40. Chapter 40
"Okay, Mom has your back." Yao Shiling said.
Wen Qing happily hugged Yao Shiling and said happily: "Mom, thank you, you are so good!" ”
"Go, go, I'm sweating, hugging something, it's hot!"
"It's not hot!" Wen Qing said with a smile.
That night, Wen Qing sat at the wooden table made by Wen Liang, facing the kerosene lamp, opened his sketchbook, and selected a sketch based on the popular fabrics, styles, and the acceptance of the masses, and then unfolded a large white paper, compared the ruler, and calculated them one by one with arithmetic formulas.
"Wen Qing, Wen Qing, why haven't you slept yet?" Yao Shiling urged a few times.
Wen Qing responded: "Okay, I'll sleep in a while." ”
Blowing out the lamp and lying on the bed, Wen Qing stared at the small hole in the roof and thought for a while.
Early the next morning, she had breakfast and went to the county seat early.
"Wen Qing, why are you here so early?" Aunt Xiao was drinking porridge and pickles: "Have you eaten?" ”
"I've eaten it."
Aunt Xiao hurriedly put the bowl down.
Wen Qing hurriedly said: "Aunt Xiao, don't be in a hurry, don't be in a hurry, you eat slowly, eat slowly, there are no guests anyway." ”
Aunt Xiao picked up the bowl again, and the speed of eating was significantly faster.
Wen Qing walked to the front of the cloth shelf, took stock of all the fabrics in Aunt Xiao's tailor shop, Nizi, Zhenliang, polyester, acrylic, foreign cloth, plain weave, etc., and memorized them one by one in the small book, and by the way, I remembered the balance of these fabrics.
When Aunt Xiao came out after eating, she saw Wen Qing recording the fabric, and asked curiously, "Wen Qing, what are you doing?" ”
"Count the fabric." Wen Qing wrote down a count, turned his head and asked, "Yes, Aunt Xiao, how much cash do we have in the store?" ”
Aunt Xiao thought for a while and said: "I gave all the money for the shoes to the sister-in-law of the Yao family, the fabrics and clothes have not been sold much in the past week or so, and the last business was very good, and we have a total of three hundred and twenty yuan with interest." ”
Wen Qing nodded and said, "Twenty yuan for Baohong, when she earns this month's salary, save three hundred yuan, you take one hundred and twenty yuan, and I will take one hundred and eighty yuan." ”
Aunt Xiao's face immediately turned ugly, looked at Wen Qing, and asked anxiously: "Wen Qing, you don't want to close the store, do you?" Although our business is a little worse, but ......" Aunt Xiao was excited.
Wen Qing hurriedly said: "No, no, Aunt Xiao, don't worry, I heard that I said, didn't I tell you yesterday?" We're going to transform. ”
"What's the shape?" Aunt Xiao asked.
"With our strengths, we make finished clothes." Wen Qing said.
Aunt Xiao was puzzled.
Wen Qing took out a foot-long and one-foot-long white paper from the cloth bag, spread it out on the table, and said to Aunt Xiao, "I am going to make this set of clothes myself." ”
Aunt Xiao took a look, although she was a tailor, she could only be regarded as a skilled worker, and she could not be compared with Wen Qing in terms of innovation and aesthetics, so she didn't know the value of this dress, and asked, "Wen Qing, can this be sold?" ”
"Yes." Wen Qing said.
Aunt Xiao is not very confident.
Wen Qing had no choice but to prove it with actions: "Aunt Xiao is like this, your family doesn't have so many beans, right?" You haven't seen your son for a long time, you go home for a week, and after a week, you come back here. ”
"What about you?" Aunt Xiao asked.
Wen Qing: "I'll make two pieces of this dress first, and after someone buys it, we'll start making it." ”
"Then I'll have to stay with you."
Wen Qing smiled: "It's useless for you to accompany me now, right?" You go home and stay with your son first. I'll just do this alone. Besides, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival again. ”
"Alright then, you must come to me if you have something." Aunt Xiao said.
"Got it."
After Wen Qing and Aunt Xiao agreed, they divided the money, Aunt Xiao went to pack her luggage and prepare to go home, while Wen Qing sorted out a lot of fabrics, white leather soles, put them in a big backpack, put them in Aunt Xiao's tailor shop, and when she returned to school tomorrow, she would take them to the Greenland Garden Housing.
