Ye Qiuwen had a gloomy face and didn't say anything. Ruan Xi couldn't help but smile again when she saw the expression on her face. Then she didn't waste any more time with her and continued to walk into the street to find Xie Dongyang.
People were coming and going around her. After the New Year, many people had changed their appearances - some young people were fashionable and wore bell-bottom pants and clamshell glasses, and many women had their hair permed like a poodle.
The thoughts that had been imprisoned for more than ten years gradually became open and lively and colorful in these changes.
Ruan Xi walked all the way to the middle of the street before finding Xie Dongyang. He was not conspicuous among a bunch of stalls. She walked through the crowd to his booth. Xie Dongyang saw her face light up and greeted her first: "Master Xi, you are back?"
Ruan Xi walked around to the back of his booth, took a breath and said: "It's so lively."
Xie Dongyang said: "In the first year, everyone was still waiting and watching. They didn't know which direction the policy would change. They were all conservative and afraid of getting into trouble if they did something wrong. But now it is clearer, so everyone is relaxed and not as cautious as before. When you came over, did you see so many women with permed afros, like lion dogs?"
Ruan Xi laughed, "I saw it, and there were many people wearing bell-bottom pants, which made the legs wide."
Xie Dongyang sighed and said: "You are right. Do you know what the term came out at the end of last year? Ten thousand yuan households, They call those whose family income last year exceeded 10,000 yuan a "ten thousand yuan household". Once this term came out, I couldn't hide how much money I made in a year. It happened overnight. Look at the stalls on this street. There are almost more people setting up stalls than people walking around. "
Ruan Xi still smiled, "How is it? Is it easy to make money now?"
Xie Dongyang shook his head, "With so many people setting up stalls, how can it be as good as last year. You know what time I got up in the morning, I got up at five o'clock, otherwise I couldn't get a good position here. A bad position will have a big impact and I won't be able to sell anything."
Ruan Xi looked around and whispered, "It's so crowded, I don't even want to come here."
As soon as she finished speaking, someone suddenly called her in front of the stall.
Ruan Xi turned around and saw that it was Old Lady Zhou, so she greeted her with a smile, "Grandma Zhou."
Old Lady Zhou looked at her and said, "Xiao Xi, I haven't seen you for a while. Why don't you come? I'm waiting for you to make clothes for me. I've also introduced a few people to you. They all want you to make clothes for them, spring clothes."
Ruan Xi smiled and said, "I'm busy these days. I'll go to your house in the afternoon."
Old Lady Zhou nodded and said, "Okay, I'll wait for you at home."
After that, she walked away with her crutches. Ruan Xi followed her eyes and instructed, "Be careful."
Old Lady Zhou waved at her, "It's okay."
After Old Lady Zhou left, two more people came over and looked at the stall, but they didn't buy anything. They just looked and left.
Xie Dongyang didn't say anything, as if he was used to it. He took back the topic and asked Ruan Xi: "So you are not planning to set up a stall?"
Ruan Xi looked at him and said, "I brought my family here and settled them in a house in the countryside. This year I plan to do something bigger. I came to you today because I want you to help me."
Xie Dongyang was very straightforward: "What help? Tell me."
Ruan Xi Xi didn't bother to be polite with him: "Get me a few more second-hand sewing machines, 70% to 80% new, not too old."
Xie Dongyang looked at her, "How many do you want?"
Ruan Xi said: "At least four, six or eight at most, as long as you can find them, I will buy them."
For Xie Dongyang, second-hand sewing machines are not difficult to find. After all, many families in the city will buy sewing machines as gifts when they get married. Compared with bicycle radios, sewing machines are used much less frequently.
Most people don't make their own clothes, so sewing machines are just decorations at home. As long as you find the kind of people who don't touch sewing machines a few times a year, most of them are willing to sell them.
Xie Dongyang thought for a moment and asked quietly, "You need so many units, are you planning to hire people?"
Ruan Xi nodded, but didn't elaborate.
