When Chu Yu entered, Zhang Ying was staring at her with the kind of look one gives a banknote, a look so blatant and worshipful that it made Chu Yu feel numb all over.
"What's wrong?" Chu Yu smiled.
Zhang Ying leaned closer, patted her shoulder, and asked as if in a dream:
"Chu Yu, you own this huge store?"
Chu Yu didn't hide anything. It wasn't something shameful. Everyone here is a student at Tsinghua University, and they will all have great things to achieve in the future. What's a clothing store?
Her classmates are all pioneers in their respective industries. They will become CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, heads of companies worth hundreds of billions, developers of various well-known software, and people who will change the world. Chu Yu has only lived one more life than others and has gained a slight advantage. She doesn't really think she's anything special.
"It's mine. We offer complimentary snacks and coffee. This coffee was brought from Hong Kong through someone. It's not expensive, but it's not easy to buy in mainland China. Why don't you try some?"
Chu Yu brought them a cup of coffee.
Zhang Ying felt like the world was turning into a fantasy. Her high school teacher said that if you have the ability, you must go to university.
She didn't understand this sentence at the time, until she was admitted to Tsinghua University and realized that going to university allowed her to see the diversity of the world.
Zhang Ying had good grades. Although she had repeated a year of high school, college entrance exams don't care whether you're a freshman or a repeat student; as long as you have good grades, you're a good student.
She scored high on the exam, which was outstanding in Harbin Province and H City. Although she wasn't the top scorer in the college entrance examination, she was still among the top students in the city.
I only realized after coming to Tsinghua University that my once dazzling self had become dim.
Tsinghua University is never short of outstanding students, and geniuses abound. When Zhang Ying was learning programming in computer class, she had never even touched a computer before, so she found it particularly difficult. However, her classmates could write programs on their own without being taught.
Zhang Ying was struggling financially, while Liao Xiaoqiao's monthly living expenses were only fifty or sixty yuan. Zhang Ying thought Liao Xiaoqiao's family was quite well-off, but Chu Yu had invested over ten thousand yuan to open this shop. In an era when people with ten thousand yuan were featured in newspapers, what did that mean?
Zhang Ying didn't even dare to think about it.
"Chu Yu, when you become successful in the future, don't forget the sisters who ate and lived with you," Zhang Ying said.
"Hang on their coattails," Li Miao said.
Chu Yu smiled and hugged the two of them. "Sisters, stop joking. We are students from Tsinghua University, the pioneers of this industry. We will do very well in the future. Have some confidence in yourselves."
The two of them chuckled.
The opening event was a grand affair, and the model show was a novel approach, even on a national scale. With the support of upbeat foreign music, a steady stream of customers poured into Mandarin.
Zhang Ying and Li Miao were initially reserved, afraid of being seen by acquaintances.
But with their hair permed, heavy makeup, and fashionable clothes they wouldn't normally dare to wear, no one recognized them. The two of them worked for two whole days until their legs were numb.
Fangfang settled their wages for the past two days.
Zhang Ying was quite happy to have earned 6 yuan in two days. She could send the money home so her daughter could have money for medical treatment.
Zhang Ying's daughter has a heart problem, possibly congenital heart disease. The medical facilities in Zhang Ying's husband's hometown are inadequate, and surgery has been delayed. Now the child is five years old, and if surgery is not performed soon, it will be too late.
Zhang Ying wanted to bring her child to Beijing for treatment, but unfortunately all her money had been spent on her daughter, and she didn't have any money left at the moment.
Chu Yu knew that Harbin Province was cold and winter came early, with snow piled up as high as a person, so he asked Shu Lan to make a set of down jackets and pants for girls and send them over.
Chu Yu took out the clothes, and Zhang Ying was stunned for a moment. The black hooded down jacket had black snowflake-shaped three-dimensional patterns on the chest and a raccoon fur trim on the hood, making it look exceptionally high-end.
And these two down pants are thick and warm; just touching them makes my palms sweat.
"Chu Yu, what's this?"
"These are for your daughter. They're all homemade, so there's no cost to them. Don't be shy about them."
Down isn't cheap, and Zhang Ying had never seen anyone wear a down jacket before. This down jacket had a lot of down filling, a nice design, and was simply unavailable on the market.
Zhang Ying's eyes welled up with tears, "Chu Yu, what's wrong with you...?"
“We’re all classmates, and your daughter should call me Auntie. I happen to work in the clothing industry, so I just made one for her. It’s really nothing, so please don’t take it to heart or feel guilty. Hurry up and send it back to your child. It will take several days to arrive in Harbin Province, and it will get cold soon if you don’t send it now.”
Zhang Ying didn't stand on ceremony with her, looking at the clothes in her hands, she choked up and said:
"Thank you, Chu Yu. My daughter is not in good health and gets cold easily, especially in winter. In previous years, my mother-in-law made her a cotton-padded coat, but it wasn't warm enough after wearing it for a while, and it was also bulky. My daughter always felt itchy and uncomfortable. With this down jacket, my daughter won't be afraid of the cold this year."
Chu Yu patted her shoulder.
Zhang Ying's life wasn't easy either. When she first enrolled, Chu Yu saw that she sent her subsidies home. When she went to the cafeteria, she would only get one serving of rice, drink the free soup, and eat it with pickled vegetables.
The academic pressure at Tsinghua University was immense. Zhang Ying studied diligently under the lamp, but she didn't eat well, and her face looked pale and sickly. Chu Yu couldn't bear to see her like this anymore.
We're all classmates, it's just a small favor, I'll help if I can.
Zhang Ying was so fond of the clothes that she later sent them home to her daughter, along with the money and the secondhand comic books she bought at a street stall.
The opening results in Chuyu were also good. In the first three days, it sold less than 20,000 yuan, which was not particularly outstanding and even less than the store in Deyang.
However, after a rain, the temperature in Beijing dropped, and down jackets entered their peak sales season.
Fang Fang works in the shop, and He Lu is in charge of design. In order to ensure that Mandarin's designs can keep up, Mandarin has set up its own design team in Beijing, led by He Lu, to select qualified architects from various universities in Beijing.
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