“Grandpa, I want to thank this production line too!” the grandson said. Huang He didn’t stop him, letting his grandson rush over with the other children to thank the production line grandpa.
Looking at this production line, Huang He couldn’t help but have a complex expression. If it weren’t for this production line over the past three days, Huang He wouldn’t have felt so desperate that his soul would be reborn in his body.
So it seemed he really did need to thank this production line. Thus, Liu Xu also bowed slightly towards the production line.
The subsequent exhibits were all Huang He’s personal memories. Boss Huang never imagined that he would see this in a museum. Weren’t all these things collected in his own home?
In fact, all these items were donated by Leng Zhiruo. After all, the Jiangnan Leather Factory had completely relocated, and most of the remaining equipment had been phased out. Upon learning that a Chinese Leather Museum was planned to be built here, she decided to donate everything. Therefore, Boss Huang could see many items he had used before.
For example, the desk where he first transmigrated was the very desk where Boss Huang had taken his sister-in-law.
Boss Huang also saw several lunchboxes, which were used when the Four Great Vajras of Jiangnan Group were watching him, and he was eating with them.
Boss Huang sighed and moved on to the next exhibition. His expression immediately fell as the wall was covered with photographs of foreigners.
“Didn’t I specify that for the museum I donated for free, no foreign faces are allowed, nor any promotion of foreign masters? What were you people doing?” Boss Huang’s face turned extremely gloomy and displeased.
When he donated the factory premises to build this leather museum, Boss Huang had repeatedly emphasized that the museum was only to showcase domestic leather craftsmanship masters, and absolutely no foreign masters’ faces were to appear. Now, to see eight photographs of foreigners at once – wasn’t that simply throwing Boss Huang’s face on the ground?
Seeing Boss Huang’s anger, those around him immediately took action to investigate the entire matter from beginning to end.
Within a few minutes, after not much time had passed, the expressions of these attendants became slightly awkward, not knowing what to say.
Coincidentally, the teacher was also introducing this section. He said, “Classmates, please look. These are the eight Italian shoemaking masters from the Jiangnan Leather Factory.”
“These masters all came from a hidden village in Italy. An interesting accident happened back then. Mr. Huang He, having studied in Germany, often sent letters to his German classmates. Unexpectedly, one letter was mistakenly sent to this small village in Italy and was unexpectedly received by Master Helen, one of the eight masters. From then on, they became sincere pen pals, communicating through letters.”
“At that time, email had just emerged, and people could not contact each other easily through the internet, so they could only learn about each other through international letters crossing the oceans.”
“It was precisely through these sincere letters that Mr. Huang He became friends with the eight shoemaking masters from this small village, and he warmly invited them to China to lecture the employees of the Jiangnan Leather Factory and also to create some handmade leather shoes for the Jiangnan Leather Factory.”
“As you may all know, it is a tradition for almost all brand shoes today to have the designer’s name engraved on the sole. This tradition was pioneered by the Jiangnan Group. These eight masters all engraved their names on the soles of the shoes.”
“The most expensive pair of leather shoes in the world today was created by Christie’s auction house last year, selling for $96.32 million. This pair of shoes has an ‘L’ mark engraved on the sole, which is the mark of Lilith, one of the eight masters.”
“This master was not recognized during her lifetime. Her leather shoes were even unwanted, and many were thrown into the trash. Until she met the Jiangnan Group, met Mr. Huang, and her talent and ability were discovered, her leather shoes became increasingly valuable. Unfortunately, this genius only lived to the age of 36 and tragically left this world!”
“When she passed away, the price of this pair of shoes was only $320,000. But by last year, it had increased to $96.32 million!”
“The original owner of this pair of leather shoes was an old man from Shenyang. He only spent 10 yuan to buy a blind box and got this pair of white leather shoes. Later, he sold these shoes for a full 30,000 yuan.”
“Of course, it turned out that this price was also a huge loss.”
“Children, I am telling you all this not to encourage you to chase expensive luxury goods. It is to tell you that a person’s talent, no matter where it is placed, cannot be hidden. If you have something you want to do in the future, regardless of whether others think highly of you or not, as long as you have the motivation to keep going, then by all means, keep going. Sooner or later, someone will discover your brilliance!!” The teacher was so moved by her own words, while Boss Huang’s expression was very awkward. How could there be the matter of these eight masters? He had completely forgotten about them!!!
As the eight masters of the Jiangnan Group, their photos hanging here were completely appropriate and without any problems. That’s why the staff behind him looked so awkward but didn’t dare to say anything.
“Ahem! These things are too long ago, and I’ve already forgotten some of them. Please don’t mind!” Boss Huang coughed a few times and then followed the group forward, finally arriving in front of another painting.
Unlike the previous ones which were all photographs,
This time it was an oil painting depicting a conference room with a large rectangular table. Three people were seated on three sides of the table, while one person stood up, with one hand on his hip and the other waving forward, as if speaking with great excitement and passion.
The three people around him had expressions of disdain, wandering eyes, and admiration.
“Classmates, this is the most famous oil painting created recently, based on the infamous thieves’ meeting: ‘Five Small Goals’!” the teacher excitedly explained. “Back then, Mr. Huang He of our Jiangnan Group was just an unknown nobody, but he had already seen the blue ocean of instant communication on the internet and decided to cross over from leather to instant communication with unprecedented boldness. This is a depiction of his conversation with foreign investors and the heads of two small domestic network companies at the time!”
“It was also here that Mr. Huang proposed his world-shattering five small goals!”