Chapter 321 They Are Not Fools
The next morning, Chen Yi had breakfast and prepared to go out.
He Shuyun stopped her and said, "Chen Yi, come back early this afternoon. Jianjun is bringing his girlfriend over for dinner, and they're planning on setting a date."
She said this with a happy expression on her face.
Her youngest son's lifelong event was finally settled, and she was very happy.
Hearing this, Chen Yi nodded, "Don't worry, aunt, I will go home early."
I didn't expect that the two of them were making such rapid progress. The last time this matter was brought up, it was because Fang Xiaoli didn't agree because she felt she had nowhere to live.
She didn't think that he was being realistic. After all, they would have nowhere to live after getting married. She couldn't take Wang Jianjun to live with the Fang family, right?
Even if the Fang family agreed, Chen Yi still looked down on Wang Jianjun. Fortunately, this man knew how to buy a house, otherwise it would be too spineless to do so.
If you love someone, you have to do your best to give him/her everything you can. How can you get married if you can't even give him/her a home?
When he arrived at the office, Zhou Zhengyang had already cleaned up the office and even got the hot water back.
Chen Yi made herself a cup of tea and sat in a chair to rest.
I looked at the time. It's still early. I can just wait until Director Li finishes his meeting before we get down to business.
At 8:30 in the morning, Zhou Zhengyang came five minutes early to tell her to go to the meeting.
The conference room was full of people, and Chen Yi found her usual seat and sat down.
Seeing Director Li come in, the two men nodded as a greeting.
It is a daily routine to have meetings at 8:30 in the morning, so what we talk about is always the same.
After the meeting, Director Li motioned for her to wait a moment, then he explained things to other people and the two of them went to the director's office.
After pouring the water, the secretary closed the door and left.
"Director Chen, you didn't come back with everyone yesterday. Is there something wrong?"
Generally speaking, it is not convenient to ask more about such things, but Director Li knows that Chen Yi works very hard, and if it is not work-related, she will not stay in Baicheng alone and not come back.
That's why he thought of asking after the meeting if there was anything they could discuss.
Hearing this, Chen Yi was not surprised that he could guess it, and nodded and said, "When I went to the second factory of Baicheng Garment Factory, I saw that the fabrics in their workshop were a little special, so I wanted to stay and find out if there was anything special."
"Is there any news?" Director Li asked with a raised eyebrow.
I knew before that the clothes sold at Baicheng No. 2 Factory were very good, but I didn’t know what was different about them.
Chen Yi looked at him and said, "I haven't seen any of their fabrics in the Baicheng Textile Factory. There's nothing similar."
"No?" Director Li frowned and asked, "Is it from another province?"
This is not impossible. In order to make a breakthrough in clothing, many purchasing comrades will travel around the country to see if there are suitable fabrics with favorable prices.
"No." Chen Yi pursed her lips, "This fabric is imported from Hong Kong, and it seems to be very expensive."
"Hong Kong?!" Director Li looked at her in surprise. "That's impossible. How can there be any profit if the price is high? And we need foreign exchange."
It is impossible to use the money here to buy imported fabrics, and those who do foreign trade are not fools.
This made him very confused. It was a bit strange to import fabrics for foreign trade. How could the director of the Baicheng Garment Factory agree to this?
In fact, when it comes to this, Chen Yi doesn't understand, but she has a guess.
She couldn't say this, so she could only change the subject and said, "No matter what, the problem of fabrics is impossible to solve. Besides, the printing machines in Hong Kong are better, and they are all imported. We can't imitate them here, so we can only find another way."
The machine is custom-made, so you can't just print whatever you want.
After hearing her words, Director Li felt worried. It was easy to say, because the market here basically only looks for factories with which they have frequent cooperation.
Their orders are already a lot for a small factory, but it is still not enough, less than half of that of a large factory.
Of course, what is referred to here are only orders from the mainland, not foreign trade.
In the 1990s, a special company was set up for foreign trade, otherwise they wouldn't have to work so hard.
If you want good fabrics or other things, you can just go to the company, but now you can only figure it out yourself.
Seeing Director Li's gloomy face, Chen Yi smiled and said, "Director Li, there's no need to be like this. Although our factory doesn't have a good source of goods, we can still innovate."
"Besides, they make small profits but quick turnover. Without considering these, I'm afraid that if they sell 50,000 pieces, they will only make as much profit as we do with 20,000 pieces."
"By the way, how many orders have been placed for this winter?"
She was extremely busy during this period and didn't know much about it.
Director Li didn't think about it any more and replied, "Not a lot, just over 20,000 pieces in total."
In the past, 20,000 pieces in a quarter was a luxury, but now it is not a lot.
After saying this, he felt a little emotional. Things were really different.
Hearing this, Chen Yi nodded, "It's OK, let's make a breakthrough in the spring. When will the purchasing department go on a business trip to select fabrics during this period? I want to go and take a look."
Even if you can't find fabric as good as theirs, you can use something else.
To be honest, the fabrics the factory has been ordering now are not enough to support her designs.
Otherwise, if the clothes produced by Baicheng Garment Factory No. 2 were to be designed like hers, they would be able to sell more?
There is a reason for this.
"I'll ask and let you know when the time comes." Director Li replied.
Winter is approaching and it has been particularly cold in the past few days. It has already snowed once in other places.
Chen Yi returned to the office and sat in a chair, thinking.
It's not that she hadn't thought about it, that the batch of fabrics from Baicheng Factory No. 2 might have been purchased privately.
But they can't do that. Sometimes success comes with danger. It's better to proceed step by step. They are not completely without any ability.
Looking at the calendar on the table, Chen Yi felt that time was quite tight as the Chinese New Year was only two months away.
Since she started working, she felt that time passed particularly quickly, not just in the factory.
Looking back, my eldest daughter is already three years old, and will be four after the New Year.
I really can't look back. If I look back, I will find that I am also a mother.
Chen Yi smiled. It was not without gain. She had two children and a man who loved and cared for her.
There are also relatives, colleagues and friends who care about her, which is great.
In a blink of an eye, it was time to get off work. Chen Yi packed up her things and left with her bag.
When she went out this morning, He Shuyun reminded her that Fang Xiaoli would be at home today.
We will be relatives in the future. We were friends originally, and now we are even closer.
This girl is pretty good. She looks very down-to-earth. I hope the two of them can be together happily.
Thinking back to the first time I saw Fang Xiaoli, I thought she was a child, but now she is in her twenties.
The two are the same age, and he is just about to get married, but she is already a mother of two children...
Really not resistant to mixing...
(End of this chapter)
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