Meng Yiqiu smiled anxiously and said: "Ah Yue misunderstood, I never meant this. Now I just ask these embroiderers to discuss it."
"Discuss?" Tang Shiyue sneered: "I didn't see the discussion, I only saw the hurtful words."
She turned around and glanced at Hong Shizhu: "A bunch of stick-in-the-mud rotten wood, not ashamed, but complacent, frothing at the mouth, criticizing something that was the first time they came into contact and didn't understand it at all. You Meng family embroiderers are really special!
Stop it!”
Meng Yiqiu poured tea for her with his own hands: "Ah Yue, calm down, aren't we brainstorming!"
Hong Shizhu's face turned green with anger.
But when she saw Meng Yiqiu's posture being very low, she felt something bad in her heart, and she suppressed her words.
Tang Shiyue said coldly: "Meng Er Shao, I really think our family can stop here. With all due respect, the Meng family has a great reputation, but it is difficult to live up to it.
I don’t have any intention of trying to read the scriptures in vain; I am also ignorant of worldly affairs and ignorant, but I still think I am smart..."
Meng Yiqiu smiled bitterly.
This little lady really doesn't suffer at all. If someone scolds her, she will scold her back twice as hard.
This is indeed what Tang Shiyue thought.
She felt that her speaking skills had improved by leaps and bounds since she came here.
She continued coldly: "Young Master Meng, I'm asking you to teach you a sentence today, 'If you want to do something, there are a hundred ways, if you don't want to do something, there are ten thousand excuses'. As a
What a businessman should pursue is profit. You are here for cooperation. You and your people should work hard towards this goal and solve difficulties when they arise! And you? Bring your people to suppress my people?
You criticize my things and criticize them as useless? And you also make outrageous remarks and make rude remarks?"
She looked at him: "Don't you think that your approach is completely different from your goal? Are your people bred to hold you back?"
Meng Yiqiu asked for help.
In fact, he is a very good-tempered, or rather democratic person. He allowed these people to discuss freely in order to get more useful things, similar to modern brainstorming. But he did not expect Hong Shizhu to be so rude, let alone
, and was heard by Tang Shiyue.
Meng Yiqiu said directly to Hong Shizhu: "Why don't you ask Mr. Xia and Mrs. Qiao to accompany you?"
Hong Shizhu opened his eyes in disbelief.
But looking at his cold face, she bit her lip and bowed to the two of them with an aggrieved look: "It's my inappropriate words, don't blame me." As she said that, she covered her face with a handkerchief, as if she was already sad.
I can't even stand still.
Both of them looked at their noses with their eyes, and their noses looked at their hearts, without saying a word or responding.
Tang Shiyue folded his arms and sneered: "What are you pretending to be a white lotus here? Do you think this is a competition for favor in the back house? This is business! You have obviously done something wrong, but you are still reluctant to apologize, thinking that everyone
I have to get used to you, right?"
Tears welled up in Hong Shizhu's eyes: "My attitude was not good, and I apologize to you two, but what I said was just a comment on the embroidery, and I did not show any disrespect to you two!"
Tang Shiyue chuckled: "Commenting on embroidery?"
"You are indeed commenting on embroidery!" Hong Shizhu said clearly while wiping his tears with a handkerchief: "I once embroidered a peony picture. I embroidered it for nearly two years, using nearly a hundred kinds of stitches, and exhausted all my energy.
When I took it out, people praised it.
The first stitch in Qinzhou! No one else can embroider with such embroidery skills! And this wool embroidery has rough stitching, flowers cannot become flowers, birds cannot become birds, something made of crude grass, it is difficult to be elegant! Such a thing
, shouldn’t it be approved?”
Tang Shiyue sneered and said: "It seems that you are very proud of the title of 'Qinzhou's No. 1 stitch'. You still think you are pretty good after two years of embroidering a picture?" She glanced at Meng Yiqiu: "
What about you? What do you think, Second Young Master Meng?"
