Traveling through time with spatial abilities, the scientific research genius is a little sweet.

Chapter 12 Collaboration with Department Stores

After speaking, Su Nuannuan let her hair down and demonstrated how to tie it into a bun, then secured it with a bow hair tie.

With her hair tied up, her fair and slender neck was exposed, making her look much more energetic.

Su Nuannuan tied her hair up and walked through the crowd. Many women were amazed when they saw her.

After letting her tied-up hair down, Su Nuannuan styled several modern hairstyles, leaving the girls around her stunned.

After Su Nuannuan finished her demonstration, the women who had been hesitating earlier all crowded around and started buying bow hair ties.

They also had hair ties, but compared to those sold by Su Nuannuan, they felt their hair ties were too ugly.

Su Nuannuan's hair-tying demonstration indeed brought them many customers. Among them were women who loved beauty and men who bought gifts for their partners.

"Don't push, we have plenty of others."

"Comrade, here are the five hair ties you wanted. They cost one dollar and twenty-five cents in total."

"Comrade, how many do you want?"

……

Half an hour later, the workers went to work in the factory, and Su Nuannuan's stall became deserted.

However, the smiles on the three faces just wouldn't go away.

Because in just one hour, they earned 12.5 yuan and still had 100 hair ties left.

"Big brother, third brother, you set up your stall here first. I'll go to the state-run restaurant to buy some food. We'll be very busy when the workers get off work at noon and won't have time to eat. I'll buy the food first."

"Go ahead. Nuannuan, buy more. You didn't eat much this morning, you're probably starving."

Su Daliang took five yuan out of his pocket and gave it to Su Nuannuan; this was the money he had just earned from selling hair ties.

"Brother, no need. I still have the money Mom gave me before, look."

After saying that, Su Nuannuan took out a large ten-dollar bill. In the past, Su Nuannuan's mother would give her pocket money every time she went to school, and she could save up one yuan a month. Everyone in the family knew about this.

However, the original owner of this body was extravagant; no sooner had her mother given her the money than she had spent it all. But none of the Su family members knew this; they assumed Su Nuannuan had hidden the money away.

Although the original owner of this body had no money, Su Nuannuan did. She calculated in her mind that she could only come up with ten yuan at most, without letting her eldest and third brothers notice anything amiss.

Su Nuannuan took a large ten from the money she earned from selling watches and used it as pocket money for the original owner of the body.

Sure enough, Su Daliang and Su Sanquan were fooled. However, he still managed to slip five yuan into Su Nuannuan's pocket.

Su Nuannuan wouldn't accept it, and ran away as fast as she could.

Having escaped the sight of her eldest and third brothers, Su Nuannuan walked into a small grove of trees. She used her divine sense to sense the area within a ten-mile radius. Seeing that no one was around, she flashed into her spatial dimension.

With food shortages, how could state-run restaurants possibly sell large meat buns every day? Even if they did, she couldn't compete with those tall guys who were over six feet tall.

So, she thought of taking the big meat bun out of her space directly, and putting the big black ten in her pocket back into her space.

Fortunately, she bought a lot. Su Nuannuan found three unlabeled brown paper bags and put ten large meat buns in each bag. She also took a bamboo kettle and filled it with boiled water.

For 60 years, the most commonly used item was this kind of bamboo-woven thermos, with a bamboo-woven exterior and a silver inner liner.

Su Nuannuan had seen this kind of bamboo woven thermos in a department store; it cost 3 yuan.

She thought it wasn't expensive, so she took one as if she'd bought it. Even if her family found out, they wouldn't be too upset.

Su Nuannuan glanced at the growth of the wheat and corn again and found that the wheat had already sprouted ears and was not far from flowering and fruiting.

Look at the tall, straight corn stalks next to it; they've already sprouted kernels. After a period of growth and development, the corn will also mature.

An hour later, Su Nuannuan estimated that it was about time, so she carried three paper bags and a water bottle and walked towards Su Daliang's direction.

"Big brother, third brother, come and have something to eat."

Su Daliang and Su Sanquan were both surprised to see their younger sister carrying a bunch of things over.

"Nuan Nuan, did you bring the department store here?"

Su Nuannuan rolled her eyes at her third brother. She wanted to, but her family wouldn't accept it.

He opened a brown paper bag, revealing plump white buns inside, and handed them to Su Daliang and Su Sanquan.

"Big brother, second brother, I bought a lot. I'll keep two bags to take home. You can eat this bag while it's still hot."

"Nuan Nuan, you eat too."

