Chapter 58 White Moonlight Substitute 24

The accommodation provided by the organizer is quite good, far away from the downtown area, the environment is clean and quiet.

Yao Rong checked the room, pushed the suitcase to the corner, and called Yao Shiyun to have dinner.

The restaurant is located on the second floor of the hotel. When we arrived at the restaurant, there were already many people sitting in it. There were both contestants and staff from the organizer.

At seven o'clock in the evening, twenty contestants gathered in the hotel conference hall.

This was an event held by the organizer, allowing the contestants to introduce themselves to each other and then take the contestants to visit the interior of the association. The event will last about two hours, which will not affect the players' rest that day, so the players are very considerate of the organizers.

Yao Shiyun sat near the door.

On her left was a man with long hair, and on her right was a quiet girl wearing thick black-framed glasses. She had a few freckles on her face and looked not much older than Yao Shiyun.

When the girl stood up to introduce herself, Yao Shiyun knew her name.

"My name is Cen Jinge, and I'm currently interning at a clothing brand company."

While speaking, Cen Jinge kept reaching out to push her glasses, looking a little embarrassed.

"My preliminary work is Green Field, and my semi-final work is Sunshine. Please give me your advice."

Unlike other people who would proudly introduce a lot of their works when introducing themselves, Cen Jinge's words were very brief, but Yao Shiyun couldn't help but look at her a few more times.

Green Field.

She remembered this work.

The preliminary works of the semi-final contestants will be published on the official website, and Yao Shiyun has studied them all in her spare time.

Among the other 19 works, her favorite is "Green Field".

That work is so beautiful that she can directly sketch the picture from her mind.

It's like a woman, holding an umbrella and passing through the misty rain of Jiangnan, and dancing in the mountains and rivers. No one can see the woman's face clearly, and can only remember the silhouette when the skirt is lifted.

The woman may be old, but time has made her look graceful and elegant.

Unfortunately, this work does not seem to meet the judges' aesthetic standards. Although it entered the semi-finals, its ranking in the preliminary round was not high.

These thoughts flashed through Yao Shiyun's mind. As soon as Cen Jinge sat down, it was Yao Shiyun's turn to introduce herself.

As soon as she said her name, many of the originally careless contestants immediately turned their attention to her.

Just as she would pay attention to other contestants, other contestants would also pay attention to their opponents.

And the first place in the preliminary round was the focus of everyone's observation.

Being watched by so many people, Yao Shiyun had a calm expression, fluent speech, and was neither humble nor arrogant. She bowed to everyone, sat down calmly, and continued to listen to others introduce themselves with her chin propped up.

After everyone finished speaking, Yao Shiyun could only secretly sigh: the competition is so fierce.

Among those present, there are talented people trained by major universities, as well as designers working in top clothing companies. Two of them have even had their works published in international fashion magazines and international fashion weeks.

However, the more this happened, the more her desire to win burned.

"Okay, now that everyone has gotten to know each other, let's go visit the association." The vice president sitting in the main seat said with a smile.

The office building of the Fashion Design Association is not far from the hotel, and it only takes ten minutes to walk there.

The journey was boring, Yao Shiyun looked at Cen Jinge beside her and took the initiative to bring up the topic.

Cen Jinge was walking with her head down. When she heard what Yao Shiyun said, she was stunned for a few seconds before answering Yao Shiyun's question.

She was obviously not very good at chatting. Basically, she answered Yao Shiyun's question.

However, during the narration, Yao Shiyun also learned some information about Cen Jinge from the side.

Cen Jinge is a graduate of a second-tier college. She is only one year older than Yao Shiyun. She spent a lot of effort to apply for the current clothing design company. She is still in the internship period and is learning from her master. In fact, she was also surprised that she could be shortlisted for the finals this time.

"It's all luck." Cen Jinge pushed her glasses again.

"My mother and I like your preliminary works very much."

"Really?" Cen Jinge was a little surprised.

Her "Green Field" was not highly recognized by the judges, nor by her master.

