The sewing machine stopped, and her fingers lifted the pressure plate, cutting the thread for the last time. Ruan Xi picked up the scissors and cut every thread on the clothes. After cutting, she turned the clothes over, stood up, lifted them by the shoulders and put them in front of her, showing them to Li Xiaofang and the other two roommates.
The three roommates' eyes lit up when they saw it. Li Xiaofang reached out and touched the skirt, "It's really made."
Ruan Xi smiled and asked, "How is it? Does it look good?"
Li Xiaofang nodded quickly and said, "It looks good! Especially good! So fashionable!"
Ruan Xi couldn't help but smile even more happily, looked at her and said, "Your figure is similar, this skirt should be suitable for you, do you want to try it on?"
Li Xiaofang was a little flattered, "Yes?"
Ruan Xi nodded decisively, "Sure."
Li Xiaofang rubbed her hands with joy, took the skirt and held it carefully, then hurried to pull up the curtains of the dormitory.
After changing into the skirt, Ruan Xi opened the curtains. Li Xiaofang turned around, unable to hide the smile on her face. She looked extremely happy and asked Ruan Xi and the others, "Does it look good?"
The other two roommates nodded and said, "It looks very good!"
There was only one half-length mirror in the dormitory. Li Xiaofang stood in front of the mirror, smoothed her braids and looked at herself in the beautiful skirt. The smile on her face became even more intense.
This dress has long sleeves, which is just right for spring.
While she was looking at it, the other roommates came back. Seeing Li Xiaofang wearing a new skirt, their eyes widened instantly, and they said with surprise and astonishment: "Wow, this skirt is really beautiful."
Li Xiaofang was very happy, "Really? No one on the street has ever worn such a beautiful skirt."
A roommate came over and patted Ruan Xi on the shoulder, "Not bad, you are really good."
Ruan Xi was praised and just smiled, and then saw several girls from other dormitories sticking their heads in to take a look. When they saw the skirt Li Xiaofang was wearing, they were all interested, and their eyes lingered for a moment and then went directly into the dormitory to take a look.
Because they were not in Ruan Xi's dormitory, one girl asked: "Where did you buy this? It's so beautiful."
Li Xiaofang stretched out her finger and pointed at Ruan Xi, "Ruan Xi drew it and made it herself."
Everyone was surprised when they heard this, and turned their heads to look at Ruan Xi. Her eyes caught sight of the sewing machine in the dormitory, so she exclaimed, "Oh my God, Ruan Xi, you are so amazing."
Ruan Xi smiled modestly and said, "It's just so-so."
How could it be so-so? It was amazing to them!
But compared to Ruan Xi, they paid more attention to the skirt, and kept pulling Li Xiaofang to look at it. Because the dormitory door was not closed, it soon attracted many people to come over, and the dormitory was soon crowded.
Girls love beautiful things, especially beautiful clothes and beautiful skirts.
After seeing it, some girls went out to their dormitories and talked about it, so this special and beautiful skirt quickly attracted a lot of attention in the girls' dormitory area. Many girls heard the news and ran over to see it, and one wave after another came.
Because the skirt was not made for her, Li Xiaofang did not wear it for a long time, and took it off soon after trying it on. After taking it off, she hung it up on a hanger so that people in other dormitories could only look at the dress and not at her.
People kept coming and going in the dormitory all night. After closing the door, Li Xiaofang took the dress off the hanger and held it in her hands. When she gave it to Ruan Xi, she smiled and said, "I don't even want to give it back to you."
Ruan Xi knew that she was expressing her love for the dress, and of course she was happy to hear that. She smiled and reached out to take the dress and said, "If you really want it, you can buy some cloth and I'll make it for you."
Li Xiaofang's eyes lit up when she heard this, "Really?"
Ruan Xi nodded, "But... there's a labor fee..."
"I definitely can't let you do it for nothing."
Li Xiaofang smiled and said, "Wait for me to ask my family to send some cloth coupons next month."
As soon as Li Xiaofang finished speaking, another roommate asked, "Ruan Xi, can we do it too?"