After the two of them tidied up, they locked the door of Aunt Xiao's tailor shop.
Seeing this, the big shoe repairer hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Wen Qing, Aunt Xiao, what are you doing here?" Isn't the tailor shop across the street too much? The shoe repairer was particularly worried that his granddaughter would lose her job.
Wen Qing looked at the tailor shop opposite, and there was already an endless stream of people entering the tailor shop opposite, compared to Aunt Xiao's tailor shop.
"I'm busy with farming, go home and cut beans." Aunt Xiao said.
Uncle Shoe Repairer: "When I was busy with farming before, I didn't see you go home to cut beans." ”
Aunt Xiao stopped talking.
Wen Qing smiled and said, "This year is different. Then he continued: "Uncle, happy Mid-Autumn Festival, you will go back to your hometown today, you and your family Baohong said, go to work in a week, we will be busy after coming." ”
When the shoe repairer heard this, he was immediately overjoyed and said, "Okay, good." "I won't pester Wen Qing and Aunt Xiao anymore to ask what is going on.
Wen Qing gave the shoe repairer another ten yuan, saying that it was Baohong's half-red salary, and she would take it back for the festival first, and the other ten yuan, when she came, she would send it again in a month.
The shoe repairer was very happy, and thanked Wen Qing again and again.
Aunt Xiao is worried, Aunt Xiao's tailor shop was founded by her, she is reluctant after all, as for Wen Qing's "transformation", she is not very optimistic, after all, there are many more people who make clothes than buy clothes.
However, she is still willing to believe Wen Qing once.
After Wen Qing separated from Aunt Xiao, he returned to Shuiwan Village.
Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, although many people's beans are precocious, but this day will still stop for a reunion lunch, or dinner.
Wenqing's beans ripen late, and they need to wait for another two or three days before they can be harvested.
After Yao Shiling sharpened the sickle, she prepared for the Mid-Autumn Festival, made noodles early, prepared a little brown sugar, some white sesame seeds, and began to eat sugar cakes for Wen Qing, Wen Liang, and Wen Peng, which can be regarded as moon cakes.
Since Wen Qing returned home, he pulled out the big table in the hall, prepared bamboo dustpans, scissors, thimbles, needles, threads, wooden rulers, tape measures, green chalk heads, pencils, erasers and other tools, spread a piece of white good cloth on the big table, painted for a while, cut for a while, and sat down in front of the sewing machine and pedaled for a while.
She was busy until noon, Yao Shiling shouted for dinner, she hurriedly ate a few bites of food, bit a sugar cake, and continued to sit in front of the sewing machine and threaded white threads along the needle holes.
"Wen Qing, you eat a good meal and then make clothes." Yao Shiling said.
Wen Qing took a bite of the sugar cake, chewed it twice and said, "Mom, the sugar cake is crispy and crispy, delicious!" ”
"It's delicious, you can come and eat, you've been making clothes for a long time."
"It's okay, you eat, I'm full."
Wen Qing was busy, and in the afternoon, a simple white really good autumn women's shirt came out.
Wen Qing asked Wen Liang to make a simple hanger with a wooden stick, prop it up, and hang it on a rope.
"Mom, is it good-looking?" Wen Qing asked.
Yao Shiling nodded: "It's good-looking!" ”
"Well, it's good-looking!" Wen Peng said.
Wen Liang stared at the clothes and said, "I don't know if they look good or not, I think the clothes are good if they can be worn." ”
Wen Qing asked the three of them if they were asking the wrong person, she turned her head and said, "Mom, I'll see the effect if you wear it on your body." ”
Yao Shiling: "How can I wear this dress, I'm too young." ”
"Just put it on and I'll see how it works." After Wen Qing urged Yao Shiling to wear her newly made clothes, Wen Qing looked at Yao Shiling left and right, and then said, "Mom, you take it off, I'll change it again." ”
Wen Qing changed this way, so she changed it to the evening, looking at the full moon, thinking that today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, she no longer makes clothes, but the family sits in the courtyard to admire the moon and eat sugar cakes, chatting about family life, talking about Wenqing's father, and talking about Wenqing's second uncle.