Perhaps because of the shock she had received over the years, Cen Jinge doubted her ears when she first heard what Yao Shiyun said.

Yao Shiyun said playfully, "If you don't believe me, I'll let my mother tell you in person next time." Cen Jinge thought

she was joking, but she had a better impression of Yao Shiyun.

***

This final will last for three days.

Two days will be reserved for contestants to make clothes, and the last day will be for model shows, judges' scoring, and awards ceremony.

The competition officially started at 9 a.m., and as early as 8 a.m., 20 contestants arrived at the competition area, entered their exclusive seats, opened their suitcases and began to check whether their belongings were complete and whether there were any problems with the various sewing and cutting tools prepared by the organizers.

Capital TV and China Central Television both sent reporters to interview the entire process.

In addition, Capital TV will also broadcast the competition live.

Many fashion zone up-loaders also came to do live broadcasts.

Qingqing Zijin is such an up-loader.

As a million-dollar up-loader in the fashion zone of Station C, Qingqing Zijin happens to be a native of the capital.

Half of the videos he shot were about making clothes, but after several years of high-intensity output, Qingqing Zijin has recently fallen into a serious creative bottleneck. This time he came to live broadcast the competition, firstly to make some videos, and secondly to take the opportunity to go out and collect inspiration.

"Hello everyone, I'm at the competition site now."

Qingqing Zijin raised his mobile phone stick, greeted the fans, and answered the questions on the screen.

"The scene is still very lively, and the audience seats are basically full."

"Hey, there is a seat there, let's go over quickly." Qingqing Zijin took a long step and sat down quickly.

Yao Rong sat diagonally behind Qingqing Zijin.

This competition will be a very important experience in Yao Shiyun's life. She didn't want to miss it, so she came to the venue early in the morning and chose a seat with a good view.

Hearing Qingqing Zijin's voice, Yao Rong couldn't help but glance at him.

It was because of this glance that an audience in the live broadcast room noticed Yao Rong.

The barrage seemed to say something, and Qingqing Zijin turned around and saw the clothes Yao Rong was wearing, and his eyes widened in surprise.

"Oh my God, it's really the starry sky!"

Yao Rong smiled: "Yes, you are not mistaken."

The skirt she wore today was exactly Yao Shiyun's preliminary work.

In order to match this skirt, she specially asked someone to do the styling early in the morning.

However, because there were many people in the fashion circle at the scene, her dress was not abrupt.

"Hello, sister." Qingqing Zijin showed eight teeth and smiled very standardly, "Sister, this skirt is..."

"My daughter designed it for me."

"It turns out that Yao Shiyun is your daughter. I couldn't tell at all, and I thought you were her sister." Qingqing Zijin was very sweet, but he was very tactful. When he was talking to Yao Rong, the camera in the live broadcast room was not aimed at Yao Rong.

"By the way, sister, look..." Qingqing Zijin pointed to his mobile phone.

Yao Rong knew what he wanted to ask, and nodded: "I don't mind. By the way, my last name is Yao."

Qingqing Zijin thanked her and turned the phone screen back.

"Sister Yao, my last name is Qin." After introducing each other's family, Qingqing Zijin asked Yao Rong about the skirt.

Originally, he just casually brought up the topic, but he didn't expect Yao Rong to talk about this skirt in detail, and her words were humorous. No matter how complicated and obscure the professional knowledge was, she could explain it in a simple way. Not only the audience in the live broadcast room, but even Qingqing Zijin herself was fascinated by what she said. Qingqing

Zijin was secretly excited. This was really a treasure.

The first two days of this competition were all made by designers, and he couldn't do anything fancy no matter how he live broadcasted. But now with this sister Yao, his live broadcast room immediately has a lot more highlights.

"Sister Yao, is this skirt designed by your daughter specifically for you?" After one topic ended, Qingqing Zijin started to throw out the next topic.

"She designed it and sewed it herself."

With Yao Rong's vision, how could she not see Qing Qing Zi Jin's little calculation.

