Chapter 20: Quiet Night Thoughts with Two Mistakes

  The old lady and Bai Miao Yun showed a look of surprise, not knowing where this mischievous and playful granddaughter, who would pretend to have a headache when she saw books, got her confidence from.

  "Then come on and let everyone hear it." Bai Miao Yun said, when she smiled, there were also small dimples on her face, just not as obvious as Bai Miao Dan's.

  "Hmm." Bai Miao Dan said: "Sister is working hard outside, today I will write a poem with the theme of sister's mood when she was outside, what do you think?" Big eyes asked everyone.

  After gaining everyone's recognition, Bai Miao Dan smoothed her hair and slowly opened her mouth, "The bright moon in front of the bed, I suspect it is snow on the ground, raise my head to gaze at the bright moon, lower my head to think of my hometown."

  Yue Kang heard Bai Miao Dan finish the poem, and suddenly spat out the rice in his mouth. He was choking with laughter but didn't dare to laugh. This simple poem and you still managed to recite two wrong words, what a genius!

  The old lady and Bai Miao's mood were different, and even Bai Miao's eyes were surprised. This poem, although seemingly simple, was full of inner rhyme. They were all connoisseurs of poetry, and after listening to it, they were shocked. The first two lines completely captured the illusion that occurred in a specific environment when one was alone in a foreign land. A person who was alone in a foreign land, busy during the day, could still dilute his homesickness, but at night, when people were quiet, his heart would inevitably surge with waves of nostalgia for his hometown.

  It was a moonlit night, and the moonlight was as white as snow. A single word of doubt vividly expressed the homesick person's initial wakefulness, in which they mistook the cold moonlight shining on their bed for snow on the ground. The use of "snow" is even more wonderful, describing not only the brightness of the moon but also the chill of the season, and evoking the desolate and bleak feelings of drifting away from home.

  Bai Miao Yun felt a pang in her heart after listening to the poem, it completely expressed her feelings when she was away.

  "Dandan, did you write this poem?" asked Bai Miao Yun disbelievingly.

  "Of course I did it, don't you believe me, sister?" Bai Miao Dan was slightly angry, seeing the shocked expressions of everyone else made her secretly delighted. She also sneaked a glance at Yue Kang and thought to herself: "The poem written by the flower thief is really not bad! I wonder where he got it from, she didn't believe that this poem was written by Yue Kang."

  "So you dare or not, compose another one." Bai MiaoYun didn't believe Bai MiaoDan at all in her heart, and intentionally made things difficult for her.

  "What's so difficult about it? Isn't it just writing a poem? It's very easy." Bai Miao Dan accepted calmly.

  Everyone was waiting with bated breath, and Yue Kang also pretended to look at Bai Miao Dan with anticipation, but in his heart he said: My lady, you shouldn't make another mistake, right?

  Bai Miao Dan continued: "Since everyone wants me to make a poem, I'll just offer my clumsiness." After a pause, he said: "Now that we've just entered April, summer has arrived, so I'll take summer as the theme and make a poem for everyone!"

  Bai Miao Dan's face was very proud, her light red lips opened, and the oriole-like voice sounded again, "The first summer is still clear and peaceful, the fragrant grass has not yet rested, the beautiful scenery illuminates the remaining spring, the clear shade cools the beginning of summer." She finished reciting the poem in one breath, gazing at the departing spring colors outside the window with a look of intoxication.

  The crowd was petrified once again.

  "It's good that there are no typos this time." Yue Kang said in his heart.

  …………

  In the boudoir of Bai Miao's art.

  "How have you been lately, little sister?" Bai Miao Yun pulled Bai Miao Xi onto the bed.

  Bai Miao calmly replied, "What's good or bad about me being like this? It's you, sister, who has been troubled."

  Bai Miao's hand gently stroked Bai Miao Xi's cheek, and she let out a soft sigh, her eyes revealing a deep concern. "Is that man treating you well? Has he been bullying you?"

  "Sister, don't worry! He has never bullied me." Bai Miao Xi replied. "But sister, did you encounter any difficulties this time you came back? And was the matter you mentioned in the letter last time resolved?"

  "Hmm, sister this time back indeed encountered difficulties, last time's matter has been resolved, I followed the method in sister's letter, and it really worked, instantly resolving the matter. It seems that even if sister rushes for a few more years, she still can't catch up with half of sister's business acumen!" White Miao Yun continued to say.

  "Sister, how did you come up with that idea? You don't know that at first, the person said they didn't want our porcelain and said we had quality problems and high prices. They even wanted us to take it back from Beijing. At that time, I thought of all sorts of ways, but the other party just wouldn't accept it, so I wrote a letter asking for your help. I did what you told me to do, and as a result, the person happily bought it, and even paid more than the contract price."

  Bai Miao Yun told everything that happened in the capital city and kept praising her sister for being smarter than herself.

  "Sister, I want to say that the attention is actually not what I thought. Do you believe me?" Bai Miao Xi looked at her sister with eyes as clear as ever.

  "Oh? I don't understand what you mean, sister. But didn't you say that in the letter to me?" Bai Miao Yun was momentarily confused and couldn't figure out what her sister meant.

  "I didn't know what to do either, just as you were writing back to me, I thought about it for a whole day but couldn't come up with a solution. But on the second morning, someone sent me a letter. At first, I wasn't paying attention, but my curiosity got the better of me and I opened it, only to be shocked - it was the solution to the problem you and I were discussing." Bai Miuxi said, she still remembered the handwriting on the letter, which didn't look like it was written with a brush, but rather in very fine and delicate characters. She couldn't figure out what kind of writing instrument was used to write it.

  "Could this really be happening?" Bai Miao Yun also clearly didn't understand.

  "Alright, sister, don't think about it anymore. That person didn't have any ill intentions, we'll know when the time comes and we can thank him then. For now, tell me what difficulties you encountered this time you came back?" Bai Miao Xi said.

  "Hmm." Bai Miao Yun got up from the bed, took light steps, and said slowly: "Sister, do you still remember that two months ago in Hangzhou, the Hu family ordered 30,000 pieces of porcelain from us, and they had very strange requirements. They wanted our porcelain to be a bit rougher, with more air bubbles, and the color couldn't be too pure."

  "I certainly remember that matter, I think those 30,000 pieces of porcelain should have just been completed!" Bai Miao Xi also recalled that strange thing, at first the White family did not want to take on that task, but the other party insisted that it was urgent and the price offered was very high, a big business in hand is not something you'd want to let go of, you know 30,000 pieces of porcelain can make a huge profit, and if the porcelain is rough then it's made much faster than usual.

  The Bai family finally got the other party to sign a receipt and pay an advance, only then did they start working on the ceramics.

  "Thirty thousand pieces of porcelain were all made according to his requirements just two days ago, so I asked someone from the Hu family to inspect the goods. But then they said that our porcelain was not crude enough and wanted to return the goods without giving us back the deposit. We had even shown them a sample before, but now they're going back on their word." Bai Miao Yun's face turned red with anger as she spoke.

  "What if they don't want it?" Bai Miao's heart also skipped a beat, knowing that if the Hu family didn't want that batch of porcelain, they wouldn't be able to sell it even if they wanted to, and it would all go to waste in their own hands. The losses the Bai family had suffered over the past two months were no small matter, not to mention the cost of labor.

  "I've already spoken to Grandma about this, and she's also very worried. She suggested gathering all the members of the Bai family to discuss this matter on Sunday." White Miao Yun's eyebrows were furrowed with worry.

  Bai Miao was also furious in her heart, but she had no choice.

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  P.S: It's three o'clock in the morning today, and I'll continue to ask for recommendations.