Due to the addition of new members, Su Jinyan made several requests to Qi Caifeng.
The first thing is to start keeping formal accounts. The amount of cloth taken out from the warehouse and the number of ready-made clothes put into the warehouse every day must be recorded. The amount of cloth each worker receives, what kind of cloth, what style of clothes are made, and how many pieces of each must also be recorded in detail. After all, this is also related to people's income and cannot be careless.
Then the fabric must be cut appropriately and not wasted. The remaining fabric can be made into a plaid quilt cover in your spare time. The large fabric can be used to decorate clothes, etc.
Of course, she also said that if anyone needs cloth at home, they can take some in small amounts.
"Since we are colleagues in the future, you can tell me if you need anything. For example, if there is an emergency at home and you need an advance on your salary, or if you need bills, you can tell me and I can help you exchange them."
"One more thing. There are many houses in the new building. I plan to vacate two rooms as dormitories for our employees. They can cook their own meals in the dormitories. You can talk to them and see if there are any other people who need accommodation besides your niece."
Qi Caifeng pondered for a moment and said, "I think Aunt Ning's niece Ning Xiaoxiao might need it. The child is from another place, and her husband passed the college entrance examination. Her in-laws thought that she only gave birth to two girls and was not worthy of their son, so they drove her out."
"Ning Xiaoxiao just got divorced and now lives in Aunt Ning's house, but Aunt Ning's house is not very spacious, and it's not suitable to live there all the time. But she also has two children, so is it inappropriate to live there?"
Ning Xiaoxiao looked to be about 26 or 27 years old. Perhaps due to poor nutrition for a long time, she was not only thin, but also had rough and yellow skin, making her look older.
"How old are her children?"
"The oldest is nine, the second is seven, both are girls. I met them once, and they were very sensible and not noisy."
Su Jinyan thought for a moment, "How well do you know Ning Xiaoxiao? What's her character like?" Without waiting for Qi Caifeng to answer, he continued, "Then don't talk about the accommodation for now. Observe her for two days today and tomorrow, try to get to know her as much as possible, ask her some suggestions, and see her character. If she's not bad, then let her stay there."
"I'll tidy up the new house in the next two days and buy some sewing machines."
Qi Caifeng nodded and was about to leave when she suddenly thought of something and said, "Xiaoyan, I heard from my husband yesterday that the director of Beijing Garment Factory No. 2 was replaced and some new machines were brought back from Hohhot. Some of the old machines in the factory were replaced."
"Would you like to consider finding a way to buy it back? That machine can make clothes much faster than the sewing machines we buy in the store."
Su Jinyan's eyes lit up and he smiled, "Thank you, Aunt Qi. I'll practice now. We don't understand this machine, so how can we fix it if it breaks down?"
Qi Caifeng smiled softly, "I've thought about this as well. My eldest uncle can repair these machines, so we can just ask him to come and fix them when the time comes."
"That's great. I'll try to contact them now to see if I can buy it."
Qi Caifeng smiled and nodded, "Okay, go and arrange for them to work. By the way, don't you want to knit sweaters? Bring out the samples and wool, and I'll let them get started."
Su Jinyan smiled and nodded, "Okay."
After Qi Caifeng left, Su Jinyan found three sweater samples in the space, a long, loose, high-necked, cream-colored one, a short, black high-necked one, and a short, red one with a white lapel.
Considering the problem of fading of wool in this era, she almost always uses solid colors. She will take a few kinds of wool later to test whether they fade seriously or have any dyeing problems, and then decide whether to use mixed colors.
She took the sweater samples to the west wing and got the wool and knitting needles. After giving them to Qi Caifeng, she didn't care about them anymore.
The children were not at home. Zhao Zhengjun went out for a walk. Sun was washing clothes. Su Jinyan told her about inviting the workers to lunch at noon and asked her to steam more rice. Then she put on a coat and went out.
She first went to the courtyard on Chang'an Street and placed fifty large watermelons, five hundred strawberries, five hundred goose eggs, one thousand duck eggs, two thousand chicken eggs, and three divided pigs.
The watermelons grown in her space are particularly sweet and delicious, so even though they are expensive, Zhou Xingdong still sells them like hot cakes, and the same goes for strawberries.
But she does not plan to increase the supply further.
She didn't know whether Zhou Xingdong had inquired about the watermelon planting situation in the surrounding areas, but she thought that after selling so many watermelons, some people must have bought watermelons from the surrounding villages.
Since I can’t buy her big and delicious watermelons, I have to find out where her supply comes from, right?
Even regarding the seafood business, she had informed Zhou Xingdong early on that the crab season was out and the last batch was the day before yesterday. As for the prawns and scallops, the supply would be stopped after two more deliveries.
Various kinds of fish, meat, eggs, etc. were supplied until she gave birth.
After dropping off the supplies, she went straight to the first store of the department store.
Sure enough, the stairs to the third floor were blocked.
She found a stall selling sewing machines on the second floor and bought two machines, as well as needles, threads of various colors, and 300 large and small buttons.
Buying so many buttons at one time, the salesperson's eyes changed when he looked at her, but she still forced a smile, paid the money, gave her the address, and asked them to deliver the goods at 5pm.
After leaving the department store, I took a bus to two supply and marketing cooperatives and a department store and bought two sewing machines, thread, buttons, etc. The delivery time was scheduled for tomorrow, and the time was staggered.
At the last department store, she bought another thirty feet of army green coarse cloth and twenty-five kilograms of cotton. Because there were so many things, she went directly to the manager and asked them to deliver the cloth and cotton to her home together with the sewing machine.
It was the harvest season and there was still plenty of cotton in the department store. However, there were not enough cotton coupons, so she secretly exchanged them with the salesperson using food coupons.
Since we are planning to build employee dormitories, we have to build them well. These children are from poor families, and it will cost a lot to buy these things.
On the first floor of the department store, she saw several adults taking their children to buy pencils, pinyin books, grid books and other school supplies. She suddenly remembered that she had promised the village team leader to donate to the children's schooling.
Without any hesitation, she went forward and bought fifty pinyin notebooks, fifty grid notebooks, one hundred pencils, one hundred erasers, and one hundred knives for pencils. Finally, she saw notebooks for junior and high school students and bought another thirty of them, as well as ten pens.
After buying the school supplies, she carried them out of the department store.
She is a person who often acts impulsively, like at this moment.
Now that she lives a better life, she thinks of the children in the village who wanted to go to school but had no money and were still wearing tattered clothes, and how their little faces turned blue from the cold in the thin cotton coats and cotton shoes in winter. At the same time, she has also forgotten all the bad gossip that the villagers said about her being lazy and gluttonous.
Of course, she wasn't scolded, so naturally she doesn't have many deep memories of it.
Su Jinyan carried a large bag of school supplies to the post office and called the village brigade.
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