Chapter 39 [39] Owning my own shop
Li Mu didn't count on the police. There were a lot of theft cases these days, and most of them were left unresolved.
If you want to intimidate these bastards, you have to let them know how to be afraid.
Tang Yuanyuan still insisted on calling the police. After all, Li Mu was too reckless in his actions. If something really happened, the rest of his life would be ruined.
Tang Yuanyuan went to the police station to report the case early in the morning. When the police came to check, they found that the bloodstains had been cleaned up. They told her that if something like this happened again, the scene should be preserved. They only took away two bloody mousetraps and asked Tang Yuanyuan to wait for the result.
Tang An munched on an apple and mimicked the policeman's tone, "We'll solve the case as quickly as possible. We'll let you know when we have further news."
"You see, I knew it was like this."
Tang Yuanyuan: "Li Mu, you were lucky to have caught the thief last time."
"Don't fight unless it's absolutely necessary."
"Whether you hurt others or yourself, you will pay the price. This is a society ruled by law."
Li Mu sneered, "They only punish the honest people. I only see those who break the law enjoying a good life."
Tang Yuanyuan didn't know how to respond to her for a moment. She always felt that as a human being, one must abide by the law.
"I know what's going on."
"That's long-winded."
After saying this, Li Mu rode his bike out.
Tang Yuanyuan: "Where are you going?"
Li Mu: "Go find the murderer."
Tang Yuanyuan: "Do you have your keys? I'm going to sell some goods."
Li Mu: “I brought it.”
Tang Yuanyuan found a torn bed sheet, cut out a square piece of cloth, sewed rubber bands on both ends, and took a sack of clothes, more than a dozen bags, to the wholesale market.
This group of people are her big customers, so of course she will squeeze out as much as she can.
She first went to see Sister Yang, who worked in the stationery business. "Sister Yang, I just got some beautiful clothes from over there. Try them on for free. If they don't look good on you, you don't have to buy them."
"Look, isn't this one? Very nice."
She took out a set of clothes chosen for her figure, and the style was close to her favorite style. This time she also brought some accessories to match the clothes, exaggerated earrings and earrings, the kind that only appear in TV dramas.
Actually, it would be better to have a mirror, but fortunately there is an audience.
The pure cotton skirt has a good drape, and the bold prints and cuts are colors and styles that I haven't seen in the tailor shop here. The belt highlights the slender waist.
Tang Yuanyuan didn't rush back to Ningcheng this time, so the accessories she bought at the Ningcheng jewelry store came in handy. She also matched her with a matching card, rhinestone earrings, and a small leather bag, and she looked brand new.
"Look, does Aunt Yang look like a model from a TV show?"
"Haha, you're exaggerating. You're a model."
"Don't tell me, it really looks like it."
"This dress is beautiful."
Tang Yuanyuan: "Today, you can try it on for free. If it doesn't look good on you, you don't have to pay."
So everyone picked out the clothes they liked and tried them on. Tang Yuanyuan actually wrote down everyone's preferences and body shapes, and when she picked up the goods, she would pick them according to them. For example, Aunt Hu and Aunt Huang were of the same level of fat body shape, which was very rare. They couldn't be bought in department stores, so they could only go to tailor shops to make those rustic styles.
Tang Yuanyuan discovered last time that it was Aunt Hu who loved beauty the most. She was a little angry last time because the clothes didn't have her size. Fortunately, Tang Yuanyuan discovered it in time and promised to bring her beautiful clothes in this batch. Later, when she bought pearl necklaces, she bought three by herself.
Tang Yuanyuan specially bought five pieces of clothing for her this time.
"Aunt Hu, look, these are specially picked for you. Try them on."
Aunt Hu is engaged in the wholesale of daily necessities, such as Head & Shoulders shampoo, soap, towels, and plastic slippers. Her business is very big, but because she is fat, her husband doesn't like her very much, which makes her very frustrated at home. She envies those women who are naturally slim and good-looking.
She wanted to dress up but she didn't have time and couldn't leave the store, and she was fat and couldn't buy clothes.
Tang Yuanyuan's clothes were exactly what she wanted. They made her look different from the common ones. Everyone praised her for being like a different person.
Aunt Hu waved her hand and not only took all five pieces, but also asked for earrings, wallets and other items.
"Yuanyuan, if you have any nice clothes, just bring them to Auntie. I'll take them all!"
"become!"
Tang Yuanyuan originally wanted to sell them with clothes, but she didn't expect that small items like earrings would be so popular. Even though she bought them from clicks and sold them at twice the price, people still liked them.
