Chapter 40 Verse 1

  "Qing Min, what have you been up to lately? You're never seen around. Wu Mei Mei was admiring herself in the mirror when she saw Ning Qing Min return and looked at her with puzzlement: "It's just a relative buying a shop, why are you so busy?"

  "She gave me a salary, so I'll definitely try to help out as much as possible." Ning Qingming could only reply, just then the phone rang, and he went to answer it, but it was Zhang Yu calling, saying that she would be taking the train the next day and asking Ning Qingming to meet her at the train station.

  The next day, Ning Qingming picked up Zhang Yu from the train station and had Zheng Jingchun take her to where she was staying. After putting away her luggage, he then took her with him to buy office supplies, casually telling her that the stall was actually his own, letting her know that if she worked hard and made money, he would not mistreat her.

  Zhang Yu's eyes widened in surprise and he exclaimed: "Qingmian sister, you're so amazing! You managed to decorate this entire room with just 6,000 yuan!"

  Ning Qing smiled and said: "You can live with Zheng Mei and them for now, and rent your own place later."

  "It's okay, they seem to get along pretty well too." Zhang Yu said with a smile, looking at the road signs along the way, claiming that as long as the route wasn't too complicated, he could find his way after walking it once.

  "You'll be fine as long as you know the way!" Ning Qingming was also delighted, Zhang Yu had a cheerful personality and was quite adaptable to the environment, it seemed like they had invited the right person.

  After buying the office desk and chair, they were finally arranged properly. The movers sent a large package of samples over. Ning Qingmin opened it to find that they were all embroidered goods. She quickly took out a white paper with the sample's ex-factory price marked on it and looked at the address again, which was from Chaozhou. She hurriedly called to thank them. Mr. Li on the other end of the line laughed and said: "These are all new styles that I helped process for others this year. You can hang them up first, and later send over some blank goods. What pattern do you want to embroider? Just send me the design and that's it."

  "Wow, Qingmian sister, these clothes are so beautiful!" Zhang Yu busied herself hanging up the samples on a clothes rack and stood on a chair to adjust the spotlight, shining its light on the embroidered shirt.

  "It's not bad!" Ning Qingmin carefully looked at the pattern on the clothes, which was embroidered very intricately. The color matching of the beads was very harmonious and eye-catching, but not too dazzling. At a glance, it was clear that the designer had a good sense of aesthetics.

  After hanging up dozens of samples, Ning Qingmin stepped out of the door and took a look. The clothes under the spotlight were dazzling and extremely eye-catching. She nodded secretly and quickly went back in to check the labels on each piece of clothing and memorized the numbers.

  "Xiao Yu, the prices of each piece of clothing are different. Remember them well. When customers ask about the price, you can answer immediately." Ning Qingmin arranged the price tags neatly behind each sample, assigning an easy-to-remember number to each one and adding a mnemonic device to help remember the prices.

  "Good!" Zhang Yu carefully noted down the number and price. He also pointed at the color card that had been flipped over and said: "Originally, there were so many colors for clothes. Pearls are even more incredible. And there are so many shapes too."

  Ning Qingmin took out a thick color card with a pearl-like sheen. It was a thick book. The eyes were dizzy and confused when looking at it.

  Two people had just finished arranging things when a short, stout Middle Eastern old lady dressed in all black with a headscarf walked in, followed by a sharp-looking female translator.

  "Take a look around!" Ning Qing said hastily as she went over to greet them.

  The salesgirl waved her hand and said: "This customer likes to look at them slowly by himself. You just need to bring out all the new products."

  "We just opened, these are all new samples that arrived today, take your time!" Ning Qing said with a busy smile.

  "Uh-huh!" The translator girl found a chair and sat down, looked up and said: "The style is okay."

  "What country is the customer from?" Ning Qing hurriedly inquired, knowing that it would be more convenient to quote a price once she knew which country they were from. If it was a wealthy country, they wouldn't mind even if it was a few yuan more expensive. But if it was a poor country, even an extra yuan could scare them off.

  "The Middle East, Saudi Arabia!" The translator girl replied coldly.

  "Oh!" Ning Qing was secretly delighted. Many countries in the Middle East produce oil and are rich to the point of overflowing with wealth. When customers from these countries come to place orders, as long as they like the style, the price can be negotiated.

