Chapter 155 Pirated Dong Taohua and Xu Hui go out every day, like ants moving...
Dong Taohua and Xu Hui went out every day, carrying all kinds of food and New Year's goods back home bit by bit like ants moving house.
After being forced to study by her cousin for several days in a row, Pang Qiao couldn't bear it anymore.
Unable to tell Xu Heye that she didn't want to study, Pang Qiao found Dong Taohua and tried to find a way out: "Auntie, I'll go shopping for New Year's goods with you tomorrow. I'll carry your bags and help you move the goods."
Dong Taohua: “…”
"No need for you, your uncle will take care of the moving."
Pang Qiao: "Then let's not buy New Year's goods, let's go buy new clothes."
"Prices will go up at the end of the year, and so will the price of clothes. The money that can buy two pieces of clothing now might only buy one by the end of the year. So let's go tomorrow." Afraid that Dong Taohua would disagree, Pang Qiao hugged her arm and acted coquettishly, "Auntie, go ahead."
She really wants to go out and play.
She wanted to go shopping, to go out and have some fun. If she didn't go out, she felt like she was suffocating to death. What kind of good person wouldn't spend their winter break in the study doing homework and reading instead of going out shopping?
Dong Taohua saw through Pang Qiao's intention at a glance. She was tired of being forced to study and wanted to relax.
But what Pang Qiao said made sense. Prices were indeed high at the end of the year, and it was indeed more cost-effective to buy clothes now than in the few days before the New Year, so she nodded.
Pang Qiao couldn't help but cheer: "Oh yeah!" Pang Qiao immediately covered her mouth after screaming. Afraid of being discovered by Xu Heye, she lowered her voice and said, "Auntie, you are so kind."
The next morning, Dong Taohua did not cook breakfast, but called everyone together and planned to go to a store outside to have breakfast.
"After breakfast, let's go shopping at the mall. You three haven't bought your New Year clothes yet!"
Xu Heye had no desire for new clothes and didn't want to go shopping in the cold weather. Just as she was about to refuse, Pang Qiao grabbed her arm and pulled her out of the house.
"Cousin, how can we celebrate Chinese New Year without buying new clothes?"
"Besides, everyone is happily shopping for clothes, but you're the only one not going. How unsociable. Xu Heye, just have fun. Studying like a fool is boring."
Dong Taohua also advised her: "Yes, Heye, just have a good rest during the holidays. You have been studying for so long, going out for a day won't have much impact. Studying also requires a combination of work and rest, right?" She patted her husband's shoulder.
Xu Hui immediately took over the conversation: "Yes, your mother is right."
Pang Wei also followed up: "Aunt is right."
Xu Heye was a little amused: "Okay, let's go." It would be nice to go to the street and take a look at the current popular trends.
The items sold in the factory at this time are the winter styles designed by Huang Wangcheng and his classmates last summer.
The sales volume is very good and is showing signs of exploding.
The most important thing is that these styles were designed independently by the factory, not by Xu Heye cheating, so Xu Heye was very happy, even happier than before.
Because this just shows that the factory is on the right track.
After leaving the complex, Dong Taohua, Xu Hui, and their three children found a breakfast shop. It wasn't particularly large, but business was brisk. They had a wide variety of dishes, including porridge and steamed buns of varying flavors, as well as soy milk, fried dough sticks, sesame balls, and fried rice noodles.
Dong Taohua found an empty seat and let the three children take their place while she and Xu Hui went to order. The food was ready, and soon the couple returned with a full breakfast.
Five eggs, one for each of the five people.
Two cups of soy milk, this is for Dong Taohua and Xu Hui to drink.
There were three bowls of porridge left. One bowl of red bean and red date porridge was ordered for Xu Heye, as her period was about to start and it could replenish her blood. Another bowl of preserved egg and lean meat porridge was Pang Wei's favorite. The last bowl of pumpkin porridge was for Pang Qiao.
In addition, there are fried dough sticks, glutinous rice balls, xiaolongbao, fried dumplings, pickled vegetable cakes and siu mai. There are many varieties, but the couple did not take much, basically one or two. Everyone can choose what they like, and in the end there will be no waste because they order too much and cannot finish it.
Xu Heye ate eggs, red bean porridge, half a fried dough stick, two steamed dumplings, a steamed bun, and half a pickled vegetable pancake. As an adult, she could only eat half of this amount. It was still good to be young; you could eat more, metabolize faster, and not gain weight.
