Chen Xueru picked up the manuscript drawn by Li Donglai, faced the sun, looked up, down, left, and right.
It took me a long time, but I still couldn't figure out what was painted on it.
It’s not that you can’t tell, the main reason is that the pattern looks too much like half a cloth bag.
Cloth bags are relatively expensive, and generally only postmen riding green bicycles are willing to use them.
There are some fabrics that can be made into clothes for the baby, which is better than making into bags.
Chen Xueru looked at Li Donglai with a smile, "Comrade, what are you drawing on it?"
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Li Donglai was silent for a moment, pursed his lips and said, "Look, this is the brim of the hat, and then this is..."
Li Donglai pointed at the pattern and introduced it for a long time, and Chen Xueru finally understood it.
Isn’t this just a little hat?
This painter is really...hard to describe in words.
"This is simple, I can make it quickly."
"Well, after you finish it, cut a five-pointed star out of red cloth and sew it on it, and embroider [Little Saplings Thrive Class] on the back of the hat with red silk thread." Li Donglai added a request.
"Five-pointed star, embroidered characters, um, very simple." Chen Xueru nodded.
Hats are simple things, even embroidering words and sewing a five-pointed star doesn't take much time.
Li Donglai straightened up and looked at Chen Xueru sincerely, "Comrade Chen, please calculate how much is the total labor and fabric cost to sew a hat like this with military green coarse cloth?"
Chen Xueru took a pen and made a rough calculation on the white paper.
The size of the hat is not large, and the process is not complicated. The only difficulty is the military green coarse cloth.
There happens to be a roll in the warehouse at the back.
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Since the public-private partnership, people on the street have become more and more fond of wearing plain clothes.
The business of her cheongsam tailor shop is getting worse and worse.
Forget it, it's better to be cheaper and don't scare away the customers who come to your door.
Chen Xueru asked with a smile: "I don't know how many hats you want to make. If it's just one hat, it will cost at least 80 cents. You also know that fabrics are in short supply now, especially military green fabrics, so I asked a friend to buy a roll.
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A hat costs 80 cents, which is indeed a bit expensive. After all, the tea fee for a student is only 2 yuan.
Li Donglai thought for a moment and said with a smile, "The situation is like this. I will buy ten hats for now, and I will buy more later. Can you add money to a discount?"
"More?" Chen Xueru's face was filled with question marks.
Generally speaking, three or five children in a family is considered too many.
This young man actually had ten children.
No, he also said he wanted more.
Chen Xueru subconsciously looked at Ding Qiunan who was standing behind Li Donglai.
Is this girl so capable of giving birth?
Ding Qiunan was a little frightened by her strange eyes.
I thought that Wang Weidong wanted to buy ten hats.
Ding Qiunan was so frightened that she quickly took a step back. I can't give birth to ten babies...
Chen Xueru's face suddenly turned cold. She held the white paper in her hand and said, "Comrade, please leave. I will treat you as if you have never been here today and will not report it to the street police station."
Li Donglai couldn't be bothered now. He stood there scratching his head.
You just said it well, how can you stop doing this business if you don’t want to do it?
Ding Qiunan next to her saw the reason, and she pulled Li Donglai to the door, with concern written all over her face, "Brother Donglai, if you buy so many hats at once and sell them on the overpass, if someone catches you, they might kill you."
It’s just speculation.”
"Your family is poor and you want to make money. This master can understand it. But speculation requires you to sit on the fence."
"Listen to the master, we won't buy any more hats."
The concern that could not be faked on Ding Qiunan's face made Li Donglai feel warm in his heart, "Master, don't worry, I will definitely not speculate."
Li Donglai now understands Chen Xueru's worries.
She was afraid that she would be caught for speculating, so she confessed.
Chen Xueru's background is also not good, and she is afraid that she will be in big trouble when the time comes.
Li Donglai walked up to Chen Xueru, patted his chest and said, "Comrade Chen, don't worry, I'm not going to sell these hats."
"Not ready to sell?" Chen Xueru was surprised.
"It's like this..." Li Donglai explained the things about the small saplings growing vigorously.
"In order to make children more active in learning, I decided to personally spend money to distribute class caps to qualified children."
After hearing this, Chen Xueru looked at Li Donglai like a fool.
This man was so crazy that he threw money into the water.
Forget it, it doesn’t matter whether he is crazy or not, as long as he doesn’t speculate or implicate me.
Perhaps because she thought Li Donglai was a bit stupid, Chen Xueru decided to earn less, so she gave a cost price, "a hat, 40 cents!"
This price was beyond Li Donglai's expectation. He took out 4 yuan from his pocket and handed it to Chen Xueru, "Ten bucks first. I want to come and get it when I get off work in the afternoon."
Alas, I just got 5 yuan from Director Hu, and in the blink of an eye, I only have 1 yuan left.
Selling ten hats at once is a big deal.
"Afternoon, yes!" Chen Xueru agreed with a roll of her eyes.
Due to time constraints, she sat down in front of the sewing machine and got busy before Li Donglai and Ding Qiunan left the tailor shop.
Hey, don't tell me, Chen Xueru's long legs are perfect for staring at a sewing machine.
In particular, she wore an emerald green cheongsam with high slits today.
The white lotus roots are faintly visible under the cover of green lotus leaves.
As Chen Xueru slowly stepped on the sewing machine pedal, Li Donglai vaguely saw the pink and juicy lotus root tail.
Oh, pink.
"Let's go, if there's anything good to see, I have it too!"
Ding Qiunan, who was watching from the side, became jealous and pulled Li Donglai's clothes out of the tailor shop.
The two rode bicycles and went straight to the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill.
On the way, Li Donglai asked in a low voice, "Master, you just said you have some too, what do you have?"
What! There are long legs!
Of course, she couldn't say this now, so she could only lightly hit Li Donglai on the back with her small pink fist.
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As the sun sets, the courtyard that has been deserted all day gradually becomes noisy.
What was different from the past was that the primary school students, who were always playing around as soon as school was over, carried their benches one by one to the mottled shadow of the large locust tree in the middle courtyard.
Yan Bugui looked at those little heads and felt like crying.
Of the thirty-six students, not one of them paid for tea.
Ran Qiuye, who was standing next to him, was very happy. She quickly asked the children to sit down.
"Now I will review my lessons with the big guys. The old cat and the kitten were fishing together by the river. A dragonfly flew over..."
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When the primary school students saw that their friends were reading aloud attentively, and the person who was reading was a school teacher, they all suppressed their blushes and started reading aloud.
The crisp sound of reading echoed over the courtyard, attracting many people to watch.
"This Li Donglai is really a capable person. He actually came up with such a way to let the children study together."
"That's right, my big boy usually beats him with a stick and refuses to study. Now look at how serious he is."
"What kind of capable people are you? Yan Bugui and that female teacher don't need to be paid for their labor? I think he is a fool!"
"Hey, we can't let Li Donglai sell it at a loss, or else we have to pay for the tea?"
"Why pay? Two yuan is enough to buy 10 kilograms of fine white flour. With that little money, you can steam steamed buns for the children to eat. Isn't it delicious?"
"That's right. It's just a pity that Li Donglai has so much intention."
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He Yuyu looked at it with anger.
She wasn't jealous of those primary school students, but she was jealous of Yan Bugui for getting 5 yuan.
Her brother Shazhu spent all the family's savings in order to compensate the Jia family.
He didn't even leave any money to buy cornbread.
Otherwise, He Yuyu would not have accepted Li Xiaomei's invitation to have dinner at Li Donglai's house.
It would be great if I could become a tutor in a tutoring class.
