Ma Dali did not quite agree with Zhu Siya's suggestion.
"Your fourth brother...did he tell me how much money he made?"
Chen Xingling shook his head: "The call was too hasty. They only said that it was selling like hot cakes and it was sold out in two days. There are many Chinese people in Chinatown who like it very much and keep calling the store to make reservations. My fourth sister-in-law's elder sister - she is like the second sister. She said the more the better. There will be no worries about not being able to sell it."
Ma Dali laughed, somewhat unbelievingly.
"The embroidery is indeed very beautiful - but will it really be popular? Really?"
Chen Xingling nodded: "That's true. Handmade artworks that are very practical have always been popular abroad, not just now. Embroidery has always been an art, and it's something that Fourth Sister-in-law and her family don't have. The more novel and new something is, the more likely it is to be sought after."
Where people gather, it is easy to form a trend. People are like this. If others have something, they will easily follow the trend, fearing that they will fall behind and be abandoned by the public. Perhaps this is the important reason why fashion can be formed.
Ma Dali was in high spirits and said excitedly, "Then what are we waiting for? It's easy! We only need cloth and needlework, and the materials are not expensive."
Chen Xingling smiled bitterly: "The key is that my fourth sister-in-law doesn't dare to come here to take charge. She said she doesn't dare to sleep here alone. My mother has already consulted a fortune teller to find the nearest auspicious day to move the house - it will be in the next day. But my fourth sister-in-law doesn't want to move here. She hopes that we can still buy it as before. I am very reluctant in my heart."
"Just because - she doesn't dare to sleep alone?" Ma Dali said in disbelief: "Your fourth sister-in-law looks quite old, why is she still so timid? The purchase price was not low, and she made at least two or three rounds of profit from it."
Chen Xingling nodded in agreement: "Isn't it? We make one round of profit from fabrics and sewing, one round from labor fees, and another round from the boss - how much profit margin will we have left?"
Ma Dali said bitterly, "We can't buy it anymore. Since we want to build a factory, it was fine before the place was built and it was just a wasteland. But now even the factory and housing have been built, it would be wrong to buy it again. Since we want to do it, why not do it now?"
"We don't have time!" Chen Xingling explained, "If no one is here to take charge, we will have to deal with the new house and classes. How can we cope with it?"
Ma Dali also felt the same way and couldn't help asking, "Why don't you ask your brother and sister-in-law to help? With more people, your sister-in-law won't be scared."
"No." Chen Xingling shook his head: "They all have their own children to take care of. My brothers can leave, but my sisters-in-law have to prepare three meals a day for the family and can't leave at all. Even if they know how to embroider, they can just take it home and do it, but they can't help with management. In addition, most of them have not received any education and can't even write their parents' names, let alone ask them to count and write numbers."
Ma Dali was embarrassed and analyzed, "In fact, it's always difficult to get started. It's hard to recruit people at the beginning, and it's hard to compare prices when buying raw materials. But there's no other work. As long as you have a fixed person to do the work, all you have to do is receive the goods and pay them. There's nothing else to do."
Chen Xingling was in a dilemma and whispered, "Let's think about it again. If not, we'll have to do it ourselves. It will take at least one or two months for my fourth brother to come back. If we come back then, we may have to wait until July or August of the lunar calendar to ship the next batch of goods. In this way, funds will be easily accumulated for a long time, and the response will be even slower. My fourth sister-in-law has a heavy accent, so it's not easy to communicate with her. She doesn't know much about the city, so let's give it a try first."
"That's not difficult." Ma Dali explained: "After I accompanied you on a tour during the Chinese New Year, I consciously collected some supply channels from small embroidery workshops. Since the beginning of the year, they have also learned a lot of embroidery techniques from the aunties and grandmas next door. They know the standard for paying, and I have roughly memorized it."
Chen Xingling's eyes lit up when he heard this: "Wow! Not bad! So you've already made preparations!"
Ma Dali was a little embarrassed and hesitated: "Didn't you say... that you would give me a share in advance? Isn't it reasonable for me to contribute a little?"
"They should be rewarded!" Chen Xingling said honestly, "Before my fourth brother boarded the ship, I had already told him that if this business could work, we would open an embroidery factory together. The couple would own 60% of the shares, and you and I would own the other 40%. My fourth brother agreed. If you do more, I will work with you."
