After they left, the eldest sister turned back to comfort Chu Yu:
"Little girl, don't be angry! This kind of person deserves to be taught a lesson. If she spends a couple of days swinging a sledgehammer in our workshop, we can cure any ailment she may have!"
Chu Yu looked at her eldest sister gratefully, appearing as if she had been bullied but had no choice but to cheer up and continue doing business.
"You know, I sell buttons, my profits are meager, I only make a few cents or a dollar a day, what did I do to offend her that she has to come here and act tough?"
The eldest sister was heartbroken and yelled at everyone:
"This little girl only earns a few cents a day, how pitiful! And she's looked down upon. We're all family here, let's all support her!"
Chu Yu's business was already good; she didn't need to shout anything, and she could sell out of buttons in a day.
Thanks to Zhao Hanqiao's actions and the help of his older sister, all the buttons were sold out before 2 PM.
When it was time to pack up, all that was left to take home were two fertilizer bags. Chu Yu's cloth bag was bulging, and fearing that someone would notice, he specially wrapped the cloth bag inside the fertilizer bag.
Chu Xiang wasn't stupid; she didn't dare ask her sister how much money she had earned that day, so she quietly packed her things.
Just as the two finished packing their things, Chen Ping pulled a girl over.
"Comrade, I brought a friend!" Chen Ping glanced at the thin fertilizer bags on Chu Yu's car and was greatly disappointed. "Comrade, are you sure you're not out of buttons?"
Chen Ping's classmate was named Wang Xiao. She had a typical short student haircut, with her hair covering most of her face, making it difficult to see her features.
She was dressed fashionably, wearing a stylish plaid skirt and a polyester shirt, and her shoes were also the latest styles from the department store.
It's not surprising. Chen Ping said that Wang Xiao loves collecting buttons, which is similar to collecting washi tape, dolls, and doll clothes in later generations.
In 1983, there weren't many items on the market that allowed women to express their true nature; they were basically just yarn and buttons.
Buttons don't cost a lot of money, but if you really collect them, a box can be quite a lot. You also need relevant receipts, patience, and time to wait at the supply and marketing cooperative. Such people naturally don't have to worry about food and drink.
Chu Yu speculated that Wang Xiao and Chen Ping must have come from unusual family backgrounds to maintain such a spending hobby.
Chu Yu naturally wants to retain such a customer.
She smiled apologetically: "Today is a single day off, business is good, everything is sold out. How about coming tomorrow? I'll bring some new stock tomorrow, all styles are available, some buttons are even not available at the supply and marketing cooperative, perfect for collecting."
Wang Xiao hesitated slightly. She was studying at a teacher training college, and her schoolwork was very demanding. She only had time to come out at noon or in the afternoon.
"I have classes tomorrow, and I'm afraid that by the time I come, everyone will have already picked them all."
Chu Yu pondered for a moment: "Then tell me what kind you want, and I'll pick out the similar types when I get home tonight and save them for you! I absolutely won't sell to anyone else if you don't come."
Wang Xiao was a little embarrassed by her unexpected enthusiasm.
"Won't it be too much trouble for you? Picking out a few dozen buttons from so many is really not easy."
"It's alright, making money is never easy."
She was so open and honest that Wang Xiao thought she had a good personality, and smiled:
"I'm still missing some acrylic buttons in silver, gray, and royal blue. You can reserve more royal blue ones for me, as many as you have! I also need some shell buttons, and any other uniquely colored buttons you can reserve for me!"
"No problem!" Chu Yu readily agreed.
After seeing Wang Xiao and Chen Ping off, Chu Yu asked Chu Xiang to go to the Municipal Hospital to meet up with Shu Hui.
I then rode my bike to the button factory once.
The button factory was located locally, and fearing that her supply would be targeted, she deliberately drove around the city before entering the factory through the back door.
Chen Baifu had just come out of the workshop, dusted off his hands, and was about to wash them under the tap when he looked up and saw Chu Yu pushing a bicycle.
What brings you here?
"Section Chief Chen, I've come to purchase goods."
"Buying goods?" Chen Baifu glanced at her empty back seat and stared blankly for a while.
He originally thought that it would take at least a week to sell the more than three thousand flawed buttons. He thought that people who didn't know how to do business would be too embarrassed to hawk their wares, and it wouldn't be impossible for them to sell for half a month or a month. However, Chu Yu sold them all in just half a day.
Chen Baifu had to re-evaluate the young girl.
Their state-owned factories have many sister factories. For example, the garment factory where Shulan works needs several thousand buttons every day, which adds up to a considerable amount over a month!
Their buttons were also distributed to supply and marketing cooperatives and department stores across the country.
With such resource support, Baode Button Factory could only sell tens of thousands of buttons a day, and at most a hundred thousand.
But she, a naive country girl, sold more than three thousand pieces in half a day.
This person must either be a business genius or have a special sales channel. Either way, being able to achieve this level of success in a single day is a force to be reckoned with in the future.
Chen Baifu was a shrewd man, and he smiled with exceptional enthusiasm, "Young lady, you're amazing! At this rate, you're destined to make a fortune!"
"I wouldn't call it getting rich," Chu Yu said with a smile and a shake of his head. "To be honest, the reason I sold so quickly was because I sold them at low prices, which was practically giving them away for free. Cheap things naturally sell well, but you also earn less. I only made a little over a dollar all day!"
The young girl, new to the world, was naive and innocent, so Chen Baifu didn't suspect anything.
After all that talk, the only explanation for selling so many buttons is that they were cheap.
If a button only costs one cent, it's normal for it to be snatched up immediately. A dollar or two is nothing to him, but it's a lot to a little girl who has lost her father!
Several apprentices in blue work clothes passed by, their eyes fixed on Chu Yu's face, and they winked at Chen Baifu with their arms around each other's shoulders.
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