Two days later, Zhou Xia's personal porcelain exhibition "First Encounter" opened at the Shenhai Contemporary Art Museum.
This exhibition is not only the first exhibition of Zhou Xiaru porcelain works in China, but also a comprehensive exhibition of her attempts at all types of porcelain.
Zhang Moyan and Jin Xueyang arrived at the scene together on the afternoon of the opening day. She was invited to visit, while Jin Xueyang came with the task of collecting folk songs.
Due to the influence of "The Flame" and Xiao Xingyu, the social attention to celadon glaze porcelain has always been very high. This time, the celadon glaze porcelain successfully re-fired by Xiao Guotao appeared in the exhibition. As soon as the news came out, many experts and fans have been looking forward to it and vying for a glimpse of it.
When Zhang Moyan and Jin Xueyang arrived, the huge exhibition hall was already crowded with many visitors and media who came to see the celadon porcelain and Ru kiln.
Zhou Xia was holding a sharing session on the east side of the exhibition hall. With the help of a host on the stage, she introduced her works and mental journey to the guests. Her husband, the dean of the company, was also sitting in the audience, smiling and admiring his wife's shining moment.
Arriving late, Zhang Moyan and Jin Xueyang had already lost their advantage, unable to squeeze through the thick crowd. Zhang Moyan didn't want to interrupt, while Jin Xueyang, having seen so much, didn't take today's field trip seriously, coming purely to get by. With everyone else attending the sharing session, they could explore the relatively spacious exhibition hall at their leisure.
The stylishly designed exhibition hall is dotted with glass display cases. Zhang Moyan walks among the exquisite porcelain pieces with a professional camera, trying to find the most perfect shooting angle for each piece.
In the past two days, she went to Hangzhou and looked for the property left by Chen Yun.
After more than 20 years of urban development, it is no longer considered a suburb. Now it is surrounded by schools, hospitals, and shopping malls, which have attracted many young people to settle down there.
Although the city is changing with each passing day and high-rise buildings are everywhere, Chen Yun's house has been preserved intact because it is close to a historical site and has been designated as a landscape protection area.
There Zhang Moyan saw her tenants, a young couple with an eight or nine-year-old daughter. The three of them lived in the familiar yet unfamiliar courtyard that had appeared several times in her dreams.
It was evening when she went there. The young couple was assembling a newly bought desk for their daughter in the patio. Their daughter ran around expectantly like a little bird, sometimes handing tools to her father, sometimes getting mineral water for her mother, so innocent and romantic.
Next, Zhang Moyan silently watched the family from a distance for more than a day, and then did nothing and left quietly.
"Sister-in-law, you're here!"
The first person to discover Zhang Moyan in the exhibition hall was Xiaowa. When Xiaowa saw Zhang Moyan, he was as surprised and excited as if he had picked up gold on the street.
"Who are you calling?" Jin Xueyang had a toothache.
Zhang Moyan put down the camera and greeted, "Xiao Wa, you're here too?"
"Yeah, today is Sister Zhou Xia's big day, and I came here early to help her." Xiao Wa only had eyes for Zhang Moyan. "Why are you being so low-key now that my sister-in-law is here? Brother Yu came this morning, but now he has something to do at the research institute. I'll call him and tell him you're here!"
Jin Xueyang continued to have a toothache: "Hey, you!"
"No, no need," Zhang Moyan stopped Jin Xueyang and Xiao Wa, "Let Teacher Xiao take care of it. Well, I just contacted a few WeChat public accounts I've been in contact with, and they agreed to let me contribute a few articles to promote this exhibition. I'll just walk around, take some photos, and then leave. I have to write it quickly."
"Oh..." Xiao Wa glared at Jin Xueyang and said, "Sister-in-law, you've taken the trouble to even think of helping with the promotion. You're so talented and generous! If Sister Zhou Xia knew, she'd be so touched. My brother Yu is so lucky to have found a good wife like you."
"Bullshit!" Jin Xueyang was speechless.
Zhang Moyan was embarrassed: "Xiao Wa, you are exaggerating. I can't help you with anything else. This is the best I can do."
"Sister-in-law, you are too modest. I, Xiaowa, envy people who can write articles the most in my life!" Xiaowa calmly took out his cell phone and sent a message to Xiao Xingyu.
"Xiao Wa..." The call of sister-in-law made people sweat on their foreheads. Zhang Moyan wanted to say something but stopped herself.
"Oh oh," Xiao Wa immediately understood and covered his mouth with a smile: "Sister Mo Yan, Sister Mo Yan!"
For the following time, Xiao Wa followed Zhang Moyan closely. Those who didn't understand the situation thought that Zhang Moyan had a bodyguard.
"Huh? He's here..."
Suddenly, Jin Xueyang muttered something beside Zhang Moyan.
Zhang Moyan followed Jin Xueyang's gaze and saw five or six people surrounding a display case not far in front of them. Standing in the middle was a well-dressed old gentleman. He was slightly overweight and had gray hair, but he looked very energetic and neat. He was listening carefully to the stories of the two young men beside him, and his bright eyes moved as he looked at the exhibits in the glass case as the young men spoke.
Zhang Moyan felt the old man looked familiar, but only to the extent that she'd seen him in some kind of publication. As she was trying to recall, Xiao Wa muttered the man's name, "When did Geng Baishan come?"
Geng Baishan?
A legend in the porcelain industry, Geng Baishan is a business godfather who spent the first half of his life studying celadon porcelain and the second half of his life developing the industry. He once made his Baishan Group occupy half of the country's daily-use and electronic ceramics market. Now he is a semi-retired legend.
That is Geng Jun’s grandfather.
Geng Jun’s grandfather Geng Baishan actually visited Zhou Xia’s exhibition!
Zhang Moyan barely reacted when Jin Xueyang excitedly grabbed Xiaowa and said, "I'm not mistaken about him, he's Geng Baishan, right?!"
Xiao Wa looked at Jin Xueyang's hand, frowned, and pulled it away: "Yes."
"It's a godsend!" Jin Xueyang seemed to see a big scoop waving at him, and immediately picked up the equipment and rushed over.
"Hello, Mr. Geng!" Jin Xueyang greeted him politely. "Excuse me for disturbing you. I'm Jin Xueyang, a reporter from Leading Media. I didn't expect to see you here. I thought I was seeing things!"
Geng Baishan stopped talking to the people around him and nodded slightly to Jin Xueyang: "Hello, young comrade."
Jin Xueyang's voice was filled with uncontrollable joy: "Hello, hello, it's such an honor to meet you. You are someone I have admired for a long time but have never met in person..."
Jin Xueyang is a man of fair complexion, knows how to deal with people and has a sweet mouth, which gives him a great advantage in dealing with such elderly people. He displayed his usual frank and open style and soon started chatting with Geng Baishan and his party.
Zhang Moyan quietly moved away from this elusive celebrity.
The fact that Geng Baishan appeared here meant that Geng Jun had dealt with the elders in the family. Although she was very happy for them, she didn't know if it was because she was Chen Yun's daughter, but she instinctively felt afraid of Geng Baishan's appearance and avoided him.
After all, her biological mother Chen Yun was the one who tried to steal the Geng family's ancient glaze more than 20 years ago.
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