It was decided to set aside a room in the courtyard as a studio, so Li Rong ran to the courtyard when she had time.
There are two rooms on the west side, one is used as a kitchen and the other is used for storing sundries.
The two rooms on the east side were both empty. When he was buying furniture, Zhao Qingsong wanted to buy two beds, but he didn't buy them later.
This moment is just right.
In a room that had not been opened for a long time, there was a dull smell of dust as soon as the door opened.
Li Rong choked, fanned her nose with her hand, and muttered: "From now on, unoccupied rooms will still have to be opened occasionally to get some air."
She opened the doors and windows and let it dry for a day. The next day she found mugwort and smoked it for a long time.
Smoking mugwort can kill many small bugs.
I waited another night to let the smell of mugwort dissipate.
She made a few essential oil candles and burned them all night, and the room finally smelled of a nice light jasmine fragrance.
Li Rong went back to Li's house and said that she and Li's mother would go to the textile factory to buy something.
Li's mother thought she was going to buy fabric and said, "I can bring you whatever kind of fabric you want. Why do you have to go there?"
"I don't just want fabric, I want human-shaped molds. I want several. I have to choose them myself."
The so-called humanoid mold is a dummy model. The plastic one can be used for clothing display, and the one wrapped with cloth can be used for making garments.
"Why did you buy this when you have nothing to do?" Li's mother was puzzled.
"Oh, of course it will be useful." Li Rong wanted to start a clothing studio, but before it was fully implemented, she didn't plan to tell her family.
"Okay, but I don't know if this thing can be sold." Li's mother usually works in a textile factory. Whether it's the benefits given by the factory or bought by herself, it's basically cloth. Very few employees buy this kind of stuff.
Mold.
"Hey, if you want that thing, how will you move it back?"
"Third brother," Li Rong smiled. Li Ruizhi's free labor is in vain if he doesn't use it.
Li Ruizhi sighed beside him: "Thankfully, she is my sister. I only think of my brother when necessary."
In this way, Li Rong got several mannequins back from the textile factory.
Two are for display and two are for making boards.
Then he asked Li Ruizhi to move the sewing machines from the north room, and the clothing studio finally took shape.
Li Ruizhi was not stupid. Looking at his posture, he could guess right. He asked Li Rong: "How did you come up with this idea? What will you do with your studies?"
"It doesn't affect my studies. I can make money by doing this."
Li Ruizhi shrugged: "That's a good saying. When you marry, you obey your husband. Your little head is full of money-making things. You learned it all from my brother-in-law, right?"
No one in the Li family has so many money-making ideas, but Zhao Qingsong.
After retiring, when the policies were still strict, he dared to partner with others to start a pig farm. He was brave and full of ideas;
When he arrived in the capital and was unfamiliar with the place, he started a successful fruit business;
I went to the South and bought a bunch of watches very boldly, and then sold them again to make the difference;
Returning to my hometown, I decided to stay and grow fruits...
As a result, Li Ruizhi admired his brother-in-law more and more, so he felt that Li Rong's thoughts were all infected by Zhao Qingsong.
Li Rong smiled: "Yes, I learned it from him."
Li Ruizhi chuckled: "He's better now. He stays in the country and I do all the hard work."
"It's so cheap but so good. Didn't he start the fruit wholesale business for you?"
Li Ruizhi snorted: "This is called keeping the rich water from outsiders' fields!"
There was no class on Saturday, so Li Rong took Shen Ruoning to the store to buy some suitable furniture and decorations.
She bought two sets of rattan tables and chairs, one to put in the house and one in the yard, so that guests who came to visit could have a place to sit.
After walking around for a while, the fake flowers didn't look good. Li Rong decided to do it herself, so she bought some cotton thread and iron wire.
With these basic things, Li Rong felt that it was almost enough. She couldn't think of what else was needed for the time being, and planned to add more when the time comes.
As a fashion designer in her previous life, Li Rong had an occupational disease.
I just like to buy some rare fabrics and collect jewelry.
Although she later became a food blogger, she still did not stop collecting. In the house she bought, there was a room full of homemade clothes, her collection of out-of-print fabrics, and jewelry.
She made a counter with fabrics and cotton threads on it.
She bought a batch of her usual threads and fabrics and made two sets of ready-made clothes with a strong sense of design and in line with current aesthetic trends. They were put on the dummies so that guests could see them as soon as they entered the room.
One is a cheongsam and the other is a puffy dress.
Of course, these two sets are not for sale, but if someone wants to make the same style, Li Rong will do it. After all, this can save design time.
After doing this, Li Rong remembered that she should prepare two more mannequins to hang men's ready-made clothes.
Then I thought about it again, and it was easier for a woman to make money. Now that she was alone, it would be quite a waste of her brain to receive customized men's clothing, so she forgot about it.
After a month of preparation, Li Rong's studio finally opened.
Before the opening, Shen Ruoning was not idle. She called all the aunts who had left their phone numbers for her one by one. According to Li Rong's instructions, she told them the address and time, and also mentioned the customers who came to make reservations on the first day of the opening. There is a big surprise.
On the opening day, Shen Ruoning arrived at the courtyard early in the morning.
She brought good tea and snacks, and gave Li Rongsong a ceramic vase ornament.
The sky-blue enamel pattern, the bottle mouth tightened, and the peony inserted will definitely look particularly nice.
Li Rong liked this kind of classical thing very much. She held the vase and looked at it for a long time: "This vase is so beautiful."
She looked at the bottom and saw a red mark, but she didn't understand the writing on it, and she didn't know if it was an antique or a product of a certain town.
However, it does not affect the beauty of the vase.
She has no research on these porcelains, but she was involved in the fashion circle in her previous life and still has a certain aesthetic ability.
"As long as you like it! My dad bought it anyway."
"Ah? Did your dad buy it? It must not be an ordinary thing," Li Rong thought. It couldn't be an antique, right? She didn't dare to accept it.
"Oh, don't worry, I asked my dad for permission!"
Li Rong touched the vase and decided to buy a stand and put it on it.
She used to open a fruit shop on the first floor of Teacher Yuan's house, but she no longer does so. Li Rong hired someone to take the refrigerator home for her own use.
After the first floor became free, Teacher Yuan did not rent it out again.
Li Rong made some white fungus and lotus seed soup the night before, put it in to chill, made some braised food, cut a fruit plate, and put it on the table in the yard, waiting for the opening to entertain guests later.
It's almost eleven o'clock.
Li Rong's opening time is eleven o'clock.
The closer the time came, the more nervous Shen Ruoning became.