Wen Qing found that when her mother talked about her father, her eyes flashed with a bright light that she had never seen before, and her face overflowed with a happy smile, and Wen Qing realized that her mother loved her father.
"Then how did my dad die?" Wen Peng asked.
Yao Shiling said: "Sick. ”
"What disease?" Wen Peng asked.
Yao Shiling shook her head: "I don't know, in order to cure the disease, your father ate fish, loaches, and a lot of traditional Chinese medicine, but it was useless." ”
Wen Qing listened to two sentences, and was unwilling to listen to the illness and moved the topic to another place.
Yao Shiling began to talk about Wen Qing's second uncle's troubles, and made Wen Qing, Wen Liang, and Wen Peng laugh.
"Your second uncle looks at people based on their looks, and he saw Wen Qing looking good, so he took her every day and gave Wen Qing everything well. If Wen Qing is ugly, your second uncle will definitely ignore her. ”
Wen Qing laughed.
Soon it was late at night, and the family went to sleep.
Wen Qing didn't make any more clothes, and discussed bringing the sewing machine to the city early the next morning.
Wen Qing was afraid that there would be many students returning to school in the afternoon, so in the morning, he and Yao Shiling and Wen Liang pulled an ox cart, carried a sewing machine to the county seat, and waited for the bus at the four-way intersection. After promising an extra two cents for the fare, the driver was willing to take the sewing machine on the road.
The conductor said, "Fortunately, you are coming to the city in the morning, and if there are too many people in the afternoon, I will not let you get on the sewing machine." ”
Wen Qing smiled and thanked again, waved Wen Liang and Yao Shiling back to Shuiwan Village, originally Yao Shiling wanted to compensate Wen Qing to go to the county seat together, but Wen Qing didn't let him, saying that he would let Yao Shiling go only after he had arranged it.
So Wen Qing carried a backpack, and the backpack was still full, full of clothes and fabrics.
After getting out of the car, Wen Qing hired two ox carts for a dime, one pulled the sewing machine, and the other pulled her to the Greenland Garden.
The house has a bed, a table, a stool, electricity, a stove, a bathroom, and nothing else. Wen Qing can't stay overnight here now, so she must go back to school for one night at night, and then apply to the head teacher for off-campus procedures when it is time for class.
Wen Qing stayed in the room until the afternoon, and after modifying a really cool white shirt to her satisfaction, she returned to school, preparing to start making pants tomorrow.
Most of the bustling students in the school have returned from home with large bags of things.
Wen Qing walked into the school with a plaid schoolbag on his back, attracting the attention of many people.
"That's Wen Qing from your original high school (2) class, right?"
"How do you know?"
"Wen Qing dresses differently from others, she looks good, look at her schoolbag, how good-looking."
"She's good-looking."
“……”
Wen Qing touched her schoolbag and hurriedly hugged it in her arms, she was not ready to be as high-profile as in her previous life, so she hurriedly entered the dormitory building.
Before Wen Qing entered the 202 dormitory, she heard Xu Shanshan's voice: "Ning Zhi, you use Yashuang, it's so fragrant." ”
"My brother bought it for me, I'll take you tomorrow morning." Ji Ningzhi said.
"Ning Zhi, you're so nice."
Wen Qing came in quietly, Ji Ningzhi glanced at it, and then said, "My brother also bought a bottle of Yashuang for Sister Fang Fang. It's expensive. ”
Wen Qing pretended not to hear, walked to his bed, cleaned up the bed, and ignored Ji Ningzhi.
Ji Ningzhi continued that Zhang Fangfang had a few meals at her house, went to the movies with her brother, went shopping with her, and why Zhang Fangfang's family was so rich, etc., seemed to be true.
Wen Qing turned a deaf ear, made the bed, climbed into bed, slept until half past seven in the evening, got up and had some dinner with Wan Min, read a book on the light bulb for a while, and did not lie back on the bed until the light went out.
Wen Qing slept for a long time during the day, and was not sleepy at night, lying in bed planning what he was going to do next.
The white shirt has been made, the pants can be figured out in two days, and the next is the shoes, these are not problems.
The question is how to sell quickly? How to make money?