After Chen Xuan discussed the promotional strategy of the calendar with Wei Yin, she completely handed it over to Wei Yin and didn't take care of it anymore. Because Chen Xuan didn't know how to draw at all, and Wei Yin studied drawing, so of course the design of the calendar should be handed over to Wei Yin.
Chen Xuan followed Wei Nian to Zhengyang Tower to eat a big crab. Although it was the first time for Chen Xuan to eat crab, she was not as timid as before for something she had never seen before. Chen Xuan also talked to Wei Nian non-stop, "I read in a book that there is a story about eating crabs and writing poems in the Grand View Garden in "Dream of Red Mansions". Brother Nian, no wonder books always write about eating crabs, they are really delicious." It was the first time for Chen Xuan to eat crabs. Wei Nian taught her how to eat and where to eat. Wei Nian peeled the crab roe and crab meat for her and taught her to dip it in ginger vinegar to taste it. Chen Xuan watched Wei Nian peel the crab roe and crab meat with three crab sticks. His ten fingers were incredibly flexible. Chen Xuan said enviously, "Brother Nian, you have such a skillful hand. I will peel one for you too."
You peel one for me and I peel one for you. We felt a little hot on our faces after eating. Wei Nian said that crabs are cold in nature and should be eaten with a few glasses of rice wine. Chen Xuan's face turns red easily after drinking wine, as if she had put on a thin layer of rouge. However, her eyes are sparkling. She said to Wei Nian, "Brother Anian, these crabs are so delicious. The old lady is so picky that she may not be willing to buy them. Let's buy some to take home."
"Don't give me such a bad idea. If I buy it back, mom will scold me, and you will be blamed too. She will also say that we are wasting money outside." Wei Nian put the scarf on Chen Xuan, and seeing Chen Xuan's blushing face, he wanted to touch it. However, because Chen Xuan just agreed not to draw the curtains when sleeping at night, Wei Nian did not rush to offend her. He just leaned over, got close, and lowered his voice to talk to Chen Xuan about the principles of getting along at home, "Besides, there is also eldest brother. Let's buy it back. Does eldest brother want to buy something too? Although we all have our own wishes, we still have to think more when encountering things. Now that we have started a family, we have to think more about eldest brother and others when doing things. Although all the expenses of Ajie, Aming and Yunjie are covered by the public, there are also things that the public can't take care of. The eldest brother's family has a lot of expenses, and they are the eldest son's family. We can't bypass the eldest brother's family."
Chen Xuan thought about it carefully and realized that this was the truth. Seeing that Wei Nian had paid the bill but still didn't leave, Chen Xuan said, "I understand, Brother Nian, let's go back."
Wei Nian glanced at the scarf on the hanger beside him, and his meaning was clear. He was wearing the scarf for Chen Xuan, so he should reciprocate. Chen Xuan was a little shy, but fortunately there was no one else in the room. She took off the scarf and put it on Wei Nian. Chen Xuan was not short, and Wei Nian was taller. Finally, he smoothed the scarf at the front. Chen Xuan carefully measured it and showed a satisfied look. After expressing his feelings, Chen Xuan dared to say anything, "This dress, even movie stars don't look as good as you, Brother Nian."
Ever since Chen Xuan had seen a movie, she probably thought that movies were something very high-class, so now she would always use movie stars to make sentences. Wei Nian smiled, took Chen Xuan's hand, and put it in his coat pocket. Chen Xuan was a little shy and wanted to pull her hand out, but Wei Nian held it tightly. Chen Xuan whispered, "There are people coming and going outside, this is not good."
"Okay, we are a proper couple, who dares to say anything?"
Chen Xuan was just about to say that the couple was fake, but Wei Nian had already put on his tweed hat and took Chen Xuan downstairs.
