Chapter 5

As soon as there were no more outsiders in the house, Zhang Ma hurriedly rushed to Zhu Yanshu’s side: “Mistress! Such a person ……!”

Yang Yuyan closed the door and came over to listen curiously.

Zhu Yanshu pulled Zhang Ma a bit and stared at Yang Yuyan: “Yan Yan, I heard Mr. Su say that you’re going to take the exam the day after tomorrow, right? Hurry back and study!”

Yang Yuyan had to go back to the house, but quietly half-covered the door and left it open, then continued to eavesdrop.

But Zhu Yanshu is better, after driving away her youngest daughter, she dragged Zhang Ma to her house to whisper.

Yang Yuyan was unable to eavesdrop, so she had to open her textbook and memorize the vocabulary.

The next day, even Zhang Ma returned to normal, treating Yang Yuyan the same as before. Zhu Yanshu also did not mention Ma Tianbao again. Yang Yuyan intuited that Ms. Zhu and Zhang Ma must have said something, but she couldn’t find out by inquiring and was anxious.

The only one whose relationship is smooth sailing is Yang Yuchan, who is joyful every day and gives Yang Yuyan the hair bands, lipsticks, powders, and eyebrow pencils she doesn’t use.

Su Chunjun heard about it when he came to class and saw the cosmetics placed in the box. It said it was old and looked just like new.

Yang Yuchan was two years older than Yang Yuyan, growing up, naturally enlightened earlier, early on began to be interested in these things, but Ms. Zhu, although she herself had to put on makeup when she came out of her bedroom, she did not allow Yang Yuchan to put on lipstick right now, and only allowed her to use powder and eyebrow pencils.

“Do you like these?” He asked.

Yang Yuyan’s small hands rummaged through the box, routinely picking holes: “Only this powder is still a bit useful, it’s good to use in the summer to cover up sweat, but it’s winter now. The eyebrow pencil is also useful, but it’s a pity that this color is too dark for me. The most useful thing is the lip balm, I put it on today, look, it doesn’t peel.”

She beamed a small red diamond mouth, moist and moving in the sunlight.

Su Chunjun was surprised to find that this little girl he had watched for two years had grown up.

Her skin was white, white with red, her hair was black, braided with two long braids hanging down her chest, and her eyes were spirited and bright.

Ms. Zhu was good-looking, well-cultivated, and had a good temperament, and had inherited all the good things to her two daughters. Miss Yang and Miss Yang were both very good-looking, in comparison, Miss Yang was more quiet with her fine eyebrows and eyes, while Miss Yang was more beautiful with her thick eyebrows and eyes.

It’s just that Ms. Zhu’s marriage luck is not good, and Miss Yang seems to have a bad eye, so I just hope that Miss Yang’s luck is a bit better than both of them.

Su Chunjun messed up his head, and when he came back to his senses, he saw that Yang Yuyan had already deserted the class brightly, taking out her powder case and opening a small mirror to admire herself.

He tapped the table with his pen to call back the student’s attention.

“Put it down, I’ll give you a better one for your birthday. Now study hard.” He said.

Yang Yuyan picked up quickly, “My birthday is in March next year!” A pair of eyes stared at him “General”, not allowing him to take back what he said.

Su Chunjun smiled, “Good, I’ll definitely give you a birthday gift next March!”

Thursday was a good day.

Zhu Yanshu got up in the morning and spent more time in the bedroom picking out clothes and drawing makeup, coming out ten minutes later than she usually did.

Zhang Ma prepared three breakfast items and set them on the table, thin congee with buns and yellow fish noodles, and bread and boiled eggs with coffee.

“It’s time to eat.” Zhang Ma shouted.

Zhu Yan Shu stepped on her high heels and walked out aggressively. On the dining table, Yang Yuchan is still looking at her notebook, on it is her dense work record, a small book club, hard to busy feet, but Yang Yuchan can still meet and fall in love with Ma Tianbao in the midst of such a heavy workload, it can also be seen that a busy work schedule is not a killer of love.

And Yang Yuchan was looking at the powder box mirror, looking left and right, flirting with the head.

She first takes away Yang Yuchan’s notebook, saying, “The dining table is no place to read, put it away.” Then she reached out to grab the powder box in Yang Yuyan’s hand, but Second Miss Yang immediately put it away when she saw what happened to her sister.

Zhu Yan Shu glared at Yang Yu Yan, “All sit down, breakfast is ready.”

The mother and daughter three ate in the dining room, while Zhang Ma ate in the living room.

When breakfast was finished, Zhu Yanshu rushed them back to the house to clean themselves up, “Today we are going to the tailor store to make clothes! Hurry up! If we go early, we’ll be at the front of the line!”

This was Zhu Yanshu’s experience in making clothes! If you go early or late, you’ll be late by ten days or half a month when it comes time to get your clothes.

Yang Yuchan and Yang Yuyan were rushed to finish brushing their teeth, combing their hair and changing their clothes in ten minutes, and then hurriedly went downstairs, boarded the yellow bus and drove all the way to the tailor’s store!

