Chapter 120 Selling Cloth
The second day after moving into the new house was New Year's Eve. Deng Minghao and Qin Wan woke up the children early in the morning, and then made paste and pasted couplets.
The paste smelled delicious. Qingqing and Ningning lay over the stove to see what smelled so good. After smelling it for a while, they felt like drooling.
Li Ruolan smiled and patted the two little guys: "Don't eat it, or your mouths will get stuck."
Qingqing and Ningning immediately covered their mouths and ran to the yard.
The two children played in the yard for a while when they suddenly heard a knock on the door. Li Ruolan went to open the door and saw An An holding Ruikang's hand and coming to play with Qingqing and Ningning.
Ruikang is the child adopted by Lu Yunxiao and Qin Wan. They named the child Lu Ruikang, hoping that he would be blessed with good health and good fortune in the future.
"Are you here to play with Ningning? Come over here quickly." Li Ruolan stepped aside and watched the two children run over.
Ruikang was still the same as before, with no expression on his face, but he was quite nice to the three children, An'an, Qingqing and Ningning.
Normally he is willing to play with the three children. Although he is still indifferent, being willing to play with children is a good development. Maybe he will slowly return to normal.
After putting up the couplets, Li Ruolan and Qin Wan went out hand in hand to buy groceries. They planned to celebrate the New Year together.
"Liu Kunming is an accountant now, can we ask him to get some cloth from the factory so we can take it back?
The cloth in Beijing is different from ours, and the clothes made from it will definitely be better, so we can sell them at a better price." Li Ruolan suggested to Qin Wan on the way.
Qin Wan nodded: "I've thought of this method, it's good, but if we buy too much, how can we send it back?"
Transportation is a big problem. If they cannot transport it back to the Victory Brigade, then no matter how much cloth they buy here, they will be unable to use it.
"Your Lu Yunxiao almost worked in the transport team before. There should be some comrades of his in the transport team, right?
Can you ask him to find a way to contact the transport team?"
Qin Wan's eyes lit up: "I have been so busy these past two days, how could I have forgotten about this matter? I will ask him when I get back later.
If we can solve the transportation problem, we can not only make clothes, but also buy cloth. Then we can bring Liu Kunming and Xia Zhen into the partnership. This will definitely be a lucrative business."
Li Ruolan nodded: "We still have two months before we go back, I hope we can reach an agreement."
At noon, Li Ruolan and Qin Wan's families had lunch together. They made dumplings stuffed with pork and green onions, and both adults and children enjoyed the meal very much.
At the reunion dinner in the evening, the two families ate separately.
The next day, the first day of the new year, Xia Zhen and Liu Kunming came early in the morning to pay New Year's greetings.
"We originally didn't want to come on the first day of the New Year, but we have to visit relatives on the second, third and fourth days of the New Year, so let's come today and get together." Xia Zhen said.
After welcoming the person into the house and chatting for a while, Qin Wan went straight to the point and talked to Liu Kunming about buying cloth.
Liu Kunming said: "This is feasible, as long as you can solve the transportation problem, Xia Zhen, my parents and I can get a lot of defective cloth.
Moreover, we can purchase a batch of good cloth in the name of the workers. There are so many employees in the factory, and we can buy all their quotas for cloth."
The thing that workers in a weaving factory have the most is cloth. During festivals, the factory would distribute some cloth for the workers to take home.
Moreover, if the workers' families wanted to buy cloth, they could do so without tickets and could buy a lot.
Rather than taking the cloth home to gather dust, it would be better to exchange it for money, which is what most workers in weaving factories did.
Selling to others is selling, and selling to Liu Kunming is naturally selling as well, so the business of selling cloth is viable.
"I can solve the transportation problem." Lu Yunxiao said.
Liu Kunming nodded: "How much can you buy at a time? Tell me first, and then I will go find someone to communicate.
Before you leave, gather all the cloth.
If you have finished making clothes, you can also ask the transport team to bring me a few pieces, and I will try to sell them to you in Beijing City."
The clothes made by Qin Wan are very elegant and beautiful, and very popular. If they are sold in Beijing, the price will definitely be higher than that in Heilongjiang Province.
"That's a good idea, okay. Then we'll have the transport team send a few over and you can try selling them.
If it is really possible, we will mainly sell clothes in Beijing." Qin Wan said.
