When Yang Cuiling saw Jiang Yue pull open the curtain and come out, she asked, "Sister Jiang Yue, is there anything that needs to be changed?"
"No need! It's very good!" Jiang Yue was becoming more and more satisfied with Aunt Yang's craftsmanship. So far, as long as she drew the pattern and explained her requirements clearly to Aunt Yang, Aunt Yang could almost always do it to her satisfaction.
"Here, the money is for you. Tell Auntie Yang when she comes back." Jiang Yue was an old customer. Except for the fact that Auntie Yang asked her for a deposit at the beginning, she would pay the bill all together after the work was done.
Yang Cuiling took the money and put it close to her. Jiang Yue saw that she was frowning, as if she was worried, so she asked, "Cuiling, are you in trouble?"
Jiang Yue had come here so many times and knew that Yang Cuiling was a person who could not hide things and everything would be written on her face.
"Sister Jiang Yue, hey, my grandma might have been tricked by someone." Yang Cuiling sighed.
"What do you mean?" Hearing this, Jiang Yue asked with concern.
"Last week, an old acquaintance of my grandma came over and asked her to make some clothes for her."
Jiang Yue listened to Yang Cuiling's explanation of the situation. It turned out that it was an acquaintance of Yang who brought fabric to make a few skirts. Yang naturally accepted it. At this time, the acquaintance went out for a while and came back, saying that there was something urgent at home, and wanted to borrow 20 yuan from Yang. When the clothes were finished, he would give it to Yang together with the wages.
Aunt Yang felt embarrassed to refuse the loan because of the acquaintance. As a result, the skirt was made, but on the day agreed to pick it up, the acquaintance did not show up.
At first, Aunt Yang didn’t think much about it, she just thought that her acquaintance was delayed by something.
However, just the day before yesterday, when Aunt Yang was buying vegetables, she heard that the acquaintance fell down the mountain after drinking and broke his leg. Aunt Yang hurried to the man's house, but the man said he didn't want the clothes anymore. Aunt Yang asked him to pay back the money, but he shamelessly said he had no money and wanted to use the cloth to pay off the debt.
"Are those fabrics worth twenty dollars?" Jiang Yue asked.
"The fabric is okay! But it's not worth twenty yuan." Yang Cuiling said with a bitter face: "The skirt is already made, but no one wants it now. My grandma can't get the twenty yuan back. My grandma said that the man wanted to use the fabric to get money from the beginning!"
"Bring the skirts here for me to see." Jiang Yue saw Yang Cuiling picked out three Sarajevo dresses. This style of skirt came from Big Brother and was very popular more than ten years ago.
"I made three skirts, but now that person doesn't want the clothes. It means that I can't get back the wages for making these skirts, and I even put in 20 yuan." Yang Cuiling looked worried.
Twenty yuan is not a small amount of money. Many people only earn about twenty yuan a month. Aunt Yang works day and night on the sewing machine to make clothes, but she only earns that little money.
"How can it be in vain? Since that person doesn't want them anymore, why not just sell these three skirts!" Jiang Yue said.
"Sell? Sell to whom?" Yang Cuiling really didn't think of selling it, but she immediately shook her head, "No, if you do it privately, you'll be caught by the joint defense team. Besides, no one will come to the tailor shop to buy ready-made clothes!"
"If no one comes to buy, then we will go find someone who can!" Jiang Yue was very confident, "But before we go, the style of the clothes needs to be changed!"
"How, how do I change it?" Yang Cuiling didn't expect Jiang Yue to be serious about it.
"Change the neckline like this, cut off the puff sleeves and make it sleeveless, and this one..."
Half an hour later, at the gate of the county government compound, Yang Cuiling grabbed the corner of Jiang Yue's clothes, looking around vigilantly, fearing that someone would rush out to catch her, and said timidly: "Sister Jiang Yue, why don't we go back? We won't sell this skirt anymore!"
"Ah! What? You said you want to sell this skirt? It's so beautiful, but can you bear to part with it?" Jiang Yue saw from afar a young woman who was dressed very fashionably in that era walking towards her, so she deliberately spoke loudly in response to Yang Cuiling's words.
Sure enough, the young woman looked over when she heard this. When she saw the skirt Jiang Yue was wearing, her eyes lit up and she quickly quickened her pace and walked over. "Comrade, where did you buy this skirt? It's so beautiful!"
Jiang Yue said mysteriously, "My relative is doing business in the south and sent it back."
"I just heard you say you wanted to sell one. Do you have any extra ones? Can you show them to me?" asked the young woman.
"Of course!" Jiang Yue took out the altered dress from her bag. She saw that the woman was wearing a yellow headband. What a coincidence, the dress she wanted to sell was a yellow dress.
As soon as the woman saw the color and the trendy style, she loved it immediately.
"Can I take it home and try it on? I'm afraid it won't fit."
"Sure, sure. My sister is a tailor. If it doesn't fit, ask her to alter it for you." Jiang Yue agreed immediately.
The young woman said that she lived in the staff quarters of the government agencies, and took Jiang Yue and Yang Cuiling inside. A few minutes later, the woman came out happily, "This skirt is so beautiful!"
"You look better in it than I do!" Jiang Yue praised.
"Really?" The woman was even happier when she heard Jiang Yue's words. She was moved by Jiang Yue's beautiful dress. "I want the dress. How much?"
Yang Cuiling didn't expect that someone would actually come to buy a skirt. She was stunned for just a second, and then she saw Jiang Yue pointing up three fingers.
"Thirty?" The young woman hesitated. "It's a bit expensive!"
"Good goods are not cheap. Think about it, comrade. Any piece of ready-made clothing in a department store costs thirty or forty. This one of ours comes from the south. Look at how fashionable the design is. Don't you find that it looks particularly good on you and really enhances your temperament?" Jiang Yue praised the woman calmly and restrainedly.
"Okay, wait for me, I'll go get the money!" The young woman really liked the dress and decided to buy it right away.
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