In the restaurant, Ruan Changsheng drank three full glasses of water.
After drinking and putting down the cup, he took a deep breath and said, "This Sun Wei is just a mean guy. I kindly told him to go to the south. He competed with us for half a year last year, but I ignored him. Who knew he would do this to me this year, bastard."
Ruan Cuizhi frowned and asked, "Where did he get those clothes?"
Ruan Changsheng took a deep breath again, "He asked someone to buy our clothes, and specially picked out some styles that are easy to sell. He took the clothes to the south to find a factory to make patterns and process them, and then dragged them back to sell."
Ruan Cuizhi thought for a while, "Can he make money with so much trouble?"
In addition to the cost of fabric materials, the factory manager has to maintain equipment and employees and make money. He has to pay the factory a lot of processing fees. The price of the clothes is cheap, and no matter how much you calculate, you can't make much money from them.
If it weren't for the poor quality of the fabric and the sloppy workmanship, you might even lose money.
Ruan Changsheng said, "After all, it's much better than before."
Ruan Xi didn't say anything. Qian Chuan looked at her and asked, "What can we do?"
Even if he didn't make a lot of money, he was disgusting. Just looking at his face, you want to beat him to death.
Ruan Xi shook her head: "There's nothing we can do for now."
At present, it is not possible to register trademarks, and everyone has no concept of infringement. No one will care about such things. Even in modern society, it is difficult to protect rights in this regard. If someone imitates a style without touching the trademark, it is difficult to sue. If someone is a little more scheming and slightly changes the details, such as changing the length of the skirt, it is even more impossible to sue.
No matter how big a brand is, as long as a hit product appears, someone will definitely copy it.
Counterfeiting and piracy are the most difficult things to fight.
Qian Chuan took a deep breath, "I really want to beat him to death."
Ruan Xi looked at her and said, "Don't worry, ignore him for now, let him copy it first, anyway, he can't copy anything good, customers who have quality requirements will not buy his clothes, it won't work when they wear them. Wait, if he continues to be arrogant and doesn't know how to restrain himself, and his courage is getting bigger and bigger, there will be a chance to punish him."
Ruan Changsheng took another big sip of water and put down the water cup with a bang, "I want to beat him to death now."
Ruan Xi looked at him again and said, "You can talk, but you can't do it again."
Beating him up to vent your anger is fine, you can't keep beating him.
After all, violence can't solve the fundamental problem, and it may even intensify the conflict and cause more unnecessary trouble. It’s not so easy to get into a fight now, but in two years, when the crackdown begins, it won’t be as easy to go to the police station. After
this fight and being scolded by the police at the police station, Ruan Changsheng and Qian Chuan were no longer in the mood to set up a stall. After dinner, they didn’t go to the street again. They dragged the goods and went home with Ruan Cuizhi. They
rested at home for half a day and adjusted their mood and state. In
the early morning of the next day, they were resurrected with full blood. With the moon and the morning star on their heads, they went to the city to continue setting up a stall.
After occupying a stall on the street, Ruan Changsheng and Qian Chuan had just set up the stall and had no time to hang up their clothes when they heard a whistle from the other side of the street. They looked over together and saw the man in the bat shirt, Sun Wei, setting up a stall opposite.
He had been avoiding them when setting up his stall before, but after going to the police station yesterday, he became directly arrogant. Not only did he sell their clothes, he also set up his stall directly opposite them and deliberately whistled to provoke them.
Ruan Changsheng was instantly furious and clenched his fists.
Of course, he was angry, but he was also rational. If he beat Sun Wei again, he would have no business for the day. It was not worth it to ruin his own business for such a person, just to vent his anger.
Qian Chuan took a deep breath and calmed down, and said aloud: "Don't pay attention to him."
Ruan Changsheng naturally ignored him and turned around to continue hanging his clothes. After hanging up the clothes, he sat down by the stall to rest for a while, and started the busy day when more people gradually came to the street.
Sun Wei had been provoking them all day, whistling over here every time he sold a piece of clothing.
At noon when there were few people around, he wore a pair of spectacles and said to Ruan Changsheng, "Brother, these clothes are not yours, why are you so angry? You can sell them but I can't? Why can only you make money?"
Ruan Changsheng sneered at him, "You make a lot of money, and you can only drink soup."
Sun Wei took off his spectacles, "Don't provoke me, maybe one day I will make more than you."
Qian Chuan sneered, "Just relying on your rag-like clothes? You'd better save money."
Sun Wei put on his spectacles again, "Then let's ride on the donkey and watch the show - let's wait and see."
On Saturday evening, Ruan Xi and Li Xiaofang finished their meal in the cafeteria, went back to the dormitory to pack up a little, picked up their schoolbags and left the school. She rode her bike to the countryside, where the five girls were packing up and going home.
Although they all tried their best to work overtime, Yue Haofeng set a time limit so that they would not work too late. Some girls were so energetic that they would work all night without going to bed.
After the girls left, Ruan Xi called Ruan Cuizhi, Ruan Changsheng, Yue Haofeng and Qian Chuan to a meeting.
