Chapter 169 Chapter 169 Update

When he first came to the capital, Shen Shaoyuan was still thinking about making some money to help his daughter share some of the financial burden, but he soon found that he didn't need to "struggle".

He had the comic book manuscripts, Shen Moer had the school subsidy and the salary from Huacai Garment Factory, Fu Mingze had the school subsidy... and the subsidy from the old Fu family, these money were more than enough to cover their family expenses.

Especially later, Zhou Ping'an was able to draw comics independently to make money, and Zhou Wenhua was assigned a job after graduating from university. There were fewer people to eat at home, but the income was more, so there was no need to worry about money.

Oh, and after the policy was relaxed, it was easier for them to sell their gold. If they couldn't make it, they could just sell it. Of course, they didn't need to spend such a large amount of money in the past few years.

The family was no longer short of money, either in appearance or in reality. Shen Shaoyuan stopped drawing comic strips. He spent all day drinking tea, chatting, playing chess and playing with birds with neighbors in the alley, or with painters and calligraphers he met through publishing houses and various associations. To put it simply, he remained true to his original intention and returned to his life as a leisurely prince.

Recently, Shen Shaoyuan fell in love with collecting antiques.

Speaking of collecting antiques, the antique market at that time was not standardized. All the stalls were set up in places like Changchun Street and the back street of Guohua Store, and most of them were called second-hand markets.

Shen Shaoyuan was not a "native" of this world, and he was not familiar with the history of this world, but he was a master of calligraphy and painting, and he had a vision formed by living in the palace since he was a child, which was unmatched by others.

When he went to "pick up bargains", he did not care about the dynasty of other people's things, but only bought what he liked. Needless to say, he really found a lot of good things.

Others didn't understand, but Master Fu did. According to Master Fu's appraisal, most of the things Shen Shaoyuan found were good things that were a few years old. The remaining 10% or 20% were new goods, but they were also well-made handicrafts. The price Shen Shaoyuan offered was not too bad.

In fact, there were many such things in their family's treasure house, but those were very cold and could not be taken out easily. The things Shen Shaoyuan found could be placed directly at home.

Shen Shaoyuan got some fun from it, and his interest was even higher.

Today, Liangliang got out of school early, so Shen Shaoyuan took his granddaughter to go "finding bargains" again. They brought back two blue-and-white plum vases with auspicious animal patterns. The grandfather and granddaughter loved them so much that they kept looking at them head to head after entering the house.

Aunt Hu came in with a basket and saw the grandfather and granddaughter. She immediately smiled and said, "Hey, what good things did you find again?"

Shen Moer and her family were busy. They wanted to find someone to help cook, but they didn't want outsiders to live in their home, and it was difficult to find someone to help cook.

After hearing this, Aunt Hu said that since the two families were not far away, she would just do it. One family can come early and the other can come late. She is a good cook and can cook simple meals for both families. Besides, Shen Moer and Fu Mingze often don't go home. Sometimes, only Shen Shaoyuan and Xiao Liangliang are left. The two of them just close the door and go directly to the No. 9 Courtyard.

Aunt Hu has been in the Fu family for many years. She thinks that cooking a few more dishes is not much work, but Shen Moer certainly can't let her work in vain. She still calculated the wages for her. Aunt Hu refused but accepted it.

Aunt Hu is also happy to earn an extra twenty yuan a month, so she works more attentively.

Little Liangliang turned around and said, "Grandma Hu, isn't this bottle beautiful?"

Aunt Hu didn't understand, but she still responded, "Yes, these are in pairs, much more beautiful than the single one last time." After that, she hurried into the kitchen with the basket.

Shen Moer couldn't help laughing and shaking her head as she watched from the side. Perhaps because she grew up with her grandfather, Liangliang was different from other children. Children in the alleys built houses, played with sand, and skipped rubber ropes all day long, but she followed her grandfather to draw, drink tea, and look for antiques all day long.

Shen Shaoyuan admired the plum vase for a while, then hurried to wash his hands in the cool breeze. He took the vase to the study and put it away. When he came out, Shen Moer had already made tea. He picked up the teacup and took a sip, then asked, "Why did you come back so early today?"

