Chapter 94 Chapter 94 Part 2
Not only are the streets near the venue bustling, but the hotels and guest houses are said to be even busier.
Due to the arrival of exhibitors and foreign businessmen from all over the world, hotels and guesthouses are overcrowded. Those who come too late may not even be able to find a guest room and can only spend a few nights in the corridor.
Shen Moer and the others couldn't help but feel lucky that they came with the Southern Province Commerce Department. They were experienced and had arranged accommodation for them early on. Otherwise, it would have been really miserable if they had no place to stay and had to live in the corridor.
In order to entertain foreign businessmen, several Western restaurants were opened near the venue, and the cinema also played foreign films.
Shen Moer simply took Li Xinmei and Liu Yinshuang to see a movie.
This movie will absolutely not be shown in the mainland, but it can be shown in Guangzhou and near venues where foreign businessmen gather.
The movie was in its original audio format, with the whole thing being chattered in a foreign language. Among the three of them, only Liu Yinshuang could understand a little bit, and she quietly introduced the plot to Chen Moli and Li Xinmei.
As expected, Li Xinmei once again gave me the comment that “reading is really useful”.
Probably because the movie was in a foreign language, there were few Chinese people in the cinema. Most of them were foreigners. Of course, even there were only a few foreigners. After all, the movie was an old one and did not have much appeal. What's more, foreigners came to do business and few of them were willing to spend time watching movies.
Shen Moer estimated that the cinema did this mainly to show an attitude of welcoming foreign businessmen to China.
Shen Moer didn't know much about the situation abroad before, and the only common sense she had was what Fu Mingze told her.
Fu Mingze said that one of his neighbors had studied abroad in his early years. Before Shen Moli set off for Guangzhou, he spent an entire night carefully explaining to her some of the ideas and customs of foreigners.
However, hearing others talk is never as profound as seeing it with your own eyes. Shen Moer has been observing foreigners carefully since she saw the first one. She still does this when watching movies, observing their clothes and the furnishings in the house in great detail.
Then, he reaffirmed his thoughts.
The aesthetics of this world should still be normal.
The phenomenon that the only colors in China are black, white, gray, cyan and blue is probably caused by some special reasons. As for the bright red, bright purple, bright red and bright green that many people like... foreigners are actually not as keen on them as they imagine.
They seem to pursue a simple and comfortable style, or a luxurious but restrained style. In short, it is not exaggerated or beyond imagination.
Shen Moer secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
After watching the movie, the three of them went to a nearby restaurant for dinner.
People in Guangzhou like to make soup. In a state-owned restaurant where three people were dining, not only was the poached chicken very tender and fresh, but the soup that came with the meal was also very delicious, so delicious that it made people salivate.
The key point is that this restaurant also sells desserts after meals. After Shen Moer finished her meal and drank her soup, she couldn't help but eat a small bowl of tangerine peel and red bean paste. When she finally left the restaurant, she almost had to hold on to the wall to walk out.
“The food in this restaurant is really delicious!”
The meal cost a lot of money, but Li Xinmei didn't feel bad about it. As she thought, a poor family can make a lot of money on the road. She brought a lot of money with her when she went out. What's more, the food in this restaurant was really delicious. She could eat chicken and sweet red bean paste. It was worth it at all!
The only thing is that it’s a pity that the man and children at home didn’t come and didn’t get to eat such delicious food.
Shen Moer also felt it was a pity, this store was indeed doing well. It was a pity that her father and Fu Zhiqing were not here.
When they were walking out after dinner, they passed by another table where a foreigner was sitting. The foreigner was sitting there, eating slowly while flipping through a book on the table... The book looked much larger than ordinary books, but much thinner, and there were a lot of colorful paintings inside.
Shen Moer took a glance and paused.
The book contained many pictures of women with charming figures and beautiful clothes. Each person had a different posture and clothes. There were also some words written next to the pictures, like ghostly scribbles. Although Shen Moer didn't recognize them very well, she knew that they were foreign characters.
This book should have been brought by this foreigner from his own country.
Liu Yinshuang noticed Shen Moer's gaze and took a look as well, then said indifferently: "This should be an early fashion magazine."
Shen Moer looked at her deeply and thought to herself, this is an early fashion magazine, so what should today's fashion magazines be like?
This person really doesn't know how to hide himself at all!
In Liu Yinshuang's case, it was fortunate that she was traveling with the simple-minded Li Xinmei, otherwise she would have been exposed in a minute.
However, she was right to bring Liu Yinshuang with her. Liu Yinshuang was indeed more knowledgeable than them. Shen Moer had never heard of this fashion magazine.
The main reason is that there have been movements going on outside in recent years, and many newspapers and magazines have ceased publication. There are only a few newspapers available on the market, and magazines, especially magazines like this one that introduces clothing, are even less available.
Shen Moer took a few glances and then walked out with Li Xinmei, Liu Yinshuang and the others.
After returning to the guesthouse, they washed up and went to bed early for the next few days. At dawn the next day, Li Xinmei was the first to get out of bed.
Not long after, other people also got up one after another, washed up, and went out to the nearby breakfast shop for breakfast.
This place is really different from other places in the country. There are quite a lot of places to eat near the venue, and there are also special breakfast shops.