"No, no." Ma Dali shook his head and said, "That's absolutely not possible! Your fourth brother and his wife invested in such a large factory site - and it was a big investment. I didn't pay a penny, I just contributed some effort, how could I give so much."
Chen Xingling suppressed a smile: "In fact, I was going to marry you at first, but when I thought about it, Fourth Brother and Fourth Sister-in-law invested so much, and we were just contributing, I was really not too greedy, so in the end they got six and we got four."
Ma Dali added, "I can't compare with you. First of all, you are siblings, and you have such a close relationship at that time that you won't be too serious about money. In addition, you paid for our first batch of goods alone. If we didn't have the first batch of goods to test the waters, we wouldn't dare to open an embroidery factory rashly. So, you should take three and I should take one."
"Okay." Chen Xingling said happily, "If it's just our business, we'll both win. This time, I'm the one who gets the better deal."
Ma Dali shook his head repeatedly: "No way!"
Chen Xingling said, "The stair handrails will be finished the day after tomorrow. When we have some free time after class, let's go around and ask."
"Yes." Ma Dali agreed and suggested: "We can find some aunties to help with publicity. They all have their own small circles among embroidery workers. After we find out clearly, we can find their small circles through them. As long as we pass the news to one of them, it will spread quickly."
Chen Xingling gave a thumbs up: "That's a solution!"
Ma Dali stood up and looked outside.
"It's getting dark, you should go back first. I need to read and do homework at night, I'll meet you in Sanyuan later in the evening."
Chen Xingling couldn't help but suggest: "It's still a little early, let's go to Sanyuan to eat together."
"No." Ma Dali explained: "I lent my car to Erli. He went to borrow test papers from his classmates, and the journey was a bit far, so he came to borrow my car."
Ma Dali has always wanted to buy a bicycle and hopes that Chen Xingling and his wife can find him a ticket.
However, there were a lot of people waiting for tickets at the shipyard personnel office, and the supply was insufficient to meet the demand. After getting the tickets, people wanted to buy their own bikes, and no one was willing to sell tickets.
Chen Xingling knew that there were rows of bicycles in the factory, both new and old, placed in the carport.
She asked Xiao Huzi to put up a small advertisement of "Second-hand bicycles for sale" on the bicycle shed. Soon, someone came to Xiao Huzi and said that he wanted to sell his old bicycle because his wife's company also got a ticket and planned to buy a brand new one. It would be a waste not to ride the old one, so he wanted to sell it.
After asking about the approximate price, Xiao Huzi happily went to find Ma Dali.
Therefore, under the leadership of Xiao Huzi, the two sides quickly agreed on a price and bought the brand new bike for sixty yuan.
Chen Xingling was unaware of this from the beginning to the end, and thought that the advertisement had just been posted and that he needed to wait a little longer.
"Oh, right." Ma Dali seemed to have just remembered something and said with an excited smile, "I heard from Erli that Xiao Huzi came to their class and sat with Gu Xuan."
Chen Xingling: “???”
What time is it? What do you do in high school?
"He came to visit his aunt." Chen Xingling explained: "I guess he was curious, so he came over to join in the fun."
Ma Dali shook his head: "No, he really listened to the class. He listened for a long time, and then went to the science class to listen. Erli asked him if he understood it, and he said it was very simple. Erli didn't believe it, so he found a few math problems to test him, and he got them all right."
Chen Xingling was not surprised at all: "He has always been good at math. At this time last year, he would often use my homework to do exercises. The math problems that Aqi gave him were very strange, and I couldn't do most of them."
Ma Dali laughed and said, "No wonder he said he wanted to take the college entrance examination!"
"Forget it." Chen Xingling said, "He hasn't even graduated from elementary school yet! A brat should do what a brat should do. If it weren't for the principal of Shuiyue Elementary School insisting on him joining the sixth grade, I wouldn't have even come. He's only three years old, and he's already in the third grade. After half a year, he's already in the sixth grade. I'm really worried that I'm forcing him too much!"
Ma Dali rolled his eyes and whispered, "I heard... he went to see Principal Li himself... and said he wanted to join the senior science class."
Chen Xingling: “…”!!!
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