  "Please drink some water!" Zhang Yu quickly went to borrow a disposable cup from Zheng Mei on the opposite side, filled two cups of water from the water dispenser and placed them in front of the translator, then handed one to the client.

  The customer took a sip and handed it back to Zhang Yu, pointing to several styles hanging above, asking him to take them down for a closer look.

  "What's the price?" The translator girl took out the styles that the customer had chosen one by one, carefully asked about the prices, and then told the customer.

  Ning Qingmin studied English hard in the first semester, and actually made great progress in listening comprehension. She could clearly hear what the client said to the translator girl, but pretended not to understand, waiting for the translator girl to translate it.

  "As for the price, make it a bit more discounted." The translator girl calmly lowered the price by three yuan and hinted that if it wasn't at this price, the deal wouldn't be made.

  Although the customer said that the style is good, just lower it by one or two yuan and it will be fine. You still owe three yuan. Are you bullying us because we are doing business for the first time? Ning Qingmin looked pitiful, "The quoted price is already very low. If each item is lowered by another yuan, I won't dare to take the order either. We can't lose money from the start."

  The translator turned around and whispered something to the client, then said expressionlessly: "Five styles, each style is 600 pieces, three sizes, four colors."

  "Black, white, brown, dark blue."

  Ning Qingmin remembered the size of each code, and when the translator girl reported the required color, she was a little sweaty. Except for white, all were dark colors, and the beads that were nailed at the time could be seen shining.

  "The beads should be in the same color system as the clothes, no need to match with other colors." The translator added, and asked Zhang Yu to take a closer look at the color card, frowning and saying: "The color card is not complete either."

  "These few colors, the color cards are all here!" Ning Qing was taken aback as she noted down the colors. Apart from coffee being divided into dark and light coffee, could the other colors be further divided?

  "Black is divided into carbon black, purple black and pure black." The translator pointed to the black color on the color card and said: "This color card of yours only has carbon black, with a slight grayish tint, can you see that?"

  Ning Qingmian stared at the color card and indeed saw a slight grayish tint, which the translation girl didn't mention, and it was absolutely imperceptible.

  "We want pure black, the darkest kind!" The translation girl threw down the color card and said: "White is not all either."

  "Milk white and bleached, they have everything here!" Zhang Yu picked up the color card, extremely puzzled.

  "It seems you're really doing this clothing business for the first time." The translator knocked on the desk, "White is divided into off-white, cream white, apricot white, bleached white, and pure white. Bleached white is the whitest kind, almost to the point of being grayish, losing its color. We want pure white, which is cotton white."

  Ning Qing's back was covered in sweat as she listened, and she saw that Zhang Yu had already pretended to faint. She took a deep breath and said: "Miss Tian, you can cut us some slack on the order you just placed with us. Next time, we'll definitely have enough color cards ready."

  "It can only be like this!" Ms. Tian sighed, saying: "Coffee doesn't want deep coffee, shallow coffee, but pure coffee. Dark blue should be as black as that kind of blue."

  After discussing the permissible size deviation and some other minor details, Ning Qingmin was about to sign the contract when he saw that it stated a deposit of 5% with payment upon delivery.

  Putting down his pen, Ning Qingmin smiled and said: "Miss Tian, it's like this. This is our first time doing business, we don't have much capital, so I hope the deposit can be increased to thirty percent."

  "Others are all 5%, it's not good to make an exception!" Ms. Tian made a gesture of retreat, "You don't have to do it if you don't want to!"

  "Bye!" Ning Qingmin was also straightforward, the sizes and colors were fixed, except for Middle Eastern countries, other countries absolutely did not want them. If you don't want the goods at that time, what's the use of a 5% deposit?

  The client has spoken out and instructed Miss Tian to agree to Ning Qingmin's request, and the deposit will be transferred to Ning Qingmin's account within 24 hours.

  After sending off the client and Miss Tian, Ning Qingming suddenly collapsed onto the chair, exclaiming: "This is what it means to be exhausted."

  "I'll go get you a glass of water!" Zhang Yu hurriedly poured the water and said with a smile: "Qingmian sister, no, I'd better call you boss, it sounds more impressive. Boss, you're so amazing! I did some mental math, 3,000 pieces, each earning 10 yuan, that's 30,000, all the expenses for the month are covered, and we can even afford a leather sofa and a water dispenser!"

  Ning Qing's mouth corners rose slightly, heh, those 300,000, haven't even negotiated the price with the manufacturer yet!