Chapter 44: Inheritance

This is not the first time Fan Xiaoyi has mentioned her dream. Liao Mingfei also has a dream in his heart that he wants to accomplish.

As she said, countless ordinary Jingdezhen people have been working hard like this for generations, overcoming obstacles and moving towards their dreams in this inconspicuous but most splendid porcelain city in the mountains of northern Jiangxi. It is precisely because of them that there is a porcelain capital that amazes the world in history, and even makes porcelain the name of China; It is precisely because of these countless Fan Xiaoyi that there is a contemporary Jingdezhen that has gone through thousands of years but is still vibrant.

Liao Mingfei looked at the back of Fan Xiaoyi riding a battery car and slowly walked away, and couldn't help but look back again.

The sprawling pavilion is fading into twilight. This is the dream and hope of Jingdezhen people carried in this pavilion, but it has not stopped with the end of this Porcelain Expo.

They are like Fan Xiaoyi's rushing orders, taking root, sprouting, brewing, maturing, and bearing fruitful fruits in this land, until next year's Porcelain Expo, which will break out again.

Liao Mingfei was thrilled.

Seeing her arrival, grandma happily patted the side of the bed and motioned for her to sit, "Yiyi, you haven't come to eat with me for a few days, when you have time to come, I'll make you rice noodles and tamales." ”

Fan Xiaoyi hurriedly asked, "How is the situation, how long does the doctor say it will take to be discharged from the hospital?" ”

The aunt said, "The doctor said that it might be enough in half a month." ”

Fan Xiaoyi laughed, "Then when you are discharged from the hospital, I will go to eat rice noodles and steamed pork." ”

"Okay, okay." Grandma's mouth couldn't close.

Auntie was already beckoning Liao Mingfei to sit, "...... I'm sorry to trouble you about our family. ”

"Auntie, don't be so polite." Liao Mingfei is always so humble and polite in front of his elders, which makes Fan Xiaoyi, who has seen how domineering he is, itch his teeth with hatred, "Today, Fan Xiaoyi and I both came back from the Porcelain Expo, and we happened to be on the same road, so we came over together." ”

Grandma also nodded, "This young man is really good." ”

It happened that the uncle came back with the medicine, so Fan Xiaoyi discussed with him who would accompany the bed tomorrow, "...... My aunt and uncle are very busy with work, so let them come on weekends. Anyway, the porcelain fair is over, so I'll come tomorrow. ”

"We're fine, but your dad doesn't seem to be available tomorrow." Uncle remembered again, "Last time your father seemed to say that you received a lot of orders at the Porcelain Expo, and you will be very busy during this time, if you don't have time recently, you will be busy with you, and we will arrange it." ”

Fan Xiaoyi still insisted, "It's okay, I do it myself anyway, and I don't need to clock in at work, just arrange my own time." ”

Uncle is still a little worried, "Can you catch up with your order?" ”

Fan Xiaoyi gritted her teeth, "I can't catch up anyway, I'm planning to invite someone, so it's better to invite more." ”

"Someone, please?" The aunt was surprised, "Didn't you make your own studio?" ”

Fan Xiaoyi told them all about the recent situation.

I heard that she had to hire someone because she had too many orders and couldn't catch up, and her grandmother and uncles and aunts were very happy for her, and her grandmother even said, "Yo, our family is going to be the boss!" ”

Fan Xiaoyi was a little embarrassed, "Where can I say that I am the boss, but I just took advantage of the wind of the Porcelain Expo, and when it came to the off-season, I didn't know what to do." ”

Grandma was very happy, "It will definitely be fine." ”

The uncle was also very happy, "The children are big in a blink of an eye, and they can start their own businesses and go out of their own way." He said to Fan Xiaoyi, "If you need help, just ask, and we adults who can help will definitely help." ”

Fan Xiaoyi thought for a while, "It's really not there now, I have good funds for the time being, and there is no shortage of orders, so there is a shortage of manpower." By the time I've got someone to deal with it, my studio should be really on track. ”

Thinking of the gloomy and bleak days when he couldn't open the road at all, and now he is worried about rushing orders, Fan Xiaoyi can't help but sigh.

The three elders were very happy for her for a while, and the uncle patted her on the shoulder, "Don't work too hard." ”

Grandma said, "Young people are afraid of hardship." ”

As she spoke, her grandmother recalled the past, "When we were young, at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the top ten porcelain factories were still in the entrepreneurial stage, and it was so bitter at that time." I went to work at 6 o'clock in the morning to catch up with the production tasks, worked a day during the day, and organized literacy studies at night school. By the time I got home, it was ninety o'clock in the evening. Then I have to prepare a few children's dishes for the next day and do housework. I always remember that at that time, I had to get up at 3:30 in the morning and 4 o'clock at the latest to go to the river to wash clothes, and when I came back from washing my clothes, I started to prepare the day's meals, but I went to work to catch up with work. At that time, where was the time to sleep, and I was dozing off all day and night all year round. ”

Fan Xiaoyi couldn't help sighing, the people of that era really suffered hardship, and they are really much happier now.

Grandma is still reminiscing about the past, "At that time, my family was poor and couldn't afford to buy a clock. Then one morning, I didn't know what time I got up, there was no one under the river, I was so scared that I hurried back after washing clothes. When I finished cooking, it was still dawn, and I didn't dare to go to sleep, so I sat there and dozed off. When your grandfather gets up in the middle of the day, I sit there and fall asleep. Because of this incident, your grandfather made up his mind to grit his teeth and buy a bell to come back. ”

Uncle was also speechless, "When I was a child, it was bitter, I just ate every day, and I couldn't eat enough, so I basically didn't have any vegetables." It was much better when we got there. When we participate in the work, it is the time when the top ten porcelain factories are booming, and who doesn't want to enter the top ten porcelain factories to eat state-run meals. At that time, in addition to the third-line factory, which was our top ten porcelain factories, the most slogan shouted every day was to dedicate youth to the motherland. At that time, who would have imagined that in the later era of market economy, even the top ten porcelain factories in Jingdezhen, the pillars, would go out of business. That's state-run. ”

Fan Xiaoyi couldn't help but sigh, "I still remember the days when my parents were laid off, the family quarreled every day, and my mother cried every day." So thinking about her opposition to me taking the porcelain road, I can also understand. But every generation has its own life, and in our generation, although we can still hear the prestige of the top ten porcelain factories of that year, it is already another era. The famous porcelain paintings of the masters of arts and crafts, the large private companies, and the small workshops that bloom everywhere, each according to one side. Even a young person like me, who is just leaving school, wants to start a business. ”

This is the times.

Generation after generation of Jingdezhen people have dedicated their youth and even their lives to ceramics, growing up with ceramics, they have grown up in their respective eras, and they have also shaped this era with their own hands.

They have been rooted in the porcelain clay of Jingdezhen for generations, relying on each other and prospering together. Porcelain has long been dissolved into the blood of Jingdezhen people.

It is precisely because of countless such ordinary ceramic practitioners that there is a historical and modern Jingdezhen.