Lin Mai asked Fang Zhuoran in confusion: "Why did I gain weight so quickly?
Since you took me to see a Chinese medicine doctor, I have been controlling my diet."
Fang Zhuoran gave her some popular science: "In the fifth month of pregnancy, the fetus grows quickly and there is more amniotic fluid, so naturally it will gain weight quickly.
Although you haven't reached your fifth month yet, you are almost there, and it is normal for your waist to become thicker."
Lin Mai sat down on the bed with some frustration: "Then what should I wear to go out today?"
Fang Zhuoran helped her choose for a long time, choosing a red sweatshirt for her and black loose overalls worn by fat pregnant women, and then put a thin shawl on her in a nondescript manner, and the couple went out.
No matter how loose the overalls worn by pregnant women are, they can be easily identified as pregnant women at a glance.
Although Lin Mai's belly was only a little swollen, when he appeared in front of Leader Xie and his family, it still attracted the attention of his whole family.
Xie's wife stared at her slightly swollen belly and asked with a smile: "Are you pregnant?"
Lin Mai nodded shyly: "Yes."
When she and her husband came to the banquet this time, Lin Mai not only kept his word, but also gave each of the Fang Yuan sisters a gold necklace and a thick red envelope.
People do not blame.
If you give many gifts now, it will be easier to inspect the house in the future.
When Lin and Mai arrived at the hotel, it was still ten minutes before they left the table.
Sister Fangyuan rushed to take photos with her, and many guests also came to take photos with her.
Fang Zhuoran's face suddenly turned foul.
So many people wanted to take photos with his wife, and she was exhausted.
He said impatiently: "My wife is pregnant, so she can't work too hard. The photoshoot is over."
All the guests were stunned.
Leader Xie and his wife laughed with them and asked the guests to bear with them.
Lin Mai didn't want to make him and his wife lose face, so he suggested that everyone take a group photo together.
In this way, all the guests can take photos with her and she will not be tired.
Everyone happily took a photo with Lin Mai, and everyone was satisfied.
When they get the photo in a few days, they can brag about it everywhere.
After taking the group photo, Xie's wife immediately arranged for Lin and Mai to sit down.
She is also a woman and has been pregnant with twins. She knows that pregnancy is very difficult for women.
Because there were other guests to entertain, Mr. Xie and his wife specially arranged for their two daughters to take care of Lin Mai.
Sister Xie Fang brought chicken cake to Lin Mai, and her sister asked the waiter for a large glass of fresh milk for Lin Mai to drink.
As for Fang Zhuoran, neither of the sisters paid him any attention, let alone gave him anything to eat or drink.
He was so handsome that both sisters were embarrassed to talk to him.
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A few days later, Ren Baozhu called Lin Mai again and told Lin Mai that she had followed her instructions. As expected, the factory director's employees did not dare to raise any conditions and all came to Jiangcheng with her obediently.
Lin Maidao: "Arrange collective dormitories for them, and also arrange free working meals for them to stabilize the morale of the military, so that they can work with peace of mind."
Ren Baozhu said: "It's not easy to find a dormitory for them in a hurry, so why not subsidize the rent for them?"
When Lin Mai first started his business, he only wanted to buy more bungalows in urban villages, renovate them into five-story mansions, and wait for the demolition later to make a fortune.
Not only did she think so, but she also did it and renovated many large buildings in the urban village.
Many of her large luxury buildings located in urban villages are empty.
The main reason is that there are not too many farmers coming to the city to work in this era, and there are too many houses, so it is impossible to rent them all out.
Now it happens that a building is being used as a dormitory for sock factory employees, so there is no need to subsidize their rent.
In addition, Lin Mai also ordered Ren Baozhu to recruit some local people as apprentices to prevent the people poached from the factory director from resigning one day.
By then, these local apprentices have already learned the skills and can run a sock factory.
Ren Baozhu wrote them down one by one.
Lin Mai asked: "Has the sock factory started production?"
“It officially opened yesterday and production has already started.
I originally wanted you to come over to cut the ribbon, but considering that you are pregnant, I didn’t bother you." Ren Baozhu said on the other end of the phone.
Lin Mai asked again: "Are you still producing pantyhose for summer?"
"Of course, the weather is so hot."
"This is the south. In the north, in another ten to twenty days, it is very likely that the stoves and kangs will be burned for warmth. We cannot just produce summer pantyhose."
Ren Baozhu thought for a while and said: "Then we will produce socks for men, women and children to wear in autumn."
"Yes." Lin Mai said, "We also need to produce thickened pantyhose for autumn and winter."
Linmai wanted to produce thickened pantyhose for autumn and winter this spring, but failed to take action because it missed the best time.
No matter what, you can't miss it now, otherwise if someone else produces it, you won't be able to earn this pot of gold.
Ren Baozhu said: "You have to get a sample of these autumn and winter tights so that we can copy them."
Lin Mai was silent.
The weather in Hong Kong is so hot, even in winter the temperature is usually over 20 degrees Celsius, so there is no need to wear thickened pantyhose.
There are no thickened pantyhose for sale in Hong Kong. Where can she get samples?
Lin Mai thought for a while and asked Ren Baozhu: "How many technicians have you hired from Factory Director Xiang?"
Although socks are a small business, they still need technicians.