In addition to her, Pang Qiao and Pang Wei also ate a lot. In the end, what Dong Taohua took was not enough, so she went to restock.
The old saying "you little brat, you're eating me out of my house" is true.
By the end, only half a fried dough stick and a pickled vegetable pancake remained, which Xu Hui finished. Xu Heye glanced at her father's stomach and thought he had a pretty amazing stomach. He could easily devour any leftovers.
After the meal, Dong Taohua went to pay the bill. The meal cost 18 yuan, which was basically two days' living expenses for a family of three. If they were frugal, it could last for three days.
Fortunately, I only eat it occasionally. If I ate breakfast outside every day, I really couldn’t afford it.
After breakfast, the five people headed straight for their destination - the clothing store.
Dong Taohua planned to buy new clothes for her and Xu Hui for the New Year here. The clothes in the clothing city were of decent quality and moderately priced. The quality was better than that in the wholesale market, and the prices were cheaper than in shopping malls.
As for her three children, she planned to go shopping. She wanted to buy good winter clothes so that when school started again, the children would wear new clothes to school and not be laughed at by their classmates for the poor quality of their clothes.
When the five of them entered the clothing store, it was like a drop in the ocean. There were so many people that they would be squeezed away if they weren't careful.
After handing Pang Wei over to his aunt, Pang Qiao pulled Xu Heye into a decent clothing store. This was a store that specialized in selling clothes for young girls, and the clothes in the store were very fashionable.
There are quite a few people in the store, all trying on clothes.
Xu Heye's eyes fell on one of the girls, or to be more precise, on the clothes she was trying on.
The female clerk was very observant. Seeing this, she quickly asked, "Little girl, do you like that dress too? If you do, I'll get you another one to try."
"This is a hot item in our store. Young girls like you all like it."
Xu Heye nodded: "Thank you."
"You're welcome." The female clerk quickly brought over the dress Xu Heye was looking at, "Try it on."
"Thank you." Xu Heye took the clothes and touched them, and realized something was wrong.
Judging from the style, the clothes are exactly the same as those made in their factory, but the quality of the fabric, color, and workmanship are all far behind.
The filling inside is also wrong. They use down, but this one should be filled with down cotton. Don't underestimate the difference in quality because it's just an extra word.
This type of down cotton may seem fluffy and warm, but it's actually not very practical. Compared to down that scatters easily when you pat it, down jackets are basically difficult to restore after being clumped, and become useless after just a few wears and washes.
This appears to be a replica.
Xu Heye found the cuffs and turned them over, and found that there was also an elastic windproof design inside.
"What is this?" Xu Heye asked deliberately.
The saleswoman quickly explained, "Little girl, that's a windproof design. With this process, the cuffs won't let in the wind in winter."
It is true.
Someone stole the designs from their factory and sold pirated copies.
Everything else is fine, but at that time, there was no concept of windproof cuffs. Windproof cuffs were a selling point that Xu Heye summarized based on popular elements more than a decade later.
This down jacket, no, perhaps it would be more accurate to call it a down jacket. It even has windproof cuffs, a feature only their factory knows about, clearly a copycat of theirs.
"Boss, your clothes look great. What brand are they?" Xu Heye asked tentatively, hoping to find the source of the pirated goods. But she knew it would be difficult.
Sure enough, the female clerk quickly shook her head: "Then I don't know."
"The boss is in charge of the supply of goods in the store. I am only responsible for selling them."
"Is that so?" Xu Heye nodded, as if she didn't care at all. She put down the clothes in her hand and turned to look at other clothes.
The female clerk didn't care and hung the clothes up. This model is particularly popular. Even if Xu Heye doesn't buy it, other customers will.
Sure enough, not long after, the girl who had tried this model before placed an order, and then two more customers ordered this model.
Coming out of the store, Xu Heye looked a little unhappy.
"What's wrong?" Pang Qiao also noticed something was wrong.
Xu Heye pointed at the pirated down jacket hanging on the wall and said in a low voice, "Qiaoqiao, that's a replica."
"Imitation?"
"Yeah. They stole the plates from our factory and made pirated goods."
Pang Qiao frowned. This was truly disgusting. She looked at Xu Heye and asked, "So what should we do now?"
"Keep shopping." She wanted to see how many versions of the factory's winter styles had been stolen, and how the sales of these pirated versions were doing.
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