Chapter 174 Defective Cloth
Cao Li, who was originally nervous, calmed down when she saw how relaxed they were. It's just a porcelain teacup, right?
It’s not like I haven’t seen it before.
It can only be used for drinking water, not for eating.
Gu Ci was very good at talking and in no time he had made Grandpa He and Grandma He smile happily.
Chu Hong felt that she really needed to study more.
If I were to compliment the He family, I would say, "The house is so beautiful, it feels so comfortable to look at, everything is just right."
However, Gu Ci praised their living room for being elegant and simple. Whether it was the tables and chairs or the orchids, everything showed the artistic taste and ingenuity of the host.
Chu Hong just wanted to laugh: Forgive her poor eyesight, she didn't see the simplicity, but only saw the TV that was made with money, which is obviously luxurious.
Unfortunately, the old couple of the He family were coaxed into smiling happily, as if they had found soulmates.
He Wen also noticed that Cao Li was a little reserved. Then she saw her grandmother going to fetch hot water and her grandfather and Gu Ci preparing to kill a chicken. So she simply said goodbye to the old people and took Chu Hong and Cao Li to the textile factory first.
Except for those who work in offices like He Wen, there are very few days off in the factory nowadays, and most of the workers work in two shifts.
With He Wen's help, Chu Hong and Cao Li signed with the guard and were able to enter.
It is nearly ten o'clock in the morning. The workers are all working in the workshop and there are few people on the road.
So I got to the warehouse smoothly.
The two women sat opposite each other at the desk, reconciling accounts.
He Wen was very familiar with this place, and she called to the woman sitting behind the desk with an abacus, "Auntie Fang, Auntie Wang, can we come in?"
I was also worried that there might be leaders patrolling inside, or someone else selecting, so I decided to be polite and say hello first.
"Wenwen, come in quickly." Aunt Fang looked up and saw her and smiled: "How come you have time to come here?"
Mrs. Wang also smiled at them and continued to settle the bill.
He Wen replied: "I'm taking a day off today?"
"These are my cousins. They want some defective cloth to make some clothes. Aunt Fang, do you have any extra?"
"Then you are late." Aunt Fang blamed He Wen: "You know that every Sunday is the day to deal with defective cloth. Everyone comes early in the morning to wait for me to open the door."
"It's already this late, the better ones have been picked up."
He personally took them to a corner and said, "You can look here. If you can't find it, I'll take you to Warehouse No. 2 later."
Chu Hong and Cao Li were like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden, their eyes could hardly take it all in.
This warehouse is very large. Chu Hong estimated that it is about 150 square meters.
All around the walls, there were piles of various gray, black and blue fabrics, and in the middle was a large basket filled with various fabrics.
Nowadays, weaving machines are prone to malfunction, resulting in defective cloth.
Any defects that are smaller or even not very obvious will be picked out at the first time and sent to the hand-sewing workshop. The sisters-in-law there are all dexterous and can mend the missed stitches.
Those with large and obvious flaws will be sent here.
There will also be other factories cooperating with textile factories, exchanging goods privately, and everyone can benefit.
It can also be regarded as seeking benefits for the workers and making contributions to the factory.
As for the remaining defective cloth, we also asked the factory employees to buy some of it privately.
No cloth coupons are required, but the price is the same as good cloth.
But cloth coupons are hard to come by now, and many people don’t mind if their clothes are a little inferior.
There are also some people, like He Wen and others, who have no financial burden and some savings, and would rather use cloth coupons to buy good cloth.
Chu Hong took out a piece of yellow cotton cloth with a white background, about three or four feet long. After He Wen's reminder, she saw that there was an obvious hole in the middle, but she was reluctant to put it down: "Just cut the cloth on the edge and mend it."
Even this was not enough to make a piece of clothing, so she continued to search.
She is now full of energy and wishes she could stay here for a day and a night.
Chu Hong thought the same thing in her heart. If conditions allowed, she would have wanted to buy all of them.
Of course, before coming in, He Wen reminded them that they had to leave the factory before 11 o'clock.
Otherwise, if it is seen by workers who are leaving get off work, it will have a bad impact.
Because the factory has a rule that non-factory employees are not allowed to buy inferior cloth.
When it was half past ten, He Wen reminded the two people who were still rummaging through the pile of cloth: "It's almost time, we have to go."
Chu Hong stuffed the defective cloth she had taken out of the basket back into the basket, picked up a basket nearby and went to ask Fang Jie and the others to count the money.
"You want so much?" Sister Fang was a little surprised, but she didn't refuse. She picked up the ruler and began to measure the cloth: "Xiao Wang, keep track of it. Blue khaki is 2 feet 3, gray cotton is 2 feet 5, green plain cloth is 3 feet, twill is 2 feet 7, polyester is 3 feet 2, shaking cloth is 2 feet..."
Nowadays people wear loose clothes, and these cloths are mostly narrow, so it takes nine feet to make a piece of clothing.
We have a sewing machine at home, and my older sister and younger sister are all very dexterous, so it will definitely look good if we piece together fabrics of similar colors.
She also discovered that Aunt Fang, who took the measurements, always gave more and reported less.
For example, if it was two feet two, she would just say two feet.
If it was 3 feet 80, she would say it was 3 feet 60.
And he also spread the measured fabric out on the table, so that when there was one more roll, it would become a small roll.
The prices of different fabrics are different. Defective cotton cloth is 40 cents per foot, and shaky cloth is 90 cents per foot. They calculated that Hong wanted a total of 62 feet of cloth and spent 35.80 yuan.
Cao Li chose more carefully and spent half as much as Chu Hong, spending nearly twenty yuan.
She only brought out ten yuan, and Chu Hong lent her ten yuan first.
Of course, nowadays, taking ten dollars with you when you go out can be considered a huge sum of money.
On the way back, He Wen also carried some rolled cloth for Chu Hong, and she kept muttering: "I have reminded you several times to buy less. I will bring you here earlier next time."
Chu Hong smiled and said to her: "We have to go home next Sunday."
He winked at her again and said, "I'll leave you my address and fifty dollars. If you find anything good, you can choose some and send them to my house, okay?"
He Wen was shocked: "Why do you need so much cloth?"
Chu Hong sighed with a compassionate look: "There are three lonely elderly people in the village. They escaped from famine a few years ago. Their clothes are all patched up and fall apart at the slightest tear."
"I want to make some clothes for them too."
"And my second aunt is about to give birth, and the baby's clothes and swaddling clothes are still floating in the sky?"
The main thing was that she couldn't say that she wanted to make two sets of clothes for Chuchu and the others. Seven people would need fourteen sets of clothes.
She regretted that she had chosen too carefully before and should have picked more.
Cao Li came close to He Wen and smiled brightly: "Wenwen, my home is in the suburbs, not far from here. If you want chickens, ducks, or geese, you can tell me and I can get them for you."
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