Chapter 173: Golden Cuifang
Ningxia looked at the place where the toon was pointing, and immediately felt a burst of surprise. This turned out to be an advertisement for a jade processing workshop.
Ningxia hurriedly shouted Tiezi and asked him if the jade workshop above was famous in the local area, at least it was reliable in terms of technology or something. Later, she gambled on high-grade jadeite, so she didn't have to worry about finding a place to process it.
After reading the advertisement, Tiezi said, "That is Jincuifang, which is indeed a very famous jade workshop in our local area, and the boss's family has been making jade carving for generations, and the skills are among the best in our local area. This time it's rare, how can they be willing to work externally, our jade can be processed in Jincuifang, so it is not an exaggeration to say that even if it is scraps, it can also sell the price of high-quality jadeite. Just to see if we have the luck to open the door of Jincuifang. β
Ningxia heard Tiezi say this, and he had a score in his heart, Tiezi said that Jincuifang didn't take on ordinary work, and she really needed such a picky jade carving master. Talents with high skills are often the most arrogant, as long as the jade carving skills are good, she is not afraid of spending more processing fees. You must know that the quality of jade jewelry affects the price of jadeite, and the skill of carving is also one of the most important aspects of the value of a piece of jade.
Ningxia planned to ask Tiezi to take him to the Jincuifang, but Toon had to follow, saying that she was a nanny, and that this nanny was not by the master's side. Ningxia had no choice but to let her follow.
The Jincuifang is not on Jade Street, but it is not far from Jade Street, and it is not far from a barricade road through Jade Street, and it is not long before you see the faΓ§ade of Jincuifang. Tiezi said that this Jincuifang is not only to do jade carving, but also to make jade pieces inlaid with gold, and I heard that the owner's hometown is from the famous jade carving city of Suzhou City, so there is such a high jade carving skill.
When Ningxia heard the name Su Cheng, her heart moved slightly, she was naturally no stranger to this city, and Nie Chen's family lived in Su Cheng now. However, she won't insist that the boss of Jincuifang will have anything to do with the Nie family. Sioux City is a famous jade carving city in history, and people who know how to carve jade abound. What's more, the Nie family is not a native of Sioux City.
The Jincuifang is not an ordinary shop, Tiezi said, the original business hall left by the French during the Republic of China, was bought by the previous generation of owners of Jincuifang, and changed into a shop for jade processing, the first floor is the shop, contact business, the second and third floors are the workshops of those skilled jade craftsmen.
It's just that the threshold of this Jincuifang is indeed very high, and Ningxia was blocked as soon as he arrived at the door. The guy said that the orders are full at present, and if he wants to ask the store to help process jade, he will have to wait until next month. Ningxia is a thin-skinned person, or she is also a little arrogant, people's faces are so ugly, she doesn't bother to please, and she wants to turn around and leave with a slight frost on her face. Still with a hot temper, Toon grabbed Ningxia's hand wearing a two-color jade bracelet, and said to the guy, "Don't underestimate us, you specialize in making jade, so do you know how much this bracelet in our boss's hand is worth?" We are not ordinary people, don't look down on people. β
The guy carefully stared at the pair of bracelets in Ningxia's hand, and immediately kept his face silent, looked Ningxia up and down, and then said, "Then please wait a minute, I'll ask our boss." β
When the guy turned around, Toon spat at him angrily, saying where is such a cow guy? It's like you owe them a few hundred dollars. Let's say it well, if he doesn't take orders, will there be dead people in his family?
"The store is a big bully, and the customer is a big bully." , this is an old saying, Ningxia doesn't have so many complaints in her heart, she doesn't believe that in addition to this, she can't find a good jade carving master.
When that guy came out, his face was really the same, and the person who specializes in jade processing could not recognize how much the bracelet on Ningxia's hand was worth? At first glance, the clothes are ordinary girls, but people casually wear a pair of superb jade bracelets worth nearly 100 million yuan, so how high is this girl's net worth background, and can she still use words? smiled at Ningxia and said "please" and let Ningxia into the store.
