Chapter 122 Happy Dragon Boat Festival
Jia Wenyan was deeply impressed by her grandfather's cooking skills.
When she was young, because her parents were busy with work, she often went to her grandfather's restaurant to wait after school.
During those days, Jia Wenyan tried her grandfather's craftsmanship countless times.
Although Suzhou and Hangzhou are well-known for their food deserts.
But after so many years in Suzhou and Hangzhou, he has gradually figured out the impact of video and changes in surrounding traffic through practice.
Grandpa Jia’s craftsmanship can be said to be a fusion of the strengths of various families.
Although each of his dishes may be difficult to be recognized by people in the place of origin.
But his moderate approach to localization does allow more people to adapt to the dishes in his restaurant.
There are no representative dishes, but they definitely suit the tastes of most people.
Although this approach will never gain any authentic reputation, it is precisely because of this approach that can adapt to the tastes of most people that Grandpa Jia's restaurant has been able to survive for a very long time.
For this reason, Jia Wenyan's opinion of Grandpa Jia's cooking skills is basically that his cooking skills are very high, but the dishes are basically only edible by most people.
Although his dishes may hardly represent the characteristics of a region, it is also difficult for them to become a delicacy recognized by the public.
But being able to achieve this kind of positioning that combines the strengths of each company and gets passing marks from all angles is already a very sophisticated skill.
Jia Wenyan didn't believe that a grandfather like this would have much time to study technology every day.
He might be good at carving radishes, but carving jade is obviously another matter.
But when I come to my senses and think about it carefully, the grandmother holding the imperial green bracelet must have been rich or noble since she was a child, otherwise it would be impossible for her to own an heirloom of this level.
Although grandma usually doesn't show any reaction, it's unlikely that she would just hand over such a large piece of jade that is obviously worth a lot of money to grandpa to deal with.
Thinking of this, Jia Wenyan quickly called her grandmother.
Jia Wenyan: "Hello, grandma, are you there? I'm Wenyan."
"Wen Yan, I just came back from square dancing at the Cultural Square. How was it? Is there anything?"
"There's something. When Shu Wang visited you earlier, did he bring you a piece of imperial green jadeite?"
"Yes, when the boy came, he said you had asked him to find it."
"I'm really not saying anything bad about you, but why would you spend money on something so expensive?"
"Not to mention that I would be reluctant to use it if you gave it to me, even if I used it, I would still wonder from time to time if there were any potential risks around it."
"The bracelet is good enough."
"You are now the curator of the Yong'an Museum. If you have this idea, you might as well use this jade to create a new cultural relic that can be used as a treasure of the museum."
Jia Wenyan: "No, grandma, don't worry, the museum has enough supplies now."
"In addition to the parts I reproduced, the teachers of Yongan College also provided many works worthy of our exhibition."
"Otherwise I wouldn't have the time to go to Mogao Grottoes to restore the murals."
Grandma: "You can't spend money like that, especially jade of this level. The price of jade of this quality is definitely not much different these days."
"Shu Wang must have put a lot of effort into getting that kid for you."
"Have you given him the money yet?"
"Not yet. I told him I would transfer money to him, but he refused to tell me how much he spent."
So I can only wait until I get back to Xian'an and ask the jewelry appraisers there to help me analyze it."
Zhen Shuwang: "So didn't I say you don't have to pay it back? And you also know that jade has a lot of room for fluctuation."
"Just think of it as one of the betrothal gifts prepared by your grandson-in-law."
Jia Wenyan: "If you don't want to get beaten, don't talk nonsense."
Grandma Jia: "So Wenyan, everything he told us is true."
"It's basically the same. I didn't really want to date my boss's kid."
"I was also worried at first that because of these things, I would not be able to hold my head up in the other party's family in the future.
Jia Wenyan: "But later on, firstly, the treatment provided by Grandma Xu, that is, his grandmother, was enough for me, and given my social status, it would be difficult for me to find a suitable person of the opposite sex in the future."
Grandma Jia: "Is your mother urging you to find a partner?"
"That's about right. Although she didn't say it explicitly, my mother probably meant that if I wanted to stay in Xian'an, I should find a partner as soon as possible so that she could feel at ease."
Grandma Jia: "So you just stayed there with that Xiao Zhen?"
Jia Wenyan: "Well, it was just a coincidence. We both wanted to spend more time on work than on dating. So we got along well in that aspect."
"As for the fact that we two are together, it's not entirely the parents' fault."
\"You also know that in China, whether it is discussing business or working on projects, socializing is inevitable, and the people we meet at our age are all elders who are on average 10 to 20 years older than us."
"When these people get together, they either talk about having children or grandchildren. We often go to these kinds of places, so it's inevitable that our leaders or elders will introduce us to potential partners."
"At first, it was fine for me alone, but after Shu Wang's movie became a hit, we both kept avoiding various dinner parties, and over time, rumors started to spread that we were in a relationship." "At first, I also thought that this rumor was not very friendly, but later I found that this gossip really saved me a lot of trouble, so over time I just vaguely brushed it off."
