CHAPTER 552: CHAPTER 536: CERTAINTY

"Yes, but it’s stock from the year before last. Do you want it?"

"How much of a discount can you give me?"

"Four cents per meter." This store is diagonally opposite Old Yang’s, and usually, they are fierce competitors. Today, Ye Qing happened to meet her match and turned to this store.

"What about this one? How do I get it?" Ye Qing also spotted a striped fabric, but it wasn’t cotton, it had a bit of a sheer texture.

"You’re really good at picking, sis. These two fabrics are what we have a price advantage on, and this one comes in three colors, five cents per meter."

"Can it be cheaper?"

"Sis, it can’t be any cheaper, this is already very low."

Ye Qing also picked a khaki fabric that’s 1.2 yuan per meter; it felt very comfortable to touch. After considering for a long time, Ye Qing finally steeled herself and prepared to make pants. Two pairs of pants and three tops wouldn’t be too plain.

Today, she only came to buy fabrics, spending about a thousand yuan. Mainly, she didn’t have much experience, and with the first batch of fabrics, she focused solely on the price, ignoring the quality.

This time, she almost put all the money from the previous batch into it. Ye Qing gathered her courage, ready to compete fiercely with Lin Wan.

Not long after Ye Qing left, Lin Wan also came. A few days ago, she had agreed with Old Yang that denim would arrive in the next couple of days, and she’d come to pick it up.

Yu Qianqian was already looking at Lin Wan from the shop entrance from afar, and as soon as she saw her appear down the street, she quickly called out twice.

"Sister Xiao Wan, Sister Xiao Wan."

"Qianqian, what’s up? Is there new stock?" Lin Wan rode her tricycle and turned to Yu Qianqian’s shop door.

"No. A few days ago, you asked me to keep an eye on the woman in this photo. I saw her today; she just left not long ago, called for a tricycle, and hauled quite a few batches of fabric. She got the goods from the store diagonally opposite Old Yang’s. Let me tell you, in this street, all our shop owners know that his store’s goods are the shadiest." Yu Qianqian said with a sneaky smile.

"Well done, did you see what goods she took?"

"There were three batches of striped ones, one batch of black, couldn’t see clearly what fabric it was, and another batch of khaki, I know that one, that store carried a lot of that fabric that day. The fabric looks good. I heard they claim it’s new fabric shipped from Shanghai, some kind of ice silk fabric, and quite expensive."

"Is that so, okay, I’ll go check out that store in a while."

"Alright, you go ahead, I recognize that woman without needing the photo, I’ll keep an extra eye on her for you in the future."

"Thanks, Qianqian."

"Sister Xiao Wan, no need to be so formal with me, you’re like my own elder sister now."

"Alright, your mouth is getting sweeter, business must be good, huh?"

"It’s all thanks to your blessing, sister."

After chatting with Yu Qianqian, Lin Wan went to the mentioned store to get a general understanding of the batches of fabric Ye Qing took.

Lin Wan used to stroll around here often and had been to this store, but it mainly stocked old fabrics or ordinary ones without any special features.

Despite this, the store’s business was still booming. The key is, nowadays, when making clothes, most people prefer this store’s goods.

On the other hand, Old Yang likes to dabble in new styles, with nice patterns and solid materials, but in this era, such slightly cutting-edge items aren’t very popular.

Old Yang does business based on a first impression.

"Sister Lin, did you just go to the store across the street?"

"Yes, to be honest, a friend of mine recently started a clothing business, and she deliberately imitates my store’s clothes. So, I just went to the store diaginally opposite yours to order a batch of goods. I was probing for some information."

Old Yang suddenly understood, "It was that woman just now, right? The first time she came, she stopped by here, and then went to their store and ordered a particularly substandard batch. It was the fabric I told you about last time, the batch that couldn’t be used, both our stores brought it in at the same time back then because it looked good, but it can’t be washed. Luckily, you gave me advice, and I managed to sell it to a state-owned restaurant, although not much was needed, and it hasn’t all sold yet; it’s still sitting in the warehouse. That woman got fooled once, I thought she wouldn’t go there again, but who would have thought she’d order from them today. When that batch of goods came out, I took a glance; except for the khaki fabric which was good, the other batches weren’t, the striped one was actually nice, but it needs more effort to make, requiring a serger, or else it easily frays."