But she was just sitting there idle, so it didn't matter if she chatted. Besides, she had seen the number of people online in Qing Qing Zi Jin's live broadcast room. Qing Qing Zi Jin intended to use her as a gimmick in the live broadcast room, so she advertised more for Yao Shi Yun in the live broadcast room.

Everyone benefited from it.

So in the following conversation, Yao Rong inadvertently praised Yao Shi Yun countless times.

For example, when Qingqing Zijin asked Yao Shiyun how she finds inspiration, Yao Rong said: "She is a person who observes life seriously and lives her life seriously. Sometimes, she gets an amazing inspiration just from a conversation; sometimes, she can feel the beauty that ordinary people cannot feel just by sitting in the garden and admiring the flowers. There are still so many things in this world that she has not seen, so I am very much looking forward to her future. If the world has infinite possibilities, she has infinite possibilities."

For example, when Qingqing Zijin asked Yao Rong why she knew so much about the industry even though she was not a fashion practitioner, Yao Rong said, "Because my daughter likes to share this knowledge with me. When she is happy, she always talks to me non-stop. I know this is her favorite career. As her mother, I hope to have more topics to talk to her about. I hope to be a witness and see her move towards her goal step by step, so I will consciously learn a lot of things."

There are many more.

No matter what topic they talk about, in the end, Yao Rong can always turn it around to Yao Shiyun.

However, Qingqing Zijin is not bored.

He likes to hear Yao Rong mention her daughter.

Because when talking about her daughter, Yao Rong's eyes always become particularly gentle, which makes Qingqing Zijin subconsciously think of his mother.

He thought that the audience in the live broadcast room obviously had the same feeling as him.

Otherwise, how come the number of viewers in his live broadcast room not only did not decrease, but increased by a full 200,000.

Time passed little by little, and just when Qingqing Zijin was about to end the conversation, his live broadcast room suddenly began to boil violently with the appearance of a bullet screen.

[Tange Qin, hug your thigh! Do you know who the woman next to you who has been chatting with you for three hours is! ! She is a rich sister worth tens of billions! ! ! ]

[! ! ! ]

[What what, where is the rich sister! ! ! ! 】

The ID that revealed Yao Rong's identity just now spoke again: [Originally, like Tanka Qin, I was obsessed with the elegance, intelligence and profound humor of the beautiful sister, but I don't know why, the beautiful sister looked more and more familiar, and then I checked it out, she is the chairman of the Yao Group! A net worth of 10 billion is not a small amount. If the new electric car of the Yao Group is successfully launched, the stock price of the Yao Group will definitely soar immediately.]

[Fuck, if the sister's net worth was not too high, Tanka Qin would never have invited the sister as a guest. I even suspect that this is a script. Who can believe that you can live broadcast a billionaire in a random live broadcast? ]

[Actually, I wanted to say it at the beginning. The necklace that the sister matched with the skirt looks very much like a limited edition of a big brand this year...]

[Am I the only one who cried over the mother-daughter relationship. Listen, my sister is praising Yao Shiyun again. How many times has this happened? If my mother can praise me once, my tail will fly straight up to the sky.

I also want to say, what kind of fairy mother-daughter relationship is this? In fact, I don’t pay much attention to these contestants, but my sister has brainwashed me into a casual fan of Yao Shiyun, even though I don’t even know what Yao Shiyun looks like.

Qingqing Zijin swallowed and sat up straighter subconsciously. His face was still calm, but he was already screaming in his heart.

He made money, made a lot of money.

If this video of his doesn’t go viral, who else can!

***

At the other end of the venue.

The competition has been going on in the afternoon.

Yao Shiyun cut all the fabrics and started the preliminary sewing. She was sitting in front of the sewing machine, and just as she was about to step on the pedal, she suddenly heard a deliberately suppressed scream coming from the player area on the left.

Each player area was separated by foam boards, which were not particularly soundproof. The scream made Yao Shiyun stop what she was doing and look up.

But wait a moment, except for the short scream just now, there is no more extra movement.

Cen Jinge is now very upset.

