A few days passed in a flash. After school at noon that day, Xiang Jin and Yan Chen took their lunch boxes to the cafeteria to eat.
The two of them were walking on the road when they were called by a familiar voice, "Classmate Xiang, Classmate Yan?"
The two people turned their heads and looked over at the sound, and saw Manager Xiao from the clothing factory sitting in a black Hongqi car and smiling at them.
"Hey, Manager Xiao, why are you here again, looking for our Director Yang?" The two walked over and greeted each other, but there was actually a person sitting in the back seat of the car.
Manager Xiao looked at them with a smile on his face, "I'm here specifically to see you two."
"Looking for the two of us?" Xiang Jin and Yan Chen looked at each other, and she intuitively felt that she was going to make another order today.
The other party nodded and confirmed, "Well, I'm looking for you. Come on, get in the car, and let's find a place to chat."
"Where are you going? Are you going to sell us?" Xiang Jin joked.
Manager Xiao couldn't laugh or cry for a while. He pointed at her and said to the people on the side, "Look, this little girl is quite vigilant?"
The man just laughed, and Manager Xiao said, "Don't worry, we can't sell you. Besides, you two are so smart, how dare we sell it? If we sell it, we will get into trouble for ourselves. It won't pay off, it won't pay off, and we can't afford it."
He is a serious and legal businessman."
Xiang Jin said, "You're just kidding, don't take it seriously. The main reason is that we have two exams to take in the afternoon, so we can't stay too long.
If there is something wrong with you, how about we go to the cafeteria and talk about it?
You haven't eaten yet, right? How about we treat you to a feast in the cafeteria today? The chefs in our cafeteria are pretty good at cooking."
Manager Xiao shook his head and said, "It's true that we haven't eaten yet. We just arrived here not long ago. We originally planned to invite you to go out to find a restaurant to eat together."
Xiang Jin waved his hand, "That's not necessary. It's the same as eating at school. How about eating in the cafeteria with us?"
Manager Xiao looked at the person next to him and said, "Would you like to try it? The food in their cafeteria tastes quite good?"
The man looked at Xiang Jin and Yan Chen and followed their advice, "Isn't it inconvenient to talk about things in your cafeteria?"
Yan Chen said, "There are so many people eating right now, so it may be a little inconvenient, but it will be fine once the meal is over."
The two of them nodded, and then they saw the man and said to Manager Xiao, "Since the two children have exams in the afternoon, it is not easy for them to be delayed for too long, so let's go to their cafeteria?"
Manager Xiao agreed, "Okay!"
So several people got out of the car, including the driver, there were three of them.
As they walked on the road, Manager Xiao introduced them both, "This is Manager Huang Youde, the general manager of our factory. Manager Huang's hometown is from City J, City Z. His father's and grandfather's generations all opened clothing stores.
, his family moved to our county to escape the war during his grandfather’s generation. His grandfather’s generation specialized in custom-made suits and cheongsams, and his father’s generation specialized in custom-made suits and tunic suits.
Then, later on, our generation, Manager Huang, opened a clothing factory to specialize in custom-made school uniforms for students."
Xiang Jin nodded, "It's pretty awesome!"
Then Manager Huang waved his hand modestly, "Oh, this is nothing. It's far, far away."
Xiang Jin asked, "If you open such a large clothing factory and take over all the primary and secondary schools in our county, isn't the school uniform for the primary and secondary school students in the town's primary schools awesome?"
Then Manager Huang sighed, "Oh, it's better to thank the country's policies! If it weren't for the country's policies, I wouldn't be able to do what I am now. In the past, when I first came into contact with this field, it was very difficult. I was stepping on it every day.
I went out on a shabby bicycle to get orders, but came back with nothing every day. You said that at that time, every family was so poor that they couldn't afford to eat, so how could there be spare money to buy school uniforms for students?"
Xiang Jin asked, "Then how did you persevere? Or maybe you knew that it was difficult to get involved in this industry, so why did you get involved in it in the first place?"
