Chapter 146: Summer
The fabric material of this time and space is relatively simple, there are not so many complex materials, and there are no wool, nylon and other things, so the material of socks is silk in summer and thicker cotton in winter, which is very breathable, although it is not as good as nylon elasticity, but it is quite comfortable after wearing it. In fact, when the shopkeeper Liu told her to make socks, Ye Xiaoyu was a little stunned, mainly because she felt that there were too few places where this socks could play their own design, at most they embroidered some different patterns on it, and then after thinking about it, I felt that there was still a place to play, just on the pattern, there were many places where you could make a fuss, there were many socks with beautiful patterns in the world of the previous life, in addition to the general patterns, she could embroider some cute cartoon patterns on the socks, Anyway, I haven't found any connection between the past life and the present, Ye Xiaoyu doesn't have to worry about copyright, trademark rights and other things, his imitation of himself shouldn't be a copycat, it should be considered original here.
But it didn't take long for Ye Xiaoyu to become depressed again, what she was worried about now should not be copycats or originality, what she was most worried about was her own painting level. When it comes to drawing, Ye Xiaoyu has never learned, let alone painted, if the graffiti in the textbook in class was boring in her previous life was painting, then she would be able to draw some simple stick figures. But in this world, there is no pencil, so asking Ye Xiaoyu to use that thick and soft brush to draw stick figures, which is even more uncomfortable than killing her. The painting that gave Qian Yi last year took her almost half a month. The finished product can barely be seen, and such a speed is certainly not suitable for drawing "design drawings". Ye Xiaoyu thought about it and felt that her main problem was the brush, if she replaced the brush with a hard pen, her speed and painting level would definitely improve. But in this era, I couldn't find a hard pen at all, so I asked the delivery guy to bring a lot of eyebrow pencils back from the capital, although the refill of this eyebrow pencil was very soft. But compared to the brush. It's already much better, and the only eyebrow pencil in the room before was painted by the pattern I used to draw the handkerchief.
After the tools were prepared, the rest of the day, except for a trip to the field once a day to "patrol". The rest of the time. Ye Xiaoyu is at home and draws cartoons. Because she has no foundation, Ye Xiaoyu can only rely on her own memory to recall the appearance of the cartoon patterns in her previous life, and constantly modify them. Until I look at a cartoon image that looks like a memory.
At the beginning, when Ye Xiaoyu embroidered the patterns she drew for Liu Meier on socks and handkerchiefs, Liu Meier was full of surprise, she had never seen such a pattern when she was so big, and it was very strange that Ye Xiaoyu did not let her embroider patterns such as mandarin ducks playing in the water and flowers and full moons on the handkerchief, these are patterns that symbolize a beautiful vision, and the handkerchiefs and purses sold in the market are not embroidered like this.
For Liu Meier's doubts, Ye Xiaoyu didn't bother to explain, just asked her to embroider according to the pattern she gave, in order to be able to embroider the pattern in her impression, Ye Xiaoyu also marked the color to be on every part of her pattern, that is, to indicate which colors of thread to embroider. Before Ye Xiaoyu took the handkerchief to Liu's shopkeeper, the embroidery was some simple small patterns, embroidered on the cartoon pattern, and never had it, so after Ye Xiaoyu made the pattern, he just asked Liu Meier to embroider one first, to Ye Xiaoyu's surprise, after color matching, the cartoon pattern embroidered was unusually good-looking, plus Liu Meier's delicate stitches, smooth embroidery, and the whole handkerchief, giving people a new feeling.
After the test was successful, Ye Xiaoyu asked Liu Meier to embroider such a pattern on some socks and handkerchiefs, but because it had not been tested by the market, Ye Xiaoyu did not dare to embroider more, but embroidered more than a dozen of each, as for the purse, she still used the most primitive pattern, after all, innovation requires capital, and conservative can support herself.
Later, it turned out that this cartoon pattern of handkerchiefs and socks in the capital is very popular, and even formed a trend, according to market requirements, Ye Xiaoyu also embroidered some simple cartoon animals on some purses, Liu's shopkeeper's store, every day is crowded with handkerchiefs and socks who want to buy this pattern, however, scarcity is expensive, this Ye Xiaoyu still understands, so no matter how hot it sells, she still supplies so many quantities every month. As soon as the quantity is small, the price will be raised very high, Shopkeeper Liu took advantage of this trend and made a lot of money, but he is also a conscientious person, and he did not swallow it alone, but gave Ye Xiaoyu a one-time fifty taels of silver in the form of dividends. However, she also knows that there is no patent protection system here, and cartoons are not a difficult thing, and soon there will be exactly the same thing on the market. But there is one point, Ye Xiaoyu has experienced the cartoon era, as long as she keeps drawing new patterns, even if there is no system to protect her products, she can always stand at the top of this aspect, and those people, if you want to follow, let them follow.
