The popularity of the Pearl Craft Park not only brought about a wave of pearl sales, but also attracted widespread attention from the society. Several newspapers in Guangdong Province sent reporters to interview and take photos, and Guangdong Provincial Television also went out. Various reports on television and print media promoted the South Island pearls to the public.

"The pearls on the island are so beautiful!" "

Beach wedding photos!"

"Winter tourist destination."

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Today's times are different from the past. There is even a trend called "exaggerating wealth" in various places and towns. The media and even local governments should encourage and publicize those people who actively respond to the call in the new era and get rich by opening factories and becoming self-employed.

Therefore, the hot sales of pearls have been widely reported. When combined with the old news reports that a string of pearl necklaces sold for thousands of dollars a few years ago, many people's eyes are red.

Selling pearls? How much money can you make!

Those pearl farm owners are making a lot of money!

...

Some people can only envy secretly in their hearts, while others have their own thoughts.

Nandao pearls are selling so well, and there is also the gimmick of "Pearl King", but Nandao is not the only place in the country that produces pearls. The country's seas and rivers are so vast, how many places can produce pearls?

There are not only seawater pearls in the world, but also freshwater pearls. Freshwater pearls are much easier to keep than seawater pearls. Freshwater pearls do not need to be nucleated, and a pearl oyster can produce several pearls...

Whether freshwater pearls or seawater pearls, aren't they all pearls? How can ordinary people tell the difference?

Some people came up with ideas immediately.

Li Ertou was one of the first to come up with a solution. He brought a batch of "pearls" to the island. While the Pearl Industrial Park was popular, he secretly sold pearls to tourists nearby.

"Don't go to that craft park to buy, you're being fooled. Anyone who buys there will be fooled. I have pearls here, pure South Island pearls, cheap and beautiful."

"These pearls of mine are all real, the genuine product. The pearls we raise at home cannot be compared with those in those big farms, but the price is cheap. My mother is sick and the family needs money urgently."

"Don't go to that craft park to buy, I have good pearls here..."

...

There are many people like Li Ertou who take advantage of the situation and sell inferior products as good ones. Some even sell fake pearls at low prices, but they say they are "South Island pearls". Because of the low prices, sales are rising.

Most ordinary people have never seen pearls before, let alone know how to distinguish the quality of pearls. When they see a white pearl, no matter whether it is a saltwater pearl or a freshwater pearl, no matter whether it is round, oblate or teardrop-shaped, they cannot judge the pearl's luster and degree of flaws at the moment. When they see that other people's pearl necklaces are really cheap and the price is much higher than that of the pearls in the craft garden, they instinctively choose to buy cheap pearls. For the same price, they can buy several more strings to give to relatives and friends. In the end, they buy pearls of poor quality, not to mention even fake pearls.

After they finished their purchases and went back to take a closer look, they saw many flaws, as well as a few dents and growth lines. A string of pearl necklaces, each of which was "round" in a mess, and there were even a few semi-circular pearls that looked like "steamed buns".

... Is this also a pearl?

"The so-called South Island pearls are just like this."

"You spent money to buy these things?"

"That Pearl King is nothing good, and this pearl necklace doesn't look good on the neck."

...

The sales volume of the Pearl Craft Park declined, and the reputation of South Island pearls also inadvertently went down. In order to sell out the inventory in the factory, many breeding factories followed suit and reduced the price.

Now, the price is even more chaotic!

Tourists have no idea what the price of pearls should be. The pearl necklaces here are priced at tens of yuan, tens of yuan, and even hundreds of yuan. People who buy pearl necklaces for tens of yuan here can also buy pearl necklaces for tens of yuan.

"Look, you are out of your mind. Buy a pearl necklace for a hundred yuan. After all, we are here for a trip. Just buy a pearl necklace for ten yuan. We don't wear it often." "

Yes, I will buy something cheap."

...

No one wants to be cheated. If you can buy cheap, don't buy expensive. If you buy expensive, you will feel uncomfortable and regret it. Many people even start to return the goods.

"The pearls you sell here are such a rip-off."

"The price is too high, it's not worth it."

"The people here are so black-hearted..."

Xunrou Pearl Factory had a small portion of pearls returned. Menglan said to Qin Rou anxiously, "Those pearls are not produced in our Qiongzhou Island at all."

