Chapter 37 So, will you also have so much money in the future that you can't spend it all?
I have new clothes and I've eaten all the good food.
The next day, Xie Zhizhi threw herself into making butterfly hair clips.
She bought the hair clips; they were ordinary black hair clips with springs, costing 15 cents a pair, and she bought twenty pairs.
She also bought some polyester fabric that she could sew into fabric butterflies and then stick on hair clips.
In addition, there are some hair ties; she can DIY hair ties using polyester fabric.
Filigree inlay is a family heirloom craft. She was exposed to it from a young age and started practicing it at the age of ten. After graduating from university, she chose design and worked there. She has more than 20 years of experience.
Now that he has a different body, it's all done with ease.
She finished making ten pairs of floral butterfly hair clips in one day.
She finished making the butterfly hair clips and polyester elastic bands in one night's overtime.
The next day, after loading everything up, Xie Zhizhi boarded a bus and made her way to the city.
People were coming and going at the entrance of the department store. Xie Zhizhi chose an intersection, put down a cardboard sign, and squatted down to sell her wares.
Polyester butterfly hair clips are 80 cents a pair, filigree butterfly hair clips are 1 yuan a pair, and polyester rubber bands are 50 cents each.
Xie Zhizhi squatted on the ground and started calling out, "Hair clips, hair clips for sale, pretty hair clips..."
As she called out, some people actually stopped to watch.
"This hair clip is eight cents?" A short-haired woman picked up a burgundy polyester butterfly hair clip and asked Xie Zhizhi.
Xie Zhizhi immediately nodded, "Yes, sister, you won't lose out or be cheated for eight cents."
She said, deliberately lowering her voice, "These are all goods that we don't have here!"
The woman looked at them and indeed liked them. "Give me a pair!"
Before Xie Zhizhi could help her put it on, she picked up the hair clip with the lace butterfly design. "This one is pretty too," she said, shaking it in her hand. The lace butterfly trembled on the hair clip, like a butterfly about to take flight. "It's too expensive. Can you make it cheaper?"
Xie Zhizhi looked troubled. "Sister, this really can't be cheap. It was made by an old master craftsman," she said in a low voice. "I heard he used to do work for the imperial court."
After saying that, she winked at the older woman, giving her a knowing look.
Xie Zhizhi also painted the wings of the silk butterfly, which looked really beautiful.
"Okay, okay, I'll take both, and my daughter can wear them alternately." The older woman readily started taking out her money.
Xie Zhizhi looked on with envy and said, "Sister, you really love your daughter."
As she took out her money, the older woman smiled and said, "Who doesn't love their own daughter dearly!"
Xie Zhizhi pondered this sentence: "Who doesn't love their own daughter?"
"Here, two yuan, please count it."
"Sister, come again next time!" Xie Zhizhi took the money, packed up the things for the guest, and happily saw her off.
Before she could think further about the "biological daughter" issue, someone else squatted down in front of her and asked, "How much are the rubber bands?"
"Five cents each!"
"So expensive?"
"It's not expensive, sis," Xie Zhizhi said, picking up a red one and tying it in her hair. "Sis, look, isn't this prettier than a red ribbon?"
"That red ribbon costs a dime!"
"You still need to do it yourself, look..." Xie Zhizhi quickly twisted it twice, "Done!"
She jumped up and down twice more, shouting, "Don't fall, don't scatter!"
"Give me one of these red ones, I'll take one!"
The other person bought it and then asked their friend, "Do you want it?"
"I'll take one too!"
Then business came in like a tidal wave. The polyester butterfly hair clips sold very well; ten pairs sold out in less than a morning.
The filigree ones were still a bit expensive; by lunchtime, we had sold five pairs.
Twelve rubber bands were sold, Xie Zhizhi sewed twenty more, and there were eight left.
Although there are still quite a few left, a lot have already been sold.
Ten pairs of butterfly hair clips, eight cents a pair, eight dollars for ten pairs.
