Feast of Flowers

Chapter 30 - Fishing

 "Embroiderer?" The middle-aged man noticed Hua Jin's eyes, turned his head and glanced out of the window, but didn't see anything strange, and smiled politely, "The lighting here is good."

"The shop faces north, It's smooth wind and smooth water." Hua Jin said with a smile, and beckoned them to sit down. Tan Yuan made tea and brought it over. The middle-aged man picked up the teacup and took a sip. His assistant thanked him with the teacup, but did not touch the tea in the cup.

"The two of you saw Ms. Zhao Ni's cheongsam, and are you ready to order embroidery?" Hua Jin held up the teacup and smiled apologetically, "If you are in a hurry, please forgive me for not being able to take orders in a short period of time. First, embroidery is time-consuming , Second, I have already made work arrangements in the near future."

"I am here this time to discuss cooperation with an embroidery master." After the middle-aged man finished speaking, the assistant behind him handed the business card to Hua Jin with both hands, and Hua Jin took it to look at it. At a glance, this is a designer of a fashion clothing brand in China, named Mark.

"The clothes of your brand are very beautiful, and my friends and I like them very much, but it still has a shortcoming." Hua Jin put away the business card.

The smile on the middle-aged man's face remained unchanged, but his assistant was a little impatient, and the polite smile on his face could hardly be maintained.

"Your company's new style is so popular that I often can't buy it even when I hold my wallet." Hua Jin said with a helpless smile, "For me, that is the biggest shortcoming."

"The embroiderer can really joke." Many fashion In order to maintain the status of its own high-end products, the brand adopts the route of high price and low production volume for some products. Expensive high-end designs are sold out as soon as they go on the market. This is not only a compliment to the brand, but also an affirmation to the designer.

Due to work reasons, Mark has come into contact with some inheritors of traditional handicrafts. These people are skilled in craftsmanship, but most of them are taciturn, unlike the young lady in front of him who is good at the art of speaking.

Hua Jin didn't know whether the name Mark was a transliteration of the other party's English name, or the last name was Ma Ke, so she decided to choose a more secure address: "It's Mr. Mark, you are too modest."

In a few words, there was a friendly and relative business exchange between Huajin and Mark. It was not until half a cup of tea was drunk that the topic finally turned to the serious business.

"Mr. Mark means that you want to cooperate with me?" Hua Jin was a little surprised when she heard Mark's intention, "Please forgive me, in the embroidery industry, I can only be regarded as a fledgling junior. It is not impossible to invite masters to cooperate with you."

"You are right, the masters are indeed much better than you in needlework." Mark nodded slowly.

Hua Jin lowered her head and drank her tea silently, muttering in her heart, this is too direct, why can't she save some face for her?

"However, in your works, embroiderer, I see the unique agility and flavor of youth."

Hua Jin: What is the agility and flavor of youth, why doesn't she know?

"Better embroidery skills than you, not as young and agile as you, and younger than you, embroidery skills are not as good as yours, so for me, you are the best choice." Mark said bluntly, "Domestic fashion brands have an international status. It's not high, and I don't have the ability to elevate the status of the domestic fashion circle in the world with my own efforts. But I hope that at the fashion conference next year, we can show our beauty. Even if we can't live up to it, at least we can't Shame on you, right?"

Hua Jin didn't know how to respond, she didn't know much about the fashion industry, and she didn't know whether Mark was being self-effacing or telling the truth.

"I want to break the stereotype of Chinese traditional culture in the world. It doesn't mean that red and green or dragon and phoenix embroidery and Chinese characters embroidered on clothing represent the beauty of Chinese style. The real beauty of Chinese style lies in the connotation and agility. It's not a rough accumulation of elements." Mark laughed at himself, "Of course, this may be my ambition."

"Observe the etiquette of humanity, follow the nature of heaven and earth, be inclusive and firm..." Hua Jin thought about it seriously, "Mr. Mark Is this the feeling you want?"

