Chapter 217
Ye Fuyue: "..."
Ye Fuyue then casually answered a few questions in response to Jiang Yue's previous questions.
Jiang Yue occasionally wrote a few words in his notebook to record his thoughts. However, he was clearly dissatisfied with Ye Fuyue's answer, and his brows knitted together.
"Comrade Ye, I think your answer is very perfunctory. You can't even explain why you designed it this way. How are you going to convince the foreign guests and make them willing to do business with Xiangyang Furniture Factory? It's impossible for you to make a deal with foreign guests if you are so unprepared." Jiang Yue said seriously.
Ye Fuyue was annoyed.
Why do these two guys seem so fatherly and love educating people so much?
"Translator Jiang, you don't have to worry about this. Just act flexibly and figure out how to convince the foreign guests." Ye Fuyue said, smiled, and slipped away.
Jiang Yue looked at Ye Fuyue's figure and sneered.
He kindly reminded Ye Fuyue, but she didn't listen. He really didn't know why Xiangyang Furniture Factory would cooperate with such a person. More importantly, in his opinion, the furniture designed by Ye Fuyue was extremely ugly and did not conform to the aesthetic taste of foreigners at all. It would definitely not sell.
Ye Fuyue herself couldn't even answer why she wanted to design such furniture. She was simply a half-baked person. How could foreigners like her designs!
If a foreigner comes to ask Ye Fuyue something later, he will pretend to have something else to do and not translate for Ye Fuyue, so that Ye Fuyue will remember this lesson!
At eight o'clock sharp, the Bamboo Fair officially began, and foreigners came in one after another.
Director Cai and his men were on full alert, looking expectantly at the foreigners walking towards them.
However, the foreigners only stayed in front of their exhibition area for a few seconds before moving on to the next one. Some foreigners even went straight to the next exhibition area without even glancing at their exhibition area.
Director Cai saw that there were foreigners stopping and chatting in front of other exhibition areas, and even in the exhibition area of the First Furniture Factory there were foreigners watching. Only theirs was deserted, and Director Cai panicked.
"Why don't you all come and take a look at our place? Our furniture isn't that bad, is it?" Yu Wanying murmured.
"Please think of a way to get foreigners to come to our exhibition area!" Director Chen was also panicked.
Yu Wanying and Huang Xiu scratched their heads. They didn't know what to do! If they had known, their factory wouldn't have been without a single order at the Bamboo Fair for several consecutive sessions.
"Comrade Ye, you specialize in designing furniture for foreigners. You should know them quite well. What do you think we should do?" Jiang Yue said as if he was enjoying the show.
Director Chen and Director Cai both cast their hopeful gazes on Ye Fuyue. They felt that Jiang Yue's words made sense. Since Ye Fuyue could design furniture specifically for foreigners, she must have some understanding of foreigners and might have a solution.
"There's a way," Ye Fuyue said after a few seconds of seriousness, "Just move the two sets of furniture I designed to the front."
"What kind of solution is this?" Jiang Yue sneered.
"If I move the furniture you designed to the front, foreigners will come over?" Huang Xiu also didn't believe it.
"Think about it, what's the difference between the furniture you displayed and the furniture you displayed at the Bamboo Fair before?" Ye Fuyue said.
Director Chen and Director Cai were both silent.
There really aren't any big differences. Chinese people only like the same furniture styles, so there's no need for anything new.
"If there's no difference, then why are you so sure this time's furniture will attract foreigners?" Ye Fuyue continued, "That's why I asked you to move my furniture to the front. Maybe some foreigners will be interested."
"But..." Huang Xiu wanted to say something but was interrupted by Director Chen.
"Huang Xiu, please help move the furniture designed by Comrade Ye to the front." Director Chen said.
It's just a matter of moving the furniture around. If it can really attract foreigners, it will be a great help.
Huang Xiu and another male comrade carried the furniture designed by Ye Fuyue forward.
As they were carrying it forward, two foreigners came over.
One of the foreigners said, "This cabinet is really beautiful!"
When Jiang Yue heard this, his face changed.
He bent down, clutching his stomach with both hands. Before Director Chen and Director Cai could speak, he said in agony, "My stomach hurts. I need to go to the bathroom."
Then he quickly slipped away.
When Director Chen and Director Cai were looking for him everywhere and were ready to ask him to translate, they could only see his back as he rushed out, holding his stomach.
"What's wrong with translator Jiang? He doesn't have stomachache in the morning or evening, but he has stomachache when foreigners come over!" Director Chen was so angry that he blew his beard and glared.
"What should we do, Director Chen? We finally have foreigners coming here, and it seems that they are interested in our furniture. We only have translator Jiang who understands English. Without translator Jiang, we have no one to communicate with foreigners." Director Cai was very anxious.
"You handle this first. I'll go find the organizer and ask them to assign us another translator." Director Chen said decisively.
This is the only solution right now, but...
"Director Chen, I don't understand English at all. I don't know what they are saying. How can I deal with it?" Director Cai was anxious and helpless.
Director Chen couldn't come up with a better solution. Just as he was about to let Director Cai figure it out, he heard Ye Fuyue say, "Yeah, yeah, beautiful!"
Director Chen and Director Cai were both stunned.
"Didn't you say you don't speak English?" Director Cai asked Ye Fuyue.
"I really don't know. I can only understand a few words." Ye Fuyue was still pretending.
"Do you understand what they are saying?" asked Director Chen.
"I roughly understood. They were saying our furniture was beautiful," Ye Fuyue said. "So I replied that it was beautiful. I can't speak complex words or sentences, but I can still speak a few simple words."
Director Chen and Director Cai were overjoyed.
"Talk to them and tell them that our furniture is of very good quality." Director Chen said hurriedly, forgetting to ask the organizer for other translators.
Ye Fuyue looked embarrassed: "Let me try."
She pointed to the furniture she designed and gave them a thumbs-up, saying in broken English, "Good, good!"
Just take it as a sign of good quality.
The foreigner asked several other questions, such as what kind of wood it was made of and how resistant it was to corrosion and insects. Ye Fuyue understood all of them and answered them in her broken English and exaggerated gestures. The two sides communicated surprisingly smoothly.
Finally, the foreigner pointed to the cabinet and asked, "How much?"
Ye Fuyue asked Director Chen and Director Cai: "He asked how much this cabinet cost."
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