After Minister Wang finished his speech, the clothing show officially began.
Before the models come on stage, Song Fuyu will give a simple explanation in Chinese, and then call out the serial numbers of the clothes so that the models with the corresponding numbers know that it is their turn to go on stage.
When the model walked from the back to the front, Geng Xingping mainly gave the explanation in English.
Although the performance was not accompanied by appropriate music like in later generations, it did not seem monotonous because of the narration by the two of them.
Most of the audience standing below were employees from other factories.
Although we don’t know much about clothing design, we can only describe it as good-looking or ugly.
But because this form of displaying clothes is new to them, it's like watching a show.
So when each model came out, everyone responded with the warmest applause and cheers, making the event very lively. Even foreign customers who were originally not interested in the clothes came to join in the fun.
After the last model finished their show and everyone came back on stage, the number of people standing below increased from one or two hundred to three or four hundred.
All the models walked in turn, but their work was not over yet.
Everyone held a number tag in their hands and stood in three rows. Foreign customers took the order form and simply wrote down the number in the model's hand.
"Thank you all for coming to our garment factory's exhibition. Thank you for your support, which brought our event to a perfect end."
"Next, comrades who are interested in the clothes of our garment factory can come to the stage to make a selection. Welcome to place an order. We look forward to cooperating with you. Thank you."
As soon as he finished speaking, several foreigners who had just watched the fashion show came up to the stage, received their order forms, and began to choose clothes.
In order to facilitate registration, Zhao Da and Li Ming directly moved the table of their booth onto the platform.
Song Fuyu and Geng Xingping sat down at the table, waiting for them to submit their order forms and then register.
In the past few days, most customers left around five in the afternoon, but today they were busy until half past six.
Song Fuyu held a thick stack of order forms in his hand.
I have just been communicating with the translators, asking customers to increase the order quantity based on their original selections, and after confirmation, we have to calculate the total amount after the discount.
I was so busy that I had no time to calculate how many orders I had signed.
I had originally agreed with the person I hired to finish the work at 6pm, but I didn't expect it to be delayed until now.
After finishing the order form, Song Fuyu immediately stood up and said to everyone, "Thank you for your hard work this afternoon. Please go to the bathroom and change your clothes first, and then come here to collect your wages for the past two days."
"Auntie Fang, I'll give everyone an extra fifty cents on top of the original amount."
"Okay, no problem."
"Fu Yu, shall I go buy dinner or something?"
"No, we will all go to the state-owned restaurant to eat later, and thank Comrade Geng and Ms. Caroline for their help."
"Okay, I'll ask Bangguo to order the dishes first."
Although it delayed their time to go home, everyone was even happier to get an extra fifty cents in salary.
"Thank you, Director Song, and thank you, Director Fang."
"We should thank you for coming to help. Go home quickly, be safe, and see you again if we are lucky."
Song Fuyu sent them away from the venue, and Li Ming and his friends had almost packed up their things.
"Let's go and have dinner."
"Fu Yu, have you got the order?"
"My colleagues from the Ministry of Commerce have already left work. We can hand it over tomorrow morning. It will be a good opportunity for us to go back and see our achievements today."
They were all very excited when talking about this.
"Director Song, how about we eat quickly later?"
Li Ming secretly ran to Song Fuyu's side, eager to know what their total sales were this afternoon.
The sales in the previous few days have reached 7.5 million US dollars. With today's sales, it will definitely exceed 10 million. This is a number they never dreamed of before coming here.
Although the money would not go into his pocket, he could brag about the fact that their sales reached 10 million US dollars for the rest of his life.
"Okay, you should finish eating quickly and go back to the hotel. I may not be able to finish that fast. After all, Director Zhao gave us a quota of ten dishes and asked Brother An to go to the state-owned restaurant to order food for everyone in advance."
"Ten dishes?!"
Li Ming thought his ears were broken because his family didn’t have so many dishes during the Chinese New Year.
"Everyone has worked hard today, and Ms. Caroline and Comrade Geng have helped us a lot. We can't just order two dishes to send them away. That would make us seem too disrespectful."
"That's true. Since there are so many dishes, I should eat slowly. There's no rush."
During dinner, Caroline and Song Fuyu exchanged a lot of ideas about clothing. The two communicated through Geng Xingping, but it was like they had found a soulmate. They didn't feel that the communication was not smooth at all, but felt that they had met too late.
After dinner, Caroline suggested exchanging contact information. Song Fuyu thought about it and finally left her the address in Heng City.
If Caroline writes to her in the future and it is not convenient to send it to the military district, it would be safer to let her father forward it to her.
After bidding farewell to Caroline, the six people walked back with smiles on their faces.
"Oh, if I could eat like this every day, with fish, meat, eggs and rice on the table, how happy it would be."
"You kid! You've been eating good food for a few days in a row and you're still not satisfied?"
Zhao Da smiled and patted Li Ming.
"Ouch, ouch, Director, be gentle, it hurts!"
"Although I can't eat this well every day, it's not illegal for me to fantasize about it."
Song Fuyu, the only person present who traveled from the future, knew the future development. In thirty or forty years, most families would be able to easily realize this idea.
But when you are asked to eat meat and fish every meal, you will not think so, and you will worry about gaining weight if you eat too much.
How happy you are when you eat to your heart's content, and how painful it is when you find out that you are too fat and need to lose weight.
After returning to the hotel and putting down their belongings, everyone gathered in Zhao Da and their room.
"Quick, I've been curious all night, just want to know how much sales we have this afternoon."
Song Fuyu didn't keep anyone in suspense. He took out the order form from his bag and started counting.
"One, two, three... a total of twenty-six orders were signed today!"
"Wow! Oh my god!"
“Is this true or false?”
"Are you stupid? There are six pairs of eyes watching us, how can it be fake?"