As soon as she got home, Shen Qingqing saw Shen Yangyang's schoolbag lying next to the sofa, and knew that her mother had already returned.
"Manman, should we do our homework first, or go to the porcelain kiln to take a look?" Shen Qingqing turned to look at Chen Man.
"There's only math left for homework today, just two pages of workbook, I can finish it easily. Let's go check out your porcelain kiln first!" Chen Man stood at the door without going in.
Shen Qingqing nodded: "Then give me your schoolbag and leave it at home."
After putting down their schoolbags, the two rode their bikes to the porcelain kiln.
Chen Man had been living in the big house since birth and had never seen such a combination of old houses and winding alleys before. Sitting on the back of Shen Qingqing's bicycle, she kept exclaiming "Wow!" as she looked around.
Shen Qingqing couldn't stop laughing at her.
"Alright, alright, we're here, get off." Shen Qingqing saw her mother's bicycle parked in front of the kiln, so she parked her own bicycle there as well.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she entered the door, she saw her uncle standing next to her mother.
"Uncle!!" Shen Qingqing exclaimed in surprise.
Shen Qingqing grabbed Chen Man's hand and ran over together. "Manman, this is my uncle. You can call him Uncle!"
Chen Man smiled brightly: "Hello, Auntie. Hello, Uncle."
"Hello, hello!" Li Xunjin patted Shen Qingqing's head. "Is this your classmate? Why did you bring her to the porcelain kiln?"
"She hasn't seen it before, so I brought her to see it!" Shen Qingqing said with a smile.
A clay figure is slowly taking shape on the millstone in front of Li Xunli. "Yangyang is playing with clay over there. You can try it if you want."
Shen Qingqing's eyes lit up. "Can we burn what we make too?"
Li Xunli chuckled: "Sure, if you can make it, I'll burn it for you."
"I've explained everything to Yangyang about how to add water and mud. You can ask Yangyang."
Shen Qingqing looked at Chen Man and asked her, "Do you want to give it a try?"
Chen Man nodded rapidly, almost making a blurry image of her head. "But can we make one together?"
Shen Qingqing thought for a moment and nodded: "Okay, if the two of us work together, we might actually be able to make one!"
However, it was too early to say that.
After listening to Shen Yangyang tell them how to play with mud, Shen Qingqing and Chen Man rolled up their sleeves and started playing.
At first, either too much water was added, turning it into a puddle of mud, or too much mud was added, making it too hard to play with.
Once the cement was mixed to the right ratio, when they started to knead it by hand, they found that no matter how they kneaded it, they couldn't shape the clay into the form they wanted.
The two of them were sweating profusely from all the effort, and finally decided to give up and just like Shen Yangyang, stick the drawing on the millstone as a flat image.
As the sun began to darken, Li Xunli looked at the three children and said, "Qingqing! Take Manman and Yangyang to wash their hands, then go back with their uncle!"
Shen Qingqing responded and did as instructed.
After washing her hands, Shen Qingqing handed the house key to Li Xunjin: "Uncle, you take Yangyang back. Manman and I want to ride our bicycles."
"Okay, then you two be careful on the road and ride slowly." Li Xunjin had already learned from Li Xunli about buying a bicycle for Shen Qingqing while he was chatting with her.
When Shen Qingqing drove Chen Man home, she saw Chen Yanfeng, who had come to pick up his daughter.
Shen Qingqing turned to look at Chen Man: "Did you forget to tell your dad you were having dinner at my house tonight?"
Chen Man said "Oh," and slapped her forehead. "Right, I only said I was going to your house to play after school..."
"I guess the food at home is already prepared, so it's not feasible to say anything at the last minute."
Shen Qingqing could only bid farewell to Chen Man with regret, then turned and ran towards her uncle.
"Uncle, when did you get back?"
Li Xunjin was peeling an orange. "This morning, but I went to the Industry and Commerce Bureau to submit some documents before I got home."
Shen Qingqing reached out to her uncle and asked for half an orange: "So, what did you gain from this business trip?"
"Of course! My uncle is planning to make mixed gift boxes and will directly offer a sample list of gifts for customers to choose from, so they can mix and match as they like."
"If you don't want to choose for yourself, we also have pre-matched options. We've already negotiated the suppliers, and once your Uncle Jingyuan's clothes start selling, we'll send them out together with our gift boxes."
"This step is mainly to increase brand awareness for our gift boxes, especially scarf gift boxes and jewelry gift boxes."
Li Xunjin clearly had a well-thought-out plan.
Shen Qingqing nodded knowingly: "And then what?"
"Next, my uncle will have to talk to our old clients. The New Year and Spring Festival are just around the corner, and those companies need New Year's gift boxes. If we can close this deal, it will be a huge success."
Shen Qingqing thought that her mother might miss out on the first wave of the gift box market from her uncle.
I can't even finish making those five custom-made porcelain pieces.
It's time to persuade her mother to quit her job.
“Once your uncle’s market development is stable, we’ll need to ask your mother for help. Our family’s gift boxes need to have something unique to them; they can’t all be cobbled together.” Li Xunjin peeled another half of an orange for Shen Qingqing.
Shen Qingqing tentatively asked, "Uncle, have you ever thought about registering your own brand for my mother's handmade porcelain?"
Li Xunjin glanced at Shen Qingqing in surprise, then thought for a moment before saying, "That's a good idea. After all, your mother's porcelain is also made to order. Besides the fancy gift boxes she makes for me, once her reputation is established, she should have more or less people making custom orders."
"But this depends on your mother's own ideas."
Shen Qingqing nodded: "I understand!"
Since she's already spoken to her uncle, what she says to her mother is entirely up to her.
"Your Uncle Jingyuan has been talking about you the whole time he's gone. He actually found similar styles of those you mentioned in fashion magazines in some of the bigger cities in the north!"
"He said if all these clothes are sold, he'll give you a big red envelope." Li Xunjin said, looking at Shen Qingqing with some emotion as he recounted his experiences on the trip. "Speaking of which, if you hadn't been nagging me to buy stocks, your uncle really wouldn't have had the money to go out and negotiate the supply of goods this time."
Shen Qingqing blinked: "Uncle, did you make a lot of money from the stocks you bought?"
Li Xunjin mysteriously stretched out his two hands in front of Shen Qingqing and gestured: "In just one month, it has increased so many times."
Moreover, following Shen Qingqing's advice, they used all the dividends they earned to buy more shares, which multiplied their investment.
"And what about me? How much have I earned!" Shen Qingqing's eyes lit up.
Li Xunjin pinched her nose and shook it gently: "You're a little rich woman with ten thousand yuan now!"
A millionaire!
Little rich girl!
Shen Qingqing burst out laughing.
Ten thousand yuan!
Ten thousand yuan in 2006!
"Uncle! Please keep adding to my position!" Shen Qingqing grabbed her uncle's hand, wanting to be serious, but she just couldn't suppress the urge to smile!
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