Not only did they not sell, but the reputation of Qiyun Clothing Store seems to be worsening. Sun Yadong even saw some people on the street gathering and gesturing towards the store while talking.

The staff in the store were on edge, having been severely scolded over a small incident before.

Sun Jianqiang was also in the store, not daring to speak, because he had already been reprimanded by Sun Yadong several times today.

"Tell me, how do we handle these clothes now?"

Even though Sun Jianqiang didn't speak and wanted to remain unnoticed, Sun Yadong still focused on him, asking sternly.

At this moment, he couldn't be more regretful. He wished he had managed the store longer before considering purchasing these high-priced clothes. It was the continuous increase in store profits and Sun Jianqiang's repeated suggestions that made him unable to resist.

Had he known the current situation, he wouldn't have made such a decision.

Now, it was as if he suddenly realized that he might have been blinded by daily increasing profits, always thinking that having a variety of high-priced clothing would attract more buyers.

But thinking it over carefully now, if he entered a clothing store and saw non-branded items being sold at such high prices, there was a 90% chance he wouldn't buy them either.

Upon hearing this, Sun Yadong reluctantly said, "Dad, since these clothes can't be sold, we'll have to return them at a low price."

He was also puzzled. Business was so good before, so why couldn't they sell any clothes once they switched to high-priced ones?

Sun Jianqiang's face turned grim, but after a while, he nodded.

Clothes purchased from the wholesale market could be returned, but the refund price was very low. Still, even a lower price was more appropriate than leaving them piled up in the store.

If he had to take a loss, so be it, he thought—to learn a lesson.

Having realized it, he didn't want to delay any longer and wanted to resolve it quickly. Maybe in the end, he wouldn't lose so much after all.

He dialed Zhang Qiang's number from the wholesale market, but after a few rings, the call was directly hung up.

Sun Yadong's expression changed slightly. He dialed again, but the audio message made his face change drastically.

He had been blacklisted by Zhang Qiang.

"Dad, what's wrong?" Seeing Sun Yadong's troubled face, Sun Jianqiang couldn't help but ask.

"We're going to the wholesale market!"

Sun Yadong didn't say anything, getting into the car with a grim expression as he quickly headed to Wu City.

"You're looking for Zhang Qiang? He sold all the clothes and left over a week ago," a middle-aged man with a stranger's face said after occupying the shop.

Upon hearing the man's words, panic set in for Sun Yadong.

With the phone disconnected, he asked people around for Zhang Qiang's other contact information or place of residence.

"Boss Sun, Zhang Qiang came from another province, probably from Su Province. How would I know exactly where he is? He didn't talk much, acted like a monkey with caution, and never mentioned it," some shop owners knowledgeable about him said.

The province was vast, teeming with people. An ordinary individual like Sun Yadong couldn't possibly track someone down.

Therefore, returning the goods was out of the question.

Unable to return them, Sun Yadong tried to sell the clothes wholesale to the shop owners there.

"Boss Sun, you must be joking. Here, most clothes we sell are around a hundred yuan. Going up to two or three hundred is rare. The clothes you're wholesaling start at no less than 300. If I take them, who will I sell them to? In a month, I might not meet anyone willing to pay so much for wholesale."

"Lower the price for me? That won't work either. If I can't sell them, this stock will just pile up, and it's no benefit to me. Besides, if I wanted expensive clothes, I could slowly look for them in the garment factories where the prices are much cheaper."

While they had been extremely enthusiastic when he came to the market to buy wholesale, now that he was trying to sell, their expressions changed, and they refused to accept anything.

The average income in Qingwu County isn't high, and the market for high-priced clothes is inherently small. When they wholesale clothes from garment factories, high-priced ones at most make up a tenth of their stock, and many clothing wholesalers don't even consider high-priced clothes at all.

After hours of haggling, not a single merchant was willing to take them.

No one was foolish enough to pay a wholesale price of over 300 when the stock might've been procured at the factories for 200, even just over 100. If they wanted to do wholesale, heading to the factories was the smarter choice.

However, one owner did suggest that if the clothes were down to 100 yuan, they'd buy them.

Upon hearing this, Sun Yadong turned away. To sell wholesale clothes bought at an average of 300 for just 100 yuan a piece, losing more than half the profit instantly, was not something he could accept.

But somehow, after coming back, it seemed like someone spread the word about his trouble at the market.

The news that Sun Yadong couldn't sell 700,000 yuan worth of clothes and that none of the wholesale market shops wanted to buy them back reached Sun Yadong's friends.

"Dong, I'm in urgent need of money right now. Can you return the 100,000 yuan I lent you earlier?"

"Bro, I'm not pressuring you, but I'm truly desperate for cash."

Several people called Sun Yadong asking for their money back.

Moreover, the news also reached his family's supermarket, prompting suppliers to start pressing for payment.

For a moment, Sun Yadong almost fainted at home out of anger.

Where could he possibly get the money? His savings and the hundreds of thousands borrowed from friends had all gone into those clothes. Now those clothes, worth seventy thousand, just sat piled up in the store, but nobody was willing to take them. It wasn't like he could pay his debts with clothes, right?

"The supermarket's monthly revenue is not low, and together, the rent from the other four shops is 14,000 a month. All of that wasn't enough, and still, you had to mess with a clothing store," his usually good-tempered wife exasperatedly scolded him.

But no matter how vexed he was, the money matter needed solving. Finally, Sun Yadong sold one store, and those clothes were disposed of at a low price, thus resolving his financial dilemma.

Qiyun Clothing Store, Sun Yadong kept renting it out. Being a storefront in the center of Qingwu County, he was waiting for it to appreciate in value, and was naturally reluctant to sell it.

However, due to previous incidents, Sun Yadong's reputation wasn't good, and such a prime location surprisingly had no takers.

At this moment, no one knew how much regret Sun Yadong harbored. His previously smooth life, disrupted by momentary greed—within such a short time, he gained nothing and lost a store.

Now, this prime storefront in the county center remained untenanted. His family was left with only one supermarket and two other rental properties.

If there were a remedy for regrets, Sun Yadong would undoubtedly choose differently.

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