Lin Mai brought six large watermelons weighing more than ten kilograms from the market, and asked a younger brother of Chen Feng to help deliver them to the small western-style building where his family owned a storefront, and expressed his condolences to the training staff and the several masters who decorated it.
So far, the two stocking sellers Zheng Xudong recommended to her are pretty good.
The service is attentive and enthusiastic, and he is also eloquent, so the stockings are selling very well, which shows that Zheng Xudong's training is still very effective.
When they arrived at the small foreign-style building, Lin Mai invited everyone to eat watermelon.
While eating watermelon, I chatted a few words with Zheng Xudong about training, and then asked when the house would be fully decorated.
Master Zhang said: "The first and second floors have all been decorated. Only the third floor and the attic have not yet been decorated, but they will be completed in the next few days."
After eating the watermelon, Lin Mai first visited the backyard, basement, first and second floors, and found that the stairs did not lead to the third floor or attic, but ended on the second floor.
She asked with some surprise: "This staircase does not lead to the third floor or the attic, so how do you go up there?"
Should I rely on flying or light skills? What should I do if I don’t know both skills?"
Master Zhang was amused by her: "I built a separate staircase in the backyard leading to the third floor and the attic, so that the commercial and residential areas are separated and do not affect each other."
Lin Mai followed him to the backyard and found that there was indeed a staircase in the corner leading directly to the third floor and the attic.
It's just that the overhead space of this staircase has been cleverly designed by Master Zhang into a small utility room, making it easy for people to ignore the staircase.
At the entrance of the stairs, Master Zhang designed an iron door.
Opening the iron door, Lin Mai walked around from the separate staircase to the third floor.
The third floor was designed according to her requirements into a structure with five bedrooms, two living rooms, one kitchen and one bathroom.
The five rooms are all large, as are the living room and dining room.
The only drawback is that the living room and dining room can only be designed in the middle, so the lighting is not very good.
But it’s not a big problem. If it’s too dark on a rainy day, just turn on the lights.
After coming out of the third floor, Lin Mai went up to the attic for a visit.
The attic space is relatively short, only about two meters, and it is empty inside, with not even a wall, only a few pillars.
Master Zhang was explaining on the side: "There are no partitions in the attic so that you can use it as a warehouse to store things."
Lin Mai felt that his design was so thoughtful.
The small attic of more than two hundred square meters is very good as a small warehouse.
Even if there is nothing to pile up, it would be nice to use it as a playground for Doudou.
Pay more when you pay your wages later.
After visiting the house, Lin Mai returned to the snack bar and saw that Wang Rong's snack bar, which had been deserted for a long time, seemed to be coming back to life, with many customers going to her house to buy steamed buns.
Wang Xiaoli waved to her, and Lin Mai walked over.
Wang Xiaoli lowered her voice and said, "Don't look at it. They sell it cheaper than us, and business will naturally get better."
Lin Mai was a little puzzled. Why did this shop owner like Aunt Hu and start a price war?
A price war is actually a fight to the death, and you can only do this unless you have a strong economic foundation.
Otherwise, instead of bringing the other party down, you will go down first. Aunt Hu is a typical example.
Does this shop owner want to follow in the footsteps of Aunt Hu?
If someone wants to die, just let them go. She is more than willing to do so.
She only cared about the business of her own snack bar and asked: "Will the high prices next door have a big impact on our business?"
Wang Xiaoli said objectively: "It has an impact, but it is not particularly big. After all, our food is delicious and cannot be replaced."
Lin Mai smiled: "Nothing in this world is irreplaceable, no matter people or things."
Wang Xiaoli laughed twice: "As long as the neighbor can't replace us, that's fine.
Our snack bar will be able to operate normally, and after a while, the next door will be killed. This is the key point."
This makes sense.
Lin Mai was about to go upstairs when He Sheng came: "Maizi, don't rush upstairs, I have something to do with you."
Lin Mai said: "Let's go upstairs and talk."