"Director Xiang has only two technicians in total, and I hired them all."
Lin Mai asked Ren Baozhu to arrange for two technicians to talk to her separately.
Although Lin Mai had never opened a sock factory in his previous life and did not know how to produce socks.
But in her previous life, when she was rich, she wore pantyhose almost every day except when her legs were too hot in summer, and she could accurately describe the characteristics of each type of pantyhose.
She described the characteristics of thickened pantyhose in autumn and winter to two technicians on the phone.
That is to first thicken the fabric of summer pantyhose. Use monofilament for summer pantyhose, and switch to double-filament and triple-filament for autumn and winter pantyhose.
On this basis, add a layer of fine velvet inside.
The layer of fine velvet added to autumn pantyhose is thinner than that of winter pantyhose.
Both technicians have worked in Guangzhou for several years, and are technically mature and experienced.
In addition, Lin Mai described it very clearly, and they understood it as soon as they heard it.
But understanding it theoretically and being able to produce it are two different things.
It is not difficult to change pantyhose from monofilament to double or triple filament, just like weaving thin fabric into thicker one.
But how to add a layer of fine velvet inside is really a problem.
The two technicians discussed it for a while, and then told Lin Mai that adding a layer of fine velvet to the inside of the pantyhose was a technical problem and they needed to do it through trial and error.
Lin Mai asked how long they would need to study.
The two discussed it again, and then told Lin Mai that it would take at least two months.
Lin Mai was a little anxious when he saw that it took them so long to develop thickened pantyhose.
The South can still wait, but the North can no longer wait.
By the time two technicians develop thickened pantyhose for autumn, winter will have already arrived in the north.
Especially in the Northeast, the temperature is so low that it would be unbearable to wear winter tights, let alone autumn tights.
The Northeast accounts for one-third of the market in the North. It would be a pity to give up this one-third of the market.
Lin Mai thought about it and came up with an idea.
It is difficult for two technicians to produce thickened pantyhose, but maybe they can produce thickened leggings.
If we can produce thickened leggings, we will first produce two models of thickened leggings.
A normal version of thickened leggings suitable for autumn wear, and a reinforced version of leggings suitable for winter wear.
Lin Mai calls this ordinary version of thickened leggings autumn leggings.
Reinforced leggings are called winter leggings.
It would only take ten days and a half to research and produce these two types of leggings.
By then, autumn leggings were sold to ordinary cities in the north.
It's autumn in these northern cities, so it's just right to wear autumn leggings.
Winter leggings are specially designed for the cold three northeastern provinces, thus capturing the entire northern market.
Thickened leggings just need to be modified from the fitness pants that emerged last year, and then add fine velvet on the inside.
This is not difficult, and the two technicians said that it would not be a big problem to figure out the production process within a week.
When technicians were developing thickened leggings for autumn and winter, Lin Mai asked Ren Baozhu to first produce a batch of ordinary leggings without thickening.
This kind of leggings can be worn when it is neither cold nor hot.
It can also be worn in cold seasons, just add long johns and woolen trousers underneath.
Lin Mai asked Ren Baozhu to arrange workers to work overtime to produce 500,000 pairs of ordinary leggings as soon as possible, and then sell them nationwide at the same time.
Five hundred thousand pairs sounds like a lot, but the production process of ordinary leggings is simple and it is an assembly line operation.
As long as we work day and night, we can produce them all in half a month.
Although Ren Baozhu has seen the magic operation of seizing the opportunity of summer pantyhose, investing a large amount of pantyhose into the market all at once, and making a wave of quick money.
But pantyhose is a new product and can seize a wave of opportunities.
Leggings look like a new product, but they are actually an upgraded version of bodybuilding pants and cannot be completely considered a new product.
What's more, bodybuilding pants have been sold out from last year to this year.
It is estimated that when leggings are launched, the response will only be mediocre and they will not make much of a splash.
Jiamei Socks put 50 pairs of regular leggings on the market at once, and she was really worried that they wouldn't be able to sell them.
Although the loss of 500,000 pairs of leggings is nothing to the current Vantone Group.
But the purpose of starting a company is to make money. If you lose a little here and a little there, the company will be finished sooner or later.
She discussed with Lin Mai on the phone whether she could produce and sell at the same time so that there wouldn't be a backlog.
Lin Mai flatly refused.
Ordinary leggings are an improved or upgraded version of the bodybuilding pants that have become popular across the country in the past two years. Experts can imitate them at a glance.
If they are produced and sold at the same time, it would be easier for peers to copy them than pantyhose. Jiamei's ordinary leggings will not be able to earn the pot of gold that seizes the opportunity.
However, if a large amount of products are put into the market at once, by the time peers react and follow suit, Jiamei Socks' leggings will have already made a wave of quick money.
If more people follow the trend, the market demand for ordinary leggings will soon be saturated.
It’s no longer profitable to sell these leggings.
By then, two technicians had developed thickened leggings.
She launched thickened leggings in autumn and winter again, once again sweeping the country, making it impossible for her peers to catch up with the footsteps of the Jiamei socks industry.
This is Lin Mai's plan.
Although selling half a million pairs of leggings at one time is indeed risky, doing business inherently involves both benefits and risks.
What's more, the risk is not big. The country is so big, and it's not impossible to take off only 500,000 pairs of leggings.