The gramophone is placed in the corner next to the sofa in the living room, and it can be operated by sitting on the sofa.

On the opposite side of the sofa, in the middle of a row of windows, against the wall, there is the old-fashioned radio, and on the wall above the radio is the latest 555 brand wall clock that Chen Fan bought in the sales department of the commune supply and marketing cooperative.

(This is it)

The sound of the wall clock "click" never stops, and it will also tell the time every hour, one o'clock strikes, two o'clock strikes, and so on, the working principle is exactly the same as the clock that the team headquarters gave to Chen Fan before.

As for the mechanical table clock, it was also turned out by Chen Fan, and the parts of the bell that were removed before were installed back and placed on the desk in the study on the second floor.

At that time, it was to hide his ability to repair machinery and save him from being treated as an old scalper, so he hid the repaired grandfather clock.

Now he naturally doesn't need to, he has now become a "cattle raiser", as long as he brings out a few people, not only can life be better, but also make life easier.

There was a song playing on the gramophone, Chen Fan walked to the coffee table, picked up the bundle of cloth, and walked to the tea table.

This tea table is 1 meter 2 wide and about 2 meters long, and although it is a circle smaller than the cutting table, it is barely enough.

Pulling out a section of the cloth and spreading it on the tea table, Chen Fan frowned slightly, carefully observing the color difference on it.

If it weren't for the damage, it would have been a good piece of fine material, but now it can only be used as an inferior product.

After a few moments, he continued to pull the fabric outwards until he had seen the entire piece of it.

Jiang Lili stood aside, looked at the fabric for a while, looked at him for a while, and asked curiously, "What are you doing?" ”

Chen Fan looked up at her and said with a smile, "Do costume design." ”

"Costume design?"

Jiang Lili's face was full of weirdness, "Just a piece of cloth, how else can you design it?" ”

In this era, there are also clothing designers, especially clothing factories in big cities, and special designers, although they are not called by this name, but they do the work of clothing design.

Some of them imitate clothing styles through foreign magazine photos, and some combine various elements to improve existing clothing.

Those over-the-knee floral dresses, ruffle collars, double-breasted, modified liberation hats, as well as the patterns on the sweater, the waist pinched at an inconspicuous angle, and the trouser legs are a little narrowed, all of which reflect the design sense of the garment.

In these design senses, it is the collision of aesthetics and the times.

(Costumes from the mid-to-late 70s)

It's just that those are all designs for styles and patterns, and now there is only one piece of cloth, how can Chen Fan design it?

Looking at Jiang Lili, Chen Fan pointed to the different shades of color on the cloth and smiled, "Look here,"

Then he pointed to another place, "Look at this again, are the colors very similar?" ”

Jiang Lili looked left and right, with a sudden look on her face, "You mean, you can make a piece of clothing of the same color by splicing the same or similar colors together?" ”

Chen Fan nodded first and then shook his head, and said with a smile, "I guessed half right, well, I can't explain it to you now, and when I make one, you'll know." You can help me bring the scissors and tape measure first. ”

Jiang Lili puffed out her cheeks, turned around and ran to the tool cabinet, turned out a large pair of scissors and a tape measure from it, and quickly ran back.

Chen Fan had already pulled the cloth back to the head of the cloth, took the scissors from Jiang Lili's hand, and began to click and cut the cloth.

Jiang Lili's eyes widened, "Do you cut it like this?" ”

Don't need to draw or measure?

Chen Fan looked at her and said with a smile, "I'm a bamboo in my chest, don't learn from me." ”

With his current spirit and intelligence, he can quickly remember the color difference and quantity of this piece of cloth, and at the same time recombine it in his mind, and then consider what kind of clothes to design according to the number of pieces of cloth of these different colors.

Seeing that he was so confident, Jiang Lili couldn't help but wrinkle her nose slightly, "You just call me stupid." ”

Chen Fan turned his head to look at her, and said with a smile, "Not bad, yes, I'll be joking." ”

Jiang Lili pouted again, but in less than two seconds, she couldn't help laughing.

Chen Fan moved quickly, a pair of scissors flew on the cloth, and with a continuous click, the whole piece of cloth was broken down into pieces of cloth of different sizes, and then thrown to the ground according to different colors.

After a while, the 54-foot cloth was completely disassembled.

Jiang Lili looked at the pile of fabrics, "What should I do next?" ”

Chen Fan picked up two pieces of cloth, spread them out on the tea table and put them together, and turned his head to look at Jiang Lili, "Next, we have to re-sew these pieces of cloth." ”

As soon as the words fell, he suddenly frowned slightly, turned his head to look out the window, and said to Jiang Lili, "Someone is coming, go and turn on the gramophone." ”

Jiang Lili turned around and ran, quickly removed the stylus, and stuffed the record into the cabinet below, all in one go.

Chen Fan was dumbfounded, this agility is not much worse than me!

When the music stopped, Jiang Lili breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and walked to the window, and looked left and right a few times, "Didn't see anyone?" ”

Chen Fan whistled in his mouth, and the falcon immediately flew down from the branch, landed on the ground in the wind and rain corridor, and flew up to the windowsill.

