Jiang Yue's conversation made Old Zheng's face turn purple, and he felt so choked up that he couldn't breathe.
The customers in the store and the people passing by outside the store, when they first heard Old Zheng say that the two girls went back on their word and refused to rent his storefront, everyone was still thinking that it was the two girls' fault. But then they heard Jiang Yue say that Old Zheng increased the rent from six yuan a month to forty yuan, what else was there that they didn't understand?
"Forty dollars a month for two storefronts? This old guy is really bold, why doesn't he just rob people!"
"What did the girl just say? Someone wants to rent an old guy's house for fifty yuan a room? Is there really such a fool?"
"I'm afraid the old guy made it up himself! He wants to trick the two girls into renting his shop!"
Old Zheng originally planned to come over and kill them to demand an explanation, but was stopped by Jiang Yue's question. At this time, he listened to the discussions of the people around him, his face turned blue and purple, and he regretted it so much.
"Our lease is up anyway. The original contract was for 18 yuan for three months. You said that 18 yuan is only for this month, and we dare not have any objection. Uncle Zheng, you see, we are thinking about you and don't want you to suffer any loss, so we found a place to move in overnight!"
Jiang Yue was very good at poking Old Zheng's heart. Didn't Old Zheng say that your shop was easy to rent? Then I'll vacate it for you and let you rent it to someone else!
What's more, he had to say it sincerely, with a look of genuine concern for Old Zheng.
Old Zheng's face turned green, and he smiled awkwardly: "You two little girls, I was just kidding you! How about this, you should just move back, I won't raise the rent, I'll just give you the original rent!"
"No need, Uncle Zheng, thank you for your kindness! We have already moved here, so we don't need to go back and forth!" Jiang Yue said with a smile.
Old Zheng was furious when he saw that everyone around him was pointing at him with their hands covering their mouths, but there was nothing he could do at this point, so he had to leave in disappointment.
When Old Zheng returned home, his wife was waiting at the door, "Why did you take so long? Did you get the money?"
"What are you collecting? Damn it, I was tricked by those two little girls!" Old Zheng spat fiercely, his face looking extremely ugly.
His wife was confused when she heard this, and immediately frowned and asked, "They don't want to pay the rent? Then we should take back the house immediately, stop them from opening the store, and throw out all the things in their store!"
Old Zheng was so angry that he slapped him, "Throw away your ass! Those two girls have already moved away, and the new store has opened!"
His wife rubbed her shoulders and said unhappily, "Why are you mad at me? I told you that the rent increase was too outrageous, but you didn't listen. Now look, you don't rent it anymore!"
Old Zheng came into the room and wanted to pour a glass of wine, but the glass was empty. He immediately got angry with the old woman, "Why don't you go get me some wine!"
The old woman stretched out her hand for money, "Is it free to buy wine? You have collected 18 yuan from others this month, give it to me and I will go buy wine!"
"No money!" Old Zheng covered his purse and refused to give the old woman any money.
The old woman snorted and laughed, "You're greedy. You raise the rent just because they're doing good business! If you raise it slowly, a dollar or two at a time, they won't have any objections. But you ask for a huge amount right away, forty dollars. There are so many houses on the street, why do they have to rent yours?"
"I used to be able to earn six dollars a month in rent at home to help with the family expenses, but now, all my efforts have been in vain!"
"If you say another word, I'll rip your mouth off!"
Old Zheng was already upset, and his wife was still nagging at him, which made him even more annoyed. He turned around and walked out with his hands behind his back.
"Old Zheng, where are you going now? Don't you want to eat?" the old woman shouted from behind.
Besides, today was Jiang Yue’s first day of opening the shop, but he didn’t sell many pairs of bell-bottom pants. However, the bat shirts sold well.
There were also the women's clothing that Jiang Yue brought back from Ajin. The styles she picked were almost sold out today. As for the ordinary styles that she didn't like, after Jiang Yue matched them together and put them on sale, they were sold at a low price, and quite a few were sold as well.
In the evening, Lian Rongrong and Jiang Yue counted today's sales together, and they immediately smiled. "Today's sales totaled 3,683.60 yuan! Wow! This is the day with the most revenue since we opened the store!"
Jiang Yue was quite satisfied with today's income. In this era, it was very uncommon to earn thousands of yuan from opening a business, especially in a small county!
But today, the main products are men's wool sweaters and bat sweaters, which are priced at dozens of yuan each, so relatively speaking, the income is naturally higher.
At this time, Lian Rongrong began to worry again, "Jiang Yue, didn't you say bell-bottom pants would be popular? But you see, many people came in to look at them today, but few tried them on, let alone bought them! We still have so much stock left in our store, what should we do?"
"Don't be impatient, wait and see!"
The next day, Jiang Yue specially wore the white bell-bottom pants she had ordered from Aunt Yang, and paired them with the smoky gray printed long-sleeved shirt that she had shown to Gu Ye before. As soon as the shop opened in the morning, passers-by stared at Jiang Yue.
"Comrade, this dress of yours looks great. Is it sold in your store?"
"This is my own clothes, but we have the same style in our store. If you are interested, you can come in and take a look. You can try on clothes in our store, and it doesn't matter if you don't buy them!" Jiang Yue said with a smile.
Several young women entered the store and saw the matching pants on the mannequin. One of them said in surprise, “Isn’t this the bell-bottom pants from the movie?”
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