Chapter 26: A Gift of Thanksgiving for Saving Lives
When Gu Xu brought Tao Defu in, He Wei had just finished the draft, pasted it under the silk silk, and put it on the common light box in the studio to sketch the original draft.
He Wei has always been focused when she does things. Once you get better, you don't have to worry about what you do.
The other embroiderers were aroused by He Wei's actions, and none of them returned to their seats after the lunch break, and they all whispered around He Wei's table to watch her sketch, and no one paid attention to the movement behind her.
Therefore, Gu Xu and the two stood behind everyone and stopped to watch for more than half an hour, but no one noticed their deposits.
Oh, it can't be said that no one noticed it at all, Yu Yajun, who was sitting alone in the corner in a daze, saw it. It's just that Yu Yajun has always been proud of herself, even if she is a big boss and a big shopkeeper, she doesn't have the slightest intention of taking the initiative to say hello, but has a bit of a "I am a senior embroiderer, you should come to the close" mentality.
In this way, it wasn't until He Wei traced the draft one by one on the silk surface, released the charcoal pen and shook her slightly sore wrist and raised her head, that she saw the two silent behind everyone.
"Good shopkeeper!" He Wei hurriedly stood up.
Only then did everyone realize that the shopkeeper was behind them.
And although the young man next to Tao Defu said that he was eye-catching, he could be led to the workshop by Tao Defu, even if he was not a distinguished guest who came to Yu Embroidery Pavilion to order embroidery, he must be a heavyweight, who dared to be lazy to fish, and all slipped back to their places without saying a word, pretending to be busy doing embroidery work, but in fact, they pricked up their ears to listen to the movements of He Wei.
"You're a novelty in this way."
Gu Xu picked up the silk surface and the draft on the light box, compared the two, looked sideways at He Wei and asked, "But the silk surface is so sketchy, won't you go on a business trip when embroidering?" β
Since He Wei has been a high-ranking lady for 16 years, when answering questions, she always habitually folds her hands in front of her, hides her thumbs in the palms, and then looks at her nose and nose.
It's like a lady who came out of the picture of a lady in the ancient dynasty.
Gu Xu sighed in his heart.
The dark eyes hidden behind the glasses flashed a faint light.
It seems that he has to correct it: that guy's vision seems to be pretty good at the moment.
"Before embroidering, it is necessary to distinguish which part to use what color embroidery thread, so that it is not easy to make mistakes when embroidering."
Although He Wei was curious about the identity of the man, she still made a detailed explanation based on the principle of "the customer is God".
Gu Xu nodded, and returned the manuscript paper and silk noodles to her, "Do well, if you need help with anything, just look for Lao Tao." "I haven't forgotten that a guy sent a message to ask for him.
Immediately, before He Wei could realize it, he strode out of the studio.
Todd Fu patted He Wei on the shoulder, said a few words of encouragement, and left.
As soon as the shopkeeper left, the embroiderers couldn't help but chirp again.
"Hey, I said, could that person just now be the big boss who often hangs on the shopkeeper's mouth? So young! β
"It's impossible to be so young......"
"What is impossible! Didn't you listen to what he said to Xiao He? 'Do a good job, if you need help with anything, just look for Lao Tao', if it weren't for the big boss, who would dare to say that? Some embroiderers learned Gu Xu's words vividly, which amused several other people.
He Wei couldn't help laughing, and then saw that the time was not early, and the rest had to wait for the next weekend to come over and do it, lock the things at hand into her storage cabinet, say hello to Zhao Furong and others, and leave first.
"Xiao He." As soon as she came down the stairs, she saw Tao Defu beckoning to her: "Come on, come on, there is something for you to try." β
What Toddford gave her was a cage of hairy crabs.
The autumn breeze rises and the crab feet itch, which is the time when the hairy crab is fat and oily.
Although he didn't understand why the big boss was so interested in a new girl embroiderer, but just now in the workshop, he didn't see any abnormal tendencies between the two that exceeded the relationship between the boss and the employee.
Thinking about it this way, Tao Defu was happy to do a favor and handed a cage of hairy crabs with a high market price to He Wei.
He Wei dared to accept it, her mouth was really greedy and she was embarrassed to accept it, so she hurriedly pushed the crab pot back to Tao Defu.