Dabaozi and Ruan Yue had already gone to bed, so no one disturbed them.
Ruan Xi took out her sketchbook from her schoolbag, opened a page, put it on the table and said, "I collected information at school and drew a logo. From now on, all the clothes we make will have this logo sewed on them."
Ruan Changsheng reached out and took it, took a look, and said, "Rose Pavilion?"
Ruan Xi nodded, "Yes, uncle, take this picture I drew to the manufacturer and talk to them about the production logo. I have marked the fabrics and sizes very clearly. It's not something complicated."
Yue Haofeng responded and took the sketchbook from Ruan Changsheng.
Ruan Xi said to Ruan Cuizhi: "After the logo is produced, we will sew this logo on the back of the collar of each piece of clothing, inside the clothing, so that it will not affect the appearance of the clothing."
Ruan Cuizhi actually didn't know what it was, but she nodded.
Finally, Ruan Xi said to Ruan Changsheng and Qian Chuan: "When you go out to sell clothes, mention our logo more often so that everyone will remember the name of Rose Pavilion and tell them that only the clothes sold in our stall are authentic. Even if other stalls sell the same clothes as us, they are all fake and not authentic."
Ruan Changsheng and Qian Chuan didn't understand.
Ruan Changsheng asked in a hissing voice: "Are there real or fake clothes?"
Qian Chuan followed up with: "This... can it be used?"
After all, when people buy clothes, they look at the style, quality and workmanship. No one cares where the clothes come from. Whether it is real or fake is out of the question. No one will buy clothes just because of a logo.
Moreover, if such complex clothes can be imitated, this small logo will be even easier to imitate. Even if someone really recognizes this logo, a jerk like Sun Wei can make and sell the logo together.
They say theirs is authentic, and Sun Wei can also say his is authentic.
Ruan Xi said, "It may be useless for now, but it will be useful in the future. Just do what I say."
Ruan Changsheng and Qian Chuan nodded, "Okay."
It's just something to mention when selling clothes, so it's not a big deal. It would be great if it could be useful, but they think this thing is most likely useless and cannot prevent villains like Sun Wei.
In a period of time when everything is waiting to be revived, many things change at the slightest sign of trouble.
After Ruan Changsheng and Sun Wei competed for another half a year, other clothing stalls appeared on the street one after another. However, they all saw that selling this could make money, so they saved some money and went to the south to trade some back.
But the situation of each stall is different, some sell well and some don’t.
When Ruan Changsheng and Qian Chuan were selling clothes, they mentioned the Rose Pavilion for half a year and found that it was actually effective. Many old customers remembered the name, and others came for word of mouth and bought their clothes specifically.
Of course, what was expected to happen also happened.
After closing the stall in the evening, Ruan Changsheng threw two skirts on the chopping board, "The name is also stolen."
Ruan Xi picked up the skirt and looked at it. After turning over the collar, she saw the same logo as on their clothes.
Ruan Changsheng said: "There are not many bad people, but that Sun Wei, who caught us and snatched us. I think he should just change his name to Sunzi. Seeing that there are customers who recognize our name, he also added the logo. Isn't he a scumbag!"
Old customers will certainly not be fooled by him, because they have identified Ruan Changsheng and Qian Chuan. But there are more people who don't know, maybe they heard that the clothes of Rose Pavilion are good, and they bought them when they found Sun Wei.
Although he is slow to imitate and can't keep up with the speed of their new models, it still makes people want to hammer him to death.
Ruan Xi was not excited, she just said: "Let him be a bitch for a while."
During the two-month summer vacation, Ruan Xi stayed in the countryside and hardly went out, and the time passed quickly. This is her last summer vacation in college. After this summer vacation and another semester, she and Ruan Jie will graduate.
After the beginning of autumn, the air becomes cooler in the morning and evening, but it is still hot at noon. After
lunch, Ruan Xi did not sleep, but worked in the workshop with Ruan Cuizhi and others.
Just after one o'clock in the afternoon, someone suddenly knocked on the door.
Yue Haofeng had nothing to do and was taking care of the children, so he went out to greet them at the gate.
The people who came to the house were cadres from the village. Since Ruan Xi and her friends had lived here for a year and a half, they knew everyone in the village more or less. So Yue Haofeng greeted them directly with a smile: "Director Liu, what can I do for you?" Director Liu
was accompanied by two other people. They said to Yue Haofeng: "The rules have become stricter recently. Country people are not allowed to mess around with homesteads. There are strict regulations on the area of homesteads and the amount of homesteads each family can own. If we want to manage them, we have to register them. So we will measure and count each family."
Ruan Xi heard these words in the house and hurried out.
Director Liu and two people went to measure the land. Ruan Xi went to Director Liu and asked, "If the area of the existing homestead exceeds the specified area and the quantity, will the village take it back?"
These houses in the countryside do not have property certificates, and the main thing to look at is the right to use the homestead.
