Chapter 142 Almost Stolen
"I'm just worried about you!" Chen Guilan felt relieved when she heard her daughter's voice. She didn't tell her about Su Houli looking for her. "By the way, your Aunt Qin hasn't been at the factory these days. She's on a business trip. She seems to be near the provincial capital. Give her a call. Maybe she can come back with you."
"Mom, don't worry about me. The provincial capital is so big. I'll go back as soon as I have time to look for Aunt Qin." Su Jiaojiao didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She knew that Chen Guilan still treated her like a child. "Okay, I won't talk to you anymore. I'm going to eat."
Qin Shuang's business trip was for official business.
She wouldn't bother her!
"Eat well. Don't be too frugal when you're out." Chen Guilan kept reminding him, "Don't wander around. Don't miss the train."
"I understand." Su Jiaojiao took out money to pay the phone bill. It also costs money to answer the phone.
After eating two meals of cold noodles, Su Jiaojiao didn't want to go to the cold noodle restaurant anymore. She walked around the street and went into a pie shop. It was already nine o'clock in the morning, but the pie shop was still crowded and she had to queue. Su Jiaojiao bought two pies, one meat and one vegetable, a bowl of eight-treasure porridge, a plate of small cold dishes and a tea egg, spending five yuan.
Eight Treasure Porridge is very sticky and sweet.
It suits Su Jiaojiao's appetite very well.
She was eating with gusto when she saw Wang Haixia and a man walk in, chatting and laughing. Wang Haixia didn't see Su Jiaojiao and went to buy pies and porridge in her high heels. She happened to sit at the table behind her. Su Jiaojiao heard her call the man "Brother Wang": "Brother Wang, I'm in a hurry to sell the batch of goods I just mentioned. Don't worry about the price. I'll give you this amount."
Wang Haixia dipped her finger in water and wrote two numbers on the table: "Is that good enough?"
"No problem." The man took the opportunity to squeeze her hand, with an ambiguous look on his face, "Don't worry, I won't let you down. I'll give you a kickback later."
"I believe in Brother Wang." Wang Haixia giggled, "I wish my husband was half as good as you."
"What are you talking about?" the man asked her maliciously.
"Go away and eat!" Wang Haixia said coquettishly, "Just keep it to yourself."
The two flirted for a while, and then started talking about the market and price of leather materials. Although they spoke in low voices, Su Jiaojiao could still hear them clearly. In the provincial capital, the Tianqiao Clothing Wholesale Market is not the largest and most comprehensive wholesale market, but the Crown Clothing Wholesale Market which is more than ten kilometers away. Although the Crown Clothing Wholesale Market is a newly built wholesale market in the past two years, it has government support and various favorable policies, which has attracted many merchants from all over the world to settle in.
They even discussed moving to the Crown Clothing Wholesale Market.
Perhaps, this matter was too private, so they just mentioned it casually and did not discuss it in depth.
If this were put into action, Du Pengfei and Wang Haixia's marriage would definitely be in jeopardy, or perhaps Wang Haixia just wanted to make more money and used this trick.
Whether it is the former or the latter, it cannot escape the word "leave".
After dinner, Su Jiaojiao continued to stroll around the Tianqiao Clothing Wholesale Market. After solving the leather problem, she did not go to the leather stalls, but went to the knitted clothing area. If she found suitable goods, she would take some back and sell them in the snack street. As long as the price was lower than Liu Wenzhi's shipping price, she would order some goods to take home.
Since we are taking the train anyway, it’s okay to carry less goods.
After walking around a few times and comparing prices, she decided to buy some more T-shirts to sell.
The shipping price of the short-sleeved T-shirts here is five dollars and fifty cents, and they also have printed words. They are only fifty cents more expensive per piece than the order she made at Jiali Garment Factory, and the quality is also good.
Su Jiaojiao took 200 items; she couldn't handle more than that. The owner, a middle-aged woman with a simple, gentle appearance, took out a simple calculator and beeped a few times, speaking in the local dialect: "A total of 1,100 yuan."
