Wang Qi and Li Xiang took the slightly older Bai Xiaojiao for a walk before it got dark.
Wang Qi made an impromptu decision and sent Bai Xiaojiao back to the palace building, taking two inner court guards with him to go shopping outside.
It is said that it is shopping, but in fact it is an activity in a place where the police posts in the administrative center can see it. Otherwise, if you go a little further, a lot of people will appear to yell at you.
Today's target is the supermarket.
The administrative center is a wonder-level building with a radius of three hundred meters, and a circumference equal to more than five streets connected together. Even if the south side is turned into an artificial lake, it is impossible to simply do administrative and banking work.
Its external entrances include one each for Phoenix Bank, Redstone Bank, Pangxun Bank, and Tianshu Daily Headquarters, two each for Obsidian Bank, Phoenix Power Grid, taxation, central airport ticketing and freight processing windows, and the court, and two for the police, civil affairs, and There are four municipal windows each. Taken together, they only occupy less than 600 meters of street frontage.
The remaining three gates in the east, west and north and their security areas will be deducted, and a small amount will be reserved for future use, which will be put into civilian use. Among them, there are many hotels, restaurants, and pastries. The largest horizontal areas are two super retail markets.
Not only is it fully functional, the administrative center is also a testing ground for the government to explore new management methods. All civilian facades of the same type adopt different leasing and tax settlement methods to see what method can achieve both convenience and supervision.
It is close enough to various units, even ministerial-level units will directly participate in the investigation, there is no real inconvenience, and it is the basis for the experiment.
Little Bear City's strategy of separating people and vehicles does not make an exception for the administrative center. The north-south elevated highway has two bifurcated underwater one-way lines leading to the logistics area of the square inside the administrative center. Because of its existence, the center can support a large number of people and supermarkets. Required logistics.
It's evening time now. Due to the height of the center, the street lights on the east side have been turned on, while the street lights on the west side have just turned on the low-light effect. Wang Qi and Li Xiang went to the supermarket on the west side.
"Want to buy clothes?"
Wang Qi nodded: "Well, we haven't bought any clothes yet."
Li Xiang opened his lips for a moment and became happy: "...Haha, it's true!"
Wang Qi and Li Xiang met in a wasteland. Of course, there was no clothes to buy there, so they had to pick up clothes. After he came to the penal colony, he was the king of the two clans, so he naturally didn't need to buy anything. Someone would take care of it if he explained it. There is a chance to travel to the main world, but Li Xiang, who is a little taller than Wang Qi, has no suitable women's ready-made clothes to buy. He can only look at them and has no time to stop and wait for ordering.
The super retail market did not develop naturally. It was the work of the Night Clan. This location in the wasteland was an important resource point or even a stronghold. Everyone was very impressed.
However, in actual operation, it relies heavily on the scale of the city, so its development is relatively slow. So far, only Little Bear City, Phoenix City, Wind Valley, and Pangxun City have more than one supermarket, and other cities only have one.
The current scale of Little Bear City is small, and the two supermarkets are too many. They are not yet fully operational. The second floor of the supermarket called "Ji's Store" that Wang Qi and Li Fao visited is not yet open.
The first floor, which has been opened, has fresh food, food, hardware, daily necessities and clothing areas. A small amount of small furniture is placed for sale in the daily necessities and hardware areas.
Due to the cold wind a while ago, the clothing area obviously occupies a larger area.
Wang Qi and four other people came in and caused a bit of a commotion. Fortunately, everyone was of good quality. People and shopping mall staff mostly kept a distance and watched, and did not get close to them.
In order to reduce the level of nuisance, I did not visit the whole place. I asked someone who looked like the manager on duty, who was following me from a distance, and passed through the daily area directly to the clothing area.
There is also a good thing in the daily area - a washing machine.
"Is this washing machine selling well?"
The salesperson opened his mouth in a daze, as if he didn't know what to say. Li Xiang was a little impatient: "Just tell the truth."
"Ah...sold...sold very well. These units just arrived this afternoon. Someone has already asked for them. They will be delivered early tomorrow morning. If Your Majesty and the Queen want them, I...I may go and ask for permission." .”
Wang Qi did not embarrass her, waved his hand and thanked her, and took Li Xiang straight to the garment district.
