Chapter 273
Zou Xiaotong did not originally plan to participate in the first Tiangong Competition. At that time, there were only two weeks and a few days before the start of the competition. Master Zou's hair was bald and his skin was bald. He slept for three hours every day and spent the rest of the time eating. I lost ten pounds in ten days without taking care of food, and I felt very haggard.
He said that there was a moment of inspiration that he couldn't stop. Even when he fell asleep in the middle of the night, he had to get up to replenish his skills before going back to sleep.
Today's master sculptors can make a work in as little as several months or as long as several years, but Zou Xiaotong only took thirteen days.
I don’t know what I was busy with in the first few days, and I never contacted us. Xiaoxuan Douyazai and I stayed at the Shuanglong Hotel in Warwick Bridge to wait for news. We would go to Sanlitun to play in the evening.
We were tomb robbers, but we were also young people. Sanlitun was really fun at that time.
Nowadays, going to disco bars in Sanlitun is for physical release. Accompanied by the music, the release begins as soon as I drink a small drink and hug my waist.
At that time, Sanlitun was home to countless talented people and outstanding people.
Jazz House, Assanti Western Restaurant at the North Gate of Workers' Stadium, Havan, Zangku, Old Chinese Characters, Red Rose, South Street Store Rainbow Wine House, Mingda, Mustard Square. We have been to all these small shops. The local bumpkin Dou Sprout came to the city, Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden, and the jazz room was so dumbfounded to see beautiful people playing guitar. I have always felt that Dou Sprout has artistic talent, and tomb robbers can also be artistic occasionally. .
The owner of Rainbow Wine House on South Street was Bai. He was in his thirties and wore glasses. After going there for a few days, Boss Bai became friends with us young people. The prices of drinks and snacks at Rainbow Wine House were the cheapest at that time. Even though the prices have increased, Boss Bai’s Rainbow Wine House did not increase the prices. As a result, Rainbow Wine House closed down four years later.
Boss Bai played the guitar very well. At that time, Douyazi was wearing sunglasses and holding a microphone, and he sang a song called Single Love Brother in front of so many people. Don’t get me wrong, when I said he was talented, it was not singing talent, but With a talent for comedy, Lin Zhixuan might want to hit him if he hears Dou Sprout's single love song.
Xiaoxuan can also sing. She can sing some Cantonese songs, which are not very good, but they are better than the tone-deaf Douyazai.
As for me, if there are outsiders present, I will never dare to go up and sing with a microphone.
After playing for many days, I received a notice from Master Zou that day that our blood agate carving was ready and he asked us to go over and take a look.
Zou Xiaotong has a private studio in Tianzhu, Shunyi, Beijing, which is a small villa. He also has a warehouse in Cuigezhuang to store some tools and unused jade waste.
"Master Zou, have you not slept for how many days?" After we met in Shunyi, I saw that he had serious dark circles under his eyes.
"Stop talking about that," he couldn't hide the excitement on his face, "Come in and take a look, I guarantee you'll be satisfied!"
"Wait, I'll get it right away."
A few minutes later, he came down from the second floor carrying a wooden box.
"Everyone, please take a look. The title of the work is "Flaming Mountain"." He opened the wooden box as he spoke.
Initially, the original stone was oval. He boldly cut the material and polished the oval into a triangular shape. Five spots of the original black skin of Alxa agate were deliberately retained on the back of the jade carving. He made a mountain with his technique, but he did not use a knife on the demonic red patch in the middle of the agate. He only polished this area carefully, and the polished effect resembled a plain area.
From a distance, the whole body is red like flames passing over the mountain.
One word, "Absolute!"
It is truly a master craftsmanship.
Zou Xiaotong took out his flashlight and said with a smile: "You don't think this is the end, do you?"
With a smile on his face, he turned on the flashlight and slowly looked up the agate mountain.
"This... this, this, this," Dou Sprout said incoherently, and he was dumbfounded.
At this moment, in the area left in the middle of the agate, four people and one horse appeared under the light of the flashlight!
It turns out that he carved the black skin left on his back and made the four masters and apprentices who were seeking scriptures from the West to the back. Without the lights on, they look like red flame mountains, but when the lights are on, they turn into the masters and apprentices in Journey to the West. Four people cross the Flame Mountain. This technique requires an extremely superb sense of dislocated space and artistic sense.
Anyone who has seen this work can't help but say one word, "cow."
"Master Zou is amazing." We watched for more than half an hour, and we sincerely admired him. The three thousand yuan was well spent.