A few people discussed it for a while, and continued to discuss it after lunch at noon. After everything was perfected, Liu Kunming and Xia Zhen went back first.
The transport team arrived in Beijing a month and a half later. It was a first attempt, so they didn't want to bring too many things, so they only asked the transport team to help bring back ten pieces of cloth.
When they returned, they each put two pieces of cloth in their luggage, a total of fourteen pieces.
When we returned to Victory Brigade at the end of February, the Victory Brigade was still covered in white. Apart from the curling green smoke, there was no one to be seen.
The ten pieces of cloth from the transport team were not sent back until a week after they returned.
The cloth arrived, and Li Ruolan and Qin Wan started making clothes again. Over the years, Li Ruolan also learned how to operate a sewing machine. With the two machines together, clothes were made much faster than before.
At the end of April, Li Ruolan and Qin Wan sent all the clothes to Beijing. A month later, they received the remittance slip and letter from Liu Kunming.
The clothes designed by Qin Wan were very popular in Beijing and sold for a lot of money. Liu Kunming received a commission of two yuan for each piece of clothing and remitted the rest of the money back home.
From then on, they began to cooperate with Liu Kunming, sending a batch of cloth every two months, and then some clothes.
The defective cloth that was sent over was made into clothes, and the good cloth was sold, and then the cloth was sold and the clothes were sold.
The money earned this year was more than what Li Ruolan and Qin Wan earned from making and selling clothes in the past three years.
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After the beginning of spring, many people knew that Lu Yunxiao had found his relatives, and the team leader also came to see Ruikang in person.
After learning about Ruikang's true situation, the captain sighed and said, "I thought you had really found your family, but I didn't expect it to be like this. This child is really pitiful."
Lu Yunxiao glanced at Ruikang who was following behind An An, and said, "When we were in Beijing before, we had already contacted a newspaper and published a missing person notice.
I also put Ruikang's photo under the missing person notice. If Ruikang's family is still looking for him, they should be able to see it."
"That's a good idea. You two look so much alike, you must be a family. Then not only will Ruikang be able to find your family, but he'll be able to find you too."
Lu Yunxiao didn't say much but just smiled: "I hope so."
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After having Ruikang, Li Ruolan and Qin Wan felt more relaxed. Although he was still as quiet as before, he would play with the three children.
Normally, he acts like an older brother and won't let the three of them go to any particularly dangerous places.
In addition, there are many children of the same age as Qingqing and Ningning in the village. The elderly in the village who cannot go to work will sit in the sun and chat at the entrance of the village.
Those children were also playing at the village entrance, so there was no need to worry about anything happening to them. These uncles and aunts would help look after the children.
It was still a good day. After breakfast in the morning, the four children ran away. Li Ruolan and Qin Wan had just been doing the laundry for a while when they heard a knock on the door.
Li Ruolan went out and saw that it was the post office's courier who was knocking on Zhiqing's door.
"Are you here to deliver a letter? There is no one at the educated youth site right now." Li Ruolan said.
The messenger took out a letter from his bag: "Do you know who Li Ruolan is? Here is a letter from her."
Li Ruolan thought that maybe it was a letter from Liu Kunming or Zhou Shengnan and Zheng Fanghua, so he immediately gave his name and took the letter.
But after taking a look at the signature, she realized that this was not a letter they sent to her, but one written by Li Ruoju to her.
Li Ruolan raised her eyebrows, feeling that Li Ruoju had no good intentions in writing to her.
The letter was very short, with only a few words written on it, but after reading it, Li Ruolan frowned tightly.
Because Li Ruolan and Li Ruoju ran away from their marriages, Li Hongjun offended the factory director and soon lost his job. Li's mother was the only one left to earn money.
Life was difficult in the past few years, and Li Baozong was spoiled by his father and mother. He spent money lavishly, and soon the family was out of money.
Moreover, Li Baozong not only spent money lavishly, but also liked to go out for eating and drinking. When he was drunk, he got into a fight with others and had one of his legs broken by someone.
Li's mother sold her job to save Li Baozong's legs. Now the family of three is jobless and almost starving to death.
So they would go to Li Ruomei to ask for money from time to time. Although Li Ruomei didn't have any good feelings towards her parents, she couldn't bring herself to refuse them.
