During lunch, Lin Mai told Fang Zhuoran, Grandpa Fang and others that she would leave for Guangzhou with Tao Zhiyun in the evening.
Ask Fang Zhuoran to bring Fang Zhuoran to Guangzhou to meet her in a few days, and the three of them will go to Hong Kong together.
Fang Zhuoran was worried about safety issues on the road and asked her to ask Chen Feng to arrange some bodyguards for her and Tao Zhiyun, but Lin Mai refused.
After two years of severe crackdown, the crime rate has dropped sharply and the roads are now much safer.
Moreover, she has also studied martial arts for a long time. Even if she fights with her master, she is not at a disadvantage. A few petty thieves are nothing to her, so why let Chen Feng arrange bodyguards.
Fang Zhuoran had no choice but to tell Lin Mai to be careful on the road when sending Lin Mai and Tao Zhiyun to the train.
I haven’t been to Guangzhou for more than a year, and Guangzhou is more fashionable and vibrant than before.
The streets are full of young people wearing floral shirts and bell-bottom pants, carrying double-speaker tape recorders.
Lin Mai and Tao Zhiyun first found a hotel to stay in, then had breakfast and went to various textile factories to look at fabrics.
It is summer now, and the fabrics Tao Zhiyun wants are linen and chiffon.
State-owned garment factories in the Mainland do not have these two kinds of fabrics. They are either cotton, cotton silk or indeed cool.
Although some textile factories run by Hong Kong people in Guangzhou produced linen and chiffon, they were not fine enough, and Tao Zhiyun was a little disdainful.
And she doesn't like the color either.
None are sold inland, and those in Guangzhou cannot meet Tao Zhiyun's requirements.
Then the only way is to communicate with the textile factory and let the textile factory produce fabrics according to Tao Zhiyun's requirements.
We negotiated with several textile factories, and each textile factory was willing to produce fabrics according to Tao Zhiyun's requirements, but they required a deposit to be paid in advance.
It's okay to pay a deposit in advance, but those textile factories charge exorbitant prices because they only use designated fabrics.
If the price is too high, the cost will increase a lot, so how can you make money? You can just work in a textile factory.
The two dragged their exhausted bodies back to the hotel.
Tao Zhiyun was a little frustrated. Although Lin Mai ordered two delicacies, scallion chicken and smooth fish balls, for dinner, they could not arouse her appetite.
Lin Mai thought better than her and put a piece of chicken into her bowl: "What's there to worry about? We won't buy it if it's too expensive."
Tao Zhiyun poked at the rice with chopsticks: "To put it lightly, how can we make clothes if we don't buy them?"
Lin Mai explained: "When I say not to buy, I am referring to textile factories that offer high prices. If there are textile factories that offer low prices, we will definitely buy from them."
Tao Zhiyun smiled bitterly: "Don't you think those textile factories are all working together and even the prices are the same, how can any manufacturer sell it cheaper?"
"There are always poorly run textile factories. If we find such textile factories to produce the specified fabrics, the price will definitely not be much higher," Lin Mai said.
However, after searching for two days, I could not find a poorly managed textile factory.
It can only be said that the clothing business in this era is doing very well, and the business in related industries is also good.
After another setback, Tao Zhiyun was completely dejected, but Lin Mai still wanted to struggle.
She placed a tender in the local newspaper.
The content of the bidding is to find a textile factory to supply Jinxiu Clothing as required on a long-term basis.
Jinxiu Clothing is currently the most famous clothing brand in the country, and its sales volume is also very impressive.
If you become a supplier of Jinxiu Clothing, you don't have to worry about the risk of the factory going bankrupt.
The brocade clothing alone can support a large textile factory.
As soon as the news came out, not to mention the textile factories in Guangzhou, even the textile factories in Shenzhen caught wind of the news and rushed over to grab food.
A large conference room that Lin Mai temporarily rented was packed with people, all of whom were CEOs of textile factories participating in the tender.
