Raising Babies in the 70s - Chapter 142

    The popularity of the Pearl Craft Garden not only brought a frenzy of pearl sales, but also attracted widespread attention from the society. Several newspapers in Guangdong Province sent reporters to interview and photograph, and Guangdong TV station also dispatched , TV and print media advertised the South Island Pearl to the public.

    “The pearls on the island are so beautiful!”

    “Beach Wedding!”

    “Winter travel mecca.”

    …

    The situation in today’s times is different from before, and there is even a trend called “exaggeration” in major local towns and villages. The media and even local governments should encourage the promotion of those who are in the new era People who actively responded to the call and became rich on their own by opening factories and becoming self-employed.

    Therefore, the popularity of pearl sales has also been reported by the people, and then contacted the old news report that a string of pearl necklaces sold for thousands of dollars a few years ago, many people’s eyes are red.

    Selling pearls? How much money does this have to make!

    The owners of the pearl farms are making crazy money!

    …

    Some people can only envy in their hearts when they hear it, while others have a little thought in their hearts.

    South Island pearls sell so well, and there is a “Pearl King” gimmick, but this country is not only the South Island producing pearls, the country’s waters and rivers are so vast, how many places can produce pearls?

    There are not only seawater pearls, but also freshwater pearls in the world. Freshwater pearls are much better nourished than seawater pearls.

    Whether it’s freshwater pearls or seawater pearls, aren’t they all pearls? How can ordinary people tell the difference.

    Someone was thinking, and an idea came to his head immediately.

    Li Ertou was the first group to come up with a solution. He brought a batch of “pearls” to the island. When the pearl craft park was popular, he secretly sold pearls to tourists nearby .

    “Don’t go to the craft garden to buy it, you will take advantage of it, you will take advantage of it if you buy it there. I have pearls here, pure South Island pearls, cheap and beautiful.”

    “My pearls are all real and genuine. The pearls we raise at home are not comparable to those of their big farms, but the price is cheap. My mother is sick, and the family is anxious to spend money.”

    “Don’t go to the craft garden to buy, I have good pearls here…”

    …

    There are not a few people like Li Ertou who fish in troubled waters and try to be shoddy. There are even some people who sell fake pearls at low prices, but they also say that they are “South Island pearls”. Because of the low price, Sales are rising steadily.

      Whether it is a round, oblate or drop-shaped pearl, the luster and blemish of the pearl cannot be judged for a while. Seeing that the pearl necklaces sold by others are really cheap, compared with the craft garden, the price is sky-high, and they instinctively choose to buy cheap. For the same price, you can buy several more strings and send them to relatives and friends. In the end, you can buy pearls of poor quality, and even buy fake pearls.

    After they bought it and went back, they took a closer look and saw many flaws, as well as dotted depressions and growth lines, a string of pearl necklaces, and pearls. There are also a few “mantou”-like semi-circular pearls.

    …This thing is also a pearl?

    “The so-called South Island pearls are just that.”

    “You paid for these things?”

    “That pearl king is not good-looking, and this pearl necklace is not good-looking when worn around the neck.”

    …

    The sales of pearl craft gardens have declined, and the reputation of South Island pearls has also inadvertently declined. In order to sell out the inventory in the factory, many aquaculture plants sell them at reduced prices.

    This time, the price is even more confusing!

    Tourists can’t figure out what the price of pearls should be. The pearl necklaces here are all ten dollars, dozens of dollars, hundreds of dollars, and the pearl necklaces bought here are ten dollars. A few bucks also bought a pearl necklace.

    “Look, you’re out of your mind, buy a pearl necklace for 100 yuan, anyway, it’s a trip, just buy a pearl necklace for 10 yuan, let’s not Wear it often.”

    “Yeah, I’ll buy some cheap ones too.”

    …

    No one wants to be taken advantage of, if they can buy cheap, they don’t buy expensive. When they buy expensive, they feel uncomfortable and constantly regret in their hearts. Many people even start to return.

    “The pearls you sell here are too deceptive.”

    “The price is too high to be worth it.”

    “The people here are too blackhearted…”

    Xunrou Pearl Factory returned a small amount of pearls, Menglan said to Qin Juo anxiously: “Those pearls are not from our Qiongzhou Island at all.”

    “And this, Sister Qin Rou, look, this, this… this is not a pearl at all!”