The most time-consuming thing in daily housework is undoubtedly washing clothes, and the more often you want to save on changing sheets and bedding, the longer it will take to wash clothes by hand. Therefore, the washing machine can be called one of the most important home appliances, even more so. In the refrigerator, it can really save the time of housework providers and improve the quality of life.
However, washing machines are not new. There are also manual ones, and there are even wooden barrel versions overseas.
In fact, the kingdom also has the ability to build refrigerators, but there was a magic solution before, and now cooling is just around the corner. This thing has never made much money, and naturally no company has invested heavily in it.
In the Garment District, due to the relationship between the penal colony and the local characteristics of Little Bear City, there are several communities below.
The main clothing of the Phoenix Kingdom is divided into three categories: weight loss, normal, and tall. The vocabulary is naturally based on non-offensive standards. They correspond to 1.4 to 1.7 meters, 1.7 to 2 meters, and 2 to 2.4 meters respectively. In Phoenix City and Little Bear City, there are also special blade sizes. They have thick tails that cannot be hidden, so the corresponding styles of clothing cannot be sold in other regions and ethnic groups.
Naturally, it is impossible for one size to cover a height difference of tens of centimeters. These three major categories correspond to the three major body areas: Gray people, normal body types and Qingyan people. Each body type area corresponds to more than just one ethnic group. . Under the general category, there are also size subdivisions specifically for this type, weight loss and normal. The main factor is the height difference. For the tall type, there are more horizontal development factors in the size subdivision, such as 100 kg and 140 kg. Players can find the corresponding 2.2-meter height version of ready-made clothing.
In order to facilitate the purchase of ready-made clothes by some customers with appendages and tails, the clothing section of the supermarket also has a special tailoring section, where you can change clothes according to several standard styles. Generally, you can buy them on the first day and pick them up the next day. If you are lucky, you can get two or three. Hours are available.
However, even if there is a tailoring district, the domestic ready-made garment market is still very complex and difficult to develop like heavy industry. There are too many size categories, making it impossible for small clothing stores to afford the cost of displaying ready-made garments. They can only choose at most one major category for sales. Only super retail markets have space to display so many clothes.
For Li Xiang, his own market is much more convenient than the one set up in the main world with a normal human body shape.
For the convenience of fighting, she is more accustomed to wearing pants, but to be honest, apart from work clothes, there is no other type in the civilian clothing market that can withstand the torment of melee players. Today, I can only buy some casual items.
Maybe the manager was doing something behind his back. Wang Qi and others came to the clothing area and looked around for a while. A salesperson who was well-spoken and not afraid of strangers came to help Li Xiang choose clothes and try on them while dealing with Wang Qi's problems.
Wang Qi is naturally more concerned about channels, especially the supply status of thickened clothing after the cold wind blows.
The salesperson answered fluently: "The supply of thickened clothing here in Phoenix is quite stable, but there may be a shortage in Elte."
From this answer, you can tell that the salesperson in front of you is not a serious salesperson.
But it doesn't matter, no need to expose it.
In the Kingdom, because Phoenix City is close to the Ice Forest, there are often pipeline maintenance and other work that require entering the forest. Therefore, there has been a demand for the production and sales of thickened clothing for a long time. The cold wind only brings improvements in terms of increment and style. .
As the only conventional spinning production area for non-sacred tree fiber in the country, Erte does not have prerequisites like the Ice Forest. It will be difficult to adapt to the sudden demand for thickened clothing in the short term. avoid.
"I heard that polyester clothing is now available. Do you have it here? How are the sales going?"
The fake salesman was a little confused: "Oh, they adjusted the shelves in the morning. I just went to work, so I went to help you ask."
Wang Qi smiled and nodded.
The salesperson came back quickly, glanced at her, and first received Li Xiang who had just come out of the dressing room. After Wang Qi had admired her and sent her to try on another set, he went to get the polyester clothes.
Polyester blending technology is still under research. The clothes here are pure polyester fabrics, which have a texture similar to that of vehicle seat belts. The threads are spun thinner, but they still look rough and cannot be called hand-made.
After Li Xiang finished trying on the clothes, he bought himself a polyester coat and went home to try the effect.
(End of chapter)
