106: Cashmere Coat? (4 More)
The examinee of the County No. 1 Middle School was working hard on the secret paper that Xia Xiaolan bought, and she herself had already set foot on the southward train.
The weather was bad, and at her strong request, Liu Fen temporarily stopped the business of reselling oil residues.
Grandma Yu couldn't stop her work. She had been hospitalized for several days and had been replaced by others for several days. After she was discharged from the hospital, she picked up a broom to clean up. The doctor said that diabetes should not be too tiring, and that an old lady in the cold weather had to sweep the streets. Liu Fen couldn't bear it.
She went out ahead of time to clean the streets that Grandma Yu was in charge of, so Grandma Yu had nothing to do.
Going out with a broom, Grandma Yu happened to bump into Liu Fen who had left the crime scene before she had time to return. Grandma Yu ignored her. This person never seemed to know how to thank others... The next day, the weather still didn't get better, and Liu Fen helped Grandma Yu sweep the streets as usual. It is only because of her humiliating and burdensome old scalper character that she can get along with Grandma Yu. Although Grandma Yu has a bad personality, in the end there is a gap between her and the scolding old lady Xia.
If Madam Xia hadn't bullied Xia Xiaolan, Liu Fen would have been able to endure even such a vicious old woman.
Grandma Yu just refuses people thousands of miles away, what can't Liu Fen accept?
Neighbors see it in their eyes, and they will inevitably discuss in private. When Grandma Yu was hospitalized, she couldn't hide her diabetes. She had offended all her neighbors, and she was waiting to see when the old woman was unlucky. One person is guarding 5 big rooms, but other people's housing is tight, who can like Yu Grandma?
Who knew that a distant relative suddenly appeared!
Xia Xiaolan's mother and daughter moved into Yu's home, and she didn't know how much discussion it caused.
Liu Fen and Xia Xiaolan's personalities are not annoying, they are completely different from Grandma Yu, and some people even think that Grandma Yu is lucky enough to offend everyone and have distant relatives to take care of them——
"Want her house?"
"There is no one at home, which means that once the old lady leaves, the house will definitely be taken back."
"You can't even tell a fart, it's a waste of time!"
"But the mother and daughter are good-natured enough to live with Mrs. Yu."
"I heard that people are dying. They were sent to the hospital by the mother and daughter..."
These discussions are not shy of grandma.
After she heard it, she was silent, and tried to straighten her thin back. She can't collapse, and she can't die. After she dies, the rest of the Yu family can't find a home. Xia Xiaolan is a smart person. Grandma Yu can keep a proper distance from her, but she also finds it troublesome to face Liu Fen, a fool who only does things and doesn't talk.
Is Liu Fen doing this, like those people, wanting her property?
But they didn't actually have any relatives. Even if she died, the property would not fall on Liu Fen and Xia Xiaolan.
Grandma Yu couldn't see through Liu Fen, so she had to stay away from Liu Fen.
...
Xia Xiaolan went to Yangcheng again, and first went to the White Pearl's house.
Unfortunately, Bai Zhenzhu got a border defense certificate. She just went to the Pengcheng Special Economic Zone yesterday, and Xia Xiaolan was in vain. The weather in Shangdu was just when it was time to sell winter jackets and duck down jackets, and Xia Xiaolan couldn't wait for the white pearls in Yangcheng.
She had 9,000 yuan in capital this time, but she still only brought 5,000 yuan to Yangcheng.
When Chen Xiliang saw her, he greeted her from a distance, "There are new products, there are new products!"
Xia Xiaolan squeezed into his booth. Compared with other stalls whose wholesale prices are very cheap, Chen Xiliang's business seems to be not so good. It was not easy to choose to do mid-to-high-end clothing wholesale in the early 1980s. Chen Xiliang's wholesale volume is not as high as others, and the money is not necessarily less. Others may only make a profit of one or two yuan if they sell one. The wholesale price of a sweater on Chen Xiliang's booth is more than 10 yuan, which is equivalent to selling one. three item. Not to mention his expensive high-end woolen coats, the wholesale price is expensive and naturally makes more money!
"You've been delayed a bit this time."
Chen Xiliang thought, shouldn't the winter clothes and duck down jackets that he took back were all smashed into his hands?