It's a pity that she doesn't know where to wholesale these things. Otherwise, if she buys two sacks, she will definitely make a lot of money.
I was careless.
I should have the store's contact information.
There is always one piece of clothing missing in a woman's wardrobe.
And rich women cannot refuse clothes.
So Tang Yuanyuan easily sold a sack of clothes, dozens of boxes of plastic earrings, dozens of cards, and dozens of scarves here again.
Here, Li Mu and a few friends gathered together. Having made a fortune, he treated guests for the first time in his life.
…water popsicles that cost a dime each.
There were three friends, each smoking one cigarette, and the total cost was thirty cents.
Many people: "Li Mu, you are too stingy! I heard that you are a millionaire, why don't you treat us to a meal?"
Li Mu: "Didn't you treat me to this before? Are you not satisfied with the popsicle?"
Many people: "That's different. I only have a few cents of pocket money, but you are a millionaire."
Li Mu: "I'm not a millionaire. Selling clothes is just about making money. I pay for the clothes at the purchase price, and there are some that I can't sell. The round-trip train tickets, these are all free, right?"
"I used up all the money I earned last time to pay for training."
"Besides, I'm being targeted by a thief now, and I don't know which bastard it is."
Many people scratched their heads and said, "I haven't heard of anyone's foot being injured."
Tang An: "How about this, we go get some people and go swimming in the city river. Let's see if anyone has a foot injury. I'll take care of it anyway."
Many people: "That's fine."
Tang An said again: "Li Mu, when are you going to buy some goods next time? Can you take me with you?"
Li Mu: "How much do you have to spend?"
Tang An had only two cents in his pocket. He shook his head and decided to eat plain noodles again tonight.
Li Mu: "You have no money, so why go there?"
Tang An: "Can't I work for you?"
Li Mu: "I'm just a stall owner, how can I afford to hire laborers? Besides, your sister and I are a good team. What if your sister gets involved and kidnaps me? I can't afford to offend your sister."
Tang An: "We are brothers who grew up together. I gave you my meals, but you started a business with my sister and distanced yourself from me. Li Mu, you are really something."
Li Mu: "What can I do? Your sister gets angry whenever she mentions your family. Besides, I'm doing business with her. What can I do?"
"Doesn't your dad have a salary? Why do you worry about this?"
Tang An: "My family still owes a thousand yuan in foreign debt. I just want to earn some money myself and reduce the burden on my father."
Li Mu swallowed the remaining popsicle in one gulp: "Anyway, your father is supporting you alone now, and the expenses are not high, so you can pay him back slowly."
"I won't talk to you anymore. I have to go now."
Tang An: "Hey, what are you doing?"
Li Mu: "Go earn a living! I don't have anyone to support me."
Many people sighed: "It's really not easy for Li Mu."
Tang An gave him an idiotic look and said, "Have you finished eating? If you have, call someone."
Li Mu bought all the cheap clothes this time. He had discovered a pattern from his last sales. It seemed that cheap clothes were easier to sell, while expensive clothes were more likely to be a loss to him. So this time he bought all the cheapest leftover goods.
This time, we went to several factory gates and used the strategy of a big sale. The goods sold out faster than last time. In one day, a whole pack was sold out.
After doing the accounting at home, I found that the profit was one-fifth lower than before. Now I can only make more than 600 yuan per sack, but it sells quickly.
However, he won’t be able to sell them at the factory tomorrow, so he plans to go to the countryside to sell them tomorrow.
Li Mu estimated that Tang Yuanyuan had not returned yet, so he rode his bike to the vegetable market and bought half a pound of pork and beans, as well as half a watermelon.
When passing by Tang's house, he stopped for a while and shook his head. No one in this area noticed who had an injured foot.
Li Mu: "Fuck, I thought you could ask me."
"I wasted three popsicles."
"Leave."
Tang An: "Fuck you, how much did you eat from me before?"
"Ah, can't you take me with you in this business?"
Li Mu turned his back to him and waved his hands, rejecting him decisively: "No."
When Li Mu returned home and saw Tang Yuanyuan, there was not a single sack left of the three sacks. He felt terrible.
She sold so fast again!
On the other hand, Tang Yuanyuan left the wholesale market and went to Yu Fangfang's house with the clothes.
The factory director's wife had high demands, so she bought two exquisite silk cheongsams for her in a boutique store, and the purchase price was only one hundred yuan each.