Xie Dongyang also knew that this kind of thing should not be discussed on the street. In this period of transition between old and new ideas, there is no harm in being low-key in words and deeds, so as not to provoke jealous people to make trouble. So he nodded to Ruan Xi, "I'll find it for you."
Ruan Xi looked at him and asked, "What about you? Do you have any plans? If you don't have any other plans, when my clothes are selling well, you can come to me to get clothes to sell, and I will wholesale them to you at a low price."
Now there are all kinds of stalls on the street, but there is no stall selling ready-made clothes. The big cake of the ready-made clothing market is completely here, and no one is touching it. If there is a ready-made clothing stall, there will definitely be many people coming to buy.
Whoever takes the first bite of this big cake will become rich.
But Xie Dongyang thought for a while and said, "Let's talk about it later. I'll wait and see."
Ruan Xi raised her hand and patted his shoulder, smiling and said, "Okay, I'll treat you to a Western meal when I'm free."
As soon as she finished speaking, Ruan Xi saw Xie Dongyang's eyes fixed on her.
She turned her head and saw a young woman dressed fashionably coming to the stall.
The young woman had her hair permed, wore a coat, and cotton shoes, with a faint smile on her face.
Xie Dongyang was stunned for a while, then he smiled awkwardly and asked, "Hello, what do you want to buy?"
The young woman had no intention of buying anything, and she started chatting with Xie Dongyang, "I heard that those who set up stalls last year made a lot of money, and there are several households with tens of thousands of yuan. You... also made a lot, right?"
Xie Dongyang smiled stiffly, "I didn't make much, just enough to make a living."
Ruan Xi looked at the woman in front of the stall, and suddenly remembered who she was, Xie Dongyang's goddess!
The smile on the goddess' face also became a little awkward. She looked at Ruan Xi, then at Xie Dongyang, and stopped chatting awkwardly. She said, "Then you guys get busy." Then she turned and left. As soon as
she left, the stiff smile on Xie Dongyang's face disappeared completely.
Ruan Xi looked at the changing expression on his face and asked, "You're not still sad, are you?"
Xie Dongyang said hurriedly, "That's not enough. Do you think I'm the kind of person who can't let go?"
Ruan Xi patted his shoulder again, "Come on, young man!"
Ruan Xi and Xie Dongyang agreed to buy a second-hand sewing machine and went shopping on the street again. She searched for tools in these stalls, buying a tape measure, a square ruler, various types of scissors, a powder punch, a seam remover, a chisel, awl, etc. She bought
almost everything, except for a pair of cutting scissors.
Normally, ordinary scissors can be used to make one or two pieces of clothing, but if you want to make clothes in batches, you have to use cutting shears. Cutting shears also come in different sizes, and she wants the kind that can be handheld and can cut a hundred or so pieces of cloth at a time.
But after asking around, she found that there might not be such a machine for sale in the entire city.
Since it is not available here, she naturally has to find a way to buy it from somewhere else.
With a father who is a cadre, it would be a waste not to use it, so Ruan Xi went to the post office to call Ruan Changfu, told him clearly what she wanted, and asked him to find a way to get one for her and have someone send it to Beijing.
It was almost noon when Ruan Xi finished the call, so she found a place to have lunch directly.
In the afternoon, she went to Mrs. Zhou's house. There were two other old ladies at Mrs. Zhou's house, and they all brought cloth and said they wanted Ruan Xi to make clothes. Ruan Xi naturally did not refuse, helped them measure the size and accepted their cloth.
After making clothes, Ruan Xi asked Mrs. Zhou: "Did your distant relative leave?"
Mrs. Zhou said: "Yes, she left. She said that people who set up stalls last year made money, and she wanted to try it this year. They all watched one another and were jealous of others who made money. There are so many stalls on the street now."
After that, she asked Ruan Xi, "Xiao Xi, how much did you make last year?"
Ruan Xi smiled and said, "Not much, just enough to make a living."
Mrs. Zhou glared at her, "You are lying to me, an old lady, and we are not jealous of you."
