Ding Yuanwu squinted his eyes, climbed into the back seat and fell asleep.
Zhong Chen got out of the car, checked the car door, wrapped his leather jacket tightly around his body, and strode forward. Ru Yue quickly jogged to follow.
Just as I walked out of the parking lot, a van stopped and a large group of people got out of the car, chattering incoherently.
Zhong Chen immediately turned back and grabbed Ru Yue's wrist: "Follow me closely, don't just look at things. If you get separated, don't leave again, just stand where you are and wait for me, remember?"
Zhong Chen's wrist was tightly clasped with cold fingers. Ru Yue looked past his serious face and looked at the shining lights and dense crowd behind her, and nodded vigorously: "Yes!"
Shahe Market is currently the largest clothing wholesale market in East and South China, and it is also the earliest market established.
But in fact, the market facilities are very simple, just one stall after another separated by a grid.
As the New Year approaches, people from all over the country rush here to try to make a lot of money at the end of the year and the New Year. Naturally, it is crowded and prosperous.
Just because of the crowding and prosperity, some dark things have arisen.
There are definitely some thieves; there are also some merchants who are very dishonest. If the samples they show you are different from the goods they give you, it is considered a minor offense. Some even give you defective goods without noticing. Then
If you take it back and you can't return or exchange it at any time, you'll lose money.
And there is no logistics industry at all now. When you buy goods, you have to carry small quantities by yourself and transport large quantities by yourself. All of these require sufficient capital.
As Zhong Chen walked to the market, he supplemented Ru Yue's various knowledge about the market.
It’s not that Ru Yue didn’t listen at all, it’s just that...
His hand clasped her wrist so tightly that she felt a little hurt, a little warm, and felt a little unexplainable.
"...Did you hear what I told you?" Zhong Chen turned his head in front of an alley full of clothes and looked at Ru Yue seriously.
Ru Yue nodded like a chicken pecking at rice: "I heard it. Just, can you let go of me? You hold me too tightly."
Zhong Chen's pretty brows furrowed and he let her go: "I really shouldn't have brought you here. It's annoying."
Ru Yue rubbed her wrist: "No, Brother Chen, you really held me too tightly, my fingers are numb. Don't worry, I will follow you closely. It's not good for you to hold me back."
walk."
The market is crowded with people, and the road is still narrow. It is indeed not easy to walk with such a pull.
Zhong Chen turned around and continued walking: "It's up to you. Let's go find someone we know now, and you can follow me. If I ask you to choose, just choose it, and don't mention the money."
"oh."
Ru Yue quickly followed.
Zhong Chen was very familiar with this place. Although each stall looked similar, he could accurately wander around the alleys filled with clothes, and finally stopped at a stall filled with pants.
He greeted a short-built man inside: "Chen Sheng, long time no see."
The man looked at him for a long time and then came out in surprise: "Zhongsheng! Oops, I can't even recognize Lei after he shaved off his left beard!"
The two shook hands familiarly and reminisced about old times for a while. Then Zhong Chen waved Ru Yue over, pointed at the items in this stall and said, "Choose for yourself. I'll have a few words with the boss."
Ru Yue took a closer look. This stall mainly sells jeans, and she had seen most of the styles at Zhong Chen's stall.
But in a corner, there was a denim skirt hanging, which was an ultra-short style.
Ru Yue went to get it and look at it.
The workmanship is very good, and the washing water label is also ordered in English.
Ru Yue carried the only skirt and walked over to Zhong Chen: "I want this. Ask the boss how much it is."
Zhong Chen took one look at the skirt, squinted his eyes, and said to Ru Yue in his native dialect: "Are you sure you want this?"
"Yeah!" Ru Yue nodded vigorously and replied in her native dialect: "I'll take a thousand."
Zhong Chen took a breath: "What... do you want to do?"
"Wholesale! I think this is good."
"This skirt can't even cover your buttocks!" Zhong Chen's voice became louder, and Mr. Chen began to look at them curiously.
Ru Yue smiled: "It's a little bit, but that's why I want it. You see, just take some cloth of the same color and make thin pleats and connect it, just enough to reach your knees. It will be a very beautiful spring style. Then
Or it can be longer, or it can be a bohemian-style long skirt. If it doesn't work, it will be popular if it is changed into a denim bag. If not, I will wear some bodybuilding pants with it, which is the style of the foreigners on TV.
Ah, you trust my vision, I saw this look in "Movie Illustrated", it's very nice, I can change it myself, you just need to ask me first how much it costs for a thousand pieces."
"Percy what?"
"Bohemia is a kind of... Anyway, it is a relaxed and romantic look, as seen in foreign movies. Isn't it popular in Shanghai to imitate foreigners now? Anyway, if you put a piece of floral fabric underneath, it will look foreign.
"
Zhong Chen held the skirt in his hand, stretched out his arms and looked at it for a while, then pursed his lips and said, "Okay."
He turned around and talked to the boss: "Sheng Chen, how much do you have for this skirt? Give me a good price."
Chen Sheng: "Oh, this, this is not for sale, I put it on to prevent the large size pants from falling down."
"Only one? I still want it."
"No, this is the first foreign trade order we received. The red-haired boy was not satisfied, so he asked us to redo it. There were three thousand more orders. It was too short, no one wanted it, and it was too hard to be used as a rag. If you want it,
One yuan a piece, half sold and half given to you."
Zhong Chen: "What if I want them all?"
"Ha! What are you doing here? This one is really short. No one dares to wear it! Even the pheasants in Sihe Alley don't dare to wear it. Half of their buttocks are exposed!"
"It doesn't matter. The people over there are small, with small butts and short legs. They can be used as aprons."
Ru Yue, who was pretending to be watching something else, said: "..." Brother Chen, in order to lower the price, are you okay with discrediting the people in your hometown like this?
But Chen Sheng agreed: "I can tell, the sister you came with is like that, black and small, she can wear it as an apron. Okay, if you want them all, I will give you 80 cents, and it will be fine if you leave them in the warehouse anyway."
Treat it like trash.”
"Six cents, I'm a bit adventurous. After all, people like my sister who are dark and small are not willing to buy clothes, and there is no guarantee that anyone will want them as aprons."
Dark and small Ru Yue: "..." After all, I was the one who shouldered everything.
But it’s a deal!
Such a denim skirt with excellent workmanship only costs 60 cents!
Even now in the 1980s, it was super cheap, and the profit margins were so huge!
Ru Yue counted roughly on her fingers and then walked around excitedly.
I can't help it, I can't help it when I make so much money