Chapter 13 Schoolbag
Chapter 13 Schoolbag
Liu Xiuxiu was caught off guard by Curly's sudden appearance. She had heard before that these gangsters had been arrested on suspicion of several rape cases. How dare this Curly dare to come back!
After breaking free from the other party's restraints, Liu Xiuxiu was finally able to speak, "Didn't you run away? The situation is very tense now, how dare you come back?"
The curly-haired man looked like a beggar, no longer as elegant and generous as before. He looked at Liu Xiuxiu, who was dressed elegantly, with a sinister look, and grinned nonchalantly, "Oh, I'm already like this, what else do I have to be afraid of? If the police catch me, they still have to take care of my food, drink, defecation, urination and sleep. It's better than me hiding out here and there, don't you think, Xiu'er?"
Liu Xiuxiu's face darkened, and her hand holding the bag gradually tightened. "Tell me, what do you want to do by looking for me?"
Curly scratched his messy hair and yawned. "I don't want to do anything. I just want the police to arrest me. As long as I tell the truth about who asked me to do it, I can not only redeem myself for my crime but also find a good place to spend the winter. Maybe I can get out again in the spring..."
Liu Xiuxiu gritted her teeth, closed her eyes and took a few deep breaths. She knew that this scoundrel was threatening her. At this moment, she was angry and hateful. Why didn't this man die outside?
"Tell me, what are the conditions?"
Curly's eyes narrowed and he raised his dirty fingers. "Money, give me money and I won't tell anyone."
Liu Xiuxiu frowned slightly, "What do you mean, ten dollars?"
Curly shook his head. Liu Xiuxiu continued to guess, "One hundred?"
"Wrong, it's one thousand."
"Are you crazy? I'm just a student. Where can I get so much money for you?"
Hearing this, Curly laughed, kicked his hands and stomped his steps to go out. Liu Xiuxiu hurriedly held him back, "Wait a minute, I really don't have a thousand, I only have less than a hundred, I'll give it all to you, if you still think it's not enough then I can't do anything about it, at worst I'll never admit it, and the police can't do anything to me!"
Curly stopped and looked at Liu Xiuxiu for a long time. Finally, he nodded in agreement. After getting the money, he quickly disappeared.
Looking at the direction where Curly left, Liu Xiuxiu stomped on the weeds on the roadside frantically until her anger subsided. Then she returned to her previous attitude and continued on her way to the Sun family.
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Fang Qing attracted attention again as soon as she entered the school with her new schoolbag. Compared with other students' green schoolbags, Fang Qing's new schoolbag was simply luxurious. Although many female students were afraid of Fang Qing's "violent temper", some of them were still brave enough to ask about it.
A short and plump girl approached timidly, talking to Fang Qing politely while stealing glances at the eye-catching new schoolbag. She followed Fang Qing all the way to the classroom door without taking her eyes off him. Finally, she couldn't help but pull Fang Qing aside to ask about the price of the schoolbag.
Fang Qing rolled his eyes and asked, "Student, how much do you think this schoolbag is worth?"
Xiao Pang blinked and looked at the beautiful schoolbag again. "Five, fifty cents?"
Fang Qing felt a little disappointed. It seemed that the price still could not meet her expectations. She could only reduce the original cost by paying for labor. While thinking about it, she returned to the classroom, completely forgetting the chubby girl who was still staring at the new schoolbag.
After a period of investigation and budgeting, Fang Qing finally came up with a processing flow plan, which minimized the processing steps and time. Now all he had to do was select a processing site, find the workers and sales channels, and things would be done.
But where can I find sales channels?
In her two lifetimes combined, Fang Qing had never been exposed to this aspect, let alone opening up the market and finding sales channels. Glancing at the book in her hand, Fang Qing lamented: Practice is indeed the truth!
Just when Fang Qing was looking worried, the fat classmate came again.
"Student Fang Qing, you haven't told me yet, where did you buy that schoolbag?"
Fang Qing was worried about the sales. Seeing that the little fat girl came again, she simply told her directly, "I didn't buy it. It was made by my family... um, my family processed it. Why, do you want it too? The price is not cheap..."
When Xiao Pang heard this, his eyes lit up immediately. He took out five dollars from his pocket and slapped them on the table. "Are these... enough?"
Fang Qing was stunned. She didn't realize that this little fat boy was so generous! However, she hesitated when she saw the money on the table. After thinking about it, she pushed the money back and said, "If you like it, I can ask my family to make another one for you. You just need to prepare the fabric and accessories yourself. We are all classmates, so I can't take your money."
Looking at the money being pushed back, Xiaopang got anxious and then pushed it back again, "No, my dad said that other people's labor results from hard work. You should give this money to the person who made the schoolbag as her wages."
The little fat girl looked silly, but I didn't expect her to be so talkative. The two of them started chatting back and forth. Fang Qing became more and more excited. It turned out that the little fat girl's father was a wholesaler who specialized in wholesale in Guangzhou. No wonder the little girl could easily buy things with money. It turned out to be like this...
"Well, this money will be used as a deposit. I'll go back and ask my family to help you with the process, and I'll return the rest of the money to you."
Xiao Pang smiled happily, his eyes narrowed into slits, "Okay, okay, my name is Wang Xuefei, from Class 4. If you're done, just let someone call me."
Holding five dollars, Fang Qing's heart beat faster with excitement. This was the first time in her life that she had held so much money. Looking at the money in her hand, Fang Qing became more and more confident. She took a leave of absence that day to go home and contact her aunt to discuss setting up a processing point.
The aunt came in a hurry after dark, and the two of them went into the house and started to work out the budget. Because the aunt worked in a textile factory, it was easy for her to find out the market price of fabrics. Then, based on the amount of fabrics she would use to sew a schoolbag for Fang Qing, the two of them worked until late at night and finally calculated the processing costs and labor costs.
The two of them were fiddling with their abacus, getting more and more excited. But Fang Qing suddenly realized a problem, "Auntie, where will our capital come from?"
Fang Cuiying's hand, which was working on the abacus, suddenly stopped. She looked over blankly and found her voice after a while. "How could I have forgotten about this... Hey, we don't have the money. Why are we getting excited here... Forget it, let's go to sleep first and think about the money tomorrow."
Fang Qing was so worried that he tossed and turned all night. The next morning, he got on his brother's bicycle with dark circles under his eyes.
Fang Ming was riding and laughing while looking at his sister's panda eyes. When he heard that his sister wanted to make school bags to sell, Fang Ming's first reaction was that his sister was fooling around again, but then he braked suddenly and stopped.
"What did you say? Borrow money? Qing, listen to my advice. There are a lot of things to learn in doing business. We can't touch it! Just study hard and don't think about anything else. If mom finds out, she will skin you alive..."
But Fang Qing made up her mind that she must give it a try.
(End of this chapter)
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