Chapter 42 Opening a Clothing Store
The wedding banquet was scheduled to be held at the most prosperous hotel in Beijing, the Splendid Hotel.
There were 25 tables at the banquet, and this was after the number of people was reduced.
This time, Lin Nuan thoroughly experienced the feeling of having her face frozen from smiling. If it happened again, the smile would definitely be like ours.
Mainly because they were afraid that Wang Xiaoli would be tired, so the socializing was left to Qi Shiya and Lin Nuan.
After returning home in the afternoon, Lin Nuan went back to her room, lay on the bed and didn't want to move.
The next day was New Year’s Day, and by the way, the New Year’s goods had been prepared early.
As the youngest child in the He family, Lin Nuan's biggest advantage is that she has received so many red envelopes. Not only did everyone in the He family prepare red envelopes for her, but even the elders in Daohe and the next six months also prepared red envelopes for her.
The visits of relatives and friends during the New Year continued until the fifth day of the first lunar month. During this period, Xiao Yuanshan came with Bai Ling and Xiao Jingxuan, but like most people, they did not stay for dinner.
Lin Nuan's medicinal diet plan has been implemented since the second day of the Chinese New Year.
Every noon, he would go out shopping for groceries with the nanny at home. After buying the ingredients and medicinal materials, he would cook a pot of medicinal food himself, and the dish would be different every day.
At the beginning, the elders of the He family thought that it was the children’s thoughtfulness, and thought that even if the food was not delicious, they should at least praise it. Unexpectedly, after they started eating, no one would put down their chopsticks until the whole pot was finished.
The time of reunion always passed so quickly, and in the blink of an eye it was the tenth day of the first lunar month. After the Chinese New Year, Lin Nuan not only made medicinal food herself, but also taught the He family's nanny to do it together.
Moreover, from the second day after she arrived at the He family, she started adding spiritual spring water to the drinking water at home. Although it was not a long time, only ten days, the spirits of the He family members had obviously changed. The biggest change was in the two elders of the He family.
Even the two elderly people's hair, which was almost completely white, showed a tendency to turn black. Naturally, everyone attributed all the credit to Lin Nuan. Also, people are in high spirits when they are happy. After all, those obvious changes occurred after Lin Nuan started to stew medicinal food for everyone.
He Yunzhou booked a train ticket for the tenth day of the first lunar month. Even though he was really reluctant to leave, separation is always a stage that everyone has to go through in life. Sometimes separation is for a better reunion.
Before leaving, He Yunzhou had promised that after Lin Nuan was admitted to university, he would transfer his job back to Beijing. Only then did the old couple happily let her go.
Thinking that in more than a year, the family can always be together happily, and the atmosphere of parting will not be so sad.
It was also agreed that when Wang Xiaoli gave birth, Qi Shiya would accompany the two elderly people to live in J City for a while.
It is mainly the elderly couple who want to welcome the new member of the family as soon as possible.
They bought sleeper tickets just like last time. He Yunzhou didn't want others to disturb their family of three, so he simply bought one more ticket. In this way, they were the only three of them in the entire small compartment.
There was no one to help me this time, and I didn't bring much luggage, as most of the things had already been sent back from the post office in advance.
The train was rumbling along, and Lin Nuan was forced to eat dog food every day with relish. Wang Xiaoli was being taken care of by He Yunzhou, so she, as a daughter, seemed useless.
Every day, apart from sleeping, eating, and occasionally telling a joke to have fun, I just look at the scenery outside the window through the glass on the train.
In the 1980s, the earth had not yet been over-exploited, and there were not so many sources of pollution. It was lush and green everywhere, which made people feel good just by looking at it.
When I have nothing to do, I will pick up a paintbrush and write and draw in the sketchbook. After all, the tailor shop will have to be open when I get back, and I will have to design a few new styles to show off.
After all, many of the previous styles have been learned and there is nothing new about them.
Winter is gone and spring is here, so now is the time to start designing spring clothing styles.
They took the train for three days and two nights again, and didn't feel tired at all. When they got out of the train station, a tall figure walked towards them in the crowd.
"Uncle He, Auntie, Nuannuan, I'm here to take you back."
As he said that, he took the luggage bag from Lin Nuan's hand.
"Brother Xiao, Happy New Year, thank you for coming to pick us up."
"Happy New Year."
After the group took the bus back, although they had been away for only a few days, they still felt a sense of home when looking at the courtyard.
The house was very clean, with festive couplets pasted on the door and the word "Fu" pasted on the door.
There is no need to guess, you know it was Xiao Jingyan who helped clean up the house.
Lin Nuan took out a red scarf from her bag. She bought it at the department store. She bought one for each of her two cousins. She didn't know why she suddenly thought of Xiao Jingyan and bought an extra one.
"Brother Xiao, this is my New Year's gift to you. I hope you like it."
Xiao Jingyan looked at the big red scarf, paused for a moment, then reached out to take it with a smile.
"Thank you, Nuannuan." He took out a red envelope from his pocket, which was obviously prepared early in the morning. "I don't know what you girls like, so I just wrapped a red envelope for you. Just buy whatever you like!"
Lin Nuan was not polite at all and happily accepted the red envelope, not hiding her money-grubbing look at all.
His eyes were smiling so much that they were almost narrowed into slits.
"Thank you, Brother Xiao."
Wang Xiaoli came over with a red envelope in her hand, "Jing Yan, this is the New Year's red envelope your uncle He and I gave you."
Xiao Jingyan accepted it without any hesitation after thanking him.
Taking advantage of the few days of vacation left, Lin Nuan would go to the tailor shop every day. The shop next to the tailor shop was smaller than the tailor shop, but it also had a small courtyard behind the house. Lin Nuan spent 800 yuan to buy it, connected the two pairs of trousers, posted a recruitment notice, and hired ten workers. She planned to slowly develop the tailor shop into a small processing factory.
The two connected shop rooms were renovated into a clothing store, and the larger yard was converted into a factory and warehouse, where the workers made clothes.
The smaller yard is used as the workers' dormitory.
The name of the clothing store is Xiaoli Clothing Store.
And a wholesale and retail sign was hung on the wall at the entrance of the store. In the future, the store will not only sell clothes but also wholesale them.
Lin Nuan's main business is wholesale.
The tailor shop was originally scheduled to open on the 16th day of the first lunar month, but due to renovations, the opening time was postponed by a month.
Fortunately, decoration doesn’t take much time now. All you need to do is paint the walls white. She also specially customized some clothing display racks.
Fortunately, Chen Hongying is a capable person and can do everything Lin Nuan asks her to do very well. In order to win her heart, Lin Nan gave her 5% of the shares of the clothing store. In addition to her monthly salary, she can also get dividends. This made her work even harder.
Everything went in an orderly manner, and Xiaoli Clothing Store opened successfully a month later.
Lin Nuan found Shen Baozhu in advance and asked her for help. At the price of five yuan a day, she found ten beautiful girls with good figures in the school. They started distributing flyers on the street half a month in advance, of course on Saturdays and Sundays.
Due to the advance hype, the opening day was chosen to be a Sunday, and with the addition of the ten girls who had previously dressed in the store's clothes and handed out flyers on the street, the business in the store was extremely hot.