Lin Wan secretly thought, heaven is indeed helping me.

In a great mood, she pulled two batches of denim fabric, along with supplementing last time’s fabric, singing all the way back.

The good mood didn’t last long, Ye Zi informed her that Zhang Dandan rented a storefront on the other end of their street.

That evening during class, Yin Peibai and Su Ling became furious upon learning the news and decided to go to the storefront tomorrow to confront Zhang Dandan and Ye Qing.

"If we confront them, we might end up visiting the police station without achieving anything; better to defeat them in business so they can’t flaunt anymore."

"Their imitation of our clothes and undercutting prices will definitely cost us," said Su Ling. "We can do it this way." Lin Wan whispered schemingly to the two of them. Yin Peibai and Su Ling immediately understood.

Su Ling patted her chest in assurance, "This is a great idea, leave it to me, I promise it’ll be done beautifully."

"My mother-in-law, she’s always hanging around the community, helping people find partners, she’s met quite a few people, she really is a talent in this area, very persuasive, don’t worry. I’ll find a few more, and we’ll ensure the effect is achieved."

"This time, we’re counting on you, make sure to really stick it to them." Yin Peibai couldn’t wait to have these two disappear immediately. "Hey, Lin Wan, were you blind before, how could you know someone like Ye Qing, and even be best friends with her?"

Lin Wan was speechless at Yin Peibai’s words, "Not blind, just too naive, didn’t see her true nature, but it’s not too late now."

"Exactly, thank goodness it’s not too late, but Ye Qing probably doesn’t like you, always trying to find ways to oppose you. Initially, she might have tried to get Mr. Li to seduce you, last year she tried to harm your child, and this year started snatching your business. How much does she have to dislike you?" Yin Peibai suddenly figured out Ye Qing’s mindset.

Mentioning Li Liang still made Su Ling quite upset.

"She’s just crazy, can’t stand others being better or stronger than her. If she keeps going like this, it’ll just backfire on her. Let’s first collect some of their clothes." "Sure, tomorrow we’ll ask around our friends and relatives. Or go door to door and ask?" S City is so big, who knows which stores have bought them.

Lin Wan chuckled, "Let’s collect as many pieces as we can; our main aim is to ruin their brand, not to make money."

"Can’t let them get off easy, though."

Meanwhile, Ye Qing became less attentive in the office, hardly paying attention to Lin Yinghui. Just waiting eagerly to go home and make money.

After bringing the fabric back, Ye Qing bought a few of Lin Wan’s clothes and started sketching them out.

Then sought out a colleague she had good relations with to introduce a relative who knew how to make clothes, offering 20 yuan a month to help Liang Weixiang.

Because they were in a rush, Liang Weixiang hardly slept these days, working overtime to make clothes.

She had to cut out a sample with every start, almost wasting three or four pieces to cut out a decent outfit for each style.

A week later, Zhang Dandan swaggered into her rented store to stock up the clothes, not afraid of running into Lin Wan at all.

She was almost showing off. Lin Wan didn’t bother with her. After gathering for a week, she was waiting for them to come.

Zhang Dandan and Ye Qing came together today, making quite a scene, hanging a sign, and even set off firecrackers. The name was uncannily close to theirs.

"Qingyi Clothing Wholesale. Ha, they sure are provocative." Su Ling couldn’t stand those who act righteous while being shameless.

"People are opening their business, are you not going to allow them to set off fireworks or what? Don’t worry about them, is everything ready on our side?" Lin Wan remained composed, undisturbed by the matter.

"Everything was prepared a few days ago. Pei Bai and I found over twenty pieces, bought for two yuan each, and a few were given to us directly. Additionally, we purchased thirty pieces from the department store, this was pricier, if they return the money, it’ll break even, just right."

"That’s perfect; our goal this time is to drive them out of this business area. If they don’t lose everything, I’ll remove a tree from the Lin name." Lin Wan was brimming with confidence, as if she could already see their impending misfortune.