Chapter 37
After the announcement of recruiting apprentices hung on the door of the tailor shop for more than half a month, Li Yulan finally recruited three apprentices.
Tailors are very popular at the moment, and the business of Li Yulan's tailor shop is so good. As soon as the announcement of recruiting apprentices is posted, there are actually many people who come here.
But Li Yulan's main purpose of recruiting apprentices is to share her pressure, and she doesn't want to recruit an apprentice and has to teach from scratch, so from the beginning, those who don't know anything about sewing are excluded, but only those who already know some sewing basics are selected. .
After choosing and choosing, Li Yulan finally settled on three apprentices, one man, two women.
The three apprentices were young, all in their teens and twenties.
Liang Xiaoshi and Jiao Xiaoyan are both natives of S City.
Liang Xiaoshi is the only boy among them. As his name suggests, he is down-to-earth and willing to work. He usually does all the hard work in the store. Jiao Xiaoyan, on the other hand, would have trouble with her mouth, and when she was too busy, she would also help entertain guests.
Xiang Danhong is a girl from the countryside, with an introverted and quiet personality. Although from the countryside, her sewing skills are a little more proficient than Liang Xiaoshi and Jiao Xiaoyan.
Although the three apprentices could not directly make the whole dress, they could help a lot.
For example, do some simple cutting work according to Li Yulan's version, as well as sewing buttons, making pockets, sewing some decorations and other auxiliary work...
When they are not too busy, they can also watch Li Yulan do it. For clothes, Li Yulan will teach them a lesson while making them.
As the apprentices gradually became familiar with their work, Li Yulan's pressure was much less.
With their help, the speed of making clothes in the store has gradually accelerated, and more and more orders can be received every month.
In just a few months, Li Yulan's tailor shop quickly became famous in S City. There is almost no young girl who doesn't know Xiaolan's tailor shop, and there is no girl who loves beauty without a piece of Xiaolan's tailor's clothes in her closet.
Even the fame of the tailor shop has spread outside the city of S, and there are even some foreigners who come here because they want to make a piece of clothes in the tailor shop to take back.
Li Yulan was still very busy.
In addition to making clothes, she has to design more styles of clothes. After all, the store can't go back and forth to sell only those styles.
But speaking of it, Li Yulan's tailor shop is quite different from other tailor shops.
Her tailor shop only sells a few clothes designed by herself most of the time, and at most makes some differences in fabric and color. There are very few cases.
While other tailors are mostly the latter.
Li Yulan also felt that her tailor shop seemed to deviate from her original plan...
but who cares, as long as he can make money and the customers like it!
There is only one thing that makes her feel very unhappy, that is, when she is busy now, she has very little time to spend with her children.
Moreover, she and Gu Shen are very busy, so they can only ask Sister-in-law Wu to stay at home and help take care of Xiaobao.
It's summer vacation again, and Sister Wu is even more busy. She has to look after the three children at home. Li Yulan decides to wrap a big red envelope for Sister Wu after she has been busy for a while!
Fortunately, Jiang Mo and Dabao are very sensible, and usually play with their sister at home. When they are free, the three children will come to the store to play.
...
another busy day.
After Li Yulan took a bath, she lay on the bed and didn't want to move.
Gu Shen pushed open the door with one hand and came in with Xiaobao in his arms.
"Xiaobao refuses to sleep, so he is making a fuss to find you." Gu Shen said as he gently kicked the door with his foot.
Li Yulan turned her head, and she saw Xiaobao who was still restless while sitting on her father's hand, his limbs fluttering around, and his face was excited.
As soon as Xiaobao was put on the bed by her father, she quickly crawled over to where Li Yulan was lying on her stomach, and shouted vaguely, "Mah!" The
nine-month-old Xiaobao crawled very fast and could say a few words. Simple words, but also four small deciduous teeth.
When Gu Shen heard Xiaobao calling his mother, he said with some gusto, "Why does Xiaobao call you but not me!"
Even though they were both busy, Xiaobao would call "Mom" first.
Gu Shen was a little angry, and went to tease Xiao Bao again: "Xiao Bao, come here, call me Dad!"
Xiao Bao was a little annoyed by Gu Shen, and stretched out his little hand to push his face away in disgust.
Li Yulan laughed aloud when she saw it, and said proudly, "Xiaobao was born to me, of course it's different!"
After the couple teased Xiaobao for a while, Gu Shen saw Li Yulan lying down again, and stretched out his fingers to pinch it. She squeezed the back of her neck and said jokingly, "You are busier than me now."