When the bidding started, the venue was silent for a while. Then a boss quoted a price, and the atmosphere became lively. The price dropped again and again in the fierce competition.
Tao Zhiyun admired Lin Mai greatly, and with just one move of bidding, he immediately shattered the plans of those textile factories that had formed a group.
Eventually, three textile factories came into Lin Mai's sight.
Lin Mai did not rush to announce the textile factory that had successfully bid. Instead, he secretly investigated the reputation, strength and other aspects of the three textile factories, and selected a textile factory run by a Cantonese named Cao Shuncai.
In fact, she prefers a textile factory run by a Hong Konger.
But now Hong Kong has not returned to the motherland. If something goes wrong during the cooperation with Hong Kong people and the Hong Kong people run back to Hong Kong, Lin Mai may not be able to do anything about him, so in the end she chose Cao Shuncai.
It took another whole day to sign the contract, mainly because both parties considered a lot of details.
After the contract was signed, Fang Zhuoran also brought Fang Zhuoyue to Guangzhou to meet Lin Mai.
When Fang Zhuoyue saw Tao Zhiyun, his eyes became particularly resentful.
Lin Mai and Fang Zhuoran saw it, but they could only pretend to be confused.
It's really hard for them to interfere in emotional matters.
Lin Mai treated everyone to a feast at a time-honored restaurant in Guangzhou, and then took Fang Zhuoran to the night market.
The night market in Guangzhou is much more prosperous than the night market in Jiangcheng, with bright lights and lively entertainment.
The street girls here are very courageous. Even if Lin Mai and Fang Zhuoran are holding hands, there are still street girls waving to Fang Zhuoran.
He shouted in non-standard Cantonese: "Pretty boy, come and play!"
You can tell from the accent that he is from the Mainland.
Lin Mai and Fang Zhuoran went to the night market, but Tao Zhiyun couldn't follow them, so they had to go back to the hotel.
Fang Zhuoyue put his hands in his trouser pockets and silently followed her for a distance, then suddenly said: "I'm sorry, Zhiyun."
Ever since he decided to formally pursue Tao Zhiyun, he no longer called her Sister Tao.
Tao Zhiyun knew why he was apologizing, so he smiled reluctantly: "That was your mother's personal behavior, and you didn't ask her to do it. You don't need to apologize to me."
Fang Zhuoyue said guiltily: "But you are still wronged because of me."
Tao Zhiyun was silent for a moment and said: "If you don't want me to be wronged, just keep your distance from me in the future. Your mother will not cause trouble for me."
Fang Zhuoyue said hurriedly: "I will communicate well with my mother so that she will not cause trouble to you in the future."
Tao Zhiyun stopped and looked at him very seriously: "Even if your mother doesn't come to trouble me, I don't want you to get too close to me. It's not like you don't know that I'm already in a relationship with Dr. Liu."
Target."
Fang Zhuoyue's eyes turned red: "Why didn't you choose me? How am I inferior to him?"
Tao Zhiyun was speechless: "I have said it many times, I am a married woman with children, and I am not worthy of you."
Fang Zhuoyue argued: "My sister-in-law is also married and has children. Do you think she is not worthy of being with my brother?"
Tao Zhiyun was speechless by his question. After a long while, he said: "A woman marries a man, and she wears clothes and eats.
Your brother's salary can support a family, can you?
Although I have the ability to make money, I don't want to support a man.
This is why I chose Dr. Liu instead of you."
After saying these words, Tao Zhiyun ran away as if running away. She didn't want to see Fang Zhuoyue's sad expression.
Fang Zhuoyue asked loudly behind her: "If I can earn a lot of money and allow you and Qiqi to live a good life, will you choose me?"
Tao Zhiyun earns a lot of money every month, so why does she need to find a man to support her mother and son?
She just found an excuse to make Fang Zhuoyue give up.
When she heard Fang Zhuoyue's question, she pretended to be deaf and dumb and did not answer.