Xiaohui clearly knew that she shouldn't have anything to do with Yao Yuan, and she shouldn't have created the opportunity to be alone with him, but her body just didn't listen to her.

She knew that she would not have to help Yao Yuan clean up the shop or be with him alone, but she chose to stay. This was really an involuntary choice.

This year, the Cuixia sisters returned very late, and they stopped working until the Little Year of the Lunar calendar. After the Chinese New Year, they could not rest until the first lunar month. They had to come back on the sixth day of the day and continue to make clothes.

Because Yao Yuan was so angry that he had to buy clothes to buy clothes when he turned them into a specialty store. He couldn't just sell clothes with samples, right? Then it was gone short of selling before opening, and it had to close again?

After the Cuixia sisters left, Xiaohui planned to follow Yao Yuan to the shop in the city to help Yao Yuan clean up and prepare for the opening of the business after the New Year.

For this store, Yao Yuan basically invested all the money in his hands, including the repaid wages of Uncle Yao's parents, from repairing and decorating to buying fabrics for inventory.

In Xiaohui's opinion, Yao Yuan's investment in this city's store is a bit too risky.

After all, the people in the city are smarter than the people in rural areas, and they are smarter than the people in the mining rigs alone. You just run to the city stupidly, compete with the people in the city, and invest so much money. What if you pay for it? It’s better to make money from the mining rigs as before, and you can earn money from it, and you can earn it firmly.

Xiaohui also likes Yao Yuan in her heart, and she doesn't want to watch him lose money.

She is just a worker, and she shouldn't say anything she shouldn't say. This is a rule. She came from the countryside, and according to the teachings of her parents and elders, of course, she also has to pay attention to this rule.

From Xiaohui's perspective, it is obviously inappropriate to give suggestions to his boss Yao Yuan because of the constraints of old rural ideas.

Xiaohui had no other way, so she could only help Yao Yuan with all her heart and effort, so that he could spend less money and save one.

If she stays, she can do a lot of things for Yao Yuan, saving Yao Yuan from spending money to hire someone to do it.

On the 25th day of the 12th lunar month, Sister Cuixia finished her work before the New Year and bought a ticket to go home. Xiaohui asked Yao Yuan to take her on a bicycle and follow him to the shop in the city to clean the room.

This is Xiaohui's first time visiting this shop in the city. But a two-story building is particularly conspicuous compared to the surrounding bungalows.

The blue bricks outside the building have been re-treated with white and gray. Although they are not as bright and beautiful as modern so-called Ming and Qing dynasties, they are also distinct in layers and have a bit of antique flavor.

The corridor columns upstairs and downstairs were also painted with red paint and shiny. The windows and doors downstairs were covered with iron doors.

Yao Yuan took Xiaohui to the door. Xiaohui got out of the car. Yao Yuan put the bicycle on the street next to the small building, locked the car, and drove the doors and windows outside. The iron doors and windows were all locked.

Yao Yuan first opened the iron door, took two iron doors off the door and put them aside, and said to Xiaohui: "The place is small. The anti-theft iron door is opened to both sides and blocks the window. I asked the door to design it as a living door, the door panel style. Open the door and take it down, and then put it in the courtyard behind the small building that is not in trouble. The window is also designed in this way."

The two have been together for many years and have become very familiar with each other, and they are no different from brother and sister when they talk to each other.

Xiaohui watched Yao Yuan take down the iron door, revealing the wide glass door inside. She couldn't help but open her eyes wide and said, "This glass door is so beautiful, it looks better than the turntable door in the department store!"

When she was not busy, Xiaohui and Sister Cuixia came to the city. She felt that the department store was already beautiful enough, especially the rotating glass door. She and Sister Cuixia still went back and forth, deliberately walking several times.

Yao Yuan opened the glass door again and took an iron door into the room. Xiaohui wanted to take the second one, but Yao Yuan didn't let her take it.

Although the iron gate is thin, it is iron after all, and it is not light in weight. Yao Yuan is strong and has great strength. It is easy to pick it up, so Xiaohui may not be able to handle it.

He put the first iron door in, took the second one in, and then said to Xiaohui who followed him into the house: "This glass door is hard to find. I found the city glass factory and went to find Secretary Liu, who was willing to sell such a large thick glass for us. I also found an old craftsman who made iron in the east of the city to inlay the copper skin. This is a decorative door of a family in the city, and it must be more beautiful than the old glass turntable in the department store."

Xiaohui asked, "Has it cost a lot of money?"

Yao Yuan said: "The ex-factory price is not expensive. With my uncle Ma here, others dare not bully me."

As he spoke, Yao Yuan also removed the iron doors on the windows on both sides and placed them in the courtyard behind.

The light came in from the door and the wide window, and the room suddenly lit up, and it was not much different from staying on the street.

At this time, the room was still relatively empty. The left side of the door was against the wall, and there was a wooden staircase on the second floor, painted with light paint and shiny.

The rest is the main business area of ​​a specialty store in the future. There are three rows of wooden clothes racks in the middle with cross bars. Yao Yuan has already bought a lot of bamboo clothes to support them on those cross bars.

It seems that in this era, there are only these kinds of bamboo clothes to support the bag.

The upper half of the two north and south walls were covered with newspapers, and a row of thick-eyed sieves were nailed, and bamboo clothes were also hung on the screen. The lower half was made of wood, just like the clothes rack in the middle, and the above was still the same kind of clothes were supported.

In addition, the service desk and the sign on the wall behind the door.

