Everyone loves the icing on the cake.
The success of the fashion conference not only made Mark famous overseas, but also brought a wave of traditional handicrafts to China. Countless online store sellers took the opportunity to launch their own handmade works.
The media reported on some people with mobility problems who relied on their craftsmanship to lead a positive life. They also reported on an old lady with gray hair who had persisted in her craftsmanship for a lifetime and whose finished products were amazing.
Traditional crafts have become popular online. Especially after the news broke that someone invested a large amount of money to set up a traditional craft support project, it attracted the attention of netizens. In traditional industries, many crafts have fallen into an embarrassing situation of no successors.
This is not anyone's fault, because people have to eat and wear clothes to live in the world. But if someone is willing to pay money to support and develop these projects, these skills will have a chance to usher in spring.
Pei Yan was interviewed by a TV station. When the reporter asked her if she would continue to embroider, she nodded at the camera.
"For me, embroidery has become an indispensable habit in life. For many people, the embroidered patterns are just products that amaze them for a while, but for me, it is life, persistence, and belief." Hua Jin smiled, "I am fortunate to cooperate with Mr. Mark and let everyone see my works, but there are many embroiderers who are better and more skilled than me, who are silently sticking to their craftsmanship."
"You are only 25 years old now, and your embroidery works have already amazed the world. There are countless possibilities for you in the future. How do you feel about such an achievement?"
"I am proud and happy. I am proud of our culture and that it can amaze the world. I am also happy for myself." Hua Jin smiled playfully. "After all, everyone likes the phoenix pattern I embroidered, which is also a kind of affirmation for me."
"Mr. Mark said that it was you and other embroiderers who made him successful this time. What do you think?"
"I don't agree with him." Hua Jin shook her head. "Mr. Mark's design talent is obvious to all. Before he cooperated with us, he was already a well-known domestic designer. This success is the result of his years of hard work. Our traditional embroidery adds some color to his design. It can be regarded as a fusion and win-win situation at most, but it is definitely not us who made him successful. In fact, I am very grateful to him. He has allowed more people to see the beauty of embroidery and the beauty of traditional handicrafts. It is he who made us successful."
The reporter did not expect Hua Jin to have such humble thoughts. He is young, rational, and determined to stick to his craft. Such a person may be very successful no matter what industry he is in.
In order to catch up with the recent wave of popularity, the interview was released a few days later.
On the day the show was broadcast, Hua Jin leaned on the sofa, holding a bowl and eating fruit next to Pei Yan. She looked at herself in the camera and said to him, "I found that I look good on camera."
"Well, you are the most beautiful in my heart." Pei Yan said as he reached out to take the fruit from Hua Jin's bowl, but Hua Jin knocked his hand away, "You're stealing from me again."
"I'm yours now, so what's wrong with eating a piece of your fruit?" Pei Yan hugged Hua Jin in his arms and pretended to lick him with his tongue. In a hurry, Hua Jin gently bit his neck.
"Hmm..." Pei Yan covered his neck and stared at Hua Jin for a long time, unable to speak.
"Did it hurt?" Hua Jin regretted seeing that he didn't say anything. She reached out to pull his hand that was covering his neck and said, "Let me see."
Taking the pillow and placing it on his thighs, Pei Yan blushed and turned his head away, "I'm fine."
"Are you really okay?" Hua Jin handed the bowl of fruit to him, "Here, take it."
"Hua Xiaojin, don't treat me like a child." Pei Yan glared at her and turned his back to ignore her.
"So stingy?" Hua Jin bit a piece of fruit, not intending to appease his little problem. Unexpectedly, Pei Yan suddenly turned around and kissed her heavily on the mouth: "I don't want to eat fruit now, I want to eat you."
Hua Jin blinked and said after a while: "Eating people is against the law."
Pei Yan glanced at her, sighed and stopped talking. Hua Jin sat up straight on the sofa and turned to look out the window. "It's getting colder. Is it going to snow soon?"
"After the Chinese New Year and the beginning of spring, I want to take you on a trip." Pei Yan turned to look at Hua Jin, "Okay?"
Meeting Pei Yan's eyes, Hua Jin was stunned: "Okay."
Hearing the affirmative answer, Pei Yan smiled instantly. He hugged Hua Jin into his arms and whispered, "Hua Jin, I really want to spend my whole life with you."
Listening to his heartbeat and smelling the fragrance on his clothes, Hua Jin smiled: "I want to, too."
The next morning, when Hua Jin woke up, heavy snow had already fallen outside the window. She stretched out her hand and drew a snowflake on the glass window. The water droplets condensed from the mist fell and wet her hand.
Pei Yan specially made the next room into an embroidery room. Hua Jin had been embroidering in this room to avoid the media. When she opened the door, she saw a picture of a lady embroidered by a famous domestic embroidery master. Whenever Hua Jin wanted to be lazy, she would look up at the picture of a lady. The difference in embroidery skills made her sober instantly.
The snow had been falling for two days, and Hua Jin took Pei Yan and went to visit Tan Yuan's family, carrying a lot of bags. Tan Yuan's home was in an old residential building, which had no elevator, but was very clean.
Pei Yan had sent Hua Jin to this neighborhood many times, but had never actually been inside. Seeing Hua Jin about to knock on a door, he straightened his coat and straightened his back.
Looking back at Pei Yan who was a little reserved, Hua Jin couldn't help laughing: "Don't worry, don't be nervous, you are already very good, they will all like you very much."