Ruan Xi turned her head and looked at her, "Anyone can do it, as long as there is labor fee, everyone can do it."
The other roommates looked at each other, exchanged glances and reached a consensus on the idea, and then one of them looked at Ruan Xi and said, "Then let's ask our families to send some cloth coupons, buy cloth and make one, and then wear it out together."
Ruan Xi nodded, "Okay, I'll make one for you one by one then."
The first dress Ruan Xi made was specially made for the girl with the blue hair flower. She used the old electric iron that Xie Dongyang bought for her these two days to iron the dress, folded it up and put it in the cloth bag.
On Sunday morning, she still got up early, washed, ate, and went to set up the stall.
Because she had moved the sewing machine back, she naturally went back to the dormitory after dinner, moved the sewing machine out of the dormitory, washed the tricycle in the carport and brought it outside the dormitory gate, and moved the sewing machine onto the tricycle.
Although it was a bit strenuous to move things around, it was not very difficult.
Ruan Xi rode the tricycle out of school and still went to Xie Dongyang's auto repair shop first. She went to the auto repair shop to pick up her goods, and then went to Dazhalan with Xie Dongyang in the warm light of the morning sun, set up a stall on the street and started doing business.
Because Ruan Xi was pressed for time, she temporarily entrusted the purchase of goods to Xie Dongyang. Otherwise, she only has one day a week, and she would only run to the factory to buy goods, and she would not have time to set up the stall.
After setting up the stall, Ruan Xi sat down behind the sewing machine.
She would take the work when someone came to her with work, and she would collect the money and sell the goods when someone came to the stall to buy things. She didn't have much free time, but she was not idle. She was either painting or reading - she couldn't waste the university she had worked so hard to get into.
After half a day in the morning, the girl who had a blue hair flower last week did not show up.
Xie Dongyang still remembered that girl. When he was free to eat at noon, he sat next to Ruan Xi and borrowed her sewing machine as a table. He said to her, "The woman who asked you to make clothes is not coming, is she?"
Ruan Xi said nonchalantly, "If she doesn't come, I'll hang it up. There are many people who want to buy it."
Xie Dongyang looked at her while eating, "Really?"
Ruan Xi glanced at him, "Men like you who don't care about your appearance don't understand."
Xie Dongyang slightly widened his eyes, a little unhappy, "How am I not slovenly?"
Ruan Xi smiled and didn't argue with him, "Anyway, you don't understand."
Xie Dongyang mixed the noodles in the bowl, "Okay, okay, then I don't understand."
After dinner, Xie Dongyang took a nap on the stall when there were few people around.
Ruan Xi had no time to take a nap, so she lay down beside the sewing machine to draw, and then read a book after drawing for a while.
When more and more people came to the street and some came to the stall to look at things, she perked up and started to take jobs and sell things. Because she had just set up the stall not long ago, she only took small jobs such as repairing and altering clothes.
The sun slowly set in the west, and at about three o'clock in the afternoon, the girl with the blue hair flower last week appeared.
This time she didn't wear a blue hair flower, but an orange hair tie. And she didn't come alone, she brought a girl who was about her age, and the two walked hand in hand to Ruan Xi's sewing machine.
Ruan Xi recognized her as soon as she looked up, so she stood up and said with a smile, "You are here."
The blue-headed girl asked, "Have you made the skirt?"
Ruan Xi nodded and hurriedly took out the skirt from the cloth bag.
She handed the skirt to the blue-headed girl and said, "Take a look and see if you like it."
The blue-headed girl took the skirt and shook it open, and her eyes lit up instantly. Then she quickly lifted the skirt up and compared it to her body, happily turned around to show her friend, and asked her friend, "How is it?"
Her friend also liked it after seeing it, and just nodded repeatedly, saying, "It's pretty."
The main reason is that the style has never been seen on the street, it is made in a fashionable and beautiful way, and it is eye-catching as soon as it is shaken open. And as long as it is special and eye-catching, it is really hard for people to think it is not good-looking.
Ruan Xi looked at the girl with blue hair and asked, "Do you want to try it on?"
The girl with blue hair turned around and asked her, "Can I try it on? Where can I try it on?"