Then Manager Huang felt that this girl was indeed very smart, and her questions hit the mark directly, so he said, "To be honest, when I first entered this industry, it was entirely because of my enthusiasm and the pressure of life.
Wearing suits and Chinese tunic suits are no longer very popular in our generation. In addition, there are several clothing factories in the county, and they are relatively large-scale and have already gained a reputation. What does my family have? It is a small tailor shop.
So, if I were to make the same thing as others, I would not be able to find a way out. Later, I passed by the County No. 1 Middle School and saw two classes of children playing basketball outside on the playground, but the children in the two classes
Because the clothes were not uniform, I couldn't tell which team was from which, and later I kept passing the ball to the wrong team.
It suddenly occurred to me that our country's athletes also wore uniform uniforms when they went abroad to participate in the Olympic Games, so I suddenly got excited and decided to go in this direction.
Later, the first order I got was for basketball vests from dozens of classes in County No. 1 Middle School, but it was only an order for a dozen boys in each class. The other children were still wearing a variety of clothes.
Later, the first uniform list I actually received for all the students in all classes was from the county primary school. At that time, their school was going to hold a sports meeting for the whole school, and the uniforms were required. I knew it, and I went there every day.
It was the office of the school leader. Later, he got annoyed by me and gave me the order.
At that time, when I received the order, I was so happy that I couldn't sleep for several days and nights. I stared at the craftsmen below who were working overtime to make the clothes and then deliver them to others. Then I felt relieved.
tone,
Then I fell asleep and slept for two days and two nights, but then gradually some schools took the initiative to ask me to customize their uniforms, and then it became easier for me to go out and run orders."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Although you were a little impulsive when you made that decision, you chose the right path.
Although everything is indeed difficult at the beginning, it will be fine as long as you persevere.”
Then Manager Huang smiled and nodded, "Yes, yes! Now that I think about that period, I still thank myself for persevering."
When the cafeteria arrived, a few people stopped talking, and then Xiang Jin and the others led them to queue up for meals. When it was their turn, Yan Chen said to the couple serving meals, "The two of us are working together."
Serve three of them, a total of five people, and get a dinner plate and a soup bowl for each of them."
The couple serving the meal immediately smiled and narrowed their eyes, saying "Okay, okay!"
Manager Huang and Manager Xiao looked at the small book that Yan Chen took out and handed it to the landlady. She took a small seal and stamped it directly, saying that they would pay, and then both of them paid.
, Yan Chen refused and said, "No, it's convenient for us."
Xiang Jin said, "Yes, let's hurry up. There are still people queuing up behind us waiting to get food. Boss lady, hurry up and get us food!"
"Oh, okay!" The boss lady quickly poked five on it, then picked it up and handed it to Yan Chen, and then started serving food to several people.
After Xiang Jin and Yan Chen finished eating, they said to several people, "Let's find a seat first. You guys can take your time later?"
"Okay!" Manager Huang and Manager Xiao agreed, then Xiang Jin and Yan Chen took their meals and left first. Finally, they found a seat in an inconspicuous corner, which could accommodate five or six people.
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Xiang Jin waved to them, "Here!"
A few people walked towards them with plates, and then Manager Xiao whispered to Manager Huang, "Those two children don't like to talk while eating."
Manager Huang was stunned for a moment, "Do you even know this?"
Manager Xiao nodded and said, "Last time, their Director Yang and I ate here once, and then I observed them carefully, and I found that they didn't say a word during the whole meal. Then
You really can’t eat without saying anything!”
Manager Huang nodded, "Okay, I understand."
Several people walked over and saw Yan Chen saying to them, "If anything happens, let's talk after dinner!"
"Yeah, okay!" Manager Huang nodded, then sat down with a few others, and then everyone started eating.
Then Manager Huang discovered that the two children were eating in a very orderly manner. Not only did they not make any noise, but their movements were also unhurried and very elegant. The demeanor and momentum in the hands were not deliberately artificial, but seemed to be in their bones.
