After the peony embroidery on the entry was finished, Li Rong did not sew it up immediately, but put it aside.
There was still a lot of time, so she gave Zheng Yanhong a simple customer order to make, and some embroidery patterns for Granny Mo and the others to make. She was busy clearing out the vacant room next to the east room.
Li Rong plans to bring back three or four sewing machines in the newly renovated house. Once they are put in, she will hire a few more tailors, and her private studio will be able to start working in a big way.
No, there's something else.
But that matter will have to wait until the end of the game to be put on the agenda.
If you want to make your business bigger, you can't be as casual as before, and many things pile up uncontrollably.
The house was tidied up, but the sewing machine hadn't been purchased yet. The person who installed the phone, customized the cabinets, and applied for the job all happened to come to the door on the same day.
There were several groups of people in the courtyard, making it noisy.
Unfortunately, everything can't be left to others' hands, everything needs to be witnessed by Li Rong herself.
She had originally planned to go out to buy a sewing machine but put it off. Li Rong called Zheng Yanhong and hurriedly cleared a corner of the east room for the master to install a telephone.
The telephone is installed in the east room, because Li Rong is mainly in the east room, and it will be much more convenient to answer calls in the future.
After finishing here, Li Rong hurried to the next room. The master who customized the cabinets had just finished measuring the size of the room and asked: "Are they all made of wooden cabinets?"
Li Rong: "The side next to the door and window is vacant, which is probably a place for four sewing machines. The rest is made into a wooden cabinet with a high top, the kind where long skirts can be hung directly. Do you understand, Master?"
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"I know, we have done it before. Your house is not very high. We can only make it 1.8 meters high."
“Can there be drawers or cabinets for folded clothes underneath?”
"No, if we want to do it, the cabinet for hanging clothes can only be reduced to about 1.5 meters," the master said firmly to Li Rong, "but the wall next to it can be used to make small cabinets. You can build it along this wall.
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Li Rong discussed it with the carpenter for a long time before finally settling on it, but she had to wait for the carpenter to finish it before sending it over for installation. It would take ten days and a half anyway.
It doesn't matter, I'm not particularly anxious about the cabinet.
Anyway, I haven’t recruited anyone back yet.
The job recruitment information published in the newspaper did not include the recruitment of cooks, because providing a lunch for the workers was not decided until later.
Sure enough, when you get busy, it is easy to overlook some things.
There was only one cook who could cook one meal a day. Li Rong did not bother to re-advertise. She directly pasted a piece of red paper on the door with black ink writing on it:
Hire a cook aunt
Monthly salary 35 yuan
Requirements: 38~50 years old. Make lunch every day and be responsible for buying groceries, including washing dishes after meals.
Mother Zhao thought the money was unnecessary. She said, "Isn't it just a matter of getting a few more pairs of bowls and chopsticks at noon every day? I'll make more, so I don't have to spend that wasted money."
After staying in the city for a long time, Zhao's father and Zhao's mother gradually changed their rural accent a lot, especially when calling themselves "I".
When I returned to the village during the Chinese New Year, the people in the village talked to Zhao's mother and lamented that she now talked and acted like people in the city.
Li Rong smiled: "It's okay for two days a day. Doing it every day will be very tiring. Mom, just help me take care of An'an. You don't have to cook for lunch from now on. We can all eat together. Save some energy."
I promised you to go to the city and enjoy the blessings, but in the past two years, you have helped me pick up An An, visit the fruit shop, and cook, and you are quite tired."
"What are you talking about? I don't feel tired. Besides, your father can just watch the fruit shop."
Li Rong's decision would not be changed easily. She smiled and said, "Let's talk about it then."
Seeing that she refused to listen, Mother Zhao couldn't say much. The second daughter-in-law was very busy recently, and Mother Zhao knew that all she could do was take care of An An.
After dinner in the evening, Zhao's father and Zhao's mother took An An to play in the alley.
"Fanghong, are you taking your grandson out to play?"
Zhao's mother turned around and looked: "Hongxia? You came out to play too, but it's very cold, so I plan to go back."
"No, I was just passing by," Hongxia pulled Zhao's mother's sleeve and walked aside, "I saw a sticker on your door today calling for a cook, did you find it?"
"I don't know about that," Zhao's mother replied vaguely, glanced at Hongxia, and asked, "You want to come?"
This shouldn't be the case. Hongxia's family has several sons and daughters-in-law who all have work units. She wouldn't let her mother in her fifties go out to work as a cook, would she?
Hongxia smiled: "If it weren't for me, I wouldn't even be able to cook the food at home."
"So someone asked you to ask?"
"Hey, I've guessed everything for you," Hongxia sighed, "I have a mother-in-law who came from the countryside and said she wanted to find a job in the capital. She is in her forties, so where can she find anything?
Work? She just wanted to stay in the city. She heard that your family was looking for a cook aunt, and she knew that you and I often buy groceries together, so she asked me to help ask."
Mother Zhao: "Is that the mother-in-law who does a lot of things and is lazy and lazy?"
Her biological mother, as soon as she mentioned Zhao's mother, she knew that she was a difficult person.
Hongxia has a younger son, who is twenty-five or six this year. He was admitted to college and returned to the city last year.
Her younger son went to the countryside to become an educated youth and married a country woman.
My daughter-in-law has good features, is hardworking and honest.
Hongxia was not dissatisfied when she brought it back. Besides, she also gave birth to two grandchildren.
My mother-in-law is particularly difficult to deal with and has been here several times this year.
Every time I come here empty-handed, saying I'm looking for a job, I stay for a few days and then go back.
When you go back, take your big and small bags with you.
For those who didn't know, I thought she was going back to her parents' home.
I'm quite old, and I don't know how to show some face when doing things.
Came here again some time ago.
The Chinese New Year is about to come, and her biological mother is still staying at her home. If she were a good-natured person, Hongxia wouldn't be so irritable.
It’s not like the mother-in-law has a lot of things to do. She yells all day long for Hongxia’s youngest son to help find a job, and her grandson doesn’t help. When the meal is ready, she runs faster than anyone else!
Hongxia is so annoyed!
Now, I don’t know where my mother-in-law heard that Li Rong’s family was looking for a cook aunt. Good guy, she only needs to cook one meal a day and she can get thirty-five dollars a month. Isn’t that like pie in the sky?
She pestered Hongxia and asked her to help ask.
No, to be precise, the mother-in-law told Hongxia to ask Mother Zhao to find a back door for her and arrange for her to get in.
Hongxia sneered in her heart at that time, if someone wants you, they are blind!
Of course, she couldn't say it directly. She smiled softly and said, "Just wait, I'll ask you when I have time, but I can't guarantee it."
When the other party heard that Hongxia had agreed, they thought the matter was a done deal.
Her mouth almost reached behind her ears, and she smiled playfully: "It's definitely possible. My mother and you have such a good relationship. I'm just waiting for good news from you!"
When Hongxia thought of her smile, she couldn't help feeling cold: "It's not her! I'm just asking you symbolically, and you don't have to ask her for my sake. But I really don't know how to tell her when I go back.