Madam is a dandy, Mr. Shen loves her so much

The teahouse opposite Jade Association has a very nice name, Qingming Tea House, and it has been open for a long time.

Most of the people who come here usually are jade carvers.

But the tea fried here using ancient methods is particularly famous.

Therefore, in addition to the nearest Jade Association, there will also be people from other places coming.

There are not many people who like to drink tea these days, especially when they come to the store, so there are usually not many people in this place.

The environment here is quiet and quiet, which is perfect for chatting and sitting around.

The proprietress of the teahouse is a woman over forty years old, wearing a light brown cheongsam with exquisite and beautiful coiled branches.

"Teacher Tong hasn't been here for a long time."

The woman put the tea down and looked at the handsome man sitting on the cushion with a smile.

Tong Lechuan nodded slightly, "I've been a little busy lately."

"You've all been busy with competitions recently. There aren't many people in my teahouse, so I'd better go out and walk around when you have time."

The landlady said and looked at Cen Xuan, the smile on her face was quite meaningful.

"I've never seen this teacher before."

Before Tong Lechuan could introduce him, Cen Xuan stood up and greeted the landlady.

"Hello, I am Cen Xuan."

The landlady looked at her with a little doubt in her eyes.

"Cen?"

There are not many people with this surname Jiang Huai.

Seeing her doubts, Tong Lechuan opened his mouth to explain.

"This is the granddaughter of Mr. Cen and the daughter of Master Cen Qingmu."

Only then did the landlady laugh out loud, "You are Mr. Cen's daughter."

Cen Xuan nodded. The landlady looked very happy and turned to the inner room to get a box.

"This is Mr. Cen's favorite Jin Junmei. This tea is rare. He made the decision long ago. It's a pity..."

Now the tea has arrived, but the people are gone.

"I once sent a courier to the Cen family, but the package was rejected. Now it has returned to Zhao intact." The proprietress said, offering the tea with both hands, "I hope Miss Cen will also like this sweet and smooth tea."

When Cen Xuan accompanied Bai Zhengyuan in the past, she tasted almost all the tea leaves.

But I always dislike the bitter taste.

The old man always said that she had an impatient temper and needed to be curbed and help her practice patience.

She always didn't take it seriously at that time.

But now, no matter how bitter the tea is, she can still appreciate the sweetness in it.

Cen Xuan didn't want to be pretentious, but it was the truth.

"Thank you for keeping it." Cen Xuan politely thanked him.

The proprietress smiled and nodded, "You're welcome, it's what we should do to deliver the goods to the customers."

Tong Lechuan looked at the exquisitely packaged wooden box in Cen Xuan's hand.

This thing was rejected by the Cen family, which shows how much the Cen family living in that house now avoid Cen Qing.

"Miss Cen is welcome to come over more often in the future. I have a lot of good tea here, which is always enough for girls to beautify themselves."

The landlady smiled and turned to leave.

After sitting down again, Tong Lechuan looked at Cen Xuan.

"Cen Yao is bound to win this time, you still have to be careful."

Cen Xuan chuckled after hearing his words, "Why should I be careful about her?"

Tong Lechuan smiled and shook his head, stretched out his jade-like palm and poured her a cup of tea.

"You have suffered a lot from her since you were a child."

When it comes to undermining, Cen Yao is second to none in Jianghuai.

Tong Lechuan has known these two sisters since he was a child, and has seen many things happen.

In the past, there were some things that Cen Xuan didn't want to care about, so she covered them up, but now both of them have grown up.

Their minds are much more mature than before.

Cen Yao's methods will only be worse than before.

"Why are you still nagging like you were when you were a kid?" Cen Xuan said.

Tong Lechuan looked at her and sighed.

"I saw from the beginning that this incident was directed at you. If Cen Yao dared to do such a thing, she must have wiped her tail clean. At least the things found out will have nothing to do with her. What are you going to do? .”

Cen Xuan looked at him with her cup in hand, her smile still the same, "The pure will be pure. Since it is none of her business, I can't cause trouble for others, otherwise it will appear how unreasonable I am."

Tong Lechuan raised his eyebrows, but it seemed that he still didn't change at all.

"Row."

He finally raised his cup and said, "Tea instead of wine, welcome back."

