Chapter 006 Cotton Fabric

Can you pinch your face?

Tang Yuan clicked on the details of face-shaping and looked at it for a while. Her expression was even more shocked. Rather than face-shaping, this thing was more like "character-shaping". It was similar to some online games she had seen before. Not only could one pinch the face, but one could also change the hairstyle, body shape, and even gender.

Each time you create a character, you need 10,000 coins, but now you have a chance to do it for free.

I don’t know if the game characters I created can get out.

She tried to click on the details page and set the free character's height to 1.55 meters, dark skin, and slightly longer hair than her current one, but she chose a rough texture for the hair.

I also chose Random in the options for eyes, ears, mouth and nose.

After a few options, the character that appeared on the detailed picture took shape. Not to say that he was completely different from her, but at least when people saw the two of them, no one would compare them together.

After confirming the character settings, she clicked on Generate in the lower right corner. After the character was successfully generated, a person with closed eyes appeared in front of her. At the same time, a new row of cabinets appeared on the left wall, which could just accommodate the next person.

The panel appeared in front of her. Tang Yuan stretched out her hand and poked "Control". She instantly entered into a mysterious feeling. When she opened her eyes again, she saw "Tang Yuan", the "Tang Yuan" that the newly created character saw.

But this does not mean that she has lost control of "Tang Yuan". On the contrary, she can feel that "Tang Yuan" is her subject. She can control the new character in Tang Yuan's body and let her do things according to her own ideas.

After leaving the game, the new character was also taken to the cabin, but the clothes on his body disappeared.

Going back again, the new character was wearing her clothes again.

The person can go out, but the clothes cannot, which means that this set of clothes is a copy of hers. If you want the new character to wear the clothes, you have to make new clothes.

Tang Yuan went out for a while and brought in another set of clothes. He controlled the new character to put on the clothes, and when he went out again, both of them were wearing clothes.

She controlled the movements of the two people back and forth. Every time she took control of one of them, the other could also move according to the predetermined ideas. For example, when she wanted to move forward, she would keep moving forward. When she wanted to sit down and daydream, she would stay in a daze. The two people operated back and forth without any pause.

In that case... does it mean that she can let the new character go out for a walk while the fire is burning in "Tang Garden"?

Anyway, most of the time she was daydreaming while making a fire. She would only come back to look at the fire once in a while, and the rest of the time could be used to control the new character.

In this case, her reputation of being "silly" works well, because everyone knows she is "silly" anyway, so it is normal for her to be in a daze from time to time, and no one would be smart enough to notice her situation.

She has plenty of time to do other things.

The only problem now is that there are not enough clothes. If the new character wants to go out, he definitely cannot wear the only two sets of clothes she has. He has to make other clothes to wear.

Back in the game, she harvested cucumbers and planted cotton in all the vacant land, waiting for the cotton to be harvested so that she could make new clothes for the new characters.

Her name is...Xiaofang.

…

"Are you grinning foolishly again? What's so fun about these days?"

"Who cares about her? It's better to be silly and happy than to have a sad face. She is much better than the silly look she had some time ago. She is a little fatter now than when she first came."

"She is a little fatter, but she hasn't been eating well these days. It seems that she was really abused when she was in her hometown."

"It's no wonder that Tang Jianguo and his wife are shameless. They looked decent before, but now it seems that they are just pretending. It was fine when nothing happened, but now that something happened, they are exposed."

"Really? You can't make close friends with people like that."

"I don't want to ride with them. Look at this little girl, although she's silly, she's very sensible. She even brings us lunch boxes from the steamer. If she could say something nice, our lives would be much better."

"That couple is such a disgrace!"

"Pooh--"

The conversation between the two was relatively low-key, but Tang Yuan was not too far away and heard everything they said clearly. She thought that as time went by, her vigilance had decreased, and now they were talking about her in front of her.

But she didn't care. They were all scolding Tang Jianguo anyway, and she wished they would scold him more.

After studying silently for so many days, she has gradually learned the local dialect and occasionally speaks a few more words to others. She thought it was about time to change herself a little bit, but now she has changed her mind.

Her current identity as a "silly girl" is more suitable for her to stay here. It will not arouse vigilance and can also inspire kindness. If someone really cares about her job in the future, there will be people to help her.

Anyway, staying in the boiler room doesn't require too much thinking and she can't do much, so she might as well divide her attention and go out to do some work under Xiaofang's identity.

The cotton cloth in the game can be purchased with game coins. One meter of thinner cotton cloth only costs ten coins. Planting cucumbers is not much different from planting cotton, so I still planted cucumbers in the past few days. After a few days, I saved more than a hundred coins.

Xiaofang's clothes include a top, pants, underwear and shoes. She had to buy cotton cloth, which cost dozens of coins. She chose the basic dark gray fabric pattern, which cost eight coins. She wanted the whole set of clothing patterns, and even if she bought the cheap ones, the total cost was forty coins.

I still felt it was not enough after buying them, so I bought white and black fabric patterns. The white pattern was used for the lining and soles, and the black pattern was used for the uppers.

Fortunately, these patterns are not one-off, so it’s not too bad.

…

The first time Xiaofang appeared was at the gate of the machinery factory. It was the time for people to get off work at noon, and there were people coming and going at the gate of the factory. Many people saw the two of them whispering with their heads down.

