Chapter 190: Help
"Mr. Fan, you have seen several of them, why are you still not satisfied! I just asked, at present, almost all of the markets in Yangzhou are these styles, and the manufacturers are those few, and the gap is not much!" Lu Fanchen's assistant said.
Yesterday I ran all day, and today I ran all morning, and the two of them have run through several large lacquerware manufacturers in Yangzhou, but none of them satisfied Lu Fanchen.
"It's all assembly line products, and there's a little less spirituality in it! I remember that there were a lot of lacquerware craftsmen in Yangzhou in the past! Why can't I find any of them now!" Lu Fanchen also had a little headache, the lacquerware he had seen looked graceful and luxurious, but they were all too heavy in craftsmanship, giving people the feeling of being dull.
"Mr. Fan, now there are a few people who rely on craftsmanship to eat! How can they afford to make lacquerware purely by hand! Aren't many handmade products replaced by the big machinery industry in this way?" said the assistant with a wry smile.
Lu Fanchen was lying on his back in the back seat of the car, feeling a little irritable, is it so difficult to find a work that satisfies him?
"Why don't you try to find the local people in Yangzhou and see if they can contact those old craftsmen?" the assistant suggested.
Lu Fanchen thought for a while, and was about to take out his mobile phone to call his two friends to see if he could contact the relevant local associations, when he opened the address book, a name appeared in front of him, Jiang Xiaozhu!
Yes, Jiang Xiaozhu is also from Yangzhou! She mentioned before that her father seemed to have worked as a consultant for the Foreign Culture and Art Exchange Center!
Without thinking much about it, he dialed Jiang Xiaozhu's phone.
"Mr. Lu, why did you call me at this time! I'm in my hometown, if you let me go and save you now, it would be a bit too much!" Jiang Xiaozhu's voice came from the other side.
"Miss Jiang, I'm on your territory now, I want to ask you for a favor!" As soon as Lu Fanchen heard Jiang Xiaozhu's voice, the irritability in his heart for no reason seemed to be alleviated a little!
"Are you in Yangzhou? Is something wrong with you!" Jiang Xiao Zhuleng, this person is a good demon, what are you doing in Yangzhou!
Lu Fanchen smiled and told her about his own affairs.
Jiang Xiaozhu thought for a while before saying, "I know about lacquerware, my father knows a grandfather, and his family is an ancestral craft, but I don't know that grandfather is not there for so many years, so let's ask my father first, five minutes at most, you wait for my call!"
After saying this, Jiang Xiaozhu quickly hung up the phone.
In less than five minutes, her phone came back again, "Mr. Lu, that grandfather is still there, my father gave me the address! I sent it to your mobile phone, you can just go over directly, my father has already called him!"
When Lu Fanchen heard this, he hurriedly said, "Miss Jiang, are you free now?" Why don't you take us there yourself? You also know that I really can't understand these streets and alleys in the main city of Yangzhou! However, if you have something to do, forget it, I'll take a taxi over. ”
When Jiang Xiaozhu heard it, too, the address she gave was so inflective that the car couldn't drive in at all!
"It's okay! I'll give you the address of my home, you come and pick me up, I'll go with you! It just so happens that I haven't seen that grandfather for a long time, and I'll see you this time!"
"Good!"
After receiving Jiang Xiaozhu, according to her guidance, the assistant parked the car in a parking lot, and then the three of them each took a rickshaw!
"This is it! The alleys here are relatively narrow, and it's hard to pass the tricycle, let alone your car!" After passing through several narrow alleys, the tricycle finally stopped outside the door of an old three-way courtyard!
Lu Fanchen got out of the car and took a look, this house looks very old, how can anyone who is willing to live in this kind of house among young people now!
The door was not closed tightly, leaving a crack, Jiang Xiaozhu gently pushed it and opened it, as soon as he opened the door, he saw an old man with snow-white hair and beard sitting on a recliner in the courtyard basking in the sun!
"Grandpa Yuan, I'm Jiang Pengfang's daughter, and my dad just contacted you!" Jiang Xiaozhu said with a smile.
"The daughter of the little Jiang family! It's so big! Time flies so fast! It turns out that such a small doll has grown into a big girl!" Grandpa Yuan immediately stood up from the recliner.
Although her legs and feet are still neat, Jiang Xiaozhu found that the old man's hands always trembled inadvertently, and she sighed in her heart, what craftsmen are most afraid of is that their hands are unstable!
"Hello Master Yuan!" Lu Fanchen and his assistant also greeted the old man respectfully.
"It seems that you two want to see lacquerware! I can't see it! How can young people nowadays still look at these old things!" Old Man Yuan is not interested in Lu Fanchen.
