However, not just any man can come to her door.
Girls in Turtle Ridge all like handsome guys who can sing well. If you want to pick up girls in Turtle Ridge, you need to have a good voice first!
If the girl is willing to sing a duet after the folk song is finished, then the matter is half settled.
Next, the man would bring his own grain and game to the woman's house several times to demonstrate his farming and hunting skills. After winning the girl's heart, he could then stay at her house temporarily.
People here don't hold wedding banquets, let alone register their marriages. The chosen boy lives in the girl's house without any official status. If he's lucky, the girl will let him live in her house after she gets pregnant, so he can see his child being born.
If you're unlucky, the woman might break up with the man once she gets pregnant.
Because Langshan is so poor, many men can't afford to get married, so there are quite a few boys willing to engage in walking marriage.
Everyone's thinking is the same: a walking marriage is better than no marriage at all, right? Even if you can't afford to get married, at least you can leave yourself an heir!
The titmouse's mother was the rocky woman's cousin. She had already given birth to three children through the walking marriage system: two sons and a daughter. She doted on the titmouse, her youngest daughter.
After the two sons grew up, they each built their own houses and lived separately. Only Sparrow, because she was a precious girl, received the right to inherit the family property and now lives with her mother.
Because of the mountain rocks, Shan Que and her mother were among the first to follow them in beekeeping and mushroom cultivation. Both mother and daughter are very good at working. Last year, they earned more than 50,000 yuan from selling local honey, and another 20,000 to 30,000 yuan from picking mushrooms and making dried bamboo shoots. In addition, they went into the mountains to pick wild tea twice a year. Last year, the mother and daughter earned more than 100,000 yuan.
This year, Jiang Xiaoman collaborated with the Agricultural University to develop understory mushroom cultivation, bringing the mountain sparrow's family into the project. With their livelihoods increasing, why did the little mountain sparrow run down the mountain?
"Hehe~ My mom said I'm about the right age to find a lover, so she told me to go down the mountain and take a look."
"You can't just decide on someone based on their songs, right? My mom said she was captivated by my dad's folk songs back then, but when she met him in person, she realized he wasn't tall enough. But she was too embarrassed to refuse, which made my brother and me look short. This time, I'm determined to find a really tall guy to take home!"
Jiang Xiaoman: "..."
Does your cousin know about this?
Do you want someone tall?
Jin Chengjie's heart skipped a beat; he perfectly met these conditions!
His father, Mr. Jin, was originally from the north. The children in the Jin family are all tall. For example, he was already 1.8 meters tall when he was in high school, and now he is 1.87 meters tall. He is definitely a tall, rich and handsome man!
Jin Chengjie couldn't help but straighten his back.
However, the clever and adorable sparrow didn't even glance at Young Master Jin.
She was still clinging to Jiang Xiaoman and acting all cute.
"Brother Xiaoman, would you like to sing me a folk song? If you're willing to sing me a folk song, my mom said you can stay at our house indefinitely!"
Jiang Xiaoman: "..."
Jiang Xiaoman made a decision: she would have the village committee use loudspeakers to focus on popularizing marriage law education!
Especially for girls like Shan Que who haven't reached the legal marriage age yet, they're still young girls themselves. Why aren't they using their precious youth to study and build a career, instead of singing folk songs?
Jin Chengjie was also somewhat devastated.
He thinks all the girls in Langshan are blind, right?
He's a handsome, rich, and successful man standing right in front of you, didn't you see him?
Think back to when he first entered university, how many girls who wanted to marry into a wealthy family would find all sorts of excuses to bump into him in the cafeteria, library, or gymnasium?
Men like Young Master Jin are probably all shameless; the more the sparrow looks down on him, the more he tries to get close to him.
It just so happens that his father sent him to investigate Langshan embroidery. Originally, Jin Chengjie wanted to make his presence known to Jiang Xiaoman, but now that he has a new target, he no longer remembers Jiang Xiaoman. (He firmly refuses to admit that he is inferior to Jiang Xiaoman in every way.)
Seeing how much her younger brother cared about this project, Jiang Xiaoman also felt that this might really be a good opportunity.
Previously, he and Zhang Jiahui mainly promoted Langshan Tu embroidery within the niche circle of Hanfu. Although they achieved some results, the circle is only so big, and the Chinese embroidery craft has a long history. In high-end custom Hanfu, the most popular styles are still the more famous Suzhou embroidery, Guangdong embroidery, Hunan embroidery, and Sichuan embroidery.