Shen Moer also took a sip of tea and said, "Everything has been arranged. The next work will be for other people."

Although she was busy, she was not the type of person who wanted to do everything herself. If she really wanted to do that, forty-eight hours a day would not be enough for her.

Shen Shaoyuan was slightly interested: "Oh, when is the fashion show?"

Shen Moer smiled and said: "Next Sunday, you can call some people to support us, and I also called Wenhua to take pictures and report for us."

Although Zhou Wenhua studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, she joined the Capital Evening News as a reporter after graduation, but her main job is a photographer, mainly taking pictures.

Huacai Garment Factory placed a page advertisement in the Capital Evening News, and the newspaper will publish a special issue to publish pictures of their fashion show. In

fact, the Capital Evening News would have reported it even without the advertisement. After all, it is the first time that a domestic enterprise has held a fashion show in the capital, and the industry hopes that Huacai Garment Factory can shine.

Shen Shaoyuan usually only knows people from the calligraphy and painting circles. Artists, after all, have more open minds and are more receptive to new things. Moreover, these people have a certain influence, so the saying "holding the stage" is well deserved.

The first batch of college students majoring in clothing in China began to be enrolled last year, but before that, Huacai Garment Factory actually absorbed a group of college students from art academies to form a professional design team.

This professional team not only has lectures from well-known domestic professors, but also organized several overseas study tours. Liu Yinshuang, the deputy director of the foreign language major, and Bai Junwen, the deputy director in charge of business, led a team to Pakistan and the United States to see the work of professional clothing designers there.

With Cui Jianzhong's help, the professional team learned a lot of real things abroad. In recent years, while keeping up with international trends, they have begun to explore the path of clothing design with Chinese characteristics.

After drawing countless design drafts, Shen Moer finally decided to hold her own clothing show this year.

In fact, Shen Moer not only invited the media in the capital, but also invited foreign professionals and media through Cui Jianzhong, Su Jingnian, Paul and other foreign business friends.

Either don't do it, or do it to the best of your ability.

In order to organize this press conference, she has been busy every day. Now all the procedures with relevant units have been completed, the venue has been rented, the clothes have been prepared, the media has been invited, and even the models on stage have been settled. Shen Moer doesn't care about the remaining minor tasks.

This is the first time that Huacai Garment Factory has held a clothing press conference, and it will also be the first time that the Huachang brand will appear on the stage of the international fashion industry. Shen Moer is nervous, but her mentality is still relatively relaxed.

In fact, Huacai Garment Factory did not hold this clothing press conference entirely for itself.

Since the first private enterprise Guangcai Industry was approved for establishment the year before last, private enterprises have sprung up like bamboo shoots after rain in the past two years.

The clothing industry has simple equipment and low thresholds, especially since cloth coupons have been abolished. In recent years, clothing factories have really blossomed everywhere. Among them, clothing factories in Guangzhou are the most popular among Chinese people because they are close to the port city and their clothing styles are trendy and fashionable.

The huge changes in the market have brought a huge impact on the old garment factories in the capital. It also started the year before last. Several factories have experienced inventory backlogs, and factory efficiency has been declining year after year. Even the industry leaders like Capital No. 1 and No. 2 Garment Factory would have had poor performance reports if they had not undertaken the production of a large number of work clothes and labor insurance uniforms.

The reasons for the decline of these factories are, on the one hand, the increase in private clothing factories and the intensification of market competition, and on the other hand, their clothing styles have not changed for many years, and their products are very monotonous, which can no longer meet the ever-changing clothing needs of the masses.

The market competition is severe and cruel. Although Huacai Garment Factory has won with its trendy and fashionable styles since its inception, it cannot rest on its laurels. Therefore, after repeated consideration, Shen Moer decided to introduce some advanced experiences from the foreign clothing industry, and holding fashion shows is one of them.