Jiang Lili immediately smiled, reached out and touched it, "It turns out that you are doing a sentry." ”

The falcon rolled its neck, "Chirp." ”

Chen Fan blew again, and the falcon immediately spread its wings and flew out.

When Jiang Lili's eyes followed the falcon to look, she saw a person walking up the slope below, it was Captain Yang.

Chen Fan also saw him from the window, so he turned around and went out.

Captain Yang strode over, and when he saw Chen Fan, he immediately raised his right hand and waved, grinning and laughing, "Congratulations, congratulations." ”

Then I saw Jiang Lili also turn out of the door, and her face suddenly stiffened.

In the face of this kind of scene, isn't it a little wrong to say this by yourself?

Chen Fan took out a cigarette and handed it over, and asked puzzledly, "What kind of happy event?" Could it be that the water pipe is pulled back? ”

A month ago, Secretary Yang and Captain Zhang went to the commune and applied to Secretary Qian to build a small water tower.

Since Lujiawan can get his own diesel engine, Secretary Qian is also willing to support, he not only agreed to the request of the Lujiawan production team, but also helped contact a second-hand water pump, as for the water pipe, it was approved, you can go to the county to buy, and also approved a fund, which effectively reduced the economic burden of Lujiawan.

Despite this, Secretary Yang and they still emptied their family funds, begged their father to tell their grandmother everywhere, and tried their best to scrape together enough money to buy water pipes and pumps, and yesterday Zhang Wenliang and Ye Shubao went to the county to buy water pipes and pumps.

Captain Yang came over to report the good news at this time, could it be that the thing was pulled back?

But this shouldn't be good news to yourself.

I was wondering in my heart, but on the surface, I kept inviting Captain Yang into the house.

At the same time, he said to Jiang Lili, "Little Jiang, make two more dishes tonight." ”

It means to keep Captain Yang drinking.

Jiang Lili nodded hurriedly, "Oh, I'll go now." ”

As he spoke, he was about to run out.

Captain Yang lit a cigarette and grinned, "Eh, little ginger, cook more rice later, and Company Commander Zhang will come over too." ”

Jiang Lili still didn't say a word, "Oh." ”

But I was thinking in my heart, what day is today, why are they all here?

Just a few steps forward, she heard Captain Yang say, "The water pipe and pump are pulled back, but this is a big event for the production team, not your personal happy event." ”

Hearing this, she couldn't help but slow down.

Captain Yang continued, "Just now, the postman specially sent a package to the production team, guess what's inside? ”

Chen Fan frowned slightly, looked up at the sky, wrapped? Wedding?

His eyes moved slightly, and he said with a happy face, "The First Aid Manual has been published?" ”

It's a package and a happy event, except for this book, there should be nothing else, right?!

Captain Yang immediately nodded, and said with a smile, "That's right, it's the "First Aid Manual" officially published, after Company Commander Zhang got the package, he saw that it was sent by the health department of the prefectural party committee, guessed that it was a book, and immediately called me, and the others arrived later." ”

When Jiang Lili heard this result, her face couldn't help but smile, and her steps unconsciously became brisk, and she jumped down and ran down.

As soon as she ran downhill, she saw Zhang Wenliang riding over, she quickly stopped and stood on the side of the road to say hello, "Hello Company Commander Zhang." ”

Since the last time he went to the prefectural committee, Zhang Wenliang always felt that the relationship between Chen Fan and her was not as distant as it seemed.

Of course, it doesn't have to be an object relationship. There were three people living in the courtyard, and they were in the same room as her, so if there was really a problem, they couldn't have found out.

The biggest possibility is that Chen Fan and this Xiao Jiang are friends, but because of Xiao Jiang's identity, it is not easy to make it public.

If you think about it carefully, this possibility is still very high, after all, the two of them lived together in the courtyard for a month before, and it is impossible to say that there is no communication between each other. Now it makes more sense.

With a conclusion in his heart, Zhang Wenliang's attitude towards Jiang Lili also changed.

Seeing Jiang Lili greeting her, she smiled kindly, "Little Jiang, is Teacher Chen on it?" ”

Jiang Lili was a little flattered to be treated so gently, and quickly nodded, pointed to it and said, "Teacher Chen is in the living room, and Captain Yang also came over just now." ”

As she spoke, she couldn't help but glance at the basket on horseback, thinking in her heart that the book Xiaofan produced should be in the basket.

Zhang Wenliang only said a few polite words to her, even if he expressed his attitude, he didn't say too much, he turned over and dismounted, and said with a smile, "Oh, Captain Yang is also here." ”

First tied the horse to the shed next to the wall of the Educated Youth Courtyard and the building materials that Chen Fan had built to shield the building materials from the wind and rain, and then took out a boxy package and a large oil tank from the basket, and carried them up.

Jiang Lili waited for him to go away before turning around and entering the back door of the Educated Youth Academy.

(End of chapter)