When the two arrived at the wholesaler, the boss directly asked Ye Siren and Lin Xuerou to find the required quantity and yardage in the warehouse. Each pair of pants was counted as 30, for a total of 50 pairs.
The boss was a middle-aged man who had some friendship with Sister Qing, so he was willing to work overtime. When Xuerou and Siren came over, he thought they were two orders, but he didn't expect them to be the same order, and he felt a little disappointed.
Siren used a calculator to calculate the price. It was 20 a piece. Xuerou looked at it and felt something was wrong. She looked at the boss with a helpless smile and stared at him, making him feel itchy. "Boss, you seem to be selling it to my mother." It’s 10 yuan a piece, but it’s 15 yuan, right?”
Siren looked at her with disdain, and said in her ear: "How can anyone bargain with the price and cut it in half, and they clearly want to use an axe? There's something wrong with you..."
Xuerou blinked her right eye and grasped her fist. Siren felt a chill in his heart. He understood in an instant. He covered his eyes, turned his head silently, and looked around the store.
The boss smiled awkwardly. Seeing that she was prettier than Sister Qing, he couldn't bear her insistence. He finally followed her advice and raised the price to 15 yuan, but only charged them. 500.
"If you want new uniforms in the future, you can order them from me. I will also specialize in making uniforms for the silver band here." The boss said, pointing to the somewhat old silver band uniforms in the glass cabinet in the distance. Ye Siren was staring at a set of Wang Xian's military uniform from a year ago.
This uniform was specially customized by Wang Xian for the National Day competition. At that time, Wang Xian spent huge sums of money and hired a special designer for this purpose.
Although Wang Xian's uniforms seem to be similar, each one is actually made by a tailor who specializes in it. Each voice section and even each team member is different. The money spent on the decorations alone amounted to more than three thousand for each piece.
However, these uniforms are not free and must be purchased by the players at their own expense. The prices of captains and honor guards (commanders) are several thousand yuan more expensive than ordinary team members.
"What are you looking at?" Xuerou suddenly patted Siren on the shoulder and said, shocking him.
"Wang Xian's uniform is so beautiful!" Xuerou looked at the blue and white female military uniform based on the British Royal Air Force. White miniskirt, long white leather boots studded with diamonds. Under the light, it looks particularly bright.
"Were the uniforms you wore in Wang Xian back then also so beautiful?" Xuerou said, walking to the side to look at Siren's face.
Siren noticed that she was looking at him, turned around a little uncomfortable, and said solemnly: "Forget it! It's over. Have you negotiated the price?"
"Okay! Go and pay, boss!" After saying that, Ye Siren followed her back to the cashier.
But while walking, Xuerou suddenly stopped.
"Senior?"
"Look what I found?"
But seeing Xuerou holding a pack of buttons, she was as excited as a child seeing a new toy and said, "These are the buttons of our unicorn horse!"
So Xuerou took a few more packs of buttons, and saw the black short skirt worn by the guard of honor. After checking the size, she chose another one.
"Senior sister... I bought these temporarily. Won't it cost too much?" Siren asked.
"No problem, watch me perform!"
When she arrived at the front desk, Xuerou stuffed everything into a big cardboard box and asked Siren to give it to the 500 boss. She saw some stockings nearby and stuffed a lot more in.
"Wow... little sister, you are more ruthless than your mother!" the boss said helplessly.
"Oh, everyone gives some green onions when they buy groceries. If I buy so many things, I have to give some stockings as well! Right!"
"It's no longer one o'clock, okay..."
"It's just 100 million. Anyway, my mother buys so many things from you every season. Besides, I also want to say a few nice words to you in front of the teacher. I asked you to make the uniforms for this year's competition!" Xuerou explain.
"Little sister, you know the goods! The uniforms we make at home are cheap, good-looking, and no different from the real ones!" When the uniforms were mentioned, the boss became excited: "Have you seen that Wang Zion's uniform? They hired a sewing machine from Gucci. The master will make it, and each piece is guaranteed to be 6,000. But you just saw the sample I made! It’s done for 600!”
"But I have 6,000 pieces of man-made diamonds and crystals, but yours...are just cheap beads and small gravel!" Siren complained.
"But if the beads can be made so powerful, doesn't it mean the boss's craftsmanship?" Xuerou agreed.
The boss looked at Xuerou's basket and found an iron button with a unicorn printed on it, and asked curiously: "Are you from unicorn?"
"Yes! I am the captain and he is the vice-captain!" Xuerou said.
The boss was even more excited when he heard this: "Did you know? I personally designed and manufactured the first Unicorn uniform! At that time, I made a lot of buttons, but strangely, the buttons of other bands The buckles are easy to sell, but the unicorns cannot be sold!"
"Of course!" Xuerou told the story of the button with great interest.
It turns out that in the early days of the silver band, there was a unique button culture, that is, when each team member competed in a competition or privately competed, the winning team would take away a button from the opponent's uniform as a souvenir.
At that time, every member of the Unicorn Horse was a person who was fighting all over the world. It was said to be a private fight, but in fact it was just mowing the grass.
