"Aunt Xiao, don't worry, we'll talk in detail later, and greet the guests first." Wen Qing said.

Aunt Xiao nodded: "Okay." So he opened the cabinet, took out a small uncovered notebook from the small drawer on the counter, and wrote down the customer's request.

For example, if you take it to make a white shirt, you have to charge a manual fee.

For example: buy polyester cloth to make cropped pants, whether the belt line is coming, whether the buckle is there, the front zipper or the oblique zipper, this has to be remembered.

Another example: yesterday's clothes came to pick up today, and I owe five cents and didn't give them.

Wait, Aunt Xiao wrote them down one by one.

Wen Qing picked up the tape measure and gave the guests who were going to make clothes, measuring the width of the shoulders, the length of the arms, the chest circumference, the waist circumference, and the numbers to Aunt Xiao one by one, and asked Aunt Xiao to write them down.

Then Wen Qing used red chalk, compared with a wooden ruler, to draw dots and lines on the white good cloth, and skillfully made the guests speechless, and they all talked to Aunt Xiao.

"Aunt Xiao, you have a good helper."

"That's it, this little girl has two hits."

"I think it's a good look, it's also smart, and it will be the façade of Aunt Xiao's tailor shop in the future."

“……”

Wen Qing smiled and said nothing.

Aunt Xiao said unabashedly: "That's not it, the floral cotton skirt and the pair of horizontal sandals on this girl's body are made by Wen Qing." ”

"Really?" The guests were amazed.

The young woman was also surprised, looked at Wen Qing and asked, "You really made this skirt and these shoes?" How did you come up with the idea to do this? ”

Wen Qing was slightly embarrassed, and said with a smile: "It's nothing, it's just that when it's okay, I like to make some different clothes and shoes." ”

"Then in the future, when you are fine, can you help me make some other style of clothes? I'll give you the money. The young woman said, looking like a rich man.

"Yes." Wen Qing smiled and agreed, anyway, when she was fine, she did like to make shoes and paint clothes.

The young woman smiled, pointed to the floral cotton skirt on her body, and said, "I like this set very much, and my cousin's classmates saw it and insisted on making it exactly the same, so I came here to buy cloth to make it." You can make me another set. Fabrics with different colors of floral flowers are fine. ”

"Okay." Wen Qing agreed.

"How many days will it take to come out?" The young woman asked.

Wen Qing looked at Aunt Xiao, then looked at the record in Aunt Xiao's book, and then replied, "You come and get it in three days." ”

"Okay, then I'll ask my cousin or my cousin's classmates to come and get it in three days."

"Okay."

"Thank you."

The young woman chose the fabric, paid the deposit, took the order, and left.

Wen Qing began to follow Aunt Xiao's small notebook, from the front to the back, first made a set of short sleeves and cropped pants, sat in front of the sewing machine again, and put her feet on the pedal, she felt that she was really back, back to the eighties when she had not gone astray.

She stepped on the sewing machine for a moment to allow it to warm up, then threaded a thin thread through the needle hole, tucked the fabric under the tip of the needle, and began to concentrate with the sound of non-stop banging.

Summer short-sleeved and cropped pants are the simplest, draw line marking, cutting, cutting, stitching, and then according to the customer's waistline, wrap a round or flat elastic band, needle and thread go around at the same time, on the elastic band also walk a few stitches, play a fixed role.

However, one morning, Wen Qing finished the simple short-sleeved seven or eight pants, just in time for the meal, and there were no customers, so she talked to Aunt Xiao about her coming to Aunt Xiao's tailor shop to help and sell shoes.

Aunt Xiao poured tea and sat down with Wen Qing.

Aunt Xiao is also an independent woman, she has a bad relationship with her mother-in-law, she has a little craft, so she came to the county to open a store alone, her husband and children are in the countryside, occasionally come to see her, and she often goes back.

When she first got married, the people in her in-law's family looked down on her, but now she has the ability, and she earns a lot every month, and the people in her in-law's family hold her one by one, and they are good for her son, so she is living a good life now.

"What's in your mind?" Aunt Xiao asked, "How about giving you fifteen yuan a month?" ”

Wen Qing smiled: "Aunt Xiao, fifteen yuan is too much." ”

"Too much?" Aunt Xiao wondered, Wen Qing is really stupid or fake, now the wages of people in the city have risen, the average is twenty or thirty yuan, just with Wen Qing's skills, when she arrives in the city, it will cost thirty yuan a month, and she will give fifteen yuan is considered less, but I didn't expect her to be too much.

