Their learning and adaptability are really good!
Ye Wanying had no intention of haggling or asking for discounts later.
Three! No more than that!
The tone was very serious and solemn, clearly indicating that there was no room for further discussion.
James on the other side immediately looked like he was about to cry:
"Three paintings? Three aren't enough, Miss Ye!"
Twenty or thirty points is impossible, but three is indeed too few; there's not enough to go around.
There wasn't enough for even our own family to go around.
Grandma loved the longevity painting the last time she saw it, and this time she wants to embroider a "Qilin and Auspicious Beast" painting.
Yes, the Qilin, along with the dragon, phoenix, and tortoise, are collectively known as the "Four Auspicious Beasts." The ancients said that it is martial yet harmless, a benevolent beast, an auspicious beast that brings offspring, a symbol of official position, and a symbol of good fortune in people's hearts, representing benevolence and auspiciousness.
Knowing the meaning behind this, one can understand what one's grandmother is thinking.
But some things are never that simple.
If hanging a picture at home can accomplish anything, then everyone should just hang pictures instead of striving for success or failure.
However, my grandmother is already quite old. As a junior, since she wants it, I should just grant her wish.
Anyway, the family isn't short of money!
The James family is not your average noble family abroad!
Besides what his grandmother wanted, James himself also planned to buy a painting titled "A Hundred Fortunes Gathering," which he had heard his grandmother mention last time he went back home.
Chinese cabbage = wealth = symbolizing prosperity.
James is a real businessman!
Then there are the ones that both of James' parents like, that makes it four already, okay?
We haven't even considered other relatives' or friends' families yet.
No wonder, this grown man was almost in tears.
Urgent!
Ye Wanying had no intention of breaking the rules; three paintings meant three, and no more.
Do I really not have that much time to embroider it properly?
Even if you put a knife to your neck, it's still three pieces; it's impossible for the price to increase by even half a piece.
If you can't do it, you just can't do it!
Furthermore, Ye Wanying never intended to be a mere charlatan.
James looked at Ye Wanying with a pitiful expression, looking exactly like a wronged person who had suffered a great injustice, which attracted the attention of those around him.
"Cough, I'm serious. Three paintings are my maximum limit right now. Do you know how complicated yours are?"
How could a layman understand?
"The Auspicious Beast Qilin", "The Abundance of Wealth", and "The Peacock" - each of these is a massive project, okay?
It's pretty much the same as the previous "Hundred Longevity" painting.
James sniffed, bewildered.
"Is this really all we can do?" They were still making their last desperate attempt.
Ye Wanying took a sip of coffee and nodded directly:
"yes!"
There's nothing we can do; even if we offer money, people still won't be willing to do it!
So, money really isn't everything.
They were friends, and it was impossible for them to actually use money to coerce each other.
Left with no other choice, James had to agree:
"Alright, those three will do!"
If even their own share isn't finished, then no one else can even think about it!
Moreover, James even erased the pictures of his own father; otherwise, he couldn't erase the pictures that his grandmother and mother wanted, could he?
I'm not going to back down on this matter.
Ye Wanying rarely concerned herself with how James's family would divide the assets, and knowing what kind of diagram they needed, she already had a general idea in her mind:
"Do you want them one by one, or all at once, the third one?"
Let's go together.
"Oh, then it will take a long time."
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