Zhang Cui was greeting guests when she heard the noise and hurried over. When she saw the woman standing at the door, a hint of impatience flashed across her face.
She shielded Zhou Sui behind her and said with a smile, "Sister Chen, what's wrong? Why are you so angry?"
As Zhang Cui spoke, she led the person to the side. There were still customers in the shop, and the shout she had just made had caused everyone inside to look out.
Even if someone passes by and wants to go in, they don't dare to go in when they see Sister Chen blocking the door like this.
"Don't touch me." Sister Chen shook off Zhang Cui's hand in an instant, clearly quite angry.
Zhou Yu and Zhou Dawu both gathered around, "Big sister, what happened? Did we offend you?"
He saw this woman calling out at the door just now, and if someone hadn't been paying at the time, he would have rushed over.
Seeing her aggressive demeanor, Zhou Dawu was not intimidated and stood directly beside Zhang Cui.
Four people in the shop surrounded her, all staring at her with hostile eyes. Sister Chen suddenly felt a little short of breath, but she didn't give up.
"Offend? You'd be offending someone big."
Zhang Cui was the one who had the most contact with her among these people. Seeing this, she turned to Zhou Sui and Zhou Yu and said, "You two go and greet the guests first. We can't leave them standing there."
The store was crowded today, and everyone gathered around, which really didn't work.
Zhou Sui and Zhou Yu understood, and the two turned around and went back into the shop to continue serving customers.
“Zhang Cui, I didn’t want to say anything about your opening today, but you’ve gone too far. People who had their eye on clothes in my store came to your store, took big bags and small bags, and left.”
"What do you mean? You're trying to steal my customers right after we opened?"
The person Sister Chen was referring to was the young, chubby girl that Zhou Sui had served before. She tried on two clothes in Sister Chen's shop, one of which fit, but she felt the price was a bit high and didn't buy it at the time, saying she would go and look around again.
Sister Chen didn't try to keep the girl, because she felt that the girl would come back to buy clothes sooner or later. Since it's not easy for someone with her figure to buy clothes, even if the girl offered her a price she could actually sell, Sister Chen hesitated and didn't budge.
Once the girl came out, she waited at the door, intending to call her back after the girl had wandered around and found no suitable match.
I watched for a long time at the door because the girl went straight to the Jade Clothing store next door. When she came out again, she was carrying big bags and small bags, which showed that she had bought a lot.
In Sister Chen's eyes, this customer was definitely going to buy clothes from her, so when the girl came out and passed by her shop, Sister Chen asked, "Young lady, would you like to buy that dress you just tried on?"
Perhaps because Sister Chen was rude when helping the girl try on clothes, the girl snorted at Sister Chen, "I'm not buying it. The clothes I bought next door are cheaper and prettier."
This infuriated Sister Chen. She had been so annoyed by the constant flow of people coming and going from next door all day, and now that she had a customer in the bag was going to buy clothes from someone else, Sister Chen rushed over to reason with them.
Upon hearing this, Zhang Cui was stunned. "Robbery?"
"Sister Chen, what you're saying isn't right. That person walked into my shop on their own. Did you expect me to go in and drag them over?"
"You're supposed to be a businessman, can't you be a little more reliable when you talk?"
When the renovation was going on recently, Zhang Cui was always the one who came to get the goods. At that time, she thought that as a newly opened shop owner, she should get along well with the neighbors so that she could ask them for help if anything happened.
I don't know if I was too easygoing back then, which made Sister Chen think I was easy to bully, and that she was picking a fight over something that hadn't been made up.
"What else is this but robbery? This street has its own rules. Anyone who likes my clothes is my customer. Even if they go to your store, you can't sell them clothes."
The rule that Sister Chen mentioned did exist in the past. Back then, when customers wanted to negotiate prices, the shop owners on this street reached a consensus: the price of the first shop the customer looked at would be the benchmark.
For example, if a customer sees a sweater and the price at the store is 20, then the next store they visit can't be cheaper than 20. So if the customer wants to buy it, they have to go back to the first store.
Ostensibly, they said they didn't want customers to disrupt market prices, but in reality, they didn't lack customers at the time.
But things are different now. There are more shops than customers now, so that rule is obsolete. When a customer comes in, everyone wants to make a sale, and they would never ask him to go to the next shop to compare prices.
Rumors are circulating in town that the clothing store owners on this street have driven away their customers.
Zhang Cui snorted coldly, "Sister Chen, I call you 'sister,' but don't treat me like a clueless little girl."
“I’m a mother of two. Before I opened this shop, I had set up a street stall in many places, but I’ve never met anyone as unreasonable as you.”
“You also own a shop. We can do business based on our abilities. If you’re willing to spend money outside, I can’t bear to.”
"Don't give me any of those stupid rules. Do you think I'm easy to fool? There weren't any of those rules when you came. You're really shameless to bring them up again."
"Let me tell you, today is my opening day, it's a good omen, and I don't want things to get ugly between us."
"Instead of coming here to cause trouble, you should go back to your shop and keep watch. Selling more clothes would be better than watching me here."
Zhang Cui had been keeping a close eye on this Sister Chen all day. She kept lingering at the shop entrance, craning her neck to look inside, not knowing what was so interesting about her.
"Da Wu, let's go, let's greet the customers." Zhang Cui didn't want to waste time here; she could have sold a few more clothes in that time.
"So that person is just going to ignore it?" Zhou Dawu turned around and saw Sister Chen spitting towards the door.
Zhang Cui sneered, "That's just how she is, she gets scared when there are a lot of people around."
During the preparation period, she was not idle either, and she got to know the personalities of the owners of several shops around her.
Sister Chen only relies on her fierce-looking face. If you stand up straight and are even fiercer than her, she will instantly lose her confidence.
Moreover, she can't stand seeing others do better than her. The shop that Zhang Cui is currently renting was previously run by a young girl who sold shoes, which doesn't conflict with Sister Chen's clothing at all.
But the young girl was kind and spoke in a pleasant tone, so her business was good. Sister Chen was envious and would pick fights with the young girl every few days.
That girl really has a good temper. She couldn't win an argument with Sister Chen, and Sister Chen's nagging even ruined her business. In the end, she had no choice but to move out herself.
Zhang Cui was not a gentle and easy-going girl. She came from the countryside, where the gossipy women and old women were much more formidable than Sister Chen.
Zhang Cui from the village wasn't afraid of anyone. Whether she could win or not, she would go up and fight. She would never back down.
If Sister Chen dares to cause trouble again, I definitely won't let her get away unscathed.
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