Chapter 37 is advanced.
Chinese pastries... Is Director Jia switching to making desserts?
Probably not... Although these desserts look exquisite, diplomatic inspections on food have always been the most responsible.
In most cases, state gifts should avoid food-related options. As a student of Dean Zhen, Director Jia must understand this.
"Will it just be for decoration? Isn't Director Jia's ceramics skills very impressive? Is she planning to use the porcelain she designed as utensils and add some Donghuang specialty cakes as decoration?"
"It's possible. After all, the most common function of porcelain is to be used as a vessel. Maybe Director Jia hopes that the staff of the Winter Olympics Office can give some traditional Donghuang cakes as gifts."
"Yes, and you see, this bamboo leaf-themed Qingzhu Tea Cheese Cake and the panda-themed porcelain go really well together."
"Do you think this is also an ancient recipe that Director Jia translated from somewhere? The Yuzhen ointment she used a while ago was really useful."
The working group in the office discussed excitedly. Although food audits often require more detailed reviews, the staff of Xian'an Cultural Tourism still selectively regarded the several plates of snacks uploaded after the porcelain as matching accessories.
By the time Jia Wenyan reacted, the other party had already made the decision.
Cultural and Tourism Bureau: [So what Director Jia just posted is the dim sum shop that Yongan Museum plans to open next? ]
"Yes, but my current plan is to link up with the Mibing coffee shop, so apart from the kitchen and takeaway window, I don't think I will open a separate dessert shop. And the food for the Winter Olympics should involve a lot of athlete testing and bidding issues."
"I just had too much work on my hands, so I accidentally sent out an extra row when I was flipping through the album. Most of the ones I sent out by mistake were gifts that our Yong'an Museum prepared for various units and employees for the Chinese New Year this year."
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After replying to the Culture and Tourism Bureau, Jia Wenyan breathed a sigh of relief. It was true that the Culture and Tourism Bureau believed that their dim sum was qualified to participate in the proposal, but at the moment she really did not have the energy to add icing on the cake.
She just wanted to finish the preparations for the state gift porcelain as soon as possible, and at the same time, Bai Huahua, who had just gotten into trouble, also realized the fact that she had gotten into trouble.
It hurried back to its chair and stared at the changes in the fire in front of it.
Seeing this, Jia Wenyan didn't waste any more time on these little things. However, what she didn't know was that during the time she was making porcelain, Grandma Xu had already brought her two baskets of desserts and started galloping like crazy in the mahjong circle.
[Hello, Sister Xu, do you still have the peach blossom cake you brought that day? ]
[Sister Xu, where did you buy the cherry biro (cake) that day? ]
"Sisters, I can't help you with this. The things you are asking about were handmade by my lover's apprentice."
[Your lover's apprentice? The curator of the Yong'an Museum? The one who made the Yuzhen Cream a while ago?]
"Of course I am. That kid is planning to open a traditional culture-themed dim sum shop at the Yong'an Museum, so when she came to my house that day, she brought two baskets of new products. After I ate them, I wanted to ask the kid to make more for me, but the kid is busy with a craft project at Yanjing recently, and as an elder, I can't ask her for that."
[Opening a store? When? ]
"Probably around the Gregorian calendar year, but she's been busy these past two days, so I'm not sure if it will be postponed."
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Messages in the mahjong group asking about the store owner popped up on the mobile phones like mushrooms after rain.
Seeing this, Grandma Xu smiled with satisfaction.
She knew the personalities of her old partners too well. If she took the initiative to promote her products, people would think that it was a family business that was too embarrassing to lose face. But if she let the other party come to her on their own initiative, that would be a completely different concept.
Just like the Yuzhen Paste back then, with the high quality of Jia Wenyan's pastries, as long as she casually put them there as gifts, people would be curious about them.
By then, those ladies can easily bring Jia Wenyan's pastries into a so-called "high-end circle" through a few casual chats in the circle.
Having lived for most of her life, Xu Yonghe is very familiar with the operation mode of this so-called "rich wives circle". Although she doesn't like some of the contempt chains in it, as long as the social circle exists, there must be a reason for it.
These so-called wealthy wives are the most valuable names in the dessert industry. People just follow the trend, and their certification in this field is much more useful than those Internet celebrities who sell their image.
She was really curious and wanted to know now, so she waited until Jia Wenyan’s dessert shop opened.
What would be the reaction of the onlookers when they saw those wealthy ladies who usually wear one or two houses and show off their wealth in groups entering and leaving the "Snow Queen" in a swaggering manner?
Xu Yonghe believed that this would definitely be a very explosive scene.
