"I'm sorry." Looking at the girl's hand clutching the wheelchair, Hua Jin froze for a long time, "I'm the one who interrupted."
Looking at the girl's red eyes, Hua Jin gradually recovered from the joy of finding the weaver , She forgot how scary people's words are in such a small place.
In recent years, traditional handicrafts, which have been highly praised in big cities, are not highly regarded as luxury goods with low practical value in small places. The economic level determines the concept of consumption. She stayed in big cities for so long that she almost forgot the consumption habits of small cities.
She didn't know what happened to the weaver and her daughter, but the other party's reaction was so strong, it showed that that memory was painful for them, and she was in no position to uncover it.
Seeing that Hua Jin was about to leave, Pei Yan was puzzled: "You don't want to try harder?"
Hua Jin shook her head and said to Pei Yan: "There is a temple of the God of Wealth on the mountain next to it, let's go,et's go and worship the God of Wealth and ask him to bless us with great fortune"
"Hua Xiaojin, don't you value this fashion conference very much?"
"I do value, and hope to take this opportunity to let more people, see the beauty of traditional handicrafts, but this is all in my mind, my ambitions." Walking on the green stone road, Hua Jin heard the wind blowing up, "Art and beauty exist to make people happy, not to make them suffer, if the cart is put before the horse, there is no need for it to exist."
In a traditional musical instrument shop, there was pleasant music, and the owner sat at the door of the shop beating a tambourine in order to attract customers, and it was very lively.
However, most of the passers-by looked at him with spectator eyes, and then walked away slowly. The business was not good. The shop owner didn't care either, he was happy to take pictures.
Seeing this scene, Hua Jin couldn't help but laugh: "Some things can't be forced too much, forcing is disrespectful to others."
"I understand." Pei Yan said, "Then the remaining two days, you take me to walk around Xugou City?"
"Okay." Hua Jin smiled, "I also want to know what the entire Xugou City has become now."
"Wait a minute."
"Wait a minute!"
Hearing an anxious call from behind, Hua Jin stopped and looked back. It was the young girl in the wheelchair. The bluestone road was uneven, and her wheelchair swayed back and forth, so scared that Hua Jin took two steps in her direction and helped her hold the wheelchair.
The girl held her arm tightly, watched her panting and said, "I, I'll take you to see my mother."
"You ......" Hua Jin did not expect her to suddenly change her mind.
"Whether my mother is willing to cooperate with you or not, I can't guarantee it,you just talk to her about the cooperation." The girl looked away, "I won't speak good words for you."
"Thanks." Hua Jin looked at the bodyguard and assistant who followed her and Pei Yan, and whispered to Pei Yan, " The mother and daughter should be living alone, let Mr. Assistant and Mr. Bodyguard wait outside for a while later, so if many grown men went in, I'm afraid it will cause them uneasiness."
"Okay." Pei Yan understood Hua Jin's concerns, and he turned around and said a few words to his assistant, asking him to arrange it.
Aunt Cao's mother and daughter live on this street. Because to maintain the original appearance of the street, so the houses here are all low wooden buildings and green tile houses, walking through a dark alley, Hua Jin saw a low green tile house, a woman in her fifties or sixties, is picking up the dried vegetables that were drying outside.
"Mom." The young woman called out, and the woman turned her head, looking pale. Seemingly not expecting an outsider to come, Aunt Cao half-closed her eyes and looked behind Hua Jin and Pei Yan, and found that there were several tall men behind them,throwing down the chopsticks of dried vegetables, running to the young woman in three steps, stopping her and saying, "I divorced that man a long time ago, his debts outside are none of my business, you go now, or I will call the police."
"Mom, they didn't come to ask for debts. " "The young woman pressed the woman's old hand, "This lady is an embroiderer from a big city, and she wants to ask you to weave Shu brocade."
