Feast Of Flowers - Chapter 64

“Sister Xiao Qiu, the information you want.” The colleague put a report in front of Liu Qiu and said to her, “Today there is a leader from above to inspect, it’s almost eleven o’clock, isn’t it coming?”

“You still go back to your post. I’m afraid you will come as soon as you chat.” Liu Qiu turned on the local intranet and entered the data on the data into the system. “I won’t chat with you anymore, I won’t be able to finish the work. , I have to work overtime at night.”

“It’s not interesting.” The colleague whispered and turned back to his position. Among several young employees in the office, Liu Qiu is the one with the highest academic qualifications and the strongest ability to do things. I heard that the director is going to train her as a successor, but another leader thinks that Liu Qiu is a woman who can’t hold things down and wants to train another man Colleagues, plus the male colleague’s family relationship, everyone feels very sorry for Liu Qiu.

The male colleague looked up and joked and said: “Why are you going to provoke her, who doesn’t know that she is a famous motivated person in our department.”

The others glanced at the male colleague and did not speak. There are more women than men in the department, and Liu Qiu’s heart is somewhat unfair. It’s just that everyone doesn’t want to offend people, so they can barely maintain the peace of the office.

The male colleague didn’t care about other people’s attitudes. He picked up the cup and took a glass of water under the water dispenser: “I tell you that this time it was not the leader who came down to inspect, but a large investor came over. It is said that this This large investor is a well-known charity businessman. He has invested in many projects in Xugu City in the past two years, and he has relatives who live in our unknown county, so he came here to take a look. The county’s leaders attached great importance to this matter, so they paid special attention. Arrange reception work. The leaders brought him to our department because they wanted us to introduce the scientific development plan of agricultural products.”

“The investors who can be personally received by the leaders must be very powerful.” Hearing this kind of gossip, other colleagues were a little surprised. “If he can really invest in more projects in our anonymous county and help the people generate more income, That’s really good.”

“It’s not so easy.” The male colleague sneered. “I heard that several neighboring counties have been secretly contacting this investor and want to lead people to their county.”

“Isn’t that the investor has relatives in our county?” the colleague whispered, “compared with other counties, we still have an advantage.”

“How much can a relative with a table of three thousand miles play a role?” The male colleague could not help being a little proud when his colleagues were listening carefully to their analysis, “Let’s watch it first, and don’t make any mistakes. The leaders value this cooperation very much. No matter whether things can be done or not, at least it should not be broken in our hands.”

Liu Qiu listened to the conversation between colleagues and took a look at the phone secretly. Hua Jin sent a message this morning saying that she was already in Anonymous County and came to see her in the morning. It is already past 11 o’clock. Didn’t see a figure?

“Here.” The male colleague answered a call and said to everyone after hanging up, “Everyone pay attention to the image and remember not to talk nonsense.”

Liu Qiu is a little worried about Hua Jin. If she hasn’t returned to the county seat for so many years, will she be lost? She thought about it, and sent a message to the other party, asking her to call herself when she had something to do, and be careful.

Fanhua: Don’t worry, I’m almost there.

Liu Qiu breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he was all right.

“Liu Qiu, put your mobile phone away.” The male colleague saw that Liu Qiu was still playing with his mobile phone, “Don’t affect the image of our department.”

“Everyone is a colleague who sits on an equal footing. When speaking, don’t use the command tone.” Liu Qiu put away the phone and glanced at the male colleague. “The time I spend on the phone every day is not as much as one-tenth of yours. What are you worried about? ?”

“You…” The male colleague was flushed by Liu Qiu and was about to return his mouth. He heard the voice of the director and various footsteps outside.

“Mr. Pei, Ms. Hua, this is the office of our department. In order to stay close to the lives of the common people and serve young people, we have recruited several young people with high academic qualifications in the past two years. Now they are the mainstays of our department.” Seeing that Pei Yan and Hua Jin are both young, they specially praised several young people.

“Your department has always taken a serious and careful attitude in serving the people. I know this.” Hua Jin looked at the plaque hanging outside the department, “I have a good friend who has been in this department for two years. ”

The accompanying staff members were overjoyed when they heard this. They were worried about how to rob people from the counties next door. Now Ms. Hua has friends working here, which is a good thing.

Everyone praised this as fate, and said how difficult it is to enter this department. Ms. Hua’s friend is a talented young man. Looking at the smiling faces of these staff members, Hua Jin thought that it would not be easy for them to attract local investment and make life easier for the people.

Listening to the sound of footsteps and conversations getting closer, everyone in the department was a little nervous. When the leaders showed up with investors, they were all a little surprised. The two investors are handsome men and women, and they look younger than them. What kind of winner in life?

