Chapter 140 Checking the Goods at the Provincial Capital Wholesale Market

The address Liu Wenzhi gave to Su Jiaojiao was also near the Tianqiao Clothing Wholesale Market.

After getting off the car, she found a Tianqiao Hotel that looked more upscale and asked for a single room. It cost 30 yuan a night, which was considered high-end consumption in that era.

The big inns with four or five beds in a room are cheaper, ranging from five to ten dollars a night.

But for safety reasons, Su Jiaojiao didn't want to live there.

A poor family has a rich road!

The room she lives in is on the second floor. It is not big, but it is clean and tidy.

TV, electric fan, kettle, private bathroom, everything is available.

Su Jiaojiao took a hot bath, changed her clothes, washed the wet clothes she had taken off, and hung them on the railing by the window to dry. She lay on the bed to rest for a while, went to the front desk and used a public phone to report her safety to Chen Guilan, then went out with her parasol.

The weather is too hot.

As soon as I go out, I feel like I'm being roasted by fire.

I have to say, the provincial capital is the provincial capital, there are so many people!

There were bustling crowds of people everywhere, and the sound of people speaking in various dialects was noisy and lively. Su Jiaojiao, carrying a schoolbag with two bottles of mineral water in it, followed the crowd and slowly entered the Tianqiao Clothing Wholesale Market.

The Tianqiao Clothing Wholesale Market is very different from the Mocheng Clothing Wholesale Market. Because it is a distribution center, it looks like a food stall. Perhaps to facilitate light transmission, the roof is made of transparent plastic panels, which is stuffy and hot.

The entire market is divided into several stalls, and there are mountains of fabrics, clothing, leather materials, and numerous wool materials everywhere. The variety of goods is dazzling.

There were many businessmen dragging large sacks, asking prices and buying goods everywhere.

Uniformed market managers use loudspeakers to maintain order from time to time, reminding everyone to keep an eye on their wallets and belongings. There are also deliverymen pushing small iron carts to deliver goods back and forth. It is said that they earn one to three yuan per delivery trip, which is indeed a good job.

Her ears were filled with buzzing sounds of talking, bargaining, and even quarreling. Su Jiaojiao walked around twice before she found the leather wholesale stall.

Compared with other stalls, there are fewer people at the leather wholesale stall.

The air was filled with the unique fishy smell of leather, which filled her nostrils with heat waves. The ground was somehow wet, and Su Jiaojiao walked carefully along the cleaner ground.

The transaction volume of leather here is in tons or even thousands. If you want less, people will simply ignore you.

Even though everyone ignored her, Su Jiaojiao still asked for prices everywhere with confidence.

After two rounds, she basically figured out the prices here. Whether it was first-layer leather or second-layer leather, it was indeed cheaper than in Jiao County, at least cheaper than the same quality she saw at the Fenghua Textile Factory Annual Meeting. The high-quality leather at the Fenghua Textile Factory Annual Meeting was around 300 yuan, and the ordinary leather was also marked at 80 yuan.

The only drawback here is that it requires large quantities, which makes it cheaper. Except for those high-quality leathers, ordinary leathers are weighed by kilograms.

There are several types of top-grain leather, with different types, qualities and prices.

The first-layer yellow cowhide leather at the Tianqiao Clothing Wholesale Market is around 200 yuan. In comparison, the first-layer buffalo leather is much cheaper and can be bought for around 150 yuan.

Although both cowhide and buffalo leather are made of cowhide, the texture of cowhide is tight and hard, and the leather clothes made from it are straight and thick, and look very classy. Buffalo leather feels a bit soft and has a loose texture, and is not as good-looking as cowhide. However, Su Jiaojiao is not difficult to identify the leather.

The best first-layer leather is used to make various brand-name bags and leather shoes, high-end leather jackets. This high-quality first-layer leather will show natural texture and does not require any processing. The defective first-layer leather is mostly used to make printing or lychee pattern, and then it will be uniformly processed into grinding or sanding surface.

As the name suggests, the second layer of leather is the layer below the first layer of leather. The fiber structure is relatively weak and is processed into ordinary polished leather clothing or lining, or matte frosted leather shoes, etc.

