After all, there is strength in numbers. By nine o'clock in the evening, Luan Feng had collected fifteen pairs of pants, plus the twelve pairs left over from yesterday, a total of twenty-seven pairs, and twelve pieces of children's clothes.
The next day, Wan Feng took a tractor to the county town and handed the clothes to Mrs. Xia.
Wan Feng's guess was correct. She really sold out all the goods she had yesterday. If Wan Feng didn't deliver the goods today, she would have nothing to do.
Thirty-nine pieces of clothing and pants cost thirty-seven and a half yuan. After the two parties handed over the goods, Wan Feng and Xia Qiulong came to the textile factory.
The popular saying in the 1970s was that revolution is not about treating people to dinner, and this saying was still applicable in the 1980s.
If many things cannot be solved in one meal, then do two meals.
Wan Feng had been dealing with the textile factory for some time and had figured out the mechanisms in the factory. Therefore, Lao Xia invited several important figures including the factory director and the sales chief.
The venue for the banquet was Yingchun Restaurant, the most upscale restaurant in Hongya County at that time.
The restaurant was just a two-story building, not much different in height from some tall stores in later generations.
In a corner on the second floor, there were five people from the textile factory plus Wan Feng and Xia Qiulong, so seven people could sit at one table just right.
The dishes were the best in Yingchunlou, ten in total, the cigarettes were the most expensive Daqianmen on the market, and the wine was Wuliangye, which cost three yuan and fifty cents.
This meal cost Wan Feng fifteen yuan, and the effect was obvious. After the banquet, both parties announced with beaming faces that they had reached a cooperation agreement.
Back then, the products of factories were all produced under the planned economy. Materials came from other places, were processed in the factories, and then shipped away. Factories were like assembly lines. Some factories didn't even know the cost value of their products, or where they would eventually go.
Fortunately, the textile factory still has a certain share of the local market, which is more than enough to meet Wan Feng's demand.
A bolt of cloth is 33.3 meters long, and the factory price is 20 yuan, which is 60 cents per meter and 20 cents per foot.
Money was not a problem for Wan Feng, but he was short of cloth coupons. The cloth coupons Luan Feng's sister had collected were only over 200 feet. Wan Feng needed six different patterns, so in the end he could only buy ten meters of each pattern.
In this way, the price of one foot of cloth was reduced to three cents, which was only one cent cheaper than in the store.
Even so, Wan Feng was quite satisfied.
The fabric for a suit of clothes is usually about two meters and a half, or eight feet of cloth. In this way, the fabric cost of his suit of clothes was reduced from four cents a foot to three cents a foot, and from three yuan and two hundred yuan to two yuan and four hundred yuan. Adding five cents for cutting and sewing and the cost of overlocking, embroidery and buttoning, the cost of four yuan for this suit of clothes is enough. Even if the thicker version has an extra layer of lining cloth, the cost of five yuan is still enough.
After bringing the cloth home, Jiang Min took over the entire task of this high-end work, completing everything from cutting to sewing.
Wan Feng did some calculations and found that the processing fee of fifty cents for a set of these clothes was a bit unfair to Jiang Min. In fact, it was not as much as she could earn by tailoring a pair of pants, so he made up his mind and added another thirty cents.
Because the labor cost of each set of high-end clothes was 50 cents more than that of making affordable clothes, Jiang Min was so motivated that he actually cut out all the pants in half a day, an average of five pairs per hour.
Sewing is much slower than cutting. If you just shape the pants, without making buttonholes, sewing buttons, adding signatures to the hems, and ironing, it will take more than an hour to make a pair of pants.
Anyway, Jiang Min spent a full two days cutting and sewing these twenty pairs of trousers.
Cutting and sewing clothes takes a lot of time. It takes about twenty minutes to cut one piece of clothing. Jiang Min spent a whole day to cut these twenty pieces of clothing. It is even slower to make one piece of clothing, which takes nearly two hours. Jiang Min spent another three hours to finish this batch of work.
After careful calculation, she actually didn't make as much money as she did from making those fashionable clothes, but Jiang Min had nothing.
When Jiang Min was rushing to make this batch of clothes, Wan Feng was still delivering goods to the street. As soon as Jiang Min finished a set of these high-end clothes, Wan Feng took out a set. During this period, he entered the surplus market twice.
When the three mice saw that Wan Feng paid according to the market price for the second time, they dispelled their worries and sold thousands of feet of cloth coupons to Wan Feng twice more.
Six days later, this batch of high-end work was finally completed.
The effect was better than expected. The wives of the officials were very satisfied. They all stood straight in their new clothes and seemed to be ten years younger.
Wan Feng told this sentence to every person who put on clothes, making them jump for joy.
On August 23, 1980, it was already past eleven o'clock when Wan Feng returned from the street.
When Wan Feng walked into Luan Feng's house, he unexpectedly found that Luan Ying had returned to her parents' home.
Yuan Wen moved the cloth that Wan Feng had bought again into the house. As usual, Wan Feng threw two boxes of cigarettes over, one of which was for Yang Hong.
If you don't bleed, no one will be there to serve you at your beck and call.
"Sister! When did you come?"
Luan Ying looks good, it seems her family hasn't been harassed recently.
"I won't be back until ten."
"That Tao didn't bother you guys again, did he?"
"No, no, not only did he not harass us, he even hid from us when he saw us in the hallway, brother-in-law..."
Luan Feng coughed loudly, then stealthily pulled Luan Ying to a corner and whispered a few words. When he came back, Wan Feng called him "Brother Wan".
It can be seen that Luan Feng is not powerless everywhere. At least her own people dare not expose their relationship with Wan Feng.
"Brother Wan, you don't know that you are now very famous in our Sun family. Du Shenhongjun has a sister named Hu Chaochao...Brother."
Hu Chaochao? It means silly, hehe, tiger-like. Is this a compliment?
"I brought six pieces of clothing this time. They were all made by the girls in our team for their boyfriends. They all have outwardly crooked elbows."
All trouble comes from the mouth, so people should talk less if possible. Luan Feng seized upon Luan Ying's words as an excuse.
"You still have the nerve to do that. You were the same way when you got married. You rushed to your husband's house and even took the rake with you."
Luan Ying was at a loss for words. Her sister framed him without blinking an eye. Who would bring a rake with them when getting married?
"Have you paid your sister her commission?" Wan Feng had no interest in interrupting the two sisters as they were joking. He only asked practical questions.
"Sister, no."
Wan Feng pondered for a moment and said, "If you don't want it this time, then don't. I'll make a piece of clothing for your brother-in-law and your sister and that will be considered as commission."
The clothes given to them have an advertising purpose, and the clothing business in that area of the island also needs to be taken over.
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