Chapter 276: Visitors from the Fang Family
Chapter 276: Chapter 276: Visitors from the Fang Family
Listening to Tang Yu’s words, Fu Xiaoxiao silently noted them down, and there was already a rough outline in her mind, knowing what kind of schoolbag to make for Bai Shishi.
"Okay, I’ve got it all down." Fu Xiaoxiao nodded, and Tang Yu nodded and smiled at Fu Xiaoxiao once again.
"Really, thank you so much for accepting my impudent request."
"You’re welcome," Fu Xiaoxiao replied with a smile.
After arranging the time to deliver the schoolbag with Tang Yu, Fu Xiaoxiao and Wu Yingying returned to Fu Xiaoxiao’s home.
Fu Xiaoxiao quickly jotted down everything in her mind to avoid forgetting it later.
Wu Yingying watched as Fu Xiaoxiao began sketching and then started cutting out the materials for the schoolbag, marking each piece carefully.
She even knew that Bai Shishi liked Journey to the West, and used fragments to piece together the outlines of the four protagonists from the story.
"How did you do that? Up close, it’s clearly just a bunch of pieces put together, but from a distance, it really looks like a scene from Journey to the West..."
Wu Yingying found it amazing, moving back and forth to view it closely and then from afar, checking several times.
After confirming that her eyes weren’t deceiving her, Wu Yingying looked at Fu Xiaoxiao and couldn’t help but ask.
"It’s quite simple, just look at things with blurred vision, record it, and then piece it together with matching colored blocks." Fu Xiaoxiao explained while working on the schoolbag.
Wu Yingying watched a simple piece of cloth in Fu Xiaoxiao’s hands gradually take the shape of a schoolbag.
"You’re incredible! Aren’t you supposed to submit this the day after tomorrow? How come you’re finishing it now?" Wu Yingying looked at Fu Xiaoxiao in surprise, the speed was startling.
"It’s all already done before, all the templates are ready. You just have to cut everything out and put it together, so it’s not hard. The difficult part was the design, which took some time." Fu Xiaoxiao smiled at Wu Yingying.
"Alright! You’re amazing, but with skills like these, you should set up a production line..." Wu Yingying suggested to Fu Xiaoxiao, feeling that such craftsmanship deserved to be expanded.
"When the opportunity arises!" Fu Xiaoxiao chuckled. In the 70s, creating a production line was not very feasible.
Under Wu Yingying’s gaze, Fu Xiaoxiao completed Bai Shishi’s schoolbag and even added some embellishments to cater to the little girl’s preferences.
"I suddenly feel like going back to school. As a child, I wanted to carry such a beautiful schoolbag to class." Wu Yingying felt a bit envious, imagining all the girls at school would clamor for a bag like this.
"If you like, I’ll make one for you too." Fu Xiaoxiao laughed; if Wu Yingying wanted it, she’d make one for her.
"No need for me, but I ask you to make one for Little Linlin." Wu Yingying playfully asked Fu Xiaoxiao. "How could you not give something to your most adorable Little Linlin? Aunt Fu treats her the best, doesn’t she?"
"...Despise you using Little Linlin as an excuse." Fu Xiaoxiao glared at Wu Yingying, feeling it was too much.
"Aunt Fu is the best to Little Linlin." Wu Yingying laughed, unafraid, as she hoped for a new schoolbag.
"You’re just trying to sweet-talk me!" Fu Xiaoxiao laughed, poking Wu Yingying on the forehead.
Once Bai Shishi’s schoolbag was completed, Fu Xiaoxiao used a boiling pot to flatten it with steam.
"So that’s how your schoolbags are made so neat and flat?" Wu Yingying asked, looking at the straight and sturdy schoolbag in Fu Xiaoxiao’s hands.
Fu Xiaoxiao nodded with a smile.
"Can I try?" Wu Yingying felt curious and, following Fu Xiaoxiao’s instructions, took the bag and steamed it twice.
The wrinkles on the schoolbag were smoothened out.
"Your mind is really something else." Wu Yingying admired, looking at the schoolbag in her hands.
With Bai Shishi’s schoolbag finished, only her name needed to be embroidered, and it would be complete.
Checking the time, Fu Xiaoxiao looked at Wu Yingying. "Are you eating lunch at my place?"
"Oh, it’s so late? No, no, I have to have lunch with my mom today." Wu Yingying laughed, standing up quickly and running out.
After Wu Yingying left, Fu Xiaoxiao set the schoolbag aside and went to the kitchen to prepare lunch.
Lu Feng and his friend were coming back for lunch, just right for making three dishes, more than enough.
When Wu Yingying got home and opened the door, she was met with a sharp questioning voice.
"What did my Zhenzhen do wrong for you to call off the engagement? How is she going to face anyone in the future?"
Wu Yingying frowned as she entered the house and saw that many uninvited guests had arrived.
It seemed they were not here with good intentions, several uncles and cousins had come, seemingly to demand an explanation.
Without saying a word, Wu Yingying walked past them into her father’s study and called him.
"Dad, Fang Zhenzhen brought a group of people here to cause trouble; Mom is scared."
"What! This is outrageous. Protect your mom, I’ll be right there!" Wu Jianlin immediately slammed the table and rushed home with soldiers after hearing his beloved wife was bullied to tears.
After hanging up, Wu Yingying also called Wu Yuxuan.
"Brother, Fang Zhenzhen brought her uncles over, they seem adamant about getting an explanation, hurry back." Wu Yingying said as the call ended abruptly.
Upon hearing Wu Yingying’s words, Wu Yuxuan rushed toward home.
Wu Yingying left the study and heard her mother speaking assertively.
"I can’t handle having your daughter in my family. Who knows if one day when I’m too old to move, she’ll dislike me and do something to me? She attacked a child so fiercely, how can you guarantee she won’t do the same to me?"
"Exactly! My Little Linlin is only 3 years old; she can even harm such a small child. Your daughter is really impressive!" Wu Yingying said, sitting beside her mother and looking at the upset Fang Family members.
"Dear in-law, how can you say that! Zhenzhen knows she was wrong now. It was just a small incident, and the child wasn’t seriously hurt. Calling off the engagement over this seems a bit excessive, doesn’t it?" Mrs. Fang looked at Mrs. Wu, silently competing with her.
"Just because she knows she’s wrong, I should forgive her? She hurt my daughter, my mom’s granddaughter. Do you think only when something serious happens it counts as an incident? If I killed you and then apologized, would you forgive me?" Wu Yingying was incensed by their reasoning, finding it laughable.
What nonsense.
Mrs. Wu patted Wu Yingying’s hand, signaling her to calm down.
"As my daughter said, nothing has happened now, but what if something does in the future? Will you just say, ’I didn’t die, so it’s not serious’?" Mrs. Wu’s words made Mrs. Fang falter.
"Yingying, I really know I was wrong, please forgive me, I really can’t live without Yuxuan." Fang Zhenzhen was pulled by Mrs. Fang, immediately kneeling in front of Wu Yingying, sobbing pathetically.