"Yes, that's it." Mark was a little excited, put down his teacup, and looked at the flower brocade with burning eyes, "For this fashion conference, our team invited a total of five embroiderers, but I think six is ​​the auspicious number." , Liuliu Dashun. So please ask the embroiderer to help me."

"Mr. Mark, you haven't looked at my embroidery carefully. Isn't it too risky to invite me like this?" Hua Jin saw it on Mark. Belonging to the creator's madness and pursuit, she lowered her eyelids, looked at her wrist and smiled.

"No, I've been looking at it from the moment I entered the door." Mark pointed to the row of embroidered pieces on the right, "The second row of embroidered fans in the middle shouldn't be the work of your embroiderer, right?"

Hua Jin was a little surprised. The round fan with a lady's picture was indeed not embroidered by her, but by Aunt Gao in recent years: "Mr. Mark, you have good eyesight."

"Everything made with care has its own The round fan does not have the youthful feeling of your embroiderer, but it is a little more stable and tolerant. The person who embroidered this round fan must be a very great master."

Hearing this, Hua The smile on Jin's face was bright: "This is the embroidery of my teacher. In recent years, she has not spent as much time moving the needle as before, but her embroidery skills are beyond my reach."

Mark's assistant originally looked down upon her This small shop is not only shabby, but even the tea served for guests is not very good. But listening to her conversation with Mr. Mark, the assistant felt that she might have made a mistake of not being able to empathize. Especially after seeing Huajin's smile became brighter because Mr. Mark praised her master, he had a little affection for this young embroidery teacher.

"From what you said, Mr. Mark, you are not like a designer, but more like an artist." Hua Jin smiled again, "As an embroiderer, I certainly hope that more people will see the beauty of embroidery." This means that I agreed to cooperate with him, and Mark was overjoyed: "

In the next time, I will have to trouble the embroiderer, and the fashion meeting will be held in half a year. In three days, I will invite the embroiderer to my studio Visiting and seeing my design works, maybe it can help you find inspiration as an embroiderer?"

"Okay." Hua Jin stood up, shook hands with the other party, and handed his business card to the other party, "Mr. Mark can just call me by my name."

"Hua Jin." Mark took the business card with his own hands and read it carefully The name of Huajin, he said with emotion: "Xiao Kan red wet place, Hua Chongjin official city, it's really a good name."

"It's just an ordinary name, described by Mr. Mark with a poetic verse, it is beautiful in the blink of an eye. A lot." Hua Jin smiled.

"Miss Huajin is too polite. Brocade is a kind of silk fabric, and you happen to be an embroiderer. Isn't this fate?" Mark smiled gently, "I will come to pick up Miss Hua from your shop in three days."

"Okay ." Hua Jin nodded.

After sending Mark and his assistant away, Tan Yuan leaned over and grabbed Hua Jin's hand excitedly: "Hua Hua, it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for you to cooperate with such a big designer. In the next six months, how many times will you Contact customization, and do it well with all your heart."

"If you don't accept customization, you won't make money?" Hua Jin laughed.

"Making money is nothing, your bright future is the most important thing. After you reach the pinnacle of life, I can still brag to others. Do you know who is the youngest and most beautiful Sichuan embroidery master? That is my good sister." You guys, the kind that can sleep in the same bed." Seeing that Hua Jin was going to collect the cup on the table, Tan Yuan quickly reached out to stop her, "Just don't move, from today onwards, you must protect your hands well, Yi Don't touch broken things, don't touch sharp knives and things that are too hot, I hope to hold my thighs, it's on you."

Hua Jin: "..."

She hasn't stepped out of the first step of the Long March, okay The sister has already seen her successful future, which is really the truth that no one in the world can match.

"But that Mr. Mark is really educated, he explained your name so beautifully."

Hua Jin smiled and said nothing.

