As Christmas approaches, cars with Christmas trees on the roof often appear on the streets whistling by, and then, amid the children's laughter and cheers, the hostess and hostesses work hard to move the Christmas tree into their homes. At night, impatient people light up the lights early and look through the windows. They are colorful, magnificent, and full of festive festive atmosphere.

Not only various families, but even the restaurants he once visited, also pasted large pictures of Santa Claus on the windows, attracting guests to eat and drink here. The effect is indeed good: many Americans living around Lessing Street will choose this place as a place to chat with friends. Ai Fei has been there several times, but every time, he just orders food silently and leaves immediately after eating.

He originally wanted to have a good relationship with other customers, but the public outrage caused by the house buying incident was too great. Almost no one was willing to communicate with such an annoying guy, which made him feel a little uncomfortable and he went there less times.

Not only was he treated coldly in the restaurant, but his infamous among the neighbors around him was also far-reaching: even if the children from the neighbor's house occasionally talked to him, they would be taken back to the house by their parents. He became a germ carrier! At night, he always thought about it with self-deprecating thoughts.

Looking at the snowflakes that began to float all over the sky outside the window, Ai Fei deeply felt the feeling of loneliness. Although he was traveling through a country he didn't like, after all, Ai Yukiko and Ai Zhu Taro were his companions. As parents, even though he did not agree with their relationship very much, these two people's love and pity for themselves was extremely real.

"……………” shook his head randomly and put aside the regret in his heart for a while. Ai Fei sat at the desk again and began to conceive the next step of his work. Before he came here, he had already had some general understanding of the current economic exhibition in the United States. In 1951, the United States was not very economically prosperous. The automobile industry and real estate industry did not start vigorously at the last major economic growth point. The biggest consumer demand for Americans now is food, and the second is clothing. The former Ai Fei thought he could not participate - who knows what Americans like to eat? The latter was his purpose of coming to this distant foreign land this time!

According to Ai Fei's point of view, the American clothing industry, especially women's clothing. According to Ai Fei's view, women's clothing during the Cultural Revolution in China is similar to those seen in the documentary. It does not mean color, but style. At this time, the United States and even the whole world, in terms of clothing styles, had not yet emerged from the largest ideological liberation since the Renaissance that just emerged in the 1920s and 1930s. Clothing, especially women's clothing, revolutionized the leotards bound to women. After the first change in clothing from decorative to functional, it began to move forward from simple and original clothing needs to natural and simplicity and focus on practical life.

However, this change was still extremely slow in Ai Fei's eyes, and it was simply too slow! Ai Fei did not find any bright colors on the 10 passing ladies that could be seen on the street! Everyone had the same windbreaker, trousers, short-waisted leather boots, and a wide-brimmed hat on his head. If you have to find any difference, it was the distinction of colors. Such a dressing style naturally gave him too much room for exhibition as a latecomer - this is also the reason why he was so persistent in coming to the United States - can you imagine? In the past few years after the war, the fashion industry could be developed from other countries? But the clothing industry he wanted to do was a little different from the clothing industry in the general sense - he did not do the ready-made garment industry, but only sold designs and ideas - at least, at the beginning, he was not ready to enter the ready-made garment industry.

Of course it is very simple to think about, but it takes a lot of brains to do it: Americans are very proud. It is easier to kill them than to let them accept the command or advice of an oriental person. However, these will not be a hindrance to their own pace. Since they have arrived here, they will not bump into like a headless fly!

I looked at the design sketch of the princess dress I wore when I was on the show in "Roman Holiday". The upper body was a tight short robe, a small vest was worn on the outside, and the lower body made some modifications to the original trumped skirt in the video, shrinking the original design that began to relax from the knees, but gradually tightening the design pattern, outlining the curves of the women's legs and hips.

I used a colored brush to draw the color on it and picked it up and looked at it. It seemed pretty good. However, compared with the comics I painted back then, I always felt that there was something missing. Ai Fei sighed, this is the author's own problem: I always regard my works as the best, and I can't see the problems in it! It's better to let go and wait until I wake up tomorrow before looking for the problems in it?

Since you have started to create, just draw a little more, right? With this idea, Ai Fei started to create again: this is a work that looks simpler than a comic, but actually requires much harder work. It is not because the drawing requirements are higher, but because it requires some modifications to the originally excellent and avant-garde design method in his own drawings according to the inherent concepts of this era.

For example, a evening dress that originally focused on chest design and as fresh and elegant as a blooming chrysanthemum petals cannot adopt the original design concept of large opening and V-shaped, but rather reduce the neckline as much as possible, which is in line with the aesthetic vision of the current Americans. This is almost a brand new design.

Finally, he studied art design in his previous life, and he had some knowledge of this aspect, and it was not an impossible task. After being busy for a while, he looked up and looked at the clock hanging on the wall. It was already midnight. Before he knew it, three hours had passed! Well, today is Christmas!

He took out half of the remaining whiskey from the kitchen wine cabinet, poured himself half a cup, and raised his glass toward himself who was reflected in the bright glass: "Ai Fei, I wish you a happy holiday!"

Christmas ends with the New Year. In the West, these are the two most important festivals. Almost all relevant government departments will take vacations. I’m sorry, no one will serve you. Let’s wait until the New Year is over! There is no way, Ai Fei has to postpone his work. However, during these days, he has not been idle. He drove to the near Times Square many times, sat in the cold wind, holding a large drawing board, and selected some more distinctive women’s clothing for copying and sketching. It should be said that he has very few attentions, which also provides convenience for his work: without many goals, there will be more time to copy.

