Chapter 392: The Garment Factory Plays Small Tricks

It had been several days since the night when the suspected arsonist set the fire. As the weekend approached, the clothing store was still calm.

When Jiang Yue went there that morning, Aunt Yang and Yang Cuiling told her about this.

"I thought about it carefully. It's possible that the man just rested for a while at the door of the store that night, or maybe just lit a cigarette, and I mistakenly thought he was going to set a fire." Aunt Yang said carefully.

"Yes, Sister Jiang Yue, it's been so many days and no one has come to set fire. Maybe we really made a mistake!" Yang Cuiling also said, "Talk to Captain Gu and ask him to stop letting Wang Yang run back and forth."

In fact, Jiang Yue has been somewhat relaxed these past two days. When she wakes up in the morning, she is not as nervous as she was in the first few days to immediately ask Gu Ye if anything happened last night.

"Okay, I'll go back and ask him!"

However, Jiang Yue asked Gu Ye a few days ago, and Gu Ye said that no matter whether he made a mistake or not, he should let Hu Zi continue to guard it for at least half a month.

Gu Ye also said that he had found a puppy. It was born last month to a family in a nearby village. He would catch one in a few days and raise it in the store when it was one month old.

A new warehouse has also been rented, which is not far from the clothing store. It used to be a cotton mill, and has been vacant since the mill moved away.

Gu Ye took Jiang Yue to see it. It was a bit old, but very spacious because it used to store cotton textiles. There were slogans prohibiting fireworks everywhere in the factory.

The bricklayers have been renovating the factory these days and it will be put into use soon.

Originally, Jiang Yue and He Jingxuan had agreed to go to the factory to check out the second batch of T-shirts for export, but He Jingxuan had to go on a business trip again, so Jiang Yue went to the factory alone. As a result, she discovered that the loss rate of this batch of goods seemed to be particularly high.

When the first batch of goods was produced, the number of T-shirts that could be produced from the same cloth suddenly decreased by one third when it came to the second batch.

The factory manager explained to Jiang Yue that there was a problem with the machine, resulting in serious damage to a batch of goods.

It was the first time for Jiang Yue to cooperate with a factory to make such large quantities of ready-made garments. She had no experience. She had inquired and knew that cloth loss did exist, but the loss was so high all of a sudden, reaching 30%. Even though she was a layman, she could see that it was abnormal, so she became cautious.

After returning home, she called her mother-in-law.

She heard from Gu Ye that before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Rong family had a textile factory under its umbrella. It can be said that half of the textiles in the country at that time were produced by the Rong family's factories. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, these textile factories were donated to the country, but her mother-in-law was still very clear about the ins and outs here.

Sure enough, when Rong Yin heard Jiang Yue's description, she said that this kind of loss was abnormal, and asked Jiang Yue to be careful whether someone was stealing clothes and selling them for personal gain under the pretext of loss.

Jiang Yue also asked Ajin. Ajin had worked in a garment factory and was very familiar with the ins and outs of the factory. He said the same thing as Rongyin.

But Rong Yin also reminded Jiang Yue that there must be evidence for such things, and she should not argue with the director or manager of the garment factory just because she had doubts, otherwise they would unite to destroy the evidence, and she would become unreasonable.

Jiang Yue knew that she couldn't alert the enemy. Now was the critical period for the second batch of goods to be shipped. So she went to the factory every day in the name of quality control.

Today is Saturday and the factory only works half a day.

In the morning, Director Zhou walked into the office leisurely at around eight o'clock. He first boiled a kettle of water, took out his treasured tea leaves, sniffed them, poured some into his palm, and put them into a white porcelain cup with the words "Qingshan County Garment Processing Factory" printed on it.

The water boiled. Director Zhou hummed a little tune, picked up the kettle and poured water into the teacup. He watched the tea leaves expand one by one under the hot water and their color turned emerald green. Then Director Zhou covered the teacup with the lid.

There was a lunch box on the table, which contained the steamed buns and dried shredded vegetables he had just bought at the state-owned restaurant, as well as a stack of egg fried dumplings.

Director Zhou leaned in to smell it, with an intoxicated expression on his face. It smelled so good!

Director Zhou was eating breakfast and reading the newspaper here when Manager Zhang pushed the door open.

"Director, Jiang Yue is here again!" Manager Zhang was envious when he saw that Director Zhou had such a good breakfast.

"Come if you want, let her go and see. How can she, an amateur, see anything?" Director Zhou didn't care at all and continued to eat his breakfast without even raising his eyelids.

"Hey, yes, the factory manager is wise!" Manager Zhang smiled. "But if she comes here every day to watch us, it will be difficult for us to do anything."

"Then don't do anything these days, and we'll talk about it after a few days! Can she come here every day? If she can't figure out the trick after a few days of watching her, she won't come anymore, right?" Director Zhou had an egg dumpling in his mouth, and his speech was a little unclear. Manager Zhang listened carefully before he could make out what he was saying.

"Okay, you go and keep an eye on her. Wherever she goes, you go there. Just be careful not to let her talk to those troublemakers Xu Pengzu and Fan Xiangmei!" Director Zhou raised his eyelids and instructed Manager Zhang.

"Yes, I got it!" Before leaving, Manager Zhang took another look at the egg dumplings on Director Zhou's table and his stomach started to growl.

"Wait!" Director Zhou called Manager Zhang again.

Manager Zhang's eyes lit up. Could it be that Director Zhou heard his stomach growling and wanted to share half of the egg dumplings with him?

"Have you hidden the goods? Don't rush to take them out recently. Wait until the storm has passed!" Director Zhou didn't want to share the food with Manager Zhang. He was afraid that Manager Zhang would take the goods and sell them behind his back.

Manager Zhang touched his stomach and responded. He then glanced at the table again. There was only one delicious egg dumpling left in the lunch box. No, the last one was also stuffed into Director Zhou’s mouth and he finished it in one gulp.

After coming out of Director Zhou's office, Manager Zhang cursed angrily, "Zhou Ba Pi!"

But despite the scolding, Manager Zhang did not dare to delay and hurried to the workshop. He just saw Jiang Yue going there.

Jiang Yue sent Ningning to kindergarten early in the morning. She didn't even go to the store and went straight to the garment factory. She has been coming here for several days in a row. Everything seems to be normal in the garment factory.

Garment processing is not just about running machines, there are a series of steps involved. Jiang Yue had done her homework on these earlier and also consulted Rong Yin and A Jin. She knew that there would be losses in fabric cutting, sewing and other materials, but her mother-in-law and A Jin said that there is a range of losses, and it is impossible for a mature garment processing factory to reach such a high rate of 30% all at once.

This is not called loss, this is called an accident!

Jiang Yue knew in her heart that everything seemed normal before her eyes, but it was just what the person in charge of the garment factory wanted her to see. If they were going to do something tricky, they must have arranged it long ago, and it would be impossible for her to discover the clues easily.

But Jiang Yue is not in a hurry. She has time anyway, so she can come here every day and take this opportunity to learn some knowledge about clothing processing.

This was Jiang Yue's first time attending the Canton Fair. Under intentional control, the number of orders signed was not particularly large. Of the 100,000 pieces order, the first batch of 30,000 pieces had already been shipped, and all had passed the inspection. They would soon be packed and shipped to the other side of the ocean.

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