Li Yulan was a little sleepy and kicked him: "Don't bother me."
Gu Shen: "..."
He choked a little, stretched out his big hand, and directly lifted up Xiaobao who was playing on Li Yulan's back, and snorted softly: "Xiaobao, don't disturb your mother's rest!"
Li Yulan turned her head to look at him and said, "Hey, don't hug him. Let her go, it's quite comfortable for you to let her step on me!"
Gu Shen said helplessly, "Forget it, I'll press you."
After speaking, Gu Shen stretched out his hand to help Li Yulan, who was lying on her stomach, pinching her shoulders and beating her back.
Little Treasure, who was put aside, saw it, and quickly crawled back, following her father's example, stretched out two little hands and patted Li Yulan's back. But she was weak, and it was quite comfortable to hit Li Yulan.
Li Yulan closed her eyes and enjoyed the massage of the father and daughter, and soon fell asleep.
...
The next day, Li Yulan went to the tailor shop as usual.
She first continued to make clothes, and then began to draw design drawings. Recently, she just got inspiration, and she decided to make another summer dress.
In the middle of the painting, Li Yumei suddenly called her with a bad expression: "Xiaolan, come here."
Li Yulan put down her things and walked over.
Jiao Xiaoyan, who was sewing buttons with Xiang Danhong next to him, heard the movement. After poking her head and looking at it, she stretched out her elbow and poked Xiang Danhong next to her, and said curiously, "Hey, you said that Sister Xiaomei is called. What are you doing out here, Miss Xiaolan?"
Xiang Danhong couldn't prevent Jiao Xiaoyan from touching her suddenly, the needle in his hand slanted and stabbed directly into her finger, and a drop of bright red blood appeared from the finger instantly.
When Xiang Danhong saw it, he hurriedly removed the clothes underneath, fearing that the blood would stain the clothes.
After confirming that the clothes were all right, she put the punctured finger in her mouth to stop the bleeding, and said sullenly, "I don't know."
Jiao Xiaoyan also saw that Xiang Danhong had punctured her finger and felt a little guilty.
But when she heard Xiang Danhong's answer, she turned her attention again: "Aren't you curious?"
Xiang Danhong shook his head: "Not curious."
After speaking, she saw that her fingers were no longer bleeding, and continued to bury her head in earnest. Really sewed buttons.
Looking at her appearance, Jiao Xiaoyan felt extremely boring, and couldn't help but complain, "Hey, you are such an idiot!"
Xiang Danhong turned a deaf ear.
On the other side, Li Yulan, who was called out by Li Yumei, asked, "Sister, what's the matter?"
Li Yumei frowned, sighed, and said, "The recent order volume in our store has dropped a lot recently."
Li Yumei Now I mainly manage the accounts of the tailor shop, so I am very clear about these.
After hearing this, Li Yulan thought about it and said, "It's the off-season recently, and it's normal for sales to decline."
The business of their tailor shop is very good, even if it declines, the order volume is still too many to be completed.
But Li Yumei shook her head and said, "It's not the off-season."
"What's that?" Li Yulan asked.
"Someone copied our clothes!" Li Yumei said through gritted teeth.
Hearing this reason, Li Yulan was taken aback.
It is not the first time that Li Yulan has heard the word plagiarism.
Their clothes are so popular in S City, and the order schedule is very long.
Some people who can't wait will go to other tailors to customize the same style, which is actually very common.
There is no copyright protection awareness at the moment, you can't restrict others from making the same clothes as you.
And Li Yulan has no ambition to eat all the market in S City, let alone she can't eat it, so Li Yulan also turns a blind eye to the other tailor shop to customize one or two pieces of clothes she designed. Eye.
But looking at Li Yumei's angry look, it's definitely not that simple.
Li Yulan asked in a deep voice, "What's going on?"
Li Yumei took a deep breath, as if to calm down, and finally, she slowly said, "There is a Wangji tailor shop on Zhengdong Street, and he also learned We sell a few individual styles of clothes like this, and the styles inside are exactly the same as ours..."
Li Yumei occasionally heard a customer say about Wang Ji's tailor shop.
She kept an eye on it at the time, and deliberately found time to go there to have a look. This look made her very angry.
That Wangji tailor shop blatantly plagiarized their home. It doesn't matter if the clothes are sold like their home, and even the decoration of the shop is exactly the same as their home. People who don't know it think it's Xiaolan's tailor shop!