This tailor store is called Xue Ji Ladies’ Suit Shop and is very stylish.

The signboard is new, it should have been made not two years ago, the paint is still bright. The store was quite large and clean inside.

As soon as Zhu Yanshu went in, a woman at the entrance of the store immediately greeted her with a smile, warmly and cordially, “Ms. Zhu, you haven’t been here for a while! I see that you haven’t changed at all, and your size hasn’t changed a bit! I’ll go in later and measure you up, and you’ll have to tell me how you take care of yourself!”

Zhu Yanshu was held in high esteem, naturally it was impossible for her to be unhappy, she pulled over her two daughters and pointed at this woman and said, “This is Aunt Xue, you can call her Aunt, we are old friends.” She then said to this Aunt Xue, “These are my two daughters, the older one is called Yu Cicada, the younger one is called Yu Yan.” Then she urged Yang Yucicang and Yang Yuyan, “Hurry up and say hello, what are you waiting for!”

Yang Yucicada and Yang Yuyan obediently bowed and greeted each other, the two sisters acted exactly the same, as if comparing them with a ruler.

Aunt Xue immediately tsked, “Indeed, you are a young lady of a great family, beautiful and knowledgeable!”

She led their group of three inside, “Follow me inside, it’s quiet inside.”

Passing through the heavy crowds of people coming to make clothes, the queues of ladies and young ladies, the tailor masters with leather rulers wrapped around their necks, the group of them walked inside, lifting an old cloth curtain, and inside was a quite open room, with a window at one end, and under the window was a row of tables, with several baskets of needles and threads and ribbons and cloths on them. Underneath was a cupboard, with several round benches lined up there. On the other side was the cabinet, set high against the wall. On the front side was also a tall cabinet with a piece of cloth hanging on it.

Aunt Xue walked over and uncovered this piece of cloth, and underneath it was actually a large mirror taller than a person!

Zhu Yan Shu said at first sight, “What a comfortable big mirror!” She quickly walked over and took a picture of it, almost wanting to stick to the mirror.

Aunt Xue laughed, “We had it customized by the Western Company! Such a big mirror will only be displayed in department stores, ordinary small stores will not have it. I saw it when I went to the department store and loved it! I immediately found someone to order a mirror and put it in the store, and there is not a single lady or young lady who comes in who doesn’t love it!”

Zhu Yanshu also loved this big mirror, and after half a day of looking at it, she still refused to sit down, until Aunt Xue brought the materials and pamphlets over, then she came back to sit on the round stool and sighed: “I can’t put this mirror at home.”

Aunt Xue laughed, “That’s right! The average family can’t put it in, it has to be that kind of western villa house to put it.”

Zhu Yanshu: “I won’t be able to live in a western villa in my life.”

Aunt Xue patted her arm, “You have your own building, much better than us!”

Zhu Yanshu: “You still don’t know what my building looks like? The three, five, seven or eight families have been living there for more than ten years, and I’m too embarrassed to raise the rent, but even so, they still have to drag their feet for a few months every now and then. Although not to starve, but also really can not earn big money.”

Aunt Xue laughed: “It’s always better than a family like ours!”

Zhu Yanshu: “Since I came back last time, there have been more than ten years, I see that your store is getting bigger and bigger, and business is getting better and better!” She used to come here to make clothes before her marriage, but after her marriage, because Yang Xuhe couldn’t make any money, she switched to a cheaper tailor store to make clothes. Now that her family had a surplus, she didn’t want to go to the tailor store that used to call her “Mrs. Yang”, so she came here again.

Aunt Xue waved her hand and sighed, “You don’t know, we’re having a hard time too.”

Aunt Xue then measured the three of them. While telling stories.

Since the rise of department stores, some ladies who love fashion don’t come to the tailor’s store to have their clothes made, they prefer to go to department stores to buy dresses and skirts to wear.

This Xue Ji lost a large number of customers, almost couldn’t pay the rent, and borrowed money. As a result, a few seamstresses left to set up their own business, which really added to the woes.

Aunt Xue said, “At that time, we could not pay back the money, the store were almost let the top.”

Later, Xue Ji’s teacher, that is, Aunt Xue’s husband, is an honest man into the Xue family, hard to go to the department store to buy a few pieces of Western-style dresses, after dismantling quietly learn the pattern of Western-style dresses, began to make Western-style dresses, which slowly put the store again to support up.

Zhu Yanshu said, “I saw your advertisement in the newspaper, saying that you had changed your name, or else I wouldn’t have dared to recognize it when I saw the new signboard this time.”

From Xue Ji Ladies’ Clothing Store to Xue Ji Ladies’ Suit Store, a difference of one word, but it saved their store.

Aunt Xue said, “Now everyone loves Western-style clothes, and if we don’t follow the changes, our business won’t survive.”