After eating and drinking, they went back to the guesthouse, dragged out a large luggage bag containing exhibits, and took turns carrying it to the venue.
Magnificent music was playing in the venue. Shen Moer and her companions entered the exhibition hall in a heroic and high-spirited manner, following the sound of the music, and soon arrived at the booth of the South Province Embroidery Factory.
The foreign businessmen had not yet entered the venue, so Shen Moer hurriedly took out the things in the luggage bag and placed them one by one on the black velvet cloth that had already been laid out.
The ten exhibits, as others knew, included embroidery pieces, handkerchiefs, pillowcases, tablecloths, in short, some inconspicuous little items.
The items were indeed inconspicuous when taken out, but what surprised Li Xinmei and the others was that after putting the items on the black velvet display stand, everything seemed to suddenly become more beautiful.
The handkerchief and tablecloth, which originally matched the simple and plain colors, inexplicably became more luxurious when placed on the black velvet cloth.
In Li Xinmei's words: It looks very expensive at first glance, the kind I can't afford.
The brightly colored embroidery pieces and pillowcases are overshadowed by the black color, as if they are less frivolous and look better.
Li Xinmei exclaimed in amazement: "This black cloth is quite useful."
Jin Caifei was also a little dumbfounded. The Canton Fair has been open for many years, and everyone has always used the simplest and crudest way of exhibition: just fill up the exhibition with things.
Even for her, it was the first time that she saw someone decorate a booth so beautifully with just a piece of black velvet cloth.
Liu Yinshuang didn't feel anything about the use of black cloth for the exhibition itself. It was just a trivial trick. The small vendors selling videos on the roadside or in night markets all used a piece of black cloth to display their products. She had seen it many times and didn't find it strange at all.
No, it's actually a bit strange.
Liu Yinshuang secretly glanced at Chen Moli, and she almost suspected that Chen Moli had also been reincarnated or traveled through time.
Where do so many ideas come from?
However, Liu Yinshuang quickly overturned her idea. After all, no matter whether she was reborn or traveled through time, it was impossible for her to be like Chen Moli, who had never seen a train and did not know Guangzhou.
I guess it's just a natural talent.
There are always some people who are born great.
Rebirth cannot make people smarter or more powerful. Liu Yinshuang is very clear about this. Otherwise, would she still be so miserable helping her grandfather weave bamboo boxes?
Liu Yinshuang knew that she was actually just an ordinary person who accidentally got some good fortune, and she would be satisfied if she could live a better life than in her previous life. But people like Chen Moer were probably born smart and capable.
Then Liu Yinshuang saw Shen Moer fold the handkerchief into several styles in several ways and carefully placed it back on the black velvet cloth.
No one else, including Liu Yinshuang, understood what this meant.
Weng Huijun sneaked over to take a look, and went back to tell Ying Jun and the others that the Ninth Workshop had run out of ideas: "Honestly, the embroidery is pretty good, and the pattern is nice, but it's a bit plain and not very colorful. I don't know what they were thinking, but they folded the handkerchief into several different styles, hoping to attract people with this method. It would be better to make a cloth mouse with the handkerchief, at least children will like it when they see it."
Someone nearby laughed and said, "Oh my god, you are so mean. We are in and out of a trading fair. Where are the children?"
At this time, foreign businessmen had already entered the venue one after another. The Nan Province Embroidery Factory had a good location, and many people saw the booth of the Embroidery Factory as soon as they came in. Occasionally, some people would stop in front of the booth, but they would just look at it for a few seconds and then leave. Some even shook their heads at the ready-made clothes hanging on the wall.
"What does this mean?"
Everyone looked at each other. The translator stood aside, hesitated, and said, "It seems that he doesn't like fancy styles."
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If you don't like something, go find something you like. Why stand in front of someone else's booth and comment on theirs?"
I could only whisper this quietly, and after that I still had to put on a decent smile and wait for the foreign businessman's inquiries.
But no one stopped to ask seriously about the exhibits.
Everyone felt a little nervous.
Finally, another foreign businessman stopped in front of the booth, and a group of people immediately paid close attention to him.
The blond foreign man suddenly turned around, walked to the narrow booth of Workshop 9, pointed at the handkerchief folded on the black velvet cloth and said something.
There are translators at every booth, but the translation station of the South Province Embroidery Factory is a little far away from the ninth workshop. After all, everyone agrees that the translators mainly serve the headquarters.
As soon as the foreign businessman started speaking, the translator hurried over and started communicating with him.
"This gentleman's name is David, and he wants to see these handkerchiefs."
The translator looked confused, but he still dutifully translated what the foreign businessman said to Shen Moer and the others: "He also asked if the fabric for this handkerchief could be better silk?"
Shen Moer calmly took out a spare item from under the booth and handed it to the foreign businessman with a smile. After the foreign businessman took it, he looked at it carefully over and over for a while, and a look of satisfaction appeared on his face.
Then he bent down and spread the handkerchief on the empty space of the black velvet cloth, folding it very skillfully.
Li Xinmei was stunned: "He folded it more skillfully than Deputy Director Shen?"
The key is, do you really want to buy it?
If you want to buy it, just place the order quickly. Why are you folding the handkerchief?
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