When Ethan Lee got home, he saw those bamboo carvings.
"Ethan! Are these all your works?" Ethan Lee said to Ethan in great surprise.
It was incredible! Those bamboo carvings were so exquisitely beautiful that one couldn't take their eyes off them. Every line seemed to be flowing with vivid vitality, and the patterns were so lifelike as if they would jump out of the bamboo boards at any time.
"Dad! Take these things to the Divine Seat tomorrow and see if you can sell them at a good price!"
"Okay!"
In the afternoon.
"David! Where are you? Buddy, I'm rich now. Let me treat you to a meal!" Ethan said on the phone.
"Rich? How did you get rich? You can get rich? Be honest. Are you so debt - ridden that you were forced to become a male prostitute?"
"You are the one who should be a male prostitute!"
"Are you free? If you are, come out and have some barbecue!"
"I'm afraid not today! I have something to do!"
"All right! Then let's do it another day!"
"I'll pay you back the money I owe you first!" Ethan said.
"I don't need it urgently. Keep it and spend it." David said.
"I have money. I'm not short of money anymore! And I will never be short of money in the future!" Ethan said.
The total amount was more than ten thousand yuan. After Ethan paid David five hundred yuan, he still had more than nine thousand yuan left.
Ethan gave the money to Ethan Lee, but Ethan Lee didn't take it.
"You are grown - up now. Keep this money first. See if there is anything you need to buy. Buy it yourself. Didn't you say you wanted to buy a mobile phone?"
"No need. My current mobile phone works fine." Ethan said.
Then, Ethan looked at Ethan Lee's legs. After so many years, the tissues inside had already necrotized. Ethan knew clearly in his heart that with his current ability, there was no possibility of curing it at all.
"There will surely be a way in the future!" Ethan murmured silently in his heart. Recently, after experiencing so many things, Ethan had become much more mentally tough, and his expectation for his own ability had also become stronger.
"Dad, haven't you ever thought about standing up?"
"Standing up?" Ethan Lee was stunned for a moment.
Then he said calmly, "I've long given up on that. There is no hope at all. My biggest wish now is to see you get married and have children. Then my life's task will be considered completed."
"Get married and have children? Dad! You are too impatient. It's still a long way off for me."
The next day, at Hope Ridge, Divine Seat.
"Oh, Ethan Lee, did you work overtime last night? You actually made so many? Can you sell them all?" Kevin Zhang said.
"Humph! Some junk. Usually, you can't sell a few pieces. Now, you've made so many all of a sudden. It would be strange if you could sell them all!" David Li curled his lips and said.
Since Ethan Lee rejected his suggestion, David Li seemed to have become an enemy of Ethan Lee and didn't show him any good looks.
"Well, these things seem to be of a higher level than your previous craftsmanship! This bamboo carving looks... beautiful! Where did you get them?" Someone beside him looked at Ethan Lee's bamboo carvings in surprise and asked.
As he said this, the others also noticed this point and all looked over here. After seeing the exquisite patterns on them, they couldn't help but praise them repeatedly.
"These things are really pleasing to the eye. How much did you pay for the goods? Sell me one at the original price!" Kevin Zhang beside him said.
He was holding a pattern of fish swimming in a bamboo forest, with the words "surplus every year" written on it. The fish seemed to be swimming merrily in the bamboo forest on the bamboo board, with a very good implication.
"If you like it, I'll give it to you directly! It's not a precious thing!" Ethan Lee said.
"Then I won't be polite." Kevin Zhang smiled and put it away.
Then, several people also each took a piece from Ethan Lee. After taking them, they were all very careful, as if they were holding rare treasures in their hands. Good things are like this. People are always afraid of breaking them, which was completely different from their attitudes when Ethan Lee gave them those bamboo carvings before.
"Humph! What's so great? It's just a broken bamboo board. I wouldn't even take it if it was given to me for free! And you made so many. I think you won't be able to sell a single piece. Just wait for them to be left in your hands." David Li cursed Ethan Lee.