It was not until the factory director’s wife smiled with satisfaction that she was finally relieved that these two pieces of clothing would not be a waste!
Tang Yuanyuan didn't hesitate and sold her one piece for three hundred. When she learned that only two pieces of clothing were purchased, the factory director's wife seemed to be more satisfied.
Tang Yuanyuan figured out something: it turns out that rich people don't like to wear the same clothes as others.
When ordinary people buy clothes, they hope to spend less money and buy good clothes, but people at the factory director's level like to buy expensive clothes.
Expensive means others can’t afford it.
Yu Fangfang had four dresses that were suitable for her age, and she took them all, earning another 600 yuan from the Yu family.
No one dared to keep any money at home now. Tang Yuanyuan went to the bank first and only left a few dozen yuan in change. He didn't even dare to keep the cost of purchasing goods. He deposited the money in the bank and then went to visit various factories.
At the factory gate, clothes were not selling as fast as before, but items like bags and card holders were selling quite fast, especially plastic earrings.
The earrings are in a small blue and white square box, 2 yuan a box. The colors are very bright, and they are a style I have never seen here before.
At two yuan, it can be said that it is the best product among all the items sold by Tang Yuanyuan. Everyone rushed to buy it. There were only a dozen boxes left, and they were sold out before everyone could grab them.
In the end, Tang Yuanyuan was left with half a sack of clothes and went to the bank to deposit the money again. As usual, she only took the change and went home.
Li Mu circled Tang Yuanyuan's bicycle and asked, "Did you sell more than two sacks today?"
Tang Yuanyuan: “Yeah.”
Li Mu: "Didn't you say that the clothes wouldn't sell better this time than last time? Why did you sell them so quickly? Did you find a good place again without me?"
Of the three sacks Tang Yuanyuan bought this time, only two contained clothes, and the other sack was half filled with bags and half with small commodities such as card cages.
All the small commodities were sold out today. A whole sack of clothes was consumed at the wholesale market. Except for the Yu family, the factories are really unable to sell much.
Tang Yuanyuan will try to set up a stall at the department store tomorrow and take a look at houses at the same time.
"Yucheng is so small, how many good places are there? I only bought two sacks of clothes this time, and they took care of me at the wholesale market so I could sell them all. The other sack is for handbags, earrings, etc."
Li Mu: "So our sales today are almost the same?"
Tang Yuanyuan nodded: "Yes."
Li Mu rubbed his chin with satisfaction, "I said, I can't be that bad."
"So what are you going to do with these clothes? I'm planning to go to the countryside to sell them tomorrow. I bought cheap stuff this time, and I think they'll sell quickly in the countryside. Do you want to go?"
Tang Yuanyuan shook her head: "I didn't get many cheap clothes, and I can't sell them in the countryside."
Li Mu: "Next time, you should buy cheaper clothes so we can go to the countryside to sell them together."
Tang Yuanyuan earned nearly 3,000 yuan today after deducting the cost, but he was still determined to make money from rich people.
"No rush, I'll sell it slowly."
"By the way, did Aunt Huang tell you about the thief?"
Li Mu went to the kitchen to cook while replying, "I guess she hasn't found out yet. When I just got home, I saw her chatting with a group of old ladies. I think she's still asking."
Tang Yuanyuan washed her face with water and asked, "Who do you think it is?"
Li Mu tilted his chin towards the courtyard, indicating the Zhao family.
Tang Yuanyuan also thought it was possible. Zhao Shun was not a good person to begin with, and the two families had a personal grudge. At this critical juncture, the mother and son of the Zhao family locked the door and were not at home, and their whereabouts were unknown.
It's hard not to be suspicious.
I just don’t know whether Zhao Shun was the one who injured his foot or the one who escaped in time last night.
I wish the police could catch the man, otherwise I won’t be able to sleep well.
Tang Yuanyuan went back to her room to do her homework as usual. A moment later, Aunt Huang came over to report the result. "Xiao Mu, maybe it's not from our area."
"No one in our area has injured their feet. Doctor Lu said no one comes to him for treatment."
"Zhao Dong was buried yesterday, and Zhao Shun's foot was fine yesterday morning."
There is a small clinic in this area, which is run by Doctor Lu. People go to him for treatment if they have a headache or fever.
Li Mu put down the half-cooked meal and went to the house to find a piece of clothing from the sack: "Aunt Huang, try on the clothes I brought for you."
Aunt Huang rubbed her clothes happily and said, "You actually brought it to me. I feel so embarrassed."
