Chapter 5050 [Second update]
Wang Yong's mind was filled with the magical thought '29, 39, all on sale for 29, 39'.
It is normal for factories to close down these days, with countless laid-off workers. Factories are closing down or being acquired everywhere. If a recording like this is released, there will definitely be people who believe it.
Wang Yong had never seen anyone give up on his own store like this.
He was dazed as he looked at Jiang Ning who was recording a video in a serious manner. She was his best-selling author. Why did she come up with such a vulgar video?
Wang Yong couldn't understand it, but was deeply shocked.
He listened to the rhythmic voice in the tape recorder that seemed to be able to brainwash him, and asked her in disbelief: "Then... Is it not good for you to say that about the director of Jiangnan Garment Factory?"
Jiang Ning tilted his head and thought for a moment in confusion: "Is there such a garment factory?"
Wang Yong was also surprised: "No?"
Jiang Ning really didn't know whether there was one or not, he only knew there was a Jiangnan Leather Factory.
"You...you recorded this to play it in the store?" He pointed at the tape recorder and then at the speaker.
Jiang Ning nodded: "Only on weekends, not on weekdays."
Because this place is about a hundred meters away from the two schools, the sound from the loudspeaker will not disturb the two high school students. Moreover, this loudspeaker is not a speaker and the sound amplification effect it can achieve is very limited. However, she still decided to play it only on weekends.
It was Sunday, a day off for high school sophomores and juniors. Jiang Ning and Wang Yong were in the shop, hanging clothes on the clothesline while turning on the loudspeaker and pointing the recorder at the loudspeaker. Soon, because students were allowed to leave school on Sunday, from the still busy street, a very rhythmic chant of "Jiangnan Garment Factory, Jiangnan Garment Factory, closed down!" could be heard from afar. Go bankrupt! ', People who heard the sound looked over there curiously, wanting to know what was playing over there.
The closer they got, the clearer the voices became, and soon they heard some key words: Jiangnan Garment Factory has closed down and is clearing out its clothes. Clothes that originally cost over one hundred, two hundred, or three hundred yuan are now all priced at twenty-nine or thirty-nine yuan, and they are all cotton-padded jackets and down coats.
Clothing stores these days have few people doing business, and it is a transition period between the old and the new. In addition, there is the influence of Hong Kong and Taiwan TV dramas broadcast in the mainland. People in the 1990s began to pursue fashion. Also, due to the lack of transparency in prices, people selling clothes quote prices of over 100 yuan. Many simple people dare not bargain, or do not know how to bargain. A cotton-padded coat or jacket costs 70 or 80 yuan, or even over 100 yuan.
The people selling clothes are shouting out random prices.
At that time, people's monthly salary was only over 100 yuan, and the most was only 200 or 300 yuan.
It’s okay for those who know how to bargain, they know to cut the price in half and can bargain further. But many young and honest people who don’t know how to bargain will end up being ripped off.
Now when I hear that cotton-padded clothes and cotton jackets are all sold at 29 or 39, I rush in to take a look.
It's obvious that this is a newly opened shop, and there are still many unopened clothes in the packages on the ground.
Jiang Ning had already taken off her thin cotton jacket which was too small for her and changed into the clothes from the store.
When she was choosing clothes for herself, she reflexively wanted to pick solid-colored clothes, mainly black, white, gray and brown, wanting to dress herself in a stable manner. Suddenly, she remembered that she was no longer an official in the system. She was just a teenage high school student and there was no need to dress herself too old-fashioned.
Of course, it can't be too fancy, and the school doesn't allow students to dress up in fancy ways.
Seeing a small-sized bright yellow sweater, Jiang Ning pulled open the curtain and went inside to change into it. She was wearing a pair of ordinary light blue jeans, which were a little big. Wang Yong said she could match them with a belt.
It is very popular to wear belts these days, especially to tuck the top into the trousers, lift the waist of the trousers high, and tie a wide leather belt in the middle.
Wearing it this way really does shape your body.
There were belts for sale in the grocery store next to the school. Tian Wang Yong often went around here and was familiar with what was available on this street. He started walking and trotted to the grocery store to buy a belt and brought it back for Jiang Ning to tie.
During this period, she grew a lot taller, but was still very thin. Before the military training, she cut her hair into a buzz cut, and now it has grown a little. Her fair face has delicate and three-dimensional features, and her eyebrows are clear and cold. She is obviously just a skinny little girl who has not grown up, but she has an indescribable cool temperament.
The most ordinary belt was tied on Jiang Ning. I don’t know if it was because the contrast between the bright yellow sweater and jeans was too eye-catching, or if Jiang Ning was just good-looking, but the ordinary clothes gave Jiang Ning a completely different feeling.
Just like... just like a star in a magazine.
The goods that are left over from garment factories are usually mostly in the largest or smallest sizes. Uncle Wang Yong had selected Jiang Ning's batch of goods. He did not give her all the largest or smallest sizes, but instead prepared all sizes for her. However, there were still more largest and smallest sizes.