It was another wasted morning today. Sitting on the bench, he moved his frozen feet for a while, put down the drawing board and stood up: "What a cold God!"

The passersby around them all looked at such a young, oriental-faced guy with confusion and hostility: There is no way, after Pearl Harbor, Orientals and even innocent Chinese were also hit by fish. Whites, no matter whether you are Chinese or Japanese, they cannot tell the difference between these two countries in their eyes. The Chinese who made New York Chinatown also became the target of revenge for Americans. It is better not to care about the products, and those with a more irritable temper may even beat and scold them. Even if someone calls the police, as long as the police know that they are born in Chinatown, they will deliberately find fault and arrive late.

This situation was not until the then President Roosevelt personally inquired, and Donald Macbeth, then governor of New York and Henderson Roger, who was the mayor of New York, came forward, and the Chinese were short of many Chinese people. As time passed, the war was over, and the United States' hostility towards Japan did not improve much. After experiencing a scene a few years ago, Asians in New York were even more scared and did not dare to leave their settlements and come to the Manhattan area where the whites were.

First, Ai Fei did not take this matter seriously. Second, he didn't know about this conflict between the United States and Japan! I just did my work and did not hurt others. I thought others wouldn't bully me on the initiative, right? So, Americans who worked at Rockefeller Center and had office windows facing the streets. Around the New Year in 1952, they often saw a young, Eastern-style guy sitting on the side of the road to draw.

Many Americans also find it strange. What is this guy doing? Seeing him painting with a drawing board, he seems to be the kind of down-and-out artist. He paints for others to make a living, but it is not the case. He has never seen anyone paint a picture of him, nor has he ever seen him earn any income. What is he doing? He can't ask.

Ai Fei stood up and moved for a while, feeling a little hungry, and was about to pack up the drawing board and leave - he didn't dare to drive the car, he didn't have a driver's license! Every day he could only walk between Yujia and Times Square - suddenly, a bright figure passed by in front of his eyes. He looked over and praised in his heart: So beautiful!

This sentence is not to praise people, but to praise clothes: when I walked over, I was a young girl in her grade at 24.5 years old, with a short head and a wavy shape, scattered behind her head, a bridge of her nose, and a face full of shallow freckles, a typical American girl. But the clothes on her body were the target of his attention.

The upper body was wearing a stand-up sweater, no, it was not a sweater. Ai Fei immediately made a judgment that the sweater would not be as straight as this, but a clothing similar to cashmere, with a dark red color, but the specific texture was distinguished, which was simply depressing! She was wearing a denim outfit on the outside, and a pair of tight-fitting trousers on the bottom. Only a girl with beautiful lines like her could pick up the long trousers. A pair of knee-length leather boots was the only fault: if such a pair of boots could be worn on a pair of long legs without trousers, it would be enough!

He was only concerned about looking at it, but he didn't notice the dissatisfied look beside the girl wearing a windbreaker that could be seen everywhere in this era. When he felt something was wrong, it was too late: the man was walking on the left side of the girl, which was equivalent to a girl being separated from Ai Fei. When he approached, he suddenly walked around behind the girl, which meant that he stood among the three people. Before the girl could understand what was going on, the man's shoulders hit Ai Fei's chest heavily.

Ai Fei looked at the girl carefully, without any precautions. When he got hit by the other party, his body was unstable and he was knocked out by the whole body! The drawing board in his hand also flew away, and his hand subconsciously helped the ground, his palms were rubbed and blood oozed out: "You...?"

The citizens passing by were also startled and stood firm: "………?

The girl was also stunned. When Ai Fei struggled to get up from the ground, she seemed to remember it and quickly stepped forward: "I'm sorry... you have nothing, are you?"

Ai Fei stood up slowly. He knew exactly what was going on, but he didn't dare to express anything. He had to force a wry smile: "It's nothing, it's... I wasn't careful."

"Are you sure?"

Ai Fei glanced at the man standing beside watching the fun with an angry look: "Nothing, I really have nothing." He walked over and picked up the drawing board and tool bag that was thrown aside: "..."

The girl seemed a little disgusted: "Sir, are you sure you don't need to go to the hospital... for a checkup?"

"……………” Ai Fei shook his head silently.

"So, if you think you can..."

Ai Fei waved his hand and signaled the other party to leave quickly! He was simply unwilling to stay with this bastard American for a second!

"Okay, goodbye."

As soon as the girl left, he remembered: "I'm sorry, please wait!"

"………Locke, don't do this. I think this gentleman shouldn't have any malicious intentions." The girl drove away the big man who wanted to be between the two: "Sir, are there any problems?"

"I'm sorry, it's not that I have a problem. But can you tell me where you bought the clothes?"

“…………”

"Uh...I'm a designer..." Ai Fei had no choice but to lie: "For some...beautiful things, of course, and the clothes you are wearing now, they are all goals I want to learn and pursue, so I want to know where your clothes are obtained."

The girl smiled slightly: "This is a birthday gift from my father, and I brought it back from Portugal. Do you think it looks good too?"

"Portugal?" He murmured and repeated: "I understand, thank you for your explanation, oh, I won't bother you."
Chapter completed!