Wear It with Space

Shen Ling likes the spring in Beijing very much at this time. It is sunny almost every day. There is also a courtyard in Beijing. The courtyard is very large. Inside it is a large tank for growing lotus, pomegranates and plantains, and vines are planted under the corners. There are stone tables and chairs under the vine. All this was in line with her expectations for a house, so after arriving in Beijing, she spent a thousand yuan to buy such a courtyard house.

The two families who followed her lived in the front yard, and Shen Ling lived alone in the three upper rooms at the back. The yard outside the corridor was not only planted with plantains and vines, but also a wisteria flower, which was opposite to each other. It is a small rockery built on Taihu Lake. There are many potted flowers piled around the rockery, including peonies, peony, rose, pomegranate, and oleander.

It was spring at this time, and the flowers in the yard were scrambling to spit their stalks. When Shen Ling came out of the upper room, he smelled a mixed floral scent.

She looked at the bunches of wisteria flowers hanging down like pompoms, and couldn't help feeling that this was a ready-made pattern. If it were embroidered on a cheongsam, it would look very beautiful. She was in a daze at the wisteria flowers, and saw one of the embroidered mother's children named Ah Sheng, running from the front yard, and said to Shen Ling, "Miss, my mother asked me to ask you for some silver thread. "

When Shen Ling bought the courtyard, he also found a shop. She didn't choose to rent the shop this time, but bought the shop at a high price, so that she won't have to deal with the homeowner in the future.

After the shop was bought, it had to be decorated again in the British style. Taking advantage of this gap, she let the two embroidered women hurry at home to make a batch of cheongsams and western dresses.

The atmosphere here in Beijing is better than that in the city where she is staying. There are not a few people wearing dresses on the street. This time, Shen Ling feels that he can show his skills. There are also a lot of brand-name clothing that she bought in the space. It is a very good style with a little modification and reference.

Shen Ling went back to the room, opened the box, took the silver thread, and gave it to Ah Sheng. After changing his clothes, he went out to go to the silk shop to buy fabrics and custom-made buttons.

In the silk shop closest to Shen Ling's residence, the business was just right, and there were about a dozen people greeted customers there.

When Shen Ling came into the store, the guys saw that she was a raw face, and they couldn’t help but look at her. They saw that she was dressed in a new style of dress and dressed very generously. She seemed to be a rich lady. One of the guys came forward and asked her. What fabric.

Shen Ling said that she was going to make spring clothes and asked her to introduce some suitable fabrics to her.

The guy asked: "Do you want foreign materials or Chinese materials?"

Shen Ling said: "We need more of both."

The man moved over two foreign materials, one was velvet and the other was camel hair. Shen Ling hadn't seen such foreign materials before coming to Beijing. He was taking a closer look and heard the sound of footsteps outside. Someone came in. The man seemed to be a regular customer in this shop, and a few guys hurriedly went up to the second floor with the people.

When Shen Ling looked up, only the back of a woman in a silk camel hair dress was seen, and she asked the buddies around him, "Who is that person who just came?"

The guy whispered softly: "That's the lady from the consul general's house. She is called Miss He San. She is a regular customer here."

Shen Ling said, "I think the dress material she wears is pretty good, so I should have bought it here too!"

The man said: "No. This Miss He San is generous, and every year she spends thousands of dollars on clothes alone."

Shen Ling next picked a few more color materials, wrapped them up in total, and returned to the courtyard in a foreign car.

Although Shen Ling only saw the back of the dress worn by Miss He San today, she was also inspired. Now she designed a style and made two dresses with that camel hair, which will be displayed in the store in the future.

A few days later, Shen Ling went to the street to stroll around in shoe shops, silk and satin shops, and department stores. If she met Shixin embroidered shoes and dress cheongsam, she would silently keep the style in her heart, and when she went back, she would modify it slightly according to that style. Come out the sample.

One day when she was visiting a shoe store, she saw a pair of embroidered shoes worth more than two hundred yuan, embroidered with lifelike butterflies, each dotted with two finger-sized beads.

Shen Ling remembered that there were a lot of such beads in the space. When he went back, he checked it out, and compared it with that pattern, changed it slightly, and made seven or eight pairs of embroidered shoes of different sizes.

After more than two months of preparations, Shen Ling's Yunshang Pavilion finally opened.

The area of ​​the shop is about the same size as the previous shop, and the specific layout is still copied from the original layout. The only change is that Shen Ling finally replaced the wall facing the street with a glass window, imitating the appearance of later generations in the window. Lots of clothes samples were placed.

In the first month of opening, the business in the shop was not very good. This is no better than before, when Shen Ling opened his first store, because there were many regular customers, the business in the store quickly recovered.

This time I opened a store in Beijing, where I was not familiar with my life, and my business was naturally worse than before. Only when Yunshang Pavilion becomes famous in Beijing, the business in the store will get better.