"Shu brocade?" The woman looked at the Hua Jin in a daze, her eyes became bright, but soon dimmed again, "I'm sorry, I haven't been in this business for years, you guys go and find someone else."
"Hello Auntie Cao, I am an embroiderer from the Fanhua Studio, and I have been working on Shu embroidery all these years." Hua Jin noticed the look in Auntie Cao's eyes and handed her business card to her with both hands, "This time I'm sincerely asking for cooperation, I hope you will consider it."
Auntie Cao's eyes were a little flustered, she didn't take Hua Jin's business card, instead she turned her head away, "Lan Lan, you greet the guests well, the chicken soup stew in the pot is going to dry up, I'll go and have a look."
Seeing the back of Aunt Cao leaving in a hurry, Hua Jin sighed in her heart.
"A few years ago, my father owed a lot of money outside. When the debtor came to the door he accidentally pushed me over, causing me to be paralysed in the lower half of my body. In order to take good care of me, my mother divorced my father, closed the cloth store, and never touched the loom again." The young woman's eyes filled with tears, "My mother stayed up all night to weave the Shu brocade, and only to get treated it as cheap goods by the neighbours, and she was disgusted by others."
"My mother said that her ancestors Several generations were masters of Shu brocade, but when it came to my great-grandmother's generation, the loom was burned because of poor composition, and after the educated youth went to the countryside, my great-grandmother married into a poor peasant family here." The woman wiped her tears, "When I was young, my mother told me that she liked weaving very much. Grandma also said that she was very talented and would be the most outstanding Shu brocade master in the Cao family."
"But grandma didn't know that this era doesn't need this industry anymore. No matter how talented you are, it's useless." The young woman grinned self-deprecatingly, "Come and sit."
"In that case, why did you bring us here?" Hua Jin pushed the wheelchair into the shade of the tree, and she dragged He picked up a long bench and sat down with Pei Yan.
The assistants and bodyguards exited the alley after making sure that there was no one else here. So the small courtyard where only the three of them were left was very quiet. Hua Jin looked at the pomegranate tree with fruit hanging in the courtyard, and wondered, is the pomegranate ripe?
"I know she likes to weave, although the loom at home has been placed in the utility room has accumulated a thick layer of dust." The young woman hung her head and said after a long time, "In this life, she was harmed by my father for decades, and I don't want me, as a daughter, to be the second person to harm her."
Not expecting to get this answer, Hua Jin thought that this young girl with disabled legs was disgusted with Shu brocade.
"What I hate is not the career my mother likes, but that she has paid so much for this career without getting anything in return." The young woman looked at the brocade, "I"If you're not lying to me and the shu brocade my mom wove really has a chance to go to an international fashion conference, she'll be happy.""
Hua Jin put the business card that Auntie Cao did not accept into this girl's hand: "When I was ten years old, I went to the street with my grandmother and happened to find the cloth store opened by Auntie Cao, I am afraid you will take it as joke when I say it, at that time I thought the cloth in the store would glow, Auntie Cao was a fairy from heaven."
The young woman was stunned as she looked at the beautiful woman in front of her and couldn't help but ask, "Really?"
"Really, I don't come to the county a lot, but every time I go into town I sneak to the front of the store to look at it a few times." Hua Jin said," So when it comes to choosing materials for clothing, the first person I think of is, It 's Aunt Cao."
"I see." The young girl clutched the business card in her hand, looked up at the front door of the house, and raised her voice, "Mom, Cooperate with her, I want to see the glowing brocade too."
There was no movement in the house.
After a long time, Auntie Cao came out with red eyes and tea in her hand. She glanced around, "Where are the other guests?"
"They were fond of the scenery of your place, so they went out to enjoy the view." Pei Yan took the tea she brought and said a thank you.
There are such scenic streets in many cities, and it is really nothing unusual. Aunt Cao guessed that these two young people didn't want to cause trouble for her, so they let the others leave first. She looked up at Pei Yan and Hua Jin, hesitated for a moment and asked, "You organized the fashion conference?"
