Young Again

Chapter 6: Talking about cooperation with yuan in hand
Chen Wang got up at seven o'clock on Saturday morning.

He found a single sweatshirt in the closet, put it on, looked it up and down, then took it off and changed into a black short-sleeved thin jacket and jeans.

Then go to the bathroom to wash up.

Looking at himself in the mirror, he studied himself for a while, then wet his hands with water and flipped up his slightly long bangs to reveal his forehead.

"It's right."

He looked a bit like a student just now, but now he must be in his twenties.

Because he didn't have anything delicate like hair wax, in order to style his bangs, he used a hair dryer to blow on them for a long time until they would no longer droop easily.

After getting ready, he went to the living room.

At this time, my mother was sitting in the living room watching TV. When she saw Chen Wang coming out, she was full of surprise: "Why are you getting up so early? Don't you usually sleep until eight or nine?"

"I made an appointment with Gui Jiahao to play ball." said Chen Wang.

"Then what do you want to eat? There are eggs, and I'll cook some corn for you." Zhou Yurong prepared to get up.

"No, I'm going downstairs to eat noodles."

"Oh okay."

"By the way, I'm going to have lunch with them at noon and won't be back."

"You won't come back at noon?" Zhou Yurong said with vigilance, "Don't play around outside."

"The school is going to have a basketball game, and we have been practicing more recently."

After hearing this reason, Zhou Yurong let down her guard and nodded.

Then Chen Wang went out.

Although it was early in the morning, there was already an old man exercising downstairs, hitting a tree trunk with a mat tied to it. Chen Wang couldn't figure out what muscles this movement exercised.

Outside the community, you can still see some mothers taking their children out to buy groceries, and the passers-by are all in a very relaxed state.

This is indeed the scene in my memory. The adults in the company have two days off on weekends. There is no meaningless duty. Holidays are holidays. On weekdays, they get off work very early. On the way home, students can smell the tempting aroma of food wafting from the windows on both sides of the alley.

At that time, everyone generally didn't earn much, only about four or five thousand a month, but they were all happy. I've never heard of anyone eating takeout every day. Most people cooked at home.

Of course, time doesn't change everything.

At least a dozen years later, the monthly salary is still four or five thousand.

So if you want to make money, you really have to do it now, otherwise you won’t have time.

"A large portion of hot dry noodles, not spicy, with more chopped green onions, a piece of dried shrimp, and a tea egg."

Because today was expected to be very busy, Chen Wang planned to skip lunch and replenish his energy in advance.

After eating, he tore off a few pieces of rough toilet paper from the breakfast shop to wipe his mouth, and then walked to the supermarket next door.

"Boss, bring me a bag of soft treasures."

"65."

Chen Wang took out a hundred-dollar bill.

The boss took the money, looked at it a few more times to determine whether it was real, then opened the drawer and prepared to change the money: "Do you want to get some money?"

"Take a two-piece fire..."

After Chen Wang said this casually, he paused.

Then, he looked at the windproof lighters lined up in the square box, thoughtfully.

.........

Ten o'clock in the morning, Jiangchuan South, Industrial Park.

This place is home to the largest number of garment processing factories in Jiangchuan County, as well as tens of thousands of employees, and is the absolute pillar of Jiangchuan's fiscal revenue.

The supporting industries basically support the core of Jiangchuan's light industry.

The government also allocated a primary school in this area to facilitate the enrollment of employees' children.

Although the number and size of individual small business owners in Guangdong's clothing industry are far behind, and can even be said to be insignificant, due to the low costs of rent, water, electricity, labor, etc. and the low entry threshold, entrepreneurs here in Jiangchuan have also formed a certain scale.

And, certain standards.

In a cutting room of more than 50 square meters at the entrance of the industrial park, a young man with a crew cut, about 30 years old, was cutting cloth with a teenage apprentice using a cloth cutter.

This is one of the supporting industries of the garment factory.

There are several steps before a piece of clothing reaches the market.

The designer designs the clothes, divides the drawings into various parts, buys the cloth from the fabric store, and then cuts the cloth into pieces in the tailoring room (usually the tailoring room will sell the cloth to the second-level distributor), and then sends it to the garment factory for the tailor to process the buttons, and then packages it, and finally sends it to the clothing wholesale stall to sell it to the owners of physical clothing stores, or sell it directly to online stores.

Well, there is no washing step.

Fun fact: Clothes you just bought online are as hygienic as the pickled cabbage your aunt stepped on.

When the boss was teaching his apprentice to cut pieces, a young man walked into the store. He was about 1.8 meters tall and looked quite immature.

After the boss looked at it, he asked, "Buying cloth?"

