The popularity of the Pearl Craft Park not only brought about a frenzy of pearl sales, but also attracted widespread attention from the society. Several newspapers in Guangdong Province sent reporters to interview and take pictures, and Guangdong TV Station also dispatched. Various TV and paper media Reports promoted South Island pearls to the public.
"The pearls on the island are so beautiful!"
“Beach wedding photos!”
"Winter travel mecca."
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The situation in today’s times is different from before. There is even a trend called “boasting the rich” in various towns and towns. The media and even the local government should encourage and publicize those who actively respond to the call in the new era. Self-employed and other forms of self-made rich people.
Therefore, the popularity of pearl sales has also been highlighted by the National People's Congress, and then contacted with old news reports that a string of pearl necklaces sold for thousands of dollars a few years ago, many people's eyes are red.
Sell pearls? How much money does this have to make!
The bosses of those pearl farms are making crazy money!
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Some people can only secretly envy in their hearts after hearing this, while some people have small thoughts in their hearts.
South Island pearls sell so well, and there is a gimmick of "Pearl King", but South Island is not the only one that produces pearls in this country. The country's sea area and rivers are so vast, how many places can produce pearls
There are not only seawater pearls in the world, but also freshwater pearls. Freshwater pearls are much easier to feed than seawater pearls. Freshwater pearls do not need to be pitted, and one pearl oyster can produce several pearls...
Whether freshwater pearls or seawater pearls, aren't they all pearls? Ordinary people can tell the difference clearly.
Some of them thought about it, and immediately came up with an idea in their head.
Li Ertou was one of the first to come up with a solution. He brought a batch of "pearls" to the island, and while his pearl craft garden was booming, he secretly sold pearls to tourists nearby.
"Don't go to the craft garden to buy it. You will be fooled. You will be fooled if you buy it there. I have pearls here, pure South Island pearls, which are cheap and beautiful."
"These pearls I have are all real, genuine goods at a fair price. The pearls we grow at home are not comparable to those big breeding factories, but the price is cheap. My mother is sick, and the family is in a hurry to spend money."
"Don't go to the craft garden to buy, I have good pearls here..."
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There are many people like Li Ertou who fish in troubled waters and shoddy good ones. There are even some people who sell fake pearls at a low price, but they also say they are "South Island pearls". Because of the low price, the sales volume is rising steadily.
Most ordinary people have never seen pearls with their own eyes before, and they don’t know how to distinguish good or bad pearls. When they see a white pearl, it doesn’t matter whether it is a seawater pearl or a freshwater pearl, or whether it is round, oblate or water droplets. It is difficult to judge the luster and blemish of pearls for a while. Seeing that the pearl necklaces sold by others are really cheap. Compared with those in the craft garden, the price is skyrocketing. Buy several strings to send back to relatives and friends, not to mention poor quality pearls, and even fake pearls.
After they finished buying and went back, they took a closer look and saw many flaws, as well as dots of depressions and growth lines. A string of pearl necklaces. If you look carefully at each pearl, the "round" is messy, and there are even a few "steamed buns" like half round pearls.
... This thing is also a pearl
"The so-called South Island pearls are nothing more than that."
"You bought these things with money?"
"That pearl king is nothing to look at, and this pearl necklace doesn't look good on your neck."
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The sales volume of the pearl craft garden has declined, and the word-of-mouth of South Island pearls has also inadvertently declined. In order to sell out the stocks in the factory, many breeding factories have followed up with price reductions.
Now, the price is even more confusing!
Tourists can't figure out what the price of pearls should be. There are dozens of pearl necklaces here, tens of dollars, and hundreds of dollars. If you buy pearl necklaces for tens of dollars here, people can also buy pearl necklaces for more than ten dollars. .
"Look, you're out of your mind. Buy a pearl necklace worth 100 yuan. Anyway, you are here for a trip. Just buy a pearl necklace worth 10 yuan. We don't often wear it."
"Yeah, I'll buy some cheaper ones too."
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No one wants to be taken advantage of. If they can buy the cheap ones, they don’t buy the expensive ones. They feel uncomfortable after buying the expensive ones.
"The pearls you sell here are too deceitful."
"The price is so expensive that it's not worth it."
"The people here are too black-hearted..."
A small amount of pearls were returned from the Xunrou Pearl Factory, and Menglan said anxiously to Qin Rou: "Those pearls are not from our Qiongzhou Island at all."
