Chen Manyu immediately reached for the small card booklet with delight, but when he raised his hand, he saw that both his hands were covered in clay. He looked at himself somewhat helplessly, then turned to the side, pointing the pocket of his blue down jacket towards Shen Qingqing: "Thank you, Qingqing! Could you put it in my pocket for me?"
“Of course!” Shen Qingqing readily agreed.
After putting the small card booklet away, Shen Qingqing gently patted it to make sure it wouldn't fall out, then ran past Chen Manyu toward her mother.
Chen Manyu was left walking slowly behind, occasionally glancing down at the bulging part of his side pocket.
"Mom!" Shen Qingqing went to Li Xunli again, clinging to her sweet words.
Unexpectedly, Li Xunli's eyes lit up when she saw her. "Dabao, you've come at the perfect time! The gift box for Xunqing that your uncle asked someone to make is finished. It'll be ready to be packed when you deliver it to your Aunt Zhang."
"Mom only needs to finish one last step. Go help Mom string together the pendants and tassels that are already made, and then put them into the gift box. Put the remaining tassels in a plastic bag and give them to your Aunt Zhang later. Do you understand?"
Shen Qingqing said "Oh," and following the direction her mother pointed, she saw a white box piled up against the wall opposite the raw materials. Her eyes lit up immediately, and she rushed over, picked up a long, rectangular gift box, and examined it from all angles.
The feel of it is a mix of thick, matte texture and smooth, delicate texture. The two characters "浔清" are hot-stamped, and the overall look is even more harmonious than when I first saw the design draft.
Next to these gift boxes were hanging racks for hanging pendants. There were four horizontal bars in total, arranged in two rows on the top and bottom and on the left and right sides. There were also pulleys underneath for them to move. For Shen Qingqing, who was short, there was a switch at the back that could control the raising and lowering of the two rows of horizontal bars.
The height of the bottom row is exactly the length of an adult's two legs.
Because Shen Qingqing was too short, she couldn't sit down to put the tassels on the pendants, so she could only stand pitifully next to the drying rack, bending over halfway to start putting them on one by one.
When firing the pendant, a small, inconspicuous loop is left at the bottom for threading the tassel, so that the tassel's cord doesn't ruin the pendant's beauty.
Shen Qingqing has been busy with the competition these days, so she hasn't been able to visit the porcelain kiln much.
Only today is the first time I've seen what these jade-like pendants actually look like.
It feels smooth and delicate to the touch, but that doesn't hide the fact that the raw material is clay. So it feels very cold to the touch in the dead of winter, but to the eye it really does resemble the luster of jade.
As Shen Qingqing threaded the tassels, she marveled at this amazing art.
After both rows of clothes were finished, Shen Qingqing turned around and shouted, "Mom! Is it one gift box in one gift bag or one gift bag filled with everything?"
"Just fill the gift bags, and then we'll give Aunt Zhang the same number of gift bags later," Li Xunli replied.
Shen Qingqing started packing the pendants into boxes one by one. By the time she finished packing all four rows of pendants, she felt her back was about to give out.
While stretching and loosening her muscles by holding onto the clothesline, Shen Qingqing suddenly remembered that she had simply taken the tassels off when she was putting them in the box because it was inconvenient to hang them up. Why did she have to stand there?
Feeling ashamed of her own stupidity, Shen Qingqing let out a soft tsk of self-disdain.
The last batch of pendants was finally completed. When Li Xunli saw Shen Qingqing holding onto the drying rack, she couldn't stop laughing and waved her hand, letting her go home.
Shen Qingqing suddenly remembered that Shen Yangyang was still locked in the room by her!
Sure enough, when she got home, upon hearing the noise at the door, Shen Yangyang immediately shouted from inside her room, "Who's back! Help me!"
Shen Qingqing, the culprit, felt extremely guilty and immediately shouted back, "Yangyang, don't be afraid! Sister is coming to save you right away!"
As the last child in the family to wake up, Shen Yangyang had no idea who had locked her in the room. All she knew was that once she woke up, she couldn't get out of the room!
Hearing her beloved older sister's voice, saying she was coming to rescue her right away, Shen Qingqing's image in Shen Yangyang's heart immediately soared to two meters high: "Sister! I love you the most!"
Shen Qingqing, who had initially felt a little guilty, seemed to have successfully brainwashed herself, and after a while, she accepted Shen Yangyang's love without any guilt: "Okay, it's alright, Yangyang, come out!"
Shen Yangyang had been locked up all morning, and now that she was finally able to go out, she jumped off the bed with a cheer and rushed to Shen Qingqing, giving her a big hug before going to the bathroom to brush her teeth and wash her face.
When winter gets cold, Shen Qingqing tends to cook more noodles and porridge at home, otherwise the stir-fried dishes would get cold long ago if she put them in a thermos and took them to the kiln.
Moreover, today is the last day before the Lunar New Year, so her mother will definitely stay at the porcelain kiln and won't be home for lunch.
In addition, Chen Manyu is now at the porcelain kiln. This kid is a ceramic fanatic and often stays at the porcelain kiln for a whole day. Whether it's to keep an eye on him or to prevent him from playing in the porcelain kiln and forgetting the time to eat, Li Xunli has no choice but to stay at the porcelain kiln.
So after Shen Qingqing made a big pot of chicken soup rice noodles at home, she filled a large thermos and first served a bowl to Shen Yangyang so she could slowly slurp it up: "Yangyang, I'm going to deliver lunch to Mom. You stay home and behave yourself. Don't open the door unless I do, okay?"
Shen Yangyang waved her hand without looking up as she ate, her mouth full of rice noodles, and mumbled, "Where should I send it?"
"Mom! Brother Manyu! We're having chicken soup noodles today! And there's a big chicken leg!"
When Shen Qingqing arrived, Li Xunli was on the phone with Zhang Hengyun: "Hey, Hengyun, I've packed up all your accessories and fragile porcelain. Come and pick them up when you're free!"
"Yes, yes, I'm available all day. I'm at the porcelain kiln. If you're sending someone over, just leave me a phone number so I can make sure it's the right person and the items aren't given to the wrong person... Okay, okay, I'll wait..."
Shen Qingqing didn't disturb her mother. She told Chen Manyu to wash his hands first, then took out a stainless steel basin the size of an adult man's palm from the plastic bag and poured out two-thirds of it for Chen Manyu.
After covering the rest, I went home and ate her food.
After finishing lunch and washing the dishes, I was just about to take a nap when the phone rang urgently.
Shen Qingqing was puzzled. Ever since her parents got cell phones, very few people had called her house. Even her grandmother would only call her mother's cell phone. Who would call her house so suddenly in the middle of the day?
Shen Qingqing climbed onto the sofa to look at the caller ID. Finding no recollection of the number, she hesitated before picking up the receiver: "Hello, who is this?"
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