"There are wholesalers. Fanghua's No. 2 Garment Factory in the provincial capital also wholesales to Yuncheng Department Store. I just don't know if they can wholesale to private stores like ours?" Chen Xiaogu had already found out, and she was very optimistic about Fanghua's clothing, but it was difficult to get the goods.
"Fifth Sister..." Chen Baohua, who had already finished writing a couplet, looked up and heard his aunt's words, mentioning Fanghua Clothing Store.
Chen Xihua shook her head, signaling him to keep quiet. She would not consider wholesaling clothes to private stores for sale.
The main reason she agreed to wholesale to Yuncheng Department Store was because of Wang Jun.
Jun Ge has been working with me for many years, and he is now the manager of the department store. He also has some connection with the No. 2 Garment Factory.
Fanghua's clothes are sold in Yuncheng Department Store with clearly marked prices, which will not disrupt their own brand pricing. However, if they are wholesaled to private stores, they will have difficulty controlling the retail prices.
Moreover, Fanghua's clothes don't have to worry about selling, unless Chen Xiaogu is willing to sell the store to Fanghua and she herself only works as a store manager or salesperson.
Then, we'll have Sister Wang Ying transfer a salesperson from the provincial capital to help manage the store.
However, Aunt Chen would definitely not agree. After her divorce, all she would have left was that clothing store.
In addition, Aunt Gang also said that her former uncle-in-law has stopped paying child support, and her cousin Sun Haoan, who only graduated from junior high school, has stopped going to school and is now working as a clothes seller for Aunt Chen.
It turned out that the Sun family didn't care about Chen Xiaogu and her child anymore after their later wife got pregnant.
"Xiao Wu, do you have any ideas?" Chen Lao Er noticed that Xiao Wu and her siblings were looking over, and he suddenly felt that Xiao Wu might have a plan.
"Dad, what do you want to ask? The money? Or the shop business?" Chen Xihua felt he could help his aunt, otherwise if his aunt really had trouble, she would definitely come back to the Chen family and ask his two older brothers to stand up for her.
Chen Lao Er, on the other hand, was always eager to join in the fun and watch the drama unfold.
"Xiao Wu, do you have any ideas for the shop's business?" Aunt Chen had heard her second brother talk a lot about how capable her niece Xiao Wu was, and now she also had some expectations for Chen Xihua.
"Auntie, next time you go to Guangdong Province, bring back some clothes of even better quality. Set the prices up by 10-20%, and no matter what the customers say, don't lower the prices, just keep them fixed."
Chen Xihua believes that price wars are useless and that it's best to wait and think of other strategies. "Then, with the money that is higher in price, we can buy some gifts with similar cost performance and give them to customers for free, such as socks, hats, headwear, belts, etc."
"Is this okay?" Aunt Chen was a little skeptical at first, then after thinking for a moment, her eyes lit up, as if she had thought of something, and then she became a little irritable, "If your uncle doesn't pay back the money, I won't have the money to buy better quality clothes."
"My fifth niece, do you have a solution?"
"Yes, Xiao Wu, we still have seven thousand left." Chen Lao Er felt proud and pleased with himself. Xiao Wu was indeed very clever.
The term "great intelligence" is something Xiao Wu often uses with Xiao Bao, as he considers himself to be somewhat clever.
“There is a way, but… I don’t know if you’re willing to do it, Dad and Aunt, after all, Uncle is your older brother, isn’t he?” Chen Xihua thought for a moment and hesitated before saying it directly.
The method is a bit underhanded, but Uncle Chen's family isn't short of money to repay; they just don't want to.
Uncle Chen and Aunt Wang Fen have always had a stable income and have been working for twenty or thirty years.
My eldest cousin, Chen Penghua, and my second cousin, Chen Jianhua, both have jobs. In fact, my second cousin went to work in Guangdong Province two years after graduating from high school.
When Grandma Chen came to her house, she inadvertently let slip that her second cousin earned seven or eight hundred yuan a month, including overtime pay.
