Chapter 211: Staying Up All Year Round
In the following days, Xu Zhiyi finally managed to stabilize the pastry shop. Even without her there, everyone could cooperate well with each other, and there were no problems with the business all day.
Mr. Zhang's son Zhang Lingfu also came to the pastry shop to work as an accountant, and he has become familiar with the business of the shop in the past few days!
The ready-made clothing shop has recruited five embroiderers, but they are still short of two. Now Luo Jinqiu and her daughter are busy making clothes with the three embroiderers. Xu Zhiyi has given a total of fifteen styles.
Xu Zhiyi was in the room counting the accounts of Zhang Lingfu today, when Su called out from outside: "Zhiyi, Miss Yan is here to see you."
After hearing what Su said, she was immediately confused. Miss Yan? Yan Yue? Why did she come to see her? It seemed that the two of them had only talked about the matter of Fatty Wu, and they had not negotiated again afterwards!
Xu Zhiyi came out to the yard and saw Yan Yue sitting on a chair in the yard waiting for him. He walked over and greeted her, "Miss Yan."
Seeing Xu Zhiyi coming over, Yan Yue quickly stood up and responded with a smile: "Miss Xu"
"Miss Yan, what do you want from me?"
"Miss Xu, I heard from the villagers that you opened a clothing store in town and are now recruiting embroiderers, right?"
Xu Zhiyi nodded and said, "Yes, we are still short of two embroiderers."
Yan Yue's eyes lit up when she heard this. She lowered her head, pinched the corner of her clothes nervously with her fingers, and said, "Miss Xu, I can cut and make clothes, and my embroidery skills are also pretty good."
As she spoke, she quickly took out the embroidery in the basket beside her and handed it to Xu Zhiyi to look at: "Miss Xu, these are all embroidered by me. Can you see if they are to your liking?"
Xu Zhiyi took it and picked up a handkerchief, on which was embroidered a lifelike herbaceous lily. The color matching was very good, which showed that the embroidery work was very good. She put the handkerchief down and picked up other embroidery pieces to examine them carefully.
Yan Yue pinched her fingers and looked at Xu Zhiyi with a nervous and expectant expression. She learned these embroidery skills from Grandma Yin in the village. Grandma Yin worked as an embroiderer in an embroidery workshop when she was young.
She liked needlework, so she wanted to work as an embroiderer in Miss Xu's shop. Firstly, she could avoid her mother nagging her every day to get engaged quickly. Secondly, she wanted to improve herself. She didn't want to be like some of her sisters around her who could only stay at home to serve their parents-in-law and take care of their husbands and children.
Xu Zhiyi looked at all of Yan Yue's embroidery carefully. Although her embroidery skills were not as mature as the embroiderers she had hired now, she discovered a good problem, that is, Yan Yue was very good at matching colors.
For example, in the spoon of medicine she embroidered, the color of the flower changes naturally from the center of the flower to the outer petals.
So, although her embroidery skills are not particularly amazing, her good color matching can make people feel bright at first sight.
"Miss Yan, your embroidery is pretty good. Although not as good as the embroiderers in the embroidery workshop, you make up for it in another aspect, that is, you have a very good grasp of color matching."
"So, you passed! You can come to my shop and be an embroiderer."
Upon hearing this, Yan Yue excitedly grabbed Xu Zhiyi and kept thanking him!
Xu Zhiyi: "But, I have to make it clear first! Since you have chosen to come into the shop and join the embroidery team, then we must unite as one and do everything well."
"You must follow the instructions given by your second shopkeeper Auntie Luo and me. You cannot change it according to your own ideas."
Yan Yue nodded heavily: "I will, shopkeeper. I will definitely work hard."
Xu Zhiyi: "Okay, then you can start helping out in the store tomorrow!"
"Hey, thank you, shopkeeper. I'll go back first!"
After recruiting enough embroiderers, everyone began to concentrate on making the clothes, and Xu Zhiyi was also looking for models for the opening two days. He required them to have good facial features and a well-proportioned figure, and he also wanted three fat ones.
After almost everyone had gathered, time passed so quickly. She didn't expect that the first year since she traveled to this ancient time would arrive so quickly!
Today everyone closed their shops early in the afternoon and went home. Today is the day for family reunions. There were not many people on the street. I guess they were all at home with their families, preparing the reunion dinner!
Xu Zhiyi caught three chickens from the space, bought ten kilograms of pork and six fish in the town, and bought two kilograms of peach blossom wine, and prepared all the meat dishes for the first few days of the year!
Then I went to buy some melon seeds, candies and the like.
In the evening, Mrs. Su invited all the Su family members to have a reunion dinner together.
At the dinner table, after everyone had blessed each other, Su suddenly raised her glass to Xu Zhiyi and said, "Zhiyi, have a drink with me. After tonight, my daughter will be one year older! I hope you will be safe and happy throughout your life."
Upon hearing this, Xu Zhiyi quickly clinked glasses with her and said, "I also wish you peace and happiness, and everything goes well."
Afterwards, Shen Changan and Shen Wuyou were so sweet-mouthed that they made the elders of the Su family and the Su family very happy.
After the meal, everyone brought stools to the main room and sat there eating melon seeds, chatting and staying up late. Finally, the two children of the Su family couldn’t stand it anymore and went back to sleep!
It was not until the end of the New Year's Eve that everyone decided to go back to rest. Xu Zhiyi was really sleepy! He went back to his room yawning and half-closed his eyes.
Just as he lay down, Shen Wuyou followed him in. Xu Zhiyi heard the noise and tried to open his eyes. Moonlight came in from the window. He could roughly tell that it was Shen Wuyou. He came in with a pillow in his arms.
"Ma'am, are you cold? Can I warm your bed for you?"
Hearing this, Xu Zhiyi was really sleepy, so he consciously moved inside the bed, leaving room outside for Shen Wuyou.
Seeing this, Shen Wuyou quickly put down his pillow, then uncovered the quilt and lay down, then turned sideways to face Xu Zhiyi.
He slowly reached out and intended to hug her waist while sleeping.
Until he put his arms around Xu Zhiyi's waist and found that she had no objection, he immediately smiled happily, but after a while he realized that it was not that his wife had no objection, but that she had fallen asleep.
But when he thought that he could now sleep with his wife in his arms, his heart suddenly felt sweet.
Then he leaned over and gave her a light kiss on the face before happily closing his eyes and falling asleep.
The next day, because everyone stayed up late last night, they had not gotten up when the sun rose. After Su got up and washed up, she saw that Xu Zhiyi and his wife had not gotten up yet, so she quickly shouted:
"Zhiyi, Chang'an, Wuyou, it's time to get up. We have to pay New Year's greetings soon. We have to get up and get ready. Don't wait until someone comes to our house and we are all still asleep."
Shen Wuyou, who was lying on the bed, sat up suddenly after hearing Su's words. Only Xu Zhiyi turned over and responded softly, "I know," and then rolled up the quilt and fell asleep again!
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