278, the ideal of the eldest sister
Originally, Chen Wei had a hard life, coupled with a heavy mental burden, although he was only in his fifties, he looked like he was sixty years old.
But this time, Chen Wei seemed to have eaten some beauty products, and he was rejuvenated all of a sudden, and now that he is wearing this outfit, people will never think that he is almost fifty, and they may think that he is only thirty or forty years old.
Ma Lizhong came out of the army, and his reconnaissance ability was naturally not bad, he found that it was not only Chen Wei, but also Li Qingxia, but because Li Qingxia was a woman, he was not good-looking too carefully, but he also heard Mrs. Ma read it many times, saying that Li Qingxia looked a lot younger recently, her face was ruddy, and there were many fewer wrinkles on her face.
But he didn't think too much, he felt that it must be shortbread to raise people, and the spirit of Mrs. Ma has become much better, and she can eat and sleep.
Chen Yue had a good night's sleep, and when he woke up naturally, he found that there was white light on the window, so he quickly put on his clothes and got up, and pushed the window.
"Little sister, get dressed quickly, don't freeze, you've only been a few days old?" Chen Huizhi closed the window worriedly.
"Got it, eldest sister, you're becoming more and more like a housekeeper." Chen Yuezhi got dressed, made a grimace and ran out.
Chen Huizhi smiled helplessly, this girl's eyes were full of doting.
Chen Yuezhi ran out first, had a party in the courtyard, and saw that the second brother had not gotten up yet, so he went to trouble them again, and when everyone was tossed, Li Qingxia was also shouting for breakfast.
After all, it is close to the Chinese New Year, so today's breakfast is very rich, the main rice is sweet potato porridge, and the non-staple food has tea eggs, glutinous rice dumplings with sesame filling, japonica rice baba, and sugar rice cakes.
Li Qingxia asked Chen Yuezhi to call the Ma Jin family. So that they don't have to fire anymore, they can all eat together.
The two families are naturally grateful, but they don't want to eat for nothing, today was originally a dusting day, and in previous years, Chen Yuezhi and his family made it.
But this year, there are two more families, and Mrs. Ma is the oldest, so she simply calls the shots. Give the kids a day off. Let them just go out and play, and leave the dusting to their adults.
Jin Xiaotian jumped up happily as soon as he was the first one. It was the first time he had spent the New Year in the countryside, and he was so cheerful that he had long imagined what a snowball fight would be like.
Since Jin Xiaotian arrived at the Chen family, Jin Duorong found that his son's complexion was getting better and better day by day. The body is getting stronger day by day.
Last night, Chen Yuezhi gave him a pulse again, and told Jin Duorong exactly. Now that his family is Xiaotian, he is already a completely healthy person, and he will no longer have to worry about any rejection in the future.
It really made him happy with old tears.
As soon as Chen Yuezhi and the others finished breakfast, Yao Liumei and other children from the village came looking for them. said that they would meet together to go to the back mountain to play in the snow.
Last year, because of the Chen family's shortbread workshop, most of the people in the village became rich. The money earned has doubled several times compared to previous years, and it has also allowed them to have a prosperous year.
Everyone in the Chen family plus Jin Xiaotian. Shangguan Lei put on leather boots and leather gloves, and came out fully armed, and the style and pattern looked like a complete set, which made other children envious.
Look at them again, some of them have their hands exposed, they all have some chilblains, and some of them are wearing black cotton shoes, and they have only stepped on the snow for a short time, and most of them are wet.
"Yuezhi, your leather boots are so good, wow, so warm, who made them for you, these boots still have patterns, they are so beautiful." Yao Xiaomei's eyes were full of envy and touched and touched, and then looked at the new cotton shoes she had originally wore, and she suddenly disliked it.
"This is the leather we bought from the county, the lining is the general material for making cotton shoes, that is, the sewing technique is a little special, if you want, let your mother buy the material, let my sister help you sew a pair."
Because of the close relationship with the Yao family, the Yao family has always been more helpful to the Chen family, Chen Yuezhi said this, and immediately made Yao Xiaomei happy, and without waiting for the meeting, she rushed home directly, told her mother about it, and hurried to buy hard leather materials.
It happened that Yao Liuguo's daughter-in-law Ma Xiaohong, that is, Yao Xiaomei's sister-in-law, wanted to go to the street to buy New Year's goods, and when she heard her sister-in-law learn like this, she immediately agreed.
Ma Xiaohong is diligent and kind, thinking that it is better to buy more and make a pair for each member of the family, which is also a warm New Year.
