Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 130

Grandpa Jiang was still proud of selling so many clothes in one day. With this money, he could pay his granddaughter’s college tuition, not to mention her high school tuition.

That was right, there weren’t many clothes left in the shop.

He asked Jiang Ning a little worriedly, “Ning Ning, when the young man went back, did he tell you when he would send more clothes? Today, many people came to buy them, but we didn’t have enough. Otherwise, we could have made a few more yuan.”

When Jiang Bai heard about the young man, his heart suddenly sank. He turned around and asked Jiang Ning, “What young man?”

Jiang Ning explained, “He’s the supplier of these clothes. Their garment factory closed down, and they couldn’t pay their wages, so the factory used the clothes in the warehouse to offset the wages. He took a lot of clothes and wanted to sell them here in Wucheng. He didn’t know the place well and didn’t speak the language well. I happened to have a shop but didn’t know what to sell, so I partnered with him. I set up the shop, and he provided the clothes. The two of us sold clothes together. He went back, and the rest of the profits are mine. When the clothes are sold out, he’ll send more.”

“They have a lot of backlogged stock in the factory, and their employees are selling it.”

Jiang Bai wanted to find a loophole in the story, but he couldn’t. It was an era full of closed factories and laid-off workers. It was too common in that era for factories to close down and be unable to pay wages, compensating with clothes instead.

Moreover, the clothes had already been sold in the shop, and the money was all in Jiang Ning’s hands. There was nothing deceptive about it. The money in her hand was enough to pay for half a year’s rent for the shop.

He added, “Tell me more about that young man’s situation.”

“He’s gone back. His home is hundreds of kilometers away. I don’t know if we’ll ever see each other again. What else is there to say?”

Although Jiang Ning’s gossip about advertising was very popular, Jiang Bai was a senior in high school and spent most of his time studying at school, even on Sundays. Few people paid attention to the gossip outside. When he finally heard the gossip spreading in Wucheng, he was stunned.

He had no idea.

Jiang Ning didn’t want Jiang Bai to ask more questions, and since it was close to the evening self-study time, she told Grandpa Jiang, “Grandpa, you can close at this time every day from now on. There aren’t many clothes left in the shop, and they’ll probably be sold out in a few days. Once it’s sold out, you can sell as you like, but don’t overwork yourself. I’ve put the hot water here for you.”

Grandpa Jiang didn’t feel tired at all. He waved his hand and said, “I know, I know. You go study. I know what I’m doing.”

However, Grandpa Jiang was thinking about the monthly rent, which was so much, and whether he could take the clothes back to Shuibu Town to sell them.

Shuibu Town, with its long history and convenient water and land transportation, was connected to the neighboring city of Wucheng. Factories like Tanshan and the Cement Factory were located in between. Whenever there was a market, people from all over the area would gather in Shuibu Town, crowding the streets with a heavy flow of people.

The clothes in his granddaughter’s shop were sold very cheaply. If he could sell them at the market in Shuibu Town, he could bring affordable and good-quality clothes to the people there without having to pay rent.

Considering the bustling market, these clothes would probably sell out in one morning.

He looked at the many off-size clothes in the shop with some regret. The clothes were good, but just a little imperfect.

In Grandpa Jiang’s simple thoughts, small stalls that didn’t require rent were his first choice. His experience from childhood to adulthood had been attending fairs and temple markets.

The rent of seventy-five yuan a month was almost as much as his monthly salary for patrolling the mountains.

In the next few days, Grandpa Jiang’s shop sold at least twenty items every day, sometimes even more, including shoes, with thirty or forty items sold a day.

Wang Yong’s uncle mailed clothes on Sunday. Given the postal speed at that time, Jiang Ning estimated that it would arrive in a week. She wasn’t in a hurry during those days. She continued her regular school routine, attending competition classes in the evening, and after school, she delivered water and food to Grandpa Jiang. On Saturday, she first went to the internet cafe to write. After sending out 15,000 words, she went to the post office to check for mail.

The mail from Wang Yong’s uncle finally arrived.

Just by looking at the weight, Jiang Ning was truly shocked.

She was very suspicious that Wang Yong’s uncle had sent her all the backlogged inventory from his factory from last year.

She guessed right. The package contained not only last year’s backlog of winter clothes but also spring and summer clothes.

Some of the clothes had been piled up for so long that the fabrics were slightly yellowed. Wang Yong’s uncle charged her by weight. If they calculated the price of a single piece, it was incredibly low, but the materials of the clothes were all good.

Grandpa Jiang wanted to load it onto a cart, but according to Jiang Ning’s suggestion, it would be easier to call a tricycle to haul it back.

But the package was really big, and there were a lot of items. The tricycles at that time were too small to carry everything in one trip. Since she was the only one in front of the post office, she could only temporarily store the package at the post office and told them she would call someone for help when she got back. The post office staff told her to hurry because they got off work at five o’clock, and after that, there would be no one at the post office.

 Because there were not many clothes in the shop, Jiang Ning did not play the recorded commercial.

When Grandpa Jiang heard that the package sent by Wang Yong had arrived, he wanted to pull the cart back by himself. However, Jiang Ning quickly stopped him, saying, “You still think you’re a young man in your twenties? With just two pieces of clothing sold here, I can make back these two yuan!”

Grandpa Jiang just couldn’t let go.

He asked her to ask her second brother to help pull the cart. Jiang Bai had classes on Saturdays that ended at four in the afternoon.

As soon as school was over, Jiang Bai immediately went to Jiang Ning’s shop to look for her. When he heard that the clothes sent by the garment factory had arrived, he had the same idea as Grandpa Jiang.

Seeing his persistence, Jiang Ning thought that a boy his age really had nowhere else to release his energy and strength, so she let him do it. When he arrived at the post office and saw the several huge packages, Jiang Bai was very skeptical about how all the clothes could be sold out.

Because there were too many to pull in one trip, he divided them into two trips.

When he finally made the first trip to the shop, he saw that his sister, who was supposed to stay at the post office waiting for him to make the second trip, was already unpacking bags and hanging clothes in the shop.