Yuezhou is a very peculiar place. It can be said that it is out of place in the south of the Yangtze River, both in terms of opera and food.
Take opera for example. The characteristic of Jiangnan is that the voices are very gentle and soft, such as Suzhou's Pingtan, Kunqu Opera, Yue Opera, Shanghai Opera, Huangmei Opera, etc.
What about talented men and beautiful women, under the moon and flowers, it is so elegant and gentle.
Although Yue Opera belongs to Yuezhou, it was invented by people from Shan County below. It became popular in Shanghai and actually has little to do with Yuezhou.
The most famous local opera in Yuezhou is Shao Opera, which has high-pitched singing and rough performance. It is good at expressing tragic and passionate emotions. The themes are mostly about the struggle between loyalty and treachery, and wars and killings.
Anyone who has seen the Shaoxing opera film "Three Strikes on the White Bone Demon" from the 1960s will know what this singing style is like. Yes, the monkey actor in the film was Liu Xiao Ling Tong, the father of Liu Xiao Ling Tong.
In fact, Liu Xiaolingtong was originally a Shao opera actor and an authentic Yuezhou native. Director Yang Jie personally came to Yuezhou to select him.
If you still can't imagine it, think about how the Qinqiang opera in Shaanxi Province is performed. Shaoju opera is known as the "Southern Qinqiang" and is unique in the Jiangnan region.
Let’s talk about Yuezhou local cuisine.
Yuezhou cuisine was once very famous. There was a well-known restaurant brand called "Little Shaoxing", which can be found in many big cities in later generations. Unfortunately, it was not developed and promoted.
The special thing about Yuezhou cuisine is the word "stinky". Locals like to eat pickled products and food that has been moldy and fermented, and the smellier it is, the better.
Everyone who has traveled to Yuezhou knows about "Yuezhou stinky tofu", which smells stinky but tastes delicious.
But this is just a basic version of the stinky Yuezhou vegetables. If you bring up the "moldy amaranth stems", it will definitely scare away 99.9% of outsiders.
If stinky tofu is paired with moldy vegetable stems, it will be the top-grade stinky vegetable, the king of stinky vegetables.
The stench was absolutely earth-shattering, and it was definitely comparable to Swedish canned herrings.
Nutritionists keep saying that we shouldn't eat it, saying it can easily lead to esophageal cancer and stomach cancer, but this doesn't stop people in Yuezhou from enjoying it.
Therefore, to test whether a person is an authentic "Yuezhou person", just see whether he (she) likes to eat moldy amaranth stems.
Chen Shuqin has passed the test, which shows that even though she left Yuezhou 33 years ago, the Yuezhou genes in her bones have not changed and she has not forgotten her roots.
After dinner, Chen Xia invited his aunt and Lin Hui into the room.
With Gu Lin's help, the couple took out pieces of exquisite jade jewelry from several boxes. They filled the bed, sofa, and table, and there was still two full boxes with no place left.
Chen Shuqin and Lin Hui's eyes were always as bright as little suns, sparkling.
"Xiao, Xiao Xia, are these all yours? Wow, these are definitely glass-type emeralds, all high-ice grade. It's amazing. Even Zhou Jewelry can't come up with so many high-end jadeite."
Gu Lin looked unhappy: "Chen Xia has a lot of stuff like this. I don't know where he hides them normally. He brought them back specially when you came here this time. It's really troublesome to clean up all of them one by one."
This girl has no idea how much value these boxes of jade in her home can create.
Chen Shuqin and Lin Hui picked up the necklace and looked at it, then picked up the jade pendant and looked at it, and they were shocked beyond words.
When Chen Xia lifted a wooden box and opened it, he found that the velvet was full of jade bracelets. The key point was that they were all glass emeralds, the top grade jade.
"Look, little aunt, there are 156 bracelets here in total. Check to see if this one is relatively correct."
Chen Shuqin found that her hands were shaking. It turned out that this boy was not bragging. He really owned countless top-quality jade jewelry.
She picked up a bracelet at random, and Chen Xia handed her a high-intensity flashlight. With a flash, a green light as bright as water came through.
"Xiao Xia, this is truly a glass-type emerald. Just this bracelet, if you don't have five million in Hong Kong, you can't get it at all. Mrs. Li and Mrs. Zhang wanted to buy one a few months ago, but Zhou Jewelry only has one in stock. Selling it to anyone else would offend them. Here, here..."
Lin Hui was more of a doer. He put aside his shock and examined them one by one with a high-intensity flashlight.
In fact, you don’t need to look closely. They are as transparent as glass and as crystal clear as water droplets. They are definitely glass or high ice type.
In addition to the three large boxes of jadeite obtained from Du Enqin, there were also five large boxes collected from Ruili and Tengchong.
In addition, the jade workshop in the Qingfeng Village Pharmaceutical Factory has produced a number of finished products during this period, and all of them are carved from high-quality icy jadeite.
So when Chen Shuqin saw the more than ten boxes full of high-quality ice jadeite, she really couldn't describe it in words.
Chen Xia added, "Aunt, Sister Lin Hui, these ten or so boxes contain finished jewelry and can be taken to Hong Kong at any time. Besides, these are only a very small part of the jadeite I own. The bulk is still in the warehouse in Qingfeng Village."
Suddenly he smiled mysteriously: "Actually, I have hidden the real big head in a mysterious place. Let me put it this way, those jadeite raw stones can be piled up in dozens in our yard alone."
Chen Shuqin and Lin Hui felt like they were about to have a heart attack. These were not jade dealers at all. Even the warlords in Burma did not have so many.
Did he dig up all the jade mines?
However, both of them are professional managers and they know exactly what to ask and what not to ask, so they did not ask about the source of the jade.
All they needed to know was how much jade their "boss" had on hand. These more than ten boxes of jade had given them peace of mind, allowing them to completely put their minds at ease.
Especially Lin Hui, she followed her master out of Zhou Jewelry, but she took a huge risk. If the Caiyunzhinan project failed, it would be difficult for her to return to Zhou. After all, no one wants a traitor.
Now she has begun to believe in Chen Xia's strength and the future of Caiyunzhinan.
Not to mention the unprocessed jadeite and raw stones, just these more than ten boxes of top-quality jadeite will be worth at least tens of billions of yuan after they are brought to Hong Kong.
Her previous annual salary at Zhou Jewellery was only HK$30,000, but Chen Shuqin had promised her that her annual salary would not be less than HK$200,000.
200,000, this salary level is already the treatment for an old store manager like the master, how could she, a child from a poor family, not be tempted?
If you have money, you can buy a house and move your family out of the slums. Who doesn't want to live a good life? This is why Lin Hui works so hard despite her low education level.
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