After Liu Qingchun finished speaking, she turned around and ran away. Chi Yin looked at her fleeing back and snorted coldly.
Zhao Jianguo patted Chi Yin's shoulder and motioned her to put it down. Chi Yin nodded gratefully to her master. The matter was settled today, but if Liu Qingchun continued to spread rumors and make up stories behind her back, she would definitely have to teach her little gangster a lesson.
Chi Yin returned to the corner and sat next to Wu Fang. As soon as she touched the bench, Yang Tianlei came over with the bench. "Oh, I didn't realize that. I thought Liu Qingchun's sharp tongue could make you cry."
Chi Yin didn't even raise her eyelids, staring at Zhao Jianguo on the podium, and didn't respond at all.
Yang Tianlei moved the stool half a foot towards her, his shoulder almost touching her arm, "Hey, is the man you were fighting with in the corridor just now really Liu Qingchun's boyfriend?"
"Pah!" Zhao Jianguo knocked the table with a tape measure and looked at Yang Tianlei seriously. "I have told you many times that no noise is allowed in class!"
Yang Tianlei grinned and made a locking gesture with his fingers at his lips.
Zhao Jianguo knew that it was useless to control students like these street urchins. If he scolded them too much, they might even talk back to him. So Zhao Jianguo did not get angry and continued with the work of calling the roll and asking them to introduce themselves.
The trainees who were able to enter the training class had all passed the audition and had mastered the basic use of sewing machines. Zhao Jianguo briefly introduced the types of sewing machines and the names of their components, and began to teach mainly based on practical operations.
Zhao Jianguo asked everyone to remove the benches, place the sewing machine on the podium in the center, and asked everyone to form a big circle to watch him practice.
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In the first class, Zhao Jianguo focused on teaching how to make straight edges on trouser legs, including fabric cutting.
Chi Yin listened carefully and took notes in his notebook with a fountain pen.
For example, when cutting the cloth, the scissors should be tilted at forty-five degrees, your hands should be steady when cutting the cloth, and you must leave a one-centimeter seam allowance.
If the tailor leaves too much seam allowance, the fabric will become wavy and increase the risk of unraveling.
When knitting straight edges on trouser legs, you need to use the hidden seam and presser foot techniques.
For example, the stitching is hidden in the hem interlayer.
The feed rhythm density is four to five stitches per centimeter.
Slow down two centimeters in advance when joining the trouser seams.
Chi Yin knew that these skills were the valuable experience Zhao Jianguo had summed up after working as a tailor for decades.
Not only did she record the key points, she also circled and annotated some key techniques.
The first class ended at nine o'clock. There was a fifteen-minute break in the middle, and the students left the classroom to go to the toilet or go downstairs for activities.
Wu Fang came over and saw that Chi Yin's notebook was filled with words, and even the blank spaces were filled with small additional words. She was shocked, "Oh my God, do you have a tape recorder in your head? I see you didn't even miss the punctuation marks that Master Zhao mentioned."
Chi Yin smiled and said, "Maybe it's because I learned it from reciting texts before. I can't help but write down the key points when I hear them."
Several female comrades who were staring at Chi Yin not far away curled their lips with disdain, "You are quite good at bragging, and you have an excellent memory. What kind of strength can a person who got in through the back door have?"
Someone gnashed his teeth and said, "That's right. We were all selected from the best among hundreds of people. We relied on our strength. She got in through the backdoor. This is too unfair!"
Chi Yin looked around and saw the group of women lowering their heads. However, one of them refused to give in and looked at Chi Yin, even poking her with her eyes.
Chi Yin recognized this woman as the one who had been called up to the stage to settle accounts and testify. From the moment she stepped into the training room, this person had been ganging up on her and saying that she had gotten in through the back door.
Chi Yin adheres to the principle of not offending the enemy unless the enemy offends me. Now that someone is digging his eyeballs at her, she will definitely fight back.
So Chi Yin raised her beautiful eyebrows slightly, full of provocation, which made the woman so angry that her face turned green.
Wu Fang quickly tugged at the corner of Chi Yin's clothes and whispered, "Don't pay attention to them, they are just jealous of you."
Chi Yin knew it, but she couldn't just sit back and watch. Saying that she used a backdoor was an insult to Zhao Jianguo.
But she also knew that where there were women there would be gossip, and she would not care as long as they did not go too far.
Wu Fang went to the bathroom, and Chi Yin stared at the notebook intently to see if there were any key points that were missed.
During this time, Yang Tianlei threw a piece of chocolate on her notebook. Chi Yin didn't even look at him, pushed the chocolate back and buried her head in studying her notes with her back to him.
Fifteen minutes passed in a flash and the students returned to the training classroom. In this class, Zhao Jianguo taught them how to sew special fabrics.
For example, elastic fabrics use the three-fold curling method, and thin fabrics such as silk and chiffon are smeared with diluted rice milk water on the seams when sewing to enhance the stiffness of the fabric.
If there are flaws, they can be repaired with the help of auxiliary techniques, such as filling the holes with rice water applied to the holes with a silk needle, and then covering them with embroidery covering method.
After Zhao Jianguo finished explaining the sewing methods of special fabrics, it was time for actual operation.
Zhao Jianguo asked everyone to raise their hands and try it, and he went out for a while during the period.
In his eyes, it was an easy task that required no skills, but for the new students, it was an extremely difficult task.
The classroom was silent as no one wanted to make a fool of themselves. Some students who had never touched a sewing machine even hid quietly behind the crowd, fearing that they would be called out by Zhao Jianguo.
Wu Fang was able to be selected because she went to Xinhua Bookstore a few days ago and frantically figured out the operating principles of a sewing machine. She was barely included in the list. At this moment, she hunched her shoulders and hid behind Chi Yin.
Wu Fang and Chi Yin were standing in the front, and her hiding immediately attracted the interest of those women who disliked Chi Yin.
A woman immediately started to make a noise, "How about letting Chi Yin demonstrate it to everyone?"
A woman looked Chi Yin up and down with disdain and snorted, "She's the only one who got in through the backdoor. Does she know how to sew? Don't make a fool of yourself."
Chi Yin looked up and saw that it was that woman who was forming cliques again.
She had originally thought about raising her hand, but then she considered that everyone was privately saying that she had gotten the job through the back door and that she only had one sewing machine.
If she was the first to raise her hand, the gossip would spread more violently and affect her master's reputation.
When the woman saw Chi Yin looking at her, she glared back at her with a malicious smile on her lips, and whispered into the ear of the woman beside her.
Chi Yin saw through their intention, but she didn't say anything and just watched how they set the trap.
Several women murmured for more than ten seconds. One of them rolled her eyes, then strode to the sewing machine, grabbed the scissors on the table, and cut a hole in her clothes with a "swish".
The woman took off her clothes, walked over to Chi Yin, handed them to her and said, "Come on, you are good at listening and remembering, show us your skills!"
Chi Yin stared at the dress. It was made of chiffon, which was soft and smooth. It would get tangled if touched, and would be ruined if the stitching was slightly crooked.
Even experienced tailors are very careful when dealing with this kind of fabric.
Beginners like them could not even sew the burlap crookedly, yet they had to deal with a chiffon shirt as thin as a cicada's wing.
Chi Yin knew that if she backed down at this time, it would confirm the rumor that she had used a backdoor and had no real ability.
If you try it anyway and the clothes get damaged or ripped during the sewing process, the woman will have the final say on how much compensation to pay.
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