The factory also provides room and board, so you don't need to spend much money normally, and you can save seven or eight thousand a year.
By any calculation, Uncle Chen's family's annual income is no less than 25,000 yuan, and Grandpa and Grandma Chen also have retirement pensions.
Grandma Chen came to our house and complained to Chen Lao Er about being poor, saying that she had spent all her retirement money on groceries.
"Xiao Wu, tell me what you think. If it works, I'll do it, who cares!" Chen Lao Er was a reckless person. He was already being kind by not directly causing trouble, and he didn't care whether the method was good or bad.
“Yes, what do you say, little niece?” Aunt Chen asked anxiously.
"Dad, Aunt, you two go to Uncle's house later."
Tell them that if they don't pay back the money today, after the Spring Festival holiday, the two of them should go to the entrance of the textile factory and the entrance of the street office every day to pick them up after get off work.
When the time comes, there's no need to make a scene. Just casually mention to their colleagues that you're short of money. Also, ask your uncle and his family to introduce you to their colleagues and ask if they can lend you some money.
"Haha, that's a great idea, little sister, let's go now." Upon hearing this, Chen Lao Er was so excited that he didn't even bother to put up the couplets and immediately headed out the door.
"Dad, your uncle's family should pay back part of the money first. Once you get the money, don't stay there anymore, but make sure to ask them when they will pay back the rest next time."
Chen Xihua guessed that Uncle Chen and Aunt Chen were both people who cared about their reputation, so they would definitely pay back some money first, but not all of it; they would probably find some other excuse.
The best excuse is that the banks were closed during the Lunar New Year's Eve and Spring Festival, and the family didn't withdraw that much cash.
In less than five minutes, Chen Lao Er and his sister arrived at Uncle Chen's house on the east side of the residential area. Chen Penghua's family of three and Chen Jianhua were all there.
When Uncle Chen and his family saw the two people enter through the door, they knew something was wrong.
"Father, Mother, Eldest Brother, Sister-in-law, I'm fine, it's just about repaying the money..." Chen Lao Er didn't waste any words and went straight to the point, repeating everything Xiao Wu had said without changing a word, of course without mentioning that Xiao Wu had brought it up.
"Little sister, is that what you think too? Our family really doesn't have the money to pay back right now." Upon hearing this, Uncle Chen's forehead veins throbbed slightly. How did his second son and little sister end up together?
This is really a headache. Uncle Chen thought his younger sister had just come home, and he was even happy because he wasn't going to pay her back, and his sister couldn't do anything about it. His parents were also on his side.
"Big brother, you don't need to say anything else. Anyway, if you don't pay me back today, I'll come back to you after the New Year when work resumes." Aunt Chen was also firm now. With her second brother there, she couldn't argue with her parents and older brother all by herself this morning, but things were different now.
“Well then, second brother, sister-in-law, our family really doesn’t have much money. Can we pay back a few thousand first?” Wang Fen spoke up at this moment. She didn’t want to delay paying, but her husband said he knew what he was doing.
If she gets stopped by these two people at the entrance of the neighborhood office after starting work, will she still be able to work?
"Yes, second brother, little sister, I don't have much cash at home. I'll pay back three thousand to my second brother and five thousand to my little sister first, and the rest in six months." Uncle Chen knew that with his second brother there, he would have to pay back some of it today.
Moreover, her parents have been annoyed by their eldest daughter-in-law lately, and they haven't offered to help her.
It wasn't that Grandpa and Grandma Chen didn't want to help, but if they helped their eldest son at this point, they would be standing against their two children. They needed to think it over carefully; they weren't just the eldest son's parents.
Finally, Chen Lao Er and Chen Xiao Gu successfully retrieved a small portion of the money. The two were very happy and left without saying a word.
Uncle Chen's family found it a bit strange.
In fact, both Chen Lao Er and his sister knew that they couldn't get all the money back at once, but they already had a plan, and they would take care of the rest of the money slowly.
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