Jin Yuanyuan's Top-Tier Life

Chapter 48 It's us who lost face.

"Yuanyuan, our names are printed wrong on the packaging bag this time!" Li Lianqing pushed the door open and walked in without even knocking. Her voice was quite loud, which startled Jin Yuanyuan, who was lost in thought.

Li Lianqing was stunned when she saw Jin Feiyan. Forgetting about the packaging bag, she asked Jin Feiyan instead, "What are you doing here? Have you eaten? Did you come with Xiaoyu?"

"Ah... Mom, I've eaten." Jin Feiyan was quite embarrassed, after all, this was Cao Xiaoyu's mother, her former mother-in-law. Fortunately, she didn't change her address and still called her "Mom."

"Hey, why didn't anyone ask me if I've eaten?" Jin Yuanyuan quickly tried to smooth things over, since Jin Feiyan hadn't mentioned getting back together with Cao Xiaoyu, and their relationships were all rather complicated.

"You drink milk tea all the time, you've gained so much weight," Li Lianqing said bluntly. "Our Feiyan is still slim."

Jin Yuanyuan looked at Jin Feiyan, who was much fatter than her, but in her former mother-in-law's eyes, she was thin and beautiful. It was truly outrageous.

"Aunt Qing, what happened?" She had no choice but to change the subject and ask Li Lianqing.

"Right, right, look at my brain." Li Lianqing handed her the cardboard from the small transparent plastic bag containing the socks, "Jin Yaya was printed as Jin YY..."

Upon hearing this, Jin Yuanyuan's head buzzed. She picked up the card and looked at it; sure enough, it was true. The difference between "Yaya" and "YY" was significant, and even the fonts were different. "How could this be?"

"I just called the printing company, and they said they just hired a young girl to do the plate-making. She has no experience, but they started printing right away. And guess what? They printed 100,000 copies right away..."

"How could they make such a basic mistake?" Jin Yuanyuan scoffed. "Then send it back and have them reprint it. They have to take responsibility for this..."

"The boss has been working with us for over ten years, and he asked if we could just make do for now? Because we need it very urgently this time..."

"That won't do! The logo is wrong! This is our storefront, it's not a matter of just making do. If this gets out, we'll lose face!" Jin Yuanyuan immediately became anxious. "Aunt Qing, this isn't the time to be sentimental, this is about our reputation..."

"Yuanyuan, don't worry, don't worry." Jin Feiyan noticed Jin Yuanyuan's unusual attitude and immediately spoke up, "Let me see..."

"If you feel uncomfortable bringing it up because we're all old acquaintances, then I'll do it for you." Jin Yuanyuan's head started to ache even more at the thought of the complicated relationships involved.

"This batch of goods is to be shipped out tonight, and it's definitely too late to reprint them now." Li Lianqing chimed in, "Similar things have happened before. Hongying said, 'They're all old acquaintances, so let's just leave it at that...'"

"Aunt Qing, this might have been acceptable in the past, but not today, not this time. This Boss He may seem easygoing and generous, but he's actually very meticulous. If we hand over the goods to him like this, he won't cooperate with us next time."

"Is it that serious?" Li Lianqing suddenly muttered to herself again, "If I had known it would be like this, I wouldn't have told you."

"Tell me, you must tell me!" Jin Yuanyuan's ears perked up. However, Jin Feiyan, noticing Li Lianqing's increasingly unpleasant expression, secretly kicked Jin Yuanyuan. Jin Yuanyuan immediately began praising Li Lianqing, "Aunt Qing, this is a big deal, you absolutely had to tell me, and I think you did the right thing by discovering the problem immediately and informing me. You deserve a huge credit for that!"

"Oh, I figured it out first." Li Lianqing frowned. "Yuanyuan, you should know that even if we start reprinting now, it won't be delivered tonight."

"What about tomorrow morning?" Jin Yuanyuan picked up her phone. "I'll call the printing factory owner first, please wait a moment."

Mr. Yuan, the owner of the printing plant, was indeed an old friend with whom they had cooperated for many years. He had just been yelled at by Li Lianqing and was anxiously arranging for the re-making of the printing plates. When Jin Yuanyuan called to inquire, he immediately said, "Yuanyuan, I'm so sorry about this. I'm already prepared to redo it."

"What's the earliest? We don't need to ship them all at once. We can ship as many as we make." Jin Yuanyuan looked at the schedule. After the socks go through the knitting, pattern making, and heat printing stages, the packaging stage will affect the subsequent transportation and express delivery.

"The earliest batch will be finished by 10 p.m. tonight. It'll probably be all done by noon tomorrow. After all, once it's printed, it needs to dry, and that takes time."

"That means it'll be a day later, right?" Jin Yuanyuan confirmed again. "You need to be very sure about this with me so I can confirm the time with my clients, because they are also waiting. Before the Spring Festival, all the delivery and courier industries are very busy, and everyone is rushing."

"I confirm." Boss Yuan nodded with certainty.

"Okay. You can get started." Jin Yuanyuan hung up the phone and immediately called Boss He to explain the situation. Fortunately, Boss He didn't say anything, and he could accept a one-day delay. But the problem arose with another old customer, Aunt Hong. She said she had to receive the 10,000 pairs of socks she ordered tonight because she had just rented a plane to ship all her goods to South Korea... This was a big deal.

"Okay, okay, I'll think of something. Please wait a moment. Don't worry, I'll definitely get it done. Yes, yes, don't worry, don't worry..." After making the call to Aunt Hong, Jin Yuanyuan turned green with embarrassment. What should she do now? The only thought running through her mind was: This is a disgrace to us, a disgrace to Jin Yaya, a disgrace to me.

She had never encountered anything like this before, because she always made proofs and color comparisons for every printout. Now, she was too trusting of her old clients, which caused her trouble.

Old Li, the head of the packaging department, also came in and asked, "What do we do now? Should we put a sticker on it?"

"What?" Jin Yuanyuan glanced at him. "Is this how you try to fool me?"

"Not really. We made a mistake before, but then we made a batch of stickers and just stuck them on. Because the other party wasn't too particular about this, back then we were considered OEM, so they would change the hangtags..." Old Li tugged at the packaging bag, "Hey, this time Old Yuan even changed the cardboard. Why make it so thick?"

"This wasn't specially designed for that new client. Who knew it would be a mistake?" Li Lianqing stood to the side, still not very happy.

Jin Feiyan saw this and secretly kicked Jin Yuanyuan again.

Jin Yuanyuan's mind was buzzing as she quickly tried to figure out how to handle the situation.

Then, she actually opened her phone and entered the keyword: How to remedy printing errors in paper packaging?

(End of this chapter)