Chapter 813

Chu Chen's hand of the Yellow Ruyi, Ruyi head for Ganoderma lucidum type head, edge line with the shape. Inside, there are relief chimes, shous and double bats. Ruyi handle is hollow on the back, uplifted on the front, and a plum blossom is embossed on the middle dome. The end of the handle is strictly decorated, which is commonly used in the palace.

This Ruyi carving has few decorative patterns. It's concise, but it doesn't lose its identity. It has all kinds of auspicious meanings. As time goes by, the surface of the utensil has gradually aged, forming a moist slurry. It is a rare and excellent work in the study.

It's just a pity that Ruyi's head is slightly bruised. But even so, this Tiehuang Ruyi is worth more than 200000 yuan, and Chu Chen is quite satisfied that he can buy it for 50000 yuan.

Taking things, Chu Chen went to his antique shop happily.

Entering the shop, Chu Chen found that Zhou Wenping and Lao Wu were there, so he said hello with a smile.

Seeing that chuchen was in a good mood, the fifth man asked with a smile, "boss, what's the matter with you today? Are you so happy?"

"Here, I just picked up two leaks..." Chuchen smiles and shows the things on his hand.

Listening to Chu Chen's words "pick up the leak", Zhou Wenping and Lao Wu were both in a hurry to ask for something and observe it carefully.

Zhou Wenping saw the name of the money left on the armrest and said softly, "eh, it's still Zhou Zhiyan's work?"

Chuchen nodded with a smile: "it's really Zhou Zhiyan."

Before, Chu Chen had also worked with Zhou Zhiyan's works, but Liu Sizhe bought them. At that time, he only spent a few hundred yuan, and the value was higher than the armrest in front of him.

Of course, it's not to say that the armrest is not good in front of us. If we look at the artistic level, it's also outstanding.

In the early stage, the shape of the knife is different from that of the deep and shallow carving. The branches and branches of the trees are picked with blunt edges. The knife marks are crisp and vivid, full of the charm of ink painting.

This armrest is Zhou Zhiyan's early imitation of Juran's brushwork. It is natural and fluent to use a knife like a pen. Its method is thick, light, concave, and vivid. The landscape is carved without eyes and ears, without window lattice in the house, without fine points in the tree, and without a slight bridge, which is beyond others. In addition, there is Zhiyan in the blank, which is quite literati.

However, because this armrest is an early work of Zhou Zhiyan, it is not as sophisticated as that in the middle and late stage. The artistic level of this armrest is lower than that of Liu Sizhe's piece of Zhou Zhiyan.

Of course, even so, it's a great pleasure to buy an armrest with a market price of about 30000 yuan for 1000 yuan.

After looking at the two things, Lao Wu looked disappointed and said, "but it's only a few hundred thousand things!"

Chuchen said with a smile, "brother five, how much value do you think you should have?"

The fifth man said with a smile: "with the strength of your luck, it's worth millions at least!"

Chuchen smiles and shakes his head: "no matter how lucky I am, I can't pick up millions of leaks, can I? What's more, millions of things are not Chinese cabbage. How can they be so easy to pick up? "

In fact, there was a time when Chu Chen felt that he had so much money and powers, and it was really boring to pick up tens of thousands of leaks. However, when he picked up a small leak without using his powers, he felt that this idea was too naive.

After all, money is dead. As people always say, no matter how much money there is, it is impossible to buy all the things in the world. And picking up the leak is a kind of fun for him. No matter how small the leak is, the joy brought to him is not something money can buy.

Zhou Wenping patted Lao Wu on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Lao Wu, don't be too ambitious. It seems that you haven't picked up more than 100000 leaks, have you?"

The fifth one didn't like it either. He said with a smile, "how can I compare with the boss..."

As soon as he said that, everyone saw Xie Gong come in from the door with a smile on his face.

When they exchanged greetings, Chu Chen said with a smile, "old Xie, why don't you come back after a few days' rest?"

"I don't have anything to do at home. I'm really flustered. I'd better come early and exercise my muscles and bones..."

At this time, Xie Gong's face had lost the melancholy of some time ago, and the little grandson's recovery was good, so the whole person looked a little radiant.

Later, Xie Gong said to Chu Chen, "boss, I thank you for my grandson. If it wasn't for you, he would not be able to survive. It's still unknown."

Chu Chen waved his hand and said, "old Xie, I'm just lifting my hand. It's no big deal! Besides, you don't have to be so polite. Just call me Xiao Chu! "

Hearing this, Xie Gong quickly shook his head and said, "that's no good! You're my boss. I call you Xiao Chu. Isn't that a bit of a shame? "

Seeing Xie Gong's resolute attitude, Chu Chen said, "well, let's call it Xiao Chu in the workplace. In private, you can call me Xiao Chu."