Su Nuannuan shook her head.

"No need, brother, I've already eaten before I came back."

After hearing that Su Nuannuan had already eaten, Su Daliang and Su Sanquan stopped being polite, picked up the buns from the bag, and stuffed them into their mouths.

Su Daliang was more reserved, but Su Sanquan was less so, eating until his mouth was greasy, which made Su Nuannuan's eyes twitch.

He pushed the water bottle he had brought back in front of the two of them.

"I bought a kettle; it's filled with boiled water I got from the state-run restaurant. You guys can have some." Su Daliang looked at the brand-new kettle, a hint of regret on his face.

"Nuan Nuan, how much did this kettle cost?"

"Three yuan each."

Su Daliang breathed a sigh of relief, "It's alright, not too much. If they work hard today, they can earn back the money they spent on shopping."

Su Daliang took ten yuan from the money he had earned and gave it to Su Nuannuan.

"Take this money. When you get home, tell your parents that I decided to buy these things."

Su Nuannuan didn't want it, but Su Daliang insisted on giving it to her. In the end, she only took five yuan.

"My family needs the kettle, and I also eat steamed buns. I'll just take five yuan."

Seeing that his younger sister insisted on not accepting the remaining five yuan, Su Daliang had no choice but to give up. He planned to go back and give all the money to his mother, who would then help Nuannuan out.

The three men stayed at the stall for three hours. Finally, the workers at Yimin Overseas Chinese Food Factory finished their shift.

From afar, Su Nuannuan saw several women who had come to buy hair ties that morning leading a group of people toward them.

Su Nuannuan quickly called to her two older brothers.

"Big brother, third brother, business has come in."

Su Daliang and Su Sanquan also saw the group and immediately started promoting their hair ties.

In the morning, those who had bought bow hair ties changed into the hairstyles taught by Su Nuannuan and wore them directly to work.

When her colleagues saw her, they all felt she looked much prettier. They all asked where she bought the bow hair tie.

Upon learning that the person selling bow hair ties had set up a stall at their factory, the group immediately agreed to buy the hair ties after get off work.

That's why this scene happened.

The stall of Su Nuannuan and her two companions was crowded with a group of women, and the remaining one hundred hair ties were quickly sold out.

Seeing that there was nothing left on the stall, the women who had been surrounding them dispersed.

The three of them had already finished work before noon.

Suddenly, a middle-aged man in a Zhongshan suit walked towards the three of them, holding a red butterfly hair tie.

Su Daliang and Su Sanquan stood in front of Su Nuannuan, with Su Daliang looking at her warily.

"Who are you? What do you want to do?"

Upon seeing this, the middle-aged man realized that the two had misunderstood each other and quickly explained.

"Young man, you've misunderstood. I'm Li Gang, the head of the purchasing department at the department store."

When Su Nuannuan heard that the other party was the section chief of the department store, and saw that he was holding the bow hair ties that they had just sold, she understood why the other party had come to them.

Sure enough, Li Gang's next words confirmed her guess.

"Your bow hair ties are really pretty. You made them, right? Would you be interested in collaborating with our department store? You can sell all your hair ties to us, and I'll give you a discount of two cents each."

While Su Daliang was still deep in thought, Su Nuannuan tugged at his sleeve from behind and whispered something.

"Big brother, say yes."

Su Daliang was about to agree when Li Gang spoke. Although they were making a lot of money selling hair ties, he knew that their designs were simple and easily imitated. If someone were to establish a partnership with a department store by copying their hair ties, no one would buy from them anymore.

Moreover, selling the hair ties to department stores saves a lot of trouble.

As soon as Su Nuannuan spoke, Su Daliang no longer hesitated.

"We promise you. We'll provide you with 150 bow hair ties every day."

A satisfied smile appeared on Li Gang's face.

“Okay, you can deliver the hair ties to the purchasing department of the department store before 7 o’clock every morning, and I will settle the payment for you on the spot.”

After the two discussed the precautions for future cooperation, Li Gang left.

After Li Gang left, Su Sanquan put his arm around Su Daliang's shoulder.

"Brother, is this person reliable?"

Su Daliang shook his head and replied.

"I don't know. We'll find out when we go to the department store tomorrow. Anyway, we won't lose anything."

Su Nuannuan also spoke up.

“Brother is right. It’s not a long-term solution to always set up a stall in the county town. It just so happens that the department store people have approached us to cooperate. Regardless of whether it’s true or not, we should go there tomorrow.”

(End of this chapter)