"How much is it? I'll give it to you. How can I have a child with you?"
Li Mu: "It's free, you can wear it."
Tang Yuanyuan glanced outside and saw a grass-colored floral skirt.
Aunt Huang is not white and looks old, which is a disaster.
...What kind of look is that?
After a while, Aunt Huang changed into her skirt and turned back and forth happily: "Xiao Mu, does it look good?"
Li Mu: "You look good, Aunt Huang. You look ten years younger."
Tang Yuanyuan tapped his head with a pen, wishing he could wash his eyes again.
Half an hour later, Li Mu's roar came from the kitchen, and the meal was ready.
Tang Yuanyuan closed the book, ran over twice, and brought the food over.
Li Mu held the chopsticks and asked: "Why don't you eat the watermelon?"
Tang Yuanyuan: "Eat it yourself."
Li Mu laughed amusedly: "You're quite reserved. I bought a whole one and couldn't eat the leftovers."
Tang Yuanyuan was not polite: "I'll eat after I've finished my meal."
After dinner, Li Mu watched TV to relax. He was still watching Journey to the West. Li Mu was watching the monkey with great interest.
After watching two episodes, it was almost ten o'clock. Li Mu yawned and went to the yard to take a shower. He didn't even boil water to take a shower. He just filled two basins of tap water and poured it over himself.
"Aren't you sleeping yet?"
"I'll watch it for a while and then I'll go to sleep."
Li Mu ignored Tang Yuanyuan and went into his room, closed the door and went to sleep.
Tang Yuanyuan always stays up until eleven o'clock before going to bed. She first goes to the kitchen to use the stove to warm up the bath water so that she can take a bath directly.
The night was very quiet. At this time, every household turned off the lights and went to bed. Occasionally, there was the sound of an adult scolding a child for not sleeping well. An hour passed in silence. Tang Yuanyuan moved the wooden barrel to the kitchen, mixed the bath water, went to the living room to turn off the lights, and then returned to the kitchen to take a bath in the dark.
I washed myself carefully, changed into clean clothes, opened the door of the kitchen, and vaguely saw a black ball in the corner that seemed to be a human figure.
"who!"
Tang Yuanyuan immediately went to pull the lamp cord. At this time, the light bulbs were all pulled by the lamp cord. Tang Yuanyuan lost his aim in the dark, and the electric cord shook twice. When he pulled it again, he only saw a flash of a figure, and the corner of the wall was empty.
Li Mu ran out barefoot in his shorts, went to the kitchen, picked up a kitchen knife, opened the gate and ran out, leaving only an empty road.
"Fuck, who the hell is this? Come out if you dare!"
"I'll beat you down!"
Aunt Huang pulled out the light bulb and rubbed her eyes as she came out: "Another thief is here?"
Tang Yuanyuan nodded: "It should be the person from last night."
Aunt Huang: "Oh my god, this is too scary. How can I sleep?"
Tang Yuanyuan rubbed his forehead with a headache, "Yeah, I can't sleep like this."
After thinking about it, I went to find the mousetraps, which were all set at the base of the wall.
Li Mu: "What are you afraid of? I don't believe he would dare to risk his life. Aunt Huang, can you lend me your rope bed?"
Aunt Huang: "What? You don't want to sleep in the yard?"
Li Mu roared, "I'll sleep in the yard and wait for any bastards to come. I'll chop them down one by one."
Tang Yuanyuan disagreed with this approach. Her scalp tingled just thinking about this scene. She was sleeping soundly when a thief climbed over the wall and approached step by step: "This is too dangerous. You should go sleep inside."
"That's settled."
Li Mu went to Aunt Huang's house, carried a rope bed, and placed it in the yard, with a kitchen knife at hand. Tang Yuanyuan was worried that he would turn over and get his flesh cut by the knife.
"You can really sleep like this, aren't you scared?"
"I hide in the house, so the thieves don't dare to come? Are you stupid? They are afraid and wary because I sleep in the yard."
This is the truth. Tang Yuanyuan felt that if it were her, she would not even dare to open her eyes.
"Fuck, this damn mosquito is too black." Li Mu slapped his thigh and said, "Go light a mosquito coil."
Tang Yuanyuan rarely felt guilty and lit a plate of mosquito coils and placed it next to the rope bed.
Tang Yuanyuan returned to her room and lay on the bed, turning over and over several times like a fried fish. She didn't know when she finally fell into a drowsy sleep and had another nightmare.
In the dream, a ferocious thief came in, approached step by step, and chopped down with a knife in his hand.