Seeing that Xie Gong still wanted to object, he quickly said, "Mr. Xie, public is public, private is private, and shopkeeper Zhou and I all call it that."Zhou Wenping and Lao Wu nodded in a hurry, indicating that they did.

"Well then..."

Everyone did this. Of course, Xie Gong chose to go with the flow. Then he said, "boss, I want to start working today."

See Xie Gong so urgent appearance, chuchen smile, let old five first sit here, and then with Xie Gong and Zhou Wenping two people went to Xie Lao's studio..

To tell you the truth, since he bought the next door, Chu Chen's was more relieved than before. This is also because, in the past, the location of his vault was only one wall away from the shop he bought now. Although this aspect had been taken into consideration when the vault was decorated, it is undoubtedly safer now.

Chu Chen took them upstairs. Apart from the other side near the vault, there was another part separated. All the other places were used as workshops for carving lacquer.

"The last time I came here, I said it was too big. It was very lonely to be alone." Xie Gong said with a smile.

Chuchen said with a smile: "Mr. Xie, if you want to be more lively, I'll fill you with ten or eight apprentices in a few days."

Old Xie also said with a smile: "boss, you are going to take me as a permanent worker..."

After a few words of laughter, Xie said, "I really can't take ten or eight apprentices, and I don't want to mislead others. I'll take two first."

"Yes Zhou Wenping nodded: "I'll write a recruitment inspiration in a moment, and then let you check it yourself!"

"OK..."

Later, Zhou Wenping took them to the storage room and said, "Mr. Xie, I have purchased all the things on your list and put them here. Please see if they are right. If they are wrong, I will send them to you again..."

The process of carving lacquer in the capital is very complicated. It has to go through more than ten processes, such as design, tire making, painting, sample tracing, carving, polishing, etc.

For example, seven kinds of paint materials, such as pure raw paint, damp paint, cover paint and color paint, are mainly used to prepare tung oil for cover paint in carving paint, as well as various pigments and tire materials.

There are two kinds of tire materials. One is the copper material for making carved lacquer inner tube. Most of the tire materials are made of bottles, cans, boxes, washes, ovens and cauldrons. Most of them are round inner tubes.

Another kind of wood is used to make screens, furniture and other lacquerware. Wood is the best old material, not easy to crack and deformation, and different carved lacquer products have different requirements for wood, because carved lacquer products in the production process, to dozens of times, hundreds of times into the hot and humid cellar box, but also into the drying oven four to five times, so the choice of wood and picky is essential.

Before liberation, carved lacquer in the capital inherited the traditional crafts of Ming and Qing Dynasties, and generally used wood, tin and bodiless. After liberation, in addition to furniture and other objects, most of the carved lacquer in the capital was made of copper, and the inner wall was made of enamel.

The wood in the storage room is the wood Zhou Wenping found after countless phone calls. However, before Xie Gong confirmed, he still had no bottom in his heart.

After looking at all the wood in front of him, Xie Gong nodded with satisfaction: "these wood are very good. They are all good materials that can be made into excellent lacquer carving!"

After getting the affirmation of Xie Gong, Zhou Wenping also put down his heart. He said with a smile, "old Xie, what else do you want?"

Xie Gong shook his head and said: "things are very complete. It's not too late. I'm going to start working now. Just go and do your work..."

Chu Chen said, "I have nothing to do here. I'll stay and enjoy your old craftsmanship."

"Boss, it's all hard work. Maybe you will find it too boring."

Perhaps worried about Chu Chen's thinking, Xie Gong hastily explained: "our carved lacquer generally includes design, molding, polishing, sample tracing, carving and drying, and polishing. I want to know what steps you should take in designing and molding."

"As for the varnish, it's the repeated application of the varnish on the finished tire. The first layer of paint is applied with equal shade. After drying, the second layer is applied again and again until the thickness required by the process is reached. General products are painted several layers, about 6 mm thick. In addition to the last step of drying, everything else is Kung Fu work.... "

After listening to Xie Gong's explanation, Chu Chen said with a smile, "it's OK. You're yours. I'll satisfy my curiosity. I'll leave later."

Chu Chen just wanted to see how the carved lacquer was made. If he had nothing to do, he would not stay for a long time. After all, staying here for a long time would bring some pressure to Xie Gong.

"Well, I'll give you a good talk about the art of carving lacquer..."

Xie Gong nodded. After Zhou Wenping left, he took out his drawing paper and put it on his workbench to introduce it to Chu Chen as he drew