Let's not talk about her, let's just say that when the other children saw that Chen Yuezhi promised to make it for Yao Xiaohong, they all gathered around, and they also wanted Chen Huizhi to help make a pair.
It's just that they know that their family relationship is not as close as the Yao and Chen families, so it's not easy to say that they can let the family do it for free.
Zhao Laiying, the eldest daughter of Zhao Dazhu's family, glanced at them, walked to the side and muttered, and after a while, everyone thought that this idea was good, and they scattered and went back to their homes, and after a while, each family's daughter-in-law or sister-in-law came to Chen's house.
It turned out that Zhao Laiying's idea just now was that it was not good to let Sister Huizhi make shoes in vain, and this New Year's Day was very tiring for the family.
But if they are willing to pay a little manual fee, I don't know if Chen Huizhi is willing or not?
But after all, it's about money, they are just children, they can't be the masters, and adults must be more useful than children talking, so I went home and told the adults about it.
When adults heard that there were such waterproof cotton boots, not to mention that children wanted them, even adults were moved.
During the Chinese New Year, they have to visit relatives and friends, some relatives live far away, if only wearing waterproof boots and it is too cold, only wearing cotton shoes and easy to get wet, now there is such a good thing that can be used as both cotton shoes and boots, then where will they not be impressed?
came together one after another, and everyone spoke brightly, and they would definitely not let Chen Huizhibai do it, but I was afraid that she would not look down on the money and would not be willing to work during the New Year.
Everyone is a villager in the township, and they usually get along well, and several of their families are still working in the Chen family's workshop, Li Qingxia can't say anything about pushing it, so she agreed, and as for the manual fee they said, she also agreed to it.
If they produce all the materials, they will only charge ten dollars per pair for manual fees.
Shangguan Lei, who was watching the excitement on the side, had an idea, and suddenly came up with an idea, so he quietly told Chen Yuezhi his idea.
Chen Yueyi also thought it was good, but she was afraid that the eldest sister would be tired. So I went to ask Chen Huizhi for his idea.
Unexpectedly, Chen Huizhi agreed in one bite, and his eyes were full of excitement.
It turned out that in Chen Huizhi's heart, although the shortbread workshop also had her shares, it was established by Xiaomei, and it was all because of her hard work to promote it to have today's reads;.
She has always wanted to have a career of her own, and she had the idea of opening an embroidery workshop before. But in the end, it was because the family was too busy. All kinds of unhappiness are put aside.
Today, Chen Yueyi mentioned the idea of this embroidery handmade shoe workshop, and she was immediately moved and fell in love. began to plan seriously, and even Chen Yuezhi asked her to play in the snow together, but she refused.
Chen Yuezhi saw that the eldest sister was so cautious, so she didn't go. Anyway, as long as it's winter, there are often snowy days. When not to play.
As soon as she told Shangguan Lei and the others what she meant, they all agreed, so they all gathered in the house to help Chen Huizhi think of ideas.
Yao Xiaomei and the others saw that Chen Yuezhi didn't go. They also simply went back to their own house and helped the adults to dust off, thinking that they would be better. Maybe you can get more money for the New Year.
Chen Huizhi invited her parents again and solemnly said her thoughts. That is, she also wants to open a workshop, but there is nothing at the moment, it is just an idea, so I want to hear what everyone means.
"Shangguan Lei, you came up with this idea at the beginning, tell me first, what do you think?" Chen Yuezhi saw that everyone didn't speak, so he named him.
Shangguan Lei stood up generously and said: "I also see Sister Huizhi's embroidery vivid, particularly exquisite, and cotton leather boots are practical, since the people in the village like it, it means that others must also like it, then it means that there is a market, then it is feasible, I have such a simple idea." ”
Chen Yuezhi secretly thought to himself, the eldest sister's embroidery skills were taught by herself, and it should be a kind of embroidery that has been lost in modern times, of course, it is unique and exquisite.
Such a good embroidery, if it is only used on the shoes of ordinary guests, seems to be a bit devalued.
And if you want to embroider a pattern, it is not a matter of three or two hours, sometimes in order to keep improving, you have to spend a whole day, only ten yuan manual fee, which is too cheap.
Can't make it.
Li Qingxia looked at her youngest daughter and then at her eldest daughter, and vaguely understood that the eldest daughter's thoughts must also be that she also wants to contribute to the family.
It's just that the embroidery thing, hurts the eyes, and the embroidery takes more than ten yuan a day, but if it is sewn on the shoes, if it is really expensive, I am afraid that others will not be happy to ask for it.