"Yes." Chen Wang walked in directly and started to choose by himself. He asked, "How much is this white polyester cloth per meter?"

The boss came over and said, "Eight yuan a meter."

"How much is one piece?" Chen Wang asked, touching the cloth.

"260, buy more, buy less." The boss said. "I just want one." Chen Wang said.

"Okay, then 260. I'll give it to you."

The cloth was rolled up on the rack, and each piece of cloth weighed at least 70 to 80 kilograms. The boss stepped on a stool, grabbed the head tightly, and carried down a piece.

Chen Wang took the initiative to reach out to help receive it.

Then, a piece of low-quality polyester cloth was placed flat on the concrete floor.

"How much does it cost to cut clothes per meter?" Chen Wang asked again.

Hearing this, the boss smiled and explained, "Boss, we start with at least ten pieces."

Cloth can be sold one piece at a time. After all, it is a first-level distribution, and you get paid based on commission, so you can get a guaranteed income regardless of drought or flood.

But the cutting room makes money from the labor costs, which depends on the volume.

If the quantity is too small, it will not only waste time, but also affect other jobs. Therefore, even if the unit price can make a little less profit, the bosses are unwilling to cut the order at a high price.

And just like a truck driver who would rather return with an empty truck than drive a car at half price to earn gas money, the bosses of Jiangchuan have formed a 'business alliance' and will not engage in this kind of internal competition to disrupt the market.

This is how small local businesses survive.

If someone lowers the price to grab business, it will really be affected offline.

After all, it's in a park.

After being rejected, Chen Wang remained calm. He took out a box of soft popsicles from his pocket, gave one to the boss, and another to the young chef next to him.

When taking the cigarette, the boss's eyes fell on the Audi car key on Chen Wang's waist.

"This is for making samples. Cut one piece first to try it out, so I won't bargain with you on the price." Chen Wang was still not flustered at all, and said, "Later, it will probably start at 20 pieces. You can give me less when the time comes."

Hearing this, the boss's mind worked quickly and he said, "Of course, we can talk about everything."

"Then you can help me cut it today and cut in line. I want it in advance. If it's a good idea, I'll come to order the cloth tomorrow afternoon, and then you can cut it." Chen Wang was experienced, as if he had done this kind of thing many times.

"no problem."

Chen Wang had explained it so clearly, so the boss didn't bother to say anything more and decided directly: "I'll get this horse for you after it's cut. Come and get it in two hours."

"can."

"Boss, where are your design drawings?" asked the tailor shop owner.

"Let me use the whiteboard, pen, and ruler." said Chen Wang.

"Give it to the boss." The tailor shop owner raised his head to his apprentice.

After a while, he took out the tools.

Then Chen Wang stood next to the computer desk, hunched over, and used a ruler and a gel pen to draw a divided design on the white cardboard.

When he was doing online clothing sales in Yuezhou, his business was not very good, so he poached a female college student designer who had a three-diamond online store. He paid her 10,000 yuan a month and asked her to design things. If the sales were good, she would get commissions.

The female college student was very skilled, and Chen Wang learned something from her, but after all, he was not a professional, so what he learned was limited.

Of course, if you are just making short sleeves, the most basic knowledge is enough.

Seeing Chen Wang drawing with great ease, the boss asked curiously, "Are you studying design?"

"I chose fashion design in college. My dad forced me to learn it." Chen Wang said helplessly as he lowered his head to draw.

"Your father runs an online store?"

"I do clothing wholesale in Hanzheng Street, Jiangcheng."

"Isn't it good for a son to inherit his father's business and become a boss? I need a father to help me, but I don't have one yet."

The boss smoked a cigarette and said with a smile: "From what you said, you don't want to learn this, then what do you want to do?"

Chen Wang said without even looking up, "Be a poet."

"..."

The boss's hand holding the cigarette hovered in the air. After holding it in for a long time, he stiffly replied, "Well, there are top talents in every field."

After saying that, the boss went back to do his own thing.

Chen Wang drew the pictures alone.

After finishing, he put the pen down and prepared to take out the money: "Do you want to bet some money?"

"No need, we can pay when the time comes." The boss waved his hand and gave Chen Wang considerable trust.

In highly clustered and homogeneous industrial parks, "human touch" is the soft power to compete with peers, especially when developing new customers who have the potential to become repeat customers, being a good person is very important.

You can’t do business if you are too picky.

"Okay boss, I'll come over later."

Just like that, Chen Wang said hello to the boss and left the tailoring room.

After he left, the apprentice held the Huanghelou soft treasure and muttered, "It feels very powerful to make such a good cigarette."

"That's not nonsense?"

The boss smiled and said firmly: "I tell you, you can't fake the feeling of being rich!"

(End of this chapter)