The sewing machine stops, the fingers lift the pressure plate, and the thread breaks for the last time. Ruan Xi picked up the scissors and cut every thread on the clothes. After cutting, she turned the clothes over, stood up, lifted them up in front of her, and showed them to Li Xiaofang and her other two roommates.
The three roommates' eyes lit up when they saw it. Li Xiaofang reached out and touched the skirt, "It's really made."
Ruan Xi smiled and asked, "How is it? Does it look good?"
Li Xiaofang nodded quickly and said, "It looks good! It looks really good! It's so fashionable!"
Ruan Xi couldn't help but smile even more happily, looking at her and saying, "Your body shape is similar, this skirt should be suitable for you, do you want to try it on?"
Li Xiaofang was a little flattered, "Is it okay?"
Ruan Xi nodded decisively, "Okay."
Li Xiaofang rubbed her hands with joy, took the skirt and held it carefully, then ran to pull up the curtains of the dormitory.
After changing into her skirt, Ruan Xi went to open the curtains. Li Xiaofang turned around, unable to hide the smile on her face. She looked extremely happy and asked Ruan Xi and the others, "Does it look good?"
The other two roommates nodded quickly and said, "It looks great!"
There was only a half-length mirror in the dormitory. Li Xiaofang stood in front of the mirror, stroked her braids and looked carefully at herself in the beautiful dress. The smile on her face became even more intense.
This dress has long sleeves, which is perfect for wearing in spring.
While I was watching, several other roommates came back. When they saw Li Xiaofang wearing her new dress, their eyes widened instantly, and they said with surprise and astonishment: "Wow, this dress is really beautiful."
Li Xiaofang was very happy, "Really? No one on the street has ever worn such a beautiful skirt."
A roommate came over and patted Ruan Xi on the shoulder, "That's great, you're really good at it."
Ruan Xi just smiled when she was praised, and then she saw several girls from other dormitories sticking their heads in to take a look at the dormitory door. When they saw the skirt Li Xiaofang was wearing, they were all interested. They lingered on it for a moment and then went straight into the dormitory to take a look.
Because she was not from Ruanxi's dormitory, a girl asked, "Where did you buy this? It's so beautiful."
Li Xiaofang pointed at Ruan Xi and said, "Ruan Xi drew and made it himself."
When people heard this, they were surprised and turned to look at Ruan Xi. His eyes caught sight of the sewing machine in the dormitory, and he exclaimed, "Oh my God, Ruan Xi, you are so amazing."
Ruan Xi smiled and said modestly: "It's just average."
This is not just ordinary at all, it seems amazing to them!
However, compared to Ruan Xi, they paid more attention to her skirt and kept pulling Li Xiaofang to look at her. Because the dormitory door was not closed, it attracted a lot of people in a short time and the dormitory was soon crowded.
Girls all love beautiful things, especially beautiful clothes and beautiful skirts.
After seeing it, a girl went out to her dorm and talked about it again, so this beautiful skirt with a special style quickly attracted a lot of attention in the girls' dormitory area. Many girls heard the news and ran over to see it, one wave after another came.
Because the skirt was not made for her, Li Xiaofang did not wear it for long and took it off quickly after trying it on. After taking it off, she hung the skirt on a hanger so that people in other dormitories could only see the skirt and not her.
There were people coming and going in the dormitory all night. After the door was closed, Li Xiaofang took the skirt off the hanger and held it in her hands. When she gave it to Ruan Xi, she smiled and said, "I don't even want to give it back to you."
Ruan Xi knew that she was expressing her love for the skirt, and she was of course happy to hear that. She smiled and reached out to take the skirt and said, "If you really want it, you can buy the cloth and I'll make it for you."
Li Xiaofang's eyes lit up when she heard this, "Really?"
Ruan Xi nodded, "But... there will be a labor fee..."
"That certainly can't be done in vain."
Li Xiaofang smiled and said, "Wait for me to ask my family to send some cloth coupons over next month."
As soon as Li Xiaofang finished speaking, another roommate asked, "Ruan Xi, can we do it too?"