Wen Qing nodded: "It's too much." Aunt Xiao, I also said just now, I will help you, but my condition is to sell shoes here. The most basic thing about selling shoes is that I have to have shoes to sell, and I have to have shoes to sell, and I have to make shoes, so I can't make clothes for you all day long. I had to spare half a day to make shoes. ”

"You mean you worked half a day?" Aunt Xiao asked.

"For the most part, I'll come early in the morning and go home at two o'clock in the afternoon."

Aunt Xiao hesitated, her intention was to let Wen Qing be here all day.

Wen Qing continued: "Selling a pair of shoes here, I will give Aunt Xiao three cents according to what Aunt Xiao said, and in addition, the fabric I use will also be the fabric in Aunt Xiao's store, what do you think, Aunt Xiao?" ”

Aunt Xiao raised her eyes to look at Wen Qing, she used to just think that Wen Qing was a clever girl, water spirit, and good-looking, but now she found that she was smart, watery, and good-looking, these three words are far from enough to describe her, she is smart, calm, and has an irresistible and convincing charm.

Aunt Xiao thought about it, Wen Qing was right, it takes time to make shoes, and she can raise three cents for a pair of shoes when she sits still, as far as Wen Qing's handiwork and style of making shoes are concerned, they must be easy to sell.

And Wen Qing's fabrics for making shoes still need to be bought from her tailor's shop.

Aunt Xiao was thinking in her heart, no matter how she calculated, she felt that she would not lose money in this transaction, and Wen Qing's craftsmanship was really unique in the entire county.

So, after thinking for a while, Aunt Xiao spoke again: "Then I will give you ten yuan a month, but you have to promise that you will make me no less than twenty sets of clothes a month, otherwise I will lose money." Aunt Xiao said that she was losing money, but she was actually happy in her heart.

Wen Qing smiled faintly: "Aunt Xiao, don't worry, this is no problem." ”

"Then it's decided. However, these two days are not wages, which is what you promised last time. "Aunt Xiao is a little picky.

"Done!" Wen Qing didn't care.

After the two finished talking, Aunt Xiao was about to start making lunch, and just got up, and when she was about to ask Wen Qing what she was eating, she had already taken out the white porcelain jar lunch box from the cloth bag, and there was a wooden lid stuck on the lunch box, which would be able to hold the white porcelain jar lid tightly.

"Aren't you eating with me?" Aunt Xiao asked.

Wen Qing smiled: "No, my mother prepares food for me every day." I'll drink some boiling water later. ”

"I'll take a look at what you've prepared." Aunt Xiao asked curiously.

Wen Qing actually didn't know, when she got up in the morning, Yao Shiling prepared it for her, and deliberately kept it for her to eat, saying that she heard that she worked for people, and no one cared about food, so she was afraid that Wen Qing would be hungry, so she gave Wen Qing the only white porcelain jar in the house and asked her to borrow some Aunt Xiao's water to drink.

As soon as he opened it, Wen Qing was stunned.

After Aunt Xiao saw it, she said with a smile: "Wen Qing, I can't see it, your family's food is quite good, white flour steamed buns with Chinese cabbage roasted pork, yes, I'll give you a hot one, you drink some hot water, I won't leave you to eat here with me." ”

Wen Qing was stunned.

She remembered that when she ate cabbage roast meat yesterday, she smelled Liang and Wen Peng's small mouth was oily, and she called it delicious. But halfway through eating, Yao Shiling didn't let her eat, saying that she couldn't eat so much at once, otherwise she wouldn't be able to sleep at night. So she forcibly deducted part of the cabbage roast meat, and now it is all in her white porcelain jar.

Wen Qing's heart was tidal, his eyes were sour, and at the same time, he felt a warm current flowing through his heart, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but tilt slightly.

She was glad, glad that she was reborn, glad that she was too late now, her mother loved her so much.

After heating up the white flour steamed buns and roasted pork with Chinese cabbage, she didn't finish it, but kept more than half of it, ready to take it back.

Without a break after the meal, Wen Qing began to work.

When Aunt Xiao saw it, she was amazed, it was really wise to hire Wen Qing.

At half past two in the afternoon, Wen Qing began to pack her things and prepare to go home.

Of course, Aunt Xiao will not regret what she promised, and explained: "Don't bring food tomorrow, just eat here with me." ”

"No, no, my mother will definitely prepare food for me, I can't brush off her kindness." Wen Qing said with a smile, then pointed around the sewing machine and asked, "Aunt Xiao, do you still want these little cloth heads?" ”

Aunt Xiao looked at the ground, there are already colorful fabrics on the market at this time, but the most indispensable thing to be a tailor is the small cloth head, sometimes it will be annoying, thinking that it is a pity to throw it away, and it is useless to keep it to occupy space, Aunt Xiao waved her hand and said: "Don't want it, don't want it, if you think it's useful, you can take it back." ”

"Great!" Wen Qing was overjoyed.

