Li Yu left Li Mei's house and went to the village chief's house. Standing at the gate of the courtyard, he saw a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl sitting on the defensive line in the yard. Li Yu smiled and greeted: "Sister, is Aunt Li at home?"

The girl raised her head and rolled her eyes at Li Yu, "Who is your sister? How do I know if she is here?"

Seeing her attitude, Li Yu ignored her and shouted into the room, "Aunt Li, are you at home?"

"Who is it?" Mrs. Li walked out of the kitchen and saw Li Yu, and came to the door, "Xiaoyu! Come inside and sit for a while."

Li Yu took Ms. Li to the door and said to Ms. Li: "Aunt Li, I would like to ask you to come to my house to help me with some needlework in the next two days. The salary is tentatively set at fifteen cents a day. Do you have the time? "

Mrs. Li smiled a little sheepishly, "I do have some skills, but my aunt is not very good at needlework and can only do some simple jobs."

"Aunt Li, it's okay. Everyone's work is different. As long as you can sew the lines straight and securely, it will be fine."

Mrs. Li laughed after hearing this, "I thought you were going to do the detailed work. I'm fine with these tasks, so I'll go and call me when the time comes."

"Okay, then I'll go back first." Li Yu came out of the village chief's house and walked home.

Mrs. Li saw off Li Yu and turned around to enter the courtyard. As soon as she entered the door, she heard a sneer, "Huh! You are talking bad about me with others outside again!"

Mrs. Li walked up to her and looked at her and said, "Baozhen, what have you done to make me sorry? Look at your guilty conscience. Look at your sarcastic look."

Chen Baozhen threw away the twine and stood up, pointing at Mrs. Li's nose with a sneer, "You and that little bitch Li Yu were whispering outside, weren't you talking bad about me? Is it possible that you would still say bad things about me? kind words?"

"Don't point fingers," Mrs. Li slapped Chen Baozhen's hand away, looked at her sideways and sneered, "Look at how you look like a big girl? You are simply a shrew."

Chen Baozhen pushed Mrs. Li, "You shrew, who do you think is the shrew? You think I don't know that you all wish that my mother and I were dead, so that you would be happy in your hearts."

Chen Yaohui, Chen Yaozu, the village chief, and Mrs. Liu all ran out of the house. Chen Yaohui walked over and pulled Mrs. Li behind him, frowning and looking at Chen Baozhen, "Who told you to talk to your sister-in-law like this?"

When Mrs. Liu saw this, she clapped her hands and cried, "Baozhen's dad, they can't tolerate Baozhen and me! Woo, woo..."

Chen Yaozu looked at Mrs. Liu dissatisfied, "What are you talking about? It's obviously Baozhen..."

With a 'pong' sound, the village chief was so angry that he picked up the bench and threw it to the ground, "Shut up, you guys just want to separate the families! Let's separate today."

Everyone was stunned. The village chief looked at Chen Yaozu with a tired heart, "Go and call your uncles to preside over the division of the family. I won't have to watch you fight like a black-eyed chicken every day. I want to live a few more years."

Li Yu didn't know that not long after she left the village chief's house, the village chief's house was divided. She was still busy preparing a place for processing schoolbags at home. Li Yu moved the bed in the wing room to the inner room, and freed up the wing room with good light outside to use as a processing place.

Early the next morning, Liu Changmin led two craftsmen to paint Li Yu's house.

Qian looked at the painted house and sighed, "Xiaoyu, look, this house is dressed up like a human being. The whole house becomes brighter after being whitewashed."

"Yeah." Li Yu also felt that the room looked much brighter.

The two of them cleaned up the house. Li Yu took the mat and spread it in the side room. Qian made a few straw mats with straw and placed them on the mat. Looking at the newly decorated side room, he nodded with satisfaction, "It's nice to sit like this." I’m not afraid of the cold anymore.”

The next day, Liu Changmin went to the carpenter's house and brought back the chopping board. He placed it in the side room and everything was ready, waiting for Zhou Jia to deliver the fabric.

Just after noon, the sky darkened and a strong wind blew. Xiao An came back from outside with the cow, went into the yard and shouted to Li Yu: "Sister Li, they are bringing something."