Ruan Xi turned to look at her, "It's all right, as long as there's labor fees, anyone can do it."
The other roommates looked at each other, and through exchanging glances, they reached a consensus on the idea. Then one of them looked at Ruan Xi and said, "Then we can ask our families to send us some cloth coupons, buy some cloth and make a pair of them, and then we can wear them together when the time comes."
Ruan Xi nodded, "Okay, I'll do them for you one by one then."
The first dress that Ruan Xi made was specially made for the girl with a blue hair flower. She used the old electric iron that Xie Dongyang bought for her these two days to iron the skirt, then folded it and put it in a cloth bag.
In the early hours of Sunday morning, she still got up early, washed, ate, and went to set up the stall.
Because she moved the sewing machine back, she naturally went back to the dormitory after dinner, moved the sewing machine out of the dormitory, washed the tricycle in the carport and brought it to the outside of the dormitory gate, and moved the sewing machine onto the tricycle.
Although it was a bit tiring to move things around, it wasn't very difficult.
Ruan Xi rode his tricycle out of school and went to Xie Dongyang's repair shop first. He went to the repair shop to pick up his goods, and then went to Dazhalan with Xie Dongyang in the warm light of the rising sun, set up a stall on the street and started doing business.
Because Ruan Xi was busy, she temporarily entrusted the purchasing matters to Xie Dongyang. Otherwise, she only has one day a week to go to the factory to purchase goods, and she has no time to set up the stall.
The stall was set up and Ruan Xi sat down behind the sewing machine.
If someone came to her with work, she would take it. If someone came to her stall to buy something, she would collect the money and sell the things. She doesn’t have much free time, but she is not idle either. She is either painting or reading - she can’t waste the university she worked so hard to get into.
Halfway through the morning, the girl with the blue flower on her head last week did not show up.
Xie Dongyang still remembered that girl. When he was free to eat lunch at noon, he sat next to Ruan Xi and used her sewing machine as a table. He said to her, "The woman who asked you to make clothes is not coming, is she?"
Ruan Xi said indifferently: "If you don't come, I'll put it up. There are many people who want to buy it."
Xie Dongyang looked at her while eating: "Really?"
Ruan Xi glanced at him and said, "Men like you who don't care about your appearance don't understand."
Xie Dongyang slightly widened his eyes, a little unhappy, "How am I not tidying up?"
Ruan Xi smiled and didn't argue with him, "You don't understand anyway."
Xie Dongyang mixed the noodles in the bowl and said, "Okay, okay, then I guess I don't understand."
After dinner, Xie Dongyang took a nap on the stall while there were few people around.
Ruan Xi had no time to take a nap, so she lay down beside the sewing machine and drew, then read a book after drawing for a while.
When more people started to gather on the street and some came to her stall to look at things, she would perk up and start taking orders and selling things. Because she had just set up the stall, she only took small jobs like repairing and altering clothes.
The sun slowly set in the west, and at almost three o'clock in the afternoon, the girl with the blue-headed flower from last week appeared.
This time she didn't wear a blue hair flower, but an orange hairband. And she didn't come alone, she brought a girl who was about her age with her. The two of them walked arm in arm to Ruan Xi's sewing machine.
Ruan Xi recognized her as soon as she looked up, so she stood up and said with a smile, "You're here."
The girl with the blue flower head asked, "Did you make the skirt?"
Ruan Xi nodded and hurried to take the skirt out of the cloth bag.
She handed the skirt to the blue-headed girl and said, "Take a look and see if you like it."
The girl with blue hair and flowers took the skirt and shook it off, her eyes lit up instantly. Then she quickly lifted up her skirt and compared it to her body, turned around happily to show her friend, and asked her friend: "How is it?"
Her friend also liked it after seeing it, and just nodded repeatedly and said, "It's pretty good."
The main thing is that the style has never been seen on the street. It is fashionable and beautiful, and it is eye-catching as soon as it is opened. As long as something is special and eye-catching, it is really hard for people to think it is ugly.
Ruan Xi looked at the girl with the blue hair and asked, "Do you want to try it?"
The girl with the blue hair turned around and asked her, "Can I try it? Where can I try it?"