For this reason, she specifically told Jia Wenyan to set a marketing setting that only allowed dine-in customers in the first month of opening. However, what she didn't expect was that the action power of these old sisters far exceeded her imagination.
At the beginning, she just wanted to use this opportunity to help Jia Wenyan drain the water, but she didn't expect that these old sisters who had been through menopause for who knows how many years would actually set their sights on Jia Wenyan.
"Don't these people understand what I mean? I've already told you that I'm going to put my grandson's company in the museum. Don't these people understand what I mean?"
"I can only create opportunities for my own grandson secretly, and you still want me to help you directly?"
"Let me see who they are?"
"24 years old, working in a bank... Didn't his family send him abroad to get a degree after he failed the college entrance exam, and then he spent money to get in when he returned home?"
"25 years old, surgeon, very ambitious, but ambitious people are aging prematurely."
"27 years old, general manager of an Internet company. The child is good in all aspects, but if I remember correctly, the child seems to have a girlfriend. Is it because the family dislikes the girl's family conditions and does not agree?"
"And this 28-year-old, general manager of a cosmetics company? 26-year-old, civil servant of the Culture and Tourism Bureau, 29-year-old heir to a food company... These abacus beads are about to fall off my face."
Xu Yonghe watched all this in silence with her eyes rolling up to the sky. As a person who had experienced this, she knew very well how these "elders" would react when they saw a young and capable girl.
It was true that she wanted to bring Jia Wenyan and her grandson together, but she never intended to make this matter public.
From being Zhen Yuandao’s last disciple, to investing as much as an art gallery in his first venture.
Xu Yonghe thought that everyone would understand what she was hinting at. However, she never expected that her "free development" which was simply to create opportunities would be regarded as a sign that the two children did not like each other.
She endured her temper which could explode at any time and tried to avoid private messages with obvious implications one after another.
She didn't believe that there were any truly blue chip stocks circulating these days. In her eyes, those introduced here were not as good as her grandson who was totally focused on starting an animation business.
However, who would have thought that just when she was using all kinds of weird ways to reject the other party.
[Lin Huaichuan, 25 years old, captain of Ming Airlines...]
An active pilot, his father is a lawyer and his mother is a chef in a western restaurant.
He has a good appearance, income, and family, but... no, a pilot flying around all day long doesn't have time to spend with his girlfriend.
Xu Yonghe was struggling to death. At this moment, she, who had always been a Buddhist, had the urge to raise her grandson for the first time more than a year after his graduation from college.
When she thought of this, she immediately stood up, ready to take advantage of the break after Zhen Shuwang's film was submitted for review to have a good talk with him.
She thought that if her grandson really didn't have such thoughts, she would just let it go. But as soon as she went upstairs, she heard her grandson talking on the phone on the rooftop.
"Hello, Wen Yan."
(What!)
Hearing the key words, Xu Yonghe hurriedly lowered his body and crawled on the stairs.
The villa area was much quieter than expected late at night. Xu Yonghe could even barely hear some of Jia Wenyan's voice.
Zhen Shuwang: "How is it? How about the Bulgarian rose I just sent you? Isn't it a perfect combination of the characteristics of porcelain and roses? I also specially added the Bulgarian national flag and cultural totem as a symbol on the vase."
"This will avoid any overlapping of the rose elements."
Jia Wenyan: "The design is quite interesting, but are you sure you still have time to help me now?"
Zhen Shuwang: "You know everything?"
"Well, when I submitted the sample to the Culture and Tourism Bureau just now, I heard some news that your "The Story of the Stubborn Stone" has been moved up to the New Year's Eve?"
"Yes, I just got the news that this year's New Year's animation season will not only feature the Winter Olympics-themed Bing Dwen Dwen animation, but also the three Donghuang veteran animation studios Sheep, Bear and Pig."
"The cinema chain wants us to adjust the schedule so that there are no more than two animations in the same schedule. After all, we are the last to submit for review, so..."
Jia Wenyan: "Too many animations at the same time are indeed not conducive to scheduling, but can't you postpone it to May Day? After all, your company has worked hard on this movie for three years, and only three months should be..."
"That's different."
Zhen Shuwang: "I know what you mean. If we choose to postpone the release date to May Day, we will not only have more time for promotion, but we can also get more film scheduling opportunities from theaters. But the problem is that my expectations for "The Story of the Stubborn Stone" are not just in Donghuang."
"Just like you chose this time to compete for the national gift opportunity, in my and my colleagues' eyes, there is no time more suitable than the Olympics for the international promotion of The Stone."
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