Chapter 398: Homecoming

"Haha, it's finally over!"

Zhou You looked at the pile of jadeite in front of him and smiled proudly.

Tired and didn't care much, he lay on the dusty ground, staring at the ceiling like a dead fish. However, Forrest Gump was not so tired, and he carefully selected the jadeites and placed them one by one.

This is the underground warehouse of the villa in the Mingxiang community, and it has been five days since Zhou You and Dazhi returned. They spent these five days to unravel all the wool materials auctioned by Ping Chau Gongpan and the pebbles photographed on Hong Kong Island, even the precious imperial jadeite, glass emerald is no exception.

"Don't touch those pieces!"

Zhou You saw that Forrest Gump wanted to take the imperial jade and glass emerald, and hurriedly drank it.

Forrest Gump wondered, but he pushed his way anyway.

Zhou You didn't care about the exhaustion of his body, and said: "Forrest Gump, you move those waste materials out first, and by the way, let Aunt Li help hire a stonemason to sort out these waste materials, make them into rockeries or something, and dress up the garden." ”

Zhou You didn't have this in mind, but he temporarily thought that many rich people had strange rockeries or something at home, and some of them were piled up with ores such as jade wool, so he also wanted to learn about it. If he succeeds, he will become an embellishment in the family, and if he doesn't succeed, he will just throw it away, nothing remarkable.

"Okay!"

Forrest Gump had enough strength to deal with such a thing.

At the beginning of the design, Zhou You took care that he might store valuable large wool, so he specially asked the designer to take care of this point and made a simple lifting platform. With this simple lifting platform, it is greatly convenient to travel around their handling work.

Zhou You personally took out a box prepared in advance, put the most valuable pieces of jadeite into it, and then sent it to his small vault.

This small vault is also in the underground warehouse, and the style is a small vault set up by Zhang Yingwu in the jade company, and the most valuable things stored in the tour are inside. Even if there are thieves sneaking here, unless they have special tools, they really can't help but have a small vault, so it's very safe to travel around.

Dazhi also rested enough, and got up to help clean up.

Seeing Zhou You coming out, he asked: "Boss, the mid-to-high-grade jadeite here is not only 300 million, do you want to trade all of them to Jiang Hailiu?"

"It's not!"

Zhou You said: "Our transaction is only 300 million, and it is enough for me to scrape together 300 million medium and high-grade jadeite for him." Jiang Hailiu traded me so many antiques this time, I'm afraid that his treasury will shrink a lot, and if he trades again, he won't get anything good. In this case, I might as well use the remaining jade to hide people's eyes, and use it as liquidity at critical moments. ”

Dazhi asked in wonder: "Boss, the public auction is over, the auction has passed, and the museum's life funds have also been implemented, and now it seems that there is no place to use the money." ”

Zhou You replied with a smile: "Not only should it be used, but it must also be used in large quantities, even if it is a billion yuan, it can be spent." However, I will not sell those superb and quasi-superb jadeite, I plan to carve them all into precious jewelry in various formats, which are good choices for family heirlooms or exhibitions. ”

Dazhi was a little confused, but he was too sensitive to ask again.

Forrest Gump suddenly shouted from above: "Boss, Mr. Hu and Master Li are here." ”

"Clean up!"

Zhou You heard that Mr. Hu and Li Yidao were coming together, and secretly shouted that it was the right time, so he immediately picked out two pieces of jadeite with excellent colors and water heads and walked up.

"Welcome ......"

Seeing Mr. Hu and Li Yidao, Zhou You immediately caught up. Seeing what Mr. Hu and Li Yidao were in their hands, they immediately smiled and asked, "It seems that the two of you have brought me good news." ”

"If there is no good news, how dare I come to see you!"

Mr. Hu opened the box he was carrying, and a luxurious necklace full of Western classical taste appeared in front of Zhou You's eyes.

That's the Crimson Heart.

However, the ruby in the middle is missing, replaced by a carefully carved ice red jade. This piece of ice red fei is the red fei dug out of the waste materials of Zhou You, and it is the first red fei that Zhou You gets. Although the texture cannot be compared with the best blood beauty, its value is definitely not comparable to ordinary glass species, and it is naturally better than the original flawed ruby.

"A masterpiece!"

Zhou You couldn't help but admire.

Li Yidao said: "This design itself is also very good, if it can be matched with the best blood beauty, it will definitely be a masterpiece." However, it is an honor to get such a good texture of the ice red jade, and I can't aspire to it too much. ”

Mr. Hu said: "Xiaoyou, our use of your ice seed red fei has been fully utilized, and even the corner trimmings have been polished into miniature earrings, and a total of eight sets of jewelry of different sizes have been produced. But I don't want your money, and I can even give you this necklace, as long as you give me a few sets of jewelry to sit in the store. ”

With the best blood beauty, Zhou You naturally didn't want to keep the earliest collection of ice red fei, so when he came back, he took out the ice red fei as soon as he came back, and asked Mr. Hu and Li Yidao to unite, hoping that they could help him design a batch of red fei jewelry.