    “They came to the island to buy fake pearls, and said our pearls are not good.”

     Qin Rou was not in a hurry after hearing this. She had expected this situation in advance. Now in the 1980s, the market order is extremely irregular, there is a lack of market supervision, and no one cares about counterfeiting and selling. Can make huge profits, more people start to do it.

    “Meng Lan, don’t worry, let’s wait.”

    Qin Rou plans to wait until other pearl cultivation factories can’t sit still, and then get together to discuss solutions.

    “Menglan, I have some information here, you can sort it out with me.”

      Hearts float.

     Selling fake pearls is so profitable, why not sell fake pearls together?

    Will it damage the image of South Island pearls? Who cares what pearls it sells, as long as the money is pocketed now.

    Now even the people in the pearl cultivation factory are selling fake pearls in private.

    “No! No way!”

    “People and tourists come to buy fake pearls and go back, thinking they are South Island pearls. Isn’t this smearing the reputation of South Island pearls?”

    “If you mention South Island pearls in the future, they are all fake pearls!”

    As long as the word of mouth is bad, it will be difficult to save it in the future. It didn’t take long for the heads of several breeding factories who really had feelings for South Island pearls to sit still.

    Zhang Yu’e, the director of the state-owned pearl cultivation factory, took the lead and invited the heads of several other cultivation factories to sit down and discuss the current situation.

    “There are a lot of fake pearls on the island now, what do you say?”

    “It doesn’t make sense, people in our country can’t identify pearls at all, fake and real are mixed together, in addition to those real and fake pearls, there are many freshwater pearls, yes, those are also Pearls, but there is a difference between pearls and pearls.”

    “Freshwater pearls and seawater pearls are vastly different, let’s just say seawater pearls. We have different pearls produced by different seawater pearl oysters, but who can tell the difference? How can people outside know clearly? It is also clear to the researchers at the experimental station!”

    “You say which is more expensive and which is cheaper. There is no basis. People who don’t understand think that it is all pearls…just pearls!”

    “We can’t tell those tourists, they just want to buy cheap pearls!”

    “In the future, it’s better for us breeding factories to specialize in export business. I think we need to contact more overseas businessmen and find a way to sell pearls to the United States and Europe.”

    …

    Sun Jin of Meirou Pearl Cultivation Factory was the most excited.

    Zhang Yu’e looked at Qin Rou: “Director Qin, you have an idea, come and think of a way.”

    “Now this pearl craft garden is also built by you with a lot of hard work, and you can’t let it be like this in the future.”

    Sun Jin said: “Xiao Qin, if you have a way, tell me your way!”

    “You are such a beautiful craft garden, don’t let these rotten fish and rotten shrimps get a bad reputation.”

    Although Sun Jin is very envious of the pearl craft garden made by Qin Rou, but he also gets the sweetness from it, and he is also a true lover of pearls.

    Now they are grasshoppers on the same boat. If the reputation of the South Island Pearl is bad, they will suffer and lose together in the future.

    “Everyone listen to me.” Qin Rou took out the prepared document bag and took out the information inside, “My opinion is – we pearl farmers should unite to establish South Island Pearls. The industry is unified and standardized, and the brand of South Island Pearl is launched first.”

    “With a unified standard, we will classify pearls and at the same time inform customers about the pricing standards of pearls and how to judge the quality of pearls. I suggest making such pearls Business cards, sold with pearls, detailing how to identify pearls…”

    …

    “We have so many breeding plants, it is better to formulate a relevant standard instead of fighting each other for price.”

    This is also one of Qin Rou’s goals. With so many pearl cultivation factories, instead of bidding against each other, it is better to unite and develop the market together. In the future, the demand for pearls will be strong, and there is still great market potential waiting. dig.

    “In my pearl craft garden, I can provide showroom showcases for other pearl cultivation factories to sell pearl products in the craft garden…”

    After listening to Qin Rou’s words, the eyes of several responsible persons lit up, and such good things could still happen, but they didn’t want Qin Rou’s voice to change: “But our craft garden will take a % Eight…”

    Sun Jin frowned: “Eight percent is too much.”

    Qin Judo: “This can be discussed in detail.”

    Qin Rou’s bottom line is 5%. She thought about it when she built the pearl craft garden. Instead of being a pearl farmer to compete with other farmers, it is better to make pearls sales platform.