Tang Yuanyuan screamed and sat up in shock. All she saw was a blinding white light. She slipped out of the room. Li Mu came out of the kitchen holding a pair of chopsticks. "What's wrong?"
Tang Yuanyuan: "Are you okay?"
Li Mu rolled his eyes at her in annoyance: "What do you think?"
Tang Yuanyuan breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, it was just a dream.
Next door, Aunt Huang came running over with messy hair: "What's wrong? What's wrong? Is there another thief?"
Tang Yuanyuan: "No, I had a nightmare."
Aunt Huang held her heart and said, "Oh, me too. I had nightmares for half the night. This thief is so wicked. I was so scared the whole night that I feel terrible."
Li Mu came out with a bowl of beaten eggs. "Tang Yuanyuan, you didn't dream that I was chopped to pieces, did you?"
"What you think about during the day you dream about at night. You're really good at this. I was guarding the yard for you, and you dreamed that I was being chopped down!"
Tang Yuanyuan: "I don't want to have this kind of nightmare either."
Aunt Huang: "Yes, Xiaomu, I don't want to have this kind of nightmare either. It's really that feeling of being targeted by a thief is too scary. What if one day he touches the wrong door and goes to our house? Or, after stealing your house, he thinks that stealing from one house is stealing, and stealing from two houses is also stealing, ah!"
"I can't even sleep."
Li Mu's eyes fell on Tang Yuanyuan's face: "You don't dare to sleep either?"
Tang Yuanyuan: "This isn't a solution. I'll go to the police station later."
Even if it's useless, she still wants to go there to seek psychological comfort.
Also, she must buy a house as quickly as possible.
When Tang Yuanyuan came back from a visit to the police station, she saw that there was a ferocious-looking big wolfdog in the house with a leash around its neck. There was a wooden stake in the corner of the wall with the dog's chain on it.
There were a lot of broken porcelain bottles and some mixed cement on the ground. Li Mu was standing on a ladder on top of the mud wall. Some of the mud wall was streaked with broken glass.
Tang Yuanyuan: "Where did you buy the dog?"
Li Mu: "Slaughterhouse, this dog cost me twenty dollars."
"Then I'll pay half." Tang Yuanyuan was most afraid of dogs. "Will they bite me?"
"Nonsense! If it doesn't bite, I won't buy it." Li Mu turned halfway around. "If someone else comes along, I'll definitely bite him into a eunuch and make him have no descendants."
"It's a mess of broken glass. I'll smash anyone's hands if they dare to climb over it."
"Well, this trick of mine is more effective than calling the police, right?"
Tang Yuanyuan: "Not bad."
Li Mu: "It's obviously super powerful."
If Li Mu had a tail, Tang Yuanyuan suspected that its tail would be raised to the sky.
He went to the kitchen and found half a piece of meat. The big dog jumped up and accurately took it into his mouth and started chewing it.
Tang Yuanyuan only dared to touch the dog's head with a branch, and finally felt relieved: "If you keep a good eye out for thieves at night, I will buy you meat bones every day."
The big wolf dog was chewing the meat happily, and I don't know if it understood or not.
After solving the problem of the thief, Tang Yuanyuan felt much more at ease. After the sun went down a little, she rode her bicycle to look at houses. Next to the department store, there was a three-story earthen building that was self-built and uniformly planned. Several businesses on the first floor were used as stores, one of which was a convenience store, one was a noodle restaurant, and there was also a steamed bun shop and a video store.
There happened to be an empty house next to the bun shop. The owner offered three hundred yuan a month. Tang Yuanyuan was quite satisfied and rented it immediately.
She finally had her own shop.
Tang Yuanyuan had no connections in the decoration industry, so she asked Xu Xiaofeng for help. Sure enough, she knew someone there.
It just so happened that the other party didn't have any private work at the moment, so he rode his bike over after get off work. Tang Yuanyuan didn't know much about decoration, but she saw a clothing store in the south and wanted to replicate it.
Glass doors, lights, floors, white walls. The walls should be convenient for hanging clothes, and there should be two places to try on clothes, a mirror, and a plaque on the door.
The master said that it would take about seven days to complete the installation, and the entire renovation would cost about 500 yuan. Tang Yuanyuan paid the money readily.
Tang Yuanyuan owned her first shop in her life, a grinding wheel factory. However, Tang Aiguo made another mistake at work. His index finger rubbed into the grinding tool and half of his thumb was cut off.
He can't go to work.
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