In fact, her name is not so particular. She heard from her family that after she was born, the elders in the family named her Jinzi for auspiciousness. Later, when I went to register at the village office, the little girl who helped fill out the form was a fresh graduate. Seeing that her gender was female, and because of her inaccurate accent in Shu dialect, she thought that Jin was brocade, and gave her household registration. The application form was handed in.

Many seemingly beautiful things are not as beautiful as imagined.

But Hua Jin didn't explain this to Tan Yuan, and even his name was regarded by the family as something to attract wealth and recruit his younger brother, which is not something to be proud of.

Because of Mark's invitation, Hua Jin went to Tan Yuan's house at night and told Aunt Gao about it.

After listening, Gao Shulan was very happy, she nodded again and again: "Good opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared. This opportunity is very rare. Not only will it be of great help to your future, but it will also be a good publicity for traditional art. .Tan Yuan is right, next time you take less business orders, although these orders can make you more money, but they will consume your energy and aura, how much time do you have to think about other things?"

" Visit some other masters' works when you have time." Gao Shulan thought for a while, "I'll contact those old friends who don't touch needles very much, and take you to visit them. Some of their creative ideas and mentality may be of great importance to you It can be helpful."

"Yes." Hua Jin's nose was a little sore, "Thank you, Aunt Gao."

"What can I thank you for, you are my apprentice, and I am proud of you." Gao Shulan thought for a while "After you sign a cooperation contract with that designer, I will take you to see Liu Fen and make her sour."

Hearing this, Hua Jin couldn't help but laugh. Didn't dissipate?

Before leaving, Gao Shulan stuffed a thermos bucket into Hua Jin's arms: "Take these soft-shelled turtle soup home and drink it. From now on, every few days, you will come over to eat with Yuanyuan. Only by eating and drinking well can you be energetic to do big things."

Holding a bucket of heart-loving soft-shelled turtle soup, Hua Jin walked out of the community and called a taxi using the taxi app.

After calming down, Hua Jin gradually came out of the excitement of cooperating with the master, replaced by pressure and responsibility. She looked up at the bright moon in the sky. The moonlight in this city was not beautiful enough. When she was a child, she lay on the mat made by her grandmother, and the moon she saw was extraordinarily bright, and the stars shone extraordinarily. Put on a hazy dress.

Later, when she was in elementary school, she realized that the moon does not shine, and all its beautiful light comes from the sun. From that day on, she had a vague idea that she didn't want to be a moon, even if she couldn't be a dazzling sun, she still wanted to be a star that shines by itself.

"Brother Pei, it's late at night, what are you trying to come here to fish?" Yang Shao desperately sprayed mosquito repellent on his body, "It's been more than an hour, and I haven't even seen the tail of the fish, why don't we go first?" Go back, a buddy has opened a shop, let's go and have a look."

"No." Pei Yan stared at the motionless float on the water, "You keep nagging me so much that you scare away the fish, so where are the fish? Take the bait?"

"No, even if you want to fish, we can also go to the fishing ground. It's a bit intrusive to squat in the wilderness." Seeing that Pei Yan still didn't respond, Yang Shao took out his phone and played for a while, then suddenly covered his hands. Stomach said: "I'm a little hungry."

"You just ate something two hours ago." Pei Yan's long legs rested on the grass, and he leaned against the back of the chair, his posture was as lazy as if he was basking in the moonlight on the beach .

"It can't be my fault." Yang Shao pointed to the phone screen, "I can only blame the flower embroiderer for posting food pictures in Moments, and I don't know how this soft-shelled turtle soup is made. It looks very delicious."

Hearing Hua Embroidery Pei Yan sat up straight, frowned and said, "What is there about this woman that deserves your special attention?"

"She is beautiful." Yang Shao said, "Do you think that this embroidery master is not only beautiful, but also beautiful?" There is also a special smell."

"What smell?" Pei Yan lowered his eyelids, and the moonlight cast a shadow under the eyelashes: "Perfume?"

