farmer's wife

Chapter 79 Cross Stitch

On the second day after the shop opened, before dawn, Xiao Lie and Fu Yan got up early and continued to work.

When Xiao Lie sent Xiao Jian back who had to go to school, Fu Yan had already arranged the pastries one by one.

The two of them have been so busy from yesterday to this morning, they have prepared [-] pieces of each of the three small cakes, and [-] pieces of big cakes, there is nothing more they can do.

Fu Yan expected that today's quantity would be enough.

Unexpectedly, the store was out of stock within an hour after opening...

Today, in addition to the boys from various prefectures bought yesterday, there are also some ordinary customers who have tasted the taste and rushed to line up.

Helpless, Xiao Lie raised his voice to tell the customers waiting behind that the store was sold out.

"Boss Xiao, I've been queuing for two days straight!"

"This customer is really sorry, all the pastries in our store have been sold out today."

"Then why don't you do more?" The guest grumbled a few times and then left.

For several days in a row, the shop was full of people every day.

Even though there will be no more discounts after three days, and there will be fewer customers after tasting the new ones, the shop will still be sold out before noon every day, and even the ordered cakes will be queued half a month later.

Therefore, the two have been busy all the time, and the burden of sweetness is incomparable.

That night, Fu Yan was sitting in the room soaking her feet.

She stood a lot these days, and her legs hurt a little. Fu Yan leaned over and beat her sore calves lightly.

Xiao Lie came over and rubbed and pressed her moderately.

Under the dim yellow candlelight, the two of them were silent but tacitly agreeable.

Fu Yan touched the water with her tender little feet: "Brother Alie, it's alright."

Xiao Lie stopped his massaging hands, took the cloth towel that was put aside and gently wiped her feet clean.

He said with some distress: "Ah Yan, why don't we hire some people."

He has seen Fu Yan's busy work these days.

"Let's look at it in two days. If you are still so busy, let's think about it."

Fu Yan was also tired, but she could hold on.After a while, if the shop's business can still be so stable, she also considers hiring two more helpers.

Xiao Lie also spent all his time in the shop during this period, and didn't find time to go back to the mountains to hunt.

Fu Yan always felt that it was overkill to tie him up in the shop and only do some physical work.

Please don't invite people, just invite a few people, these Fu Yanding will do.Xiao Lie saw that she had made her own fortune, so he didn't say any more.

**
A few days later, a clerk from Li Ting's shop came to invite Fu Yan, saying that the owner had something important to discuss.

Fu Yan changed her clothes and went with him to Liji Buzhuang.

"Sister Ting, I'm here, what happened in such a hurry?"

"Good news, good news, Sister Yan, come and see~" Li Ting led her to the table with a smile on her face.

She arranged several pieces of cloth on the table in front of Fu Yan's eyes one by one: "This is the cloth sent by Boss Zhong, can you see if you agree?"

Fu Yan was not polite either, and compared the pieces of cloth one by one.

There are countless capable people and skilled craftsmen in the world. According to Li Ting's description, the piece of cloth that Boss Zhong sent meets the requirements.

The fabric is woven from a mixture of hemp silk and cotton thread, leaving a grid spacing, which is wear-resistant and washable.

Fu Yan smiled and put the piece of cloth into Li Ting's hand: "This one is fine."

Li Ting: "Then we can start this cross-stitch?"

Fu Yan nodded: "I'll take this one back and embroider a few patterns first, so that you can understand it better."

"Cheng Chengcheng, take it away, I'll just wait."

Fu Yan came out with the cloth and selected silk threads of various colors, and went to a painting shop to buy some paints.

This kind of pigment can be used to draw on cloth for proofing, and it can be washed off with water.

When she got home, Xiao Lie helped her pick up the big and small things.

"Why are there so many?"

"I found the fabric for cross-stitching, and I took it back to do embroidery work."

"Are you busy enough to come?"

Fu Yan smiled wryly, what can I do, stay up late...

"It's not in a hurry, I just pick some time every day to do it."

"You, you say you have nothing to do, you are not busy, and you want to be lazy, but in fact you are busier than anyone else every day." Xiao Lie couldn't help talking about her, didn't he know his wife, and it was time to start lighting the lamps and staying up late again. what.

Fu Yan felt a little guilty and pushed him out the door: "Okay, okay, it's almost time, you go and pick up Ah Jian and go home, don't keep him waiting."

Xiao Lie followed Fu Yan's strength and walked out, not forgetting to tell: "I have prepared all the ingredients in the kitchen."

"Know it."

**
Fu Yan recalled the cross-stitch works she had seen in the past, and initially decided that she could first make a pillow, embroidery, and purse with a cute cartoon style.

The pillow is stuffed with cotton, which is soft and comfortable to lean on.In the same way, it can also be made into cushions, pillowcases, etc.If two identical embroidered surfaces are stitched and cut, it will be a cute doll.

Occasionally, when Li Ting brings people to buy pastries, she will also ask a few questions about the progress of the embroidery.

Seeing her eagerness, Fu Yan drove out all the cut embroidery products in mid-June and took them to her together.

As soon as Li Ting got the batch of embroidery, she hurriedly looked at it carefully.

The embroidered paintings are more common landscapes, the purse is a flower pattern, and the pillow is a simple kitten that I have seen before.

Li Ting stroked it lightly, the fabric was slightly stiff, and all the lines on it were crossed cross lines in one direction.If you look closely, you can see that these lines are centered on each grid point, and the entire pattern is formed after connecting the points.

Fu Yan smiled and took another semi-finished embroidery stretcher to show her.

"This is cross stitch. After you have a pattern, you can dot it on each grid first." Fu Yan took out the paint to complete the black spots of the kitten's pattern. , that's it."

Li Ting is a no-brainer.

This cross-stitch is indeed as Fu Yan said before, as long as you have some better fabrics, you can easily embroider it by hand.

Both cloth and silk thread are cheap, and ordinary people can afford them.

So the most important thing is this.

Fu Yan: "Yes, that's what happened. Sister Ting, what I said is absolutely necessary."

"But if you want an embroiderer to paint and embroider first, it will take time to cultivate one by one."

Li Ting thought about it, if this is the case, it's just that it's easy to operate the embroidery thread later, and it's more troublesome to make a painting with dots.

In this way, compared with a traditional and skilled embroiderer, it is almost the same.

"We can divide the labor." Fu Yan once again proposed a new concept.

"Division of labor?"

"First find a painter who is good at painting and make a painting. Once you have a pair, let others follow the gourd to paint and do it. The ordered canvas is directly distributed for embroidery."

Fu Yan drank tea calmly.

"In this way, except that painting is a brain-intensive technical task, other things will always be easy to learn."

The more Li Ting listened, the more excited she became. There is such a division of labor and cooperation?If this is the case, then this can indeed be done in batches.

Fu Yan said that the division of labor on the assembly line should be understood.

(End of this chapter)