Chapter 216: She Can Embroider

There are not many people who can embroider these days. I didn’t expect Liu Jinping to have such a skill.

"Sister-in-law, why don't you ask her to embroider one for you? If it's done well, maybe she can develop some new styles."

Shen Jintao looked at Qian Mingfang.

Qian Mingfang nodded, and directly found a piece of cloth and a pile of needles and threads, "You try it."

There are many people in the family compound who are good at needlework, and some of them can use needles and thread to make some hair ornaments and so on.

But there are really not many people who do embroidery.

And even if they know how to embroider a little, the embroidery is crooked and not beautiful at all.

In fact, Qian Mingfang didn't have much hope for Liu Jinping. There was nothing to delay anyway, so it would be okay to let her give it a try.

I just don’t know if it will work.

Liu Jinping took the needle and thread from the piece of cloth and started embroidering.

Her movements are still very skillful. It is obvious that she has done a lot of needlework at home. After all, that's what housewives are like nowadays. Men in particular who are soldiers wear out their clothes and have to mend them from time to time.

It is relatively normal that Liu Jinping is so skilled.

But after a while, Chen Jintao and Qian Mingfang noticed something different.

Liu Jinping's movements were very fast. She was embroidering a flower. She didn't take it seriously at first, but she found that the flower was becoming more and more realistic. It wouldn't be lifelike, but it could be considered a very good craft.

Qian Mingfang couldn't help but give Liu Jinping a thumbs up. "You have great skills. I will have to give you some work in the future. You have to work hard. As long as you do a good job, wages are not a problem."

Qian Mingfang also understood one thing: people with skills are different from those without skills.

For ordinary handicrafts like those, the wages she pays must be relatively low.

But if we ask Liu Jinping to help embroider some handkerchiefs or something like that and sell them, the price will definitely be different.

"Sister, I don't know the ins and outs of doing business. Can you tell me how much I can sell some handkerchiefs for if I ask Liu Jinping to help me embroider them? I can also talk to Liu Jinping about the wages."

Chen Jintao thought about it and realized that these handicrafts are quite precious, so she said, "Let's not say we sell too many. It should be no problem to sell these embroidered ones for 5 yuan each."

Qian Mingfang was completely surprised. If she could really get some handkerchiefs, wouldn’t she be able to make a lot of money?

"Then I'll give you two dollars for this handkerchief. Can you accept it?"

Qian Mingfang looked at Liu Jinping.

After all, her sister had already told her in front of her the possible selling price of the handkerchief. If Liu Jinping felt that the wages were not worthwhile, she might want to work on her own.

Qian Mingfang did not force it, and she would not blame Chen Jintao for directly stating the price.

After all, I am going to open a store. As long as the store is there, the prices will be transparent and I can find out by just asking. It is better to be open and aboveboard.

"Then I can definitely accept it." Liu Jinping was so excited that she was incoherent. "I... I never thought that my craftsmanship could have such an effect. Two yuan per piece is already a lot for me. I don't have any other ideas."

Liu Jinping quickly expressed her attitude, saying that it was already very good that Qian Mingfang gave her this opportunity.

Chen Jintao glanced at Liu Jinping and said calmly, "This wage is really not low. After all, even if you have this skill, it's useless if you can't sell it. This kind of thing should be sold together with the clothes in the store. Comrade Liu Jinping, if I ask you to make handkerchiefs, how many can you make in a day?"

Shen Jintao really didn't understand embroidery, but she knew it would be very time-consuming.

"This is also uncertain. If you embroider all flowers of this type, it will be a bit troublesome, so you may only make two pieces a day. But if the pattern is a little simpler, it is possible to make three pieces a day."

After thinking about it, Liu Jinping gave a more implicit answer.

"That's great, if you work hard at this, you might earn more than your man in the future!" Chen Jintao said.

These words really touched Liu Jinping's heart. Her relationship with her husband was really bad. The two of them were like the most familiar strangers. Sometimes Zhang Yong would even make sarcastic remarks to her, saying that she was just taking care of the children at home and the rest of the time she was enjoying a leisurely life and spending all the money he earned.

Liu Jinping was also feeling depressed. She was busy from morning till night every day, but she never saw the man at all.

Moreover, she insisted on sending the children to school, but the man was unhappy. He simply said that there was no point for girls to study so much since they would get married anyway.

In the past, Liu Jinping was indeed obsessed with her son and completely neglected her daughter, but now it is different. She knows that she will never have a son in this life. Even if Zhang Yong and she have a good relationship, she doesn't want to have a child for that bastard.

Sometimes she wondered, if her daughter got married and lived the same life as she does now, she would feel very uncomfortable, right?

Isn't it that she sends her children to school because she wants them to have a different life?

She didn’t want her daughters to be like her, spending their whole lives revolving around the stove, the man and the children.

If she could really earn more money than Zhang Yong, then how she wanted to raise her children in the future would be her own business, and he would definitely not have the courage to say anything. Even if they divorced, she could take her daughters away directly. Isn't that better than living under a man?

In the final analysis, the so-called equality between men and women is just a slogan. Until now, no one has noticed the hard work women go through.

"I can definitely do it!" Liu Jinping's eyes were shining.

She knew that what Shen Jintao said was right. Even if the handkerchief could really be sold for five yuan each, she couldn't sell it herself. She had to embroider and had no time to sell it.

It’s better to just do your own handicrafts at home peacefully.

She had never dared to imagine the labor cost of two yuan per piece.

She had previously thought that if Qian Mingfang was willing to give her some work to do, and she worked hard and could earn a dozen or twenty yuan a month, she would be very satisfied.

As long as you earn enough money to pay for your children's tuition and books, no one can say anything about your children going to school.

"Okay, then let's decide on this for now. You do it first, and I'll decide how much it will cost per month after my store opens." Qian Mingfang made up his mind and made the decision.

She has been with Shen Jintao for a long time now, and she has become bolder. Regardless of whether it can be sold or not, she has to make the decision first.