Chapter 240

Ms. Zhu has spent a lot of effort to go to the auction.

Prof. Dai and others have never been there, and do not even know how to wear the clothes.

The school uniform is definitely not to be worn, more or less to be a little more sophisticated. Zhang Ma found out a few Zhu Er Miss once dress skirt, the latest is only engaged to do two pieces, but also on the body.

Zhang Ma sighed: “This is the summer dress, all short-sleeved, now in the fall, and then wear short-sleeved will not be appropriate ah. Alas, now want to do clothes are no place.”

Once patronized Xue Ji Ladies’ Suit Shop has long been closed, the owner and his wife went back to the countryside with their belongings.

Only seen the world of Ms. Zhu in the teenage years had been cheated by people to go, spent money, mention this matter is not happy. Seeing the crowd busy for half a day for nothing, she spoke out: “Don’t be busy, find out a few pieces of my clothes and change them for Yanyan to try on. Since this auction is organized by the bank, it is expected to look like a Western-style dinner party. Then find my hat and see if there’s anything suitable.”

Professor Dai suddenly realized, “Oh, I see.”

Although he had never participated in an auction, he had seen a lot of Western-style dinners. He told the others, “It’s all one small table, with friends or couples or husbands and wives sitting together, and waiters carrying silver plates of food next to the table.” The aristocratic English school he attended loved to have dinner parties, in the spring, in the summer, in the fall, in the winter. The weather is good in the outdoor, lawn, garden, flower room will do, the weather is not good in the indoor, the hall set up a table on the dinner party, after the table is withdrawn, the ladies and gentlemen to go to a change of clothes, and then come out on the next ball, can play all day.

“There are big tables and small tables. If you set up a small table, it means that this is a more private party, all guests have to respect the privacy of other guests, not a place to make friends.” Professor Dai smiled and said, “Unlike the big table, with the big table, the guests will initiate conversation. I guess this auction is a small table.”

Zhang Ma and Dai Yucan rummaged through Ms. Zhu’s clothes box and found out several pieces of Ms. Zhu’s old dresses from the past, although the luster had dulled a bit, they were all very beautiful and good dresses.

Zhang Ma spread the dresses out one by one and placed them on the sofa, while showing off for Ms. Zhu: “These are all custom-made, those yellow-haired foreigners are very expensive!”

When Ms. Zhu was young, she ordered custom-made dresses for Western-style balls, and naturally, she used Western designers. At that time, Chinese designers did not have much fame, and the number is small, Miss Zhu has a lot of money nowhere to spend, as long as the best, so these foreigners across the ocean to carry a business card to the door in person to make dresses for Miss Zhu, but cheated a lot of money to go Zhu family.

Zhang Ma had heard from her subordinates about how much money the old master Zhu signed the check for Missy’s dress, and she thought it was a fake when she heard that figure.

Missy’s dresses were made one after another, and the old master’s checks were signed one after another, all of which were like normal things. Zhang Ma gradually developed an odd sense of pride. Although she didn’t spend the money, she watched it being spent.

The dresses that covered the sofa and chairs were all money.

Unfortunately, they were all worthless now.

Zhang Ma muttered, “I don’t know if I can sell them for a hundred dollars.”

Ms. Zhu secretly glared over.

Professor Dai himself went up and bent down to view the beautiful dress and said pertinently, “A hundred dollars can still be sold.”

Ms. Zhu gave her dear husband a kick from behind, causing him to ouch, and when everyone looked over, he smiled and said, “I wasn’t paying attention and kicked the chair leg.”

The crowd didn’t care that he was a hundred and eighty thousand miles away from the chair leg, they all assumed he had kicked it.

The dresses were devalued though, and the crowd made way for the beautiful dresses that had once been worth many checks of zeroes, and stood collectively, leaving the dresses spread out on the couch. Several long sofas, single sofas, and high-backed chairs were all covered with skirts.

Zhu Yuyan and Dai Yucan counted them one by one, there were at least thirty to forty of them.

Compared to the two of them, who are worthless young ladies, Ms. Zhu has really been a young lady, look at this room full of skirts.

Zhu Yuyan and Ms. Zhu were of similar heights, and there was not much difference in their body types – except for their busts, waists, and hips.

Zhang Ma brought up a handmade pearl-encrusted dress and asked Ms. Zhu to try it on.

Ms. Zhu was eager to try it out, and she went into the study on the first floor with Mrs. Zhang and Ms. Dai Yucan. Not long after, Ms. Zhu’s shouts of curses came from the study: “Don’t pull it! Don’t pull! Can’t pull!”

Dai Yu Cicada was also screaming, “You take a breath, take another breath.”

Zhang Ma: “Aigoo, your waist is a bucket.”

In the living room, Shi Wuwei blushed and said, “I’ll go to the kitchen to get a few bottles of soda.” And left.

Professor Dai and Ms. Zhu were still listening to the opera.

