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One day, someone brought a small Jade Buddha and said that he wanted to restore it. The quality of the jade was excellent. The floating white emerald jade was carved into a Buddha statue. From the sculptor's point of view, there are no shortcomings.

Ji Mo carefully held the Jade Buddha in his hand, looked at it carefully, and said strangely: "Forgive my stupid eyes, I really can't see what is wrong with this Buddha statue, it needs to be repaired."

The handsome young man sat on the chair in the guest seat, as comfortable as sitting in the main seat. He smiled, pointed to the hand of the Buddha statue and said: "My mother heard that there is a Buddha statue with six fingers, so she wanted the six-finger Buddha statue. Here, but It's missing a finger."

Surprised by the "six-fingered Buddha statue", Ji Mo shook his hand and almost dropped the Jade Buddha. He hurriedly placed the Buddha statue in the brocade box carefully, and asked: "If so, it should be carved with one finger more. , and repairing it now, I am afraid it will not be beautiful."

"Master Mo doesn't know that this Jade Buddha came from the red beard. It is a treasure from outside the region. I don't know who made it. It is very difficult to redo it now. Only the restorer can make it less and more..."

As the young man said, he also signaled the servants to hand over another box, which turned out to be a green and white jade bi, on the interlining, if there was a streamer of light on the jade bi, it dazzled people's eyes.

"These materials are needed to make fingers, and I hope the master will not refuse."

For this whole piece of jade, let alone making fingers, it is not difficult to carve a few flat jade Buddhas. The material is more than enough, which means that the price is high. This single business... Ji Mo pondered, he was not completely sure.

Life is not a game, and these people are not ordinary people who can laugh it off. The law here protects the powerful and wealthy, not ordinary people. You can feel the crisis behind this opportunity.

"This Jade Buddha is already very complete, there is no need to—"

"Master Mo, I've heard about your reputation a long time ago. If anyone else can repair this Jade Buddha, it's you. If you can't..."

There is enough room for the young man's words, but the threat revealed by this room cannot be taken lightly.

"Of course, this repair is indeed difficult. Master Mo may use these materials to try, and there will be more rewards after the work is done."

Having said that, the young man smiled again, as gentle and elegant as when we first met, "I think, Master Mo will not give me this face."

How dare a small person not give face to these big shots?

Ji Mo's expression sank, the matter has come to this point, there is no evasion, and if it fails, destroying his Jade Buddha, it will be death to pay for the crime.

How could his life be compared to this Jade Buddha?

"Don't dare, dare not, I will do my best."

For his own life, he will do his best. Maybe those imperial doctors who are always threatened by the emperor to be buried with him will feel the same.

And those imperial doctors may not really die, and he may not. To that young man, he is only worth restoring the Jade Buddha. If the Jade Buddha cannot be restored successfully, then what use is he in the eyes of the other party?Just buried with the Jade Buddha.

People are not as good as things, it seems sad, but it is a kind of necessity, who will let the ruler of measurement be in the hands of the other party?

"Master—"

After seeing off the young man, two apprentices came to him with worried faces, Ji Mo smiled: "It's nothing, it's just repairing the Jade Buddha, it's not too difficult, you follow me and watch, when the day of delivery comes , you go first, and he won't pursue you."

This last sentence is really reassuring.

The two apprentices showed a relaxed look on their faces, but they still said: "Master, there must be no problem."

Where there is no problem, the problem is big.

The method of the restorer is to restore the object, and use various methods to restore the original appearance of the object, and this Jade Buddha is a whole, and the original appearance has not been lost. If you have to add a finger, what is the difference from adding characters on "Spring and Autumn" , Don't look at the lack of a word, a word is worth a thousand gold.

With the addition of this finger, the overall feeling of the Buddha statue will change. If this finger is not to be abrupt, I am afraid that many adjustments will be required. It is no different from repairing the entire Buddha statue. The key is that this adjustment is an increase rather than a decrease , the more difficult it becomes.

Facing the Jade Buddha for three whole days, facing each other day and night, even the Fang Yubi was put aside and watched by Ji Mo day by day. Restoration is not destruction, but this restoration must first destroy the integrity and artistry of the Jade Buddha. It is repairing rather than rebuilding.

Reshape a new Jade Buddha, the Jade Buddha with six fingers.

On the fourth day, Ji Mo started to cut the knife. In his mind's imagination, he had already had several sketches of the six-fingered Buddha statue.

Unexpectedly, he thought of the modification Mo Bingzhong had made to the Jade Buddha in the Palace of the King of Han. He added a finger to the Buddha statue for trouble, but he still had the ability to appreciate art and the pride of a restorer. That finger was not added indiscriminately, it is a very appropriate measure to combine three fingers into four fingers.

