They're really clueless. Going on a date is one thing, but sticking together is another. How stupid!
Ji Xia waved her hand repeatedly: "No, you should look for Ruoshi. My family is waiting here. See you tomorrow."
Just kidding, she went back to school last night and hasn't calmed down yet. Who knows when she'll get her revenge tonight? She doesn't want to incur another pile of debt for herself.
Lin Chen and Jiang Qingci watched helplessly as Ji Xia and Chen Jing rode away quickly on a bicycle.
He squinted, remembering that Liu Jin hadn't given him the result yet, and let out a heavy snort.
Jiang Qingci's expression remained playful and cute, but she was a little annoyed inside: "Cousin, tell me, which of my classmates do you want to pursue? Should I find one for you? Is it Ruoshi or Yujuan?"
Lin Chen turned around with a half-smile: "Only two people can help?"
"There are four of us in the dorm, so we barely have any personal connections. We don't know the others very well yet. However, Ji Xia has a fiancé, so I won't do such a thing. Ruo Shi and Yu Juan are unmarried, so I can help them out."
Lin Chen's eyes darkened. He had only ever been looking for one person. As for the others, what did they matter to him?
...
Ji Xia and Chen Jing rode their bicycles out of the school area. She poked Chen Jing's waist and asked, "How was the wholesale today? How did it go?"
Chen Jing couldn't help but turn around and smile: "Guess?"
With her eyebrows raised and her expression refreshed, Ji Xia seemed to be in a good mood. She raised an eyebrow and asked, "Is about a thousand items enough?"
"More than just about the same. In just four hours of opening, all nine hundred-plus items were sold out at once."
From the start of the workshop until now, we've made over 930 pieces in about ten days, and they're all finished now.
Chen Jing looked smug and briefly recounted today's results.
After a period of promotion, and the contract signed with four brothers early this morning to bring people, more than 20 people came today, and all 900+ new styles were sold out in one go.
The four brothers not only bought the goods themselves, but also brought five people to wholesale, earning a commission from it. The commission was settled that afternoon, making the younger brothers so excited that they promised to bring more new people next time.
With a population of eight or nine million in Beijing, and over nine hundred new autumn clothing items entering the market, not a single bubble could be created.
These vendors are shrewd; they can tell a style will sell well just by looking at it, and they want to stock up, but then there aren't enough for the people who come later.
Some of his old friends even offered to place orders, but Chen Jing refused, saying that ordering from the south was too far and he couldn't guarantee that there would be any stock available.
Chen Jing originally planned to promote his small workshop in Beijing.
However, after much deliberation yesterday, worried that operating a small workshop without a license would make them an easy target, I changed my story and said I was sourcing the goods from the south, and then got the people in the know to keep quiet.
The first design has already used up all the fabric, and there are still two or three hundred bolts of fabric left to make. Of course, Chen Jing wouldn't stockpile so much inventory and then buy more fabric.
Now that this batch of fabric is finished, they should start preparing winter clothing.
Chen Jing chuckled and said, "I was originally considering whether to buy those two kinds of fabrics again to make another batch, but I thought better of it. There are only about ten people in the workshop and about three hundred bolts of fabric. If we postpone it any longer and wait another two weeks, the winter clothes should be ready by then."
Let's test the market first and finish all the autumn clothes as soon as possible to launch them. We still need to order cotton for winter coats, which requires even more working capital.
Chen Jing is still searching for sources of goods, wanting to order a batch of sweater fabric to make winter sweaters, all of which require working capital.
More than 900 pieces of autumn clothing were sold, and the payment received was over 21,200 yuan. After deducting the cost of fabric and labor, the profit was about 6,000 yuan, which Chen Jing was quite satisfied with.
"The speed is still a bit slow. It will take a long time before they can improve their speed. I plan to recruit ten more female workers to speed things up a bit."
Ji Xia said in a low voice, "If you want to hire female workers, ask if they know how to embroider when you are hiring, and hire a couple more who know how to embroider as a backup."
Chen Jing hummed in agreement: "Are you planning to make a wedding dress?"
"Autumn and winter are peak wedding seasons, shouldn't we make wedding dresses for them?"
However, she didn't hire embroidery artisans to show off her kimonos; she wanted to make a batch of bedding for her wedding.
The two returned to the courtyard house and parked their bicycles in the front yard. Ji Xia noticed that a group of female workers' bicycles were still parked in the parking shed.
She glanced at her watch; it was almost six o'clock. "They haven't gotten off work yet?"
“I asked them to work two extra hours and have dinner with me before they went home, and they all agreed.”
Overtime pay is provided, and this was clearly stated from the moment you joined the company.
In later generations, people worked 996 and 997 hours a day to make money. What's two extra hours a day compared to that? It's not like it's unpaid.
The two returned to the backyard, where the auntie in charge of lunch had just finished preparing dinner and brought it out.
For the work meals of more than ten people, white rice and white flour steamed buns are the staple food.
The workshop's meal standard is to guarantee four dishes and one soup, with at least two meat dishes. Participants bring their own lunch boxes, and Aunt Zhang serves the food.
The soup is excellent, featuring pork bones stewed with radish, lotus root, and kelp, with the occasional seaweed and egg drop soup. The menu changes weekly, ensuring a different experience every day.
The food here isn't considered very good by Beijing standards, but it's better than about 50-60% of the meals served in Beijing households.
Half of these female workers came back from the countryside and had suffered for several years. In the past, let alone eating meat every day, they ate white rice less than half the year.
Back in the capital, they couldn't guarantee meat every day at home, and the staple food at the factory, white rice and white flour buns, were all refined grains, making it even more of a luxury.
Chen Jing was in a good mood today and even asked Hou Fang to buy a roast duck as an extra treat.
Upon seeing Chen Jing, Aunt Zhang, who was cooking, approached him with a fawning expression: "Boss, the workshop is so busy, are you hiring? Can I introduce two of my nieces?"
My dear reader, there's more to this chapter! Please click the next page to continue reading—even more exciting content awaits!
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
