Chapter 122: Chapter 122: Model
After leaving the vegetable market, Jiang Xin lowered her head and checked the time.
She realized that it was not even two in the afternoon yet, and it felt a bit too early to go back to the Fu Family.
However, she had almost finished handling her tasks for the day, so there was no need for her to stay in this town any longer.
Therefore, after taking just a few steps and not yet leaving the market, Jiang Xin turned back and went to find Lin Ye.
Just a little while later, and who knew when the stall would be finished for the day.
If she went back to the village now and then had to come back again, wouldn’t that mean she’d have to make several trips?
Just the thought of it made her feel exhausted.
So, Jiang Xin decided to be the hands-off boss today and handed over all the tasks to Lin Ye.
Jiang Xin turned back, saw Lin Ye looking at her in bewilderment, and then she said:
"I’ve thought it over, I have a few things to handle today, so I’ll leave the stall entirely to you."
"Usually, I would come by after packing up the stall to settle the day’s accounts with you, but today, let’s just leave it as is."
Anyway, she had already given him one hundred yuan, and she wasn’t short on money. Letting the money stay in Lin Ye’s pocket for a day wasn’t a big deal since Lin Ye was a trustworthy person who wouldn’t run off with the money.
"I won’t be around when you close the stall tonight. Once you’ve sold all the goods, just go home, and when we meet tomorrow, you can just hand over the money to me."
Jiang Xin simply didn’t want to make multiple trips. She had already accomplished quite a bit that morning.
She felt extremely tired. She only wanted to go back and get some sleep for a good rest now.
Lin Ye was momentarily staggered upon hearing this. He intended to say a few things, but after seeing how tired Jiang Xin looked, he swallowed his words.
He thought it seemed like there was no issue. The money wouldn’t fly away staying in his pocket for a day, and he could hand all today’s income to Jiang Xin when they met tomorrow.
Moreover, as Jiang Xin mentioned, who knew how long the goods at the stall would take to sell out.
If there were a lot of people, they might sell out quickly, but if there were few people, the business might not do well, and there was a chance that not everything would sell today.
During these times without communication tools, he had no way to contact Jiang Xin.
The boss hired him to sell goods here, didn’t they?
If he made the boss stay around until closing time, it would be somewhat impolite.
So, he agreed with Jiang Xin, he’d just head home after closing tonight without needing to see her again.
In fact, this made things more convenient for him, as he wouldn’t need to have a set time.
This way, even if the goods didn’t sell out, he could linger a bit longer at the market and wait until everything was sold before heading home, without worrying about the end time of business.
After all, a few days ago, on the first day of setting up the stall, Jiang Xin forced him to close after the goods were sold out.
If things went the same way today, he was afraid that even if the goods weren’t sold out, Jiang Xin might think it was time and force him to close the stall like before, cutting some potential earnings.
Lin Ye planned in his heart, and since he had no urgent matters to attend to recently, going home early or late was the same, as there was no one waiting for him at home anyway.
He could still return home after selling out all the goods.
After sending Jiang Xin off, Lin Ye continued to run the stall at the vegetable market.
Meanwhile, Jiang Xin made a trip to the photo studio. Even though her space felt like a treasure box with everything she could possibly need, she couldn’t develop film. That required professional places.
Moreover, she didn’t have the skill for it. Even if there were tools for developing photos in her space, she wouldn’t be able to use them.
Because she didn’t know how to.
So, this kind of professional task was best left to professionals.
There was no need for her to waste time tinkering around in her space and risk losing the film, making all the photos she took pointless.
Thus, Jiang Xin figured that since it was still early, she’d better go to the photo studio and get the photos developed to avoid any unexpected problems.
There were quite a few photo studios in this town.
Jiang Xin directly chose one, which was an old shop with over ten years of history.
Using the memory of the original owner, Jiang Xin found the shop without much effort.
Contrary to how Jiang Xin imagined, what she saw was a rather professional studio, exuding an aura of the past.
A middle-aged woman who looked to be in her forties received her.
Seeing that Jiang Xin came alone, the woman guessed that she was there to get some ID photos taken or perhaps to take some artistic portraits.
After all, for a girl of Jiang Xin’s age, it was the prime time for wanting to look pretty.
The middle-aged woman gave Jiang Xin a once-over, from head to toe, like sieving flour.
Noticing that Jiang Xin’s clothes seemed of good quality, she figured Jiang Xin was well-off.
Thus, she surmised that Jiang Xin was definitely there for some portraits.
Guessing as much, she asked directly. After all, in business, the key was to learn to draw in customers, so she proactively inquired:
"Young lady, are you here to take portraits?"
"If so, you’ve really come to the right place. We’re the largest portrait studio in town."
"We’ve just got a new batch of clothes. If you’re interested, you can come in and have a look."
The staff member said this while looking at Jiang Xin, secretly thinking to herself that this young girl was really quite attractive. If she took some portraits, perhaps she could bring it up with her.
They could keep some of her photos in the shop as sample model pictures.
She’d offer a discount and reduce some of the costs, and she guessed the young girl would agree.
The staff member mused to herself, unable to help but feel a bit hopeful.
Thinking if such beautiful sample photos were displayed in their shop, future business wouldn’t be a worry.