"Give it to you and you'll keep it! Just think of the boss as sympathetic to his subordinates, what's so embarrassing! β
Tao Defu's righteous words couldn't stand the guys on duty outside, everyone's faces were weird, and they couldn't help muttering in their hearts: Boss, we are also employees of Yuxiu Pavilion, right? That's too much of a difference.
If Tao Defu heard the voices of the guys, he would definitely kick it over: If you want such good treatment, you must first learn ancient embroidery! The ancient embroidery skills that will be lost to the little girl, will you? A little girl can embroider on both sides of the complex, do you? Nothing will still be muttering and working there!!
So, when He Wei went home, she had an extra cage of hairy crabs in her hand.
He Wei's family has now moved out of the riverside community, rented on the upper floor of the wood shop, the layout is similar to the original small suite, on the area, there is a spacious balcony sealed indoors, with floor-to-ceiling curtains, after cleaning up, it has become He Xidong's bedroom, the brothers and sisters finally said goodbye to the narrow bedroom across the wardrobe, and they no longer have to worry about the slightest movement on their side will disturb each other.
And because the carpentry shop is downstairs, He's mother simply put the gas bottle in the store, and asked He's father to make a table, and the family eats three meals in the store, and the upstairs is not fired, so that the upstairs looks much cleaner and tidy.
He Wei got off the bus and walked slowly home with the crab pot.
From a distance, I saw the black lacquer and gold big-character signboard of my own wood shop - "He Ji Woodware", shining in the afterglow of the autumn sun. This is the handwriting she wrote, and she took it to the plaque store to make it ordered.
Father and mother thought it was expensive at first, saying that it was okay to just take a waste wooden board and engrave a few words at the door of the store? What are you doing so formally? But when the plaque is taken back and hung above the door of the store, the two of them immediately stopped talking, how can the signboard be black and gold-painted and beautiful!
As the saying goes: people rely on clothes and Buddha rely on gold, and this store naturally needs a faΓ§ade. No, as soon as the plaque was hung, the nearby shops came over with envious eyes, a ten, ten hundred, almost every household in the alley knew that a new wood shop was opened on the alley, and the owner was the carpenter who had previously built a grandfather bucket for a family married to a daughter in the community, and the number of residents who came to the door to customize the wood needed at home was described as a little exaggerated, and it could also be called an endless stream, although most of them were small pieces such as bathtubs, bathtubs, and small bookshelves, which could add up to a lot, and there were many people in and out of the store. Doesn't it look like business is booming?
There are even a few old ladies, as soon as the store door opens, they will hold their little grandsons and granddaughters over, pull a small wooden chair with their hands, sit at the door of the store while teasing the children and playing with the sweater's mother, sit straight until noon is time to make lunch before going back, and continue to come over to chat after taking a nap in the afternoon.
Even the topics on the dinner table with the He family are also rich in a lot, the east family, the west family is short, all of them are gossip that He Mu heard during the day.
He Mu is a woman who can't be idle. In the past, when I was busy early in the morning and had no time to rest, I always looked forward to a good holiday, but since the family opened a store and did not need her to go out to work early in the morning, she couldn't sleep, excited, tiptoed up at half past five, mopped the floor to wash the laundry downstairs and made breakfast on the stove, and when everyone else in the family got up, she had already made the preparations before opening the door, and during the day she entertained customers, collected money and found change, what to do when she had nothing to do? She gathered a few taels of fine wool from a familiar old lady and knitted a popular pile-collared woolen sweater for her daughter.
He Wei doesn't know if it's because of the delayed development, or because of the petite size of He's mother, in short, she is only 1.55 meters tall in the first year of junior high school, and her weight has always been maintained in her early eighties. But He Wei doesn't feel that she is thin, at least not the kind of thin bamboo pole body shape that falls when the wind blows, speaking of this, she can't help but think of a girl in the dormitory opposite in her previous life, losing weight to the point that she can't stop, and when she graduates, it is said that the original weight of one hundred and sixty or seventy has been reduced to eighty pounds, and the girl's height is one meter six or six, you can imagine how thin it must be, it can definitely be described by a thin bamboo pole that falls down when the wind blows or the rib bones that have cleaned the flesh buds.