But Jin Yan Group is different. To use a somewhat inappropriate analogy, if Zhang Jia Hui's personal studio is like a school-recommended extracurricular reading, then Jin Yan's status in the clothing industry is equivalent to a textbook.
If they can board the giant ship of Jinyan, the market awareness and recognition of their Langshan embroidery will be far greater than they are now.
Since it concerns the livelihoods of many women in Langshan, Jiang Xiaoman is willing to temporarily join forces with her younger brother.
Anyway, as long as you don't force him to stage any touching family reunion with Yan Susu, and treat him simply as a business partner, Young Master Jin is quite easy to get along with.
At the very least, it's quite admirable that a pampered young master from a wealthy family like him would actually go to the remote mountain valleys and rent a house to experience life in order to explore intangible cultural heritage.
Jiang Xiaoman never imagined that Young Master Jin's real intentions were not what they seemed, but rather that he had taken a liking to Shan Yan's cousin.
Even if they knew, they would only offer a cold laugh and a pity.
He thought he was flirting with a mountain girl, but actually the mountain girl just wanted to borrow his sperm.
The Sparrow family only has one daughter, how could they possibly let her get married?
...
The golden chrysanthemums in the mountains have almost been harvested. That's the good thing about growing this; you can harvest in batches, unlike grains which require rushing to harvest at the right time. After the first batch of flowers is picked, you can pick the rest every few days.
After the third harvest, the remaining fresh flowers were no longer of good quality, so they were all picked, dried, and kept for our own consumption. Next, the flower branches were cut off, the soil was loosened, and fertilizer was applied, waiting for new buds to sprout the following year.
Jiang Xiaoman handed over the rest of the work to his father and began to focus on figuring out how to combine Langshan embroidery with the traditional clothing industry.
However, he was a complete novice when it came to clothing, and after pondering for several days, he still couldn't come up with anything. He was just about to find some time to learn from Zhang Jiahui when a single sentence from his Uncle Baichuan enlightened him—
"Why don't you design a school uniform for our school?"
"Just look online! These days, all those custom-made school uniforms are in Japanese, Korean, or British styles—they're making my eyes hurt!"
"With five thousand years of Chinese history and so many different clothing styles from different dynasties, why can't we choose one that can be used as a school uniform? Why do we have to make our children dress like foreigners?"
Jiang Baichuan has been busy ordering spring school uniforms for his students. He searched online but couldn't find any, which almost made him sick with anger. When he heard Jiang Xiaoman talking about custom clothing, he immediately passed the problem on to his nephew.
Since his nephew spent his life savings and retirement money, he has to treat him like a son!
Oh right! What other clothing category has a greater viral effect than school uniforms?
Moreover, Langshan Primary School's official video account already has over a million followers. When the school changes to spring and autumn uniforms, we can show the children their newly designed traditional Chinese style uniforms, and then hold an opening ceremony and flag-raising ceremony. Wouldn't that boost the publicity effect immediately?
"Don't worry, Uncle! I'll definitely design this school uniform for you!"
"We might even be able to squeeze some money out of the Jinyan Group and get them to donate these school uniforms to the school."
Jiang Xiaoman smiled like a little fox that had come to life.
Jiang Baichuan glanced at his nephew with satisfaction, then patted his nephew's big head.
"Design it well! Take advantage of your cheap little brother a few more times, make him afraid to bother you anymore."
Don't think that Uncle Baichuan can't see what Jiang Xiaoman is up to.
First, he took Yan Susu's child support, and then he worked on projects with the young master of the Jin family. It seems that after finding his biological mother, he took advantage of her status in the Jin family to gain benefits. In reality, what rich people hate most is this kind of poor relative who tries to take advantage of others!
Perhaps it's out of guilt, or perhaps it's a deliberate act for the public to gain a good reputation.
But if Jiang Xiaoman relentlessly pursues the Jin family for benefits, believe it or not, his own mother and her family will run away faster than rabbits.
They're even claiming kinship?
Once the storm has passed and the benefits they've given you are enough, who will even remember who Jiang Xiaoman is then?
Even if Mrs. Jin is your biological mother, she has paid a lot of child support and dividends. Jiang Xiaoman is not President Jin's biological daughter. She is the child of his wife and ex-husband. Isn't it enough for her to get so many benefits?
Even if Jiang Xiaoman tries to play the victim by bringing up her family background, and the Jin family reveals all the benefits she received, netizens will turn around and criticize Jiang Xiaoman for being greedy.
