"Cousin, we can't make hairpins and hair ties tonight."
"Why can't it be done?"
Zhao Jingmei asked puzzledly.
"We have no raw materials! All the duckbill clips we bought today have been used up, and all the rubber bands and rags at home have been made into hair ties. Now we have nothing. It's hard for me to make a meal without rice!"
Liuye shrugged, saying that it was difficult for him to handle.
Although she also wants to do more and earn more money tomorrow.
However, she can't change it after everything is used up!
"Look at my memory, I actually forgot about this!"
Zhao Jingmei touched her nose and said a little embarrassed.
"Um...Ye Zi, you have worked hard today. Go to bed early. I will prepare the things at noon tomorrow and then rush home. Then you can continue to work. In the evening, we will go to Huating Road to sell."
"Cousin, don't you usually stay in the factory for lunch? You rush home at noon. Are you not afraid of the sun anymore?"
The Third Textile Factory where Zhao Jingmei works is not far from the Fifth Textile Factory. She has to rush home, which is about ten minutes' bicycle ride away.
But the weather has been too hot recently, and she is too lazy to go home in the bright sun.
She was afraid that her skin, which she had worked so hard to maintain, would become tanned in just a few days.
Besides, it is also very comfortable to have lunch in the cafeteria and chat with colleagues of similar age after eating.
"We all have to make money, who cares whether we get a tan or not?"
Zhao Jingmei waved her hand, looking unconcerned.
If she could save enough money to buy a commercial house as soon as possible, she wouldn't care if she was burnt into black charcoal!
"Okay, then I will think about new styles at home tomorrow morning. When you bring the raw materials home, I will start making them immediately."
Liu Ye was very happy to see that Zhao Jingmei was so motivated.
A good partner can always inspire her enterprising spirit.
One person makes money, how can two people make money together and be happy?
"Okay, let's discuss this!"
Zhao Jingmei readily agreed.
…
On the second day, Zhao Dagang, Feng Xiuqin, and Zhao Jingmei went to work early.
Zhao Jingsong also went to school for children in the factory.
Only Liu Ye stayed at home alone.
She used the pencil and writing pad left by Zhao Jingsong and began to draw down all the styles of hair ties and hairpins in her mind.
The painting is not very good-looking, but the willow leaves can be understood.
She didn't expect anyone else to do it anyway.
Liu Ye concentrated on painting, and time passed quickly, and soon it was noon.
"Yi Zi, open the door quickly!"
Liu Ye was suddenly interrupted by a knock on the door.
It turns out that cousin Zhao Jingmei is back.
"Cousin, why did you carry so many things?"
Liu Ye opened the door and saw Zhao Jingmei carrying a lunch box in her left hand and a large cloth bag in her right hand. She also carried a large cloth bag on her back. It was bulging and she didn't know what it contained.
"I'm so exhausted!"
Zhao Jingmei strode into her home, put down her belongings, and drank a large glass of water before she regained her breath.
"Ye Zi, I brought the food back. Let's eat first. After eating, we'll start working right away!"
Zhao Jingmei opened the lunch box and called Liu Ye to eat quickly.
In her opinion, only when you are full can you have the energy to do things.
"Okay! I'll eat now!"
Liu Ye only drank a bowl of porridge in the morning. She had been using her brain all morning, and her stomach was already empty.
After the two cousins finished their lunch quickly, Zhao Jingmei opened the cloth bag happily.
"Look, are these clips enough?"
Liu Ye took a look and saw that the cloth bag was filled with clips of various sizes.
There are not only straight-line clips and duckbill clips, but also spring clips and shark clips...
"Cousin, where did you get so many clamps?"
There must be hundreds of them, large and small!
"I have a colleague whose brother works in a plastics factory. He has a production line that specializes in making small clips. I made a special trip and bought it from him."
These days, it is indeed easier to get things done if you have connections.
If they were to go to the market to buy them, they would definitely not be able to buy so many styles of clips.
"And this, look!"
After reading the clip for Liu Ye, Zhao Jingmei opened the huge cloth bag she had carried on her back.
"This is too much..."
Liuye couldn't help but was speechless when she saw the contents of the cloth bag.
It is filled with colorful rags.
It was hard to tell when it was tied up in a cloth bag before.
Now when Zhao Jingmei untied them, they were piled up like a small mountain.
"There are also rubber bands, have you seen enough?"
Zhao Jingmei took out a large bundle of rubber bands coiled into a circle from her carry-on bag.
"Enough is enough!"
So much material was enough for her to make.
"Cousin, these things must have cost you a lot of money! Tell me the price and I will get the money for you right away."
Liu Ye originally wanted to share the thirty-one yuan earned yesterday with Zhao Jingmei and Zhao Jingsong.
Unexpectedly, neither of the two siblings wanted it.
Liu Ye wanted to give the money to her uncle and aunt again, so that she could eat, drink and live in the Zhao family for free. She was quite embarrassed and had to pay some food expenses to the Zhao family.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Dagang and Feng Xiuqin didn't want it, and said that she earned the money herself. The rule of the Zhao family has always been that the money earned by the children should go to the children, and she should keep it for herself.
None of the Zhao family wanted the money, and Liu Ye thought that buying raw materials by himself in the future would definitely require capital, so he had to keep it himself.
Now that Zhao Jingmei has bought so many raw materials for her, she should also give her money.
"It doesn't cost anything. I was charged five yuan for this pile of clips. As for these rags, they are all scraps from our textile factory. They are usually thrown away as garbage. The rubber bands are also ours."
It didn’t cost a penny from the factory.”
Zhao Jingmei relies on the Third Textile Factory to enjoy the cool weather, and basically everything Liuye needs can be taken home for free.
"This is really great!"
In this way, costs will be greatly saved.
"Cousin, I'll give you these five dollars."
The rag strips and rubber bands are free, but the hairpins are expensive.
"Yi Zi, don't, don't, don't! Don't give it to me. We made an agreement last night. We are a joint venture in this business of hairpins and hair ties. We will earn 50% of the money earned."
Zhao Jingmei refused repeatedly.
Zhao Jingmei was counting on doing business with Liu Ye and earning money to buy commercial housing!
"Okay! Then I won't give you this money either."
Liu Ye nodded obediently.
"Cousin, it's getting late, let's start doing it now!"
After dinner, it was almost one o'clock. They planned to go to Huating Road to sell hairpins in the evening, so they had to race against time to make as many hairpins and hair ties as possible.
"good!"
After Zhao Jingmei responded loudly, he immediately pulled the sewing machine out from the corner.
He picked up the small scissors and skillfully helped cut off the threads on the rag strips.
As for Willow Leaf, she quickly started to use the sewing machine to sew the rags into various shapes and fixed them on the clips one by one.
The two of them worked together with all their strength, and within a short time, they had made a lot of clips.