Chapter 4 Straighten out business
Mu Qiu picked up the mask and put it on after dripping blood to recognize the owner, went out of the space, and concentrated on meditating on the appearance of the original owner, and looked at the person in the mirror and really changed into the original appearance. Then meditate into something else, and sure enough, it changed again. Now I was finally relieved, Mu Qiu changed back to his original appearance, and Mu Qiu decided to adjust it a little every day in the future, so that he could slowly not wear a mask, and it would not make people suspicious.
After Mu Qiu had breakfast the next day, Mu Qiu planned to ask Aunt Lan to take her to see the only shop she had left selling fabrics. According to Aunt Lan, the shop's business is currently sluggish, and it is faintly losing money.
Aunt Lan is trustworthy, so she doesn't doubt Aunt Lan's words, Aunt Lan is a personal maid who grew up with Mu's mother. After the man Aunt Lan married in her early years died of illness, she did not remarry. did not leave a daughter and a half, she also grew up watching Mu Qiu grow up, and she loved Mu Qiu as a daughter in her heart.
Mu Qiu followed Aunt Lan to the front of the shop, and saw a woman in her 40s dozing off in front of the counter, which should be the shopkeeper of the shop, and the shop's signboard wrote "Mujia Cloth Shop".
Mu Qiu was a little unhappy in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face. When the shopkeeper saw them, he immediately bent down and saluted, and said with some trepidation: "Steward Lan, are you here? Who is this young lady?", because the original owner had never been to the shop, so the shopkeeper Zhu had never seen Mu Qiu. However, Mu Qiu looks seven points similar to Mu's father, and three points are like Mu's mother, so the shopkeeper feels that Mu Qiu is very familiar and guesses her identity.
"This is the eldest lady, today I took the eldest lady to see the situation of the shop, why are you dozing off? That's how you take care of the shop?" Aunt Lan said a little angrily.
"Miss, this is Xiao Zhu's shopkeeper, she has been taking care of the cloth shop for the past few years. Aunt Lan turned around and introduced to Mu Qiu again
"Miss, please forgive me!" It's not that I'm not distracted, but I'm ....." Zhu shopkeeper said in panic, not knowing how to explain it. Speaking of which, Xiao Zhu's shopkeeper's original name was Xiao Jiu, and he came over with Mu's father Xiao Qing, and he has been guarding the shop because of his loyalty to Xiao Qing. Xiao Qing also persuaded her to leave half a year ago, but she insisted on not leaving.
"Xiao Zhu shopkeeper, no courtesy! I see that the furnishings in the shop are also very neat, why is the business of this shop so cold?" Mu Qiu asked very politely, his voice still a little cold.
"Miss Hui, since two years ago, after the opening of the opposite "Splendid Cloth Shop", she began to deliberately lower the price, and later suppressed the "Mujia Cloth Shop" after there was no business, and imported a lot of new materials from the capital. It is said that the proprietor of the "Splendid Cloth Shop" is from the capital, and we can't compete with them. Now there are only a few old customers left to maintain expenses, and if it goes on like this......." Xiao Zhu said this, a little ashamed.
"Xiao Zhu shopkeeper, first temporarily close the shop for half a month before opening, and post a notice at the door. The shop needs to be renovated, we don't sell fabrics anymore, we are ready to sell ready-to-wear. The signboard of the shop will also be replaced, it will be called "Ni Dress Feather Clothing Shop", I will draw a decoration pattern for you later, first find some craftsmen to decorate according to the pattern, and then reopen.
"Please find a few people who are good at making clothes, I will draw some patterns first, let people make them first, but you must let the workers sign an agreement, otherwise it will be troublesome to be poached after the business is good. It's better to buy a group of people who can make clothes and come back, after all, it's a long-term thing. Mu Qiu suddenly thought that there was once a family business, and there were also clothing companies, and she also studied clothing design, and she was also well-known in the industry.
Mu Qiu told Xiao Zhu's shopkeeper in detail about her plan, Xiao Zhu's shopkeeper was skeptical, but he also seriously implemented what Mu Qiu said.
After Mu Qiu went back, she began to draw design drawings, there are men's and women's clothes, although the clothes in this world are different, but it is not difficult for her to have the memory of the original owner. As for brush painting, although he is not proficient in calligraphy and painting, he is still okay, and the original owner is also good at painting, so it doesn't take long to draw several styles.