"No, no, brother Pei, you don't understand women." Yang Shao shook his head, "Different beauties have different tastes, some are vulgar and powdery, and some are very special. The embroiderer belongs to the latter type, and the beauty on her body This kind of temperament is an unspeakable attraction to many men."

"It's like...a flower that has finally bloomed after thousands of years. Behind the perfect beauty, there is still a vigor. It's very attractive." Yang Shao rubbed his nose, "To be honest, it's hard for most men to feel disgusted with this kind of woman."

"Oh." Pei Yan sneered, "Actually, most men Human nature is to like the good-looking opposite sex, but in order to show that I don't judge people by appearance, I put various personality labels on the opposite sex I admire, which seems to show that I have special taste."

Yang Shao: "......"

"Pei Brother, there is indeed some truth in what you said, but the embroiderer really..."

"We are sitting here to fish, not to chat with you about women." There was no smile on Pei Yan's face, "Although I don't like this Women don't feel anything, but as a man, it doesn't seem appropriate to judge a woman here. How beautiful and attractive she is has nothing to do with you."

"That's true." Yang Shao smiled awkwardly, Looking into this matter carefully, it is indeed a bit unkind.

"But I think you are quite familiar with the embroiderer, and I didn't expect you to dislike her." Yang Shao said with emotion, "Brother Pei, a man like you may really want to be single for the rest of his life."

"Although I don't like her, but I don't hate her either." The words of explanation blurted out, Pei Yan was stunned for a moment, then bent down to straighten the hooks. "Auntie's birthday, are you ready to give you any gift?"

"I've thought about it for a long time. I went to the embroider last week and ordered an embroidery screen in her store. My grandmother will definitely like it."  Yang Shao was in a good mood, "My grandma likes the handkerchief made by the embroiderer, like a child, it is put in the pocket every day , but she is  reluctant to use it."

"The flower embroiderer is really good, and he can have such skills at a young age."

"A few days ago, my grandma also said that I should marry the embroiderer. The old lady has become naive, and no one can do anything to her."

"Your topic tonight, is there nothing to talk about except Huajin?" Pei Yan Impatiently turned to stare at Yang Shao.

"Isn't it a coincidence?" Yang Shao said with a smile, "It turns out that the flower embroiderer's name is Hua Jin, which sounds really nice."

Pei Yan glared at him again.

"I won't say it anymore, I won't say it anymore." Yang Shao bowed his head and secretly liked Huajin's Moments message. He was bored, so he opened Huajin's circle of friends and scrolled down.

When he saw the photo of Hua Jin and Pei Yan, he thought he was dazzling. He looked at his phone, then at Pei Yan, and he said that he didn't like it, but there were photos of the two of them, and he clicked up a like.

The only friend he has in common with Huajin on WeChat is Pei Yan, so Pei Yan on the likes list is particularly conspicuous and has a strong sense of presence.

"Brother Pei, you said on the phone last time that someone gave you a scarf. Who is that person?" Yang Shao put the phone back into his pocket and stared at Pei Yan with a subtle expression.

"I don't remember." Pei Yan stared blankly at the dark water, "I'm not like you, no woman chases after me."

"Brother Pei, it's wrong to attack a brother personally." Yang Shao resentfully said , "Although I am not handsome enough, my heart is very gentle."

"You like beautiful women yourself, and you want to ask beautiful women to see your heart through your ordinary appearance?" Pei Yan spoke at a leisurely pace, But what he said was particularly irritating, "Be sober."

Yang Shao: "..."

After more than ten minutes, Yang Shao couldn't help but speak again: "I thought it was the embroiderer who gave you the scarf Well."

Pei Yan said sharply: "You still don't want to fish anymore, be quiet!"

The author has something to say: Yang Shao, who is stepping on thunder everywhere without knowing it:? ?

Pei Yan: Shut up, don't talk!