Chapter 208 Lost

Su Jiaojiao remembered that she had to pass two traffic lights before reaching the Liangpi shop. Now she had only passed one traffic light and there was no road ahead.

She asked the cleaning lady who was cleaning how to get to the grain and oil compound. The cleaning lady raised her hand and pointed: "Go forward, turn left at the traffic light and you will see it."

Su Jiaojiao thanked her and continued walking in the direction she pointed. The more she walked, the more puzzled she became. It was strange. Did such a huge grain and oil compound disappear out of thin air?

A car horn honked behind them. Lu Jingyou rolled down the window and looked at her meaningfully: "Where are you going?"

"I want to go back to the compound. I can't find the way." Su Jiaojiao seemed to have found a savior. She immediately opened the back door and got in the car. "Why are you here?"

"I saw you coming out of the Liangpi shop and followed you." Lu Jingyou coughed lightly, "How could you get lost in such a small county? You'd better not go out on your own in the future."

"I asked my eldest sister, and she said, just turn left at the traffic light." Su Jiaojiao's feet were sore from walking. Lu Jingyou looked at her in the rearview mirror, "But you just turned right. Are you sure you can find the grain and oil compound before dark?"

“…”Su Jiaojiao was speechless.

"I'll take you back home to rest for a while, and then I'll take you to the clothing wholesale market. Lao Hu's car just arrived, and your leather jacket is now in my project department office."

"No need to go back, I'm not tired." Su Jiaojiao said hurriedly, "Let's go directly to the clothing wholesale market."

"Okay, let's go to the wholesale market now." The car turned a corner and drove out of the city.

The afternoon sun is bright and dazzling.

It's uphill all the way.

The car drove slowly, and the bushes on the roadside slowly moved back. Behind the bushes were valleys. Lu Jingyou pointed to the mountains not far away and said, "That's the coal mining area over there. The road is full of trucks. The terrain of LA is hilly and relatively flat."

"Where is your project department?" Su Jiaojiao leaned on the car window and looked out. The city of LA had been left behind. The road ahead was relatively flat, and the view became wider.

"It's just outside the city. We've already passed it." Lu Jing drove and stopped by the roadside. He suddenly said to her, "There's no one else here. Do you want to drive a little further?"

"I haven't driven a manual transmission car for many years." Although Su Jiaojiao learned to drive a manual transmission car and drove it for a few years, she later drove an automatic transmission car and was no longer proficient in manual transmission cars.

"It's okay, you try it." Lu Jingyou opened the car door, got out of the car, walked around to the passenger side and sat down.

"If you dare to sit, I dare to drive." Su Jiaojiao gritted her teeth and acted as his driver. She adjusted the seat, fastened her seat belt, and with an extra clutch under her feet, she seemed to be in a fluster, but she managed to start the car.

Lu Jingyou wasn't worried about her driving into a ditch. He looked out the window leisurely and said calmly, "I've ridden in your car before. You drove very steadily, but it's a pity I can't ride in your car anymore."

Su Jiaojiao also remembered it.

It was a company team-building event. Lu Jingyou drank a little, so she drove him back. Later, she resigned.

She resigned from Jiahe Group because she had a falling out with Qin Xiuming and could no longer stay there.

After leaving her job, she worked hard for a few more years and by chance acquired a clothing factory, which marked the beginning of her entrepreneurial journey.

This past event was the one she was most reluctant to mention.

Perhaps because she didn't want to talk about it, she instinctively forgot many things. She still didn't understand how she had offended Lu Jingyou...

But all these things are in the past.

She didn't want to talk about it anymore.

Lu Jingyou has been very good to her in this life, so there is no need for her to hold on to the past.

"We are almost entering the urban area of Jinxi. Please stop at the intersection ahead and I will drive." Lu Jingyou did not continue the topic. He was emotionally stable and would not dwell on one thing.

The closer you are to the Jinxi Clothing Wholesale Market, the more cars there are.

Pickup trucks, tricycles and bicycles are parked randomly on the roadside, and people are walking back and forth everywhere with goods on their backs. The intersections are extremely congested.

It took me half an hour to walk a ten-minute distance before I could barely find a parking space in front of the department store diagonally opposite the market.

"Is there anything I can do for you?" Lu Jingyou asked her.

"Just wait for me in the car." Su Jiaojiao was familiar with going to the market.

"Okay, then I'll wait for you here. Call me if you have anything." Lu Jingyou also felt that she could handle this matter by herself.

If he followed her, it would make her uncomfortable.

After getting off the car, Su Jiaojiao walked into the market and strolled slowly.

The Jinxi Clothing Wholesale Market is different from the one in the provincial capital. They are located on a large open space, with semi-open-air stalls, all covered with transparent plastic sheds to protect against wind and rain.

