For the next few days, the village was indeed quiet. Whenever people saw Li Xiulan out and about, they would offer a polite smile but dared not say anything else.
Zhang Guifen had not gone to the Provincial Capital in vain. She had carefully observed the clothing styles and types of garments worn by the people there, and upon her return, she successfully drafted several patterns.
"Xiulan, take a look at this. Do you think people will like it?" Zhang Guifen called Li Xiulan into the room. She had set up a makeshift workshop, and hanging on the side were a few garments on clothes hangers—the kind they had seen others using in the Provincial Capital. Feng Sixi had built the hangers for them while he was recuperating.
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