Ms. Zhu said slowly, “Oops, I forgot to tell them that we were wearing skirts and were required to wear corsets.”

Professor Dai laughed and said, “For Western-style dresses, you can’t go wrong with a corset and a whalebone frame.”

In the study, Zhang Ma also remembered and spoke to Zhu Yuyan who was lying on the table doubting her life, “I remembered, it seems like your mom had to wear two things when she wore this skirt, I’ll go look for it.”

Zhang Ma went too.

Dai Yuchan, who was familiar with foreign literature, also remembered and said, “Is it necessary to wear a corset?”

Zhu Yuyan, who was the only one inexperienced in this area, still didn’t know what that was, “What? A corset? I’m wearing one.”

Not long after, Zhang Ma came holding a big bag of things, and after unraveling it, it didn’t seem so scary.

Only to see the white veil, already slightly yellowed from age, unfolded, on top of which was a row of finger-thin spaghetti.

Zhang Ma was familiar with the situation and commanded Dai Yu Cicada, “You hold her down.”

Dai Yuchan then held Zhu Yuyan’s two hands in front of her.

Zhu Yuyan was at a loss.

Zhang Ma put this around her waist, “Lift up your chest, lift up your small breasts.”

Zhu Yu Yan lifted her chest and inhaled just like earlier.

Zhang Ma strung the rope on the back, Dai Yu Cicada helped hold it in place to secure it, Zhu Yu Yan only needed to hold her hands up high.

After the rope was strung, Zhang Ma once again told Dai Yuchen, “Grab her hands, don’t let her move!”

Dai Yucan recalled the description in the foreign book she once read about wearing this thing, looked at her sister sympathetically, grabbed her hand and said, “If it hurts too much in a while, you can just shout.”

Zhu Yuyan still didn’t realize, “It’ll hurt, huh? Ah!!!”

Zhang Ma used all her strength to tighten the rope and shouted, “Suck in your breath!”

Miss Zhu Er, who had never suffered before, easily backed off, slapping the table and shouting, “I quit!”

Mrs. Zhang, who had served Ms. Zhu before, advised her, “Your mother went through the same thing, it’s fine, just breathe in, keep breathing.”

Ms. Zhu Er: “I quit!!!”

Outside the door, Ms. Zhu, who had heard enough of the hilarity, finally knocked on the door outside and said, “Let’s forget about it if Yan Yan refuses to wear it.”

Still unwilling, Zhang Ma persuaded her, “Your mom looks great in the dress. This dress is so expensive, and she doesn’t wear it now, so it’s not a waste to put it on if you wear it.”

Even if it was more expensive, Ms. Zhu refused to wear it.

When Mr. Su, who got the invitation and came back early, arrived home, Miss Zhu was in the living room criticizing the destruction and persecution of women in China and the West throughout the ages! Corsets are like wrapping little feet, full of the stench of male power, deformed aesthetics hurt women’s physical health, making them weaker and weaker, the weakness of the mother is the weakness of the country, is the weakness of mankind!

Mr. Su listened halfway and quietly asked Shi Wuwei, “What class did you have today?”

Shi Wuwei quietly said, “Because Yan Yan came back this afternoon to try the skirt, wearing a corset worn by Westerners, on …… very angry.”

Oh.

A room of people are very happy to have someone to accompany them during dinner, no matter if it is a comic opera or a commentary, it is quite interesting, not to mention that Zhu Er Miss looks beautiful, and in the minds of the crowd is cute and sweet, and what she says is reasonable, quoting scripture, her voice is powerful and full of young people’s intention and vigor.

Even Zhang Ma said, “Yan Yan speaks so well, her little mouth blares and her voice is crunchy, she should have been sent to singing lessons when she was a child.”

Although Mr. Su came back early, he still did not make it in time for dinner, fortunately there was a lot of dinner made, Shi Wuwei went to the kitchen again and took a plate of sweet potato cakes out, as well as porridge with pickled vegetables.

Mr. Su gave up the steak and bird’s nest in Mayor Feng’s mansion, and came back to eat this sweet potato cake and ate it sweetly, and Zhu Er Miss at the side to eat with him.

Zhu Er Miss was hurt by the corset, to see her fiancé to be viciously pampered.

She held her ribs and said, “Strangling me won’t be able to breathe.”

Two hands are forked, chest up high, Mr. Su didn’t pay attention to the ribs that were said to be strangled, his eyes couldn’t help but put on a little bit higher up, his mouth still concerned and asked, “Does it hurt a lot?”

Zhu Er Miss continued to be pampered, touching her ribs back and forth, “It hurts a lot.”

Didn’t notice at all that her fiancé’s visual focus was off.

Mr. Su’s face was sympathetic, that is, his eye position was different, he said, “Boy, so pitiful.”