This wholesale market mainly sells knitted garments. There are also some leather stalls, but not many.

The trend of leather jackets has also spread here, and the prices of leather jackets are generally higher than those in Jiao County.

A piece of her style and quality could be sold for 350 yuan.

The reason is that there is a large outflow of population here and there are not many local garment factories.

Even if there are any, most of them are foreign orders for processing of imported materials, which are far from meeting the local people's demand for clothing.

Jinxi City is not a heavy industrial city, and the leather sewing machines needed to make leather jackets need to be shipped from other places. The investment is too huge, and there are very few leather jacket factories.

Most of the leather jackets in this wholesale market are shipped from the south, and most of them are men's clothing, with few women's clothing.

After a walk around, Su Jiaojiao had a general idea.

She found the market management office and explained the situation. The market manager told her in a thick local accent that the stalls in the market were only sold out once a year and had been sold out long ago.

She could only temporarily rent some stalls from individuals. She would find a place she liked, negotiate the price with the stall owner, and ask them to give up some space.

If the stall owner doesn't agree, then she can only go to the temporary stall to ask for permission.

To bid for a stall means to offer a higher price than others and choose the stall by yourself. Obviously, the good locations have been taken up long ago, and there is no need for her to bid for a stall in a remote corner.

Su Jiaojiao could only rent someone else's stall.

But this is easy to do. As long as you pay more money, you can rent a good stall. No one can resist money.

Su Jiaojiao immediately fell in love with the rows of stalls facing the road at the entrance of the market. The cost of renting such temporary stalls is higher than the market price, generally ten yuan a day.

Su Jiaojiao asked the stall owners one by one and finally rented a stall for fifteen yuan a day.

A young girl selling cloth was willing to rent her a two-meter stall for fifteen yuan a day, and if she needed to use her warehouse, it would be an additional five yuan.

Two meters is two meters. No one can measure how much stall space she occupies every day. It doesn’t matter if it’s more or less, as long as it’s enough.

The warehouse is managed by the market and is located in a large iron house behind the market management office. It is used to store goods.

The girl who rented out the stall was called Chi Fang, a local who started doing fabric business in the market after graduating from junior high school. She also brought a sewing machine and made bed sheets and quilt covers for people for free.

She couldn't handle it all by herself, so her mother helped her at the stall. The mother and daughter have been doing business in the market for four or five years.

Chi Fang's words and actions were all those of a seasoned hand. When she heard Su Jiaojiao's accent from another place, she told her with gestures that the rent had to be paid in cash every day.

In contrast, her mother was not good at speaking and just kept her head down and worked.

Su Jiaojiao readily agreed, saying that she needed her warehouse and would pay her twenty yuan a day, but she had to ensure the safety of her goods.

Chi Fang said it was no problem, and said that the five yuan fee was the warehouse management fee paid to the market management office, but it would be a little troublesome, as records of incoming and outgoing goods would need to be kept every day.

On the way back, Su Jiaojiao discussed with Lu Jingyou: "Mr. Lu, I plan to rent a house near the market. Can you help me move all the goods over here? I'll put them in the warehouse of the market management office, and I'll sell them here slowly."

She asked Chi Fang, and Chi Fang said that this clothing wholesale market is the largest wholesale market within a hundred miles, and many merchants who come and go cannot go back on the same day, so they will stay overnight.

There are many small hotels and guesthouses around where you can stay, and it’s not expensive at ten yuan a day.

It’s very convenient that I can walk here to sell goods every day.

"And then?" Lu Jingyou looked at her expressionlessly. What she didn't know was that he had already informed the market management office and asked them to take care of her. As long as she was not excluded in the market, he would not interfere.

"Then, after I finish selling, it's time to go home." Su Jiaojiao looked at him calmly, "You guys are also very busy, I don't want to cause you any trouble."

She was already grateful that he had helped her find this place.

She can handle the rest by herself.

"I brought you all the way here from Jiao County, and then you rented a house here to sell goods by yourself. What should I do if you get lost?" Lu Jingyou asked her back.

"I'll be fine. I'm not a child." Su Jiaojiao felt that he was making a big deal out of nothing. She was not really nineteen years old.

She has no sense of direction and gets lost easily.

But she wouldn't get lost, she's not stupid.

If he was joking with her, the joke wasn't funny at all.

"You don't have to rent a house, just live in the grain and oil compound. I'll send you here in the morning, pick you up in the afternoon, and teach you the exercises in the evening." Lu Jingyou said without question, "I brought you here, so I have to be responsible for you. I'm worried about you living in Jinxi City."

"Okay, thank you for your help then." Su Jiaojiao didn't want to argue with him.

She really doesn't understand.

Did he think of her as a high school student or an old friend?