Jin Yutong

Chapter 183 The competition ends

When Professor Xie announced that the time was up, it also meant that the competition was officially over. After the appraisal and scoring by the experts, Chen Ran won the gold medal of the Peony Cup with an undisputed high score. In addition to the title of "Provincial Jade Carver Champion", he also received a cash reward of 20 yuan and a certificate of a third-level jade carver.

In this competition, Chen Ran used the eight-knife split-wave carving method that has been lost for thousands of years, which can be said to be a big show. The news of the reappearance of the split-wave carving method will definitely spread throughout the country. By that time, how much uproar it will cause in the entire jade carving world is unknown, but it is certain that the sensation will definitely not be small.

Except for Chen Ran, the other contestants also perform exceptionally well, and the carved works are also excellent. If there is no such a dark horse as Chen Ran, each of them must be able to compete in this competition. It's a pity that CUHK shined brilliantly, but with Chen Ran around, their limelight was suppressed.

However, compared to the benefits they got, the disadvantage of this point is insignificant. As for the benefits, you can imagine it. Chen Ran's eight-knife split-wave carving method, which has been lost for thousands of years, will definitely attract the attention of the whole world. The eyes of the jade carving world are paying attention to this competition, so, by the way, they will naturally follow suit.

Ranked No.2 is Li Baoping. Li Baoping won unanimous praise from experts for his piece of "Farm House", and won the title of "No. [-] in the Jade Carving World of Central Plains Province".

No.3 "Tanhua" was obtained by Lu Tianming and Ma Jian at the same time. If only talking about jade works, Ah Han should be ranked third, but Ah Han's theoretical knowledge score is too low. As for No.4, it missed the top three places in the competition, but in a competition like this, the most important thing is the jade work, and anyone with a discerning eye can see it.

In addition to the top three, the "Best Creative Award" was won by Jiang Xiaotong for a jade work named after "Waiting".

Although the rest of the contestants missed the top three, it is considered pretty good that they have reached this point. Of course, nothing is perfect in this world. After the results come out, some people will be happy and some will be disappointed, that's for sure.

After the results of the competition were announced, it was time to auction the contestants' jade works. Li Baoping's "Farm House" was auctioned to 92 yuan.

Relatively speaking, the price of 92 yuan is sky-high. After all, the material Li Baoping chose is only worth 10,000+ yuan, so there is still nearly 80 yuan after excluding the cost. It is conceivable that Li Baoping carved this work. The manual fee, of course, must be a bit of a gimmick, after all, this is in a competition, but in the future, this price will be almost equal to his net worth.

Ma Jian's "Dragon Hook" was photographed for 78 yuan, and Lu Tianming's "Water Lotus" was photographed for 96 yuan. The price of Lu Tianming's work was so high at auction, because the material he chose was of high value. High, but not much higher. After all, all the jade materials present are worth less than 25 yuan. From this, anyone with a discerning eye can see that there is something tricky in it. The Lu family is shameless. Naturally, no one would say anything, they just laughed in their hearts.

The auction of Ah Han's "A Tiger with Wings" is also good, the competition is fierce, his sculpture is quite domineering, and it is very popular with real men. It was finally sold at a price of 90 yuan, which is only ranked No.1 by Li Baoping's work It's only twenty thousand.

If the auction effect of Ah Han's works is good, then the auction effect of Chen Ran's "Mountains and Rivers of the Motherland" is a bit weird.

After Professor Xie announced the auction, there was no fierce competition as expected. Instead, there was a moment of silence. No one bid. Of course, it was obviously not because Chen Ran's carvings were not good, so no one was willing to buy.Whether anyone is willing to buy it or not, you can tell by looking at the wolf-like eyes of the crowd around you. It’s not that no one buys it, but everyone wants to buy it, but no one wants to be the first to show up.

Seeing this situation, Shi Shucheng smiled, and immediately made a decision. He said directly, since you don't want to buy it, then I will buy it at a price of 160 million on behalf of the Jade Carving School, so that's it.

Hearing what he said, everyone in the audience was a little dumbfounded. After they realized it, they were not dumbfounded, but red-eyed. They shouted one after another, and for a while, the whole audience became a mess.

Shi Shucheng held the microphone and yelled several times before quieting the audience. He said again that he bought this work to be exhibited in the Yuyuan Building of the Jade Carving School for all jade carving lovers in the province. Anyone can watch it at any time. Of course, the final result depends on Chen Ran's intentions.

When he said this, Chen Ran immediately became the focus of the audience, and after he said this, Chen Ran would naturally not refuse, although if it were to be auctioned, it might be auctioned for a higher price, but now Chen Ran doesn't want to Besides, putting "Mountains and Rivers of the Motherland" on display in Yuyuan Building can also divert attention to a certain extent. Therefore, Chen Ran agreed without any hesitation, and Shi Shucheng was so happy that he couldn't close it immediately. mouth, the favor towards Chen Ran also increased greatly.