Ruan Xi pointed to the shop next to her and said, "I know the salesperson of this silk shop. She has a place to try it on."
Not only is there a place to change clothes, but there is also a full-body dressing mirror in the shop.
The girl with blue hair was very happy and took her friend's arm. "Come on, go with me to try it on."
Ruan Xi handed the booth to Xie Dongyang and took the girl with blue hair and her friend to the silk shop.
They borrowed a place inside for the girl with blue hair to change clothes and let her look in front of the mirror.
The girl with the blue-headed flower smiled as she looked in the mirror, swung her skirt slightly and asked her friend, "How do you feel about it?"
Her friend stared at her from the side, smiled and nodded, saying, "It looks good when you wear it."
The girl with the blue-headed flower was also very satisfied, feeling like she had found a treasure. Especially the salesperson in the silk shop and the customers who came in and out of the store, when they saw her wearing this dress, they all looked at her, their eyes almost glued to her.
The salesperson at the silk shop asked Ruan Xi, "Did you make this?"
Ruan Xi nodded, "Yes, I did."
The salesperson smiled and said, "I didn't realize your craft was so good. I thought you could only fix zippers and buttonholes and alter clothes. I didn't expect you could really make clothes, and make them so beautiful."
Ruan Xi was not too humble: "I wouldn't dare to write it down
if I couldn't." The salesperson asked again, "Can you make everything? Shirts, uniforms, pants, etc.?"
Ruan Xi nodded, "As long as you can name it, I can make it."
The salesperson said, "Hey, you're really good. It's not surprising to be able to do it. Tailors can make clothes, but the style of the clothes you made is novel and beautiful. I've never seen it before. The girl looks so beautiful in it."
The girl with the blue-headed flower was so flattered by her that she couldn't stop smiling.
After looking at herself in the mirror, she turned to Ruan Xi and asked, "How much is this skirt?"
Ruan Xi did not hesitate, looked at her and answered, "Eight yuan."
The blue-headed girl was slightly stunned, thinking that the price was a bit expensive for her salary. But it was not ridiculously expensive, and the skirt was indeed worth the price.
Her friend whispered beside her, "It
's about the same. Those dresses with common styles also cost five dollars." When the girl with blue hair and flower was hesitating, another middle-aged woman came to talk to Ruan Xi and asked her, "Girl, do you set up a stall here all year round to sell things and make clothes?"
Ruan Xi looked at her and said, "I came here on Sundays when I was in school, and I will come here every day when the summer vacation comes."
The middle-aged woman continued to ask, "Then do you also take jobs making clothes like other tailors?"
Ruan Xi nodded, "Yes, just buy some cloth when you think of what you want to make and come over."
The middle-aged woman said, "Okay, I'll come to you to make clothes when I have time." When
Ruan Xi and the middle-aged woman talked to this, the girl with blue hair and flower also made up her mind. She changed her skirt and held it in her hands, then took out eight yuan from her bag and handed it to Ruan Xi with a smile.
Ruan Xi smiled when she saw the money, and then said to her: "If you are satisfied, you can come to me to make all the clothes for spring, summer, autumn and winter. And your friends, if they like it, you can also ask them to come over."
The girl with blue hair nodded with a smile, "Okay, I will wear this skirt to promote it for you at work."
After trying on the clothes and collecting the money, Ruan Xi did not stay in the silk shop.
She hurried back to her stall and sold a few things to the people gathered in front of the stall. As soon as she collected the money and looked up, she saw that the girl with blue hair and her friend had not left yet, and the two of them followed her.
Ruan Xi looked at the two of them and asked, "Anything else you need?"
The girl with the blue flower head pointed at her friend and said, "She wants to make one right now."
Business coming to her door was a good thing. Ruan Xi quickly went behind the sewing machine and asked her friend, "Do you want to make the same one as hers, or do you want to make a new style?"
The girl was more conservative and didn't dare to try something new, but she really liked the skirts Ruan Xi made, so she looked at Ruan Xi and said, "I want to make the same one as hers, right?" Should I go buy the cloth and bring it over, and I can pay for the labor fee directly after it is made?"
