After the end of the competition, Xiaoman's shop was indeed popular for a while because the shopkeeper won the top spot, and because the store had a good reputation in the past, Manrou Garment Workshop was very popular in Shangjing, not only ordinary people, but even some princes and ministers would come here to buy things for their masters.

But such a prosperous day is only a few days, and there are fewer and fewer people who come to the ready-to-wear shop to customize clothes, and Xia Wanrou didn't regard it as an important thing, but in the past few days, fewer and fewer people have come to the store, and Xia Wanrou realized the seriousness of the problem.

She just looked at the account book and was worried, but she didn't want Xiaoman to come suddenly, so she put away the account book in a panic, but she didn't want to arouse Xiaoman's suspicion.

Speaking of this, Xia Wanrou sighed, "You are pregnant now, you must not work too hard, Xiaoman, I don't mean to hide it from you, it's just that I really don't want the things in the store to affect your mood and affect your children." ”

Lu Li is far away at the border, Xiao Man is already a little depressed, but now that she has a child, she has hope, Xia Wanrou doesn't dare, and she doesn't want these messy things in the store to make Xiao Man return to her previous appearance.

Hearing this, Xiao Man shook Xia Wanrou's hand and was very serious: "Sister Wanrou, if you don't tell me these are just plain worries me, the store has been booming for a while, which shows that everyone recognizes our things, but now something suddenly happened, and I, as the shopkeeper, have to take care of it no matter what." ”

"Xiaoman!" Xia Wanrou sighed a little helplessly, "I knew that this would definitely be the case after you knew about it, so I always hesitated to tell you." You still have a baby in your belly now, and you have to think about that all the time. ”

Xiao Man smiled indifferently, "Sister Wanrou, you can't help but think of me as too delicate, I am a country child, my body is very strong, those women in our village, there are many people who go to the field with big bellies, you can rest assured." ”

"I..."Xia Wanrou shook her head helplessly, "Forget it, okay then." ”

Having said that, Xia Wanrou's expression was clearly not convinced, but Su Xiaoman didn't argue with her too much about this matter, after all, the most important thing at the moment was to solve the matter in the store.

After learning the whole story, Xiao Man went downstairs directly to ask a few guys.

It just so happened that when Xiao Man went downstairs, he met a few customers who often came, and when he saw that Xiao Man was talking to his guy, they also stepped forward to say a few words.

"You're the top of this year's competition, aren't you?" It was an older woman who spoke, judging by her hair bun, she should have been married, with a slight frown at the corners of her eyes, and she looked like she was about thirty years old.

She was wearing a lotus-colored long skirt, covered with a cold white shirt, and a fresh hibiscus flower was pinned obliquely to her bun.

She pursed her lips and smiled softly, "Yes, I'm the shopkeeper of this house." ”

The woman was a little surprised, "Ouch, I didn't expect you to have such a great ability at a young age, it's really amazing, and it must be very hard to open such a big store, right?" ”

The other party took the initiative to talk to herself, Xiaoman was not impatient, she patiently answered a few questions from the other party, and then changed the topic, "The business in the store has been getting worse and worse recently, and many of the previous repeat customers are not coming, I didn't expect to see you here to buy things today." ”

Although she doesn't remember the guest, saying something like this will create the illusion that I still remember you, so that the relationship between the two can be closer.

Sure enough, the woman's face immediately brought a little joy, and she spoke more boldly, "Your things here are good, the price is low, and they are good and cheap, so I naturally have to come often." But ......"

The woman paused for a moment, and after seeing that there was no difference in Xiao Man's face, she continued with confidence: "There is a new shop on the west side of this street, and the styles you have here are good everywhere, and there are many different patterns, plus the price is cheaper than yours, so everyone went there to buy it." ”

After speaking, she was afraid that Xiaoman would be unhappy, so she hurriedly added two sentences: "I won't tell you, I also went to that store to buy it, but the new clothes were broken in two days, because the fabric is special and can't be sewn, I just woke up, or come to your house to buy things rest assured." ”

After listening to this woman's words, the women who were originally picking things next to them also stepped forward, most of them were in the same situation as this woman, as the saying goes, three women in one play, and now there are five or six people, everyone complained that the things in the store were too shoddy, and the crowd was excited, but they ignored Xiaoman.

Pearl helped Xiaoman to stand at the door, she glanced to the west, but saw nothing.

"Madam, the patterns in our store are all drawn by your research in the same way, and one or two similarities are forgivable, but how can it be the same as all the patterns in our store, there is definitely something greasy in this." Pearl was indignant.

Xiaoman didn't speak, she kept looking at the west of the street, silently pondering in her heart.

