Rebirth of the Millennial: Getting Rich After Parents Get Laid Off

Chapter 49 A great harvest
When she arrived at the entrance of the porcelain kiln, there was no place to park her car.

There used to be an open space in front of the porcelain kiln. Although it was not big, it was about the size of a van. Now it is filled with bags of materials.

Shen Qingqing parked her bicycle on the other side of the bridge and locked it. She then jumped into the field of raw materials in two or three steps, stepping in with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

I didn't expect that I would step into the porcelain kiln in such a deep and shallow way that the entire courtyard was surrounded.

There was a pile of raw mineral materials piled high next to the wall.

Shen Qingqing was confused. What was going on?
A space was created where her mother had been working on the millstone, just big enough for three adults, one sitting and two standing - her mother sitting, Wu Jingyuan and Zhang Hengyun standing.

To her mother's left and behind her were four or five bags of materials that were clearly different from the materials under Shen Qingqing's feet. Her mother was taking things out of those bags and turning them into mud.

Wu Jingyuan and Zhang Hengyun stood beside her and watched her motionlessly, not minding the mud and water that accidentally splashed on their bodies.

Li Xunli and her team had a fruitful trip this time. Not only did they find the raw materials they needed, but Li Xunli also found several glazes that her grandfather had accidentally obtained when she was a child.

The price of the materials that have been processed and can be used directly to make mud is twice as much as that of the unprocessed raw materials that need to be pounded and mined by herself. However, Zhang Hengyun was in a hurry, and she had to pay for it herself, so after asking Li Xunli how much material was needed to complete her batch of porcelain, she placed the order directly with a wave of her hand.

After seeing those glazes, Li Xunli couldn't help but buy the raw materials that she needed to pound and mine herself.

Since these things take a long time to store, she processes the raw materials a little bit every day, so that when she wants to use them in the future, she doesn't have to go so far to buy them.

As for Wu Jingyuan, he had actually started to back off after hearing the price of the materials needed to make the brooches and buttons for that batch of clothes.

Unexpectedly, after the person selling the materials showed him the works made by adding the glazes and raw materials, he went all in.

After the clay material that Li Xunli chose for him was fired and glazed, the finished product became very clear and natural, with a sense of lightness, which naturally weakened the sense of weight brought by the ceramics.

After all, these are clothes for spring and autumn, and in the south, the weather basically doesn't stay cold for long, so the fabrics of the clothes tend to be light and thin. When choosing decorative materials, people naturally tend to look for light materials.

There are porcelain decorations, but after all, they have to be pinned on clothes. You can't let the corsage hang down when you pick it up and put it on, right?
Then the shape must be small and exquisite enough, and it is also convenient to leave hollow space to reduce the mass of the accessory itself, and add some visual lightness effects, and it can be achieved.

After all, if you use some inferior metals, not only will they become ugly after oxidation over time, but they will also easily stain your clothes.

By then, no matter how beautiful his clothes are, when people mention them, they will only remember that the brooches from this shop are easy to fade and stain, and ruin the clothes.

So he waved his hand and brought all the purchased materials to the Li family's porcelain kiln.

Three waves of materials arrived at the same time, which resulted in the porcelain kiln being packed when Shen Qingqing arrived.

At this moment, we are testing the batch of jade-textured materials that Zhang Hengyun needs. From the mud-forming process, we haven’t seen much difference, but after it becomes mud, there is a very obvious sense of delicacy.

There were two grinding wheels in the kiln. The one we were using was new, while the one we had used previously still had some clay on it. The difference was obvious to the naked eye. Li Xunli was working on the mold, occasionally looking up as she explained things to Zhang Hengyun. She happened to see Shen Qingqing standing at the door, holding onto the doorframe. She changed the subject, "Qingqing, you've come just in time. Your Aunt Zhang brought the step-by-step instructions for the tassel pattern we need. Mom also bought some new yarn. Take some back with you and try to weave it yourself by following the instructions."

"The thread colors and steps are explained in the diagram, so just follow them. If you can weave it, I'll teach Yangyang and we'll do it together. If not, wait until Mom comes back tonight to teach you."

Shen Qingqing came here excitedly, wanting to tell her mother that she had made it to the finals and could even go to the city competition. How come she was already accepting the reward before she even said anything?

But even though she thought so, she still stepped in deeply and shallowly, walked to her mother's side, jumped down and looked for the steps, drawings and lines her mother had mentioned.

After getting it, she ran back happily to tell her mother about it.

"Really?!" Li Xunli looked at Shen Qingqing in surprise after hearing this.

Shen Qingqing raised her head proudly: "Of course! I just came back from the finals today!"

However, considering that Wu Jingyuan and Zhang Hengyun were present, she did not say the other half of the sentence about being able to participate in the city competition later.

"Okay, okay, tomorrow Mom will buy some seafood and make you a delicious meal!" Although Li Xunli didn't understand the level of this competition, she knew that the word "finals" meant that those who stood to the end were all very powerful people, especially since this person was her daughter.

Zhang Hengyun was also very surprised, because she also heard her daughter Chen Yurong say that she also participated in this competition, but she was too busy, and later it seemed that she never heard her daughter talk about this competition again.

Chen Yurong is in the fifth grade this year. She started participating in this competition in the fourth grade. Last year, her best result was making it to the semi-finals. This year, she did not participate.

She also knew her daughter well, and she probably didn't make it past the next round, so she didn't say anything.

I didn’t expect that Shen Qingqing had already made it to the finals at such a young age!

"Qingqing, I didn't expect you to be so smart! It seems that your uncle will have to communicate with you more in the future to see if I can learn some good ideas from you." Wu Jingyuan's words were actually just a joke, and he didn't necessarily have any real thoughts.

How could he have imagined that later Shen Qingqing would actually give him some ideas, which helped his clothing brand become one of the top brands in China.

Shen Qingqing was not polite and said, "Uncle Jingyuan, you have to pay me the consulting fee!"

"Hahaha, you still remember the consulting fee? Okay! As long as this batch of blind box clothes can make money, uncle will definitely give you a bigger red envelope!" Wu Jingyuan was amused by her, and even his fierce appearance seemed to ease a lot.

"Here, I'll give you this red envelope first!" Wu Jingyuan took out his wallet directly from his trouser pocket, counted out ten red bills from the wallet, put them into the red envelope he carried with him and handed it to Shen Qingqing.

Shen Qingqing was stunned and subconsciously glanced at her mother. Seeing that her mother was also confused, she asked Wu Jingyuan, "Uncle Jingyuan, what is this red envelope for?"

(End of this chapter)