Ruan Xi nodded, "Yes, I won't come from Monday to Saturday, you can just come and get it next Sunday."
The girl agreed with Ruan Xi, and turned around and left with the blue-headed girl's arm, "Go home to get the cloth coupons."
The blue-headed girl realized it later, "Huh? I didn't use the cloth coupons, didn't I make a profit?"
The blue-headed girl and her friend went home to get the cloth coupons, bought cloth from the cloth store, and immediately came to Ruan Xi. Then she left the cloth to Ruan Xi, asked Ruan Xi to measure her body size, and went home with joy and expectation in her heart.
Watching the two people walking away on the street, Xie Dongyang turned around and looked at Ruan Xi and said, "This skirt is really powerful."
Ruan Xi said jokingly, "You didn't even look at who made it."
Xie Dongyang gave her a thumbs up, "I don't respect anyone but you, Master Xi."
The fabric and sewing machine were taken back to the dormitory. In the next week at school, Ruan Xi still used her spare time to make clothes in the dormitory. Of course, she was skilled in making clothes and her hands were fast, so it didn't take much time to make a skirt.
On Sundays, she would go to the stall again and bring the finished skirt over. The girl came over to pay the labor fee and happily took the skirt away. Ruan Xi had made her second tailoring business.
After the first and second pieces, the two girls wore the skirts out to show their colleagues and neighbors. Those who had seen Ruan Xi selling clothes in the silk shop came to her with fabrics, and then naturally there were the third and fourth pieces.
Li Xiaofang and her friends also had to make new clothes for the changing seasons. After they had cloth coupons, they went to the cloth store to buy cloth and asked Ruan Xi to make clothes for them. After they wore the new clothes out, people from other dormitories came to Ruan Xi with cloth.
In just two months, a queue of people formed to ask Ruan Xi to make clothes.
Ruan Xi took the work and did it in the order of first come, first served.
So she could make money in the dormitory on weekdays. The classmates in the school would come to her dormitory with cloth, and the work she took on the stall on Sundays was also taken back to the dormitory to do. On Sundays, she would set up the stall to sell things for a day.
In this way, she could make several hundred yuan a week.
It was really tiring, but she was also really happy when she counted the money.
Time flew, and most of the semester was over quickly.
During the break when the store was least crowded, Lu Yuanzheng went in, picked up the phone, dialed a number and waited.
After a while, the call was connected. Hearing the voice from the other end of the phone, he took a breath and said, "Mom, this is Yuanzheng. Why haven't you sent me living expenses for two months?"
The voice from the receiver was very unhappy, "How dare you call me and ask me? What did you do with the living expenses I gave you? Is Ye Qiuwen with you? Do you think she hasn't cheated you enough? I don't know what you are thinking. You are now... "You are a college student now, do you want to ruin your life on her?"
Lu Yuanzheng took a deep breath and said after a while: "I can't just ignore her, can I?"
The voice in the receiver became even more unhappy, "Who are you to her? ! Her parents don't care about her, and you want to care about her? She is holding you back and dragging you down, do you know? If you don't break up with her, you will have no money in the future!"
Beep, beep, beep -
a dead tone came from the phone.
Lu Yuanzheng held the receiver for a moment, wanting to dial again, but thought about it and gave up. He put down the receiver, paid the bill and left the store. He was absent-minded in class when he returned to the teaching building, and left the school without eating after school.
Ye Qiuwen has not been doing well these days, because her face was so swollen that she didn't even go out at first. Lu Yuanzheng hadn't come to see her or care about her much in the past two months, but he didn't force her to leave Beijing.
As a man, he still knew that he had to be responsible for his woman. After all, Ye Qiuwen had been with him for so many years and had given him everything. He couldn't just break up and ruin her life.
A relationship of so many years couldn't be broken off easily. He had a responsibility to Ye Qiuwen.
The wounds on Ye Qiuwen's face had healed these days, but she didn't go out often. Sometimes she would miss Lu Yuanzheng so much that she wanted to go to school to find him immediately, but she held back.