The three of them took measurements and then picked out the styles according to the fashion photos that the tailor store had hired someone to take. Yang Yuyan came with her own picture and pointed to the dress she had already picked out to show Aunt Xue.

Aunt Xue took one look and praised, “This one is good! It makes our Second Miss look pure and pretty!” She looked up and asked Yang Yuyan, “When do you plan to wear it?”

Yang Yuyan: “The third day of October.”

Aunt Xue quickly turned back to Zhu Yanshu and said, “The third of October …… I remember it’s your birthday. ”

Zhu Yanshu couldn’t hide her joy, but she still had to be reserved: “They kids had to celebrate my birthday, so I had to spend money to make new clothes! Alas, it is really a waste! ”

Aunt Xue quickly said, “This is not a waste! It’s all because of the children’s filial piety!”

Aunt Xue was very good at doing business, she first praised Zhu Yanshu for having given birth to two children for more than ten years, and praised Yang Yucicang and Yang Yuyan for their filial piety, understanding and generosity, so much so that Zhu Yanshu had only planned to make one new garment for each of them, but in the end, she ended up with two, and she also wanted to make another tweed hat, a new handbag, and a pair of new leather shoes.

Yang Yuyan was reading the newspaper and fell asleep, but Zhu Yanshu still didn’t want to leave. She told Yang Yuchan that she wanted to go out for some fresh air.

Yang Yuchan: “Do you want me to go with you?”

Yang Yuyan quickly refused, “How do I need you to accompany me? Can I still lose it?”

Yang Yuchan had no choice but to say, “Then don’t run around, and don’t get in front of people.”

As soon as Yang Yuyan heard her promise, she couldn’t wait and said, “I won’t be that colorless.” Before the words left her mouth, she took advantage of Zhu Yanshu’s inattention and slipped out.

The tailor’s store is more lively than Yang Yuyan imagined, crowded with people, all girls, ladies and wives, there are also one or two men inside, discussing with the boss about what kind of material is used for the clothes, how much it is worth, when to come to pick it up, etc. She pretends to look at the material, and says, “I won’t be that unattractive.

She pretended to be looking at the material, circling around in front of several racks of clothes, lingering among the crowd in the room. Several seamstresses saw her, but at first glance she was a customer’s child, so everyone smiled at her, and none of them drove her away, so she had to listen to a lot of gossip.

This pair of men and women, the man urged the woman to go quickly, the woman preferred to order a more expensive two dollars of material to make clothes, the tailor a moment to the man said, “This material is a little more expensive, but it is very strong! Wear ten years will not be bad!” The tailor said to the man, “This material is expensive, but it’s very sturdy and will last for ten years.” The tailor said to the woman, “This is the only piece we have left, and it used to be five dollars, but now it’s only three dollars! It’s much cheaper!”

They argued for a long time, but still could not decide, the tailor was not in a hurry, but the men and women were on the verge of quarrelling.

Yang Yuyan heard enough gossip, see that the tailor and men and women have looked at her two or three times, then turned to the other end.

On the other side is a group of poor students, want to do a suit, the tailor told them a set of suits at least four pieces, a shirt, a pair of pants, a suit jacket, a tie, which has not counted the belt, shoes, tie clip money clip, all counted can be more.

Students naturally do not want to pay so much money, are discussing you do a shirt, I do a pair of pants, another person and then do a blazer, which can not make a set?

But the one who made the pants felt that the pants were not practical, unlike the shirt, which was handsome to wear. The one who makes the shirt thinks that the most practical thing is the blazer, and when the time comes to make a false collar, it will be fine. The one who made the blazer had the highest tone, saying that he paid the most money, and the other two paid less than him, so he suffered the most. The three of them bickered, and the tailor had been very patient with his sales pitch, but refused to let go of half a cent, just waiting for them to cough up the money after they had bickered.

Yang Yuyan did not turn around to hear this side of the noise lively, turn around to see the people, she fixed her eyes, found that the do suit jacket suspected of shelling out the most money out of the cheapskate is actually Su Chunjun!

Su Chunjun argued dry mouth, a turn back to see his female students!

He had deliberately come two stops away to make clothes, how did he still run into an acquaintance?

Su Chunjun put his head down and said to the two arguing male students, “In that case, I’ll leave first, you guys do it!” And then disappeared from the crowd in the tailor’s store with a swift squeeze!

The two male students who were also riding the tiger took a look, froze for less than five seconds, and also hurriedly shouted, “Su Jian! Su Jian, don’t go!”

“Su Jian you wait ah!”

One after another, they all ran away.

The tailor master ran away from a piece of business for no reason and slowly shifted his gaze to the watching Yang Yuyan. She was the one who scared away the customers! A few young face-saving boys, a beautiful young girl to see the petty side can not stand.

Alas ……

The tailor’s gaze filled with resentment caused Yang Yuyan to feel doubly pressured, she also pretended as if she had heard Zhu Yanshu’s call, and turned around in a serious manner to answer, “Mom, I’m coming!”

Then turned the clothes rack and ran away.