Rubber bands are 50 cents each, twelve of them would cost six dollars.
Five pairs of floral butterfly patterns, one pair for one dollar and two cents, five pairs for six dollars.
I sold 20 yuan worth that morning.
Even without considering the cost, it's equivalent to half a month's salary for an average person.
Xie Zhizhi buried her head in the money bag, smelled the fragrance of money, and thought, "This is indeed an era where gold is everywhere!"
She loves the 1980s!
At noon, Xie Zhizhi sat down at a state-run restaurant, ordered herself a bowl of noodles, and had a lion's head meatball as a side dish. She thought, "Life is pretty good."
Business wasn't so good in the afternoon; we only sold three pairs of floral butterfly hair clips, and we still had three hair ties left.
The afternoon turnover was 4.9 yuan.
Xie Zhizhi went back without hesitation, carrying her bag.
She decided that from now on, she would sell in the morning and work in the afternoon.
Anyway, not many people buy anything in the afternoon.
As soon as she returned to the dormitory building, Xie Zhizhi started working.
When Wen Jinzhou came to ask her to get food, she didn't go. Instead, she gave Wen Jinzhou some money and said, "Could you please bring me some? I want to do more work."
Wen Jinzhou peeked into the house and asked, "Do you need any help?"
Xie Zhizhi shook her head. "Helping me get food is already a big help."
"From now on, I'll take care of your meals," Wen Jinzhou assured, patting his chest.
He was about to go downstairs when he said that he didn't intend to take Xie Zhizhi's money.
Xie Zhizhi quickly pulled the person back, saying, "If you don't want money, then I can't trouble you."
"I already feel bad about troubling you, and now you're offering to freeload a meal. I can't take that kind of shame."
"It's not a lot of money, you know, it's my money..."
Xie Zhizhi raised her hand, signaling Wen Jinzhou to stop talking, then put her hands on her hips and proudly told Wen Jinzhou, "To be honest, I earned twenty yuan today."
Wen Jinzhou "..."
"today?"
Xie Zhizhi thought for a moment and said, "Strictly speaking, it's only half a day in the morning. Business was bad in the afternoon. I only sold a few items, which only brought in a little over four yuan. I've decided that I won't go out in the afternoon anymore and will come back to work."
"All morning?"
"Twenty yuan?" Wen Jinzhou wondered if he had misheard.
"How much should that be in a month?"
"Based on a month of thirty days, it should be six hundred yuan!" Xie Zhizhi thought carefully.
Wen Jinzhou "..."
"So, will you have so much money in the future that you can't spend it all?"
Xie Zhizhi: Laughing wildly to the sky!
"That's how it is in theory."
Xie Zhizhi: People are definitely happiest when they're showing off.
Wen Jinzhou honestly accepted her money, saying, "Zhizhi, keep up the good work and earn even more money in the future."
Xie Zhizhi said confidently, "Yes!"
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That evening, Xie Zhizhi sewed more polyester elastic bands and polyester butterflies.
I was so busy that I didn't collapse into bed until after 10 p.m.
I woke up rubbing my eyes at six o'clock the next morning.
After washing up, I walked towards the cafeteria feeling very sleepy.
I bought two meat buns and a bowl of tofu pudding and headed back.
When Wen Jinzhou came to ask her what she wanted to eat, she had already finished a meat bun.
Wen Jinzhou: "You're up so early today?"
"Yeah, it's crowded in the morning."
"Then I'll go get breakfast."
Xie Zhizhi said, "How about I bring you breakfast from now on?"
People bring her dinner every day.
Wen Jinzhou waved his hand, "No need, no need, I'm fine."
"Just take care of yourself. If you need any help, just call me."
Xie Zhizhi clasped her hands in thanks to him, saying, "I am deeply grateful!"
Wen Jinzhou, being a bit of a goofball, returned her a fist-and-palm salute and said, "You flatter me!"
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