But after a long time, everyone got annoyed, and finally Chen Chuan revealed the address of Li Ruolan and Li Ruoju's rural locations.
Li Ruoju and Li Ruomei had a good relationship and they kept in touch. Li Ruomei told Li Ruoju about this matter on the phone.
Li Ruoju thought about it and felt uneasy, so she wrote a letter to Li Ruolan.
Although she married Zhao Youjun, her life with Suijun was not satisfactory, so Aunt Zhao also came with them.
Although Aunt Zhao was no match for her, Zhao Youjun was a foolishly filial man who would always stand on Aunt Zhao's side no matter what happened.
Therefore, the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law are now incompatible. In addition, Li Ruoju gave birth to a girl as her first child, and with Aunt Zhao fanning the flames, Li Ruoju's life can be as bad as it can be.
If at this critical moment, Li's father and mother came with Li Baozong, she would have no good life in the future.
So she sent the letter, also wanting Li Ruolan to help her and prevent Li's father and mother from knowing her exact location.
The villagers only knew that Zhao Youjun was a soldier, but where he was stationed and which unit he belonged to were matters that needed to be kept secret, and no one in the village knew.
But Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao have a very good relationship with Lu Yunxiao, so Lu Yunxiao must know where Zhao Youjun is.
"What's wrong? Did something happen?" Seeing that Li Ruolan didn't come back, Qin Wan came out to check with some worry, and then saw Li Ruolan holding a piece of letter paper in a daze.
Li Ruolan came back to her senses: "My trouble is coming. I will put all the good things in my house in your house later. My biased parents are coming to find me."
Qin Wan knew a little about Li Ruolan's family affairs, and nodded immediately after hearing this: "Okay, I will definitely keep it for you.
But you can’t let them get involved, you still have to find a chance to cut ties with them.”
Li Ruolan hummed: "Of course, if they dare to come, I will not admit it. Anyway, if the things they did are made public, they will lose face.
Then I will wait for them to have a big fight with me, the bigger the better, so that I can find out their faults and completely cut off ties with them."
Qin Wan said: "Don't worry, I will help you when the time comes. When you two start to quarrel, I will drag Li Ruoju out for a walk.
We are all girls, we can't just look for you and not her, she has a nice idea, she wants to tell you in advance, she wants to sell you a good thing."
Li Ruolan shrugged and said, "They came here just to look for me and Li Ruoju, but I have no money to help them as I am with my children and we are hungry and cold.
But they have a daughter who is an officer's wife, and the three of them will definitely cling to Li Ruoju like leeches."
Li Ruoju had a good idea. She wanted Li Ruolan to keep silent so that Li's parents wouldn't be able to find her.
But, Li Ruolan didn't say anything, didn't they still have in-laws? Aunt Zhao was gone, but Zhao Youjun's father was still at home. At worst, they could just let this family go to Zhao Youjun's house and make trouble.
Li Ruoju wanted to stay out of it and push everything onto Li Ruolan, but things don't go that smoothly in this world.
When Deng Minghao got off work, Li Ruolan told him about this matter.
"Leave this matter to me. I have a way to deal with them." Deng Minghao said with narrowed eyes.
Li Ruolan hummed and said, "Don't go too far, otherwise it won't sound good if it gets out." Li Ruolan knew that Deng Minghao had plenty of ways to deal with their family of three.
Deng Minghao sneered: "It would be bad if it gets out, so I will make sure they don't have the means to spread it out.
You don't have to worry about this matter, I will definitely treat them well."
The bad guys will be dealt with by the bad guys, Li Ruolan thought to herself.
Deng Minghao has so many little ideas. If he wants to deal with someone, he has all sorts of ways to do it.
Li Ruolan was actually looking forward to the Li family's arrival.
Knowing that the Li family of three was coming, Li Ruolan packed up the valuables in the house into two large cabinets and carried them to Qin Wan's house.
Only some worn and patched clothes were placed in the closet, and the rice and flour were put away, leaving only some coarse grains.
In order not to show off their wealth, Li Ruolan, Deng Minghao and their family of three all wore handmade clothes, and sometimes they would patch them up when they were torn.
After all, everyone dressed like this now, and it was not good for them to be too different. Therefore, except Qin Wan and her friends, other educated youth or villagers did not know that they were actually very rich.
Fortunately, they hid it well and could openly pretend to be poor and miserable.
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