    Qin Rou’s Pearl Craft Park provides sales showcases and packaging for other pearl cultivation factories, and the craft park draws a share from it, and carries out various South Island pearl publicity activities.

    “If everyone agrees, let’s develop the specification in detail.”

    The heads of several other breeding factories discussed with each other, and Zhang Yu’e was the first to agree: “Our state-run pearl breeding factory is stationed in your pearl craft garden.”

    “What is the industry standard you are talking about? You have to decide quickly. Can this pearl business card really stop those who sell fake pearls?”

    “We all unite together to boycott fake pearl hawkers, drive those fake and sell fake ones out of Qiongzhou Island, and put up our South Island Pearl brand.”

    “Only with a good reputation can a steady stream of people come to the island to buy pearls…”

    …

    Originally there were only a few. After the lobbying of Zhang Yu’e and Xie Ruan, most of the pearl cultivation factories on the island agreed to participate in abiding by the South Island pearl industry norms and jointly boycott unscrupulous hawkers from selling fake pearls.

    Qin Rou also sent people to do ideological work for the nearby villagers: “Do you know the word thirsty and fishing, we don’t only make money for a year, but want a long-term To make money, don’t ruin your reputation in a year or two, as long as there are more tourists, you can make money not only by selling pearls, but also by selling other things…”

    …

    In less than half a month, under the common boycott of all pearl farmers, most of the fake South Island pearls that came to Qiongzhou Island were eliminated, and the local pearl market also changed.

    The exhibition halls in the Pearl Craft Garden are full of pearls, and the special showcases are dazzling.

    The craft park also provided corresponding stalls for the villagers in the village. Qin Rou plans to build two commercial streets and introduce cafes and dance halls to make it a special attraction.

    She was going to build a commercial street here. Someone immediately saw the future development and decided to build a small hotel here. Qin Rou didn’t consider building a hotel here.

    Qin Rou plans to build a pearl-style hot spring hotel and a pearl-style sea view hotel in the future.

    These two investments are expensive, and she has to save money.

    After a month of cleaning and renovation, the tourists who come back will see an orderly and beautiful pearl craft garden.

    There is even a small food street where vendors selling snacks are equally orderly.

    The government attaches great importance to the construction of the pearl craft garden here and has given great support. Qin Rou asked for the land to build a shop.

    The Pearl Craft Garden now attracts not only foreign tourists, but also local people, who come to relax on weekends. After all, the entire Qiongzhou Island is not really big.

    The Pearl Craft Garden has recruited many personnel and entered various positions. For the operation of the Pearl Craft Garden, Qin Rou pays great attention to the environment and sanitation, cleans up all kinds of garbage in time, and the surrounding green plants are even more Professional staff to take care of…

    Two or three days of vacation before the end of the year, Qin Rou brought her whole family to visit the Pearl Craft Garden. Since then, there has been a lot of traffic in the Pearl Craft Garden. In order to meet the children’s entertainment needs , Qin Rou put rides such as carousel and ocean ball outside the craft park.

    As soon as Doudou and Rongrong arrived here, they said they were going to ride on the merry-go-round. Lu Yan and Lu Weizhou each led a little guy to ride the merry-go-round. The sisters look exactly the same, and their father, son, father and daughter are very eye-catching.

    Qin Rouen’s youngest son Lu Weize was sitting under the umbrella of the shell model, and the little dumpling couldn’t help dragging his mother’s clothes: “Mom…”

    “I want to wear Daddy’s clothes, I want to wear Daddy’s clothes!”

    “I want to wear Daddy’s clothes…”

    Qin Rou looked at him very funny, pinched his face that looked like Lu Yan, “Dad’s clothes are too big, you can’t wear them.”

    “When you grow up, you can wear daddy’s clothes.”

    Qin Rou looked in the direction of the merry-go-round with gentle eyes, Lu Yan and his son had already come down with the two sisters, and walked towards them.

    The weather is neither cold nor hot at the moment, and there is no sunlight, Lu Yan is wearing a black shirt and black suit pants, which are specially made by Qin Rou, and I always see this guy on weekdays Wearing a white military uniform and wearing black at the moment is really a different feeling.

    If I can describe it in three words, it is so handsome!