Jiang Baichuan roughly guessed the Jin family's idea, but since it was beneficial to both sides, he didn't interfere.
Uncle Baichuan had great confidence in the child he had watched grow up. He believed that Jiang Xiaoman would never abandon Jiang Youliang and choose to live with the woman who had abandoned her.
As expected! Jiang Xiaoman's actions were similar to Jiang Baichuan's initial guess. The Jin family wanted to improve their reputation and were willing to compensate him to shut up, so he accepted it without hesitation. Once he had received enough, he would consider this mother-son relationship completely bought off.
The Jin family gained a good reputation, and Jiang Xiaoman benefited; everyone was happy.
"Hehe~ Ah Jie and I are brothers, how can this be called taking advantage of someone? Other manufacturers might not even get a chance to sponsor school uniforms, they're more like taking advantage of me, since my uncle loves me the most."
Jiang Xiaoman praised Jiang Baichuan with a smile, then turned around and ran to Jin Chengjie to tell him that he had gotten a free promotion channel for the new project: Langshan Elementary School, which has a million followers, was willing to let them sponsor the school uniforms for next year's spring and autumn semesters.
"It sounds like we're at a disadvantage, doesn't it? Producing spring and autumn school uniforms for the whole school must cost a lot of money, right?" Jin Chengjie looked at Jiang Xiaoman suspiciously.
“Where are there more students? You don’t know, our Langshan Village Primary School used to have only forty students. Last year, more than twenty students transferred here, so now there are only sixty students.”
"Based on the calculation of two sets of spring and autumn school uniforms per person, with the cost of one set controlled at around one hundred yuan, the total cost is only a little over ten thousand yuan!"
"You, the heir of a large corporation, wouldn't be so stingy as to not even spend a little over ten thousand yuan on promotion fees, would you?"
"What? You're saying your school only has sixty-odd students? Are you sure it's not one class?" Jin Chengjie was also taken aback.
He had only been in Langshan Village for a short time, and spent most of his time living in the Jiang family's newly built house on the mountain, so he hadn't paid any attention to the village school.
Even more unexpectedly, the student attrition rate in rural primary schools is now so severe!
An entire elementary school, and only sixty-odd students?!
"So are you going to do it or not? If not, I'll find someone else. Actually, I think Sister Zhang would definitely be willing to take this job..." Jiang Xiaoman urged.
"Let's do it! I'll get a company to approve 50,000 yuan first. We'll pick the best fabrics and stuff, and use the rest of the money to buy traffic and promote the product!" Young Master Jin decided.
For just 50,000 yuan, you can get a million-follower influencer for free. It's a public service, and it's also very beneficial to Jin Yan's brand image. His dad will definitely agree!
Sure enough, when the approval form reached General Manager Jin, Jin Yonghua couldn't help but smile.
Sure enough, it was a good idea to leave Cheng Jie in Jiang Xiaoman's hands; he's even learned to do charity work for the group.
However, the scope is still a bit narrow.
Mr. Jin immediately doubled the 50,000 yuan on the approval form, approving 100,000 yuan for Jin Chengjie.
If you're going to do something, do it to the best of your ability. I'll take on the responsibility of supplying all the school uniforms for Langshan Elementary School for the entire year.
He just searched on his phone and found that the video account of Langshan Elementary School not only had a lot of followers, but also updated frequently and had a high level of fan activity. If Jin Chengjie really found such a good publicity channel, then his son is truly promising!
Donating school uniforms is different from donating money and books. The money is in a card, and the books are on the bookshelf. There's no Jinyan Group name engraved on them, so how would anyone know that they donated them?
But school uniforms are different. Students have to wear school uniforms every day to go to school. When they design the school uniforms to look nice, just like the approval form says, they will design new Chinese style school uniforms that incorporate Langshan Tu embroidery intangible cultural heritage elements. When fans see the videos and the school uniforms worn by the students every day, they will know that they were donated by their Jinyan Group.
Let alone 100,000, if Jiang Baichuan were willing to let the students of Langshan Elementary School continue to wear the school uniforms donated by their Jinyan Group, it would be worth spending a million!
Chapter 240
Mr. Jin was very pleased that his son had become successful. When he got home that evening, he couldn't help but share the good news with his wife.
Yan Susu was secretly pleased, but also felt sorry for her son who lived in a poor mountain village like Langshan and must have suffered a lot. So she thought of preparing some good food and drinks and having the driver send them over.
"You only prepared this for A-Jie?" Jin Yonghua glanced at her.