12dz Chapter 232 Masterpiece
Chapter 232 Masterpiece
After traveling in Dongyue for more than half a month, Wen Qing returned to Yangmei Village and received most of the custom-made jade ornaments, but the most complicated ornaments had not been completed yet, so she had to wait.
While waiting, Wen Qing had time to harvest the crops in the space, re-plough the land, apply fertilizer, and sow seeds for the new season. Now Wen Qing has all kinds of agricultural machinery, which makes farming much easier. Moreover, after long-term planting, the space has become a system of its own, with almost no weeds growing on the land and no need for watering, which reduces a lot of trouble.
Wen Qing went to the forest in the space again, picked the ripe herbs and dried them, and separated the roots of the herbs that grew too lushly in the medicine field to give them more space to grow. Looking at the large area of herbs growing lushly, Wen Qing decided to buy some more Chinese medicinal seeds to enrich her medicine garden.
After finishing these things, Wen Qing estimated that Master Lin's work was almost finished, so she called Master Lin and made an appointment to meet to pick up the goods.
Master Lin's craftsmanship is excellent. The five-ox ornament he carved is about 20 cm wide, 12 cm high and 7 cm thick. Four cows of different shapes are strolling in the mountains and woods, a little shepherd boy is sleeping on the rocks, the hillside is covered with lush grass, in the distance a waterfall flows through the woods, in the nearby stream there is a gurgling stream, and a cow is drinking water by the stream. The whole carving combines movement and stillness, and is very vivid.
The Dawn on a Spring Mountain that he carved out of bluish-white jade is also very exquisite. In the early spring, all things in the forest come back to life, with lush light green leaves, strong dark green tree trunks, green water under a thin layer of ice, mist on the mountainside, remaining white snow on the top of the mountain, and light yellow spring flowers in the cracks of rocks at the foot of the mountain. He made full use of the stone skin and color of the Hetian jade to vividly show the appearance of the forest in early spring.
The white jade Guanyin carved from Hetian white jade wears a crown on her head and has a gentle expression. She holds a jade bottle in her hand and stands on a lotus platform with her robes fluttering. The red and yellow colors are carved into decorations on the crown and robes.
Master Lin's craftsmanship is no worse than some of the country's arts and crafts masters, but he is still unknown. Wen Qing feels very sorry about it, but gold will always shine, and she is looking forward to that day.
She paid a total of 5 yuan in processing fees, which was much higher than the processing fee announced by Zhuoyuxuan. Master Lin was very surprised. Wen Qing said, "Master Lin, your craftsmanship is worth this price." She agreed to contact him again if there was any need in the future.
Master Lin was very touched. Now the only customers were those who bargained for the price, and he hadn't met anyone who took the initiative to give tips for a long time. His heart was warmed, and he promised that as long as the material was good, he would make everything for Wen Qing himself in the future.
After staying in Xieyang for a month, Wen Qing decided to go back. To take the train from Xieyang to Beijing, one needs to transfer in Dongyue City or Xiamen. She simply drove to Dongyue and happened to pass by Puning, a famous Chinese medicinal materials distribution center in Yue Province. She planned to sell some Chinese medicinal materials.
Puning is only 50 kilometers away from Xieyang, and it only takes one and a half hours to drive there. The main reason is that there are many mountain roads and the car cannot drive fast. Wen Qing set out early in the morning and arrived in Puning at 10 o'clock. He asked for directions and finally found the Chinese medicinal materials market.
The shops on several streets here are all Chinese herbal medicine stores. Wen Qing looked at them one by one and found that the shelves in the stores were filled with prepared Chinese herbal medicines.
Vietnam Province is rich in Morinda officinalis, Lysimachia chinensis, Dracaena, Amomum villosum, Croton tiglium, Patchouli, etc. Except for Amomum villosum, Wen Qing does not have these medicinal herbs in her space. Wen Qing asked several shops but could not find any medicinal herb seeds.
She first sold the medicinal herbs in her space to the shops offering the highest bids. There were more than ten tons of various medicinal herbs in the two rooms, none of which were particularly valuable. Wen Qing sold them for more than 20 yuan. Although it was not a lot, it reduced the burden on the space.
She simply parked her car on the side of the road and asked from store to store. Finally, she found seeds of patchouli, isatis root, and eucommia ulmoides in an agricultural supply store. She also found dracaena seedlings and green plum seedlings in the flower and tree market. She bought 100 of each and had the store deliver them to her car. When she put the seedlings into the car, she had already put them away.
Puning is more than 450 kilometers away from Dongyue, and there are more than 100 kilometers of mountain roads. Wen Qing did not delay any further and drove all the way to Lufeng before resting.
The economic development of Yue Province is better than that of the north, and the hotel conditions are also better. Wen Qing had a good night's rest and woke up naturally the next morning. He arrived in Dongyue City in the afternoon.
She had been to Dongyue City many times. Before entering the urban area, she would store her car in a space in a remote place, then take a bus into the city, find a hotel to stay in as she was familiar with the route, and the next day buy a sleeper ticket from a scalper at the train station, buy food for the journey, and get on the train.
The management on the road is not as strict as before, and letters of introduction will not be checked at every turn. But just in case, Wen Qing got herself a lot of blank letters of introduction in the name of the feed factory and filled one out when needed. Maybe she was lucky, or maybe she was dressed better, anyway, she never encountered any letter of introduction inspection and returned to the capital without any problems.
This time she was away from Beijing for a long time and had originally planned to go to Songjiang to renovate her house, but she was worried about being away from the factory for too long, so she decided to go to Songjiang when she had nothing to do in the future.
After coming back to rest for a night, Wen Qing immediately went to the winery. Wang Jianguo told her that the winery had officially launched two new series. One was the Changxia Chunniang 42 series, a 18-degree light-fragrance liquor for young people, and the other was the Jingyun series, which represented Changxia's high-end strong-fragrance liquor. Both series were selling well.
The feed factory's new formula feed has also completed the pilot test. After analysis by Zheng Xiaoqiang and others, it was confirmed that the effect is significant. Currently, large-scale production has begun. The price is slightly higher than the old products, which is very helpful in boosting the efficiency of the feed factory.
The grain company has started the autumn harvest. Li Zhonghua led the purchasing department and various offices to purchase autumn grain in Northeast China, East China, East Shandong, and Hubei. The current purchase volume has exceeded the whole of last year, and the offices contributed most of the increase.
Wen Qing discussed with Li Zhonghua that if the office's performance continued to grow significantly, it could be upgraded to a branch next year. Li Zhonghua was a little hesitant, but then he realized what was going on and immediately became happy. He said to Wen Qing, "Sister Wen, the guys in the office will definitely be more motivated after hearing this news."
Although a branch company and an office are both branches and appear to be little different on the surface, a branch company is an independent organization that can operate independently and has expense authority. The person in charge has greater authority, and if profits are higher, their own income will also be higher.
Li Zhonghua gave the two offices task targets and said that if they completed the tasks, the offices would be upgraded to branches. The office heads who received this news were all motivated and said they were determined to complete the tasks.
Two days after returning to Beijing, Wen Qing went to Hengsheng Building to find Xie Yang to report for work. Seeing her back at work, Xie Yang smiled and said, "Boss Wen is very cool. She has been away for more than two months."