"And this, Sister Qin Rou, look, this, this... This is not a pearl at all!"
"They came to the island to buy fake pearls and said our pearls are not good."
After Qin Rou heard this, she was not in a hurry. She had expected this situation in advance. Nowadays, in the 1980s, the market order was extremely irregular, there was a lack of market supervision, and no one cared about counterfeiting and selling fake products. As long as she could make huge profits, there were many People start to do it.
"Menglan, don't worry, let's wait."
Qin Rou plans to wait until the other pearl breeding factories can't sit still, and then get together to discuss solutions.
"Menglan, I have some information here, you come and sort it out with me."
The appearance of these cheap pearls has disturbed the pearl market in Qiongzhou Island. Fake pearls are popular in the market, but the pearls that have been hard-earned in the pearl breeding factories cannot be sold at a high price, and the hearts of the major breeding factories are floating.
Selling fake pearls is so profitable, why not sell fake pearls together
As for whether it will damage the image of South Island pearls? Who cares, as long as the money is pocketed now, no matter what pearls it sells.
Now even the people in the pearl breeding factory started selling fake pearls in private.
"No! You can't go on like this!"
"Many tourists come to buy fake pearls and go back, thinking they are South Island pearls. Isn't this going to ruin the reputation of South Island pearls?"
"In the future, if you mention South Island pearls, they are all fake pearls!"
As long as word-of-mouth is bad, it will be difficult to save it in the future. It didn't take long for the managers of several breeding factories who really had feelings for South Island pearls to sit still.
Zhang Yu'e, director of the state-owned pearl breeding factory, took the lead and invited the heads of several other breeding factories to sit down and discuss the current situation.
"There are a lot of fake pearls popping up on the island now, what do you think should be done?"
"It doesn't make sense. People in our country can't identify pearls at all. False and real are mixed together. In addition to those real and fake pearls, there are also many freshwater pearls. Yes, those are also pearls, but the difference between these pearls and pearls There are also differences.”
"Freshwater pearls and seawater pearls are very different. Let's talk about seawater pearls. The pearls produced by our different seawater pearl oysters are also different, but who can distinguish clearly? How can outsiders clearly distinguish? Only the researchers of other experimental stations clear!"
"You say which one is more expensive and which one is cheaper. There is no basis for it. People who don't understand think it's all pearls... just pearls!"
"We can't tell those tourists, they just want to buy cheap pearls!"
"In the future, it's best for our breeding factories to specialize in export business. I think we need to contact a few more overseas businessmen to find a way to sell pearls to the United States and Europe."
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Sun Jin of the Meirou Pearl Farm was the most excited, thinking that they could only do pearl foreign trade business and give up the domestic ordinary pearl market.
Zhang Yu'e looked at Qin Rou: "Director Qin, you have an idea, come and think of a way."
"The current pearl craft garden was also built with a lot of effort by you. You can't let it be like this in the future."
Sun Jin said: "Xiao Qin, if you have a way, tell me about your way!"
"You are such a beautiful craft garden, don't let these rotten fish and shrimps ruin your reputation."
Although Sun Jin was very envious of the pearl craft garden made by Qin Rou, he also got some sweetness from it, and he also really likes pearls, so he couldn't see "a good thing wasted".
Now they are grasshoppers on a boat. If the reputation of Nandao Pearl is not good, they will suffer and lose together in the future.
"Everyone listen to me." Qin Rou took out the document bag she had prepared and took out the information inside, "My opinion is that we pearl farmers should unite to establish a unified standard for the South Island pearl industry. The Pearl's sign strikes."
"With a unified standard, we can identify and classify pearls. At the same time, we also need to inform customers of the pricing standard of pearls and how to judge the quality of pearls. I suggest making such pearl business cards and selling them together with pearls. The above details how to identify pearls…”
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"We have so many breeding factories, instead of competing with each other for prices, it is better to formulate a relevant standard."
This is also one of Qin Rou's goals. With so many pearl breeding factories, instead of bidding with each other, it is better to unite and develop the market together. The demand for pearls will be strong in the future, and there is still a lot of market potential waiting to be tapped.
"In my pearl craft garden, I can provide exhibition halls and showcases for other pearl farming factories to sell pearl products in the craft garden..."