Ruan Xi pointed to the shop next to her and said, "I know the salesperson at this silk shop. She has a place to try on the clothes."
Not only is there a place to change clothes, but there is also a full-length mirror in the store.
The blue-headed girl was very happy and took her friend's arm. "Come on, come with me and try it."
Ruan Xi handed the stall to Xie Dongyang and took the girl with blue-headed flowers and her friend to the silk shop.
He went inside to borrow some space for the girl with blue hair to change her clothes, and then asked her to look at herself in front of the mirror.
The blue-haired girl smiled as she looked in the mirror, flicking her skirt slightly and asked her friend, "How do you feel?"
Her friend stared at her and nodded with a smile, saying, "It will look good on you too."
The girl with the blue-headed flower was also very satisfied and felt like she had found a treasure. Especially the sales clerk in the silk shop and the customers coming in and out of the store, when they saw her wearing this dress, they all looked at her, their eyes almost glued to her.
The silk shop salesperson asked Ruan Xi: "Did you make this?"
Ruan Xi nodded, "Yes, I did."
The salesperson smiled and said, "I didn't realize you were so skilled. I thought you could only fix zipper buttonholes and alter clothes. I didn't expect you could actually make clothes, and make them so beautiful."
Ruan Xi was not very modest: "I don't know how to write it, and I don't dare to write it."
The salesperson asked again, "Can you make everything? Shirts, uniforms, pants, etc?"
Ruan Xi nodded, "As long as you can say it, I can do it."
The salesperson exclaimed, "You are really good. It's not uncommon to be able to make clothes. Tailors can make clothes, but the style of the clothes you made is novel and beautiful. I have never seen it before. The girl looks so beautiful in it."
The girl with blue hair and flowers on her head was so flattered by her that she couldn't help smiling.
After looking at herself in the mirror, she turned to Ruan Xi and asked, "How much is this skirt?"
Ruan Xi didn't hesitate, looked at her and replied, "Eight dollars."
The girl with blue hair was slightly stunned and felt that the price was a bit expensive for her salary. But it’s not outrageously expensive. This skirt is definitely worth the price.
Her friend whispered, "It's about the same. Those dresses with common designs also cost five dollars."
While the blue-haired girl was hesitating and didn't say anything, another middle-aged woman came to talk to Ruan Xi and asked her, "Little girl, have you been selling things and making clothes here all year round?"
Ruan Xi looked at her and said, "Come here on Sundays when you are in school. When summer vacation starts, come here every day."
The middle-aged woman continued to ask: "So you also take jobs making clothes like other tailors?"
Ruan Xi nodded, "Right, just decide what you want to make and buy the fabric and come over."
The middle-aged woman said, "Okay, I'll come to you to make clothes when I have time."
When Ruan Xi and the middle-aged woman talked to this point, the girl with the blue flower on her head also made up her mind. She took off her skirt and held it in her hands, then took out eight dollars from her bag and handed it to Ruan Xi with a smile.
Ruan Xi saw Qian Ye smiled and then said to her: "If you are satisfied, you can come to me to make all the clothes for spring, summer, autumn and winter. And if your friends like, you can also ask them to come over."
The girl with the blue hair flower smiled and nodded, "Okay, I'll wear this skirt to promote you at work."
After trying on the clothes and collecting the money, Ruan Xi did not stay in the silk shop.
She hurried back to her stall and sold a few items to the people gathered in front of it. As soon as I took the money and looked up, I saw that the girl with blue-headed flowers and her friend had not left yet, and the two of them followed me.
Ruan Xi looked at them and asked, "Anything else you need?"
The blue-headed girl pointed at her friend, "She wants to make one right now."
It was a good thing to have business coming to her door. Ruan Xi quickly went behind the sewing machine and asked her friend: "Do you want to make the same one as hers, or do you want to make a new style?"
The girl was quite conservative and didn't dare to try new things herself, but she really liked the skirts made by Ruan Xi, so she looked at Ruan Xi and said, "I want to make the same one as hers. Should I go buy the cloth and bring it over, and then pay the labor fee directly after it's made?"