Ethan Lee didn't pay any attention to him and still had a smiling face. Seeing them praise his son, in his heart, he was happier than being praised himself.
Today, the weather was good. Soon, some people climbed up the mountain.
"This bamboo carving is good! Look at how naughty and clever this monkey is carved." A girl said to a boy.
Then, she looked at Ethan Lee again and asked, "Boss, how much is this?"
"... " Hearing this, Ethan Lee was really stunned. He didn't even know how to quote a price. The cost of this bamboo board was three yuan. Usually, for the things he carved on it, if someone bought them, it would be five yuan each. Now, what Ethan carved was obviously much better than what he carved.
Ethan Lee held out an eight with his finger, but he was afraid that his asking price was too high and would scare the customer away, so he didn't dare to say a word nervously.
"Eighty?"
This voice scared Ethan Lee at once. He meant eight yuan! He wanted to correct himself, but the girl continued, "It's so beautiful and vivid. It's really worth eighty yuan. Even, it's more delicate than the five - hundred - yuan - a - piece ones my classmate bought at the Trade Center!"
Then, the girl directly took out eighty yuan and handed it to Ethan Lee. Then, she looked at it for a while longer.
"Hey! This piece is also okay. Boss, I want both pieces. Give me a discount! One hundred and fifty yuan!" The girl said.
"... Um! Ah! Hmm... " Ethan Lee was completely stunned. Originally, he wanted eight yuan each, but before he could quote the price, the customer directly raised the price to eighty yuan...
"Uncle, if you don't say anything, I'll take it as you've agreed. Hehe... " As she said this, she quickly took out the money and put it with Ethan Lee, as if she was afraid that the deal would be revoked after getting a small bargain, and then quickly left.
After the two left, Ethan Lee was stunned. David Li and Kevin Zhang beside him were also dumbfounded! It wasn't that they didn't know the great value of bamboo carvings, but those were the works of masters. For them, if someone was willing to offer more than ten yuan for their works, it was already a sky - high price and they would be very satisfied.
"Blind! They must be blind! They even said it was well - carved! They really have no appreciation ability at all!"
David Li said angrily beside him. Obviously, the situation of a good start made him very angry.
"Who did you ask to carve these things for you?" Kevin Zhang, on the other hand, had another thought.
"If that person still has goods, I can also buy some goods from him."
He had already seen the business opportunity in it.
"Hehe... I'm afraid you can't buy any." Ethan Lee said.
"You old guy, are you being mysterious? Are you afraid that I'll steal your business?" Kevin Zhang deliberately put on a serious face and said.
Seeing that Kevin Zhang was a little unhappy, Ethan Lee smiled and said, "It was carved by my Ethan. He specially made them for me to sell."
On Ethan Lee's face, there was a look of pride!
"What? It was carved by Ethan! Didn't you just send him to Elder Chen to learn bamboo carving yesterday? He learned it all at once?" Kevin Zhang looked completely disbelief!
Nonsense! Even the most gifted child couldn't be so fast.
"Yes! He learned it. As you can see, these things were all carved by him. I think they are no worse than those carved by Elder Chen."
Ethan Lee said proudly.
"Cut! If you don't want to say it, forget it! There's no need to find such an unreliable reason to fool me." Kevin Zhang said.
Obviously, he didn't believe Ethan Lee's words!
All the people beside him also didn't believe it!
Only a fool would believe this!
"Alice, look, this little girl in the bamboo carving is so beautiful and elegant!" A beautiful woman pointed at a bamboo carving from Ethan and said.
That was carved by Ethan according to a character image on TV.
"Yes! Yes! She is more beautiful than the one on TV." Another girl also said.
"Boss, how much is this?" The girl asked Ethan Lee.
Ethan Lee held out an eight with his finger again!
"What? Eight hundred!"
Puff!
David Li, who was drinking tea beside him, directly spat out a mouthful of water!