    He wears a metal chain pearl necklace around his neck. The cold and hard metal collides with a few gentle pearls. Coupled with the black shirt, he looks cool, dragging and gentle.

    The bottom black suit pants are embellished with three pearl dangling chains, walking with an inexplicable sense of fashion and luxury.

    When going out today, Qin Rou specially told him to put on his sunglasses and not talk.

    He is a cool guy in the new era, the coolest kid on the street.

    Of course, the premise is that when he is not holding his daughter, the little daughters in soft and cute flower skirts will reduce the coolness and handsomeness of their father.

    “I’m wearing Daddy’s clothes!”

    How handsome this dress is, needless to say, Lu Weize, a fashionable little boy, is also looking forward to wearing black like his father, wearing a metal chain, and holding a guitar to go Rock punk.

    Not only elementary school students like Xiao Dumpling were attracted, but also many young men who pursued fashion took the initiative to approach Lu Yan and asked him where did he buy these clothes and pants?

    “And this necklace around your neck?”

    “Is there one in the craft garden?”

    “Where did you buy those pearl necklaces?”

    …

    Although many people think that pearls should be accessories for women, in fact, in some European countries, accessories like pearls were mostly worn by male princes and nobles.

    Natural pearls are extremely valuable. In the past, they were not only inlaid on crowns, but even in some eras, only the royal family could wear and enjoy them. Until the advent of modern cultured pearls, pearls did not appear in ordinary people’s homes.

    Men wear pearls is not against harmony.

    Pearls are used in clothing accessories, not necessarily pearl wedding dresses, but can also be made into other accessories. Can be made into metal and pearl collision wind.

    Qin Rou originally regarded Comrade Lu as a guinea pig, but did not expect Lu Baishu to be so eye-catching in such a suit, so she almost brought the goods directly.

    Unfortunately out of stock.

    “Sister Qin Rou, your brother Lu really knows how to dress up, looks handsome, and knows how to dress up, no wonder he can marry such a beauty as you, unlike Gu Cheng, who looks very boring. “Gu Cheng was also meeting with Chu Ge in the craft garden at this time, and the two of them had been alone for a while, and then came over to talk to Lu Yan’s family.

    Chu Ge glanced at Lu Yan, then at Gu Cheng, and asked him to learn something: “Obviously Brother Lu is one year older than you, but how do I look, you are older than others Lu Brother is five years older.”

    Gu Cheng: “…”

    —Am I that old?

    Comrade Gu, who used to have a really cool and cool personality, turned his head to stare at Lu Yan, and carefully studied his clothes.

    Does this dress look good?

    Lu Yan: “…”

    He didn’t want to wear this clothes since he went out, but he couldn’t resist his wife’s request.

    I wear a lot of white on weekdays, but suddenly I wear black, but I really don’t look right.

    “Aunt Qin, Uncle Lu, come here, I’ll take a video for you.”

    Zhang Yichao was sunburnt like a charcoal in the summer, but now it’s still like a charcoal, not fading at all, making his father Zhang Chengbei talk about his son every day as if he came back from digging coal.

    How can I get so tanned?

    “This dress on Uncle Lu is amazing, when can I get one!”

    Zhang Yichao saw Lu Yan’s clothes and yearned for it. He is also a young man who likes to be unconventional and pursue fashion.

    Gu Cheng doesn’t understand these people very much. Is it really good to wear black like this?

    “Our craft garden can add new products!” Seeing the pearl accessories on Lu Yan’s body, Chu Ge had a refreshing feeling.

    Forgive her, she really sees too many pearls, she feels sick to see.

    Seeing more strings of white pearl necklaces, she likes to see some novel things now.

    “This pearl chain doesn’t have to be paired with trousers, but can also be paired with skirts…”

    “It would be nice to make a metal bracelet too.”

    …

    Qin Rou and Chu Ge chatted, Lu Yan and Gu Cheng stared at each other, Lu Weize stood beside his own father, envious, “Dad, give me this chain.”

    Gu Chengdao: “What necklace is the child wearing?”

    “My son is ten years old.”

    When he heard this number, Gu Cheng felt a little pricked. His son is ten years old, and he is not married yet. By next year, his daughter will be six years old.