But if it's just ordinary cotton leather boots, if there is no embroidery, people can imitate it, and they won't have their own characteristics, and I'm afraid that people who imitate it will abound, just like their shortbread.
If it weren't for the aura of the grass and trees, it would actually be no different from ordinary shortbread.
Li Qingxia said her thoughts, and everyone immediately fell silent, as if this was indeed the case.
"I have an idea!"
"I have an idea!"
Shangguan Lei and Chen Yuezhi said it almost in unison, and everyone immediately looked at them, Shangguan Lei smiled and said, "Ah Yue, you say it first." ”
"Well, I once saw a simple embroidery method in the book, called cross-stitch, which is simple and fast, and the embroidered things look very good, if it is a person with fast hands, a flower, a bird will not take much effort. Of course, we didn't let the eldest sister embroider alone, but recruited people to embroider, first recruited a group of female workers, signed a confidentiality contract, taught them this cross-stitch, and then it was piece-rated, such as the thread, place, and food of this embroidery were provided by us, and they gave how much reads they gave to complete a piece. ”
"Then by analogy, we can divide the boots or shoes into several parts, the uppers, insoles, and soles, and hand them over to different people to do, just like the assembly line of a factory, still counting the pieces and money, and when they finish all the parts, we will carry out the final stitching process."
"As for the appearance of the shoes, they can make a catalogue and order it by themselves. If it's just an ordinary don't have a pattern, then according to the market price, if you want a pattern, it is divided into two kinds: cross-stitch and fine embroidery, cross-stitch is slightly cheaper, fine embroidery is a little more expensive, what do you think? ”
Everyone nodded, thinking that this method was good, and then looked at Shangguan Lei together, he seemed to have something to say just now.
"What I actually want to say is two meanings, the first meaning has been said by Ah Yue, and the second meaning is to ask Sister Huizhi, do you want to be big, or do you want to be fine, do you want to make a little money, or do you want to make a lot of money? Because you choose differently, then what I want to say will naturally be different. Shangguan Lei sold a small pass, which immediately attracted everyone's attention.
Chen Huizhi immediately looked at him nervously: "I actually just have an idea, and I don't know what to do, or you can give me an analysis and analysis, and talk about both aspects." ”
"Okay, it's actually like this......" Shangguan Lei combined his thoughts with some examples he saw in the capital and talked about it in detail.
If Chen Huizhi wants to make a small amount of money and make mass products, then as Chen Yuezhi said, he can rent a space, establish an assembly line operation, and earn the money of the general public, but if you can do such a product, others can also do it, and there will be no uniqueness, and you will have to bear the impact of market competition.
And this is contrary to Chen Huizhi's original intention to like embroidery, and running a workshop is not such a simple matter, it involves a lot of personnel management, and the Chen family can't get a workshop now, and they definitely don't have the energy to build a shoe factory.
But if you invite outsiders to come over, and you don't know the bottom line, you will inevitably feel uneasy, for fear that you will be deceived.
But if Chen Huizhi chooses to take the boutique route, it will be different, the audience is the wealthy of the upper class, and it is just right to give full play to her favorite embroidery and good-looking works.
In this way, those embroidery patterns can be used not only on shoes, but also on clothes and trousers, and even handkerchiefs, hats, and everything else.
And Shangguan Lei has this idea, because Chen Yuezhi and Jiang Lao have a good relationship, a ready-made pair of models is there, if Chen Huizhi can use high-quality materials to make a delicate men's and women's Tang winter clothes, and then let Jiang Lao and Chen Lao wear it.
When they visited relatives and friends during the New Year, they not only earned face, but also advertised for Chen Huizhi.
At that time, as long as the reputation comes out, are you afraid that there will be no business to come to you?
And taking such a high-end route, there are many benefits, free time, money comes quickly, Chen Huizhi happens to be still in school, if she really opens a factory, I'm afraid she will have no time and no energy to spend on studying.
After listening to this, Chen Huizhi pondered and said: "Xiao Lei, thank you, I have decided, I want to take the high-end route, when Yuezhi taught me to embroider this stitch, he once said that he saw it in an ancient book, and it may have been lost now, since it is such a skill, it should not be sold cheaply." ”
She suddenly became excited, because she determined the goals and ideals for the future, she wanted to make her hobby a high-end brand, and even go abroad and face the world in the future.
Chen Huizhi thought excitedly, she wants to grow up, she also wants to become the pillar of this family, and don't always be a drag on her parents and little sister. (To be continued.) )