Yu Yuzhi updated the fastest web. He went to Luo Jing's house and finally felt at ease. Luo Jing's family lived in a large courtyard, with his parents in their sixties, as well as his older brother, sister-in-law, nephew, and niece. Although he hadn't seen Luo Jing's wife and children - according to Luo Hongsheng, they had gone back to her hometown - but with such a big family around, even if the monk ran away, the temple would still be there, so Ye Yuzhi no longer had any worries.

  He returned home and accompanied Ye Zhuoyi, who also put down his mind and focused on designing the jade.

  At the beginning, when she mentioned this idea to her grandfather, Ye Zhuo was full of confidence. She was known as a talented woman in her previous life, and her painting skills were naturally not weak. Plus her special feeling for jade, she always believed that she could design exquisite jade carvings.

  However, when she started doing it, she found that the jade carving design was not so easy. Although she knew that the basic principle of jade carving design is "quantity and material selection", which can maximize profits. If the piece of jade in her hand was a good quality, large block of whole jade, it would be easier to handle. But this piece of jade had extremely irregular stains and cracks on its surface, and she suspected that these stains and cracks might not only be on the surface but also penetrate deep inside. If you want to separate and hollow out these parts, the whole jade will be basically scrapped - in fact, those workshops that buy such jade stones will separate and hollow out, select a small amount of jade material from them, grind it into beads, string it into low-quality and low-priced necklaces, or inlay it on silver ornaments to earn a meager profit.

  But what's even more puzzling about this jade is not just its chaotic colors. The overall color is cyan, mixed with red, white, green, and gray, and the quality of the jade is poor. These colored areas do not have a smooth and glossy feel, making it difficult to create something beautiful with it.

  Ye Yuqi went out for a whole morning, and Ye Zhuo sat in the house stroking for a whole morning. However, she didn't think of anything.

  "Yu'er, come out and take a walk, don't stay cooped up in the house all day." Guan Shi called from outside. Originally, Ye Yuqi had already followed her. Ye Zhuo was concentrating on carving a piece of jade, not wanting to be disturbed. But this child had been stuck in the house for an entire morning without moving, and Guan Shi couldn't help but call out. In her opinion, making money was important, but nothing compared to one's health. Staying cooped up in the house all day would drive even a good person crazy. Even Zhao Shi, who sat inside embroidering, needed to be called out every half hour to take a walk.

  "Here." Ye Zhuo was also thinking of going out for a walk to find some inspiration. He ran out and saw Guan Shi wanting to go to the vegetable garden, so he quickly followed up.

  "What are you following me for? Take a walk in the yard and let Qiuju massage your shoulders." Guan Shi said with concern.

  "It's all right. She is learning embroidery with Qiuyue in the house, don't disturb her." Gu Shi's loving and doting expression always warmed Ye Zhuo's heart, she quickly took two steps forward and wrapped her arms around Gu Shi's arm, "I like following grandma, grandma won't send me away."

  As soon as Ye Zhuo showed this spoiled expression, Guan's heart softened like a puddle of water, and she laughed repeatedly: "Alright, follow your grandmother, I'd love to have my dear granddaughter accompany me."

  The old man and his grandson went to the vegetable garden together, arm in arm.

  In the vegetable garden, the green lettuce and the plump white cabbage were a delightful sight to Ye Zhitong. He let go of Guan Shi's arm and pointed at them, saying: "Are we going to pull out these vegetables?"

  "Cut a big Chinese cabbage, use the stem to stir-fry meat slices and vegetables. Then pull out two lettuce plants, let's make a meatball soup." Guan Shi started to work, bending down and getting her hands moving.

  Ye Zhuang hurriedly followed Guan's instructions and went to pull out the bok choy.

  "Grandma, if there's a piece of jade material and it's carved into something good, would you buy it?" Ye Zhuo is now full of this idea and involuntarily brings up the topic.

  "Is it good?" Mr. Guan shook his head without hesitation, "If it's just good but useless, I won't buy it. Goodness can't be eaten as rice."

  She suddenly remembered that Ye Zhuo had asked her about the jade carving, and knew it was related to what Ye Zhuo had been thinking about all morning. She quickly comforted her, "Don't listen to your grandmother, she's from a poor generation, used to being frugal, so naturally she wouldn't want to spend that kind of money. But those rich people are different, they only care about appearances, not practicality. You just do what you think is right."

  However, after she finished speaking, she didn't hear a sound from Ye Zhuo for half a day, and couldn't help but feel surprised. She lifted her head to look at him, only to see that his eyes were fixed on an old broken water vat beside the vegetable field, staring blankly at it. She hastily called out: "Zhuo'er, Zhuo'er..."

  "Ah?" Ye Zhuo seemed to be awakened from a dream, raised his head and looked at Guan Shi for a moment, but then lowered his head again, as if thinking deeply towards the broken jar.

  Miss Guan thought Ye Zhuo was reluctant to throw away the broken pot, so she explained: "Usually on rainy days, or when washing rice and vegetables, I pour water into this broken pot to store some water for watering plants. The water from this pot is better than the newly drawn well water..."

  But before she could finish, Ye Zhuo handed the dishes to her and said: "Grandma, I'm going back to my room." After that, he stretched out his hand and hugged her tightly, then quickly ran away.

