When she walked to the door of a cloth shop, before she entered, the boy stopped her at the door and said in a rather unkind tone: "Come on, you are a little beggar, you still want to come to our cloth shop? You don't even think about your own money."
Wen Xi looked at the waiter and said coldly: "Isn't the store just open for business?"
The boy sneered and said sarcastically: "When doing business, you also have to look at who is doing the business. Why don't you look at customers like you who can afford to buy fabrics from our cloth shop? We all have cloth shops." Only dignitaries can afford it, anyone can enter, why should we open here anymore?"
"You mean what your shopkeeper means?"
"Oh, you're the only one who's worthy of mentioning our shopkeeper? Get as far away as you can!"
The shopkeeper who was settling accounts at the counter inside looked up at Wen Xi at the door. Seeing that she was wearing patches, he curled his lips and continued to settle accounts with his head down.
Wen Xi naturally saw what the shopkeeper was doing.
An interesting smile appeared in his eyes.
"Okay, in that case, I just don't want to go in." After saying that, she turned around and walked towards a cloth shop opposite.
The boy sighed and said loudly: "Go to the store opposite that is about to close down! Maybe there are some bargains suitable for you. After all, poor farmers like you are only suitable there."
Wen Xi paused and looked back at the boy standing at the door. His cold eyes were like a physical sword, piercing through him.
The boy moved towards the store with some fear, feeling that if he didn't hide in, this girl would take revenge on him.
He was right, Wen Xi really turned around and came back.
She looked coldly at the boy who was looking at the door, and said in a deep voice: "The grain, fruits and vegetables you eat fall from the sky? Without farmers, you will starve to death. You are the one who is scolding your mother for holding your rice bowl." Such a shameless person."
"You, you, you...you are using strong words to make sense!"
"Aren't you shameless when you eat food grown by a farmer uncle and slander your parents? If your cloth shop can hire a boy like you, it's probably not much better. It's okay if you don't come to this kind of shop!"
Pushing aside the people who were watching, Wen Xi walked straight to the Buzhuang on the opposite side.
The boy's face was livid, and he was just about to have a seizure when he heard the deep voice of the shopkeeper inside: "Why don't you come in to sell goods, you stupid thing!"
The shopkeeper of Buzhuang was not unaware of the commotion at the door, but he didn't expect that his servant was so useless. He couldn't even win against a little beggar, and he was completely embarrassed.
Wen Xi walked into the cloth shop. There were only a few customers in the shop. There were only two older aunts picking fabrics, and a slightly younger daughter-in-law picking patterned cloths. Other than that, there were no other customers.
At this time, a man in his twenties came up. Judging from his appearance, he must be a clerk in the store.
"Girl, what do you want to buy?"
"Buy a few sets of fabrics for making clothes." Wen Xi pointed to the fine cotton cloth on the far left and asked, "How do you sell this kind of fabric?"
"This kind of fine cotton cloth is suitable for underwear. It costs one hundred yuan a piece. For outerwear, you can choose this kind of coarse cotton cloth. The price is more suitable, and it only costs fifty yuan."
Wen Xi knew that this guy recommended the most cost-effective fabric based on his appearance, so he didn't get angry at all because he introduced low-priced cotton.
Wen Xi made a rough calculation of the family's population. Everyone in the family needed to make two sets of clothes. Including inner clothes, a total of two pieces of fine cotton cloth would be purchased, and six pieces of coarse cotton cloth would be enough.
She carefully picked the colors, choosing dark colors for Wen Kang and the two old people. Lin Hui's was pink, hers was goose yellow, and Wen Tao's was blue. In this way, the family's clothes are all covered.
Fulai Fabric Store had not opened such a large order for a long time. The clerk called the shopkeeper and told him about the fabrics Wen Xi wanted. The shopkeeper was immediately elated.
You know, since the cloth shop opposite opened, they have been suppressing their cloth shop. At the beginning, the cloth shop had some business, but now it is getting less and less, and it is about to close down.
Now that they have sold eight pieces of cloth at once, it is undoubtedly a timely help for them to have a big customer.
"Girl, two pieces of fine cotton cloth cost 200 yuan, and six pieces of cheesecloth cost 300 yuan, a total of 500 yuan. We will send the girl another half piece of cheesecloth to your door. What do you think?" The shopkeeper looked at Wen Xi cautiously, For fear that the other party would be a little dissatisfied, I would not buy from him.
Five hundred coins is indeed a large number for ordinary farmers, but for Wenxi now, it is just a drop in the bucket.
After paying the money happily, Wen Xi asked his doubts.
"Shopkeeper, I see that the quality of the cloth here is also very good. Why is the business so deserted?"
"Hey..." Zhao Fulai couldn't help but sigh when he mentioned this.
Seeing that his boss didn't want to talk, the clerk had to speak on his behalf: "Girl, you don't know something. Originally, our cloth shop was also well-known in the town. Not only did the fabrics have good quality, but the prices were also affordable. But since the opening of the Millennium Cloth Shop opposite, , we were so suppressed that we couldn’t breathe.”
"What's so special about Millennium Fabric Store?" Wen Xi frowned slightly. Although he didn't buy any fabric from Millennium Fabric Store, he could tell by the little boy's contemptuous attitude. One or two.
"As soon as their shop came, they poached all our original dyeing masters. They could also weave and dye fabrics with very bright colors that were not easy to fade. Although the price was high, they were very popular among the wealthy people in the town, so Our shop has gradually declined, and today we can only sell some ordinary fabrics, and all the customers have left." The clerk said dejectedly.
Shopkeeper Zhao also looked disheveled, thinking that the cloth village that had been passed down from his ancestors had ended in this way in his own generation. He would be ashamed of his ancestors a hundred years later!
So that's it.
Nowadays, there are only cotton fabrics, dyed fabrics, printed fabrics and solid color satin fabrics on the market.
Of these types of fabrics, solid-color satin fabrics and printed fabrics are more expensive. Satin fabrics are more expensive due to the fabric cost, while printed fabrics are more expensive due to the dyeing process. However, there are only a few simple designs and colors of printed fabrics on the market.
But dyeing cloth is too simple for modern people.
Modern dyed fabrics are not only bright in color and not easy to fade, but also come in thousands of colors and dozens of materials.
If you can provide Fulai Cloth Shop with dyeing and weaving methods, it may be a shortcut to making money.
Thinking of this, Wen Xi smiled and said to Shopkeeper Zhao: "Shopkeeper, I have several tricks. If you are interested, we can cooperate, including some weaving and dyeing methods, which may bring your business back to its peak, and even Far superior to the Millennium Clothing Store opposite.”
"Seriously?" Shopkeeper Zhao's voice was slightly excited, but then he thought that the person standing in front of him was just a teenage girl.
Even though he, a man of several decades, could not do anything, what could she do at such a young age?
Seeing the doubts and hesitation in Zhao Fulai's eyes, Wen Xi directly asked the waiter to bring him paper and charcoal, and in front of the two of them, he drew a pattern and handed it to shopkeeper Zhao.
Zhao Fulai went from initial doubt to surprise, and the emotions in his eyes were unreservedly released: "Wonderful! It's really wonderful! Zhao has such a blind eye that he didn't know that the girl has such an amazing talent!"
