Chapter 202 She owed him a favor in business
Su Jiaojiao then told Chen Guilan that she planned to go to the northwest to sell leather jackets during the summer vacation.
She knew Chen Guilan must be worried about her: "Mr. Lu said the weather there is cooler than here. The temperature drops around the beginning of August, and July is just the right time to go there and sell leather jackets."
"How did you get in touch?" Chen Guilan had never heard Su Jiaojiao mention Lu Jingyou.
"Mom, I have a cell phone!" Su Jiaojiao said frankly, "Boss Lu and Wang Hua all have cell phones, so it's normal for us to contact each other!"
"It's too far." Chen Guilan was reluctant to let her go when she heard it. "Actually, we can sell it here slowly. If that doesn't work, we can let Ding Mei and the others make plain knitwear."
"Mom, you've met Mr. Lu. Are you worried about him or me?" Su Jiaojiao knew Chen Guilan would say this.
"It's not that I'm worried about anyone, it's just too far. How can I be at ease with a little girl like you running so far?"
Chen Guilan thought of what Su Houli had said when he came to see her, and sighed, "Jingjiao, I'm actually very content with my current life. I don't seek wealth and fame, I just want peace and safety for my mother and me. If you think the return on investment is too slow, we can buy back the stall at Hualian Shopping Mall. We can still sell goods there."
"Mom, you're overthinking it. I wouldn't go to the Northwest rashly. I made sure I had done some research before going." Su Jiaojiao saw Chen Guilan's nervous expression, as if she wouldn't come back. She smiled and said, "After the summer vacation, I'll be a senior in high school. I'll be going to college next September. If I don't even dare to go to the Northwest, then why would I go to college?"
"These are two different things." Chen Guilan felt that their conditions were now many times better than before. They had a house and a branch office.
Ding Mei and the others said that this outlet alone was enough for them to live on, whether it was rented out or used for business.
"Mom, you don't have to persuade me. I have made up my mind." Su Jiaojiao believed Lu Jingyou. He must have found out the price before telling him. The reason why he asked her to send samples was to reassure her.
All things are difficult at the beginning, and the initial accumulation of funds is the most difficult.
Especially the three stages from 0 to 10,000, 10,000 to 100,000, and 100,000 to 1 million, need to be repeated several times, climbing up in a spiral.
She started from scratch, but she couldn't rely on herself alone. She also had to rely on the support of Chen Guilan and the help of Ding Mei and others.
Then it’s not impossible for her to borrow some strength from Lu Jingyou.
She would slowly repay him for the business favor later.
At the beginning of July, Lu Jingyou returned from Northwest China. He got off the plane at Qingyuan Airport and Qi Heng drove to pick him up. As soon as they met, Qi Heng complained to him, "You are disloyal. You act like a big shot in Northwest China, and you leave me here to suffer. I have lost ten pounds in the past six months."
"I've been eating sand in the northwest for most of the year. Why didn't you tell me?" Lu Jingyou was much darker than before, his skin tanned to a wheatish color. "If my old man hadn't refused to give in, I would have come back long ago."
"You're coming back this time, aren't you going back?" Qi Heng was very excited. "Don't go back, buddy, I really can't stand it anymore."
"In another six months, things will be over there, and I won't be back until next year." Lu Jingyou leaned on the passenger seat and closed his eyes to rest. "You work hard for another six months, and I'll give you a vacation when I come back."
"Half a year..." Qi Heng took a deep breath, "You'd better transfer me to the northwest. I don't want to be alone here. You don't know how difficult the early work is. Now those stubborn households haven't been negotiated yet, and they're waiting for you to come back and solve them!"
"If we can talk, then talk. If we can't, forget it." Lu Jingyou was already used to these things and said calmly, "Come up with a few more plans. Why do you have to wait for me to come back for such a small matter?"
"You're the boss, who else should I wait for if not you?" Qi Heng skillfully steered the wheel, smirking and changing the subject. "Hey, how are you and that little girl of yours?"
"What happened?" Lu Jingyou closed his eyes and rested.
"Stop pretending, I don't know you!" Qi Heng chuckled, "I guess you miss me every night because of seeing things like that?"
