Chapter 3 Mother’s FamilyWhen Zheng Jinhua was 16, she saw a clothing store in the streets of the next village. As she passed by, she often went to see people make their clothes.
The owner of this clothing store is called Master Chen. He is kind. He was a famous tailor in the surrounding village.
He was delighted when he saw that beautiful Zheng Jinhua. When he heard that she wanted to learn how to make clothes, he agreed.
Master Chen tried to ask Zheng Jinhua to help her and began teaching her how to dismantle the old clothes.
Zheng Jinhua I soon got used to the job. The thumb and forefinger of her right hand held the thin blade tightly, and her little finger and the thumb and forefinger of her left hand deftly hooked the open clothes and cloth to either sides, and then cut with the thin blade. After a while, she cut a seam very clean.
Look that, she cuts the seams and cleans it; she straightened the corner.
Teacher Chen’s happy eyes are straight, and he likes her in his heart. Somehow his heart itchy, which was unbearable.
He looked at his dexterous and quick learning and said, ” To learn how to make clothes and take care of your food every day.”
Looking at her dexterous and quick hand, the tailor Chen said, ” To learn how to make clothes and provide you with free food every day.”
With the consent of her adoptive father, Zheng Jinhua begins to learn how to make clothes.
Most people don’t have the money to make a new dress for a year, but many people come to the store to change their old clothes.
When Zheng Jinhua arrived at the clothing store, she completed about ten old clothes in one day.
Within two days, Chen found that there were no old clothes to be disassembled and modified, so he prepared to learn how to make new clothes.
Strangely enough, once she sat down, she looked like a sewing machine veteran. Look at her: flexibly swinging soles and heels up and down, “Tara, Tara,” the sound of the sewing machine turning is pleasant. The teacher of Chen tailor was shocked!
“Have you ever used a sewing machine?”! Mr. Chen, standing behind her, looked very feminine in her light pink peach short-sleeved shirt. But Jinhua didn’t notice.
Chen tailor’s round stomach almost touched Zheng Jinhua’s back. He felt the warmth of Zheng Jinhua’s back. He immediately narrowed his eyes, near the back of Zheng Jinhua’s head. Zheng Jinhua’s head was a little sweaty, but he could smell the natural, faint smell of sweat.
Strangely enough, she doesn’t wear perfume. Why does she smell so comfortable and different?! But it was far from the stench on his wife’s head!
“It was never used before.“And Zheng Jinhua replied.
“Then you can make this dress!”
The lines of the clothes made by Zheng Jinhua are neat and smooth. The tailor Chen appreciated her so much that he seemed to have a love between men and women.
However, the tailor Chen is very kind to Zheng Jinhua. He taught her, hand in hand. In less than half a month, Zheng Jinhua quickly learned to paint, cut, sew, straighten, and press. Master Chen passed on his accumulated skills almost without reservation to her.
Just five days after arriving at the store, tailor Chen gave Zheng Jinhua five hard five-yuan bills and said in a strange voice, ” Here are some snacks for you.”
Accidentally, the tailor Chen’s wife saw it in the room. She hurried out, and the tailor Chen dragged her aside.“You are dead! Are you obsessed with that little b***h?!”
“This girl is so smart and convenient. She can do a lot for us. If we give her some help, we won’t suffer!”
“I’m afraid you have a secret idea!”
“Hey hee hee, I dare not do anything in front of my wife.
I hope you will notice your identity. If I see you disrespect that little girl, have ambiguous heart to her, I will punish you!”
Zheng Jinhua Have been busy in the clothing store for a month. She can make clothes for men and women in spring, summer and fall.
But winter clothes are hard to make, especially suits, and they aren’t good right now.
In fact, the tailor Chen did not do well. Pickicky customers often find that the clothing store owner is not skilled enough.
Zheng Jinhua After they arrived at the store, the tailor Chen and his wife no longer lived in the store. That is to say, let the little girl Zheng Jinhua see the clothes shop, so she slept in the clothes shop at night on the second floor of the clothes shop, which is the attic with a mezzanine.
On this day, Zheng Jinhua was busy making skirts until midnight, ready to go to sleep in the attic.
Chen tailor is a little uncontrollable, he misses Zheng Jinhua. Unconsciously, actually staggered to the clothes shop, specially to see what the flower is doing.
The tailor Chen suddenly brought a smell of wine, and Zheng Jinhua felt very strange.
Chen, blushing, walked in and asked, ” Zheng Jinhua, is the skirt finished?”
Zheng Jinhua Said, ” Not yet yet.”
They were trying to keep talking.
“What brave dog men and dog women!” Suddenly, tailor Chen’s wife appeared at the door.
Because the wife always feel that his husband and Zheng Jinhua have an ambiguous relationship, she does not trust to follow her husband, and really it is midnight, her husband actually also came to the clothes shop to find Zheng Jinhua this little girl!
Zheng Jinhua Very wronged, in fact, there is no that meeting, Chen tailor division also did not have a bad action to her, but sometimes moved a little heart of compassion, and there is no improper male and female problems.
“So late, leave the clothes shop and go home and go to bed!“Cried the Chen tailor’s wife.
Because both Zheng Jinhua and Chen tailor could not persuade Chen tailor’s wife to remove her misunderstanding of Zheng Jinhua. Both men were embarrassed, so Zheng Jinhua had to leave the clothing store.
Less than half a month later, after Zheng Jinhua left the clothing store, Zheng Jinhua asked her adoptive father for money to buy a sewing machine.
