The road of the house owner of the pig in the Chanyuan

"You want to ask me to buy jade?" Lin Mingde looked at Naoya with some surprise, "You can, but you didn't only carve wooden pieces before, why did you suddenly want to carve jade?"

"My friend... is Wu, his birthday is coming soon," Naoya explained, "I used to carve some wooden ornaments for him on his birthday, and I feel that it is not good to give similar things all the time, so this time I want to give something different, something that can be worn close to the body." Then, he also took the draft of the Ouroboros pendant that he drew out of the bag and handed it to the teacher.

"Is this the sketch you conceived?" Lin Mingde took the blueprint, put on his glasses, squinted his eyes to observe carefully, and nodded with a smile, "Not bad, not bad, the design is pretty good, the pattern on it should refer to the book I gave you Books, right? Well...the whole fits together well, and this is the first time you've designed such a small accessory?"

"Yes," although Naozai has studied sculpture with Lin Mingde for a long time, and the two of them are much closer than at the beginning, but he still feels a little embarrassed when the teacher watches his novice work so carefully. I always feel that there is something inexplicable, and I rubbed my fingers and lowered my head, "Because it is the first time to design such a thing, so if there are any deficiencies, I would like to ask the teacher to help me improve it."

"Haha, for the first time, your design is quite good," Lin Mingde smiled and touched Naoya's head, "Although you have never carved and designed such relatively delicate objects as jewelry, after all, there are a few years of experience in carving animal ornaments, and sometimes, experience can be exchanged."

After finishing speaking, Lin Mingde sat down in front of the workbench, picked up a paintbrush, and based on the sketch designed by Naoya, sketched and repaired a few strokes, made some adjustments, and said slowly, "It's just that you should be new to patterns. Because of this, although the overall look is very good, but the details are a bit redundant, you should consider that you want to carve it with jade, jade is hard and brittle, not as tough as wood, it is too cumbersome and complicated The pattern may make the jade unbearable and break."

"Okay, teacher, I remember."

Naozai was educated humbly, looking at the sketch of the pendant he designed, but after a few strokes from the teacher, it became much simpler and more generous. He had been inexplicably disliked, but he didn’t know how to adjust it. Disappeared, he couldn't help but feel a little happy, scratched his head and said, "I probably think that the pattern is like a snake's scales, and I always think that it must be covered."

Hearing this, Lin Mingde smiled, handed the sketch back to Naozai, and comforted him in a warm voice, "When you used to carve animals, you needed to carefully comb and carve every hair or scale, and it will naturally develop over time. It's normal for such a habit to change for a while, and speaking of it, the two carved wooden wolves you showed me last time have already been given away?"

"Well, after showing it to the teacher, I found a time to give it to him." Naoya replied, but when talking about this matter, there was a bit of funny helplessness in his eyes, "I thought He said he would give him the wooden wolf carved from light-colored white peach wood, but he wanted the walnut one. He pointed to his hair and insisted that black and white would match better, so he left the light-colored one to me. , take the dark ones away."

"Your friend has always been so interesting," Lin Mingde couldn't help but sighed with emotion, "I still remember when he sneaked here by himself and bought ten bunches of candied haws from me, and then specially asked Say, let me never tell you."

"He is a sweet guy," Naoya taunted, "I found out the tooth decay afterwards, and he hid from me for more than a month. I don't know what he thinks."

"Probably young boys of this age are so good-looking." Lin Mingde laughed, "After all, in front of important friends, I always want to maintain my best condition and show my best side, and I don't want to lose it because of some trivial things. Face, this is nothing surprising."

"Is that so?" Thinking of Gojo Satoru, who is usually careless and has no sense of distance from him, Naoya asked with some doubts, "But I always feel that he didn't seem to care so much before..."

"Probably puberty?" Lin Mingde thought for a while, and gave a seemingly reasonable explanation, "Isn't everyone saying that children nowadays are getting more and more precocious, just like you Naoya, sometimes I also think that you are just like a Just like adults, stable and sensible."

"Maybe..." The praise from the respected elder made Naoya's face a little hot, and he quickly changed the subject, "Then teacher, do you have any jade to recommend?"

"Of course there are." Seeing Naozai's shyness, Lin Mingde followed the other party's meaning a little funnyly, and turned to jade, "I wanted to say that I have accumulated a lot of loose jade stones here, so you can just pick one, but since You mentioned, that friend likes black and white so much..."

After speaking, he got up and walked to the shelves in the room next to the studio, looked at it, and solemnly took out a small wooden box from the innermost side with both hands, stared at it for a long time, stroked it lightly, and dusted off the layer of covering on it. Floating Ash returned to the studio, handed the wooden box to Naoya, and said softly, "Open it and have a look."