"Who's nervous?" Pei Yan put down the hand that was adjusting his bow tie and pointed at his other hand, "Knock on the door, there are so many things, I can't carry them anymore."
"Who told you to buy so many?" Hua Jin knocked on the door while smiling. When she got off the car just now, she wanted to help Pei Yan share some of the burden, but he held on to the gift box tightly and refused to let go, so she could only let him go.
The door was opened, and Tan Yuan saw Pei Yan and Hua Jin, and invited them in with a smile.
"The slippers are new and no one has worn them yet. You can put them on." Tan Yuan took out two pairs of slippers, one blue and one pink, but with the same pattern. She winked at Hua Jin and said, "Hua Hua, take Mr. Pei to make them. I'll go to the kitchen to help."
After saying that, he trotted into the kitchen.
Gao Shulan came out of the room and smiled before she spoke: "This must be Xiao Pei, come in and sit down." Seeing Pei Yan holding a bunch of gift boxes in his hands, Gao Shulan said helplessly, "Huahua, how could you let Mr. Pei buy so many things? There is no need for family members to be so particular about these things."
"I didn't ask him to buy it, Aunt Gao, you can't wrongly accuse me." Hua Jin changed into slippers, took off her thick coat, and sniffed, "Aunt Gao, what did Uncle Tan cook? It smells so good."
"I stewed an old duck." Gao Shulan asked Pei Yan to sit down. Looking at the pile of gift boxes, she didn't know whether to cry or laugh. She had to take out some fruits and sit with them to watch TV.
Pei Yan thought he would be interrogated or scrutinized, but Hua Jin's master and his family were very easy-going with him, as if it was not his first visit, but he had been there several times.
In the kitchen, Tan Yuan's father was busying around. Pei Yan felt a little embarrassed and offered to help, but was stopped by Gao Shulan.
"Don't go. He can handle it all by himself. It's rare for you to come here, so how can I ask you to do all this?" Gao Shulan said with a smile, "Stay here and talk to Huahua for a while."
Seeing that Mr. Pei didn't look like he could cook, she didn't make things difficult for him.
Gao Shulan is a straightforward person. After Pei Yan chatted with her for a while, he understood why Hua Jin liked this master so much.
In order to welcome Pei Yan, Tan Qing prepared a large table of dishes and even bought a bottle of red wine worth thousands of yuan. When he heard that Pei Yan didn't drink, he smiled and nodded repeatedly: "It's better not to drink. Drinking hurts your liver."
"Uncle Tan's cooking skills are amazing. He can cook so many dishes." Pei Yan couldn't help but boast after eating a few chopsticks of food, "No wonder Huahua likes to come to your house for dinner."
"Of course not. I used this skill to win over your Aunt Gao." Tan Qing said proudly, "If I hadn't been in the lacquerware business, I would have switched to being a chef."
"That's enough. You're bragging in front of the younger generation because they don't know." Gao Shulan glared at Tan Qing, then turned to Pei Yan and said, "Xiao Pei, although Huahua is not our biological daughter, we have already treated her as our own child. We won't say much else. You and Huahua should come to our place often in the future, but don't buy things like today. Nothing you buy can compare to you being nice to Huahua. Come on, today is New Year's Day, let's toast to the festival."
"Cheers." Pei Yan raised his drink glass and clinked it with everyone else's.
After dinner, the family sat on the carpet and played cards. The loser would have a note stuck on his face. Pei Yan originally wanted to play with Hua Jin casually, but in the end, he ended up with a face full of notes stuck on him, and he rolled on the ground laughing.
Until he left the Tan family, he was still holding the red envelopes given by Aunt Gao and Uncle Tan, and the smile on his face did not fade.
"You are... very happy today?" Seeing the smile on Pei Yan's face that had not faded, Hua Jin reached out and poked his face, "When Uncle Tan asked us to go to his house to celebrate the New Year together, you actually agreed so readily."
"I don't have any elders, and you like Uncle Tan and Aunt Gao, so of course I'll accompany you to have the New Year's Eve dinner with them." Pei Yan grabbed her hand, "Don't you want to be here?"
Hua Jin was stunned. After a long moment, she smiled and said, "I thought so."
"That's right. They like you and care about you, and you like them too. It's the best choice for everyone to spend the New Year together." Pei Yan rubbed Hua Jin's head. "Seeing how well they treat you, I'm very happy."
At least in the years without me, there are still people who care about you and love you, making your life less lonely and isolated.
A few days before the Spring Festival, it started snowing again. Hua Jin took Pei Yan to the supermarket to buy things. The supermarket was crowded with people, and many supermarkets were holding promotional activities in the name of congratulating the New Year.
Pei Yan followed Hua Jin, pushing a shopping cart. Seeing that Hua Jin was staring at a child sitting in the shopping cart, he asked in a low voice, "Do you want to sit too?"
"I'm not a three or four-year-old child." Hua Jin glared at him. "I was just looking at the pig stuffed animal in the shopping cart. I don't know where I bought it."
"want to?"
"Um."
"I'll go with you to find it."
The two walked around the supermarket for a long time and finally found the sales area of the dolls. Pei Yan saw that Hua Jin only took one, so he took another one and put it in the shopping cart.
"You like it too?" Hua Jin was puzzled.
"New Year, new beginnings. Even if you are a stuffed pig, you should have a companion."
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