Liu Qiu looked at Hua Jin walking in front of him in surprise, thinking that he was dazzled, how could Hua Jin walk with the investors and his party.

Hua Jin and Liu Qiu looked at each other and smiled at her.

Hearing Hua Jin said that after her friend went to work in this department, the **** was secretly observing her expression and saw her smile at Liu Qiu who was sitting inside. No one at the scene knew who her friend was.

The director of the department said to Liu Qiu, who had not recovered from the shock: “Xiao Liu, you and Ms. Hua are friends. Come and introduce to Ms. Hua, our county’s agricultural work in the past two years.”

Liu Qiu blinked, got up and walked to Hua Jin, suppressing curiosity and shock, and took them to the exhibition hall upstairs.

The remaining colleagues looked at each other and did not recover for a long time. In order to let the male colleague show his face in front of the leader, the leader has long arranged him to be an interpreter, although everyone knows that the person who is most familiar with this work is Liu Qiu.

But no one expected that Liu Qiu was friends with investors. This is really surprising. With such a great friend, how come they haven’t heard Liu Qiu mention it.

The exhibition halls in the Anonymous County are not as prosperous as the big cities, and even the equipment lacks a sense of science and technology. However, Liu Qiu used boring data to explain interestingly. From time to time, some small anecdotes of the Anonymous County were interspersed, which made the visitors laugh from time to time.

After the visit, the city leaders deliberately said to the department director: “Comrade Xiao Liu, who has outstanding work ability, must be cultivated so that she can serve more people.”

“The leader said yes.” The director of the department turned to look at Liu Qiu, and saw that she was talking to investors, so he didn’t bother.

“Huahua, you scared me a lot today.” Liu Qiu glanced at Pei Yan who was a few steps away from the two of them and spoke with the leaders, and whispered, “This is the man mentioned in your circle of friends. friend?”

Huajin nodded, and whispered in her ear: “I’m doing this today. The real investor is him. I’m here to save you face.”

“Sisters, you really have achieved wealth and honor.” Sometimes when Liu Qiu chats with Hua Jin on WeChat, he will complain to the top male colleague in the department, “I thank you on behalf of the organization. ”

“I really thank you.” Huajin took Liu Qiu to the side and walked a few steps aside. “You just explained to us how handsome you are at work, so good sister.”

“So what can I do, I haven’t met perfect love, I can only indulge in my career.” At this point, Liu Qiu couldn’t help but look at Pei Yan a few more times before hesitating for a moment and said, “He… treats you well ?”

She still remembers how embarrassed Hua Jin looked when she met Hua Jin on the train. She was seventeen years old, but she was as thin as a fourteen or five year old child. Over the years, seeing Huajin crossed the better, but was unwilling to step into an anonymous county. Liu Qiu knew that she still hadn’t faintly emerged from that year.

But the flower brocade that appeared in front of her today seemed to have changed. She became more confident and more energetic, like a delicate fake flower, and finally became a blooming rose, charming and beautiful.

Hua Jin nodded: “Xiao Qiu, he is the one who saved me back then.”

“It turned out to be him?” Liu Qiu was surprised, and then smiled again, “No wonder that with your personality, you will show affection in the circle of friends.” The flower brocade in her impression is almost indifferent to men. When she first saw Huajin put a picture of a handsome strange man, she felt something strange, it turned out to be so.

“You are with him out of gratitude?” Liu Qiu knew that Hua Jin had an exceptionally friendly attitude towards those who had helped her, so he was afraid that Hua Jin could not distinguish between gratitude and love.

“No, I love him.” Hua Jin shook his head.

Love, the word doesn’t seem to be so difficult to speak. Hua Jin looked at Pei Yan not far away with a warm smile, “Xiao Qiu, I am having a great time now, don’t worry.”

Perhaps it was because Liu Qiu had seen her most helpless in the past, so although the two are not very different in age, Liu Qiu always has a sister’s mentality towards her. Hua Jin knew that Liu Qiu would not be relieved if she did not say clearly.

“Life is alive, it’s good to live a happy life.” Liu Qiu is a somewhat idealistic person, so she supports Huajin who escaped arranged marriages. In order to build her hometown, she gave up the good opportunity to develop in the big city and returned to this small county. in. She doesn’t care what others think, as long as she is happy.

“Then you will continue to embroider?” Liu Qiu knew in his heart that the investor who can be accompanied by the leader himself must be a wealthy and wealthy person. In front of him, Hua Jin’s current career is too unremarkable.

“Of course I have to persist. In the darkest time of my life, it was embroidery that gave me a little bit of self-confidence in life.” Huajin’s eyes were firm. “Every stitch and thread of embroidery is the painstaking effort of the embroiderer. As the heir to the intangible cultural heritage, I will not give up easily.”

