Riding the wind of rebirth

That is to say, Zhou Zhi's trip brought a huge turnover to the jade industry in the autonomous region. Through Ai Yijie's face, he was able to get the ticket for the nearest flight.

Zhou Zhi's luggage this time also included the Ji Xiaolan Hejian Ji's Duan Inkstone and the "Ming Tuo Zhang Raptor Monument" he brought from the capital. Even if he didn't fly, these two items would have to be checked by air, and now they are available together.

"Can you not act so happy?" After learning that Zhou Zhi wanted to leave alone, Xu Gang couldn't hide his happy expression, which made Zhou Zhi roll his eyes.

Regarding the situation where Xu Gang and Ayiguli could be together blatantly and receive support and blessings from both families, Zhou Zhi would be lying to himself if he said he was not envious, so his tone was full of naked jealousy.

It seems that both families have already planned their future. If Ayiguli does not continue her studies after graduation, she will definitely join the autonomous region TV station, while Dandan will definitely be arranged by her family to enter the public service system. After graduating from the Chinese Department, she will work as a leadership secretary. It's a matter of course.

The reason why Xu Gang was so happy was that he avoided Zhou Zhi from being a big lightbulb, so that he and Ayiguli could go all the way to Shaanxi without being an eyesore.

"Uncle saw that you like Yingjisha knives, so he specially bought a batch for you, but you can't take them with you now. They have to be shipped by train with the jade materials."

"That's Ayiguli's uncle, not your uncle, and he sounds so smooth." Zhou Zhi was jealous of Xu Gang, so he couldn't help but deliberately be more serious: "It doesn't matter if you take a plane or bring beef and mutton on a plane, it won't go bad. Hurry up. Take me time to buy gifts in the city. Those pure wool scarves are definitely a must, what else? Ayiguli wants to give you some advice."

"If you like scarves, you will definitely like silk." Ayiguli said: "You can buy silk scarves and silk skirts. Although the season is not suitable, they are very beautiful in summer."

"Silk?" Zhou Zhi was delighted: "Leizu is from Shu, and we have been engaged in silk weaving for thousands of years. Will I be laughed at if I bring silk back to my hometown?"

"How is that possible?" Ayiguli expressed dissatisfaction: "Our Adelais silk is beautiful and comfortable, haven't you heard of elbows?"

"I've really never heard of it." Zhou Zhi really had never heard of silk produced in Northern Xinjiang: "I know about Sichuan, Suhu, and even ancient Shandong, but I've never heard of Northern Xinjiang..."

"But you must have seen it!" Ayiguli said: "In all the pictorials, there are photos of Uyghur girls picking grapes in the summer. The girls are wearing floral skirts, which must be made of Adelaide silk."

"Are those skirts made of silk?" Now it was Zhou Zhi's turn to be shocked. The Uyghur girl's summer skirt was so colorful and colorful that Zhou Zhi couldn't believe it: "Knitted?"

"That's not true." Ayiguli smiled and said, "It's dyed."

Zhou Zhi couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief: "I was shocked."

Then he reacted again: "No, it's very dyed. Let's go take a look..."

Of course, don't expect dresses to be sold in shopping malls when the weather is minus ten to twenty degrees, but as a particularly important fabric in northern Xinjiang, Adelaide silk is always available in department stores.

Despite the impatient roll of the salesperson's eyes, Zhou Zhi unfolded the fabric and looked at it again and again. He couldn't believe it: "Is this tie-dyed?"

Tie-dye craftsmanship is also a strong point of ethnic minorities in southwest China, along with batik craftsmanship. When Zhou Zhi was conducting fieldwork on local handicrafts in Jiachuan, he described in detail these two Miao crafts in Wutongchang behind his hometown.

However, Miao tie-dye is messy and natural, like a lotus pond full of light and shadow, with almost no regular geometric shapes visible.

However, Adelais silk has gone to the opposite extreme. Not only are the colors gorgeous, but they also appear in very complicated geometric regular colors. This natural shape of Miao tie-dye is completely different.Moreover, the colors are very delicate. Zhou Zhi touched the silk and kept shaking his head: "It is absolutely impossible for this to be tie-dyed. It is absolutely impossible..."

"The teacher who received the goods said it was tie-dyed." The salesperson's patience was almost gone.

"I'm afraid even a computer can't tie-dye such a regular shape." The logic in Zhou Zhi's mind was not smooth, and he became more and more curious about this craft: "How on earth is this done..."

"Do you want to buy it or not? If you don't want to buy it, please go to another counter and have a look." The salesperson was also very polite. During the Spring Festival, the department store's business was very good. Zhou Zhi and the other two people directly occupied half of the counters. This affected Business is over.

"What's your attitude?!" Ayiguli immediately felt dissatisfied. Zhou Zhi was considered a distinguished guest at home and her boyfriend's roommate. She was treated like this in her hometown. She felt embarrassed: "I don't know the customer. Is it God? Your manager didn’t train you?”

Zhou Zhi quickly grabbed Ayiguli, put down the silk and said to the salesperson: "Of course we want to buy it, but we need to see your leader first."

"What do you mean?" The salesman was a little nervous. He thought Zhou Zhi and the others were going to sue.

"Every piece of silk here is different, which means this thing is purely handmade." Zhou Zhi said: "We don't buy ordinary goods like this, we want the best ones. We want the ones your manager didn't show off."

"How do you know..." The salesperson felt strange. Every customer who came to the counter liked Adelaide silk, and few people knew that this thing itself was graded.

"Of course I know." Zhou Zhi found it funny: "I also know that you should have a small business hall to receive distinguished guests, right? Well, most of your local high-end handicrafts are displayed in it to entertain distinguished guests or foreigners. The human kind.”

"Are you telling the truth?" The salesperson was doubtful. The manager recently went to the mainland to learn "advanced experience" and came back to hold a meeting to emphasize service awareness. Then he specifically talked about the VIP hall in Gongmei Mall specially used to earn foreign exchange. This was just Just a few days after it was done, this mainland kid is so powerful, he even knows this.

In fact, this is the information gap. For example, if a rural child is taken to a video game arcade by a friend for the first time, he will definitely think that the friend is awesome, and will not think that this video game arcade is already a bad thing in small counties.

"Of course it's true, or if you point out the place, we can go there ourselves." Zhou Zhi said with a smile.

"Then wait a minute and I'll call someone for you, the receptionist," the salesperson said.

Zhou Zhi frowned slightly: "Isn't it better to call me 'account manager'?"

After a while, the salesperson brought a middle-aged woman who seemed to be from an ethnic minority. She had a very unique charm and spoke Chinese fluently: "Hello, do you want to buy high-end Adelaide silk?"

"Let me ask you a question first." Zhou Zhi asked: "Is Adelais silk tie-dyed or woven?"

"Adelais means elegant and abstract in our Uighur language. It is symmetrical and gorgeous. It is called the pattern of cuckoo wings. It also represents a craft, which means the 'dyeing' craft."

"Oh——" Zhou Zhi suddenly realized: "It turns out that this tie-dye is not about tying knots on the cloth like the Miao people do, but tie-dying the warp threads! Then the warp threads are machined and wefted into silk!"

"I'm just saying that such a standard symmetrical pattern can't be dyed by directly tying the fabric!"