The organizer will assign an assistant to each player, mainly to help the players deal with some simpler things.

Cen Jinge naturally has an assistant.

But just now, when her assistant was helping her iron the cloth, the circuit suddenly malfunctioned, so the assistant squatted down to check the circuit. As a result, when the assistant was checking, she forgot to take the iron on the cloth away. When Cen Jinge smelled a faint burnt smell and turned around, she found that the cloth was actually burned through by the iron.

The assistant was so scared that he apologized repeatedly. Cen Jinge shook his head and said nothing, holding back tears.

"Um, Teacher Cen, do you have any extra cloth?" the assistant asked in a low voice.

Some designers, worried that there will be problems when making clothes, often prepare an extra set of materials in case of emergency; but some designers are more casual in this regard and think that one set of materials is enough.

Cen Jinge is neither the former nor the latter.

If conditions permit, she will also choose to prepare an extra set of materials, but the piece of cloth that the assistant ironed is the most expensive material she has ever purchased, and one piece costs tens of thousands of yuan.

She is too tight on money, and preparing this piece of cloth has used up most of her savings. She is really powerless.

"Ah, it's so expensive..." The assistant's face turned pale, "Teacher Cen, I will compensate you."

"It's not a matter of money."

Cen Jinge bit her lip, feeling choked up.

Soon, the vice president and the person in charge heard the news and rushed over.

Even the reporters from the TV station rushed over with cameras.

The assistant was severely criticized by the vice president, but the person in charge was powerless to solve Cen Jinge's problem: "We have sent someone to check the warehouse now. If there is stock, it will be transferred to you immediately."

But...

this possibility is not great.

Besides, the cloth used by Cen Jinge has been processed.

It took her a week just to process the cloth.

Cen Jinge did not speak by the wall, her right hand tightly grasping the corner of her clothes.

Her mind is very confused now.

No matter what the reason is, if the work is not completed, it will not be completed. The competition will not be postponed because of one person's accident, but she needs this opportunity desperately.

As long as she could get the top ten in this competition, she could immediately become a full-time employee in the company, and her starting salary could be 2,000 to 3,000 higher than other colleagues. This money might not be a big deal to some people, but it was very important to her, who had a patient at home to treat.

But Cen Jinge didn't know who to blame.

This was an accident.

No one wanted it to happen.

Just when Cen Jinge could hardly suppress her emotions and was about to break down and cry in front of the camera,

someone suddenly knocked on the half-closed door.

The vice president opened the door and saw the person coming. He was a little surprised: "Why are you here?"

"I heard a lot of noise in the next room, so I wanted to come over and take a look." Yao Shiyun's eyes moved around the small room, and finally fixed on Cen Jinge, "Is there anything I can do to help?"

Cen Jinge blinked.

The tears that she had been holding back finally burst out.

"I..."

"I..."

She didn't know how to start.

Yao Shiyun hesitated for a moment, but still walked in directly, took out a tissue and handed it to Cen Jinge, and looked around the room again.

This time, without the obstruction of others, she finally saw everything in the room.

On the ironing board, the piece of red cloth that was ironed through silently announced Cen Jinge's current predicament.

"Is this Yanqiao?" Yao Shiyun asked.

"Yes." Cen Jinge wiped away tears.

As experts in this field, Yao Shiyun knew why Cen Jinge looked so desperate when she saw him for the first time when she walked in.

"This cloth is not widely used..." Yao Shiyun whispered.

"It's okay. Don't worry about me, just go and do your thing."

"I've finished most of it, there's no rush." ​​Yao Shiyun gently felt the edge of the fabric, "Don't be sad, this is only the first day of the competition, as long as we find the processed crabapple red smoke and ask someone to send it over overnight, everything will be in time."

Cen Jinge's tears froze in her eyes, staring at Yao Shiyun in a daze, not understanding how such a difficult thing could become so easy when it came to her lips.

But perhaps infected by Yao Shiyun's emotions, Cen Jinge gradually calmed down. It would be useless to break down in this situation, and it would only make things worse: "I will contact my friends and ask them to help me."

