Ruan Xi looked at Ruan Yuejin and said this, and everyone else also looked at Ruan Yuejin.
Under the scrutiny of everyone's eyes, his face turned red, blue, purple, and black. After learning the craft for such a long time, he never felt that he was not learning well, because there was no one around him to compare with.
The old tailor usually didn't like to meddle in everything, and taught him all the skills once and let him do it. Moreover, the old tailor taught without any method, just like when he taught Ruan Xi, he taught whatever he thought of.
Ruan Yuejin always thought that he learned well.
Until today.
He looked at Ruan Xi, looked at the clothes she made by stepping on the pedal lightly, looked at the clothes without even a rough thread, and the distance between all the seams and the edges of the fabric was as if they had been measured, regular and perfect.
He stood there without moving, not even his mouth was used.
Everyone watching the excitement felt embarrassed for him. They felt that if it happened to them, even if there was no rat hole on the ground, they would have to hammer a hole and drill into it, and never 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 good hand sewing machine, she would also take the opportunity to put Ruan Xi down, saying that she was only good at flattering.
Now, he has boasted too much and exploded.
And he exploded in front of everyone's expectations.
And he was slapped in the face by Ruan Xi, who he had always looked down upon, with her nearly perfect craftsmanship.
Just tell me, is it embarrassing? !
Someone next to her was so embarrassed that she couldn't help but clear her throat.
Ruan Xi saw Ruan Yuejin standing there without saying anything, just holding the piece of cloth with his fingers squeezed tighter and tighter until his knuckles turned white, so she put the finished coat on the sewing machine and stood up to get the sewing kit. She
took the sewing kit and sat down, picked out a needle of the right size, threaded the needle through the eye, and then picked up the finished coat and started to use the needle and thread to buttonhole. After the buttonholes were locked, buttons had to be sewn on.
While she was doing these things skillfully and beautifully, she said, "I'll teach you a little more 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 it look good, how to make buttonholes beautiful, how to sew buttons, how to handle some fabrics to make them crisp, all of these need to be learned."
Ruan Yuejin still didn't say anything, and just watched her buttonhole.
She did it very quickly by hand, as if she didn't need to think or grasp it at all. The needle in her hand seemed to have its own spirit and naturally fell to the most precise position. The needle and thread moved up and down quickly, making people even a little dazzled.
After locking the first buttonhole and handling the thread ends, Ruan Xi raised her head again and looked at Ruan Yuejin.
Smiling, she asked him, "Have you learned it?"
Ruan Yuejin held the piece of cloth tightly and gritted his teeth - it was too insulting!
He threw the piece of cloth in his hand onto the chopping board in front of the old tailor, turned around with a sullen face, and squeezed through the crowd to leave 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, "Don't bother me!"
Everyone in the room turned their heads to look outside, and someone cleared his throat again.
At this time, Liu Xinghua, who saw the excitement, said to the three old ladies Zhao, Li, and Hu next to her, "What did I say before? If he has the ability and a promising future, it's fine. I'm afraid he has no future and doesn't know his own weight. He brags too much and ends up getting slapped in the face. Look at what happened today, it will make the people in the village laugh for a year."
The old tailor sat in front of the chopping board, smoking a pipe leisurely and not saying a word, as if these things had nothing to do with him.
Ruan Xi did not continue buttonholes, and looked at Liu Xinghua who had finished speaking and said, "Grandma, do yours next."
It was originally agreed that we would do it for Sun Xiaohui's family first, but now Ruan Yuejin and Sun Xiaohui have run away, and time cannot be wasted. We have to go to other families later, so today we will do it for our own family first.
After all the clothes for the family are done, we will do buttonholes and buttons together.
Liu Xinghua did not come over, but pulled Ruan Cuizhi and said, "Cuizhi, do yours first."
So Ruan Xi helped Ruan Cuizhi measure the size first, and then did it for her second.
The atmosphere in the room became relaxed. Someone spoke to Ruan Xi, "Xiao Xi, you are a real person who doesn't show off. You have learned the craft so well without making any noise. You really made your grandmother proud."
Ruan Xi smiled and said, "My master taught me well."
The old tailor said while smoking a pipe, "Humph, do
n't flatter me. You are smart." If the old tailor said he was smart, then he must be really smart. After all, this old man is not lazy and doesn't brag. He is best at scolding people. If he says this, it will be true.
People then asked, "When will you graduate and open a shop in the village?"
Ruan Xi still smiled and said, "My master hasn't taught me how to draw patterns yet. I can only do these jobs that don't require any brainpower." It's similar to the sewing workers in the garment factory. Anyone can do it after learning. When
people heard this, their eyes narrowed, "Oh, this is a job that doesn't require any brainpower? You ask me to use my brain, but I can't learn it. I'm afraid that the needle of the sewing machine will pierce my hand."
This worry was not wrong. Indeed, some people have had their fingers pierced by machine needles.
Someone else who was quick to react interrupted and said, "So you have already learned these things, but you still don't know how to draw and make patterns, so Master Song asks you to draw every day. This is to ask you to practice basic skills, in order to learn to draw?"
Ruan Xi nodded, "That's the case."
Someone else said, "Xiao Xi, you are so smart, you must learn quickly, come back and open a shop after learning well."
Ruan Xi smiled and said, "I don't have such plans for the time being, I still follow my master."
The old tailor was smoking a pipe next to him, and the corners of his mouth curved in the smoke, looking very satisfied.
This apprentice is worth it!
He is blessed!
Sun Xiaohui chased Ruan Yue in and out, and finally caught up with him next to a straw stack.
