"Jihong, sit here and listen to the radio for a while. I'll go heat up the kang, otherwise the room will be too cold."
The house that the Qiao family rented was a welfare house allocated by the school. Although it was a bungalow, it was full of surprises.
Inside the house, every window sill is equipped with radiators. When they did a thorough cleaning before moving in, Shen Xiao bought a bucket of paint and painted the rusty and blackened radiator with a layer of silver powder.
In addition to the radiator, the walls between the living room and the master bedroom are hollow "fire walls". As long as the kang is heated, the walls will also be warm.
Qiao Baozhu lit the stove and put a bundle of firewood under the stove. After a while, the room became warm.
Sun Jihong was sitting on the kang listening to the radio, feeling so hot that she was sweating. I reached out to touch the head of the kang and it was actually quite hot.
"Baozhu, the kang is so hot, please stop burning it."
Qiao Baozhu responded and soon came in with a basin of frozen pears.
"I was so busy heating the kang that I forgot to bring you some frozen pears. Put them on the kang to cool down for a while and eat them later."
Qiao Baozhu placed a bowl of frozen pears on the kang, then opened the wardrobe and took out some clothes.
"Sister Jihong, take a look at these clothes of mine and see if they look good."
Sun Jihong looked at the clothes in Qiao Baozhu's hand, her eyes lit up, and she took a bright red dress in surprise.
"Wow, this skirt is so pretty. There's a black elastic band in the middle. Oh my god, it looks like something a movie star would wear. Where did you buy it? A department store?"
Sun Jihong immediately noticed the red dress, which had a deep V-neck design, wide sleeves at the top and narrow at the bottom, and a black elastic band at the waist. The style was very unique.
"Don't worry about where I bought it, don't you want to try it?"
Sun Jihong had been eager to try it out. After hearing Qiao Baozhu's encouragement, she took off her cotton jacket and then her thick sweater without saying a word.
Put on a red dress and pose in front of the mirror.
"Baozhu, please tell me where you bought this dress. It's so beautiful!"
Qiao Baozhu didn't respond, but smiled at the excited Sun Jihong and said, "How much would this dress cost on your counter?"
"No matter how expensive it is for over thirty, there are people who will buy it for forty. We have similar skirts on our counter, but they are not as good as this one."
Sun Jihong twisted her body left and right in front of the mirror and became more and more satisfied with the dress she was wearing.
"The sleeve design is quite special, and the shoulders are supported by pads, which makes people look very energetic."
Shoulder pads were a major feature of clothing in the 1980s.
People of this era all pursue a bright and square image. But some people have sloping shoulders, and their suits and shirts always look droopy and can’t be held up.
Smart people came up with the idea of shoulder pads. Almost all suits, even the modified Lenin suits, have shoulder pads.
In addition to shoulder pads, Qiao Baozhu specially added an elastic band around the waist to tighten it. This can better highlight the curves of the figure and make the figure more graceful.
"It's this waistline that's a bit embarrassing."
Sun Jihong said she was sorry, but the smile on her face betrayed her true thoughts.
Nowadays, clothes are made wide and large, and the styles are all the same. Some girls who love beauty will secretly make some changes to their dress, but they can never achieve the same effect as Qiao Baozhu's dress.
"It's too feminine. What should I do? I don't even want to take off this dress."
Sun Jihong made a joke, saying that these were Qiao Baozhu's clothes and she couldn't take them for granted.
And given her current situation, she absolutely cannot buy a bright red dress and show off.
As Sun Jihong took off her skirt, she asked where it came from: "But since my mother-in-law got sick, I haven't gone out shopping during my vacation. I didn't know that the department store had such a beautiful skirt."
"Oh, that's not right. This isn't sold in the department store. If the department store has new nice clothes, it's impossible for us at the supply and marketing cooperative to not know."
Only then did Sun Jihong react.
"This skirt was designed by me and made by my mother. There are only three of them in the world, and the one you have in your hand is one of them."
Qiao Baozhu showed off to Sun Jihong with a proud look on her face.
"What, you designed it?"
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