They are born with it, and they are not at all like children who can be raised in rural families, but more like children from powerful families in the city, who have been taught strict family rules since they were young.
He finally understood why the two children dared to ask for a copyright transfer fee of 30,000 yuan in the first place. It was not because they were slaughtered as fat sheep, but because they had the confidence and had seen the world.
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Oops, you are indeed a formidable person!
A few people finished eating, and then Xiang Jin gave each of them a tissue to wipe their mouths, and then said, "You guys sit down for a while, let's go wash the lunch box?"
Manager Huang and Manager Xiao nodded, and then Xiang Jin and Yan Chen got up to wash the dishes. The driver also consciously carried their dinner plates and walked towards the sink, but only half way there
The lady boss who was serving food stopped me and took her over, "Let's come, let's come."
The driver had no choice but to go back and sit down again. He didn't know what Manager Huang ordered him, but he quickly got up and left.
After Xiang Jin and Yan Chen washed the dishes and lunch boxes and walked back to sit down, Yan Chen looked at them and said bluntly, "Two of you, please tell me, what are you talking about with us?"
Manager Xiao took the lead and said, "Is that so? After our manager Huang saw your winter school uniform drawings, he was very satisfied with your work. He proposed to your classmates last time about designing summer school uniforms for us. I
Later, we told Manager Huang that he thought it was feasible."
Xiang Jin and Yan Chen nodded. There was no look of surprise or surprise on their faces. They were very calm. Yan Chen said, "Manager Huang is not just about the summer uniforms today, right? Otherwise, you are completely
You can just send Manager Xiao to talk to us."
"Yes, there is no need for the two bosses to go there in person," Xiang Jin also nodded.
Manager Huang and Manager Xiao secretly admired and admired their calm and calm performance. At the same time, they were secretly surprised by their intelligence. When they saw Manager Huang, they said, "You guys
These two children are indeed very smart, aren’t they?”
Xiang Jin waved his hand, "It's nothing, anyone can guess it."
Manager Huang nodded, and then said, "That's right, I heard from Manager Xiao that you can also design clothes for adults and children?"
Xiang Jin nodded, "Okay!"
Then Manager Huang said, "I want to open another factory in my hometown, City Z, that specializes in making clothes for adults. Can your two classmates design some more clothes for us?"
Xiang Jin said, "What you are planning now are spring clothes and summer clothes, right?"
Manager Huang nodded approvingly at her, "Yes, it's spring clothes and summer clothes, but don't worry, I won't treat you badly in terms of royalties."
Yan Chen said, "Fifty thousand, fifty thousand a piece, don't be surprised, and don't think that we are talking like a lion. Listen to me, adult clothes are different from students' school uniforms. The students' uniforms are simple in style and color."
Also simple.
But adult clothes are more about looking glamorous, fashionable and charming, so we have to think about multiple elements and color matching, which takes a lot of time and energy.
You also know that we are now in the third grade of junior high school and will take the high school entrance examination next year. If the remuneration is not suitable, we would rather not accept it. After all, we are students and our main focus is on academic studies."
Xiang Jin also nodded, "Yes, although we can indeed make a little money through this now, but to be honest, compared with our current life, we really don't take it seriously. If
Let’s study hard and when we grow up, we won’t have to worry about earning this little money, don’t you think?”
The two of them were stunned for a moment, then nodded, and Xiang Jin said, "Actually, we didn't offer you a high price, and we didn't hide it from you either. As for the school uniform we sold you before, we were wearing the same clothes not long ago.
I went back to the provincial capital once, and then I went to the middle school there
When a school leader saw it, he asked us where it was made. We said we designed it ourselves, and then the school leader asked us to design a summer uniform for them. Then we designed it and they returned it.
Our design fee is 40,000 yuan."