Ruan Xi smiled, chatted with her for a few more words, and then left with the cloth.
She took the cloth to Xie Dongyang's auto repair shop, opened the door with the key Xie Dongyang gave her, then rode the tricycle to drag the sewing machine, the cloth and other materials, and slowly went to the countryside.
It was already evening when she dragged the sewing machine to the yard. Ruan Cuizhi and Yue Haofeng were cooking in the kitchen. Yue Haofeng was mainly cooking, while Ruan Cuizhi was holding Ruan Yue and playing, and also watching Dabaozi.
Seeing Ruan Xi coming back, Ruan Cuizhi and Yue Haofeng both spoke up to greet her. Ruan Cuizhi stood up holding Ruan Yue, and Yue Haofeng put down the knife in his hand, went to the tricycle, and helped Ruan Xi move the sewing machine down.
Ruan Xi panted slightly and said, "This is the sewing machine I bought last year. This is the only one I have for now. I moved it back to do some work."
Ruan Cuizhi smiled and asked, "Did you get another job after your trip?"
Ruan Xi nodded and said, "I got three spring clothes for three old ladies. They had been looking for me to make clothes for them before."
Ruan Cuizhi said, "Our Xiaoxi is really capable. She has become a regular customer in Beijing."
Yue Haofeng was moving and taking things from the tricycle. Ruan Xi went to the kitchen to get some water. Drinking it warms the hands and quenches thirst. After taking two sips to moisten her throat, she asked, "Has Uncle Wu and Aunt Wu come back yet?"
Ruan Cuizhi held Ruan Yue and sat down at the table. "Not yet. Xiaojie went out with them. They said it was their first time out and they were unfamiliar with the place, and they were afraid they would get lost."
Ruan Xi couldn't help laughing. "Xiaojie is so capable now."
She had never been to the countryside, but now she dared to take people out to do things by herself.
Ruan Cuizhi also laughed, "Isn't it? This girl has changed a lot, especially in the past two years. She is very different from before. So it is better to study hard. The more you know and the more knowledge you have, the more capable you will be. Staying in the mountains all your life, feeding chickens and pigs and farming every day, you really don't know anything."
Ruan Xi reached out and touched the head of Dabaozi who was standing in front of her, "You have to study hard in school in the future, okay?"
Dabaozi nodded vigorously, "Cousin, I know, knowledge changes destiny!"
As he spoke, Yue Haofeng went to the kitchen to continue cooking, and Ruan Jie, Ruan Changsheng and Qian Chuan happened to come back.
When they got home, everyone gathered in the kitchen, mainly Ruan Changsheng, Qian Chuan and Ruan Jie talked about what they had done outside that day. Actually, there was nothing wrong, just getting familiar with the surrounding environment.
After chatting and finishing the meal, the day was almost over.
After the meal, Ruan Xi did not busy herself anymore. She washed up early and went to bed to rest. She started cutting cloth and making clothes the next day. While she was doing it, Ruan Cuizhi was beside her to help her, and she helped if she could.
Seeing Ruan Xi sitting behind the sewing machine and operating the sewing machine, she looked at her and asked, "Are these all new patterns you drew?"
Ruan Xi did not look up while making clothes, and smiled and said, "Yes, I drew a lot of patterns at school last year, and many of them have been made into paper patterns. When you train the workers, I will make a sample for you to see, and then you can directly produce in batches. After the cloth is cut and you have the sample, just follow the steps. It will be very fast."
These are all things that do not require thinking, just operate the sewing machine and follow the steps to piece together the pieces of cloth. When there are many people, the work can be divided into smaller parts, such as sewing cloth pieces, trimming threads, making pockets and buttonholes.
Ruan Cuizhi sighed and said, "This person's brain is so different from others."
She learned to make clothes from Ruan Xi, but she only learned a few simple styles. She cut and made the same ones over and over again. In her opinion, it is not a little amazing to come up with different new styles and actually cut them out to make clothes.
To exaggerate a little, this is simply amazing.