Compared to Tang Yuan, Xiao Fang was wearing a full set of clean new clothes, which attracted a lot of attention. So much so that when the two of them walked out of the machinery factory together, many people were watching them and turned back to whisper to others what they had seen.

When Tang Yuan came back, he was holding a bundle wrapped in clean grey cotton cloth in his hand. He happily entered the machinery factory and ran into Aunt Qian, who also worked in the boiler room.

"What's the matter? Why are you so happy?" Aunt Qian asked casually, not expecting Tang Yuan to come back.

But this time, Tang Yuan happily opened the bundle in front of her and revealed what was inside.

As soon as the things were revealed, Aunt Qian's eyes lit up: "Is this fine cotton cloth? There are quite a lot of them. Did you buy them?"

Tang Yuan nodded immediately.

Aunt Qian leaned close to her ear and said, "Tell me, I won't tell anyone, how much did you pay for the cloth coupons? I know your situation. Your salary will be paid tomorrow, and you don't have any cloth coupons."

"Three cents a foot." Tang Yuan stretched out three fingers, and when he took his hand back, he picked at the hole in his clothes and made it a little bigger.

Aunt Qian pulled her hand down, held it tightly, and said to her, "Three cents a foot is a bit expensive, but it doesn't require coupons, so the price is pretty good. How much cloth did you buy? Can you give me a few feet?"

Tang Yuan subconsciously wanted to shake it open to show her, but Aunt Qian directly pulled her to the stove room, and wrapped the cloth in her arms tightly, holding her hand: "Don't be mean, this hole is invisible to begin with, but if you pull it a few more times, it will be able to eat food. I'll fix it for you later, and I promise you won't be able to see it unless you get close."

Tang Yuan didn't dare to be stingy anymore, so he was dragged all the way to the boiler room.

There were not many people inside. Aunt Qian looked at the fabrics one by one. She liked them more and more. She looked up and asked, "How many clothes do you want to make?"

"One set." Tang Yuan replied. With just this piece of cloth, she couldn't make many sets of clothes. She mainly needed to make the outer clothes. She could just make the inner clothes in the game and wear them. No one could see them anyway.

"Such a large piece of cloth is too much to make just one set of clothes. As the weather is getting hot, the clothes can't be made too thick," Aunt Qian touched the cloth. "How about this, I'll make you a set of clothes, and you can give me the rest. The factory will give you wages and cloth coupons later, and you can go out to buy more. You can live on your own, and you can always save up for autumn and winter clothes. Is that okay?"

"What's okay?" Someone came in and saw the material on the table. He was instantly delighted. "This material is good. Where did you get it from?"

"From the garden."

"Doesn't Xiaoyuan have cloth coupons?" Another person came in and directly continued the topic, "Did you buy it from the man you met at the factory gate at noon? No coupons, right?"

"Who is it?" Aunt Qian asked curiously.

"Everyone in the factory knows about it. They said Xiaoyuan was talking to a stranger at the factory gate, and then they left together. I was about to say something, but I didn't expect it was to buy cloth. Xiaoyuan, where did you meet this person?"

Tang Yuan pursed her lips: "She came to me."

"I think you are honest, so I chose you. This material is really good. How much is it per foot?"

Aunt Qian helped answer: "Sanmao."

"It's fine without a ticket, Xiaoyuan. Did the woman tell me how much fabric she has left? If you want more, how can you buy it? This fabric is perfect for summer clothes."

"If you still have it, I'd like to get a few feet of it. Cloth is hard to buy right now. Ten feet of cloth should be enough to make a set of clothes in summer. Three yuan, no cloth coupons, it's quite a bargain."

"This gray material is also very good and resistant to stains."

"Little Garden..."

More and more people came into the boiler room. Naturally, someone helped explain to the people who came in later, and then one by one they all said they wanted to buy cloth.

Tang Yuan didn't expect everyone to be so direct, and his expression was a little awkward.

Aunt Qian pulled her hand and said, "Don't worry, you just need to help ask. If you can buy it, it's best to buy it all at once so you don't have to deal with too many people. The sellers are fine, so you can't have any problems with the buyers. If you meet them again, ask them. Maybe they will be willing to sell to you because they think you are honest."

"Yes, people like us who are obviously smart can hardly meet anyone. Only people like you who are honest will come to us on their own initiative."

"Xiaoyuan, if you have some free time, go out for a walk with someone else, and maybe you'll run into him."

"When you buy the cloth coupons, we'll gather some fabric and make you a pair of cloth shoes with thousand-layer soles. It's time to replace your shoes with new ones."

Tang Yuan was tempted, for the money and also for the thousand-layer-soled cloth shoes. After all, this was a legitimate opportunity to wear new shoes.

But if we use only grey material, the grey clothes we make together will be too conspicuous.

She carefully uttered two words: "Color?"

"All right."

"It's all fine. As long as we can buy the material, it's fine. As long as it's good material, it doesn't matter what color it is. Go ahead and buy as much as you can. We don't need that much, and we can help you sell it. We will definitely not let you lose money."

"Don't worry, we are the only ones who know about this, no one else will know about it."

"Yes, we know!"