Chapter 1183 The destined person, Hongdou sets out
"Hello, your name is Teacher Xie Heshun. My name is Zhou Chen. I live in Youfeng Xiaoyuan."
Regarding Xie Heshun's resume, there is a special introduction section in the woodcarving workshop, and even the certificate of his state-level intangible cultural heritage is also in the woodcarving workshop.
Xie Heshun said: "Hello, hello, do you want to learn wood carving from me?"
"It's me. I have seen these wood carvings carved by you, Master Xie, and I think they are very good. I will live in Yunmiao Village for a while, so I want to learn some wood carving skills. Master Xie, if you are willing to teach me, I will
You can tell me how much the tuition is, and I won’t have any objections.”
"Listening to your tone, I'm not short of money. Why do you think of learning wood carving? This skill can't be learned by fishing for three days and drying nets for two days. It takes time and energy to learn it. You have
This time and energy?”
Xie Heshun was very skeptical.
Zhou Chen said confidently: "Thank you, Master, please rest assured. If I want to learn something, I will definitely devote myself to it. I am not afraid of hardship or tiredness. As long as you are willing to teach me, I will definitely study hard."
Seeing that Zhou Chen's attitude was very certain and resolute, Xie Heshun's eyes softened a bit.
"You have to know that most of them are machine carvers now, and you can't make much money by learning wood carving."
Zhou Chen smiled and said: "Master Xie, to tell you the truth, I don't learn wood carving to make money, I just want to learn this traditional craft. And I think machine carving is as efficient as organic carving, but human carving is the real traditional skill.
Perhaps in the eyes of many people, artificial wood carving is inefficient and troublesome, but I think this is just because laymen do not understand that every cultural tradition has its own value. I just want to learn this skill, not for others.
It’s just interests and hobbies.”
He is different from ordinary people. Others only have a few decades in their lifetime, but he can travel through various worlds and has a lot of time. Therefore, if he wants to learn a skill, he can have a lot of time to learn and practice. This is also the confidence he has.
These words made Xie Heshun feel very good: "Well said, young man, you said it very well. What is machine carving? How can it be compared with traditional crafts like ours? It's just laymen who don't know the way. You and them
It’s different, you know the goods.”
Zhou Chen struck while the iron was hot: "Thank you, master, can I learn from you?"
Xie Heshun hesitated for a while, and then said: "You can learn, but I have to say it in advance. I am a very strict person. If you can't stand this kind of suffering..."
"Don't worry, Master Xie. I may not have any other advantages, but I still have the spirit of hard work and hard work."
"Okay, I agree that you can learn from me."
"Great, thank you Master, when can we start?"
Xie Heshun looked at Zhou Chen in shock: "Are you so anxious?"
Zhou Chen said with a smile: "Being idle is also idle. One more day of study is one more day."
Xie Heshun nodded with satisfaction: "Very good. Let's not talk about whether you can learn it or not. Your mentality deserves praise. However, learning wood carving is not an easy task. You must first have a foundation and know how to recognize wood.
When choosing wood, you must also know how to use knives. There are many kinds of knives used in wood carving, and you must first learn to distinguish them."
"Since you are interested, come with me now and I will teach you some basics first."
It has been a long time since I met such a studious student as Zhou Chen. Xie Heshun was obviously very happy and interested, so he decided to start teaching Zhou Chen himself.
Xie Xiaoxia watched Xie Heshun lead Zhou Chen into the house, and was a little confused for a moment. Does this Zhou Chen really want to learn?
But even he, who has been studying for several years, wants to give up. How long can Zhou Chen, who comes from the city, persist?
Xie Heshun only taught for a while and was surprised again.
Because when he taught Zhou Chen how to recognize wood, Zhou Chen was actually able to recognize most of it.
"Have you ever learned wood carving before? You know all these woods."
Zhou Chen explained: "That's right, Master, I personally like to collect antiques. Among the antiques, there are many wooden antiques, such as tables, chairs, Buddha statues, etc., so I can recognize these woods."
Xie Heshun was relieved: "So that's it. It seems that you are really talented in this area. Let me teach you how to identify knives. Different woods require different tools and knives. According to the medical treatment, you need to treat the symptoms right.
Used as medicine, look at this knife, it is a flat knife..."