What Pearl said is not unreasonable, but after all, this matter is heard from the mouths of others, and it is inevitable that there is an exaggeration, so it is better not to make judgments before you see it with your own eyes.

Xiao Man sat downstairs for a while, talking to the guests from time to time, occasionally flipping through the account books, looking at the increasingly bleak business, she still made up her mind to go to the shop on the west side of the street to have a look.

Fortunately, when she was three months old, she didn't show her pregnancy, Xiaoman found a men's dress and put it on her body, spread her hair out again, and retied a man's bun, and she ordered Pearl to change into men's clothes, but after all, Pearl grew up with Xia Wanrou since she was a child, and she blushed at the moment, so she didn't agree.

No, Xiao Man had to let Jade change into men's clothes, and brought Wang Qi with him, and the three of them walked slowly to the west of the street.

The newly opened shop in the west of the street is called Yaliu Pavilion, if it weren't for a few pieces of cloth at the door, others would have thought that this was some kind of Fengyue place.

The three of them entered the store, Xiaoman declined the man's hospitality, and walked around the store a few times, and looked at a few tricks of the store by making clothes, and found that what the customer said before was really good.

"Little brother, is this going to make clothes for your daughter-in-law?" The guy on the side stepped forward and introduced with a smile: "The patterns on this are the best sold in our store, whether it is for your sweetheart or daughter-in-law, she will definitely like it very much." ”

Xiaoman didn't speak, just nodded.

She was afraid that she would expose her female body as soon as she opened her mouth, so she whispered everything to Wang Qi, and then Wang Qi conveyed it to the guy in the store. ”

Wang Qi rolled his eyes, and immediately pretended to sigh with pity, he pointed to his neck, and then shook his head and said, "I burned my throat before, and now I can't speak." ”

"Oh, I see."

The guy was easily deceived by Wang Qi in this way, and he didn't say anything more.

Xiao Man and Jade walked to the counter to look at the embroidery thread, this guy saw that he couldn't talk to them, so he paid attention to Wang Qi, he approached with a smile, "Little brother, what do you want to order?" ”

"I heard that you have a lot of patterns here, and the fabrics are also very good, can you let me see the pattern book, I also have some picks." Wang Qi's request went straight to the point.

The guy naturally didn't think much about it, he took out the pattern book, and turned it page by page to explain to Wang Qi, what this pattern meant, and what auspicious omen that pattern was.

Although Wang Qi is a cleaner and entertains guests in the Manrou Garment Workshop, because he often listens to Lao Zhou's chatter, and occasionally sees the patterns designed by Xiaoman, he naturally feels very familiar when he sees the patterns of Yaliu Pavilion again.

He paused, carefully considered the words, and then asked cautiously: "Man, I seem to have seen these tricks in the Manrou Garment Shop, do you shopkeepers and their shopkeepers know each other, how can this pattern be so similar?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the guy pulled down his face, he slammed the pattern book behind his back, and unconsciously raised his voice: "What do you mean by this?" ”

The guests and guys in the store looked over one after another, Wang Qi was a little at a loss for a while, he hurriedly waved his hand, "I just don't know, just ask casually, absolutely nothing else." ”

"You say no, no, no? This is Yaliu Pavilion, what are you doing in the Manchu Rou Garment Workshop, besides, this pattern is just like that, what's wrong with some similarities? Your tone is so strange, do you suspect that we have copied the patterns of the Manrou Garment Workshop? "The guy is aggressive and won't back down.

Wang Qi became more and more flustered, so he had to turn his eyes for help to Su Xiaoman.

Su Xiaoman naturally noticed the strange situation here, she hesitated for a moment, and directly stepped forward to pull Wang Qi out.

Fortunately, the three of them were all dressed as ordinary boys, but no one recognized them, Xiaoman dragged Wang Qi, and the three of them hurriedly walked out of Yaliu Pavilion.

"What are you doing? I don't buy anything, and I still come here to make trouble! The man stood at the door, scolded them a few times, and then went back.

Wang Qi was angry, he stopped suddenly, "Shopkeeper, look at their appearance, they obviously copied our tricks, and they bit it to death and didn't admit it, it's so shameless, they still scolded us, I can't bear it!" ”

As he spoke, this Wang Qi was about to turn around and walk back, looking at the posture, it seemed that he was going to go back to find the guy's theory.

Seeing this, Xiao Man hurriedly grabbed Wang Qi, lowered his voice and persuaded: "More things are better than less things, besides, they don't take care of this matter, we have a way to deal with them in the future." Wang Qi, go back with me first, otherwise the three of us will definitely suffer. ”