After seeing the pattern drawn by Mu Qiu, Xiao Zhu's shopkeeper was so excited that his hands trembled a little. The fabrics here are all monochrome, so Mu Qiu chose to embroider the pattern by embroidery. Most of the men in this world are male red, and they basically know how to embroider, and it is not difficult to find a few skilled ones.
Mu Qiu is going to get a workshop for making clothes, and the finished clothes will be sold in the renovated shop. Men's and women's clothing were separated, and two albums were made. One men's and one women's clothing, like a model. Of course, in terms of characters, Mu Qiu used the faces of some celebrities or friends he knew in his previous life, of course, the men's faces were softened, and his figure was adjusted to conform to the aesthetics of this world.
In this way, after customers enter the door, they can first look at the brochure and then look at the ready-to-wear, which can save time and facilitate comparison. Each garment comes in several sizes, modeled after the way it was sold in the previous life. After Xiao Zhu's shopkeeper and Aunt Lan saw the album, they all called Miao Miaomiao!! The characters on the painting were beautifully drawn, and after asking Mu Qiu who the people in the painting were, Mu Qiu only said that it was imaginary, so they didn't ask more.
After all the work was almost ready, Mu Qiu drew an advertising leaflet. And indicate that "on the opening day, all will be 20% off, only 100 pieces of men's clothing and 20 pieces of men's clothing and women's clothing will be sold on the opening day, and only 20 pieces of men's clothing and women's clothing will be sold every day thereafter."
You can also accept customization, the price of customized clothing is 10 times that of ready-to-wear, of course, promise customers to customize the style, never repeatedly sell to the second person, the more status of the person, the more I don't want to collide with others. After having people copy multiple copies, let Xiao Zhu's shopkeeper find someone to distribute them on the street.
A few sales personnel were recruited, and the man was in charge of men's clothing (but men here rarely show their heads, so most of the people who came to apply were widows who had died and had a difficult life, but Mu Qiu didn't mind.) The woman is in charge of women's clothing, and the treatment is very good, so it is easy to recruit people.
Many people are very curious when they see the leaflet, after all, no one in this day and age would do this. It is human nature to join in the fun, whether it is a man or a woman, they all make an appointment with relatives and friends to go and see it together.
Finally came the day of reopening, Mu Qiu asked Xiao Zhu to prepare some tables and chairs, and placed the atlas in front of the table, so that the customers who came to read the album first, and if there was a satisfactory style, they could go in to see the ready-to-wear clothes and try on the samples.
Business was very good on the opening day, after selling 100 pieces of men's and women's clothes each. There are still many people who have not bought it, leaving the address in the form of a number, and promising to deliver it to the door, which also eliminates everyone's dissatisfaction.
There are many people who choose to order, but the number of orders, Mu Qiu also limits the number of orders to only five customers per month. After all, she doesn't have that much time to design clothes. Her goal in life in this life is to have a good life, and she doesn't have time to cultivate in normal times.
Mu Qiu decided to train a group of designers after a while, and at present, he is only short of money to go into battle himself. However, considering many problems, Mu Qiu decided to buy someone, and he had to sign a death deed to prevent these people from running away after teaching them to design and learn.
Although a child who grew up in an era when everyone was equal, Mu Qiu was not used to buying people. But as a woman from a family, she knows that no era can truly achieve equality for all. Hierarchical oppression will exist in any era, but the slaves of this era have no human rights and can be sold or even killed. So she buys people back, and treats them with respect and kindness. Although Mu Qiu has a relatively cold personality, he is still a kind person in nature.
When the business stabilizes, Mu Qiu is ready to cultivate a group of martial arts masters, and she needs to have the ability to protect herself.
Mu Qiu asked Aunt Lan to hire a martial artist to come back, and asked the martial artist to go to Yaxing to buy a batch, and around the age of seven or eight, there were orphans who practiced martial arts to come back, both boys and girls. Then find a book of martial arts secrets from the space and throw it to the martial artist to teach the children to practice martial arts. The things that can be collected by the master are really not simple, and after the martial artist saw the cheats, he was very excited and shouted the peerless magic skills.
The warrior's name is Zhang Tan, a woman in her thirties, and she is a martial idiot. Originally, the family was quite solid, but when Zhang Tan was fifteen years old, he didn't know who his parents offended and was killed by the enemy. Zhang Tan sold all the property in his family, and frantically went from the principle of apprenticeship and looking for martial arts secrets and never returned.