a sigh, "If you insist on doing this, they can't do it." The right to object. However, they also have their own methods to deal with you. What should you do if you are disqualified from carving emeralds?"

"Cancel the qualification to carve jadeite?" Ye Ling was taken aback, "Is it still possible?"

"Yes, the Sculpture Association will expel you. However, you are not on their list of engravers..." Wen Yu said, "I guess the first thing they will do is to try to win you over. After all, high-level engravers There are only a handful of teachers, and you are attractive enough to them."

He lowered his head and thought for a while, Ye Ling smiled, and said, "What if I insist on setting up a personal studio? What will they do? Disqualify from carving jadeite, are they going to cut off my hands?"

"How is that possible? You're not a barbarian..." Wen Yu said hastily, "They will announce your name, prohibit you from going to the quarry to gamble and trade jadeite, and prevent you from obtaining jadeite stones. If you are in the jade appraisal center Carrying out jadeite transactions will be directly deemed illegal. If someone finds that you are carving jadeite pieces, not only will the pieces be confiscated, but you will also be fined accordingly. In short, all methods are designed to drive you to a dead end .Your career as a carver will be ruined unless there is another family willing to accept you."

"It's really ruining people..." Ye Ling murmured, then raised her eyes and asked, "What if there is a secret transaction? No one knows?"

Wen Yu smiled wryly: "If you are a qualified engraver, at most it will be a little punishment within the family, and the engraver's association has no right to interfere. However, the engraver's association will not be soft on the engraver who is removed from the list. The crime of illegal trading It’s not too big or too small, and it might be locked up for a few months or a year. What’s more, the Engravers’ Association conducts fishing law enforcement, and if the association’s inspectors come to trade, it will be a disaster.”

"They really thought of everything..." Ye Ling shrugged and said helplessly, "If I tell you that I haven't given up the idea of ​​building a personal studio, would you think I'm naive?"

Wen Yu laughed all of a sudden.

"I knew it, you will never be afraid." Wen Yu gently embraced Ye Ling's shoulders, and put his forehead against his forehead, he said firmly and gently, "I know you don't want to be bound by anyone, I am free Little Ye Zi! Just do it, don’t forget, I’m with you all the way..."

With a smile on the corner of his mouth, Ye Ling nodded slightly.

……

Tong family.

The atmosphere in the Tong family has been very bad these days.Ever since he came back from Wen's house, Pang Diao had always had a bad face and didn't speak much.With his appearance, even Tong Xia, the patriarch of the Tong family, couldn't figure it out, but when he asked Pang Diao, Pang Diao refused to tell.

The eldest son Tongxi still had a cold expression on his face, and he refused to answer when asked.However, Tong Xia and Tong Nan faintly felt that Tong Xi might be in a good mood, and they also didn't know why.

It was the youngest son Tongnan who broke the deadlock. He was a bit nervous and asked casually how things were going. As a result, Pang Diao gritted his teeth, stood up abruptly, stretched out his hand and pushed a vase on the table, and opened it. Broken into slag.

This move shocked the whole family, so no one dared to ask.Until a few days later, Pang Diao received an invitation to a high-level banquet.

In fact, this is not a big deal in normal times, but the strange thing is that this invitation was written by Lan Baker, the head of the Lan family.In the invitation, apart from greeting everyone in the Tong family, Pang Diao was specifically mentioned by name. Judging by the tone, it seemed that there was something to discuss.

Almost reactive, Pang Dia felt that this banquet must have something to do with that talented engraver.

The kindness is hard to turn down, so I have to go.Tong Xia and Pang Diao took their youngest son, Tong Nan, to the banquet.

It was said to be a banquet, but in fact there were only a few people invited, all of them were the elites of the upper class, they were very familiar with each other but also alienated from each other, after exchanging a few pleasantries, they got together in twos and threes to talk about their own affairs.No, not a while after the banquet started, Lan Bao walked towards Tong Xia and Pang Diao.

"Hello, Mr. Tong and Mr. Pang." Lan Bao is the head of the Lan family and Lan Xi's elder brother. He is considered to be the junior of Tong Xia and Pang Diao, so he was the first to speak.