After listening to Qin Rou's words, the eyes of the several responsible persons brightened, and there was still such a good thing, but they didn't want Qin Rou to change his voice: "But we have to take 8% of the craft garden..."
Sun Jin frowned: "Eight percent is too much."
Qin Rou said: "This can be discussed in detail."
Qin Rou's bottom line is to take a 5% commission. She had already thought about it when she built the pearl craft garden. Instead of being a pearl farmer to compete with other farmers, it is better to become a pearl sales platform.
Qin Rou's pearl craft garden provides sales showcases and packaging for other pearl breeding factories, and the craft garden takes a cut from it, and carries out various promotional activities for South Island pearls.
"If everyone agrees, let's develop the specifications in detail."
The heads of several other breeding factories discussed with each other, and it was Zhang Yu'e who was the first to agree: "Our state-owned pearl breeding factory will enter your pearl craft garden."
"What is the industry standard you are talking about? It has to be settled quickly. Can this pearl business card really stop those who sell fake pearls?"
"All of us are united to resist the counterfeit pearl sellers, drive those counterfeiters out of Qiongzhou Island, and erect the brand of our South Island pearls."
"Only when the reputation is well known, there will be a steady stream of people coming to the island to buy pearls..."
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Originally there were only a few, but after lobbying by Zhang Yu'e, Xie Ru'an and others, most of the pearl farms on the island agreed to participate in complying with the South Island pearl industry norms and jointly boycott unscrupulous vendors from selling fake pearls.
Qin Rou also asked people to do ideological work for the nearby villagers: "Do you know the word thirsty for fishing? We don't just make money for a year, but want to make money for a long time. Don't just make money in a year or two." If the reputation is ruined, as long as there are more tourists, not only can you make money selling pearls, but you can also make money selling other things... "
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In less than half a month, under the joint resistance of all the pearl factory farmers, most of the people who came to Qiongzhou Island to sell fake South Island pearls were eliminated, and the local pearl market also changed.
The major exhibition halls in the Pearl Craft Park are full of pearls, and there are a variety of special display cabinets. In the central event hall, the screen plays the promotional video of South Island pearls...
The craft garden also provides corresponding stalls for the villagers in the village. Qin Rou plans to build two commercial streets, introduce cafes and dance halls, and make this place an attractive special attraction.
She was planning to build a commercial street here, and someone immediately saw the future development and decided to build a small hotel here, but Qin Rou didn't consider building a hotel here.
Qin Rou plans to build a pearl-style hot spring hotel and a pearl-style sea view hotel in the future.
These two investments are expensive, and she will have to save more.
After a month of cleaning and renovation, the tourists who came back saw the orderly and beautiful pearl craft garden.
There is even a small food street, and the vendors selling snacks are also in order.
The government attaches great importance to the construction of the pearl craft garden here and has given great support. Qin Rou asked for land to build shops.
The current Pearl Craft Park not only attracts foreign tourists, but also attracts local people. Come and relax on weekends. After all, the entire Qiongzhou Island is actually not big.
The Pearl Craft Park has recruited many people and entered various positions. For the operation of the Pearl Craft Park, Qin Rou pays great attention to the environment and hygiene protection, cleans up all kinds of garbage in time, and has specialized personnel to take care of the surrounding green plants...
During the two or three days of vacation before the end of the year, Qin Rou brought the whole family to the Pearl Craft Garden to play. During these days, the Pearl Craft Garden has had a lot of people. In order to meet the children's entertainment needs, Qin Rou arranged a There are amusement facilities such as carousels and ocean balls.
As soon as Doudou and Rongrong arrived here, they said they were going to ride the carousel. Lu Yan and Lu Weizhou each led a little guy to ride on the carousel. The father and son looked similar, and the two little sisters looked exactly the same. The four father and son father and daughter are very eye-catching.
Qin Rou's youngest son, Lu Weize, sat under the umbrella of the shell model, and the little dumpling couldn't help but tugged on his mother's clothes: "Mom..."
"I want to wear Daddy's clothes, I want to wear Daddy's clothes!"
"I want to wear daddy's clothes..."
Qin Rou looked at him very funny, pinched his face which was similar to Lu Yan, "Dad's clothes are too big, you can't wear them."
"When you grow up, you will be able to wear daddy's clothes."
Qin Rou looked gently towards the direction of the carousel. Lu Yan, father and son, had already come down with the sweet bean paste and sisters, and walked towards them.
