In the restaurant, Ruan Changsheng drank three full glasses of water.
After finishing his drink and putting down his cup, he took a deep breath and said, "This Sun Wei is just a bastard, a mean person. I kindly told him to go to the south, and he fought with us for half a year last year but I ignored him. Who knew he would do this to me this year, what a bastard."
Ruan Cuizhi frowned and asked, "Where did he get those clothes?"
Ruan Changsheng took a long breath again, "He found someone to buy our clothes, specifically picked out some styles that were easy to sell, took the clothes to the south to find a factory to make patterns, and then brought them back to sell."
Ruan Cuizhi thought for a moment, "Can I make money with all this trouble?"
In addition to the cost of fabric materials, the factory manager has to maintain the equipment and employees and make money, so he has to pay the factory a lot of processing fees. The price of selling them back is cheap, so when you calculate it all, you can't make much money from each piece of clothing.
If the fabric of the clothes weren't of poor quality and the workmanship wasn't so sloppy, I might even have to pay for it.
Ruan Changsheng said: "After all, it's much better than before."
Ruan Xi remained silent. Qian Chuan looked at her and asked, "Is there any solution?"
Even if he doesn't earn a lot, it's still disgusting. Just looking at his face makes me want to beat him to death.
Ruan Xi shook his head: "There is no way for the time being."
It is not possible to register trademarks at present, and people have no idea about infringement. No one cares about such things. Even in modern society, it is very difficult to protect rights in this regard. If someone imitates a style without touching the trademark, it is difficult to sue. If someone is more cunning and changes some details, such as changing the length of a skirt, then it will be even more difficult to sue.
No matter how big a brand is, as long as a product becomes popular, there will be people who will copy it.
Counterfeiting and piracy are the hardest things to fight.
Qian Chuan took a deep breath and said, "I really want to beat him to death."
Ruan Xi looked at her and said, "Don't worry, just ignore him for now. Let him imitate it first. He can't imitate anything good anyway. Customers who demand quality won't buy his clothes. It won't work if they wear them. Wait, if he continues to be arrogant and doesn't know how to restrain himself, and becomes more and more daring, then we will have a chance to punish him."
Ruan Changsheng took another big sip of water and put the cup down with a bang. "I want to beat him to death right now."
Ruan Xi looked at him again and said, "You can talk, but you can't do it again."
It's okay to beat him up to vent your anger, but you can't keep beating him.
After all, violence cannot solve the fundamental problem, and it may even intensify conflicts and cause more unnecessary trouble. It’s easy to get into a fight now, but in two years when the crackdown begins, going to the police station won’t be as easy as it is now.
After this incident and a scolding from the police officers at the police station, Ruan Changsheng and Qian Chuan no longer had the mood to set up their stall. After dinner, they did not go to the street again, but went home with Ruan Cuizhi, dragging the goods.
I rested at home for half a day and adjusted my mood and state.
He was resurrected with full health in the early morning of the next day, and went to the city to continue his stall with the moon and morning star above his head.
After occupying a stall on the street, Ruan Changsheng and Qian Chuan had just set up the stall and had not yet had time to hang up the clothes when they suddenly heard a whistle coming from across the street. They both looked over and saw the man in the bat shirt, Sun Wei, setting up a stall opposite.
He had been avoiding them when setting up his stall before, but after going to the police station yesterday, he has become directly arrogant now. Not only did they sell their clothes, they also set up stalls directly opposite them and deliberately whistled at them to provoke them.
Ruan Changsheng suddenly felt a rush of blood to his head and he clenched his fists tightly.
Of course, although he was angry, he was also rational. If he beats Sun Wei again, he will have no business for the day. There's no need to mess up your own business just to vent your anger for such a person.
Qian Chuan took a deep breath, calmed down, and said, "Ignore him."
Ruan Changsheng naturally ignored him and turned around to continue hanging his clothes. After hanging up the clothes, I sat down by the stall to rest for a while. When more people came to the street, I started the busy day.
Sun Wei had been provoking them all day, whistling over here every time he sold a piece of clothing.
At noon, when there were few people around, he put on a pair of glasses and said to Ruan Changsheng, "Hey, buddy, these clothes are not yours, why are you so angry? You can sell them but I can't? Why can only you make the money?"
Ruan Changsheng sneered at him, "You make a fortune, you just get a small portion of the soup."
Sun Wei took off his glasses and said, "Don't provoke me. Maybe one day I will earn more than you."
Qian Chuan sneered, "Just relying on your rag-like clothes? You'd better save your money."
Sun Wei put on his glasses again and said, "Then let's just wait and see."
On Saturday evening, Ruan Xi and Li Xiaofang finished their meal in the cafeteria, went back to the dormitory to pack up, picked up their backpacks and left the school. She rode her bike to the countryside and saw five girls packing up their things to go home from work.
Although they all tried their best to work overtime, Yue Haofeng set a time limit so that they would not work here too late. Some girls are very energetic and can do it all night without going to sleep.
After the girls left, Ruan Xi called Ruan Cuizhi, Ruan Changsheng, Yue Haofeng and Qian Chuan to a meeting.