The halo of the Jade Buddha under the light is still vivid in my eyes. At the first glance, what I noticed was not the sixth extra finger, but the shining brilliance.

It just so happens that the handprint of this Jade Buddha is also the □□, and it happens that the same modification can be made. I don’t know when Mo Bingzhong made the modification that day, did he ever think that his disciples would also make such six-finger repairs in a few years’ time? , it seems that in the dark, there is a kind of karma rotation, so that all karma will be compensated.

"Since you want to increase the sixth finger, you should think about what the sixth finger should be like."

Facing the two disciples, Ji Mo began to talk about the appearance of the six fingers, and asked them what they thought about it. Restorers never work behind closed doors. They have never seen cursive script. To understand, you must first have a concept, which can be something you have seen or imagined.

"It's unknown."

The two apprentices had difficulty answering the question. Six fingers are not a common deformity. Just based on imagination, it is hard to think whether it is an extra finger on the side of the thumb, or an extra finger on the side of the little finger, or any two fingers. A plug was added in the middle, and an extra finger was added.

Even the imagination is uncertain, and it is even more difficult to implement it.

Ji Mo didn't continue to ask, just said: "I have seen six fingers before, and there is an extra finger on the side of the little finger, and the rest are just like it, nothing special..."

Hearing what he said, the eldest disciple somewhat recalled that last time the old woman brought a puppet to repair it, and vaguely said it was Liuzhi.

However, the six fingers are different from the present one. The five fingers of the Buddha statue have distinct roots, and the knuckles are clearly visible. It seems that there are palm prints and fingerprints on them. up.

"Since that's the case, this hand has to be changed."

The person who sculpted this Buddha statue never thought of leaving room for the sixth finger. Therefore, the width of this hand is not enough for the one finger protruding from the edge. If it is forced to be added, it will only be ridiculous. It's not like it should be as a whole.

So, this hand needs to be changed, so...

The first thing Ji Mo did was to cut off the Jade Buddha's hand from the wrist. This step considered that he would need to fit it with another hand later. .

When the two apprentices saw Ji Mo's hands directly on the Jade Buddha, they couldn't help but inhale. There was no room for repentance after such a move. At that time, other people's reasons for pursuing it would also be ready-made, and it would damage such a precious stone. How to pay for the Buddha statue!

While holding his breath and concentrating, the small hand has been removed, and then he has to match this gesture and make another hand with the same gesture, the difference is that the new hand has six fingers.

The so-called six fingers do not necessarily widen the palm, but the thickness of the fingers can be slightly adjusted. Each of them is reduced by half a circle, leaving a width of half a finger, and then the palm is widened a little. However, in order to be able to coordinate with the other hand, this kind of widening requires a little gathering of the palm, which seems to have never changed.

If there is a degree of ups and downs, if the palm is empty.Ji Mo didn't make much changes to the gestures. Even if he compared the original hand, the new hand seemed to be the same after making it. If you look closely, you will find the difference. different fingers.

After completing the hand, what needs to be done is to fit the wrist of the Buddha statue. Because the width of the changed palm is not large, the thickness of the wrist is easy to match. Purely use mortise and tenon, and then fill the gap with jade powder to smooth it out. It took a full month for Ji Mo to complete the restoration work after re-using the polishing method after carving and the old-fashioned repair method.

[Main task: restorer. 】

[Current task: professional knowledge learning - (95/100)]

The restored Jade Buddha was put in the original box, brought into the compound by the young man, and sent to the woman in the Buddhist hall. The woman was dressed in light clothes, with emerald and white hairpin rings, which was extraordinarily elegant. Chuchen, seeing the box in front of him, put down the sandalwood bracelet he was holding, stretched out his hand to open it, the sleeve length almost covered the fingertips, but in a flash, he could still see the finger of the sixth little finger. Tip, on the side of the little finger, a little on the tip of the finger, trembling like a dewdrop.

The box was opened, and the six-fingered Buddha statue was exposed. The not-so-beautiful woman had a joyful look on her face, and it was rare to see such joy in her peaceful brows. The young man was also happy, and asked with a smile: "Mother likes it?"

"I like it." The woman answered directly, and looked up at the young man, with rare tenderness in her eyes, "Your father will be happy when he sees it."

In this world, some people love the normal scene, and some love the deformity and injustice. The former is aboveboard, while the latter is unavoidably sneaky and violates the normal value-oriented hobbies. The clues come.

This is the window that God left for those six-fingered people. It is narrow and small, and it is difficult to touch it. But once you touch it, your life experience will be different from then on.