Zhou You thought for a moment and said, "Yes, I want six sets, and the remaining two sets are for you." ”

Mr. Hu was a little disappointed.

He hoped to get half of it, or at least three sets, and now he was disappointed that he only had two sets. However, Zhou You's next words made him happy: "The Golden Silk Ice Seed I promised you before has been given to you, but in order to avoid your loss, I am willing to sell this Golden Silk Ice Seed to you, so that you can combine it into a set." ”

"Thank you!"

Mr. Hu had gotten a lot of gold silk ice before, and now he got another piece, so that the high-end jewelry in his store is more and more abundant, and if all the operations are done, he can even open a small jewelry auction, which is quite a great thing for Mr. Hu.

Zhou You handed over the blue ice in his hand and said, "Master Li, please help, I promised Brother Hao, you can help me carve this piece of blue ice into the most suitable jewelry." ”

This piece of blue flower ice is the one that Zhou You collided with Wang Hao the next day, and it was said at the time, one person and half, and Zhou You, who almost forgot about it, only remembered it after taking out this piece of jade, and this is why there is such a scene.

I don't want Mr. Hu to say: "Xiaoyou, the quality of this blue ice is good, suitable for Western-style jewelry, I don't know if you are interested in operating Western-style jewelry of the Crimson Heart type?"

"Yes, of course I do!"

Zhou You didn't expect such an opportunity, and he was immediately stupid.

Outside, hiring someone to design is extremely expensive. For example, if you hire someone to design a ring, its design may account for 10% of the total cost, or even more than 30%, so most people can only buy ready-made ones, and dare not ask someone to design them.

Now that Mr. Hu has taken the initiative to send it to the door, how can he not be happy to travel around.

In order to avoid Zhou You's suspicion, Mr. Hu said: "Xiaoyou, my brother doesn't take advantage of you, and I won't pay you back those corners, just take it as my production cost." ”

"No problem. ”

Zhou You was happy, thought of something and asked: "Mr. Hu, you said before that you thought of a new way, is it related to design?"

Mr. Hu thought for a moment and nodded: "Yes, it is indeed a new thinking." It is impossible for a jewelry company like ours to train its own designers like Zheng's Jewelry, but we can brainstorm ideas, and I suddenly thought of a possibility, and finally hit the idea to those teachers and students who study jewelry design. Take your piece of jacaranda ice as an example, I will show them the texture, weight, shape, requirements and other factors of the main material, let them help design, as long as the design is adopted by me, I will buy their design patent, they can practice and make money at the same time, and we can also reduce the cost a lot, which can be described as a win-win situation. ”

"Awesome!"

The principle is simple, but it works.

Maybe those teachers and students who study jewelry design are not very good and have little experience, but they can brainstorm and join forces, and they will definitely not be inferior to professional designers. The teachers and students earned extra money while practicing, while Mr. Hu got a large number of design proposals and greatly reduced costs. It's a brilliant strategy, and it's a great example of how education and business can work together.

However, Zhou You immediately thought of a possibility and asked: "Mr. Hu, there are countless examples of plagiarism in this world, and if there is a dispute, I am afraid that I will ......."

It has been a matter of one or two days for domestic jewelry companies to copy the design of foreign brand-name jewelry, and it has become almost a common phenomenon. However, once such a thing comes out, the negative impact is not small, and the compensation is also very terrible, enough to bankrupt an ordinary jeweler.

Mr. Hu replied: "I'm not that stupid. In the contract, I indicated the relevant regulations, and the huge amount of compensation was enough to make them less scheming and more serious. ”

Zhou You asked again: "Then they don't copy all of them, what about borrowing a little?"

Mr. Hu said: "They are insiders and know the size. As long as they don't go beyond the bottom line in their circle, I don't care, as long as there is a market for their designs, it's enough. ”

There is nothing to say about traveling around.

However, Zhou You is really interested in this, and wants to try: "Please wait for me, I will go and get some jadeite that you may be interested in." ”

Mr. Hu and Li Yidao glanced at each other, their eyes full of surprise.

You went to the basement for a turn, and then took two pieces of jadeite up and handed them to Mr. Hu, saying: "These two pieces of jadeite are one of my treasures, I don't know what you mean to suggest."

"Colorless glass!"

"Blue Water Hibiscus!"

Mr. Hu and Li Yidao exclaimed one after another.

They all know that it is not ordinary goods that are worth traveling and collecting, but they didn't expect to take the current very popular high-end jadeite, a colorless glass species, a blue water hibiscus, the total price of these two pieces of jadeite is probably more than 50 million.