Director Liu said, "Of course not, they are all the property of each family, so it is not urgent to take them back? In the past, it was easy to mess around. No matter how big or how much, it counted. Now just register it. After a while after the statistics, go to the village committee to apply for the homestead use right certificate. This must be done."
Ruan Xi smiled after hearing, "Okay, I know, thank you."
With the homestead use right certificate, the house, yard and vegetable garden are clearly hers.
The other three places she bought must also be recorded.
Yue Haofeng went into the room, poured a glass of water, and handed it to Director Liu.
Director Liu took the cup and drank a sip of water, then looked into the main room and asked, "I see you are very busy every day. You make so many clothes. Are you going to sell them in the city? Are you making money?"
Yue Haofeng smiled and said, "It can barely support a big family."
Director Liu put the empty cup of water back in his hand, "You guys have ideas too. We country people don't have that ability. We can only sell some agricultural and sideline products. But there is a guy who sells roasted nuts and has made a fortune. It is said that he sold one million a year."
Yue Haofeng was deliberately shocked: "One million?"
Last year, because there was no competition in the market, the money they sold was actually not much.
Director Liu looked at him and smiled, "Who knows whether it's true or not? Stop spreading it. There must be some water in
it. He was reported for arousing jealousy before, but the higher-ups didn't punish him. The world has really changed. Money has become a good thing." In the past ten years, everyone really regarded money as dirt, and dared not touch it for fear of bad luck. But now, everyone is racking their brains to think of how to make money. People look down on those who have no money.
Director Liu stood and talked to Yue Haofeng and Ruan Xi for a few words. After the two men measured the land, they went to the next house.
Ruan Xi and Yue Haofeng saw him out together, then went back to the house and sat down, happily burying their heads in work.
But happiness belongs only to Ruan Xi, not to Ruan Changsheng and Qian Chuan. Because the two of them set up a stall on the street, they wanted to beat Sun Wei to death every now and then, and wanted to peel off his skin and pull out his tendons, and fork him into the pond to feed the fish.
If he was selling fakes quietly, it would be fine, and he would not be angry if he didn't see it, but because Ruan Changsheng and Qian Chuan couldn't do anything to him, he was particularly arrogant, jumping in front of them from time to time to do something naughty and provoke Ruan Changsheng and Qian Chuan.
Qian Chuan said to him: "People like this will be struck by lightning sooner or later!"
What a jerk!
Ruan Xi had her own plans in mind, but the time had not come yet, so she didn't pay too much attention to it. She studied hard and completed her last semester's courses smoothly and completed her four years of college smoothly.
Ruan Jie also got her diploma smoothly like her.
After bidding farewell to the campus with her schoolbag on her back, Ruan Xi saw Xu Zhuo as she was pushing her bicycle out of the school gate.
Xu Zhuo was sitting on the bicycle with one leg on the ground, and his other foot was pedaling in the air. I don't know how long he has been waiting outside.
Because Ruan Xi was very busy running back and forth, she had not seen Xu Zhuo very often in the past few years. But when they met, they were not unfamiliar. She pushed her bike directly to Xu Zhuo and greeted him: "Are you looking for me?"
Xu Zhuo raised his head when he heard the voice, "Then who are you looking for?"
Ruan Xi smiled at him, "I'm going to pick up Xiao Jie, let's go together."
So the two of them rode their bikes together and went to Ruan Jie's school.
When they arrived at the gate of Ruan Jie's school, they didn't wait for Ruan Jie, but saw another person first.
Ruan Xi was so shocked that she was stunned for a long time before she said, "Chen Weidong?"
After asking, she turned to Xu Zhuo and asked, "Did I recognize you correctly?"
Chen Weidong answered himself, "No, Comrade Ruan Xi, long time no see."
Ruan Xi was about to ask him why he was here, but before she could open her mouth, Ruan Jie came out of the school gate.
Chen Weidong waved when he saw her and called her, "Little girl, come here."
Ruan Jie ran over with a smile, "What a coincidence, you are all here."
Ruan Xi looked at Ruan Jie, then at Chen Weidong, and asked, "Why is he here?"
Ruan Jie cleared his throat, raised his hand and scratched his head, and said after a long time, "Well... he returned to his hometown after serving in the army and worked there for a year. During this summer vacation, he was transferred to the Public Security Bureau here..." He
has been working here for half a year?
Ruan Xi was stunned, pointed at Ruan Jie and then at Chen Weidong, "You two haven't already..."
Ruan Jie hurriedly said, "No! I haven't agreed yet!"
Chen Weidong was very confident, "But soon."
Ruan Xi looked at Ruan Jie and Chen Weidong, clicking her tongue again and again. She suddenly remembered what people said - love in this era is holding hands for a lifetime, and loving only one person for a lifetime.
Chen Weidong and Ruan Jie now seem to have the same idea.
Ruan Jie blushed at her words and quickly changed the subject and asked, "Do you want to go out for dinner together?"
Since they met, why not go out for dinner together.
Ruan Xi had no objection and turned to look at Xu Zhuo.
Xu Zhuo said, "Let's go."
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