She was afraid that if she annoyed Lu Yuanzheng again, he would just let her go home. She
didn't want to go home, and she didn't want to go back in her life.
She had nothing to do in her rented apartment, so she rented some novels from a bookstore and read them to kill time.
Today, when she was reading the climax of the plot, the door of her house was suddenly pushed open.
She hurriedly sat up from the bed, put down the novel, and saw Lu Yuanzheng enter the room. She was immediately
overjoyed when she saw Lu Yuanzheng, and quickly stood up and said, "Yuanzheng, you're back."
Lu Yuanzheng didn't look happy when he saw her. He poured himself a bowl of water and sat down at the table. After a moment of silence, he said, "I'm running out of money, and I may not be able to support your life anymore. Why don't you... find something to do?"
Ye Qiuwen was stunned when she heard this, "I'm not registered here, how can I find a job?"
In fact, even if she had a registered residence here, it would be difficult to find a job. Many educated youth from the city couldn't find a job after returning to the city, and couldn't even get a job as a street sweeper. There were limited jobs in the city, and one job was filled.
Moreover, the reform and opening up had just begun, and the policy allowed people to set up small stalls to sell things, but it didn't say that they could hire servants to do the work. Because hiring a servant is a bit exploitative, no one dares to do it for the time being.
If no private person dares to hire a servant to do work, it will naturally be difficult to find a job in the city.
Lu Yuanzheng thought about it, looked at her and said, "Why don't you do what Ruan Xi did, go out and find a factory to do some groceries, and set up a small stall on the street to sell some things. At least you can earn some living expenses and support yourself."
Ye Qiuwen held her breath, and whispered for a long time, "I can't bring myself to do this."
Lu Yuanzheng certainly knew that setting up a stall would lose face and be looked down upon, and it was indeed not decent. Ye Qiuwen ridiculed Ruan Xi and her partner because of this before.
But, isn't there anything else to do now?
Is face more important than filling your stomach?
He looked at Ye Qiuwen and said, "My parents know you are here with me, so they cut off my living expenses and haven't sent me money for two months. The money I saved is almost gone now."
Ye Qiuwen looked at him for a moment, sat down on the bed, lowered her head and whispered, "It must be Ruan Xi who reported it."
Lu Yuanzheng didn't want to care who reported it now. The truth will come out sooner or later. Things have come to this now, so we have to find a way to solve it, right?
He himself didn't care. The school had living subsidies, and he could make do by saving a little bit on a daily basis. But he couldn't support Ye Qiuwen anymore. He couldn't go out to find a job to earn money if he wanted to go to school, so she had to support herself.
He said, "Even Ruan Xi can bring herself to do this, can't you give it a try?"
Ye Qiuwen lowered her head and picked her fingers. After a while, she whispered, "I'm different from Ruan Xi... She has never cared about her dignity... I really can't bring myself to do this..."
Lu Yuanzheng took a deep breath, stood up and was about to leave. It was
a rare occasion for him to come over, so Ye Qiuwen quickly stood up and held him back, "Can you help me find something else to do? It doesn't matter if it's a little hard. I really don't want to do this on the street. It's too embarrassing..."
Lu Yuanzheng stopped and slowed down for a few seconds, took a deep breath, and had no choice but to say, "Then let me take a look."
After that, he still wanted to leave, but Ye Qiuwen did not let go and asked him to stay: "Aren't you going to stay?"
Lu Yuanzheng pulled her hand away, and just like the two times he came before, his face was expressionless, "There are still many things to do in school, I'd better go back to live in school, I'll see if I can find something for you to do in the next two days."
After that, he didn't give Ye Qiuwen a chance to speak again, and immediately walked out the door.
Ye Qiuwen chased him out the door and saw him pushing his bicycle and riding away directly. She wanted to call him but held back. Watching him riding his bicycle into the alley, she bit her lip with tears in her eyes, unable to suppress the grievance in her heart, and went back to the house to sit and cry.
The remaining half of the semester passed quickly, and summer vacation was coming soon.