After just teaching for a while, Zhou Chen remembered it. This gave Xie Heshun, a teacher, a sense of accomplishment and he became more serious about teaching.
In the next few days, Xie Xiaoxia and the other apprentices in the wood carving workshop who came to learn skills found that they had fallen out of favor. Now the master didn't care about him at all and taught Zhou Chen every day. In just a few days, the master actually let him
Zhou Chen got started.
Within a few days, Xie Heshun was surprised again and again by Zhou Chen's talent, because he found that Zhou Chen not only had a good memory, he could remember everything he said to him, but also had a very strong understanding ability. Many times, he only needed to say it once.
Zhou Chen can remember it.
Unlike when he taught his disciples before, he had to emphasize it over and over again.
He discovered that Zhou Chen was really a genius. Not only was he smart in mind, he was also excellent at work with his hands. He had strong hands and a steady grip on the knife, and the knife did not shake when carving. He was simply a good child who was born to learn carving.
Xie Heshun was greatly excited by Zhou Chen's genius. He felt that Zhou Chen was likely to inherit his skills, so he taught more seriously.
After he recognized Zhou Chen from the bottom of his heart, he no longer refused the fine wines Zhou Chen gave him. It was only natural for an apprentice to give something to his master.
A few days passed by and Zhou Chen came back from the wood carving workshop and saw a group of people gathered in the small courtyard.
Ma Qiushan, Nana, Xie Xiaochun, Xie Xiaoxia, Xie Zhiyao, Hu Youyu, Damai.
A week has passed, and Zhou Chen has become familiar with several people in the courtyard. Even Damai, who rarely goes out, now knows each other.
"Hey, Zhou Chen, you're back."
When Hu Youyu saw Zhou Chen, he immediately greeted him: "Come here quickly, Mr. Xie will treat you to barbecue and beer today."
"good."
Zhou Chen was not polite and walked over. Nana immediately moved a seat for Zhou Chen. After he sat down, he said thank you.
Xie Zhiyao said with a smile: "Zhou Chen, I heard from Xiaoxia that you have been learning wood carving from Uncle Heshun in the past few days. Why are you interested in wood carving?"
Others also looked at Zhou Chen curiously. They were also surprised when they heard that Zhou Chen went to learn wood carving.
Zhou Chen has lived here for several days, and they all basically know that Zhou Chen should be a relatively wealthy person.
Zhou Chen said: "It's nothing, it's just a hobby. Since I have nothing else to do, I just find something to do. Wood carving is quite interesting."
Hu Youyu shook his head: "I don't understand what's so interesting about carving wood."
Nana retorted angrily: "What do you know? It's just like making music. If you think music is interesting, Zhou Chen can't think wood carving is interesting."
Hu Youyu said depressedly: "I just said it casually, Zhou Chen didn't say anything, why are you blaming me?"
Nana's face turned red and she rolled her eyes: "I just think that learning wood carving is more reliable than doing music."
"Hey, what do you know?"
Hu Youyu was very dissatisfied: "Music is great, music is..."
"Stop, stop, stop."
Xie Xiaochun quickly interrupted Hu Youyu's bragging, raised his glass, and said, "Zhou Chen has just arrived, and it is his first time to attend our party. Let's all toast to him first."
Xie Zhiyao coaxed: "Yes, let's toast Zhou Chen together. In the next few months, everyone will look down and not look up."
"Okay." "Let's drink together."
Mr. Ma raised his teacup: "You guys drink, I'll replace the wine with tea."
"Tch, Mr. Ma, you are too disappointed."
"You all know my habits. I don't eat after lunch, I can't drink wine, and I can't eat barbecue. But I can chat with you, right?"
"Leave him alone, let's drink ours."
We were all young people, eating and drinking together, and we quickly became familiar with each other.
After chatting for a while, Xie Zhiyao suddenly asked Zhou Chen: "Zhou Chen, you have been in our village for a few days. What do you think of our village? Is there anything that needs improvement?"
Zhou Chen put down his beer and asked: "If you ask me how to transform your village into a tourist attraction, I really can't provide you with any advice, but if you ask me how the environment here is, I think it's pretty good."
"Since you think our place is pretty good, have you ever thought about investing in us?"
"Investment? How did you come up with this idea?"
Xie Zhiyao replied generously: "I heard from Mr. Ma that you are also an investor. We are in a period of rapid development here, so I wanted to ask if you are interested."
