Enter the Room

Everyone in the concierge was stunned for a moment.

The sedan was carried directly through the gate of the manufacturing office and stopped in the courtyard of the manufacturing office.

The porter diligently lifted the sedan curtain, nodded and bowed and said a few words to the people in the sedan. The sedan bars were lowered, and a man in his thirties or forties, wearing a seventh-grade official uniform, walked out of the sedan.

Ji Shuanghu whispered to Song Jiyun, "It's Mr. Liu, the ambassador of the Manufacturing Office."

Song Jiyun nodded and walked forward with Ji Shuanghu.

When Deng Yun saw him, his eyes flashed and he hurriedly helped Deng Datong towards Mr. Liu.

"Master Liu!" They all saluted him.

He nodded reservedly, his eyes falling solemnly on Song Jiyun.

Song Jiyun stepped forward with a smile and introduced himself gracefully.

Mr. Liu nodded noncommittally.

Deng Yun saw it and hurriedly pulled Deng Datong to get ahead of Ji Shuanghu and said: "The younger one is from the Deng family in Dehua, and his only name is Yun. This is the younger's seventh uncle. This time he was recruited to the Construction Office. That’s my seventh uncle.”

Mr. Liu said "Oh", looked towards Deng Datong and said, "Are you the Deng Datong who is called the 'porcelain idiot'?"

Deng Datong's face turned red and he responded "yes" nervously.

Deng Yun's eyes lit up, he puffed up his chest proudly, and smiled flatteringly: "I didn't expect you have heard of my uncle. My uncle is Deng Datong, and everyone in Fujian knows that he is a famous porcelain Crazy." After saying that, he pulled Deng Datong's shirt and whispered, "Uncle, Mr. Liu is praising you!"

Deng Datong saluted Mr. Liu in a panic.

Mr. Liu laughed and said tolerantly: "Master Liu, there is no need to be polite. The statue of Avalokitesvara that your family paid tribute to the palace was presented to the Queen Mother through my hands. The lifelike and lifelike appearance of Avalokitesvara is still to this day. The memory is still fresh and not forgotten.”

"Where, where!" Deng Datong Nuonuo said, even more nervous, he didn't even know how to release his hands and feet.

When Deng Yun saw it, he quickly bowed to Mr. Liu and said, "Please forgive me. My uncle has this kind of nature. He knows nothing but making porcelain. Otherwise, our parents would not have allowed me to follow my uncle to Beijing." , told me to serve my uncle at all times."

Mr. Liu said "Hmm", and even if Deng Yun passed the Ming Road in the government, he would follow Deng Datong in and out.

He glanced at Song Jiyun proudly. It was as if he was demonstrating to Song Jiyun and telling her how much face the Deng family had in front of Mr. Liu.

Song Jiyun resisted and didn't pout at him.

Master Liu's eyes have fallen on Ji Shuanghu.

He asked kindly: "Then you are the 'Qilin'er' of the Ji family?"

Does Ji Shuanghu still have such a nickname?

Song Jiyun looked at Ji Shuang Lake curiously.

Deng's uncle and nephew also stared at him intently.

He saluted Master Liu respectfully and said, "The young one is Ji Shuanghu."

"Yes, yes!" Mr. Liu made no secret of his preference for Ji Shuanghu and said with a genuine smile, "I have heard your uncle mention you several times and say that you are extremely talented. What happens to the Ji family in the future depends on you. When I saw him today, he turned out to be a handsome young man who lived up to his reputation."

"I don't dare to take it seriously." Ji Shuanghu said hurriedly, "It's just a family tradition. The predecessors planted trees and the descendants took advantage of the shade and learned some trivial skills."

"Young people, if you are too humble, you will look old." Mr. Liu talked to him affectionately and walked to the main hall.

Deng Yun pulled Deng Datong to follow him quickly, pushing Song Jiyun aside intentionally or unintentionally.

Song Jiyun was not annoyed either.

We are all new here, and if we are so eager for success before we have figured out anything, it is easy to suffer losses.

She walked silently at the end and listened.

