"International Jewelry Exhibition, that’s a woman’s affair, I’m not interested," Yezi slickly declined, won, oh, they do love shiny things.
"But I’ve already asked soone to buy tickets, could you please just co with ? I heard Patek Philippe released a really beautiful watch this year," Xu Lan Ya continued coquettishly, too bad the skills that never failed her on others didn’t work at all on Yezi.
"Sorry, I’m really pressed for ti, maybe you could ask Aisha to go see it with you. I’ve heard she’s been wanting to buy a watch recently, you two are won, should be better at giving advice. That’s all, I’ve got things to do, let’s leave it at that," after hanging up the phone as if running for his life, Yezi thought for a mont and simply turned off his phone.
Anyway, he was working his tail off at the convention center, Xiao Xian would be able to find him if needed; as for others, being unreachable was for the best.
What Yezi didn’t know, was that shortly after he turned off his phone, Li Quqi, who was still in Beijing for the International Jewelry Exhibition, tried to call him.
Not only Xu Lan Ya called several tis yesterday, even Li Quqi, his own father, got almost the sa treatnt.
Unable to get through, Li Quqi also got sufficiently angry, "That rascal, turned off his phone again. It’s mid-March already since the beginning of the year, barely sees him turn his phone on properly, don’t know what he’s so busy with, trying to get him to help is so difficult."
"Don’t be upset, Master Li, how about this, I’ll help you out," accompanying Li Quqi was a young man nad Yila from an ethnic minority, who was the son of a representative from Yunnan attending the National People’s Congress.
Yila had co to Beijing with his father to broaden his horizons and got to know Li Quqi through an introduction. Seeing they were about the sa age, Li Quqi treated him quite warmly.
When Yila first t Li Quqi, seeing that he was a plainly dressed Miao person from Guizhou, there was a hint of disdain. But later on, after hearing that Li Quqi was a national treasure-level master silver craftsman, Yila changed his opinion.
In Yila’s village, they also had so silver-making skills, but it was never as famous as the Miao Clan’s silverware.
Yila himself had apprenticed under a local silver craftsman, and after a few years of learning, disdained the craft for being a low-earning and tedious job, and gave it up. Coming to Beijing this ti, he was also looking to see if there was a way to find so lucrative business.
In recent years, with the improvent of dostic living standards, various high-end jewelry brands have been vying for the Chinese market.
Aside from the fashionable brands from Europe and Arica, for the Chinese during festivals and celebrations, or for births and weddings, gold remains the most practical gift.
Yet looking at Liu Fu Jewelry, Lao Fengxiang, and Zhou Dafu, not one of their gold jewelry stores is a dostic brand, a big problem for the China Jewelry Industry Association, the organizer.
Then, at a critical mont, a deputy director in the association had an idea: if there were no good gold craftsn in the country, couldn’t silverware, second only to gold, be used as a substitute?
So objected, saying silver isn’t as valuable as gold and showing it at the exhibition might dean the stature of the event. After several days of thought, the chairman of the association concluded that while silverware is indeed less prestigious than gold, a good silver craftsman’s skills could compensate for the material’s shortcomings.
After inviting many well-known exhibitors from ho and abroad, the organizing committee learned that master silver craftsman Li Quqi was still in Beijing.
The relevant person in charge invited Li Quqi and told him the ins and outs of the situation, as well as the embarrassing position the dostic jewelry and jewelry brands were facing.
The intention was to hope he could open a special silverware workshop for exhibition at the convention center, to save face for the country’s traditional jewelry industry. As compensation, the exhibition space would be free of charge this ti, and the cost of the silver material and booth decoration would also be handled by the organizers.
When the organizers ca to visit that day, it just so happened that Yila ran into them.
Yila had seen Li Quqi’s works, and they were indeed absolutely exquisite. The silver craftsmanship of the Miao family was passed down to sons not daughters, and it was rumoured that Li Quqi’s only son, Li Ye, had drowned while traveling abroad years earlier, but then it was said he wasn’t dead, just out wandering.
Being a young man from the mountains himself, Yila took it upon himself to assu that few ethnic minority young n who went out to make a living would be willing to return to the hardship of mountain life.
Li Quqi’s skills were definitely going to be lost, so Yila took the opportunity to stay in Beijing, hoping to fill the gap while Li Quqi was participating in the International Jewelry Exhibition to apprentice under him.
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