With Ruan Cuizhi's help, the three clothes were quickly made. After they were made, Ruan Xi took them to the city to give to Old Lady Zhou and others. After receiving her wages, she took the cloth coupons to the cloth store to choose cloth and buy cloth, and then went back to make samples.
When making samples, she asked Ruan Cuizhi to watch, mainly to teach Ruan Cuizhi how to do it. Of course, she didn't teach her how to design and make patterns, but she taught her how to sew and how to handle the details, and she taught her everything very carefully and clearly.
Ruan Xi asked Ruan Changsheng to tie a rope in the main room, and the samples were hung directly on it after they were made.
She also sorted and stored the remaining fabrics from making samples, because Yue Haofeng would need to take these fabrics to the factory to purchase goods. It would be easier to do business after it was established, and
they could directly cooperate with the textile factory for a long time. As the purchaser, they could let the textile factory produce any fabric.
On the last day of the winter vacation, Ruan Xi purchased six sewing machines with the help of Xie Dongyang. Yue Haofeng and Ruan Changsheng used a tricycle to move the sewing machines from the city to the countryside and placed them neatly in the main house.
In addition to the sewing machines, Ruan Xi also bought two second-hand bicycles from Xie Dongyang's shop. The bicycles were placed in the countryside so that Ruan Changsheng and Ruan Cuizhi could ride them wherever they went.
After Ruan Changsheng and Qian Chuan got familiar with the surrounding environment for a few days, they were very efficient in doing things and soon recruited several girls around 20 years old from several nearby villages.
The girls all came to the yard in groups to take a look. Only when they saw the sewing machines in the house and the beautiful sample clothes hanging on the ropes did they believe it. Then they discussed it with their families and decided to come and learn the craft first.
After the people were trained, they were handed over to Ruan Cuizhi for training. Ruan Changsheng and Qian Chuan then had some free time and didn't have to go out every day. When they were training people, people often mistook them for human traffickers, thinking they were tricking young girls into selling them.
After Ruan Cuizhi became busy, Qian Chuan and Ruan Changsheng helped to take care of the children.
Ruan Xi went to school with Ruan Jie after the school started. She left all the things at home to Ruan Cuizhi and them, and she had nothing to worry about. She went to school peacefully for a week and studied for a week, and then rode her bike to the countryside on Sunday.
The air was cold in the early morning, and Ruan Xi's scarf was blown through by the cold wind.
When the sun rose to the roof in the distance, she parked the car outside the yard and got out, and she felt steaming all over. She pushed her bicycle into the yard and set it up, just in time to catch up with Ruan Cuizhi and the others for breakfast.
Qian Chuan waved to her from inside the house, "Just in time, come and have something hot and warm."
Ruan Xi took a scarf and went in, and Ruan Cuizhi had already served her the meal.
Ruan Changsheng asked her, "Didn't Xiaojie come with you?"
Ruan Xi took a sip of porridge and a bite of steamed bread and said, "If she wasn't allowed to come, she would have been admitted to university with great difficulty. These four years can't be wasted. She must study hard, otherwise the university entrance exam would have been in vain."
Ruan Changsheng looked at her and smiled, "What about you?"
Ruan Xi always treated herself as a child when she was relaxed in front of her family, shaking her body proudly and saying, "I'm different from her. I'm extremely smart and I don't need to spend so much time studying."
Hearing this, Ruan Cuizhi and the others all laughed.
Qian Chuan said, "Xiaoxi, you are indeed smart. You are the smartest person I have ever met."
It would be embarrassing to exaggerate any more. Ruan Xi smiled and said a few more words before changing the subject.
She finished the last bite of steamed bread and the last mouthful of porridge, put down the bowl and relaxed for a while.
After a while, she asked Ruan Cuizhi, "Third Aunt, how is your teaching going?"
Ruan Cuizhi also put down the bowl, "After teaching for a week, I feel that there is no problem with the craft. I have learned the sewing machine very well. I have a good control of the straight line, the curved line and the distance. I feel that I can almost do the work."