"I will also contact them for you." Yao Shiyun looked at the person in charge, "The organizer has a wide network of contacts, can you also help look for it?"

This mess was caused by the staff of the organizer, so the person in charge naturally said nothing.

"By the way, if you find it, the money for this piece of cloth and the related shipping costs..." Yao Shiyun said softly.

The vice president at the side made the decision: "We will take care of it. I will also help to contact them."

Yao Shiyun thought for a moment and said: "I will call my mother again. Can the organizer ask her to come over? She should be able to help."

The clothing company under the name of Yao Group has many partners. Maybe they can find out by asking each other.

The vice president personally went there and brought Yao Rong to the scene.

After learning what happened, Yao Rong agreed directly.

The commotion here lasted too long. Other contestants also ran over. Hearing this, they immediately said: "I will look for it too."

Cen Jinge's eyes suddenly widened, and the tears that had just stopped began to flow again.

"Thank you. Thank you." She couldn't say anything else, so she just kept saying thank you.

"It's a piece of cake."

The contestant directly sent a message for help in an industry group.

There are 2,000 people in this industry group. It seems that other contestants are also in the group. They asked "what's going on" and helped forward this message for help.

"Do you feel less sad now?" Yao Shiyun patted Cen Jinge on the shoulder. "Maybe the result won't be particularly good, but you have to try your best. After trying, at least you won't regret it so much when you look back on it in the future."

"Aren't we competitors?" Cen Jinge asked in a low voice.

The company where she interned emphasized wolf-like competition, and even her master would be reserved when teaching her.

These competitors who had a direct competitive relationship with her didn't mind wasting their time to help.

Obviously...

obviously they could have just stood by and watched.

Standing by and watching was just natural.

"We are competitors, but what we are competing for is our works. I hope to compete with everyone on the same stage, and the ranking will be determined by our strength. It would be a pity if you lost the qualification to participate in the competition because of the fabric." Yao Shiyun clapped his hands and said to Cen Jinge, "There will be no news for a while, so why don't you go and deal with other materials first, and I will go back to work."

Yao Shiyun waved to Cen Jinge and left the room.

Looking at the room that had calmed down again, Cen Jinge was dazed for a while, patted his face with his hands, took a deep breath, and sat back in front of the sewing machine.

No matter what, let's finish the other steps first.

But before starting to get busy with the work at hand, Cen Jinge couldn't help but smile.

She thought that even if she still couldn't find Yanqiao tomorrow, she would be able to face the result calmly.

Because she gained something more important than ranking.

Ranking and honor can increase her salary and fame, but this thing can make her career, and even her entire life, go further.

***

Yao Rong called the clothing company and stood there for a while holding the phone. A familiar voice came into his ears. The person who was talking on the phone was Qingqing Zijin or someone else.

Qingqing Zijin was suddenly patted on the shoulder.

He turned around and saw that the person was Yao Rong.

"I want to ask you for a favor." Because Cen Jinge's incident had been filmed by the TV station, Yao Rong did not avoid the audience in the live broadcast room. "You should know a lot of friends who are anchors. If they have some processed but unused Begonia Red cigarettes, I wonder if you can help me buy them. The price is negotiable."

Qingqing Zijin was confused at first, but then he guessed what happened: "Did something go wrong in the competition?"

"There was an accident with a player's cigarettes, and now they need to be repurchased." Yao Rong briefly explained what happened.

Qingqing Zijin has a keen sense of hot topics: "No problem, I'll help contact them right away, but I don't know if I can follow up on this matter from beginning to end?"

"I'll help you communicate with the organizers." Yao Rong smiled, "Thank you."

Qingqing Zijin said something to the audience, and without turning off the live broadcast, she lowered her head and used the backup phone to contact her friends in the circle, and asked them to mobilize their own connections to look for them.

Before Yao Rong turned around to find the organizer, Qingqing Zijin suddenly remembered something and called Yao Rong.

"Sister Yao, the conversation you and I just had has become a hot topic."