"It's not like that." Hua Jin explained what happened, and when Auntie Cao understood thoroughly, she said, "This conference is very important to the fashion world and to our traditional handicraft art industry, so I hope you can cooperate with us."
Auntie Cao didn't say anything good or bad, she looked at her daughter and said to Hua Jin, "You and this gentleman, please come with me for a moment."
Hua Jin and Pei Yan followed Aunt Cao into the house, and inside the room It was a bit dark, and there was still a smell of damp wood. Aunt Cao led them to a low wooden door and opened the lock with a key.
As soon as the door was opened, Hua Jin couldn't help coughing due to the dust, and then she found that the small room was empty, except for a dusty loom.
"I haven't touched it for five years." Aunt Cao wiped the dust off the loom, and the loom creaked. She picked up a shuttle and smiled wryly: "This loom is already broken."
"I will arrange the best loom for you." Pei Yan spoke, "If you want, there will be a foundation to support the local Shu brocade industry and help you expand the sales channels of Shu brocade."
Auntie Cao didn't say anything.
"Since you are willing to let go of something you have insisted on all your life, why don't you have the courage to pick it up again?" Pei Yan said, "If someone says you can't get money or profit for something you've persisted in all your life, all the more reason you should take this opportunity to hit those people hard in the face. Even if you don't care about that, you still have to fight for your children, you have to let everyone know that the craft that has been passed down for so many years is a treasure, a precious heritage left to us by our ancestors."
"For Lan Lan ......" Aunt Cao was a little lost in thought.
"For her, but also for yourself." Hua Jin took over, "At least you have to prove that your persistence for so many years is meaningful."
"I understand." Auntie Cao nodded, " Payment or whatever, I don't care, but I only have one request."
"Please say."
"If I need to go to the big city, I want to take Lan Lan with me. Her legs are not convenient, and I'm worried that she will be bullied by others if I'm not there."
" You should take her" A bright smile appeared on Hua Jin's face, "Thank you very much for your willingness to work with me."
Inside the studio, the assistant who received the news said to Mark, "Sir, the flower embroiderer has found an out-of-touch Shu brocade artist and will be back in two days."
Mark nodded: "Later, you go to the restaurant and make a reservation, I want to thank the flower embroiderer for all the running around in the past few days."
"Sir." The assistant hesitated, "What if the weaver the embroiderer finds is not reliable? ?" It was she who said that Shu embroidery should be made of Shu brocade to highlight the style of clothes, and it was also the Shu brocade master she found. Who knows if she deliberately found the reason?
"Do you know why most of the partners who cooperate with me are willing to cooperate with me for the second time?" Mark put down the design draft and glanced at the assistant: "It's not suspicious to hire people, but not to use suspicious people."
"Yes." The assistant changed His face changed, he knew that what he said just now made Mr. Mark unhappy.
"Miss Hua is a person responsible for her own works. The Shu brocade master she found will definitely not disappoint."
For the first time in her life, Lan Lan took a personal plane, and her whole body was in a bit of a daze. This time, in order to invite her mother to participate in the cooperation, Miss Hua's side not only arranged a place for them to live, but also specially hired two people to take care of their food and living, and I heard that one of them was very knowledgeable about medical science.
She had seen the other party's sincerity, but the only thing she didn't expect was that they were so rich.
Before coming, her friends and family were worried that they would be fooled, but now that she is on the plane, she suddenly feels that if a rich man with a private jet is a fraud, even if he is a fraud, he doesn't bother to take the effort to cheat them.
Aunt Cao didn't expect the young couple to be so rich. She sat beside her daughter a little cautiously, staring at the white clouds billowing outside the window in a daze.
Will this trip really make more people appreciate the Shu brocade she weaves?
Hua Jin and Pei Yan wanted to achieve what they wanted, but the Xu family was in great distress and had nowhere to turn for help.
