Chapter 29

Liu Xiaoyu and Yu An looked at each other and looked at the things piled on the table.

“Mom, Xiaoshu is a high school graduate, how can she afford to buy these? No, we can’t have them.”

Xu Leshu came in holding Xiao Wei’an and said, “Aunt, I bought this fabric at the wholesale market for very little money, and the scarf was given to me by someone else.”

“That won’t work either. How can my aunt want your things?”

Xu Leshu hugged Xiao Wei’an and pressed her face against his. “It seems that Auntie won’t be able to come back in the future. Grandma won’t want the things she brings back.”

“ah……”

Little Weian looked at his beautiful aunt, smiling with his mouth open, drooling but still staring and smiling.

Liu Xiaoyu felt helpless when she heard her say that: “You are talking nonsense, kid.”

Old Lady Xu took the remaining bags back to her room and said, “Okay, just keep the ones I gave you.”

Yu An looked at Liu Xiaoyu, but she didn’t dare to accept it.

Liu Xiaoyu smiled and looked at Xu Leshu: “Okay, then Auntie will keep it this time. Don’t spend so much next time.”

After dinner in the afternoon, the family went to the yard to enjoy the cool air.

Xu Weizu looked at Old Lady Xu and said, “Mom, please stay a little longer this time. It’s hot now and it’s cool in the countryside.”

Old Mrs. Xu took a bite of the well-chilled watermelon and shook her head: “That won’t work. We have to go back tomorrow.”

“Tomorrow?” Liu Xiaoyu looked at them in confusion.

“Are Xiaoshu and Shitou on holiday? Why are they in such a hurry to go back?”

“Actually, my aunt came back this time mainly to look for you.”

“Looking for me?” Liu Xiaoyu became even more confused.

Xu Leshu broke off a piece of the watermelon in her hand and gave it to Wangfu. She nodded and said, “I heard that my aunt is very good at embroidery.”

Liu Xiaoyu, who was eating watermelon, paused, looked at Old Lady Xu, and then nodded.

“It’s OK to embroider small things now, but I haven’t practiced for a long time, so it might be difficult to embroider big things.”

Xu Leshu turned and looked at Shitou: “Go get my bag.”

Several people looked at her in confusion, not knowing what she was going to do.

Xu Leshu took out a few patterns from her bag and asked, “Aunt, can you embroider these?”

Liu Xiaoyu took it and laughed out loud when she saw the various flowers, leaves, small animals and birds on it.

“What can’t be embroidered here? I thought it was a picture of flowers and mountains and rivers. It’s hard to embroider simple flowers and grass like this with a sewing machine.

You can step it out in a moment. ”

“Xiaoshu, why are you asking this? You want to embroider some flowers on your clothes. Just give it to me simply.”

Xu Leshu smiled and nodded: “It’s to be embroidered on clothes. I’m planning to open a clothing store to sell clothes, but I want to design some embroidery myself.”

“I heard from grandma that you are very good at embroidery, so I came back to ask if my aunt is willing to take on this job.”

“Don’t worry, I will design each piece of clothing on paper, and I will decide the price based on the difficulty of the clothing.”

Then she took out a few pieces of paper from her bag and pointed at a denim skirt.

“Look at this skirt. There is a white kitten with its head down embroidered on the waist, and a pink ball of wool embroidered below the waist, with a pattern of a kitten with its head down playing with the ball.”

“This kind of sewing and embroidery is relatively simple. I provide the fabric and necessary materials, and the wages are two yuan per piece.”

Xu Leshu took out another piece of paper: “This skirt is the same style as the previous one, but the pattern is different. This one has embroidery on the hem. The price is the same.”

“This one has a bird and bamboo pattern embroidered on the chest. This bird is relatively complicated. It costs two dollars and fifty cents. What do you think, aunt?”

Liu Xiaoyu and Xu Weizu looked at each other, and Xu Weizu looked at Old Lady Xu.

“Mom, Xiaoshu is going to open a store? Didn’t she say she got into college? Why does she want to open a store?”

“And the cost of opening a store is not low. What will happen to the store after Xiaoshu goes to school?”

Old Lady Xu fanned herself with a palm-leaf fan in her hand: “Nannan used her own money to open the shop. She drew all these by herself. In the past, Nannan made dozens of yuan a day just by selling hair bands.”

When they heard that it was dozens of dollars a day, several people stared at Xu Leshu with burning eyes.

How can a hair band be sold for dozens of yuan a day? A worker’s salary is only a few dozen yuan a month.

It seems that the money for opening this store was earned from selling hair bands.

If Shitou knew what his uncle was thinking, he would definitely tell him loudly that they had only been selling hair bands for three or four days in total.

Seeing that Xu Weizu had no objection, Liu Xiaoyu couldn’t suppress the joy in her eyes.

She could earn two dollars for a skirt, and she didn’t have to spend anything, and she had a sewing machine at home.

She could make three of those styles a day, which was six yuan a day, and sixty yuan in ten days.

That’s one hundred and eighty yuan a month.

One hundred and eighty yuan was their family’s cash income for the whole of last year.

Thinking of this, Liu Xiaoyu’s face turned red.

“I’ll take it, Xiaoshu, how much do you want?”

Xu Leshu raised her lips and said, “I brought ten pieces of the same style today, but I plan to open the store next Monday, which means I still have five days. I will keep as much fabric as you can make.”

“Later, I will give you new clothing styles based on the styles and quantities sold.”

Liu Xiaoyu looked at the five pieces of paper that Xu Leshu brought today. There were five styles on them, which meant fifty pieces.

It was impossible for her to do so much in five days, but it was really painful for her to see the money she had earned returned.

Yu An, who had been silent, suddenly asked, “Xiao Shu, can I do it?”

Xu Leshu turned to look at her: “Sister-in-law can also embroider?”

Yu An saw that everyone’s eyes were on her and touched her hair feeling a little uncomfortable.

“I know some, like this floral pattern.”

Xu Leshu did not deny her, but just nodded: “Sister-in-law, do you have time to make one today so I can see it? If it is feasible, then of course there is no problem.”

Yu An opened his eyes slightly and nodded: “If I have time, I will do it now.”

After marrying into the Xu family, she found out she was pregnant two months later. Since then, she has not been to the fields and has been cooking and cleaning for the family at home.

Although it was easy, I had no money and felt insecure. Now I can take care of the children at home and make money easily, so I must seize the opportunity.

Liu Xiaoyu also got up and went back to the house to start making clothes, making as many as possible.

Xu Leshu went in and took a look at them, and saw that they were indeed experienced and were cutting very accurately with very little waste.

Not wanting to disturb them, Xu Leshu went out and looked at the people in the yard.

“Brother, I see it rained the day before yesterday, I wonder if there are mushrooms on the mountain already.”

Xu Lehong, who was holding the child and letting him play with Wangfu, looked up at her when he heard this.

“Yes, there are, but many people have gone up the mountain recently, so I’m afraid there won’t be much to do.”

When Shitou heard that he could go to the mountain, he happily climbed down from the big pear tree and said, “Brother, let’s go. We will leave tomorrow. It would be great if we could catch a pheasant or a rabbit.”