The lawn-mowing king at that time was Zhou Guodong. After he graduated, Li Moyan continued his legend.
Before Zhou Guodong graduated, he sewed the buttons of his defeated generals on his own uniform as a souvenir.
"Where is the Lawnmower King now? Has he become a great musician?" the boss asked.
"No...he did not become a musician. Instead, he returned to Chen Nanfang and became a teacher." Xuerou said.
"What a pity... such a young man with great potential."
"The most regrettable thing is that his figure is completely out of shape now, and he has become a greasy Mediterranean uncle!" Xuerou said with a smile.
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On the other side of the city...
Zhou Guodong: "Why do I keep sneezing today? Is someone secretly saying that I'm being too talkative?"
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After hearing Xuerou's story, the boss's anger at being bet on the price disappeared.
Not only did Xuerou succeed in swiping her face, she also received a $250 ax from the band.
He has always been honest and upright in doing things, but now his face was full of wonder and disdain...
"If I don't treat you to dinner, don't tell me to go out."
this……
Not bad at all!
However, after Xuerou paid, she felt a little complicated. She suspected that the boss did it on purpose: 250 X2= 500.
Two two hundred and fifty, isn't it just her and Siren?
She complained about her analysis to Siren.
"No, there is only one person with two hundred and five. It's you with the two hundred and five axe!" Siren mocked a few times, but when Xuerou's face turned dark, he stopped laughing.
When the two walked out of the industrial building, the sky was darker than before.
Siren held a large cardboard box containing everything and looked at the dark road ahead, but did not dare to step out.
Xuerou remembered what happened when she was attacked by gangsters and was afraid that they were still nearby, so she took Siren's hand and left the building.
"Come on, it's too dark here!"
"Well...Uncle Cai is waiting for us at the subway station."
It turned out that when Siren came, he had already made an appointment with Uncle Cai, the school worker, to pick him up and drop him off. Since there was no parking here, the two had to walk to the parking lot at the subway station first.
It's about ten minutes away from here.
The box was already very heavy, but for some reason, it didn't feel that heavy now that there was a person hanging on it.
Maybe it's too dark. Siren's heart was beating wildly along the way.
But he pretended to be disgusted and said to Xuerou: "Senior sister, you are really timid."
"Hmph! I want you to take care of it!"
In the dim light of the full moon and the darkness, Siren seemed to see his childhood self, being left alone by his father in a dark, smelly, and oily ship's cabin.
"Mr. Ye, if your son is still so young, you have to train him to go to sea... This is not good!" the old housekeeper said.
"Hmph! As the successor of the Ship King, this is what he must experience!"
But... Siren did not grow up through exercise again and again, but instead suffered from claustrophobia.
Even in Form Three, when Wang Xi'an was ostracized, he was also the same. Chen Dongsheng and the others took advantage of this weakness and often locked him in a small dark room, and even put small animals in it.
He thought of the many scars on his body caused by being bitten by rats, and looked at the dark surroundings. The defense line in his heart gradually became emotional, as if...
At this time, Xuerou felt that his whole body was shaking, and she was a little disgusted and confused at first.
But I remembered that when I first met him, he said that he was claustrophobic, afraid of the dark, mice, and cockroaches. At that time, she didn't quite believe it, but now she begins to believe it...
But if he was really afraid, why would he be able to save himself from the gangsters?
Maybe, his cabin fever can be saved, he just needs some courage and encouragement.
“It’s beautiful!”
Suddenly, Xuerou let go of Siren and looked up at the sky.
It turned out that their eyes were getting used to the darkness. When she looked up, what she saw was a field of stars. This is a rare thing for Hong Kong, the city that never sleeps.
Siren's eyes were focused on the girl under the moonlight. At this time, Lin Xuerou was like the tragic girl who entered the glass forest in the fairy tale, reaching out to the full moon, eager to seize the fleeting opportunity to summon the unicorn and hold the eternal happiness firmly in her hands.
"It's beautiful." Siren murmured.
I don’t know if it’s praising the moonlight and stars above this pitch black sky.
It’s still the pupil in front of me.
After a while, the two found the school janitor's pickup truck.
The school worker's name is Uncle Cai, a thin, middle-aged uncle. In the past, the teacher would ask him for help when the band went out or made purchases.
Usually when the band performs, Xuerou is responsible for driving the car with Uncle Cai. The two have a good relationship.
He helped Siren put the box away, and then remembered the scene where he saved the beautiful girl just now, so he patted him on the shoulder and said, "If there is nothing wrong with my waist, I will come with you!"
Siren glanced at Xuerou, and Xuerou looked at Uncle Cai a little embarrassed: "Uncle Cai is still a reliable support player!"
"Hmph! I'm not saving her! There's no need for me to save the female orangutan. I'm here to save those gangsters!"
"Oh, you're looking for death! I'm warning you, don't use this nickname to talk about me in front of others!"
At this time, the two started to quarrel. Uncle Cai looked at Xuerou holding Siren's hand along the way, and raised the corner of his mouth and said, "Young man, are you Xuerou's boyfriend?"