Seeing this, Aunt Xiao smiled, she was really a straightforward and honest child.

Wen Qing picked up a bunch of cloth heads, stuffed them into a cloth bag, and walked out of Aunt Xiao's tailor shop, crossing a street before he could walk on the big dirt road, which sold a lot of goods.

Wen Qing saw a stationery store, selling pens, notebooks, ink, etc., Wen Liang was already in the first year of junior high school, but he didn't even have a fountain pen in his shabby schoolbag, Wen Qing remembered that Wen Liang's study was very good, Wen Qing wanted to buy him a fountain pen, and Wen Peng a pencil.

I went into the stationery store and looked at the prices.

Xinjiacun brand fountain pen six cents six one, but the blue black pole fountain pen water costs two cents a piece, the boss said that this is a good pen and good ink, not easy to stagnate.

A black ballpoint pen is two cents a piece.

Pencils cost two cents a piece, and pencils with erasers on the tip cost three cents a piece.

Wen Qing still had two or three yuan in her hand, but she didn't dare to spend it, after all, she hadn't gotten the money yet, but she especially wanted to buy some school supplies for Wen Liang and Wen Peng, so she bought a black ballpoint pen and a pencil with an eraser, which cost a total of two cents and three cents, and then walked towards the big dirt road with a cloth bag.

Half an hour later, I returned to Shuiwan Village, and when I passed by the entrance of the village, the neighbors greeted me politely.

"Wen Qing has come back from the county seat."

"Wen Qing came back so early."

"Why is it so early today?"

“……”

Wen Qing responded with a smile one by one.

It's just that as soon as Wen Qing walked by, these people chattered and gossiped again.

At this time, a guy looked at Wen Qing's back blankly, and then said: "Actually, Wen Qing is so good-looking, we don't have her in our village who is good-looking, I didn't find it before, but now she loves to laugh, and she feels even more beautiful." ”

Before the big guy's words fell, his mother slapped him over: "Beautiful your grandma's eggs, this kind of girl can't have it!" ”

"That's it! Beauty can be eaten as food. ”

"Have you ever seen Wen Qing work in the field? She has no skills except for a good face, and she is lazy. Love stinky beauty, what kind of beauty! ”

"I tell you, don't follow Wen Qingxue, be careful not to get married!"

“……”

A group of people educate the children around them, whether they are big or small or not too big or small, Wen Qing is like the negative teaching material of Shuiwan Village, and they can't learn Wen Qing.

Wen Qing had arrived at her yard at this moment, and before she entered the yard, she saw Yao Shiling using two stools, setting up a sieve, and sifting wheat.

"Mom." Wen Qing shouted.

Yao Shiling turned her head to look over: "Wen Qing, why did you come back so early?" ”

Wen Qing entered the courtyard with a smile and talked to Yao Shiling about her negotiations with Aunt Xiao.

"Ten dollars a month, and you still sell shoes?" Yao Shiling couldn't believe it, she couldn't believe that one day Wen Qing would accept her temperament and become so motivated.

"Hmm." Wen Qing nodded and said, "I just took a job, a pair of shoes, I am going to sell it to her for two yuan and five cents, and three cents for Aunt Xiao, after removing my cost, I can earn one or two yuan." Wen Qing's face was full of smiles.

Yao Shiling was happy in her heart.

Only then did Wen Qing put his eyes on the wheat on the side and asked, "Mom, what are you doing here?" ”

Yao Shiling said: "Isn't this going to pay public grain? I have to clean up the wheat quickly, otherwise when I go to the grain station to check, I will not pass the test, and I will have to pull it back and sift it again, which is troublesome. Once the deadline is exceeded, you will be fined two catties of grain a day. ”

Wen Qing then remembered that he had to pay public grain to the grain station every year for farming, so he asked, "When will it be paid?" ”

"Tomorrow."

"Wen Liang Wen Peng has to go to class tomorrow." Wen Qing said that in fact, she could go to the grain station with Yao Shiling to pay the public grain, but Ji Yanjun's house was next to the grain station, and even on the day of the public grain delivery, the queue could be lined up at the door of Ji Yanjun's house, she didn't want to see anyone in the Ji family, at least for the time being.

"It's okay, I'll do it alone." Yao Shiling said.

"Then Nacheng, so far away, you are not pulling an empty car, and you are still carrying so much wheat, and the weather is so hot." Wen Qing was silent for a while, then plucked up the courage to say, "I'll go with you tomorrow." ”