The artist pulls out a weeping willow tree

Chapter 3: Lucky · Craftsman · Lucky

Old Man Ji did not allow for refusal and said, "Except for the 500 star coins for your purchase, you will have to pay for all other personal consumption and expenses yourself. Although you are still young, I don't think you can only rely on me for support."

Jixiang blinked, feeling that everything was settled. As she said, there is no such thing as pie falling from the sky!

But I still couldn't help but feel inexplicably sad and angry. Old man Ji was unwilling to maintain even the false family affection. But how could she make money? Chinese painting?

"My job requires an assistant. You can learn from me. You can get a certain commission from the transaction. If you can make it independently and the replica is qualified, I can help you contact the buyer. I will only charge a fixed agency fee." Old Man Ji shamelessly made a big promise. "Of course, it depends on your talent. However, if your Chinese paintings can open up the market, I believe you will earn income faster."

"Okay." Jixiang agreed. Thinking of the statue, as an adult, Jixiang didn't think there was a problem. She also had some experience, so she decided to focus on both craftsmanship and Chinese painting first.

Jixiang thought for a moment and added, "I want some animal tail hair to make pens, and I need to find the right ink."

Old man Ji nodded and said, "I'll take you to see the ink first."

Jixiang spent half a day and finally found a suitable substitute from the many categories of ink in StarCraft. The Beimao Market is indeed a treasure trove.

Jixiang also found several types of animal tail hair here. Although Jixiang didn't know these animals very well, based on the feel and experience, he knew that they could replace the original animal tail hair.

Old Man Ji has no shortage of paper, so the next step is to make brushes.

After returning to the courtyard, Jixiang found some handy tools in the wood waste after obtaining the consent of Old Man Ji.

First, deal with the raw materials. After all, they are unfamiliar interstellar animals, so Jixiang divides the raw materials into several portions with different proportions.

After processing the raw materials, the pen tips will be made. Jixiang has no experience in making pen tips, so he can only ask Old Man Ji to help carve a wooden pen tip.

I also asked Old Man Ji to help me with the pen holder, and I also begged him to engrave the word "Jixiang" on it. Unexpectedly, Old Man Ji was very interested in Chinese characters and was fooled by Jixiang's pretending to be stupid.

It is not difficult to make a rough brush. Jixiang is considered an experienced hand. The shaping glue was found from the rich interstellar glue reservoir of old man Ji, which can be said to be an interstellar substitute.

While waiting for the brush to dry naturally, Jixiang began to learn from Old Man Ji.

Jixiang thought that Old Man Ji only made replicas of wooden products, but he didn't expect that Old Man Ji could also make stone carvings, metal carvings, bone carvings and other types of carvings. What Jixiang couldn't understand the most was that the old man was also a blacksmith.

To be more precise, it should be said that it is manual metal smelting and production. The moment old man Ji opened the smelting room, Jixiang rejected it in her heart. She was just a painter with a pen, not a blacksmith with a hammer.

However, the protest was ineffective, and Jixiang was forced to learn the traditional interstellar manual metal smelting and production, which Jixiang affectionately called interstellar blacksmithing.

Because the properties and melting points of commonly used interstellar metals are different, in order to make iron, Old Man Ji gave Jixiang a large book "The Encyclopedia of Interstellar Metals" and asked him to memorize the entire book.

Ji·Interstellar Illiterate·Xiang urgently started taking elementary online classes and became a glorious interstellar elementary school student.

So at this stage, Jixiang is working hard to learn the art of interstellar wood carving.

At the same time, in order to better cultivate Jixiang, Old Man Ji, who mainly trained Jixiang's blacksmithing skills, consulted a doctor and started a plan to raise Jixiang.

I didn't notice any difference, except that I increased my daily intake of nutrient solution from two to three bottles: ...

Old Man Ji said, "The hospital's examination results show that your problem is not serious, which means you are not as weak as you think. You just need to increase your nutrition appropriately."

In an attempt to show weakness to the enemy and stay away from the blacksmith, Ji·Painter·Xiang seemed to have to pick up the hammer.

Jixiang is constantly sluggish and occasionally discouraged, but he is extremely talented.

Old Man Ji found that Jixiang was very spiritual. Specifically, Jixiang was very good at expressing the charm of the object and his grasp of lines was also very precise, especially for the reproduction of civilizations related to Buddhist statues.

Old man Ji, who drew the pie by accident, said: It seems that I can collect the debt soon.

In old man Ji's mind, Jixiang was upgraded from a small farmhand who could only help out to a small farmhand with talent who could become an apprentice as soon as possible.

I thought that old man Ji had a keen eye and discovered Jixiang's hidden talent: ...

Old Man Ji speculated that Jixiang's so-called Chinese paintings had a deep connection with this civilization, because the personal characteristics displayed by Jixiang were so mature and obvious.

After a few days of hard life as a craftsman, the auspicious brush finally dried in the shade!

Ji Painter Xiang suddenly became energetic.

The interstellar brushes are freshly produced, and Jixiang, who is suffering physically and mentally, feels that he needs a sense of ritual to comfort his fragile self.

So Jixiang decided to draw Guan Gong first!

Doing business is a traditional art of the Chinese people, and we must be superstitious when it is necessary!