National Tide 1980

First of all, Su Jin was ill and unable to move for a long time when she was young, which was originally a bad thing.

But at such a playful and active age, how could he stay peacefully when he was forced to be confined to a bed?

It's impossible not to find something interesting to do to kill time.

So he followed his mother and learned to play Geku early.

The so-called Geqi is the necessary material for making the soles of handmade cloth shoes.

To put it bluntly, making rags is to glue rags and rags together layer by layer with glue until they reach the thickness required for making shoes.

Then, after drying in the sun, it is peeled off to become the 袼褙.

Su Jin was fascinated by this job.

Because they have to make rags of different colors and shapes, they are nicknamed "puff".

Just like putting together a jigsaw puzzle, it is not easy to put the pieces together smoothly and just right.

It often requires some careful thinking and design.

For children as young as three years old, this is undoubtedly equivalent to a game that can fully mobilize their intelligence.

What's more, Dagegu can indeed play a certain role in helping family income.

If she does well, her mother will give Su Jin praise and certain material rewards.

For example, pieces of fragrant sugar cakes, or snacks such as jelly beans, white rice cakes, plum candies, and hawthorn slices.

When Su Jin took these sweet things into his mouth, he felt a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment.

In this way, when other children were at the age of going to nursery school, Su Jin sat on the bed every day and pasted cloth heads, practicing to become a master in playing the robe.

He made the robes beautifully, not only in the right shape, but also in matching colors.

Navy blue versus tender pink, goose yellow versus aqua green.

No matter what kind of mess it is, it becomes content and changes after his hands adjust it.

Even the people in Buyingzhai praised him.

He said that he had collected so many tympanums, but he had never seen anyone else's children produce such exquisite geges.

Similarly, similar to this incident, when Su Jin's legs were healed, he became a little older.

At his house, people often come here to ask his father to make clothes in his spare time.

Su Jin will also be like a tailor apprentice, often helping Su Shen with needlework and doing some auxiliary work within his ability.

Needless to say, under his father's training and long-term exposure, Su Jin was able to develop the basic skills of beautiful tailoring and needlework.

Even after my mother passed away, my father no longer had such extra income, so he even gave the family's sewing machine to a trust store and sold it for money.

Su Jin did not leave needlework either.

Because in order to make his sister happy, he often used the leftover cloth at home to sew dolls for Su Xiu.

Mavericks, little tigers, little rabbits, little pigs, Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Chang'e, and the daughters of the seven fairies are all available.

Moreover, it is vivid and the clothes are exquisite, so everyone who sees it will say yes.

Even Su Shenzhen praised his son for his talent in tailoring and was willing to train him to inherit his craft.

It's a pity that he was born at the wrong time, and the changes in the current situation forced Su Jin to follow Da Liuer to the countryside to join the team. No matter how talented he was, it would be useless.

But no matter what, it is true that art is not a burden.

The skills you have learned and practiced may come in handy at some point.

No, the situation has changed, and now she has to rely on scissors and needlework to make a living. Su Jin obviously takes advantage of others.

His hands are extremely familiar with the texture of fabric, and he can tell the properties of the material almost by touching it.

He is also far more comfortable than others in using needlework and scissors.

For example, others only have one way to sew buttons, but Su Jin knows seven ways.

He can naturally choose the most suitable method based on the texture of the fabric and buttons, and complete the task quickly and easily.

Others shrink the lining of the clothes, correct the wrong places in the stitching, and perhaps remove the stitches carefully and slowly.

Su Jin didn't. He used his father's seam ripper to pick out the thread ends, clicking and clicking.

Use a sewing machine to lock the edges, and it will be done in one go.

What's more, after returning to Beijing, Su Jin entered the Tsinghua Pool and started a pedicure business.

That also requires careful hand work.

For this reason, after three years, he has long been accustomed to how to concentrate on work in a noisy, stuffy bathhouse.

So he came to work in a sewing club. In fact, he didn't find such work boring at all.

He is not like others who have to chat to relieve stress and maintain patience.

On the contrary, you feel like a fish in water, able to calm down, hold your breath, and devote yourself fully.

Especially when you see yourself completing a piecework task and turning out a flawless piece of clothing.

He was so excited and proud that he was so addicted that he lost track of time.

I don't know how long it took, until the smell of leek buns came to his nose and he realized that others had already had their midnight snack.

Then he stopped and took a rest.

However, it wasn't because he was tired or his stomach was growling and he thought he needed to eat something.

What really made him stop was that an unfamiliar elder sister came to chat with Aunt Yao who was sitting next to his sewing machine while eating.

As a result, I just saw him "showing off" the fruits of his labor.