Dabaozi and Ruan Yue had already fallen asleep, so no one disturbed them.
Ruan Xi took out her sketchbook from her schoolbag, opened a page and put it on the table, saying, "I collected information at school and drew a logo. From now on, all the clothes we make will have this logo sewn on them."
Ruan Changsheng reached out and took it, then asked, "Rose Pavilion?"
Ruan Xi nodded: "Yes, uncle, take this drawing I drew to the manufacturer and talk to them about the production logo. I have clearly marked the fabric and size. It's not something complicated."
Yue Haofeng responded and took the sketchbook from Ruan Changsheng.
Ruan Xi also said to Ruan Cuizhi: "After the logo is produced, we will sew it on the back of the collar of each piece of clothing we make, inside the clothing, so that it does not affect the appearance of the clothing."
Ruan Cuizhi actually didn't know what this thing was, but she nodded.
Finally, Ruan Xi said to Ruan Changsheng and Qian Chuan, "When you go out to sell clothes, mention our logo more often so that everyone can remember the name of Rose Pavilion. Tell them that only the clothes sold at our stall are authentic. Even if other stalls sell the same clothes as us, they are all fake and not authentic."
Ruan Changsheng and Qian Chuan actually didn't understand.
Ruan Changsheng asked with a hissing breath, "Are there real and fake clothes?"
Qian Chuan then asked: "Will this... be useful?"
After all, when people buy clothes, they look at the style, quality and workmanship, and no one cares where the clothes come from. Whether it is real or fake is out of the question. No one will buy clothes just because of a logo.
Moreover, if they can imitate such complex clothes, this small logo will be even easier to imitate. Even if someone really recognizes this logo, a jerk like Sun Wei can still make and sell it together with the logo.
They say theirs is authentic, and Sun Wei can also say his is authentic.
Ruan Xi said: "It may be useless for now, but it will be useful in the future. Just do as I say."
Ruan Changsheng and Qian Chuan nodded: "Okay."
It's just something to mention when selling clothes, it's not a big deal. It would be great if it could be useful, but they think this thing is most likely useless and cannot defend against villains like Sun Wei.
In a period of reconstruction, many things change at the slightest provocation.
After Ruan Changsheng and Sun Wei had been competing for another half a year, other clothing stalls began to appear on the street one after another. But I made money by selling this, saved up some money, and went to the south to trade some money back.
But the situation of each stall is different, some sell well and some don’t.
Ruan Changsheng and Qian Chuan mentioned the Rose Pavilion when they were selling clothes for half a year and found that it actually had some effect. Not only did many old customers remember the name, but others came because of word of mouth and specifically bought their clothes.
Of course, what was expected to happen did happen.
After closing the stall in the evening, Ruan Changsheng threw two skirts onto the chopping board and said, "The name is also stolen."
Ruan Xi picked up the skirt and looked at it. When she turned over the collar, she saw the same logo as on their clothes.
Ruan Changsheng said: "There aren't many bad people, but that Sun Wei, he caught us and took advantage of us. I think he should just change his name to Sun Zi. Seeing that some customers recognized our name, he also added a logo. How despicable!"
Of course, old customers would not be fooled by him because they had identified Ruan Changsheng and Qian Chuan. But there are more people who don’t know. Maybe they heard others say that the clothes of Rose Pavilion are good, so they bought them if they found Sun Wei.
Although he imitates slowly and cannot keep up with the speed at which they release new models, it still makes people want to beat him to death.
Ruan Xi was not excited at all, and just said, "Let him be a bitch for a while."
During the two months of summer vacation, Ruan Xi stayed in the countryside and hardly went out, so time passed quickly. This is her last summer vacation in college. After this summer vacation and one semester, she and Ruan Jie will graduate.
After the beginning of autumn, the air becomes cooler in the morning and evening, but it is still hot at noon.
After lunch, Ruan Xi did not sleep, but worked in the workshop with Ruan Cuizhi and others.
Just after one o'clock in the afternoon, someone suddenly knocked on the door.
Yue Haofeng had nothing to do, so he took care of the children and went out to greet them at the gate of the courtyard.
The people who came to the door were village cadres. Because Ruan Xi and her friends had lived here for a year and a half, they knew everyone in the village more or less, so Yue Haofeng greeted them directly with a smile: "Director Liu, what can I do for you?"
Director Liu brought two people with him and said to Yue Haofeng, "The rules have been tightened recently. Rural people are no longer allowed to mess around with homesteads. There are strict regulations on the size of homesteads and the number of homesteads each family can own. Of course, if we want to manage them, we have to count and register them, so we will go to each family to measure and count them."
When Ruan Xi heard these words in the room, he hurried out.
Director Liu and two people went to measure the land. Ruan Xi went to Director Liu and asked, "If the area of the existing homestead exceeds the prescribed area and the number also exceeds, will the village take it back?"
These houses in the countryside do not have property rights certificates, and what mainly matters is the right to use the homestead.