Ruan Yuejin was sitting alone on the haystack, crying uncontrollably, and wiping his tears with the back of his hand from time to time.
Sun Xiaohui was panting with exhaustion, and 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 make me proud today, but you made me lose face!"
Ruan Yuejin started to stare at Sun Xiaohui while crying, his eyes were red.
Sun Xiaohui looked at him and continued, "Tell me, what have you learned in the past six months? If you didn't learn well, just say you didn't learn well. Why did you come back to lie to me? Now we don't know how people will laugh at us!"
Ruan Yuejin continued to glare at her with red eyes, "What do you know? I have learned very well."
Sun Xiaohui interrupted him, "You call this learning very well, but what do you call this a stream?"
Ruan Yuejin was speechless. He grabbed a straw, threw it casually, and rushed down the haystack and left.
Sun Xiaohui followed him, "Where are you going? Hurry back, you don't want to make clothes anymore?"
Ruan Yuejin turned around and yelled at her, "Be a hammer!"
He always thought he had learned very well, while Ruan Xi knew nothing. Every day he went to the old tailor's house to please the old tailor and flatter him very well, so he was very confident, and this confidence had always supported him.
Now this confidence has completely collapsed, and so many people have laughed at him, his self-esteem has been seriously hurt, and he still wants to be a hammer!
He is shameless, and he wants to go back to work after losing such a big face?
Sun Xiaohui followed him and said loudly: "In order for you to learn the craft, I have invested so much. You didn't earn a penny of wages, and you want to quit? Hurry up and go back to me, at least earn me some wages!"
Ruan Yuejin shouted at her: "I'm not going! You go if you want to!"
He didn't want to learn this craft
anymore! He didn't want to see that mean old bachelor again!
He also didn't want to see his cousin who was smiling and shaving his face with a knife!
Sun Xiaohui: "Then give me back half a basket of eggs!"
Ruan Yuejin: "I'll lay them for you tomorrow!"
Sun Xiaohui: "..."
Because today was to make 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 large plate of 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 in the 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 in the afternoon. I still have to make clothes for you and grandpa."
That's true, Ruan Changsheng responded, "Okay, I won't go out in the afternoon."
At the same time, in the main room of the Ruan family.
Ruan Changgui also heard about what happened in the morning from other people's gossip.
While eating, he stared at Ruan Yuejin, his eyes were very dark, and his face was completely black.
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 long while he said, "I've learned it quite well."
After a pause he continued, "But I won't learn it anymore in the future."
Ruan Changgui: "..."
He was so angry that he picked up 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 have to find someone to borrow some money."
Ruan Changgui didn't understand at first, and just asked her, "The New Year is almost here. I only heard that some people pay 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 pay back the 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 for her family of four to make clothes, and a day's wages was two yuan.
Ruan Changgui looked at Sun Xiaohui, "We just settled the work points, and we also sold the pigs for a lot of money."
Sun Xiaohui lowered her head while eating, and whispered, "We went to the commune to buy New Year's goods two days ago, buying cloth and food. The cloth was expensive, and we bought a lot of food, as well as couplets and firecrackers. We spent all of it, and there was only a few cents left."
Ruan Changgui's eyes widened, and he slammed his chopsticks, "You know that making clothes requires wages, why don't you keep some?"
Sun Xiaohui was startled by his slamming the table, and continued to whisper, "We are counting on Yuejin to get the wages..."
In the end, who would have thought that Ruan Yuejin learned the craft poorly, and now he is making trouble and quitting.
After hearing this, Ruan Changgui was so angry that he couldn't speak.
He suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest, like a hammer, and hurriedly raised his hand to cover his chest -
Oh my God...
Oh my God...
Is there a shortage of people in heaven... If there is a
shortage of people, please take him in...
After he got used to making clothes, he worked even faster. In the afternoon, Ruan Xi finished all the clothes for Liu Xinghua, Ruan Zhigao, and Ruan Changsheng. The others were made very finely, except for the buttonholes that were not buttoned and the buttons that were not nailed.
Ruan Xi sat and buttoned the buttonholes, and Ruan Cuizhi was very interested. Everyone else left, but she stayed beside Ruan Xi to watch.
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 do it, "Can I? I'm afraid it will be bad if I make it bad for you."
Ruan Xi said, "It's our own clothes anyway. If it's not done well, we can just tear it apart and make it again, and no one will say anything. You should have known these things a long time ago, why don't you do it with me."
Ruan Cuizhi was eager to try, "Then let me try it?"
She took out her own clothes, "I'll try it with my own."
Ruan Xi gave her the sewing kit, and taught her to handle some details while she did it herself. In fact, she could do it generally, but because she had no professional training, some small details were not handled very well.
But as soon as Ruan Xi told her, she immediately understood what to do.
So the aunt and niece sat together to make buttonholes and chat casually.
Ruan Xi held the needle and thread and whispered to Ruan Cuizhi: "Wait until my master teaches me how to draw and make patterns, and I have learned everything I should learn, I will tell him to 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 really didn't take this matter to heart before. After all, being a tailor was far away from her. She had never even touched a sewing machine. But today, when she saw Ruan Xi pedaling the machine to make clothes, a burning flame 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 if someone makes clothes for a wedding, they can easily earn a few yuan. If they are not busy, they can also work in the production team to earn work points. It is the busiest time at the end of the year. All the villages in the mountains have to be visited. 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 be jealous?"
Ruan Cuizhi also laughed when she heard it, her eyes shining, "It is indeed enviable."
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