"And this, Sister Qin Rou, look, this, this, this... these are not pearls at all!"

"They came to the island to buy fake pearls, and then said that our pearls are not good."

After hearing this, Qin Rou was not in a hurry. She had anticipated this situation. In the 1980s, the market order was extremely irregular, there was a lack of market supervision, and no one cared about counterfeiting and selling fake products. As long as they could make huge profits, many people would do it.

"Menglan, don't worry, let's wait a little longer."

Qin Rou planned to wait until other pearl farms could no longer sit still, and then get together to discuss solutions.

"Menglan, I have some information here, come and sort it out with me."

The appearance of these cheap pearls has disrupted the pearl market of Qiongzhou Island. Fake pearls are popular in the market, and the pearls that pearl farms have worked hard to raise cannot be sold at a high price. The people in the major farms are uneasy.

Selling fake pearls is so profitable, why not sell fake pearls together?

As for whether it will damage the image of Nandao pearls? Who cares, as long as the money is in your pocket now, it doesn't matter what kind of pearls are sold.

Now even the people in the pearl farms started selling fake pearls in private.

"No! We can't go on like this!"

"Tourists buy fake pearls and think they are South Island pearls. Isn't this going to ruin the reputation of South Island pearls?"

"From now on,

when people mention South Island pearls, they are all fake pearls!" Once the reputation is ruined, it will be difficult to save it. Before long, several farm managers who really care about South Island pearls could no longer sit still.

Zhang Yu'e, director of the state-owned pearl farm, took the lead and called in the heads of several other farms to sit down and discuss the current situation.

"There are a lot of fake pearls on the island now. What do you think we should do?"

"It doesn't make sense. People in our country can't identify pearls at all. The fakes and real ones are mixed together. In addition to those real fake pearls, there are also many freshwater pearls. Yes, those are also pearls, but there are differences between pearls."

"Freshwater pearls and saltwater pearls are very different. Take saltwater pearls for example. The pearls produced by different saltwater pearl oysters are also different, but who can tell them apart? How can people outside tell them apart? Only the researchers at the experimental station know!"

"You say which one is expensive and which one is cheap, but there is no basis. People who don't understand think they are all pearls...it's okay as long as they are pearls!"

"We can't explain it clearly to those tourists. They just want to buy cheap pearls!"

"In the future, it would be better for these farms of ours to specialize in export business. I think we should contact more overseas businessmen and find a way to sell pearls to the United States and Europe."

...

Sun Jin from the Meirou Pearl Farm was the most excited. He thought that they should just do pearl foreign trade business and give up the ordinary domestic pearl market.

Zhang Yu'e looked at Qin Rou: "Director Qin, you are a person with ideas. You should think of a solution."

"This pearl industrial park was built with your hard work. We can't just let it be like this in the future."

Sun Jin said: "Xiao Qin, if you have any ideas, please tell us!"

"Don't let these rotten fish and shrimp ruin the reputation of such a beautiful industrial park of yours."

Although Sun Jin was very envious of the pearl industrial park built by Qin Rou, he also got some benefits from it. In addition, he really liked pearls and couldn't bear to see "good things wasted."

Now they are grasshoppers in the same boat. If the reputation of Nandao Pearls gets tarnished, they will suffer together and lose together.

"Everyone, listen to me." Qin Rou took out the document bag that she had prepared long ago and took out the information inside. "My opinion is that we, the pearl farmers, should unite to establish unified standards for the Nandao Pearl industry and make the Nandao Pearl brand famous first."

"With unified standards, we can identify and classify pearls. At the same time, we should also inform customers of the pricing standards of pearls and how to judge the quality of pearls. I suggest making such pearl business cards and selling them together with the pearls, which will give detailed instructions on how to identify pearls..."

...

"We have so many pearl farms. Instead of competing with each other, it would be better to formulate relevant standards."

This is also one of Qin Rou's goals. With so many pearl farms, instead of competing with each other, it would be better for them to unite and develop the market together. In the future, the demand for pearls will be strong, and there is still great market potential waiting to be tapped.

"In my pearl art garden, I can provide exhibition halls and display cabinets for other pearl farms to sell pearl products in the art garden..."

After hearing Qin Rou's words, the eyes of several responsible persons all lit up. There was such a good thing, but Qin Rou changed her tone: "But our art garden will take 8%..."

