Shanghai Embroidery Lady

Chapter 27
After a month, Ye Zijin was very familiar with the craftsmanship entrusted to her by Master Shen. The speed of twisting buttons became faster, and the cutting skills became more agile. Even the delicate work of picking seams became better better and better.Ye Zijin longed to learn how to make cheongsam earlier, but every time she finished helping her master and came to the critical sewing process, the master always asked her to go out to do other things.

One day, Ye Zijin was ironing a long gown when Xiao Wu came over to pick it up.Then he asked casually: "Xiao Wu, how long have you been in this shop? Did Master teach you how to make a cheongsam?"

Xiao Wu found a ready-to-wear album, glanced at Ye Zijin, "I've been here much longer than you, don't think you can replace me if you do a good job, Master will not teach you Shen's crafts .”

"Why?" Ye Zijin's heart sank.

Seeing her disappointed, Xiao Wu said triumphantly: "The two generations of the Shen family have been tailors, and the craftsmanship is only passed on to men and not to women. You are a woman, so of course you can't learn it."

"Oh..." Ye Zijin knew the truth, she was a little bit aggrieved, why women can't learn, if the master is willing to teach her, she must learn faster and better than Xiao Wu.

When she was a child, Ye Zijin was always taught by Fujin. All she heard was that women should not read such books, speak such words, do such things, and go to such places... What can a woman do? do what?Now that she can't even learn real tailoring skills, Ye Zijin is a little disappointed.

Because the business in the shop is good recently, Master Shen can only stay at night to catch up with work.Ye Zijin left late that day, saw Master smoking a cigarette while making a cheongsam in the back room, thinking that he hadn't had dinner yet, so he went outside to buy a pack of rice cakes and came back.

"Master, I bought you this rice cake, you can eat it while it's hot." Ye Zijin put a pack of cakes beside the cutting bed, glanced at the inside of the cheongsam on the cutting bed, and saw that Master Shen was cutting the cake The inside is placed on the cutting bed, and the curved part is fixed with thin needles. Ye Zijin thinks that should be the waist of the cheongsam.

"Well, you go back first." Master Shen sat on the high stool, smoking a cigarette one after another, as if thinking about something.

Ye Zijin thought about what he did just now, although he is not sure, but there are some similarities between making cheongsam and making other clothes, Ye Zijin thinks it will not be that bad.

The next day, Ye Zijin was looking at the pattern of the cheongsam, when she saw Xiao Wu walking in dejectedly with a handful of colorful confetti in her pocket, Ye Zijin recognized that it was Liutongcai, which was popular in Shanghai not long ago.

"Xiao Wu, have you been buying six-pass lottery recently?" Ye Zijin asked.

Xiao Wu was taken aback, and quickly put his hands in his pockets to cover them tightly, and rolled his eyes at Ye Zijin, "It's none of your business."

Ye Zijin shook his head and said, "It's none of my business, I just want to remind you that that thing is deceptive, it looks cheap, you can buy one for two Xiaoyang, but actually the chance of winning the lottery is very slim."

"Cut... what do you know? A few days ago, a cart driver won three thousand ocean miles. In a blink of an eye, he became a rich man from a poor cart driver, and his wife has a house. As long as I keep buying, one day I will Luck will fall on me too." Xiao Wu snorted softly, ignoring Ye Zijin's advice.

There were several coughing sounds from the back room, and Master Shen lifted the curtain and came out.

"Xiao Wu, where did you go? Why weren't you in the shop just now?" Master Shen asked sternly.

"I..." Xiao Wu hesitated, "I just went to deliver a cheongsam to Mrs. Dou." After speaking, he glared at Ye Zijin.

Master Shen came over and raised a long cigarette stick and tapped Xiao Wu on the head, shouting: "You are talking nonsense! Young Mistress Dou's cheongsam was just delivered yesterday! Why are you still delivering it today?"

Xiao Wu held his head and wept with a mournful face, not knowing how to get away with it.

Ye Zijin, who was standing by the side, said: "Master, Xiao Wu did give Young Madam Dou a cheongsam, but it was another one that you changed for her yesterday, don't you remember?" Actually, that one was changed The cheongsam the Dou family sent to pick it up this morning.

Master Shen smoked a cigarette and thought for a while, then nodded and said, "It seems that there is such a thing."

Xiaowu felt wronged and said: "Master, you see, you forgot."

"Be careful in doing things, you are like a monkey all day long, impetuous and careless, how can you learn a craft." Master Shen hates iron but not steel.

"Master is teaching you!" Xiao Wu nodded seriously.

After Master Shen entered the back room, Xiao Wu breathed a sigh of relief, turned to look at Ye Zijin, put away the embarrassment just now, and said with a heavy face, "Thank you just now."

Ye Zijin turned over a page of the album, looked up and said, "It's okay, but you'd better buy less six-pass lottery in the future, a few small dollars a day can be accumulated, enough for a month, and there is nothing like gambling. it is good."

"You don't have to worry about it." Xiao Wuman said indifferently.

(End of this chapter)