Director Liu said, "Of course not. They are all the property of each family. Shouldn't we hurry to take them back? In the past, it was easy to deal with them. No matter how big or how much they had, it all counted. Now just register it. After a while, go to the village committee to apply for the homestead use right certificate. This must be done."
Ruan Xi smiled after hearing this and said, "Okay, I understand. Thank you."
With the certificate of homestead use rights, the house, yard and vegetable garden clearly belong to her.
And the other three properties she bought must also be counted and registered.
At this time, Yue Haofeng went into the room, poured a glass of water and handed it to Director Liu.
Director Liu took a sip of water from the cup, looked into the main room, and asked, "I see you are very busy every day. You make so many clothes. Do you sell them in the city? Do you make money?"
Yue Haofeng smiled and said, "It can barely support a large family."
Director Liu put the empty cup back into his hand and said, "You guys have ideas too. We country folk don't have the ability to do that. We just sell some agricultural and sideline products. But there's a guy who made a fortune selling roasted nuts. It's said that he made one million in a year."
Yue Haofeng was deliberately shocked: "One million??"
Last year, because there was no competition in the market, they actually made quite a bit more money.
Director Liu looked at him and smiled, "Who knows if it's true or not? It's just a rumor, so there must be some water in it. He was reported before because he attracted jealousy, but the higher-ups didn't punish him. The world has really changed, and money has become a good thing."
In the past ten years, everyone regarded money as dirt and dared not touch it for fear of bad luck. But now, everyone is racking their brains to figure out how to make money, and being poor makes people look down upon.
Director Liu stood there and talked to Yue Haofeng and Ruan Xi for a few words. After the two men measured the land, he went to the next house.
Ruan Xi and Yue Haofeng saw him out together, then went back to the house, sat down, and happily buried their heads in work.
But happiness belongs only to Ruan Xi, not to Ruan Changsheng and Qian Chuan. Because the two of them set up a stall on the street, they wanted to beat Sun Wei to death every now and then, skin him and pull out his tendons, and then pitch him into the pond to feed the fish.
It would be fine if he was selling fake goods quietly, and no one would be angry if they didn't see it. But because Ruan Changsheng and Qian Chuan couldn't do anything to him, he became particularly arrogant, jumping in front of them from time to time to act shamelessly and provoke Ruan Changsheng and Qian Chuan.
Qian Chuan said of him: "People like him will be struck by lightning sooner or later!"
So shameless!
Ruan Xi had her own plans in mind, but the time had not yet come, so she didn't pay too much attention to it. She studied hard for the last semester and successfully completed her four years of college.
Of course, Ruan Jie also got her graduation certificate as smoothly as she did.
Ruan Xi said goodbye to the campus carrying her schoolbag and just as she was pushing her bicycle out of the school gate, she saw Xu Zhuo.
Xu Zhuo sat on the bicycle with one leg on the ground, and played with the other foot on the pedal in the air. He didn't know how long he had been waiting outside.
Because Ruan Xi is very busy traveling back and forth, he has not met Xu Zhuo very often in recent years. But they didn't seem strange when they met. She pushed the cart directly to Xu Zhuo and greeted him: "Are you looking for me?"
Xu Zhuo raised his head when he heard the voice, "Who else should we look for?"
Ruan Xi smiled at him and said, "I'm going to pick up Xiao Jie, let's go together."
So the two of them rode their bicycles together and went to Ruan Jie's school.
When I arrived at the gate of Ruan Jie's school, I didn't see Ruan Jie, but saw another person first.
Ruan Xi was so surprised that she was stunned for a long time before she said, "Chen, Wei, Dong?"
After asking, she turned around and asked Xu Zhuo: "Am I right?"
Chen Weidong answered himself: "I didn't admit my mistake, Comrade Ruan Xi, long time no see."
Ruan Xi was just about to ask him why he was here, but before he could open his mouth, Ruan Jie came out of the school gate.
When Chen Weidong saw her, he waved and called her, "Little ghost, this way."
Ruan Jie ran over with a smile, "What a coincidence, you are all here."
Ruan Xi looked at Ruan Jie, then at Chen Weidong, and asked again, "Why is he here?"
Ruan Jie cleared her throat, raised her hand and scratched her head, and after a while she spoke, "Well... he returned to his hometown after serving in the army. He worked there for a year. During this summer vacation, he was transferred to the Public Security Bureau here..."
You have been transferred here to work for half a year?
Ruan Xi was stunned for a moment, then pointed at Ruan Jie and then at Chen Weidong: "You two haven't already..."
Ruan Jie said hurriedly: "No! I haven't agreed yet!"
Chen Weidong was very confident: "But it will be soon."
Ruan Xi looked at Ruan Jie and Chen Weidong, clicking his tongue again and again. She suddenly remembered what people said - love in this era means holding hands for a lifetime, and loving only one person for a lifetime.
Now Chen Weidong and Ruan Jie seem to be having this kind of feeling.
Ruan Jie blushed at her words and quickly changed the subject, asking, "Would you like to go out for dinner together?"
Since we've met, let's go eat together.
Ruan Xi had no objection and turned to look at Xu Zhuo.
Xu Zhuo said: "Let's go."
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