Now there are two days left before the one month period. Even if you can't complete the task with carving one piece with all your strength, there are still two days to make progress. If you wait until the last day and carving it with all your strength, it will be a very fast life and death. If the carved jade carving fails to complete the task, it means that he has failed this mission.

This task is related to whether the intermediate identification technique can be obtained, so Chen Yi must make every effort to prepare. Although he has made great progress in jade carvings after this month of study, he has carved some jade carvings before, but the distance is slightly valuable, and some are still a little worse. Some of them are technical issues and some are problems with the jade materials used.

"Well, Xiaoyi, your progress over the past month can be said to be rapid, far beyond our expectations. You should indeed carve a jade artifact as your learning results over the past month." Gu Lao nodded and said with a sigh.

Over the past month, they have witnessed Chen Yi gradually growing from a person who has never been in the jade carving industry to a person who can carve jade carvings in shallow and complex content.

When they entered the jade carving industry, it took them a full year or two to reach Chen Yi's level. Although they were not as good as Chen Yi's current conditions and had their own personal teachings, if they had the conditions like Chen Yi, it would not be possible that the jade carving level would be as high as Chen Yi's current level in just one month.

Moreover, over the years, they have accepted many apprentices, and the learning conditions from Chen Yi are not much different, but it took a year to reach Chen Yi's level.

What they lack is not only the identification skills of learning from one example and applying it to others, but also Chen Yi’s love for Chinese culture. It is precisely because of these factors that Chen Yi grew into a jade carving master rather than an apprentice within a month.

These factors are probably the reason why Chen Yi's painting skills have improved rapidly. He has learned to paint for less than half a year, but the paintings he has drawn made both Mr. Yuan and Mr. Qian sigh. Even the master of mounting, Mr. Ma, must take the initiative to leave his own appreciation chapters on it. This shows how good Chen Yi's paintings are. Of course, in the study of jade carving, his paintings are also factors in the continuous improvement of his jade carving level.

In the next half month, Chen Yi's level can already help them complete some relatively simple jade carving tasks. These are large jade carving ornaments that are different from small objects. Once an error occurs in one link, even the simplest link will make the entire jade carving fail and allow Chen Yi to complete it. It is not just their trust, but the reason for Chen Yi's level.

In addition, when he carved himself, he basically practiced the materials and rarely used some valuable materials. Now, in nearly a month, Chen Yi has tried his best to carve an artifact to see how good his true level has reached.

"Well, ancient, I also want to see where my limit lies." Chen Yi nodded. After a month of study, he was about to reach the end. He wanted to see if he could carve a jade carving that satisfies him and ancient.

Gu Lao smiled, "Okay, Xiaoyi, then let's go and choose jade materials now. I don't know what materials you want to use. A few days ago, we bought some good jade materials, high-grade jade and Hetian jade, all of which are available."

If you are an ordinary apprentice and have been studying for a month, you will think of using high-level jade materials to carve. They will never agree, because the skills of these people will defile these good jade materials, such as good horses and saddles, and good jades and good craftsmanship. No skill that matches jade materials will only reduce the value of this piece of jade materials.

And they have witnessed Chen Yi's progress in jade carving these days. Even if he carved it with some good jade materials, they would not think anything was wrong.

"Automatic, with my current level, using too good jade materials will only be a waste. Just use some medium materials. As for the type, use Hetian jade." Chen Yi shook his head and said with a smile when he heard the ancient words.

Some jade materials that have not been carved in any way can be said to be very cheaper than those of good jade. Even among Hetian jade, the best-made white jade, is only a few thousand per gram. For ordinary people, this gram of several thousand is very expensive, but it is nothing for people with a little wealth.

Of course, each piece of jade will have some changes according to its color and shape. The raw materials of some better mutton fat white jade can even reach more than tens of thousands, and this is just the price of uncarved jade raw materials. The price of carved jade can be said to be several times higher than that of raw materials.

Even if Chen Yi used some white jade materials for carving, the amount of these materials reached tens of thousands, which would not be a problem. However, even if he used too good materials, he would not be under pressure and could not achieve the skill level, and he would not be able to complete the task at all.