The weather is neither hot nor cold at the moment, and there is not much sunlight. Lu Yan is wearing a black shirt and black suit pants, which Qin Rou specially asked someone to order for him. I always see this guy wearing a white military uniform on weekdays. Now Wearing a black suit is really a different feeling.
If you use three words to describe it, it is so handsome!
He wears a metal chain pearl necklace around his neck. The cold and hard metal collides with a few gentle pearls. Coupled with the black shirt, he looks cool, tugging and gentle.
The black suit pants underneath are dotted with three pearl pendant chains, giving them an inexplicable sense of fashion and luxury when walking.
When going out today, Qin Rou specially told him to put on the sunglasses and not talk, what he wanted was the smell of pulling 25,000.
He is simply the cool boy of the new era, the coolest guy on the street.
Of course, the premise is that when he is not hugging his daughters, the little girls in soft and cute flower skirts will make his father less cool and handsome.
"I want to wear daddy's clothes!"
I don't need to elaborate on how handsome this outfit is. Lu Weize, a kid who yearns for fashion, also yearns to wear black, metal chains, and a guitar to play punk rock like his father.
Not only elementary school students like Xiao Jiaozi were attracted, but also many fashionable young men approached Lu Yan and asked him where he bought these clothes and pants
"And this necklace around your neck?"
"Are there any in the craft garden?"
"Where did you buy your pearl trouser chain?"
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Although many people think that pearls should be accessories for women, in fact, in some European countries, accessories like pearls were mostly worn by male princes and nobles in the past.
Natural pearls are extremely valuable. In the past, they were not only inlaid on the crown, but only the royal family could wear them in some eras. It was not until the emergence of modern cultured pearls that pearls appeared in the homes of ordinary people.
It is not against harmony for men to wear pearls.
Pearls are used in clothing accessories. It doesn’t have to be a pearl wedding dress, but can also be made into various other forms of accessories. Pearl necklaces and bracelets are not necessarily made of all pearls, but can also be made of metal and pearls. .
Qin Rou originally regarded Comrade Lu as a guinea pig, but she didn't expect Lu Baishu to be so eye-catching in such a suit, so she almost brought the goods directly.
Unfortunately out of stock.
"Sister Qin Rou, your brother Lu really knows how to dress up. He is handsome and knows how to dress up. No wonder he can marry such a beautiful woman like you. Unlike Gu Cheng, who looks very boring." Gu Cheng is also at the moment The craft garden and Chu Ge got together, and the two had a date alone for a while, then came to talk to Lu Yan's family.
Chu Ge glanced at Lu Yan, then at Gu Cheng, and told him to imitate: "Obviously Brother Lu is one year older than you, but how I look at it, you are five years older than other Brother Lu."
Gu Cheng: "..."
— Am I that old
Comrade Gu, who used to have a really cool and cool personality, turned his head and stared at Lu Yan, carefully perusing his attire.
Does this dress look good
Lu Yan: "..."
He didn't want to wear this dress when he went out, but he couldn't stand his wife's request.
Wearing too much white on weekdays, and suddenly wearing all black, it really doesn't look right anywhere.
"Aunt Qin, Uncle Lu, look over here, I'll take a video for you."
Zhang Yichao was tanned like charcoal in summer, and now he is still like charcoal, without fading at all, making his father Zhang Chengbei talk about his son every day as if he came back from digging coal.
How can you tan yourself so dark
"Uncle Lu's suit is amazing, when can I get one!"
When Zhang Yichao saw the clothes on Lu Yan, he was yearning for him. He is also a young man who likes to be unconventional and fashionable.
Gu Cheng didn't understand these people. Does it look good in black
"We can add new products to the craft garden!" Seeing the pearl accessories on Lu Yan, Chu Ge felt refreshed.
Forgive her, she did see too many pearls and felt sick.
Seeing more strings of white pearl necklaces, she now likes to look at some novelty things.
"This kind of pearl chain doesn't have to be matched with trousers, it can also be matched with skirts..."
“It would also look nice as a metal bracelet.”
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Qin Rou chatted with Chu Ge, Lu Yan and Gu Cheng stared at each other, Lu Weize stood beside his own father enviously, "Dad, let me wear this necklace."
Gu Chengdao: "What necklace does the child wear?"
"My son is not young, he is ten years old."
When hearing this number, Gu Cheng inexplicably felt a little bit worried. His son is ten years old, but he is not married yet. By next year, his daughter will be six years old.