He already knew that the car Zhou Chen drove was a Range Rover. It was a luxury car worth more than one million yuan, and it was still a new car. From this, he could tell that Zhou Chen must have extraordinary financial resources, so he asked this question. If Zhou Chen
If you are willing to invest, it will definitely be a great investment attraction.
Zhou Chen said: "What I do is different from what you think. Maybe I will be interested in it in the future, but I don't have the idea yet."
Xie Zhiyao was a little disappointed when he heard this, but he was in a good mood and let it go with a haha.
Hu Youyu suddenly asked: "Zhou Chen, we all have our own reasons for coming here. What about you, why did you stay here for a few months?"
"There is indeed a reason for coming here."
Seeing that everyone was staring at him curiously, Zhou Chen did not hide anything and said, "There are several reasons, but the most important thing is to wait for someone."
"Waiting for someone?"
Everyone is more curious
"Yes, waiting for someone, waiting for a destined person."
"ah?"
Everyone was confused, and Hu Youyu couldn't help but ask: "What does it mean to wait for a destined person, a woman?"
Zhou Chen chuckled and said, "That's about it. Before I left, I made a prediction for myself. This trip, I will meet my significant other, so I came."
Everyone looked at each other in shock, and none of them took Zhou Chen's words to heart. They felt that Zhou Chen just said it casually.
Xie Xiaoxia asked: "In that case, brother Zhou Chen, you're not married either?"
Zhou Chen said: "I used to be busy with my career and making money, so how could I have time to fall in love and get married?"
Ma Qiushan agreed very much and said: "Zhou Chen, I understand you. As a man, career comes first, marriage comes second. Only when a man has a career can he be qualified to talk about marriage."
Damai pushed up his glasses and whispered: "I don't think marriage is related to whether you have a career."
When she realized that everyone was looking at her, she immediately waved her hands nervously: "I just said it casually."
Nana said in support: "I think Damai is right. We women don't get married for men's careers. Love is the first condition for marriage."
Xie Xiaochun rolled his eyes: "You guys are all never married. Not only have I been married, I've also been divorced. I have the most say in this regard, okay."
Everyone laughed.
Several people gathered together to eat and drink until almost eleven o'clock, then they dispersed.
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capital!
Xu Hongdou has submitted her resignation letter and the hotel has been approved. In the past few days, she has bought a plane ticket and is preparing to fly to Dian Province. She has booked a room in Youfeng Xiaoyuan, packed her things, and started sending things to Yunmiao Village.
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However, she did not tell her family about her resignation. Instead, she told her parents that she was taking three months off to go to Yunnan Province to rest and relax.
"Nan Xing, what you can't see, I will see for you. I will also record everything I see. I hope you can see it too."
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Today Zhou Chen and Xie Heshun took a leave of absence and went to the racecourse with their things.
Xie Zhiyao was very surprised when he saw Zhou Chen coming to the racecourse.
"Riding again?"
"I'm not here to ride horses. I see you have a nice environment here. I'm here to go out and paint."
"draw?"
Xie Zhiyao looked shocked: "You can also draw?"
"Why can't I draw?" Zhou Chen asked.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean anything else, I was just surprised."
Zhou Chen didn't care. He found a place with no wind, set up the easel, took out the painting tools and paints, observed the surroundings for a while, and then started to prepare.
This time he planned to paint the surrounding environment, not a sketch, but coloring, so the process was much more complicated.
Xie Zhiyao stood not far away and washed the little cutie's body, but his eyes looked towards Zhou Chen from time to time. He was really curious.
He heard from Ma Qiushan that Zhou Chen said that he was engaged in investment and related to stock funds, so he was surprised that Zhou Chen could draw.
After a while, he washed the little cutie clean and saw that Zhou Chen was still painting there, so he took off his apron, wiped his hands, and walked over there.
When he walked behind Zhou Chen, he saw the paintings that had already started to be colored on the drawing board. This sight immediately shocked him.
Because what Zhou Chen painted was their racecourse, even the image of him washing the little cutie's body was included in the painting, and it was very realistic.
"this."
Even a person like him who doesn't know how to draw can see that Zhou Chen draws well.
At this moment, a cell phone rang suddenly, and Xie Zhiyao realized that it was not his cell phone.