1986: Old Stories in Northeast China

"Brother Chen, I am confident that I can raise about one million in funds."

Seeing that Chen Tiezhu didn't say anything, Zhou Fengxia raised the stakes.

"If you don't have funds, even if you come with me and give me some advice, I can give you 20% of the profits in the future."

"If you can come up with funds, we can do this together and increase the amount according to the proportion. Do you think this will work?"

"Don't try to fool me first, there are really a lot of things to do here." Chen Tiezhu stuffed the remaining fried dough sticks into his mouth.

"Let's talk about this later. I always advise others that money can move people's hearts and people will die for money. But when it comes to me, I can't get over this hurdle."

"Put it aside for a while, and prepare more materials over there. Then if I'm done with things here at home, and there's a public auction over there, it will be easy for us to go abroad, and I'll play with you."

"Hahahaha, thank you, Brother Chen." Zhou Fengxia was overjoyed.

Chen Tiezhu shook his head helplessly, "But I'm telling you the truth now, I play with stones based on my feelings. In fact, I don't understand anything, you have to know it in your heart."

"Yeah. Have you finished eating? Let's go to Mr. Qi and then go back to my house? If you go home tomorrow, I will drive you back personally." Zhou Fengxia said happily.

Chen Tiezhu was helpless. The idea that had already been extinguished was aroused by this kid again.

It was still the same two bags, one for money and the other for raw stones. After getting in Zhou Fengxia's car, they went directly to Mr. Qi's house.

The same small courtyard looked antique. This one has a history, unlike the one with a back cover like the one in Zhou Fengxia's house, which has real traces of time.

"Mr. Qi, this is the owner of the two pieces of material, Chen Tiezhu." Zhou Fengxia introduced.

"Hello, Mr. Qi, I really trouble you this time." Chen Tiezhu hurriedly greeted.

"You are really lucky, did you bring that piece of material?" Old Qi asked hurriedly.

Chen Tiezhu did not hesitate, took out the raw material from his pocket and put it directly on the table next to him.

"It's amazing, it's just a little rough." Old Qi said with emotion, and then ignored Chen Tiezhu and Zhou Fengxia.

Chen Tiezhu didn't care about Old Qi's attitude, because he knew what it meant to be happy to see the prey. Just took this opportunity to take a closer look.

He looked to be in his sixties, his face looked ruddy, but his hands were very rough. This is the hand of a craftsman. After so many years of art, how could there be no scratches.

He was in good spirits, and the material was not light. Old Qi also picked it up safely and examined it carefully.

"What a pity, what a pity, who processed this material, why is it so rough?"

After looking for a while, Old Qi asked with his eyes wide open.

Chen Tiezhu raised his hand weakly, "I just wanted to see what was inside, and then I used a file to file it."

"Hey..., why did you file it? Such good material gathers the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Such beautiful material, you almost ruined it." Old Qi sighed.

"Such material does not need too much polishing at all, too much is as bad as too little. Heaven and earth have already given it the most beautiful face, you just need to let the world glimpse its inner beauty."

"Why did you clean this window so big? Do you have to see how much material is inside? Why are you thinking about cutting it out?"

"Old Qi, do you think there is still a chance to save it?" Chen Tiezhu asked guiltily.

"Yes, there is, but there will always be some regrets." Old Qi said after taking a closer look.

"Now we have to make this window bigger, just like your original idea to make the material inside as big as possible."

After saying that, Mr. Qi put the raw material on the table again.

"Mr. Qi, I'm curious, why are all the wood carvings on your shelf? Are they your practice works?" Chen Tiezhu asked.

Mr. Qi smiled and shook his head, "These wood carvings, I carved one every time I made a breakthrough when I was learning. This is also a boring job, and young people nowadays don't have so much patience."

"Grandpa, then can you make An Dahan and Gou Shengzi?" Doudou asked curiously.

Listening to Doudou's words, Mr. Qi was a little confused.

"Well, they are the small animals I raise at home." Chen Tiezhu hurriedly explained.

"Hahahaha, if I see what they look like, I can still carve them. But now I can't, I don't even know what they look like." Mr. Qi said with a smile.

Chen Tiezhu reached into his bosom and took out the photo of Doudou being bullied by the geese.

DoudouThe child didn't care about being shy anymore, snatched it from his hand, and ran directly to Mr. Qi, "Grandpa, this is Gou Shengzi, and this is Xiao Mi Hu Dan, they are both long-necked geese."

"Now they are also good friends with Doudou, they don't bully Doudou anymore, and Doudou is not afraid of them. They also let Doudou touch their long necks, and try hard to learn to lay eggs and not eat meat."

The introduction of the identity was not said much, but there were a lot of explanations afterwards.

The anxious look of the little guy made Mr. Qi happy. Especially the pitiful look of Doudou surrounded by geese in the photo, which was really funny.

He put the photo aside, took out a small piece of wood from the table, picked up the knife and started carving.

Chen Tiezhu looked at Zhou Fengxia proudly, this is how powerful our eldest daughter is.

Then he ignored Zhou Fengxia and looked at Mr. Qi's carving seriously.

It should be said that although he doesn't know anything about carving now, looking at the movements of Mr. Qi, it is a smooth process.

I only saw the sawdust falling down after the blade passed, it was so fast. It seems that if I take a glance occasionally, I can grasp it.

"Eh? Dad, Dad, puppy leftover."

It took about ten minutes, Doudou looked at the carved dog head with stars in his eyes.

"Hey..., Mr. Qi's craftsmanship is really amazing." Chen Tiezhu sighed.

"It's nothing, I just do a lot of such work." Mr. Qi said indifferently.

"Grandpa, do you have any other knives, let me try it too? Looking at your craftsmanship, I am really jealous." Chen Tiezhu said.

Mr. Qi glanced at him and shook his head helplessly, "Play if you want to, just don't cut your hands."

I really have some opinions about Chen Tiezhu in my heart, why is he so impatient?

People who play with stones are usually very stable.

Chen Tiezhu didn't care about that. Today, he was also excited to see the prey.

He picked up another knife from the side, and didn't care what model it was. He sat on the side and carved seriously.

"Little friend, this dog is carved for you. It's still a little rough, so you have to use sandpaper to polish it slowly."

Old Qi said with a smile.

"Thank you, grandpa, it looks like a dog." Doudou took it and thanked him happily.

"Young man, carving can't just rely on brute force. There are so many knives, each with its own use. You carved..."

Old Qi glanced at Chen Tiezhu, who made his way in the world with a carving knife. Just as he opened his mouth to introduce it, he looked at the wood in his hand and was stunned.

And Chen Tiezhu didn't seem to hear what Old Qi said, and he was still carving on his own.

Instead, Zhou Fengxia next to him was very nervous. This was a bit of a neglect of Old Qi.

But just when he was about to speak, he was glared at by Old Qi.