"You have a lively look in your eyes. I've been blowing cold air for five minutes and now I've warmed you up again."
Feng Weidang joked with Fu Qingshan, and after closing the car door, he waved to Fu Qingshan, "Let it go, we will help take care of your sister-in-law, you can stay in the army and do your work."
Fu Qingshan said "OK" and stepped back a little, watching Feng Weidang and Qiao Xinyi's car leave.
It was only half past eight when Qiao Xinyi returned to the guesthouse. When she went upstairs, she happened to meet Mr. Zhou.
"Translator Joe is back? So early?"
Engineer Zhou greeted Qiao Xinyi and said, "Let's go to Secretary Zhang's room to make tea. The Minister of Commerce is here too, and Engineer Yun is here too. Do you want to come with us?"
Qiao Xinyi nodded immediately after hearing this, "Go! I'm going back to my room to get something. Mr. Zhou, wait for me, we'll go together."
Qiao Xinyi quickened her pace and started running, frightening Zhou Gong so much that he quickly stopped her.
"I'll wait for you! Don't run away, you're pregnant!"
How could a pregnant woman run so fast like the wind?
Mr. Zhou was shocked. He would feel so guilty if he fell and got hurt.
Qiao Xinyi slowed down, went back to the room, put down the canvas bag, took out the drawings and plans she had drawn in the afternoon, said to Yunxia that she and Engineer Zhou were going to Secretary Zhang's room to make tea, and then ran out of the room.
Secretary Zhang's room is downstairs, the door is open, and it is bustling with activity at the moment.
"Qiao Xinyi is here too." The Minister of Commerce waved at Qiao Xinyi when he saw her. After Qiao Xinyi came in, he noticed that she was holding a notebook in her hand.
"Look, our Qiao Xinyizhi came with her homework." The Minister of Commerce had just heard about it and knew that Qiao Xinyi had been busy in the guesthouse all afternoon.
"Qiao Xinyi, please sit here." Yun Gong offered his seat.
"Pregnant women should not drink tea. I'll bring you a cup of boiled water." Secretary Zhang said, "We have told the staff at the guesthouse that we will add an extra bottle of milk to your supply every morning. You've been working hard recently, and you are in a special situation, so we must ensure that you have adequate nutrition."
"Thank you, Secretary Zhang. I know you are all concerned about me and are doing this for my own good, so I won't refuse." These days, milk is not something that every household can order casually.
If she was supplied with it temporarily, it was very likely that someone else's share was given to her.
This is just her second day, and they even arranged for her to have milk. They are really worried about her health.
This care also made Qiao Xinyi feel that her efforts were not one-sided.
"Minister, Secretary Zhang, please take a look at this blueprint I drew this afternoon."
Qiao Xinyi put several pieces of draft paper together. "I got the dimensions from Zhi, who is in charge of the rest hall, a while ago. I drew it in proportion, and the dimensions are marked on the edges."
"My personal idea is that the rest hall is also a place that most exhibitors will go to." After all, the exhibition hall is so big, and you always have to rest and drink some tea when you are tired.
"We want to expand the commercial function of the rest hall, so we can move the coffee and hot water to this corner and use most of the remaining space as a tea room."
"The tea factory also has exhibits this time. Our Chinese tea is famous far and wide. When entertaining distinguished guests in China, we should use our Chinese tea."
"We can ask the silk factory and the furniture factory to jointly provide screens, preferably screens with ink paintings or embroidery, screens that can fully display our traditional Chinese craftsmanship and artistic culture, both for decoration and display."
“Then we use China’s most representative and popular teas to entertain guests in the rest hall. If possible, it would be best to have a tea artist demonstrate tea art to the guests and make tea for them on the spot, so that the guests can taste tea while appreciating the tea art and learn about China’s traditional tea culture.”
"For tea art, you can consult teachers who study related cultures, such as the tea-making techniques of the Song Dynasty. These are cultural treasures inherited from the history of our country."
"We want to personally show our guests the elegance and uniqueness of our Chinese tea culture, showing where the elegance and uniqueness lie."
"I noticed that there are several musical instruments on display in China," said Qiao Xinyi.
"You looked carefully, it is indeed there." The minister nodded, but everyone on the musical instrument exhibits knew that it was most likely only for display purposes.
There are currently no musical instruments among China’s exports. It’s not that China does not export, but that there are no orders.
"Find a teacher to perform live in the lounge regularly." Qiao Xinyi said, "Our unique Chinese musical instruments are also one of our Chinese cultural treasures. We should not let them sink in the display cabinets. We should show our unique Chinese culture to the world."
This can be considered as an opportunity to smuggle in private goods. Even if the customers don't want to understand, they still sit down and listen and taste it.
"In addition to performances, we can also set up a desk with our four treasures of the study to show our calligraphy and culture to the country. If there are people who are interested, we can also teach them on the spot to make them feel involved."
"Just think about it, the teachers who play musical instruments wear the cheongsams made by our silk factory, sit here in the tea-scented place and play, drink tea with the tea sets made by our ceramic factory, write and draw, how can this be a rest house? It's clearly a hall for the dissemination of art."
"You've seen it, you've drunk it, maybe someone will be interested in what we show you?"
"Furniture, silk, clothing, musical instruments, tea, ceramics, a lounge can contain so many exhibits. If we impress one more customer, we may get one more order. These things are also products related to the art industry that are unique to China."
"Many of our things may not be as advanced as those in Western countries, so we won't talk to you about our advanced things. We will talk to you about history and art, and use another way to promote our exhibits."
“For the Chinese, you can drink coffee everywhere in our country, but you can only drink tea, especially tea with an artistic flavor, here in China. So as long as we provide this opportunity and atmosphere, I believe it will be hard for anyone to think it’s bad.”
After Qiao Xinyi finished speaking, she handed her detailed plan to the minister, "If you think my plan is feasible, you can take a look at my detailed plan."
China's industry is not currently the best, so if we want to make this industrial exhibition impressive, we have to find another way.
Just like how many people these days think of coffee as something foreign, Qiao Xinyi wants to use this method to make Chinese people think of Chinese tea, musical instruments, and other things as something elegant in the future.
She had to use other people's minds to label these things of hers in a positive way.
Qiao Xinyi's plan had been shortened and revised. It was 1978, and many things had not yet reached the ideal level. Some things had not yet entered the vision of the people, so she discarded things that were too advanced.
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