"Forty thousand? That much? One school gives you that much?" Manager Xiao and Manager Huang were immediately speechless.
Xiang Jin nodded and said, "Ah, there are several fraternity schools, and there are several elementary schools below the middle schools. In total, there are tens of thousands of people."
The two of them nodded, "Oh, that's right, that's right, that's right!"
Xiang Jin also nodded.
Then Manager Huang made a decision, "Okay, let's follow what classmate Yan said, two adult clothes, two spring clothes and two summer clothes, with a copyright fee of 50,000 yuan each, and summer school uniforms. This one has boys and summer clothes."
For girls, we will pay 40,000 yuan in copyright fees. When we get back in the afternoon, I will ask the finance department to arrange a deposit of 100,000 yuan for you. It will still be the same two accounts as before, right?"
Xiang Jin and Yan Chen nodded, and then Yan Chen said, "Please give us a piece of paper and pen and tell us your requirements. Then we will produce a design draft according to your requirements. By the way, it is women's clothing."
Or men’s clothing?”
Manager Huang's brows suddenly wrinkled, "Request? I don't know what the request is. Anyway, it just needs to be fashionable and good-looking. Let me tell you, our coastal cities are vigorously developing the economy. Over there, all over the country,
There are even people from all over the world coming and going in an endless stream, so people there have a higher level of aesthetic pursuit than those in the mainland, oh, women’s clothing, women’s clothing! Women’s clothing is more marketable.”
Yan Chen and Xiang Jin nodded, and then Yan Chen stood up and said, "Okay, we get it. This weekend, let's deliver the manuscript at the same place and pay the balance."
"This weekend, you can hand in all five manuscripts. Isn't the time too short? Do you want to give you a little more time? For example, next weekend, or the next weekend?" Then Manager Huang and
Manager Xiao was stunned immediately, and Manager Huang was a little worried.
Manager Xiao also kept saying, "Yeah, yeah? How about it be longer?" You know, the designers in their factory chewed through their pens every day and couldn't produce a single design in a month.
These two teenagers are going to produce five design drafts in a few days. Are they a little too impulsive and won't be able to guarantee the quality?
Yan Chen said, "No need, just this weekend!"
Manager Huang stared at him for a while. Seeing that his face was still calm and composed, he finally nodded in compromise, "Okay, then this weekend."
After the matter was settled, several people left separately.
On the way back to the dormitory, Xiang Jin whispered to Yan Chen, "I think I can buy more land then."
Yan Chen laughed, "Of course!"
"Today is Tuesday. There are still four days before the weekend. We have to produce at least one manuscript a day?" Xiang Jin counted on his fingers.
Yan Chen nodded, "Are you anxious?"
Xiang Jin shook his head, "Why are you so anxious about this? Let me tell you, I had already conceived the style of the school uniform when I proposed it to Manager Xiao last time. I will draw it when I go back later.
for you."
"Okay!" Looking at the confident expression on her face, Yan Chen's eyes were filled with smiles.
The two returned to the dormitory and after putting down the dishes and lunch boxes, Xiang Jin hurried back to the room to get paper and pen and said, "Let me tell you, the main thing about summer uniforms is to wear cool clothes, so we wear upper garments
Wear it with a white shirt, and then it’s summer
There are differences between men and women. For boys, we can match them with a pair of light-colored casual straight pants, like this. And for girls, we can match them with an A-line skirt like this. But for this skirt, we can use this
Grid fabric.”
After Yan Chen saw her pictures, he said, "What summer heads are looking for is coolness. Are your boys' pants a little too long? Why don't you change them to shorts?"
Also, for safety reasons, is this girl's skirt too short? If a girl must wear a skirt, I suggest that the skirt be lengthened.
In addition, if the length is not changed, I think if it matches boys' shorts, I suggest that girls should just wear culottes. The outside is in the form of a skirt, but the inside is in the form of shorts?"
