Chapter 1013: Peerless Carving (Medium)
Yang Huairen looked at Yelu Chara's works and felt that his craftsmanship was also good, but it was only good, and there was still a long way to go from being superior.
Because the radish he chose was a red heart radish, the wolf head carved out of the whole was dark pink, and the wolf head of this color may seem very mysterious.
But from the perspective of modeling, Yeluchara's treatment is still a bit too simple, a wolf's head, pricking up his ears to stare ahead, it seems that he wants to show the mystery of the wolf, but in terms of actual effect, the wolf's whole expression seems a bit rigid.
Originally, he was already very delicate in dealing with the facial features of the wolf's head, such as the wolf's ears, nose, mouth and eyes, he grasped the details, it can be said that his handling techniques are also very skillful, and it can be seen that he usually practices quite hard.
It's just that in dozens and hundreds of repeated exercises, his treatment of the details of the wolf's facial features has become a bit stylized, and the carving seems to be very skillful, but it is actually a habit of technique, which leads to the appearance of the wolf being carved out in the end, which always gives people a sense of stiffness.
One of the more important reasons is that Jerry Chara chose to use turnips to express his deep carving technique, but some of them seem too deliberate and miss an important point.
None of the radishes in this season are fresh, but they were stored in the autumn and winter of last year, and although they do not look like they have changed in appearance, they have lost some moisture after several months of storage.
It may not be obvious on the surface, but the inside of the radish seems too dry, and there is not enough water to support the vividness of the facial features of the wolf's head under the meticulous carving of Yeluchara, which makes it look like a wolf, but it lacks a little spirituality.
The Khitan nobles who sat upstairs watching the battle didn't understand this, and they couldn't really see it from afar, but because they saw that the work handed over by one of their Khitan chefs looked pretty good, they began to nod approvingly at Yelu Chara.
Yang Huairen glanced at them, and then at Yelu Chara, but he was a little disdainful, as a contestant, he didn't want to comment too much on the details of his opponent's work, but smiled and said to Yelu Chara, "Not bad, your carving does have a certain level, this work ...... It's also a bit like a wolf's head. ”
At first glance, this sounded like a compliment, but Yeluchara was not a fool, and immediately became angry when he heard it, "What did you say? Resemble?! ”
"Well," Yang Huairen shrugged his shoulders and said lightly, "Yes, you heard it right." ”
Yang Huairen's language is very clever, such as praise and encouragement, or sarcasm or squeeze, such as saying "what you paint seems to be" and "what do you paint like", it doesn't sound like a big difference, but when you think about it carefully, there is a world of difference.
If Yang Huairen uses such words to praise an apprentice, it is a praise in Fazi's heart, but for a person who is conceited and should be a kitchen god, this is a great humiliation.
It's like complimenting someone with "You're as smart as a human", saying to a pet is a compliment, and saying to a person is a curse.
When many viewers who are not familiar with the mysteries of the Chinese language still think that even Yang Huairen is praising Yelu Chara's works, Yelu Chara's heart is already about to go crazy.
Like, it's just not, there is still a big gap from the appearance of the real wolf's head, that is, Yang Huairen is saying in disguise that the wolf head carved by Yelu Chara is nothing more than that.
Without waiting for Yeluchara to make a move, Yang Huairen also walked in front of a pair of vegetables, carried Yelucha behind his back and said with a smile, "Since you chose a radish, then I will also choose a radish." ”
After that, Yang Huairen glanced at the pile of radishes casually, and grabbed a radish a little casually, but it was not a red heart radish, but a white radish with green skin and white heart.
This is not the point, the point is that Yang Huairen chose a white radish with a lot of black spots on the skin that is starting to rot.
The audience can't understand it now, since it is a test carving, it is natural to use the most perfect radish as the material, but what does Yang Huairen mean by deliberately choosing such an inconspicuous and rotten bad radish?
Yelu Chara saw it clearly, it seemed that Yang Huairen deliberately chose a bad radish, indicating that the work he carved out of a rotten radish was better than the work carved out of Yelu Chara's carefully selected radish, which was a disguised contempt for him.
"You?!" Jerichar was a little speechless.
"What's wrong with me?"
Yang Huairen smiled, "I...... As you guessed, it's deliberate! ”
Jerichar felt as if his heart was being held in his hand and pinched at random, and the pain made him tingle from the soles of his feet to his scalp.
He didn't suffer as much in his life as he is today, but he was helpless, what materials people are willing to choose, do you care? It's deliberately humiliating you in this way, what can you do? Could it be that Yang Huairen was forced to choose a perfect radish?
Yang Huairen smiled easily at Yelu Chara, who was ruined and seemed to be so angry that his soul was out of his body, so he ignored him and concentrated on observing his radish.
Yang Huairen, like Yelu Chara just now, first observed the radish after cleaning on his hands, and the black spots on the skin did look a little unsightly, but he didn't care, took the whole set of knives handed over by the apprentice, and began to process the radish.
The moment Yelu Chara saw Yang Huairen take out the knife, he felt a shock in his heart that he had never felt before.
In the kitchen, each chef has his own preferences, the most common is the kitchen knife, of course, there will be a few other special-purpose knives, such as carving knives and trowels, etc., but the total amount is only five or six.
But as soon as Yang Huairen's knife bag was opened, Yelu Chara was shocked on the outside and tender on the inside, and he scolded in his heart. Yang Huairen actually has more than 30 knives?!
The knives in the knife bag were neatly stacked, arranged in order from largest to smallest, and many of the knives were of a style that even Yeluchara had never seen, and he couldn't figure out what they did.
Seeing the lively crowd was also amazed, and the heart was eye-opening, but some people were not convinced, shouting loudly, "What's the use of more knives and how novel they are?" Isn't the key to good craftsmanship? ”
Yelu Chara could only comfort himself with this sentence in his heart, imagining that Yang Huairen might just be a showman, putting so many strange and diverse knives out, just to scare people, carving a radish, it is impossible to use so many knives.
Yang Huairen's expression was relaxed, and he didn't care what others said, his fingers swiped over the neatly arranged knives, and he chose one......