Sun Jin frowned: "8% is too much."

Qin Rou said: "This can be discussed in detail."

Qin Rou's bottom line is 5%. She had thought about it when she built the pearl art garden. Instead of competing with other breeders as a pearl farmer, it is better to jump into a pearl sales platform.

Qin Rou's pearl art garden provides sales display cabinets and packaging for other pearl farms, and the art garden takes a commission from it, and carries out various promotional activities for South Island pearls.

"If everyone agrees, let's formulate detailed regulations."

The other farm managers discussed with each other for a few sentences, and Zhang Yu'e was the first to agree: "Our state-owned pearl farm will be stationed in your pearl industrial park."

"What is this industry regulation standard you are talking about? It must be determined as soon as possible. Can this pearl business card really curb those who sell fake pearls?"

"Let's all unite together to boycott fake pearl vendors, drive those who make and sell counterfeit goods out of Qiongzhou Island, and establish the brand of our Nandao pearls."

"Only when our reputation spreads far and wide will there be a steady stream of people coming to the island to buy pearls..."

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Originally there were only a few, but after the lobbying of Zhang Yu'e, Xie Ru'an and others, most of the pearl farms on the island agreed to participate in complying with the South Island pearl industry regulations and jointly boycott the sale of fake pearls by bad vendors.

Qin Rou also asked people to do ideological work for nearby villagers: "Do you know the phrase "thirst for fish"? We don't just want to make money for one year, but want to make money for a long time. We don't want to ruin our reputation in one or two years. As long as there are more tourists, we can make money not only by selling pearls, but also by selling other things..."

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In less than half a month, under the joint boycott of all pearl farms, most of the fake South Island pearls sold on Qiongzhou Island were cleared out, and the local pearl market also changed.

The major exhibition halls in the Pearl Craft Park are filled with pearls, and the special exhibition cabinets are full of them. In the central activity hall, the screen plays the promotional video of Nandao Pearl...

The craft park also provides the villagers with corresponding stalls. Qin Rou plans to build two commercial streets, introduce coffee shops and dance halls, and make this place an attractive special attraction.

When she was preparing to build a commercial street, someone immediately saw the future development and decided to build a small hotel here. Qin Rou did not consider building a guest house here.

Qin Rou plans to build a pearl-style hot spring hotel and a pearl-style sea view hotel in the future.

These two investments are expensive, and she has to save more money.

After a month of renovation, the tourists who came here saw the orderly and beautiful Pearl Craft Park. There is

even a small food street, and the snack stalls are also orderly.

The government attaches great importance to the construction of the Pearl Craft Park here and has given great support. Qin Rou asked for land to build a shop. The

current Pearl Craft Park not only attracts foreign tourists, but also local people, who come to relax and play on weekends. After all, the entire Qiongzhou Island is not actually very big.

The Pearl Craft Park recruited many people to various positions. Qin Rou paid great attention to the environment and sanitation in the operation of the Pearl Craft Park. She cleaned up all kinds of garbage in a timely manner, and there were special personnel to take care of the surrounding green plants...

During the two or three days of vacation before the end of the year, Qin Rou brought her whole family to the Pearl Craft Park for a visit. During this period, the Pearl Craft Park had a lot of traffic. In order to meet the children's entertainment needs, Qin Rou placed amusement facilities such as a carousel and an ocean ball outside the craft park.

As soon as Doudou and Rongrong arrived, they said they wanted to ride the carousel. Lu Yan and his son Lu Weizhou each brought a kid to ride the carousel together. The father and son looked similar, and the two little sisters looked exactly the same. The four of them, father and son, and father and daughter, were very eye-catching.

Qin Rou and her youngest son Lu Weize were sitting under a shell model umbrella. Little Dumpling couldn't help pulling at his mother's clothes: "Mom..."

"I want to wear Daddy's clothes, I want to wear Daddy's clothes!"

"I want to wear Daddy's clothes..."

Qin Rou looked at him with amusement and pinched his face that looked like Lu Yan's. "Dad's clothes are too big and you can't wear them."

"When you grow up, you can wear Daddy's clothes."

Qin Rou looked tenderly in the direction of the carousel. Lu Yan and his son had already come down with Tian Dourong and her sisters and walked towards them.

