When it comes to the packaging design of mooncakes and rice dumplings, Jiang Tian actually originally planned to go directly to the printing factory to customize it.

But after listening to the story of two generations of the Luo family making straw mats that day, she suddenly had a new idea.

For thousands of years, our Chinese ancestors have left behind so many precious intangible cultural heritages. Any one of them taken out individually would make the neighbors next door jealous and grit their teeth, and they would want to steal it to prove that it is theirs.

If they don't pass on these treasures now, are they going to have to watch these priceless treasures passed down by their ancestors being stolen by the neighboring Korean country?

After making up her mind, Jiang Tian immediately invited several experienced masters from the factory to Fang Jie's fast food restaurant.

Without further ado, let’s treat the masters to a good meal first!

Due to poor management, the food in the straw mat factory was almost the same as the "famine relief food" in the early years. Jiang Tian had already heard about this from Sister Gao.

Isn’t this a coincidence?

Her family doesn’t have anything else, but plenty of fish and meat!

Jiang Tian had someone set up a separate table in the office and brought over a large pot of each of the big pot dishes made in the store today.

Meat dishes include braised pork ribs, braised pork with fried tofu, pork with preserved vegetables, fried fish fillets, pork and cabbage stewed with vermicelli, and the store’s latest “hot item,” crispy fried chicken fillets.

There are even more vegetarian dishes, such as stir-fried vegetables with pork dregs, minced meat and vermicelli with bean sprouts, lotus root slices with vinegar, lentil shreds with chili peppers, mapo tofu, edamame and rice with snow vegetables, hot and sour cabbage...

During this meal, the masters ate so much that they secretly loosened their belts several times!

After eating and drinking, Jiang Tian took out a work he had made based on the rattan, bamboo and straw weaving crafts of later generations. Well, it could barely be called a design drawing. He showed it to a few craftsmen and asked them if they could make it according to his requirements.

Jiang Tian’s request was not difficult. Moreover, for those who were skilled in straw weaving, the principles of rattan weaving and bamboo weaving were actually similar. They had done it before, but they were not as proficient in it as straw weaving.

Jiang Tian didn't require them to be proficient. She just needed to use rattan weaving skills to make a frame for the basket first, and then use straw weaving skills to weave the hollow frame together.

The gift basket made in this way is stronger than the straw flower basket and more delicate than the rattan fruit basket. It can be said that it has the advantages of both, with lace embellishments on the edges and lids.

Jiang Tian believes that even if customers don’t like mooncakes or rice dumplings, they will buy this beautiful little basket.

After all, in this era, which girl can resist beautiful lace?

Jiang Tian still remembers that in her previous life, when she went out to work, there was a period of time when it was particularly popular to have a circle of lace on the edge of the shirt collar. Some designs were more exaggerated, and the entire collar was made of layers of lace.

At that time, at least nine out of ten girls walking on the streets were wearing lace shirts.

During the Chinese New Year this year, Jiang Tian told this matter to her second uncle and asked him to keep an eye out for this kind of lace shirt when he went to the south to purchase goods.

My second uncle's people went south and found that there was actually a factory making this kind of lace shirts.

My second uncle asked someone to try to purchase a batch, but he didn’t expect that they were all sold out within less than a week after they were put on display in the store.

This time, my second uncle no longer asked anyone to go to the south to purchase goods. He directly called the "office" in the south and asked them to purchase a batch of lace fabrics and bring them back, and then he started production on the production line himself.

Thanks to Jiang Tian's brilliant idea, this year the young girls and wives in this province have successfully caught up with this "fashion trend" in the country.

My second uncle also used Han Jisong's freight network to sell the factory's lace shirts to several inland provinces, making others think that this new style of shirts was first produced by my second uncle's factory, and they all came to him to purchase them.

This year, my second uncle made a lot of money in the clothing business, and he happily bought six pairs of big gold bracelets for his niece who had made such a great contribution!

Each one is solid, and each gold bracelet weighs 100 grams.

Although the style is a bit rustic, Jiang Tian is not the kind of vain and superficial woman. What she cares about is the weight!

These are not six pairs of gold bracelets, these are 1,200 grams of gold. According to the soaring gold price in later generations, this gift from my second uncle, converted into cash, is worth at least 600,000!

Although her family members didn’t understand why Jiang Tian, ​​who had never lacked money, had such an obsessive love for gold.

But, who can afford it now? Gold is not expensive anyway, and if the child likes it, then buy it!

When several old masters heard that Jiang Tian's idea came from this year's popular women's lace shirts, they couldn't help but give a thumbs up to this clever young boss.

No wonder he can make a lot of money at such a young age!

Look at this brain. While the spendthrift old woman in their family is still spending money to buy that lace shirt, others have already figured out how to make money from it.

This job is not difficult. The key is creativity. Once you have the creativity, all that remains is to innovate the old craft.

Within two days, the masters had compiled several samples based on the creative ideas provided by Jiang Tian.

The samples that Jiang Tian gave to Luo Qunfeng were two that were more delicately woven and required more materials.

There is no other way. The old masters who have come through difficult times have the spirit of thriftiness running through their bones. Asking them to waste materials and make the straw baskets luxurious and exquisite is more painful than killing them!

Luo Qunfeng also felt that it was a bit of a waste to have so much lace on the edges and lid of the basket.

But when Jiang Tian mentioned the selling price of the basket, Luo Qunfeng immediately shut up.

Although he has never worked in the clothing industry, he can tell that the lace materials are not the best. The raw materials of rattan and rush for weaving baskets are not expensive. He didn't expect that putting these three together could be sold at such a high price?

A high sales price means high profits.

Let me put it this way, if the factory switched to making high-end gift baskets, the profit from selling one basket would be equivalent to the profit they made from selling one hundred straw mats.

Poor Luo Qunfeng, he didn’t know that there was a kind of capitalist game in later generations called “pink tax”.

Anything labeled "for women" will cost more than the same product for men.

Fortunately, although Luo Qunfeng didn't understand, he wanted to keep the factory so badly!

Now, he will listen to whoever can help him keep the factory and preserve the straw weaving culture that his grandfather asked him to pass on.

"Uncle Luo, come and help me. I can assure you that we will make more creative straw weaving products in the future and let the whole world know about our Chinese straw weaving culture!"