Chapter 218
Director Chen gritted his teeth and said, "One hundred yuan!"
If this cabinet were sold domestically, it would only cost 70 or 80 yuan at most. But Director Chen, considering that foreigners are very wealthy, gritted his teeth and quoted this price.
Ye Fuyue nodded and said to the foreigner in English: "One hundred dollars."
The foreigner was stunned for a second or two, then shook his head: "It's too expensive, eighty-five dollars."
Ye Fuyue: "..."
Even though you said it was expensive, your expression just now showed no such thing, okay.
Your expression just now was clearly one of surprise at how cheap it was.
Ye Fuyue also shook her head: "Ninety-five dollars."
The foreigner continued to shake his head: "Ninety dollars."
Ye Fuyue: "..."
This foreigner has learned almost all the essentials of bargaining among Chinese people.
The two of them went back and forth, shaking their heads and bargaining, and finally agreed on a price of ninety-five dollars.
"I want twenty pieces," said the foreigner.
Ye Fuyue made an OK sign and relayed to Director Chen and Director Cai, "He wants twenty of these cabinets, ninety-five each..."
Before Ye Fuyue could finish her words, Huang Xiu interrupted her in dissatisfaction: "Director Chen clearly told you it was 100 yuan just now, why did you tell a foreigner it was 95 yuan? If you don't know English, don't pretend to be here and don't affect the factory's business!"
Director Chen rubbed his hands happily. "Ninety-five yuan is fine! We should at least give our foreign friends some room for bargaining. If they order twenty pieces at once, that order alone will be one thousand nine hundred yuan. That's pretty good!"
"Yes!" Director Cai nodded in agreement and was very satisfied.
He hadn't expected that foreigners would actually take a fancy to Ye Fuyue's furniture and even place an order for twenty pieces. This was the first order their factory had secured since participating in the Bamboo Fair.
Ye Fuyue glanced at the foreigners. Fortunately, they were looking at another piece of furniture she designed and didn't pay attention to this side.
Ye Fuyue glared at Huang Xiu and said, "Can you please stop being such a sucker and holding the factory back? Are you worried that foreigners won't understand you, or that the factory won't make any money?"
Huang Xiu was bewildered, irritated by Ye Fuyue's glare. He was about to retort, but Ye Fuyue had already stopped looking at him and quietly went to explain to Director Chen and Director Cai.
"Not ninety-five bucks, ninety-five dollars a piece."
Director Chen and Director Cai were stunned again, and even Huang Xiu was dumbfounded.
"How much did you say?" Director Chen's legs went weak and he had to hold on to Director Cai with one hand to keep his balance.
"Ninety-five dollars." Ye Fuyue repeated word by word.
Director Chen almost couldn't catch his breath.
Ninety-five dollars?!
Didn’t that mean they made nearly 4,000 yuan on this order?!
"Don't foreigners think this price is expensive?" Director Cai asked Ye Fuyue.
"It's okay. I initially asked for a hundred dollars, but later they bargained it down to ninety-five dollars." Ye Fuyue said.
Jiang Yue felt that it was about time, so he came over at this time.
"Sorry, sorry, I just had a stomachache. I hope I didn't disturb you all."
Jiang Yue ran back with an apologetic look on his face. He saw Ye Fuyue and Director Chen and the others gathered together. Director Chen and the others all looked very strange, while the two foreigners were looking at furniture by themselves. Jiang Yue said angrily, "Comrade Ye, how could you leave your foreign friends there and not introduce furniture to them? They are looking at the furniture you designed. You should introduce it to them! How can you help the factory sell furniture if you are like this!"
As he spoke, he shook his head, but he felt extremely proud in his heart.
You see, without him, even if foreigners are interested in the furniture designed by Ye Fuyue, Ye Fuyue and Director Chen are still at a loss. They can't even communicate with foreigners, let alone sell furniture.
"I just asked you to be more prepared and think in advance why you want to design that kind of furniture and why foreigners should like the furniture you designed. You thought I was meddling and told me not to worry, that you would be able to improvise and convince foreigners. Is this your improvisation? Leaving the foreigners alone there?" Jiang Yue said again.
The foreigner turned around and raised his hand to signal Ye Fuyue: "Miss."
Jiang Yue rushed over first.
Now it's his turn to show his importance to everyone.
However, just as he raised his foot, Director Chen, who had recovered from his shock, stopped him and said, "Let Ye Fuyue go. Don't worry about it."
Ye Fuyue didn't even look at Jiang Yue and walked past him.
"Director Chen, she doesn't speak English, why do you want her to go there?" Jiang Yue was puzzled.
"Although Ye Fuyue's English is not as good as yours, she can understand and speak simple words. You said that you don't have diarrhea in the morning or in the evening, but you went to the toilet because there were guests. If it weren't for Ye Fuyue, I would have waited for you to come back and the opportunity would have been cold. How could I have made a deal with a foreigner!" said Director Cai.
Jiang Yue's eyes widened in disbelief: "She made a deal with a foreigner?!"
"It's done, and it's a large order." Director Chen said, "Don't bother Ye Fuyue, just watch from the side."
Jiang Yue was struck by lightning.
He never imagined that Ye Fuyue could speak English and could make a deal with foreigners without him!
Jiang Yue watched Ye Fuyue communicating with foreigners with resentment in his eyes.
Although Ye Fuyue could only speak single words and couldn't articulate a complete sentence in English, she was very good at grasping the key points, making every word she spoke a key word. When communication was at a loss, she would wave her arms and gesture, which actually helped her communicate smoothly.
Ye Fuyue said to Director Chen and Director Cai, "He also wants twenty pieces of this chest of drawers."
Director Chen and Director Cai were so happy that they didn't know what to do.
"He also asked me if I had any other similar furniture and he wanted to see them all." Ye Fuyue said again.
Director Cai now regretted it deeply.
If he had known that Ye Fuyue's furniture designs would be so appealing to foreigners, he should have had a carpenter make each of the five pieces of furniture designed by Ye Fuyue.
They are too short-sighted!
Director Chen thought the same thing and sighed, "How could there be more? The carpenters only made two of the five pieces of furniture you designed."
"I did bring the design drafts of the other three pieces of furniture I designed at that time. If you don't mind, why don't you show them the drafts?" Ye Fuyue suggested.
Director Chen and Director Cai were overjoyed and nodded eagerly: "Okay, that's great, no problem!"
Ye Fuyue then took out the three design drafts from her bag and showed them to the two foreigners.
She brought these three design drafts with her specifically because she thought that if foreigners were interested in the furniture she designed, she could give the design drafts of other pieces of furniture to foreigners for selection.
I didn't expect that she would actually use it.
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