The weather is neither too hot nor too cold, and there is little sunlight. Lu Yan is wearing a black shirt and black suit pants, which Qin Rou specially asked someone to make for him. Usually, he is always seen wearing a white military uniform, but it is really a different feeling to wear black now.

If I use three words to describe it, it would be too handsome!

He wears a metal chain pearl necklace around his neck. The cold and hard metal collides with a few soft pearls, and coupled with the black shirt, he looks cool and handsome without losing his gentleness.

The black suit pants underneath are embellished with three pearl pendants, and he has an inexplicable sense of fashion and sophistication when walking.

When going out today, Qin Rou specifically told him to wear sunglasses and not talk, because she wanted that kind of arrogant taste.

He is simply a trendy cool guy of the new era, the coolest guy on the street.

Of course, the premise is that when he is not holding his daughters, the cute little girls in flowery dresses will reduce their father's coolness.

"I want to wear dad's clothes!"

It is needless to say how cool this outfit is. Lu Weize, a boy who yearns for fashion, also yearns to wear all black like his father, put on metal chains, and hold a guitar to rock and punk.

It is not only elementary school students like Xiao Dumpling who are attracted, but also many young men who pursue fashion actively approach Lu Yan and ask him where he bought these clothes and pants?

"And what about the necklace on your neck?"

"Is it in the art park?"

"Where did you buy this pearl trouser chain?"

...

Although many people think that pearls should be women's accessories, in fact, in some European countries, pearls were mostly worn by male nobles.

Natural pearls are extremely valuable. In the past, they were not only inlaid on crowns, but in some eras, only the royal family could wear and enjoy them. It was not until the emergence of modern cultured pearls that pearls appeared in ordinary people's homes.

It is not inappropriate for men to wear pearls.

Pearls are used in clothing accessories, not necessarily pearl wedding dresses, but can also be made into various other forms of accessories. Pearl necklaces and bracelets do not necessarily have to be made of all pearls, but can also be made into a collision style of metal and pearls.

Qin Rou originally treated Comrade Lu as a guinea pig, but she didn't expect that Lu Baishu would be so eye-catching in such an outfit, and he almost sold the goods.

Unfortunately, there was no goods.

"Sister Qin Rou, your brother Lu really knows how to dress up. He is handsome and knows how to dress. No wonder he can marry a beauty like you. Unlike Gu Cheng, he looks very boring." Gu Cheng was also meeting Chu Pigeon in the Industrial Park at this time. The two of them were alone for a while, and then came to talk to Lu Yan's family.

Chu Pigeon glanced at Lu Yan, then at Gu Cheng, and asked him to learn: "Brother Lu is obviously one year older than you, but why do I think you are five years older than Brother Lu."

Gu Cheng: "..."

- Am I that old?

Comrade Gu, who used to be really cool, turned and stared at Lu Yan, and observed his dress carefully.

Does this dress look good?

Lu Yan: "..."

He didn't want to wear this dress since he went out, but he couldn't resist his wife's request. He

usually wears more white, and suddenly he put on this black dress, which really doesn't look right.

"Aunt Qin, Uncle Lu, look here, I'm going to take a video for you."

Zhang Yichao was tanned like a charcoal in the summer, and now he is still tanned like a charcoal, without fading at all, which makes his father Zhang Chengbei say every day that his son looks like he came back from coal mining.

How can he get so dark?

"Uncle Lu's suit is so great. When can I get one?"

Zhang Yichao was envious of Lu Yan's suit. He was also a young man who liked to be different and fashionable.

Gu Cheng didn't understand these people. Is it really good to wear all black?

"We can add new products to our craft park!" Chu Pigeon felt refreshed when she saw the pearl accessories on Lu Yan.

Forgive her, she has seen too many pearls and wants to vomit.

After seeing too many strings of white pearl necklaces, she now likes to see some new things.

"This kind of pearl chain does not have to be matched with pants, it can also be matched with skirts..."

"It will look good if made into a metal bracelet."

...

Qin Rou and Chu Pigeon were chatting, Lu Yan and Gu Cheng were staring at each other, and Lu Weize was standing next to his own father with envy, "Dad, let me wear that necklace."

Gu Cheng said, "Why should a child wear a necklace?"

"My son is not young anymore, he's ten years old."

When he heard this number, Gu Cheng felt inexplicably heartbroken. The other person's son is ten years old, but he hasn't married yet. By next year, his daughter will be six years old.