"Don't talk nonsense in front of her from now on." Lu Jingyou lowered the light shield and continued to close his eyes to rest. "She and I are just ordinary friends."
"Humph, I'd be a fool to believe you!" Qi Heng sneered, "You don't have a girlfriend anyway, so why are you afraid to admit it?"
Lu Jingyou stopped talking.
Qi Heng was disappointed and continued driving.
The weather is getting hotter.
The No. 1 Middle School of the city welcomed the summer vacation amid the loud and tense chirping of cicadas.
On a day off in the afternoon, Su Jiaojiao rode her bike back home at almost the speed of a 100-meter sprint. She didn't even go to Ding Mei's place. She went upstairs, took a quick shower, and threw herself on the bed to sleep.
In order to prepare for the final exams, she went to bed at midnight almost every night and was severely sleep deprived.
She slept well until the next morning. Chen Guilan bought a fan for Su Jiaojiao and moved it into her bedroom. With the fan, it was not so hot at night.
Chen Guilan fanned herself with a palm-leaf fan. She felt that it was not so hot at night with the window open, at least it was cooler than in the village.
Su Jiaojiao felt that Chen Guilan was the type who was willing to endure hardship. A fan cost more than 100 yuan, which was not something she could not afford. Before noon, she went to the department store and bought another fan, which she left with Chen Guilan.
She has a fan at night, but her mother doesn't, so she can't sleep well.
She originally planned to install an air conditioner, but it was too expensive, so she thought about it and decided to give up and wait until next year!
When she came back, she was sweating again. She took a shower, changed her clothes, and prepared to go to the workshop downstairs to see Ding Mei and the others.
The workshop is even more stuffy and hotter. I heard that Ding Mei bought several fans and placed them in the workshop to cool down the air. Just look at how aware he is.
Su Jiaojiao had just changed her shoes when someone knocked on the door.
"Who is it?" Su Jiaojiao opened the door.
It turned out to be Qin Xiuming. Seeing Su Jiaojiao's surprised expression, he hurriedly said, "We just got back today too. Your mother is at my house. She called you but you didn't answer, so she asked me to come and call you."
"Got it. I'll be there right away." Su Jiaojiao forced a smile. "You go back first. I'll be there soon."
As long as Qin Xiuming doesn't provoke her.
She just treated him as Qin Shuang's son, nothing more.
"Okay." Qin Xiuming turned around and went downstairs.
Su Jiaojiao went to the workshop downstairs and took a look. Her batch of orders had basically been completed, with only a few returned items left, which would be finished in the afternoon.
What they are working with now is the leather left over from Ding Mei's family. Ding Mei didn't want to keep it, so she cut thirty or forty pieces of men's clothing and took advantage of this gap to make finished products. When the time comes, they can sell them for some money, so they can have more money on hand.
Su Jiaojiao looked at Ding Mei's men's clothing samples. Some were made of cowhide and some were made of sheepskin, both of which were more expensive than pigskin. The style was similar to the one she had made for Wu Youliang before, except that the lining was changed to cotton.
The market price of this kind of leather jacket is about four or five hundred yuan.
"This is all I have left, and it's enough to pay off some debts," Ding Mei said self-deprecatingly. "They say a lean camel is bigger than a horse, and a broken boat still has three thousand nails. I calculated, and it can only be sold for tens of thousands of yuan."
"Whatever we can sell is what we can sell." Su Jiaojiao expressed her understanding. She estimated that Ding Mei could make these leather jackets in about a week, so she said to Ding Mei, "I'm going to the northwest in a few days. If you finish this batch of work and I don't come back, you can take a few days off to rest."
"That's what I meant." Ding Mei'ao's eyes were red. "We haven't had a break in the past three months. It's a good time for us to take a break and do work whenever there is work!"
After chatting with Ding Mei and the others for a while, Su Jiaojiao went to the store next door to buy some fruits and took them to Qin Shuang's house.
Qin Shuang and Chen Guilan hadn't seen each other for a long time and had a lot to talk about.
Qin Xiuming couldn't get a word in. He lay in the bedroom listening to music. When he saw Su Jiaojiao again, he had an indescribable feeling in his heart. There was affection, helplessness, and more of a sense of resentment.
He had a girlfriend in college, but they broke up in less than half a year.
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