"Okay, medium-quality Hetian jade, Xiaoyi, you know what you need very well. This is very good. Come in and pick a piece of material with us." Gu Lao said with relief. With their understanding of Chen Yi, even if you choose high-level jade materials, it is not bad, but Chen Yi took the initiative to use medium-quality materials. This is not because he is not confident, but because he has a clear understanding of his current level. If someone else has changed to carving, he may wish he could use the material with the higher the value, the better.

Of course, it is also a huge test for the jade carving master to use some low-value jade materials and carve some amazing jadeware.

Chen Yi nodded and entered the room where the ancient piece of work jade materials were stored, and those low-value practice materials were placed in this workshop.

After entering the room, there were not many jade materials, both large and small. Gu Lao pointed to a few boxes in a location and said, "Xiao Yi, what is placed in this location is medium Hetian jade materials, including white jade, green jade, and very few topaz. You can choose from it."

Chen Yi looked around the room a few times. In addition to the jade materials, there were also some made jadeware in the room. After all, some high-value jadeware should not be placed in the workshop at will. Once there is any mistake, they will lose more than money.

Although there is not much jade material in this room, it can support the normal production of the jade carving factory for a period of time. Moreover, with the skills of ancient and others, the jade carved can be exchanged for money to buy more jade material.

This is their accumulation of decades of jade carving experience. Many people gave up this industry because they could not bear the hardships in the early stages of jade carving learning. Jade carving, and in less than a few years or even more than ten years of carving learning, no one carved anything carved was carved.

Through this month's study of jade carving, he has a deeper understanding of jade. Among Hetian jade, white jade is naturally the most famous, but there will also be other colors of jade.

However, compared to the colorful jade, the color of Hetian jade does not change much, most of which are mainly blue and white.

Chen Yi slowly bent down and selected the Hetian white jade. The practice materials in the workshop were as large as half a box, but this medium Hetian white jade looked only a few dozen yuan. Even if a gram was one hundred yuan, then the purchase price of these dozens of jade of different sizes, if one piece was added, the purchase price would probably reach hundreds of thousands. This is the preciousness of jade.

These Hetian white jades are basically at the level of ivory white jade, with other yellow or blue colors on the white.

Chen Yi carefully picked up the box, and had no doubt about the reality of these Hetian jades. With Gu Lao and others' understanding of jade, it was impossible for those jade merchants to deceive these old men.

Dozens of jade seem to be hard to deal with, but every time Chen Yi picks up one, he will look at its shape and color distribution, and then imagine the themes and appearances suitable for these jade materials in his mind.

If he feels that his ideas are imperfect or cannot realize them, he will put the jade in and continue to choose.

Suddenly, Chen Yi saw a round piece of jade in the bottom of the box. His eyes lit up, and then he took out the piece of jade.

Although this piece of jade is round, it is not regular, but there are some protrusions and tiny cracks in the jade, which makes a natural animal shape appear on the jade.

Chen Yi picked up the jade material and touched the protrusions and cracks on it with his hands. Some jade objects imagined based on the jade material kept appearing in his mind.

Gu Lao and others next to him also saw Chen Yi holding this piece of jade material and constantly thinking, as if he was very particular about the jade material. They looked at the jade material, nodded, and frowned again. This piece of jade material cannot be said to be bad, but it is not so easy to carve a perfect jadeware. Compared with other jade materials that do not have particularly prominent characteristics, there are no need to worry about too much when carving.

The length and width of this round material should be about eight centimeters, almost the same size as a No. 5 battery. On such a small jade material, it is very difficult to carve the animal shape on the jade material.

Chen Yi thought about it for a while, but felt that it was indeed difficult to carve this characteristic jade into a perfect jadeware, or that his idea was immature. He shook his head and was about to put the jade into the box, suddenly Yu Guang saw a jade bracelet on the table next to him, which immediately made him think of something, and his eyes lit up.

He put his hand in the box back, looked at the jade in his hand, and kept imagining his enlightenment just now in his mind. The image became more and more perfect, and the smile on his face became more and more deeper.
Chapter completed!