When Chen Xuan returned to the hat shop, she ran into Wei Yin. When Wei Yin heard Chen Xuan say that she had gone out to eat with Wei Nian, he couldn't help but joked, "Since the second sister-in-law and the second brother moved out, they are getting sweeter and sweeter."
"Ah Yin, you are a grown-up girl, you can't say such things." Chen Xuan saw a roll of hard paper on the small European-style round table in the store, and her eyes lit up, "But is the painting finished?"
"Show it to you, sister-in-law." Wei Yin showed the calendar card he drew to Chen Xuan, who praised, "This Western painting method is different from New Year pictures. The people you drew, Yin, look exactly like the real people."
Wei Yin smiled, "It's just a simple sketch, nothing special."
Shopkeeper Xiao Li also said, "It looks more like the real person than in the photo."
Chen Xuan said to the shopkeeper Xiao Li, "Ah Yin learned to paint from a teacher who studied in France." She nodded as she looked at the painting, "It's really beautiful, Ah Yin, who did you imitate?"
Wei Yin said, "She was a little girl when we were painting, a neighbor of Teacher Lin. Her family was in financial difficulty, so Teacher Lin often asked her to come over to be a model for us to paint. She was paid according to the time. I asked her about this when I was painting, and she agreed."
"Since they make money from this, we have to give them money."
"We agreed to give her a dollar. She was happy to do that."
Chen Xuan thought for a moment, and said to Wei Yin, "Brother Anian said earlier that some people are using calendar cards that take photos now. But the photos I saw are all in black and white, not as good as the color ones. Your painting is pretty good, especially with our family's hat on it, which is the most important thing. Oh, there is one more thing, even though she is willing to do it even though she has been paid. I will ask Brother Anian if we should write a contract or something like that. After all, words are not as good as what is written on paper."
Wei Yin nodded, "Okay. If you have no objection, sister-in-law, I will also draw the remaining eleven chapters in this style."
"Just draw it like this, it's very good."
Chen Xuan consulted Wei Nian at night about whether to sign a contract with the model girl on the calendar. Wei Nian thought it was just a matter of one dollar and didn't take it seriously. However, Wei Nian didn't take it lightly. Instead, he said to Chen Xuan, "This is as it should be. Foreigners attach great importance to contracts, and we merchants also attach the most importance to reputation. You are right, we should sign a contract. Although it is only a matter of one dollar, it is clear and can save trouble in the future."
Chen Xuan nodded and took out the prepared paper and pen, "How to sign this contract? Brother An Nian needs to teach me."
That night, one taught the other. Chen Xuan drew up the deed and went back to the old house to find Wei Yin the next day. She was going to let Wei Yin and the model girl take a look at the deed. If the girl had no objection, both parties would sign it. The girl who served as the model for Wei Yin was called Yan'er. Her family name was Sun and she was literate. Wei Yin said that her family used to be rich, but she had an unreliable father who smoked opium and drained away all the family fortune. Sun Yan looked about fifteen or sixteen years old and was very beautiful. Sun Yan was not wearing her half-worn cotton clothes at the time, but a dress that Wei Yin had borrowed from the photo studio. The beauty salon staff were putting makeup on Sun Yan, and Mrs. Wei, Wei Jin and Li were all looking at her curiously. Chen Xuan also looked curiously and was really amazed. The two skillful women in the beauty salon made Sun Yan's cheeks white and smooth with just a few strokes, and her eyebrows were trimmed with an eyebrow razor, and then drawn with an eyebrow pencil to make them curved and thin like willow leaves. Her eyes were bright and her nose was straight. With a little lipstick on her lips, her small mouth was more charming than Chen Xuan could describe. Old Mrs. Wei kept saying, "This mouth is too red."
A woman in the beauty salon laughed, "Ma'am, this is the most popular lip balm right now."
Another woman who was painting Sun Yan's nails said, "Both nail polish and lipstick have to be red to look good. This is the current red, old lady."
Chen Xuan said sincerely, "After dressing up like this, I look like a movie star."