This week, the Xu family's business suffered repeated setbacks. Those who wanted to intercede for the Xu family found that Pei Yan was not there at all, and he had gone on a trip with his girlfriend.
Everyone immediately understood that Pei Yan was not going on a trip, but clearly told everyone that it would be useless to plead for mercy. Even if the old man of the Xu family died of illness in the hospital, he would not change his decision. He just wanted to make things difficult for the Xu family.
The old man of the Xu family stayed in the hospital for several days in embarrassment. Seeing that Pei Yan was really sympathetic, he didn't want to stay, so he had to go home.
Not long after he returned home, Xu Changhui, who was about to go abroad, was taken away by the police on the grounds of drunk driving, drug driving, and intentional injury to others.
A year ago, Xu Changhui had a conflict with someone in a bar and severely injured a person. Unexpectedly, after such a long time, he was turned out again.
Only then did the Xu family fully understand that it was impossible for Pei Yan to let Xu Changhui go. Mr. Xu was sent to the hospital again, this time he was not acting, but was really sent to the emergency ward.
When they found out that Pei Yan was coming back on Monday, the two brothers Xu Yi and Xu Qiang stood guard at the door of Pei Yan's house early in the morning. When things got to this point, they had no choice but to throw away all their faces and beg Pei Yan.
The two waited for hours at Pei Yan's gate before finally seeing Pei Yan's car appear.
"Mr. Pei!" Xu Yi has been rolling in the mall for many years, knowing that sometimes things like face are useless. He opened his arms and stopped in front of Pei Yan's car: "Mr. Pei, please give me a few minutes."
Looking at Xu Yi who was blocking in front of the car, Hua Jin suddenly remembered that when he first saw Xu Yi in the courtyard, He looked at full of himself.
It's like looking at the rubble on the ground, the extra weeds, just sitting there is superfluous.
What a lofty person, what an elegant person, but when begging for help, his posture was no better than her who was seriously injured and lying on the ground back then.
Pei Yan glanced at Hua Jin who was silent beside him, and said to the driver: "Don't worry about it."
Seeing the car start again, Xu Yi's heart was ruthless and he actually climbed onto the windshield: "Mr. Pei, what exactly do you want before you are willing to let the Xu family go?"
Through the windshield, Xu Yi saw that there was a woman in Pei Yan's car, a woman who caused Pei Yan to turn against the Xu family regardless of the presence of many guests.
Hua Jin met Xu Yi's eyes, and smiled at him with the corners of her mouth raised.
"The Xu family is the Xu family, and they can use any shameless means." Pei Yan sneered, "In terms of shamelessness, who can compare with their family."
Pei Yan opened the car window and said to Xu Yi and Xu Qiang: "OK Let's all go in, lest others think that I invited a juggling troupe to sing a big show at the door."
This sentence was extremely arrogant and rude, Hua Jin saw the muscles on Xu Yi's face tremble, but he didn't show any dissatisfaction.
She frowned. Such a person is much more terrifying than a person who shows his anger and joy on his face.
When the group returned to the villa, Pei Yan took Hua Jin's hand and sat down in the main seat. He leaned back on the sofa and lazily looked at the two brothers Xu Qiang and Xu Yi: "I wonder what the two uncles of the Xu family are looking for me for?"
"Please spare our Xu family, Mr. Pei." Xu Qiang was straightforward and spoke up at once, "Your two families and I have been friends for many years, why should we go to this extent for a woman."
"Forgive?" Pei Yan narrowed his eyes, "What does Uncle Xu mean by this, what does it have to do with me if your company has problems in business? The younger generation is just an idle boy who doesn't do anything about production, how can he compare with the business elite?"
Hearing this, Xu Qiang suddenly remembered that a few years ago Xu Yi had commented on Pei Yan a few words behind his back.
Not doing production, idle, the scourge of the Pei family.
Could it be that these words were known by Pei Yan, the person in question?