Chapter 309: The Ledger is Like a Heavenly Book

"Wait." Seeing a big deal about to slip away, the boss grew anxious too.

He chased her to the shop entrance and, with a pained expression, handed the inventory ledger to Bai Wei.

"Manager Bai, my business is small-scale, relying on volume. I really don't make much money on each item."

"I know." Bai Wei smiled as she took the ledger and opened it to look.

The moment she opened it, the crooked handwriting in the ledger made her scalp tingle.

"Iron ear-pick—5 yuan/pack, 200 packs ordered, total 1000 yuan."

"Coaster—0.4 yuan/piece, 300 pieces ordered, total 120 yuan."

"Colander—0.5/piece, 200 pieces ordered, total 100 yuan."

The writing was like chicken scratch, and it was also mixed with quite a bit of pinyin.

Bai Wei read line by line, but when she saw one row of text, she couldn't help but pause.

She looked up and asked, "Boss, do you sell people here too?"

The shrewd, thin boss scratched his head. "Sell people? I run a legitimate business."

"Then take a look at this." Bai Wei pointed to a row of characters in the book.

On the book, it was clearly written—

"Male female girl—6 yuan/pack, 500 packs ordered, total 3000 yuan."

The boss took one look and spoke dismissively.

"That's male female socks."

"Socks?" Bai Wei was speechless.

She pointed to another row of characters. "And what is this?"

The book read—

"Li-zi—six yuan/pack, 100 packs ordered, total 600 yuan."

The boss took a look and said definitively, "That's chestnuts."

Bai Wei pointed further down. "And this."

"Urine nine—15 yuan/case, 50 cases ordered, total 750 yuan."

The boss was very surprised. "That's not written wrong. This cooking wine is fifteen yuan a case, what's the problem?"

Bai Wei looked at the sky and closed the book.

Fine!

It was her fault!

The boss's inventory ledger was like a heavenly book; even if he handed it to her, she couldn't understand it.

Bai Wei put down the ledger and walked into the shop.

Since she couldn't understand the list, she could only sweep the shelves like last time.

The boss hurriedly called over two employees, who followed Bai Wei step by step, nodding and bowing with fawning smiles.

"Manager Bai, whichever item you take a fancy to, just point at it, and we'll record it for you."

Since the boss had said so, Bai Wei didn't stand on ceremony.

As she walked, she reached out and pointed at the shelves.

"I'll take a case of this, five cases of that, and those bowls over there, give me a hundred of those too."

"Right, got it! One case of disposable lighters, five cases of biodegradable paper plates, one hundred 1000ml plastic takeout containers..."

Bai Wei pointed as she walked, pointing at whatever goods caught her eye.

Everything she picked out were daily necessities, which would be completely useful when taken to Beijiang.

Over an hour later.

Bai Wei had already walked through the shop twice and ordered over nine hundred items.

The boss recorded everything in his book.

"Manager Bai, are you done picking? If you're done, I'll go to the warehouse to pack the goods now."

Bai Wei nodded. "Deliver them to Qingshan Village Farm within today, payment on delivery."

After saying this, she took out twenty thousand yuan and handed it to the boss.

"This is the deposit."

She still had to go to the clothing processing factory and didn't have time to wait for the boss to pack the goods slowly.

The shop boss nodded repeatedly. "Manager Bai, don't you worry, I will definitely have them delivered to you within today."

Just kidding!

Such a big client, who was both generous and straightforward, he definitely had to serve her well.

After ordering the small daily necessities, Bai Wei didn't stop to rest and drove back toward Qingshan Village.

She had just received a call from the factory manager; the clothes she had customized for the Northern Frontier Army had already been delivered, and this batch totaled five thousand pieces.

Before long, the car stopped at the entrance of the Farm.

The factory manager was already waiting at the entrance with several master craftsmen.

Bai Wei jumped out of the car, looked up, and scanned the area. "Where are the clothes?"

"Manager Bai, the clothes have all been delivered for you." The factory manager smiled broadly and pointed to a Military Truck parked on the side of the road. "I asked the Farm workers, and they said you went out to take care of business, so we are currently unloading."

"No rush, I'll take a look first." Bai Wei walked to the side of the truck.

The workers were unloading goods from the truck bed onto the ground.

A lot of goods had already been unloaded; next to the truck sat a large pile of neatly stacked cardboard boxes, with clothes folded inside them.

These clothes were all folded neatly, each one packed in a paper bag, and paired with an undergarment and a pair of socks, making a complete set.

Usually, the clothes at the factory are packed in plastic bags.

But Bai Wei considered that plastic bags cause serious pollution, and if they were transported to ancient times, she didn't know how long it would take for this plastic to degrade, so she specifically called the factory manager to request paper bags, making it easier for the large pile of bags to degrade after being transported to ancient times.

Bai Wei walked to the side of the truck and rummaged through a large pile of cardboard boxes to pull out a few.

She opened these few boxes, picked out several paper bags from among them, and then opened the bags to take out the clothes inside for inspection.

She had to spot-check these clothes.

Seeing Bai Wei inspecting the clothes, the factory manager hurried over.

"President Bai, rest assured, the quality of the clothes is absolutely no problem."

"Whether there is a problem or not, I will see for myself," Bai Wei said with a smile on her face, her hands not stopping for a moment as she shook out the clothes.

The brand-new battle robes were very crisp and straight.

The black fabric with dark patterns was embroidered with dark red auspicious cloud motifs, looking grand, imposing, and extraordinary; the black and red color scheme was exactly the color of the Northern Frontier Army flag.

Inside the bag was a complete set of clothes; in addition to the black battle robe, there was an inner garment and two pairs of socks, making it convenient for distribution as a set.

The inner garment was white cotton cloth, light, soft, and breathable, feeling quite good to the touch.

The socks were also thickened pure cotton, with absolutely no problem absorbing sweat.

Bai Wei put down these few bags, walked to the other side of the cargo pile, and selected over a dozen more boxes to spot-check separately.

None of the clothes she inspected had any quality issues.

Bai Wei was very satisfied and let out a sigh of relief.

Even if the clothes were to be given to people in ancient times to wear, the quality still had to pass inspection.

"The clothes are good, and what about the fabric samples I bought? Did you bring them?"

The factory manager hurriedly said, "Brought them, they are all on the truck."

After speaking, he hurriedly turned back to call the workers to carry the fabric samples down from the truck.

The workers carried over a dozen bundles of fabric and placed them on the cardboard boxes.

Bai Wei walked over and looked at them carefully.

These fabrics were all in rolls, with bright and very eye-catching patterns.

The texture of the fabric was also quite good.

It was just a pity that the patterns on these fabrics were either too dull, or bright red and green, or covered with designs of peonies, magpies, and the like; they were completely styles popular over a decade ago and were no longer in fashion now.

The factory manager stood to the side, rubbing his hands, "I have carefully checked the quality of these fabric samples, and you can be absolutely assured of it. It's just that these large floral fabrics aren't bought by anyone now and are hard to sell."

"It doesn't matter, I only care about the quality," Bai Wei interrupted with a smile.

These bright red and green patterns were exactly the designs of northern large floral quilts, which modern people do not like.

But in ancient times, these bright red flower and green leaf patterns were rare treasures!