Chapter 401 Bringing my girlfriend to the factory
The store needed to be renovated. Mr. Lu had a wide network of contacts, so with his introduction, he found three workers to repaint the walls, level the floor, and paint the doors of the store.
The windows of the two rooms in the backyard were a bit rotten, so they were replaced.
During the store renovation, Yu Hui asked Gu Huai to help him get a bicycle ticket and three industrial coupons, and bought three sewing machines and a bicycle ticket.
In the initial investment, each of the three people invested one thousand yuan, and the rent, decoration, and the money for buying a sewing machine were all paid from the invested money.
The money for the bicycles was not paid from the funds because Yu Hui and Gu Hongmei wanted to use them themselves.
There is only one bicycle at home. Yu Hui and Gu Hongmei will have to go to the city to work and take care of three children. It will be more convenient to have two bicycles so that they don’t have to squeeze into the bus.
The bus stops at many places and goes slowly. In fact, it takes longer to take the bus into the city than to ride a bicycle.
Before the store was renovated, Yu Hui went to apply for a business license and asked the deputy director of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to write a special approval note. With the note, she could go directly to the textile factory to get cloth without the need for cloth coupons.
Yu Hui is something of a celebrity at the Industry and Commerce Bureau. Everyone there knows her and, knowing she's planning to open a clothing store, they handled the paperwork for her incredibly quickly. They hope she'll succeed in another business and become another publicity icon.
Yu Hui also went to a furniture factory to custom-make racks for hanging clothes and a batch of wooden hangers. There were human-shaped hangers that could hold up clothes when put on, and there were also hangers with clips specifically for hanging pants and skirts. There were more seamless hangers with round shoulders, so you don’t have to worry about bulging shoulders when hanging clothes on them.
Although she is very busy running around every day, Yu Hui feels particularly fulfilled.
After the store was renovated, Yu Hui and Bai Chunhua went to the textile factory to get the cloth.
"Hello, uncle. I'm looking for Accountant Chen Ping'an from your factory." said the security guard at Yu Huichong Textile Factory.
"Looking for Accountant Chen. Please wait a moment."
The security guard asked someone to go to the accounting office to pass on the message. After waiting for about ten minutes, Chen Pingan came running over, holding his glasses.
"Xiaohui, you are here." Chen Pingan automatically omitted the word "comrade".
"Comrade Chen."
Chen Pingan smiled and said, "I thought you would have to wait a long time before coming to see me, but I didn't expect you to come in just ten days."
Their mobility is quite strong.
Yu Hui: "Everything is ready, now all we need is the cloth."
"Great." Chen Pingan gave her a thumbs up.
"Come on, I'll take you to the warehouse to choose cloth."
Yu Hui and Bai Chunhua followed Chen Pingan into the textile factory. On the way to the factory warehouse, people greeted Chen Pingan.
"Accountant Chen, where are you going?"
"Go to the warehouse."
"You are very popular in the factory?" Yu Hui said to Chen Pingan.
The latter smiled and said, "My father is the factory director."
Yu Hui: “…”
Okay, second generation of the factory.
No wonder he, an accountant, could directly give her a discount.
"Since your father is the factory director, why did you go to the countryside?" A few years ago, anyone who could find a job in the city did not have to go to the countryside.
Chen Ping'an's father is the factory director, so he can just be assigned a job in the factory.
Chen Pingan said: "I am the youngest in the family. I have two older brothers and one older sister. My brothers and sisters all found jobs under my father's arrangement and did not go to the countryside."
"But you also know that my father's identity is still quite sensitive. We have four children, and if none of them go to the countryside, it will have a bad influence. So let me stay in the countryside for a few years, and then come back to take my mother's place."
Yu Hui nodded to show that she understood.
"Our warehouse is in front." Chen Pingan said, pointing ahead.
When warehouse manager Uncle Zhou saw Chen Ping'an bringing the two girls, he looked back and forth between Bai Chunhua and Yu Hui, then pointed at Yu Hui and said, "Hey, Xiao Chen, you brought your girlfriend to the factory?"
Chen Pingan blushed, glanced at Yu Hui embarrassedly, glared at Uncle Zhou and said, "Uncle Zhou, don't joke around, these are all my friends."
Uncle Zhou nodded and said, "Yes, a girlfriend is also a friend."
Chen Ping'an's face turned even redder.
Seeing this, Yu Hui explained, "Uncle is really a friend. I'm already married."
When Grandpa Zhou heard this, he stopped teasing. "I was just joking with Ping An, don't mind it, girl. Ping An grew up under our care, and we old people like to tease him."
Yu Hui nodded, indicating that she understood.
Uncle Zhou opened the door of the warehouse, and Yu Hui and Bai Chunhua followed Chen Pingan in.
"This row is silk. Even though our textile factory is not big, these silks are exported to earn foreign exchange." Chen Ping'an said with pride.
Yu Hui walked over and took a look. There were silks of various colors. The fabrics looked very shiny and smooth, and it was obvious that they were good stuff.
"The second row is cotton, the third row is linen, the fourth row is seersucker, the fifth row is woolen cloth, and we also have Dacron. Any cloth you can see in a state-owned store, we have it here."
Yu Hui and Gu Hongmei carefully selected and temporarily chose fifty pieces of cloth, including various fabrics, patterns and colors.
Chen Pingan gave her a 20% discount and paid her 1,500 yuan.
At this point, the three of them only had six or seven hundred yuan left of the three thousand yuan they had invested in the beginning.
Because Yu Hui and her friends wanted a lot of goods, Chen Ping'an arranged a car to deliver the goods directly to their door.
Before the custom-made shelves and a store arrived, Yu Hui, Gu Hongmei and Bai Chunhua had already decorated the store. They nailed beige linen on three walls so that when they hung samples on the walls with human-shaped hangers, they wouldn't get the clothes dirty, and customers could see them as soon as they entered the store.
There is a row of nails on all three walls for hanging boards.
Everything is ready, just waiting for the hangers and clothes.
These days, Yu Hui also drew some clothing sketches at home and took them to the store to choose with Gu Hongmei and Bai Chunhua.
"Why are they all short-sleeved shirts?" Bai Chunhua looked at more than 20 pictures and saw that they were all short-sleeved shirts. Everyone was still wearing sweaters now.
Yu Hui said, "It's already April. By the time the three of us finish making the clothes and open the shop, it will probably be late April. The weather is getting warmer, and although some people still wear two-piece shirts and long sleeves in April and May, how many people buy new clothes because they want to wear them only a few times and then put them in the closet until next year?"
Bai Chunhua blinked and said, "Yes."
Yu Hui: "So, we should start selling summer clothes now, and when summer is over in a month, we should start selling fall clothes."
"We will now determine which style to make first so that we can make the pattern and cut it directly."
Yu Hui and Bai Chunhua don't know how to make patterns, but Gu Hongmei, who has worked in a garment factory for many years, knows how to do it.
After some selection, the three of them finally chose a Hong Kong-style floral dress with a small V-neck and flying sleeves.
The three of them worked together and quickly made the pattern, cut the cloth, and the sewing machine started to work.
Yu Hui and Gu Hongmei went into the city after breakfast every morning. Gu Hongmei sat in the back seat with Gu Xi, while Yu Hui sat in the back seat with Gu Nan, and Beibei was tied to their backs with a sling.
For fear that the child would fall, Yu Hui asked Gu Huai to put a seat basket on the back seat, so that the child would not fall as long as the rider did not fall off the bike.
I ride my bike home on time at 5pm and arrive home around 5:30pm. My children are just back from school, so I cook dinner right away.
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