A Generation of Craftsmen 一代匠师 Episode 20

Liao Xi drew a sample sketch and asked the masters of various schools for advice. They all put forward their own suggestions. Liao Xi listened to their opinions and made revisions. Xi is convinced.

Inspector Fu led people to seal up the Changlongtang shop, accusing the store of selling fake and shoddy furniture. The boss repeatedly stated that he would not participate in the bidding, but Inspector Fu refused to listen at all and asked the boss to go to Inspector Hu. When Mei Luodan learned of this, she suspected that Liu Tianqiu was playing tricks, and she reminded Liao Xi to beware of Liu Tianqiu.

Liao Xi absorbed the carving skills of various schools and made an exquisite chair. Everyone was amazed. Liao Xi decided to use this chair to participate in the recruitment. Mei Luodan redeemed all of Xiuju's gold and silver jewelry and gave them to Liao Yihui. Liao Yihui was very moved and finally accepted Mei Luodan. Seeing this scene, Liao Xi felt very relieved.

The recruitment meeting was held as scheduled, Mrs. An came to the scene early, Liu Tianqiu and Liao Xi came later, bringing their own samples, Sun Huaitang hurried over, and he also wanted to participate in the recruitment. Mrs. An asked all the companies to submit their quotations, and then showed the samples of each company, and finally announced the bottom bid.

Mrs. An carefully inspected the samples of the three companies. She was very satisfied and approved them to enter the second link. Liu Tianqiu questioned Liao Xi's samples. He used auspicious cloud patterns and flower and bird patterns, but Liao Xi carved the Knowing the Taotie pattern, Liao Xi wanted to spread the things of his ancestors abroad. He and Liu Tianqiu used freehand and realistic techniques respectively.

Cheng Tian publicly exposed Liu Tianqiu's gaps in the production process, so he used eight mortise tenons around the Eight Immortals Table to make up for it. Liao Xi pointed out the shortcomings of Juehu Tenon one by one, Liu Tianqiu made unreasonable words, but Mrs. An didn't say her decision, and asked them to proceed to the next quotation link first.

Mrs. An announced that Sun Huaitang's quotation was 100,000 yuan, Liu Tianqiu's quotation was 95,000 yuan, and Liao Xi's quotation was 150,000 yuan. He brought out the carved chair and made it by absorbing the essence of the four schools. Liu Tianqiu protested on the grounds that he did not meet the regulations, and fought desperately for his own low price. Sun Huaitang fanned the flames and accidentally revealed that Liao Xi's base price was nine Wan Qi, Liao Xi pressed him how he knew, Sun Huaitang was immediately dumbfounded.

Mrs. An hurriedly stopped their dispute, and announced the result after the discussion. Boss Wu and other business owners hated Liu Tianqiu deeply, and criticized him in private, but when Liu Tianqiu heard it, Liu Tianqiu gritted his teeth angrily, and forcibly drove them away. Liao Xi and Mei Luodan came out to wait for the result, Liu Tianqiu did not expect Liao Xi cheated, he sneered at Liao Xi, Liao Xi did not show weakness, and sneered at him.

Ye Zhiqiu came to Mrs. An for an interview and tried her best to win an order for Sun Huaitang. Mrs. An didn't like Sun Huaitang's samples and wanted to choose between Liao Xi and Liu Tianqiu. Ye Zhiqiu took the opportunity to ask her about the final winner, but Mrs. An had nothing to say. Liu Tianqiu didn't know what to do, he didn't eat or drink, Master Qin ate his lunch, Liu Tianqiu poured all his anger on Master Qin.

Mrs. An announced that Xingshengyuan had won the bid. Liu Tianqiu strongly protested, questioning Mrs. An's words did not count, and suppressed Liao Xi in the name of safeguarding the honor of the industry. Mrs. An liked Liao Xi's samples and brought out foreigners to talk about the matter. Liu Tianqiu had nothing to say It can be said that Mrs. An signed a contract with Mei Luodan on the spot and wanted to cooperate with Xingshengyuan for a long time. Liu Tianqiu firmly disagreed and asked Mrs. An to recruit through the chamber of commerce. Mrs. An promised to come to Xinghua in two months. Unconvinced, Liu Tianqiu vowed to fight Liao Xi to the end.

Sun Huaitang spent money to participate in the recruitment, but failed. He was very annoyed, and kept complaining to Ye Zhiqiu. Li Xia sang praises to Liao Xi in the newspaper, Liu Tianqiu was furious, Liao Xi hosted a banquet to celebrate this victory, he held up a glass of wine to comfort his dead parents, he was full of emotions, Li Xia sold the land of his hometown, and wanted to restore the newspaper, Liao Yihui Wanting to help Li Xia's newspaper office, Liao Xi readily agreed.

Cheng Tian sent people to Nanyang to inquire about the market conditions. Wood carvings were difficult to sell at a high price. He told Liao Xi about the matter, but Liao Xi felt that there was no market for old-fashioned furniture and wanted to make new-style furniture with a strong sense of art.