Siheyuan starts from the stationmaster

Chapter 171 Tailor
Bai Zirui asked, "Sister, how many sewing machines does your master's tailor shop have?"

He Yushui replied: "There are six sewing machines. His shop is located in Wudaokou, Zhongguancun. This area is a university town, and the business is quite good. He invited several retired masters like him from our factory to help."

Bai Zirui nodded, thinking that your master is quite economical. You must know that Zhongguancun in this era is not the famous Silicon Valley in China, and Wudaokou is not the global village at the center of the universe. It is rare to see blond foreigners. Several yellow dirt roads lead to various places, and occasionally green leather trains pass by, the whole is an urban-rural junction.

The vicinity of Zhongguancun includes more than 30 famous universities including Yenching University, Tsinghua University, Geology, Mining, and Foreign Languages, as well as more than 130 research institutes. This is a large number of potential customers, which have not yet been developed.

The two siblings rode bicycles to Wudaokou, Zhongguancun. When they passed by the Wudaokou Department Store, Bai Zirui went in to buy something.

When I came to the tailor shop opened by master He Yushui, there was a wooden signboard at the door, which was engraved with the old Liu tailor shop. On the way here, I introduced Bai Zirui in the rain. His master is Liu Hongwei. He started learning art at the age of 14. I have been a tailor for 40 years.

Relying on this skill, Liu Hongwei can be filial to his parents, help his siblings, and later get married and start a business.One of the things he often said is that craftsmanship does not lie.At the age of 55 this year, when I was still in the prime of life, I retired early from the textile factory to work for my children. What a pity for parents all over the world!
This tailor's shop is hidden in a private house on the southeast side of Wudaokou. If you don't have an acquaintance to lead the way, you can't find it by smashing through the south wall.The entire shop has two rooms inside and outside, and the outside one is similar to a cloth shop, just like the silk and satin shop of Chen Xueru's family.

There are seven or eight bundles of cloth of various colors wrapped with wooden sheets in the simple wooden cabinet. There are no fancy cloths in this era. Basically, except blue is green, there is almost no third color to be found, and there are many Rare two pieces of cloth with floral patterns.

The view inside was blocked by a wall, so I couldn't see what was going on.But I could clearly hear the "click" sound of dense sewing machines coming from inside. It should be that the sewing machines are working, and it sounds like there are more than one sewing machines.

Seeing Bai Zirui observing the situation in the shop, He Yushui introduced to him: "The cloths in my master's shop are all imported from our textile factory. The master is an old man in the factory, and the factory let him buy them at the cost. Price purchase."

Standing at the counter, Liu Hongwei is cutting cloth with a pair of large black scissors and a bronze wooden ruler. These are his possessions when he learned tailoring from his master. They have been used for 40 years. When he retired, he only brought I lost these two partners who get along day and night.

He raised his head when he heard the movement at the door, and saw Bai Zirui and He Yushui siblings at the door. He opened the baffle of the counter and walked out.

Only then did Bai Zirui see his appearance clearly. Wrinkles were engraved on his forehead, silver threads were mixed on his temples, and he was wearing fancy glasses, but he was full of energy. He was wearing black clothes that had been washed many times.

Seeing the amiable smile on He Yushui's face, he said with a smile: "Yushui, you come to see me again, a bad old man."

He Yushui said respectfully: "Master, you are not old! You are an old man with a long-term ambition."

Liu Hongwei waved his hand and said, "You don't have to flatter me, you girl. I have to admit that my master is old and dim-witted now. He helps people to mend and make clothes, and his hands are not as sharp as before."

He looked at Bai Zirui next to He Yushui who was holding apples and pastries in his hands, and asked curiously, "Yushui, this young man is..."

He Yushui introduced: "Master, this is my younger brother named Bai Zirui, I am here to ask you for a favor."

Liu Hongwei invited sideways: "Then come in and talk!"

The three of them entered the tailor's shop and sat at the table for entertaining guests. Liu Hongwei asked: "Yu Shui, what do you need me, an old man, to help with? Could it be making clothes for your brother? Do you want to make suits or clothes?" Make a Chinese tunic suit?"

He Yushui shook his head and said, "Master, it's neither, my brother wants you to change your clothes.

Liu Hongwei asked, "What kind of clothes should I wear?"

He Yushui replied: "Master, have you heard that something happened to our textile factory recently, and a batch of pants was returned by a customer in Shanghai."

Liu Hongwei nodded and said: "I heard that a few old guys came to visit me a few days ago and chatted about this matter. The factory should send someone to go to Shanghai with trouser samples and ask the customer's requirements face to face. Otherwise, such a thing would not have happened.”

He Yushui hurriedly said yes... yes.Master, you are right.Now these pants are bought by my younger brother, I would like to ask you to change the fit, so that they can be sold as soon as possible. "

Liu Hongwei said: "The factory can also be considered to stop losses in time. If you organize people to rework, you will lose more and waste a lot of manpower and material resources. It is not as cost-effective as reproducing a batch of trousers."

He asked Bai Zirui: "Young man, how do you want to change your pants? Do you have any samples?"

Bai Zirui said with a smile: "Master Liu, let's be a villain first and then a gentleman. My sister said that you are the best craftsman in the textile factory, but what you hear is not what you hear. Seeing is believing. Can you let me see your skills first?" craft."

He Yushui said anxiously: "Zirui, how can you do this, my master is..."

Liu Hongwei waved his hand and said, "Rain, it doesn't matter. Young people are very interesting, but you don't scatter eagles when you don't see rabbits. All right! Come with me."

He got up and took Bai Zirui and the two into the back of the shop. Inside was a room about forty to fifty square meters, and there were two windows. It was almost noon and there was plenty of light, but the two lights inside were on, making The room was brighter and brighter.

Under the light, there are two rows of six sewing machines facing each other. There are three men and three women who are about the same age as him sitting beside him, who are meticulously mending clothes. From their skilled operation of the sewing machines, it can be seen that they are all regular workers.

Liu Hongwei said proudly: "Young man, you can rest assured of our craftsmanship. It is well-known in the schools near Wudaokou, Zhongguancun. These are old guys who have worked with me for many years. There is absolutely no work on needles and threads. question."

Bai Zirui circled around the six sewing machines. In their hands, the sewing machines were as flexible as the pens in the hands of students. They swung their feet up and down, making a rattling sound, and mending the stitches on the clothes was like using a ruler. Compared with the same, horizontal and vertical lines, Bai Zirui nodded frequently.

Then the three of them went back to the front of the shop and sat down at the table. Bai Zirui took out four pairs of trousers of different colors from the canvas satchel printed with Serving the People and put them on the table.

(End of this chapter)