"As for Shu Wang, although I haven't had many meetings with people in the animation circle, from what I heard from the Cultural and Tourism Bureau, he probably didn't insist on it."
"So after a while, when he brought it up to me, we thought we might as well just give it a try. If it works, it works. If it doesn't, we can break up peacefully to avoid everyone trying to match us up."
Grandma Jia: "So you have already made up your mind?"
Jia Wenyan: "Almost. Although the decision was made a little too soon, at least so far I think this development is not bad."
"Grandma, can you please stop changing the subject and explain to me why Grandpa has such strong carving skills?"
"Don't tell me that's just something grandpa made up. I'm a professional in this field. I can tell whether it's true or not with just a glance."
"I don't know why we have imperial green jade in our house, but if you don't know where my grandfather works, you can't just give it to him to cut."
"I know I don't want to hide it from you, but your grandfather has always been worried about this matter."
Jia Wenyan: "Heart disease?"
Grandma Jia: "Yes, it's a heart disease. Your grandfather's ancestors were jewelry craftsmen in the Jiangnan region who specialized in jewelry for the imperial court."
"The family originally made their fortune by breeding and cultivating pearls, and later developed jade craftsmanship because of the interests of dignitaries."
"So your grandfather learned a lot of jewelry techniques from his family when he was very young."
Jia Wenyan: "Then why did grandpa end up working as a cook?"
Although Jia Wenyan didn't want to talk about occupational discrimination, according to her grandmother's words, her grandfather or the ancestors of the Jia family should be something like imperial merchants.
In this way, it would be possible to hand over high-quality jewelry to the imperial family while the whole family was in Suzhou and Hangzhou instead of the capital.
Although the positioning of imperial merchants may not be as impressive as that of salt merchants and miners, in that era any work system that had any connection with the official system would definitely make a lot of money.
Especially when it comes to Grandpa Jia, a craft inheritor, although he may not have the same pomp and circumstance as other imperial merchants in business itself, the ladies in the city have always been the main force in the field of rouge and powder.
Then, with the star effect of the royal ladies, the Jia family should have been very successful in the jewelry industry a long time ago.
But by Jia Wenyan's generation, the life had completely become that of an ordinary family.
Grandma Jia: "That's because of the ten years we went through in between."
"Ten years..." Jia Wenyan's eyes trembled slightly.
"In that decade, people's hatred of the rich continued to become more extreme. People like my family who were engaged in the jewelry business became everyone's target almost from the start."
During those years, burning and looting incidents happened in our home almost every now and then.
From the occupied ancestral home to the broken cultural relics, if put together, they should be able to exchange for several factories.
Your grandfather was very distressed at the time. Although the result was a "natural disaster" at the time, the Jia family's long-standing foundation was indeed lost in his hands.
The ancestral home is not so difficult to deal with. After all, when the state audited the accounts a few years ago, it had already been returned to our family.
But the cultural relics and jewels that were smashed at that time have become a mess that can never be traced.
And because the account books from that year were burned along with all the books by that group of bastards.
As time went by, even your grandfather and I couldn't remember how many things were "lost" in our house.
He felt that he had failed to protect the cultural heritage, but I knew that he was more concerned about protecting me and the baby in my belly.
He was afraid that his impulse would affect my unborn child, so he chose to protect his family, but this also directly led to the cultural relics in our home being completely destroyed by those "robbers".
A few years ago, when the state reviewed the "old accounts" and returned our ancestral home to us, your grandfather cleaned the entire home by himself.
Your grandfather was depressed all day because of this incident, and his condition only improved when your father was born.
But that was more because he needed to be a qualified father. And from that time on, he no longer engaged in jewelry making and processing.
He began to learn to be a chef and transferred his previous carving skills into knife skills in the cooking process.
Did you know that your grandfather was the first cook in our area who used a screwdriver to cook?
Although he said to the public that he hoped to use this to allow his family to live a stable life.
But I know very well that it was just your grandfather's deliberate attempt to comfort everyone. He just didn't want us to get hurt.
He himself was very regretful, but at that time it was the best choice we could make.
As for the jade bracelet you broke, it was actually a family heirloom passed down to me by your great-grandmother when I got married.
When our house was broken into, I hid the jade bracelet and a few gold pendants on my chest.
"I gave the gold pendant to your mother as a wedding gift when she got married, and as for the bracelet, I had planned to give it to you as a dowry when you get married in the future.
"But then the bracelet accidentally broke, and I planned to keep it as a reminder. But your grandfather repaired the bracelet without saying anything."
"Grandpa's current technology..."
"I have gained a lot more insights than before."
Grandpa Jia in the four corners of the video background symbolically waved the tools in his hands.
Grandma Jia: "Don't worry, your grandfather just stopped doing business for a few years. After the opening up, Suzhou and Hangzhou were originally suitable places for doing business."
"We also wanted to revive this craft."
But in that era when people generally pursued practicality, no one had the money to buy these things.
Even if the government allows or even strongly supports the entrepreneurship of national brands, there is no market for our craft.
As for later, when your father grew up and the surrounding environment was able to support the jade market, the two of us no longer wanted to bother starting a business.
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