"Old man Yuan, we are specialized in export business, and mainly do domestic high-end handicrafts, I have seen the products of several companies before, and I don't say that I am very satisfied, I want to see what the old craftsman does in person!" Lu Fanchen said sincerely.
"Yo, have you seen the goods from the lacquerware factory, are you not satisfied, your vision is quite high, say it, what are you not satisfied with?" asked the old man Yuan, touching his white beard.
Lu Fanchen thought for a while before saying, "The craftsmanship is too heavy, dull, and there is no aura!"
"That's right, I think so too! But the lacquerware factory produces it to cater to the tastes of the guests, and if it doesn't, where will the sales come from! How can you feed the lacquerware factory without sales! Young man, you're here for the right place today! Let's go, I'll show you the goods!" After listening to Lu Fanchen's words, Grandpa Yuan finally looked at the two of them.
The three of them followed Old Man Yuan to the last room in the courtyard.
A middle-aged man was seriously dusting a screen! He only looked up at the three of them, and then went back to his work.
"That's my son, who has been learning the craft from me, so it's good to tinker with this! You come in and take a look, are you satisfied with this?" Old Man Yuan just said a simple sentence and carried the three of them into the house.
As soon as they entered the room, the three of them were stunned by the large and small lacquerware ornaments inside! Lacquerware of various colors, black, gold, and red! And the size was not small, the big one had a screen the size of a whole wall, and the small one had a small box that could only hold rouge.
"Well, it's a whole set!" the assistant looked at the room full of ornaments in amazement.
"That's right! It's made according to the previous set of lacquerware!Look, the screen, the floor screen, the hanging screen, the table screen, and the wardrobe, the seat and everything are all complete, here is the boudoir supplies of the girl to be married, from hangers to jewelry boxes!"
"Old man, this is a snail process!" Lu Fanchen asked, pointing to a screen.
"The eye is good! It's just a snail! There's also carved paint over there, you can also take a look!"
After Lu Fanchen looked at everything, he turned to Old Man Yuan, "Grandpa Yuan! I want to buy all these ornaments!
Old Man Yuan glanced at him, twisted his beard and said, "For personal use or for trading?"
"One set is for personal use, and the rest is intended to be exported as high-end handicrafts!" Lu Fanchen said frankly.
"Oh! I'll tell you first! That set is my craft! The other ornaments are my son's craft!"
"I can see it, so I want to keep that set for myself!" Lu Fanchen said with a smile.
Old Man Yuan looked at Lu Fanchen deeply, then put his hands behind his back and said, "The price is not low! Do you want to go home and discuss it with your elders!"
"No, I can make my own decisions! That's it! Grandpa Yuan, I'll make a price, if you think it's not suitable, I'll add it more! 30 million! Overall packaging, what do you think?" Lu Fanchen said.
"Thirty million?" Jiang Xiaozhu cried out in a lost voice.
"Xiaozhu, don't make a fuss, it's worth the price, the frames of those screens alone are red sandalwood, and other raw materials are not easy to find now, I think this 30 million is a bit low!" Lu Fanchen said with a smile.
Jiang Xiaozhu is now thinking about the hanger in the corner of his room and an old-fashioned jewelry box, he thinks it's too dirty and throws it in the corner to fall into the dust, if it weren't for the fact that these things were left by his mother, it is estimated that they would have disappeared long ago!
Grandpa Yuan glanced at Jiang Xiaozhu with a smile, "Girl, you should have something I made in your family! I remember when your parents got married, I gave a lot of things! I spent a lot of effort on your mother's jewelry box alone!"
"Yes, it's all there! I'll take it all there! I'm just waiting to be a dowry when I get married!" Jiang Xiaozhu said with a dry smile.
"Well, put it away! That box can be exchanged for a small half house in Yangzhou!" Old Man Yuan patted Jiang Xiaozhu on the shoulder.
Jiang Xiaozhu said in his heart, he didn't know before, but now he finally knows, and his father is really, why don't he tell himself that this thing is so valuable!
"Grandpa Yuan, if you think it's too low, I'll add more! as long as you're satisfied!" Lu Fanchen asked again.
"What's more! If someone recognizes it, no one recognizes, these things are piled up here and it's a pile of waste! No matter how much effort you put into it, it's useless! That's it! According to the price you said! You can come and get the goods whenever you want!" Grandpa Yuan said calmly.
Jiang Xiao Zhuleng, so quickly it was settled? 30 million! This is real money! Not VND!
"Okay, I'll arrange for someone to make the payment the day after tomorrow, I'll pay a deposit here today, and I want to talk to you about something again!" Lu Fanchen said.
"What's the matter!"
"I want to order another batch of goods! I also want to ask you to check it for the time!" Lu Fanchen said respectfully.
Only then did Old Man Yuan seriously look at the young man in front of him.
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