Sitting in the passenger seat of Lu Shouyue's car, low and melodious Guqin music was playing in the car to soothe people's hearts.
Lin Wanwan leaned on the back of her chair, looking at the rapidly regressing street lights and street trees on both sides. She felt a little drowsy, and her eyelashes gradually became heavy.
Lu Shouyue came over in the evening and asked to take Lin Wanwan to a place. She refused at first because she had a lot of things planned for herself in the evening.
Due to the time difference between the two worlds, Lin Wanwan made many plans for herself every day. In today's plan, she has not yet practiced acupuncture, nor has she studied the video.
She bought a lot of video courses and live broadcast courses, including traditional Chinese medicine, agriculture, textiles, and dyeing.
As a village king who wanted to lead the entire clan and even the entire Luan County to become rich, Lin Wanwan had to learn endlessly.
But Lu Shouyue said that the person he was taking Lin Wanwan to see tonight was Master Yao, the inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage Su embroidery technique and a national master of arts and crafts.
A few days ago, Lu Shouyue said that he would introduce Lin Wanwan to the big guys in the embroidery world, but he didn't expect it to happen so quickly.
Master Yao did not stay in a hotel when she came to Yongcheng this time. She stayed at Xuedou Ancient Temple. Not many people knew about her itinerary.
Lin Wanwan had just searched for the other party's information on Baidu and had a rough idea.
Master Yao's works have been given as national gifts to foreign dignitaries and celebrities many times, and he has also embroidered portraits for world political giants. Some of his works have been collected by important institutions, museums and collectors at home and abroad.
With the other party's status, there is no need for media publicity, and there is no need to cooperate with a shop selling embroidery like Lin Wanwan to sell goods.
The works of this kind of big boss are all seen at auctions, and the partners of cooperation are the owners of auction houses like Lu Shouyue.
So Lin Wanwan's visit to see her was purely a one-sided favor, not a win-win situation.
She now sells embroidery in Ningbo and Tang Dynasty, so it will certainly be beneficial to get to know more big names in the embroidery industry.
So when Lu Shouyue mentioned it, she naturally got in the car obediently.
Driving from the community where Lin Wanwan lives to Xuedou Ancient Temple, the navigation shows that it takes one hour, nearly 70 kilometers. If there were not expressways and private cars, this distance is not really close.
Lin Wanwan has done experiments. The longest distance between the two worlds regarding the time and space gate is about fifty kilometers (the distance between Linjiazhuang and Linzhai in Xiaoxi Town). Beyond this range, the time and space gate will randomly refresh a new location.
In other words, if she went to Xuedou Ancient Temple, Lin Wanwan would not be able to return home to Xiaoxi Town in Datang.
Fortunately, Xiao Qingyu has been arranged to sleep alone since this month. Lin Wanwan is in Datang Xiaoxi Town's room, and no one will disturb her. As long as she rushes back before dawn, she will not have to worry about being accomplices.
After all, four hours in modern times would only last one hour in the Tang Dynasty.
When the car stopped, Lin Wanwan woke up with a start, looked at the quiet place around her, and asked: "Teacher Lu, are you there?"
Lu Shouyue smiled and turned his head to look at her: "Well, we're here, let's get off the car."
The two opened the car door and got out of the car. The autumn wind blew and the leaves beside them rustled.
Lin Wanwan couldn't help but hugged her arms. Suddenly, her shoulders felt warm. It was Lu Shouyu who put a large cashmere scarf on her.
"It's cold in the mountains, it'll be warmer if you wear this." Lu Shouyue murmured with a slight smile.
Lin Wanwan was a little surprised, stretched out her hand to wrap her scarf, and said thank you with a smile: "Thank you, Teacher Lu, this scarf is very suitable."
"Why are you so polite? Let's go in. They are already waiting."
The Xuedou Ancient Temple was naturally closed to visitors at night, but Lu Shouyue had already made arrangements and knocked on the door with Lin Wanwan. The young monk who saw them bowed naturally and left without any unnecessary questioning.
The two of them walked all the way through the mountain gate and walked to the Zen courtyard behind the temple. There were both Zen rooms for monks and pilgrims staying here.
It was only around seven o'clock in the evening, and you could still vaguely hear the sound of monks chanting sutras in the evening classes in the mountain temple. The sound of wooden fish made the ancient temple even more quiet, a bit like "the mountain with the singing of birds is more quiet".
When Lu Shouyue and Lin Wanwan came to the courtyard where Master Yao and his disciples lived, the other party was drinking tea with a senior monk with a white beard.
Seeing them coming, the eminent monk put his hands together and bowed before retreating.
"Teacher Yao, this is Lin Wanwan I mentioned to you. She is currently engaged in promoting embroidery and Hanfu." Lu Shouyue stepped forward to introduce them to several people.
"Teacher Yao, hello, I have long admired your name!"
"Okay, hello, sit down, sit down." Master Yao led the two of them to take a seat, "Come and drink tea. This tea is given to me this year as promised, and you can try it too."
In addition to Master Yao, there were two girls who looked quite young in the room.
After Lu Shouyue's introduction, Lin Wanwan knew the identity of the other party. As she had guessed, he was a direct disciple of Master Yao.
One is a descendant of Master Yao's family, named Yao Qian'er, and the other is named Lu Xiaozhen. They are both in their early twenties and from Suzhou. They became apprentices to Master Yao when they were in junior high school.
The inheritance of this kind of intangible cultural heritage requires a master to teach his disciples step by step. It is ineffective to give a large class.
A few people drank tea first, then chatted for a while and left each other's contact information.
Lin Wanwan is more interested in Master Yao's disciples than herself. After all, the probability of an artist of Master Yao's level cooperating with Lin Wanwan's Yongtang Company is not high, but her direct disciples are very promising.
Because she opened an embroidery workshop in the Tang Dynasty, opened a physical store and engaged in cross-border e-commerce in modern times, Lin Wanwan was not good at embroidery, but she spoke it clearly and logically. She was the so-called king of strong words.
Therefore, during this meeting, we had quite a pleasant chat with each other.
Drinking wine in the north and tea in the south.
In addition to drinking tea, everyone also had a vegetarian meal together.
Chinese people love to socialize at the dinner table, no matter where they are.
After chatting for more than two hours, and having had enough tea and food, Lin Wanwan and Lu Shouyue said goodbye to Master Yao and his disciples, and exited the mountain gate.
"Teacher Lu, thank you for today." Lin Wanwan thanked Lu Shouyue in a good mood.
Through conversations, Lin Wanwan has established a preliminary understanding with Yao Qier and Lu Xiaozhen, and there is great hope for cooperation.
Lin Wanwan's Yongtang Embroidery Co., Ltd. also has a cooperative embroidery workshop in Suzhou itself, but it is not a famous master, and it cannot be compared with the empress and direct disciples of Su embroidery like Master Yao.
Therefore, modern embroidery can only be regarded as mass merchandise, most of which are sold in cross-border e-commerce, and are not high-quality products. Nowadays, the high-quality products in Yongtang and Tang Dynasties all come from the Tang Embroidery Workshop, produced by Datang embroidery ladies who have been immersed in this art all their lives.
Lin Wanwan is quite happy to be able to collaborate with a famous intangible cultural heritage artist in modern times, and is naturally very grateful to Lu Shouyue.
"Why should you be polite to me?" Lu Shouyue laughed, raised his hand to look at his watch, and said, "Wanwan, there is a meteor shower today. Do you want to go see the meteor shower together?"