As soon as dawn, “Lianlian” mother-in-law had already prepared breakfast. She shouted:
Zheng Jinhua, get up! “
Zheng Jinhua is sleeping. “Lianlian” mother-in-law went to bed and pushed her to wake her up.
She rubbed her blurred eyes and asked, “What time is it now?”
“It’s half past five!” Get up! Bring breakfast to your father!
Zheng Jinhua stood up from the bed and quickly wiped his face. She has no time to brush her teeth or drink water. “Lianlian” mother-in-law asked her to bring breakfast to her adoptive father as soon as possible.
A white fish belly appeared in the sky. In the distance, there is only a vague ridge. Several peaks reveal their heads, surrounded by long white clouds. The fog nearby was endless, so she could not see where the road was, or where their fake fields was?
Zheng Jinhua She took a small bamboo basket and two rice bowls, walked six laps, climbed three slopes, and a flat land appeared in front of her. She found her way and walked slowly. She looked around, the two shadows twisting. Zheng Jinhua Stretch your neck and open your eyes: a cow on the left and a man on the back.
Zheng Jinhua Moving on, she finally saw Big Head’s adoptive father holding the plow behind the cow. He also heard his “Pa, Pa” sound on the back of the cow, and he shouted ” hi, hi!”
“papa!papa!“Cried the Zheng Jinhua.
“Oh.“The adoptive father replied coldly.
“Dad, eat it!“With this words, Zheng Jinhua put the basket on the” ridge of the field ” (Dry road between paddy fields), rolled up his trouser legs, and went to the rice field barefoot, holding her foster father’s cow whip.
“Big head” adoptive father with a whip in his hand, turned around, raised the mud feet, went to the “ridge of the field” before, said: ” Don’t come here!”
However, Zheng Jinhua still stepped on the muddy water. She approached the foster father and reached for the bullwhip.
The adoptive father had to give the whip to Zheng Jinhua, and then walk on the “ridge of the field”. Zheng Jinhua Raise the iron plough, holding a whip in his hand “Pa, Pa”, just like the old farmer’s “handle type”, she shouted ” hi, hi!”
“Big head” adoptive father after dinner, put down the bowl, lit a bag of hooisha, “Bada”, “Bada”, sitting on the “ridge of the field” next to the small stone smoking.
Zheng Jinhua Holding the plough, shaking his hands from side to side.
“Big head” the adoptive father frowned and said: ” Good!”
“You can’t plow it well. Come on!“The adoptive father waved and shouted.
Zheng Jinhua Stop, turn back to the “ridge of the field”.
“Dad, they don’t want to sell it anymore!“Zheng Jinhua said to the adoptive father of the Big head, who was smoking.
Big Head’s adoptive father sat down on the stone, looked up and asked, ” Why?”
“He felt like saying that our bid was too low, and he would not sell it. In fact, he also wanted to keep it alive.”
“Didn’t he want to stop making clothes?”
“Then I won’t know,” the Zheng Jinhua said.
“Let’s not buy it!“Big Head’s adoptive father continued,” You can help me farm and cut wood in my house.“Don’t think that much. It’s hard to make money by making clothes!”
Zheng Jinhua He blushed and said, ” I am not strong enough! I can already make my clothes. If I make my clothes, I will definitely make my money.”
“Really?”
“Besides, the old sewing machine is expensive because it is imported.“Zheng Jinhua stopped, turned and looked at the” big head “adoptive father, whispered:” Let’s buy a new one made in China, Shanghai “bee” brand, is not expensive.”
When the adopted father of the big head heard that Zheng Jinhua insisted on buying a new machine, he was very unhappy. Before he finished smoking his pipe, he knocked the end of his pipe on the stone beside him: “We won’t buy machines!”
When Zheng Jinhua saw that Big Head’s adoptive father treat her like this, she was angry and was about to leave. But Big Head’s adoptive father stopped her: ” Take the basket back!”
Zheng Jinhua, began to sort up, “big head” adoptive father saw Zheng Jinhua angry, he calmed down and whispered: ” Daughter, your grandmother blamed you for being unhappy at home.“He grabbed a cigarette, put it into the pipe, lit it again, smoked a cigarette, and said,” Grandma blamed you.“We have food and clothes, but what about your mother’s home? Don’t always run back to your old home.”
“My father is very old and in poor health. My sister is always very busy. My hometown is far too close. Let me go back and see it.what’s up?“Zheng Jinhua asked puzzled.
“You can go back, but you can only eat one meal, and you can not go there for the night.”” Big head “adoptive father took a cigarette again, he coughed and said,” you —— cough, cough, don’t have too much contact with the people in your hometown.”
Zheng Jinhua Suddenly I remembered something and asked the “Big Head” adoptive father:
“Dad, do you want to build a new house? Do you want to buy some new wood to build it, or do you want to remove some wood from the old house?”
“Why do you ask all of this?”” Big Head “‘s adoptive father was confused.
Zheng Jinhua Looking at the adoptive father, he smiled and said, ” First of all, you want to build a house, but your little brother doesn’t have time to help you; Second, you built a new wooden house, your little brother didn’t pay, so the new house should not have his share.”
Listen to my adoptive father. He just smoked and did not talk.
Zheng Jinhua Then he asked, ” Does your little brother have feelings for you?”
“?“The adoptive father turned around and looked at the Zheng Jinhua.
“Grandma wants your new house!“Said Zheng Jinhua, angrily.