Chapter 363: Can't we talk about personal and official business together?

"I am in Yangcheng, and I also bought two shops; the positioning is wholesale!" An Yinan said.

"Wholesale?" Zhao Qiuhua's eyes lit up.

An Yinan nodded, "Yes, wholesale. There is a Wholesale Street over there, specifically for clothing wholesale."

"However, the clothing wholesaled there won't be our shop's high-end designs, but rather some ordinary designs."

"These are the summer design drafts; take a look. If you think they're good, we can have one side of our shop dedicated to design pieces and the other to ordinary pieces, so it's easier for everyone to choose."

"The main thing is that we don't have enough people, otherwise we could open a separate shop for ordinary pieces," An Yinan said with some regret.

The people who come down from the military are basically male soldiers.

Even if they were female soldiers, she found it hard to imagine them smiling in the shop; it would be quite creepy!

"These designs look pretty good!" Zhao Qiuhua said. She was not in the fashion design department and couldn't see the value in them.

An Yinan nodded, "After all, they passed through my eyes, so they must be good."

"However, the price for these will be much lower, since it's mass production, so the price will be driven down quite a bit."

"I'm telling you in advance so you can be mentally prepared," An Yinan said.

"Understood." Zhao Qiuhua nodded.

"We won't participate in your Yangcheng shop business. We can't get over there, and there's no sense of involvement. I prefer things I can see and touch!" Li Xiue said.

The three of them shared the same look. Fine, it seemed they had made up their minds, and she didn't try to persuade them further.

"Alright then." An Yinan rubbed her brow; her head hurt a little.

Li Xiue quickly stood up and rubbed her temples, "Are you too tired today? How about we talk about it later and just sleep for today?"

Nan Nan looked visibly exhausted, and her overall state was very worrying.

"Let's talk about it today; I'm leaving early tomorrow morning." An Yinan closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, she had regained her clarity.

Afterward, she asked Li Xiu'e to sit down.

"How is the renovation of the two shops over there going?" An Yinan asked Zhao Qiuhua.

Zhao Qiuhua flipped open a page, "You look, and I'll talk."

She handed the notebook to An Yinan; this was the current renovation progress of the two shops.

"The one near Dance University is nearing completion, but some details need to be smoothed out. Qian Zhao is in the architecture department, and he has been following the renovation the whole time, which can be considered gaining experience."

"I don't feel comfortable leaving the shop here to others, so Qian Zhao and I go over to supervise whenever we have time. The progress is a bit slow now, but once the Dance University one is finished, we can transfer the manpower over, and the progress will pick up."

Zhao Qiuhua explained in detail, and the records in the notebook were very thorough, with what was done each day and the completion status all recorded.

An Yinan wondered if the two of them spent all their time together discussing this?

She never kept doubts in her heart, as they weren't outsiders, so she asked directly, "Qiu Hua, let me ask you something."

"Go ahead!" Zhao Qiuhua looked at her, puzzled. Didn't she usually just ask if she had a question?

Why was she taking a roundabout route today?

But after An Yinan asked, she regretted it!

"When you and Qian Zhao go on dates, don't you spend the whole time discussing renovation progress?" An Yinan was extremely curious; otherwise, the records in this notebook were just too detailed.

Li Xiue and Xie Yuanyuan also didn't expect An Yinan to ask this question.

But once they heard it, their eyes lit up.

Why hadn't they thought of that before?

How did they manage to date every day and discuss renovations every day?

Zhao Qiuhua's face turned slightly red, and she glared at An Yinan. This stinky girl, touching on a sore spot.

"Can't we talk about personal and official business together?"

"Yes!" An Yinan nodded immediately, with an expression of having learned something.

Li Xiue smiled without a word.

But she didn't expect there to be Xie Yuanyuan.

"How do you talk about them together? Xie Shuyang and I can't talk about them together." That inquisitive little look was completely unhidden.

Even Zhao Qiuhua, who was shy and wanted to brush it off, couldn't just casually handle such an earnest little look.

An Yinan and Li Xiue exchanged a glance; their shoulders were shaking from holding back laughter.

"Everyone's way of getting along is different. Qiu Hua is career-minded, and Qian Zhao dotes on her, which is how this situation came to be," An Yinan tilted her head and explained earnestly to Xie Yuanyuan.

After all, once our Yuanyuan has curiosity, there is no end until she gets an answer.

"How do you and Xie Shuyang get along?" Zhao Qiuhua also asked.

Once Xie Yuanyuan heard this, she perked up.

"He brings me all kinds of snacks and takes me to various places to eat delicious food!" Xie Yuanyuan's eyes were bright; once she started talking about food, she became completely serious.

Although she was serious about her work now, she was still that food-loving Xie Yuanyuan!

"Fine!" An Yinan mourned for Xie Shuyang, but this was also how they got along.

Just as she said earlier, everyone's way of getting along is different; there's no need to compare, as what suits you is the best.

"There is also the matter of Wu Xia. I plan to transfer Wu Xia to the branch store as a manager, that is, the store manager." An Yinan did not hide it.

Dance University and Beijing Film Academy were big clients; she wanted to eat this piece of meat before anyone else noticed.

"Since you asked her that today, we had our guesses too!"

"She is indeed a good candidate," Li Xiue said affirmatively.

Zhao Qiuhua thought for a moment and then said to An Yinan, "Actually, it's not just the workshop that has people poaching staff; the four girls who were at our shop from the beginning are the real hot commodities."

"You were too busy before, and I was able to keep it under control, so I didn't let it bother you."

"Seeing you handle the people at the workshop today, I'm just telling you so you can be mentally prepared."

An Yinan nodded; it was within her expectations.

"Those girls shouldn't leave." An Yinan lowered her head and thought about their personalities, as well as their interactions over these past days.

Although they received a salary in her shop, the biggest benefit in their shop was the red envelope at the end of the month.

"You really guessed right, especially Wu Xia, who directly scolded the person who tried to pull her away." It was hard to imagine that Wu Xia, with her soft personality, could actually scold someone!

The girl who stood with her hands on her hips scolding someone seemed completely different from the person who smiled and introduced clothes in the shop.

An Yinan thought about the busyness of the first few days, "Perhaps they have developed a sense of belonging."

"That might be it; they all came to tell me, otherwise there would be no one watching the shop, and if someone really tried to pull people away, we truly wouldn't know." Zhao Qiuhua sighed at the end.

"There will be more and more things like this in the future. Our business is good, so someone will definitely want to imitate us, and the simplest way is to pull our people away to directly boost their own shops. This way, they can understand our model and save themselves the trouble of training, killing many birds with one stone."

"What we can do is give everyone a good working environment and good benefits; the rest depends on their choices." Her thinking was still leaning toward the future, believing this was an inevitable matter.

Back in the modern era, people leaving because they were unhappy with their work or because they were offered higher wages was a common occurrence.

It was just human nature.