Ruan Xi nodded, "Yes, I won't be here from Monday to Saturday, you can just come and get it next Sunday."
The girl agreed with Ruan Xi, took the blue-headed girl's arm and turned to leave, "Go home and get the cloth coupons."
The blue-headed girl realized it later, "Huh? I didn't use the cloth coupons, didn't I make a profit?"
The girl with the blue-headed flower went home with her friend to get the cloth coupons, bought some cloth at the cloth shop, and then immediately came to find Ruan Xi. Then he left the cloth to Ruan Xi, asked Ruan Xi to measure his body size, and went home with joy and anticipation in his heart.
Watching the two people walking away on the street, Xie Dongyang turned around and looked at Ruan Xi and said, "This skirt is really powerful."
Ruan Xi said in a joking tone: "You didn't even look at who did it."
Xie Dongyang gave her a thumbs up and said, "I don't obey anyone except you, Master Xi."
The fabric and sewing machine were taken back to the dormitory. During the next week at school, Ruan Xi continued to use her spare time to make clothes in the dormitory. Of course, she was skilled in making clothes and her hands were very fast, so it didn't take her too much time to make a skirt.
I'll go back to set up the stall on Sunday and bring the finished skirts with me. The girl came over, paid the labor fee, and happily took the skirt away. Ruan Xi thus completed her second tailoring business.
After she got the first and second pieces, the two girls wore the skirts outside to show them to their colleagues and neighbors. People who had seen Ruan Xi selling clothes in the silk shop came to her with the cloth, and naturally, the third and fourth pieces came next.
Li Xiaofang and her friends also wanted to make new clothes for the changing seasons. After they got the cloth coupons, they went to the cloth store to buy cloth and asked Ruan Xi to make clothes for them. After they put on the new clothes and went out, people from other dormitories came to Ruan Xi with cloth.
In just two months, people lined up to ask Ruan Xi to make clothes for them.
Ruan Xi took the work and did it in the order of first come, first served.
So she could make money in the dormitory on weekdays. Her classmates from school would bring cloth to her dormitory, and the work she got from the stall on Sundays would also be taken back to the dormitory to do. On Sundays, I would set up a stall and sell things for a day.
In this way, you can earn several hundred dollars a week.
It’s really tiring, but I’m also really happy when counting money.
Time flies, and half of the semester has passed quickly.
During the break when the store was the least crowded, Lu Yuanzheng went in, picked up the phone, dialed a number and waited.
After a while, the call was connected. Hearing the voice from the other end of the line, he took a breath and said, "Mom, this is Yuanzheng. Why haven't you sent me living expenses for two months?"
The voice coming out of the receiver was very unhappy, "How dare you call me and ask me? What did you do with the living expenses I gave you? Ye Qiuwen is with you, right? Do you think she hasn't cheated you enough? I don't know what you are thinking. You are a college student now. Do you want to ruin your life on her?"
Lu Yuanzheng took another deep breath and spoke after a moment: "I can't just ignore her, right?"
The voice in the receiver was even more unhappy, "Who are you to her?! Her parents don't care about her, so why are you taking care of her? She is holding you back and dragging you down, do you know that? If you don't break up with her, you will have no money in the future!"
Beep, beep—
There was a dead tone on the phone.
Lu Yuanzheng held the phone for a moment, wanting to dial again, but then thought better of it. He put the phone down, paid and left the store. I was absent-minded when I returned to the teaching building for class, and left school without eating after school.
Ye Qiuwen has not been having a good time these days because her face was so swollen that she couldn't even go out at first. Lu Yuanzheng hadn't come to see her or care about her much in the past two months, but he hadn't driven her out of Beijing either.
As a man, he still knows that he has to be responsible for his woman. After all, Ye Qiuwen has been with him for so many years and has given him everything. He can't just break up with her and ruin her life.
After so many years of relationship, it is not something that can be ended just like that. He has a responsibility towards Ye Qiuwen.
The wounds on Ye Qiuwen's face have healed completely these days, but she doesn't go out often. Sometimes she would miss Lu Yuanzheng so much that she wanted to go to school to find him immediately, but she held it back.
