In a blink of an eye, the spring breeze in Quyang disappeared, the weather became hotter, coats could no longer be worn, and everyone changed into clear short-sleeved long skirts.
In late June, the renovation fee was earned, and the two men discussed that after Li Hongjun saved two more months' wages, they would buy a house in Nanhu Gardens, and then save money to start a small factory together.
Later we became partners and neighbors.
The business of the two people's shop is becoming more and more prosperous, and Purple Dragonfly is well-known among young people. Everything is going in an orderly manner.
When Li Hongjun has nothing to do, he likes to pay attention to how many pieces of the same model his rivals have sold.
It would have been fine if I hadn't noticed it, but once I saw it I got furious.
"Eighteen times four is seventy-two, seventeen times three is fifty-one... Damn it, if it weren't for them, we would have made at least seven or eight hundred more a month, right?"
"Aren't you tired of staring at them every day? If you have a solution, try it. Just talking will only make you angry and add to your troubles. Pay less attention to them in the future. It's your own health that will be damaged by anger." Xu Haizhou poured him a glass of water to calm him down. "Besides, we sell it at a high price. Even if there are no pirated copies, people may not buy it. Many people buy pirated copies just to get a bargain."
You have to always look at the bright side of things, otherwise you will be angry all the time.
Li Hongjun clicked his tongue, held Xu Haizhou's shoulders, and looked him in the eye: "No, Haizhou, why do I feel that your personality is different before and after marriage? You can't be calmer than me when encountering such a thing before marriage, right?"
Xu Haizhou is gentle to others because he has a good upbringing.
In fact, this man has a low tolerance. When he first came to Li'an to do business, he often fought with others because of competitors.
Of course, I won't offend others unless they offend me. It's always others who provoke him.
The two men met each other due to a misunderstanding, but later they started business together and gradually became close friends.
Xu Haizhou laughed and slapped his hand away: "You hit the point, so you should hurry up and find a partner, and stop paying attention to those trivial things."
After saying that, she looked at him teasingly: "Do you need me to give you a day off to find a partner?"
Li Hongjun's eyes widened and he subconsciously looked in Yu Fan's direction.
"Come on, you talk as if you can find a partner during the holidays." The store is short of one person during the holidays, and nothing is more important than making money.
If you have money, won't beautiful girls come to you one after another?
At least that’s what Li Hongjun thought.
"Go hang out in places where there are lots of lesbians, or I can ask Sister Liu to introduce you to some?"
Hey, yes, isn’t Liu Xiaohong also here?
Look how happy this couple is, Xu Haizhou and her, you’ve made the right choice!
"Okay, I'll go back with you to see Sister Liu this afternoon."
The two chatted for a while, when suddenly a young girl came in from the alley, holding a goose-yellow long skirt, and threw it on the bench: "Boss, return it!"
The two men immediately stood up.
"Return? We don't have any return policy here. Why do you want to return it?" Li Hongjun picked up the long skirt in confusion.
"It broke after just two days of wearing it, and don't you always advertise that you will refund if there are any quality issues?" The female comrade looked very angry, with her arms around her chest and her red lips pouted high.
"That's impossible. I've never heard of any quality issues with this skirt. Could it be that your batch was wrong?" Li Hongjun muttered as he looked at the thread opening. "Besides, we have always advertised that we will exchange for quality issues, not refund, sister."
After saying that, Xu Haizhou touched it and paid attention to the details.
"You didn't buy clothes from us, so why are you returning them to us?"
"Yes." Li Hongjun also realized it. "These clothes are not ours at all. Why did you come to our house to return them?"
This skirt is different from ordinary dresses. Jolu uses silk with better fabric. The cost is high and the selling price is also high, but the workmanship is always checked personally, so quality problems are unlikely to occur easily.
In order to seize the market, the counterfeit manufacturers worked overtime to rush to produce the imitation products, which were crudely made. In order to reduce costs, they did not use silk at all, but ramie fabric.
It looks like silk to the naked eye, but unfortunately the feel and feel on the skin are quite different.
"Of course I bought it from you." The woman said anxiously, "I bought clothes from you three or four times before. I bought clothes from you because I trusted you."
Li Hongjun burst out laughing: "Comrade, stop kidding. Come on, take a look and touch it yourself."
Li Hongjun pulled her to the clothes rack and randomly pulled out a silk skirt: "Look, now all the clothes in our store are embroidered with our own logo, just to prevent them from being confused with pirated ones! Your skirt has no logo at all! This skirt is the only authentic one in our store, and the fabric is also checked by our boss lady herself, and she bought it at a high cost. This one is silk, and other stores, such as the one you bought, are obviously not. Touch them and compare them, can they be the same?"
The same style, but with two different touches. Moreover, the one in Xu Haizhou’s store has a purple dragonfly icon on the chest. The lifelike purple dragonfly is simply too conspicuous. Isn’t it too low-class to try to fool people?
The lesbian touched, pinched and kneaded it, and in two seconds she felt the different textures of the same long skirt.
His cheeks suddenly turned red as if he had been slapped twice.
"Really... I, I don't know. My boyfriend bought this skirt for me. He said it was from a store I often buy from. I thought it was yours..."
My good friend, I don't know why you are here to cancel. What do you mean by "you think"? Everything will be done according to your thoughts. Do you still want to do this business?
"Purple Dragonfly has a new batch of products every two months. The skirts hanging on this wall are all designed by my wife. Except for our store, the ones sold in other stores are all imitations. In fact, your dress is not seriously damaged. You can wear it after sewing the unfastened seams. The main problem is that there is a hole in the middle. Even if you sew it up, it will more or less affect the beauty."
"Yeah, this tear is so embarrassing, I just can't accept it, but then I thought about how you can return it, and a skirt is not cheap, so I just return it..."