The downstairs was so full that there wasn't even an empty seat. Could it be that two people were standing talking?
She had been walking around the market for a long time in the morning. Her legs were already sore and she didn't want to stand any longer.
He Sheng followed her upstairs, and the two sat down on the sofa in the small living room.
He Sheng took out a few hundred yuan from his body and put it on the coffee table, and said bluntly: "This is the liquidated damages and your remaining rent. I want to take back the store."
Lin Mai nodded, counted the money, and returned another hundred to him.
He Sheng asked in surprise: "Why do you give me back a hundred?"
"Last time you helped me deal with Aunt Hu, this hundred yuan is my reward."
"That's too much." He Sheng grinned and only took fifty yuan: "Just give me fifty yuan. You can keep the fifty yuan."
Seeing his persistence, Lin Mai accepted the fifty yuan without mercy and discussed: "You can take back the house if you want, but can you let me sell it until the end of this month?"
He Sheng nodded and said, "Okay."
When Lin Mai sent him out of the store, he saw him turning to look at Du Guanghui's store next door and said, "The snacks they sell are similar to ours.
When you take over your store, I suggest you stagger the sales of snacks.
The two sell the same thing and are competing for each other's business. I'm afraid you can't compete with them."
He Sheng snorted coldly and walked away without saying a word.
Lin Mai was about to turn around and enter the store when he saw Tao Zhiyun walking over carrying a lot of clothes on his bicycle.
Sitting on the front bumper of the bicycle is Qiqi.
During this period, Qiqi followed her mother and met Lin Mai frequently. She was not as acquainted as before, and she shouted happily from afar: "Aunt Lin!"
Lin Mai responded with a busy smile, then went up to him and picked him up.
Doudou took Ah Huang and a group of children to play in an unknown corner. When they heard Qiqi's voice, they came out together with Ah Huang.
When Qiqi saw her, she struggled to get out of Lin Mai's arms and play with Doudou.
Lin Mai put him on the ground and told Doudou to take good care of Qiqi.
Doudou responded obediently and took Qiqi to find other children to play with.
The Lin family took a look at the clothes piled high on the back seat of Tao Zhiyun's bicycle and said in surprise: "You have made so many clothes in the past few days!"
"I listened to you and went to the factory to apply for a leave of absence without pay. All my time is at my own disposal.
I can make a lot of clothes every day, and of course I can make so many clothes in a few days!"
The two carried the clothes to the living room on the second floor. Lin Mai counted seventy or eighty pieces.
Seventy or eighty pieces of clothing are not enough to sell in one night, so it seems that we still have to go to Guangzhou to purchase goods.
Tao Zhiyun handed a bag to Lin Mai: "These are the 10,000 trademarks you asked for, but I have already used more than 70."
Lin Mai grabbed a handful of the trademarks and looked at them. The workmanship was quite good.
She returned the bag of trademarks to Tao Zhiyun: "You still want to make clothes, so just leave these trademarks with you. It's useless to leave them with me."
Lin Mai did not take the clothes made by Tao Zhiyun to set up a stall on Jianghan Road.
Instead, it was given to the two girls selling stockings together with the clothes that were not sold out last time, and they were asked to sell them together when they were selling stockings.
These clothes are all clearly priced, so the two girls don't have to waste words with the customers.
Before five o'clock in the afternoon, all the clothes were sold out.
Although it is much slower than Lin Mai taking the clothes to Jianghan Road to sell, it is much more comfortable to sell them sitting in front of the store, so just slow down.
Two more days passed in a blink of an eye. Although Du Guanghui's snack bar next door sold at low prices, it could not survive three days, and business was deserted again.
Wang Xiaoli told Lin Mai that although the buns and dumplings next door were sold cheaply, they were small in size and had few fillings, so they were not cheap at all.
If a customer was fooled once, he would not be fooled a second time, so business dropped off a cliff.
[The author has something to say]
I saw a little fairy giving me a reward, thank you, okay, I’m sick, I’m not feeling well~