"Oh, hey, you're amazing! Did you do all this? Mom, I say you all should come and take a look. He's so good at it. A young guy can even compete with us women's needlework. …”

The piles of finished products made the eldest sister scream without caring about the buns stuffed in her mouth.

Suddenly, it was as if the temple had been blown up, and a lot of women were attracted, whom Su Jin was not familiar with at all.

And they soon started shouting in unison.

"It's amazing. I've only made three or four things. Why have you made so many? There must be more than a dozen, right?"

"How can you do it so fast? Your hands are so skillful, can you do magic tricks?"

"Hey, you don't work in a clothing factory that specializes in this, do you?"

"Haha, I see that this young man has pretty features and is most likely the reincarnation of the Weaver Girl..."

Su Jin is not an introvert, but when faced with a bunch of old ladies who surrounded him with frothy words,

It's impossible not to be stunned.

He was at a loss and listened silently, not daring to interrupt.

Fortunately, at this time, Aunt Bian brought someone to inspect the work. When she saw it, she intervened.

"Hey, hey, hey! Why don't you guys show your teeth and show your claws and yell, and then scare others. You can't do serious things yet, and you still have the energy to talk nonsense. Hurry up and do what you have to do. You have to have this time to amuse yourself. Mengzi, can you go home and rest early?"

Director Bian is now more and more powerful because of the increasing authority of the sewing club, so the ladies naturally dare not disobey him.

Everyone stood up and walked away with an embarrassed smile.

Aunt Bian asked about Su Jin with concern. "How's it going? Are you used to it?"

"Very good! Thank you for your trouble!" Su Jin immediately replied gratefully.

He knew in his heart that Aunt Bian probably came here just to see him today.

Sure enough, Aunt Bian asked immediately.

"You have to tell me if you don't get used to it. Don't be embarrassed to speak because you feel wronged in a crowd of women. From now on, you have to work here all day long. If you can't save face, you will always keep things in your heart. You won’t be able to do this for long…”

"No, no, the aunties and sisters-in-law on our street are very nice to me and enthusiastic..."

Su Jin blushed, and this eager explanation immediately made everyone laugh.

Especially the one who started yelling while eating steamed buns just now answered immediately.

"Director Bian, it's fair to say that the grievance is ours. This young man is so capable. One person can do the job for the three of us, but he has made all the money..."

Someone immediately agreed.

"That's right, you have to drink a bowl of water. Seeing that you are so protective, he is not your godson, young man. You have to honor your godmother well in the future..."

Immediately, there was another burst of laughter.

Although this kind of playfulness and crazy laughter seems very vulgar, it also makes people feel relaxed and happy.

This is the spirit of the market, and there is absolutely no malice.

After the meal time passed, most people in the sewing club finished their work hastily and went home around ten o'clock.

But Su Jin is not the case. He still has a younger sister at home to take care of his father.

He is not like other people. The elderly, children, and husband at home cannot do without them for a lot of trivial matters, and they have to go back early to take care of them.

As a man who is still single, his main goal is to work and make money.

So he worked hard until about eleven o'clock.

Although the initial excitement wore off, he began to feel that the tailoring work was tiring his waist, neck, and eyes, and his back was extremely stiff.

But even so, he couldn't bear to let go.

In the end, I dozed off just watching the aunt in charge of statistics.

He was the only one in the whole house staying late, and he couldn't bear it, so he handed in the work.

If not for anything else, it was because he was so good at the work here, and the results of his first trial of his skills were simply inspiring to him.

Twenty-one!

Today he turned twenty-one defective items of varying degrees of difficulty into perfect garments.

The total calculation was five yuan and ten cents, ten times what he earned as a porter.

If you earn five yuan a day, how much will you get in a month?

What's more, he can work all day on Sunday, and he even feels that he still has room to improve his efficiency.

Oh my god, his monthly salary is only thirty-eight yuan. Can he earn the salary of three or four people?

He now really has the confidence to support the family by his own strength...

Perhaps, there is no such thing as genius in this world.

But there is no doubt that Su Jin has been forced by life to become a genius.

His suffering has long since turned into skills and knowledge that have penetrated deeply into his bones and blood, but he has never discovered it.

But now, the tailoring club has completely ignited all his energy.

Su Jin felt relaxed after walking out of the factory, fully awakening and discovering her own value.

It was dark and the lights were dim.

But he didn't feel depressed at all. Instead, because of the silence on the street, he wanted to sing from the bottom of his heart.

For him, life finally became flowing water, allowing him to swim in it.

He was in a good and open mood, comfortable and at ease that he had never experienced before, a kind of peace of mind that allowed him to grasp his life.

He has nothing to ask for now but that the cooperative can continue to operate for a long time.

Bian Jianjun, Aunt Bian, and the manager of the foreign-owned clothing company who cooperated with the street and gave him so much work...

Live a long life, and good people will be rewarded.