Ruan Xi did not plan to go home during the summer vacation, and directly applied to stay in school so that she could set up
a stall and do business every day. Before the vacation, Ruan Jie came to see her and learned that she wanted to set up a stall to make money and not go home, so Ruan Jie also applied to stay in school. Ruan Jie planned to accompany Ruan Xi to set up a stall for two months during the summer vacation to help her share the hard work of setting up a stall.
So when the summer vacation officially started and other classmates bought tickets to go home, they got up early and went to Dazhalan every day to drag goods and sewing machines. Ruan Xi took jobs to make clothes, and Ruan Jie was on the side collecting money and selling things.
When he first saw Ruan Jie, Xie Dongyang said to Ruan Xi: "Hey, you are so brave that you even hired a handyman?"
Ruan Xi rolled her eyes at him and said, "This is my sister!"
After Ruan Jie followed Ruan Xi to set up the stall, Xie Dongyang liked to talk to Ruan Jie when he was free. The main reason was that Ruan Xi had been busy making clothes on the sewing machine and had no time to pay attention to him, so he naturally found Ruan Jie to talk to her.
Today, after lunch, when he was talking to Ruan Jie, there were two sounds of clearing throats in front of the stall.
Ruan Jie turned around first and saw a young girl in fashionable clothes. The girl was wearing a light blue dress, her long hair was half tied up with a rubber band, and she was wearing a pair of black leather shoes on her feet, and her socks were snow-white.
Xie Dongyang was still chattering, but when he turned around and saw the girl, he instantly stopped all the expressions on his face.
The girl stood in front of the stall with a dark face, staring at Xie Dongyang silently for a moment, then turned away and walked away.
Seeing the girl walk away with a dark face, Xie Dongyang stood up hurriedly and said to Ruan Xi: "Master Xi, please ask your sister to help me look after the stall, I'll be back soon."
Before he finished speaking, he ran after the girl.
Seeing him chasing the young girl, Ruan Jie whispered: "Date?" Ruan Xi
looked puzzled: "Does he have a date?"
Ruan Jie turned to look at Ruan Xi, "You don't know?"
Ruan Xi shook his head, "I really don't know."
Looking at his usual lazy look, he doesn't look like someone with a girlfriend. After knowing each other for such a long time, no girl has ever approached him. This is the first time in the past six months.
Ruan Jie said, "She is quite pretty."
Ruan Xi smiled, retracted her attention and continued to make clothes, not paying attention to this matter.
About half an hour later, Xie Dongyang came back.
When he came back and sat down, Ruan Jie looked at him curiously and asked, "Who was that just now?"
Xie Dongyang was obviously in a bad mood and no longer had the interest to talk. He simply said, "A friend who grew up in the alley."
Ruan Jie asked again, "Girlfriend?"
Xie Dongyang looked at her, "Don't talk nonsense, she has been serving you for several years, but she didn't agree."
Ruan Jie thought for a while, "She seemed angry just now, could it be that she misunderstood something?"
Xie Dongyang shook his head and said, "No, she was angry that I was setting up a stall here."
Ruan Jie looked at him and thought for a while, "Does she think you are embarrassing?"
Xie Dongyang smiled, and there was She said , "She didn't think I was embarrassing. She just said that I was not doing my job properly and told me to find a proper job as soon as possible, otherwise her parents would look down on me. She did this for my own good." They
were quite familiar with each other. Ruan Jie didn't say empty words to him. She just said, "She just thinks you are embarrassing."
Xie Dongyang: "..."
He wanted to explain again, but after thinking for a long time, he couldn't organize the words, so he said to Ruan Jie casually: "Oh, cut! You don't understand! You look young!"
Ruan Jie looked at him, "Actually, you know it in your heart, but you don't want to admit it."
Xie Dongyang: "..."
This little girl! !
Ruan Xi turned around and saw Xie Dongyang's expression, and couldn't help laughing out loud.
Ruan Jie heard the voice and turned to look at Ruan Xi, "Sister, do you think I am right?"
Ruan Xi cleared her throat and said, "I think you are right."
Xie Dongyang squinted at Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie for a long time, then waved his hand and said, "I will cut off my friendship with you for the time being."
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