Lin Wanwan, with a determined expression that refused to back down, turned to Xie Sui and said, "Husband, give me the money."
Xie Sui: "..."
Brilliant, truly his wife Xie Sui's wife.
But he was also a seasoned actor. The timing wasn't right for this yet. "Where would we get so much money? Our meager savings are for building a house back home. You're buying so much, you couldn't possibly wear it all in a lifetime, even if you wore it every day at home."
Lin Wanwan: "I just can't stand her condescending attitude. What's wrong with being a farmer? Not too many years ago, the country was sending educated youth to the countryside to help out farmers. The nation itself supported farmers, so why does she look down on them?
If you go back three generations, who wasn't a farmer?
With the way she talks, she'd get cursed to death if she went out!"
The crowd, always eager for a spectacle, chimed in immediately, "Exactly! You're stationed behind this counter to serve the public, not to look down on people."
"That's right, didn't your parents teach you any manners?"
"If there were no farmers growing crops and vegetables, would we all just live on thin air?"
The saleswoman, as if she had poked a hornet's nest, was suddenly facing a furious public. The main reason was that these people had always disliked the sales staff's rude behavior, but they had never argued with them, which had only made the sales staff more arrogant and dismissive of customers.
Such a commotion attracted the department store manager. "What's going on here?"
The saleswoman, on the verge of tears from the scolding, said in a nasally, whiny tone, "This lady couldn't afford the pedal pushers, so I said one thing, and she started yelling at me, then incited everyone to yell at me. She's just trying to cause trouble and disrupt public order."
Lin Wanwan was displeased. "You're twisting the facts, making yourself sound so innocent. I merely asked for the price, and you called me a bumpkin from the countryside. Do country folk eat your rice? You look down on people, and then you pretend to be the victim!
With your bun-shaped face and toad-like mouth, what are you trying to be, a poor imitation of Xi Shi!"
Xie Sui suppressed a laugh, wishing he could applaud his wife. She spoke so brilliantly!
"You, you're the one with the toad-like mouth!"
The saleswoman became even angrier. She had full lips, which in her past life would have been considered a stylish feature, a 'sexy lip,' and some people even paid to have fuller lips.
However, in this era, large eyes and small mouths were more fashionable, and such features were not widely accepted.
Lin Wanwan's appearance, on the other hand, was more in line with the current aesthetic – gentle on the outside, firm on the inside, with determined eyes and a mouth that was neither too big nor too small, neither too thin nor too thick. Not a single feature was imperfect.
Of course, this was Xie Sui seeing his beloved through rose-tinted glasses.
"Alright, everyone, disperse. There's a lot of new merchandise that just arrived. If you go late, you won't get any."
Xie Sui said, "Hold on, the matter isn't over yet. She has to apologize to my wife, or I'll call the police. This is contempt and humiliation of our personhood, and an insult to all farmers. This cannot be tolerated."
The manager said impatiently, "Is it that serious? She spoke rudely, and your wife, from what I see, isn't exactly a pushover either. Let's all take a step back and go about our business!"
Xie Sui sneered, "Why should I be the one to back down? Are we paying money just to be insulted?"
The saleswoman, accustomed to her arrogance, was still unwilling to yield. "Have you paid anything? You haven't spent a single cent, yet you're here jabbering away, asking all sorts of questions."
Xie Sui took out a stack of bills, counted out six thousand yuan, and slapped it onto the counter. "She just agreed. One thousand pairs of pedal pushers, not one less. Here's the money. Prepare them for me immediately, and apologize at the same time."
The manager's face darkened. "You're deliberately trying to cause trouble, aren't you?"
Xie Sui: "Everyone heard it. She said if I dared to bring out the money, she'd sell it to me. All these witnesses can testify. You're public servants meant to serve the people; do your words mean nothing?"
"That's right, she said if he brought the money, she'd give him the clothes!"
"You manager are also unfair, showing favoritism to your own people and bullying us customers. Let's call the police and seek justice."
"We can all testify. Young man, don't be afraid. She's in the wrong, and she must give you the clothes."
The manager glared fiercely at the saleswoman, seeing what trouble she had caused!
The saleswoman looked at him with a wronged expression. Xie Sui even caught a hint of coyness in her eyes, and a thought popped into his head: "You two, could it be..."
The manager's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly said, "I'll have them prepared for you immediately. It will take some time."
"Write out the invoice first. I've paid the money, not one pair less. Tell me how long it will take to deliver. I only need medium and small sizes, no large sizes. Seven hundred pairs of small, three hundred pairs of medium."
People in this era were generally thin. Seeing a胖子 on the street was considered enviable, a sign that they ate well enough to gain weight.
"Two hours. I need to arrange for the stock."
"Write out the invoice, stamp it with the official seal. Do it right here. Don't try to trick me. Everyone here is a witness."
The manager gave him a deep look. This young man seemed to know quite a bit. Could he possibly be trying to trick the store out of its clothes on purpose?
Xie Sui was calm and fearless. He wouldn't take the blame for this. It was their saleswoman who had started the trouble.
With the invoice in hand, the two of them left satisfied, walking out of the crowd and exchanging a knowing smile, immensely amused.
Xie Sui: "I didn't realize, Wanwan, you're quite cunning."
"Is this called cunning? This is called intelligence."
Lin Wanwan said proudly, "One thousand pairs of pedal pushers. If I sell them for eight yuan each, that's a profit of two yuan per pair, making two thousand yuan! Isn't that great?"
It seemed she had opened a new door to a world where money was easy to make!
Xie Sui agreed. "Yes, if Wanwan weren't here, I wouldn't earn much even working myself to the bone for a month. Wanwan comes along and makes two thousand in one go. Please, take care of me!"
"But we still need to buy one more thing before we can collect this money."
"What is it?"
Xie Sui took her to the agricultural products section, where they bought a small cart and several large nylon bags. Lin Wanwan suddenly understood. "To carry the clothes?"
"What else? One thousand pairs of clothes, each weighing at least three or four taels. That's hundreds of pounds in total. Can the two of us carry them back?"
"Xie Sui, you're so smart! How did I not think of that? I can't wait to see their expressions when they see us pushing a cart."
"I'm so smart, can my wife reward me?"
"Reward me with what?"
"A kiss!"
"Get lost, there are so many people around."
"Then, if there's no one there when we get back, is it okay?"
Lin Wanwan blushed and didn't want to talk to him anymore. He could turn anything into that.
As expected, when the manager saw them pushing a cart with nylon bags, his face turned green. "You really came to cheat us out of our clothes."
"No, we came to look, but your employee was foolish and insisted on giving them to me. How can you say I'm cheating? Didn't you see we just bought the cart?
Of course, I'm also interested in wholesale business. Manager, if you're willing to cooperate, we can get rich together."
Xie Sui extended his hand, meeting the manager's gaze. A manager of a department store would have connections, and he wouldn't want to completely offend him.