The two ladies at the beauty parlor were very happy to hear this and praised, "Young Madam, you have good taste. This girl is very pretty. Even movie stars are rare to see such a pretty girl."
"You two are good at dressing up. You are really good at it." Although Chen Xuan was taught since she was a child that women who love to dress up are not serious people. But since she came to Beijing, her horizons have been broadened and her views are different from the previous deep-rooted education. Chen Xuan is an honest person. She understands that no one does not like beauty. In this regard, men and women are the same, it doesn't matter whether they are serious or not. Even Chen Xuan will dress up seriously when she goes out now. Therefore, when she meets a woman who knows how to dress up, Chen Xuan will not say that she is not good, but say what she thinks.
"It's obvious that young madam has never been to our store. If you are free, just come over. You and your young lady are both beauties, and they will look just as beautiful when dressed up." The two makeup ladies were indeed very happy.
Chen Xuan smiled and watched the two people busying themselves for Sun Yan.
After they finished, Chen Xuan showed the contract to Sun Yan. Although Sun Yan was young, she was very meticulous. She read the contract carefully before signing her name and pressing her red handprint. Wei Yin paid the money to the two women. One of them took out a business card and gave it to Chen Xuan. Chen Xuan politely accepted it. The two left with a box containing many strange cosmetics.
Next, Sun Yan acted out the scene, and Wei Yin followed her to draw. The process was actually quite boring. Neither Old Lady Wei nor Wei Jin watched anymore. Li went to the kitchen to cook. Since Chen Xuan came over, she followed Li to the kitchen to work.
Chen Xuan was very curious about makeup. She went home and showed Wei Nian the business card of the beauty salon and said to him, "So there is a place called a beauty salon. Brother Anian, you didn't see those two women, they are amazing. They took a small box of powder, brushed it twice, and applied a little on the face, and the person became extra white. Then, with a small knife, they shaved the eyebrows very thin, just like the stars in the movies we watch. There is also a very small thing for curling eyelashes, so with a brush, the eyelashes will curl up, and there is a pen for drawing lines on the eyelids, called an eyeliner, which is much finer than the brushes used by gentlemen in the past. The lipstick and red lips are especially beautiful. Nowadays, people in the city don't apply Impatiens juice on their nails, but something called nail polish, which is redder and more shiny than Impatiens juice. Brother Anian, I have grown up and seen more."
Seeing Chen Xuan's vivid description, Wei Nian couldn't help but laugh and said, "Women need to dress up. You can also go to the beauty salon and ask them to do some painting. It will definitely look better than it does now." Wei Nian's ideas have never been old-fashioned. He especially likes his woman to dress up beautifully.
"It costs a lot of money. It costs a dollar just to invite them to come out."
"There's no need to save this little money."
Although Chen Xuan felt that it was eye-opening and novel, she still couldn't bear to go to the beauty salon to put on makeup. Chen Xuan shook her head, "If it looks so good after one application, it's worth it. I heard that it can only stay for one day and must be washed off at night. It costs one dollar a day to wash it off, but it's not done that way."
Wei Nian knows more about current trends than Chen Xuan. "I see these cosmetics are sold in shopping malls, such as whitening cream and lipstick. Women can buy them and use them at home without going to a beauty salon. It's you and Ah Yin who don't understand these things, so you have to pay someone who knows to come here."
"Let me think about it first." Because vanishing cream is very expensive, Chen Xuan is more cautious about applying lipstick.
Chen Xuan thought about it in a very direct way. The next day, she quietly went to Dong'an Market and asked the place that sold lipstick. She was so scared that a small lipstick cost five dollars!
Although the clerk said it was a foreign product, a foreign brand called Danqi, it was still too expensive!
Chen Xuan turned around and left without any hesitation. She would never buy such a sinful thing even if she was beaten to death! One dollar could buy 20 kilograms of fine white flour and half a pork elbow!
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