Li Yu went out and saw Jixiang driving two mule carts to the door. Jixiang got out of the car and handed a list to Li Yu and said: "Miss Li, please check, what I sent here are all cloth, Needle and thread and fine cloth, Ruyi used tung oil and coarse cloth, those tea seeds squeezed more than 400 kilograms of oil and gave you half of it."

"Okay! Thank you, let's move in first!" Li Yu took the goods list and looked at it. It said sixty pieces of dark coarse cloth, six hundred pieces each, and twenty fine cloths of cyan, brown and dark blue. Horses, nine hundred coins each, and rags... The price of each item was clearly marked.

Li Yu counted the goods, and Ji Xiang said to Li Yu: "The young master said that you don't have to be in a hurry. It's best to make more slowly."

"Okay, I understand." Li Yu sent Ji Xiang away, went back to the house, took a stack of paper, cut it and made a running account book, and asked Xiao An to go to Li Mei's house to invite Liu Changmin and Li Mei over, and everyone helped to brush out the tung oil cloth. .

After Xiao An left, Li Yu took the machete and went to the bamboo forest. The strong wind blew the bamboos around. Li Yu looked at the sky and felt that it was definitely going to change.

Li Yu chopped a bundle of bamboo and carried it home. Li Mei and his wife had already arrived. Li Yu said to Liu Changmin, "Uncle, we forgot to set up two rows of racks to dry the cloth."

"It's too late now." Liu Changmin took a machete and shaved the bamboo smooth with Li Yu. Qian and Li Mei washed and dried the bamboo.

Li Yu and Liu Changmin set up two rows of bamboo racks under the eaves. After the bamboo racks were set up, a few people took out a few sun mats and spread them under the bamboo racks. They took out the cloth and spread it on the sun mats, and brushed it with tung oil. Dry on bamboo rack.

Li Mei took out the pattern and started cutting out the fine cloth. Qian made the paste. Li Yu, Zhao Di and she applied the paste on the cloth head with a brush, and laid them out one by one on the door panel to start making cloth. shell.

Liu Changmin burned the charcoal pot and put it in the side room. He smiled at Li Mei and said: "The charcoal burned by Xiaoyu filled half of the firewood room, and the firewood chopped by A Qing filled the eaves behind. These two Children are really such a peace of mind.”

Li Mei sighed, "Most children who have lost their parents are sensible. If you don't rely on yourself, who can you rely on?"

After the oilcloth was dry, Li Yu began to cut the oilcloth. The aunt and nephew cut two pieces of cloth of each color. Li Yu calculated that one piece of cloth could be cut into thirteen or four packages, and then calculated the cost. A schoolbag plus labor cost costs 135 Wen, a large travel bag costs a little more than 200 Wen, and a medium size almost 160 Wen. If it can be sold for an average of 400 to 500 Wen each, except The profit from expenses is still considerable.

After calculating the cost, Li Yu was full of confidence in making bags. It was already dark by the time the cloth was cut, and it had started to rain when Li Mei's family returned home.

The next day, Li Mei called Li and everyone started work. Li and Li Yu were responsible for making straps and hemming. Li Mei and Zhaodi sewed, and Qian was responsible for embroidering two sections on the lower left corner of each bag. Miniature green bamboo is used as the bag's logo.

Several people worked together and made three pieces of cloth and dozens of bags on the first day. On the second day, Jixiang sent two more carts of cloth and materials and took away several schoolbags and travel bags.

Li Yu and Ji Xiang handed over the goods and cut them together with Li Mei. After a day of work, everyone became more and more comfortable. It took more than ten days to make the first batch of 60 pieces of cloth into school bags and travel bags. Bag.

Li Yu asked Li Qing to bring a message to Zhou Jia, asking him to take the goods to try. Zhou Jia replied and asked Li Yu to make more, eight or nine hundred of each color and shape, and he would ask Li Yu to make more. Someone comes and pulls.

After hearing this, Li Yu thought it was right. After all, this thing is easy to imitate. Just buy one, take it apart and follow the example.

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