Naoya, who took the small wooden box, could clearly feel that the weight of the wooden box was obviously different from the appearance, and he felt a little heavy. After hearing what the teacher said, he nodded, and obediently opened the wooden box, but saw that there was a There are several black-colored stones of different sizes, reflecting the sunlight through the window, reflecting a delicate luster with a warm and transparent color.

"Teacher, these are..." Looking at the things in the wooden box, Naoya guessed in surprise, "Is it... jade?"

"Yes, this is also a kind of jade, usually called black jade." Lin Mingde pursed his lips and smiled, and nodded to confirm Naoya's conjecture, "This black jade was originally a whole piece. It was decided by the unattractive rough stone. At that time, black jade such as moyu was not very popular, but such a complete piece of jade without impurities was rare. Originally, my master planned to refine it. Carve it carefully, treat it as your own collection, but don't want to..."

"Once the sky changes, everything changes in the blink of an eye. The black becomes white, and the white is regarded as black." Lin Mingde looked at the jade in the wooden box, his voice was hoarse, and his eyes were stained. A little sad, sighed, "Although my master hid the jade in the wall bricks at that time, it was still found, it was forcefully pried out, and it was smashed on the concrete floor in front of my master. broken."

"Afterwards, I took advantage of the people's departure and secretly picked up a few pieces that seemed to be intact. I wanted to hide them for my master, but unfortunately, I still couldn't keep the old man in the end."

"Master..." Zhizai looked at the faint grief in Lin Mingde's eyes, and couldn't help but hugged the wooden box tightly in his hands. For a moment, he felt that the wooden box seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, and he almost couldn't hold it, "Then These jade stones..."

"After my master left, I didn't feel like touching these black jades anymore, so I locked them all the time." Lin Mingde eased his expression, looked at Zhizai with a smile again, "it's just that I kept locking it without seeing the sun Well, it’s still a bit of a waste after all, why don’t I give it to you, come on, pick a suitable piece from it, and use it.”

Zhizai lowered his head to look at Yushi, then looked at Lin Mingde's kind eyebrows and eyes, and the care and love for him in his eyes, his lips murmured for a long time, and finally made a sound, but he mentioned another matter, "Master , on New Year's Eve this year, would you like to come to my house...to be a guest and have a New Year's Eve dinner?"

Hearing this, Lin Mingde couldn't help being stunned, he stared fixedly at Naozai's clear eyes, the intimacy in them made him feel a warmth like a gurgling stream, which spread along the meridians, and infiltrated his whole body , so that he couldn't help raising the corners of his mouth, and gently rubbed Naoya's soft hair, his voice was a little hoarse, and he couldn't help nodding, "My good boy, with your kindness, it's better than any gold or silver." Make me happy."

"So, Master, are you willing to come?" Zhizai looked at Lin Mingde and continued to ask, with a bit of stubbornness in his tone.

"Since you have already invited me, there is no reason for me not to go." Lin Mingde laughed loudly, even narrowing his brows and eyes, "At that time, I will trouble you to entertain me, an old bone."

After getting the exact answer, Naoya smiled again, and quickly agreed, "Then master, if you have any favorite dishes, you can tell me in advance, and I will prepare them for you."

"Okay, but don't worry about it." Lin Mingde waved his hand amusedly, pointing to the wooden box in Naoya's hand, "Let's pick out the jade first, but since you have only carved wood before, let's just pick the jade stones today." Good jade, and then use stones of similar size to practice your hands, and I will also teach you how to use jade carving tools."

"Okay, I see." Naoya replied, and watched as his teacher slowly pulled out a blue plastic leather box from the lower shelf of the tool cabinet, opened it, and presented it in front of him.

"Look, this is the most commonly used thing for jade carving today, a grinding machine similar to a small electric drill, and various matching diamond drill bits."

Lin Mingde took out the grinder in the plastic box, and pointed to the neatly arranged drill bits in the box, "Different drill bits also represent different functions. There are rules for when and which drill bits should be used. Of course Now, I can’t remember just this explanation, let’s use stones to try our hands, come, take this.” After finishing speaking, he handed the grinder to Naoya, and said with a smile, “What is the use of each drill bit? I will tell you all the effects, try them one by one."

"Yeah!" Naoya nodded earnestly, followed the teacher's point of view, and looked at the row of drill bits in the toolbox. What came to his ears was the teacher's meticulous and gentle explanation, and found a piece of dust. The fluttering pebbles, together with the grinder in hand, slowly show the different effects of various drill bits on it.

The old and the young are almost leaning on each other in front of the desk, the sunlight outside the window is scattered in their hands, making the originally unattractive stubborn stone, polished by the grinder, burst into a different brilliance in a moment.