Chapter 163: The New Butler.
In Nguyen Jiaojiao's original era, bead embroidery was an intangible cultural heritage.
She loves handmade products, especially those that are full of sincerity, and they deserve to be carried forward.
Chu Yu stayed in Shanghai for five days, in addition to meeting Ms. Ding Yuanxiu under the recommendation of Zhang Meihua and successfully letting beaded shoes enter the department store, he also met the manager of the Friendship Store under the leadership of Ruan Jiaojiao.
Although the results were unfortunate, the manager liked their characteristics very much, and it must be something else.
Chu Yu pressed the question into his heart and followed Ruan Jiaojiao to visit the friendship store.
Ruan Jiaojiao is not a good person, and the most important reason for him to guide the way is because he fell in love with the craftsmen of the bead embroidery factory and wanted to borrow them for a period of time.
For this reason, when the two walked to the glass cabinet dedicated to selling shoes, Ruan Jiaojiao said casually: "Everything that can enter the friendship store must be the best, in order to sell to foreign guests to earn foreign exchange." ”
As for the latter, she didn't say anything.
Chu Yu looked at the thick-soled high heels in the cabinet, his eyes slowly widened, he understood!
In less than a month, Chu Yu, who returned to Shanghai again, brought not beaded shoes in the style of black cloth shoes, but bead-embroidered small heels made of smooth satin, with different colors and styles, but all of them focused on high-end luxury, and even spent a lot of money on gold and silver wire.
This time, it was the turn of the manager of the Friendship Store to marvel.
I went back for a meeting, and the shoes brought by Chu Yu stayed in the friendship store another day.
Similarly, within two weeks, Ruan Jiaojiao also got the person she wanted, a master borrowed from the bead embroidery factory and an apprentice she brought, Chu Yu's sister - Chu Bei.
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When Ruan Jiaojiao and Ji Huai'an arrived with snacks, the two old tailors had already packed up their tools and were ready to go home.
They smiled and took the snacks brought by Ruan Jiaojiao, said hello and went home happily, while the remaining four people upstairs and the kitchen cook continued to work.
Because there are enough people, Ruan Jiaojiao set up three sets of cheongsam, and also let everyone divide their labor, and they will not be idle.
A set of pure white cheongsam was made by two old tailors before Shang Hong and others came, and it took a whole month, and it took five days just to make the phoenix buckle on it.
This cheongsam is now in the hands of the bead embroidery master and Chu Bei, and after they complete the bead embroidery part, it is Shang Hong's father and daughter who finally complete the large-scale embroidery, and the project is undoubtedly very huge.
Shang Hong's father and daughter are now embroidering another set of cheongsam patterns, different from the one just now, this one is mainly based on light-colored green silk threads, focusing on gentle and elegant routes.
Two tailors made a third of the cheongsam still on the workbench, this set is black velvet fabric, only at the edges and collar shoulders, the simplest of the three cheongsams.
Ruan Jiaojiao's wages for several people are very, very considerable, and there is also plenty of time, and people like Shang Hong and the bead embroidery master are not in the local area, so of course they can go home and have a look.
After distributing the dim sum to everyone, Ruan Jiaojiao and Ji Huai'an went to the top floor of the third floor and didn't disturb them, until the cook called for someone to eat, and the sun was about to disappear, and the two of them left.
went to the river to see the sunset, accompanied by the evening breeze, the two went back to the bungalow.
The workers who temporarily found help all left, and all the trees in the yard were planted, standing at the gate of the yard, even Ruan Jiaojiao, who had a somewhat unventilated nose, smelled the fragrance of osmanthus flowers all over the yard.
After dinner, Steward Xu brought a familiar guest.
Ruan Jiaojiao and Ji Huai'an are about to go to Beijing, and Steward Xu and Cao Kang will definitely follow.
But there is still a house bought in the Shanghai family, and many things have to be dealt with, so Ruan Jiaojiao asked Steward Xu to find a life steward who is responsible for taking care of these things.
Steward Xu went to find it very attentively, and found a very suitable person, it should be said that he "dug up" a very suitable person - the manager of the Overseas Chinese Hotel.
Ruan Jiaojiao once stayed in the Overseas Chinese Hotel for one night, and she had a few encounters with this manager, but the big and small things were all done by Butler Xu, so there was no contact.
To be honest, Ruan Jiaojiao was quite surprised to see Steward Xu bring this manager here.
This is equivalent to digging into the country, but people are really willing to give up the iron rice bowl to come over, which is quite amazing.
The manager's surname is Xu, his name is Xu Hongxing, and his name was changed later, because his previous name was too Wen Zou Zou, and he was afraid of being caught.
He is two years older than Steward Xu, exactly fifty this year, as for why he is willing to come, the reason is also very simple: Ruan Jiaojiao gives a lot, has a hard background, and has few things.
There is already a Peace Hotel Zhuyu in front of him, and the overseas Chinese hotel he manages has no sense of existence at all, and generally it is not their turn to change facilities and the like, and it is not realistic to go up.
Some news that flowed out of Steward Xu's mouth, her current owner's background is unfathomable, not to mention the doubling of salary, he only thought about it for a while, and then immediately made a decision.
After deciding on this housekeeper Xu, Xu Qiuwan took him to get to know the people in the bungalow, and then gave him a detailed list of other houses under Ruan Jiaojiao's name, and told him about the Red Star Nursery School that he had to remit money every month and Wen Chuyi's Nursery School.
On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Ruan Jiaojiao took Steward Xu and the new Steward Xu to the Friendship Store to sweep the goods.
The main thing is to buy moon cakes to eat, which is used to distribute holiday benefits to the people below, and by the way, to satisfy their shopping desires.
Steward Xu also accompanied Ruan Jiaojiao out to buy things for the first time, and it was the first time in his life to walk into the friendship store, which was an eye-opener.
The newly appointed lady of the proprietor spent more money than he had deposited in and out of the friendship store, and her expression did not change.
After Steward Xu was shocked, he came back to his senses and carefully observed the reactions of the people in the store.
The salesperson and the manager were very warm and thoughtful, and there was no surprise in their expressions and eyes, which showed that Ruan Jiaojiao was a very common thing to buy things like this, and they had long been surprised.
This also just reflects that his previous decision was not wrong, and he didn't have to worry about doing things for such a generous person for the rest of his life!
However, what surprised Steward Xu even more was still to come.
It wasn't until the people from the Friendship Store had delivered a whole cart full of stuff to the bungalow, and it became clear to him that he had been narrow-minded before.
There are so many precious things, all of them are used for gifts, and his young lady can't look down on any of them!!
He received a tin box of mooncakes, a bottle of Moutai, a Chinese brand cigarette, four cans of canned beef, a box of butter biscuits, a box of chocolates, a can of coffee, a net of hairy crabs and fifty yuan of savings.
He's only been in office for two days!
Not only him, but the people in the bungalow, including the English-style small building, all received the Boxing Gifts, and even Mother Xu, Niu Niu and Dumb Sister-in-law, who were just helpers, also received a lot of things.
A cart full of Boxing was divided, and the helpers divided half of the cart.
For the remaining half of the car, Ruan Jiaojiao asked Ji Huai'an, who came back from cleaning the old house, to take half of it, and went with him to give it to Xiaomao's brothers, and the last half was given to her little sisters by Cao Kang.