She was afraid that if she annoyed Lu Yuanzheng again, he would just ask her to go home.
She doesn't want to go home, never again in this life.
She had nothing to do in the rented house, so she rented some novels from the bookstore and read them to pass the time.
Today, when I was watching the climax of the plot, the door of my house was suddenly pushed open.
She quickly sat up from the bed, put down the novel, and saw Lu Yuanzheng enter the room.
She was immediately surprised to see Lu Yuanzheng and quickly stood up and said, "Yuanzheng, you're back."
Lu Yuanzheng didn't look happy when he saw her. He poured himself a bowl of water and sat down at the table. After a moment of silence, he said, "I'm running out of money. I may not be able to support you anymore. Why don't you... find something to do?"
Ye Qiuwen was stunned when she heard this. "My household registration is not here, how can I find a job?"
In fact, even if she had her household registration here, it would be difficult for her to find a job. Many educated youth from the city could not find jobs after returning to the city, and could not even get a job sweeping the streets. There are limited jobs in the city and everyone is assigned a position.
Moreover, reform and opening up had just begun. The policy allowed small stalls to sell things, but it did not say that people could be hired to work. Because hiring people is a bit exploitative, no one dares to do this for the time being.
Since no private individual dares to hire people to work, it is naturally difficult to find a job in the city.
Lu Yuanzheng thought about it, looked at her and said, "Why don't you do what Ruan Xi did, go out and find a factory to make some groceries, and then set up a small stall on the street to sell some things. At least you can earn some living expenses and support yourself."
Ye Qiuwen held her breath for a long moment and whispered, "I can't bring myself to do this."
Of course Lu Yuanzheng knew that setting up a stall would be unseemly and would be looked down upon by others, which was truly undignified. Ye Qiuwen had ridiculed Ruan Xi and her friend because of this before.
But, isn't there no solution now?
Is face more important than filling your stomach?
He looked at Ye Qiuwen and said, "My parents found out that you were here with me, so they cut off my living expenses and haven't sent me any money for two months. The little money I saved is almost gone now."
Ye Qiuwen looked at him for a moment, then sat down beside the bed, lowered her head and whispered, "It must have been Ruan Xi who reported it."
Lu Yuanzheng doesn’t want to care who filed the complaint now. The truth will come out sooner or later, and his family will know about it. Things have come to this now, we have to find a way to solve it, right?
He himself doesn't care. The school provides living allowance, and he can make do by saving a little. But he couldn't support Ye Qiuwen anymore. He had to go to school and couldn't go out to find a job to earn money, so she had to support herself.
He said: "Ruan Xi can pull off this shamelessness, can't you give it a try?"
Ye Qiuwen lowered her head and picked at her fingers. After a while, she whispered, "I am different from Ruan Xi... She has never cared about her dignity... I really can't bring myself to do this..."
Lu Yuanzheng took a deep breath, stood up and was about to leave.
It was a rare occasion for him to come over, so Ye Qiuwen quickly stood up and held him, "Can you help me find something else to do? It doesn't matter if it's a little hard. I really don't want to do this kind of thing on the street. It's too embarrassing..."
Lu Yuanzheng paused for a few seconds, took a deep breath, and had no choice but to say, "Let me take a look."
After saying that, he still wanted to leave, but Ye Qiuwen didn't let go and kept him: "Aren't you going to stay?"
Lu Yuanzheng pulled her hands away, and just like the two times before, his face was expressionless, "There are still many things to do at school, so I'd better go back to live there. I'll see if I can find something for you to do in the next two days."
After saying this, he didn't give Ye Qiuwen any chance to speak and immediately walked out.
Ye Qiuwen chased him out the door and saw him riding away on his bicycle. She wanted to call him but held back. Watching him riding his bike into the alley, she bit her lips with tears in her eyes. Unable to suppress the grievance in her heart, she went back to the house and sat down to cry.
The remaining half of the semester passed quickly and summer vacation was about to arrive.
Ruan Xi did not plan to go home during the summer vacation, so he directly applied to stay in school so that he could set up a stall and do business every day.
