Chapter 43 Something Happened to Xiao Jingyan
Time flies. In early May, Qi Shiya accompanied Tan Xiuwan to J City. It was He Yuanzhou and Lin Nuan who went to the train station to pick them up.
Qi Shiya: I have known for a long time that Wang Xiaoli opened a clothing store. That’s what she said, but she hasn’t taken care of the business since she got pregnant. It’s all Lin Nuan who’s busy.
Wang Xiaoli and Lin Nuan were not the type to show off, so to outsiders, these were just small fights.
After five months, the small tailor shop had turned into a small-scale clothing processing factory.
Currently, there are more than 30 employees and four salesmen in the store.
When Qi Shiya saw the size of the clothing store, especially the clothes with novel styles, she felt that the clothes were almost the same as those she had seen in Hong Kong City.
She immediately discussed with Lin Nuan about opening a clothing store in Beijing. It must be said that she is a very qualified businessman.
But there was still more than a year before Lin Nuan graduated from high school and took the college entrance examination. In the end, he promised to make an extra copy of each design he drew and send it to Beijing City for Qi Shiya to produce.
And she holds 20% in technology stocks.
On May 16, Sunday, at noon, everyone gathered together to eat. Wang Xiaoli suddenly felt a pain in her lower abdomen, and then she felt liquid flowing down her legs. This situation was not unfamiliar.
"My water broke. I should be giving birth soon."
Several people who were eating immediately put down their bowls and chopsticks.
He Yunzhou immediately called his driver and asked him to drive to his house to pick him up.
The things needed for delivery were prepared early in the morning and packed into a bag. As long as Wang Xiaoli's belly moved, they could just pick up the things and set off immediately.
At 2:10 p.m., the loud cry of a baby was heard in the delivery room.
A boy, 15 pounds.
He Yunzhou named the child He Enze.
The little guy was born white and chubby, unlike other babies who looked wrinkled when they were born, but his chubby little face looked particularly cute, so we gave him the nickname Dudu.
After coming back from school every day, Lin Nuan had one more thing to do, which was to play with Dudu.
Every time when Lin Nuan made milk powder for Dudu, she would quietly add a little bit of spiritual spring water, so that the little guy would giggle every time he saw her.
If it hadn’t been tested, Lin Nuan would have suspected that Dudu was reborn.
The day before Dudu's full moon banquet, He Yunyang and He Weiguo also came.
After the full moon banquet, He Yunyang and Qi Shiya went back home, but the old couple stayed because they couldn't bear to leave their little grandson.
Anyway, they both retired a long time ago and it doesn't matter where they live in retirement. With a little grandson playing around, you will be much happier growing flowers and plants at home.
When Dudu was half a year old, Wang Xiaoli handed him over to the elderly couple to take care of. The family also hired a nanny to take care of the child, and she went back to work.
After all, she has an embroidery heritage, and Lin Nuan doesn't want her to be too tired, so sometimes she would take some private custom orders. For a necklace order, only one piece of clothing can be made from one design drawing, but the price is more than ten times, or even more than a hundred times, that of ordinary clothes.
As times develop faster, the prices of machine embroidery and hand embroidery will be very different.
From the beginning, Lin Nuan had no intention of using Wang Xiaoli's craftsmanship to take the low-end route. She wanted to establish their own brand and take the high-end private customization route. No matter what time it is, scarcity makes things valuable.
In addition to Qi Shiya’s publicity, we would occasionally receive some orders from Kyoto.
You have to know that the people she interacts with are all from the upper class, and none of them are short of money.
After Qi Shiya saw a Chinese cheongsam designed by Lin Nuan and handmade by Wang Xiaoli, she fell in love with clothes with Chinese style, especially the embroidered patterns on them, which looked vivid and lifelike. Every time she attended a large-scale negotiation or business event, she would ask Lin Nuan to help her design a suitable dress before that. No matter how good the advertisement is, it is not as good as seeing it with your own eyes. In this way, the market in Beijing was opened up early.
A year passed quickly, and Dudu could already call people and run.
Lin Nuan was also about to take the college entrance examination, and was dragged by Shen Baozhu to prepare for it every day.
Shen Baozhu, who previously ranked last in academic performance, has made rapid progress with the help of Lin Nuan. Both of them are aiming to go to a university in Beijing.
As the relationship between the two girls became better and better, the two families had more and more exchanges. He Yunzhou's job transfer had been completed, and he only had to wait for Lin Nuan's college entrance examination results to come out, and then he could hand over the work here and return to Beijing.
The clothing store business was originally decided to be sold to Liu Hongying, mainly because it was unlikely that she would come back in the future.
But Liu Hongying also knew that without Lin Nuan's design drawings, the clothing store's business would definitely go downhill. After everyone discussed it together, they unanimously decided not to change the name of the clothing store. Liu Hongying used 20,000 yuan to buy another 45% of the shares, and the remaining 50% belonged to Lin Nuan.
The main reason is that Liu Hongying cannot come up with so much money. Although she has earned a lot of money in the past two years, mainly from dividends from the clothing store, it is still far from enough to buy the entire clothing store. Is she still getting a good deal?
This was also Wang Xiaoli's decision. After all, it was Lin Nuan who took over the tailor shop. Not long after, she became pregnant. Lin Nuan was in charge of all business affairs. Apart from taking the money, she really didn't make much contribution.
After three days of intense college entrance examination, it is summer vacation.
Lin Nuan is still very confident in herself.
She found some time to calculate the money she had earned in the past two years, and found that she had a savings of 250,000 yuan, not including Wang Xiaoli's profit, and the money she gave to Qi Shiya to help her find a storefront and buy a house in Beijing.
With this money, even if I don't rely on the He family, it won't be a problem to gain a foothold in Beijing.
As the saying goes, you won’t be worried if you have money in your pocket. This is the truth.
Everything is going on in an orderly manner.
At one o'clock in the morning, the phone in the living room suddenly rang.
He Yunzhou was woken up and answered the phone, then he put on his clothes and left in a hurry.
Lin Nuan was also awakened by the noise downstairs. She went downstairs in her pajamas. The lights downstairs were on. Even He Weiguo and Tan Xiuwan were alarmed. Wang Xiaoli's eyes were red and she looked anxious.
"Grandpa, grandma, mom, why are you all up? Who is calling so late at night? Did something happen?" Lin Nuan hurried downstairs and asked the three people who all looked unhappy.
Wang Xiaoli's tears fell before she could finish her words. "It was a call from the military hospital just now, saying that he was seriously injured during a mission this year and is now in the hospital for treatment. Your father has just rushed over."
Lin Nuan then remembered that she hadn't seen Xiao Jingyan for more than two months.
Ever since I met him, he seemed to be on missions frequently, disappearing for two or three months at most, or a month at least. So I had long since gotten used to his elusiveness.
Sometimes I come back with some minor injuries on my body, but this is the first time that has happened.
This is what it is like to be a soldier. Although we are now in a peaceful time, war is inevitable at any time. When the country needs us, soldiers will charge to the front line.
"Mom, grandpa and grandma, don't worry. My dad shouldn't have left yet. I'll go over and see. Brother Xiao will be fine."