Jiang Ning was wearing the smallest size clothes at the moment, and she picked out a pair of small flat-heeled leather shoes for herself.
The little girl, who was originally wearing patched and ill-fitting clothes, looked like a completely new person after changing her clothes.
Wang Yong couldn't help scratching his head after seeing this. The first thing that came to his mind was the very famous beautiful writer in Taiwan. If he took a picture of Ning Meng at this moment and used it as the cover of her work for promotion, the sales of Ning Meng's book should increase a lot, right?
He shook his head and threw the idea out of his mind. Ning Meng was still a high school student studying in school, and this kind of publicity method was not suitable for her.
"How is it?" Jiang Ning turned around and let Wang Yong take a look at her outfit: "Is it okay?"
After changing her clothes, Jiang Ning realized that the store had forgotten to prepare a mirror, so she had to go back and buy one.
The people who were attracted by the sound of "The factory director and his sister-in-law ran away" at the door saw Jiang Ning who had just changed her clothes. They pointed at the clothes on Jiang Ning and asked, "Boss, how much is this dress on your sister?"
There were many large pieces of paper on the wall with prices written on them in thick black ink. Wang Yong read them out: "The coat is thirty-nine, the sweater and jeans are twenty-nine."
This price is much cheaper than those shops in the center of the street that charge over one hundred, eighty or ninety yuan.
But they still habitually asked: "Boss, can it be cheaper?"
Jiang Ning, wearing brand new clothes, went to hang the clothes, pointing at the large price paper on the wall and said, "The price is clearly marked, no bargaining."
"Boss, give me ten dollars off and I'll take this dress." said the sister-in-law who came in.
"If I give you a discount of ten yuan, I will not only not make money from you, but also lose money." Jiang Ning was telling the truth. After deducting the rent, postage, and the cost of the clothes, she only added about eight to twelve yuan to the cost price of each piece of clothing. Her goal was to make small profits but quick turnover. All Grandpa Jiang had to do here was collect money, hang up clothes, and help people get their clothing sizes. He didn't have to worry about the rest.
The older sister who came in talked to Jiang Ning for more than twenty minutes, asking Jiang Ning to help her try on clothes and then being picky with disdain. After knowing that Jiang Ning really didn't bargain, she finally chose a small-sized dress and bought it after gritting her teeth.
She thought that her daughter would look as beautiful as the boss's sister in this cotton coat.
Before, she saw a cotton coat similar to this one in the center of the street, but it was not as nice as this one. The asking price was one hundred yuan, but she refused to sell it until it was fifty yuan.
Of course they wouldn't sell it. The rent of the shops in the center of the street is much higher than here. Every time they want to purchase goods, they have to go to Shenzhen City in person. The goods they get are not first-hand sources, so the cost price is higher than Jiang Ning's. Add on the travel expenses, accommodation fees and various expenses, the cost is much higher than Jiang Ning's.
Jiang Ning was just lucky. It just so happened that the magazine "Wuxia" was founded in Guangshi. In order for her to submit her manuscript on time, an editor was specially arranged for her to come here. This editor also happened to be from Guangshi and had a relative who ran a factory. He gave her a direct source of goods and she didn't have to run around in person, which saved her both time and money.
The only problem is that since the styles are chosen for you by others, and some are even their inventory from previous years, there is no guarantee on style and quality.
Fortunately, because of Wang Yong, the quality of her batch of goods is quite good.
With the first purchase, it will be easier to open subsequent stores.
Jiang Ning didn't look like a shop owner at first glance, so they all thought Wang Yong was the shop owner and came over to ask him, "Young man, is your Jiangnan Garment Factory really closed down?"
Wang Yong looked at Jiang Ning, then at the elder sister who was asking him questions, nodded vigorously, and said in his Cantonese accent: "Yes, our garment factory closed down, and we can't pay the wages, so we can only use the clothes to pay the wages. These clothes used to sell for one hundred, two hundred, three hundred yuan. You see, they are all made of good materials, and you can't buy them outside. If our factory hadn't closed down, the factory director and my sister-in-law hadn't run away, we would have to use the factory's clothes to pay the wages. Where can you find such cheap and good clothes outside?"
The older sisters who were called in by this strange gg immediately believed the young man's accent when they heard it was obviously different from their Wucheng accent: "This young man doesn't have our Wucheng accent at all!"
"Is he really from the Jiangnan Garment Factory?"
There were also those who came to listen to gossip: "Did your factory director really run away with his sister-in-law?"
"Is it true that your factory director indulges in drinking, whoring and gambling?"
"More than 30 million? How come you owe so much money?"
"What a sin."
Someone else asked Jiang Ning: "Little girl, how much do you sell the clothes on this model?"
"The coats are all thirty-nine, and the sweaters and pants are all twenty-nine."
The pants worn by the model are the bell-bottom pants which are very popular nowadays. When worn on the model, they look very fashionable because of the good matching.
The 1990s was a generation that pursued fashion. When they saw such beautiful and cheap clothes, they were attracted by the gg at the door and soon many people came in.