Entered the store, Ningxia only found that there is no complaint that people here do not come in casually, the shelves are full of all kinds of exquisite jade carving products, there are agate and jade and Hetian jade, jade carving varieties and styles are also many, there are figures, utensils, birds and beasts, flowers and other large works, can do ornaments jade carving handicrafts of jade, most of them are not suitable for jewelry agate jade, those superb jade, just a pendant, bracelet, has been priceless, if it is made into a large jade carving, then who can afford it? And those low-grade jade agate or Hetian jade, after the jade carver carefully carved, the beautiful jade carving handicrafts are the same priceless.
There was a very bookish young man wearing glasses, who came over to greet Ningxia, introduced himself as Ji, and had a friendly attitude, asking Ningxia what jewelry or ornaments to process.
Ningxia originally thought that her bean-seeded jadeite would be processed into bracelets, but when she arrived here, she found that if she asked a famous jade carving shop to help her process bracelets that could not be sold for 10,000 yuan, let alone whether people were willing to accept them, the processing fee would probably make her flesh hurt. If she doesn't process it, she has already come, and finally the other party has also rewarded her face and is willing to receive her, she doesn't want to miss this opportunity. So she temporarily decided to process the ornaments of the jade wool of the bean seed first. Didn't Tiezi say that this Jincuifang is very famous? Then her piece of bean seed jade wool is likely to appreciate because of this.
After some contact, the other party agreed to take over the jade carving work in Ningxia, but said that the price is not easy to say now, and it is necessary to wait until the size of the wool, the style and difficulty of the jade carving required by Ningxia, and then talk about the price.
When Ningxia went back and asked the grasshopper and the guys in the store to untie the piece of bean seed jade wool and send it to Jincuifang, the other party asked for a processing fee of 200,000 yuan, a deposit of 100,000 yuan, and the rest of the delivery was paid on the same day. They also said that the style or something, their jade carver will design a few sketches according to the size and uniform color of the jadeite, and then Ningxia will choose the one you like. As for the processing time, because it is a pure hand-carved carving, there is no number of days when it is carved, but the maximum time will not exceed half a year.
Ningxia didn't care about the time when this ornament came out, and she was not in a hurry to ask for it, she just wanted to knock on the door of Jincuifang with the help of the bean jade wool.
Ningxia can successfully become a customer of Jincuifang, and she is still very grateful to Toon for daring to speak, otherwise she would have left with a black face. After knowing that Jincuifang was good at making gold and jade jewelry, Ningxia had another plan. The processing fee of gold inlaid jade is much cheaper than that of pure jade carving. Ningxia bought a mid-range red jade material and a piece of ice glutinous green jade material on Jade Street, and then spent a few days designing his own gold and jade jewelry style, including necklaces, bracelets, and earrings.
With the design drawings and the two pieces of jadeite materials, Ningxia once again boarded the door of Jincuifang. After seeing her design, Mr. Ji said that there are still some problems with Ningxia's design, because she doesn't understand jade processing, and some styles can't make the light of jade refract, and after making it, it will greatly reduce the aesthetics.
Ningxia broke out in a cold sweat when she heard this, in jewelry design, she is indeed only half a knife, when she was in college, she was just an elective jewelry design, three days of fishing and two days of drying nets, she is really not so proficient in this aspect, she is just a person who wears straw sandals, slightly better than those barefoot.
Seeing Ningxia's sad face, Mr. Ji smiled slightly and said, "I will find someone to help you revise the design drawings, you can come back in two days to see if the revised drawings take advantage of your mind." β
Ningxia was naturally very satisfied with this answer, and two days later, she went to Jincuifang, where Mr. Ji took out her design drawings and found someone to modify the drawings according to Ningxia's design drawings. Looking at the drawings made by other professional jewelry designers, Ningxia really felt sweaty, and her own design drawings were the difference between celebrities and cuihua.
Ningxia also noticed that in the lower right corner of each blueprint, there was an English letter "N" in Gothic script. However, she didn't think much about it, and intuitively felt that it should be deliberately left by the designer, Chinese name pinyin or the abbreviation of English name.