Qin Panpan frowned when she heard this, "Yes! Aunt Liu is good friends with our master. If our master refuses to participate in the revision design, Aunt Liu will definitely not let the seamstresses re-cut and modify the clothes according to the drawings.
If it's just these 3,000 or 2,000 pieces, the three of us can finish them by gritting our teeth and secretly working overtime for a few days. We can't do 20,000 pieces!"
Jiang Shiyue laughed angrily when she heard this. "I'm quite curious. The people in your factory are not allowed to do this or that. Do they want your factory to go bankrupt or do they want your factory to go bankrupt?"
Lu Cuilan felt a little embarrassed and stammered without saying a word.
Liu Yuanyuan, who was a bit too obedient sometimes, immediately replied, "Sister Yueyue, are you wrong? Of course we don't want the factory to close down!"
Qin Panpan gave Liu Yuanyuan a look of disappointment and explained to Jiang Shiyue, "No one wants the company to go bankrupt. But my master and his generation have experienced great ups and downs, and they're afraid. When they were at their poorest, they gnawed on tree bark and ate Guanyin soil. They went to work in the countryside because studying was useless and everyone supported the frontiers of the motherland. Plus, my master is a little old now, a little conservative and set in his ways. He can't accept such a trendy thing all of a sudden."
Lu Cuilan sighed softly, "It's not just Master's generation. Frankly speaking, if the college entrance examination hadn't just been resumed and we had a student who was about to be unable to pay tuition, I wouldn't have come here.
Why do we need to alter our work clothes? I've never seen this kind of jeans before, so I won't comment on it. Look at this good work clothes, now they've been altered to have a nipped waist and hips. How can we wear it out?!"
"To be honest, I sometimes don't understand this kind of thinking." Jiang Shiyue spread her hands, "Just like pregnancy is a very normal thing. For most families, pregnancy is a happy event. This happy event will also be shared with their relatives and friends.
Even though she had already announced it, she was too embarrassed to let anyone see her belly, so she covered it up in every possible way until she gave birth.
She'd seen it in the family compound and at the garment factory. Most pregnant women wore loose clothing to cover their bellies. While they looked normal during the first trimester, some would even tie their bellies with cloth when they were older.
Jiang Shiyue really doesn't understand or agree with this behavior.
Isn’t this a modern version of the man trying to cover his ears and steal the bell?!
Lu Cuilan, who has given birth herself, understands this sentiment very well. "I simply think it's a shameful thing."
Jiang Shiyue: “…”
"Alright! There's nothing shameful about altering clothes." She said bluntly, "Anyway, I'm only responsible for selling clothes. If the people in your factory don't cooperate, it's not me who will suffer the loss."
The three of them were afraid that Jiang Shiyue would really give up, so they all promised to try their best to persuade Qiao Zhen and other workers.
Qin Panpan added, "There's no rush to make patterns, cut, sew, and modify the work clothes. The most important thing right now is to fade the color of the work clothes made of denim."
**
Jiang Shiyue is not an encyclopedia and does not understand fading technology. Director Chen asked someone to handle the fading of the two thousand sets of jeans.
Of course, Jiang Shiyue was not idle either. She was reviewing the college entrance examination content, taking care of Yangyang, and also finding time to rent a house.
Garment factories already have housing difficulties, and the factory workers have always been unable to find a place to stay.
Although they lived in a guesthouse and were not allocated housing by the factory, their water and electricity expenses were still an expense.
She paid for the use of the factory manager Chen but he disagreed.
Besides, there was no kitchen in the guesthouse, and she didn't have the special food coupons for the factory canteen. The food she ate every day was saved by Director Chen's family, which made Jiang Shiyue more and more eager to move out.
Yincheng is not very big, and the main urban area is like a parallelogram.
The garment factory is in the upper right corner of the parallelogram.
Jiang Shiyue was thinking about finding a house near the midpoint of the parallelogram.
However, there were no commercial housing in 1978, and most housing was allocated as welfare by work units.
Units with good conditions can guarantee sufficient housing, but units with poor conditions really cannot afford housing even if they beg for help.
In serious cases, three generations of a family are even squeezed into a tube-shaped building.
In addition, the sale and purchase of land and houses were not allowed, so housing became an unsolvable problem for a time.
There are quite a few people who want to rent a house, but it is also difficult to find one.
First, there is a shortage of housing, and second, public ownership is reflected in all aspects of daily life, so you have to go to the public to rent a house.
But dealing with the government has always been complicated, which gave Jiang Shiyue a headache, and she also did not meet the requirements for renting.
If it really doesn't work... Jiang Shiyue gritted her teeth and could only ask Mr. Qiao Si for help.
She changed her clothes and planned to take Yangyang to the black market, but before she left, she heard the door being slammed.
Hearing that the other party seemed to want to smash the door, Jiang Shiyue quickly took two steps and opened the door.
Liu Yuanyuan stood outside the door with an anxious look on her face, her eyes red and filled with tears.
"Sister Yueyue, something bad has happened! A fight has broken out!" Liu Yuanyuan reached out and pulled Jiang Shiyue to walk out.
Jiang Shiyue only had time to turn around and tell Yangyang to wait for her before she was dragged out.
On the way, Jiang Shiyue asked Liu Yuanyuan, "Who fought with whom? If there's a fight, you called the police! But will calling me help?"
Her words mean nothing in the garment factory.
"The workers got into a fight with Director Chen and said they wanted to remove him from office."
Jiang Shiyue: “…”
"Just because of the alterations to the work clothes?"
"That's the reason. The work clothes are fading. The workers say Director Chen is ruining the clothes. They say Director Chen..." Liu Yuanyuan glanced sideways at Jiang Shiyue and didn't continue. "You'll understand when you get there."
Jiang Shiyue raised her eyebrows. Liu Yuanyuan has always been outspoken. If she could keep her mouth shut, then what she said must be unpleasant.
Putting her and Director Chen together is nothing more than a romantic scandal.
Jiang Shiyue scolded lightly and stopped.
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