Three-layer leather is the innermost layer. Naturally, its quality is not as good as two-layer leather. It is also the cheapest type of leather, which can be purchased for around 10 yuan. Usually, three-layer leather is rarely used. Even if it is used, it is used for things like logos or the lining of bags.

Su Jiaojiao wants the first-layer, medium-quality pigskin leather. Pigskin leather is cheap, with the wholesale price in the wholesale market being around 35 per kilogram. The cost is affordable, and the leather jackets made from it are more cost-effective.

Generally speaking, an adult top requires about 30 to 40 feet of leather, which is about two kilograms. Different styles and lengths also require different leather materials, so it is impossible to give an accurate estimate. It depends on how you design it.

But as long as the cost of each leather jacket is kept below one hundred yuan, the market price can be between two and three hundred yuan.

The cost of top-grain leather of too high a quality is too high, so the selling price naturally rises as well. If it exceeds 500, it will be difficult to sell in Jiao County.

After learning about the market price, Su Jiaojiao planned to go to the Shunfa Leather Factory that Liu Wenzhi mentioned. Although it was Liu Wenzhi who introduced the factory and she was trustworthy, she also had to know the specific market wholesale price in order to know how much discount Liu Wenzhi, her brother-in-law, had given her. Business is business, and it has nothing to do with personal relationships.

Su Jiaojiao has always been a person with no sense of direction.

In my previous life, I was used to relying on navigation when going out. Now, I don’t have mobile phones, let alone navigation. I have to rely on my mouth to ask for directions. It’s okay if I meet kind people, but if I meet some unethical people, they can point me to the direction three miles away with just a finger.

When we came out of the wholesale market, it was already five or six in the afternoon.

Su Jiaojiao was tired and hungry, so she found an air-conditioned halal noodle restaurant, sat down, and ordered a bowl of cold noodles. The cold noodles tasted very good, cool and delicious.

When it was time to pay, Su Jiaojiao asked the owner for the address. The owner, a woman about 23 or 24, enthusiastically told her, "This Shunfa Leather Factory isn't far from here. Go straight down this road until you reach the end, then head south. You'll see it in about ten minutes. Tianqiao Primary School is diagonally across the street."

Su Jiaojiao thanked her.

As she passed the door, she heard a table of guests whispering in Korean. Perhaps they had overheard her asking about Shunfa Leather Factory. One of them said, "The leather processed by Shunfa Leather Factory is quite cheap, but sometimes they also buy from Tianqiao Wholesale Market."

"Yes, they have connections in the Tianqiao clothing wholesale market. They can get wholesale prices even for small quantities, and then resell them to retailers who come for the low prices, making a profit of 10% or 20%. It's really a huge profit. That drunkard is lucky to have married a beautiful and capable woman. Otherwise, their family business wouldn't be so prosperous."

"It's just that the color of the green hat is getting better and better!"

"Ha ha!"

After hearing what Su Jiaojiao said, she went to the store across the street without hesitation, bought two bottles of good wine and a fruit basket, and carried them to Shunfa Leather Factory. The noodle shop owner was right, and after walking for more than ten minutes, she saw Shunfa Leather Factory.

It is summer vacation now. The gate of Tianqiao Primary School across the street is closed. It is very quiet.

There is a very eye-catching big sign at the entrance of Shunfa Leather Factory, with "Shunfa Leather Processing Factory" written in black letters on a white background. There is an iron fence gate that is shaky and seems like it will fall down at any time.

The unique smell of leather hit her in the face. Just as Su Jiaojiao was about to go in, a big black wolfhound suddenly jumped out and barked at her.

Su Jiaojiao was so scared that she took a few steps back. She was most afraid of dogs.

When she was a child, she was chased by a dog. She ran around the village but couldn't get rid of it. Finally, she ran to a pile of earth where people were building houses and jumped down bravely. She sprained her ankle and took half a month to recover.

The fear etched in her bones made her break out in a sweat. When she saw clearly that the big black dog was tied with a dirty iron chain, she felt relieved. But she still didn't dare to go in. What if it broke free from the chain? Wouldn't that be terrifying!

Fortunately, someone in the house heard the dog barking and shouted through the window: "Black Panther, get down!"

The big black dog that was called Black Panther growled softly a few times and shrank back.

"Is Boss Du here?" Su Jiaojiao finally mustered up the courage to walk in.

The big black dog still stared at her intently.

As if it would rush forward at any time.