Shadow Weaver

Chapter 145 Rebirth from the Fire
"Okay, okay, I will be careful when I cut!"

An Qing nodded repeatedly, and after she finished speaking, she went back to thinking about how to make her small purple clay tea bowl with inscriptions.

At this point, the three of them have found their ultimate goal for the day and have plunged headfirst into endless production experience classes.

Gong Zhou watched the girls' actions from the side, and gave some pointers from time to time - how to use purple clay filling mud, how to first use a wooden knife to position the main body, then rub the mud strips carefully to fill in the shape, and then scrape it off and stick it firmly before using the nourishing mud to continue trimming; how to remove the nourishing mud that accidentally overflowed, and so on.

"Oh, yes, keep your hands steady and pull slowly. If you are too impatient, you might deform the whole cup. Comrade Xiao Xu has a good feel for the free-form plate. Remember to add a bottom and comb the edges. It is not suitable for the kiln if there are so many rough edges!"

"Comrade An Qing's technique of holding the carving knife is very professional. It seems he is a real expert." Gong Zhou squinted his eyes very comfortably, and walked slowly from the south window of the house to the north corner. He picked up a scattered clay piece and fiddled with it, and then he found a ruined purple clay teapot lid left by an apprentice.

So more than two hours passed slowly like this. When Bai Miaomiao finally finished her last petal tea bowl and put down the needle in her hand, dusk had already appeared outside the window.

"Oh, Comrade Xiaobai has finally finished." Seeing Bai Miaomiao put down her tools, Gong Zhou raised his eyebrows, then stepped forward to carefully observe the two teacups that had taken shape at the hands of the girl in Hanfu.

The girl who has studied art and loves handicrafts is indeed much better than ordinary beginners in her craftsmanship. The skills used in making these two cups are no longer basic skills, but the degree of completion achieved by Bai Miaomiao is surprisingly good.

"Okay, okay, okay, Comrade Xiaobai's skills are better than almost 90% of the apprentices in our studio!" Gong Zhou stroked his chin and nodded repeatedly, "When this cup is made, I will immediately take it to show those little bastards who always think they are pretty good, and let them see what it means that there are always people who are better than you!"

"Hehe... let's see if they dare to be complacent again this time."

Gong Zhou shook his head and opened the door while speaking, asking people to take those small tea cups, snack plates and other things into the kiln.

When the apprentice took the small box from Gong Zhou's hand, he was a little surprised - mainly because Bai Miaomiao's pottery making skills did not look like those of a newcomer, and the poems carved by An Qing with his bare hands looked very much like a scholar.

The dessert plate made by Xu Da is the most ordinary in workmanship among the several small items, but this kind of casual and shaped thing naturally has a bit more rustic and ancient charm than the others.

——Are all the game developers so competitive these days?

How come you even have to know how to make purple clay pottery?

The apprentice complained in his heart, then turned around and sent all the little things to the back to be burned.

Gong Zhou, who had just sent the apprentice away, smiled and turned his head: "Are you guys hungry now?"

"If you're hungry, why don't we go out and find something delicious to eat?"

"Uh." The three of them were stunned when they heard this and looked at each other subconsciously.

——Thinking back to the fear of being overwhelmed by the sweetness of Xibang dishes last night, they actually didn’t want to go out to eat with Gong Zhou at this time.

But since the elders asked them to do so, they were too embarrassed to refuse directly, so they stared at each other and struggled for a while, and finally came up with Xu Dasheng, who was relatively the most nervous and seemed to be the most familiar with Gong Zhou. "Hey, um, Senior Gong Zhou..." The little girl smiled and bared her white teeth at Gong Zhou, "You can have dinner."

"But can we not have tin dishes tonight?"

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Later, Xu Yichi and his friends did not go to eat Xibang cuisine again.

Without the sweet torture of "most people except locals are not used to eating it", Xu Dazao felt that he became more lively and cheerful.

After returning to the hotel at night, the three girls were not in a hurry to wash up and go to bed - they had taken a tour of Gong Zhou's studio during the day, and they felt that they had really benefited a lot. It was also the middle of the night - the time when their inspiration was most active.

"We can change some of our previous settings now, and the personal settings, background boards and so on can also be changed accordingly." Xu Yichi, holding two stacks of first drafts, was in a hurry, flying from one corner of the suite to another like a butterfly.

Since she saw Gong Zhou's teapot making process with her own eyes today, a lot of new ideas came to her mind.

At this moment, she felt that her previous understanding of the "Zisha" culture was too superficial... There were obviously many more things that could be made, but the ones she had chosen before seemed to be the most common ones.

"Ceramics are the art of earth and fire, the rebirth of soil in the fire... Zisha pottery, as a branch of your country's ceramic art, also has this characteristic, and it is more gentle and restrained than ordinary ceramics, which coincides with the character background of the two main characters set in our game plot."

Xu Yichi gestured gently as he spoke.

"We can add some elements similar to 'rebirth from the ashes' to the plot setting. Of course, this 'rebirth from the ashes' does not necessarily refer to the body, but more to the second awakening of the character's consciousness and thoughts."

"A girl who is still in the village is innocent. She may be ignorant and confused when she is just brought out of the mountain village... But this ignorance and confusion will gradually disappear as she continues to read and accumulate knowledge. Even if she is a flower girl sold to Shanghai, all her knowledge is just a small seasoning to add color to her "commodity" in the eyes of outsiders. She can still gain the power that makes her soul tremble from knowledge and words."

"So she was shocked, awakened, struggled in hardship, and then was crushed by reality and fell back into the abyss of confusion. She was not understood, and was laughed at as 'foolish' and 'fantastic', until one day she suddenly woke up from the drunkenness and debauchery. At that moment, at that moment, she finally smelled the sobriety and bloodiness hidden in her bones in the smoke of gunpowder, and she heard the screams and roars from the depths of her soul——"

"She awakened just like that, as a weak and insignificant girl from the flower world who was looked down upon by others."

"But, so what even if others look down on us?" Xu Yichi seemed to have completely put himself in the girl's perspective.

"Her origin can be humble, her body can be coveted and despised."

"But her soul is already free, and her spirit has transcended countless realms—"

"This is her 'rebirth from the ashes'."

Xiao Xu you...

I am almost in tears writing this!!!