Ordinary days pass quickly, and in the blink of an eye, summer is coming. During this period, the vegetables from the field were transported to the capital twice, once for lettuce and once for spring cabbage. These two kinds of vegetables are easy to survive and have a large yield, compared to the beans, eggplants, cucumbers and other fruits and vegetables in the field, the growth cycle is much faster, so in the forty acres of land in Yinpan, these two vegetables account for nearly a dozen acres, Ye Xiaoyu also knows that the type is a bit too single, but if you have signed a contract with others, you must deliver it quickly. She plans to wait for the beans and cucumbers to ripen later, and then adjust the types of vegetables in the field and plant some relatively rare vegetable seeds, so that they can be competitive. Otherwise, these cabbages and lettuce will only have to fight a price war.
said that it was a price war, but it was actually not bad, two times, a total of eighty-six taels were sold, Ye Xiaoyu also had more than 20 taels in hand, plus the monthly wages and dividends of the female workers, in the past six months, Ye Xiaoyu also earned nearly 100 taels, and now his plans have entered the normal operation track, and in the future, if nothing else, it will only get better and better day by day.
Although Quanxiu Village is in the north of Daye Country, but the summer is very hot, Ye Xiaoyu in the previous life, in just thirty years of life, all lived in the south, so she has no concept of the summer in the north, only occasionally I heard the classmates who live in the north say that it is very dry, and now after the experience, I deeply feel that this is so dry that it is life-threatening, and as soon as the summer comes, she feels that she is about to be evaporated.
At noon that day, the acquaintance on the tree outside the window was screaming for his life, there was no wind around the yard, Ye Xiaoyu was lying on the chair in the hall, sweating constantly on his body and neck, and he just wanted to stick out his tongue when he was hot.
Hong'er and Liu Mei'er are taking a nap next to them, since the beginning of summer, Ye Xiaoyu has let Hong'er and Liu Mei'er have a good rest at noon, so they also deliberately put two small simple bamboo beds in the hall, which can be put away and leaned against the wall after waking up.
And she herself can't sleep at all, in such a hot weather, no air conditioning, no electric fan, only relying on a manual fan, no matter how sleepy she is, Ye Xiaoyu can't fall asleep, because as long as she stops fanning her hand, she will wake up immediately.
"Hey...... Why are you lazy? It's so hot, accompany me out to the river to blow the wind. ”
Originally, Ye Xiaoyu had already begun to fall asleep, and was frightened by the sudden sound above her head, and she woke up in an instant.
looked up and saw Lu Qian holding the small flower umbrella she gave her at the beginning of the year, standing under the eaves in front of the door.
Seeing that it was Lu Qian, Ye Xiaoyu raised her eyes, motioned for her to be quiet, and continued to lie on her stomach.
The change in the relationship between herself and Lu Qian, this is an accident that Ye Xiaoyu never expected, when she first came to Lujiazhuang, she did want to get along with Lu Qian, but later all the signs showed that even if the two of them were tightly tied together with a rope, they would not say a word, but what Ye Xiaoyu didn't expect was that since she accompanied her to the capital at the beginning of the year, their relationship could gradually become relaxed. Lu Qian sometimes comes to Nanyuan Ye Xiaoyu's house to visit the door and chat about something, although the tone is still very arrogant, but being able to do this, Ye Xiaoyu already feels very satisfied.
"Hey, hurry! ……”
Lu Qian saw that Ye Xiaoyu didn't move, standing at the door and raising her eyebrows and continuing to urge. In the past half a year, she has become accustomed to looking for Ye Xiaoyu's life for everything.
"Miss Lu, aren't you hot? The sun is so big outside......"
Although it was also very hot in the house, Ye Xiaoyu didn't want to move when she saw the big sun outside.
"Hurry up!!"
Regardless of whether Ye Xiaoyu agreed or not, Lu Qian went directly into the house and pulled Ye Xiaoyu up from the chair, grabbed her hand and was about to go out.
"Wait...... ......
Ye Xiaoyu was worried that Lu Qian's movement was too noisy to Hong'er and Liu Mei'er, who were taking a nap, and she stepped back vigorously, on such a hot day, going out under such a poisonous sun, without sunscreen, then at least let Ye Xiaoyu take an umbrella.
"Where is the wind here, please sue me, Miss Lu......"
Walking by the river at the head of the village with an umbrella with Lu Qian, Ye Xiaoyu's face was full of resentment. At noon on a hot day, needless to say, there were almost no women washing clothes, only a group of bear children who didn't know the heat, wearing pants, frolicking as you chased me.
"There must be a windy ...... under the big tree over there"
Lu Qian replied with a little weakness, she actually didn't know if there was any wind, just now she was just bored in the house and wanted to find someone to accompany her to come out to breathe the wind, and listen to her parents' conversation, it seems that Liu Yu from Niujia Village is coming over today and living in Lujiazhuang for a while, that Liu Yu is fat and stupid, she doesn't want to talk to him, it's always good to come out and avoid it. (To be continued......)