Before the holiday, Ruan Jie came to see her and learned that she was going to set up a stall to make money and would not go home, so Ruan Jie applied to stay in school. Ruan Jie plans to accompany Ruan Xi to set up a stall during the two months of summer vacation to help her share the hard work of setting up a stall.
So when the summer vacation officially began and other students bought tickets to go home, they got up early and went to bed late every day, dragging the goods and sewing machines to Dazhalan. Ruan Xi took on jobs making clothes, while Ruan Jie collected money and sold things nearby.
When Xie Dongyang saw Ruan Jie for the first time, he said to Ruan Xi: "Oh, you are quite courageous. You even hired a helper?"
Ruan Xi rolled her eyes at him and said, "This is my sister!"
After Ruan Jie followed Ruan Xi to set up the stall, Xie Dongyang liked to talk to Ruan Jie when he had free time. The main reason was that Ruan Xi was busy making clothes on the sewing machine and had no time to pay attention to him, so he naturally found Ruan Jie and nagged her.
Today, when he was chatting excitedly with Ruan Jie after lunch, two sounds of clearing throats were suddenly heard in front of the stall.
Ruan Jie turned around first and saw a young girl dressed fashionably. The girl was wearing a light blue dress, her long hair was half tied up with a rubber band, and she was wearing a pair of black leather shoes with snow-white socks.
Xie Dongyang was originally chattering away, but when he turned around and saw the girl, all the expressions on his face instantly disappeared.
The girl had a gloomy face and stood in front of the stall, staring silently at Xie Dongyang for a moment, then turned away and walked away.
Seeing the girl walk away with a gloomy face, Xie Dongyang stood up in a hurry and said to Ruan Xi: "Master Xi, please ask your sister to help me watch the stall, I will be back soon."
Before he could finish his words, the man ran after the girl.
Watching him chase the young girl, Ruan Jie whispered, "Who?"
Ruan Xi looked puzzled: "He has a girlfriend?"
Ruan Jie turned to look at Ruan Xi, "You don't know?"
Ruan Xi shook her head, "I really don't know."
Looking at his usual nonchalant look, he doesn't look like a man with a girlfriend at all. In all the time they have known each other, no girl has ever approached him. This is the first time in the past six months.
Ruan Jie said: "She's pretty."
Ruan Xi smiled, turned her attention back to making clothes, and ignored the matter.
About half an hour later, Xie Dongyang came back.
When he came back and sat down, Ruan Jie looked at him curiously and asked, "Who was that just now?"
Xie Dongyang was obviously not in a good mood anymore. He lost interest in talking and simply said, "A friend who grew up in the alley."
Ruan Jie asked again: "Girlfriend?"
Xie Dongyang looked at her and said, "Don't talk nonsense. I have been waiting for her for several years, but she didn't agree."
Ruan Jie thought for a moment, "She seemed angry just now, could it be that she misunderstood something?"
Xie Dongyang shook his head and said, "No, he's angry that I'm setting up a stall here."
Ruan Jie looked at him and thought for a moment, "Do you think you are embarrassing?"
Xie Dongyang smiled, with a forced smile, "She didn't think I was embarrassing, she just said I was not doing my job properly and told me to find a proper job quickly, otherwise her parents would look down on me. She did this for my own good."
They were quite familiar with each other, so Ruan Jie didn't lie to him. She just said, "That's because she thinks you're embarrassing."
Xie Dongyang: “…”
He wanted to explain further, but after thinking for a long time he couldn't sort out the words, so he just said to Ruan Jie: "Oh my! You don't understand! You look young!"
Ruan Jie looked at him and said, "You actually know it in your heart, but you just don't want to admit it."
Xie Dongyang: “…”
This little girl! !
Ruan Xi turned around and saw Xie Dongyang's expression and couldn't help laughing out loud.
Ruan Jie heard the voice and looked back at Ruan Xi, "Sister, do you think I'm right?"
Ruan Xi cleared his throat and said, "I think you are right."
Xie Dongyang squinted his eyes and looked at Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie for a long time, then waved his hand and said, "I will break up with you for the time being."
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