Meng Yiqiu opened his mouth and wanted to speak.
However, she inexplicably developed a bit of fear of a naughty student facing a strict teacher, as if she knew his answer would not be what she wanted to hear.
Tang Shiyue didn't wait for his answer.
She turned to look at Hong Shizhu and said word by word: "I think you are really stupid! This person is not afraid of stupidity, what he is afraid of is that he thinks he is smart!"
Seeing her staring and wanting to speak, she slapped the cup on the table with a loud bang, which immediately shocked her.
Tang Shiyue said coldly: "It took two full years of work to embroider an embroidery that no one else can embroider. You are the one who enjoys the praise. You are also the one praised by Lao Shizi for his 'first stitch'. Meng
It has nothing to do with me that you are willing to be taken advantage of, and it didn't cost me any money.
But you'd better understand one thing, you are you, and Meng's family is Meng's family! In the final analysis, Meng's family wants to sell embroidery to make money, not to show off your skills! You can't create enough value for Meng's family, and you can't create enough value for Meng family.
You are trying every possible means to prevent Meng from making money, but I don’t understand what the point of Meng’s raising you is?"
She sneered, "I am a businessman. What I want is to get the maximum profit at the lowest cost, and my conscience is that I make the people who buy them feel that they have not suffered a loss. The thread embroidery method I proposed,
It exactly meets this requirement. In addition to sweaters, it only takes one or two hours, or at most one or two days of labor, but the value can be doubled several times. What reason does Meng have to refuse such a hugely profitable business? He dislikes money.
Does it prick your hand?"
She glanced sideways at Meng Yuqiu, "So, do you understand? The 'bad' you mentioned is exactly my 'good'! It only took you two years to embroider 'Ten Thousand Gold', and you still need more than ten years of hard study before that."
, these are all 'costs'! But now I can get 'tens of millions of gold' in two months, or even two days, and a novice can get started. Isn't this contrast obvious enough?"
Meng Yiqiu was slightly startled.
It's not that he doesn't know how to do business, but no one has ever summed up the details here in such a concise and comprehensive way.
For a moment, he felt as if he was enlightened.
Tang Shiyue continued: "As for whether what you are talking about counts as embroidery art... why do you say this? Are you a needle god? You have the final say on whether it is embroidery art? Delicacy and elegance are beautiful, and grandeur is not beautiful.
Hunan
Embroidery has both form and spirit, Su embroidery is delicate and elegant, Cantonese embroidery is rich and bright, Shu embroidery is thick and round, there are countless embroidery techniques in the world, each has its own style and beauty, but according to you, none of them are as good as your bullshit peony painting?"
"Besides, so what if it really doesn't count as embroidery? The word 'embroidery' is just a name. Before cloth appeared, humans could only cover their bodies with leaves. Before sweaters appeared, everyone thought clothes only consisted of silk cloth. As a result,
What? Times are always moving forward. Even the new things that have appeared have no clear understanding and they only slander them. Are you worthy of making clothes and being called a top embroiderer? It’s really funny! "
In fact, ancient people usually paid attention to character.
Craftsmen pay more attention to the inheritance of craftsmanship. The world is also accustomed to pursuing superb skills, and nobles like to be "unique". And the Meng family, in a certain sense, also needs this kind of embroidery to gain "famousness".
This actually does not conflict with Tang Shiyue's woolen embroidery.
Because "fame" and other things must be supported by "substance", so something that makes money is essential.
But she just wanted to criticize her, severely criticize her, because this guy really didn't have any character.
This person is completely enjoying the process of being sought after, treating her own embroidery as a golden rule, and crazily belittling others to flatter herself. If someone offends her, she will be unlucky.
After Tang Shiyue finished scolding, she felt completely comfortable. She took a sip of tea and was just about to say whether to leave or not when she heard Meng Yuqiu shout loudly: "Here comes someone!"
His two young men outside responded and came in. (To be continued)