The four of them spent most of the day out shopping, and when they returned to Cheng's house, it was already past three in the afternoon.
"Aunt!"
Qiaomai rushed in shouting and almost bumped into Cheng Maixiang who came out after hearing the noise.
Cheng Maixiang picked her up and gently scratched her upturned nose. "What's the hurry? Why are you rushing around like that?"
"You are a girl, and Yingying is also a girl. Look at how calm Yingying is. You are nothing like a tomboy."
Mother Cheng followed behind Cheng Maixiang and shook her head helplessly.
"Auntie, that's not true. Children should behave like children. Yingying is still a little shy. I hope she can learn more from Qiaomai and get along better with others."
Wei Lingcheng walked into the house holding Yingying, gently touched her hair, and said with a smile.
Yingying has a very good relationship with Qiaomai. When others praise Qiaomai, she hears it as if they are praising herself. Instead of getting angry or jealous, she is happy for her.
Buckwheat pouted and said with a hint of dissatisfaction, "So what if I'm like a tomboy? I even found military intelligence for my aunt today, and grandma didn't even praise me."
"Military intelligence?"
Cheng Maixiang looked at her with amusement. These days, the county's film projection team went to the countryside to show movies to the villagers, attracting all the villagers to join in the fun. The mischievous children naturally would not miss this good opportunity to play.
According to what Cheng's mother told her today, among the Cheng family's children, except Aiguo, the other children would rush to the South Square to reserve seats as soon as they left their bowls. Qiaomai was even more active, and she was able to occupy an advantageous position every day. She would go home to sleep after watching with Yingying.
In this era, apart from model operas, movies mainly described revolutionary wars, and the films shown by the projection team were basically of this type. Children learned a lot of terms from watching movies, and military intelligence was probably one of them.
Yingying saw Cheng Maixiang sneer, clearly not believing Qiaomai's words, and hurriedly defended her, "Aunt, Qiaomai really didn't lie. What she said was true. I was afraid you wouldn't believe me, so I bought one as evidence. I'm showing it to you right now."
Qiaomai likes to make a fuss about everything, and Cheng Maixiang never cares about what she says. But Yingying never exaggerates, so she said this too, which aroused Cheng Maixiang's curiosity.
Yingying struggled to get out of Wei Lingcheng's arms and rummaged through Lin Qingwan's backpack.
Cheng's mother let Wei Lingcheng and Lin Qingwan into the main room. Lin Jiayu was sitting at the table drinking tea. When he saw the two of them come in, he only greeted Lin Qingwan and automatically blocked Wei Lingcheng.
Wei Lingcheng wasn't angry either. Seeing Yingying rummaging through her bag, he couldn't help but touch her hair and said softly, "Yingying, are you looking for the dress you bought at the supply and marketing cooperative in town? It's not in this bag, it should be in the bag your mother is carrying."
This sentence reminded Yingying. She took the clothes out of Lin Qingwan's bag and handed them carefully to Cheng Maixiang.
When Cheng Maixiang opened it, she was stunned. The style of the clothes was exactly the same as several of her previous designs. However, she was not satisfied with it at the time. She felt that both the style and the shape were not very beautiful, so she finally abandoned these designs.
But what she didn't expect was that someone actually knew about her abandoned design, produced it according to the design drawings, and hung it on the ready-made wardrobe counter of the town supply and marketing cooperative.
Seeing her expression change, Qiaomai knew that he had done his aunt a great favor this time, and he couldn't help but say complacently, "Aunt, am I right? This is great information, right?"
Seeing her unhappy expression, Lin Jiayu immediately asked, "Maizi, what's wrong? Have you seen this dress before?"
Mother Cheng took the clothes from Cheng Maixiang's hand and looked them up and down. She was an experienced tailor and had seen Cheng Maixiang's original design drawings, so she could figure out the clues after just a few glances.
"Hey, isn't this the dress you designed before? How come someone made the same dress as yours?"
Cheng Maixiang remained silent. Suddenly, she stood up and walked out of the main room, came to the utility room, and began to search carefully in the wooden cabinet where miscellaneous items were placed.
Lin Jiayu stayed by her side the whole time, but he didn't ask much. He just helped her put away the things she took out of the wooden cabinet one by one. Seeing that the wooden cabinet had been emptied by her, he couldn't help but ask, "How is it? Did you find it?"
Cheng Maixiang shook her head with a sullen face. If she remembered correctly, after deciding to discard the design drawings, she stuffed them all into the storage room and never touched them since then. Now the drawings were missing.
"Buckwheat, have you ever asked where the clothes are made?"
Seeing Qiaomai jumping in to watch the fun, Lin Jiayu couldn't help but ask.
"Uncle Wei saw that Yingying and I were determined to buy that dress, so he asked the cashier where it came from. She said it was produced in the neighboring village of Liujia Village."
Liujia Village again?!
Cheng Maixiang was feeling angry and didn't know how to vent it. It was Liujia Village Garment Workshop again. Yang Jihong was quite capable. Last time, she found a way to break off the cooperation between the County Supply and Marketing Cooperative and Liujia Village Garment Workshop, and now she turned around and used this trick on her.
If she guessed correctly, it must be Cheng Ersao who had repeatedly caused trouble for Yang Jihong, which made her very annoyed, so she came up with this idea, asking Cheng Ersao to steal her design drawings and take them to her in exchange for money.
By doing this, she would benefit no matter whether Cheng Ersao succeeded or not. If Cheng Ersao failed, she would have no excuse to pester her anymore, and if she succeeded, she would just give her some money. Anyway, compared with the future profit of the clothes, what she paid was just a drop in the bucket.
However, the clothing design drawings produced by Shuangshui Village Garment Workshop were firmly in the hands of Cheng Maixiang and Cheng's mother, and Cheng Ersao could not get them no matter what. However, on New Year's Eve, Aijun came to the utility room to take some money, but he accidentally discovered those waste drawings, so he simply stole all the drawings. When he was leaving the utility room, he was caught by Qiaomai.
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