It is exactly the end of the year now, and the Chinese New Year is just two months away. There is a custom in their place that no matter how much money they earn this year, they have to give their children a pair of new shoes and new clothes during the Chinese New Year.
The same is true for the Jiang family. Every New Year, Jiang Song and Jiang Bai have new clothes to wear, but she wears the "new clothes" left over by her cousin. Since she has never worn them before, she wears them for the first time and treats them as "new clothes".
Jiang Ning had only worn one set of new clothes that her aunt bought for her. It was the most beautiful dress in her memory. She had remembered it for many years, and she had also been thinking about her aunt for many years.
At first, all the people who came in were the older sisters and aunties who lived nearby. But because it was the weekend, the second and third year high school students had a rare day off, and since they only had one day off, they didn't go home. They came out in groups of three or four, strolling around the school and getting some fresh air. When they heard about the excitement over there, they came over to take a look.
After seeing the clothes on Jiang Ning, he touched and looked at them again and again, unable to move his legs. He wanted to buy them, but had no money.
They were all students who lived and ate at school. Most of their families sent them food in exchange for food coupons, and they had very little pocket money.
There were also some wealthy people who bought what Jiang Ning had.
Jiang Ning will also match different colors for each person based on their body shape and skin color.
There were also some people who had just returned to school from home and had some money on them. They originally just came to see the fun, but when they saw that the cotton-padded jackets were cheap, they wanted to buy one for their parents, so they took out all their remaining money and bought one to bring back to their parents next Friday.
The news that a store had opened here, selling clothes and shoes at very cheap prices, soon spread to the campuses on both sides of the street. Along with it, the gossip that this store had been repeating over and over again, "The director of the Jiangnan Garment Factory and his sister-in-law ran away," was really too outrageous.
Even people from the next street heard the noise and came over to see what was going on.
In just one afternoon of trial operation, Jiang Ning and Wang Yong sold more than 20 pieces of clothing.
If you make 8 to 12 yuan per piece of clothing, that's an average of 10 yuan per piece, and if you sell more than 20 pieces, that's more than 200 yuan in profit.
Otherwise, why would everyone want to do business?
Wang Yong was not surprised to see so much profit. Although the profit of more than 200 yuan might seem high, it did not include the labor costs of the two of them, water and electricity bills and other expenses. This was only the first day and it happened to be the weekend.
But he knew how deserted this street was during non-weekends.
Because it was a trial operation, Jiang Ning and his family only opened until 5pm. When the neighbors next door saw them closing so early, they were surprised: "Little girl, why are you closing so early? Why don't you stay open a little longer?"
Jiang Ning said, "I have something to do tonight, so we'll close at five from now on."
While packing clothes, Jiang Ning even dug out some men's coats and sweaters, as well as a few pairs of winter men's leather shoes and sneakers from the bottom of the package. Jiang Ning specifically asked Wang Yong to ask his uncle to help her with this.
Not only her clothes needed to be changed, but also Grandpa Jiang and Jiang Bai's clothes needed to be changed.
Jiang Ning took a large cotton-padded jacket, a down jacket, and a pair of size 42 sneakers and packed them in a bag.
Suddenly she thought of something and asked Wang Yong, "My grandfather won't be able to move in until the end of the year. This house is empty anyway. Do you want to move in? This shop is for my grandfather. When he's not here, I won't be selling anything. There's no one on this street on weekdays. You can open or close the shop during the day. You can save some rent."
Wucheng is just a small place. The rent is not expensive, but the environment is not very good.
The alley that Wang Yong rented was small and dark. It was fine on sunny days, but when it rained, the alley was filled with flowing dirty black water.
Although this shop is a bit simple, at least it is clean and bright, and the quilts and bedding on the beds in the back are also new. It is only a hundred meters away from Jiang Ning's school, making it more convenient to find her.
After entering autumn, Wucheng has more rain. Wang Yong thought about the dark and damp alley he would take when he returned, and nodded and said, "Okay! I'll move over in a while." He also said, "The store is short of a mirror. I'll go buy you one tomorrow."
He has been running around Wucheng during this period and has become familiar with the city.
Jiang Ning did not refuse and gave Wang Yong money: "The taxi fare will be deducted from this." She said sincerely: "I have really troubled you too much during this period."
Wang Yong touched the back of his head and smiled embarrassedly: "Anyway, I have nothing to do here every day. You just need to write more manuscripts for me so that I can submit them on time."
Jiang Ning smiled at him, carried her old clothes and the cotton coat for Jiang Bai, and returned to school.
When she entered the door, the security guard didn't see her face clearly and stretched out his hand to stop her: "Who are you looking for?"
Jiang Ning blinked at him, "Uncle, it's me."
The security guard then looked up and saw her iconic short hair. He was stunned for a moment before saying, "It's you?" After changing her clothes, she looked like a different person. He almost didn't recognize her.
Jiang Ning couldn't see what she looked like at the moment because she didn't have a mirror. She couldn't help but look down at her sweater, coat, and pants. They were all normal, absolutely nothing strange or fancy.
But when she walked into the school, more people looked at her.
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