"Mr. Lan." Pang Diao nodded reservedly, and responded casually.

Looking at Pang Diao, Lan Baked a meaningful smile on his face.He suddenly turned his face away, looked at Tong Xia and said, "Mr. Tong, speaking of which, I should call you Uncle Tong. I remember when I was young, Uncle Tong often visited my house..."

Tong Xia frowned slightly, he didn't think that Lan Baking said these words just to reminisce about the old days.Over the years, the relationship between the Tong family and the Lan family has been delicate, neither bad nor good.What does Lan Baked mean by saying this?

Tong Xia was puzzled, and Pang Diao didn't understand even more. In a bad mood, Pang Diao smirked and said, "I didn't expect my husband and the Lan family to be very close. So, you should also call me Uncle Pang."

"Yes, Uncle Pang." This was a bit rude, but Lan Baker was not angry. He smiled and narrowed his eyes, as if he really wanted to recall the old days, and sighed with emotion, "I think Uncle Cheng He's still young, and now his children are all grown up..."

Tong Xia's expression moved slightly, as if thinking of something, a trace of sadness flashed across his face.Pang Diao beside him was more sensitive, staring at Tong Xia suspiciously and asked, "Who is Uncle Cheng?"

"Ah, Uncle Pang doesn't know Uncle Cheng?" Lan Baking pretended to be surprised, but then he took it for granted, raised the corner of his mouth and said, "Uncle Tong should not tell you, after all, it was all before you got married. gone."

Hearing this, if Pang Diao didn't hear anything, it would be hell.Pang Diao frowned almost immediately, bit his lip and gave Tong Xia a look.

However, Pang Diao knew in his heart that the reason why Lan Baking brought up the past was probably to sow discord.So he paused for a moment, then smiled and took Tong Xia's arm and said, "Since it's from the past, what does it matter if you don't talk about it? Anyway, I don't care anymore."

"Yeah, Uncle Pang Diao has a big heart, so naturally he doesn't care about what happened so long ago." Lan Bei still smiled, but turned to look at Tong Xia, and said quietly, "Actually, it's nothing, I'm just a little Feeling. At the beginning, Uncle Cheng insisted on marrying an orc who could not change form, and gave birth to two more children. Unfortunately, that orc child was as intransformable as his father. But the sub-orc child was not bad. He can be regarded as outstanding. By the way, it seems that Uncle Pang Diao went to him a few days ago. I haven't seen Wen Ran for a long time, how is he?"

After all, Lan Bao seemed to really care about Wen Ran's life, and looked at Pang Diao with a pair of eyes, but no matter how well the expression on his face was disguised, it couldn't stop the teasing in the depths of his eyes.

After hearing this, Pang Diao understood instantly, his face turned white and red, and his lips trembled with anger!

This junior from the Lan family is really rude. He just revealed his husband Tong Xia's love affair when he was young, and even named the sub-orc man he liked as the son of his old lover!In this way, wouldn't he become the laughing stock of everyone for wanting to match up her husband's old lover's son with her own son?Isn't it obvious that you want to put sand in your eyes?

After taking a few deep breaths, Pang Diao forced himself to calm down.

Looking at Lan Bao's appearance, it is obvious that there is another person with such outstanding talent. Maybe the information he got is the same as what he thought before, and he thought that it was Wen Ran who sculpted such amazing works.Pang Diao knew very well what Lan Baking had in mind, Wen Ran was a sub-orc sculptor kicked out by the Lan family, and it would be a matter of minutes before Wen Ran came back.But Wen Ran has the right to choose to be Tongxi's partner, so the purpose of Lan Bao to pull out this old relationship is to start with Pang Diao, so that Pang Diao will dispel the idea of ​​choosing Wen Ran.

Ask yourself, if you had known that Tong Xia and Wen Ran's mother and father had an affair, and according to Pang Diao's proud and jealous temperament, no matter how talented Wen Ran is, he would not have chosen Wen Ran as Tong Xi's partner.But it's okay now, the one who really has the ability to sculpt is another sub-orc sculptor, which Lan Baking didn't expect.

Thinking about this clearly, a smile appeared on Pang Diao's face.