In order to increase the popularity of Yunshang Pavilion, Shen Ling decided to do something.

It is best to meet a few socialites and have them introduce them, and the business of the shop will get better soon.

In order to make friends with celebrities, Shen Ling began to go to places where they often go, such as dancing at the Beijing Hotel.

When Shen Ling first appeared at the Beijing Hotel, she wore a beige dress. The material was made of woolen cloth. The tailoring was specially tailored. In addition to her own temperament, some people believed that she was a famous lady.

Sitting on the opposite side of the Beijing Hotel ballroom, Shen Ling watched the dances of the people in the venue for a while, and she felt the music in her heart. When she was about to try, a stylishly dressed rich boy came and invited her to dance.

Shen Ling happily followed him, her dance was so good that she quickly attracted the attention of several people in the field.

When Shen Ling returned to her seat to rest after a dance, a 17 or 18-year-old woman came over and spoke to her on the initiative: "I think the dance you just danced is very good, the dance is very beautiful, did you just come from the UK? Returning from studying over there?"

Shen Ling smiled slightly: "No. My cousin taught me how to dance. She is very keen to dance, so I even learned some. I didn't dance well, which made you laugh."

The woman said: "You are too modest. I think the dance you just danced is very good, better than the Miesfan I know."

When she was talking, Shen Ling took a close look at her clothes, lush green Western dance clothes, and a hair band studded with diamonds on her head. She looked like a rich lady.

Shen Ling turned the topic to the clothes she was wearing, and the two chatted for a while about which satin shop material was better, and which tailor made the clothes better. Finally, Shen Ling talked about the matching of clothes and a little bit of aesthetics.

When the two were chatting, someone who knew the woman also came to join in the fun. Shen Ling followed a few famous socialites in Beijing. She was not busy selling her Yunshang Pavilion, but invited the celebrities present to listen to the show.

As the number of celebrities Shen Ling knew gradually, the Yunshang Pavilion she opened gradually gained some popularity, and the business of the shop was getting better. Of course, there are also some wealthy wives and young ladies who feel that Yunshang Pavilion's clothes have many styles and novelties, and gradually there are more repeat customers.

Although Shen Ling first went to make friends with the ladies in order to expand the popularity of Yunshang Pavilion, but after a long time, she found that she did not hate going to the Beijing Hotel to dance and go to the theater box to listen to the opera.

In these places, she can get acquainted with all kinds of people. Although the children of the rich family spend a lot of money and are not suitable for husbands, it cannot be denied that they are more considerate and attentive most of the time.

In this way, it was not until Shen Ling had been in Beijing for two years that she met a suitable marriage partner. The man was the cousin of a celebrity she knew, named Zeng Qing. He was very handsome, and he was full of books, and he knew that he had read many books.

When Shen Ling saw him for the first time, his cousin was trying to get him to participate in the dance party she held. Although he agreed in the end, he sat in the corner of the prom from beginning to end, and didn't want to dance.

When Shen Ling saw him, he didn't know why, and suddenly remembered a classmate he had admired very much when he was in college. He had a strong bookish air like him. Later, she couldn't help but stepped forward and asked him why he didn't go dancing.

Zeng Qing's answer is no. Seeing the look on his face, Shen Ling didn't seem to dislike her approach, so he sat down and chatted with him. Although she didn't intend to show off her knowledge, she naturally brought unique insights in her conversation, plus Chinese and foreign allusions can be readily available, and outsiders would know that she was full of poetry and books.

Zeng Qing has a common problem with literati, that is, he always wants to find a spiritual confidant. Although he has only known Shen Ling for a short time, he has become close to him.

The two went back and forth several times. After Shen Ling knew that Zeng Qing was reading the Parallel Prose of the Six Dynasties, he talked to him about a hundred schools of scholars.

Shen Ling thought about it later and felt that if someone like Zeng Qing was a husband, he would not be so satisfactory, because he was not caring enough and he was immersed in his own world. But after all, there is an advantage, that is, once he believes that you are his soul mate, then in this life, he will definitely not betray you.

With this advantage, Zhuyu is ahead, and Shen Ling feels that his shortcomings can be ignored. People are naive, so at least there will be less trouble with him. It doesn't matter if people don't do things in common, it's enough for her to take care of the housework. If you are not romantic and gentle, it doesn't matter, as long as you have her in your heart.

When Shen Ling told him that he had a failed marriage and was ruthlessly abandoned by her husband, and Zeng Qing did not have the slightest complaint, Shen Ling began to discuss marriage with him.

There is only one widowed mother in Zeng Qing, who has always lived in the south because she doesn't like the climate of Beijing. Although his family is not very rich, he still has some properties, enough for them to worry about food and clothing for a lifetime.

But after Shen Ling married him, he continued to open Yunshang Pavilion. To pass the time, and secondly to fulfill Lu Ping's wish.