He Wei doesn't think that she is that kind of body type, she is nothing more than following the small skeleton of He Mu, and there is still a lot of meat on her body. But He's mother doesn't think so, look at the clothes her daughter is wearing, she is in the first year of junior high school, and the clothes of the fifth and sixth grades of primary school can be put on her body casually. It's no wonder that the school uniforms issued in the school, the smallest size can be worn on her body, and most of them can be vacated.
Moreover, the first day of junior high school is almost halfway over, and she has not seen her menarche, it must be that the nutrition is not enough, there was no money before, and now that the family is rich, I want to make up for her, but I also know that I can't make up for it, no, He's mother spent a day of work, ran to the Hechun Hall in the southern district, lined up to hang up an old Chinese medicine doctor's number, and when she came back, she stewed medicinal food for her daughter according to the doctor's prescription.
When He Wei arrived home, He's mother had just taken today's medicinal food off the coal stove, and when she saw her daughter coming back, she hurriedly asked her to wash her hands: "It's just right, you can drink it, and you will eat after drinking it every other hour." β
He Wei answered, handed the crab pot in her hand to He Mu, and walked to the sink to wash her hands.
"It's ...... Hairy crabs? β
Rao is the He family rarely buys this kind of seasonal fresh food to eat, and also has a general understanding of the price market, especially at this time, it is the fattest and most delicious time for hairy crabs, and the price is naturally not low.
Mrs. Yang, who came to the store to play with her granddaughter in her arms yesterday, was still complaining to her, saying that her son and daughter-in-law wanted to eat hairy crabs, but she went to the vegetable market and asked, obediently, the cheapest ones are fifty or sixty yuan a catty.
Mrs. Yang was naturally complaining that her daughter-in-law was lazy and lazy, but what Mother He thought of was that the cage in her hand was estimated to have three or five catties of crabs, even if it was the cheapest kind, it would cost two hundred hairs.
After such a calculation, He's mother was not calm, and chased after her daughter with a crab pot and asked, "Where did it come from?" You went to the vegetable market to buy it? β
It's not right to think about it. Although the pocket money for children has risen now, it used to be 50 per month, including breakfast money, and this month it was given to each person 100, and breakfast is eaten at home, saving some flowers, but I can save a lot, but I can't afford to buy such a big cage of hairy crabs.
He Wei was just about to speak, but was interrupted by He Xidong, who came in hungry to find something to eat: "Weiwei, you just came back?" Where did you go in the afternoon? Hey? Hairy crabs? Mom, you bought it? Hey! Blessed tonight! β
"What I bought, it was brought back by your sister, and I was asking her where she came from, there is also a crab of three or four catties here...... "Mother He said while pouring the crab from the cage to the trough, counting, eight, only half a catty, is there four catties in weight?
On the way here, He Wei thought about taking the hairy crab to the physical education teacher's house, saving her from making excuses, but thinking that the family had never eaten such a big and fat hairy crab, it would be a pity to give them all away, so she brought it home, as for the excuse, she didn't think about it too complicated, only said: "I helped someone in the afternoon, this is a thank you gift from others." β
"Oh, it turns out that our Weiwei went to do a good deed in the afternoon, no wonder she came back so late......" He Xidong listened, and spontaneously gave a reason for his sister's late return, and asked casually: "Who is helping?" Such a big spending, I actually sent hairy crabs ......"
Mother He heard that it was a thank you gift from someone else, and frowned to educate her daughter: "If you help people in the future, don't accept other people's things, and it's so valuable, how embarrassing it is......"
He Wei nodded like pounding garlic, and breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.
Mother He rolled up her sleeves and was about to scrub the crabs, and suddenly said: "There are more than eight of us in our family, you can bring a few to your physical education teacher, people will accompany you to exercise after school every day, it's hard enough." Last time, Mr. He...... Forget it, there shouldn't be so many holidays in the army...... Let's just mention four, even if it's at home, four is enough......"
Mother He picked out the four fattest ones, two male and two female, put them back in the crab cage, and asked He Wei to give them away.
So, on the dinner table of the He family, there was also a seasonal river fresh - steamed hairy crab that night.
The peeled crab shell and crab meat are full of oily crab roe and glue crab paste, which makes you appetizing.
"Click-"
Before eating, He Chifeng's mobile phone had an extra photo of food that aroused people's appetite, and a few seconds later, it was transmitted to his nephew's mobile phone in the form of MMS, with the following postscript: Thank you for saving your life. You're not here, I'll do it for your aunt, don't thank me too much!
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