Ruan Xi looked at Ruan Yuejin and said this, and the others also looked at Ruan Yuejin.
Under the scrutiny of everyone, his face turned red, blue, purple, and black. Having learned the craft for such a long time, he never felt that he was not learning it well, because there was no one around him to compare with.
The old tailor usually didn't like to meddle in anything. He just taught him all the skills, big or small, once and then left him alone. Moreover, the old tailor’s teaching was disorganized, just like when he taught Ruan Xi, he taught whatever he thought of.
Ruan Yuejin always felt that he was a good student.
Until today.
He looked at Ruan Xi, at the clothes she made by stepping on the pedals so easily, at the clothes without even a rough thread end to be seen, and at all the seams and the distances between the edges of the fabrics, as if they had been measured, neat and perfect.
He stood there without moving, not even using his mouth.
Everyone around who was watching the fun felt embarrassed for him. They felt that if the same thing happened to them, even if there was no rat hole in the ground, they would use a hammer to knock a hole and crawl into it, never to come out again in their lifetime.
His mother, Sun Xiaohui, worked in the production team. She had been bragging to others for half a year about how great he was. Every time she praised his skill at operating a sewing machine, she would also take the opportunity to criticize Ruan Xi, saying that she was only good at flattering him.
Now, the boasting is too much and it has exploded.
It exploded in front of everyone's expectations.
He also used Ruan Xi, whom he had always looked down upon, to slap his face with his nearly perfect skills, making a loud slapping sound.
Just tell me, is it embarrassing? !
Someone next to him was so embarrassed that he couldn't help clearing his throat.
Ruan Xi saw Ruan Yuejin standing there without saying anything, just holding the piece of cloth with his fingers tightening tighter and tighter until his knuckles turned white, so she put the finished coat on the sewing machine and got up to get the sewing kit.
She took the sewing kit and sat down. She picked out a needle of suitable size, threaded the needle through the eye, then picked up the finished coat and began to sew the buttonholes with needle and thread. After the buttonholes are locked, buttons need to be sewn on.
While she was doing these things skillfully and beautifully, she said, "I'll teach you something for free today. Being a tailor is not just about being able to operate a machine. Handwork is equally important, and sometimes even more difficult than operating a machine. How to collect the thread ends to make them look good, how to make buttonholes beautiful, how to sew buttons, and how to handle some fabrics to make them crisp, all of these need to be learned."
Ruan Yuejin still didn't say anything, just stared at her buttonhole.
She did it very quickly by hand, as if she didn't need to think or control anything at all. The needle in her hand seemed to have its own spirit and naturally landed in the most precise position. The needle and thread move up and down so quickly that it even looks a little dizzying.
After sewing the first buttonhole and dealing with the thread ends, Ruan Xi raised his head and looked at Ruan Yuejin again.
I smiled and asked him, "Have you learned it?"
Ruan Yuejin tightly grasped the piece of cloth and gritted his teeth - this is too humiliating!
He threw the piece of cloth in his hand onto the chopping board in front of the old tailor, turned around with a dark face, squeezed through the crowd and left the main room.
Sun Xiaohui came back to her senses and chased after him with a red face, "Yuejin, where are you going?"
Ruan Yuejin shouted loudly: "Leave me alone!"
Everyone in the room turned to look outside, and someone cleared his throat again.
At this time, Liu Xinghua, who was watching the fun, said to the three old ladies Zhao, Li and Hu, "What did I say before? If he had the ability and potential, it would be fine. But I'm afraid he has no potential and doesn't know his own weight. He boasted too much and ended up getting slapped in the face. Look at what happened today. The people in the village will laugh at him for a year."
The old tailor sat in front of the chopping board, smoking his pipe leisurely without saying a word, as if these things had nothing to do with him at all.
Ruan Xi didn't continue buttonhole, and looked at Liu Xinghua who had finished speaking and said, "Grandma, you'll be the next one."
We had agreed that we would cook for Sun Xiaohui's family first today, but now Ruan Yuejin and Sun Xiaohui have run away, and we can't waste time. We have to cook for other families later, so let's just cook for our own family first.
After all the family's clothes are ready, sew the buttonholes and buttons together.
Liu Xinghua didn't come over, but pulled Ruan Cuizhi and said, "Cuizhi, do yours first."
So Ruan Xi helped Ruan Cuizhi measure the size first, and then helped her make it.
The atmosphere in the room became relaxed, and someone spoke to Ruan Xi, "Xiao Xi, you are a real person who never shows off. You have learned the craft so well without making any noise. You really make your grandmother proud."
