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The next day, just after lunch time, Aunt Zhao brought a few people to Tang Peipei's house.

Mother Tang smiled and invited Aunt Zhao and others to sit inside.

At this time, Tang Peipei was in the yard looking at the clothes drying rack that Tong Yao had made.

Tang Peipei was very happy. She didn't expect Tong Yao's carpentry skills were so good. She thought the hook she asked to make was difficult and Tong Yao would have to wait until the afternoon to do it well.

When Tong Yao came with the things, he was just a little earlier than Aunt Zhao.

Tong Yao took out all the accessories and placed them in order, then introduced them to Tang Peipei one by one.

Then he demonstrated it to Tang Peipei.

After pressing it, Tang Peipei shook it hard with his hand and found it was very stable. Tang Peipei was very satisfied with it.

It was done exactly as she requested.

Aunt Zhao looked at the clothes drying rack curiously and asked, "What is this rack used for?"

Tang Peipei did not hide it, thinking there was nothing to hide, so she smiled and said, "This is the stand I plan to use when I set up a stall in the city."

Aunt Zhao was even more curious. Didn't Tang Peipei say it was a clothing store? Why did he come up with something fancy?

Asked: "Peipei, didn't you say before that you wanted to open a clothing store?"

Tang's mother smiled and said, "It's hard to find a shop in the city, so Peipei wants to set up a stall to buy ready-made clothes first, and then open a shop when she finds one."

Aunt Zhao had never seen anyone selling ready-made clothes or setting up a stall.

Although she was not optimistic about Tang Peipei setting up a stall and selling ready-made clothes, after all, Tang Peipei hadn't started yet, so she couldn't say anything discouraging.

He laughed and said, "It's quite novel. OK, OK." Then he said to Tang Peipei, "Peipei, these are the people who are the best at needlework in the village that I found for you. Can you take a look?"

Tang Peipei said, "Then please come in and sit for a while, I'll pay Uncle Tong the wages."

Tong Yao thought the job was easy and didn't want to be paid.

He smiled and shook his head, "Peipei, you're busy, I'll do this for you, no need to pay."

Tang Peipei was not willing to do that. She asked Lu Gang to keep the person and she went back to the house to get the money.

Tang Peipei gave Tong Yao a hundred coins.

"Uncle Tong, you worked hard to make this shelf, so you should be paid. Please keep it."

Lu Gang also said: "That's right, who would do a job without charging for it? Aren't you going to make people think that our Lu family is unkind?"

After hearing what they said, Tong Yao stopped refusing, took it, took the money, and left with a smile.

Tang Peipei invited Second Aunt Zhao and the others into the house and said, "I guess you all have heard what Second Aunt said. I wonder why I invited you all here?"

Those people nodded and said, "I know."

Tang Peipei looked over and saw six people coming, four women and two girls around fifteen or sixteen years old.

The women all looked quite energetic and were honest and decent people, and the girls were also very well-mannered.

Tang Peipei said: "Although you know it, I will still tell you again."

Tang Peipei paused and said, "I invited you all here because I am planning to open a clothing store and I want you to help me make clothes. Now that I don't have a store, the demand is not great. If possible, I hope you can make ten sets of clothes within five days. Is that feasible?"

Several women looked at each other and thought that if it was not difficult, it should be possible.

One of the women asked, "I wonder what kind of clothes they are made of?"

Tang Peipei said: "It's not too difficult. It's just ordinary clothes. The embroidery on it doesn't need to be too complicated. I will teach you a simple embroidery method."

After discussing it for a while, they said, "We can give it a try. After all, we have never done this before."

Tang Peipei nodded and said, "Okay, I'll pay you 40 cents a day, food included, and you need to come to my house to work every day."

A few people were quite happy. They didn't expect that meals were included. They all nodded in agreement.

Tang Peipei said, "Well, you guys register your names and addresses with me first, and I have to keep your information. If you work for two days and then stop, I will only pay you half of your wages, understand? If you have something to do and can't come, you have to tell me in advance, you can't just say you can't come and not even say hello."

Several people nodded.

Tang Peipei went back to her room, took out a pen and paper, and wrote down the names of several people one by one.

Among these six people, there are two pairs of mothers and daughters. One pair is from the village of Aunt Zhao’s mother’s family, and they can be considered Aunt Zhao’s mother’s family. The mother is Wen Guilan and the daughter is Zhao Xiaomei. The other pair of mother and daughter are from this village. The mother is Zou Ping and the daughter is Du Jinjin. The other one is the only widow in the village, named Du Mei.

Her husband had an accident while hunting in the mountains, and now she and her mother-in-law are the only ones left to depend on each other. She is a very good woman.

Before, someone wanted to arrange a marriage for her and persuaded her to remarry. After all, her previous husband did not leave any children, so why should she stay and suffer this hardship? However, she felt that her mother-in-law treated her very well and her late husband loved her very much before his accident. Therefore, she did not want to make her late husband feel uneasy. She was also worried that her mother-in-law would be alone and helpless after she passed away. So she rejected the matchmaker's marriage proposal and voluntarily stayed.

Tang Peipei only found out about this later from what Aunt Zhao told her.

The workers who make the garments have been found and the cloth has arrived long ago. Now all that’s left is the finished products and the shop floor.

Tang Peipei first designed a set of clothes and asked Aunt Wen and others to try to make them, and then see what each of them was good at.

The sewing of several people was very good, tight and dense, and Tang Peipei was very satisfied after seeing it.

The two girls embroidered the flowers very well, with very delicate stitches, and the embroidered flowers looked vivid.

Tang Peipei assigned the sewing of clothes to three women, and the embroidery work to two girls.

In order to embroider faster, Tang Peipei taught the two girls the creative method of embroidering letters.

This method of embroidering letters is very popular in modern times, and it is innovative and I believe it will be loved by everyone.

Tang Peipei asked them to embroider some accessories first, such as sachets, to see the effect.

Both of them are very good at embroidery. Letter embroidery is actually simple, and both of them learned it very quickly.

In less than an hour, the two of them had embroidered a sachet with a word on it each.

After Tang Peipei saw it, she was very satisfied and felt that the person Aunt Zhao had found was really satisfactory to her.

Tang's mother and Liu Yeling both knew how to embroider, but their skills weren't as good as those of the ones they hired, so they just helped out.

Everything went smoothly.

Tang Peipei has to design the drawings at home and also explain to several people the cutting of the clothes she designed.

After coming back, Lu Xinyu took Chen Cuihua to try growing medicinal seeds.

Apart from Lu Gang, Mu Jintang is probably the one with the most free time in the family.

Although Lu Gang cannot do any heavy work, he can still guide Lu Xinyu's work in the fields and occasionally go to the fields to take a look.

Seeing the family busy, Nanny Yuan took over the cooking job and asked Xiao Ya to help.

Mu Jintang took this opportunity to say that he could take Xiaotuanzi out to play.

After a few days of getting along, Xiaotuanzi has become very familiar with Mu Jintang.

Mu Jintang's laughter could always be heard in the yard.

Tang Peipei was busy designing drawings every day and had no time to take care of him, and she also forgot what to ask him.

The only thing that worries Tang Peipei is the appearance of the store.

During this period, Lu Lifeng would always go around the city, hoping to find a storefront as soon as possible. After all, it would be better to have one. However, after a few days, he still found nothing.