Chapter 185 Intangible Cultural Heritage
Lin Siqiao spent an hour drawing the design sketches of the restaurant and coffee shop.
Director Hu took it, took a look at it, and immediately said nothing.
For a moment, Director Hu felt that he was not worthy of being the director.
Compared with Kobayashi, I seem very mediocre.
Lin Siqiao had no idea that his series of actions today had actually made Director Hu, who had been a leader in the Beijing Friendship Store for more than a decade, feel inferior.
Her mind was now full of thoughts about her second plan.
But it's almost four o'clock now, so we can only talk about it tomorrow.
Early the next morning, Lin Siqiao arrived at the Friendship Store.
In addition to visiting the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Commission this morning, Director Hu also had a meeting at the Ministry of Commerce.
Before leaving, he specifically called the heads of various departments over to say hello.
He has handed over full responsibility for the embassy area restaurant to Lin Siqiao.
So no matter what she needs today, everyone just needs to do what she says.
Among those people here, none of them who have been able to rise from an ordinary employee to a supervisor position are stupid.
What's more, they knew very well that if the turnover of the Friendship Store increased, it would be a hundred benefits to them with no harm in sight.
They would be crazy to trip up Lin Siqiao.
"Don't worry, Director. We will fully cooperate."
Here, Lin Siqiao clearly felt something was wrong as soon as he entered the lobby on the first floor.
Everyone seems to be a little too enthusiastic.
Lin Siqiao found that no matter which counter she went to, even if she just asked a casual question, the staff would give her enthusiastic feedback.
In addition, this one gives some peanuts and that one gives some melon seeds.
Lin Siqiao’s two pockets are almost full before he finishes touring the entire floor.
"Sister Du, don't call me specially, I'll just take a look."
"Okay, Xiaolin, don't be embarrassed."
Du Lihua, the person in charge of the ornaments counter, looked at her with a smile and pointed to the new ornaments on the shelf.
"Xiao Lin, take a look at this. This is the new product that arrived this month."
"These are all produced in Guangzhou. I heard they are the most popular styles in Hong Kong."
"Our Friendship Store is the only one in the entire Beijing city that has it."
"How about I take it down for you to see?"
Lin Siqiao took a look and found that these were all crystal handicrafts, which looked quite good.
However, it didn't match the overall style of the restaurant, and she was about to say no.
But my eyes accidentally caught a few vases on the top shelf.
The focus is not the vase, but the chrysanthemums in it.
Lin Siqiao took a look at the texture and knew that it was undoubtedly fake flowers, but they were not ordinary fake flowers.
It looks a bit like an intangible cultural heritage - velvet flower!
Lin Siqiao's guess was soon verified.
Du Lihua saw that she was staring at the vases of velvet flowers on the top shelf.
Without waiting for her to speak, Du Lihua took the initiative to move a stool and took down the flowers and the vase.
These velvet flowers have been here for several years and are covered with a thick layer of dust.
The color of the petals also changed from the original fresh and elegant white to a light milky yellow.
Du Lihua found a clean towel to wipe off all the dust on the outside of the velvet flower, and then handed it to Lin Siqiao.
"This is velvet flower, made by a famous velvet flower master in Beijing."
"But the foreign guests don't know the goods. Our Friendship Store only bought a small amount of them, and we haven't sold them in several years."
Seeing that Lin Siqiao seemed very interested, she said directly.
"Xiao Lin, if you think it's appropriate, you can take these away."
Unexpectedly, Lin Siqiao shook her head after hearing this, "Sister Du, I want to ask, can we contact the master who made these velvet flowers now?"
Just yesterday, Lin Siqiao was still worried that her second plan was a bit difficult to implement.
Lin Siqiao's original plan was to take advantage of Christmas to launch several sets of specially customized Christmas clothing, and also to launch several Christmas trees.
In Western countries, the Christmas tree is of great significance and almost every family prepares one.
However, due to health quarantine and prevention of invasion of alien species.
There is no Christmas tree in the Friendship Store’s imported goods catalog.
It is precisely because of this that Lin Siqiao had these ideas.
She plans to put up an extra-large Christmas tree on the first floor on the day the restaurant opens and launch a reservation service.
Christmas trees come in three sizes: large, medium and small, and she has thought of all the styles.
It's a good idea, but it's very troublesome to implement in practice.
It’s not hard to find a suitable Christmas tree, but the decorations on it are difficult.
You have to know that China's light industry was relatively backward at that time, and it was almost impossible to customize these individually.
Lin Siqiao thought, if it really doesn’t work, then forget it.
Unexpectedly, the surprise came so suddenly.
Du Lihua heard the anxiety in her tone and quickly took out the purchase receipt from the drawer.
After a moment, she said, "The master's surname is Lan, and he lives at No. 23 Shijia Hutong in Jing City."
"Thank you, Sister Du."
"Why are you being so polite?"
Lin Siqiao didn't have time to say anything more. He just waved his hand and ran out.
Half an hour later, Lin Siqiao arrived at Shijia Hutong.
"Boom boom boom"
Not long after Lin Siqiao knocked on the door, the door opened from the inside.
A woman in a dark blue coarse cotton coat half stuck her body out from inside, her eyes full of vigilance.
"Comrade, who are you looking for?"
"Hello, are you Master Lan?"
Master Lan hesitated for a moment, "What do you want to see her for?"
Lin Siqiao quickly introduced himself.
"Hello, I'm an employee of the Friendship Store."
"I came here today because I have something I want to discuss with Master Lan."
When Master Lan heard that it was a staff member of the Friendship Store, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
"Come in."
Master Lan led the man back to the house. The house was very small, less than ten square meters.
Apart from a bunk bed, the rest of the sundries filled up the entire room.
"Sorry, the room is a bit crowded."
After Master Lan poured Lin Siqiao a cup of hot water, he went straight to the point.
"Girl, tell me, what do you want from me today?"
Lin Siqiao didn't beat around the bush and took out his notebook.
There are decorative patterns she drew on it, and she also made detailed notes on the colors.
"Master Lan, can you see if these can be made with velvet flower materials?"
Master Lan took it and took a look, and found that it was not difficult.
It’s just…she rarely uses such fancy colors, and she might not have all of them at home.
After a while, Master Lan got up and took out some stuff that had been unused for a long time from the cabinet.
"Wait a moment, I'll try."
A few minutes later, the first small Christmas tree ornament was made.
Then, Master Lan skillfully twisted the velvet strips in his hand.
Soon, the wreath was made.
In less than an hour, all the sketches drawn by Lin Siqiao were restored by Master Lan's skillful hands.
Each piece is so cute that you can’t put it down.
When I learned that Lin Siqiao wanted to order 500 pieces of each item, or even more.
Master Lan was so surprised that he couldn't say a word.
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