Ruan Xi smiled and said, "My master taught me well."
The old tailor smoked his pipe and said, "Hmph, no need to flatter me, you are smart."
Since the old tailor said that you are smart, then you must be really smart. After all, this old man doesn't praise people easily. What he is best at is to be mean and insulting. Once he starts to speak, there will be no water in his words.
People then asked, "When will you leave the school and come back to the village to open a shop?"
Ruan Xi still smiled and said: "My master hasn't taught me how to draw and make patterns yet. Now I can only do these jobs that don't require much brainpower." It's similar to the sewing workers in the garment factory. Anyone can do it after learning.
When people hear this, their eyes widen. "Oh my, this is a job that doesn't require any brainpower? Even if you ask me to use my brain, I can't learn it. I'm also afraid that the needle of the sewing machine will pierce my hand."
This worry is not wrong, as some people have indeed had their fingers pierced by machine needles.
Someone else who was quick to react interrupted and said, "So you've already learned these things, but you still don't know how to draw and make a board. That's why Mr. Song asks you to draw every day. He's asking you to practice your basic skills, so you can learn how to draw?"
Ruan Xi nodded: "That's what happened."
The man said, "Xiaoxi, you are so smart, you will definitely learn quickly. When you have learned well, come back and open a shop."
Ruan Xi smiled and said, "I don't have such plans for the time being. I'll just follow Master."
The old tailor was smoking a pipe nearby, the corners of his mouth curved in the smoke, looking very contented.
This disciple is worth having!
He is blessed!
Sun Xiaohui chased Ruan Yuejin out and finally caught up with him next to a haystack.
Ruan Yuejin was sitting alone on a haystack, crying uncontrollably, and wiping his tears with the back of his hand from time to time.
Sun Xiaohui was so tired that she was panting. She looked at him and said, "Why are you crying? I haven't cried yet. Do you know that I have been praising you in the production team for half a year, waiting for you to show me honor today, but you made me lose face!"
Ruan Yuejin started to glare at Sun Xiaohui while crying, his eyes red.
Sun Xiaohui looked at him and continued, "What did you learn in the past six months? If you didn't learn well, just say so. Why did you come back to lie to me? Now, people are laughing at us!"
Ruan Yuejin continued to glare at her with red eyes, "What do you know? I have already learned it very well."
Sun Xiaohui blocked his way, "You call this learning very well, but what do you call this Xiaoxi?"
Ruan Yuejin was so blocked that he was speechless. He grabbed a straw and threw it away, then rushed down the haystack and left.
Sun Xiaohui followed him, "Where are you going? Go back quickly, you don't want to make clothes anymore?"
Ruan Yuejin turned around and yelled at her: "Be a hammer!"
Before, he always thought that he had learned very well, while Ruan Xi knew nothing. Every day he would go to the old tailor's house to please the old tailor and flatter him very well, so he was very confident, and this confidence always supported him.
Now his self-confidence has completely collapsed, and he has been laughed at by so many people. His self-esteem has been severely damaged. What the hell is he going to do?
He is so shameless. After losing such a big position, he still wants to go back to do this?
Sun Xiaohui followed him and said loudly: "I have invested so much in order to let you learn the craft. You don't even earn a penny back, and you want to quit? Come back quickly and at least earn me some wages!"
Ruan Yuejin shouted at her, "I'm not going! If you want to go, you go!"
He doesn't want to learn this craft anymore!
I never want to see that mean old bachelor again!
He also didn't want to see his cousin smiling and shaving his face with a knife again!
Sun Xiaohui: "Then give me back half the basket of eggs!"
Ruan Yuejin: "I'll download it for you tomorrow!"
Sun Xiaohui: “…”
Because today he was making clothes for Ruan Xi's family, the old tailor had lunch at Ruan Xi's house. Liu Xinghua and Ruan Cuizhi cut half a pound of pork and fried a whole plate of twice-cooked pork, piling it up.
Hearing that Ruan Xi was in the limelight today, Ruan Changsheng slapped his thigh and said, "Oh, if I had known, I would not have gone out this morning. Before, Xiaoxi, you said that you wanted me to see your level, but who knew that I didn't see the most exciting part."
Ruan Xi looked at him and said, "Just don't leave this afternoon. I still have to make clothes for you and Grandpa."
That's true. Ruan Changsheng responded, "Okay, I won't go out this afternoon."
At the same time, in the main house of the Ruan family.
Ruan Changgui only found out about what happened in the morning through other people's gossip.
While eating, he stared at Ruan Yuejin with a dark look in his eyes and a completely black face.
