The cannon fodder female supporting role stirs up trouble in period literature

Zhou Laiying didn't have to think about it, as Sister Cheng had just taught her how to make noodles with soybean paste, so she made some noodles with soybean paste.

The meat chunks are big, and they are all made from pork belly with honeysuckle. They are so delicious when you take a bite.

When the noodles are cooked, sprinkle them with the vegetable toppings made from the honeysuckle, mix with fried sauce, add a spoonful of chili oil, and take a bite of garlic: the taste is simply amazing!

After dinner, Zhou Laiying and Hua Xiaohua got together again to study the designs in the book. Finally, the mother and daughter picked out a dress and tried to make it with the piece of Dacron that Zhou Laiying bought.

The dress has a small ruffle on the shoulder, a pinched waist design, and a large bow sewn on the back of the waist, which is slightly larger than half the waist.

The mother and daughter worked together on two sewing machines and it only took them less than an hour to finish a piece of clothing. This was because both of them were very careful and afraid of making any mistakes.

After the clothes were sewn together and Hua Dahua put them on to show off, everyone's eyes lit up. Even Hua Dahua was reluctant to take them off, they were so beautiful.

Hua Xiaohua immediately found another piece of scrap fabric and made a bow that was smaller than the one on the waist. She simply let her sister's hair fall down and tied the bow on.

Looking at the big flowers again, they are so beautiful that they seem to have come out of a painting.

In addition to making clothes with fabrics, the scraps can also be made into headwear. The mother and daughter looked at each other and were both full of confidence in doing the clothing business.

The mother and daughter were busy until late at night. Zhou Laiying had to get up early to go to work the next day, so she urged Hua Xiaohua to go to bed.

Although Hua Dahua and Hua Xiaohua now have their own rooms, and even Hua Rendong has a room of her own, the three sisters still slept in the same bed at night. After chatting for a while, Hua Dahua and Hua Xiaohua couldn't resist the sleepiness and fell asleep.

Hua Honeysuckle smiled, did not practice as before, and fell into a deep sleep.

The next day, Zhou Laiying was still a little sleepy when she got up early, but when she looked at the skirts she had made last night, she felt very happy.

I was thinking of making a few more pieces, and then I would set up a stall in front of a factory. When I was working, my mouth was always upturned, and several customers praised my good attitude.

As expected, Sister Cheng brought a box of wontons for Zhou Laiying in a lunch box when she went to work. Zhou Laiying wanted to give her money, but she said she didn't want anything. Hua Rendong then gave her a headband that she made with leftover materials yesterday, which made Sister Cheng very happy.

Zhou Laiying tasted the wontons that Sister Cheng brought her, and they were indeed quite good, much better than what she made, but not at all as good as Sister Cheng praised. Anyway, she would try Chef Luo's cooking from time to time in the past few months, and she really didn't think the wontons were that delicious.

But the business is still booming, and Zhou Laiying is more confident in her clothing business.

Sister Cheng also mentioned that in addition to the wonton stall, there were several more stalls selling food near her home, including steamed buns, noodles, and fried cakes. There were also several people selling popsicles on the streets. Their business was booming, and at the end of the day, the money they earned was almost as much as half a month's salary.

When I returned home in the evening, Hua Honeysuckle had already returned to her own home. There were more than a dozen skirts made of small flowers in the house. The styles were different, but each one was so beautiful that people were reluctant to let go.

Hua Xiaohua was still busy at the sewing machine, and Hua Dahua was helping beside her. If they didn't speak, it would be English.

Zhou Laiying didn't understand, but she just felt that her two daughters were extraordinary.

After dinner, Zhou Laiying asked Hua Xiaohua to rest for a while. She sat down in front of the sewing machine and made a few more skirts according to her own ideas.

Before getting up early and going out, Zhou Laiying said to the two sisters who were already busy, "Don't be too tired. Mom will be home an hour earlier in the evening. You should pack up all the skirts and wait for mom to sell them."

The two sisters agreed very well, and when she left, they were busy again. It was not until noon that they stopped their work, carried a large bag of clothes, and set up a stall in front of a factory that looked quite large.

At noon, a worker went home for lunch. When he came out, he saw a large bed sheet spread on the ground in front of the factory gate, with many beautiful skirts placed on it.

The workers' wages at that time were not low and they were very generous when buying things, so the female workers who were getting off work gathered around them.

I heard that a skirt costs fifteen yuan. Although each skirt comes with a headband of the same color, some people still think it is too expensive, while others just pay for it without saying a word.

Even if there are ten people watching and only one person pays, the number of people watching is already not small.

The two sisters were busy collecting money, and when they came to their senses, only five skirts were left from the pile of clothes.

When they got home, the two sisters settled the accounts.

In more than a day, Hua Xiaohua and Zhou Laiying made a total of 32 skirts. There were five left, so 27 were sold. At 15 yuan per skirt, they made a total of 405 yuan.

People were thin at that time, and most people could wear a dress made of five feet of cloth. At 1.5 yuan per foot, a dress cost 7.5 yuan, and was sold for 15 yuan, which was half of the profit excluding labor. In other words, just from the dresses made in that day, their family earned more than 200 yuan.

If we buy the fabric directly from the factory and sell it at a lower price, wouldn't we make more money?

When Zhou Laiying came back an hour after taking leave in advance, she saw Hua Xiaohua still working on the sewing machine, but there were only about ten dresses next to her. Zhou Laiying was dumbfounded, "Where are the dresses?"

Hua Dahua winked at her and said, "Mom, guess how much Xiaohua and I earned from selling skirts today?"

"What? You two went to sell skirts? Aren't you afraid of being caught by people with red armbands?" Zhou Laiying became anxious when she heard this. As a middle-aged woman, it didn't matter if she was caught, but if these two beautiful girls in her family were really caught, she didn't know what would happen to them. She was so scared that she broke out in a cold sweat and started to scold them while pointing at them.

But when she saw the stack of money handed to her, her eyes widened, "Is this what you earned from selling skirts?"

Hua Dahua proudly shook the money in her palm, making a snapping sound, "What are you thinking about? There's still money for Erhua's fabric in there. We'll go to a restaurant with five dollars, and everything will be here."

Zhou Laiying didn't listen to her nagging. She took the money and counted it. There were forty big unity notes in total. Zhou Laiying calculated that even if half of it was for the cloth and was going to be given to Hua Rendong, the three of them would have earned two hundred yuan after working hard for more than a day. This amount of money was more than the salary of three people even in Beijing.

Suddenly, Zhou Laiying didn't want to go to work anymore.

Besides being blinded by money, she also didn't want her two daughters to get caught for selling things when she was at work.

What's more, my little girl is on summer vacation now and can make clothes at home. I must not let her delay her studies when school starts.

So it would be better for her to do things like making clothes and selling them.

In the evening, when Hua Jianshe returned home with a sullen face and heard Zhou Laiying say that she was going to quit her job and sell clothes, Hua Jianshe was deeply moved. He told her that he wanted to buy the parts factory. Unexpectedly, he got the unanimous vote of the whole family.

Just wanting to buy such a big factory would cost tens of thousands of dollars, not to mention that at that time, I had never heard of anyone being able to run a factory on their own. It seemed that I had to ask Erhua for help.