Chu Yu was indeed quite pleased with it. Not only was the alteration good, but the stitching was also very fine, showing that Shu Lan had a good foundation.
"Sister, do you think people at the factory will gossip? Have you considered starting your own business? You're so young and full of ideas, what can't you do to make money?"
Shulan sighed. She had also thought about starting her own business, but the tailoring industry values experience. Having many ideas and good skills was useless. She had only just graduated. What employers wanted were mature and steady tailors, not young apprentices with lots of ideas.
She went out to open a shop, but she couldn't get any work at all.
"By the way, your mom and my mom's roujiamo (Chinese hamburger) stall isn't doing too well, is it? Don't be embarrassed to admit it, I know what I'm doing. Don't be fooled by your padded coats and down jackets, you're just putting on makeup to look good! I know my mom, she always gets her hair permed when she makes money. If she doesn't even perm her hair anymore, she must be broke."
Chu Yu originally wanted to reveal how Deng Fangping and Shu Hui made money, but Shu Lan had already said it all, leaving her speechless.
Shu Lan rarely comes back, and Shu Aiguo and Deng Fangping are too lazy to pay attention to her.
Fortunately, Shulan was thick-skinned. She handed Deng Fangping a towel to wipe her face and lit a cigarette for Shu Aiguo, which eased her parents' expressions and made the family relatively harmonious.
In this atmosphere, how could Deng Fangping possibly say she wouldn't go to Zhao Gan's house?
Despite their arguments, Shulan and Zhao Gan didn't break up. Deng Fangping's attempt to force Shulan to break up would backfire, as Chu Yu would say, so it was better to go along with Shulan's wishes.
“Our family went with Chu Yu, and your aunt took Chu Xiang and Chu Chu to town to buy cotton shoes.”
Shu Aiguo took a drag of his cigarette. "We don't need to bring any gifts this time, right? Should I bring a few bottles of Moutai?"
Saying this is a slap in the face to Shulan.
Shulan shook her head awkwardly, "Dad, you don't need to bring anything. Zhao Gan came to our house empty-handed, so we don't need to bring anything either."
If he could say that, there was still hope for his daughter. Shu Aiguo's expression relaxed. He put on a black down jacket, black pants, and big leather shoes that Chu Yu had bought for him. Deng Fangping was also dressed neatly and presentably.
Back in the summer, Chu Yu had some leftover lipsticks from the modeling team, so he gave one each to Deng Fangping, Shu Hui, and Chu Xiang in a mauve color. The mauve color was gentle and understated, and when Deng Fangping wore the lipstick, Shu Lan stared at her in disbelief.
When did her mother learn to put on makeup and dress up?
Chu Yu didn't really want to go. She didn't care about the Zhao, Li, or Qian families; she still had many books to read and no time to worry about Zhao Gan's mother's attitude. But Shu Lan specifically requested that she accompany her. The buses were packed during the New Year holiday, and Chu Yu almost got carsick. Fortunately, Zhao Gan's house wasn't far from the bus stop; it was just a short walk after getting off the bus.
Shulan had been there before, but seeing that Zhao Gan hadn't come to greet her at the door, she felt that she was being too eager. She reluctantly walked to the entrance of the staff compound, when she heard Zhao's old neighbor call out.
"Hey, isn't this the Zhao family's prospective daughter-in-law? Your name is Shulan, right?" A neighbor noticed that the Shu family hadn't brought anything with them and asked rudely, "On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, you've come empty-handed? Little Shu, you probably don't know our county's custom, you can't visit empty-handed before the seventh day of the Lunar New Year."
Shulan didn't know how to respond for a moment, but Chu Yu smiled:
“Auntie, you don’t know this, but on New Year’s Eve, when Brother Zhao came to my house for the first time, he came empty-handed. My sister Shulan asked him what was going on, and he said that his mother had taken all the money. He also said that city people don’t have this custom. I thought that Zhao’s parents were respectable people, so they weren’t too particular about such things.”
The neighbor's expression was priceless. "Oh, is that so? Guan Huichun is always so concerned about her reputation. She bragged to me that she gave Xiao Shu's family a whole truckload of gifts. How could she come empty-handed?"
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