She did not really give them clothes to practice, but some old cloth and rags to let them practice operating the sewing machine first. Use these cloths to make small bags, insoles, and all kinds of small things.
Or if they have something that needs to be made at home, they can use it to make it.
As they were talking, the five girls who were recruited arrived one after another.
Ruan Xi followed Ruan Cuizhi and went to the main room to see them sitting down in front of the sewing machine to thread and sew. She looked at all five people. The girls were young, clever, and learned quickly. They were indeed quite skilled.
It would definitely not work to let them measure and cut clothes by themselves, but if all the things were prepared and they were taught how to do it, and they simply had to operate the sewing machine to do the fixed tasks, they could basically complete it.
There was a sewing machine, there were workers, and Ruan Xi had made several sample clothes. What was lacking now was naturally the fabric.
Ruan Xi gave the raw materials to Yue Haofeng. Although Ruan Xi said that he would wait for her news, Yue Haofeng did not really wait at home. He has been running around this week, visiting countless textile factories near and far.
Of course, he was not running around blindly, but was carrying the fabrics ordered by Ruan Xi.
After Ruan Xi finished watching the five girls' craftsmanship, he went aside and said to Ruan Xi: "The fabrics we need are available from several manufacturers, and I have compared the quality and price. You are right, many factories have stored fabrics, and they are discussing how to deal with them. It may not be long before they will not need fabric coupons for direct promotion."
What they want is that they are in a hurry to ship and do not need fabric coupons, so Ruan Xi nodded, "Then we will wait a little longer." There
is no rush at this time, and the girls' craftsmanship can be further practiced.
During the period of waiting for fabrics, Ruan Xi will naturally continue to buy fabrics to make samples. She mainly handed over the method of making samples to Ruan Cuizhi, so that Ruan Cuizhi can work here directly with a few girls in the future.
A few days later, the cutting scissors that Ruan Xi asked Ruan Changfu to get were also delivered here, and the only thing missing was cloth.
On Sundays, Ruan Xi came to the street to buy cloth to make samples.
Every time he finished making a sample, Ruan Xi would visit Xie Dongyang when he came to buy cloth.
It was also through visiting Xie Dongyang that he realized that the business of setting up a small stall to sell groceries was getting harder and harder to do. Because there were more stalls, the variety of small commodities was increasing and becoming more and more complete, and customers had more choices, it was becoming more and more difficult to sell.
Of course, it was enough to make a living, and it was impossible to make a fortune from this.
Ruan Xi asked him again when she got to the stall: "How are you doing recently?"
Xie Dongyang would always say that things were not going well before, but this time he looked at Ruan Xi and said: "You won't see me next time you come. I've decided to go to the south to explore. I heard that Guangzhou has good development."
Ruan Xi squinted at the sun and asked: "Are you really determined?"
Xie Dongyang nodded, "I'm really determined."
He didn't have much to say about this, so he asked Ruan Xi: "How is your business going? Can the cloth problem be solved? If the cloth problem can't be solved, I'm afraid you won't be able to do it."
Ruan Xi smiled and said: "Don't worry, wait a little longer."
Xie Dongyang leaned in front of her and said: "If the cloth problem is solved, I think you can definitely succeed. In the past ten years, Cloth is in short supply, and each family can only get so many cloth coupons, so there are no factories making clothes, and there are no stalls selling clothes on the street. If you do it, you will be the first one, and you will definitely be successful. "
Ruan Xi said without any modesty: "Then I will definitely be successful."
Xie Dongyang raised his fist in front of him, "You just wait here for me to come back, wait for me to come back in a decent manner, and when there is another opportunity in the future, we must work together."
Ruan Xi also raised his fist, "Do you keep your word?"
Xie Dongyang: "Of course."
Ruan Xi and him hit their fists, "Then, wait for you to come back."
After he said this, Ruan Xi had thought about everything about cooperation. When the time comes, let him seize the opportunity to get ahead in real estate, and she will invest money in it. When he succeeds, she will lie at home and count the money.
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