When she was paying, the owner kept looking at her with strange eyes: "Hey, little girl, these coins are too old, please give me new ones, I don't want the old ones."
"Boss, this money was just withdrawn, as long as it's intact." Su Jiaojiao looked at the money in her hand in confusion. There was no problem. She saw the owner kept looking behind her, so she turned around and looked back. Two men quickly walked away from her, and a pair of shiny tweezers flashed by, and her backpack was half opened.
After the two men walked away, the owner hurriedly asked Su Jiaojiao, "Little girl, come and see if anything is missing?"
"Thank you, boss. Nothing is missing." Su Jiaojiao only put a bottle of water, a book and a pack of tissues in her backpack. She kept her money and other things in her waist bag. Although she didn't lose anything, she was still a little frightened. These thieves were too rampant.
"Be careful when you're out and about," the owner whispered. "We're a long-term wholesaler with a fixed stall, so we don't dare offend them easily. We can only quietly remind you that people have their wallets stolen almost every day. We work so hard to earn a little money, who wouldn't feel bad?"
"Thank you, boss." Su Jiaojiao didn't feel like shopping anymore. She asked the owner to pack her bags and asked for her business card. After the little incident just now, the distance between the owner and her seemed to have suddenly become much closer. "Are you from out of town?"
"Yes, I'm from Jiao County." Su Jiaojiao asked her, "Do you have any delivery trucks going to our area?"
The logistics industry is not well developed now, and large trucks are generally government-owned. Only acquaintances can carry goods with these vehicles, and they are not market-oriented.
There are some individuals who travel long distances, but they are rare.
"Yes, they do, but their routes vary from day to day." The cargo owner understood. "If you want to ship something, you have to tell me in advance. I can find out if there's a truck running to your area and then send it to you."
"Okay, I got it." Su Jiaojiao thought it was too troublesome. It would be better to order the goods directly from Liu Wenzhi. It would be fine if she wanted a large quantity, but it would not be worth it if she wanted a small quantity. The clothing business is highly seasonal, and a delay of half a month will affect sales.
While talking, she picked up a few clothes and planned to give them to Chen Juan and Chen Xiaohong. She also bought a few for her and Chen Guilan. The owner of the goods also charged her according to the wholesale price. Su Jiaojiao folded the clothes and put them in her bag. She spent two dollars to ask the deliveryman to send them to the hotel front desk for her to keep. Then she went back to her room to take a nap and took a taxi to the train station.
When she arrived at the train station, she went to the window to ask about the train to Jiao County. If there were other trains, she could go back earlier.
The conductor said that there was only one train passing through Jiaoxian that day, at nine o'clock in the evening.
It's only five o'clock now, and there are still four hours to wait.
The waiting hall was already bustling with people, hot and noisy, and filled with businessmen carrying large sacks. The green benches were packed with waiting passengers. There were too many people and not enough seats, so some simply sat in the aisles waiting for the train. Laughter, playfulness, and the sound of people selling melon seeds and soda were heard one after another.
Su Jiaojiao sat on a seat against the wall, put two bags of clothes in front of her as a table, took out an English book from her bag, and silently memorized words. For four hours, she could do nothing but read. No matter what the environment was like, as long as she calmed down, she could turn a deaf ear to it.
After an unknown amount of time, a crisp voice of a little boy came over: "Sister, what book are you reading?"
"English book!" Su Jiaojiao finally looked up from her book. A little boy, about eight or nine years old, stood before her, studying the book with great interest. The boy was wearing casual sportswear, black leather sandals, and carrying a small white canvas bag. He pointed at the letters in the book and said, "I know this one. It's pronounced A."
"Oh right, so smart." Su Jiaojiao praised. She looked at the little boy again. It would have been fine if she hadn't looked at him, but as soon as she did, her heart started beating wildly. How could this little boy look so much like Chen Juan, especially his eyes? They were so similar. Even between his eyebrows, one could see the shadow of Chen Guisheng. This child... No way!
"Little brother, what's your name? How old are you?" Su Jiaojiao suppressed the excitement in her heart.
A middle-aged couple opposite was looking at him with a smile. They seemed to be the parents of the little boy.
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