Cups and cups collide with each other, bringing with it the joy of meeting old friends again.

The teahouse proprietress opened the curtain painted with golden peonies and entered the room.

The woman holding a book by the window has exquisite makeup, and the yellow-brown liquid in the blue and white porcelain teacup at her hand is slowly steaming.

"You came here so early in the morning. Instead of going to the Jade Association, you came to my place to drink tea. What is your purpose?"

The landlady sat down opposite her without ceremony.

It can be seen that the two of them must be very familiar with each other.

"I don't like to join in the fun." Li Shuwan said, turning the pages of the book.

The landlady laughed out loud when she saw her like this, "If you really didn't like to join in the fun, you wouldn't have come here so early."

If he hadn't become a judge of the jade carving competition this time, it would be impossible to see Li Shuwan near the association.

"That one just now is Cen Qingmu's daughter. She also participated in this competition. I wonder how her level compares with her father."

Li Shuwan turned over a page and closed the book and put it aside.

"Although Cen Qingmu is a bit mediocre and cowardly, his level of jade carving is absolutely nothing to say."

The landlady raised her eyebrows upon hearing this, "Then this means that her father's level is even higher."

Li Shuwan didn't say anything. The landlady glanced at the people coming in and out across the street.

"This thing is quite lively. Someone from the Cen family should be involved. You are also a judge. Why don't you go out and take a look?"

"I don't have that much free time. What should I do if I get involved in other people's family affairs?"

The landlady glanced at her intentionally or unintentionally, "So when Cen Xuan's works were being evaluated, are you sure you didn't have any selfish motives?"

"Who do you think I am?" Li Shuwan looked at her with a bit of coldness in his eyes.

"Just kidding, I know who you are."

The landlady stood up with a smile, "I also left you with some golden eyebrows. I got them from Mr. Cen. See if you like them."

The waiter brought in the exquisitely packaged tea box.

Li Shuwan only glanced at it, and then the exquisitely packaged box was thrown aside.

…    At two noon, the results of the preliminary round of the jade carving competition were announced on time.

Originally because of cheating in buying tickets, the words "The Third Jade Sculpture Competition" have now reached the top of the hot search list.

Everyone is waiting to see which jade carver's work is willing to spend huge sums of money to buy a familiar face, and forcefully bought so many votes.

Naturally, there was also a trend on the Internet.

Originally, there were very few famous jade carvers in this era, and it was very difficult for many of them to make it this far without giving up without the support of their family background.

If you still lose the game due to such reasons, you will miss future development opportunities.

It's so frustrating just looking at it.

Among the top ten works, sure enough, the top five in online voting are all there.

It instantly ignited public opinion on the Internet, using power to suppress others, and people began to question the fairness of the game.

[Let me just say, this game is just a carnival for rich people, and these people pay more for tickets than they will ever earn in their lifetime. ]

[This is too fake. Among the works that entered the semi-finals, there are five works that topped the list of online votes this time. ]

[I go, it’s too much. It’s just a matter of trampling on other people’s efforts and just deciding on these five works right from the beginning. What a waste of effort! ! ]

[I wish these authors will spend their whole lives buying water tickets and never earn any attention. ]

There is a lot of abuse online, but there are also voices of reason among them.

The Jade Association quickly posted the judges for this competition.

From Li Shuwan to Lu Shantu and Wang Yan, there is no one who is not a leader in the industry. Even the name of the master Fang Hongcheng is at the back.

Putting aside the fact that the previous three are now phenomenal jade carvers, you should have heard of Fang Hongcheng’s name.

Since the fish leaping over the dragon gate was collected by the museum eight years ago, he has closed the knife and stopped carving it.

In recent years, he has not been active in the public eye for a long time.

There were also many top jade carving competitions that invited him to be a judge, but he was always rejected.

This time, the Jade Association was able to invite him to be the judge.

And a very eye-catching black bold font is used below the announcement on the website.

Online voting data is not included in the evaluation criteria! The selected works are strictly confidential. The judges can only see the works but not the author's information!

We failed to strictly supervise this online voting session. We would like to apologize to all our friends and we hope that similar situations will not happen again! !

Fang Hongcheng's name played a certain role in curbing the current overwhelming public opinion.

