Chapter 1007 What else can she do?
International long-distance call charges are not covered.
Lu Miao went over with the things in his pocket and contacted John King. The call lasted more than eight minutes, including greetings and discussing cooperation.
The money was paid based on the nine minutes it took, and the total cost was twenty-four yuan and thirty cents.
The average cost per minute is 2.7 yuan, which means this one phone call costs an average worker half a month's salary.
Lu Miao secretly clicked his tongue, thinking it was a bit exaggerated.
If it were any other individual unit, it would probably be quite difficult to engage in foreign trade.
After all, she had met John King several times, so communication with him was easy.
If you change the person or the situation, it may not be the same.
I might even go bankrupt on this international long-distance call...
Lu Miao complained and thought, then arranged his time to continue working on other things.
It was still early when she got home, and she had originally planned to go to Master Zhou's place. Fu Jingyou directly took the small notebook from her hand and said:
"Work and rest together. Why are you always in such a hurry? Take a break today and we'll talk about it tomorrow."
"I have nothing to do anyway, and I have a car. Just go with me and we'll be back soon!"
"I just talked to the foreman yesterday. The tables and cabinets I ordered will be delivered in the next two days."
Fu Jingyou ignored her coquettishness, pulled her to sit at the table, poured her a glass of water and said:
"I'll accompany you to Master Zhou's tomorrow. Once we've settled things over there, we'll go to the courtyard together to see how to arrange the furniture. I'll do whatever you say then."
Lu Miao took a sip of water, thought for a moment, and nodded:
"Okay! That's fine."
But looking at the watch, it was only three o'clock in the afternoon. She waved and called Bai Chuan over to her, hugged him in her arms, and said to Fu Jingyou:
"It's boring to just stay at home. Let's go out for a walk! Let's go to Minmin's place to see if there's anything to wash. After that, we can go to Beifu Primary School. We'll be able to pick up the kids in time."
Fu Jingyou picked up the car keys and nodded.
Lu Miao said hello to Tang Mei, and walked out with Fu Jingyou, holding Bai Chuan.
Tang Mei hurried out of the kitchen and chased after him:
"Just take a walk, pick up the kids and come straight back! Dinner will be ready soon, don't buy food outside!"
"I know!"
Lu Miao answered promptly and clearly.
Minmin was working as an apprentice outside at such a young age, and Lu Miao always felt uncomfortable thinking about it.
So every time she went to see Minmin, she never came empty-handed.
Or get something from home.
Or take Minmin out for dinner and buy something along the way.
The same is true this time.
Since there was nothing to take from home, Lu Miao asked Fu Jingyou to drive to the department store first.
After walking around for a while, Lu Miao bought some things that children like to eat, such as egg cakes, egg rolls, and fruit leather.
Then the two of them went to the cultural center.
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Let’s go to Master Zhou the next day.
Lu Miao talked about the embroidery fabric.
The material is relatively easy to say, mainly the embroidery pattern.
Lu Miao originally wanted to communicate with Master Zhou first, and then incorporate everyone's suggestions before drawing the pattern.
Unexpectedly, Master Zhou took out a stack of embroidery samples and showed them to her:
"Take a look here and see if there's anything you like."
"so much!"
Lu Miao sighed slightly.
The embroidery pattern is traced on paper.
Most of the paper has old creases, but the paper is very smooth.
You can tell it's quite old and is well preserved.
As expected, just as she finished speaking, Master Zhou stroked his gray hair and said with a smile:
"They're all my best stuff, sitting in the bottom of my closet for ages. I only just found them after I finished embroidering those three hundred feet of material and decided to take them out and sort them out. Now that you're here today, I think I'll show them to you."
Lu Miao nodded.
The master craftsman usually has some hidden treasures in his hands.
For example, a cook has a recipe.
The tailor has cutting samples.
Those who work with needlework and embroidery naturally have valuable and precious patterns.
Lu Miao looked through them carefully and selected a few suitable and good-looking patterns.
There are irises, magnolias and butterflies respectively.
After Lu Miao finalized the pattern, he carefully confirmed the color of the plain cloth with Master Zhou.
The embroidery pattern was provided by Master Zhou, and Lu Miao could not arrogantly say that only she could use a certain pattern and no one else was allowed to use it.
But in order to ensure a certain degree of uniqueness, Lu Miao plans to decide the color matching of the embroidery pattern himself.
Afraid that the oral description would not be intuitive, Lu Miao asked Master Zhou to prepare the plain cloth first.
She'll search for some in the next two days and come back when she finds some watercolor paints.
When she can directly match the color scheme, Master Zhou and others will have a more intuitive reference.
Just do it when you think of it. After leaving Master Zhou, Lu Miao and Fu Jingyou went to the courtyard on South Street.
Lu Miao didn't care much about the furniture in the yard. She was mainly looking at the area on the second floor where she would often be active in the future.
I briefly put forward a few suggestions, and for the rest, I will wait for Fu Jingyou to come and install it another day.
Lu Miao didn't stay here for too long. After he finished speaking, he took Fu Jingyou to visit the department store and stationery store in Wangfujing.
I won’t be satisfied until I have bought everything I need.
For a period of time afterwards, Lu Miao went out with Fu Jingyou every morning.
Just put the furniture in the South Street yard directly there.
Mainly the boxes and cabinets on the second floor, all of which are specially customized, and most of them have to be assembled separately.
The next step is to clean up the construction waste in the yard.
Fu Jingyou first sent Lu Miao to Master Zhou in the morning, and then turned around and went to the courtyard on South Street.
After finishing work in the afternoon, I will pick up Lu Miao and go home together.
Let’s talk about Master Zhou.
Including the young apprentice, there were originally only three people in Master Zhou's courtyard.
Lu Miao took on two jobs in a row, each one bigger than the last.
Later, when Lu Miao went to the courtyard again, there were obviously several more people around Master Zhou.
They are all old men and women with gray hair, but they look still in good health.
Once when he saw Lu Miao matching colors, he tilted his head to look at him, and Master Zhou laughed and said that it was thanks to her that he was able to feed several mouths here.
Maybe Lu Miao doesn't think so, but for Master Zhou and other masters, this is the fact at the moment.
As the work increased, the courtyard gradually became lively, and the young apprentice Xiulian had more opportunities to observe and learn skills.
Master Zhou often looked at Xiu Lian with emotion and said that this was the true inheritance.
Only what can be passed down can be called inheritance.
So how can it be passed on?
The first thing is to have enough food to eat.
Master Zhou's jokes often made Lu Miao feel embarrassed.
But when he thought about it carefully, Lu Miao was also very emotional.
Sometimes some vague ideas would flash through my mind.
for example……
Maybe she can do more?
After deciding on a few fairy-like color combinations for the patterns, Lu Miao couldn't help with the embroidery.
So Lu Miao stopped going to Master Zhou's place on a regular basis.
Master Zhou remembers Lu Miao's kindness in his heart.
Based on the patterns selected by Lu Miao, Master Zhou would give a few acupuncture treatments in private when he had some free time.
As a token of his appreciation, Master Zhou embroidered three types of fabrics specifically for Lu Miao.
The quantity of each material is not large.
But according to Lu Miao's size, there was just enough left over to make a set of clothes.
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