    “Lu Weize, you are here!” Xie Ruan didn’t know where he came from. When he saw Lu Weize, his eyes lit up immediately. Even if he has left the teaching job now, he still keeps cultivating Lu Weize. The ambition to become a calligraphy genius.

    “Mom, help!”

    Lu Weize is most afraid of listening to Xie Ruan’s nagging, you say that if Xie Ruan has a bad temper, you can beat him or scold him, but he is a good gentleman who treats you hard, as if he doesn’t follow him , you’re just as sorry for him… In the face of such a person, the little dumpling can’t wait to take off the dumpling skin and jump into the porridge to hide.

    “Oops, this kid…” Xie Ruan sighed, but he was still playful.

    Originally, this child was supposed to be a bright pearl in the calligraphy world, but now, this pearl is not expected to hatch.

     “Mr. Xie, the craft garden needs more work from you.”

    “Yes, yes, I’m busy too.”

    After coming to the Pearl Craft Garden, Xie Ruan found the second spring of his life. Although the work here is busy, it seems that he has found the true meaning of life.

    He is busy and fulfilled, and is actively engaged in work every day…

    “I have another group of guests to pick up today.”

    Seeing that he was going to leave, Lu Weize jumped up like a pipi shrimp and followed behind Xie Ruan: “Mr. Xie, quickly find someone to marry!”

    When you get married, don’t come looking for little dumplings, just focus on your own cubs.

    Lu Weize warmly recommended: “Would you like my dad to introduce you to someone?”

    “My dad often introduces people to people! People call him Chief of Staff Lu, he is an emotional adviser.”

    Qin Rou: “…” Whose family is this unlucky child?

    Lu Yan: “…” He is really Dad’s eldest son.

    Zhang Yichao said: “Uncle Lu, when I’m looking for someone in the future, you can also help me with reference.”

    “I think you are more reliable than my dad.”

    Zhang Yichao thinks that Uncle Lu next door is more reliable than his own father.

    “Yichao, are you looking for someone?”

    “My dad was in a hurry to ask me to find a partner. Before the college entrance examination, he told me to go to college and talk to friends at school. He also said that the current college students are the easiest in a class. Pairs, some classes can have several pairs…”

    “I haven’t been admitted to university now, so I don’t have to look for it.” Zhang Yichao, a young man, is not interested in talking about the object at present, “Our island is so beautiful, if there is a film school here, I will take the test. The school here…”

    “You young man, I think you are very energetic!” Sun Jin, the person in charge of the Meirou Pearl Cultivation Factory, came over. He glanced at Zhang Yichao, then at Lu Yan, and finally returned to Zhang Yichao On the body: “You can get into an agricultural university!”

    “Come and raise pearls later.”

    The two are all black, one is ridiculously black, and the other is dressed in black.

    Sun Jin couldn’t help but look at Lu Yan, he was very jealous of the decoration on his body, thinking that he had so many pearls, he should also get a few pearl chains to wear .

    I didn’t expect pearls to play like this.

    Zhang Yichao: “…”

    “Uncle, I want to go to film school to become a director.” Zhang Yichao didn’t know why he was so tanned in summer, it was as dark as coal digging out, and his teeth were unbalanced Very white, even more incredible with a smile.

    It’s like Bao Gong is alive.

    Zhang Chengbei laughed at him at home, saying that if he was admitted to a film school in the future, he might be rehearsed for drama, and he would be asked to play Gong Gong.

    “Make a movie? Have ambition!” Sun Jin put his eyes on Qin Rou and said with a smile, “Director Qin, is this your family member?”

    He was referring to Lu Yan.

    “He’s my love.”

    “Lu Yan.” Lu Yan nodded and introduced himself briefly.

    “You really married a good daughter-in-law.” Sun Jin blurted out his praise, “Now who of us don’t know the smart and capable Director Qin, the college students of famous universities, more literate than us , no matter what ideas you have, everyone is willing to follow her, unlike us who have no vision, and now the development here is good, and those who sold the factory a while ago regretted it.”

    “If my son gets a wife in the future, he can marry a woman who is half as smart as the director of Qin, and I will burn a high incense.”

    …

    “Director Qin, let me tell you something, Zhang Xiesheng, the owner of Gangxiaorou Pearl Factory, came over and gave us some suggestions… We plan to set up a South Island next year. Pearl Chamber of Commerce, Director Qin, we unanimously elected you to be the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce.”