I also thought that Huacai Garment Factory would be the first to try something new, so that those old-fashioned garment factories could also see the outside world and stop clinging to old ideas and being unacceptable to new fashion styles.

Well, the invitations to the fashion show were also sent to the directors of the major garment factories in the capital.

A week later, at the Workers' Cultural Palace in the capital.

The morning sun shone on the square in front of the Workers' Cultural Palace. The old men and women who came to the square to practice Tai Chi and Tai Chi sword were a little curious when they saw the banner at the gate.

"The first Huacai Fashion Show, what is fashion, what is a fashion show?" An old lady holding a Tai Chi sword asked curiously.

"I don't know, it's some foreign thing again." The old man holding the Tai Chi sword frowned.

"You say it's a foreign thing when you don't understand it yourself!" the old lady retorted, "No matter whether it's a foreign thing or not, once it's in China, it's a Chinese thing!"

At this moment, a tall girl walked past them and gave the old lady a thumbs up, "Grandma, you're right, you are this!"

The old lady immediately smiled, "Of course, I'm a foreign person too."

When the girl walked away, the old lady couldn't help but say, "This girl is really tall. She's so tall and wears such high shoes, but she looks so beautiful when she walks."

The tall girl walked into the Workers' Cultural Palace with a backpack on her back and went all the way to the back of the modified and built stage.

She actually arrived early enough, but several people had already arrived backstage, some were having breakfast, some were putting on makeup. After the girl said hello to the others, she found a seat and sat down, and took out cosmetics from her bag and started putting on makeup.

They were all part of the amateur model team organized by Huacai Garment Factory. They

are called amateur model teams, but in fact there are no professional model teams in the capital. They should be the most professional model team in the capital.

But it is not wrong to say amateur, because they are all part-time models, and their main jobs are all kinds of people, including factory workers, housewives, school students... All of them were recruited by the personnel department of Huacai Garment Factory.

In addition to practice, they occasionally took photos of their clothes. This was the first official "performance" since the establishment of their modeling team. Everyone was very excited.

The girl was a little nervous, but also a little excited. She was looking forward to today's performance.

When she finished putting on her makeup, people from the Huacai Garment Factory also arrived. Wang Sanchun, the head of the General Affairs Department, led people to push in the clothes hanging on the special roller rack. Behind them, Deputy Factory Director Liu Yinshuang said while chewing a bun: "Be especially careful with the clothes on that rack. Be sure to look at them carefully. The fabric is expensive!"

Deputy Factory Director Bai Junwen, who was following behind her, seemed to be hesitant to speak. After enduring for a long time, he finally couldn't help but said: "You are the one who should be careful. Don't let the oil from your buns get on your clothes."

Liu Yinshuang raised her eyebrows and snorted, but still took two steps back: "Forget it, I'll go out to eat."

She patted Bai Junwen's shoulder: " You come out."

Bai Junwen turned around and followed her out. When they walked to an empty space, Liu Yinshuang said, "You don't have anything to do in front today, so you stay in the backstage to look after the clothes. I don't feel comfortable leaving the clothes to other people."

She looked around and said in a low voice, "It's not that the material of the clothes is expensive. I tell you, the pearls on the clothes are real! Mom, you should have seen it, the pearl at the collar is as big as a longan, this thing is actually real! How much does it cost? Tell me, Shen Moer actually let someone push her over like this!"

Bai Junwen: "..."

He really didn't know about this.

Suddenly he got anxious: "Then why did you say that the clothes were expensive in front of so many people!"

Liu Yinshuang smiled complacently: "I am calling it a trick to save Zhao by attacking Wei, to deceive people. People all thought that the material of the clothes was expensive, but they never thought that it was the pearls that were expensive."

Bai Junwen: "..."

Does it make a difference?

If someone really had bad intentions, could they leave the pearls and just take the fabric?

Bai Junwen turned and left.

He shouldn't have been called out, he should have stared at him, otherwise they were talking for a while, what if something went wrong with the clothes? Liu Yinshuang finished the buns in a few bites, went back to the backstage to take a look, and sure enough, she saw Bai Junwen sitting next to the pile of clothes, staring at the clothes, looking at his stupid look, Liu Yinshuang couldn't help laughing out loud.