"That's right. It would be fine if you were just trying to get a bargain, but you came to me to return the goods. It really scared me." Li Hongjun patted his chest and glanced at her with a complaining look.
"I'm sorry..." Biting her lip, the female comrade picked up her dress and walked away awkwardly.
Misfortunes never come singly. Once there is one, there will be two.
For a week in a row, Purple Dragonfly had customers coming to it and asking for exchanges/returns due to quality issues.
Coincidentally, the goods were not bought from Xu Haizhou’s house, but cheap pirated goods from other stores!
My purchase was OK, as I knew to find the seller. Many people bought the clothes as gifts, and if there was a problem, the recipient would find Xu Haizhou and say that the clothes were bought from them.
Unfortunately, the store's prime location is also a burden. As soon as people entered Baiyun Street, they saw the same silk skirt hanging in Xu Haizhou's house and subconsciously thought that they bought it in this store, so they came in to ask for an explanation.
After finally telling everyone that it was a pirated product, Qian Donglei, that cunning fellow, even sewed the Purple Dragonfly logo on it.
A blessing in disguise. Although the brand name was tainted, the fact that all pirated dealers were selling Zi Qingting's skirts greatly increased the brand's popularity.
As the saying goes, black and red are also red——
After serving their customers every day, the two grown men still have to explain things to the customers who come to their store.
"It's a pirated copy, a pirated copy! None of them are from us. Why don't you compare them? The materials are all different!" Li Hongjun was really speechless.
"What? We bought pirated copies?"
"What do you mean by piracy? Are you trying to cheat me?"
"Isn't this a purple dragonfly? Isn't yours called Purple Dragonfly?" Look at this lively little dragonfly, they look exactly the same!
"Yeah, you guys sell the same clothes in Baiyun Street, don't they all come from the same place?" What's the difference between pirated and genuine? !
"No, no, no, our clothes are sourced from completely different sources than other stores. The skirts were designed by our lady boss, and other stores are just imitations. You all understand what imitation means, right?"
Imitation? Copy? Not original?
No wonder it's sold so cheaply.
I don’t know how many batches of similar questions I have handled this month, either “gifts to the right person”, “gifts to sisters”, or “wives, sisters, relatives”... Everyone heard that Purple Dragonfly is a good brand, so they all followed suit and went to Baiyun Street to buy it.
The intention of giving gifts is good, but unfortunately Chinese people like to compare prices before buying things. However, some people compare prices instead of quality.
Xu Haizhou's products are too expensive, so if other stores have cheaper ones, people will naturally buy from them. The recipients are unaware of this and come to Xu Haizhou to ask for a refund when there are quality problems. This is ridiculous.
Li Hongjun took out a sample garment to let everyone feel the difference between the genuine and pirated ones. "Everyone come and touch it. Isn't the quality very different? Ours is made of silk, so it's so expensive!
"It's okay for you to buy pirated copies for a small price. After all, everyone works hard to earn money. We understand. But it's not fair for you to buy pirated copies and then slander our quality."
"This……"
Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment, touching the fabrics to compare them. They found that the feel was indeed very different, and the pirated purple dragonfly icon didn't even have the dragonfly's eyes sewn on!
Unable to save face, everyone went to the shops across the street to seek explanation, but one shop denied it, and neither admitted it. No one admitted that the clothes with quality problems were bought from their shop.
Everyone sells pirated copies, how can you prove where you bought them from? They will just deny it.
"You just want to tease me. This skirt is sold in every household. Why did you choose me? Do you think I'm easy to bully?"
"I bullied you, you bully me!"
"I'm just a clothes seller, why would I bully you?"
"I'm just a clothes buyer, why would I bully you?"
…
While the fight was going on here, Li Hongjun and his girlfriend were having a passionate kiss over there.
Liu Xiaohong said no problem with whatever type he wanted, until Li Hongjun asked, "Can you find a lesbian like Qiao Lu?"
She is clever, gentle, good-tempered, good-looking and has the ability to make money.
Liu Xiaohong was a little speechless: "It's hard to find someone with Qiao Lu's looks, but it's easy to find someone who is a single parent raising a child."
"No, no, no, then find someone more normal, more normal!" Most people can't afford to be a single mother, and besides, a single mother like Qiao Lu is rare to find in a century.
Forget it, I’m not that lucky!
Xu Haizhou said: "My wife is unique and there is no substitute."
After returning home and telling Qiao Lu about Li Hongjun's request, the couple laughed and joked for a while, then talked about Qiao An's schooling.
"I'm wondering when I should send him to kindergarten. After all, he will be a primary school student in a year. If he doesn't go to kindergarten now, I'm afraid he won't be able to fit in with his peers."
"Okay, leave it to me."
Xu Haizhou has extensive connections, so since he has agreed, there shouldn't be any big problems.
Qiao Lu was happily making a school bag for the kid. Qiao An saw it and asked curiously:
"Mom, are you making beautiful clothes again?" It's so new, because the material used this time is work cloth and leather!
Qiao Lu smiled and pinched his face: "No, Mom is making a new schoolbag for you."
"Schoolbag?"
"Yes, I have asked my dad to find a kindergarten for you. Once we find one, we can go to school in September."
When Qiao An heard this, she broke down: "I don't want to go to kindergarten, I want to be with my mom forever!"
"No, the kids all have to go to kindergarten. Besides, mommy is busy making money lately and doesn't have time to play with An An."
The boy grabbed her hand eagerly: "I don't want mommy to play with me, I just want to stay with mommy, I'm very good, I won't make trouble, I'm good, mommy..."
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Friends, try not to eat leftovers, or you'll end up in the hospital like me. I almost couldn't update T^T
I won't say any more. I'll go to sleep right after the update to recharge my batteries. See you tomorrow.
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