Wu Jingyuan spent the entire afternoon immersed in his conversation with Shen Qingqing.
But aside from what Shen Qingqing said at the very beginning, most of what followed was inspired by Wu Jingyuan himself, and he discussed it with Shen Qingqing.
Shen Qingqing knew nothing about how to make clothes, but she had seen many beautiful clothes!
As long as it conforms to the trends of this era, even clothing styles from 2020 can sell very well in this era!
Seeing Wu Jingyuan engrossed in figuring out how to revise the clothing design, Shen Qingqing secretly looked up at Li Xunjin and asked, "Uncle, how much money did you invest in Uncle Jingyuan's company?"
Li Xunjin smiled and said, "I invested whatever I made from stocks."
Shen Qingqing's eyes widened immediately. Tens of thousands! They just gave it all away like that!
As if he could read Shen Qingqing's mind, Li Xunjin pinched her nose. "This money was earned extra. When your Uncle Jingyuan lent money to your uncle several years ago, it was all money earned by his own company. Although your uncle paid it back in time, we should remember this kindness."
Shen Qingqing recalled the news reports in later generations about friends borrowing money and not repaying it, or being tricked into pyramid schemes. She sighed and thought to herself, "People in this era are so simple and honest. Friends are friends, not acquaintances who are always thinking about how to cheat them."
Wu Jingyuan's problem was quickly resolved, and the rest was up to him to handle the specifics.
However, Li Xunjin brought up another matter with him, "Jingyuan, how about we go to a few places next week?"
Wu Jingyuan carefully folded the clothes, avoiding the newly drawn white lines on them, and then looked at Li Xunjin: "Where are you going?"
“Go check out the market, see how other people sell their goods, and learn the tricks of the trade in big cities,” Li Xunjin replied.
Upon hearing this, Shen Qingqing immediately perked up; her uncle was going to look into how to open a gift company!
But soon, she deflated again. She wanted to go, but it was obviously impossible because she still had to go to school, and there were still ten days until National Day!
These words gave Wu Jingyuan some guidance. "Okay, let's go together. I'll also go and see what styles of clothes are available in big cities and how they're sold."
"Uncle, how long will you be gone?" Shen Qingqing asked, looking up.
"It's hard to say. We'll come back whenever we finish visiting the cities," Li Xunjin replied after a moment's thought.
Shen Qingqing thought for a moment, "Won't I be too late to come back before the National Day holiday? What if I can't get a train ticket if I only come back during National Day?"
"Since I can't come back before National Day, I might as well see how other people sell things during holidays. Otherwise, why do you think my uncle specifically chose to go out for inspection at the end of the month?" Li Xunjin laughed.
Shen Qingqing understood, and instantly stopped worrying about it.
Time flies, and the set of porcelain that Li Xunli was making to use as a sample was almost finished.
Every evening, whenever she had free time, Shen Qingqing would grab her father and take her to the porcelain kiln to watch her mother make porcelain.
Watching that pile of sticky clay transform from a sticky lump into sticky little animals, then being air-dried, fired, glazed, and fired again...
The day before National Day, another set of twelve zodiac animal figurines was finally completed, except this set was willow leaf colored.
Shen Qingqing carried two sets of twelve zodiac animal pictures home with her parents and invited Shen Yangyang to set up all twenty-four small animals on the coffee table.
If you look closely, you can actually see the difference, but it's very subtle and more like the accumulation of time.
The two sets of animal expressions are also different; the peach-colored set is very lively, while the willow-leaf-colored set appears more demure.
Shen Qingqing suddenly felt a little reluctant and looked at her mother with pleading eyes: "Mom, this is just a sample, right? We can bring it back after we go to Uncle Chen's house tomorrow and show it to that uncle we don't know, right?"
Li Xunli laughed: "When you visit Uncle Chen's house during holidays, don't you have to bring him a gift too?"
Shen Qingqing revealed her pained expression; she felt her heart bleeding. She also desperately wanted those two sets of the twelve zodiac animal costumes.
If she wasn't going to give them away, she could tell her mom that she and Shen Yangyang would each own one set. After all, Shen Yangyang was too young to understand these things, so in the end, both sets would be hers!
But Uncle Chen is Mr. Zhang's brother-in-law, so it's really impolite not to bring a gift when visiting his home during the National Day holiday...
Perhaps it was because Shen Qingqing's pained expression was so vivid that Shen Rongzhou and Li Xunli couldn't help but laugh, and the couple stood together laughing uncontrollably.
"Mom was just teasing you! Your parents have prepared gifts for Uncle Chen's family. These two sets of twelve zodiac animal pictures are yours. If you like them, you can have them both, okay?" Li Xunli told Shen Qingqing the truth only after she had finished laughing.
Having been amused, Shen Qingqing was completely unconcerned about being teased when she heard that she could have both sets. She immediately nodded vigorously, "Okay, okay!"
She was terrified that the two sets of porcelain would no longer belong to her in the next second.
This set of twelve pieces consists of different small porcelain items. The moment Shen Qingqing saw them, she was reminded of the video live streamers during the live streaming craze of later generations, especially those voice chat streamers who showed half their bodies. They would all have some cute little ornaments on their tables.
Some might be their own chibi-style characters, some might be their animal sculptures, and some might just be purely decorative items. Isn't this also one of the directions her mother will take for future sales?
There are also many car ornaments, some symbolizing peace and others symbolizing wealth.
She thought about it happily, and then said to her mother, "Mom, you can also burn a few of those small porcelain items with auspicious meanings like 'peace and good fortune' or 'wealth and prosperity' for Uncle, so he can put them in his car or on his desk. Who knows, some of the bosses who do a lot of business with Uncle might take a liking to them!"
People in Chaocheng still believe in these things quite a bit.
Although Li Xunli didn't believe her daughter's claim that other business owners might be interested in such ornaments, she did believe that she should burn two of these auspicious ornaments for her brother.
“You’re right. I’ll make a couple for your uncle when I have some free time these next couple of days. He’s always driving around and has company business to attend to, so he needs these. We’ll also have them blessed by Mazu later.”
As she spoke, she sighed again, "I wonder how your uncle's business trip is going, when he'll be back, it's been so long..."
Shen Qingqing blinked, but didn't continue the conversation.
After all, no one except the uncle and nephew knows that their uncle is planning to switch to a company!
Before going to bed that night, Shen Qingqing touched this and that, putting the little porcelain items one by one into the small wooden box. Before she knew it, it was National Day.
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