After laughing for a while, Liu Yinshuang turned around and walked to the front desk. The sound engineer and lighting engineer at the front desk also arrived at this time. Everyone checked the equipment one last time and chatted while waiting for time.

Liu Yinshuang saw Shen Moer coming in with her secretary Xiao Liu. Zhao Zhenghui also came and was leading people to check seats and lists. She walked over and got close to Shen Moer and said, "Why did you put that dress together with other clothes?"

Shen Moer was puzzled: "Which dress?"

Liu Yinshuang was speechless. Sometimes she really thought Shen Moer was a bit weird. She was someone who almost starved to death that year, but sometimes she really regarded money as dirt.

She looked around and said cryptically, "That one, the one as big as a dragon's eye."

Shen Moer suddenly realized, "It's okay. Didn't you arrange for someone from the General Affairs Department to watch over it?"

Liu Yinshuang said bluntly, "Those two young people are good at talking but not doing things well. How can I be at ease? But it's okay. I'll let Bai Junwen watch over there."

Shen Moer looked at her deeply and said with a smile, "Thank you for your help, Deputy Director Bai."

Shen Moer took her secretary Xiao Liu to check every place carefully again, and then went to the reception room next to it to wait for someone.

This reception room is right next to the venue, and outside the side door is the parking lot. The guests she invited will first enter this reception room, and then go directly to the inner field from the shortcut here. It was

still early, and there was no one in the reception room. Shen Moer sat in it for a while, then stood up and told Xiao Liu: "Go to the door and check, someone should be coming soon."

She and Xiao Liu walked to the door together, turned right and went to the bathroom.

The venue here was newly renovated, and the facilities were very complete. There was a row of sinks in the men's and women's bathrooms. Shen Moer was washing her hands when she heard a man's voice coming from outside.

"This Director Shen is really capable of making trouble. What kind of fashion press conference

is this? She is really making a fuss." "I heard that she also invited leaders from the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Light Industry. Tsk, it's different with a backstage."

"Beautiful ladies, life is always easier than others. If it were someone else, who could make a social factory into its current scale in such a short time?"

Shen Moer shook her hands and was about to go out when she heard Liu Yinshuang's voice outside: "I smelled a rotten odor from a distance. I thought it was the toilet. When I came over, I realized that it was not the toilet that stinked, but someone's mouth stinked!"

"Deputy Director Liu, you, how can you talk like that?!"

"Guests are guests. We are here to attend your factory's press conference today. How can you have such an attitude!"

Liu Yinshuang was not polite at all: "Why don't you talk about yourselves? You were invited to attend the press conference, and the organizer of Cricket made up dirty rumors behind your back, and you are being polite?! You still say guests are guests? Damn, are you worthy of being ours!"

Those people were almost mad to death by Liu Yinshuang: "You! Go, let's go. I want to see what your factory director and superiors will think when they find out that your rude words and deeds drove away the guests!"

"Yes, let's go. Haha, don't bother with such a vulgar woman!"

Several people were filled with righteous indignation, and they urged each other to leave, but they didn't move at all. After all, even though they said they were disgusted, they all wanted to see what the fashion show of Huacai Garment Factory was like.

Just when they were in a dilemma, they heard footsteps coming from the women's bathroom. After a while, Shen Moer appeared at the door.

The woman, wearing an exquisite beige dress and long hair loosely falling on her shoulders and curving into a beautiful arc, looked more beautiful than before.

When her beautiful eyes fell on them, they narrowed slightly, and a smile appeared at the corners of her lips, but there was no smile in her eyes. Her voice could even be called warm: "You guys, it's still early. If you want to leave, you should leave early. We have indeed invited many people today. One more or one less really doesn't matter."

After a pause, she said lightly: "As for what the leaders think, I can only say that you guys are really overthinking. How can the leaders of the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Light Industry notice whether you are here or not?"

The men's faces flushed in an instant, and they turned around and left in a rage.