Chen Ran agreed, and the others could only secretly regret that they hadn't taken the lead, which made Shi Shu successful, but they had no choice but to set their sights on Chen Ran.

In the end, Chen Ran's "Mountains and Rivers of the Motherland" was transferred to the Jade Carving School at a sky-high price of 160 million. Of course, the money will not reach Chen Ran's hands yet, and it will not be until ten days after the competition ends.

After auctioning off all the contestants' works, Professor Xie didn't delay everyone's meal time any longer, said a few words on the scene, and directly announced the end of the competition.

Originally at noon, the judges and the top ten contestants should have dinner together, but Chen Ran directly refused, and went out of the Sui and Tang Dynasties together with Guo Hai, Yang Long and Zhu Feng. Of course, when they came out, those Needless to say, the enthusiasm of the audience, thanks to Zhu Feng's bodyguards clearing the way, Chen Ran was able to kill him.

By the time we got out of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it was already past one o'clock in the afternoon. Chen Ran was already hungry, so he was going to have lunch next. He won a bonus of 20 yuan. Although he hadn't exchanged it yet, it was already a real RMB. Well, this lunch, needless to say, has to be treated by Chen Ran.

I ate at the Zhou Dynasty Restaurant where Chen Ran lived. After all, this place is relatively close, and I didn’t bother to go to other places. After the dishes came, Chen Ran immediately started eating regardless of other people. It took a few ten minutes to carve jade, but just these ten minutes exhausted his physical strength, and he was already too hungry.

"I said you don't eat, why are you looking at me?"

After Hai took a breath, Chen Ran raised his head and found that no one else had moved their chopsticks. They were all staring at him in a daze, and couldn't help but ask strangely.

"Xiao Ran, if I didn't know you better, I really thought you were a different person." Guo Hai, who had never won an award since he was a child, flipped through Chen Ran's award certificate, holding back for a long time Only then did he hold back such a question with a smirk, which immediately caused Chen Ran to give him an annoyed look.

"Wood, you are amazing. How come I didn't realize when you were so good at carving jade. I have seen you carving jade before. The domineering wave you learned is really awesome. Look at that time That scene, everyone was stupid, haha..."

When Yang Long first learned about Chen Ran's carving of jade, he was also very curious, and even watched a special scene of Chen Ran's carving of jade, but for him, it was really boring, so he stopped watching it later, but although he He didn't know about carving jade, but he also knew that Chen Ran was only the lowest in the jade carving industry, but he never expected that Chen Ran would be so powerful, he directly shocked the audience, and it could be said that he was also stunned at that time.

"Brother Chen, I am convinced of you now."

Zhu Feng also smiled and raised his big mother's finger towards Chen Ran. Now he dare not underestimate Chen Ran at all. Yu, of course it can't be said that Chen Ran's luck is good, this is due to real skills.

When he was bidding for Chen Ran's sculptures, he actually made up his mind to take the "Mountains and Rivers of the Motherland" carved by Chen Ran, although he could have asked Chen Ran to carve another one for him afterwards. But obviously, the meaning of this "Mountains and Rivers of the Motherland" is different. At this moment, he has decided that he must make good friends with Chen Ran. Although Chen Ran may not be able to bring him anything, there is such a It's also a lot of face for friends, isn't it?

After talking and joking for a while, Guo Hai and the others didn't say no to eating. In fact, they were also very hungry. After eating and drinking, Zhu Feng asked Chen Ran what his next itinerary was.

Chen Ran's next itinerary is actually very simple, that is to find a place to sleep.

At this moment, don't look at him in high spirits, in fact, he has been holding on all the time, ready to find a place to sleep after eating, but he must have slept for an unknown amount of time, and he can't let others wait. In the end, it was decided to let Guo Hai drive back to Tianzhong, and he slept directly in the car. As for Yang Long, he followed them to Tianzhong City first, and then returned to Zhongdu with Chen Ran.

Of course, before leaving, Chen Ran first bought another mobile phone and applied for a new card. As for the previous mobile phone, he had to turn it off, and he was not going to turn it on for a short time.

It may be that he was too tired. Before the car got out of Huadu, Chen Ran fell into a coma, and after he fell asleep ignorantly, his soul seemed to have entered the white color again. In the space, and the moment his soul entered the white space, there was an energy aperture that instantly turned into thousands of light spots and merged into his body... The scene was exactly the same as when he slept last night. Inside his body, his body that was a little sore and numb suddenly became comfortable, as if on a hot day, after basking in the sun for a while, and then suddenly took a cold bath, his whole body was indescribably comfortable.

Although Chen Ran was very sleepy and tired, in fact he didn't sleep for a long time. He just woke up after sleeping for about an hour. Cool.

This made him a little surprised. He couldn't help thinking of the feeling in his sleep, and then he thought of the feeling he had when he slept last night. He didn't care about the feeling of sleeping last night. He just thought that he slept better last night. Now this feeling appeared again, which immediately caught his attention.

Thinking of the scene that appeared in the dream, he couldn't help checking the energy light circle in his mind.