"Lu Weize, you are here!" Xie Ru'an came out of nowhere, and his eyes lit up immediately when he saw Lu Weize. Even though he has left the teaching job now, he still has the ambition to cultivate Lu Weize into a calligraphy genius.
"Mom, help!"
Lu Weize is most afraid of listening to Xie Ru'an's nagging, you say that if Xie Ru'an has a bad temper, you can beat him or scold him, but he is a good gentleman who treats you hard, as if you don't do what he does, you will feel sorry for him... For such a person, Xiao Jiaozi would like to take off the dumpling skin and jump into the porridge to hide.
"Oh, this kid..." Xie Ru'an sighed, it was still his playfulness that hated iron and steel.
Originally, this child was supposed to become a bright pearl in the calligraphy world, but now, this pearl probably won't be able to hatch.
"Mr. Xie, you still need to work on the craft garden."
"Yes, yes, I'm going to be busy too."
After coming to the Pearl Craft Garden, Xie Ru'an found the second spring of his life. Although the work here was busy, he seemed to have found the true meaning of life.
He is busy and enriched, and actively devotes himself to work every day...
"I have to pick up a group of guests today."
Seeing that he was about to leave, Lu Weize jumped up like a pippi shrimp, and followed Xie Ru'an: "Mr. Xie, quickly find someone to marry!"
If you're married, don't come looking for little dumplings, just focus on your own cubs.
Lu Weize warmly recommended: "Why don't you let my dad introduce you to someone?"
"My dad often introduces people to people! People call him Chief of Staff Lu, and he is an emotional adviser to people."
Qin Rou: "..." Whose family is this unlucky child
Lu Yan: "..." He is really a big brother of my father.
Zhang Yichao said: "Uncle Lu, when I look for a partner in the future, you will also come and help me refer."
"I think you are much more reliable than my dad."
Zhang Yichao thinks that compared with his own father, Uncle Lu next door is more reliable.
"Yichao, are you thinking of finding someone too?"
"My dad was anxious to let me find a partner. Before the college entrance examination, he told me to go to university and make friends in school. He also said that nowadays college students are most likely to be in a class, and some classes can be several. Right..."
"I haven't been admitted to a university now, so I don't have to look for it." The young Zhang Yichao is currently not interested in the person he is talking to. "Our island is so beautiful. If there is a film school here, I will go to the school here..."
"I think you are very energetic, young man!" Sun Jin, the person in charge of Meirou Pearl Farm, came over. He glanced at Zhang Yichao, then at Lu Yan, and finally returned to Zhang Yichao: "You can take the exam. Agricultural University!"
"Come over to raise pearls in the future."
These two people are all in black, one is ridiculously dark, and the other is wearing all black.
Sun Jin couldn't help looking at Lu Yan again, he was very greedy for the decorations on his body, thinking that he had raised so many pearls, so he should get some pearl chains to wear.
I didn't expect Pearl to be able to play like this.
Zhang Yichao: "..."
"Uncle, I'm going to be admitted to film school to be a director." Zhang Yichao didn't know why he got so tanned in summer, as if he was digging coal, but his teeth were very white, and his smile was even worse.
Just like Bao Gong is alive.
Zhang Chengbei laughed at him at home, saying that if he was admitted to film school in the future, maybe the school would rehearse a drama and let him play Bao Gong.
"Make a movie? Ambitious!" Sun Jin put his eyes on Qin Rou and said with a smile, "Director Qin, is this from your family?"
The person he was referring to was Lu Yan.
"He is my love."
"Lu Yan." Lu Yan nodded and introduced himself briefly.
"You really married a good daughter-in-law." Sun Jin blurted out praise, "Now none of us know the smart and capable Director Qin, a college student from a famous school, who is much more educated than us and has good ideas, everyone They are all willing to follow her, unlike those of us who have no vision, now the development here is good, and the factory sellers regretted it a while ago."
"In the future, if my son marries a daughter-in-law, if he can marry a woman who is half as smart as Director Qin, I will be very proud."
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"Director Qin, let me tell you something. Zhang Xiesheng, the boss of the Xiarou Pearl Factory, just came over and gave us some suggestions... We plan to establish a South Island Pearl Chamber of Commerce next year. Director Qin, we Unanimously elect you to be the president of the chamber of commerce.”