Ye Jiaying had a lot of things to do in the morning.
First, she had to buy a piece of red paper to announce that there would be a holiday in three days.
At this time, holiday notices were all posted on a big red paper. She couldn't be different, so she had to follow the local customs and post the same one.
Second, she also had to write down the promotional activities held in these three days. She was too lazy to do anything fancy and just gave simple and crude discounts.
She selected three fruits that are the most difficult to store but have always been popular and put them on clearance sale.
She plans to take a twelve-day holiday for the Chinese New Year and open for business on the sixth day of the New Year. These fruits cannot be kept for that long, so it would be better to clear out the stock at a discount and buy a new batch after the New Year.
In addition to clearance sales, she plans to hold a discount promotion.
After a year of hard work, we would like to give back to new and old customers.
The amount of the discount was a price she set based on the highest purchase amount in recent days after looking through her account book.
Ensure that more than 40% of customers can enjoy this activity.
Arriving at the store early in the morning, others were busy tidying up the shelves before customers arrived.
She took out a large red paper from the system and wrote down some good news she had thought of that morning.
After writing, she took the red paper outside the store and prepared to see where to put it so that it would be conspicuous but not obtrusive.
After looking around, she felt that there was something wrong with just posting this one.
A big red paper was posted outside the retro and cozy shop.
It's lonely and not festive at all.
It’s Chinese New Year, how can there be only a big piece of red paper?
The Chinese New Year must be celebrated with lights and decorations, and it should be lively and festive.
She clicked on the system page and searched for retro decorations, window grilles, blessing characters, and lanterns, preparing to decorate the store a little.
There has to be a prosperous New Year atmosphere so that money can flow in.
It is now 1985. Unlike previous years, not only are we not allowed to hang up decorations during the New Year, we don’t even have annual leave and everyone has to work as usual.
Now that the New Year atmosphere has finally been restored, she must get busy.
The system is very powerful. It has everything she wants. She just clicks to buy, and soon the items are in the storage compartment.
Wait for her to find a place to take the things out, and then ask Grandma Sun and my younger sister to help stick them on.
Just as she was about to enter the store, she heard the sound of a car behind her. She turned around and saw that it was Gu Qinglin's car. She was not in a hurry to go in and stood there waiting for him.
As soon as Gu Qinglin's car turned into the alley, he saw Ye Jiaying's familiar figure. She looked up and stared at the plaque in a daze, not knowing what she was thinking.
Before he got out of the car, the other party noticed him. Seeing her waiting for him with a smile on her face, his mood instantly became happy. After parking the car, he got out with his lunch box.
"Xiaoying, have you had breakfast? I brought you some buns that you like."
"I haven't eaten yet, don't worry, you just happened to be here, please do me a favor."
What to eat for breakfast? Decorate the shop first.
As he walked in, Ye Jiaying's eyes were glued to him. After not seeing him for more than ten days, he seemed to have gained a little weight. His previously thin face now had a little more flesh and looked better than before.
But now is not the time to indulge in beauty. She wants to finish the decoration before any customers arrive and give everyone a surprise.
Thinking of this, she forced herself to look away, asked him to wait at the door for a moment, and ran behind the counter, pretending to take something out of the bag she had brought.
Ye Xiaomei was in the backyard and Han Xiaomei hadn't arrived yet, so she could still fool around.
Soon she came out holding the window cutouts she bought from the system mall. Her fruit shop was formerly a pastry shop with a more Chinese style, which was perfect for pasting window cutouts.
Festive decorations should be exquisite rather than numerous. Too many will make the decoration look messy.
So she didn't buy too much.
Her aesthetic taste, which has been bombarded by the Internet in later generations, is absolutely impeccable. The window paper-cut styles she chose have also been influenced by historical sedimentation and the aesthetic taste of later generations.
Gu Qinglin took the window paper-cuts from Ye Jiaying's hand, figured out Ye Jiaying's intention, and nodded. He usually helped his grandfather to paste couplets, so there was no problem with pasting these.
But he saw that there were only window decorations, and then he looked around.
"What are you looking for?"
Ye Jiaying asked curiously.
"Where's the paste for window paper-cuts? I'll get it."
Gu Qinglin thought she could only take the window flowers and didn't have time to get the paste, so he prepared to get it himself.
"paste?"
What is that?
Ye Jiaying looked confused. Don’t window decorations usually have double-sided tape?
Just tear it off and stick it on.
"Yes, you need paste to paste window decorations."
Gu Qinglin nodded.
Ye Jiaying was just about to ask if double-sided tape was not possible, but Gu Qinglin asked this question after he looked through the things in his hand. Isn't there any?
She walked forward and turned over the window paper-cut in Gu Qinglin's hand, but there was nothing behind it.
What she was searching for were vintage window decorations, which were traditional window decorations cut out of red paper without double-sided tape.
She scratched the side of her face in embarrassment, she didn't know she had to make paste.
"No, where can I buy one?"
Some asked with a lack of confidence.
"Grandma Sun should be able to make paste. Let's go ask her."
Gu Qinglin patted Ye Jiaying on the head.
You don't need to buy paste.
Ye Jiaying nodded and took Gu Qinglin to the backyard to find Grandma Sun.
Granny Sun had just thrown out a large bag of garbage and was about to clean the operating room. When she heard Ye Jiaying say that she needed glue to paste window decorations, she put down the broom in her hand.
"This paste is easy to make. Wait for me."
Then he went to the small kitchen.
Ye Xiaomei saw Gu Qinglin following her sister in and looked up at Ye Jiaying. She still remembered this brother. He had driven her home that day and now he came to help again.
Ye Jiaying introduced the two and said to Ye Xiaomei first, "You can call this brother."
Then he said to Gu Qinglin, "Old Gu, this is my younger sister, Ye Jialan."
Ye Xiaomei called out obediently, "Brother Gu."
Gu Qinglin also smiled and nodded at her, "Little sister."
The three of them took advantage of Grandma Sun making porridge to quickly eat breakfast.
Grandma Sun was angry early because she had already eaten.
By the time they had breakfast, the paste was ready.
Ye Jiaying and Gu Qinglin took a bowl of transparent paste and went to paste window flowers together.
According to past experience, window decoration only needs to be applied on one side, so that it can be seen from both inside and outside.
But now they use glue. The retro window decorations she bought are cut from red paper. Not only is the back not red, but there are traces of glue when looking from the inside out. In order to make it look good, it needs to be pasted inside and outside.
There was no other way, so two people had to work together to stick the outside first and then the inside. Fortunately, Gu Qinglin was experienced and applied just the right amount of paste, not too much to make it sticky, and not too little to make it difficult to stick.
Ye Jiaying could only follow beside and help carry the paste to see if the paper was pasted crookedly. The two of them worked together more and more skillfully, and soon the inside and outside of the quaint fruit shop were decorated with red window grilles.
After pasting the window paper-cuts, she decorated the bottom of the shop sign with the red lace she bought.
Big red lanterns were hung on both sides of the plaque.
The whole store suddenly had a Chinese New Year atmosphere, and Ye Jiaying was very satisfied.
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