Even so, it is impossible for him to return Xia Xiaolan for a refund. Xia Xiaolan is the most beautiful, but not all men in the world like beauty, so Boss Chen thinks "Great Unity" looks better.
Xia Xiaolan also discovered his urgency to make money, "What about the new ones?"
Don't tell him the sales of winter clothes and duck down jackets.
Chen Xiliang pointed to a coat hanging behind him: "Do you dare to sell it?!"
Behind Chen Xiliang, there is a black double-breasted uniform coat, a men's style!
No wonder Chen Xiliang wants to be aggressive, Xia Xiaolan usually wears women's clothing, only a few men's winter jackets and duck down jackets were picked up last time. Men's double-breasted uniform coat?
At this time, men's formal clothes were loose and oversized suits, with large trousers, large shoulders, and long sleeves... Xia Xiaolan could imagine that such a coat would be worn on a tall man, such as Zhou Cheng's. It's sure to keep your eyes peeled. Shangdu men are not short, and Xia Xiaolan believes that she can sell this kind of men's woolen coat.
"Why, your clothes are not easy to sell?"
Chen Xiliang's eyes flickered, "I don't know how tight it is, I think you are a familiar customer and I keep it for you."
Xia Xiaolan didn't believe a word, she was a regular customer, and she only took the goods three times.
"Tell me about your wholesale price. If it's cheap, I can sell a few pieces for you."
Chen Xiliang is discouraged, so not easy to deceive?
He gritted his teeth, "...At least 80 yuan a piece, it's made of cashmere fabric!"
Xia Xiaolan subconsciously refuted him, "It's cashmem."
Cashmere, rare special animal fiber, precious textile raw material, internationally known as "fiber diamond"
Stone" and "soft gold", because Kashmir in Asia used to be the distribution center for cashmere to be exported to Europe, and it is customary to call cashmere "Kashmir" internationally.
The domestic use is transliteration, and Chen Xiliang said that cashmere is also correct.
But it's really a cashmere coat, and the wholesale price is only 80 yuan a piece?
Xia Xiaolan didn't even need to touch it, the lights were dim, and she didn't need to lean forward to take a closer look, she knew that Chen Xiliang was talking nonsense. In China in 1983, cashmere fabrics would not be sold in China at all. Even if there were very few cashmere products, they would only appear in high-end foreign-related places like the Jingcheng Friendship Store and the Shanghai Jinjiang Hotel... Basically, it was for the purpose of staying in China. goods prepared by foreigners. Holding a stack of great unity can not buy, use "foreign exchange coupons".
In the 1980s, cashmere was a commodity to earn foreign exchange. Companies that could produce cashmere went to export and sold the cashmere in exchange for foreign exchange. Great Unity is not a settlement currency recognized by the international market. To import various equipment, the country needs foreign exchange, and the enterprise also needs foreign exchange!
For example, in 1983, the export price of a cashmere sweater was about 25 US dollars. How much fabric does a cashmere coat need?
The diameter of a human hair is about 75 microns, and the diameter of cashmere is generally 15-17 microns. In order to weave the fine cashmere into fabrics, the process of "carding" is very demanding. Huaguo only built its own cashmere carding machine in 1965. Before that, it exported cashmere raw materials directly, without deep processing. In the early 1980s, more advanced carding equipment from Japan was introduced, and the export of cashmere products in China entered a period of rapid growth. It can be said that 1983 was the time when domestic cashmere enterprises were busy creating foreign exchange. How many cashmere coats were there in Yangcheng? sold in the wholesale market?
Why does Xia Xiaolan know so clearly? She graduated from college and worked as a salesman in her previous life. She didn't sell electrical appliances. She sold large-scale equipment... For a while, she sold carding machines, which were made in China. In order to sell the machine, she has to understand the history of the relevant industry from beginning to end!
Her memory has become so good, and she still remembers the materials she recited many years ago. It is no wonder that she can remember the mathematics paper of the college entrance examination in 1984. Xia Xiaolan relied on her good memory and very certainty to crush the profiteer Comrade Chen Xiliang:
"This coat is definitely not cashmere, and you dare to quote the wholesale price of 80 yuan!"