Since Suisui developed a new product, lace sketches, Huang Wanzhen drew many paintings related to Chinese and foreign festivals, asked Suisui to sketch them out, and then framed them and hung them in an exhibition room.
Huang Wanzhen had already made arrangements and asked Gao Zhixiang to mark numbers under the paintings. The cheapest one was five dollars, and the most expensive one was as high as eight hundred dollars. It was a relatively large painting of Santa Claus sitting on a reindeer.
"This is our school's most precious treasure. It took our master chef and more than a dozen students half a year to create this treasure."
"Wow! That's amazing!"
"pretty!"
Amidst the crowd's exclamations, Huang Wanzhen took out a small Santa Claus lace painting and said, "If you like it, you can take it home as a souvenir."
"How much is this small one?" Emily asked first.
Huang Wanzhen smiled and said, "Hey, we're all friends now, so give as much as you like. One or two yuan is not too little, and one hundred or two hundred yuan is not too much."
Emily thought about it and gave eight dollars. She originally wanted to give five dollars, but Andy had been with them for so many days and had worked hard, so five dollars was a bit too little.
Everyone followed suit and gave eight dollars.
Huang Wanzhen smiled calmly, and when everyone was having lunch at noon, there were bursts of exclamations.
There was a huge plate in the middle of the table, and on the plate were emerald spinach flowers, sunset-like carrot flowers, beeswax-colored pumpkin flowers, and deep red beetroot flowers. It was like the spring scenery was brought to the dining table, novel and beautiful.
Huang Wanzhen sent Zhao Dahua over early in the morning to prepare with the students here.
She also wrote a menu for Zhao Dahong early on, which included Kung Pao Chicken, Fish-flavored Shredded Pork, Sweet and Sour Pork Ribs, Braised Fish, Braised Beef, etc. The foreigners who ate it were full of praise.
After sending the man away, Su Jingyi smiled and said to Huang Wanzhen, "Smith's family runs a large supermarket. He ordered a hundred pieces of lace for his family. How about we split it in half?"
Huang Wanzhen smiled and raised her hand towards Su Jingyi, spreading her fingers apart. When Su Jingyi came over, she said with full energy, "Deal!"
When Emily and her group returned home, the sky was cloudless. Huang Wanzhen gave them several Jixiangtang hats, and they gave Huang Wanzhen a jade brooch in return.
"Thank you Andy for your company these days. You have allowed us to see a different China. May our friendship last forever." Emily, on behalf of everyone, put a brooch on Huang Wanzhen.
Huang Wanzhen smiled and replied, "May our friendship last forever, and I wish everyone a safe journey."
After shaking hands with the school leaders one by one, the foreign friends got into the car and drove away from Yenching University.
Huang Wanzhen was in a very good mood as she watched the company's business flourish. It was Sunday, so she wanted to take a rare nap and rest her body and mind. But before nine o'clock, there was a knock on the door.
"Who is it?" Huang Wanzhen sat up from the bed, grabbed the pocket watch on the bedside table and took a look at it.
"It's me, Mr. Huang, I'm Chunhua. Three ladies came to the shop and asked to see you. I said you were not at home, and those three ladies stayed in the shop and refused to leave. Do you want to go and see them?" Li Chunhua's voice came from the door.
Huang Wanzhen paused while putting on her clothes and lay back down. "Are those three regular customers of our shop?"
"No, I don't know him."
Huang Wanzhen asked again, "Did they buy anything this time?"
“No.”
Huang Wanzhen lazily said, "Oh!" "Tell them I'm not that easy to see. You have to spend at least 500 yuan to see me. If they insist, call the police."
"Oh! Got it." After receiving Huang Wanzhen's order, Li Chunhua hurried back to Jixiang Hall.
As soon as he entered, he shook his head at Huang Dachui.
Huang Dachui immediately walked over to the old man and the two young women and said, "Our Mr. Huang is not here, please go back."
The old woman jabbed her cane a few times and said, "What a big deal! If she doesn't come out, we'll just wait for her here."
"Oh! Old lady, I'm sorry we can't receive you. We only receive customers. If you can spend 500 yuan, I will pay for it out of my own pocket and help you call and find Mr. Huang to receive you as a distinguished guest. But if you don't want to buy anything, please go back." Li Chunhua, who used to be a clerk, worked hard in the shop for so many years and was promoted to a small boss. She was in charge of two people, and there was an air of style in her every move.
The old lady, with her triangular eyes drooping, was about to lecture him when she was stopped by a young daughter-in-law next to her, "Mother, please be patient."
Then, the young wife said to Li Chunhua, "Your Jixiangtang is famous for its good service. We can buy things from you, but we need your manager to come out and receive us in person."
Li Chunhua smiled. "This lady must have never bought anything at Jixiangtang. Our manager is Gao Zhixiang, not the Huang Wanzhen you mentioned. Mr. Huang's job scope does not include receiving guests. If you want to buy something, Jixiangtang welcomes you at any time, and Manager Gao can naturally receive you. But if I invite Manager Gao back and you don't buy anything, you will definitely cause trouble."
After that, Li Chunhua raised her chin towards Huang Dachui and said, "Dachui, how do we deal with people who come to cause trouble?"
Huang Dachui took a step forward, raised his head and chest, and said, "Beat him up first, arrest him, then call the Public Security Bureau and let the officials take charge for us."
Li Chunhua smiled and nodded, "That's right, shop owners these days are not easy to bully. No one who has caused trouble in our Jixiang Hall in recent years has ever gotten away with it! I advise the ladies to save some face for theirselves."
The three women looked at each other for a while, as if they had thought of something, and their faces did not look very good.
Under the gaze of Huang Dachui, Li Chunhua, and a group of shop assistants, he stood up and left angrily.
When Huang Wanzhen came to the shop leisurely after a good sleep and meal, Xiao Shitou stepped forward and said, "Mr. Huang, I have something to report to you." As he spoke, he looked around.
Huang Wanzhen nodded and said, "Let's go to my office."
As soon as Huang Wanzhen sat down, Xiao Shitou began to speak, "I've seen two of the three people who came to see you this morning. Although they looked quite different, I still recognized them at a glance."
Huang Wanzhen slowly took out her sketchbook and pencils. "Who is it?"
"It's your former mother-in-law, Old Lady Zheng, and her youngest daughter. I haven't met the other woman."
Huang Wanzhen paused, "Are you sure she's not the Zheng family's eldest daughter?"
Little Stone nodded affirmatively, "No, she looks younger than the Zheng family's youngest daughter, so she's definitely not the Zheng family's eldest daughter."
Huang Wanzhen suddenly smiled, "I understand, go back to work."
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