He asked with a dark face: "What have you been doing for the past six months?"
Ruan Yuejin lowered his head to eat, and after a while he said, "I've learned it pretty well."
After a pause, he continued: "But I won't learn it anymore."
Ruan Changgui: “…”
He was so angry that he raised his chopsticks and was about to hit Ruan Yuejin, but was interrupted by Sun Xiaohui.
As a result, Sun Xiaohui said something that made Ruan Changgui even angrier, "Well...we need to borrow some money from someone."
Ruan Changgui didn't understand at first, so he just asked her, "It's almost the New Year, and I've only heard of people paying off debts before the New Year. After all, if you don't owe debts before the New Year, the debts won't be enough for the New Year. How can you borrow money before the New Year? Why do you suddenly want to borrow money again?"
Sun Xiaohui said: "The wages for making clothes are not enough."
She only had a few cents left in her hand. It would take at least a day to make clothes for her family of four, and the day's wage was two dollars.
Ruan Changgui looked at Sun Xiaohui and said, "We just settled the work points, and we also made a lot of money from selling pigs."
Sun Xiaohui lowered her head while eating and whispered, "I went to the commune to buy New Year's goods a few days ago. I bought cloth and food. The cloth was expensive, and I bought a lot of food, as well as couplets, firecrackers and so on. I spent all of it and only have a few cents left."
Ruan Changgui's eyes widened, and he slammed his chopsticks down, "You know that making clothes costs money, why don't you keep some?"
Sun Xiaohui was startled by his slamming the table and continued in a low voice: "I'm counting on Yuejin to get paid..."
Who would have thought that Ruan Yuejin had learned the skills so poorly that he is now planning to quit.
After hearing this, Ruan Changgui was so angry that he couldn't speak.
He suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest, like being hit by a hammer, and quickly raised his hand to cover his chest.
Oh my god...
Oh my god...
There is no shortage of people in the sky...
If you are short of people, just hire him...
After getting used to making clothes, the speed became faster. In the afternoon, Ruan Xi finished making all the clothes for Liu Xinghua, Ruan Zhigao and Ruan Changsheng. Everything else was made very finely, except for the buttonholes that had not been fastened and the buttons that had not been sewn.
Ruan Xi was sitting and buttonhole-watching. Ruan Cuizhi was very interested. Everyone else left, but she was the only one who stayed beside Ruan Xi and watched.
Ruan Xi knew that Ruan Cuizhi was very good at sewing, and she was very meticulous when mending clothes, with neat and beautiful stitches, so she looked at Ruan Cuizhi and said, "Third aunt, why don't you help me sew the buttonholes?"
Ruan Cuizhi wanted to take action, "Can I? I'm afraid it would be bad if I did something wrong to you."
Ruan Xi said, "It's our own clothes anyway. If they're not well made, we can just tear them down and redo them. No one will say anything. You should have learned these skills a long time ago. Why don't you work with me?"
Ruan Cuizhi was eager to try, "Then let me try?"
As she said this, she took out her own dress and said, "I'll try it on mine."
Ruan Xi gave her the sewing kit and taught her some details while she did it herself. In fact, she can do it generally, but because she has not received professional training, she is not very good at handling some small details.
But as soon as Ruan Xi told her, she immediately understood what to do.
So the aunt and nephew sat together buttonholes and chatted casually.
Ruan Xi held the needle and thread and whispered to Ruan Cuizhi: "When the master teaches me how to draw and make patterns, and I have learned everything I should learn, I will tell him that I will take you to his house to learn the machine. Don't let him worry about it anymore, I will teach you."
Ruan Cuizhi nodded and whispered, "Okay."
She had never taken this matter seriously before. After all, being a tailor was far from her and she had never even touched a sewing machine. But today, when she saw Ruan Xi operating the machine to make clothes, a burning fire ignited in her heart.
As long as Ruan Xi was willing to teach her, she felt that she could definitely learn it well.
Ruan Xi laughed and continued to whisper to Ruan Cuizhi, "Third aunt, just think about it. As a tailor, there are not many people who make clothes on weekdays, but whenever someone makes clothes for a wedding, you can easily earn a few dollars. If you are not busy, you can also go to the production team to work and earn work points. The busiest time is the end of the year. You have to visit all the villages in the mountains. How much money can you earn? And no matter where you go, you have three meals a day, and the food is good. When you leave, the villagers will give you delicious food to take away. Who wouldn't envy you?"
Ruan Cuizhi also smiled when she heard this, her eyes shining, "It's really enviable."
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