"Lu Weize, you are here!" Xie Ru'an appeared out of nowhere. When he saw Lu Weize, his eyes lit up immediately. Even though he had left his teaching job, he still had the ambition to cultivate Lu Weize into a calligraphy genius.

"Mom, help!"

Lu Weize was most afraid of Xie Ru'an's nagging. If Xie Ru'an had a bad temper, it would be fine if he would beat or scold him, but he was a kind man who was always trying to persuade you, as if you would be sorry for him if you didn't do what he said... Facing such a person, the little dumpling wanted to take off the dumpling skin and jump into the porridge to hide.

"Oh, this child..." Xie Ru'an sighed, still his greedy playfulness.

Originally, this child should have become a shining pearl in the calligraphy world, but now, this pearl is estimated to be unable to hatch.

"Teacher Xie, you still need to be busy with the work of the art park."

"Yes, yes, I have to be busy too."

After coming to the Pearl Art Park, Xie Ru'an found the second spring of his life. Although the work here is busy, it makes him feel like he has found the true meaning of life.

He is busy and fulfilled, and he is actively engaged in work every day...

"I have to receive a group of customers today."

Seeing that he was about to leave, Lu Weize jumped up and jumped like a shrimp, and followed behind Xie Ru'an: "Teacher Xie, you should find a partner and get married soon!"

Don't come to look for Xiao Dumpling after you get married, and focus on your own child.

Lu Weize recommended enthusiastically: "How about letting my dad introduce you to a date?"

"My dad often introduces people to dates! People call him Chief of Staff Lu, and he is a relationship advisor to people."

Qin Rou: "..." Whose family is this unlucky child?

Lu Yan: "..." He is really a good son of his father.

Zhang Yichao said: "Uncle Lu, when I look for a date in the future, you can also help me with some references."

"I think you are much more reliable than my dad."

Zhang Yichao thinks that compared with his biological father, Uncle Lu next door is more reliable.

"Yichao, are you thinking about finding a partner too?"

"My dad is anxious for me to find a partner. Before I took the college entrance examination, he told me to make friends in school as soon as I got into college. He also said that college students nowadays are most likely to find a partner in the same class, and some classes can have several couples..."

"Now that I haven't been admitted to college, I can't find one." Young man Zhang Yichao is not interested in dating for the time being. "Our island is so beautiful. If there is a film school here, I will apply to the school here..."

"You look very energetic, young man!" Sun Jin, the person in charge of the Meirou Pearl Farm, walked over. He glanced at Zhang Yichao, then at Lu Yan, and finally turned to Zhang Yichao: "You can apply to an agricultural university!"

"Come here to raise pearls in the future."

Both of them were dressed in black, one was extremely dark, and the other was dressed in black.

Sun Jin couldn't help but look at Lu Yan again, coveting his decorations, thinking that since he had raised so many pearls, he should also get a few pearl chains to wear.

He didn't expect that pearls could be played with like this.

Zhang Yichao: "..."

"Uncle, I want to apply to the film school to be a director." Zhang Yichao didn't know why he could get so tanned in the summer, as dark as if he had been mined in coal, but his teeth were very white, and his smile was even more amazing.

It was like Bao Gong in the world.

Zhang Chengbei laughed at him at home, saying that if he was admitted to the film school in the future, the school might let him play Bao Gong in the drama rehearsal.

"Making a movie? You have great ambition!" Sun Jin looked at Qin Rou and said with a smile, "Director Qin, is this someone from your family?"

The person he pointed at was Lu Yan.

"He's my wife."

"Lu Yan." Lu Yan nodded and briefly introduced herself.

"You really married a good wife." Sun Jin praised her without thinking, "Now who among us doesn't know the smart and capable Director Qin? She is a college student from a prestigious university, much more educated than us, and has good ideas. Everyone is willing to follow her to do things, unlike those of us who are short-sighted. Now this place is developing well, and those who sold the factory some time ago regretted it."

"If my son gets married in the future, and can marry a woman who is half as smart as Director Qin, I will be very lucky."

...

"Director Qin, I have news for you. Zhang Xiesheng, the boss of the Gang Xia Rou Pearl Factory, came over and gave us some suggestions... We plan to set up a South Island Pearl Chamber of Commerce next year. Director Qin, we unanimously nominate you to be the president of the Chamber of Commerce."