Mr. Liu was talking about Ji Shuanghu's uncle: "This is the first time I have heard of someone named 'Ji'... Your uncle has a chivalrous style... I was just a boy at that time and went to Yuelu Academy to study, and your uncle went Zhuzhou, why are you looking for the successor of Liling Porcelain? We are all going the wrong way... I have run out of money, so your uncle treated me to a bowl of rice noodles... He has done me a favor..."

Song Jiyun wanted to know Ji Shuanghu's uncle after hearing this.

Deng Yun's face didn't look good.

He was probably worried that Lord Deng would be biased against the Ji family.

After they were seated in the main hall and the servants served tea, Mr. Liu began to talk about business: "I have no other intention of asking you to come. The Empress Dowager wanted to burn something she could take away, but she also disliked the people in the palace. There is nothing new in what the artist paints. This time I won’t specify the painting patterns and styles. Each of the three of you will come up with twelve sets of patterns. The drawings will be handed in half a month later. Whoever can be selected by her old man’s discernment will bear the responsibility for the painting. The porcelain thing.”

The so-called "things that can be taken away" refer to funeral items.

Since people in the Spring and Autumn period wanted to have a solemn event after death but were taboo about life and death, it is no wonder that they wanted to do this on the Queen Mother's birthday.

The three families stood up and agreed.

Master Liu asked about trivial matters such as when he came to the capital, where he lived, and whether he went to Tanzhe Temple to see the pear blossoms. Ji Shuanghu answered honestly, but Song Jiyun calmly observed Master Liu's preferences.

The errands of the manufacturing office are equivalent to a bidding process. Whether the bidding document is beautiful or not, whether it can impress people or not, the effort usually lies outside.

She had to find a way to know more about the ins and outs of this mission and find out how the Empress Dowager liked it.

Deng Yun obviously thought so too. He had been taking the initiative to talk to Mr. Liu, and kept hinting that the Deng family knew powerful people in the capital.

Mr. Liu gradually began to pay more attention to the uncles and nephews of the Deng family, and even secretly inquired about the people behind the Deng family.

Deng Yun glanced at Song Jiyun and Ji Shuanghu and became suspicious.

Master Liu thought for a while and served the tea, as if he was going to send Song Jiyun and Ji Shuanghu away, but the tea cup was brought to his lips. He didn't know why he changed his mind, coughed a few times, and made an excuse. He called Deng Yun to the study next to him.

Ji Shuanghu whispered to Song Jiyun, "Should our two families join forces?"

Song Jiyun agreed after thinking about it for a while.

Both of them fired high-temperature porcelain, and the glaze color of Longquan porcelain was outstanding. She had always wanted to know what effect would be produced if the glaze color of Longquan porcelain and the lightness and thinness of Jingdezhen porcelain were put together.

"How do you want to cooperate?" she whispered.

Ji Shuanghu was about to speak when he suddenly sat up straight as if he suddenly saw something, pretending to pick up the tea cup and take a sip of tea.

Song Jiyun suspected that Mr. Liu and Deng Yun had come out.

When she turned around, she saw the two people walking out one after the other.

Mr. Liu became obviously enthusiastic about Deng Yun.

When Deng Datong came forward, he patted Deng Datong on the shoulder, smiled and praised: "Your nephew is not bad. When you are free, you can go to my house with your nephew."

Deng Datong nodded repeatedly.

Ji Shuanghu winked at Song Jiyun.

Song Jiyun nodded slightly.

Ji Shuanghu stood up and said goodbye: "We won't delay your business, sir."

Song Jiyun said: "I'll get a plan first when I go back, and then I'll ask you to see if it works."

Mr. Liu responded with a smile and sent them off in person. It should be said that he sent Deng's uncle and nephew out of the manufacturing office.

The group bid farewell to Mr. Liu again.

Mr. Liu waved his hand cordially.

But someone who looked like a guard ran over recklessly, covering his shoulders: "Third Young Master, Seventh Master, it's not good, our people were captured by Shuntian Prefecture Yin's people."