  Guan suddenly found herself being hugged by Ye Zhuo, who handed her two bunches of vegetables. She stood there dazed for a long time before shaking her head and laughing: "This kid!"

  Ye Zhuo suddenly came up with an idea. In her past life, whether before or after marriage, she was always dressed in brocade and jade, never lacking money. Although this life was reborn into a merchant family, she had also worried about money, but her brain still held the consumption view and aesthetic view of her past life. So when she took that piece of jade, her mind was full of thoughts on how to design it into a painting of flowers and birds, bringing her past life's painting skills to the design of the jade carving.

  However, Guan's unintentional remark suddenly opened up her train of thought.

  Yes, such a piece of jade, with poor quality, no matter how exquisite the carving is, those rich people would not bother to buy it back and put it on their desk to play with. But for those who are not rich, who would buy something so impractical?

  So, her design must be something that is both aesthetically pleasing and has practical value. That mouthwash just now, she suddenly had an inspiration. Pen wash, that piece of jade. Most suitable for making a pen wash. This kind of thing can not only be made into a work of art that combines painting, calligraphy, carving, and decoration, but also has extremely strong practical value. It seems that those who are not very wealthy bookworms would still be willing to spend money on a jade-carved pen wash they like.

  Not only is it a pen wash. Later, jade can also be carved into pen holders, pen racks, inkstones, armrests, pen washes, paperweights, water droppers, ink drips, seal boxes, scissors, seals and so on. Their Jade Carving Workshop can specialize in making elegant stationery for scholars and refined gentlemen.

  She returned to her room and picked up her brush to paint.

  After a morning of rubbing, the jade material had deeply entered her heart. Where there was a piece of jade, where it was what color, she remembered firmly in her mind. So at this time, she didn't need to use her hands anymore. Holding a brush, dipping in ink, she quickly painted on paper.

  Soon, an elliptical pen holder appeared on the paper, shaped like a large cylindrical vase with rounded corners. The outer wall was surrounded by the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea picture. And the various colors on the jade stone became the clothes and objects in the hands of the eight figures. Where there was red color, it was carved into He Xiangu's clothes; that black streak became Tieguai Li's cane. Those blemishes were not removed, but directly became the waves of the sea. Inside the pen holder, a dragon was designed to hide these flaws, swimming in and out of the blue waves.

  Because the pattern was too dense, she left a plain border at the top of the pen wash, simplicity within complexity, making it even better.

  After finishing this painting, she let out a long sigh of relief, picked up the paper to carefully examine it, and then burst into a very satisfied smile.

  Too good! She would applaud herself for this design.

  This pen holder, if carved well, will definitely sell for a good price.

  The sound of Ye Yu Zhang's voice echoed in the courtyard, and Ye Zhuo hastily picked up the picture and ran out. The excitement and pride in her heart made her eager to share this exquisite design with her grandfather.

  "Is this painted by you?" Ye Yuqi held the paper, slightly dazed. The Eight Immortals drawn on it were vivid and lifelike, a masterpiece that would not be out of place among the works of a great painter.

  “……” Ye Zhuo paused for a moment. She was too excited just now and completely forgot to conceal her painting talent. But it's good this way, no need to hide anymore. She nodded: "Yes, in the past at Er Fang, I liked writing and painting when I had nothing to do. But nobody knew about it." Then she pointed at the brush washer on the paper, "Grandfather, don't just paint, what do you think of this design!"

  "Pen wash?" Ye Yuqi was taken aback again, clearly expecting something else on that paper.

  To be honest, it was Ye Zhuo who came up with that idea. Although he thought it wasn't bad, he didn't have much hope for it. He knew that those who bought jade decorations were all rich people, and naturally they would want to buy high-quality jade decorations to show off their status. Poor people, on the other hand, prioritized practicality. But Sun Nu had come up with an idea, and it did have some merit, so he adopted an encouraging attitude, just to make Sun Nu happy. That piece of jade material only cost one or two silver coins, and was probably just something to buy for Sun Nu to play with.

  But unexpectedly, what he was holding in his hand was a drawing of an inkstone!

  There is a huge market demand for such products. If designed and crafted well, they can definitely be sold at 10 to 20 times the cost.

  He hastily put away the painting and walked towards Ye Zhuo's room, eager to see what kind of jade material it was and how Ye Zhuo had designed it.

  As he entered the room, his eyes fell upon the jade material on the table, and the pattern in his hand, the hand holding the rice paper began to tremble slightly.

  "Grandfather, how is it?" Ye Zhuo at this time was like a child, eager to get the adult's affirmation and praise.

  "Good, good!" Ye Yuqi raised his head, looking at Ye Zhuo, with a faint glimmer of tears in his eyes, and his voice changed, "I didn't expect that our Zhuo would have such great skills, designing such an exquisite pattern."

  He suddenly put down the rice paper in his hand and walked out quickly.

  A glimpse of a spot and knowing the whole leopard, Ye Zhuo has such talent, the main house of the Ye family is going to rise.

  Suddenly having such a granddaughter, seeing a bright future ahead, he needs to calm down his excited emotions at this moment.

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