Thousands of miles and a pound of paint

Chapter 1 Contract Disturbance
As the night fell, there were scattered light spots in the distance, the sea breeze poured into the courtyard along the water surface, the bougainvillea swayed its waist in accordance with the rhythm, and the lights of the lacquerware studio lit up one by one.

The hardworking lacquer artists continued to be busy with their work, only Yihui stood up and walked outside the house. He stretched himself, looked at his watch again, stood outside the window and shouted at Su Li who was painting in the house. : "Little Su Li, it's time to get off work! Senior brother invites you to drink chicken soup~"

Su Li looked at Yi Hui winking outside the window, and quickly ran out the door, "Shh~Second senior brother, please keep your voice down, everyone is working."

Although it was a complaining tone, Su Li received this concern.

Yihui lowered his volume, moved his mouth slowly, and tried his best to let Su Li see the pronunciation of each word clearly, "So what kind of soup does little Su Li want to drink today?"

Although Su Li ignored him, he still chased after her quickly, and pretended to be quiet, and moved to her side, tugging at his sleeves, pulling on his hat, etc. After a few minutes, Su Li finally couldn't help laughing .

She joked: "...Brother, why do you know how to drink soup every day? You are like this... Is the master really trusting you to entrust the studio to you?"

Yihui reacted quickly, and immediately sank his face, and replied very seriously: "Do you want this blessing for you?"

Su Li knew that Yihui was joking, but not to mention that the master was angry, the two of them looked at each other and smiled again.

Smiling and laughing, Su Li thought of something bothering him again, and sniffed heavily, "Brother, stop making fun of me, it would be nice for my little transparent to have something to eat. But to be honest, if it is If you take over the studio, maybe my life will be easier..."

Su Li is well aware that one of his shortcomings is that he is sometimes inflexible, and he doesn't know how to adapt to what happens, so he is often squeezed out by his brothers for his labor.

Yihui was really terrified. Every time he came back from a business trip with his master, her workbench was full of instructions from her seniors, such as the lacquer bowls of the third senior brother waiting to be polished, and the painted beads of the fifth senior brother needing to be drilled. All the scattered things were pushed to Su Li, didn't he understand that it was so difficult to reject others?

"Little Su Li, why do you sound so strange to me? Something happened?"

Su Li pouted, what can I do?What else?Just being bullied.

Although Yihui just told his brothers and sisters a few days ago that he would do the orders he received by himself, and if he couldn't finish it, he would take out the commission and ask others for help. happy.

Su Li licked his lips, paused for a few minutes, and then slowly said: "...That's...Senior Sister Xu wanted to change the contract with me, but she changed without my consent..."

She also didn't expect that Xu Jingjing would directly take away her contract, and then dumped a contract that she didn't know at all, and pretended to change it with herself, but she didn't ask whether she wanted to change it during the whole process.

Yihui shook his head, frowned and said: "Oh, the forest is really big and there are all kinds of birds, not to mention our forest is not big, how dare she, Xu Jingjing?"

Su Li sighed, and continued: "The problem is that I didn't even see the contract, and she took it away just after the process..."

That's right, I didn't even see a piece of paper of the contract, and it was taken away. Xu Jingjing really took the time to go through the process with great difficulty.

Yihui quickly guessed that Xu Jingjing should have been eyeing the big cake in Su Li's hand for a long time, and was just waiting for Su Li to finish the preliminary work so that he could make a wedding dress for himself. Is your family home?"

Su Li is very grateful to Yihui. Although she has won several awards, a company like Chen's Home Furnishing will not find a little-known lacquer artist like her to connect with high-end customization customer channels. , "That's right, I just communicated with their company about the details, and now she says take it away."

Unknowingly, the two came to a Chinese restaurant and sat at a seat by the window. The waiter greeted them familiarly, and Yihui said to the waiter, "As usual~"

The waiter quickly served tea and bowls and chopsticks. Yihui first brought Su Li a glass of boiled water, and put it in front of her after making sure that the water temperature was moderate. "Which company did Xu Jingjing give you the contract?"

"Mo Mo Space, the contract states that there are three crafts of rhino skin, mother-of-pearl and carved lacquer, which are used to make tableware, jewelry boxes and small ornaments respectively, and the time given is also very short. Brother, you know, not to mention rhino skin and lacquer. Mother-of-pearl, just for carved lacquer, it is possible for us to make a finished product, which can take as little as a month, as long as a few months, or even longer, but the contract she signed only gave six month, and the number of each category is quite a lot, and the themes are also very detailed, I really..."

Yihui washed the dishes and chopsticks, "Does old man Zhang know about this? Don't talk about carving lacquer, it would take a lot of effort to make one, and then there is the mother-of-pearl lacquerware jewelry box. It takes a lot of time just to choose the material. Besides, the polishing and cutting of mother-of-pearl, and finally the rhinoceros leather craft, this also has to be superimposed layer by layer to produce the effect, so she signed the contract to die?"

According to the studio's previous contract signing process, old man Zhang shouldn't let this kind of thing happen. If a similar situation occurs, the two people will discuss with each other and then go through the process to sign the contract. But what happened now? What's going on?He also couldn't understand the operation of the studio.

Su Li continued to reply: "Master, didn't the old man go to the lacquer art seminar? Besides, the senior brother Ding Muqing was not always in charge of the contract matters, and the master seldom intervened."

Big Brother Ding Muqing?Yihui doesn't know much about him, but it's enough. Ding Muqing is the child of the master's close friend, and also the first disciple of the master. The master has no children. I'm afraid he is the studio heirs.

"That's not surprising. Although my business is independent, your business is in the studio. Ding Muqing and Xu Jingjing grew up together as childhood sweethearts. He helped Xu Jingjing change your contract. To be honest, I'm not surprised .”

Although Yihui is the second senior brother, Xu Jingjing entered the school before him, and Xu Jingjing is the orphan daughter of the master's comrade-in-arms. For more than ten years, the master's wife has always loved her as her own daughter, and she and Ding Muqing met each other. The time was much earlier than Yihui's apprenticeship, so the relationship between the two of them is absolutely extraordinary.

Su Li put his chin in his hands and sighed: "But you have to ask me what I mean, I don't want to change with her... After reading the contract, I don't want to change... For a contract like her, I'm afraid the whole studio will agree to it." It will take a year and a half."

　Friendly reminder: Be sure to read "Preface"! ! !
　　
　
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