[People have made it clear from the beginning that online voting will not be counted in the selection criteria. A group of people are making a fool of themselves. Which one of your eyes saw that they won disgracefully? ]

[Laughing to death, does Fang Hongcheng know? The number one jade carving person in the Yang School never comes back empty-handed as long as he participates in competitions. This type of person is a national treasure! ]

[Master Fang himself hates this kind of academic misconduct. When he participated in the show, he criticized the current popular trend. Have you forgotten? ]

[I think the final result of the competition has nothing to do with online voting. These ten jade carvings are all very exquisite. I stand with Master Fang. ]

Jianghuai Jade Association is very smart and knows that any explanation at this juncture will be regarded as sophistry.

It would be better to admit directly and openly that there is a problem with their supervision.

First, show your attitude of admitting your mistakes. As long as you don't bite the bullet, there is still a chance for public opinion to change.

But now Director Li is having a headache, apart from the situation online, the situation within the Jade Association is not much better either.

Looking at the jade carver sitting in the hall, he is really two heads and two older.

"Director Li, we are all sitting here because we believe in the Jade Association. You should be able to give us a reasonable explanation for the current situation."

The jade carver who spoke first had a very different look in his eyes, staring at him.

"We just want to know whether the results of online voting really did not affect the final selection?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Sister Liu, who was standing next to the curator, spoke first.

"All of you here are industry insiders. You should all know what kind of temper Master Fang is. If you question the entire judging team because of the unfairness of online voting, I think you don't have to."

Everyone present also knew Fang Hongcheng's temperament, and it was impossible for him to do such deceitful things.

A person's ability to become an industry benchmark depends not only on superb skills, but also on valuable character.

Fang Hongcheng's character is recognized by the entire industry.

"We just want to know whether the Jade Association has any relevant measures to deal with these works that are bought with water stamps?"

"Yes, we can't just brush it off like this, otherwise who can guarantee the fairness of the game in the future?"

"Yes! We must give us an explanation!!"

A group of jade carvers were noisy, and they must get a solution to this matter.

Cen Xuan came in at this time.

She happened to have a lot of time today and was able to watch some good shows.

"Please be patient, I will definitely give you an explanation." Director Li spoke to calm their emotions.

Cen Xuan wandered in slowly, and soon the jade carver recognized her.

"Cen Xuan!!"

Such a shout attracted everyone's attention to Cen Xuan.

"You don't have to worry about me, I'm just here to watch the fun."

Cen Xuan said as he calmly sat down on the chair at the edge.

Everyone here has reviewed it, and among the five works that have been preserved, Cen Xuan’s is the one.

It’s no secret that she’s participating in this competition.

"You're a water stamp holder, how dare you come here?"

The jade carver in the middle was filled with indignation.

Cen Xuan sorted out the things at hand and looked at him with a colder look in her eyes.

"Do you have any evidence to prove that the water stamp was bought by me?"

The man was stunned, obviously not expecting her to ask so confidently.

"Then what's on the website is evidence! You're still making excuses!!"

Cen Xuan looked up, not worried at all.

"Have you seen the transfer record? Or my purchase record?"

The man was stunned for a moment and said nothing.

Cen Xuan continued, "If we can convict based only on the data on the website, I can immediately turn you all into people who buy water stamps."

"you!"

The jade carver who was so angry with her was about to come forward to argue when someone around her pulled her over.

"It's better not to convict others without conclusive evidence. It will be very chilling if you accuse people so unjustly."

Cen Xuan leaned back as he spoke, leaning on the back of the chair in a comfortable posture.

Her completely arrogant attitude showed no hint of guilty conscience.

Although the jade carver closest to her was suspicious, he still asked her.

"You really didn't buy a ticket?"

Cen Xuan shook his head, "Online voting is not included in the selection system. No matter how rich I am, I won't go out and listen to it."

Such a frank look made everyone present stunned.

Curator Li also understood the situation clearly.

After all, he offended a lot of people.

No matter who bought the ticket now, the Jade Association will always bear the responsibility for poor supervision.

It would be better to bring someone up as soon as possible and resolve this matter as soon as possible.

He lowered his head and pondered. There was no one suitable to do this in the entire Jade Association.

You can't be a nobody, you have to have some reputation.

Otherwise, the same words are useless.