The floor was paved with cement square bricks, which was considered very particular in the past, but now it is outdated.

Xiaohui looked at the store and couldn't help but sigh, "It's so beautiful!"

Yao Yuan said: "We have such a beautiful shop, and you have such beautiful clothes, are you still worried that I will lose money?"

Xiaohui secretly glanced at Yao Yuan and said, "I haven't said I was worried about you losing money?"

Yao Yuan snorted and said, "Your eyes have already betrayed you. You object to me to build this store!"

Indeed, like Kangkang, Xiaohui's phoenix eyes can also speak.

Xiaohui pursed her lips and said, "I heard from Sister Kang Kang say that you invested all the money, so I was afraid that you would compensate me."

Yao Yuan said twice: "Xiaohui, remember, the greater the investment in business, the more you will earn. Besides, Brother Yao, I know you five hundred years ago and five hundred years later. Everything is planned in detail, so I will not lose money!"

Indeed, Yao Yuan was very satisfied with his money-making plan, and was very proud of setting up such a modern clothing store when the materials were so lacking.

Xiaohui didn't know what to say, so she asked, "Brother Yao, what are we doing now?"

Yao Yuan said: "I have to do more. Have you seen this wall? The lazy workers of miners have painted me in a mess, and even the brush marks are left outside. It's so ugly. I have to brush it again and try to make the wall whiter."

In that era, there was nothing but lime when painting walls. There was no paint, nor wall paint, wall cloth, or diatom mud.

The lime painted wall is thin, so it is impossible to turn the originally black wall into white without brushing it a few times.

It is estimated that the four workers in the mining machinery construction department he hired were tired of getting tired of it and the number of times was not enough, so Yao Yuan could only make up for it himself.

In addition to wall painting, garbage left in the interior decoration of the floor, dust on furniture, floors and glass on the upper floors must be cleaned.

The lighting in the house is all old-fashioned light bulbs, not only with a large amount of power consumption, but it is still not lighted even if the wattage is small. Now, there are fluorescent tubes on the market, so Yao Yuan decided to replace them with lamp tubes himself.

In addition, the lines in the house have become aging, and the sockets and lights are not suitable, so they need to change the wires and change them.

Yao Yuan knows how to use electricity, so he has to do it himself. He doesn’t have much money anymore, so he can save one, just be considered one.

After he finished all these things, it was probably the end of the year. It wasn't even considered moving the tailor shop at home and putting on all the prepared clothes.

If you really make all the preparations, it is estimated that winter will be over and spring will be coming.

There is really not much time for Yao Yuan.

Yao Yuan talked a lot to Xiaohui in a long and long way.

No matter how smart Xiaohui is, she cannot understand these modern ideas at once, so she had to say, "Brother Yao, just say, what do we have to do now?"

Yao Yuan asked her to say this and realized that she was a little too hasty, so she confused Xiaohui and said, "Our task today is to paint the wall!"

Yao Yuan had already bought lime. He made a large aluminum basin, put some lime in, added water, and added some salt to make lime water. Xiaohui brushed the low place below and handed Yao Yuan a small basin containing lime water. Yao Yuan stepped on a stool to brush the high place.

The most difficult thing to brush is the roof. It was under the wooden floor upstairs, and another thick layer of lime was applied, so the roof downstairs was made.

When the brush was lifted, the lime water stuck too much, so it flowed along the brush handle to Yao Yuan's hand, and then poured it into the sleeve.

In the end, Xiaohui had a solution. He found two small ropes and tied Yao Yuan's sleeves, so the lime water could not be filled in, but the sleeve turned white.

The lime water not only poured into the sleeves, but also flowed into the face. Yao Yuan brushed half of the pussy. By noon, his face turned into a black and white face, which made Xiaohui laugh.

Sometimes, this elder brother Yao looks really stupid.

After lunch, the two of them didn't go back. They went to the shop outside to buy a few hot pots and two bowls of millet porridge. They sat at the service desk and discussed how to do the afternoon work.

Xiaohui is really smart. In the afternoon, she made a hat for Yao Yuan with newspapers, and also folded a triangle with newspapers, and inserted it into the front of the hat as the brim. When Yao Yuan went up to brush the top, the lime water could not flow on his face.

Yao Yuan was tall and could reach the roof when he stood on the stool. After Xiaohui finished painting the wall, she stood next to the stool and looked up at Yao Yuan brushing the roof.

At this moment, Yao Yuan sneezed when the lime water choked, and threw the brush down, and then threw Xiaohui's face with lime. Xiaohui hurriedly covered her face with her hands, but there was no time left?

The lime water entered her eyes, and Xiaohui's eyes were burned and she squatted to the ground in pain.

Yao Yuan quickly got off the stool and saw that Xiaohui wanted to find water to wash his eyes. He knew that lime and water would have a chemical reaction, and the more he washed, the more he felt, and maybe he would hurt his eyes, so he stopped her, asked her to endure it, ran out by himself, went to the side dish store to buy two taels of cooking oil, and asked Xiaohui to sit down. He stuck cooking oil with a towel, plucked her eyelids, and slowly stuck lime out of her eyes.

The two of them were almost face to face, and their breathing was heard. Yao Yuan's hand was still on her face, rolling her eyelids. Although Xiaohui's eyes hurt, her face turned red.

Lime entered her eyes, and Yao Yuan seemed more anxious than her. He was so careful and careful about getting lime out of her.

This shows that Yao Yuan has her in his heart and likes her. Thinking of this, Xiaohui's face turned redder.
Chapter completed!