Duo Duo's actions stunned Yan Qiuting and Yan Honglan, who were standing outside, for a full five minutes before they reacted.
Yan Qiuting asked Yun Duoduo in disbelief, "You bought this shop? Sister-in-law, are you kidding me? The owner just said he wanted eight thousand yuan to sell it."
For Yan Qiuting, eight thousand yuan was an astronomical figure.
Yun Duoduo had already prepared her explanation. She said, "I brought some money from home, and with the money we earned a few days ago, we're still short. We'll pay it back slowly."
Yun Duoduo was also certain that Yan Qiuting and the others wouldn't be able to ask her family members for the time being.
"Sister-in-law, do you have that much money at home?" Yan Qiuting and Yan Honglan were clearly a little incredulous, since the boss had just said he wouldn't sell it for a single penny less.
"My parents gave me this for self-defense when I left." Yun Duoduo waved her hand at the two of them and immediately changed the subject. "Don't worry about the money. I'll figure something out. You just need to think about how to make money in the future. This money has to be repaid. I'll consider it a loan from my family first."
This statement worked immediately, and the two were quickly swayed, nodding in agreement. "Yes, yes, we need to find a way to make money."
Although Yan Qiuting and Yan Honglan still couldn't believe they had a shop, now that they had the keys, there was nothing left to doubt.
Besides, owning your own shop, isn't that a wonderful thing?
The next moment, Yan Qiuting immediately realized the key point, "Sister-in-law, then, with this place, we won't have to think about where to set up our stall every day, and we won't have to rent a house to live in, right?"
Yun Duoduo nodded. "Yes, there are quite a few houses behind this shop. You two can live there from now on, watching over the shop during the day and guarding it at night."
“Okay, okay.” Yan Qiuting immediately started tidying up the yard, and asked as he did so, “Should we open for business today, or should we choose an auspicious day…”
This shop has everything.
There was fabric, sewing machine, and everything related to tailoring readily available; you could practically sit down and start working.
Yun Duoduo didn't understand anything about auspicious days. She said, "Don't delay. There's no time like the present. Let's open the door and do business now."
Opening the shop a day earlier means earning an extra day's worth of money. Besides, the shop has already received some orders from customers, and Yun Duoduo and Boss Zhou have already settled the accounts. The goods will be delivered to the customers in the next couple of days.
Yun Duoduo pointed to the front of the shop and said to Yan Qiuting and Yan Honglan, "I'll watch the shop today. You two go to the backyard to make scarves. We can gradually replace Boss Zhou's original products with our own handmade items."
Mr. Zhou mainly makes clothes for people and sells some handicrafts, because Mr. Zhou and his wife both knew how to embroider.
Yun Duoduo and her group aren't good at these things, so of course they need to bring in their own goods as soon as possible.
When Boss Zhou handed the shop over to her, he told her the bottom price of all the fabrics in the shop, as well as some other women like Sister Chunfang who had taken the goods but hadn't delivered them yet. Boss Zhou also told Yun Duoduo to take the goods and pay them.
Mr. Zhou said that some people really like those hand embroidered items, and every ten days or so someone comes to collect them. They can make a profit of 50 cents for each embroidered handkerchief, which is quite lucrative.
Therefore, while introducing her own products, Yun Duoduo also does this kind of embroidery outsourcing as long as she can keep doing it.
Moreover, she also has various fabrics for making handkerchiefs in her space, which means she saves on costs and naturally earns more.
In addition, several customers have ordered clothes and paid deposits. Boss Zhou has already finished making the clothes, and the customers will probably come to pick them up in the next few days.
Yun Duoduo tidied up the shop by herself and found that most of the clothes hanging in Boss Zhou's shop were autumn clothes. Apart from the clothes ordered by customers, there were no finished products for winter.
It's already late October, and Kyoto has long been cold; most people are wearing down jackets.
As luck would have it, Yun Duoduo had quite a few styles of cotton-padded coats in her space. She went into the space and took out a few new clothes.
At that time, there were no down jackets or anything like that; everyone wore cotton-padded clothes. She brought out a few big floral cotton-padded jackets to test people's reactions.
After tidying up her things, Yun Duoduo was about to go out to take a look when a voice suddenly rang out from outside the door, "Boss Zhou?"
Yun Duoduo turned around and saw a woman in her fifties, dressed in a blue khaki outfit and carrying a black bag, standing at the door, looking at her with a slight smile on her face.
Yun Duoduo guessed that this must be a former customer of Boss Zhou. She immediately went up to her, smiling and calling out, "Hello, Auntie, is there anything you need?"
The woman was somewhat surprised when she saw Yun Duoduo. After she walked in, she asked with a smile, "Are you a relative of Boss Zhou?"
Yun Duoduo shook her head. "No, something happened to Boss Zhou's family, so they sold the shop to me. Is there anything you want to buy?"
Upon hearing this, the woman looked at Yun Duoduo in disbelief and asked, "You've already sold it to me? It's so sudden. I never heard him mention it. I was here just a few days ago."
Yun Duoduo didn't want to talk about Boss Zhou's family affairs, so she simply replied, "Yes, Boss Zhou's family had some trouble in the last few days. He quit the business, so I took over the shop."
The woman seemed to understand. She nodded, then asked somewhat uncertainly, "It's like this, I ordered a cotton coat from Boss Zhou last time, and he said it would definitely arrive today, so what about you..."
Yun Duoduo immediately walked to the counter with a smile and looked through the notebook left by Boss Zhou. "Auntie, don't worry, Boss Zhou and I have already coordinated everything. What's your surname?"
The woman walked up to Yun Duoduo and quietly reported, "The Li family received a cotton coat and a black corduroy smock, and paid a deposit of ten yuan."
"Found it, Aunt Li, the clothes are here." Following the directions given by Boss Li, Yun Duoduo found the clothes on a shelf, took it down, and handed it to Aunt Li. "Try it on and see if it fits."
As she spoke, Yun Duoduo called Yan Qiuting out to watch the shop while she accompanied Aunt Li to the back to try on clothes.
In their backyard, there's a small house with mirrors, specifically for guests to try on clothes.
Aunt Li ordered a long black woolen coat, which is a very popular style in Kyoto this year. She held the coat with great affection and said with a smile, "I plan to wear this coat in the fall and try it out without my cotton-padded coat."
Yun Duoduo nodded, took the woolen coat from Aunt Li's hand, and told her to take off her coat, leaving her only in her underwear.
However, what Yun Duoduo didn't expect was that when Aunt Li took off her clothes, she saw a birthmark on Aunt Li's chest that was exactly the same as the one on her own chest.
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