“I’ll see you next time, am I going to call you Master Flower?” Liu Qiu laughed, “Heir of the Shu Embroidery School?”

“If you call out in advance, I don’t mind.” Hua Jinchao Liu Qiu grinned.

“I’m young, but my skin is thicker than anyone else.” Liu Qiu stretched out her hand and squeezed her waist, then suddenly smiled, “Master Hua, I wish you an early development of Shu embroidery.”

Hua Jin took Liu Qiu’s hand, “I will only stay here for a few days. I will go back next Monday. Take care here. Don’t forget to take care of your body for work.”

“I know.” Liu Qiuyang smiled. Although this is the birthplace of Huajin, she calls leaving here “going back.” Perhaps for Hua Jin, this is just a memory, a past, but it is not her home.

The peace of mind is the hometown.

Liu Qiu turned his head to look at Pei Yan. Is this place where Mr. Pei is, is Hua Jin’s home? I hope Mr. Pei can cherish this friendship, and don’t let Hua Jin’s heart flow up and down, nowhere is his hometown.

In the end, Pei Yan signed some cooperation projects with locals in Anonymous County. Hua Jin didn’t know much about this, so he didn’t ask too much. On the fourth day in Anonymous County, she went to the Ancient Building Preservation Street in Anonymous County to find the weaver who had amazed countless people.

But when he came to the wooden building, Huajin found that the former Shujin shop had become a souvenir shop with inferior handicrafts sold in almost every scenic area.

She bought two knots at random, and began to inquire about the whereabouts of the weaver.

“You asked Aunt Cao?” The middle-aged shopkeeper heard Huajin mentioned the three words “knowing how to weave” and immediately understood, “In this era, there are still a few people who buy cloth to make clothes. She can’t do it anymore, and the cloth shop can’t do it. Now this shop is hers, but I rented it out. If you want to find her, you can ask her daughter. Her daughter sells twists in the street. .”

“Thank you.” Hua Jin thanked the shopkeeper and put the knot he bought into Pei Yan’s hand, “Come on, tie you up.”

“Isn’t it naive?” He said something disgusting, but held Huajin backhand, Pei Yan said, “The architectural style here is a bit like the street in Jiangjiu Market we’ve been to.”

“They are all local scenic protection streets. These wooden buildings have a long history.” Hua Jin raised his head and glanced at the red lanterns hanging under the eaves. “Let’s find the daughter of Aunt Cao.”

I found the hemp shop that the owner of the souvenir shop said. Huajin saw several customers outside the hemp shop and asked, “Excuse me, is this a shop run by Aunt Cao’s daughter?”

“Who is looking for me?” A voice came from the inner room, and soon a girl came out in a wheelchair.

“Hello, I am a Shu embroiderer. I heard that Aunt Cao is good at weaving Shu brocade, so I want to ask her to cooperate.” Hua Jin seemed to have not noticed the girl’s legs and feet, and looked as usual, “I don’t know if she is convenient or inconvenient. ”

“Shu brocade?” The girl laughed mockingly, “In this age, hand-woven fabrics are slow and unprofitable, and they are not as many patterns as machine-woven patterns. Who else does this?”

Noting the other’s acrimonious attitude, Hua Jin said: “The machine can indeed do a lot of things that we humans cannot do, but the machine cannot do what we humans can do. I hope you can let me and Aunt Cao See you.”

The mockery on the girl’s face has diminished a little, and she turned her head away from Hua Jin: “My mother hasn’t touched the loom in recent years, so let’s go.”

“After half a year, there will be a fashion conference that has attracted worldwide attention. I want more people to know about Shu brocade and embroidery, and to see the beauty that belongs to my country’s traditional culture.” Hua Jin said to the girl in her twenties, “As a child I have seen Aunt Cao weaving cloth. The Shu brocade that she wove is as beautiful as haze.”

“But what’s the use of such a beautiful haze, even if we can’t sustain our lives?” The girl sneered, “What’s the use?”

Her mother knows how to weave such a beautiful brocade, but she is rejected by her dad and cannot make money. As a woman, she doesn’t take care of the elderly with her children at home, so what useless cloth is weaving?

Later, his father cheated. After the divorce, he publicized how useless her mother was, saying that her mother would not have a son, would not take care of the family, and would only be like a lady embroidered with a bunch of things that could not be sold. cloth.

In those years, almost the whole street people laughed at her mother. It was the maid’s life, but she had a lady’s heart.

Thinking of these past, she glared at Hua Jin: “You don’t need to tell me this. I don’t care about fashion conferences or traditional culture and art. All these have nothing to do with us.”

The author has something to say: Huahua Diary: With him, it is hometown.