Liu Da took the two of them to the guest house and told them that it was run by locals and no one dared to cause trouble, but they should not trust people casually.
Li Xiangyang nodded and said, "Uncle Da, you can make the arrangements."
When he arrived at the guest house, Liu Da greeted the owner of the guest house familiarly: "Boss Peng, I'm here again."
"Brother Liu, welcome." The boss told him that there were only two guest rooms.
Liu Da nodded, asked someone to open the room, and told the boss that their car would arrive in Yangcheng tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and asked him to reserve two guest rooms.
The boss readily agreed and took the three of them to the guest room on the second floor, telling Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang that the bathroom and boiling water were in the first room.
Lin Lan saw that there should be a padlock on the guest room, so that travelers staying in the hotel could purchase goods and lock the door when going out.
In the guest room, there are two single beds with a writing table in the middle and two thermos bottles on it.
Behind the door is a triangular basin stand with two porcelain basins on it, but no towels.
Lin Lan took out a towel and washed himself briefly. Li Xiangyang and Liu Da came over, and the three of them went downstairs together.
Liu Da got the boss's phone number and contacted the contact person, and made an appointment to meet at the warehouse at six o'clock tomorrow morning.
The three of them had dinner at the restaurant in the guest house. Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang followed Liu Da to the night market with their bags.
Most of the stalls in the night market are greenhouse-style stalls, with a wire attached to the stall and a large light bulb hung on it for lighting.
Unlike department stores with outdated styles and single colors, the clothing here has bright colors and novel styles.
There are also some roadside stalls, where a large wooden board is placed directly on the box, and there are piles of clothes on it.
The boss was carrying one item and shouting at the top of his voice, "Come and see, come and choose, one for one dollar and a half, all for one dollar and a half!"
Each one's voice is louder than the other. Unless you walk up close, you can't hear clearly at all. They are all drowned out by the noisy voices.
When Lin Lan saw a customer holding a bag, he didn't even look at it, just grabbed a handful and counted them, paid, and then went to the next store.
Liu Da said to the two of them: "I don't understand clothing. You can watch the purchase by yourself."
"I don't understand either, my eyes are blurred." Li Xiangyang held Lin Lan's hand tightly, fearing that she would be squeezed away by the crowd, "Xiaolan, which one do you think is better?"
"Take your time and look, pick out the ones with better materials and more fashionable styles."
Lin Lan also felt dazzled. She looked at several materials and styles that she didn't like. She didn't plan to sell the kind of street stall goods. Not to mention that they were not of high quality. She was exhausted from going back and forth to make money but couldn't make any money.
How many.
The three of them walked forward slowly, and two young men wearing large bell-bottoms and perming their curly hair squeezed over.
Li Xiangyang pulled Lin Lan between him and Liu Da, and protected her as she moved forward. The two curly hairs followed for a few minutes, but saw no way to start. When they saw the new target, they ditched Lin Lan and attacked.
Lin Lan whispered: "Those two have three hands."
Li Xiangyang smiled and said, "Did you find out?"
Lin Lan nodded: "You can tell this kind of person at a glance."
The three of them walked for another ten minutes. Li Xiangyang pointed to the bell-bottoms hanging on the stall in front of him: "What do you think of those bell-bottoms?"
Lin Lan nodded: "The style is good, let's go over and see what the materials are like?"
The three of them walked to the stall and saw two colors of pants on the wooden board, one black and one navy blue.
Lin Lan picked up a pair of trousers and looked at them. She saw that they were not the ones with extra-large horns. She felt they felt good to the touch. She turned them over and looked at the workmanship. The stitching was tight and the workmanship was pretty good. The pockets were also large.
The round-faced boss lady saw the three of them carrying big bags and said to them: "The blended materials that just arrived, look at how good they fall, wholesale or retail?
Lin Lan: "Wholesale!"
The landlady glanced at Lin Lan and the other three: "It costs three yuan for wholesale, starting from three items."
Lin Lan said: "Two dollars and a half, I will take both hands."
Seeing Lin Lan holding both hands, the landlady nodded and said, "Okay, what's the waist size you want?"
Lin Lan looked at her: "What's your waist size?"
The proprietress smiled and said: "The minimum waist size for men is two feet one, the largest is two feet six, and the waist size for women is from one foot eight to two feet four."
Lin Lan thought of the clothing store behind her parents' stall. Every year at the end of the year, the goods in the store were almost sold out.
Later, I heard from a friend who sells clothes that the business was really booming in those years, and sometimes even the clothes I left for myself were snapped up by customers.
She thought for a while and said: "Two feet one, two feet five, and two feet six have four pieces each. It is better to have five pieces each for two feet two and two feet four. The women's version is also the same."
These days, it’s not like thirty or forty years later, when the majority of men’s waistlines were 2 feet 67. People these days are generally slim, with the majority being between 2 feet 2 and 2 feet 4.
People who wear plus sizes either don't have to worry about eating and drinking, or they have the kind of physique that makes them fat even if they drink cold water.
"Okay!" The proprietress turned to the little girl who was helping, and immediately went to greet other customers.
The little girl took out the goods from the big bag at the back, counted them according to the numbers, and said to Lin Lan: "Boss, look at it, I will tie it up for you."
Li Xiangyang bent down and counted them again, "Yes."
The little girl tied it up with a rope, put it in the pocket held by Li Xiangyang, and started to write out the goods order.
After Lin Lan took the money from his pocket and gave it to her, the three of them continued walking forward with their bags in hand.
After walking to two stores and picking up some straight-leg trousers, and walking past several stalls, the three of them saw a store that wholesaled suits and Chinese tunic suits.
Suits and tunic suits are pressed straight with an iron and hung on hangers on clothes poles tied with wooden sticks. They look crisp and stylish.
The tunic jacket has a stand-up collar, and the suits are single-row and two-button.
Lin Lan touched the material and saw that it was sandwiched. The inner material felt good and came in colors of navy blue, navy blue, and black.
The boss glanced at the big bag Li Xiangyang was carrying: "Boss, look at the latest style of woolen suit that just arrived."
"How was it approved?" Lin Lan asked.
The boss said: "Take one hand and eighteen."
Lin Lan shook his head: "It's too expensive. It's not pure wool, it's a blended material. Fifteen, if you want to sell it, I'll get one of each color, and one more for the middle size."
Liu Da glanced at Lin Lan in surprise. He didn't expect that she would give him three yuan less at once. He felt that the boss would definitely not sell it.
The boss gritted his teeth and looked like he was about to lose money, "Okay, if you get more, I'll sell it to you."
Lin Lan still got one less piece for the smallest and largest sizes, and one more piece for the middle size.
The boss then pointed to the suit trousers and straight-leg trousers on the stall, "Boss, look, my trousers are half-lined. Take them back and keep them and sell them at a high price."
The boss said, turning the pants over and spreading them on the stall, "Look at the workmanship, how tight the stitching is, and even the threads are cut cleanly."
Lin Lan asked the price and found that it was one dollar more expensive than bell-bottom pants. He also got suit trousers and straight-leg trousers to go with a suit and tunic suit.