What's even more disgusting is that even if Wang Ji's tailor shop copied it, he even stepped on Xiaolan's tailor shop that was copied.
Because of cutting corners on the fabric, the price of Wangji's tailor shop was lower than that of Xiaolan's tailor shop, so they shamelessly told the guests that their home was the real quality and low price, and Li Yulan's family made more money from them with their conscience. A lot of money...
After such a publicity, a lot of price-sensitive customers have been attracted.
Li Yulan's face became worse the more she listened.
Li Yumei thought for a while and continued: "There is one more thing, I don't know if I should tell you."
"You tell me." Li Yulan took a deep breath.
"I found out that the clothes made by Wang Ji's tailor shop are very similar to ours..." Li Yumei whispered.
If you find other tailors to make them out of thin air, if there is no real object or no pattern, the same clothes that are made will be somewhat strange in the pattern.
But the version of Wang Ji's tailor shop is perfect, and it is not much different from that made by Li Yulan.
Li Yulan's heart sank.
She turned her head and glanced at her tailor shop, lowered her voice and said, "You mean, there are thieves in our shop?" Li
Yumei shook her head and said, "I'm just guessing."
It is also possible to do each skirt if you take it apart and make a version by yourself, so it cannot be determined based on this.
"I see." Li Yulan took a deep breath and said.
...
On Zhengdong Street.
There are people coming and going in Wang Ji Tailor's shop. The apprentices in the shop are so busy that they can't touch the ground. The boss and the boss's wife are smiling from ear to ear, which shows that the business is booming.
In a nearby grocery store, a fat woman came out and poured a basin of dirty water into the street.
When she returned the basin, the woman saw the lively tailor's shop, rolled her eyes, and spat out a mouthful of phlegm.
After walking back to her grocery store, the woman couldn't help but scolded: "Wang Youcai, that dog thing, is really shameless, he can copy other people's things, and he is not afraid of retribution! Alas, the tailor shop that was copied is really Poor, I was sucked by Wang Youcai!"
A little boy was squatting in the grocery store. When the little boy heard the tailor's shop, his ears moved and he asked curiously, "Mom, what tailor shop?" The
little boy It is Tian Feilong who shares the same kindergarten with Dabao.
Tian Feilong has become a good baby after being "oppressed" by Dabao at the beginning of school last year.
When Dabao was about to graduate from kindergarten and was about to enter the first grade, Tian Feilong briefly thought about whether he should take the opportunity to restore his dominance in kindergarten, but after thinking about it, he shrank his neck and interrupted the thought.
Forget it, it's good to be a good baby, and there are people who play with him!
But he just seemed to have heard what the fuck about tailoring.
Gu Lianchen's mother opened a tailor shop? This is something he accidentally heard from other children, he didn't ask about it on purpose, huh!
When Tian Feilong's mother heard Tian Feilong's question, she was worried that no one could speak, so she dragged her six-year-old son to complain.
"It's the Wangji tailor shop next door to us. He shamelessly copied clothes from other tailor shops to sell! Don't you know that? They didn't have any business in the past. Isn't this just copying others for fire? Come on!"
"Also, Wang Youcai can't do it, it's rotten from the root! Let me tell you, Wang Youcai used to step on his master's seat before, and he really taught his disciples to starve to death. Your character is too bad."
Tian Feilong couldn't understand the latter words, but he understood the front, so he nodded his head seriously, and said seriously: "Well, it's wrong to copy other people's things, teachers always say that. Yes ."
As a good baby, Tian Feilong is listening seriously to the teacher's words now!
"Yeah, that's right!" Tian Feilong's mother nodded in agreement, "You know that even a child, Wang Youcai, an adult doesn't understand!"
"Ah, by the way, where did he copy it?" Tian Feilong Curiously asked again.
Mother Tian frowned and thought for a while, and said, "It seems to be on the old street, what is it called Xiaolan Tailor's Shop?"
Tian Feilong's eyes widened in horror when he heard the name.
Xiaolan's tailor shop, isn't that what Gu Lianchen's mother opened? !
My God, the tailor shop next door dared to copy Gu Lianchen's mother!
Gu Lianchen was already terrifying enough, so wouldn't his mother be even more...
Tian Feilong glanced in the direction next door with some sympathy, and then looked back at his mother who was still indignant, then stretched out his little hand and patted his mother's head Shoulder, said seriously: "Mom, don't be angry, don't worry, the next door will soon... um, be retributed!"
Tian Feilong's mother: "???"