After hearing what he said, Xiang Jin immediately looked at him with bright eyes, like holding a pot for initiation, "I think what you said makes sense. Boys should wear shorts, and girls should wear skirts. This is not visually pleasing.
It will look a bit messy and abrupt, one long and one short. Otherwise, our summer clothes will give them two drawings, one
One part is trousers paired with a long skirt that reaches the calf, and the other part is shorts paired with short culottes. The layer of fabric inside the culottes is lined with thin, white, fine fabric, which can reduce the cost of making materials.
The cost is low, and it can also prevent the embarrassment of the fabric being too thin and easily leaking out. The third thing is that the fabric is soft and light."
Yan Chen nodded, "Okay, and for the color of the school uniform logo, I suggest using a combination of green and black, so that the color will not appear too bright and give people a refreshing visual feeling."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Okay, you are sure about this. You have more say than me in color matching."
Yan Chen smiled and said, "Okay, then we have decided on the style of the school uniform?"
"Um!"
Yan Chen used Xiang Jin's paper and pen and quickly sketched out the style of the school uniform with a few strokes, and then added some text explanations in the necessary places, "Make a draft first, and wait."
I’ll repaint it later.”
"Um!"
Then Yan Chen discussed spring clothes with her again, "Spring clothes should not be too thin or too thick. I think single shirts are better. We can design a style of windbreaker, which is more popular.
Clothing can be worn by the smiling students, teachers, or staff, and it can be worn when the weather is a little hot, and it can also be worn when the weather is a little cold."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Okay!"
Then Yan Chen picked up his pen and quickly sketched out a picture in the book. He looked at Xiang Jin and said, "Can this collar be changed into a round collar with a slight curvature? Look, you are like this
If the collar is worn by a tall person, it will definitely look good, but it will not look good on a short person like you."
Then Yan Chen handed her the pen and asked her to draw the style she had in mind.
Then Xiang Jin drew it directly, "Now, just like this, don't you think it has a little bit of playfulness and is not as cold as before?"
Yan Chen nodded after looking at it, and Xiang Jin then made some modifications to the picture, "Let's be a little more relaxed here and here. After all, not everyone is slim and slender, so we still have to take proper care of it."
Let’s see how a fat man feels.”
Yan Chen just laughed.
Xiang Jin then continued, "We won't do any styling on the lapel on the chest. We'll just open it up on both sides like this, and fasten big round buttons of the same color as the clothes on both sides. Then both sides can be pulled over like this."
Of course, I prefer the color of this dress to be light gray, I think this color is majestic, simple and elegant.”
Yan Chen smiled again, and then nodded, "I can probably imagine the form of your clothes," then he took the pen from her hand again, and drew another image of the clothes next to the original picture.
Back view, "This dress does not use a lace structure. It can be designed with bows directly on the back, and the pockets of this dress can also be designed invisibly, right at this position on both sides, so that the design of the entire dress is very simple.
Generous and stylish at the same time.”
Xiang Jin nodded, "Well, no matter what kind of trousers and shoes you pair it with, it will look good."
"Well," Yan Chen turned over the article, and then quickly sketched out the artwork they had discussed, and made some annotations and text explanations on some important parts.
In one breath, they finalized two drawings and came out. Xiang Jin still had many drawings in her mind. She also wanted to discuss the next one with him. Yan Chen raised his wrist and looked at the time, "Okay.
, class is about to start, if you have any ideas, let’s discuss it in the afternoon or evening?”
Xiang Jin nodded, then stood up, "Then, I'll leave this manuscript at your place."
"Okay!" Yan Chen took the pen and notebook back and put them in his room, then followed the two of them back to the classroom.
On the way, Xiang Jin said to Yan Chen, "I think it's summer and ladies should wear skirts, so let's start from this perspective."
Yan Chen nodded and said "Yeah", and then Xiang Jin said, "I have already conceived a picture. I will draw it and show it to you in the afternoon."
"Okay!" Yan Chen smiled again, and at the same time he also conceived the style of a spring dress.