Chapter 334: The Ultimate Rusticity is Trendy
Xu's mother and the Xu family came in a rage and left in disgrace.
Before leaving, fearing that they would come and harass her again, Jiang Tian decided to be a good person to the end, and yelled at the Xu family members who were fleeing in panic -
"Director Luo, tell me the truth. You didn't deliberately act in a way with your mother-in-law's family and secretly transfer the money from your family to your wife's family, did you?"
Mother Xu slipped and almost fell to the ground.
"Don't wrongly accuse me! Luo is so poor now that he even had to borrow money from others to pay for his wife's hospitalization. How can he have money to give me?"
Jiang Tian snorted: "That's not necessarily true. I know quite a few bosses who appear to be in debt, but actually have already secretly moved their money to other places and hid it."
"Anyway, I've gotten to know you guys today. If Director Luo can't pay me back, I'll go find your Xu family."
Xu's mother was speechless and could not argue with Jiang Tian. She wanted to throw a tantrum, but she was afraid that as soon as she lay down, she would be carried back by the Luo family and forced to pay money to Luo Qunfeng to pay off his debts. She was so angry that she was shaking all over.
The second son and third daughter of the Xu family were also afraid of being entangled by Jiang Tian, the creditor, so they quickly took the old lady on each side and ran away without a trace.
It is impossible to stay.
Think about it! In the eyes of his family, Luo Qunfeng is already the richest person they can come into contact with.
Such a rich man actually still owes money to that "Boss Xiao He". Just think about it and you will know how rich the family of this little girl surnamed He is.
Before leaving, Xu Xiaomin's second brother Xu Xiaojun couldn't help but turn his head and look at Jiang Tian.
Today, because she was attending someone's funeral, Jiang Tian wore a rare cream-white trench coat and straight-leg skinny jeans, which made her legs look straight and slender. She had a single ponytail on her head, revealing her fair and plump forehead and a pair of bright and shining big eyes. She wore a low-key and luxurious ladies' watch on her wrist. Her whole body exuded a confidence and nobility that was rare in a rural girl.
Xu Xiaojun was angry and hateful.
If it weren't for this girl named He who messed up things today, his eldest brother-in-law, who is not good at talking, would never be able to defeat his mother.
If today their family could follow what was previously agreed upon and let the third sister marry the eldest brother-in-law as his second wife, he would definitely persuade his brother-in-law not to pay back a single cent of the money he owed outside.
The two families could take the money and run away overnight.
With so much money, they can continue to run a factory and become a boss outside. When they make money, their brother-in-law's money will be his money. By then, maybe he can find a city girl like the girl named He.
Thinking that his family had not been able to find him a wife, Xu Xiaojun lowered his head silently, hiding the resentment in his eyes...
Seeing that his troublesome mother-in-law and her family had finally left, Luo Qunfeng took a deep breath, turned around, and looked at Jiang Tian with gratitude.
"Boss He, today is really thanks to you. I, Luo Qunfeng, owe you a favor."
Jiang Tian waved her hand and pointed at the watch on her wrist: "Director Luo, you are too polite. The dead are the greatest. Let's get down to business first."
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After handling Xu Xiaomin's funeral, Luo Qunfeng began to repay the money one family at a time.
He did not lie to Xu's mother. After paying back the life-saving money he had borrowed from relatives and friends, and deducting a little severance pay that he had originally planned to give to the old workers after selling the factory, Luo Qunfeng was left with less than 20,000 yuan.
Twenty thousand yuan is definitely a huge sum of money for an ordinary family in the village.
However, for businessmen like them, 20,000 yuan is at most enough for them to rent a store and do some small business.
Thinking of having two daughters to support, Luo Qunfeng tried to cheer himself up and planned to reopen a small workshop in the village.
This time he didn't make a straw mat.
He plans to do some rough processing of rush.
Rush, also known as rush, is the raw material for straw weaving
Boss Xiao He bought his factory and wanted to continue making straw mats, so he definitely needed to purchase rush as raw material.
It just so happened that there were many families growing rush here, so Luo Qunfeng planned to start from scratch and set up a small workshop first. He would buy the rush from the growers in the countryside, process it into raw materials for weaving straw mats, and then sell it to straw mat factories.
Although this job is hard and tiring, the advantage is that he knows this industry very well. Luo Qunfeng knows almost all the farmers who grow rush in this area. This advantage is completely incomparable to Jiang Tian, a newcomer who just took over the factory.
As long as he is given a few more years to save some money, he will have the capital to reopen the factory.
However, what he didn't expect was that Jiang Tian sent someone to find him just after he paid the severance pay to the workers in the factory.
"What? You want me to be the deputy director of the straw mat factory?" Luo Qunfeng almost jumped up after hearing Jiang Tian's words.
Jiang Tian smiled and said, "Uncle Luo, please sit down and listen to me first."
"If we want to sell the straw mats that our factory produced before, I do have a way to sell them."
"But the problem is that the profit margin of products like straw mats is too low, which does not meet my expectations for this factory."
"So, I plan to reform this factory a little bit. The workers will still do the straw weaving craft, but we will no longer produce straw mats, we will make straw weaving handicrafts."
"Straw handicrafts?" Luo Qunfeng frowned.
Jiang Tian has been urging the workers in the factory to weave handicrafts with rush according to the style she drew these days. Seeing that Luo Qunfeng didn't quite understand, Jiang Tian took out two samples from the cabinet.
These are two ready-made straw baskets.
Luo Qunfeng picked it up and examined it carefully, and immediately found that this straw basket was different from the straw basket his father wove for him to play with when he was a child.
First of all, it can bear more weight. Traditional straw baskets can only hold flowers or something, which is OK as a flower basket. If you put something heavier in it, the basket will deform and collapse.
However, the entire frame of the straw basket that Jiang Tian gave him was made of rattan.
It is like first making a frame with rattan inside, and then filling the frame with rush like laying bricks to build a house.
The outer layer is also painted with beautiful flowers using different pigments and a few auspicious words are written on it.
Even the edges of the basket are decorated with white and red lace to create a unique lace.
I couldn't find a suitable picture, similar to this
A few decades from now, this kind of design will definitely be criticized by netizens as "an old item passed down from grandma's generation."
But in this era, it is very fashionable.
A grown man like Luo Qunfeng couldn't help but want to buy one for his two daughters after seeing it.
"Uncle Luo should have heard that my family has a mooncake factory and a rice dumpling factory. These must-haves for the holidays must be packaged in the best possible way to sell them at a good price."
"We used to use bamboo baskets, but this year a customer complained that they were too rough and asked if we had other packaging options. Isn't this a business opportunity?"