With respect to Zhu Er Miss’s very painful and painful ribs, Mr. Su tastelessly finished a plate of sweet potato pancakes, only then did he come back to his senses and said, “Don’t worry, we’re not going to wear that, I’ve already ordered the clothes, and I’ll bring them over when I come back tomorrow.”

It was nearly autumn, the night wind was cool, Mr. Su ordered a now very fashionable British style women’s blazer for Zhu Er Miss.

What’s popular in the fashion world now is that whatever men wear, women want to wear as well. In the past, women’s clothes didn’t have collars or front buttons, but now women’s blouses with men’s suit collars have become very common.

Mr. Su had seen a lot of fashionable wives and ladies at Mayor Feng’s place, so he naturally had to prepare the most fashionable clothes for Zhu Er Miss.

Zhu Er Miss put on a white suit jacket, thin belt girded up a thin waist, below is the pendulum great, like an umbrella-like spread of blue sarong, and a pair of white lambskin shoes, a white hat, a pearl handbag.

Dark blue skirt with white tunic with other matching, looks Zhu Er Miss and noble and ladylike, elegant to the extreme.

The white basin hat was also very conspicuous in the dark night, and when Miss Zhu Er got off the bus holding Mr. Su’s hand, she felt that she was simply the prettiest woman in the house.

Probably because she couldn’t see what the other guests around her looked like either.

The auction was in a hall, but as Professor Dai said, it was one small table after another. There were no main lights on in the hall, only wall sconces on all four sides to keep people from hitting the walls.

The curtains were all drawn, and the waiters went back and forth in silence, serving the guests.

Each small table was lit with a candle that couldn’t even tell what was being eaten on the plate.

The next table is a meter away, all dark, at most you can see a man and woman, what they look like can not be seen, and even farther away can not even see a man and a woman.

Said it was an auction, but from the time they came in, it was as if they were attending an ordinary meal, sitting down and then began to serve food, did not mention the word auction.

There was only a phonograph playing music in one corner of the hall, no live band was prepared.

From appetizers to dessert, Miss Zhu ate for two hours, and most of her conversations with Mr. Su took place between the food. It was all about her eating something and guessing what it was based on the flavor and texture, and Mr. Su played along with her.

There was a meat dish that she couldn’t eat, it didn’t taste like beef, or lamb, or pork or fish.

She asked what kind of meat it was.

Mr. Su whispered, “Turkey meat.”

Miss Zhu Er disliked it, “It’s so hard to eat.”

The ice cream was drizzled with peppermint schnapps, and she only took one bite before she made Mr. Soo leave his ball behind to let her have it.

“I haven’t had ice cream in ages.” Miss Zhu Er didn’t think she’d ever be moved by a ball of ice cream.

Mr. Su then wipes his mouth and leaves the rare ice cream for her to eat.

After the desserts were all finished, the waiter once again brought the menu.

Miss Zhu Er thought it was a wine list, so she let Mr. Su order it, she doesn’t drink, especially not outside, especially now that she’s full.

Su Chunjun picked up the menu and looked at it, calling for Second Miss Zhu to look at it with him.

“This is the auction list.” He said.

Second Miss Zhu immediately came into the spirit and went over to look at it.

The auction sheet was written like a menu, with numbers, a general description, such as how many boxes, how heavy, etc., and different prices, followed by a “+” sign, and after the “+” sign was the number, ranging from one hundred to one thousand, which should be the minimum price for the price increase.

Although Second Miss Zhu’s goal was grain, she also saw the auction list from the beginning to the end. Most of them couldn’t tell what the hell it was, wasn’t it similar to guessing a blind box?

On the contrary, grain is easier to see, ranked in the third page has a weight unit is a thousand kilograms, must be grain.

Zhu Er Miss counted the money in her hand – the money from the foundation, the money sponsored by Principal Tang, and the donations she raised at the charity meeting last time, enough to buy this batch of grain.

Because this auction required cash transactions, all the money she brought was in a leather case, right in her lap.

Looking closely, most of the people had suitcases under their feet, and they should all be prepared with money. Looking at the size of the suitcase, one should be able to guess how much was brought.

Zhu Er Miss’s suitcase was the size of a vanity case, as the total was only 60,000 or 70,000 dollars. She also had to be afraid that bringing a big suitcase would attract robbers.

She asked Su Chunjun, “How can I shoot when I can’t even tell what this is?”

Su Chunjun leans in and whispers in her ear, “Presumably everyone is here because they have a target.”

Oh, that’s right.

It should be that everyone came because they had something they wanted to buy and knew that it was available at this auction. So everyone should have an idea of what size of thing they want.

“Are we buying anything else?” She asked.

There shouldn’t be much for food to grab from her, right? Even though there was a shortage of food right now, not many of the people who came here were going to go hungry, she guessed.

She was different, she was carrying the hopes of the entire school on her back.

Su Chunjun smiled and said, “Take a look, let’s take a look.”